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My first thought about a minute into the video was ". . .What the fu- Oh! The dude from Coheed and Cambria has a castrato brother!" Regardless, I've been enjoying various songs from them today. ScC_pi3PJ9k

No. . .Should I?

I think this RPS comment sums it up best. "What a bunch of vultures, preying on the misinformed and easily shocked. It’s just straight up lies. I’ve- MUST RAPE REPUBLICANS- actually played games like Postal (unfortunately) and to say crap like that is just ludicrous."

*Head at a 90 degree angle* This is why. . . I don't like. . . I. . . What the fuck?

Well, I expect this sort of stuff from FOX, but it's still amusing. As for the game itself, it doesn't look that appealing.

*Sigh* Will we never be understood?! We tried to be decent men, in an indecent time! Well, actually, we probably didn't, considering we're on the internet playing video games. People who think they know what they're talking about with sweeping generalization, Series 2! Moving swiftly along. . .

They managed some utterly ridiculous bullshit with A.I. Wars, that I haven't seen duplicated before or since. (From AI to procedural generations.) But it seems like AVWW is neither what I pictured, nor anywhere near being finalized. So I'll sit back and wait.

Already posted in the "V The Elder Scrolls" thread. *Cough*

Something about that sentence threw me for a mental loop. Sorry to derail your good intentions! The books are great stuff, generally speaking.

The implications of that idea are. . .frightening.

Ten more months and. . .what, seven days? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF- That really is just too long to wait. Maybe I'll go get hired by Bethesda.

Tank. . .that analogy is the second most flawed I've heard today. The first of course being "sharks are like hamburgers, you can't not eat them" which I'm still vaguely hoping was in jest, but I'm just not sure. We're talking about the persona of a person. An actor, who gets typecast as evil people, is not necessarily evil himself. Tim Curry is, as far as I'm aware, a very nice person. . .provided you aren't his assistant. But "how you act" and "how you are" are two separate things. . .mostly. I think the argument here is that "how you act" is often perceived as "how you are" I'm kind of a gigantic dick when it comes to how I act in the company of random people online. (See John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory) If someone makes a comment that is flawed, be it in grammar, or simply being wrong, I'm happy to jump out into the middle of the conversation in a giant rubber wang suit and go "You are an idiot because X Y Z" With people whose existence I appreciate (Thumbs, people who are not idiots online, various other attributes of humanity) I tend to tone this down. Am I actually a gigantic dick of the sort who might stand up during a conference and correct the speaker? Hell no. But I'll certainly do so online, and have earned a reputation as a very blunt, opinionated person, if you're being stupid in my vicinity. As previously stated in the thread; - Context - Appearances (How you act as opposed to who you are) - If you act like a jackhat, and you look like a jackhat, chances are people will call you a jackhat. Perceptions. All about perceptions. Am I actually a gigantic prick? Probably, just a little, but I'm not going to go around outside of the internet kicking babies. Edit: So I bloody well misread Tank's statement about Tim Curry. Seems I agree with him! You can act like a dick and not actually be one. The problem is still peoples perception of you. Choose very carefully to whom or where you act like a giant phallus, or people will view you as one out of hand. . . .I'm going to go wash my mouth out with some scotch. Dick.

I would totally get some hamsters if I didn't think Aurelius would eat them the moment I stepped out of the room.

I find it hilarious, if you're talking about the VW commercial.

I forgot to add we've gotten something like five or so feet of snow as a result over a few days, when the norm for El Paso is something like a foot every ten years.

. . .Considering the books came first, I think your joke is flawed, if I'm getting the joke at all. I will go ahead and recommend the books, though. Good stuff. Especially 7.

Noooooooooooo! I'm trying to resist playing this, but I've run out of reasons not to. Heeeeeeere, GOGgy GOGgy GOGgy.

Ideally, you don't pretend to shove plasticine figures up your ass. And he's a bit of a dick even before that. I just don't like the fellow, for the most part. But yeah. Context is king, as much as that makes me sound like a self-help writer.

Hehe. c9eGtyqz4gY His voice at "I'm no longer your fool" reminds me heavily of Jeremy Irons circa Scar.

No, no! Don't get me wrong. I've met some astoundingly nice, and thought and friendship provoking people on these here intrawebs. But there does seem to be a large contingent of useless dunderheads.

More poorly phrased stuff from my corner, I guess. What I mean is, if you're a violent (and I don't mean physically, I mean extensively and oppressively) idiot and say things that just are simply offensive, trying to mask them as humor. . .well, who's to say you don't actually think those things? Common bloody sense, for the most part. It's like Hermie brought up with the PA Dickwolves debacle. It's obviously a joke. Mike and Jerry are obviously not adverse to saying things that could possibly be rendered as offensive. But it's not. It's very much comedy, it's very much something that, to paraphrase Jerry, is "so removed from reality that we couldn't imagine anyone taking it seriously" But that leads back to the "people are a lot easier to rile these days" issue. "Raped to sleep by dickwolves" is obviously not real. It's obviously not "pro rape" is you have half a brain. But either as a result of people being idiots these days, or the social norms being off kilter, that throws some people into a frothing rage. I really don't know what to tell you. The populace of the world has some frighteningly naive, stupid and foolish people. And most of them seem to have access to the internet.

Well if you say something like "All (insert ethnic or sociopolitical group) should fuck off over the side of a cliff" you're probably not a great person to begin with. Yeah, I make off-color jokes, but only around people I trust implicitly to understand that I'm not actually a complete douchepuppet. Plus, I think tolerance is down in this day and age. Maybe I'm wrong? I don't really know. But people seem to be a lot touchier at times.

Mildly amusing until the "We could come over and kill all your families" remark. Now. . .ten-foot pole and carpet bombing? I have to admit to continued amazement that people don't understand that PA is run by two guys that aren't really hindered if they want to say something like that.

I'm not a huge fan of Jim Sterling, to be honest. He's a bit crass for my taste, but on occasion he does bring up a good point, or make a funny remark. As comedians are wont to do. I think he lost any support from me after the Two Worlds II bit, though. That said, looking over some of the stuff that has gone on over this (not very deep yet, not sure I want to be). . .Well, internet. What're you going to do. Except they're not really anonymous are they. . .

I meant tone down being an asshole to Thompson. I'm fine with the political talk. The rest was, primarily sarcasm, as it's my natural defense to someone running around screaming "DEAAAAAAAAAAATH" even if it is true. Nevermind, I guess.