Wow, that was nerve-wracking to watch!

Gosh, I hope that music wasn't playing while they were doing this!
That would be nerve-wracking.

Not a single word of hate for Games for Windows Live? Well I'll add it then.

You know when you've slept with one too many strippers and you get a surprise dosage of Chlamydia? That's what Games for Windows Live is. It's a pestulent boil on the otherwise fine, if large, ass of Bulletstorm. It even wanted me to register on XBOX live, even though I'm playing the PC game, presumably as a sex offender.

There is an UI designer that needs a serious whacking with a mouse. When I started the game for the first time, it said "Press Enter to continue" to the menu, I assumed, but when I did, I had to log into Games for Windows Live or burn in hell. So I did, found my login after some brain wracking and typed it all in. Then Games for Wünderkinds Live wanted to update. Alright, Games for Wonderbras Live, I'll play along. "Restart the game now?" But where? I was stuck back at the "Press Enter to Continue" screen in Bulletstorm, with no quit button. Oh, Pepic Can Fly, you dastardly UI Mavericks, I just have to press enter you say? "Plesae log in to Jims in Wanda Live to continue". "You cannot log in to Jims in Wanda Live right now, since it's being updated with more fucking chlamydia" Not only can I not get into the game and play, I can't get the hell out of it.

Okay, now, I need some feedback on this video. I was so tickled to find this, so positive it was going to shoot to the top, that I promoted it immediately. Seventeen unique views with only two votes tells me I was seriously wrong about this being a hit with Simpsons fans.

So. Can anyone verbalize why this isn't worth upvoting? I'm wracking my brain here, trying to understand. It's sex and the Simpsons! Two favorite topics on the sift!

(Now nineteen views with only two votes! One of them mine!!! I don't understand!)

Nerve wracking!
Good illustration of why Afghanistan is impossible to invade - they shoot at you from the mountains right?

Sometimes you just have to say screw you shitty health care system and go wrack up some debt. The ER can't turn away repeat offenders.

Ah, it's my little gormless endomorph--how's that total crap movie coming along? Get anything done, between crying sessions of masturbation, I mean?

Seriously, though.

Pause at :43 to get a sobering look at Blankfist. Witness the lifeless eyes of a pathological masturbator: http://www.videosift.com/video/Youdiejoe-s-vid-of-the-2009-SoCal-siftup

Observe the sketchy body-language of a pudgy little man wracked by shame.

I've been wracking my brain for the last few days about something which is hard to articulate, but I think I finally have a better idea about:

I just don't understand the logic of "rules" for war. I definitely understand that killing innocent people is "bad," but if you just back up a second, in a situation where War, which is pretty much one country telling another country "I am going to kill you", is declared, what sense does it make that they have to suddenly play by some rules?

Over the last couple of days I've been seeing things which make both sides look bad. Israel attacking civilian targets and Hamas making those civilian targets viable by putting military people in them... ultimately isn't the real solution about avoiding the conflict itself?

It seems to me that once you've introduced killing people as a solution to a problem it really doesn't make much of a difference which people you start killing because eventually a losing side is going to resort to the dirtiest thing they can in order to try to stop you.

I think back to old-school war, where the generals or whatever agreed on a time and place and basically lined up and attacked... even in ancient times, you eventually run into situations like the trojan horse where someone says "hey, fuck the rules; if we just jump the gun and catch them with their pants down, we'll win and isn't that the point?"

Mind you, this is all about the conflict itself. The bigger question which seems much harder to answer is why can't these two groups come to an agreement. I hate to say it, but I'm gonna have to throw religion under the bus with this one and say that it is probably the cause of most of the issues which are pretty much unresolvable.

"I was wanting to know if you might want to marry me, how 'bout that?"

*sigh*

I know how nerve wracking that moment is, but is it so hard to come up with something more poignant than that? Something a little less goofy and casual, perhaps?

Woah.

OK, well here's why all national polls out today show Obama closing the gap, and I really don't think our current economic situation is going to help McCain out at all.

Nerve-wracking and interesting at the same time. I just want it all over.

Turn, now, to politics. Consider, for example, a campaign for the Presidency. Would it be possible to imagine anything more uproariously idiotic - a deafening, nerve-wracking battle to the death between Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Harlequin and Sganarelle, Gobbo and Dr. Cook - the unspeakable, with fearful snorts, gradually swallowing the inconceivable? I defy any one to match it elsewhere on this earth. In other lands, at worst, there are at least intelligible issues, coherent ideas, salient personalities. Somebody says something, and somebody replies. But what did Harding say in 1920, and what did Cox reply? Who was Harding, anyhow, and who was Cox? Here, having perfected democracy, we lift the whole combat to symbolism, to transcendentalism, to metaphysics. Here we load a pair of palpably tin cannon with blank cartridges charged with talcum power, and so let fly. Here one may howl over the show without any uneasy reminder that it is serious, and that some one may be hurt. I hold that this elevation of politics to the plane of undiluted comedy is peculiarly American, that no-where else on this disreputable ball has the art of the sham-battle been developed to such fineness...

>> ^raddishs: Comment on the tags: when is it not too soon? Aren't we, according to that logic, pissing on the sacrifices made by our soldiers when we play video games based on WW2?


precisely.

i remember that when this game came out there was an uproar along the lines of "Look what those Limey Bastards are doing to disgrace the memory of our fallen leader!"... i disagreed then, as i do now, to knee-jerking, and as far as this game is concerned i respect the developer's idea. to Traffic Games it's an immersion into a historical event, and i'm sure they understood the repercussions involved in releasing it.

i think this game touches a raw nerve with some older folks, as well as various mouth-foamers, because it reminds them of the event itself and the subsequent Warren Commission that appears to have only opened more questions than given answers. for people of the gaming age (and persuasion) it's a unique chance to apply What We Know about the ordeal in a controllable environment. it's the only time in american history that this has happened to a president *and* was captured on several films, as opposed to Lincoln's assassination, so it feels like those grainy 8mm frames should be telling us everything, and as time goes by and more detail about the incident becomes known we go back and try to put those pieces together. i personally believe we will never know the whole story.

growing up in Texas i was never able to get any information about it from anyone i knew other than "it was awful" or "we went home that day." the people who were witness to it are dying off and unwilling to talk about it, that i can understand, but not talking about it won't make the curiosity go away and this game is a good way to try to get a grip on the event as much as we can. although i'm pretty sure there will also be people playing the game to live out their own fantasies, i don't believe that the majority of people drawn to it are the unpatriotic psycho president-snipers that the Media made them out to be back then.

that being said, it's nerve-wracking to hear people around me talk about how Obama makes them feel like they did when JFK was running. it's always a good idea to keep the past in perspective, but in this election period...with Obama as a candidate (and soon very possibly president)... it's especially important to keep this incident in mind by whatever means necessary.

sometimes the herd knows things unconsciously, just sayin'.

Airports/airplanes were a nerve-wracking place for a lot of people even before 9/11. Quite possible that he's just trying to ease some anxiety.

First legitimate TIE fighter kill ever. Wrack one up for the Empire!

Of all the trucks I've driven for work in the oil industry, my 06 F-350 Powerstroke was by far the toughest and most durable. Other than the EXTREMELY nerve wracking idle (I.E. when you start it an hour before you get up to warm it up and the engine rattles the window at camp.) It also had times when the turbo wouldn't change geometry and you found you had no power towning minimal load up a hill.

Its fitting they would have a recall such as this, although its obvious its not diesel.

I wonder what else is wrong heh.