Your very first post

[Austin Howe]

This is one of those few cases where it's true that, just becaue there are 2 sides to an issue, doesn't mean that the solution or point of compromise is somewhere in the middle. It is in these few cases that almost all tactics, stopping at the line of violence, are acceptable. So. Power to them.

My first post was in Religions & Politics and it was regarding a story about an Atheist billboard that was pissing people off. Myself being an Atheist, I was supportive of both free speech in support of Atheism, and pissing people off.

 

[MPerce]

Ooh, mine's a fun one to look back at. The thread was about which developers you loved/hated.

Love: Valve (duh), Double Fine, Team ICO, Irrational (I know they're not called that anymore, but they will always be in my heart)

Really like: Rockstar, Bungie, Gearbox, Nintendo

Don't really hate anyone, but Bioware's kinda bugging me right now, due to their dumbing down of RPGs lately.

Whelp, Gearbox has definitely dropped from my "Really Like" list since then, same with Nintendo. And Bioware bugs me for a whole different reason nowadays.

Oh, and Irrational went back to being called Irrational. Thanks for listening to my heart, Levine!

 

[Nouw]

GOW is okay but this! Its a whole new level of gore. I'm okay with this as long as it dosen't look real!

I wasn't called Nouw back then and because I joined out of March Mayhem spirit my first actual post is gone.

 

[rob_simple]

On the topic of 'Top 100 Games You Should NEVER Play':

Sword of the Berserk: Gut's Rage on the Dreamcast. I didn't realise til several years later that this was based on a manga, but the game was awful even by those low standards. You had a sword the size of a light aircraft and the game constantly pitted you against enemies in narrow corridors leading to a repetitive *swing* *CLUNK* *swing* *CLUNK* *dead* scenario.

Every Super Smash Brothers game after the first one. To this day, I have no idea how Nintendo got away with re-skinning characters with the exact same moves and calling them unlockables. I read tonnes of reviews and none of them ever seemed to pick up on this fact. Even for a company that loves brand resurrection and regurgitation as much as Nintendo, copy pasting charcters in the same game takes incredible balls.

I still stand by it, although I'd probably give Sword of the Berserk a second chance, today.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Terry Prachett quote FTW!

A quote from Terry Pratchett's Thud! sums up my point

"Beating up people in little rooms...he knew where it led. and if you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say "we're the good guys" and do bad guy things"

I joined in Sept 2008 and first posted in Feb 2009, wow I really lurked.

 

[Legion]

My first post was on 29th January 2009, around 4 months after I joined.

The topic was: "Does the Empirical Nature of Science Contradict the Revalatory Nature of Faith?" created by our very own moderator Labyrinth (before she was a moderator I believe?), and before religious discussions had their own forum section.

Spoiler: My post was pretty large so it's in spoiler tags:

Ok here is something I feel I need to point out to most people based on the general gist of the thread.

1: Not all religions believe in God the same way as Christianity does, and yet almost every post on the anti-religion side seems to assume that they do. It is not fair to assume that because somebody believes in a higher power that they cannot believe in Science and vice versa.

2: Science cannot prove anything. Humans are not infallible and therefore nothing we say can be granted as absolute fact.

3: Religion cannot prove anything. There is no logical proof for the existence of the Divine and all religious texts are created by humans, who as mentioned before, are not infallible.

"If God gave you a life, why would he want you to waste it talking about him?
If he wanted something to talk about him all the time, he'd have made a world of parrots."

"If God gave me a life and then forsakes me for not using my life to tell everyone about him, he's a dick."

A good point, but you are generalizing; as a lot of religions do not believe in God in the way you describe. Not all think there is a divine being who commanded humans how to live thousands of years ago.

Arguing that an omnipotent needs to be "Scientifically proven" is both ignorant and downright insulting.

Agreed. It's also illogical.

But when you reduce religion, in its entirety, to "a man in the sky who is everywhere at all times" this demonstrates you have close to zero understanding or knowledge of the concepts involved.

The least logical thing is to dismiss something you have no knowledge of.

A point I think a lot of anti-religious people need to take note of.

If when you say "the chips are down" you mean some douche decides to stir up shit by posting a thread that blatantly suggests that people maintaining the viewpoint contrary to the thread are naive dolts(and this happens from both sides), then yes.

What it comes down to is that no scientific discovery or theory can preclude the existence of God. Nor can it (I assume) assure such a being exists either. Hence the use of the term faith.

Point 1: I agree with the fact that this thread does by the wording used, however no need for the insults.

Point 2: That is why I get annoyed when Scientists dislike religion so much. It just feels like they have to hate it in order to have peace of mind.

So, nothing is really logical, we just think it is?

Correct.

I wanted more points to make supporting the Science side; but I don't feel that many people have given many valid points due to the apparent lack of knowledge on the difference between the Religions that exist.

Just to make it clear: I am not trying to suggest that people should not follow science or religion, rather that both sides need to accept that they cannot say that they have the answers whereas the other is wrong.

Apparently I used to use smiley faces in forums.

I am also amused to note that I come across as a little anti-science by my choice of words. I think my post was made purely out of frustration of the prevalent attitude at the time that "Science is perfect, religion is for morons". They were as bad as some of the sexism debates that we have today, which I think is why they ended up having their own section.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

This is some golden irony right here. In a thread titled "Games that MUST be played" I wrote (in 2011):

Mass Effect.

...which is funny considering I wish I hadn't played the third one, released the next year.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

My first post apparently was "Your game of the decade and of 2009" posted on 31 dec 2009

Decade: World of Warcraft(if MMO doesn't count then->) Diablo 2

Year: Dragon Age:Origins

How how gullible I was when I posted that. But in any case, WoW is the game I have spent my most time on followed by Diablo 2.

Dragon Age Origins still was my favorite RPG from 2009.

All in all a pretty accurate post.

 

[Terramax]

Jar Jar Binks...

From the 'The Character NOT going into SSBB' thread.

12 Jan 2008 5:13 am

Well, I was right!

 

[SirDeadly]

Way back in March 2009 posting on a "What's your favourite beer?" thread.

VB and Carlton Draft

I didn't even drink alcohol at the time, I still don't like beer!

 

[mParadox]

You are going to fight to the death. Pick 3 people to fight by your side?

3 guys?

1) Gordon Freeman
2) Dante
3) Isaac Clarke

OF COURSE, I put a smiley at the end. First impressions are important.

Oh how I miss that topic trend. Better than making people drown. >_>

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I agree with those who disagree!

I played VII first, and VIII second, but IX stole my heart!!!

Yep... This was in a thread titled:

Theory:The first Final Fantasy game you play becomes your favourite in the series.Agree?Disagree?


Not a bad first post, but it did highlight my massive obsession with exclaimation marks... One I stll have, but at least I have cut it down to one a sentance!

Post date: 9 Nov 10
Join date: 9 Nov 10

Although I had been watching vids as a non member before if I remember correctly!

 

[ZehMadScientist]

Hmmm a useless fact eh? Ok here goes:

Apple is worth more than Belgium

Hahaha, I doubt that's even true. Many of these 'facts' are pulled from some internet arse anyway.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Well I am going to handle this game the same way I handled Bioshock 1:
wait a year, grab it for 10 bucks and maybe later on decide if it was worth it.

BTW: How about a NEW SETTING dear developpers.
Now that the deep sea and space stations have been thoroughly abused in ego-shooters, why not something new?
For example a station deep in the earth's crust or even inside of an volcano/the earths core.
Not only would that be innovative, but also deliver a great excuse for not having any "Outside" passages because you would get crushed as flat as a pancake and grilled to perfection within microseconds upon gleefully stepping outside.
On another note, the moral choice system sucked.
How about having the option too eat mother theresa and save the baby's dog?

My first post: A comment in a Zero Punctuation thread (Bioshock 2 in case anyone was wondering)

 

[Ultress]

Back in the far flung past of 2009 in the time of Max The Reaper

Star Ocean 4

RE5

FF13

Bioshock 2

Jade Empire 2(I can Hope can't I)

Still waiting for Jade Empire 2

 

[xmbts]

mass genocide is the most physically demanding activity one can engage in...besides soccer

It's a quote from Dogma in a thread about the most physically demanding sport.

I was bored and decided to make an account just to say that, got absolutely no reaction.

[sub][sub][sub]Just like always.[/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[DelphiSantano]

Is Team Fortress 2 for 360 worth it?

Admittedly, yes it is better on PC, plus you get the free updates and there are loads of people that play it on tons of servers.
There, we hit on the main problem with the 360 version. It is hard to find a good server with more than a couple of people on it, sometimes it takes ages just to find a server.
But then again, Team Fortress 2 is an amazing game no matter which platform you are playing it on and when you find a server, it can be a lot of fun.

Still stand by this, although since then Valve have thoroughly updated TF2. I kind of wish they'd release a TF2 "Classic" version, with the game exactly as it was upon release, no class updates or special weapons, just TF2 as it originally was.

 

[purf]

"A silenced M16 and some guy called Sgt.Pepper."

Not going to explain.

 

[Cowabungaa]

there is NO WAY that helicopters fly that low in real life

Yes, they can. I'm living under an airforce practice area, and one day some crazy ass Apache pilot flew his Apache under the bridge near my house. And that's narrow, they can.
Yes it's friggin hard and dangerous to keep a helicopter safe 4 meters from a building, but explain why it's not doable.

Anyway, indeed it's a quality reveiw as usual, very enjoyable indeed I so agree on the "I stopped playing because I had to have diner 2 hours ago" catagory, I started playing yesterday after work (about half past 5 in the evening) and when I checked my watch later that evening, I discoverd (while being amazed) that it was 23:15. I loved the switching between SAS and Marines, really good variation. I do understand the people who have issues with the Whack-A-Mole AI and yes it can get on your nerves. I didn't find it that troubeling, kamikazi-enemies are even more retarded. Shame they didn't implent at least a bit of tactical sense in the enemies, FEAR did it (roughly, after a while it got predictable anyway) already, why didn't CoD4?
I still love this game, the singleplayer is short though. Time to check how good the multiplayer is.

Damn that's an old one. Good grief I still used smiley faces in comments back then.

Oh 17-year-old me, you were so silly. Not to mention terrible at spelling. Seriously me, you could've put in a bit more effort.

 

[sextus the crazy]

May I kindly suggest that when you do, you avoid the "I got x amount of posts" thread that seems to be almost obligatory these days?

One of the guys here, not naming any names, (Redlin5) took a few months off to prepare his 40,000th post or whatever, then inadvertently posted in a user group and got the milestone.

Oh god, how hard I laughed when that happened.

Cool avatar btw.

thanks, man. I'll keep that advice in mind.