Recent content by Helicockter

huh? this is at odds with everything I've experienced of game evolution. Surely games are getting longer and more complex with the jump to 3D. super mario had 32 levels, each taking a couple of minutes to run perfectly if you were a skilled player. mario 64 onwards.... well...

Sounds kinda like an action version of Imogen, an old and awesome puzzle-platformer on the BBC micro. You had a 3 type shape change mechanic in that too, though the gameplay was based on solving puzzles as a wizard, cat and monkey (items, jumping, climbing) and you had a strictly limited 150...

Elite was mentioned (the planet names and histories were procedurally generated from a seed number; they were the same every time, but not stored on the tiny disc), but the best example from that era is the metroid-like adventure platformer Exile. A game pushing the limits of its system so much...

or you could, y'know, not sleep with sluts. also there are currently trials for male injection-based contraceptives, that combined with condoms and a decent spermicide would be about 99.99% effective even if you DO go sleeping around with women you don't like.

at the end of the day, pregnancy and birth are things that happen to a womans body, as it abortion if they choose to have one. Allowing a man to "have a say" essentially is giving him sovereignty over someone elses body, which is an extremely dangerous idea. Of course in any healthy relationship...

no, that's incorrect. *Government* spending on healthcare in the US is actually higher than in any other developed country, before you even think about insurance or electives. Sure it's not a huge amount more but it IS more, and once you ass in insurance and private costs, the per capita...

Communism works brilliantly in the societies humanity evolved in. Unfortunately, these societies were small roaming bands of hunter gatherers where there was no concept of ownership of land (just a vague territoriality), groups tended to have no more than a dozen or so adult males, and...

there are lots of these. We just don't call them MMOs, we call the FPS, RTS, racing games, beat 'em ups etc.

To my mind, microtransactions and gold-sellers expose an inherent flaw in the whole MMO system. You are PAYING for the ability to SKIP GAME CONTENT. when you play a regular, offline game, you are playing for the fun of the journey, not the destination. In Mario world, most people don't skip...