Recent content by rainbowunicorns

Many perfectly reasonable complaints about guygamers with no particular passion for video games, as they are about girlgamers with no particular passion for video games.

Such a review would correctly state that Steam was an unreliable service that made it impossible to play Half-Life; I'm pretty sure there actually was a lot of negative talk about Steam around that time, as it was a bad service. Whenever the reviewer could launch the game, he would then review...

I support the negative rights of all people; such as property rights and the complete ownership of one's body (i.e.: those that impose no obligation on others). I don't support the creating of positive rights for any people; such as affirmative action (i.e.: those that impose obligations on...

It's never been easier to crowd-source the funding for a project that big studios have decided has no merit. Start a Kickstarter for your game where the main focus is [how you think a particular gender should look or act in a game] and see if you can fund the development.

Perhaps the product is partially paid for by subscriptions and partially paid for by ad revenue? Given that I believe people have been banned on The Escapist for mentioning that AdBlock Plus can eliminate advertisements, I don't think The Escapist should be publishing articles on how to...

I don't understand the realism argument here. The "being a jerk" things people want to be able to do in games, but are prevented from doing, are generally offenses that would result in incarceration or some form of corporal punishment once proven guilty, depending on the time period and culture...

It's not a test of their religion. That he intends to check the loyalty of Muslims to the United States would indicate that that he is willing to hire them.

I would be very interested to hear what part of the constitution you believe disallows that.

I've never understood the attitude that the bugs a game launches with should not factor in to reviews. If I bought a game with the expectation of being blown away by graphics, and I was instead watching the scene visibly filling itself in, I would rate the product very poorly (in the 1-4 range...

Assuming we are speaking of the economics, the people who work the floors in retail are likely to be left because they would perceive the right's views (such as eliminating minimum wage) as bad for them.

Removing parts of the scale is silly: If 0 and 1 reviews are unreasonably low, then 9 and 10 reviews are unreasonably high. Of course, 2 is now the new 0 so we should remove that, and we keep going until we have but 4, 5, and 6 to represent bad, neutral, and good respectively. Now, such a rating...

Melee knockouts give the most experience of all interventions (50 vs 20 for an instant kill, or just 10 for a non-instant kill). Not being seen/heard gives a large bonus. Exploration/traveler bonuses add up, and are natural when seeking stealthy ways to approach enemies for melee, or avoid...

None of the below should be construed as supporting the ideas of level scaling, durability loss, or death penalties; I post it only in hopes that you may find it of assistance. Some mods reduce durability, I don't know about yours in particular, but give it a look. Hitting the head deals...

The final upgrade in Combat turns the stomp into a jump, so you took that talent at 40 :)

In a very brief defense of the boss fights, I would say that my hero did not have invisibility (had but not used), recoil reduction, improved aim while moving, or body armour for the first 3 bosses (well, I had body armour for the 3rd, but I also lost no health during the fight), and I fully...