miffy495

Man, I hate having to play as a bard!

I've used rad for a long time. I just really like the word. I have adopted words from pretty much any generation I think would be fun to say. I also say "bully" sometimes, for example...

Do the french call him the Burger Burglar? That's rad, I didn't realize.

I too love the helicopters. Meeting went late, so I missed the game unfortunately, but I'll be around next week and spreading hot machine gun justice.

Ahaha. "The story compelled me to play the story" (review of Batman: AA). Awesome. How have I not seen that before?

He's in Australia now, but I believe he'll be back in Norway by the time the game comes out?

Dang. Meeting is at 2. I should actually be able to make it around 3:15/3:30, but looks like I'll be missing the first hour or so at least.

That was the level where I discovered that "anesthetist" is a thing in the game. That labcoat woman putting all the guards to sleep rocked the level for me.

potentially I. My honours supervisor has yet to email me back regarding what time we're meeting. If I can get home in time, I'm in.

Yeah, my comment before seeing what you guys wrote was going to be "Brick is good, just a little up its own ass is all."

I really enjoy the "Become immersed in a generic fantasy world" title card. This game has my attention.

Yay birthdays! Cheers man, enjoy yourself.

Yeah, with Kate Capsize when you're looking for the Sea Monkey. Multiple times if you fuck up finding the proper spot where the Sea Monkey sank.

You're talking to a guy who spent Thursday night re-shaving his girlfriend's head. I'm definitely down with the skinhead girls. That said, spending 4+ nights a week with one (we don't cohabitate, but pretty much act like we do) for the past 2 years really taught me a few things about just how "realistic" stylizing yourself like a suicide girl is. Comparing Sinead O'Connor to a suicide girl is a horribly insulting thing to Sinead. There's a big difference between a woman who decides that she just doesn't want to have hair and shaves it off (resulting in a LOT of weird looks from strangers. Small children asking "what's that?" is also pretty common when we're out together) and one who does it to attract attention on the internet. Thing is, Subject Zero is not a real woman. She is a character in a game, and one now being featured in the marketing. Again, as I keep saying, we don't know the game yet. Maybe she is a really well fleshed out character who has believable motivations for everything she does. "Some are because hey, fuck you" notwithstanding, of course. If she weren't the boring suicide-girl type of skinhead though, this way that she is being marketed is very deceptive to the game. As she's being used right now, she is a hollow exploitation of the style in order to move copies, which is pretty far from legitimate, and feels like it cheapens the look of women who actually do feel more themselves without hair. Shoehorning Marcus Fenix into a female shell the way the trailer portrays is not a progressive step for women in games to me. She is no more a realistic portrayal of a bald woman than Zangeif from Street Fighter is a realistic Russian or Reni Wassulmaier from GTA Vice City (or hell, Florian Krevich) is a realistic gay man. If I were simply to look at a piece of concept art for the character, I would probably be reacting much more similarly to you. She is visually striking, the tatoos are an interesting look, and I find "weird" hair on women very attractive. Aside from unrealistic-for-combat clothing and bust size, she looks much more capable than most female game characters. All of your defenses come from design choices in her look, which is fine, but ignores the fact that we have heard her speak, and her speech is incredibly contrary to everything that could have made her interesting. There are a lot of boring (or worse) characters out there that have some appeal to their look. I don't see anything about Subject Zero as of yet that elevates her above that. Though the story in Mirror's Edge was pretty meh, if you're looking for a progressive female character Faith is leagues beyond SZ. She just didn't have nothing on but leather suspenders, so she didn't get as much attention. I hope that you're right. I hope she is a fascinating character with a detailed and interesting back story. Then I watch her monologue trailer again and get depressed. Regardless of how the character may actually be in the game, I take most of my offense from the fact that she (and her look) are being used cynically by a marketing campaign to appeal to sexually frustrated geek stereotypes. Sorry to be reacting in a slightly hostile manner to you. As a guy who happens to be in love with a bald girl, it's a subject that's close to my heart.

Damn, you're responsible for one of my favorite individual moments in the game. Well played, sir.

Sorry dude, if you're looking for a realistic badass woman, you're still looking in the wrong place. She doesn't look like a real ass-kicking woman does to me, she looks like she really wants to be a suicide girl. That is still playing into stereotypes, but in a slightly different way. Just as pandering though. I've defended her a bit too, mostly based on the fact that all we have is a really bad trailer, but that look is just as realistic for an action hero as Lara Croft. The fact that she's more Alternative Burlesque than Runway doesn't make her real, it makes her appeal to a slightly different group of drooling kids. She seems about as suitable to be holding an assault rifle as Kat Von D. (read: not very. Also, please forgive me for referencing that horrible show and irritating woman.) Again, this is not saying she could not be cool, or an asset. She very well could. Nothing about that trailer shows it though.

Just finished Leviathan. Excellent. A few puzzles even made me feel like a certified genius, which is a huge plus for an adventure game. Never felt frustrated either. Incredibly well done. Also, whose idea was it to do the MI2 diving animation and music when you go down off the ship? That was bloody brilliant and had me grinning like an idiot. Can't wait for the next episode now. They're still getting better.

Bought it about a week ago when it went down to $20 on Steam. Really enjoying it, although I'm only two levels from the end, so I'm getting apprehensive about finishing it. Maybe I'll replay the earlier levels to find all the experience first?

Ahahaha. Nice. Also, I do sort of agree with you about the "why the hell should she care" part. Thought I expressed that with my second paragraph. Oh well. As to someone else's "tatoos for kills" thing, in the first game you're killing a fuck of a lot of hostile crazy androids, but very few organic things. For all we know, it WILL be a huge deal if you have to start killing people, and maybe a murderous past would be something to dwell upon.

I thought Guy was rumoured to be one of the new characters, actually.

I'm actually oddly fixated on that frog freaking out in the bottom right corner. Dude is WAY too happy.

Hey, my girlfriend shaves her head and still wears makeup. No tatoos, but a bunch of piercings. She just likes the way she looks bald more than with the wavy blondness that nature endowed her. A lot of girls would actually look awesome bald, just not enough have the guts to try it. Point is: shaving your head doesn't mean you don't care about how you present yourself. Also, it would appear that you can have sex with Subject Zero in the game. If she didn't wear makeup people would freak out even more. One of the primary demographics that they're marketing to with this trailer are the (surprisingly numerous) guys who don't realize that their girlfriend sneaks out of bed to put on some light makeup so they can wake up and see her "looking amazing first thing in the morning." Yeah, I've met a lot of girls who do this, and their guys don't have a clue. I suspect that to these guys, a woman without makeup is far more off-putting than the "badass bitch" overplayed archetype. Odd world we live in sometimes, isn't it?

I think all you need to do is log on to the store for the first time. Pro tip for DSi owners. My R button stopped working this evening. I then made a seal around it with my mouth and blew into it like an NES cartridge. The R button now works again. I checked online, and apparently this is the best way to dust it. Nintendo has really gone nuts with the throwbacks lately, and I guess tech fixes were just a continuation of that. All the stuff I found for this online was for the Lite as well, so apparently it's just a thing with DSes. Weird. Still can't believe it worked.

I'm enjoying it, but it definitely requires patience from time to time. I bought Mario and Luigi on the same day, and have put about 15 hours into that since, so you can see what is eating up my portable gaming time, but Scribblenauts is still fun.

Addendum: Chris (and his new song) got namechecked in a Kotaku article today. EDIT: And on reading through the rest of the article I see that it was written by Chris' coworker (boss? I don't know the hierarchy of Gamasutra) Leigh Alexander. Go team Gamasutra!