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Real gun or not, this is fucking stupid on so many levels, in good conscience she should have her kid taken away. What in the holy hell awas she trying to prove, pointing a gun at a child like that?

You know what, it may be best that I didn't know and pretend that I do.

Obviously, with any list of greatest games, there is a lot to be considered and they are supposed to be subjective. However, it seems like Empire's list is pretty much one of the worst I've seen. Some games are honestly ranked way too high or shouldn't even be on the list, while some others aren't even listed at all, but the other game within the franchise are listed here despite being the inferior game. I don't know if Empire covers video games that much, but if they don't, they might be better off not doing so until they get a serious VG expert.

Frankly, we're better off making our own best game lists here or on our blogs. IIRC.

At 8/14/14 08:34 PM, leanlifter1 wrote: The Mike Brown Shooting What You're Not Being Told
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_icVWKO4_o

You need to take that with a serious grain of salt. Checking through the video history of "StormCloudsGathering", they are pretty much nothing more than a conspiracy seekers who are using the stereotypical "wool over our eyes" and "wake up people" schtick without out and out saying it. If nothing else, they are only muddling the waters further, and not really helping what really went on.

Not to mention that they are pretty lousy when it comes to fact-checking and easily take anything that is said way out of context.

At 8/14/14 12:03 PM, C-Hawk wrote: Other unpopular opinion: if you're dumb enough to sign up for the military as a corporate hitman for the sole reason of getting college paid for, perhaps you're not smart enough for college in the first place.

Joining the military doesn't make you a corporate hitman, not only is that fucking stupid, but inaccurate as well. Corporations have no say on military matters anymore than your YouTube war experts, which should be pretty obvious. Also, with the rising cost of college, how in the hell else are they going to get to college without a scholarship? Scholarships don't grow on trees, and college is ridiculously expensive, especially with student loans.

At 8/14/14 06:59 AM, ChloeFlora wrote: I'm not caught up on anything, I just see what he does to our country and our people! And it's not good!

Being melodramatic and exaggerating the problem doesn't help your point at all, if anything, it hurts it. You're falling into that proverbial trap again. Not to mention you haven't even explained anything about your points at all.

And the Ukrainian president is doing everything not for his people or his country, but to keep his authority!

So, you are on the pro-Russian rebels side? How dare he send his troops to beat back a rebellion on his own soil, now you're digging yourself a deeper hole.

Wow, the amount of edge shown by the OP.

But in all seriousness, NG has changed and so has the people here. There aren't as many teenagers who are sexually frustrated and too ignorant to know about much of anything. Hell, when I first came here about a decade ago, it was nothing more than cheap violence, porn/hentai, and anti-Bush threads all over the place.

Naturally, the police are going to defend their own guys, though I would imagine that they will have a hard time trying to defend shooting someone 10 times, even when the other person is armed and belligerent. A lot of people have a distrust with the police already, and it's kind of hard not to see why.

However, the black community seems to have a problem every time that there is a major injustice that is committed against them, (not all mind you) they respond by getting up at arms and essentially rioting, defeating any sympathy that they may have beforehand, and perpetuates the same stereotypes that they get accused of time after time, it's a never ending cycle. Frankly, this is not much different than the riots in Cincinnati in '01 over a similar situation, (memory is a little fuzzy on what happened, but I do know that the policeman was ruled not guilty) and soon after that, a lot of entertainment icons basically protested against the city because of that.

Other than general blind rage, I do not understand why would some parts of the black community would act this way thinking that anything would change every time that one of their own is shot down or beaten by someone of a different race. Looting and pillaging your own community doesn't help your cause, and really only perpetuates the same stereotypes against black people. MLK Jr. and even Malcolm X would be spinning in his grave every time that something like this happens.

At 8/13/14 12:23 AM, StumpyAlex wrote: Umm... Ever had a cheeseburger, friend?

Yes I have. I put ketchup on fries, but I prefer spicy mayo or even just regular mayo on my cheeseburger, but never ketchup.

Ketchup and cheese of any kind don't mix. I've tried that once and I got really sick to my stomach, and needless to say, but there was no way I do that again.

What kind of person who isn't a child would put ketchup on Mac and cheese?

Canada is the rip-off version of America in almost every way.

Toronto is essentially a little version of New York, from being the biggest city in their respective countries, to having their own version of Times Square. Alberta is essentially a less populated version of Texas, but a lot colder and lamer as well, and Vancouver is basically a mash-up of Seattle and Portland put together, with a crappy hockey team that chokes in the playoffs every time.

About the only things that Canada has better than America is a better view of Niagara Falls, having a lot of babes per capita, {though it's debatable} and the legal age of drinking is 19. {Like that makes much of a difference considering that teen drinking in America is pretty ubiquitous.}

At 8/12/14 11:05 AM, ChloeFlora wrote: So what? We have elected our president democratically too, and now don't know how to get rid of him!

Please don't tell me that you are all caught up on "impeach Obama" storm that some Republicans are whipping up because they aren't doing the thing they want. It's about as stupid as those who wanted to impeach Bush for doing something that he had full authority over, even if it was foolish.

Back to the topic at hand, the Ukrainian president is doing everything he can to end the rebellion, and so far, it seems to be winding to a close, unless Russia dares to do something they'll regret.

At 8/12/14 10:57 AM, ChloeFlora wrote: All people have some mental disorders. It's a fact. But we have to protect kids from having extras.

Care to elaborate? Last time I checked, mental disorders weren't dime-a-dozen with people, no matter what those clowns who think that ADHD is awesome and try to advertise that fact. Plus what does marijuana have to do with mental illness?

Otherwise our sick nation will get sicker and sicker

Not as sick as when we threw our garbage and bodily wastes onto the streets in the 1800's because things like sanitation didn't exist.

At 8/10/14 07:30 PM, skykid10 wrote: 1. But what do yall think it was about Nintendo in the glory days (1988-circ.2006) that made them stand out so much as video game designers?

For a long time, they were regarded as the "that video game company" that entered into pop culture in the 80's, and has been there since. Though in the late 90's and early 2000's, they were falling behind both Sony's Playstation juggernaut and Microsoft's Xbox meteoric rise into the gaming scene had made them second fiddle, and it didn't help that western game companies like EA, Activision, Take-Two and others began to make games that were equal and even surpass the quality of Japanese titles, which is still in effect today.

Until the N64, Nintendo had a huge wave of momentum on their side, as everything that they made was an instant success, until the market literately changed in the mid to late 90's when the Playstation took over, followed by the PS2, which is the best selling console in history. Ironically enough, it was the Wii that took their "kiddie" console and ran away with it, becoming the most successful console of that generation, sales-wise at least {games were a whole different story}

2. What do you think of Nintendo today and what do you think of the modern day gaming community's claim of 'Nintendo's Decline'?

In spite of my criticism towards Nintendo in the past, I still respect them for reviving a nearly dead industry in the early 80's and help turned it into what it is today. That said, I do believe that they are soon going to fall behind the Xbone and PS4, it's simply a matter of time before they do, and there is really nothing they can do about it. I know for a fact that they will not get the same audience that they got with the Wii last time, as the "casual" market has moved on towards mobile gaming or went with the other consoles/PC, and in spite of all of the criticisms with the Xbone and PS4, people are still going to buy these consoles and the games for their consoles are not far off.

The rather bogus argument that some people have said is "But the Wii U has games while the others don't" doesn't hold much water to me. First off, the other consoles have games too, it just so happens that a lot of them are still with the 360 and PS3 which will be supported for at least another year or two, hell, PS2 games were still being made well within the PS3's span.

Second, Nintendo essentially burnt some bridges with some big western game publishers, which means that their third-party support will be much more limited than they usually had to deal with in previous generations. Say what you want about EA, they do publish/make a lot of good games that people like, and the last console that spurned EA {Sega Dreamcast} didn't fare too well. As the old saying goes "Sometimes it's the devil that you know is better than the devil you don't know."

Simply put, is Nintendo going away? Not at all, only an idiot would think that. Will Nintendo be the top dog in this generation? I greatly doubt that, and word around the grapevine is when MS and Sony get their act together with their consoles, expect Nintendo to be picking up bronze pretty soon.

I honestly never thought that we see the day that Iran and America stand on some sort of common ground in the Middle East. Ideally, Iran should be willing to work with us, and we should probably back off comparing them with the likes of North Korea and such, though what happened in 1979 is still going to be pretty fresh in their minds and ours, even if it shouldn't be that big of a deal now.

I guess this is a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and "keep your friends close and your enemies closer." Not that I would explicitly trust Iran in much of anything, but both the U.S. and Iran might not have much of a choice.

Trigger Man for the PS2, probably one of the most broken POS game that I've ever played. Just about everything is broken in this game, from the AI to the stealth mechanics to the unreal difficulty that is caused because of the broken mechanics. Considering who made the game, (Crave) it's not a shock that they would make this low quality abomination and why they are on my hate slate for game companies.

Yeah, something tells me that you aren't going to get very far with that. Sure, not using Facebook and Google is more than possible, but most people aren't going to care about what you're saying. Dailymotion sucks ass and they don't really a good job of promoting the site, and steam messenger is obviously limited to just Steam, which pretty much makes a limited audience even smaller.

There isn't much you can do other than not use them, and to insist that anyone can stop them is either joking or have no idea about the consequences of doing so.

At 8/8/14 08:27 PM, KatMaestro wrote: I like being a dick.

You know what, I'm sick of being belittled of by a gutless ITG troll {you} in this thread, so I'm done arguing my points to someone who just doesn't understand. Perhaps you should grow up yourself before you accuse anyone of doing the same, especially how skewed and egregious your comments have been so far, not to mention wrong.

This conversation is over, go away.

At 8/8/14 07:13 PM, Light wrote: It's not like I'm implying that the solution to this conflict can easily be reached, but atrocities committed against civilians shouldn't be tolerated, regardless of the predicament that has precipitated them.

Killing civilians is bad, but the problem is that is no major penalty for doing such a thing in Israel's case and to Hamas, what do they care? I might be generalizing here, but to Hamas the only good Israeli is a dead one, and this isn't their first time that this mentality percolated in the region. It's no wonder why Israel doesn't take any chances with terror groups, not that I condone their actions, but dealing with 65 years of Arab forces who want them exterminated does mean fighting dirty is a necessity.

Frankly, this is a miniature version of Warhammer 40,000, and Hamas are basically the orks of that region. They're generally mindless, violent and probably turn on each other when the shit hits the fan.

No, there really isn't.

Do the other Arab countries not named Egypt or Jordan know that? Fighting over 50 miles of desert and swampland is worth fighting and dying for it seems.

At 8/8/14 05:24 PM, elitegamer11 wrote: you must be an xbox fanboy. angry joe is right. titanfall is terrible. its the worst game on xbox one.

I don't often agree with Xenomit, but what he just said was the truth. Most people who trash popular games (or anything for that matter) are generally the ones who don't play the game in the first place, and have preconceived notions on what it is, instead of judging it on it's own merits.

I've heard this way too many times here on the forums, and even on the outside. It's fucking ridiculous how people keep using petty excuses to not play games and treat it like some sort of cop-out. If you don't like a series/style/genre of games, then don't bother, the last thing we need in the gaming community is more politics and negativity.

Whatever you do, don't listen to those who are blinded by nostalgia. Modern games are just as good, if not better than their older counterparts, and to try to say otherwise is essentially being disingenuous. I'm not saying ignore the older games, simply don't let nostalgia cloud your thinking the way it has others. (I won't name names)

That aside, I can't simply point to one thing that makes people lose to do anything. (including gaming) Like anything else, you generally go through peaks and valleys with gaming, but considering the huge amount of games that are available, there is always something new to play or even replay.

At 8/8/14 12:07 PM, elitegamer11 wrote: looks like somebody cant understand sarcasm. it was meant as a joke. they are trying to take over an entire country because a terrorist group there destroyed 2 buildings.

That wasn't a joke, he really did mean that. I'm not going to repeat what I just said about Afghanistan after this, it was to capture/kill OBL and destroy the Taliban, everything else is a bonus. I don't know where you've been, but it's obvious that you shouldn't side with Kat, as he's not only ignorant, but disrespectful as well.

Don't be another person who should be playing on an airport Tarmac for stupidity.

At 8/8/14 12:26 AM, KatMaestro wrote: Anti-American garbage

FTFY.

I don't know if it's your grammar or lack of respect is more appalling to all of us. I would ask why would you continue to be a disrespectful little shit, but I would probably get the usual hate speech and slander.

At 8/7/14 09:53 PM, YenMuffin wrote: Ignoring the problem is just the same as giving your outright approval to continue. By all means please continue purchasing and raping services that people enjoy; it doesn't affect anything in my life...yet.

You know that you're under no obligation to use these sites, and frankly, not using them speaks more volume than whining about here. Of course don't expect the majority of folks to even care probably because they don't even use it anyway. Seriously, it's not that hard, if you don't like it, then don't go there at all.

At 8/7/14 01:49 PM, Dean wrote: Probably just end up being cheaper to buy a GameCube and the original remake. Plus you'd have a GameCube then too. As if a generation of remakes isn't bad enough, now we're getting remakes of remakes. The world has officially gone mad.

To me, there is one justifiable reason why ports/remakes are around in general. It's because a lot of gamers that were stuck with one console probably never got a chance to play the original version because it was on a different console. Most people aren't going to spend hand over foot for another console just to play one game, so it only makes sense that they remake/port a game that isn't being made anymore for other consoles.

Plus, it's not like they're removing all of the old copies, so the choices are still there for everyone to get.

You're wasting your time bellyaching over first world problems. The simplest solution is to just ignore them, it's not like Twitch (it was stupid even before Google got it) and Oculus Rift are monopolizing their respective modes of entertainment, and even if they are now, don't you think that someone else would make their own soon?

At 8/7/14 05:40 PM, darkjam wrote: This is why Nintendo is the only company I truly respect. Why can't we just get the damn exclusives MS and Sony?

Because MS and Sony are still working on their 7th generation consoles along with their recent console entries. Considering that they were making games for the PS2 well into the PS3 era, it'll be a while before they go exclusively with their respective consoles.

Not to mention with the Wii U's struggles, I'd say that MS and Sony can afford to be patient with the Xbone and PS4.

At 8/7/14 05:34 PM, KatMaestro wrote:

At 8/7/14 03:28 PM, orangebomb wrote:
Then again, you are known for your constant BS and derogatory statements which isn't surprising to say the least.

Pot call the kettle black.

I call out idiots like you out for your BS, you simply spout out whatever in an attempt to be edgy, ignorant or both.

Yep, the more deaths, the merrier. Invaders perished in the land of Afghani. The British tried and failed. So as the Soviet. You American won't make a different.

We aren't trying to conquer Afghanistan, we're simply repairing it from a broken state left from the Soviet invasion and civil war. Nice try, but other than repairing a government, there is nothing of worth to us to make it a colony. Please go play on an airport Tarmac, please.

At 8/7/14 12:53 PM, KatMaestro wrote: Right. Afghanistan is the 51st State of America, short for AF. Currently this guy KIA inside his homeland, died from fighting grassroot militia names Taliban, the hybrid of redneck and goat...

You disgust me. Afghanistan isn't a state in America, and to insist that it is because we're removing OBL and the Taliban is simply retarded. Then again, you are known for your constant BS and derogatory statements which isn't surprising to say the least.

Why do you disrespect those who fight and die for their country? War may be pointless to an extent, but there are still real people fighting for the stability of this world, no matter how meager it may be.

At 8/7/14 12:17 PM, Freaki-boy92 wrote:u

except they tried to push SOPA like, 6 times already? there's no misunderstanding there.

And all those times, they have failed by a considerable margin. Don't let some fringe politicians fool you into thinking that is how America thinks as a whole.

really, fucking really?
i don't hear about british police beating dudes to death for not doing anything really wrong
hell, when is the last time a european police officer mistook a videogame controller for a offensive weapon?

Ok, all that stuff happens on a very infrequent basis, (think once in a blue moon) and often times, it's because a suspect was being belligerent. As for that video game being mistaken for a weapon, you must remember that officer are trained to draw their guns when there is something perceived to be a gun, even if it isn't, not to mention that many places in Europe don't allow private ownership of guns without serious paperwork to begin with.

i reiterate, america is the most paranoid state out there with the exception of north korea and maybe china.

No, outsiders and the ignorant tend to ridiculously over exaggerate anything that is reported to be on the news and treat it as an "attack on our freedoms" when the truth is a different story altogether.

let's put it this way
there is no pledge of alliegance in the uk

So what? They're just words that most kids ignore, it's basically an artifact title at this point.

the pledge of alliegance is a brainwashing tool, something to make you think that you're free, make you think that your country is legitimately the best in the world.

First of all, I just explained that the pledge of alliegance is just words that most kids ignore to begin with, and second, all countries have some sort of "brainwashing tool" (which is a loaded term BTW) such as national anthems, symbols and what have you in saying what makes their country special and great. For fucks sake, the British Empire were all about this for centuries, and now you try to judge us? That's rich.

there's a lot of things wrong with britain, yes, but don't you dare even suggest that america is any better, because it really fucking isn't

When did I say that Britain was worse than America? All I said was that all of that stuff you said was over exaggerated and is nothing more than an assumption that people make. You are letting something that happens in a blue moon become the standard when that's not the case, and think we're some sort of quasi-dictatorship with no freedoms, when that's not even the case either.

At 8/7/14 03:06 AM, Freaki-boy92 wrote: surprisingly free, to be honest- i can do what i want within the law, and i can say what i want. oh yeah, and i can SURF THE INTERNET FREELY WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT A GOVERNMENT CONSTANTLY TRYING TO CENSOR IT.

In other words, it's just like America. The only difference is that people tend to ridiculously overreact to one-time incidents and now complain about "loss of freedoms" when it's nothing more than a misunderstanding.

moreover, i don't fear the police. if i lived in america i would fear the police.

The police in America are no different than European police, the only difference is the laws. C'mon folks, we need to know better.