C3PX

My friend told me I could borrow his copy of Assassin's Creed II, but I have been having a hard time getting into single player games all year. I just realized that the only single player game I have beaten this year is Modern Warfare 2, and it was a unique occasion that possessed me to tackle the single player campaign.

Games have become sort of a social thing for me. I keep thinking that I should really sit down and beat Bioshock 2, but I really just can't find the drive to sit down and play a game by myself.

Playing Borderlands with a few buddies now. We are really enjoying it. Split screen is horrendously done though. Absolutely unforgivable not giving you the option to choose which direction it is split, rather they have you TV (HD or SD) determine which direction the screen will be split. Would an option have been so hard? We found ourselves turning down the HDTV's resolution and sacrificing picture quality in order to trick the game into thinking we are playing on an SDTV just so we can play it with horizontal split screen. Other than that, the game is pretty fun, not a whole lot of depth, but an enjoyable co-op FPS.

Thank you! I was too lazy to look it up. I knew it seemed like it started with a "G", but Gregory Dollars just didn't sound right and Jeffery did.

I am more of tea kind of guy myself.

doubleofive said:

My wife works at a law office and can confirm that summer is when all the crazies come out and do stupid things to one another.

OT.com in a nutshell?

TV's Frink said:

 If I haven't, I'm done with you.

 

What is with all my crackers being done with one another here as of late!

African descent is a bad way to word it. I am of African descent, and I couldn't be more white. Personally, I think it is a shame it is used at all, but let's just spit it as it is. Under current social standards, it isn't okay to say it unless you are of the proper skin color, not of the proper continent. 

Warbler said:

there are people out there that would react much more nastily than Frink to someone using racial slurs.  Maybe racial slurs are more acceptable in whatever country you are from,  but they are unacceptable and offensive to most Americans.    Most don't use them, even as a joke.

Well, to be honest, in the context he was using them they are not really racial slurs, are they? In the past I have spent a lot of time overseas and working with foreingers from numerous countries, and I noticed a trend that many of them find the whole (insert politically correct term for the style of speech we are discussing here) thing really cool and humorous and like to mimic its style in much the same way we silly Americans like to try fake British, Scottish, Irish, and Austrailian accents (usually unable to distinguish one from the other). We can turn around and take a piss on them and point fingers for it, or we can realize that it is our own culture's (or, more specifically, a subculture of our culture's) fault and place the blame where it truely belongs.

And, as a matter of fact, many white people do use those words as jokes, even in the presence of "African Americans" and great fun is had by all. It is a really silly and awkward social standard, and absolutely deserves to be made fun of.

Of course, when the word is used in an offensive context, I will stand beside you and condemn the living hell out of the offender.

Until then, we should try to be more understanding of one another. (Damn, my friends are right, I do sound like a fucking hippie!)

Whoa, Sluggo's cat, while extremely ugly, used a MacBook! I like Sluggo's cat...

Guess I was too old for Power Rangers (so why do I still feel so young now?) when they came out, I vaguely remember minimal exposure to it, but never really watched it. I even got one of the VHS tapes for my birthday along with a few of the toys from some relatives, and remember being disappointed in the gifts. I took the toys to Toy's 'R Us and exchanged them for Jeffery Dollars (think that is what they were called), which I in turn turned into Star Wars crap no doubt. I think I gave the VHS to my older cousin, who strangely, I remember was really into Power Rangers.

At anyrate, regardless of my lack of interest in the subject being reviewed (as was also the case with DBZ) I throughly enjoyed the review. You've definitely got talent in that Gaff.

Gaffer Tape said:

And to just toot my own horn a bit (eww)...

Gaff, there is nothing wrong with tooting your own horn occasionally. At least it is tooting the horn of someone you love.

No! Not at all. Just because I think it would be a cool idea doesn't mean you have to agree with me.

I was hoping more people would pitch in. Plenty of members of this forum have played Bioshock, but it doesn't look like they are going to bite. That link you posted was very interesting. I had read the stuff about you originally being a ex-black ops guy who is now a cult deprogrammar and the kidnapped daughter bit. But I don't remember the island.

Now I am almost thinking that they should forget Rapture and go back to this story line for the next game. They could still tie it into Rapture and keep it feeling like a Bioshock game. There was some really cool stuff in there I'd still like to see. I enjoy the whole Island of Doctor Moreau vibe it had going.

Warbler said:

But you are probably right, C3PX,  futbol just isn't for me or most Americans.

Yeah, especially if they can't even spell it right. ;)

Ah, 1997. Back in the days when men were real men, films were real films, and keyboards were real keyboards... Yes, those were the days!

Warbler said:

The clock rules need to be fixed.   If there is an injury, or the ball goes out of bounds, the clock should stop.

Need to be fixed? The main reason I like real football so much while I can't even stand most sports, is because the clock doesn't stop every five seconds. Every American Padded Rugby game I have ever watched had me pulling my hair out at all the constant stops. Drove me absolutely nuts!

Sounds like this isn't the sport for you, Warb. Stick with watching the American football, this experience seems to have been causing you a good deal of undue stress.

Hmm, 49 camels, and no goats or sheep. Did some playing around with it, turns out many of the qualities I'd admire lower her camel value.

Heh heh, miscalculated her weight into kilos... now that I have input it correctly she is worth 70 camels.

Warbler said:

English isn't your first language?   That explains some of my misunderstandings of your posts.   If it isn't too personal a question, what is your first language?

I told you he was from a different culture. I am now curious as to what you thought that meant.

It is an anagram of snua.

A B C said:

Also, my post is intented like whole (so far), I hope it won't be broken in tiny pieces for micro observations ;)

Yeah, that happens a lot around here. ;)

Warbler said:

I'm not sure I what I did or said to you C3PX,  but I never meant to make you feel bad about yourself.

You misunderstand me. I never said you made me feel bad about myself. Knowledge and perspective are two things I value greatly. I am greatful for what I gain from our discussions.

Warbler said:

ABC please stop acting like I'm your pupil.  It comes off as condescending and arrogant.   

That is perhaps one of the biggest things you fail to see in the politics thread, Warb. We are all pupils in this life, and everyone around us is a teacher. What we learn from them and take from our interactions with them is up to us, but even the most worthless person has valuable lessons to teach us.

You youself have taught me many things in our interactions, and you've more than once put me to shame and made me realize what an awful student I can sometimes be.

A B C said:

I still feel that negative mental intake can be, and probably most of the time is, quite detrimental to emotional peace.

I know it's gonna look stupid but, why don't you try to feel something else ? ;)

I guess you have a point. I may very well be trying to "attack" things that I suspect are my greatest foes, when in actuallity, the problem lies more close to home. Taking that first step to calming down is where I fail the hardest.

Then what is the way?

I still feel that negative mental intake can be, and probably most of the time is, quite detrimental to emotional peace.

I like what Tolle says on "Pain Bodies" in one of those youtube videos.

I think he makes a very good point here. I can think of myself and my three closest friends. Three of us all live in very different parts of the country, and the fourth lives outside the country. I do not see any of them very often. Two of them are very obviously Pain Bodies themselves (or rather, they allow their pain bodies to surface and control much of their mental intake), and the fourth one is very guarded with the content he views. My two Pain Body friends (and myself) are often pretty miserable. When I talk to those two friends, they often mention how much work they have to do, how stressed they are, and how difficult life is. When I talk to my friend with the well suppressed Pain Body, he is always cheerful, optimistic, and tends to consider life to be pretty good.

If my other friends and I could bring ourselves to suppress our Pain Bodies, then I have no doubt our quality and enjoyment of life would increase substantially. Oddly, I don't think I would want to change the way I am. I feel the way I am gives me freedom and perspective, but that is probably just my Pain Body trying to defend itself.

Errr, I just went way off topic, didn't I?

I am in agreement. Even you, and your neighbor, are coming from Western thought. But the stuff of which you speak is not. We are touching two angles into one universal problem (or perhaps, more likely, a cluster of unique but related problems). While I pick on Americans mostly because I am one; and those are the ones I have worked with and been frustrated by the most. These issues are by no means limited to them, I just find them (or us, since I am one) to be very proud champions of the problem.

Uh oh, he is onto us!

;)

Warbler said:

well, I don't think I'll ever get what you or ABC or the guy in the videos is taking about.   So I'll continue to think the way I think.    I'm just not a philosopher. 

btw,  ABC please stop acting like I'm your pupil.  It comes off as condescending and arrogant.   

What I was talking about had nothing to do with philosophy, or Eckhart, but rather cultural understandings of things. It is common for cultures to equate emotions and logic with various internal organs. In much of Western culture we equate emotions with the heart, while in many other cultures emotions are equated with the stomach. 

I mentioned the Americans trying to figure it out, because for some reason (probably our level of isolation, which is actually kind of ironic and sad considering our "melting pot" status), they have a particularly hard time grasping ideas and concepts from other cultures. All cultures come across difficulties when trying to understand another, but Americans tend to be exceptionally stubborn and resistant to foreign ideas.

Warbler said:

but you're the one that said "Haha! This is going to be fun watching Americans try to figure out other ways of thinking."  somehow it just doesn't make sense grammatically to me, that an American would say that. 

Do you understand these other ways of thinking?   Perhaps you could explain what ABC is talking about a little more clearly?

What is grammatically incorrect about what I wrote? I see nothing wrong with my grammar, and am now puzzled.

Yeah, I do understand his way of thinking. But I honestly don't think I could explain it to you. He actually already did a pretty good job of it himself.

There are definitely some elements from the movie/game GoldenEye that they seem to be following. There is the dam and it looked like one of the watch towers from the first game was present.