Recent content by mark_n_b

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    So sadly my date tonight didn't go very well. Hell it was awful.

    What if you met her at a B-film / exploitation horror festival? Both major film genres with massive cult followings, both male and female. Point being, for someone who is either too scared of girls to ask them out or to immature to figure out that they don't in fact have cooties, you sure...
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    Disrespect? Who's to blame?

    oh really? I'm sure it's a good thing you told me you are open and respectful, because you sound like an asshole there. OK, close friends don't talk about religion... "distant friends" do. More of that open respectfulness I suppose. Good policy, why stir the waters, right. oh wait...
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    Poll: Best Final Fantasy game ever? (between VII and IIX)

    I love the title of this thread between VII and IIX. my understanding of roman numerals would leave me to believe you are looking at numbers between seven and eight? I guess that would have to be Dirge of Cerberus or Advent's Children. Crisis Core is a prequel so I'm not sure we can place...
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    FEMALE gamers VS MALE gamers

    female players occupy about 45% of the game-player space right now. So for someone doing research on the subject you should be careful about saying "rare-breed". The development side of things does tend to be male dominant, but even that is changing. For PR a lot of women are getting...
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    Good book to film transfers. EDIT: to include a list.

    Ghost World? srsly? Watchmen? Bandwagon jumping is fun. If you were a twelve year old girl instead of a gamer fanboy you would say twilight and wonder how anyone could stand that gross stupid watchmen movie. Field of Dreams, seeing as how the film was better than the book by most...
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    Is photoshop art?

    What about writing? Sculpture? Music? Film? How about drawings created from scratch in photoshop (i.e. drawn with photoshop) and if those are "art" what if the person uses tools like vectors and shapes to construct the image? What if they use a tablet instead of a mouse? a mouse instead of...
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    Poll: Poll: Adama vs Picard

    technically Adama has a whole bunch of androids on his ship. And a French character is just as good as a sci-fi Grecian... But I'm not sure how fond the escapist is of low content vs threads.
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    Poll: Are you narrowminded when it comes to music?

    So you went from being completely narrow, to just plain old narrow? That's ironic. The point being until you are able to comment on the value of genres that aren't... I don't now how to put it... contemporary offshoots of punk? Like them or not, you have a long way to go before you can call...
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    What is the legality...

    This is, on its face, illegal. But there are a lot of other things to consider. 1. Is the person seriously trying to convince others that she is your friend? 2. Even if she did convince some people that she is this artist, what would that mean? 3. What, if any damages result from this...
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    Indie iPhone Games Not So Profitable?

    I am working on an iphone game as part of my studios first projects, we'll also be presenting the title to Blackberry and ms casual. The primary studio income is coming from other projects and development grants however, developing an ipod game is about getting the background in software...
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    Are you experienced?

    oh god, how many of these threads do we need. Be gay and be proud, I'm not even against having a thread or two about it. But it seems an unusual topic to be coming up with such frequency on the site. Much like the frequent religious threads, there are many gay support / pride / social...
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    Poll: Would I Enjoy Mass Effect?

    Be a dark Jedi, it gets rid of most of the talking (I say dark Jedi because Mass Effect is KOTOR V.6.0). If you don't like slow games though you will not feel the urge to explore the world Mass Effect builds, and as such you will miss most of what Mass Effect offers. There are a lot of...
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    Poll: The future of genetic engineering and babies.

    OK, how many of you are in a wheelchair because of a hereditary condition? If there was a magic pill that could be taken to prevent my kids from having to endure the type of discrimination I face every day on top of all the other shit not having full use of your legs drops on your platter I...
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    Poll: lack of cheat codes in most games

    Cheats, as they are commonly known, are actually testing tools, allowing game developers to jump to specific areas of a game or test specific features without having to dedicate hours of time to completing previous levels, or worrying about enemies killing them. When I was working on...
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    Games as art? Settled!

    That particular list was pretty weak. Fallout? Of all the games that could be used for this argument, that's the one you choose. That's comparable to saying "films are art, just look at Lord of the Rings". If this guy was flexing his "gamer-snob" muscles, I am scoffing at how...