MrHoatzin

Eh, no, this is fine. I don't have to follow people who post retarded things just because I know them...

Adventure Time is really awesome. Pendleton Ward (its creator) and Tim Schafer have been hot and bothered at each other on Twitter. It is somewhat unsettling to behold. Maybe we can hope for a Double Fine Adventure Time (which is a rad ass name) or something more humble like a Psychonauts cameo on Adventure Time—or a full-on DF-themed cartoon, what with all the homoerotic networking going on. Those would be rad things.

Hooray employment S&M.

Public circles would indeed be nice.

I DON'T KNOW ANY OF YOUR REAL NAMES. HOW AM I GOING TO ADD YOU TO THIS DAMN SERVICE?! This is me.

I am really bored of the Superhero Comic Book Mannerism style of "serious" video game art direction. It is time we bauhaus that shit down to its most basic elements. Mirror's Edge was really impressive in this regard. And whatever Valve delivers generally doesn't disappoint. Maybe the mask on its own is goofy, as you say. Dark Messiah unfortunately cannot even*be compared to Arx Fatalis. The latter was a beautiful coherent whole and it owned, the former was a proof-of-concept brawler that someone shoehorned into contrived levels so as to be able to release as a game. Arx Fatalis came out around the same time as Morrowind and has aged a lot more gracefully.

I was never too bothered by the obvious roll-a-d20-and-see-if-you-hit combat. In Fallout I used Vats more often than not so while it sure wasn't especially visceral, it made up in sheer brutality and grime.

My method goes down in a blaze of glory! You gave your best try. I guess it's time for you to start hoarding PUA manuals, dressing like a douche and treating women like chattel. Anyway, there it is. I would take her arguments at face value—until and unless you acquire a reason to doubt them. There is no point in wondering what she may REALLY mean by her arguments.

Meh, everyone knows my name and gender as it is. Ultimately I think Google is just sore at Facebook for creating a private internet to them inaccessible, so they're trying to not make that, while making that. I wonder when I will be able to consolidate the half dozen different email accounts I have into one online person.

I played Link's Awakening on a Gameboy Color. It was before backlit screens so it was super hard to see and the color was barely color. I can't imagine it being much different than the sap-green & metallic-khaki version. It is also my favorite Zelda story and the only Zelda game (aside from Link to the Past) I actually went on to finish all the way through. I generally quit the Zelda games when I get to the final staircase to Ganondorf's perch. At that point, I lose interest, like clockwork.

They'll get through all the stages of grief eventually.

See, it works, proof positive, fool-proof.

Well, it is not fool-proof, it is just not complicated.

Here's a 4th of July thing for 'Merkins among us: dYwB8ru3kZc Brings a tear to my eye. There is nothing more patriotic than war Jesus. And then something funny-funny (as opposed to horrifying-funny): 45tXuAF52E4

Sometimes I can't say if people are being cynical or what. If I didn't use AIM at work, I would never use anything but Google Chat—whereas the Buzz thing really did die a glorious death at birth.

Just ask her out man, what have you got to lose? A simple, Hey, you're a cool lady. Would you like to _____(do an activity) with me ______(at coordinates in time/space)? would suffice. This shit is always a lot more straightforward than the society wants you to think. Just be confident in the product you're selling (i.e. yourself). Hey, you're a cool lady. Would you like to pick apricots with me this weekend at the organic farm coop? Hey, you're a cool lady. Would you like to play go with me at the coffee shop some time this week? Hey, you're a cool lady. Would you like to trespass with me at the hauntingly romantic abandoned factory at the docks this friday? Et cetera. Good luck.

I played GTAIII on the pc. It was better on the PC.

I think this is why the internet was invented.

Haha, neat! Man, these people make me BLUSH!

I wish you wouldn't discount 3 just on the grounds of simplified popular opinion. All (except for the Vice City people :shifty:) have given valid and nuanced reasons for preferring one over the other two, but also how they compare in all of these different dimensions.

How exactly is that thing spawning TNT?

WHAT. WHAT. WHAT>

Vice City on the PC has really stupid shaders. They didn't port it to look as nice as it does on the PS2. Plus the landscapes are way less fun to drive in and explore than in either of the two other ones in its generation, hands down. Since everyone is talking about how rad San Andreas is, I will not (though it is!). I'll put my vote in for GTAIII. Even though some of the key mechanics are not in it (no motorcycles and you can't jump out of a moving car, for example), it has the most explorable world. You will get to know it like the back of your hand. There is so much shit in SA that you are likely to miss a bunch of it. Plus collecting packages in III is a lot more rewarding than all the scavenger hunt stuff in SA because it rewards you for every ten packages collected, whereas SA rewards you only when you collect EVERYTHING, encouraging use of online guides. GTAIII is the most arcadey—in good ways that I often wish the later incarnations were. It is also the most humble of them all, it is not as rife with big-name actors and expensive music. It has fewer guns and weapons—meaning fewer duplicates and clones. Fewer cars, which means you get to learn how all of them control. It has a kind of economy to its design that is really refreshing, almost like an indie game. And the character models, being slightly more stylized, are somehow nicer than either of the other games in the generation. :tup:

He had an ancestor who was the town's person, probably.

I was fond of Wave. If only we could've made all our account executives and clients use them overnight, mail would become a quaint antiquity some clung to, like irc. Buzz was really creepily launched and it made me delete my google profile... I dunno, I think after they've been humbled by a couple of extravagant flops. I think they will be a lot more deliberate and careful with this one. I think this one may be different. I am no fan of Facebook and would eagerly look at viable alternatives.