You and Bogart are my harbors of musical sanity in a world full of crazy people.
:?
In my defense, I know the difference between good music and music I like.
3OH!3 is the musical equivalent of junk food. There's zero nutritional value, but that doesn't stop me from consuming it.
Yeah, but just like some people can look at a greasy slider and go yum while others feel queasy, I literally can't listen to that without mentally throwing up.
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DUE, Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout is super awesome. Your beer recommendations now get top priority.
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Hey Vari, I watched Fletch on instant today and it holds up pretty well. It's not a classic or anything but it's Chevy Chase being a funny dick and solving crime for 90 minutes.
man there are actually some moments of clarity and cleverness in predator 2
when glover looks into a shop full of stuffed animals that are trophies
i think if you were to make a predator movie that's like a serial killer thriller kind of thing, set in a grimy future human city, with someone trying to track it down and figure out how it thinks, what it wants, etc etc - more effectively and seriously than in this movie - it could be a decent movie on the level of Alien.
Vaguely reminds me of SNATCHER.
don't know it.
i am picturing both profiling/investigation and awesome sequences of hunting each other through urban environments.
it always seemed weird to me that a species as formidable as the Predator would hunt mere humans, and that it would be so interested in hunting appropriately challenging quarry when it has a shoulder mounted auto-locking plasma ray.
SNATCHER was an early 90s Sega CD game. May have been on the PC as well, I dunno.
It was Blade Runner ish. You were investigating murders committed by artificial humanoids. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to go from there to aliens.
Hey Vari, I watched Fletch on instant today and it holds up pretty well. It's not a classic or anything but it's Chevy Chase being a funny dick and solving crime for 90 minutes.
Agreed. I caught it a couple of weeks ago on on-demand.
can you shoot aliens in the head with things other than sniper rifles?
I have a big pistol that I can headshot with.
But usually I just use the big ass fucking sniper rifle that tears people to pieces.
I hate sniper rifles.
God shut up, why do you hate great things.
I've upgraded this thing to ridiculous effect.
Cuts through brain cases like butter.
Did they get rid of the wiggling effect when you use the scope like in ME1? I find that often there isn't enough time for me to use the sniper rifle, because my target is moving too fast for me to get a bead on them, what with the targeting thingy moving around all over the place.
Criterion is having a sale on stuff they're not renewing rights on. I wish I just didn't spend tons of money.
Damn it, they always do this before I can catch them all.
Well, at least they always release new stuff. You should put their release of Dillinger is Dead on your queue when the DVD comes out; it's an interesting film.
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My favorite way to kill dudes in ME2 was running up out of cover and just beating some fool to death with the butt of my gun. I even did it to the Harbinger.
my contention is that many people who fall into the "don't allow women to abort fetuses" camp hold an innately disrespectful or demeaning attitude towards women
There is an argument that I've used here before. People mostly ignore it because I think it might be a little too crazy, but it goes vaguely like this.
The accepted medical definition of conception is when a fertilized embryo implants in a uterus. An unimplanted embryo is not "conceived" in a medical sense. This leaves room for things like emergency contraception, which results in the flushing (quite literally) of a fertilized embryo; or in implantation failure which is what happens to the majority of fertilized embryos - they fail to implant and are simply sloughed out.
However, a lot of pro-life groups conflate fertilization with conception. All it takes, according to their definitions, for a human being to conceive is for a sperm and an egg to meet. The implantation stage, to them, is a minor detail.
That anti-choicers are willing to ignore the importance of a uterus in their definition of "conception" betrays their mindset. According to mainstream medicine, sperm + egg + uterus = embryo. According to Focus on the Family et. al, only sperm + egg = embryo. To them, the uterus is merely a stage, a place upon which the interesting action occurs. To us, the uterus is an organ; an organ attached to a living, breathing, thinking, feeling adult.
In the pro-choice viewpoint, unplanned pregnancy without the right to abortion is basically forced organ donation. It would be stating, effectively, that a woman's uterus is not her own - that once she gets pregnant, she is forced by law to donate her uterus to another entity. In the pro-life viewpoint, the woman fades into the background much as a stage fades into the background of a theater production; it holds no more importance than a setting, and the owner has no more right to cease the embryonic development than a stage hand would have the right to walk out from behind the curtain and demand that Hamlet kill his stepfather.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Best was sniping/fighting snipers in red orchestra on servers with no death messages. Hanging with some buddies in a trench, looking ahead, you look back, all the buddies around you are dead "oh shit oh shit"
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Did they get rid of the wiggling effect when you use the scope like in ME1? I find that often there isn't enough time for me to use the sniper rifle, because my target is moving too fast for me to get a bead on them, what with the targeting thingy moving around all over the place.
You don't have weapon stats anymore - they're totally based on your own skill and on what your class can equip. So the two classes that can use sniper rifles don't have any of that swaying crap.
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can you shoot aliens in the head with things other than sniper rifles?
I have a big pistol that I can headshot with.
But usually I just use the big ass fucking sniper rifle that tears people to pieces.
I hate sniper rifles.
God shut up, why do you hate great things.
I've upgraded this thing to ridiculous effect.
Cuts through brain cases like butter.
Did they get rid of the wiggling effect when you use the scope like in ME1? I find that often there isn't enough time for me to use the sniper rifle, because my target is moving too fast for me to get a bead on them, what with the targeting thingy moving around all over the place.
Sniper rifle mechanic spoilers:
Dogg, your class skill slows down time. The scope is pretty steady and I found it easy to follow targets. But yeah, time is slowed when scoped for a longer duration for each rank you buy in your class skill.
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I think that wiggle goes down as your skill in sniper rifles goes up VH. So maybe you just needed more levels? I dunno.
Yeah, I've definitely found that too be true. I'm getting pretty close to maxed out on my sniper rifle skill, but at this rate, I'm guessing there's still going to be a lot of wiggling even then.
At that point, I'm just going to have to upgrade my rifle to ones with higher accuracy, but I'm betting the wiggle never completely goes away.
I enjoy hiding from and sneaking up on and killing snipers far more than I actually enjoy being a sniper in games.
My favorite tactic is one throw away shot from my hide. Then move to another one with a good field of fire on my first hide. And pick off the sneaky bastards as they surprise some empty air.
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Yeah, but just like some people can look at a greasy slider and go yum while others feel queasy, I literally can't listen to that without mentally throwing up.
God shut up, why do you hate great things.
I've upgraded this thing to ridiculous effect.
Cuts through brain cases like butter.
I miss the totally mohawked out Eldar and stuff! 40k is all serious business these days.
Pleeeeease
Aww
*pats*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKPPdgBK3r8
Damn it, they always do this before I can catch them all.
http://hardcoregaming101.net/riseofthedragon/riseofthedragon.htm
Agreed. I caught it a couple of weeks ago on on-demand.
Seriously, go track down some Orval.
You can't sneak up on me.
It is the best thing.
Silly geese deserve it. :x
Well, at least they always release new stuff. You should put their release of Dillinger is Dead on your queue when the DVD comes out; it's an interesting film.
it's either snipin' or assassinin'
There is an argument that I've used here before. People mostly ignore it because I think it might be a little too crazy, but it goes vaguely like this.
The accepted medical definition of conception is when a fertilized embryo implants in a uterus. An unimplanted embryo is not "conceived" in a medical sense. This leaves room for things like emergency contraception, which results in the flushing (quite literally) of a fertilized embryo; or in implantation failure which is what happens to the majority of fertilized embryos - they fail to implant and are simply sloughed out.
However, a lot of pro-life groups conflate fertilization with conception. All it takes, according to their definitions, for a human being to conceive is for a sperm and an egg to meet. The implantation stage, to them, is a minor detail.
That anti-choicers are willing to ignore the importance of a uterus in their definition of "conception" betrays their mindset. According to mainstream medicine, sperm + egg + uterus = embryo. According to Focus on the Family et. al, only sperm + egg = embryo. To them, the uterus is merely a stage, a place upon which the interesting action occurs. To us, the uterus is an organ; an organ attached to a living, breathing, thinking, feeling adult.
In the pro-choice viewpoint, unplanned pregnancy without the right to abortion is basically forced organ donation. It would be stating, effectively, that a woman's uterus is not her own - that once she gets pregnant, she is forced by law to donate her uterus to another entity. In the pro-life viewpoint, the woman fades into the background much as a stage fades into the background of a theater production; it holds no more importance than a setting, and the owner has no more right to cease the embryonic development than a stage hand would have the right to walk out from behind the curtain and demand that Hamlet kill his stepfather.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
You don't have weapon stats anymore - they're totally based on your own skill and on what your class can equip. So the two classes that can use sniper rifles don't have any of that swaying crap.
Sniper rifle mechanic spoilers:
At that point, I'm just going to have to upgrade my rifle to ones with higher accuracy, but I'm betting the wiggle never completely goes away.
Point. Click. Kill.
I want more excitement and challenge from my gaming experience.
I was 5 and he was 6
we rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight
I really want to play the Shadowrun Sega-CD game.
I may, someday.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
My favorite tactic is one throw away shot from my hide. Then move to another one with a good field of fire on my first hide. And pick off the sneaky bastards as they surprise some empty air.