Recent content by Edhellen

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    The Big Picture: Secret Crisis

    Captain Marvel movie in 2017 turns out to be about the original white dude Captain Marvel from the 70's. Carol appears as Ms. Marvel in her love interest role again, Kamala Khan is wiped from continuity because "Carol Danvers was always the most iconic Captain Marvel." And if you think I'm...
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    Mass Effect 2: What's the big deal?

    They don't. The things you're complaining about are the things *everyone* hates about ME2. I think it's a good game in spite of this, and there are a few improvements over what ME1 was doing: The companions especially in ME2 are, I think, a lot better, and the shooting mechanics are more...
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    My Irony Meter Just Disintergrated

    To play Devil's Advocate for a moment: Is it really right to take kids away from their parents due to the parent's beliefs? What this ultimately amounts to is the government using its power to prevent an ideology from being instilled into the younger generation. In this particular case, we...
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    Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dragonborn DLC files found in latest patch

    I know I missed that whole conversation but to be honest it sounds like the Skyrim detractors are the type of gamer who has been angry and frustrated for over a decade now waiting for another Arcanum or Fallout to come out. That kind of game simply can't exist in today's publishing environment...
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    A series of questions to those who want change in female game roles.

    You want games with strong, realistic, well-written female characters? Roll up your sleeves and get to work.
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    How can gamers be made to fear ingame death?

    Who says we need to? In most games it doesn't make any sense to have death at all, let alone something the player should fear. It really only sticks around because, well, nearly every game's done it since the 70's.
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    Obama proposes requiring students to stay in high school

    IIRC, you can't drop out in the US until you're 16, so the extension of this requirement to 18 wouldn't be the radical change people here are making it out to be. This is not to say I'm unopposed to it: Personally, I don't think schooling should be a requirement at all. As for whoever was...
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    Zero Punctuation: Super Mario 3D Land & Rayman Origins

    The attacks against the 3D screen technology itself are pretty lame shots. Who is seriously claiming that the 3D screens add anything more than eye candy?
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    Skyward Sword

    I couldn't ever look at Link's face without laughing. I mean, how could you possibly take that seriously? He looks just like a creepy flanderization of the late Michael Jackson. It's truly an astonishing achievement that they went with a bright cartoonish style and *still* managed to invoke the...
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    Skyward Sword Could Be GOTY

    Considering the last good Zelda was Majora's Mask... Yeah, I'm not expecting the trend of the Zelda series going downhill to break anytime soon. Plus, from the trailers it looks like they're giving Link the Samus treatment and we all know how well that went.
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    help me with my project: what if gay were the norm and heterosexuality were taboo?

    If you want some serious advice, look at actual human cultures where homosexuality isn't taboo, or even places where it's more acceptable than hetero. Yes, these exist. Look at the Etoro [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoro_people] for example.
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    Your favorite RPG villain?

    Where Loghain's character failed was that all of his development came in the very last hour of gameplay in an 80-hour game and even then it's very easily missed even if the player buys the DLC.
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    Poll: So hypothetically , if heaven and hell exists , where do you think you'll be sent?

    I don't really care. Either way I'd be stuck with sucking someone off for eternity: I don't have a particular preference for either Yahweh or Lucifer.
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    Your most interesting era of history.

    Interesting as in, a place you'd want to live, or interesting as in something fascinating to read about? For the latter, the pre-contact histories of the native americans (particularly that of the Haida). Their societies were far more complex than most give them credit for, and pretty much...
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    Annoying Video Game Quotes Forever Etched into your Memory

    "Can I get you a ladder? So you can get off my back?" I restarted Dragon Age: Origins and made a new character just so I wouldn't have to deal with that anymore.