| Another Dragon Age thought. |
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| 05:04pm 22/11/2009 |
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With the collector's edition comes a DVD. I put it aside, not wanting to be spoiled.
Yeah, don't do that. There's a DVD extra in there called Warden's Training, which pretty much deals out exactly what builds are best for each type of character.
I still hate the gameplay, am sort of eh on the story. |
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| The slow, long decay of the rule of law and the rise of mob rule |
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| 12:39pm 20/11/2009 |
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http://www.smh.com.au/national/victor-changs-killer-refused-parole-20091120-ipnd.html
The shock jocks won. Dammit. They managed to overturn the parole of a man, whom had he been involved in the failed blackmail and murder of anyone other than a famed good Samaritan, would surely have been paroled. What he did was heinous, but in the words of the judge who sentenced him: "The objective seriousness of the murder is not aggravated by the stature and status of the victim." Dead right. The crime is murder, not murder of someone famous and well-liked.
In and of itself, this is not a major decision. But it seems to be part of a pattern of public outcry, demagogic politicians and worse media personalities leading, as opposed to what should in criminal matters: The ironclad, blindfolded law. This is deplorable. |
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| On Exalted |
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| 10:57am 16/11/2009 |
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There is a certain joyous loveliness in teaching a newish role-player to play Exalted, as they begin to realise how much fun stunts can be. As they realise that stunts don't just have to be for combat, they really light up. |
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| Dammit, apple! |
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| 05:37pm 13/11/2009 |
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Goddamit!
It used to be that Firefox could never be acknowledged on my laptop as the default browser. Every time I started up my laptop, it would return to a Safari default.
Then, I installed Firefox 3, and lo, it was fixed!
Now new Safari version comes out. And it's doing it again.
I swear, I'd think Apple does this deliberately.
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| Brutal Legend Multiplayer |
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| 05:50pm 31/10/2009 |
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There is, as far as I can see, genuinely, actually nobody playing Brutal Legend on Xbox Live. This boggles my mind. It is easier to find multiplayer on Doom. That is, the original Doom, available through Xbox Arcade, than Brutal Legend.
Tim Schafer, I love the guy's originality and the way he can drive a game's personality, but my god did he screw this one up. |
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| Dammit, Liberal Blogosphere |
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| 08:36am 27/10/2009 |
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When you say stuff like this, you're risking becoming the exact same sycophantic twits that we rightfully mocked the conservative blogosphere for being during the Bush years.
Let me say it again.
No politician is your friend. Every last one of them can and should be considered your enemy. Some (and Obama is one of them) are enemies we can potentially bend to doing good things. Others we can't. We can and should vote in the former, but we should never, ever trust them or consider them to be on our side.
Politicians are the enemy. Never forget this.
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| 09:46am 22/10/2009 |
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Anyone with The Beatles: Rock Band: The first album is available, Abbey Road. Snatch it up. Remember, the higher the sales, the more likely it is we'll end up with the whole Beatles back catalogue. |
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| A note to both Twitter and Livejournal |
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| 08:29pm 18/10/2009 |
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Is it just now socially acceptable to emit noise pollution on trains with iPhones and other speakers? Are headphones no longer considered socially required? I really am curious. |
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| City Farmers |
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| 08:13am 13/10/2009 |
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When I wrote Tribebook: Glass Walkers Revised, one of the camps I had to deal with were the City Farmers. The previous tribebook had them dismissed as 'retro' and anti-progress, that their goal of bringing a wilderness into the city was against the Glass Walkers' ethos.
I never understood this.
Look at this. This is science fiction reality, right here. This is the kind of stuff I was wanting to bring to that camp. My only regret looking back is that I didn't give them enough credit. They really were one of the best camps the Glass Walkers had, one of the most progressive and interesting. The Cyber Dogs? Screw them. This is what the Glass Walkers were all about here.
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| Yet another reason |
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| 09:03am 28/08/2009 |
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I hate insurance companies. With a burning passion.
Lawyers? Provide a valuable service to the community. I like lawyers. Politicans? Bastards one and all, but they're unfortunately required. Truck drivers? Hate them, but acknowledge the need.
Insurance?
Hate them.
(Politicans also cop flack in this debacle.)
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| Keeping it short to stop obvious jokes |
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| 09:15am 24/08/2009 |
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TL;DR (Too Long; didn't read for those not in the know) is the most heinous bloody idea of the internet. Worse than pwned or teh.
If you couldn't read the whole thing, then shut the hell up. Do not post tl;dr. You lazy short-attention span twits. |
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| 07:04pm 13/08/2009 |
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I don't think I've ever been as depressed as I am tonight. Life just continues to pile on. Soon there will be nothing left. |
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| Splinter Cell: Double Agent for Xbox 360. |
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| 08:31pm 14/06/2009 |
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Man.
Back when this game first came out, the reviews basically said, "Xbox normal version is better, ignore the Xbox 360 version." They criticized the levels in which you played as a double agent within the terrorist's cell, arguing the more traditional approach of Splinter Cell: DA for Xbox worked better. So I grabbed the Xbox one and just played it.
I finally decided to go back and try the Xbox 360 one.
Holy balls. The critics were wrong.
The levels where you're inside the base are what make the game, not what wreck it. They're tense as hell, with infinitely greater chance of discovery and hair-line chances of success. They're fantastically well designed.
OK, let me pull back. The basic premise of Double Agent is, as the title suggests, that you're a double agent within a domestic terrorist organisation named John Brown's Army. You worm your way in by breaking one of their members out of prison, and then the game alternates between your missions for them, and your time at their base. When in the base, you're meant to be training, but you can use this time to complete missions for the NSA, swiftly placing tracking bugs, software backdoors into their data servers, etc. It's unrealistic sure (would a hard-core terrorist cell REALLY run their own data servers?), but it's FUN unrealistic spy stuff. You walk around, smiling and nodding to the other cell members in the zones you're allowed in, and then duck into a side corridor, sneak into restricted zones you're not meant to be in, and accomplish tasks that you're not meant to be doing.
Fantastic. This is great stuff, it feels atmospheric and right. It's a great game. |
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