Recent content by Artheval_Pe

First, you are missing the point. Nobody ever banned the US flag. The school asked two particular students, during only one particular day, to change T-shirts because they had a history of harrasing mexican students using the US flag. It was only a matter related to the specific use of a piece...

Yeah, or maybe in that case, people coming into the US from abroad to study and who would just like to be able, just once a year, to enjoy their national holiday without americans bothering them about how america is more important and much greater than their country ? It has nothing to do with...

Exactly. But I am not sure than wearing your flag at school on the national day of a foreign country, while you have in the same schools people from the said country is really about loving and supporting your country. In this specific case, in the light of what happened the previous year...

Currently, I am reading Capitalisme, désir et servitude by Frédéric Lordon. It is a bit of a mix of philosophy, sociology and economics and it is incredibly interesting.

If I were thrown into a Battlefield, I would make a terrible soldier : -I don't have the physical condition (I am not that much into sports) -I couldn't shoot for shit (I never handled any firearms) -I don't know the basics of real-life tactics Plus, I don't know how I would react under...

Underrated : -Metro 2033 : Most media outlets overlooked that game because of the usual constraints (basically, the review needs to be online as soon as possible, and the reviewer was not necessarly eager to play the game in the first place). But it is a game that shows some brilliance (and...

I will try to mention only the games that I thought were really overrated because the list would be too long otherwise : -F.E.A.R. : Combat Evolved : Ok, the gunplay and the AI were great, and it was quite scary at times. But, I don't think it made up for the repetitive combat, the repetitive...

The sheer amount of factual mistakes in that post is pretty staggering. 1) Genre selection : The PC is the platform on which you find the most diverse set of genres. Every genre of gaming exist on the PC. Perhaps you don't know that because you only go to Gamestop, but in stores where you can...

I go to movies to be entertained, I am not a movie geek, but I can't stand when a movie just blatantly insults its audience with a stupid story, atrocious visual design, poor characters and bad dialog. When I saw the first Transformers, I just paused all the time thinking "That scene is...

One of my teachers used to say : "Learning a language isn't hard. It's not like math, where you can be awfully bad because you don't do it naturally. You already learned a language since you speak one. So get to work and stop complaning" (that last part was part of the quote, it's not directed...

Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising : It's short, repetitive, ugly, uninteresting and there is no story. I could have been a free campaign for ArmA II (a much better game) but it was a stand-alone product. The multiplayer was uninspired and broken. Bioshock 2 : Bioshock 1 was a good game...

GTA III & IV, Prototype, Deus Ex, Indigo Prophecy, Max Payne, Resistance 2, Ghostbusters etc... No, it hasn't been raped to death at all. What do we have as post-apocalyptic/desert games ? Fallout 3, Borderlands, Fallen Earth and... that's pretty much all of it.

To id Software credit, when they first announced the game at QuakeCon 2007, Fallout 3 had not been announced, S.T.A.L.K.E.R had just come out, Far Cry 2 hadn't been unveiled and Borderlands still looked like a piece of crap. So it's pretty much pointless to say "Meh, they ripped off Fallout...

They were indeed dishonest, but to put it into perspective, the Team Fortress 2 team never envisionned in 2008 that they were going to go on with massive updates throughout the years. At first, it was planned to be completed over the course of the year. So they may have envisionned something...