Recent content by Silvershadowfire

Let's see... 1) Forrest Gump was the stupidest movie ever made, and that includes the Star Wars prequels. That being said... 2) The first Star Wars prequel was actually pretty good if you ignore Jar Jar. 3) I liked the first Transformer movie; they went downhill after that. 4) I like...

So... My answer to the question is twofold. Under strict definition of the term, there are three manifestations of sexual characteristics in the human animal; male, female, intersex. To those of you arguing the XX XY defintion, I will respectfully point out that there are in fact five...

Hello from Canada :) I think the question is misleading. Are Americans violent? Sure, some of them are. That's the same the world over. But is American culture violent? That's a bit of a knotty question. It presumes, for one thing, that American culture is monolithic. It's not, any more than...

Probably the universe of the Belgariad, if I couldn't hop into my own fictional worlds ^^

I've been a gamer forever... like back when the Atari was the latest thing. And I've been a pencil and paper gamer for a couple of decades now. But non-gaming hobbies... I cook, garden, cross stitch, write, and read. I read a lot. I also like to study random things; my job involves staring at...

The idea that they might even consider putting out software that locks down someone's computer and takes their picture with their own web cam scares the ever living crud out of me. I'm glad I'm in Canada, where this would never fly. That being said... I don't think that it's ever going to be...

I think that MMO's are suffering as much from a lack of imagination and oversaturation of the industry as anything. Last MMO I played is Aion, and it's also the longest one I've played - still playing it off and on. I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what Elder Scrolls Online will be...

Female age 38 here, and I've been gaming pretty much since I was 16. Lately my games of preference are: Skyrim Sims 3 Aion: The Tower of Eternity (MMO) Why do I play them? Three different games, three different itches to scratch. I play Skyrim when I have the time to really get into a...

I think there is a grey area to piracy. If the content creators put it out there to buy then a user has a moral as well as legal obligation to pay for that content. They do the work, they should have some kind of reward. At the same time, if the copyright holder is for any reason not issuing...

I think that whoever said that there is no one trigger has it dead on. It's not something that we can find a single 'cure' for and eradicate, like smallpox. It's not social or cultural; even guns only make the kill count higher, they don't stop the problem. There was a man in China not a week...

I myself haven't been on the receiving end of sexism in particular, except one case where in the MMORPG I play (Aion) someone followed me around in the main city for a while asking if I had a boyfriend. That being said there are ways and means even on the Internet of being respectful and...

If you like Brent Weeks' writing, I would recommend The Gentlemen Bastard series by Scott Lynch. The characters are fascinating and the world building is truly astonishing. I also HIGHLY recommend The Last Herald-Mage trilogy, Brightly Burning, the Oathbreakers duology, and By the Sword all...