Recent content by iaculum

Slightly off-topic but if you ever do remember the author, tell me! I'd love to read that book.

A multitude of reasons, I would think. Most of which are lazy writing as you said, but some of them because it's a common and "believable" trope that can tie together various story ideas in a way that doesn't require much thought. For one, it gives -- as you said-- a plot-convenient...

I have been mistaken for a male on many, many occasions. In fact, I don't recall any forums or websites (discluding the ones where gender is shown right under the avatar, or they have Male and Female "dress-up doll" avatars such as websites like Gaiaonline) where I haven't been, at first...

"Excuse me, dark mysterious horseman, but could you please remove your steed from the kitchen? We can't bake cookies with it in there."

I would like to say that I would like any game with good dialogue/story, but that would be a lie. Because I am a sucker for things even vaugely based off mythology. I know that they're almost always bad, but there are a few real gems (Darksiders, the Shin Megami Tensei games) and those...

I watched the Eragon movie... and after that I lost all faith in mankind. But, in all seriousness: I have watched movies and read books that have made me take a close look at my philosophy, but I don't think I've ever started talking with the same accent as the main character or anything...

I was not fortunate enough to have any formal weapons training (but I would love to get some) save for me and my brother beating each other with the cut-off bamboo pieces from the plants that our grandmother grew in her backyard. While some of the pieces were small, there was usually a dozen...

I'm not so much of an anime and manga conisseur as many of the people here, but I really did enjoy Darker than Black (Which I have been Ninja'd on suggesting, methinks) because it both resolves everything I wanted to know, and leaves the ending open enough to keep me interested in the idea of a...

I, personally, prefer a bit of openness in the endings-- I like to be able to speculate a bit about where the character went after the game/book/movie ends. Since my favorite pastime is making up little worlds in my head, I can use that particular book/movie/game as a starting point as I make up...

Introverted - 78 Sensing - 38 Thinking - 56 Judging - 22 This so-called "Inspector" personality type does seem to fit.

Hmm. Any character I want, you say? ... Paladine, before he gave up his immortality.

I've been reading some of the replies and I have to say that some of these choices are mostly influenced by how much the person enjoyed the games instead of what game they think would represent video gaming in general in a positive way to a complete newcomer. For example, Minecraft. I'm not...

I found the word "iaculi" in a random word generator when thinking up a new screen name (my old ones were lame) and when I google-searched it I found out that iaculum is the proper form of it (they're actually words in latin) and since I think iaculum sounds cooler I decided to use it. Of...

Things like this have happened to me with my arrow keys on my keyboard. Like SwimmingRock said, it's probably because the volume down/up buttons have gotten stuck down (which is what happens to me with my left arrow key), and you can fix it by either pressing it again or opening the remote to...