Recent content by Les

Thinking about it, I think Far Cry 3's protagonist was so much more interesting for the same reason that Spec Ops: The Line was so intriguing. The archetype for the protagonist's narrative in video games has been, "You are the Goody-Good, there is the Baddy-Bads, kill-maim-splode the...

Yeah, this is happening to me to.

I sought out adblock because the adverts on websites were getting more and more and more obnoxious by the day and since I've started using it I have Never white-listed a site. Until now. I have white-listed The Escapist, because Mister Jim Sterling asked nicely. Thank God for Jim.

Jim, may I call you Jim? Anyway, Jim... This was a very interesting video even though I took issue with some things, some things I found problematic and almost paused the video halfway through to jump on the forum to get all righteously indignant and such, I am so glad I buried that...

Self-defense is a factor, it is very psychologically reassuring to have the means to compel someone with hostile intent to refrain from harming you and/or your property and/or the persons and property of your friends and family, either through intimidation or force. In fact, the closest thing...

Well it is nice to be appreciated for being a sane voice on this end of the debate. All too often elsewhere I get involved in these sorts of discussions and because I am pro-gun I end-up being shouted at for being stupid and hating babies and why can't I just 'get-it' that letting normal people...

Too right.

The basic thing that keeps conflict alive is that there are people out there whose ideas offend us, for whatever reason, and we have a bad habit of assuming that they hold on to these ideas not because they have any valid reason to but because they are stupid, insane, and/or evil. The only...

Therumancer.... Stop, just..stop. I am an avid gun-lover and an American, I own 9 guns including a 'scary black rifle' and several military-style pistols and even I have to say.. Please.. just stop. You're letting the lens of your own perspective color how you interpret things...

That's kind of my point. It's not all that surprising that dense urban centers have more crime in general than rural areas, but that's not what the argument is about here in the US. In the US when the anti-gun side brings up the topic it's all about GUN-crime and GUN-violence and look at how...

Something that I feel, as an American and a Gun owner, should be brought up is that in the US the majority of the legally owned guns are owned by people living in low-population density rural and small town areas. Conversely, the majority of gun-violence and gun-related crime happens in high...

I like how this week's Extra Credits sums up un-satisfyingly easy games.. this game distinctly lacked Depth compared to the original. The clone angle was somewhat intriguing, but seemed like they were really kinda stretching to try and shoe-horn a justification for a light-side sequal in...

As stated before, I have the latest flash player as well. Before on the old player there was the occasional problem with just the sound loading and not the video, the newegg 'related videos' splash loading in it's place. This was usually fixed with a refresh of the page. Again, I am on...

As I said before, using the latest version of Firefox with the latest update of XP, I've already tried clearing cache. Tried it on IE7 as well and got no joy. The window just dosn't show anything, no buttons, no load indicators, just a blank black space.

No, I have no blocks whatsoever. Just straight from the phone line to the modem to my computer. It just loads all the rest of the page, then stops like it thinks there's nothing else there to download. Watching videos on the old player was a pain on dial-up, but at least it was possible.