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The point would be they are very well already in gangs but not necessarily great with firearms. What you're saying is exactly the same browbeating except an adult is holding one and saying no instead of watching a video or hearing statistics. I'm pretty sure the programs teach you how to behave around guns. Don't touch and run and call the police if someone has one. And if it's up in the air whether it works or not why are you saying you can prevent it with less abstract curriculum. I'm pretty sure the gun problem doesn't boil down to us not teaching enough especially when you have conflicting message from the wackos Fox News and the dads who watch it talking about how gun owning is a virtue and we need to arm ourselves from the government takeover. Yes, I've had this talk from my father. I think what might be a better way to prevent a lot of accidental discharges is having less guns in circulation.

Is this demo the whole of the recently released gameplay video or is it more than that? If the latter, I suppose I should give it a shot. I do like slicing and dicing.

Yes I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I said. And since my proposal is not my proposal but what school boards are already doing (but I suppose not in South Carolina?) I guess they are of the same mind? Knowing how to use a gun makes you wanna kill, not making it easier if you want to kill. Sure. Way to read, troll.

A sub machine gun is still an automatic weapon, which I am also against the average Joe getting his hands on. I never said assault rifles did most of the killings. It definitely will make a difference because if someone wants to rampage with a hand gun instead of a bullet sprayer because they don't have access to it, then that shaves off the amount killed. No one has any plausible reason to own an AK and the like in home. For now, they are the easiest target. Baby steps. Can't take all the fun guns away from the crazed rednecks overnight or they will pretend it's the rapture. Well then the word I chose, "enamoured," was obviously the wrong one and I'm instead changing it to "confident." This is directly referring to the proposal of giving school children hands on experience. It's pretty nuts, I don't see why you are arguing this. I don't see how it's ignorance on my part either. If you teach a teen in an impoverished ISD that has gang and gun violence issues how to properly handle a fire arm, they will be more sure of themselves and use a firearm efficiently. To a lot of these kids, guns are a way of life as they are in a dog eat dog area. The only message you should be sending out to these kids on how to safely handle guns is to not handle them at all. This would the furthest away from the "sheltered" areas which you speak of and you seem to think these kinds of areas are the best place to teach children how to handle guns when it's probably the worst. Plus teens with problems with depression will have a great knowledge on how to use that gun to cleanly commit suicide without misfiring and turning into a vegetable. I don't even know why we are debating this, because it's NEVER going to happen. All of the schools I went to did not exclusively teach gun safety. They were lumped in with various videos and lectures on drug prevention, staying out of gangs, avoiding sexual predators, calling 911, abusive parents, depression, drunk driving, sex ed, smoking cigarettes, and bullying. Are you seriously saying you went to a school without any kind of social programs? Even then I'm sure a few of the cartoons or tween drama shows you may have watched after school touched on gun violence. I'm almost sure there's a very special episode of Saved by the Bell where someone may or may not come at Zach Morris with a gun. Sonic the Hedgehog wanted me to put that gun away. Either way, your more modest proposal already exists. I'm not even sure why you are proposing it if you are at the same time questioning it's usefulness. I feel like you are just playing devil's advocate for fun but are not actually believing in half of the things you are saying, as you seem to actively doing the same in other threads.

Haha I don't really know what MGS4 was going for half of the time, but when it was effective it was like most Metal Gear games where it ranges from tongue in cheek silliness to incredibly overwritten seriousness. Raiden never acted like that even though he was a child soldier. Snake never uttered "I'm gonna enjoy this" or showed excitement for getting to slaughter some dudes. Although he mostly just speaks in grunts. The games are pretty much centered around the virtues of not killing people to complete your mission plus ever game hits you over the head with how war is bad 50 times. It's not really that I find the Metal Gear series sacred, it's just that if this is truly a canon story springing off of MGS4, it's really out of sync. But yeah, I kind of just wish Platinum had done this as a standalone original IP and Metal Gear Rising had stayed canceled with Kojima Productions. My hope is that the story will be so light that it won't fuck up the series too bad and I can just concentrate on the surefire fun Revengeance will contain.

As you say, the way it's taught will make a difference. So if I understood Luftmensch right he was suggesting that everyone should learn the ins and outs of gun handling, either in self defense or keeping, which means you are going to be firing the gun, cleaning the gun, learning about different kinds of guns, creating scenarios in which you should be using a gun, etc. Unlike sex where nearly everyone starts in their teens, a majority of kids in public school are not destined to use guns. Sex also isn't a weapon, so sex ed functions as a helper to the sex you are mostly likely going to have. As you said it goes either way for both issues, so maybe it does have the effect of kids wanting to have more sex, but sex ed is for doing it right. And as I said, we already have gun safety stuff in public schools that do not involve playing with guns or teaching you that it's okay to use guns in certain situations and this is how you should, unless that's stripped away now as well. I haven't been in middle school in a while. I do remember multiple grades involving lectures videos about the dangers of guns, including one I still remember in second or first grade where a boy gets out his Dad's gun and proceeds to shoot his friend in the face. Didn't really enjoy that one back then. I think that's more than effective than having me learn how to turn the safety on myself when my silly dad is walking around in his boxers with his AK loaded. Oh Dad, you so crazy.

Doesn't matter, still has the potential to save lives. They kill more at a quicker speed, it's a step we can take. No one seriously needs those things. If people are seriously needing to clutch to those things, their priorities in life are all wrong. Hence stricter laws bypassing the uselessness of figuring out when and if some dork with a stockpile of weapons is going to be a potential threat. On top of that, I think there should be a limit on how many weapons one can own at a time. His mom seemed to have some issues as well, she did take her sons to the shooting range for some cowboy fun after all. Also, the theatre shooting guy was arms to the teeth. I'm of the opinion that once you own more than maybe two or three guns, you've got some mental health flaws already. Yes she must swallow the key next time. This is just silly. This will probably encourage impressionable youth to own more guns and become enamoured with them if they really know how to use them. Either way, there's a lot of better things public schools can have funding pumped into than this. By the way, Scruff McGruff already told me not to fuck with my dad's guns as a kid, plus all of this was included in the useless D.A.R.E. program. This stuff already exists beyond taking the kids down to the firing range after biology. ??? Not sure what this is as I would have been too young in the 80s, but a glance at wikipedia tells me this includes the types like Timothy McVeigh and the Branch Davidians. There's not much else to be said about the mental state of those folks. It also includes paranoid backwards right wing rednecks it seems, again the type who love stockpiling the weapons. So are you using that to argue more towards a change in the 2nd amendment? I'm confused.

I'm going to save the agony for the full game when I get around to it. It actually looks like a lot of fun, but it looks like storyline and characters are going to be absolutely cringeworthy and out of sync with the other games. Metal Gear Solid has been cheesy for sure, but it's never really been about one liners and angry meatheads. The female designs I've seen are even more oversexed than MGS4. I don't even understand how any of this character arc for Raiden makes sense after MGS4, but I guess I'll find out.

Those pictures are why I finally trolled ebay last year for one of these:

Go down to the Agro Circus trophy in this link: http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/2166633-post6.html Why they are hidden, I don't know. Maybe these were in the original manual for the game and not the HD one? They appear to love truncating a game's manual from 20 pages down to three paragraphs in all of the rereleases I've encountered so far.

Pretty much agree with everything the article writer said. I kind of knew before reading that it meant there would be some expense for small developers to pay on a newly imposed requirement as does tend to happen with many small businesses that get lumped in with these kind of laws. Kind of like a proposal a few years ago that every toy company has to submit their toys to be tested for lead even though the Chinese importers were the ones creating lead scares (did that bill ever go through?). What I find most laughable about this bill is that it means that we can no longer sell or resell any games created and published before the ESRB existed. Does that mean floppy disks and NES carts will become some kind of contraband?

Haha, what part is the holiest shittiest? But yeah I probably won't remap the buttons, I tend to not do that unless I'm really having issues. I usually mess with the way the camera views turn in both first and third person though, because that will often drive me nuts if I can't fix it the way I'm used to. And even then if I deal with inverse or normal camera controls for a certain game because I'm forced to, I will just drag that preference on to the next game I play.

So hungry.

So I just finished the second colossus as well as having gotten all of the fruits and lizards available in the overworld (the guide says there more lizards are at the last save point that I don't get to until much later). The northern part of the world is certainly a lot more interesting looking than the southern part. Exploring this area for random crap was much more enjoyable, as the landscape was overall much more interesting and beautiful to look at. I found some turtles! I really hope I didn't miss a lizard, but I guess I'll have to wait a few months to find out. I'm not sure if it would impact me at all to miss one since to get the platinum trophy for this game requires 4 normal playthroughs leading to maximum stamina. I think maybe getting the lizards every time could max out your stamina by the third playthrough or early on in the fourth? Not sure. I've already maxed out my health bar which is a bit strange, as I would think the stamina bar wouldn't have that much disparity between the max out of the two. I think that means I don't have to find fruit trees on future playthroughs until I decide to get the forbidden fruits? I also took the time to mess around with Argo for the trophy as none of these horse controls are detailed in the manual. Kind of neat I can do 180 turns and charges, as well as NOW I KNOW I CAN RUN AND JUMP ON THE HORSE. I wish the manual had told me how to do that. Getting the game to recognize whether or not I wanted to get on the horse while pressing the triangle button was a crapshoot. I would usually spend a few attempts awkwardly jumping into the horse before mounting. Now that I know to press R1, I get on everytime! Not sure what I will do with the side saddle and standing moves though. Do these have use? Again on the 2nd colossus as with the first, I didn't feel like I was tightly moving among a thing to kill it. I guess my imagination on how this game would play out isn't matching up. I felt like I was just bouncing around bad collision detection again until winning. Also after reading everyone's posts, it seems I did it wrong. So I wasn't supposed to shoot under the hooves to start with? First time the giant leaned forward and I went up it's front left leg and found no way to get to the head from there. Then I fell back down from the shoulder platform and shot at the hooves again, this time going up the back leg, and made my way to the weak spot on the base of his tail and hit there. It seems like the colossus reared back a little after this but I couldn't tell from the perspective the camera was at. So my next step after this was just to clumsily jump across the spine bones to the head. Did I do this right? It felt like I was just using the bad trick I learned from traversing the land where I just spam triangle if I'm not making my way over a ledge as some of the back bones felt as if they should have been too high for me to jump over. I just sort of jittered over them.

Can we rest with these kind of analogies? Here's why your drunk analogy doesn't work: Vehicles are not manufactured with the purpose of killing people. End of story. I don't want to hear anymore that we should in turn ban hands because I could strangle someone or that a knife I could use to cut chicken in the kitchen should have the same kind of restrictions that guns would. This is always an attempt to pretend that in every case that restrictions on anything you could potentially kill someone with is equal and therefore control laws are always inept. This kind of stuff just avoids and derails the argument of gun control, yet I keep hearing it crop up everytime I see or hear a discussion on the internet or in real life. I think this is just one of those issues where you need to look at the issue as a unique issue itself and just hone in on what you have to say about it.

I don't thing I'll ever get enough of shoot scantily clad women in heads with big guns. Please post some more Toblix.

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Why is Dreamweb so against having a consistent resolution?

I wish. People u-turning multiple times during a drive by shooting so that they have time to clean their gun barrel and insert the leadball is a hilarious idea to me.

How do you know anyone would even die from the knife? By the time he kills one person, I'm sure everyone will be out of there. Does this chef have amazing knife throwing abilities that hit the vitals of many at a time while they are running away? I guess you think chefs are ninjas? I thought it was already established much earlier in this thread that guns are not equal to knives by far. Assault weapons on top of that.

If I did run one, I wouldn't care because in general you don't tend to have mass slaughters in kitchens from the use of butcher's knives and stove burners. Maybe if there were a giant meat grinder in the back room and a forklift you could use to shove all of the chefs into it with at once, I'd consider some delegation. But man, what a shitty kitchen. That's a very strange utopia. Is there a society out there with abundant weapons and lots of trust among fellow citizens? I think in general the safe proven route tends to show that societies without abundant weapons have much smaller amounts of gun murder. I think I'd rather just be safe than test it.

It makes perfect sense for burnout to affect you on new endeavors. I think I've just started experiencing this the last two years. Long hours and tiring development for art and animation on unfulfilling games just makes me feel it's all so pointless (and unstable). But part of an artist's duty to keep working in the industry is to keep an updated online portfolio. The last thing I want to do is create new work or arrange completed art work when I get home these days. I'd rather do dishes than do something creative sometimes. I was at a local sketch night last Wednesday and I just sat there forcing myself to redraw the same sketch until the composition was just like I liked it. After about 7 attempts where, I was just dissatisfied, crumpled up the papers, and went home. It's supposed to a meeting to have fun and just draw whatever and talk to people, but to me it just became more work, no fun. I wish Blow would give more techniques on how to get out of this funk outside of time off, but I know that's not what his article was about.

Missed this earlier: I really don't care if they are responsible or not, it's risky. What if they flip out with PTSD? What if something happens because how depressed many become when returning from the war? I tend to hear nothing but a goldmine of mental issues dealing with soldiers coming back from wherever in the Middle East. Their big guns should stay with the military base, they shouldn't be sitting in their homes. What are they using them for anyway? Are they seriously thinking if a burglar comes in their house they need to shoot them up with 30 bullet holes? These guys are trained, so therefore a hand gun should suffice for anything they need as far as intrusion and danger. Also, I think security in schools is a smaller problem than just people who spray bullets for mass murder in general. The fact that bullets get sprayed in schools is one of the many outcomes from allowing such easy access to weapons. I guess you could put Swat team members all over every public school, but then wouldn't you just have someone going nuts in a supermarket with his machine gun instead?

I think this is a few pages ago in the thread, but I find many of her views a bit extreme but I'm curious of what someone on her side of the fence thinks, so I'll probably watch all of her new videos anyway. I think there's value for sure even if one disagrees with her. This is like when you smoke those banana peels.

It's high art because it's satirizing that woman in games tend to have their female aesthetic boundaries pushed. It's brilliant.