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Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

Because we're all mental!


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A GTA style Dredd game

Rogue Trooper - maybe done in the style of Fallout

Canon Fodder - first person in the style of Bioshock/Condemned.

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I thought New Vegas was far better than Fallout 3.

My main gripe with Fallout 3 (great game that it is) were the building interiors - they pretty much all looked the same. And New Vegas has a lot more NPCs to interact with.

Here's a question - in New Vegas you get the Legion and the leader is called Caesar (the in game speech pronounces it 'Kaiser') whereas I always pronounced Caesar 'Seizer'!
What exactly is it?

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[Underworld]

My Predator marathon had to take a break as I am currently doing some house-sitting (and they don't own any Predator DVDs).

So last night I watched Underworld whilst doing some sketching.  Two reasons to love this film - Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy.  Kate Beckinsale is certainly pretty and does an OK job coming across as an action starlet but she has been irrevocably tainted by Total Recall (remake).  She was awful in that awful film.  Although she is better in Underworld, it is clear their are great limits to her acting and the film is carried by others.  It's a fun Vampire/Werewolf action flick and I really never expected anything beyond what it is.

Each to there own but I thought the Underworld films were absolutely awful. A lot of my friends think they're great so perhaps It's just me.

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[Sega Master System]

First console owned was a Sega Master System. I can still, all these years later, remember playing Aztec Adventure on Christmas morning. In fact, 20 something years on I can even still hum you the music from the first level.

I must have played that game to death. I miss the good old days when all you needed was a d-pad and 2 buttons. None of this kinnect crap or online requirements. Plus them cartridges were built to last. I never had one that couldn't be fixed with a bit of a blow.

Sega Master system was my first games machine also. I remember playing Psycho Fox to absolute death, finding all the secret warps and all that jazz.

I agree about the cartridges. They bounced off walls pretty well and still remained playable. And the instruction books that dedicated a whole page to "how not to treat games cartridge" - do not submerse in water, do not hit with hammer; etc.

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A music section could be added if there is sufficient interest...

I would like to see a dedicated music section.

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By that rationale, one might equate human activity to a very slow natural disaster on a par with a super volcano or asteroid impact - the only real difference being the time-scale. Where the Chicxulub Impact did most of its damage in the first few hours, days and weeks, human activity is stretching the process out.

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This leads me on an intriguing line of thought...

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If it wasn't for the Chicxulub Impact (eg.) humanity probably wouldn't even exist. From our point of view, then, Chicxulub was a Good Thing. Impacts, however, are a very hit and miss (no pun intended) driver of extinctions - too big a hit and the planet could have remained lifeless forever. An impact is also indiscriminate, eradicating all species - the successful and unsuccessful alike.

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Given the above, are not the extinctions man is causing and allegedly causing a much gentler and less dangerous cause than asteroids? We all know how robust life is - if all the tigers disappear (God forbid) then eventually something else will move in to take its place - something with a better understanding of how to co-exist with the human animal.

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It could be argued, then, that as a driver to extinctions human activity is preferable to impacts or super volcanoes and, at the extreme end of the argument, actually a Good Thing.

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Are there any "good" extinctions? What if we could make the Ebola virus extinct? Or some species of harmful bacteria? How about making mosquitoes extinct? They've killed more people than all the lions and tigers and crocodiles and sharks in all of history combined, probably. And what about rats? Horrid, filthy, disease-ridden vermin with those nasty teeth, cold dead eyes and those disgusting nuts they have sticking out the back. If rats were moved onto the 'Endangered List" tomorrow would you think "shame" or would you think "it's about bloody time"?

One creature that drives me to absolute rage; Flies!
Detestable dirty things, yes; but I still would not wish for their complete eradication from existence.

It's the same with harmful viruses - yes they kill some people, but not all (evolution in action right there).

And as for Tigers, if they were wiped out what could possibly take their place? Evolution doesn't happen overnight.

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Because there's nothing fucking natural about shooting the last surviving members of a species so you can hack of a part of its body and sell it to idiotic fuckwits who think it'll help them get an erection.

I get what Mr. Shark is saying and I'd argue that the human race is as much a part of nature as any other species and it's completely natural for them to massacre things out of existence and be idiotic fuckwits. They've been doing it for millennia, the horrible gits.

The way I see it is thus:

The Human race is apparently the apex of evolution on Terra, with our complex emotions, advanced thought, the ability to adapt to pretty much any situation; and yet we allow the world around us to be pretty much Fucked in the Ass by a corporate minority and self serving politicians.


This is not an intelligent way for a species to behave as far as I'm concerned. By destroying our own environment (and the life within) we are ensuring our own demise.


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I wasn't sure where to put this (definitely not 'science is drokking fantastic').

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15663982

Tis a fucking shame and no mistake!

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A cheese burger with Bacon and onion rings from the sandwich van at work.

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Elysium - I really enjoyed it despite a couple of nonsenses in the plot. A good film but not as good as District 9.

Honourable mention for Jodie Foster for doing one of the finest 'Margaret Thatcher' impressions I've ever seen!

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The tune from the original arcade version of Gauntlet - the in between level tune.

And also from the arcade; Crude Busters - not the music but the in-game speech (Psycho Santa, Ho Ho Ho).

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Is it good to get or Battlefield 4 or COD Ghosts?

A friend of mine has COD Ghosts and he reckons it's the best call of duty game he's ever played. The new extinction mode is apparently "the bollocks".

I don't know anyone that has Battlefield 4 but i've heard there are serious issues with the multiplayer.

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I've just finished part one and thought it to be excellent.

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WHAT KIND OF RULER WOULD YOU BE?

12 inches.


No damnit, Democratic President 77%.  Gruddamnit, that's no fun.

74% Anarchist.

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