Recent content by BlindTom

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    Are there no stupid people anymore?

    I've worked in Customer Service a lot and in a way it's brought me round to a different viewpoint. To begin with I though "Wow most of these people are cripplingly stupid. Like constantly dribbling and wearing one of those caps with a propeller on it stupid." These days I realise that being...
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    Why I Wear Princess Leia's Metal Slave Bikini

    Smart article, picked up mostly in the second half. Hopefully one of these days the whole "Stop thinking about that" approach to "progressive" ideas will go out of fashion, at least in this subculture where it's seen some worrying flare ups of late. Assuming the writer reads these, I'd be...
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    Witcher 1 Combat

    I saw both The Last Wish (The first book)and Sword Of Destiny (the most recent English translation) in a popular UK bookshop today. All English translations are available on both the UK and the US Amazon sites as well. They're at least as available as any other popular fantasy series from where...
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    XCOM: Enemy Unknown Will Arrive on Android "Soon" - Update

    I haven't played Enemy Within yet and I have recently acquired a Kindle Fire. Cater to these two things and I'll happily fork out whatever it takes.
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    1979 Revolution Seeks Support From Kickstarter

    Great idea. Though some of the gameplay looks.... Less than classy. It's nice to see that we've come far enough that this can happen instead of just being added to the pile along with Six Days In Fallujah.
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    Death Comes to the Games Industry

    I just realised that I will be really upset to see a lot of these people go, luckily I'll probably see visionary indie developers in te next ten years who will be set to outlive me. It's still weird how Gary Gygax isn't with us any more.
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    GTA's Morality Is More Complex Than You Realize

    The question asked by GTA V is "What if the world really WAS like this?" Given some of the observations in this thread about Eastern Europe we know that there is a precedent for this question. If you lived in the world of GTA how would you react? There are people out there just like the...
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    Grand Theft Auto V Torture Scene Causes Uproar

    That seems a little like an oversimplified way of interpreting the intention of a piece. In Paradise Lost Lucifer "gets away with it" but we know based on our own judgements that he didn't. That said from what I've played of the game so far it looks like he probably will get his comeuppance. I'm...
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    Grand Theft Auto V Torture Scene Causes Uproar

    The entire questline is a condemnation of human rights violations in the name of "the war on terror".... SPOILERS AHEAD You rescue the victim from a branch of the government who are currently torturing him, only to have the branch you are working for instruct Trevor (a complete fucking...
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    James Pond Prepares to Kickstart a Comeback September 20

    Robocod was some weird shit to play as a kid. That's really all I have to say. I don't think it inspired passion even if it did burn itself permanently into the memory of anyone who played it.
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    Emotional Expression

    If you laugh out loud when alone in a room you are a bit weird. Laughter is a social expression and we do it to share the fact that we understood and appreciated something humourous.
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    Miracle of Sound: Nameless (Planescape: Torment)

    If it didn't have Torment in the name I would think that those lyrics were just something that a kid wrote on deviantart.
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    DoTA 2 Clan "Alliance" Takes Home The International 3 Gold

    I watched the tournament with League playing friends, and despite the fact that we will continue to play League together it proved that Dota is the better game, especially to watch. I started on Dota and got pulled away by friends to play League, and had more fun with it, so it's definitely more...
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    What I like about Dragon's Crown Artwork

    I think everybody has a tendency of telling everybody else how they should feel about things, hence this thread. I'm not sure how finding something demeaning is telling someone else how to feel though. The statement "Calling people dickheads is likely to upset them." is hardly telling...
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    What I like about Dragon's Crown Artwork

    Strawmans don't work that way though do they? and arguing with someone based on their gender? that works exactly like you said, doesn't it?