Recent content by CrunchyRay

I love how terrorists in video games have moved past the whole, "take hostages and demand ransom" or "kill people to make a statement" and are now in the, "kidnap the head of one country's government and demand that a foreign government send one of their citizens over here for some obscure...

Wait... he flipped a Kennedy half dollar, but he called the coin "Mr. Dollar"? I'm confused!

I freaking loved the original Syndicate. Controlling a squad of minigun-wielding cyborg assassins in a dystopian future? Awesome. The game required thought, tactics and planning. In several missions you couldn't just barge in guns blazing or else you'd fail. And the original game also had the...

The parts with Alyx in HL2 were escort missions. Except that SHE was escorting YOU. Alyx was the badass warrior babe who could take on Combine soldiers like nobody's business, and you're just a nerdy physicist with a crowbar. In theory there's nothing wrong with adding in somebody to protect...

We're almost talking about two different types of games here. Do you want to play an RPG or a Simulation? In an RPG, your character gets richer, more powerful, and winds up with a lot of stuff. If you're a badass, then things should be relatively easier. At the start, a few measly Draugr are...

I think every high school has at least one Chad and one Super-Chad.

I can empathize. The way many RPGs are built, they often provide the illusion of a wide range of options, but actually choosing anything but a particular build type makes the game vastly more difficult, if not impossible to beat. I think many of the people you identify believe that the "one true...

Really the boundary between science fiction and fantasy is very blurred. There are valid arguments that Star Wars fits both genres. First, readers will assume that the world is like reality unless noted. That is, people behave like people in the real world, they have emotions and believable...

Well, I'm from the US, so obviously we don't have one. But in the early days of the Constitution, there was a lot of debate as to how "Monarchical" the office of the President should be. When Adams was Washington's Vice President, he tried to push a bill through Congress that would officialy...

Her argument also hinges on the belief that a notary in Spain somehow has the authority to validate her claim to ownership of the Sun. This is absurd for a very simple reason: A nation or government can only exercise sovereignty over the people and territory within its borders or of its own...

Gaaaah. Of course they have the same ship, same technology, and same lapses in safety that they had a hundred years ago. Of course, everybody knows that the Titanic disaster led to absolutely NO changes in passenger liner safety. No requirements for more lifeboats, escape drills, early...