Especially considering that a 10 year old is going to have a hard time magically coming up with the 50 bucks to spend on a new game, 100-200 for the gaming system, and a television to play it on where the parents won't see what's going on. Seriously a kid could have twenty copies of Manhunt, and without a television and a gaming system it does him no good.
My parents were strict controlling fundamentalist Christian Republicans. They kept track of everything I did, monitored where I was, the games I played, the movies I watched, all to ensure that I was not subjected to immoral or violent content.
Unsurprisingly, I am now a laid-back liberal pagan Democrat. Pull a rubber band far enough one way and when tension is released it goes a long way in the other direction.
So don't buy the fucking games. I have to see super-Christian and super-patriot shit everywhere I go in Oklahoma, it's most definitely forced down my throat and I haven't even paid for it.
When somebody makes you turn on a TV to NYPD Blue, and makes you watch it, and makes you buy Grand Theft Auto, and makes you play it, then you can kvetch about having tolerance forced on you. I'm not forced to go to church or vote Republican, so I don't complain about it. But my views are no more forced on you then yours are on mine.
1. By that standard, heterosexuality is immoral. Many heterosexuals engage in premarital sex.
2. If we'd let homosexuals marry, they'd have a few more options in that area. Most homosexuals don't have the option of homosexual sexual activity within the context of marriage.
For example, a game depicting two men living together behaving like homosexuals, devoid of any sexual content, is illegal. Something like in Grand Theft Auto 3, where it is strongly hinted that the characters of Maria and Asuka are involved in a sexual relationship, would make the game illegal completely aside from all the lovely mindless violence that makes it so much fun in the first place.
Mmm, mindless violence.
Not only that, but in Smash Brothers characters have a large number of lives. This could, looking at the issue from the perspective of a crazy intrusive puritanical legislator (which I myself am not), mislead children into believe that they can be shot, fall from great heights, be slashed with swords, be set on fire, and die, and just come back again 19 more times. Who will think about the children!
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And here I thought I was the only person whose played all the Exile games. Exile 3 was my favorite.
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Freelancer had a great story. It's like playing a movie, with great freedom of movement. I think you could make a decent movie out of the Grand Theft Auto games as well. Although it wouldn't be as much fun as actually beaning the old lady with a baseball bat on your own.
Yah, that's why I rooted for Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal. Other people were shocked and horrified, I was cheering him on. Especially when he was preparing bits of the FBI supervisor's brain. That was hilarious.
Let's get the guilds together and kill key NPCs until they heed our complaints! Or until we get tired of the repair bills to our gear. Either way, there will be some killin'.
Also, the cattle are existing in greater numbers because of the reduction in predators. So yes, cow manure contributing to global warming is the fault of humanity. Really really simple.
Well, twenty years ago we had a Republican in power, and Bush I and Cheney were involved in the administration.
The actors in the play really haven't changed much. The oil companies lining the pockets of the politicians they've bought haven't changed while the presidents have.
Science you, with your science and your logic! Such reasonable thought has no place here! Seriously, it's not nearly sensational enough. We need to see BIG SCARY HEADLINES about how COMPUTER GAMES are causing OUR NATION'S CHILDREN to become ADDICTED TO MOOD-ALTERING CHEMICALS like DOPAMINE and ENDORPHINS.
Then later we can run a story about how RUNNING is causing OUR NATION'S ATHLETES to become ADDICTED TO MOOD-ALTERING CHEMICALS like DOPAMINE, ENDORPHINS, and ADRENALINE, often resulting in PAINFUL LEG INJURIES and even HEART ATTACK.
I got to level 60 (with Malakusen, dwarf warrior) and it dawned on me what a fucking hassle it would be for my 60 to be even remotely on par with other level 60s. And it was such a pain in the ass to get good groups and raids together for the quests I had to accomplish, much less actually going after my gear. Fuck that, I said to myself, and I played my alts. Lot more fun to bring a character up through the levels then it is to actually play at the higher levels, especially with a lvl 60 to send gold and trade mats to them. Now I've got a 42 rogue and a 22 druid on that server, and a 22 hunter and 18 warlock on another server.
Of course, since moving, and with my computer not getting here for another 26 days, and with me going on vacation shortly thereafter and therefore not seeing a point in getting signed up again for internet and WoW, I've broke the habit the easy way. Unavailability.
If you stop caring about Tier 1 and Tier 2 lvl 60 gear, raiding 24/7/365 to get all the purples and some orange, you have a lot more time for real life.
I got up to 60 and couldn't muster up the obsession to get all my lvl 60 gear, and instead made a couple of alts and started bringing them up slowly. Sometimes I don't do anything but train up fishing for two hours and that's it.
I think I speak for the entire Star Wars fan community when I say, with all candor, "quit your fucking bitching already".
All the ones that are left anyway. The rest of the fan community isn't anymore, after the prequels. If you're left, then yeah, you probably have drunk the Kool Aid.
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If George Lucas had any ability in writing dialogue, this is the point at which Anakin would have said that he did bring balance to the Force... the Light side of the Force was too dominant before Anakin came around. Think about it, you had hundreds of Jedi on the light side and 2 Sith on the dark side. Not balanced. Then after Anakin, it had 2 Jedi and 2 Sith. When Obi-Wan died, Luke took his place, leaving the force with 2 Jedi and 2 Sith. The force was imbalanced again after the end of RotJ, with both of the Sith dead, but since the only Jedi left at that point was Luke and he's a pussy like his dad, chances are it's a wash.
Longest running science fiction television show in history, from the first Doctor in the days of B&W TV to now. Minus a break from 1989-2005. It's managed to keep going through the ingenious plot device of having a main character that can change bodies every few years or so when someone gets tired of playing the Doctor. They're on the Tenth Doctor now. Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy were probably my favorites. Great show, really.
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That's my point.
It's sure hard as fuck to find good porn in Oklahoma. The cigs and booze is easy enough, as those vices are acceptable to the cowboy wanna-be fundies.
Especially considering that a 10 year old is going to have a hard time magically coming up with the 50 bucks to spend on a new game, 100-200 for the gaming system, and a television to play it on where the parents won't see what's going on. Seriously a kid could have twenty copies of Manhunt, and without a television and a gaming system it does him no good.
My parents were strict controlling fundamentalist Christian Republicans. They kept track of everything I did, monitored where I was, the games I played, the movies I watched, all to ensure that I was not subjected to immoral or violent content. Unsurprisingly, I am now a laid-back liberal pagan Democrat. Pull a rubber band far enough one way and when tension is released it goes a long way in the other direction.
Pssh, as if he'd know what a democracy is...
So don't buy the fucking games. I have to see super-Christian and super-patriot shit everywhere I go in Oklahoma, it's most definitely forced down my throat and I haven't even paid for it. When somebody makes you turn on a TV to NYPD Blue, and makes you watch it, and makes you buy Grand Theft Auto, and makes you play it, then you can kvetch about having tolerance forced on you. I'm not forced to go to church or vote Republican, so I don't complain about it. But my views are no more forced on you then yours are on mine.
1. By that standard, heterosexuality is immoral. Many heterosexuals engage in premarital sex. 2. If we'd let homosexuals marry, they'd have a few more options in that area. Most homosexuals don't have the option of homosexual sexual activity within the context of marriage.
For example, a game depicting two men living together behaving like homosexuals, devoid of any sexual content, is illegal. Something like in Grand Theft Auto 3, where it is strongly hinted that the characters of Maria and Asuka are involved in a sexual relationship, would make the game illegal completely aside from all the lovely mindless violence that makes it so much fun in the first place. Mmm, mindless violence.
Not only that, but in Smash Brothers characters have a large number of lives. This could, looking at the issue from the perspective of a crazy intrusive puritanical legislator (which I myself am not), mislead children into believe that they can be shot, fall from great heights, be slashed with swords, be set on fire, and die, and just come back again 19 more times. Who will think about the children!
And here I thought I was the only person whose played all the Exile games. Exile 3 was my favorite.
Freelancer had a great story. It's like playing a movie, with great freedom of movement. I think you could make a decent movie out of the Grand Theft Auto games as well. Although it wouldn't be as much fun as actually beaning the old lady with a baseball bat on your own.
Yah, that's why I rooted for Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal. Other people were shocked and horrified, I was cheering him on. Especially when he was preparing bits of the FBI supervisor's brain. That was hilarious.
Let's get the guilds together and kill key NPCs until they heed our complaints! Or until we get tired of the repair bills to our gear. Either way, there will be some killin'.
Yeah, FFIX had a happy ending, with the guy getting the girl and everyone winding up fairly whole and hearty.
Also, the cattle are existing in greater numbers because of the reduction in predators. So yes, cow manure contributing to global warming is the fault of humanity. Really really simple.
Well, twenty years ago we had a Republican in power, and Bush I and Cheney were involved in the administration.
The actors in the play really haven't changed much. The oil companies lining the pockets of the politicians they've bought haven't changed while the presidents have.
I don't mean believe the story, I mean if they had a Starcraft MMORPG, I'd play it. I'd play a 40K mmorpg also.
And that right there is why I stopped caring about epic gear.
Science you, with your science and your logic! Such reasonable thought has no place here! Seriously, it's not nearly sensational enough. We need to see BIG SCARY HEADLINES about how COMPUTER GAMES are causing OUR NATION'S CHILDREN to become ADDICTED TO MOOD-ALTERING CHEMICALS like DOPAMINE and ENDORPHINS.
Then later we can run a story about how RUNNING is causing OUR NATION'S ATHLETES to become ADDICTED TO MOOD-ALTERING CHEMICALS like DOPAMINE, ENDORPHINS, and ADRENALINE, often resulting in PAINFUL LEG INJURIES and even HEART ATTACK.
Sensational!
I got to level 60 (with Malakusen, dwarf warrior) and it dawned on me what a fucking hassle it would be for my 60 to be even remotely on par with other level 60s. And it was such a pain in the ass to get good groups and raids together for the quests I had to accomplish, much less actually going after my gear. Fuck that, I said to myself, and I played my alts. Lot more fun to bring a character up through the levels then it is to actually play at the higher levels, especially with a lvl 60 to send gold and trade mats to them. Now I've got a 42 rogue and a 22 druid on that server, and a 22 hunter and 18 warlock on another server.
Of course, since moving, and with my computer not getting here for another 26 days, and with me going on vacation shortly thereafter and therefore not seeing a point in getting signed up again for internet and WoW, I've broke the habit the easy way. Unavailability.
If you stop caring about Tier 1 and Tier 2 lvl 60 gear, raiding 24/7/365 to get all the purples and some orange, you have a lot more time for real life.
I got up to 60 and couldn't muster up the obsession to get all my lvl 60 gear, and instead made a couple of alts and started bringing them up slowly. Sometimes I don't do anything but train up fishing for two hours and that's it.
Actually, yeah. Maybe not better then Episode III, but a dog could crap a better movie then Episode I.
OTOH, Episode I was better then another movie I saw recently, "Ultraviolet". That's neither here nor there tho.
I think I speak for the entire Star Wars fan community when I say, with all candor, "quit your fucking bitching already".
All the ones that are left anyway. The rest of the fan community isn't anymore, after the prequels. If you're left, then yeah, you probably have drunk the Kool Aid.
> If George Lucas had any ability in writing dialogue, this is the point at which Anakin would have said that he did bring balance to the Force... the Light side of the Force was too dominant before Anakin came around. Think about it, you had hundreds of Jedi on the light side and 2 Sith on the dark side. Not balanced. Then after Anakin, it had 2 Jedi and 2 Sith. When Obi-Wan died, Luke took his place, leaving the force with 2 Jedi and 2 Sith. The force was imbalanced again after the end of RotJ, with both of the Sith dead, but since the only Jedi left at that point was Luke and he's a pussy like his dad, chances are it's a wash.
Longest running science fiction television show in history, from the first Doctor in the days of B&W TV to now. Minus a break from 1989-2005. It's managed to keep going through the ingenious plot device of having a main character that can change bodies every few years or so when someone gets tired of playing the Doctor. They're on the Tenth Doctor now. Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy were probably my favorites. Great show, really. Happiness will Prevail.