Aeterna

@Metal_Mills said:

@Aeterna said:

@CashBailey said:

They are seriously the worst band on earth. And I use the word 'band' in the loosest possible way.

When Wil.LL.IiiA.Mm turned up in that WOLVERINE movie I was surprised all his dialogue wasn't auto-tuned.

They fucking suck. More insipid and contrived than even Nickleback.

Admit you would still do Fergie.

Not after the pictures of her pissing herself on stage. I lost all interest.

I was unaware of such a thing happening, I take back my statement for obvious reasons.

@CashBailey said:

They are seriously the worst band on earth. And I use the word 'band' in the loosest possible way.

When Wil.LL.IiiA.Mm turned up in that WOLVERINE movie I was surprised all his dialogue wasn't auto-tuned.

They fucking suck. More insipid and contrived than even Nickleback.

Admit you would still do Fergie.

Topic title is too different from the actual quote.

Though this is more click-able, this is disappointing Patrick.

tear up my walley you mean!

This looks really good, I'm looking forward to the end result.

That sucks yes. Ubisoft probably should've taken a look at it, but maybe it was a really hard problem to fix.

At least... lesson learned right? Whenever you are overwriting your 1 save.. you should get that feeling of "Wait.. this isn't right." from now on.

@HitmanAgent47 said:

The very moment I read "purpose" or "special" I simply sigh at the existence of religion and humanity's supposed need for it.

This is clearly not the kind of website to discuss these things.

@MysteriousBob said:

@shenstra said:

The reason we flood the world with shitty reality TV and game shows?

Wait, those are all Dutch?
You assholes. I had no idea English had such a large effect in your country. As an English Language student, I'm stunned that someone would opt for English rather than their own natively developed tongue. Just strikes me as bizarre. Don't you consider the localisation as an acknowledgement of your national identity?

I have the same thoughts on this matter as the OP, I would probably simply not buy a game if it was only in dutch. I always want to hear the original version, if that's possible. That way nothing will get lost in translation. If I happen to see someone watching something on TV with dutch subtitles I merely listen and cringe at the many many faulty translations. They really are sub-par and sadly, a lot of older people don't see that. The latest generations though have grown up with English everywhere and thus they have no problem with it.

Also you mention our national identity, it isn't as strong as some have already mentioned in this thread. In fact the notion of requiring someone to "acknowledge" my national identity seems ridiculous to me.

What I have always wondered though; don't you get tired of hearing english music everywhere? All the popular songs here are mostly English, so to us it's weird to hear our mothertongue in pop music.

@billnyethesciencepie said:

No current stats on images?

Not that I can find either way, the only way I think would be to get one of the engineers to fill in that number for us.

They might also just not calculate it because it'd take a million years.

So I decided to watch the how to build a bomb videos again and in the 10th video they show the database stats at the time and I wondered how much has changed in those nearly 3 years.

The statistics then (aug 1st 2008) :

• 4,814 Characters
• 6,155 Companies
• 1,403 Concepts
• 22,222 Games
• 324,180 Images
• 924 Locations
• 89,838 People
• 90 Platforms
• 46,976 Releases
• 948 Objects

And the statistics now (jun 13th 2011):

• 18,604 Characters
• 7,290 Companies
• 6,465 Concepts
• 32,808 Games
• 3,648 Locations
• 100,315 People
• 126 Platforms
• 2,026 Franchises
• 4,781 Objects

So there's been a very big increase in some categories while others have only seen a minor growth. Some of this can be explained (Platforms, for obvious reasons) but there are also some which I am curious about.

I'm also kind of surprised by the relatively small increase on the number of people, while I find the number of people in the old database to be really unexpected, but that may be because I never really venture to look for the people.

Anyone able to fish up the number of images from somewhere? It has to be in the millions surely.

That was great. I really need to go back to those How to build a bomb videos, it was such a great time. Arrow pointing down podcast. Coming home after a long day and eating dinner whilst watching the ER.... *nostalgia trip*

It really was super cool to see them being so open about things.