Garple

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  1. Goty.cx 2011

    wikipedia told me it was 2011, but...yeah, either way. Oh yeah, I also played Dead Island, but...
  2. New Laptop gaming question

    Thanks a lot for the advice guys. And, yeah I know I won't be able to run too much...but I figured I'd ask so that if I see something on sale on Steam I'll have some kind of idea where how this machine would handle it. I suppose GOG would be a good option as well...I played stuff like Fallout on my last laptop. Fortunately, it seems like a lot of the PC games I'm interested in are indie releases.
  3. Goty.cx 2011

    of 2011 games I only played Fable III and L.A. Noir...so it has to be L.A. Noir...it's an adventure game with a huge budget...in 2011!
  4. Assassin's Creed: Revelations

    Or they were inspired by the most recent Indiana Jones. Yeah, The ending to that game in terms of the in animus part reminded me of the ending of the roller-disco epic Xanadu.
  5. Saint's Row The Third

    This looks so idiosyncratic for being such a high-profile game.
  6. Batman: Arkham City

    Sounds good. I think I will make this a priority since I've really had to cut down on gaming lately for lack of time. Whereas I used to want to sample everything, now it's only the really choice cuts that make it into my machines. What a weird mixed metaphor that is. I'm really happy about it.
  7. V The Elder Scrolls

    Am I the only one who thinks "skyrim" sounds like a really complicated, filthy sex move?
  8. Iron Brigade

    Jeffersonians unite!
  9. Bastion

    What I've played so far is pretty cool. It makes me miss the thumbcast though, because I know Remo would have a field day imitating the cornball narrator.
  10. Life

    Thanks, guys
  11. Catherine

    well compared to the rest of the population, 360 is a small number of people .
  12. Books, books, books...

    Funny you mention this I'm reading Labyrinths right now and I'm blown away by it. I was going to recommend it in this thread because I think every story in it is like a GAME Borges is playing with the reader and himself. I capitalized the word game not because I'm yelling it, but because I wanted to emphasize the relevance of the book to the interests of the idle thumbs.
  13. Life

    Update: That girl who I asked out recently (was talking about it in this thread) who gently declined my offer...she said to me, out of the blue "So what do you do during the school year? Because you seem way too smart and funny to be just doing this job all the time." It felt incredible to hear that. I get the impression that she likes me, but didn't want to get involved in anything because she's leaving for law school shortly etc...I was very pleased to get such a high compliment from someone I really respect and I think I can use the memory as a tool to provide me with confidence in the future.
  14. Movie/TV recommendations

    The new Monte Hellman film, Road to Nowhere (his first since 1989) is a pretty interesting take on the post-modern meta-film genre exemplified by Adaptation. If you're not familiar with Hellman, he directed Two-Lane Blacktop, an early seventies film starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson (of the Beach Boys) and Warren Oates which is widely considered one of the great road/car movies of all time. I'm not sure I recommend the film for general audiences, but if you like the film-within-a-film genre, it's worth a look.
  15. Books, books, books...

    I want to throw out a recommendation of Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon. It's a collection of essays, mostly about the merits of genre fiction, including comics, which I think is a subject that appeals to a lot of thumbs. Most of the time, this kind of thing is written by someone heavily entrenched in genre himself (Stephen King's Danse Macabre, for example) which is fine, but reminds one somewhat of when fundamentalist Christians try to talk to you about the Bible (I think Danse Macabre is good, actually, but it's the first example that came to mind). Michael Chabon, on the other hand has a foot in each world. He incorporates fantastical elements into a lot of his work, but unlike a great many of those who do so, he's well respected by critics. He won the Pullitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay which is a fictionalized account of a pair of comic creators during the form's Golden Age. Anyway, it's not dry in the least and I found myself jotting down all kinds of titles and authors. It may even help you explain some of your interests to the uninitiated (girls, even).
  16. General Video Game Deals Thread

    I have a new computer now...but I haven't bought a game in months. Note to self...stay away from Steam.
  17. Life

    Great point. I got the same thing from Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotions which I just read. Especially the part about choice. Why do people think existentialism is depressing? It's mostly the opposite. But yeah...I gave her the traits I found attractive by choosing to recognize them in her and all that.
  18. Life

    Thanks guys. I think I will be able to try again when I meet someone else special. When I was younger, I'd fall for a girl and always think I'd never meet another about whom I felt the same way, but you always eventually do.
  19. Life

    Well, it didn't work out. She's leaving the area in a couple weeks, it turns out...I got a firm, but friendly rejection and it was not nearly as awkward or painful as I imagined. I hadn't asked anyone out in about 4 or 5 years...so I feel pretty good about taking the first step. It is pretty embarrassing though to go out on a limb like that and not succeed, but I guess that's just a necessary part of the process. I'm trying hard not to wonder what the true reason for the rejection was (though it's human nature to wonder such things). But I responded to the rejection with aplomb, I think, and hey...it was good practice. I mean...she's extremely beautiful and intelligent (law student) so I'm glad I was able to face down such a challenge and aim so high, because in the past my instinct would have been to disqualify myself from even speaking to someone like her.
  20. Life

    You're a cool dude. Thanks. Thanks to you too, Dan. You're right...I should just go for it. She was expressing angst over the fact that Wolverine is popular now with people who "don't know what they're talking about," and my heart melted. I don't even like the fucking X-Men...it's just the unabashed nerdiness that makes me light-headed.
  21. Life

    I want to ask out this girl who volunteers where I work...she's cute and nerdy (we've had conversations about Marvel Comics and the nuances of the word "machinations")...we have a good rapport and I think she likes me at least a little...but she's beautiful by anyone's standards which is intimidating. Does anyone have advice? I have to imagine she's chased by lots of guys...how can I stand out?
  22. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

    You might consider playing ACII as well. It's miles better than the original.
  23. http://kotaku.com/5537833/easy-or-access-bulletstorm-walks-the-line-in-an-insular-genre What do you guys think?
  24. Gaming In-Jokes

    Basically jokes in games that reference other games. They're usually real groaners, but it's still an interesting topic nonetheless and I thought it'd be fun to compile some of the ones we've noticed. I was playing Castlevania: LoS (which is not nearly as bad a game as you probably think it is), and I stumbled across a really awful one that needed to be shared. I found a scroll on the corpse of a fallen adventurer in which he'd written what amounted to a diary entry about an encounter he had with a fairy. He marveled at her beauty and said "I have seen something few men can ever lay claim to...I can truly say the cake is not a lie." Also: the were one or two injokes in Enslaved, but I can't remember them. Can anybody help me out?
  25. Double Fine's next new game announced: "Stacking"

    Visually it looks fantastically whimsical. Like digital Weebles or something.