TheMightyEthan

This. So much this. Like I said in the "currently playing" thread, it was like Ico in that I enjoyed the climbing/traversal/puzzle parts quite a bit but the combat parts were just terrible. *Edit* - Ultimately though I came away from it with an overall positive impression, so hopefully I'll enjoy Uncharted 2 even more.

I eventually adapted to the combat to where it wasn't the worst thing ever. Still, I hope U2's is better.

See, I had the opposite experience, with conservative ideologies injected into classes where it doesn't belong. Though I agree it created a hostile environment.

I'm sorry, that was very argumentative, but if someone could prove me wrong and tell me how to turn off sixaxis you would be my hero.

Yeah, IMO they fixed the problem with scanning: that it took for fucking ever to find minerals cause you had to scan the whole damn planet grid. This is MUCH better.

I am getting trophies. It updated when I first ran the game. No sixaxis option though. *Edit* - Controls Menu: Game Menu: Controller Settings Menu (Hold Down PS Button): It's not in any of the menus. Though I didn't take pictures, I checked Display, Audio, and Language menus just to be sure it wasn't in there either.

I don't know if it's because I have the Greatest Hits version or if it's from a patch or what, but there is no option to turn off sixaxis anywhere in the menu in Uncharted 1.

Wait does that mean U2 doesn't use sixaxis? Nice. I hate the DS3's sticks (especially an issue in shooters... I can't imagine how this could even be playable with a DS3) so I'm using a 360 controller with adapter but obviously it doesn't have sixaxis so I can't aim grenades more than about 5 feet in front of me.

For anyone who wants them I have on Steam: -25% Valve -25% Valve -50% Valve -50% Codemasters -50% Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee -50% HardReset -50% TwoTribes Pack -60% VictoriaII -50% Chantelise It all expires March 1

I figure I'm just gonna slog through it, because I do enjoy the rest of the game, the plot and so forth. This way I won't have played U2 first and so it won't be even worse by comparison. (Please tell me U2 is better.)

-25% Valve -25% Valve -50% Valve -50% Codemasters -50% Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee -50% HardReset -50% TwoTribes Pack -60% VictoriaII -50% Chantelise

Started Uncharted. It makes me think of Ico in that the climbing/exploration/puzzle-solving is fun but the combat is fucktardedly terrible.

That might be the ugliest femshep I have ever seen.

Lol, I was just kidding anyway. You guys don't have Amazon in Sweden?

I don't have the Revenant, Hornet, Widow, OR whatever the big-ass shotgun is. The only power weapon I've unlocked is the Carnifex (which is a fuckin beast, I don't even bother carrying anything else on my Asari Adept).

Nuh uh! You could buy one copy from every retailer!

$P is Pain in the Ass.

I take it a lot of your statutory rape cases hinge on what constitutes a "position of authority," eh? Interesting question. I've never personally dealt with it, and I haven't researched the issue, but AFAIK the positions that count are pretty well defined. Things like teachers, bosses, police officers, doctors, non-parent caretakers, etc.

Talking with Johnny on Steam brought up another point: In games with distinct "levels", like say Halo, I don't think you necessarily need to be able to change difficulty mid-level, I think being about to change between levels is good enough. I just don't think you should have to restart the whole game from the beginning to change difficulty (IIRC Gears of War 1 works that way, but I can't remember for sure).

Oh yeah, I just meant that games that HAVE multiple difficulty levels should make them changeable on the fly, not that every game needs to have multiple difficulty levels. Specifically that wouldn't really make sense with platformers because you'd have to completely redesign the levels to change the difficulty. *Edit* - I do think though that every game needs to give some method of getting past That One Hard Part. Whether it be changing the difficulty, Superguide, just letting you skip it altogether, or something else we haven't thought of yet.

Well as long as we agree on that, I don't really feel strongly about the rest. Actually, I think in many games this would be the better solution rather than outright skipping. Though I will say that in LA Noire by the second half of the game I was always intentionally failing the car follow sequences (the ones where you're not supposed to be spotted) so I could skip them because they were so tedious, not because they were difficult. Making them easier wouldn't have helped, and not letting me skip them (as most games wouldn't have) would have made me enjoy the game less.

While it's surprising that your school was so open about sex ed, it's not surprising there was lots of sex going on in the Bible Belt. I don't know if your specific school was rural, but a lot of the Bible Belt is, and rural areas tend to have higher rates of teen sex than urban areas (with similar incomes). My hypothesis is that it's because there's nothing else to do. I first had sex when I was 14. Which brings me to something else I forgot to mention last night: that Wikipedia article I linked is slightly wrong about Kansas. 16 is the straight-up, "can say yes to anyone" age of consent, but it's not a crime to have sex with someone 14 or older if you are 2 or fewer years older than them. So a 16 year old can legally have sex with a 14 year old, and a 17 year old can legally have sex with a 15 year old, but a 17 year old cannot legally have sex with a 14 year old. Then you hit 16 and it's legal for anybody (except teachers or other adults "in positions of authority" over the kid, teachers have to wait until you're not a student anymore and others in positions of authority have to wait until you're 18).

In Kansas it's 16 also, which seems to be pretty typical in US states. Though in California, the state where the show is set, it's 18. It's just mind boggling to me that people are getting upset about the show even acknowledging that teenagers have sex. When I saw the headline (I hadn't watched the episode yet) I expected that one of the parents was going to walk in on them or something. I just can't get my mind around the idea that merely mentioning it is going "too far."

I didn't think you were talking about anyone here, I've just noticed you have a tendency to mix ad hominems in with your arguments, and I find it distasteful. Unrelatedly: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ann-brenoff/modern-family-virgin-territory_b_1296779.html

IIRC the Articles of Confederation were a PITA to modify (required unanimous consent of all states), so rather than doing so they just made a new Constitution which provided that it would go into effect when 9 of the 13 states ratified it. 12 did, but Rhode Island held out. IIRC, the other 12 states invaded and occupied Rhode Island until its government ratified the Constitution as well. Just sayin.