Recent content by Jake0fTrades

People were skeptical when Heath Ledger was cast as the Joker, so I want to give Jared Leto and the costume designers the benefit of the doubt on this. I wouldn't mind them nixing some of the tattoos, but it ultimately comes down to Leto's performance and he's not a bad actor from what I've seen.

Eh, it's on a case-to-case basis, and then you have to maintain it too. I can't grow big, thick beards, but I can keep an even amount of scruff that makes me look a little bit older than I am without making me look homeless.

Hear me out. I didn't play the Destiny Beta, and I wasn't sure I was even going to buy Destiny until Xbox Live offered an insane deal for it. So I downloaded, started it up and actually had a lot of fun with it--props to that wonderful soundtrack--but I kept getting a sense of deja vu to a...

Having more diversity in the sexuality of video game characters would certainly be a positive thing for gaming publicity and it would break up the routine of "muscular, heterosexual, white dude," but you really can't tell writers what to write--that's why a lot of video game and movie stories...

I'm gonna go ahead and add a big "spoiler" box. This is where I go ahead and spoil the books for the sake of discussion. Every loss in Game of Thrones is tragic, but it always serves a purpose in advancing the story further. And if anyone is feeling really depressed about...

No, he doesn't actually say he is one of Seath's experiments. It's implied and it's implied very heavily, but at no point does he actually mention Seath by name. I do think he was a creation of Seath--or some reincarnation of Seath--but I can't confirm that.

Most of the "lore" in Dark Souls 1 and 2 is only implied by item descriptions and dialogue, so a lot of this will be pure speculation. It is directly stated by Straid that Drangleic was not always known by that name, and many people have taken that as a hint that the game takes place in a...

The Silvercat Ring IS one of the most valuable rings in the game, but it seems like fall damage is calculated differently than it was in DS1. Fall damage used to be percentage based--falling from X feet in the air would drain your health by 70% of the maximum--so a low level character could...

The article on Phys.org? 1: The article is uncredited. 2: There are no listed links or sources. 3: Nearly every recommended article on-screen is bashing another nation. I'm gonna go ahead and call this one BS.

Hitting a specific target is easy enough when the target is standing completely still, in the open, and is in no way attempting to attack you; none of which are things an armed assailant would try to be. If the target is in need of disabling, it's probably because they are attempting to do...

That video is messed up. I actually watch movies like Saw and Hostel specifically because they're so messed up, but you go into a slasher movie or that Demonophobia game expecting to be disturbed by what you see. It's good to experiment and figure out where you draw the line. What bothers me...

For some players, that's all of the fun, but at some point you have to draw a line; it sounds like you've found yours.

Right, it doesn't serve the plot in any significant way, and it doesn't humanize or add anything to the characters. It simply exists for it's own sake.

I didn't forget it, I just wanted to pick one example that I thought stood out. There's also the scene where... ...but I didn't want to make the post longer than it needed to be by mentioning everything that could be considered horrifying.