Recent content by Noone From Nowhere

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    269: The Pasty White Person Is King

    One possible solution to this problem would be for game designers to start making more extensive use of distinctly non-human (or 'humanesque' races such as Dwarves and Elves)protagonists in games. If noone can identify personally with the main character,everyone can identify with the main...
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    Stolen Pixels #185: Bayonetta

    Doesn't Bat-Man:Arkham Asylum's camera do that with Bat-Man...as in every time that you go to start up the game? Boot it up now to see what I mean. This kind of makes me wonder what if the female characters in The Simpsons' bodies were used for the sake of humor in the same way. "Oh look...
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    Strangest item names in games.

    The equippable Horse Weiner item in Disgaea. You can put one on your cat-girls,Succubi,Robot and angels alike.(No in-game graphical representation,though. That's what fan art is for!)
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    I need an idea

    How about an animation about the decay of human civilization and the individual,maybe showing a man rotting away to a skeleton as everything around him rusts due to a hyper-sedentary,complacent lifestyle while a unicorn in the scene for no good reason shakes her head?
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    broken wrist

    Bayonetta can be played one-handed,you know. A slightly more serious suggestion besides resorting to reading books or other drastic actions is to practice using the other hand more. The broken wristed hand can just sit atop the page for support while the other hand does its thing horribly...
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    Do You have an Idea for a book?

    I have a few novels-worth of book ideas. Not ideas for a few novels,my stacks of notes themselves are thicker than Stephen King's The Stand. Most of them are my equivalents of plans B-Z(or the other bullets in a revolver for one-on-one duels/an execution/suicide),however, and will only be...
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    So my console finally bit the dust...

    What the skeptics say about psychic powers might just be correct,it seems. Even if they exist,they are nigh completely useless,at least to the people who possess them.
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    So my console finally bit the dust...

    You can use your 'bricked' system as an actual brick in your monument to shattered hopes and dreams/jubilation and merriment of yesteryear. It'll do as a paper-weight if you aren't the art-and-crafts type. You'll probably find your Wii while digging around for other objects for your art project...
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    Am I just a naive idealist?

    I'd say that 'Anything worthwhile demands effort',but that response itself didn't take much, therefore, it must be invalid. If you insist upon striving to achieve those goals(or improve that which has already been established in the case of Democracy),you might think that you are hopelessly...
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    TGC '10: Writing for Videogames Is Harder Than it Seems

    Maybe the best game writing is effective because it doesn't get in the way of the gameplay? That's what I gathered from this guy being chosen to give advice.
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    TGC '10: Writing for Videogames Is Harder Than it Seems

    I would think that,beyond branching storypaths,writing for videogames wouldn't be too different from writing a screen/stageplay (or puppet show),only in this case,the audience-actors take stage directions from the instructions manual and in-game prompts (perhaps in a HUD)rather than the script.
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    "african american" is politically incorrect...

    The intent of the 'African' part of 'African American', like, say, Russo-American,is just to let people know where their ancestors immigrated from unlike someone living in the place where their ethnic or racial group originally emerged,who are just natives. It just isn't very specific,like...
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    Molyneux: Fable 3 Has the "Greatest Cast Ever"

    I think that I would weep tears of blood if Peter Molyneux ever learned to set realistic expectations for his studio's work. Is it not better for one's reach to exceed one's grasp? If anything, he isn't aiming high enough! Still,for press releases,it might help him to learn to under promise...
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    Kojima Defends Mountain of Peace Walker In-Game Advertisements

    If we can get Peace Walker for 'Sneak King' prices,this might be alright(complete with a stalk-a-thon featuring a face-off between Snake and King,only neither shows his face in any way or the game is lost...or 'Lost'.). I fully support making games the good kind of cheap. If not,I'd prefer...
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    "african american" is politically incorrect...

    I'm only objecting to misuse of the term African-American to describe non-Americans in my next to most recent post. Like I said,that's factually incorrect to do so right out,making its political correctness or incorrectness a moot point beyond that.