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The fact that the OP acts like a prepubescent little twat means that we should ignore what he says, because how can we take you seriously when you have the gaul to insult our intellegience like that? Right or wrong, there is a certain amount of decorum when it comes to public issues, (which isn't very high) and if you couldn't manage that, then stop wasting our time posting belittling garbage towards us.

Considering that the OP didn't explain anything, I'll try to put it into some context here. {I really shouldn't be doing this, but whatever}

Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon and a likely candidate for 2016 for the Republican party states that the 2016 elections might not happen because Obama is going to declare martial law over things like ISIS, Ebola and government spending to name a few. The question is does anyone think that Carson is serious, or is this just another smoke and mirrors trick to rile up his potential voter base?

My money is going to be on the latter. There has been far worse situations many times over in the past, and I don't really recall any President enacting martial law that wasn't during wartime or in an armed rebellion, so where's the fire so to speak? Not saying it isn't possible, but is highly unlikely and not something we should take any serious stock into.

I don't ever seem to remember a Call of Duty game being incomplete at launch, and the DLC that they have are nothing more than map packs, weapons and sometimes a game mode. It's not like they're selling the whole campaign on DLC, much less the multiplayer that's already on there, so this is really no harm no foul by them.

If anything, they're the standard on how DLC should be done, adding optional features into the game itself {such as maps, weapons, etc.} instead of on-disc DLC, which everyone hates.

At 12/30/14 06:38 PM, Head-Full-Of-Acid wrote: gotta love how these fines are close to a year or two of pay for some people

pretty soon he'll be fined a house

The saddest thing is that these kinds of fines are usually nothing more than a slap on the wrist, compared to some of the pettiest ones like wearing unapproved shoes or wear the socks the wrong way. Having said that, Suh is a repeat offender, they only way that they will understand discipline is to suspend him for multiple games. Any time you're giving Goodell justification for the rule changes for player safety, (even when they do make sense) that's when you should stop playing dirty.

At 12/30/14 05:03 PM, TailsPrower wrote: I thought shit like this didn't happen outside the U.S. and the middle east.

EDIT: ....and Mexico.

And in Africa, Russia and Brazil as well, these kind of things can happen in more places than you think.

Really, I haven't experienced any sort of gaming stigma at all, and to be honest, said stigma is largely manufactured from both the media and the ignorant. The fact that there are a lot of genres available that aren't necessarily targeted towards a "nerd" audience proves this, at least in recent years.

Any sort of gamer stereotypes nowadays largely comes from the inside, particularly with console vs. PC and AAA vs. indie gamers. It doesn't help that gaming journalism is about as toxic as it gets with all of the biases and lack of quality control associated with it.

If I had to describe Evangelion in one word, it would be complicated. I get all of the philosophical/psychological themes of the series, (contrived as they may be) but looking deeper into it, it's pretty flawed and in some respects, gets away with more than it really should have, especially when it comes to the ending. Eva also might be one of the very few cases where I'm honestly nihilistic towards the cast as a whole, to give some of them a quick death would be more than sufficient to end their suffering, while others like Gendo and SEELE deserves to burn in Hell, and that might be too good for them for the shit they pull off.

Another word I would use is ironic, particularly with the two female pilots Rei and Asuka. What Anno was trying to do with these two was to deconstruct the character archetypes and see how they will break, but to his surprise, (and possible horror) they became highly popular and had those two on everything from posters to figures and love pillows, though that may had to do with Gainax being marketing whores to stay afloat. Not to mention, the numerous amounts of Rei and Asuka clones in anime since pretty much defeated Anno's orginial intentions for them. (Hell, Laura Bodewig from Infinite Stratos is a Rei and Asuka clone all in one, for a time anyway.) At the very least, the Rebulid series has the self-awareness to acknowledge that fact with Mari Illustrious and Asuka's new plug suit.

Ultimately, Evangelion is a classic through and through, but it's far from perfect and has essentially taken the piss out of themselves ever since EoE. Also, when comparing it to other grimdark anime or other mediums, (Berserk, Mazinger Z,Warhammer 40k) it just feels rather quaint by comparison, and without a conclusive ending, opened itself up with many re-tellings and serveral questionable retcons, though it may have been for the best.

Once upon a time, NG was a virtual haven {or at least one of} for scat humor, hentai and offensive joke up the wazoo, which was great and all, but at the same time, that overshadowed a lot of artists who made excellent flash movies and games. There's no one reason why NG changed over the years, but for the most part it has been a lot better now than it was then, considering that it no longer had to rely on porno sites for ad revenue which popped up every time you went on NG, for example.

I'm kind of disappointed that a lot of the adult flashes went away with some exceptions, {though to be fair, they were pretty much either ripped off or were simple slideshows} but I guess they figured that there was no sense in piggybacking off that any longer than necessary, {especially when more talented artists took over the portal} which leads us to what we have today. Ultimately, NG is a business, and they have to do what is necessary to keep NG running, and the only ones who seem to find fault in that are either the nostalgia whores or pervert teens who can't get past the parental controls.

Obviously it seems like the OP is either a North Korean sympathizer or an American hating assclown who thinks that we should be attacked because of a movie that they'll never see, much less care about. I honestly don't know what's worse, his blatant disrespect or the fact that he trolled everyone and we seem to have completely missed it.

Seriously OP, go play in freeway traffic for even suggesting that.

Escort missions, especially when the AI has the survival instincts of a suicidal teenager and the intelligence of one to boot. It's no fun to keep repeating the same missions over and over again because of this.

Dialogue heavy cut scenes is also rather bothersome to deal with. In some cases, I understand why they do this to fill in the gaps in the story, but at the same time, it slows down the pacing of play making it a chore to get through all that, and it doesn't help if they have bad voice acting.

Games that are fundamentally broken and essentially punish you if you make even a slight mistake. A challenge is one thing, I don't mind that, but difficulty because of bad design is something I have little tolerance towards, Ninja Gaiden and Demon's Souls are guilty of this. Atlus has always been known for making difficult games in general, but unlike the rest of them which were fundamentally sound and didn't skimp on the basics, DS was them simply showing off and getting away with more than they really should have. If we're all being honest here, if DS was released in any other generation, they would be raked through the coals for its fundamental flaws and near-broken gameplay.

Here's one that I would suggest, if anyone use a news source as a source to a story, (i.e. CNN, RT) make sure that said news source isn't horribly slanted towards one side or another in a political spectrum, nor are they horrendous biased to the point where you can't take it seriously, essentially making it a glorified OP/ED piece. While sites like CNN aren't without their biases, they are a far more reliable news source than less reputable news networks like Russia Today or Fox News. If nothing else, cross referencing news sites on a certain event is better than nothing.

At 12/24/14 07:34 PM, Boredy-Mcbored wrote: stuff

If your going to make sort of accusation of the police planting a gun, try to have some sort of proof that this actually happened. Regardless of the environment around them, it's rather inflammatory to accuse police officers to accuse them of doing something like this, and that could get you a tounge-lashing at best, and serious hot water at worst.

People are upset because the police in that area haven't been transparent and always act like they have something to hide. Nobody trusts anyone in that area, and for good reasons. So no, they aren't mindless idiots, they're people feed up with injustice. Regardless of if Martin had a gun or not, the tension is sickeningly thick in that area and it's unfair to just cast the blame or demonize the people of that area.

At the very least, they should've have waited after all of the facts come out, but I doubt that is going to make much of a difference now. To them, every white cop is out spilling blood of black folks, regardless if they are a goody two-shoes or frothing drug addict with murder in their eyes, and race-baiters keep stirring the paranoia pot.

The 9.9 score was most likely meant to be ironic in nature, because even high-caliber Oscar bait never get those kind of scores, what is something that looks pretty low-brow deserve to get that?

Is it worth watching? Probably, but I'm not exactly going to holding my breath with anticipation for this one, and it totally has nothing to do with what happens at the end with Kim Jung Un, I'm not one of those weepy moralist types for dictatorial scumbags.

Never cared for Tiny Tim, I always thought that he was an annoying little troll who had nothing better to do in the story.

Oh wait a sec, I think you meant the one from the Muppets. I still hate that little shit regardless.

Guess the little ponies got eaten alive in the Jungle, having 4 INTs and 2 Pick 6s helps too.

Now onto Pittsburgh for the AFC North title.

At 12/22/14 01:23 PM, HooglyBoogly wrote: The most outspoken opponents of improving relations with Cuba are exiles themselves. Rightfully so, I might add. With that said, I do think that many of the old-timers are naive to the Liberalization of the current Cuban government.

When you consider what they went through while in Cuba, those kind of greviences die hard and considering that life during Castro's reign has been crippling at best and brutal at worst then, you can't blame them for feeling that way. To them, as long as the Castros are still alive, Cuba will continue to be Hell on Earth, even if isn't 100% accurate.

At 12/22/14 07:15 AM, Mrccbirdguy wrote: The game industry needs to quit catering to male gamers by making the same damn violent games over and over.

Honestly, that is a rather dumb idea largely because you're using the same logic as the anti-video game crowd. If it isn't obviously noted before, violent video games don't lead to real life violence, and if anything most games in recent memory has tried to state how bad violence is, whether it's criminal or in war.

Also, some of the most popular games today aren't even violent at all, such as Angry Birds, Minecraft or even Journey, so that doesn't necessarily hold much water.

a lot of the games out there are "Shoot this, kill that, Woman is scantily clad, Big buff guy with a big gun" same crap over and over

Uh, not all of them. While no one can deny that stuff like this exists in gaming, it's not as commonplace as everyone thinks it is, not when you have things like create-a-character. (Mass Effect, Saints Row)

I think the great powers that be should join forces. Have one system and offer all the games and have a good price tag on it. Have games that are kid friendly, Have some new interesting travel games free from violence and lurid sex for older women and men to play.

First off, the gaming powers aren't going to team up anytime soon, cannabializing themselves into gaming Communism isn't going to work and only punishes gamers when there is only a single major system available, Second, there are plenty of kid-friendly games out there, and that's not including the obvious like Minecraft, sports games or most old-school collections. They may not be as heavily advertised as Call of Duty, but they're there.

You kind of sound like one of those soccermoms that complain about video game violence, and how that leads into a life of violence and misgynogy. They do exist in video games, but they aren't that huge, glaring problems that float around gaming.

And get rid of sports games. How pointless. "I like sports, and I'd like to play them, but I don't want to go outside to play them." Don't these MLB, NFL and NBA people have enough money?

I despise this argument because you're ignoring a lot of factors that go into this. The most important thing is that these yearly sports games are there for a reason, because sports fans enjoy them and the leagues aren't going to jeopardize their audience because of the unathletic bellyachers who have nothing better to do than complain. Also, the "not wanting to play" argument doesn't hold any weight because there are a lot of legitimate reasons why they don't play outside. The stereotypical strawman isn't going to work here.

Above all, you simply come off as naive and misinformed, and you really have nothing to base all of this on other than petty morality.

At 12/21/14 03:54 PM, TheKlown wrote: North Korea is now claiming that the American Government framed them. This is hilarious in a sad way.

This is a case of he said, he said at this point, but until proven otherwise, they're not off the proverbial hook just yet. They may not have done it themselves, but it doesn't mean that they may be complicit in this if they are proven to have hired a merc hacker group.

Someone killed 2 cops because of what a few police officers did while under pressure. There is no justification for this for this kind of misplaced revenge, and if anything, is only make the situation worse. Race-baiters, criminals, and the ill-informed continue to pour gasoline on the fire, and it's about time we recognize this.

At 12/19/14 11:52 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Every game should have a single non online campaign. That would be a good place to start.

This might be the only thing in the thread so far that I can agree on, (and make any sort of sense for that matter) I could never understand why some games don't have this, even it is really nothing more than a glorified noob training camp. If nothing else, this proves that you can still attract non-online gamers to play your game. They may not be as powerful as they once were compared to multiplayer enthusiasts, but they're still there.

At 12/20/14 01:23 PM, Zachary wrote: The movie is back on! Sony says it will release it after Obama spoke out and told them they should now bow to pressure.

Frankly, they should considering that they sunk so much money into this project, it would be a waste just to entirely scrap it. North Korea can puff its chest out all it wants, but they know they can't do shit about a movie that is released in the West, and I highly doubt that anyone other than hacker groups who are sympathetic to Kim Jung-Un (either because they're somehow lining their pockets or whatever) are going to mind. I understand why movie theaters would react the way they did because no one wants a massacre in their own theater, and standard operating procedure is to err on the side of caution, but having said that, it's nothing more than empty threats, because I highly doubt that there are any serious North Korean symphasizers out there who'll kill or maim folks just because of a movie.

Frankly, I have a feeling that this will blow over eventually once the movie comes out, controversy tends to attract folks to a person or product.

Not to double-post, but this really needs to be said.

At 12/19/14 07:41 AM, Wegra wrote: I've been hearing from a lot of people how this year was a terrible year for video games. With the exception of Nintendo pulling through with Smash, Hyrule Warriors and Bayonetta 2 there's been a lot of bullshit from journalists, publishers and even the consumers.

I don't understand why everyone keeps praising Nintendo for essentially settling for less, it's not like they haven't released many of the same games that they already released in previous generations, and they seem to be content with catching up to last generation's console specs, and that's not including the rather gaudy controller with an awkward touch screen.

I don't want to be a broken record, but Nintendo is already in a hole made by their own decisions in recent years and no amount of spin isn't going to change that. Frankly, we should've known about this when Nintendo burnt bridges with major developers with the Wii U, leaving only the Nintendo fans and the occasional curious gamer with plenty of disposable income.

Ok, I'm honestly getting tired of these kind of questions on the industry because they really don't need much fixing, after all, they are a multi-billion dollar industry under realitively stable ground. Now, some reform in policy for game makers of all levels is needed, (Ubisoft and their trailer debacle, DRM) but I don't think these are necessarily massive overhauls.

As for the consumer, we need to stop crying wolf and say that "gaming is dying" when it really isn't, just because they are going in a different direction. This is essentially the time in a console generation where there are going to be some growing pains involved, (just like every other generation since the NES) and it turned out pretty well before. Yes, there are going to be caveman gamers who will decry the usual spiel that "modern mainstream gaming is bad" and "artsy games over professionally designed games", but in the former case, that ship has left port a long time ago and for the better, and the latter, realize that video games are supposed to be entertainment first and art second, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Other than the usual political tough talk from North Korea, I don't see why Sony or the movie theaters should bend over the way they did over an empty threat made by North Korea over a film that isn't going to be released there anyway. Plus, since when did real-life dictators portrayed in a movie that they'll never release anyway have the right to act all pissy about it? IIRC, the South Park movie shows Saddam being tossed into hell by Satan for acting like a total cunt, since when did the leader of the earthly equivalent of Mordor get any sort of reprieve?

I would like to think that multi-national corporations wouldn't fear any sort of reprisal from glorified trolls that come from a country that knows that they can't do shit without getting their asses handed to them by the rest of the world.

At 12/15/14 05:37 PM, DeftonesFan665 wrote: I can't believe they're going to stick with Manziel as QB for their next game. Those poor Browns fans...

They pretty much have no choice, they already benched Hoyer and considering the infinite stupidity that is the Cleveland Browns, drafted someone that they didn't need and pretty much blew up in their faces. It's just one game though, so no one should be officially writing him off, but the Browns' track record of ruining QBs means that Manziel's future doesn't look good.

They made this bed when they drafted Manziel and decided to play him over Hoyer last week, now they are going to have to lie on it, as always. If it weren't for the fact that they played the easiest schedule in the NFL, they would be alongside teams like the Titans and Bucs for the first overall pick.

Compared to what it was a few years ago where CN had tons of live-action shows and Adult Swim was following suit as well, (though they were a separate entity, but still) it has made a lot of strides in the positive direction. Bringing back Toonami was probably considered a turning point, considering that anime now has their own space and isn't being marginalized. Not that it honestly means much, but it's better than nothing, and certainly better than it was then.

Of course you had Johnny Test, which everyone knows is legitimately awful, but at least it is a cartoon, which fits into the main point of Cartoon Network in the first place.

Ride to Hell had a good soundtrack, which they probably spent all of their money and effort on.
Rogue Warrior had Mickey Rourke's hilarious piss-take rap.
The glitches in Big Rigs are probably the most fun you can have in the game, assuming it doesn't crash on you.

The embargo was something that was brought on themselves by the Castro brothers, and they only have themselves to blame for driving their country into the ground. That said, it makes sense that we should end the embargo on our side considering that both Fidel and Raul aren't going to live much longer, much less rule Cuba, so all of the excuses for having the embargo are now gone, and their wasn't much to it since the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 90's.

There is two big reasons why music CDs are still around, (and vinyl as well, for whatever reason) there are so many devices that can play CDs and distribution is much more accessible this way for folks who don't have the Internet. It's easier to transport and keep track of physical copies of music, including burned CDs without much of the political or ethical baggage involved. That said, these kinds of things don't matter to the folks who wholly download their music online, either through ignorance or convenience.

At 12/16/14 08:08 PM, FurryGod wrote: The older games are definitely more difficult. I feel they definitely had more soul.

You know I hear this a lot, but it doesn't seem to ring a bell with me. Whether out of convenience or ignorance, people seem to forget that games were difficult back then largely because most of the developers had little experience in making games and considering that most of those games were shorter than they are today, this was one of the ways that they could pad the content to make it longer than it really was. If they tried to pull this off today, I guarantee you that it would be raked through the coals.

The thing is a lot of companies sold to big corporations, so that's one reason games went downhill.

Uh, that has existed since the 70's, and in fact, almost all major developers are either part of corporations or are corporations themselves, so that doesn't make any sense. Also, the quality of games have largely went up in subsequent generations, and has stayed in a similar standard since the beginnings of the previous generation. Frankly, that is just a cop out argument, and not a good one at that.

Rareware is a good example of this, their classic games are my favorite. They sold to Microsoft and now it's turned to pure shit. I don't blame Rare, maybe they just got sick of making games.

Okay, that's one out of many developers, not to mention that like most VG compaines, they have a high turnover rate of their workforce from game to game. I haven't really heard of a long-running development team that hasn't made a bad game or two in their existence.

But when someone starts praising the remakes like DKC and KI, I seriously want to punch them in the face. I've played the remakes just to confirm my assumptions, and they are not the same at all, just another modern crap game.

The KI remake isn't half bad, though it was a bit lacking, largely because it was a launch title. I kind of detected this, but you assume that a remake is bad and you didn't really explain why other than it was a modern game, some sort of context really does help here.

Anyway I think Game Devs just want to make games generally, they don't really care about making amazing games, they just like games.

So, in other words you're stating the obvious? Plus, the consideration on what is a great game is all subjective in the end, and even the most liked game are going to have their haters.