Recent content by Celi

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    Changing my name (Yes I'm serious)

    Ug. Would you people just read a bit before you post? This is an adult who has thought this through. Go be a buzzkill somewhere else. I love the negative reactions people have to this sort of thing. Someone sees something outrageous, and thinks 'Wow, that person really doesn't care what...
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    Ubisoft Fires Assassin's Creed Creator

    I really don't get it--if Ubi fired him for stupid selfish business reasons, it seems like they would make it look like he had done something wrong, not that he left of his own accord. They would have had to have known that if they fired someone and told everybody he left, he would tell people...
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    Poll: A Certain Double Standard

    Something I've been struggling with a lot recently is how much of the difference between men and women is truly inherent differences and howmuch is just societal. It's generally thought that there's at least some fundamental psychological distinction. From my own experiences, I would say that...
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    Get Rid of the Dang Arrows

    But quests are actually designed around the arrows. It just isn't the sort of feature that you can just remove without consequences. In older RPG's, you actually got directions to where you needed to go; now you just get an arrow, which is fine for those that like it, but those who don't can't...
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    Big Deal on the Internet

    Yup, I'm pretty sure it wasn't. Good column, keep doing it, but it's just annoying to tell us about a free game we could've gotten two days ago. Except that apparently some people saw it. How'd y'all see it?
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    PETA Plays Pokemon

    The game itself is actually rather clever. This time they at least chose a franchise that actually is sort of vaguely questionable in its treatment of animals, but they're a little late to the party if they think they're the first to notice that the Pokémon verse doesn't hold up under scrutiny...
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    Senate Candidate Attacked Over World of Warcraft

    The latter. Colleen's World has a bunch of her posts as originally posted, and its version of that didn't have the bracketed part. Which, if anything, only serves to suggest that they actually are this clueless and aren't just trying to get one over on old people and technophobes.
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    Fans Petition to Save Ambitious Lord of the Rings Mod

    On the ModDB page I didn't see anything about the (unexpected) journey to the Lonely Mountain (and back again). If that's included, then cutting just that should be enough to prevent the mod from competing directly against any games WB might be planning on releasing in the near future. In...
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    Poll: Realism is offensive

    But it didn't do that, really. It was just one small part of a trailer that got blown way out of proportion. She's been kidnapped by bad guys, one of them tries to rape her, and she defends herself. That's all. It's not being used as entertainment in itself, it's not being glorified, and it's...
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    Steampunk Feminists Vs. Zombies

    That's because they're incredibly awesome. The title is indeed just a bunch of buzzwords strung together, but that picture would make me donate without a second thought. Non-ironically.
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    Dad Blames Microsoft for Son's Xbox Live Spending Spree

    It certainly isn't MS's fault, but I'm leaning toward blaming the kid more than his father. It's much too clear about how much money points cost for a 12-year-old not to know what he was doing. Really, this feigning ignorance was always my number one tactic for getting away with stuff...
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    Escape to the Movies: Untangling Spider-Man

    He was talking about how Bob arrogantly sees his opinion of a movie as fact, and anyone who likes a movie he thinks is bad or vice versa is responsible for how well the movie did. In the case of Transformers/Expendables/Amazing Spider-Man, he hates the movies to the point that he thinks they...
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    Escape to the Movies: Untangling Spider-Man

    The "great responsibility" thing was still there. The line itself was never said (Uncle Ben said something along the lines of "If you have an opportunity to do something good, you have a responsibility to do it"). Peter sees a crime that he could easily stop but doesn't because of a silly...
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    Escape to the Movies: The Amazing Spider-Man

    I really wish people would see the gap between business and art. While the businesspeople who pay for the creation of somethimg can and often do meddle with it, and are sometimes responsible for ruining something that could have been great (KotOR II, I Am Legend's ending, and so on), but...
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    The Felicia Day/Destructoid situation

    I'm a bit late here, but reading his tweet I feel like I'm missing something. Have people been lauding Day as the gaming industry's Second Coming or something? I mean, I can easily see that this guy is an idiot, but it's strange that even an idiot would just say this out of the blue. Did...