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General Gaming / Re: PSN = Privacy? Security? Never!

« on: April 07, 2011, 10:22:25 AM »

I think you're all giving Anonymous far too much credit. This is a group of 4chan retards that get together and try to ping servers to death. They're not hackers, they're not crackers, they're not terrorists. They're a bunch of fourteen year-old script kiddies. They'll jump at anything "for the lulz" and then quickly grow disinterested and leave. You could almost admire their goals of anarchy if they were actually genuine.

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General Gaming / Re: GameStop to Challenge Steam, OnLive and Maybe One Day Apple

« on: April 06, 2011, 04:03:17 PM »

Sadly I won't be using Impulse anymore. I don't like Steam because of the idea that they could ban yourself and literally deny you access to games you purchased. You aren't really buying them but leasing/renting hem from them if they can do that

That's true of all digital download services, and the only reason to be worried about it at all is if you're doing something you shouldn't be doing anyway.

Yeah... Everyone that's accused of a crime is clearly guilty.

Beyond the worry of being arbitrarily denied access to your purchased goods, there are greater concerns of what happens to your content after the service has died and the company has gone bankrupt. Hint: it's gone and you're fucked.

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Fantasy Edition

« on: April 06, 2011, 03:16:36 AM »

Game of Thrones starts in a week and a half.

This is a new HBO series based on the acclaimed George R. R. Martin books.  I have never read the books but this series looks amazing and with HBO at the helm I have high expectations.

Anybody who is interested in fantasy shows should be marking it on their calender.

The only exposure I've had to the franchise is the card game, and that was only because Fantasy Flight Games also does the Call of Cthulhu card game.

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TalkBack / Re: If I Were in Charge of Zelda

« on: April 05, 2011, 07:22:37 PM »

Nintendo has to try to please both me and Bman.  And they also have to try to please Nicholas who wants a more Metroid style design.

And me!

I want it to be more like an Elder Scrolls game. The main plot should never feel forced. You should be able to get lost in the side quests and simply exploring.

How about adding some more overt steampunk elements to the franchise as well? That high fantasy stuff gets pretty boring after a while.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 3D Porn on 3DS

« on: April 05, 2011, 05:51:47 PM »

Huy guys, I'm a 14 yer old gurl who likes older men. PM if interested. wink wink

Welcome to the internet: Where men are men, women are men, and children are federal agents!

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General Gaming / Re: The new PSN EULA is a pile of Poo!

« on: April 05, 2011, 05:49:07 PM »

I'd stay away from Vista in general. It's just barely a step up from ME.

That said, even my old DOS games will work nowadays with a bit of tinkering. You can't beat that level of backwards compatibility.

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General Gaming / Re: Streets of Rage fan remake

« on: April 05, 2011, 01:52:14 PM »

There was an open-source remake/homage a few years back. It was called "Beats of Rage" and made quite the splash in the Dreamcast homebrew scene. We need more quality beat 'em ups!

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General Gaming / Re: The new PSN EULA is a pile of Poo!

« on: April 05, 2011, 10:04:27 AM »

Very few games are released exclusively through Steam. For the three or four Valve games that are, I'm willing to at least put up with the service. Otherwise, I have a binder full of commercially pressed DVDs and CDs from over the years. Sure, I always go out and immediately find a no CD/DVD cracks for the sake of convenience, but the discs are still there should I ever need them. I agree that the DRM has been getting pretty ridiculous, but it's still not as tight as what you'd find on a console (which is getting worse with every generation). You, as a user, can still take control at least.

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General Gaming / Re: The new PSN EULA is a pile of Poo!

« on: April 04, 2011, 08:14:35 PM »

Yes, there's also the PC option as well, but the problem there is I don't think my PC is powerful enough to handle Fallout 3. Even if it is or even if I upgraded it, a year from now new games would be out which would demand more power and it would be obsolete yet again. Keeping your PC up to date with the latest gaming demands is an expensive proposition. So that too has some serious drawbacks. However, I do agree it would have been nice to run game mods.

You should really only have to upgrade minor components every three or fours years. Of course, you're going to end up with a completely new machine after a few or those upgrades. I'd say that the cycle is actually much more cost effective than buying and supporting your average gaming console nowadays. While the inherent cost of owning a media-centric PC has always been somewhat of a dramatized myth, it's almost a blatant lie anymore. Hardware simply isn't improved upon as fast as it was several years ago. Likewise, a lot of games are made with consoles in mind, so their minimum requirements are kept pretty low.

Mods trump anything console gaming could ever really offer.

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Fantasy Edition

« on: April 04, 2011, 05:33:55 PM »

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General Chat / Re: Urgent PC Help Needed

« on: April 04, 2011, 05:32:55 PM »

Your best bet would be to download a nice live Linux CD and try to access the partitions that way. It sounds like it's more of a hardware failure than a software failure though.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: April 03, 2011, 10:44:09 PM »

I caught most of Dr. Strangelove on BBC America this afternoon. That is a truly fantastic movie. 10/10

Agreed... MY FUHRER!!!

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Superheroes that should have their own movie

« on: April 03, 2011, 06:34:50 PM »

Michael Jai White needs to be cast as a superhero, i really don't care who.

He would be perfect for Spawn. Someone should contact his agent and make that happen.

The Director's Cut was pretty enjoyable, actually.

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General Gaming / Re: The new PSN EULA is a pile of Poo!

« on: April 03, 2011, 05:09:46 PM »

Had I known then that Sony was going to pull all this **** that they've been pulling these last few months I would have either bought a 360 instead or just tried to make due with my Wii.

I feel for you. But really, you should have never expected to be treated fairly by Sony. Given their history on multiple fronts (not just the Playstation division), you could have made a reasonable determination that them fucking you over was pretty likely to happen in one way or another.

And just for fun: Get Fallout for the PC. Play it the way it was meant to be played (with user-created mods, ha)!

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General Chat / Re: Amazing Deals ~Non-Gaming Edition~

« on: April 02, 2011, 11:53:19 PM »

I received Windows 7 Ultimate for free a few weeks before it was released thanks to a few training courses our Microsoft rep set at the time.

That's the first time I've ever received a free Windows disc. That's not to say I've ever paid for an operating system though.

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Fantasy Edition

« on: April 02, 2011, 01:40:24 PM »

I've never too much into fantasy as a genre, let alone on television. It rarely seems grounded, and almost always strikes me as cliche.

That said, I recall liking the Buffy television series when it first came out. It began taking itself way too seriously somewhere alone the line though, and I gave up on it. Of course, it was part of that larger girl-power movement of the time. You had stuff like Xena and Charmed running as well, all promoting powerful women with supernatural powers. At least Xena had Bruce Campbell pop up on occasion.

You throw Tales from the Crypt out there, but I don't think that it should count. Sure, horror can be just as much of a sub-genre of fantasy as sci-fi is... but again, it's large enough that it probably warrants its own discourse. Then again, Tales from the Crypt had a lot of humor injected into it as well. It still followed the same horror/suspense structure of The Twilight Zone. For me, that's good television. Sadly, you see even less of its kind than you do traditional fantasy and sci-fi combined. When you do, you often get mixed bags, like Masters of Horror.

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Sci-Fi Edition

« on: April 02, 2011, 01:32:27 PM »

I really wished instead of making Enterprise(Blech), they had made something based off Section 31. Having existed at the beginning of the Federation, they could have gone to any time period at anytime to show turning points in Federation history. Or the Temporal Investigations Division. Whatever it might have been, it would have needed better writers than what Enterprise had, along with better opening credits. I mean gees, what a sappy load of rubbish that was.

Actually, a series focusing on the Temporal Investigations Division could have been pretty neat. I don't think that I would have much cared for a Section 31 show though, as it seemingly exemplified a lot of what I felt was wrong with DS9.

Enterprise did have one of the worst opening credit sequences ever... I'll give you that. I think it was worse after the tempo change, even.

As for the state of Sci-Fi TV, what I'm asking, is why does it fail to capture audiences? Don't people dream anymore? Or are they content with the dreadful realism of life? Sure I enjoy my life, but imagining things beyond it, and being told stories of such things, I find very entertaining. Why doesn't our general population? Perhaps I'm just thinking about too much, but it's another thing that interests me. Sci-Fi movies often do well in theatres and DVD releases, but make a TV show and you're lucky to average 2million viewers an episode.

I just don't think that the general masses are educated enough or have the attention spans to appreciate science fiction. That's why you see supernatural  and fantasy content doing better, because there's nothing to explain... it's just magic! This could also easily tie into religious preferences, but we won't get into that here.

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Sci-Fi Edition

« on: April 02, 2011, 11:34:33 AM »

Most of those romances were handled well. Jadzia and Worf getting married worked really well, and Ezri and Bashir's thing was somewhat creepy because of his feelings for Jadzia, but intentionally so. Kira and Odo kind of had to happen. Garak and Dukat's daughter felt shoehorned, but I don't mind it as much because it gave Garak something to do. I never really cared about Sisko's girlfriend/wife, though, and she makes my issue with what happened to him in the finale even worse.

I disagree. I think that Bareil was the only one to have really been handled well. The others felt really superficial, with Odo being the worst. Wolf and Jadzia worked well enough, but didn't fit with a lot of what had been explained of Wolf's character throughout TNG. I always thought that Garak was actually gay... I think Dukat's daughter was thrown in just to defuse any doubts.

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General Gaming / Re: PSN = Privacy? Security? Never!

« on: April 02, 2011, 11:30:42 AM »

As for those guys who said Geohotz is "acting like a douche" or whatever, that may or may not be true, but Sony is behaving like an even bigger douche. Now their anti-hacking campaign bullshit has hit the fan and is now effecting the mainstream PS3 consumers in an adverse way.

Sony is always true to form. Remember the rootkit incident?

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Sci-Fi Edition

« on: April 02, 2011, 12:50:47 AM »

Bareil, Shakaar, Mirror Universe Bareil, and Odo. ...Dukat?. Even if she wasn't interested, I recall there being numerous characters that were instantly infatuated with her. Regardless, I guess just about everyone had a romantic subplot shoehorned in during the final couple of seasons.

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Sci-Fi Edition

« on: April 01, 2011, 11:14:42 PM »

DS9 is the only show where I felt that the female characters were among the strongest.

Dax was one of the better characters. I thought that Kira was ridiculously annoying however. She was bitchy and cried all of the time, yet somehow always had a romantic interest on the show.

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Sci-Fi Edition

« on: April 01, 2011, 10:15:56 PM »

And I haven't seen a single person who didn't like the final episode of Enterprise: Terra Prime.  That's right, "Terra Prime".  Any other episode you may have thought followed that one was just a figment of our collective imagination.   

Ha!

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Sci-Fi Edition

« on: April 01, 2011, 09:51:18 PM »

It's disappointing that so many people disliked Enterprise.  That was a not a bad series, even before the show got tremendously better in Seasons 3 and 4.  While the show had its faults that it gradually corrected, I have a feeling much of the hatred is a mis-directed response to Star Trek Voyager and Insurrection/Nemesis, who really ran the Trek franchise into the ground.  When taken on its own merits, it's a fine show that I enjoyed watching nearly every week with a cast I enjoyed seeing on-screen (who didn't have that annoying arrogance that most Star Trek series have where the characters seem to think they've "evolved BEYOND lesser peoples".)

I've stated my opinion on Star Trek elsewhere on the forums before. But since you brought it up...

Enterprise was a good show. I absolutely hated Season 3 though. The Xindi conspiracy was far too boring to dedicate literally every episode of an entire season to. That portion of the series was dull and plodding with little to no pay off. They should have continued to explain away the Temporal Cold War through the occasional episode instead. Aside from a season-sized mistep, the only other real problem was the final episode. I don't know of a single person who actually liked the finale though.

I liked Voyager. I've never understood why it gets so much hate. The characters themselves were a bit cheesier than they should have been, but it wore off quickly enough (except for Tom Paris). Besides, it had two of the best characters of the franchise: The Doctor and Seven of Nine.

My least favorite series has always been Deep Space Nine. I thought that the majority of the characters were dull, with the only real exceptions being transplants like O'Brien and Wolf, or the always under-utilized Garak. I felt that the show fell pretty hard toward the end anyway. It, like Enterprise, suffered from a terribly boring war story during the last two (three?) seasons. Add onto that the utterly ridiculous inclusion and validation of the Bajorian religion and it became pretty damn laughable by the finale.

Despite their flaws, I've yet to see a Star Trek series that hasn't been worth watching. Even the Animated Series is worth sitting through.

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Sci-Fi Edition

« on: April 01, 2011, 08:16:12 PM »

I've never seen that one [Twin Peaks]. I think it's coming to Netflix Instant soon, like maybe today, so I'll throw it on my queue.

I'd definitely recommend it if you're in the mood for a more surreal, humorous X-Files. I'm a huge David Lynch fan though, so I'm probably a bit biased. Unfortunately, the show left off on a cliff hanger at the end of season two (it's final season). Also, due to the nature of the narrative, a good chunk of season two revolves around boring side stories starring characters no one really cares about.

There also seems to be alot more SciFi on the BBC nowadays.  Not sure the quality is really that great, but Doctor Who is a fun little distration.  Kind of like McGuiver with a time machine.

While I have enjoyed the newer Doctor Who, I don't think it really has the staying power the older series. The new series makes far too many pop culture references that will quickly date it.

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General Chat / Re: The State of T.V: Reality Edition

« on: April 01, 2011, 05:47:43 PM »

Well, at least your state hasn't elected any reality television stars to office yet.

And to think, he is "struggling" to get by on his meager $174,000 salary!