TheMightyEthan
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Just beat Halo 4 solo on Legendary. EAT IT CHEW!
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I've seen people genuinely bragging about this before. It just means they have more patience for trying and retrying checkpoints.
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I actually died less on Legendary than I did on Heroic. It's not about patience to retry checkpoints (though there is some of that) so much as it is patience to be methodical and smart about how you approach situations, rather than just running in guns blazing.
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Halo 4 solo on Legendary. Now Chewy can't act like he's better than me any more.
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Yeah, GTA games may be striving for realism in terms of situations, but Niko Bellic was a fucking one man army and you can't say that the gameplay is realistic in the slightest, so saying "the woman would have to be weaker to be realistic" is just a ridiculous argument. Besides, the whole "women are slower/weaker than men" thing works when you're talking about averages, but not individuals. Sure, I'm stronger than most women and could beat the crap out of them in a fight, but there are certainly many out there that I could beat the crap out of me. Ergo you could have a woman be just as capable as the men, and if you need to explain it at all (which I don't think you do) the explanation is "she's unusually strong for a woman". It wouldn't be some gaping plot hole.
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I feel the same way about female protagonists (and games not being in America) as I do about gay characters in games: sure, overall I'd like to see more of it, but each game is unique and I can't really criticize any specific one for not doing it (barring something really extreme like replacing Samus with a man).
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I've seen several petitions recently of people asking banks to stop trying to collect student loans from the parents (who cosigned the loan) of the student after the student has died. Like, I get that that's a terrible thing to happen to a parent, losing their child, but what did you think the point of cosigning a loan was? It's so that if the principal person can't pay it back then they collect from the cosigner. It sucks for you, but that's what you agreed to.
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Apologies if I already posted this, but the discussion in the AC3 thread reminded me of it: What do you call a horse with a snorkel?
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Yeah, that's my understanding too. I don't agree with the Didact's reasoning, I was just explaining what I think it is.
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Yeah, I agree. I feel like intentionally destroying creative works is a Bad Thing.
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Epic's judgment against Silicon Knights is upped to $9M, and SK is ordered to destroy all unsold copies of all games developed using Epic's code, as well as destroy any code built using Epic's property, including the code for those games. I think the only thing that can be said is "Holy shit."
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I don't know about over there, but over here the stereotypical pedophile is a man who preys on young boys, and (again, over here) a lot of people have this idea that all gay men are pedophiles. So that might be where the gay comment came from. *Edit* - I think it's because the people who think that think of being gay as an immoral sexual perversion, and so I guess they figure if you like one immoral sexual perversion you must like them all, or something.
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Completely unrelated:
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I would have been disappointed if Obama had lost, but I would not have thought it was the end of the world. If anything I probably would have had a sentiment similar to the one reasonable person on that site who said something like "Just 4 more years, we can get through this."
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I would buy that in a heartbeat. Maybe they'll make a multiplayer DLC centered around the ship combat? I know that's probably too much to hope for, but it would be amazing.
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Good luck. Hopefully something there will pan out.
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I have a smart TV with a Netflix app, but I still use my PS3 for Netflix for 2 reasons: one, it's WAY more useable. The design is very similar but the TV is just a teensy bit too slow to run it well, so browsing/searching/etc is a pain on the TV. Two, PS3 is the only device I have that will play Netflix with 5.1 audio for some reason (as far as I can find only PS3 and Roku even support 5.1 on Netflix). I also know this is completely tangential to your point.
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White People Mourning Romney
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When I look at the election results and see that Florida still isn't decided yet, just like every other year, it makes me realize something: I'm glad their bullshit doesn't matter for once. Also, with the possible exception of Florida, Romney pretty handily won the Confederacy.
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Yeah, I actually overstated what I meant. I was thinking that phones will become common in like 5 years and dominant in like 10-15 years.
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I've been thinking for a while that I'm sure it won't be too long before smartphones begin to replace credit cards as the primary payment method, and then the end of that article says this: My other thought was that it doesn't seem very secure to use your card as the one-time-code generator, because then if someone steals your card they've also got that generator.
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Worked for me. *Edit* - I should say it took me to the US site, showed it as free, and let me add it to the cart. I didn't actually "buy" it cause I'm at work and already have it on Steam.
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Man, the Nexus 10 is butt fugly.
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I have a Nexus 7 and really really like it. I use it for reading books a lot, and I think the 10 would be too big for that, but I haven't actually used the 10 so beyond that I can't say.
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how long does the battery last on a regular basis? like an app here and there, checking the web, etc...
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Several days. I can get about 8 hours continuous out of it reading on the Kindle app, less if I'm doing something that uses the wifi or is more processor intensive. But unless I'm using it a lot I only have to charge it once or twice a week.
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I like how that guy in the video says "Over the last 4 years the conservative movement has grown stronger." Yes, that's why the Republicans lost seats in both houses, especially Tea Party seats, and also failed to take the Presidency...
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Yeah, ordinarily I wouldn't have done that at all, but I was trying to generate different states for import into Mass Effect 2.
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"LGBT" is the catch-all term you're looking for. And yeah, it's like Dean said, it's more of an "our powers combined" thing. Which is why they'll sometimes throw Ally in there.
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That's a human installation, not a Forerunner one, or I'd agree with you.
