Recent content by Ketsuban

I find it amusing only one person in this thread has mentioned the fact that a thief playstyle often requires you to eliminate all the witnesses to a crime, and children can still witness a crime despite being immortal. That's not just immersion-breaking - that's outright screwing up an...

The English words for TATE and YOKO are portrait and landscape. Shmups are the most backward-looking video game genre. You play one, you inherit the historical baggage, including the thing where you have to turn your monitor sideways. (You could always just pretend it's a...

Perhaps, though I'd comment that higher definition scales only with the number of models used, not the complexity of the narrative. Voice-acting is tied directly to the complexity of the narrative because more words means more voice-acting. I'm approaching this from the perspective that more...

The permadeath mechanic in Valkyria Chronicles opens up an opportunity for a wonderfully non-linear evolving storyline depending on which characters live or die at which points in the game. However, because the designers hewed to a strict linear narrative at all times the result is four...

Words fail to describe you people failing to look at the fact it's ACTUALLY PRODUCING DISTINCT VOWEL SOUNDS. That's pretty impressive for a tube. Gotta wonder, though - why is there no tongue? You can't produce anything approximating human speech without a tongue, the tongue is by far the...

I tend to hit quote when the page I'm posting on is kinda long because I don't want a reply to something to be left dangling at the top of a new page. I am pretty ruthless at editing quotes down to size, though. If I'm only replying to a single sentence, I'll cut everything else.

Yes it does. For one, Youtube and most other video hosting sites are located in the US. For another, many countries are uncomfortably willing to roll over and spread if the US demands they extradite someone for trial.

Sure is patriarchy in here. Children do not need to be specially taught about societal defaults by stories like Cinderella, because they're just that - the default that society teaches them all, through advertising and peoples' attitudes. As for the gender-neutral pronoun thing: "they". If...

I have a bridge to sell to anyone who thinks this is limited to child pornography and will never be used for anything else ever. Quite apart from the fact their intended blacklist has already been leaked and shown to have numerous sites which have nothing to do with child pornography...

"Evolution is the change over time in one or more inherited traits found in populations of organisms." The things you listed are mechanisms used to explain evolution; they are theories, because they can only be used to predict future events, not proven. Evolution is a fact.

Evolution is a fact; it has been observed. The theory (the bit which is not fact, the bit which has a hundred and fifty years of accumulated evidence in its favour) is natural selection.

Evolution isn't something you can have an opinion on and be equally reasonable either way. Evolution is a fact, it can be observed [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14094-bacteria-make-major-evolutionary-shift-in-the-lab.html]. The theory bit, the bit that can't be proven because only...

Disclaimer: PC gamer, only use fanboyish terms like "PC gaming master race" in jest. It's reasonable to ask PC gamers to stop blaming console gamers for the consolification of PC games - you're right, that's not fair on console gamers. But when's the last time you heard console gamers going...

Funnily enough, I tend to regard Tolkien ripoffs as making Lord of the Rings better by making it not boring. I tried to read the book and found it dull as ditchwater. I tried to watch the movies and couldn't get through the first one. Tolkien's languages are excellent, and I'm sure his...

A not-insignificant portion of the audience for the game are creepy 40-something men. If the girls are legal, they're not interested. There's a good reason I've jokingly called it "Dead or Alive: Dateline" on other forums.