Recent content by Mr. Eff_v1legacy

Babies need to eat. Boobs have the food. Let them eat. I fail to see how anyone could see breasts as sexual when there's a wrinkly little person suckling on them. People who get upset about this type of thing need a new cause, or a hobby of some kind. In fact, I don't think people should...

For those who have asked (I also put an edit in the OP, as I forgot to mention - d'oh!), she has a laptop, and I have a 360 and a pretty good PC.

Hey there Escapists, My girlfriend is curious about getting into gaming. A lot of the stuff I play (RTS and survival horror) might a bit of a dive into the deep end. What's a good title to introduce someone to video games? What are your experiences on the matter? EDIT: Sorry folks, I...

Kojima's the only shred of hope I have left for the series. If it were any other developer, I'd be inclined to instantly write it off. This, however, COULD work. My only reservations lay in that there is no evidence of any Team Silent members present, which makes me wonder if the nuances of...

This is a tough one. I get what you're saying about separation of church and state. But the key here is that no religion will be ESTABLISHED - as I read it, endorsed by an authority figure. That doesn't mean faith can't be mentioned in schools. Now, I feel you, OP. I think it's crass for...

"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." A defeatist phrase that eschews any type of morality or principles. "That's just the way it is." In a similar vein. It means you are too lazy to have morality or principles with which to meaningfully combat a problem.

I try to not get excited over games any more. A few of my favourite series' were thoroughly butchered this past gen. Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and Hitman are all catatonic shells of the former friends that I loved so dearly. Back 2005-2006, my friend convinced me to try Shadow of the...

I went to a pretty ethnically homogeneous high school, yet there were pretty defined cliques. Of course they merged a bit, but you knew where most people stood. It was really weird, come to think of it. I remember at one point when there was close to being an all out brawl between "jocks" and...

I'm not sure if I could call it a rage quit, but... The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker. There were things I really liked about the game (the art style and the sailing), but the lacklustre dungeons, pitifully easy combat and endless fetch quests grated on my patience.

"Smart teacher"? Good lord. She ended the discussion without attempting to make any kind of an argument. "I'm right and you just can't see it" is not an argument. I wasn't aware of that, nor this particular gesture's recurrent nature. That changes things completely. Thanks for clearing that up.

I get it when someone explains it. But it's not the first thing I'd associate it with, as I do not have that type of mindset. I like to think that is, as you said, a nice thing. Perhaps it is more of a European thing. Have there actually been historical instances of it? It's hardly the same as...

There's a good chance that it was. But it's such an innocuous action with no inherent meaning attached that for people to assume they know what it means is a stretch. You have proven my point that the onlooker is bringing ethnicity into the mix and is thus prejudiced - by attaching a racist...

I remember bringing this up with a particularly bad university prof I had. She could not come up with a good answer to my argument that the first person to bring "race" into an argument is a racist themselves, and pretty much just ended the discussion with (paraphrasing) "If you can't see it...

Doesn't it show a lack of prejudice to NOT care about that kind of thing? I don't need to read books by black authors to realize that I don't hold those kinds of views. It makes me wonder about OP's hangup on race. To the second question, The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli a few months back.

My take on it is that it's simply an easy way for American filmmakers - who are making their films for a primarily American audience - to give it a foreign flare. Consider that they can get American actors to fake an upper class accent, which is reasonably easy to do, or they could hire...