Recent content by Baron Teapot

There is little point aiming to help someone get off drugs if you don't fix their underlying problems. For that, they need therapy. Drug abuse is not a disease in itself; it's a symptom. People take drugs because they lack for something, typically happiness. Depression, anxiety and panic can...

This whole subject has been done to death, but I guess this horse can take a few further kicks before it's one-hundred percent pulp. Men and women enjoy all games between them, and though in aggregate there may be smaller numbers of women playing certain genres, that's pretty useless...

So what? It's an incredibly poor argument, to join a discussion forum and, to anything you don't like or don't understand, demand that everyone "move on" because "nobody cares". If you don't want to discuss this, then please don't.

Dreiko, Casca's rape in Berserk is a huge part of the story. This proud, strong woman, and Guts' first love, is destroyed purely to provoke Guts. Her rape is what fuels Guts' rage, and serves to illustrate how far Griffith has fallen, resorting to inhuman acts of cruelty, all for the sake of his...

Consoles are typically played on low-resolution televisions that are a few metres away. Especially on an old television, it's difficult to determine the jumping you get from 30FPS from that distance. PC games are typically played on high-resolution monitors that are between one or two feet...

One in every two men will get cancer in their lifetime. We do focus a lot on breast cancer, and fail to realize that this money is not pooled for all cancers; charities must compete with one another, and this is insane; they're all aiming for the same thing - a world without cancer. To me, a...

I hate to make people uncomfortable, but you can't help but notice beautiful people. It's natural to look at people you're attracted to. Still, you don't need to stare. If someone has spent a long time making a pretty complicated costume, and it's turned out great, then compliment them on it.

I'd make myself invisible, and find a way to muffle every sound and smell, so that I effectively wouldn't exist. Then I'd slowly wander through the dream-world, tampering with others' dreams like the almighty hand of God. My dreams are usually pretty nightmarish and existential. But I'd...

I love the idea that we can only have gay characters if they add something to the story, like "heterosexual is default, so make a straight character unless you can think of a compelling reason for them to be gay. Otherwise I just don't wanna know!" Groan. Don't tell me you're gay unless it's...

Frames per second are important. I've been running games at over 60FPS for about ten years. It's noticeable when it's lower. Each frame your game loop will update itself as much as possible. The GPU will render the scene just once. During the update, input is polled, physics calculations...

I'd tell myself to relax more and to stop drinking, 'cause it can catch up very quickly. Then I'd give myself a notebook filled with future gambling results, just to help make my life a thousand times easier. What can I say? I liked the Back to the Future movies.

I don't think it's that simple. The leaf village tried to reach a democratic solution, but the massacre was their only option. In the end, Itachi agreed with them, that in order to protect his brother, he had to put the good of the village ahead of his clan; he was basically a teenager, but...

Gamepads sacrifice a little precision for comfort and ease of use; in a game like 'Dark Souls', there are numerous buttons that can easily be mapped to a gamepad, but the keyboard and mouse controls feel more clunky and tacked-on, like they weren't expecting to create a PC port of the game and...

It's normal. It does not need any treatment whatsoever, so long as it's not harming anyone else. You keep to yourself. You have a girlfriend. That seems pretty healthy to me. We all have our personal little quirks and idiosyncrasies. They're ours, and nobody has the right to declare them...

This disgusts me. I want to be a fair and unbiased man, capable of offering mercy and understanding that desperate people do desperate things, and that murder is sometimes justifiable. When is rape justifiable? He is a father. That is something I may never be, and yet he has such little...