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Comment Re:Characters... (Score 0) 69

Interestingly enough, when I pointed out to my son that Gears 3 was out his comment was "I really can't get into a game where all the characters look like they munch steroids for breakfast, lunch and dinner."

IMHO, part of a good game experience is immersing yourself in the fantasy and identifying with the characters. If the characters are too far removed, it makes it harder.

Yet you can get behind a game with a chubby short man that jumps like Jordan and takes shrooms to gain powers. Or an emo group of people who go adventuring to save the world for umpteenth time (not final) that wield weapons bigger than their bodies and beating final enemies that can shit you out for breakfast in one shot (with the power of love).

Comment Re:Finally, something that doesn't record in 720p. (Score 0) 259

Don't loop 3DS under the same category of a better portable console. Nintendo in it's arrogance left the 3DS with barely enough titles to support the purchase of a 3DS. Gimmicks like a 3D without glasses wear thin if you have nearly nothing decent to play it on. Nintendo figured if they just pin the word Nintendo it'll be a best seller. 3DS still looks like a DS to me, hardware spec might be improved, but that's not saying much if you don't have a sufficient library of games to fully utilize it. Just like the Sony Phone Xperia. They had how many actual games for that thing before it was only Android apps? If Sony has any sense left, get the developers on the ball for releases for their Vita on the release date for the Vita. Also STOP downgrading the hardware specs.

Comment Zombie outbreak would be a trainwreck in slomotion (Score 0) 300

Zombies have no morality about spreading the disease. They just instinctively do so. What makes a zombie outbreak work so well is because humanity will treat it like a train wreck in slow motion. They see the zombies coming, and they can prevent it from spreading it, but too many people humanize the infected and are unwilling to de-humanize themselves to prevent the outbreak from happening. So the majority will argue with their inner-selves with morality about killing what they consider humans until it's too late for themselves to escape.

Comment Re:It didn't help last time. (Score 0) 158

The low number is normal. If it was near the high number of the actual donation something is wrong. They usually don't lie about numbers about how much is donated (because of good publicity of how successful the program is). Then the amount diminishes due to expenses, etc. All official charities, are actual corporations that need to pay their workers, CEOs, VPs, etc. I guarantee if they collect $10 mill, less than $5 mill actually goes to actually helping. Worse are government aid, which could mean they give them aid which costs up to that donation amount they stated (which means food, water, etc. that is probably brought at the over priced amount and aide workers - yes people get paid to work, duh - are subtracted to that amount). It's usually never clear cut money tossed at the victim's gov't. Or the amount could be tied down through some legal issues and the victims never see a dime for many years to come.

Comment Re:Barcade (Score 0) 188

I think they are making too much of it. It could be the last arcade/arcade in NYC. And what I mean by that is the Chinatown arcade is just an arcade and nothing else. There are other places in NYC that restaurants with an arcade (which they don't count as an arcade). Chuck E. Cheese, Dave and Busters, etc. are places that have an arcade in NYC but are considered a restaurant.

Comment How does this stop pirating? (Score 0) 469

Last time I heard most of the stuff being pirated are the movies currently in the theaters. So chances of it being a good version that it's HD quality rather than a CAM version is...? Pirates don't care as long as there is a decent viewable version of the movie. If it's just released on DVD/Blu-ray for rentals, I'm sure a large majority will agree to the statement above.

Comment Re:Dependent on the Church (Score 0) 323

The Bible actually clearly states you are to confess sin directly to God, not to man. But the Catholic Church wants you dependent on the Church, and this app removes part of that dependence.

Actually you missed the recent memo. Our God now is Steve Jobs. Confessing to the iPhone is normal practice now.

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