Recent content by DragonManRen

You're defining "deters" wrong. Anything that prevents a criminal from completing the act is deterrent. If they don't attempt it, because they fear the possibility of an armed target, great. If they don't complete it, because their target was armed, great. What are you even talking about...

Not discouraged? One was dead. The other fled. They didn't do harm to the widow or her baby. She managed to discourage them from doing violence to her. Mission accomplished. Your argument is flawed by the simple fact that criminals bank on being unopposed. The predatory mindset is not...

Unless, y'know, you have a gun, or a stun gun, or pepper spray, or any serious weapon with which to discourage them. Someone attempting to do violence on you needs to be STOPPED, and it's very simple to equip yourself to do so. What you're suggesting is to just sit there and let violent...

It's a pretty picture, with fairly realistic-ish body proportions. The artist doesn't seem to know much about practical sword use, but that's not particularly unusual.

A beautiful chance to gain riches and fame while achieving worthy goals. I'm in!

In a game focused on the Nordic homeland, I couldn't bring myself to play anything other than a Nord. It's my preference anyway, but the game's premise reinforces it. As for combat, I use a sword in one hand and a Destruction spell in the other. Got some Restoration magic on my Favorites...

They're not just bad. They're AGGRESSIVELY bad, and they know it. Any musician who thinks of himself as a musician will push himself, try to develop and grow and produce something new and better. Nickelback just keeps on putting out obvious reskins of the same song over and over again...

Jokes about Tourette's Syndrome, among other conditions, tend to illustrate a vast ignorance of the subject. Yahtzee's joke in this week's ZP is clearly a reference to the "profanity as a verbal tic" version of Tourette's Syndrome, which I've heard of, but never seen. But that's what people...

They're bland and samey and completely unoriginal. They're in every game, all the way back to when cavemen were using mammoth bones as joysticks. It's not that sewer levels are necessarily bad, exactly, just that there is invariably a sewer level, and if you've played a lot of games, by now it...

People possibly stereotype you as a genius because of your disorder, and Yahtzee's mentioned it? Yeah, I know what you've got, I think. That's rough. Unfortunately, I've come across some of the "self-diagnosed" people Yahtzee mentioned. When people claim they have the disorder and that it is...

Wow. I believe this is the first time I've actually heard somebody say something specifically negative about Tim as Robin. I, personally, would rather play as either Dick or Tim than Batman himself.

So do I, and the jokes don't keep me up at night, but it gets a little irritating.

I just "love" it how Tourette's Syndrome is referenced for comedy. As if anybody who does that actually knows what it is. Who else has their neurological disorders laughed at? Other than that minor irritation, a good review. I think I'll pass on Dead Island.

I got pretty good with it, because I'm a determined completionist, but I was anxious for the day when I got everything possible done with the Mako, because the handling was awful. It got stuck for no reason whatsoever. I found the Hammerhead missions a poor substitute, though. If they'd had...

First point: International law does indeed prohibit targeted assassination. That's why the UN is demanding the full details, even if the Secretary-General has personally praised the action. Obama claimed the deed, so he's a war criminal now. However great it may be that Osama is dead, fact is...