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#1 Posted by Example1013 (4457 posts) - 1 day, 18 hours ago
#2 Posted by Example1013 (4457 posts) - 2 days, 15 hours ago

@jakob187: No, minion collision is bullshit. I've been trapped behind my own tower before.

#3 Posted by Example1013 (4457 posts) - 6 days, 9 hours ago

@aegon said:

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@psylah said:

I don't get this censorship of this post on a website known worldwide as the number one source of naked cartoon pussy.

It's a bait and switch. Giantbomb's google search results promise the Naked Cartoon Pussy, but the website fails to deliver.

Still the number one source for turgid minotaur cock, though.

Is / was that not screened?

google it. 2nd result.

#4 Posted by Example1013 (4457 posts) - 6 days, 10 hours ago

@psylah said:

I don't get this censorship of this post on a website known worldwide as the number one source of naked cartoon pussy.

It's a bait and switch. Giantbomb's google search results promise the Naked Cartoon Pussy, but the website fails to deliver.

Still the number one source for turgid minotaur cock, though.

#5 Posted by Example1013 (4457 posts) - 6 days, 11 hours ago

@mattyftm said:

I can see some tweaks happening down then road, but they're never going to fully backpedal.

But what you're suggesting is never going to happen. The mainstream don't know or care about DRM. What they care about is Halo. The big name games are what they care about and that's what will influence their purchasing decision. The PS4 is never going to outsell the XB1 5 to 1. Not in a million years.

I don't think Halo is going to be a big enough selling point. Talking about value means we really have to take into account the fact that half of the stuff at the MS event is still going to be coming to PS4, especially the biggest seller, CoD. Unless MS does something serious about their price point, I think a lot of people are going to buy a PS4 just because it's a better value.

Really it 90% comes down to how the new PSN matches up against Live, though. I know many people who use their Xbox 360 exclusively for online simply because the network is more robust and doesn't have some of the lag and connection issues that a lot of people have with the current PSN, and they're willing to pay a premium for it. Xbone definitely has familiarity and trust on that front, and that's going to be their main advantage, if anything, for large portions of the core userbase.

#6 Edited by Example1013 (4457 posts) - 8 days, 4 hours ago

It pays for itself with the free games alone. DriveClub was going to cost $60 and now everyone who has a PS4 online will have that game. DriveClub alone pays for the service, the additional free games are a bonus.

"PS+ version" of Drive Club, let's not get too far ahead here.

Anyways I'm not upset about it. I mean, I'd like free online play, but PS+ is a really good service, and it'll be nice to get to play games that I wouldn't buy for myself.

#7 Edited by Example1013 (4457 posts) - 11 days, 10 hours ago

@rebgav said:

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I picked up like the first 5 books and then quit after the first one. Martin spent too much time building up Ned as a character, only to kill him off, which left everyone else basically undeveloped and uninteresting because I had just spent 5 hours reading a book without really getting to know any of them as "main characters", besides Jon Snow and Daenerys.

I do not understand people's weird attachment to Ned Stark. He did have a few more chapters than any other individual in the first book and he's likable enough but a lot of his chapters were more about world building, plot and introducing other characters than they were about Ned. In terms of character building and story involvement, Tyrion, Dany, Catelyn and Jon Snow seem to get much more lavish treatment, while Ned spends a great deal of time observing other people and being talked-at. When Eddard isn't being used as a narrative instrument he's about as plain, obvious and boring as a character can be.

That's the entire point, though. SInce the time is spent viewing things from the perspective of Eddard and colored by his thoughts, we get a very in-depth look at his motivations and workings as a character. He may be somewhat boring, but when he says or does something, the action is dictated by the set-up beforehand. Jon Snow is the other character who I really think is set-up well, but he's not central to the "Game of Thrones", he's just being set up for the next portion once Winter arrives. I'd have no problem reading a book about Jon Snow, and I have no problem with Ned getting killed, but the rest of the characters just weren't fleshed out enough for me to want to read their stories, and it strikes me as excessively boring to read 4 books just to get to the good part.

I don't have a "weird attachment" to Ned, he's the only character I have an attachment to at all. As I said, I think more of the first book needed to be devoted to character introductions from their own perspectives. The books are written in third person, but each chapter uses a specific character's point-of-view, and even goes so far as to tell the reader that character's thoughts. With Ned, we get a lot of time to understand how he thinks, which is not a luxury we get for any of the other characters who are ostensibly supposed to carry the next few books.

My counter-point would be that Ned's thoughts and motivations aren't exactly colorful and his perspective is mostly useless, he is as new to the machinations of the Court at King's Landing as the reader is. For those reasons we spend most of our time with Ned listening to one character talk about another, or watching other characters interact. Consider that the branch of the plot that he's actively involved with for the bulk of his time as the Hand requires Ned to learn about other people's motivations and relationships rather than having or developing any of his own. He is, essentially, just an exposition sponge for other characters. I think that I find myself in the opposite position to you, the idea of another six books from Ned's perspective would be a massive turn off for me.

I should be clear that I'm not arguing that you should continue reading despite your reservations or that you specifically have an odd attachment to Ned, I just don't understand why people latched onto Eddard Stark as the "hero" of the book (or the Stark family as the main characters of the tv show) when they were just small facets of the whole and, in my opinion, not particularly interesting in comparison to the other characters.

Yeah I'm not saying I'd want 6 more books of Ned necessarily, as much as I'm saying that I wasn't sufficiently engaged to want 6 more books of anyone else either.

#8 Posted by Example1013 (4457 posts) - 11 days, 18 hours ago

@rebgav said:

@example1013 said:

I picked up like the first 5 books and then quit after the first one. Martin spent too much time building up Ned as a character, only to kill him off, which left everyone else basically undeveloped and uninteresting because I had just spent 5 hours reading a book without really getting to know any of them as "main characters", besides Jon Snow and Daenerys.

I do not understand people's weird attachment to Ned Stark. He did have a few more chapters than any other individual in the first book and he's likable enough but a lot of his chapters were more about world building, plot and introducing other characters than they were about Ned. In terms of character building and story involvement, Tyrion, Dany, Catelyn and Jon Snow seem to get much more lavish treatment, while Ned spends a great deal of time observing other people and being talked-at. When Eddard isn't being used as a narrative instrument he's about as plain, obvious and boring as a character can be.

That's the entire point, though. SInce the time is spent viewing things from the perspective of Eddard and colored by his thoughts, we get a very in-depth look at his motivations and workings as a character. He may be somewhat boring, but when he says or does something, the action is dictated by the set-up beforehand. Jon Snow is the other character who I really think is set-up well, but he's not central to the "Game of Thrones", he's just being set up for the next portion once Winter arrives. I'd have no problem reading a book about Jon Snow, and I have no problem with Ned getting killed, but the rest of the characters just weren't fleshed out enough for me to want to read their stories, and it strikes me as excessively boring to read 4 books just to get to the good part.

I don't have a "weird attachment" to Ned, he's the only character I have an attachment to at all. As I said, I think more of the first book needed to be devoted to character introductions from their own perspectives. The books are written in third person, but each chapter uses a specific character's point-of-view, and even goes so far as to tell the reader that character's thoughts. With Ned, we get a lot of time to understand how he thinks, which is not a luxury we get for any of the other characters who are ostensibly supposed to carry the next few books.

#9 Edited by Example1013 (4457 posts) - 11 days, 18 hours ago

I picked up like the first 5 books and then quit after the first one. Martin spent too much time building up Ned as a character, only to kill him off, which left everyone else basically undeveloped and uninteresting because I had just spent 5 hours reading a book without really getting to know any of them as "main characters", besides Jon Snow and Daenerys.

nd I didn't particularly like Daenerys, and I got the impression from hearing a little about the rest of the books that it was going to be a loooong time before Jon Snow came back around as the central character (obviously this is all a build-up to the next winter), and it's less that I wouldn't find that storyline interesting and more that I don't give a shit about what happens between the end of the first book and whenever that occurs.

I think the whole thing would've been much more interesting if basically the entire first book were used as set-up to familiarize me with the characters, so I actually had some sort of investment in the people who were going to live past it (besides the aforementioned two).

I don't think George R. R. Martin is the second coming of great fantasy literature or anything like that, and in fact I don't even think his work counts as a masterpiece. I think it violates some of the most basic premises of engagement for the reader purely for the sake of experimentation, and I have no clue how so many people can enjoy reading the books.

About the TV show, I've never watched it and don't really care to. I'm sure it's fine, I just don't spend a lot of time watching TV and don't really feel like changing that. I also don't get HBO anymore, so there's that.

#10 Posted by Example1013 (4457 posts) - 12 days, 14 hours ago

I don't like watching Brad play because his mechanics are terrible.