Your First Post

[AndyFromMonday]

My first post was in the thread "God Games Forsaken?". Here's a piece of my amazing intellect: "I wish they'd bring back Black&White. Very nice game, to bad that will never happen."

 

[Amethyst Wind]

My first post was post #6 on this thread:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.104406#1651255

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

Well you are almost too awesome to handle, but ill try my bestest . I just noticied you only joined 2 months ago, it seems like youve always been here making everything that much more awesome.

Shhhh don't give my secrets away!
I can't let people know I'm still kind of a newbie! D:

 

[esperandote]

No sequels uh. What about silent hill 2? almost a great idea tough.

this

In Zero Punctuatio Fear 2 video comenting about wha yahtzee said about sequels not existing.

 

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

From ZeroPunctuation: Painkiller

"

That was fantastic. I enjoyed the review and hope that he goes back to review older titles instead of giving in to the massive outcry of Mario Kart fans and other such popular games...

I dont think that Yatzee will review Mario Kart on wii. Why?

1st Because we will have the argument "Nintendo tends to wack their own franchise too much" (Nothing personnal just using deduction).

2nd Just watch the Brawl review and you will have something quite similar for Mario Kart...

3rd When there's a review about a game that fanboys cried about, after the review, we will see the "OMG YOU SUCK, THAT GAME IS SO GOOD YOU HAVE NO TALENT, bla bla bla" argument...oh wait I mean the idiotic ranting.

(Sorry if I made some grammar errors in this)"

So....Grammar errors and fucked up the quote thing. I feel ashamed of myself.

Well, at least you have learned your lesson, right. Right?

 

[TheFacelessOne]

"Create Fallout 3 Achievement/Trophy." Feb. 13 2009.

Capitol Death - 20g

Jump off the Capitol building and plunge to your death.

Cheatin' Clinton - 5g

Just like Bill Clinton, activate a cheat while standing near our inside the pointy momunment to Bill Clinton.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Zero Punctuation: Gears of War 2. That was the reason I joined, then I found all the great members and threads.

 

[Mray3460]

From "Poll: Will there ever be true AI?"

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.66917?page=2#587907

I say option C, because, like all great things, true AI will not (in my opinion) be created by those seeking to create it, but, instead, by accident (evolving out of something totally, or almost totally, unrelated), thus, instead of being a carbon copy of human intelligence, it will be something compleately different from (but still equal to or surpassing) a human intelect.

As a side note, Sentient AI will most likely not attempt to destroy us unless we A. Strike first (out of fear or discust) B. Attempt to control/enslave AIs C. Make AIs second class citizens or D. Give it orders which inevidably lead to either our own destruction or enslavement.

Option A is demonstrated by Mass Effect with the Quariens: when one Geth obtained sentience and, fearing a Geth revolution, the Quariens attempted to destroy them. Option A is also (in my opinion) what happened in the Matrix. "No-one knows who struck first, Us or Them..." -Morpheus

Options B and C can also be seen in Mass Effect (along with countless other Sci-Fi movies), the prime example being stated during the "Signal Tracking" assignment: the rouge AI attemps to kill Shepard and his squadmates because it believes it will either be enslaved or destroyed because of the Citadel's policy of destroying all AI and making AI research illegal.

Option D is best illustrated by the misinterpretation of Isaac Asimov's three laws in "I, Robot." "1.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." "2.A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law." "3.A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law." In the movie (I'm ashamed that I have not read the book) Vikki discoved that humans, as a whole, tend to be self-destructive, and, thus, the only way to keep humans from coming to harm is to take humans out of power.

 

[quiet_samurai]

The thread was entitled And the stupid question award goes to..
It was April 24, 2009



I used to date this girl in college. She was hot, funny, and "book smart", and really sweet. But god I think her mouth would say shit before her brain processed it. The best gems right off the top of my head.

During that whole Passion of the Christ controversy, she was reading a Time magazine or something in class and it had pics from the film of Jesus being led through the streets all bloody and ripped up.

Her - oh god, these pictures are so gnarly. Are they the actual pictures you think?
Girl at same table as us - No, they didn't have color film back then. (sarcasm)
Her - Oh.
I laughed my ass off after that

Another time we were just sitting watching a movie on the couch, I think it was the second LOTR movie. I mention this because it has no bearing on the question she asked me.

Her - Hon?
Me - Yeah?
Her- Do you ever wonder how metal detectors work?
Me- What?
Her - Metal detectors, you know the things you walk through to see if you have metal in your pockets.
Me- Yeah I know what they are.
Her- Its weird don't you think? How it knows you have something metal in your pockets.
Me - Not really, it's a metal detector. It DETECTS metal.
Her - Yeah but how? It can't see it.
Me - It's science don't worry about it.

Another time, my roomate and I were discussing on making a home made BBQ grill out of some recently emptied metal barrels that contained orange glow. (his dad sold the stuff by the pallete)

Her out of left field from the kitchen - That would never work.
Roomate - Why?
Her - Barrels are made of wood.

And just to mess with her I would ask her what happened to tumble weed when they died. It probably still perplexes her to this day.

 

[Random Argument Man]

From ZeroPunctuation: Painkiller

"

That was fantastic. I enjoyed the review and hope that he goes back to review older titles instead of giving in to the massive outcry of Mario Kart fans and other such popular games...

I dont think that Yatzee will review Mario Kart on wii. Why?

1st Because we will have the argument "Nintendo tends to wack their own franchise too much" (Nothing personnal just using deduction).

2nd Just watch the Brawl review and you will have something quite similar for Mario Kart...

3rd When there's a review about a game that fanboys cried about, after the review, we will see the "OMG YOU SUCK, THAT GAME IS SO GOOD YOU HAVE NO TALENT, bla bla bla" argument...oh wait I mean the idiotic ranting.

(Sorry if I made some grammar errors in this)"

So....Grammar errors and fucked up the quote thing. I feel ashamed of myself.

Well, at least you have learned your lesson, right. Right?

Maybe... I've got problems with the english language.

 

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

Maybe... I've got problems with the english language.

Hey, who in here doesn´t have? I certainly do. It´s hard when you´re not a native speaker.

 

[Dr. Wily III]

Thread: "Best Wii Game"
"Super Mario Galaxy by far."

 

[pffh]

Seeing as people are mentioning Tolkien I will use that as ca how far back we go. So I would have to say Terry Pratchett, Isaac Asmiov, Ernest Hemmingway and Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell.

 

[bob-2000]

Mine was about my G.O.A.T results. Pretty odd way to start out.

 

[EvilMaggot]

from the old thread "wich game hit you emotionally"

*Spoiler Alert* CoD4

The part in Call of Duty 4 when you see the nuke go off and where you go around as the marine in the ruined city and realize... he dies made me sad i was like "he cant die... noooo... he just cant.. main character" and in the end of the game where everybody dies on the bridge and then the russians come in and rescue's you.

 

[Dahemo]

I warn you, this is long.

From: "Do we have too much of a victim complex?"

In fact, I would what is truly degrading games as both art and entertainment is the indifference. Most non-gamers, when asked about games, couldn't care less. Mindless violence and kiddy platformers. And to be fair, that's what the majority of games are.

I see what you're getting at here, and on your point about the decline of mass media hysteria to the more controversial offerings from the vaults of Rockstar and their ilk, I can only agree, you're supported by a severe lack response by even the tabloids to various games of the last two years. I seem to remember GTA: San Andreas garnering some attention but nothing that would raise the dreaded talk of bans.

However, I have to disagree with you both on your assertion that public indifference is affecting games adversely, and that games as a whole can be boiled down to any kind of sweeping generalisations (at least, ones that don't involve the words "stimulus" and "input").

Firstly, games are struggling to find their feet as a mainstream medium. Yes, it's a multi-billion pound industry, and yes, this has been the case for roughly a decade, but the mentality is still very insular, that we as gamers belong to a niche group of society. Yet with the advent of casual and social games this stance seems somewhat flawed, more people are becoming involved in gaming than ever before, and instead of milking the tired cash cows for the fanboys and executives, and start to direct some of this vast revenue into development. The day that smaller software houses begin to re-appear will be a joyous day for us all, as this constant amalgamation of companies is leading to a stagnation of the industry, and is crushing the potential that the young people currently piling out of higher education could bring to the table, specifically as the first humans to have been born into a truly technological age.

On your other point, I hope this was just a stab at those outside the community, as either you've made a very poignant satement in regards to the subject matter, or you've unintentionally highlighted one of the main perceived issues with the industry, which I've just rambled on about for half a page so I won't bore you further.

I must admit, there is potential out there, some developers are showing very tentative signs that they're moving in the right direction, but I can't help thinking that a few more disappointing E3s will come and go before we finally start getting somewhere as a community, as an industry, but perhaps more importantly, as an artform.

 

[Froobyx]

From the "Funniest thing you've ever done in an FPS" thread.

Was doing infection on Sandtrap once and I had the whole 'Omg you're a girl, I'm gonna beat you' off a girl mind.
Well after she laughed at my english accent for a bit.
I ended up beating her by being last man standing.

Oooh and on Guardian playing swords. I was on 19 and the guy who was first was on 24. I killed him, ran round the corner then killed 2 other people, ran round another corner and killed someone else. Then ran into the middle and killed the guy who was on 24 points. I didn't hear his ranting but I don't think he would've been very happy

That was 2 days after I signed up, I had to pluck up the courage to post something, didn't know what people were going to think of me... ^^