Recent content by ShadesOfKnight

quote="Gyrefalcon" post="6.274071.13267546"] But you are arguing that humans are more interesting to play than something else? I take it you did not care for Dragon Age: Origins or did not care to play any race other than a human? You would not want to see a game that allowed your...

Ummm... Everyone here *does* realize that Dwarves and Elves actually originate in the 13th century Norse Mythology... and not in the 1960s... right? Geez... Now that there's a frakkin' movie about it, no one has any idea that Tolkein *didn't* invent the races he wrote about... And exactly...

So... Dragon Age Origins: It's really a problem that you play the same game with multiple races and backstories... Dragon Age II: It's really a problem that you play the same game with a single race and backstory available. That sound you're hearing are the developers smacking their...

A CEO, A Tea Partier, and a Public Union Employee sit down at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies on it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, then says to the Tea Partier, "watch out... that union guy wants part of your cookie."

To be honest, this was the only Whedon series I liked. Buffy was crap (I mean, come on! From the Valley Girl campy movie to the genetic precursor of Twilight and True Blood?), Dollhouse isn't even worth talking about... But this was good work. Good writing, relatable characters and story...

IMHO, any product that requires advertising this prevalent and sledgehammer-esque is to be avoided because even the producer knows there's something horribly wrong. Remember how stridently and pervasively Vioxx was pushed... up until it was obvious that it's side effects list should have...

So I came out of lurking and viewing the site just so that I could review RIFT and it's advertising budget, which obviously must be the marketing equivalent of Ron Jeremy's **ck. :) I can understand an ad video preceding an occasional content video on a site, especially a review site...