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Football Thread 2014/2015 |OT12| Old Man Looking For 17 year olds. Contact Arsene
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Congratulations on the promotion!
CONGRATS BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!
we got promoted in the same month, coincidence? I think not. Ain't nobody got time for walking alone #ANGTFWA
jts
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I was referring exclusively to the Witcher games as they were the focus of the topic, a for the 'hyphenated term'? you brought it up.
But I'll take L1NETT's point and we should leave it at that
Willkiller
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GOAT game is out in less than two months
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2: Sisters Generation?
One of my friends (Liverpool fan) went to the game last night.
Just sent me this text:
"Rent boy cunts. Such a shit ground. Dead fans. Small and cramped stadium too, thought they were a big club?"
Congrats!
@Hixx: Captain Toad is brilliant, highly recommended. I'll need to finish it when uni eventually gets off my back. Just be wary of how much you move the Gamepad around.
Are you playing on vita? Would love to know if I can play it with the german voices.
FlutterPuffs
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Boyz II Men Acapella version of Four Seasons Of Loneliness is GOAT.
GOAT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvv8cS9CzQ
GOAT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvv8cS9CzQ
Facism
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Hate wank.
Those are the best.
Only thing better is a hate fuck.
stay safe
cartoon_soldier
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But Brown Accents are so sexy!
Sorry bruv, I don't think I've ever heard that one before. Apu ruined any level of sexiness for you all.
Reported
brown man? well dont worry, the ny police are basically on strike.
Broder Salsa
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The last guardian finally.
Aye, I've always had a problem with this, especially because apparently Mass Effect and Dragon Age are some sort of achievement, which makes me roll my eyes even more.
I know you are talking about how they are animated and shit (which is clumsy and groan worthy to say the least) but I'm gonna focus on other things just to point out how ridiculous the arguments these people have are:
Mass Effect 1 was the ultimate sci-fi sexual fantasy: banging the sexy blue alien was the goal and it was even marketed that way, and in my opinion it was no different from how those anime dating games work: talk enough to the character you want to bang and your ultimate reward will be a sex scene. That's it. I mean, shit, Liara is part of a sexy "female only" alien race that can have sex with any other kind of alien. Yea, that's not adolescent fantasy at all.
People can argue all about how they are pursuing meaningful relationships and shit, but there is no doubt the reward is always the sex scene. It's a power fantasy in all their games.
Mass Effect 2 was just as bad, more so because they added a character called Kelly Chambers, who apparently is some kind of "psychologist" and that lets her get intimate with everyone, but in reality only exists to get passed around on your ship, and yes, that includes you. They also made characters who were not interested in you sexually now available just because of fan demand. If that isn't just feeding into your power fantasy I don't know what it is. But it was the same thing: talk to people enough, get a sex scene reward.
One of the usual people "aha, gotcha" moments is when they tell you: but you have to do the work, get to know the character, talk to them and in a way romance them, which doesn't happen in The Witcher. Which is a comment that makes me roll my eyes too. Yes, perhaps the relationship aspect in The Witcher is not fleshed out, but the relationships in that universe exist beyond the player input. You understand Geralt has a deeper relationship with these people that is set and you don't necessarily need to be a part of it, and it falls perfectly in line with the kind of game it is, starting with: you mold a character in Mass Effect. You didn't create or shape Geralt.
In fact, I would argue that "casual sex" would be more likely to happen in any of those games, especially in the "end of the world" scenario a game like Mass Effect 2 proposes. That's why I though Jack was one of the more real characters in that universe.
The other thing they point out and bothers me is what they did on Dragon Age 2. I remember complaining about the game and some misguided soul just yelled at me for " just hating that the characters were bisexual". Yes, characters this time around could be romanced regardless of your gender, but that didn't make them bisexual and it bothered me that all those "open minded" people couldn't see that fact. They weren't characters who culturally and sexually identified themselves as such, and behaved as such. I think it was in fact the worst implementation of their romance bullshit they've done so far. Characters were Hawke-sexual, which means they only exist to say yes to you, regardless of your character or how you behave. They have no sexual personality and are only there to please you. It just so happens that you get to pick if you are male or female. I think only one character in that game refuses your advances but that is more because he's sworn off sex than anything else. He was DLC anyway, so who cares.
To some degree that is actually offensive, and if not offensive, a pretty terrible way to create your characters who are supposed to be deep and have personalities. Power fantasy anyone?
For Mass Effect 3 I've already talked about Chobot and that nonsense, but another character that bothered me beyond their usual thing was Steve. He wasn't a party character, and he was gay. I remember most of the conversations with him were in fact about his dead gay husband whom he loved so much and was now dead, and it surprised me how quickly those changed into conversations where you kind of flirt with each other. People in the ME threads told me it was because you were "helping him move on", but is there any reason I couldn't help him move on without taking that immediate step forward and have to sex him? I mean, yes, you as a player can stop before that happens I guess, but the game lets you go that far instead of having the character behave better. All just for the sake of you sexing who you want to sex.
So yea, The Witcher's portrayals of sex are pretty adolescent, male oriented power fantasies, but if any of those people complaining are the same people who applaud the treatment of sex and romance in Bioware games just because they have some added variety, I'd say they are very misguided people, if not outright hypocrites.
the last guardian is the liverpool winning the premiere league of video games
I wish Kate Winslet was in more things...
i wish more things were inside of kate winslet
like me
Cheers guys.
Cartoon, I think I'm gonna have to stick with Meier on this one.
Cartoon, I think I'm gonna have to stick with Meier on this one.
Indian brown, and atheist too, so maybe they'll take pity.
http://futbol.as.com/futbol/2015/01/28/primera/1422411123_983586.html
La Liga is fucked. Transfer bans for everyone!
La Liga is fucked. Transfer bans for everyone!
Some good points there inky, thanks for the detailed post, I'm not worthy :lol
I wasn't actually referring to their stupid animation but more, as you pointed out, how you were sexing just for the sake of sexing in a video game
Watch it anyway because Yurt hates Ashton Kutcher more
I wasn't actually referring to their stupid animation but more, as you pointed out, how you were sexing just for the sake of sexing in a video game
Watch it anyway because Yurt hates Ashton Kutcher more
but he was kelso
FlutterPuffs
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Yeah I get you. I hated the romance stuff in Dragon Age 2 because saying something nice is often 'flirting' in the game in a sense. It all feels wrong when you're trying to comfort Anders but what comes out of your mouth is another way of saying 'I want anal'.
Mass Effect's just feels meh when it comes to relationships. The third game felt like romance was just shoed in. Didn't feel natural at all.
DA: I was done well imo. It's not easy, and it feels like you're actually progressing naturally into one. Not perfect, but I kinda like how they dealt with it.
And to clarify, I just meant that Apu is kind of ubiquitous in terms of what people in America equate with an Indian accent. He's ruined the accent in terms of it having a chance to be considered sexy.
Little old Eibar is in the clear due to a lack of B team, lol.
cartoon_soldier
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Two no name papers report DDG has signed a deal will 2020 with United
Hah, definitely. I was born and raised in London though, so not a lick of an Indian accent.
Good move. United is going to break the goalkeeper transfer record fee with this one.
I actually hate DS, but I impulse buy a lot of shit so I might end up getting it. I don't even know when it's supposed to be out.
Great news.
I know, it's unfortunate ;_;
In Italy I'd say we split into Spanish and French
I love spanish when it's hot outside and french when I feel slower.
German feels too hard, English sounds funny because of the Laurel & Hardy dub.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Define 'plays'.
Don't worry about it M9, hypocrisy is the fuel that keeps this place going.
Why is the topic such a hot debate, sex in videogames. We shoot and kill people in videogames all the time, why does it matter if people want to have sex as well. And I dont wannt hear about there being a reason behind why you have to kill those people because thats not a logical argument, you're playing a videogame.
Yep. He even played in the Hamburg friendly! Villa supposedly back in for him.. they don't want to pay much of anything and City are standing firm. Probably just trying to get him to waive any sort of loyalty bonus he might have. He actually looked pretty good in the preseason games.. I really thought we might see him get some minutes this year but nothing basically. Kind of weird. I guess he has played in 2 league games but surely for just a few minutes.
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