Recent content by ParticleBliss

I am suddenly enlightened.

I've spent a lot of time watching TED Talks [http://www.ted.com/], and I'd like to see members of The Escapist do their own. So, if you had ≈ three paragraphs to say whatever you wanted to say to the entire world, what would you say? Edit: It doesn't have to be exactly three...

I'm saving up the cash to forge my own Gallic sword. Until then, I'll have to do with my replica spatha.

Accents don't really do it for me, except when the person is speaking in their native tongue, like Italian. That said, I knew this Irish girl who had a sweet accent.

Crossbows are extremely lethal, and have this carnal feeling of "I just owned you with a 2,000 year old weapon". That explains the hype. Remember, Special Forces units in Asia still use crossbows in combat.

I'm going to answer anyway, because someone else may gain value from it. Simple research wouldn't tell you everything you needed to know. The research you should do before making a major life choice, would.

Why didn't research your job before you joined? Having lived on base for most of my life and being part of a military family (father is ex-USAF, grandfather is ex-CRAF, great-grandfather was Royal Army), then being set to join the military until recently (as in, I was a month away from being...

You had the choice in whether or not you took that oath, so you had plenty of say. If you believe that a terrorist dislikes the United States simply because they live in a different section of the world, then I beg you to question this belief. The United States has involved itself in...

Dead. I say that very seriously, and not in a negative way. I plan to do enough things that put me in mortal danger, that coming out alive is unlikely. If I do come out alive, I obviously haven't had enough fun.

Their way of thinking is no more radical than the Crusaders. The Middle East may have traditionally been made of tribes conquered by others, but it currently sits on geopolitical divisions that come from decisions made by Western powers during World War I and World War II (Sykes-Picot, et...

Extremists aren't born, they're made. The Middle East is saturated in blood because the Western world has continually interfered with the Middle East. The Western world reacted with the historical equivalent of the extremism that the Middle East is reacting now, when the Ottoman Empire arose...

Agalloch's In The Shadow of Our Pale Companion Plan B's I'm The Captain, Where Are We Going? Iced Earth's Gettysberg III Insomnium's Groves of Death Be'lakor's Countless Skies

I base my opinion on the individual soldiers, not soldiers as a whole. Some soldiers can be alright, and while I disagree with their motives, I can respect them. Some soldiers have my sorrow, because they joined thinking that being a soldier was the only way to a better life. Some soldiers I...

Put a time limit on how long they can play for. If you have two hours to play, then everyone has roughly five to seven minutes to play (the math is 120 minutes/[70 players/4 controllers]). That speeds up the rotation and makes sure the new players only suffer for a bit.

Far Cry 2. The game wasn't trying to be funny. However, the AI was so dumb that I had hours laughing at how I could toy with them. Especially with a flamethrower. Not that I'm sadistic or anything.