Recent content by Irony's Acolyte

Dear Escapist - Maybe you should stop going to the "containment boards" like /b/ and /v/ or the hotbed that is /pol/. I'm sure if I decided to go trudging through the Religion and Politics forums here I'd find some pretty eye-raising stuff too, even with the whole profile system in place here...

I don't really see how the Harry Potter really was better at setting building than any of the series you listened. Sure the British Wizarding world was fairly fleshed out by the end of the series (though mostly in the later books when more time is spent by Harry and his crew outside Hogwarts)...

I imagine there have been plenty of moments like this in history where the average person (who was aware of the larger geopolitical situation) wondered if "the world as we know it" would be ending soon. Well "as we know it" could certainly ring true, but "the world" I think will continue...

Geez, I open up the link and the first thing I see is that fucking fox. I wasn't reddy for that. And I guess to answer the thread, because porn. No really, some people like weird shit and some of that weird shit is weird combinations. This too I guess. My first thought while seeing this...

After having watched The Pacific I think that more combat in the Pacific Theater would be great. World at War was certainly a step in that direction, and I know there've been other games focused exclusively on it, but nowhere near as much as the European Theater. The U.S. island hopping campaign...

Recently there haven't been too many games that I'm really hyped for; partly because there's not much coming out that interests me and partly because I'm kinda content with playing the games I have now. Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth is is the one that I'm really looking forward to. I...

World War II was certainly one of the most critical event (if a ~6 year war can be considered a singular event) during the 20th century and possibly for even more time. A level of devastation on a scale unseen before in human history, with massive numbers of lives lost both on and off the...

Oh boy, nice to see that me, among of plenty other totally unrelated people, get affected because some youtube celebrity got some death threats. Yes, it's all terrible and all (if the threats are even worth worrying about), but remind me why me and plenty of other innocent men and women should...

I personally don't believe in "fate". I have considered the idea that we don't really have free will though due to the universe being one giant, incredibly complex mathematical equation/chemical process that's just playing out (2+2 will always equal 4, put a person in the exact same situation...

Man, it's too hard for me to really choose. I've got too many that enjoy for their own reasons. Starcraft, Sid Meier's Gettysburg/Antietam, Supcom FA, AoE II, Dawn of War DC/SS as well as DoW II Retribution, Close Combat: Battle of the Bulge, and Medieval II: Total War are all RTSs I'd rank up...

While all fandoms have varying levels of "toxicity", one thing I've come to notice is that fandoms tend to degenerate the quickest when there is no new canon content. This is due to the fact that fandoms without new content tend to stagnate or, even worse, develop a fan-following of their own...

Well it's not like there aren't people out there right now with artificial organs. And that'll just continue as the tech gets more able to mimic other important body parts. As for more aesthetic implants, there are people out there who spend a lot of money to have themselves altered to "look...

First Call of Duty (and it's expansion pack United Offensive) as well as Call of Duty 2 rank up there as my favorites. Had tons of fun playing through a lot of the missions with several being very memorable to me even close to a decade later. Like the Point du Hoc missions in the American...

Well you have to remember that the racism you tend to see/hear about in today's First World nations doesn't seem like such a big deal to those who have never been a target of it. To those that have been, it's a very real and big deal that needs to be addressed; even if the situation is better...

I would say Rammstein aber ich kann ein bischen Deutsch sprechen. So it's a mixture of not understanding the lyrics and then actually being able to translate. Of course I can have trouble making out what English singers are saying at times, let alone German ones. So a lot of Heavy Metal would...