Nope, because I live in a country with sensible gun control laws. (Australia)

Actually, the only time I've really feared for my wellbeing just by being in an area was when me and some friends somehow ended up in Compton, LA at night, and had the police bring us over to their squad car and tell us that we'd better get out of that area pretty quickly if we didn't want to be dead soon. Hurray for guns, hurray for everyone being armed, it makes you all so much safer.

In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
Just guessing, you've never been close to violence have you?


In reply to this comment by spoco2:
You keep repeating your mantra of 'you need guns to defend against other guns'.

You keep doing that if it makes you happy.

In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
A whoooole lot easier to kill people, and lots of them, who don't have guns, that is.

In reply to this comment by spoco2

To say that people have been able to kill people before the advent of guns is stating the absolute bleeding obvious, doesn't change the fact that guns make it a whoooole lot easier to kill people, and lots of them, quickly. And easier to accidentally kill people, or yourself for that matter.

You keep repeating your mantra of 'you need guns to defend against other guns'.

You keep doing that if it makes you happy.

In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
A whoooole lot easier to kill people, and lots of them, who don't have guns, that is.

In reply to this comment by spoco2

To say that people have been able to kill people before the advent of guns is stating the absolute bleeding obvious, doesn't change the fact that guns make it a whoooole lot easier to kill people, and lots of them, quickly. And easier to accidentally kill people, or yourself for that matter.

That really is interesting isn't it?

Although saying that a domain registration takes any time at all is madness, it takes all of 5 minutes.

Still, if it was registered the day before the announcement that it was closed, it's interesting.

Although the site as it now stands, taking money, that's pretty fricken dodgy. Who would give money to some guy who just says he's going to get DNF out? Really, if someone does actually donate to that page, they deserve to lose their money.

I could see that the site could just be set up by an opportunist who had the info from some source and saw a chance to make a buck with a domain that would suddenly become very popular.

But also.

Yeah, kinda does looks suss in regards to timing and E3 etc.

I might be on your side thinking this is all marketing.

Of course, the game NOW has to be fricken amazing to live up to the hype.

In reply to this comment by EDD:
New, fascinating development that lends quite a LOT of credibility to marketing-ploy-conspiracy-supporters:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91676-SaveDukeNukem-com-Is-the-Saga-Really-Over

Well, yeah, but you'd have to think the interest would drop off considerably if people have to actually hold the correct chord patterns.

Still, I guess if they do it such that the easy difficulty levels has less chords and just strumming, progressing up to all the chords and full fingering where applicable... that might grade it enough to make people enjoy it.



In reply to this comment by bamdrew:
... its just a matter of engineering a more realistic guitar to play the game on.

http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Guitar-Hero-ic-Game-for-Real-Guitar-from-CES-2009

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Ha, brilliant.

I have never... ever played guitar hero, rock band or any of the games, I've never a) had the wish to spend that much money on a game, and b) What you do for the guitars is so far removed from real playing, I saw it as kinda silly.

BUT.

Both the singing and the drums intrigue me a lot because, well, look at this, the drumming is the same (more or less). It's a really FUN way of learning the drums. Spend a while on rock band with the drums before starting any drumming lessons would get you over that initial 'man, I suck, I can't be bothered doing any more' part of learning an instrument, and straight into the 'man, look how good I am now'.

If only they could make the guitars the same... if only.

Not a problem... he is definitely one of the all time greats!

In reply to this comment by highdileeho:
Thanks for putting me on to this guy, Brilliant. i went on youtube. There was a long documentary about 90 minutes. It was the history of his joke telling, with a smattering of an autobiography mixed in. He is a brilliant comic, definitly one of the best, top 3. He had me rolling with laughter for 90 minutes. the 1 when he talks about taking a shit when he worked in the shipyard and beating out his flaming pubic hair with a hammer: so funny ...here's a link to the first bit. . Thanks again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_bFPMZy6Q

Thanks for the promote on http://www.videosift.com/video/Creature-Discomforts-Change-the-way-you-see-disability

Loving your new power?

Thanks for the info on the 'I'm on a boat' uncensored version being embeddable

Thankyou muchly.

It is pretty darn nice to be able to promote things you think deserve that extra bit of attention. Not too far yet for you!

In reply to this comment by EDD:
Congratumalations on going Gold-100! Very nice to see you with those powers you deserve. Hopefully I'll be following suit real soon. And afterwards we'll be able to promote the crap out of each other

He he Thanks... may the yobbo continue on his world dominating quest which will end in many people further destroying their tvs... huzzah!

In reply to this comment by nomino:
I changed the title sweetheart

Yeah, fair enough, I guess we are all free to use our voting privilages as we see fit. I guess I had my idea of the downvote informed by it not being available until you had enough starpoints, hence having some real power and not to be used flippantly.

Hence I have only downvoted a handful of videos ever.

But, each to their own I guess.

In reply to this comment by xxovercastxx:
So as not to crowd the video with unrelated posts, I figured I'd take our discussion to profiles.

If the meaning of upvote and downvote were to be defined by the FAQ, I'd gladly comply; I'm all for working in a system. But, as it stands, it's left up to each of us to interpret them for ourselves.

I try to vote on every video I watch. Only if I really just don't know what to make of a video do I not vote, or if I feel somehow conflicted about it.

If I find value in the video, I upvote. If I don't, I downvote. Pretty cut-and-dry for me. I feel people are too concerned with getting videos published, any videos, rather than getting good videos published. I don't think it should be easier to get something published. If anything, I'd like to see it made more difficult.

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
See, I see things a little differently.

We have
Upvote: You think it's a great video, worthy of moving up higher on the site
No Vote: You don't like the video, or it left you 'meh', or you just thought it was pretty lame... you don't feel it particularly worthy to go any further.
DownVote: You really believe this video has no place on the sift, either it's horribly offensive, racist/bigoted, in really bad taste, is full on propaganda with no truth to it etc.

I really see the downvote as being reserved for those really bad videos. If you just don't like something then don't upvote it for god's sake, it's hard enough to get published around here let alone with people making life harder by downvoting for no real good reason.

Yeah, there are so many people that no matter what they hear, their views stay amazingly rigid.

I too have changed my stance on all sorts of things, usually a case of understanding the other position better and therefore being able to see their point of view and why they do what they do or want what they want.

In reply to this comment by JiggaJonson:
studies show that new information, even contradictory information, more often than not reinforces previous beliefs. It's sad but true, then again that's why im a liberal and open to new ideas. It's hard to think over and over again "i might be wrong about this" but it often tends to be the case.

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Brilliant. And so, so true.

Palin trying to make talking about the past be a no-go area was just shameful. It sorely showed how poor the Republican ticket is going when they have to try to pretend that everything the Republicans have done doesn't really exist, have to pretend that learning from mistakes doesn't make sense, how knowing your history can help you in the future.

They are a team of blinkered no hopers. It amuses me that republican supporters try on the 'Obama is just selling hope with no substance'... Where the Obama/Biden team are more than willing to talk about the actual issues, whereas the McCain/Palin team are a team actually selling 'fear with no substance'.

Please Right Wingers, even in your right wing allegiance, surely you can see how this particular ticket is selling snake oil? Surely you can see that?

No?

You can't?

thanks for that... Man VideoSift's search can suck and awful lot sometimes, I couldn't find anything when I submitted it.

In reply to this comment by arvana:
Sorry, spoco, it's a dupe.

Yeah, I'm pretty sick of the seeming swing back to treating women like objects these days.

You could be forgiven for thinking that women's lib never happened

In reply to this comment by fojlz:
Hey, thanks for being the voice of reason with regards to the "Sexy/Sexist Guiness Ad" video. I'm glad not everyone just laughs at that kind of thing.

Oh well, I guess we all just have to accept that consoles will spell the end of games on pcs anyway... I've been thinking the day will come where I'll have to give up the fight and get a console.

But not get a mac

Just because of their self righteous ads.



In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
I never understood that either.

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Sometimes I do wonder about what does and doesn't get sifted up.

I truly hate this apple ad, I've been a PC gamer for a long, long time (and programmer, it's what I do for a crust), and so suggesting that all PCs do is boring things just rubs me up the wrong way.

Cause there's SO many games available on the Mac compared to the PC.

Self righteous Apple people... grrr.

Erm... I meant the writing in the video, the tinsy, tiny red writing that is almost unable to be read due to its size and colour, what they hell are you going on about?

Bad day at work?

In reply to this comment by onetimeuser:
if you meant me then yes its quite obvious I did not make much of an attempt, I wrote it once because I dont give a fuck what you or anyone else thinks, and you got the exact same message once over as if I had "wrote it properly " its bloody terrible if I hold myself up to the standards you do, which thankfully I do not. internet people are not real.

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Ok upvote on the geekiness of it, but did this person not even attempt to make the writing readable? That's bloody terrible.