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I.. uuhm.. I I have no clever or witty response, nor a rationalization that would clear my conscience. .. I'm sorry for breaking the bro pact, bro. We still bros though, bro? I was almost forced into coming here when told TAYers were nuding up (again)though. He or she that brought this to my attention and begged/coerced me into coming here was very persuasive. I would have dropped you a line.. like.. tomorrow or something.. You know I would have. .. Check your Kotaku PM's, I already dropped you a line after having someone ELSE tell me about this place. Crazyness. We can still be bros. But my brofists are still reserved for Baguettes and Kanji. You've been officially un-bro fisted. You'll not be getting a fisting from me ever again. I was gonna send you exactly that.. but then I didn't. I was gonna though..totally. Perhaps your ELSE was my ELSE as well, ever think of that, hmmm? Maybe "they" want us to fight.. I'm telling you this thing runs deep. Speaking of deep.. You CANNOT take the fist, if anything that's the best part of being bros. I urge you to reconsider. I'm still the same sexy fishcracker I've always been, plus I've only been here for like 3 hours or something. You can't just un-brofist someone on the count of something like this, especially not officially. C'mon man... think about it..

I am upset that Japan has seen the Fuckin' Naruto movie in july, and I have to wait till somewhere in 2011. It's embarassing enough for a grown man to like ninjas but having me check narutoget daily just to be dissapointed is a special kind of embarrasment.

I.. uuhm.. I I have no clever or witty response, nor a rationalization that would clear my conscience. .. I'm sorry for breaking the bro pact, bro. We still bros though, bro? I was almost forced into coming here when told TAYers were nuding up (again)though. He or she that brought this to my attention and begged/coerced me into coming here was very persuasive. I would have dropped you a line.. like.. tomorrow or something.. You know I would have. ..

These were all presentations Middle/grade school age 7-12: -Weather systems -Global Ecosystems and ecological subsystems (rainforest), -Ski's/Skiing, -videogames (product) -Napeleon (fucking depressing I know, this was a last-minute suggestion because my teacher was uncomfortable with the presentation I had been working on for 2 fucking weeks because it was about bombs, so I had 2 days to present the exiting world of history, yay) high school age 12-16: -The effect of psuedosciences on mass consumerism (astrology, zero point energy) -Videogames (psychology) (my teacher didn't want me to do a (d-k) piece on Democracy, ironic bastard) -evolutionary psychology -pathology/addiction and anatomic influence thereon Ow yeah, also an essay on why women need to clean whilst their men are working. Netted me a solid 10, probably because my Dutch teacher could stand tongue-in-cheek whereas my other teachers did not. Ow did I mention I've had a gazzilion teachers and a dozen schools per age catagory at the minimum? Yeah, that's not even an exaggeration. I was a difficult child.

@Brida: Such is one of those sub-debates. If terminology and delineating definitions don't mess it up you'll just get stuck in infinite regression... ...WHICH IS WHY I TRIED DIVERTING FROM THAT TOPIC BY STATING IT'D BY UNWISE TO GET INTO IT IN THE OP, YOUGAIS!!! GAH!

What? How DARE i? Do you even know WHO you're asking? pish posh, gone for 3 months and they forget all about you..

@hatch: Actually, that sentence "In al mijn egocentrische glorie, beste man" translates pretty easily into english as well. Behold! In al mijn egocentrische glorie, beste man. In all my egocentrical glory, good man Knowledge is power.

Perhaps you link Moffie to this place too, I've kinda missed her various corrections. Plus, I haven't gotten a single PM yet, what am I to do with all this vacant space!? Anything to make this place less sausage-y (disregarding the irony of advertizing mine in New Vegas), so.... yeah.. get moffie in here. STAT.

Genre's are static, their definitions are static (they were always a little awry to begin with but let's not digress) but the elements that define each genre are not. This means that not only will genres become innacurate/incomplete over time, the fact that genres and their definitions are considered static is incredibly limiting and the most probable source of contention later on. What's weird is that even though genres and their definition are static, most people, even reputable gaming sites often stray from one another in terms of classification. Where site A will determine genre based on the most prevalent gameplay mechanic (platforming, shooting, etc) site B will employ different methods of classification. The whole thing is so jumbled that the actual debate splits up in deveral sub-debates ad infinitum. The issue is best left ignored as consensus seems unlikely. Having said that, you can tell your friend; If you judge genre by gameplay elements (which your anecdote suggests he does) than any game incorporating said elements incorporates the genre.

In al mijn egocentrische glorie, beste man.

Might be a topic well-worth discussing. Over the years, narrative has become somewhat more highlighted in games. Personally, I think this can be traced back to the great RPG-Anything merge. At some point, Story progression, characterization and growth, traits predominantly inherent exclusively to role-playing games, got adopted by other genres. Initially, that is. Later on it became apparant that the genres were beginning to merge, with no coalition as prevalent and succesful (commercially speaking) as the RPG/FPS marriage. One can easily deduce how such a formula can reach such commercial succes when one realizes that the FPS used to only focus on ACTION whilst the "narrative" was limited to phrases of bubblegum, candy-asses and 2 paragraphs of scrolltext with a picture of some unrelated object, backdropped by the soundtrack of a 1000 cascading fat women (opera) thrown in to unstink that proverbial turd. Rpg on the other hand focussed entirely on STORY, growth, story progression, lore, depth of such depth that it would create it's own gravitational laws (Morrowind) and characterization. Obviously it was Reese's Pieces long forthcoming. While I could go on and on about the turningpointmergerhabbledash, I'd thought it more interesting to ask you people what you feel is good characterization, or perhaps just what you feel is a character that speaks to you in terms of personality. Most importantly, the reason WHY this character speaks to you. Sidenote: the layout on this thing is freakin gorgeous.

I meant I'll pick up the slack on NMM.. I'll buy a snes tomorrow with a game and maybe even review it too. No worries, I'll put it up on wave so you can redline the hell out of it till your heart's content, boss.

@Brida: A mean trick it is not, fair maiden. The materialization of the ancient principle of Veritas posts before you. (Unrelatedly, sorry boss for my inproductivity concerning NMM, I attribute this this other aspects of my life being overly stimulated as of late. I shall take my posterior off the company copier and into some source material. I shall pick up the slack, post-haste!)

*O fortuna plays in background* boo!