Recent content by Duffy13

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    BlackListed

    I suddenly realize I don't think a lot of folks know the difference between Ethics, Morality, and Laws... Using the example of publishing inconsequential leaked information about games, it is clearly an ethical question, not a legal or moral one. Legality plays no part in the specifics (no...
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    About the Amazing Spider-Man, I Told You So

    Sam Huntington doooo itttt.
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    Scientsts Create Scotty, The World's First "Teleporter"

    Currently the best definition of a human being is the consciousnesses that manifests when an electric pattern interacts with brain tissue. If you in any way modify that apparatus it can have minor to catastrophic ramifications on the 'consciousnesses' of a person, this indicates that the brain...
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    Super Fighting Robot Soapboxium

    Sorkin's shows are really more about an idealized version of their subject with some real world based examples scattered in for relatable context with fun, quick, and amusing writing and characters. Everyone I know that didn't like the Newsroom cited that they didn't like it trying to tell them...
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    Planetary Annihilation Dev Launches Apocalyptic RPG Kickstarter

    I feel like a dissenting opinion is needed: PA is fun as hell and delivers exactly the game-play I was pitched. Some of the technical issues range from annoying to sucking, but they are far from unique to PA and I rarely end up caring or noticing them.
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    Neal Stephenson's CLANG Shuts Down

    Failure is entirely a possibility with Kickstarter, its acts like angel investing, and sometimes you don't get anything for your money. It's essentially a form of gambling. I understand some people don't like it, and that's fine, don't participate then. People have been doing this sort of...
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    How a Family Almost Got Shot and Gassed: a Swatting Story

    The team doesn't breach until they have a plan of action. To the person in the room it might look like a sudden thing, but they did not just show up, run to the door, and kick it in. That said their knowledge is not magically 100%, this isn't the movies. You will also notice that there haven't...
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    Doctor Who As Watched By Someone Who Doesn't Really Watch Doctor Who

    Something concerning the whole meta argument with the audience going on: this episode is actually an inversion of the companion's reactions from the episode that introduced Tennant, the Doctor went from a kind of parent figure (Eccleston) to the dashing and handsome hero that started the...
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    To Hell With Comments

    I have never assumed a single thing from his is 100% serious. His entire shtick appears to be satire/exaggeration/irony and his EP content has never appeared otherwise to me. The only difference is that he covers a looser topic instead of a specific game. He does not suddenly abandon his persona...
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    To Hell With Comments

    Well that's kind of his point and the satire/irony of his post. Instead of refuting or discussing the actual content, commentors offer insults and ad-hominem attacks. Even if the speech in question is insulting for whatever reason, answering in the same way adds nothing. With a large enough...
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    PAX Will "Roll For Diversity" Next Year

    You guys should be ashamed of yourselves, you are so filled with hate and bile that you jump at anything that might be misconstrued as if it were intentionally malevolent. You didn't even read the dam pamphlet. Based on what the pamphlet actually said and not on what has been attributed to...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Review - Episode 7: The Hub

    When they first get to the Hub the team walks past a map in the background that the camera lingers on for the briefest of moments, if you pause and check out the frame it says something along the lines of "Associated Agencies: H.A.M.M.E.R". There was a second name, something that sounded like...
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    Lucasarts Games that Deserve Another Shot

    I will 2nd Rebellion. Empire at War tried to catch the same essence, but I personally think it fell into the same trap of doing 1 or 2 things well and dropping the ball on the rest. Take the turn based and hero mission approach of Rebellion with a tweaked/boosted version of the combat engine...
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    Gamestop: Used Games Provide Billions for Publishers

    It appears to come down to pointing fingers, if I had to blindly believe one of the two sides it would be the publishers because they have their shipped units to reference. That said I don't really trust them. The fact of the matter is without hard numbers being given freely it's hard to say...
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    Knightfail

    The rope has to get shorter as you climb otherwise you would fall and just hit the ground if it was the same length of slack as when you started. IIRC it was an anchored pulley near the top that was holding the rope. It could be argued it's essentially a trick mechanism to give the inmates hope...