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Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 136

I agree but there is seemingly no solution.

Target site wants to control the traffic to its copyrighted content.

Slashdot wants to beat other sites to syndicating said content, so it won't hold off because said content will be slashdotted.

Ideas like Diggmirror violate first principle.

Comment Re:A derivative survival horror game (Score 2, Interesting) 136

I agree there were too many shocks. I wonder if they decided to do that because they could take advantage of the true darkness that Doom3 engine allowed?

However, some were good. My favourite shock scare was when I approached some stairs, I could only see the stairs because of some glare off them from another light source. Suddenly a light under the stairs turned on and through the gaps in the stairs I could see the silhouette of an imp staring back at me, maybe half a meter from my face. And of course the music went "BLAAAH!".

Scared the crap out of me, and I thought it was a clever scare.

However I would also hate the game if it was just shock-scares. That's lame. I hate horror films that focus on that. So I have to say IMO, there was a lot more to be scared of.

After a few levels the game got very eerie. Distance whimpering just on the edge of hearing. Strange noises, things moving on the edge of your view. The gradually deteriorating sanity in the audio logs you were finding and listening to.

The level in hell was incredible, as you followed the terrifying ordeal of one of the scientists that was abandoned there as he was hunted and toyed with by the demons.

When you finally reached Delta labs, that level was seriously unnerving.

I wonder if people who call it just "shocks" played the whole thing at all. And if they did, maybe I'm just weird in that I found so much more scary than just the shocks.

Comment Re:...and? (Score 5, Insightful) 136

Id actually developed an awesome survival horror game that those of us who enjoy such games loved. But everyone else in the world expected a shotgun gorefest and thus described it as boring, or whatever.

And the expectations were thus because they called it Doom.

I'm not sure why they did that. Possibly because Carmack is not a marketing guy. Possibly because Doom 3 was inevitably going to sell buckets whatever the content.

Saying they have dropped out is nonsense, you've just attached yourself to the 13 year old fanboi meme. Doom 3 was actually a very well executed game with good level design and well written game progression. It just wasn't what people expected.

However having said that, I'm not sure I care anymore either. FPS games bore me nowadays, and Id seemingly can only make those.

Comment Women don't make sense (Score 1) 904

I just get conflicted that I've wanted to see my female friends' breasts for years, but this is "perverted". However suddenly they post pictures of them to Facebook.

I'm sure some of you half-men are leaping to accuse me of being ignorant. Please proceed. I'm not sure that I am though. Frankly to me this all stinks of women being women. To them everything is "different", and men are all just perverts because we find their various bits attractive.

I don't find the act of breast feeding attractive I guess I should disclaim. Much like I'm sure a woman wouldn't find a picture of me flexing, and lifting a fire ladder, while urinating attractive I guess. However this doesn't mean I'd post said picture on Facebook.

Even if I could somehow associate urinating with something meaningful like child rearing.

Which I can't. But still my point is sound. They are breasts. Just because a child is attached doesn't change that fact. It is basically irrelevant if it makes you angry or not or whether you feel the sexualisation of breasts is somehow man's fault (what isn't man's fault nowadays exactly?) Accept it and the consequences are much easier to come to terms with.

Comment Re:Why (Score 1) 904

My penis also can be used for urination, thus I should be able to do it in public. Of course I would only do it into the drain. Urine on the street isn't nice. But I should be able to do it without people being all upset about it. After all it's natural man. I drink. I pee.

I'm actually fine with public breast feeding, I just had to point out your stupid argument.

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