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Special Event Polling / Re: Rate Cross Characters 36: Sneff
« on: October 29, 2007, 08:29:23 am »
How about you leave the stopping of child molesters to the police and leave the paedophiles who don't act upon their unwanted desires--which is most of them--alone?
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Special Event Polling / Re: Rate Cross Characters 36: Sneff
« on: October 28, 2007, 04:21:52 pm »Two of you D reviewers forgot to even vote in the poll. For this, you get an F.SHUSH! I voted now!
Also, to the person advising Chris Hanson: FUCK NO. That show is absolutely disgusting...vigilante "justice" is never right, no matter what the reason or the purpose, especially since many of the people they catch would not have acted had the people from the show not propelled them to with an opportunity.
And to add to my review: I did personally like Sneff. He had a bit of charm about him. That's not enough to change my grade, though.
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Special Event Polling / Re: Rate Cross Characters 36: Sneff
« on: October 28, 2007, 09:10:10 am »
Character Design: A guy in his forties as a magician! With a lisp! Not exactly creative...
Combat Usefulness: I don't recall ever using Sneff.
Tilt: I really like the music that plays during his little magic show, and of course it's fun to be turned into a cat, but did we really need a PC Sneff? Nyet. He's barely justifiable as an NPC.
Final Grade: D.
Combat Usefulness: I don't recall ever using Sneff.
Tilt: I really like the music that plays during his little magic show, and of course it's fun to be turned into a cat, but did we really need a PC Sneff? Nyet. He's barely justifiable as an NPC.
Final Grade: D.
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General Discussion / Re: RIP Oink
« on: October 25, 2007, 05:14:07 pm »
Yeah, see, the problem with the music industry right now is the way the prices keep going up for no reason. A CD takes all of three cents to produce one and about ten cents more to stamp the necessary files. Even taking into account a couple extra dollars to cover other possible expenses incurred from CD production as well as the jewel case, as well as, say, five dollars for the profit of the artist, it's still ridiculous since CDs should cost LESS than cassette tapes ever did, and yet the first CDs started out at $14.99 and never dropped in price. (For reference, a typical cassette would cost $8.99)
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Special Event Polling / Re: Rate Cross Characters 35: Skelly
« on: October 25, 2007, 04:34:58 am »
Character Design: He's a skeleton clown! I never noticed the oversized hands and feet before...
Combat Usefulness: I don't recall ever actually using him.
Tilt: He's original in that he requires that all of his parts be found, and he is very interesting in that he somehow lives despite being clearly dead. He's an undead on your team and a good guy.
Still, I think he distracts from the main story somewhat. He should've been integrated into the story somehow or else left behind. Great idea, but the implementation as it stands is poor at best.
Final Grade: C.
Combat Usefulness: I don't recall ever actually using him.
Tilt: He's original in that he requires that all of his parts be found, and he is very interesting in that he somehow lives despite being clearly dead. He's an undead on your team and a good guy.
Still, I think he distracts from the main story somewhat. He should've been integrated into the story somehow or else left behind. Great idea, but the implementation as it stands is poor at best.
Final Grade: C.
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General Discussion / Re: RIP Oink
« on: October 24, 2007, 06:24:24 pm »Quote
Kyronea, I am quite amused that you are comparing people who illegally download software/music to Islamic extremists.Considering I am a pirate myself, it was actually an in-joke.
But my main point was to illustrate a parallel between piracy and other similar things. I chose Islamic extremism because it's the most well known and therefore the easiest to draw a parallel to. You don't eliminate things like piracy by trying to stop piracy itself. You eliminate piracy by removing the REASONS to pirate.
Of course, I don't expect them to listen to that sort of reason anymore than the U.S. government will listen to reason when it comes to foreign policy, no matter who is in charge. (Maybe if Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel were, but no one else would.) The RIAA and similar organizations have been sitting pretty enjoying raking in as much money as they could and they're not willing to compromise by losing a portion of their profits for sustainability. They're not looking ahead.
And the U.S. government too is not looking ahead nor is it considering its mistakes in the past. It's still acting as if Islamic extremism is a country or specific object to fight against rather than an idea that must be combated by diplomacy, cooperation, and compromise. I just hope they learn before this War on Terrorism goes on for decades as it surely will if they do not.
Anyway...
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Welcome / Birthday / Seeya! Forum / Re: Hey, sup.
« on: October 24, 2007, 06:19:36 pm »
Heil Zeality! *Zeality salute*
Better learn that fast before Zeality cracks down on everyone....
Better learn that fast before Zeality cracks down on everyone....
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Welcome / Birthday / Seeya! Forum / Re: Hi there
« on: October 24, 2007, 06:18:26 pm »
Greetings.
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General Discussion / Re: RIP Oink
« on: October 24, 2007, 05:30:40 am »
I wouldn't worry about it, really. Besides, they're not going to kill piracy.
Piracy is something that will always be around so long as a cause for it to occur exists. The current anti-piracy strategy employed by the RIAA and similar organizations is much like the United States' foreign policy against Muslim terrorists, or the current policies of the various US governments against crime. The more the U.S. fights against Muslim terrorists by invading and striking and otherwise using military force like they're a standard run of the mill enemy instead of an idea, the more terrorists they create, the more moderate Muslims they turn to the extremists' cause. So too do we make more criminals and further cause damage to our society by treating criminals with purely punative measures instead of helping them to rehabilitate and reintegrate into society better.
Anti-piratical methods only make more people turn to piracy because the methods make enjoying the material harder. Bioshock is a good example: the CD-protection makes it extremely hard to install and actually play, whereas a pirated copy will play perfectly without a single hitch.
In order to destroy piracy like this, you would have to eliminate the industry, much how you would have to eliminate all Muslims or all possible criminals.
No, what they should do is focus on the causes of the piracy, eliminate the reason for piracy rather than trying to go after piracy the way they do. All they're doing now is alienating people and increasing piracy dramatically.
It's not that hard to understand why though. File-sharing came along incredibly fast, and they're all panicking and trying to keep up, and they will fail.
Piracy is something that will always be around so long as a cause for it to occur exists. The current anti-piracy strategy employed by the RIAA and similar organizations is much like the United States' foreign policy against Muslim terrorists, or the current policies of the various US governments against crime. The more the U.S. fights against Muslim terrorists by invading and striking and otherwise using military force like they're a standard run of the mill enemy instead of an idea, the more terrorists they create, the more moderate Muslims they turn to the extremists' cause. So too do we make more criminals and further cause damage to our society by treating criminals with purely punative measures instead of helping them to rehabilitate and reintegrate into society better.
Anti-piratical methods only make more people turn to piracy because the methods make enjoying the material harder. Bioshock is a good example: the CD-protection makes it extremely hard to install and actually play, whereas a pirated copy will play perfectly without a single hitch.
In order to destroy piracy like this, you would have to eliminate the industry, much how you would have to eliminate all Muslims or all possible criminals.
No, what they should do is focus on the causes of the piracy, eliminate the reason for piracy rather than trying to go after piracy the way they do. All they're doing now is alienating people and increasing piracy dramatically.
It's not that hard to understand why though. File-sharing came along incredibly fast, and they're all panicking and trying to keep up, and they will fail.
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General Discussion / Re: Humanity: Good News, Bad News
« on: October 23, 2007, 06:07:35 pm »
I can see what you mean. I just can't think it's funny no matter how it's packaged. Occasional, small bits of crude humor can sometimes be funny by themselves, but when put together into massive quantities...it doesn't matter if it's a comedian, a movie, or what have you...it's just not funny to me.
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General Discussion / Re: Humanity: Good News, Bad News
« on: October 23, 2007, 04:34:38 pm »
I'd have called them both bad news, since the Jackass movies are absolutely disgusting garbage that ought never have been made. They're one of the single worst insults to any form of humour that is not crude that has ever existed.
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Special Event Polling / Re: Rate Cross Characters 35: Serge as Lynx
« on: October 22, 2007, 01:56:46 pm »
Character Design: JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION! GET IN THE CAR!
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I mean, he's a catman. Some people don't like this because they hate furries, but I really like his design.
Combat Usefulness: Serge as Lynx is the most powerful Black element in the game when you have him. Of course you don't have him forever, but he's still quite useful this way.
Tilt: The idea of being transposed into the body of your enemy is interesting, but the execution leaves something to be desired, especially for how Lynx!Lynx acts as Serge, especially with turning into a Black element for some reason. That said, large amounts of plot are revealed while as Lynx, and it is absolutely fascinating.
Final Grade: B.
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I mean, he's a catman. Some people don't like this because they hate furries, but I really like his design.
Combat Usefulness: Serge as Lynx is the most powerful Black element in the game when you have him. Of course you don't have him forever, but he's still quite useful this way.
Tilt: The idea of being transposed into the body of your enemy is interesting, but the execution leaves something to be desired, especially for how Lynx!Lynx acts as Serge, especially with turning into a Black element for some reason. That said, large amounts of plot are revealed while as Lynx, and it is absolutely fascinating.
Final Grade: B.
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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: What I'd Like To See In The Next Chrono Trigger Game
« on: October 20, 2007, 11:14:59 pm »
It's not exactly hard to perform double or triple techs in an action RPG. Though not entirely the same, Kingdom Hearts II already does it.
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Special Event Polling / Re: Further Character Discussion
« on: October 20, 2007, 02:13:03 pm »
Yes I think the same of Chrono, and no, it did not "redefine storytelling." That was a typically bad maneuver at the time that should not have been preserved.
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Special Event Polling / Re: Further Character Discussion
« on: October 20, 2007, 01:25:57 pm »Okay, seriously Kyronea, Serge has no Character development!? Did you forget Belthasar explaining how the dimensions split, or Miguel telling Serge how they wound up in Chronopolis? Serge's character is developed through others, since he has no voice for himself.Exactly. He's therefore a pathetic waste. Give the character a voice and maybe I'll change my mind.