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Prop 19 doesn't pass in California (Politics Talk Post)

kymbos says...

In retrospect, it was ambitious to think such a change was possible so quickly. I'm no libertarian, but it is quite obvious that the War on Drugs has been counterproductive, costly and ineffective. I was hoping the vote would pass and when California didn't fall directly into the pit of hell it might force the rest of America to face up to some hard facts.

Still, decriminllisation is an important step in the right direction.

You've got to be joking...

Truckchase says...

I loved this game. I played it for more hours than BF2, 2142, or BC2 (all of which I played quite a bit) even though it had no ranking system. In retrospect that makes me appreciate it even more.

Justin Bieber Found To Be a Cleverly Disguised Old Pedophile

The Most Terrifying Video Game Ever

Shepppard says...

The scariest thing I've ever really played was the demo for F.E.A.R.

My friend and I were in a smallish room with the curtains closed (which was in retrospect, silly, because the night was overcast anyway) and sitting maybe 5 feet from the t.v. with a surround sound system.

We went in not knowing anything about the game.

Walking through the demo we went through a sewer and some little girl crossed ahead, so we went to see what the hell she was doing there and nothing.

We continued on and a few other weird things happened, but nothing major. We ended up in a combat situation where we spent a small while fighting the enemies and getting very immersed in the combat aspect.

We then went into a building, but the door lead to a small landing you had to take a ladder down from. So, we walked over and hit the "use" button. The camera looked down and spun around as the main character positioned themselves properly to descend, only to hear one of those violin squeals and see the little girl standing RIGHT there looking down at us.

Scared the absolute shit out of use, we both had our backs pressed against our chairs, and just sat there going "FUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...."

Good fun.

NetRunner (Member Profile)

blankfist says...

Haha. Actually I do listen to what he says, just not a fan.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
Ahh, such open mindedness.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Krugman is a keynesian dick sucker. I don't care to hear anything he says. Thanks.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
My, that comment is at least 4 times as long as what you are usually able read these days.

You should read some of what Krugman says, you might learn something about mainstream economics!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
I did read this comment entirely. It wasn't TL;DR. And I gave you a retrospective downvote for supporting that nutjob Krugman.

blankfist (Member Profile)

NetRunner says...

Ahh, such open mindedness.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Krugman is a keynesian dick sucker. I don't care to hear anything he says. Thanks.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
My, that comment is at least 4 times as long as what you are usually able read these days.

You should read some of what Krugman says, you might learn something about mainstream economics!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
I did read this comment entirely. It wasn't TL;DR. And I gave you a retrospective downvote for supporting that nutjob Krugman.

NetRunner (Member Profile)

blankfist says...

Krugman is a keynesian dick sucker. I don't care to hear anything he says. Thanks.

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
My, that comment is at least 4 times as long as what you are usually able read these days.

You should read some of what Krugman says, you might learn something about mainstream economics!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
I did read this comment entirely. It wasn't TL;DR. And I gave you a retrospective downvote for supporting that nutjob Krugman.

blankfist (Member Profile)

NetRunner (Member Profile)

Zero Punctuation: Red Dead Redemption

dannym3141 says...

>> ^entr0py:

>> ^mentality:
This sounds exactly like the kind of game that I hate playing: Shallow repetitive quests, bad story, time consuming. Red Dead is kind of like the anti-Portal.

Bad story? Did you get that from when he said the game was beautifully written? And I'd venture that almost no one who buys a $60 game wants it to last only 5 hours, as portal did. It's definitely not a casual or budget game. As for the MMOish quests, as he mentioned they're all optional.


I think you've completely misjudged something there - i'm willing to bet the majority of people who played portal would in retrospect pay $60 to have played portal. The fact that valve gave it away as a freebie as part of the orange box is one of the most amazing gifts to gaming.

The length of a game is irrelevant to me, if they had spread portal out over 30 hours and charged me for it i would have thought it was crap. Some of the best games i've ever played have been indie games costing a fraction of normal games, lasting a fraction of the duration too, but Braid was probably one of my favourite recent games since portal.

More often than not i'm disappointed by big titles. The only ones to never have let me down so far IS valve. Bioshock was a really great and fun game, i loved it, but if you said i could only play one and offered me bioshock or portal, i'd choose portal and give you $60 and a thank you.

The gaming market obviously goes in the direction that people like best. Whatever sells, sells. But i cannot get my head around people like you who think that the most important thing is that they give you 60 hours of gaming, WHATEVER the quality of that gaming is.

If a game lasted 30 minutes but it blew me away like no other game before, that'd be a good game. Hypothetically of course, because it's unlikely to be able to do that in 30 mins, but you get my point.

peggedbea (Member Profile)

rougy says...

Bugging you again.

Told C that I wanted to date other people.
Considering all alternatives, it went well.
It wasn't something that I wanted to tell her.
It was something that I had to tell her.

In retrospect, I think it went about as well as thing like that could go. We held hands. Kissed. Pressed our old middle-aged heads together. Smelled her hair. It soothed me.

We went out to the parking lot to neck, and some guy—some asshole came out and started filming us. We had to laugh. As if that sorry son of a bitch didn't have something better to do.

At, what? Two in the morning?

I flashed him my titties as we drove off. That'll show him!

Two can play at that game, but I probably won't, because anybody lame enough to film to old farts necking in an empty down-town parking lot isn't going to expose himself to anything more radical than...what...over-caffination?

A pair of cargo shorts that mis-match his death-metal tee-shirt?

Thinking of you, my long away Austin (but not Austin) firecracker.



In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
i take in strays. i sing songs. i go to baseball games. i have a sore rotator cuff.

Final Fantasy Retrospective Part IX



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