Recent content by Guardian of Nekops

Figured it had to be tongue-in-cheek, didn't recognize the reference. My point still stands, though. :-P *Shrugs.* We didn't. Or we went overboard grasping for the wrong days, destroying what we should have been working for in our eagerness. Nothing wrong with a bit of...

Love, I'd imagine. And yeah... it can cause a lot of problems. Especially when you mean it. More the feeling and the commitment than the actual word, of course, but... yeah. Not something for young kids to mess around with, as patronising as that sounded when the wise people told me that.

Psh. MY time loop is plenty stable as is. I won't listen, which I'll regret. Then, since I figured the time machine out once, I'll do it again and go back to encourage myself. Then I'll go way back and like, ride a dinosaur or something. It'll probably erradicate all of human history when...

Um... "Don't commit too readily to the girls you date. I KNOW everybody else is telling you this, and that the rest of life feels a bit... vague and pointless, but somewhere in between your relationships being disposable and basically a way to use women for sex and attention (which I know...

No, but if he said that scary games were better than games that didn't scare him, and therefore we should make more games like the ones that scared him and lay off all the other styles of game that didn't, then I would say that's his subjective opinion and that we shouldn't discard every other...

So Zork was the best game ever, because you had no idea what your character was like at all? Did we just stop making good games when we started drawing pictures for them? :-P Your argument has several flaws. Firstly, neither all old games not all new games are like what you describe them...

It'd be different, I think, if the person who figured this out did it themselves, or taught apprentices to do it or what not... you really can't fault somebody for trying to learn your trick, to figure out how you do it, as that's more or less the bloody point. The problem is the danger of the...

It really, really depends. Obviously, indiscriminate dumbing down is bad. I don't think I even need to give an example for that, games with an "I win" button are seldom fun. However, take the Elder Scrolls series. A lot of people were upset about how much the stat and level systems were...

Casual pirates probably make up a large number of lost sales, actually... if you could actually keep everyone without hacker skills from pirating, then it wouldn't be an issue. Nobody cares if 10% of people are able to do this, just like very few people actually think physical shoplifting is a...

I personally have two rules for these situations (when I'm the higher level character, obviously... otherwise, I don't get to make the rules). Firstly, if I'm somewhere they belong and I don't (as in, if I'm exploring their level 15 area at max level) they get a pass, whereas they won't be so...

Well, I'm not dating anyone at the moment, I've endured a military campaign in Afghanistan (for the boredom and lack of privacy), and I strongly believe that humanity needs to span more than one world. In addition to the added survivability, I think a species that wakes up under more than one...

The difference, though, is that you only need one video card, say. Any video card that is newer will replace your old one, making it obsolete (though still quite funtional within a reasonable time frame.) Games, on the other hand, are more like food... new games aren't better than old games...

How could you GET more egotistical and pretentious than Jim? It's his THING, for heaven's sake. :-P Frankly, I don't think Extra Credits is pretentious. They consider their opinions and present them intelligently, sure, but they aren't opposed to other points of view... Besides, I...

You know, if I took a dull flashlight into a movie theater and shone it over my shoulder at the folks behind me, I bet somebody would talk to me about it. It doesn't matter that it's not blinding, it's still distracting in an enviroment where you're paying for perfectly conditioned light and...

Once upon a time, people were owned by their feudal lords. You weren't even allowed to leave your town without permission, let alone your country. Of course, if you go back before government of any sort that's a different story, but taxes and tarrifs on people moving around go back rather a...