Recent content by SemiHumanTarget

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    The Big Picture: Memorium

    Speaking as a man who has lived in Japan and worked for a Japanese company for nearly ten years, I am dubious just how pivotal Yamauchi was in all of this. The Japanese power structure commands an almost Godlike respect for company presidents and CEOs, regardless of their business acumen or...
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    Metal Monsters: Mechs From Gundam to Pacific Rim

    You went with the Land Walker and not the obviously superior KURATAS? http://tokyodesu.com/2012/12/08/100-real-attack-robot-will-kill-us-all/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iZ0WuNvHr8
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    Notch Tweets Rage Over Minecraft Party Sexual Assault

    Sexual assault = Not funny. That said, "It's being dug into" = EXCELLENT MINING PUN!
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    Trailers: Syndicate - Weapons Trailer

    oh boy. It's an FPS. I'm already looking forward to Yahtzee skewering this one.
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    Kaiju Santa Cards Arrive In Time To Horrify For The Holidays

    The Japanese on the card is also not from that era. Too much katakana.
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    MW3 Dev Manipulates MetaCritic, Gets Flamed to Death

    Totally anecdotal, but I find user scores tend to be much higher than critic scores for new IPs, with user ratings generally dropping with each new iteration of a given title. Hm, wonder why that might be....
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    Annoying stereotypes about my sexuality.

    There is no such thing as bisexuality (in the 50/50 sense). For that matter, there is no such thing as straight. Everyone works on a spectrum and I am of the belief that literally no one is 100% straight or exactly 50% attracted to both sexes. I love women. A lot. I mean, daaaayumnnnn I love...
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    Extra Punctuation: Manly Vs. Macho in Gears

    I think Marcus Fenix (Phoenix? Can't remember) would have benefited greatly from being a much deeper character. Additionally, I think it does military personnel an injustice that he is so one-dimensional, because as anyone who has served, or knows closely people who have served, will tell you...
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    Mythic Founder Thinks Most Free-to-Play MMOs Are "Crap"

    Free to play is the death of gaming. It's the same bait-and-switch model you've seen in a million other scams: Make the product seem fresh and new and unusually cheap, then nickel and dime the shit out of all comers. In fact, I'm genuinely surprised the model has worked as long as it has...
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    Jimquisition: Fighting The 'Problem' Of Used Games

    chin chin means cheers in Canadian French... but it means penis in Japanese.
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    Humanity's worst mistake

    Recognizing Israel
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    Duke Nukem 3D Reloaded Delayed

    Wow... two screenshots and a handful of concept art? This project sure didn't get very far before hitting the skids.
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    Trailers: Battlefield 3 - "99 Problems" Trailer

    The song is obviously a dig on CoD, hence the caption for the video "rap videos just got a whole lot less subtle" - or whatever it was, I can't look at it now that I'm in the comments. Rap videos have never been subtle. Get the joke? And yeah, also the sudden, rampant web advertising with...
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    Extra Punctuation: Weapon-Crafting That Works

    Great touch at the end. Seems plausible for melee weapons, but I can see balance issues coming in to play when applied to ranged weapons or RPGs with a lot of "plus-1" and elemental stats, etc.
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    The Big Picture: Gender Games

    Could not agree with you more, Bob. I find this is a bigger problem in Japanese games than it is in Western games, especially in the last 5 or 10 years. We have a long way to go to an actual, fleshed out, living, breathing female character in a game, but the West is inching closer to it...