Recent content by Ekonk

What. The. Fuck. I see now. I see why they always paint video games in a negative light. It has been leading up to this. No gamer can go into politics now.

I sincerely doubt that CIA protocol contains EVE as the standard way of contacting the Agency. I mean, why not just send an email? Occam's Razor, Beck.

And here I was thinking that my thoughts of the Escapist forums having turned to shit were the usual nostalgic bullshit. But if others think the same, maybe it has really turned to shit! Seriously though I used to spend a lot of time here and now everytime I get here it's either gender...

STALKER: Call of Pripyat has some unforgivable bugs. Spec Ops: The Line wasn't very interesting gameplaywise. The Void is pretty pretentious. Morrowind has the worst combat and spell system ever. The Witcher 2 can somehow, inexplicably, bore me sometimes.

The AI of the bloodsucker mutants in the STALKER series may not be about to gain self awareness, but it does a great job at seeming ruthless and intelligent; taking it's time to attack, and backing off and cloaking after it does. I find that the bloodsuckers in the last STALKER game are the...

I hereby apologize for certain elements of my gender. "Invading their hobby" fucking christ. 345 pounds is a lot though. Acceptance is the first stage to solving the problem I guess.

Well, being Dutch, we have been responsible for a lot of slavery. The VOC was perhaps the first company that had military power which was not seldom used to murder/rob/rape/enslave lots of people all over the world. The worst part is that I'm kind of proud of it - we were huge and...

Funny thing, Day Z has the most complex moral choices in any game, and it doesn't even have a moral choice system.

Mods are more than graphical updates. The best mods either add to a game in amazing ways (and yes, this can be graphically) or utilize the game's engine or assets to tell their own story. I can name dozens of amazing mods that really add to a game or are small games on themselves. It's the...

Look, you can have a theory and a hypothesis. An hypothesis is "hey, I think maybe animals adapt to their environment". A theory is an hypothesis supported by mountains of evidence. Basically undeniable. Like the theory of gravitation. It's undeniable yet we have no proof. We don't have a...

To be honest I think it's unfair to say Kirsten can't act. I don't know about you, but I only know her from the Twilight series and I can tell you that she channels Bella perfectly i.e., a blank slate with occasional bouts of depression to make you think that you're actually reading aboutan...

Still not as bad as systematic death camps for untermenschen. The kharash is insanely cruel but it serves a tactical purpose. The death camps were ethnic cleansing.

You better believe it. I learned more about Mesopotamia, Africa, China, the Mongols, and the Silk Road in those videos than in all my years in the extremely Eurocentric school system. If you believe what I learned there you'd assume Africa didn't even exist until we started invading.

Yes, but after getting slaughtered and conquered you would be at the correct end. Not the case with the Nazis. I know the slaughtering and conquering isn't exactly a cool thing, but still. They brought lots of great things, but they brought it with fire and sword. I'm not saying they were...

The Mongols were actually pretty cool. They conquered bloodily and horribly, but in their empire shit was awesome. There was absolute religious freedom and it was a very secure place. It was said that a man could walk from one end of the empire to the other with a plate of gold on his head and...