Devolution
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This is so descriptive hispanic people who are a shade too dark will also be picked up.
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The Black Culture Thread |OT5| A Nation of Drakes Can't Hold Us Back
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This is so descriptive hispanic people who are a shade too dark will also be picked up.
n00bsauce87
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Late reply, but at least you don't live in DC. Cowboy fans everywhere. A team that's in your own division. But you live in DC. Texas in half a continent away. Why do you give them your praise? At least like Green Bay or something.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
were they?
n00bsauce87
Member
Saw this bit last week. 97 Chapelle was some of his best years.
i live for it.
Shit, that is in West Virginia. They best stay in at night
n00bsauce87
Member
It all makes sense now
EscoBlades
Ubisoft Marketing
I don't watch many vampire flicks, or play many vampire based games, so this is not a link i've ever made....ever. That being said, i can kind of understand it. I guess.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
The popular image of Dracula has been him seizing women and penetrating them for his own gain, often against their will. Its not a huge leap to make.
My main issue with the whole thing is that as soon as the shock value of whatever the fuck this is suppose to be goes off, where are you left with? Was has this scene really accomplished? Cuz 15 minutes later, you're gonna go right back to playing like you always were, doing cool Dracula shit and fighting mech warriors and getting XP points so you can buy upgrades and make your Blood Whip bloodier. You're not gonna be thinking, "Gee, Dracula is a terrible monster", its gonna be "Goddamn, Dracula is fuckin' awesome, look how he ripped those crusaders apart". Every once in awhile the game will chime in with these heavy-handed ham-fisted "serious moments" to say, "no this is bad you should feel bad about this character". And the other 90% of the game will be you not feeling bad or conflicted in the slightest.
Just another example of that discrepancy between narrative and gameplay.
My main issue with the whole thing is that as soon as the shock value of whatever the fuck this is suppose to be goes off, where are you left with? Was has this scene really accomplished? Cuz 15 minutes later, you're gonna go right back to playing like you always were, doing cool Dracula shit and fighting mech warriors and getting XP points so you can buy upgrades and make your Blood Whip bloodier. You're not gonna be thinking, "Gee, Dracula is a terrible monster", its gonna be "Goddamn, Dracula is fuckin' awesome, look how he ripped those crusaders apart". Every once in awhile the game will chime in with these heavy-handed ham-fisted "serious moments" to say, "no this is bad you should feel bad about this character". And the other 90% of the game will be you not feeling bad or conflicted in the slightest.
Just another example of that discrepancy between narrative and gameplay.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Yea but still what if I wasn't sure? Eyewitness testimony is already influenced enough as it is.
MorisUkunRasik
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Well put, I think some hiphop artists suffer from a very similar dilemma.
EscoBlades
Ubisoft Marketing
With his teeth right? Like i said, i've never given it much though beyond a thirst for blood. Makes sense though.
Devolution
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With his teeth. It's easily accessible imagery especially for the consistently prudish. Scary but not overt. When reading old literature or watching old movies there are so many allusions to adult behaviors rather than describing what actually happens or displaying them outright. That's why you have so many great old metaphors for fucking.
Also this is a great point. Games are quite terrible at moral dilemmas.
EscoBlades
Ubisoft Marketing
Thanks, got it
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
Vamps always been about taking people and making them unwilling slaves for sustenance and sex. The bite thing is whatever, when in certain stories they walk up, say hello, make you do whatever(with words), and uaeenn know it. Their blood might as well be a rufee or something.
The gist of it is financial solvency. A credit card is superior to a debit card because if you never carry a negative balance (making your credit card essentially a debit card), you'll rack up cash back amongst other rewards which are generally more lucrative than what you can get with a debit card.
Others are coming up with a variety of reasons why they prefer to not have - or can't have - a credit card.
Devolution
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just looked it up
this is one of those things where I'm tempted to make a thread just to watch the world burn
n00bsauce87
Member
If you are lucky, you might get a couple of people banned for throwing comments like "stupid black girls dancing for money." Or something similar.
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
hahahaha. Good shit. Why aren't people taught to read the fine print? lol
Professor Beef
Banned
Do it.
I see. I personally have no horse in that race (I do tend to use debit more), but never once would I deem myself inherently more responsible due to my use of it lol.
They always end up like that. 6 people arguing 11 different things.
Vermillion
Banned
Yup. Each argument is related to the other only enough so that there can be disagreement. People really need to try to understand exactly what their "opponents" are arguing before responding.
Devolution
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The thread gaming side is full of semantics and a gross misunderstanding (as usual) of what censorship actually is and entails.
Those type of threads go like this first and second page are all outrage. 3rd page is where the conflicting outages start butting heads and than you get the hyperrational folks. Then it is downhill from there.
Devolution
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Some of these are downhill from the jump when it's low hanging fruit.
Boss Riovane
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You ever had one of those days with the best goddamn intentions and like that minute you set out the fucking driveway everything goes to shit?
I want to punch things repeatedly and without quarter right now.
I want to punch things repeatedly and without quarter right now.
Jest Chillin
Member
That's only if you start with the Dragon faction. That's the most risque' thing in the game as far as I can remember.
Bay Maximus
Banned
Me neither unless there are two teams for the same sport. Screw the White Sox.
I've seen that guy!
Byakuya769
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Not everyone can create a gaming moment that's so good it forced Bish to get himself banned.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
What game is that?
The Secret World
Byakuya769
Member
Who cares about this wife beater? I never read the comics though.
yet they keep saying over and over. And ignoring the rest of the story.
Twerking thread is getting hot.
That's the thing. Very few people actually care (right now). It's a bunch of non-readers harping on that one thing because they know literally nothing else about the character or his stories but they wanna post about him anyway. Fuckers could at lest go to Wikipedia and pretend to care about Ultron, but they don't even do that.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
man you aint lying, I saw her on that interview with David Poland and thought, "Goddamn, she could get my paycheck tomorrow"
Never in my liffe have I seen such struggle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX4G5fSeL6I
How you going to twerk to "The Circle of Life"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX4G5fSeL6I
How you going to twerk to "The Circle of Life"?
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