Recent content by Sincendiary

I think the problem with the situation there is the expectation of the test subjects in that video that you're going to be a super hero and not that you're going to mitigate the damage that the mass shooter is causing. There's certainly some unrealistic expectations among many people who would...

1) I buy every Humble Bundle but never pay more than just enough to get the bonus game. Also I only play half of the games in the bundles. 2) I buy sequels more than new titles. 3) I buy the same game over and over again with different names and it makes me happy. I appear to have...

Yes, I am capable of defending myself with firearms. I've used them in a military sense and from the fact that I am typing this it has appeared to work to certain degree. I never have had to fire as a civilian but I've drawn and the problem ran away. I didn't report that incident. The...

Correct, assault weapon was a developed as a US legal term. It's been adopted by a bunch of people and has a life of it's own at this point. The assault rifle has been defined as a sub-class of assault weapons by anti-gun lobby groups but really not by the ATF. The whole set of definitions...

This sounds like blaming bowling for the Columbine shooting and it'll only be taken seriously by idiots. However idiots are very loud and most people don't bother to learn the whole of any issue. I am with you on not using an AR-15 for deer, I would prefer to use a larger round, they can...

Question: So, the U.K. already has software and PC games with registration codes or not? If they do and that already got taken to task on the law Sleekit was referring to, it would seem as though console games be allowed to do the same thing. Anyway, my opinions: Franky for many years...

Amish Hamster Choreographer A lover of dance in a community that hates dancing even more than they hate electricity, you must teach your animals to dance! You start out with a donkey, who promptly kicks you in the head and puts you into a delicious coma where everything looks seizure...

The opposite problem is that F2P games tend to become "pay to win" games where whoever is willing to have the highest credit card bill is the most elite. I think the best compromise is the "buy zones/play areas/content" MMO system. Anything where either a timesink is removed by money or useful...

Different strokes for sure. I would say that the average MMO encounter is more puzzle and less kill and therefore require more planning on the dev side. There are people who opt out of MMO expansions/monthlies by playing on private servers with no content updates too. Of course, they're...

This seems to be a fairer comparison. I also can respect not wanting to pay for something you feel you already paid for. Modern social games will charge one way or another though. Shooters sell you map packs that you can play without but not really, RTS sell an expansion with new units you...

To sort of counter that, my wife and I play MMOs together. Enrichment...is kind of an odd way to put it, but we get time together, some stuff to talk about, and it can feel like we're hanging out if I have to travel for work. Basically, we're generally happier as a couple when we are sharing a...

Distributor/publisher fault probably more than Bioware...who I hope gets some sort of financial retribution for this bungled box issue. I'm sure you really wanted to be mad at EA anyway so go ahead and shift the hatred their way. My experience has been pretty good so far. I was too cheap...

I think games with persistent worlds where you establish relationships for common gain like the MMOs you mentioned make it harder to hide one's gender so you're more likely to find out if they're not a prat and have more consequences for being a prat about anything in general so you do not...

You pretty much said it. I picked it depends as well, if the voice just doesn't seem to fit the character I am developing it can completely ruin the RPG experience for me. I think RPGs often fall into one of two categories, sandbox or rails. Railed games, like Mass Effect/Witcher/Dragon Age...

I've been ignoring people *in* game's gender for ages, I played Everquest which is where the female elf seductress who is really a dude in it for the loot and the trollolol was invented and where the early evolution of the WoW princess existed. I didn't care if you were a dog, monkey, cat...