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No, no you're not.GrizzlerBorno said:
Am I the only one who doesn't find "The cake is a lie" annoying?
He shares a name with me. guess which 
So I have to like him.
But he's not that bad. There are diffidently better characters out there. But he is by no means a bad character.
Am I the only one who...
So I have to like him.
But he's not that bad. There are diffidently better characters out there. But he is by no means a bad character.
Am I the only one who...
Actually, I'm not going to say that here.
Thats for sure.AccursedTheory said:
I dont know about you (although I'm quietly confident you feel the same) if someone could take that experience away from me, I wouldn't even hesitate in saying yes, I don't know of many things that would make me happier to be honest.
Am I the only one who genuinely tries to explain the "science" involved in resident evil and the like? Pondering what kind of accelerated growth would cause so much extra flesh and bone to generate so quickly and where the matter required to create a hide dense enough to be bullet-proof out of what seconds ago was normal-ish human flesh comes from?
I don't just drop the questions because there's supposedly a scientific explanation for this shit, "If we say it's magic, it's not as believeable!" If they say it's not cosmic super energies, I feel a little more explanation is in order than "Fuck you, it's not magic, but we're not giving you more than a hint as to how it works, because then it might not be as believeable." In Capcom's case, the viruses are always traced back to something mankind has been shockingly oblivious to until discovered by genocidal corporate fucks. If I'm not mistaken...
Las Plagas = Demonic parasites from deep within the earth
Uroboros = magic flowers
The Zombies (dead rising) = psychic wasps that were experimented on
ADAM (Bioshock) = magic slug juice
If they'd drop the pretense of "not magic, therefore possible" I'd be a lot less inclined to look for answers, but no, we get the Midichlorian route! If you saw SW: ep 1, you may remember the bullshit explanation of tiny, not-magic cells in all living things somehow giving us the Force. Did the cells in Luke say it was fine to wipe out the cells of everyone in the death star? If it's all midichlorians, how does the LightSide/DarkSide thing work? Good cells and bad cells? The more I think about it, the less sense it makes.
Maybe I'm missing details, but that's kind of my point, when a scientific explanation is given, it shouldn't be a ridiculous "A virus did it, that's completely realistic!" (See Prototype) Then again, maybe they can't give a full explanation because someone instantly growing a ten-foot tenticle spike thing out of their neck isn't fucking possible without witchcraft? (also quite unbelieveable)
Short version: Am I the only idiot who gets pissed off when magic flowers are explained as "two-centimeter orb in a syringe + person = 40-foot sea monster in 30 seconds, scientifically valid," (Irving) and then tries their damnedest to justify such terrible writing?
I find myself wrestling with thoughts like "Okay, so the wasps control the host by nesting in it's brain, making them a zombie, but how do they spread the infection if they're stuck in the head?
Simple, the one in the head is called a queen, like a queen bee, and like a queen bee, she probably has a hive within the host, tiny workers/larvae all throughout the body, likely a concentration to be found in the saliva, the teeth being the best means of injection of future queens.
If that's the case, why have the host EAT the not-yet-zombies?
The queen apparently has limited control, my guess is that some of the aformentioned workers attatch to the nervous system, cooperatively coordinating jerks and shocks (for lack of better terms) to make the rotting puppet dance. Telling what's left of the host "Feed" is probably easier than saying "bite and move on"
Right... Why is it that I often find severed hands, [Hunk of meat] but never zombies missing an arm?
You remember blowing off a zombie's limb, watching him shamble a few steps, then fall dead? It's unlikely he bled to death, but the pain may have done him in.
Can the dead feel pai-
Probably not, but remember the queen in the nervous system? The shock of impact may be transferred to her by the attatched workers in the afflicted area. No telling how much pain an insect can handle, but if punching a zombie in the chest can kill it, (attack button while unarmed and standing still, 2nd or 3rd most useless thing in the game) all I can think of is the trauma inflicted on the workers is telepathically felt by the queen, like when you throw a queen jar at a crowd of zombies."
This goes on and on, only getting worse.
Simple, the one in the head is called a queen, like a queen bee, and like a queen bee, she probably has a hive within the host, tiny workers/larvae all throughout the body, likely a concentration to be found in the saliva, the teeth being the best means of injection of future queens.
If that's the case, why have the host EAT the not-yet-zombies?
The queen apparently has limited control, my guess is that some of the aformentioned workers attatch to the nervous system, cooperatively coordinating jerks and shocks (for lack of better terms) to make the rotting puppet dance. Telling what's left of the host "Feed" is probably easier than saying "bite and move on"
Right... Why is it that I often find severed hands, [Hunk of meat] but never zombies missing an arm?
You remember blowing off a zombie's limb, watching him shamble a few steps, then fall dead? It's unlikely he bled to death, but the pain may have done him in.
Can the dead feel pai-
Probably not, but remember the queen in the nervous system? The shock of impact may be transferred to her by the attatched workers in the afflicted area. No telling how much pain an insect can handle, but if punching a zombie in the chest can kill it, (attack button while unarmed and standing still, 2nd or 3rd most useless thing in the game) all I can think of is the trauma inflicted on the workers is telepathically felt by the queen, like when you throw a queen jar at a crowd of zombies."
This goes on and on, only getting worse.
I don't just drop the questions because there's supposedly a scientific explanation for this shit, "If we say it's magic, it's not as believeable!" If they say it's not cosmic super energies, I feel a little more explanation is in order than "Fuck you, it's not magic, but we're not giving you more than a hint as to how it works, because then it might not be as believeable." In Capcom's case, the viruses are always traced back to something mankind has been shockingly oblivious to until discovered by genocidal corporate fucks. If I'm not mistaken...
Las Plagas = Demonic parasites from deep within the earth
Uroboros = magic flowers
The Zombies (dead rising) = psychic wasps that were experimented on
ADAM (Bioshock) = magic slug juice
If they'd drop the pretense of "not magic, therefore possible" I'd be a lot less inclined to look for answers, but no, we get the Midichlorian route! If you saw SW: ep 1, you may remember the bullshit explanation of tiny, not-magic cells in all living things somehow giving us the Force. Did the cells in Luke say it was fine to wipe out the cells of everyone in the death star? If it's all midichlorians, how does the LightSide/DarkSide thing work? Good cells and bad cells? The more I think about it, the less sense it makes.
Maybe I'm missing details, but that's kind of my point, when a scientific explanation is given, it shouldn't be a ridiculous "A virus did it, that's completely realistic!" (See Prototype) Then again, maybe they can't give a full explanation because someone instantly growing a ten-foot tenticle spike thing out of their neck isn't fucking possible without witchcraft? (also quite unbelieveable)
Oh, some of us know quite a good deal about you, mister...ChupathingyX said:
nah, I was just playin'
OT: Am I the only one who has done a (relatively) accurate self-psychoanalysis?
(I asked my father's psychiatrist friend about the results, and he was surprised. The final product had been tweaked a bit, though)
But... but... he reads people's emails when they're not looking.GrizzlerBorno said:
OT: Am I the only one who thinks that Tolkienian tropes and the whole medieval setting in general should be given a little rest after Skyrim is released? I mean, the FPS genre did that to WW2, dunno why you can't as well RPG.
Yeah that's a little weird. It's even more weird cause they don't set it up. How does he just know all of their password's in the first place? At least in AC1, you had to manually steal or pickpocket Lucy and/or Viddic's Id cards to gain access to their terminals.Raiyan 1.0 said:
Ah well, I guess he has his thing now. That's right. He's thing is Voyeurism. Like it or not, at least it's pretty rare, if not unique (depending on whether or not Link from "Zelda" counts as a voyeur.)
Heh, not half as bad as RPG characters.GrizzlerBorno said:
Geralt, why are you walking into this unknown peasant's house? Just because it's unlocked doesn't mean you can intrude upon people's priva - oh, no one's in? Wait, why're you going through their cupboards and storage? Huh? You're taking their supply of timber? And clothes? Geralt of Riveria, assassin of kings, most fearsome witcher of the land, secretly robbing the poor blind?
Note: Applies to every fucking RPG ever. Dropped your stuff on the ground by accident in the world of Pokemon? Sorry, some mute ten-year-old with no sense of ethics has just sold it to aid his quest of beating wild creatures into submission.
Putting games in context of the real world is fun!
Yeah but that's not Voyeurism par'se. Though yeah it is funny.Raiyan 1.0 said:
Also Assassin's creed DOES also have that to an extent. You can find small "savings chests" on Balconies and walled gardens.....and proceed to pocket their contents. Then again, I've come to the realization that the Assassins are basically self-righteous bad guys who will steal all the icing sugar in Rome and consequently use all of it to coat their morality; so, technically, it doesn't even break immersion XD
I liked how New Vegas stopped this by tying all items to the faction in the area: Steal an old man's steak, he'll take it back. Shoot his head off with a shotgun? Well, then you're fucking murderer aren't you? A murderer with a steak. Was the +5 HP worth it?
