Recent content by Bastard King

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    Of Dragons & Ruined Cities

    Not really. Saudi Arabia, Lybia, Malasia, Oman, India, Namibia, Botswana,* Turkey, Italy, Poland and pretty much all of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavian countries have quite low rates of contraceptive use, and all have low birth rates. You're right that contraceptive use is also low in...
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    Of Dragons & Ruined Cities

    Overpopulation hasn't been a problem in most of the world for awhile. Europe, Asia, Canada, and Oceania have been suffering from low birth rates for longer than most of us have been alive. Even famous batshit insane theocracies like Saudi Arabia and Iran have below replacement birth rates like...
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    Zero Punctuation: Top 5 Games of 2013

    Anyone from Sudan or further North in Africa is white, anyone from the Mid East is white, and anyone to the West or South of Afghanistan is white. Either way, both games are, generally, about murdering shithead white fundamentalists. It's just that one's a shitty game about murdering shithead...
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    Zero Punctuation: Top 5 Games of 2013

    Arabs are white, the Turks are white, the North Africans are white, the Persians are white, and the Afghani are white. Read a census sometime. Call of Duty sucks, but white secularists from America killing white shithead fundamentalists from the white Muslim world's nothing to be bothered by.
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    GTAV's Characters Are Just Bad

    Dan Houser made Mr. K Azerbaijani, and a Christian if you notice the cross, because they don't want some insane Pakistani or Northern Nigerian leaving a carbomb outside Rockstar North. There wasn't any other reason to it. Lykosia's 100% right. You keep acting like the torture was what...
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    GTAV's Characters Are Just Bad

    Pretty much this. The torture scene is never brought up again, Mr. K is never seen or heard from again, and it doesn't affect a single character negatively in any meaningful way. The fucked up thing about it though is the sheer number of people saying it was anti-torture because of some one...
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    GTAV's Characters Are Just Bad

    You could say the exact same thing about Anikin and Obi-Wan's "friendship" in the Star Wars prequels. Notice how every single one of your defenses of the scene revolves along one of lines of dialogue from Mr. K, rather than any citation of what happens in the plot or develops from the...
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    GTAV's Characters Are Just Bad

    I really did enjoy GTA V. If I were forced to grade games on a five star scale, here's how I'd place GTA V. ***** - Red Dead Redemption, GOTY Edition ****3/4 - FF Tactics ****1/2 - GTA V **** - FF VII *** - FF XII ** - Halo 3 * - Gears of War III DUD - FF XIII -* - Duke Nukem Forever...
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    GTAV's Characters Are Just Bad

    This is probably the best analysis I've read of GTA V's cast. Particularly Trevor. Really, the main problem with GTA V isn't the characters or the gameplay, both of those are fantastic. What brings GTA V out of "Top Five of All Time" territory is the story and the satire. It would've been...
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    GTAV's Characters Are Just Bad

    Yes. The torture worked a hundred percent in your favor and nobody in the game consequences for it, while at the same time it was still trying to pass itself off as anti-torture. That's a load of bullshit. That's like saying, "Whoa, so you think Glee is the worst thing Fox has ever...
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    GTAV's Characters Are Just Bad

    I personally was a huge fan of Trevor, in the same way as I'm a huge fan of George Costanza, the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Gang, Vegeta, and Kratos. There's something hugely satisfying about a totally amoral bastard with no redeeming qualities that the medium actually plays up to...