ThunderPeel2001

Cool! It'd be interesting to know what rig you need to play the game in, say 1920x1080, with everything maxed out.

You know, it definitely says something about this community that it can't sustain a thread without someone trying to prove how incredibly ironic and cynical they can be. Just ONE thread.

So by that argument, why don't we allow everyone to have nuclear weapons?

Made me laugh! (The world must be a very confusing place for deaf people.)

Sounds like a half-assed excuse to me. If it was deliberate surely thee have actually staged some things, rather than just producing it poorly.

It's System Shock Infinite...?

Haven't we already had this exactly same conversation some years ago? Edit: Yup. As I recall, it was actually an official patch that allowed people to later the spawn rates. Edit: And wow, I made almost the exact same post about 18 months ago as I did in this thread: I'm so predictable.

I don't know. They codes and things in Dr Strangelove and WarGames... they must be real!

I thought it had been revealed that Toblix was actually the developer of McPixel?

That's not what my friend was trying to say, but I get what you mean. (Also, I do think wanting to kill a bunch of strangers is a sign of mental problems!)

You can download a portable version of System Shock if you Google it. The project has been going for many years and apparently has not been met with any legal objections. I disagree with Tycho's recommendation, though. SS1 is very difficult to get into, even with mouse-look. Just mod the game's .ini file and reduce spawning. That way you can explore the environments without having to worry too much about degradation.

OMG. That Dead Island thing is absolutely horrendous. Their justification is totally messed up, too: "“Dead Island’s grotesque take on an iconic Roman marble torso sculpture.”" Am I wrong or did the ancient Roman's only tend to sculpt men? I'm sure I read that somewhere. Plus, it's not like they just sculpted torsos -- they're just the bits that haven't been lost over time. On a related note, here's possibly the most offensive greeting card ever made:

Someone (who can be more bothered than I can) needs to Photoshop a beer helmet onto that cover... with bottles of blood on either side.

*BLOWS BRAINS OUT*

Huh! I did not know that. Interesting!

Maybe she just did stunts on Django...? Or maybe her part was cut?

America has some weird issues with guns. In fact, it's possibly the weirdest issue they have. You can talk about inherent racism, poor school systems, corrupt businesses, sexism, homophobia, the government (just about), and everything is fine. Mention gun control and some folks get REALLY upset VERY quickly. It's a strange thing that's unique to America (in my experience, at least). I've learned not to get involved in gun control debates because of this. Anyways, I think Bill Hicks did a great job of explaining my POV on gun control: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MEzCtyRWP8 An American friend of mine posted this on his Facebook wall, and I think it sums up the recent reaction perfectly... "A few pro-gun people are running to the old trope about guns not being evil, just people who use them to kill. The woman who purchased the guns that were used yesterday bought them to protect herself and her property. Then her insane son got them. So what's the magic solution to keep guns out of the hands of the insane people? If you insist that we all have access to guns, you are insisting that we include the sane as well as the insane -- because we don't yet know how to install a blinking red light on the crazy people, or the ones who are sane today and will be crazy tomorrow. Which means there will always be murder by guns. And these losses are therefore in service of the right to have guns, which we have decided is more important than a few kids now and then."

I think the whole game system is horribly unbalanced -- I switched off re-spawning when I played it, which just made it a whole lot more fun to play. You should install the texture pack, too.

Attacking the makers is pointless. Even if I was going to try and tackle those who made violent movies, I'd start with the torture porn genre. Tarantino may make violent movies, but they're Citizen Kane compared to things like Human Centipede! He actually has characters, and a plot, and more often than not, a reason for the violence that isn't just shock value. Ugh. What's worse is that most of the papers seem to have taken Channel 4 news's side. I don't understand how anyone can watch that video and not think Guru-Murthy is trying to provoke Tarantino into doing exactly what he does.

I believe it's completely fake... and quite enjoyable as result. They're not great actresses

People have asked about creativity in the past, so here's a video from John Cleese explaining how he thinks you can become more creative... A definite life improver, if you ask me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijtQP9nwrQA List: 1. Turn off those annoying annotations/adverts by clicking the white speech bubble under the video. 2. I'm stuck on number four. 3. You can watch the entire lecture here: http://bit.ly/UWG7GQ

Cool! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. That Necromancer book sounds very intriguing indeed!

Another Sony controller patent leak:

It isn't.

Unless it says Chicken Noodles or Tofu with Rice, I'll be lost.