Johnny

I took me a while to realize you weren't saying you snug a controller

Being a non-native english speaker, I've picked up a lot of different parts of the accents. In fact, I don't really put a lot of distinction between the two and I usually have no problem telling what any person means, no matter which accent is used. I'm told that my english is closer to brittish than american, but that was a few years ago when I spent a lot of time raiding (world of warcraft) with a largely brittish guild, so I guess I picked up a lot of that. Most of that may have also disappeared since then. If you'd talk to me on voice chat right now my accent would probably be very obviously Swedish, but when I did play a lot with that brittish guild most non-britts thought I was from england. Is my rambling relevant to anything? PROBABLY NOT.

Currently listening to Bonobo's album Days To Come (2006) http://listen.grooveshark.com/s/Days+To+Come/2Bh6os?src=5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UtIDlWk2D0 I love her voice, but hate pretty much all her actual songs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V-xXa6jxds This, on the other hand... I feel, in general, a lot of good female singers are wasted on really bad generic pop when they could be paired with actually good musicians e.g. above video. Also, is there any way to make youtube links not automatically convert into embedded videos?

Haha. In all honesty though, it largely feels very badly paced compared to LTTP and the later 3D games. Also, water temple. Fucking water temple.

I'll tell you right now in full honesty that I've never been drunk or high.

The humour is indeed excellent. Had a few really good laughs from it, especially fun with the Most Retarded "Voice Acting" Ever. As for Meteor Shower... Yeah, that spell really doesn't have much use. It's been our least used Magick over the course of my multiplayer sessions. The controls are pretty much designed to fit us old Diablo players. I'd probably have more trouble with a "wasd to move" control scheme. There's a x360 control scheme as well if you have a 360 pad lying around. It seems to get better later on. We've only had one or two deaths that sent us back more than one or two screens, and with co-op (which this IS designed for and you're really doing yourself a dis-service if you're ignoring) total party kills are pretty rare. There's usually one player who realizes what's about to go terribly wrong and moves out of the giant AoE the blue wizard is channeling before it's too late

My submission to this thread comes in the form of high-speed oldschool pc shooter Warzow. It's based on the Quake 2 engine and is built from the ground up to be balanced for competetive play. This also makes it highly unforgiving. http://www.warsow.net/

Magicka is great. I haven't been having any real issues with it. One crash and two instances of being exploded into places I shouldn't be. However, last I checked it was not multi-platform. They canceled development of the 360 version.

He was in the PAX D&D game they played on stage. Which, by the way, anyone with any interest in pen and paper should watch, because it is AWESOME. As for Star Trek... I'm a mild fan of the series, but I felt it always were a lot of so-so episodes, and a lot of the cast really were way more stale than I could handle. Loved the reboot. So what if it isn't quite as clever as the series, everything else from acting to action was improved upon.

I saw Vengeance (Fuk Sau) "A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia" Synopsis from rottentomatoes. And that's about all you can say about the story without spoiling it. I also quite recently saw The Social Network, but that's already got pretty much everyone shouting about how good it is, so you should already have it on your to watch list. Spoiler: it's just as good as they say.

I love Anime when it's done right. Sadly, that's roughly once a decade or so. Some of my favorites would include Roughly the first half of Death Note Paprika Tokyo Godfathers Spirited Away Grave of the Fireflies In my experience, TV anime (just like western TV shows) are more often than not dumbed down to fit the format and end up being REALLY BAD.

Favourite actor/actresses is a tough one. I tend to follow directors more than actors, and the only list of actors I really have is a list of which ones I should probably AVOID. In fact, I find most movies work better if there aren't actors I strongly associate with other roles playing in them. That said, here's a list off of the top of my head. Somebody being on this list does not mean I enjoy all or even most of their movies, but rather that their acting in those movies I did enjoy were great. Brad Pitt (Fight Club, Inglorious Basterds, Snatch, Seven/Se7en) Edward Norton (Fight Club, The Illusionist, 25th Hour, American History X) Christian Bale (The Prestige, The Machinist) Michael Caine (Harry Brown, The Prestige) Maggie Gyllenhaal (Stranger Than Fiction, The Dark Knight) Bruce Willis (Surrogates, Sin City, Pulp Fiction) Harrison Ford (Blade Runner, above all else) Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Aliens) Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)

MaliciousH, I can only assume whomever told you to stay away from SMT disliked the fact that he had to actually think during combat instead of pressing the "Attack" or "Strongest Magic I Have Available" button constantly. Aside from the combat, SMT is the closest thing JRPGs ever come to a really good story. I mean, it still can't touch the likes of Mass Effect, but it sure as hell beat the crap you find in Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest.

As far as I'm concerned, nothing can compare with the Deathadder. Great shape, works on most surfaces, no need for complicated drivers, just enough buttons, etc. I feel that mice with extra "cool functions" like adjustable DPI are only there to drive up price. I've never actually used those functions on any of my mice. I feel mousepads are also worth mentioning in this thread, because that's really almost as important when it comes to the comfort. I'm currently using a Zowie P-TF cloth mouse pad. It's waterproof and sliding my mouse across it is almost as fast as on a good plastic pad. It feels like the perfect compromise. Don't listen to tests too much when it comes to gaming-grade mice. Chances are, if it's made by someone like Razer or Steelseries, the optics in it will be so good by default that any difference is negligible. It's really much more about personal preference. Razer really do not make all that great mouse pads. Or headsets. Or keyboards. Although I do hear that the new Blackwidow keyboard is good. I mean, it's basically a carbon copy of an older, well-tested keyboard but with Razer branding, so they can't really have fucked it up too badly.

No mention of any Shin Megami Tensei games? JRPG rule of thumb: if it says Shin Megami Tensei on the box it's probably worth trying out. Otherwise stay far away.

Tie between A Link To The Past and Twilight Princess. Ocarina of Time, while good, really isn't THAT great.

In truth, it depends on the game, but if I have to pick one, give me a goddamned server list. Honestly I feel most games would do well with supporting both options. I can't imagine StarCraft 2 without matchmaking, nor can I imagine it without custom games.

There is actually a pretty good, objective video explaining the differences between LoL and HoN It's slightly out of date; it mentions the revamped Heroes of Newerth team matchmaking, but because the author hadn't had the time to try it out before the video was made, he hardly mentions it. After having used it I can say it works great. Personally I vastly prefer Heroes of Newerth. I wrote a review on it over here. EDIT: @mergedwarrior: HoN is no more imbalanced than DotA. Both of them have that problem.

I'm expecting this to start out just like the PSP: An uninteresting console filled with simply lesser versions of it's big brother's games. It took ages before the PSP started shoveling out the good stuff, and even then the gems were few and far between. I'll probably pick it up at some point, but I'm not expecting it to be worth it any time soon.

Been there, done that. Twice. Don't look at me like I'm insane.

I have a 100mbit connection and have tried using all the popular browsers. Most of the time it works, but sometimes it just refuses to work. And no it's not smooth as butter, not if you're used to using an actual media player on your PC. I tend to use a customized Foobar2000 layout that gives me access to my whole music library with a snap. Besides, even Grooveshark is lacking a small but significant part of my music library. Not to mention the inconsistent quality and wrongly tagged files.

Too bad spotify only has about half of what I listen to, and often in bad quality. Until there is a spotify-style service for us with more obscure music tastes, I'll keep on storing a local music library on my media hard drive. have you people not heard of grooveshark? stream music on your comp set up a favorite list, playlist whatever. can't find what you want? upload it! taadaaa I have heard of and use Grooveshark. The interface is clunky as all hell and at peak times songs can load really slowly, but it's good for playing music when I can't access my media hard drive for some reason (at a friend's place or some such)

Too bad spotify only has about half of what I listen to, and often in bad quality. Until there is a spotify-style service for us with more obscure music tastes, I'll keep on storing a local music library on my media hard drive.

Bold text is key. Yes, it is true that pirates defend themselves because the likelyhood that someone will attack them for admitting to piracy is very high. Wether the pirate himself considers it wrong on some or all levels, we can not be sure without asking him. Additionally I'd like to offer my apologies for responding so emotionally to your original post. Your attempt to analyze pirates who defend themselves pre-emptively, and therefore by extension myself, angered me.

I was gonna edit this into my last post, but for some reason I can't seem to find any edit button. I assume it is deactivated after a time - by the way, I can still delete the post instead, which I find pretty funny. Oh well. If I were to actually accuse you of something, I'd be pretty obvious about it instead of trying to include you in an explanation as to why pirates are generally so overly defensive. For example, in my last post I'm accusing you of not reading my post properly. In the one before that I'm accusing you of ad hominem (as I've already admitted, pretty foolishly) and of pretty terrible psychoanalysis.