2,905 Forum Posts by "naronic"
"During the three experiments, some 40 heterosexual women were shown a set of photographs of 80 menâEUTMs faces, all with the same expression.
Researchers found women were remarkably adept in being able to spot the gay and straight men.
But in a similar experiment using photographs of gay and straight women, they were less able to differentiate.
The study, by psychologists from the University of Toronto, then compared the results to the womenâEUTMs cycles and found those at their most fertile had the most accurate male âEU~gaydarâEUTM."
well well well
At 3/28/13 04:59 PM, Sekhem wrote: i would love to get the 05-06 layout back
with the pop-up profiles
Heavens NOoooooo,
This layout stomps on all the colons of the layouts before it.
As for a literature portal you might as well name it "Fan Fiction Aggregate" and save yourself the trouble of changing the name later.
At 3/25/13 08:33 PM, somespammer224 wrote:At 3/25/13 04:05 PM, Makeshift wrote:If they're going by the comics, it would be hershel, then tyreese, then finally Glen.At 3/25/13 09:50 AM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: well for Canon character deaths chronologically it should be Herschall.I think Maggie will die soon. Or Glenn. That would start some fan rage.
Can you fucks stop posting spoilers everywhere?
I'm prepared to get an admin
If you don't love the one and only.
At 3/24/13 10:18 PM, fuzzum111 wrote: Lol got within 100 yards of the prison only to have the govna pop outta nowhere and subdue her making the whole episode completely null and void.
Apparently you didn't, that wasn't this episode
At 3/23/13 08:24 PM, Feoric wrote:At 3/22/13 07:23 AM, SadisticMonkey wrote:
These clowns aren't even worth wasting your time over Feoric
At 3/21/13 10:53 PM, GrizzlyOne wrote: ; Valve, who for whatever reason is supposed to be the opposite of Activision.
Have you ever heard of the Left 4 Dead and Counter Strike series?
How many Left 4 Dead's were there, how many Counter Strikes, how many sequels to their popular franchises in general, how often where they released and and at what average price point? Now how many Cod's after MW are there and what's their release frequency and price?
That's because it's not worth boasting, it essentially had cut scenes, but rather than being a cutscene or the like, they just had the characters walk about doing shit and explaining at the same time.
You forgot the part where you could walk around discovering eastereggs and investigating your environment for increased context for the story itself (such as the part near the beginning of HL2 in the lab where you could look at discarded newspapers about the alien human struggle and old portraits of Gordon Freeman and the antagonist), and you're missing the point.
Half life's exposition was weaved in such a way as to make it explainable, palpable and nicely condensed without taking control away from the character, and it did so extremely well imo.
Creating a story like that all in an unbroken 1st person nonomnipotent is truly a show of skill even if it wasn't my particular thing.
A lot of things here seem to be coming down to personal taste so I'm not really sure we can argue objectively here. I'll just say that the reason I care so much about HL's universe is because it provides the ultimate engagement. When I took creative writing classes I remember the books that were most influential in were books that put in practice the old saying "show don't tell" as in reveal your world indirectly through imagery and small details, don't just blurt out what it is and how we're supposed to feel about it.
In video games the equivalent is more like "play don't show", and Half life does a fine job in my opinion; when I'm playing it I actually feel like I'm in the action.
I could have sworn that you made a similar thread to this a while ago.
That's because he has, although it was worded differently like "HL2 sucks" or something.
At 3/21/13 07:55 PM, iMini wrote: Fuck you. Seriously, stop with the useless sarcastic replies. Maybe you should read the thread and provide an actual answer, rather than just +1'ing your post count.
wow dude calm down.
I agree OP, I played it way back and I didn't enjoy it, I played all the way through thinking "this must get better" but it just didn't. I got the Episodes, and they're awful as well.
In your opinion. This doesn't actually make your post anymore valuable than the aforementioned sarcastic replies you seem to condemn.
Ex. I hate COD because it's AWFUL and SHITTY wahhh
People say it was innovative, but I never see why it was innovative. Oh? a Physics engine? Big whoop.
Actually it was a "big whoop" if you knew anything about the games industry back then.
I've mentioned before why Half life was innovative before so I'll simply dig that up for you.
"before Half life 1, any video game story that you would come across existed in a vacuum-sealed bag piggybacked on the game itself. You had games that would drown you in exposition (I.E japanese rpgs, classical adventure games) or games that would give you a light touch of setting, motivation, and character and nothing else for the entire rest of the game (Doom, Quake era shooters).
Half life was the first shooter (and game) that took a crack at the genesis of story and gameplay. A game where you could either not give a crap about the story, or become intrigued in it. A game where just the act of playing or listening to NPC's whilst playing could give you exposition, and Half life also did this so extremely well with the proper pacing and tension at just the proper times, and a complementary difficulty curve, it redefined what it means for a video game to have a story.
This all on top of the major graphical and technical leaps Valve made with friendly NPC characters and skeletal animation makes this game anything but generic. There was NOTHING like it at the time, hell I even played it about 3 months ago and still completed it in one evening fulfilled.
Half life 2 revolutionized the genre even more with the gravity gun, making physics a major asset to game play in a way nobody thought of before on top of keeping up the top notch pacing most games strive for, making enormous graphical leaps and having actual characters I cared for in the process.
And keep in mind that in both of these games, all this is accomplished without the player ever leaving or cutting away from the perspective of the character or the environment the character is in.
VERY few games can boast that."
Grizzlyone thread template:
Why do people love/hate ___ so much.
This news is old.
Can you also stop making garbage threads please?
Thanks in advance
This is so deep even my dick couldn't get to the bottom of it
if the girl's bald that probably means she's a lesbian
At 3/18/13 10:52 PM, Sekhem wrote:At 3/18/13 10:49 PM, naronic wrote:why would you not focus on the guyAnd you know its hard to get off when you see the guy isn't of your same race...uh...
why are you focusing on the guy
the guy has to FUCK the girl
it's terrible if you're watching some fat japanese loser fuck a girl lazily (99% of japanese porn)
you want to see a HUGE MANDINGO plow that bitch
I usually don't stay at angles where I can see the male perform outside of cock going in.
Either way I don't care as long as the girl is hot.
And you know its hard to get off when you see the guy isn't of your same race...
uh...
why are you focusing on the guy
Wow you really are beat up about your lack of foreskin aren't you...
At 3/18/13 12:08 AM, Sword-of-Kings wrote:At 3/17/13 01:29 PM, naronic wrote: I dislike the fact that they're not all mouse and keyboard.What about driving games? What about 3D platformers? They work best with an analog stick.
Okay those are good with analog sticks I'll admit
First of all I never argue over private message, that's a colossal waste of time and inbox space. It's the path people take when they're too scared to make their opinions known on a forum and I'm not going to waste my time supporting that.
Secondly internet arguing is comparable to sparring in front of a listening audience, your only effect on the challenging party should be through an argumentative attack and hopefully good sportsmanship, (don't count on the latter, and don't ever count on somehow convincing your foe of a certain viewpoint).
As of late I've been incorporating a 3 strikes end it rule for my arguments. I end the argument when I feel everything that I had to say has been said already, or when I feel my opponent's argument is no longer worth the time. I still enjoy a nice argument either way.
At 3/17/13 08:45 PM, HikarutheHedgehog wrote:At 3/17/13 01:29 PM, naronic wrote: I dislike the fact that they're not all mouse and keyboard.Could you stop forcing your PC gaming elitism everywhere?
Who says mouse and keyboard has to be strictly a PC feature?
I'm simply stating an opinion, could you?
At 3/17/13 09:33 PM, ChloBro wrote: It is intellectually infallible to wish you were born in any time other than the one you were born in.
At 3/17/13 02:51 PM, The-Great-One wrote: Mine change color. They can be green, blue, or gray. They are mostly gray.
That's called hazel I believe
Wow lots of uninteresting threads lately
They're a good distraction to keep the drones buying and playing but I really don't care for them at all.
I dislike the fact that they're not all mouse and keyboard.
At 3/17/13 08:21 AM, IdiLogicSavant wrote: I wish i was born in 1975 so i could be 15 at the beginning of the 90's and enjoy the good economy as i grew into an adult.
You'd have to go through the 92' economic downturn first, you should have said 1980 or something.
Anyway as bad as people seem to believe this decade is I really couldn't imagine living in any time period other than it, (and that's not just because of my skin color).
The most interesting developments are happening now and I'd rather be here to experience virtual reality in my 20's and bionic enhancement in my 30's and 40's.
Mine are a very very very nice shade of black
I'm not really sure creativity is something you can really quantify outside of general IQ testing. Great ideas come in many forms, and it can be very easy to create one even for a rather uncreative person with the right thoughts running through their head.
As for our general education system today, while there are a lot of things that have to be uprooted upgraded or put down such as mundane "conditioning classes" one has to take all throughout High School and into College such as "US History" "English" and Language requirements, as long as the arts don't loose their presence I think we're fine.
