well the message is pretty stupid and sexist.

according to this only women look after kids and do all the responsible roles and some how that's linked to them not getting as high score in the game of life? lower salary ? not regarded as good as men?

I mean fair enough if its a reflection of 1950s sensablities which is possable due to the 1950s style charactor art.

ether way its pretty poorly thought out which is a shame as it could have had a bit of depth by cleverly utilising memes within computer games to convey a realistic view of women and there rolls and socialitys perception or actual reality of there position in society.

And I am addicted to ants, Internet, television/TV shows, movies, computer games, etc.

In reply to this comment by Trancecoach:
I literally learned how to type playing Kings Quest, Police Quest, and, of course, Leisure Suit Larry.

how did you feel about police quest 4 ?

that was one of my first computer games i got for christmas, it was all so new to me.

I had to go backwards because It was not until the high speed internet in 2000 that came to town that I actually could play the older sierra games. I learned to type quite literally because of mavis beacon. grade 9 I couldn't do 30 wpm and thought I would fal the course, at the end of grade twelve I attained vast heights, I have it on a print out, 120 wpm no errors. Obviously I am still proud of that. hahhaha.

When Ronald Reagan "inherited" the mess that spineless anti-Semite socialist neo-maxie-zoom-dweebie James Carter left behind, America was nearly lost. In two years, Reagan's policies turned the country around and the 1980s were one of the most vibrant economic periods in US history. And all Reagan did was unleash the dynamic will of the American people, lowering taxes so people could keep more of what they earned. Government isn't the solution to our problems, government IS the problem.

In two years obamarx could have turned America away from the European model, nations going bankrupt one after the other because socialism always flops in the long run, human nature being what it is.

Instead The One is attempting to put America on the same path tried for 80 years in the soviet union. Government central planning is a total failure and communism is responsible for 100 million deaths around the globe.

Doesn't matter if you give obamarx 4 years (likely!) or 40, his policies have about as much effectiveness as trying to scrub a shadow off a sidewalk.

Blaming Bush changes nothing HERE and NOW. Government cannot tax or spend us into prosperity.

November 2nd, 2010 we'll see who's awake.



>> ^Marzden:

Bush had 8 years to fuck everything up big time and you expect obama whose only been in office for 2 to get it all right immediately? Wake the fuck up this aint a computer game, fixing the shit that bush left behind is going to take years.

Bush had 8 years to fuck everything up big time and you expect obama whose only been in office for 2 to get it all right immediately? Wake the fuck up this aint a computer game, fixing the shit that bush left behind is going to take years.
>> ^quantumushroom:

"Processed foods?" Now Joe, we are no longer in the Bush years, when unemployment was 4%, not almost 16%. W the half-liberal is long gone and we're two years into the illegitimate failbama regime. The results of ultra-liberalism running amok speak for themselves.
November can't get here fast enough.
>> ^joedirt:
The war on the Constitution ---BUSH JR
The war on prosperity -- BUSH ECONOMY & MILITARY SPENDING & CORPORATE WELFARE
The war on employment -- BUSH DEREGULATION, TAX FAVORS TO MOVE JOBS OFFSHORE
The war on health care -- GOP OBSTRUCTIONISM, CORPORATE GREED
The war on low taxes -- huh? It's the lowest it has ever been
The war on the middle class -- PATRIOT ACT, ECONOMIC RAPE BY BUSH CRONIES
The war on fat kids -- CORPORATE GREED AND PROCESSED FOODS

Um, I was hardly being 'dickish', I think you're taking that crown by calling me a jerk.

What I said was, this may be impressive and worthwhile if it were something that took weeks or months... but 6 YEARS for something so arbitrary is just bizarre. And as I said, it's alien to me. Hey, if you can see spending 6 YEARS on creating a city in Sim City... well... yeay.



And trying to say that pitching a perfect game is not real life is inane. It IS real life as it's a real person with a real baseball, really throwing it. Bat sizes/ball sizes etc. are irrelevent, it's all in REAL life with physics and physical strength/co-ordination etc. all coming into play. They're hardly playing a few coders rendition of the sport which may not take into account all manner of 'real world' effects.

And to say that I'm a jerk if I have played a computer game is trying to suggest that playing a game every now and again for fun an relaxation or a challenge is directly comparable to spending 6 YEARS on a single game building a single city.

It is most definitely not.

If you're going to take it to that extreme then you may as well say that spending your entire life playing WOW is just the same as being a casual gamer, they have as much in common.




>> ^Hawkinson:

What's with the dickish attitude? its a videogame, I don't think anyone is confused over that fact. A quake speed run or a sub 25% metroid prime completion rate is still impressive, just like a pitching a perfect game (which also isn't real life, since there are arbitrary rules like regulation bats).
Unless you've never played a (video)game before, you're just being a jerk.

>> ^Kreegath:

This looks just like a computer game I played quite a bit in the 90's. You were a fish or seal, and you could extend yourself to reach stuff high up. Can't remember much more, but the graphics were very similar and the music was chipper and upbeat just like here!


You are probably thinking of James Pond another great platformer...

This looks just like a computer game I played quite a bit in the 90's. You were a fish or seal, and you could extend yourself to reach stuff high up. Can't remember much more, but the graphics were very similar and the music was chipper and upbeat just like here!

The identity of the killer being the same is a good thing, no? It would be kind of detractive to the whole idea of a detective mystery if you're always right or always wrong, regardless of what conclusion your reach about whom the killer is, wouldn't it? If the entirety of the game experience revolves around the reveal of the killer, isn't that just poor computer game making?

There have been detective novels so interestingly narrated, that I've read them several times over the years. Knowing beforehand the killer's identity doesn't necessarily detract from the story being told.

>> ^Kreegath:
This is actually one of the few computer games I've played, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. However, wasn't Leliana a redhead?


Yeah, the Leliana in this particular video was modded.

This is actually one of the few computer games I've played, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. However, wasn't Leliana a redhead?

I agree with Mr. O'brien's points. You didn't have to play through Civilization as the Egyptians in order to get access to the pyramids wonder, and it was still an addictive and fun experience. Maybe it's a matter of different mindsets, as it appears to me as an outside observer that the only perceived value in a computer game today is in its difficulty and locked out content.

>> ^rougy:
Solution? Tax the shit out of Chicken of the Sea and subsidize the people of Samoa.


That doesn't sound like a solution. Hopefully Samoans can find some other market niche to occupy. I don't think permawelfare is a state anyone would want to live in, though I agree they weren't doing great even when they had those canneries.

I don't have any education in economics but I've played RTS computer games. It seems like Samoa needs to tool its industries towards providing for their residents because importing costs so much. Once they're more or less self-sufficient (which you might define as 90-95% living above poverty level), then they can look for industries that they can produce at home and export abroad, and pay for their imports. The canneries might have even hurt them, because they became so reliant on one export to provide the capital for their whole economy, and if that company goes under or pulls out or tuna has a bad year, the whole country suffers. I remember a story like that in Africa where they tried turning a region into a heavy peanut-producer, in order to export them to foreign markets, and the plan totally failed and the farmers were even worse off than before because the peanut market went through a sudden change and prices dropped.

The problem is that It dosent evan copy the existing themes well. its as if an 8 yr old watched a bunch of contemporary films and then decided to make there own.

It could actually be a good film if it copied Good films and deliverd it in a good way , maby with decent acting , the acting in this film is of B move quality and worse with the script like something you would find in a 90s computer game.

>> ^Kreegath:
Isn't it kind of offensive that they made a computer game about the French resistance and just had to make its leader (?) anything but French? What would have been so terrible about a French main character that they had to import some Irish man all willy-nilly?


Sean Devlin doesn't lead the resistance, he acts as nothing more than muscle. His motivation for nearly all the game is simple revenge, and the actual French resistance leaders just use him to do dirty work. Even at the very end of the game it doesn't seem like Sean gives two shits about the French, but rather only cares about the sister of his dead best friend... who happens to be French. The other non-French protagonist is a saucy British spy, and it is made plainly clear neither she nor her government cares about the French.

But yeah, the game is painfully bug-ridden.