Recent content by Irandrura

...I do not see why your ignorance of one of the largest and most important cities in the world should disqualify it.

You know, the first game I ever played with online activation was Dawn of War II. It used Steam. I was infuriated at the idea that I should have to install this third party program, run it, register an account, and jump through all these other hoops, just to have the privilege of playing a game...

Institutionalised gender discrimination is never a good idea.

Melbourne. And that's all reasonable. I have no complaints there. Background check. Waiting period. Mandatory safety class. That's all ideal. We require people to obtain licenses before we let them drive cars, don't we? Aren't mis-handled guns just as dangerous as mis-handled cars...

Or you could, you know, lock the door (and upgrade locks etc. if worried), get a guard dog, or take any number of equally effective measures. And then there are statistics that show that having a loaded gun on the premises actually makes it more likely someone will be shot than otherwise...

As an Australian, I've always been baffled by the American tendency to say 'it's in the constitution therefore it's good' or 'the Founding Fathers said it, therefore it's good'. Those sorts of appeals to authority do not sit well with me. Incidentally, go Superbeast! As far as my opinions...

The Wii is many things, but it's not boring. I applaud it as the only genuine innovation in this console generation. The other two have bumped up the graphics but not really achieved anything new. The Wii is an experiment, yes, and in some ways it works really well but in others it's not so...

Ah, this seems like a great column. ZP is entertaining but gets repetitive. A space for him to be more serious and have the chance to make his points properly is a very good idea. As a random example of a game that does this sort of thing well, I'm going to take this opportunity to tell you...

No, that all made sense, though judging from the posts immediately following yours, people are more interested in assigning blame on the 'jerkishness' front than this... I'm not really surprised, though it is a shame how people can fixate on something like that. As I see it, you need to read...

Which is exactly what breaching is, and thus the whole point of his experiment in the first place.

Why does innocence even factor into it? The experiment was 'go to a structured online community, behave like an asshat yet in complete accordance with the stated game rules, and thus demonstrate that social rules do not organically arise from system rules'. He thus deliberately escalated the...

First reaction: Essentially, a guy acts like a jerk online in order to study social reactions to it. It is not surprising that this resulted in social ostracism. It is interesting, but it's also a very intuitive conclusion: human societies produce, over time, implicit codes of conduct and...

*shrug* Baldur's Gate II is still the finest game BioWare has ever made by a considerable margin, so it's good that they know when to let things end. Padding things out for sequels isn't a good idea. The Bhaalspawn's story has ended. It needs no continuation. Oh, and I second everyone saying...

I've written bits and pieces before, but I freely admit that it's garbage. It's fun. Every time someone leaves a positive comment [http://www.fanfiction.net/r/4956961/] I get to shout 'what is wrong with you people?!' Heh. Some people have such low standards.