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I just love how we pick and choose random little details and magically assume that just because there is a similarity between them means it's an automatic rip-off. I'll take it that no has heard of pure coincidences before. The sheer amount of stupidity in this thread is overwhelming.

It's the special ingredients that separates Mexican Coke from regular Coke, particularly with the fact that Mexican Coke is closer to the original formula (as in having actual cocaine) and it tends to be just as addictive.

Nintendo losing another third-party franchise again? Boy, things are looking too hot for the Big N now, and I'll probably guess all those dumbasses who said that the Nintendo will catch lightning in a bottle again and beat the PS4 and Xbone has egg on their faces.

I hate to see this happen with Nintendo, I really do, but they largely brought it upon themselves for continuing to dismiss 3rd party support when they needed it the most.

FYI, this belongs on the VG forum, kind of makes me wonder why this keeps slipping through the cracks, whatever.

Regardless, I happen to agree with the subject at hand. Most of the 2D retro platformers that indie developers love to make are ripping off some of the mechanics and devices of old NES/SNES/Genesis games, if not shamelessly making carbon copies of said games with the serial numbers filed off, and the sad part is that spoiled hipster gamers and indie fanboys will treat it as a saving grace of gaming when it's not even close to being that. {not that it really needs it}

If indie games want to be taken seriously by the majority of gamers, then they should be held to the same standard that AAA developers have when it comes to games. Enough with idiots coddling minor-league game developers, bring in the major league squads and see if they can hit above the Mendoza line. {metaphorically speaking of course.}

Unfortunately, anime is one of those mediums that is not well respected in the West by those who aren't anime fans whether it's simply not knowing or caring what it is, to general xenophobia and everything in-between. It also doesn't really help that there isn't a lot of anime that is shown on TV anymore, and when it is shown today, it's only on late night Saturday, though in all fairness, it's like that for a long time and they have pretty much done well. In short, it's largely due to either personal taste, pop couture isolation, or simple ignorance/racism.

As a fellow anime fan, I am sympathetic to the OP's objections to an extent, but the realization is that anime is a niche market with a niche fanbase (a growing one, but still small) in the West, and partly because of it's foreign material, a segment of anime critics and haters use that as a crux against it. There are also a lot of other factors that go into this as well, (such as fan bases, what's being made, even the economics of it all.) but the disrespect aspect is the biggest bugaboo about anime.

At 8/25/14 01:56 AM, Deathsbreed wrote: Almost, politicians care about what voters think until the elections are over, then they couldn't care less.

Oh, they will care if they screw up badly enough. Our tolerance for politicians misbehaving may be pretty high, but that doesn't mean that folks won't put up with it forever, especially in swing states/districts which go either way. As Warforger said, people tend to forgive and/or forget after all of the details are out and the political fallout disappears, as long as the timing is right.

Then they pay attention to what the multinationals have to say (until they're running for re-election again).

That still doesn't excuse you for not voting if you are into politics in the first place. Even if there is some truth in your argument, you're simply trying to cop-out of actually having the one effective way to enact change in politics.

At 8/25/14 07:23 AM, ChloeFlora wrote: Actually America is so unstable now because of internal and foreign policy of our government.

Nope. I don't know if you are trolling or just stupid but America is far from being an unstable country.

Some major war would not just help advanced states to secede, but can even destroy the whole country. Hope they will change something!

As I just said earlier, if there was a nuclear war and central government (Washington D.C.) falls, then you would see states eventually split, but that's not going to happen at all. There is no incentive for any state to secede from the Union, no matter how much saber-rattling and pretend hurt feelings goes on in state Congress. OP, meet interstate freeway traffic.

At 8/24/14 08:03 PM, Deathsbreed wrote: You're supposing that the only way to involve yourself in politics is to vote or to be a politician. What about rallies? What about protests? What about movement on the street?

That stuff rarely, if ever works. Politicians aren't going to be swayed very much by the garden-variety rallies/protests unless they affect them directly. {i.e Wisconsin union protests in 2011} Also, most protests/rallies rarely having enough staying power for the average Joe to care, and it doesn't help that secondary elements to said protest usually does them in because the uniting factor eventually becomes compromised.

Frankly, protesting against politicians is not the same as a vote because they aren't going to be affected by it at all, that's one of the reasons why the OWS movement got nothing done and went up in flames. The only way that you can change the system is to vote, why do you think that crap like Rock the Vote or Vote or Die campaigns were used for during election years for?

At 8/24/14 03:47 PM, Deathsbreed wrote: This is why I'm not voting, I'm going there and whipping my butt with the paper, because that's all it's good for. All the politicians do the same thing, and I'm sick and tired of it.

Dead thread bumping aside, what do you think that would accomplish in the grand scheme of things? Frankly, you are not much different than the OP, complaining about something that you have no idea what you are talking about and provide no solutions to the problem.

Newgrounds isn't the kind of place where SJWs would be coming here in huge numbers, and if anything, would easily be put down by folks here and for good reason. There are always going to be one or two trolls that may slip through the cracks, but there is no way that they have any lasting power.

The problem with SJWs is that they either exaggerate the issue to the point where it becomes overwhelming and literately turns off the common folk to their beliefs, or just too stupid to be taken seriously, but will be defended by even more idiots which defeats the whole point of conversation in the first place.

It's easy for us to say that music played on the radio is crap, it's been that way for many years, there is no one reason why it's like that, and to try to simply point to a singular reason is simply missing the forest from the trees. Yes, major record companies have a huge part in that, along with the usual generation gap and pigeon-holed stereotypes that go along with it, but the thing about music in general is that it's a democracy (I believe Canas already mentioned this before) and there are literately thousands of artists that are out there, so there is no viable excuse for people not to get good music.

In fact, musical democracy has been around long before the Internet, with the advent of records, mix-tapes, uncensored CDs and so on. Of course, you'll naturally going to have those who'll enjoy whatever is on the Top 40, edited for content, but that doesn't mean that it's the only reliable source of music, and hasn't been for decades. I could go on and on, but I'm sure that most everyone understood what I'm talking about.

One evil potentially getting rid of another evil, you say? That sounds rather fantastic to me, as both ISIS and WBC deserves to be exterminated with extreme prejudice and we'll get our kicks watching one of them die in their own bigotry.

Now if we can only convince PETA to join in...

At 8/22/14 11:37 PM, beakerboy wrote: super meat boy doesn't lack quality in any way shape or form. It's a test every serious gamer should take. Not too hard. Not too easy. But when done you have bragging rights. It took me weeks to beat it coz im slow. But I believe as long as you don't have autism, eventual completion will happen. take the test! Wanna know what game is a complete opposite of Super Meat Boy? Dark souls. its the same concept, but with the opposite design. Dark souls is basically only beatable if you have no life and can jam away all day every day for hours for a month straight.

Now I just lost you there, because you are comparing two different games that are basically in the same difficulty level, though the designs are much different. If we are purely going by that regard, games like Battletoads, Contra, Shin Megami Tensai games, or even Demon Souls {cheap and full of little oversights that it has} would be more qualified. It just seems like you keep changing the goalposts in your argument, it's hard to justify said argument beyond that standard opinion defense.

At 8/22/14 07:08 PM, X-Gary-Gigax-X wrote: Well, it would be awful for both sides, as both would take casualties. Remember, this is Texas, after all. They have more guns than people I reckon.

This is practically why Texas will never secede from the Union, except in very extreme circumstances, {e.g. nuclear war or mass plague} as there is too much for them to lose altogether if they do so. Yes, they may have a strong economy that rivals that of South Korea and Belgium, along with enough man-power and resources to provide a decent standing army by itself, there is no way that they'll seriously considering splitting from the Union, and only suggest this either as an empty threat or as a joke to stick at people's craws.

Think of it this way, Texas is an elite linebacker on a winning football team and is payed very well, {USA} why would they want to leave that for what a few short-sided idiots would think be greener pastures on a shitty team, {secession} doing everything by themselves?

At 8/22/14 08:38 PM, beakerboy wrote: I am guessing it was you dream to complete SMB like a little kid on Christmas morning but then u found out that u drugged off too many brain cells to be able to complete SMB.

No, not really. In fact, most of the other games you have mentioned so far have legitimate cases to be in most serious gamers' top 20 list, {even if it they are mostly modern games so far} but I {and most others for that matter} don't think that Super Meat Boy should be on that list at all when there are more qualified games for that spot.

This has nothing to do with AAA vs. indie development favoritism, {God forbid we need to regurgitate the same elitist BS from both sides, but far more so coming from indie developers} it's simply a matter of quality.

This would be better if you actually list the best games in your own blog instead of listing them one at a time on the forums, not to mention that you haven't exactly given us much time to even comment on them.

Also, Super Meat Boy being on this list pretty much makes this list null and void. There is no comprehensive way that SMB should be in any top all-time list of games.

This is pretty much why I stop watching Naruto in the first place, not to mention that they seem to be more concerned about angsting over trivial bullshit rather than kicking ass and taking names. You don't see this in Hokuto No Ken, which is no surprise why it's the superior shonen fighting series, along with Yu Yu Hakasho.

That actually makes a lot of sense, no one wants to fight against their own countrymen, but if they decide that want to join a terror group that we are at war against, then that automatically means that their rights from the old country are null and void. Not like they would ever want to come back anyway, but putting the persona non grata to them is still meaningful, though it's more effective to just kill them outright as policy dictates.

It certainly does remind me of Doom, Quake and other old-school FPSs. Of course, there are going to be those idiots who'll complain about another FPS game being made, but they are completely missing the big picture in more ways than one.

Those who actually believe in the Noah's Ark story to be true is an idiot, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't good entertainment for it's time. After all, you never let the facts get in the way of a good story, and the Bible is full of good stories, especially with all of the blood, sex and casual genocide that it is shown that would fit quite nicely with Warhammer 40k lore, the similarities are uncanny once you get past the setting.

Noel Vermillion and Makoto Nanaya (BlazBlue)
Kasumi and Hitomi (Dead or Alive)
Morrigan Aensland (Vampire Savior)
Roll Caskett (Mega Man Legends)

Sex sells, why do you think that companies use that to attract gamers towards their MMOs? Though in cases like Evony for example, used a naked (or nearly naked) lady along with other false advertising tactics pretty much screwed them over and deservingly so.

He's basically preaching to the choir about how bad ISIS is, but what makes him different from the rest of the world leaders who denounced ISIS is that this is coming from a Pope, {a rather soft-spoken and humble one at that} who you would think would be against war in general.

For some reason, it seems like ISIS is basically Dr. Manhattan without the well-intentions, uniting much of the world against a person or group and doing everything in their power to stop them, or at least denouncing them as evil. Hell, the Iranians hate them just as much as we do, and we've been hating them for decades, which really makes the enemies of our enemies our friends. {though friends is stretching it pretty far}

At 8/19/14 09:44 AM, ChloeFlora wrote: Everybody knows that Texas is still a territory in dispute for the USA and Mexico. But as far as Texas has one of the most independent economical systems of all states, it seems quite probable that they’ll prefer to get independent from this breakable country

Sad to see that you are blatantly ignorant as always, but I'll play around with you this time.

Texas by itself has one the biggest economies in the world by GDP (ahead of countries like South Korea, Netherlands and Brazil to name a few) thanks to a very diverse array of companies who are headquartered there from electronics, oil/energy, medical research and even manufacturing. Losing Texas means that America would lose a huge chunk of their economy in which it can't fully recover from. It would be even worse for Texas, as they would suffer even bigger losses, losing out on federal tax money, tourism dollars and having to get everything that a country needs would not be worth it at all.

As for all of the rumblings of independence from America, that's nothing more than glorified saber-rattling by fringe groups with nothing better to do. I've lived there for over a decade, and most people hardly care about this at all, even with numerous petitions that they sent saying that Texas wants to split from the Union. In other words, they're being mostly facetious and only do it just to stick it to Obama or to most Democratic presidents in recent decades.

At 8/19/14 11:29 AM, ChloeFlora wrote: Urgh... it seems that it's better to keep the authority by working for your nation then by killing civils, Even if they live in a rebellion region!

It's war, civilian casualties are an unfortunate part of it on both sides, but the pro-Russian separatists are the ones who are actively target civilians in the first place. You haven't made a convincing argument at all besides the usual pointing the finger at the Ukraian government for doing what they're supposed to be doing, which no one is buying. It's pretty clear that you're trying to shill for the pro-Russian side, either that or you are really missing the forest from the trees.

I've never been a big fan of game journalists to begin with, as they are either proverbial fish out of water or have a horrendous amounts of bias that cloud their judgements, and that simply bleeds out to others that do read them often. Frankly, because of the reasons that I (and everyone else) have mentioned that game journalism is a toxic environment that drags the video game industry down.

At 8/18/14 08:04 PM, Magical-Zorse wrote: Draft Day was good but it's not a typical football movie where the underdogs win and all that bullshit.

To be fair, it was about the Cleveland Browns, (who have been underdogs for the most part since the early 60's) basically showing how a "winning" team is built. Of course, it is the Browns, which means it's a foregone conclusion that they'll lose and lose often.

The only football movie that I enjoyed was The Longest Yard, which more or less parodied a lot of the typical cliches and story lines that normally goes into the average sports movie. I wouldn't put it above Bull Durham (which subverted a lot of sports movie cliches) or Field of Dreams (which was more about the people instead of the game itself) though, both of which are baseball movies.

At 8/18/14 07:45 PM, Xiicubed wrote: "A mix of tribal warfare"? So you are saying European countries never had wars with each other? And there were many more African civilizations than Egypt and Ethiopia such as Songhai, Great Zimbabwe, Oyo, Sokoto, Mutapa, and Merina. And Africa was in the Iron Age just like the rest of the world so they did have technological innovation.

Yes, but unlike Europe, African civilizations who went to war with each other cannabialized themselves (metaphorically) and stood no chance against European forces in the 1600's. Also, the Iron Age was about 1000 BC to the rise of Rome, which isn't really saying very much. Considering that African civilization was was still stuck in that time period when the Portugal, Britian and others got there, you can't say that they were that innovative. Remember that they also had no firearms of their own at that time, when others like China, Japan (via Portugal) and even Native Americans either had guns/gunpowder or a means to get those guns, and they were, at least economically, just as bad as they were.

I think you're giving Africa way too much credit here, even with the civilizations that they had, they still were pretty primitive.

At 8/18/14 04:34 PM, Xiicubed wrote: And its all the Europeans' fault

Europe did play a part in making Africa what it is, but not wholly.

Africa wasn't exactly a great place before the Europeans colonized the place. True, Africa is relatively rich of natural resources and farmable land, but a mix of tribal warfare, no concrete sense of civilization beyond a few countries (Ethiopia, Egypt) and very little incentive for technological innovation pretty much doomed them before the Europeans got there.

Probably why Africa is known for being the lower intestine of the world, it was and still is full of shit. It doesn't help that those people either try to improve their situation but fail, or just simply destroy just because they can.

Makes me wonder why do they just not shoot them, they are wantonly going around spreading the Ebola virus by raiding and "liberating" quarantine zones thinking that modern medicine is the cause of the virus. I think it's safe to say that central Africa is a lost cause that isn't Kenya or maybe Tanzania, and sad to say, but they were better off when they were under British or French rule of the late 1800's than it is today.