SolongWrex

@jsnyder82 said:

Yeah, well I was just reading an article talking about how when you're actually in-game, these micro-transactions are really intrusive. Also, the game makes it really difficult in parts to actually find the items in-game, and constantly reminds you that you have the option to just give up and purchase them in the store. I didn't find too much to complain about until I read that article. It seems genuinely sleazy now.

I'd be quite interested to read that article, if you have a link. That's basically confirming all of people's fears and it all just sounds far too convenient.

I can sight-read reasonably well on the guitar as well as sing vocal parts a prima vista as long as they're reasonably predictable. A couple of years ago I switched from classical guitar to the lute, which I play mainly out of French tablature.Fairly straightforward if you're used to guitar tabs.

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@TyCobb said:

Um... well Mayo is just egg yolk and oil. If you really want a replacement then it would need to be something along the same lines. There really isn't a substitute if you are talking about using it in a real cooking recipe. If you are talking about sandwiches then use whatever you want.

I guess I mean mostly salads.

Salads with mayonnaise? Eww... when I make my salad sauce, I never use mayonnaise. Along with the oil, vinegar and spices I use whipping cream. It only has 30% fat while mayo has 70% and it tastes a lot better.

Eh, plenty of good salads make use of mayo. Waldorf comes to mind. But if we're talking just a basic dressing you slather on whatever plant you're eating then yeah, ew.

I don't know where you're from, but mayo isn't a common ingredient for salads in Europe. And I've never heard of a waldorf salad... to each their own of course, but eating a salad as a light meal doesn't make much sense if you but mayo on it.

Oh I'm from Finland. We have some pretty well-established mayo-based salads here, like potato salad and beetroot salad, which are typically eaten as sides during the holiday season. They're definitely quite heavy, you're right about that, but as part of a larger meal they're fine. The Waldorf salad, by the way, is an American salad involving at least apple, celery, walnuts and mayo.

@Morrow said:

@Aegon said:

@TyCobb said:

Um... well Mayo is just egg yolk and oil. If you really want a replacement then it would need to be something along the same lines. There really isn't a substitute if you are talking about using it in a real cooking recipe. If you are talking about sandwiches then use whatever you want.

I guess I mean mostly salads.

Salads with mayonnaise? Eww... when I make my salad sauce, I never use mayonnaise. Along with the oil, vinegar and spices I use whipping cream. It only has 30% fat while mayo has 70% and it tastes a lot better.

Eh, plenty of good salads make use of mayo. Waldorf comes to mind. But if we're talking just a basic dressing you slather on whatever plant you're eating then yeah, ew.

@Catarrhal said:

Syphon Filter. They tried way too hard to make it realistic, and it looked silly as hell.

Oh yeah, good call. I mean you can't really fault them for trying to push the run animation envelope at the time, but unfortunately the things they got right only served to magnify the things that were off.

@Jazzycola said:

I don't really get why it matters? I guess if someone wants to pump their fist at Ebert and say you were wrong, but what's the point in that. If a person enjoys a particular type of media why does it matter if another person doesn't like it, cause really that's the only reason why a person would say that it's not art. I suppose it's human nature to want to know that it's cool to like the thing they like.

It's not about personal likes, it's about legitimacy and principle. Ebert didn't say games are boring and stupid, he said games can't be art. And even if that's not really a rational position to take anymore, it's still being discussed, which is not the case with other art forms. That this kind of wholesale dismissal of an art form is still done is why this news matters. When the art establishment accepts games as part of the art gang, it'll trickle down, and eventually we can start talking about the qualities of singular works and whether or not they are art rather than having to constantly validate an entire medium.

@Tan said:

So choices are little weird, but Animal Crossing is by far the most baffling.

Cool though!

Have you played it?

@Nick said:

So happy to hear this! Now Beyond Good and Evil 2 just needs to be announced!

Exactly. Doesn't look like it's going to happen, but seriously, with these two games, my life would be complete.

"Music was originally discreet, seemly, simple, masculine, and of good morals. Have not the moderns rendered it lascivious beyond measure?" - Jacob of Liege, 1425

@Phished0ne: And it's not like every game in which you kill something has to make you cry for the victims' families, but I do wonder if games should be moving on from this whole notion of killing everything to win. There are twenty-four Xbox 360 games on my shelf, and in only two three of them is killing or combating sapient beings not the main focus of gameplay. Maybe I just have a penchant for violent games, who knows. Spec Ops is a shooter, so you know going in that there's probably going to be shooting involved, but looking back, it's a little worrying how quickly and seamlessly the game transitions from "find survivors, report back" to "let's kill everything we see". It's instant, and you never look back. Walker keeps saying that it's the only way, there's no choice and so on, and the player keeps going, reflexively, against insurmountable odds. It's like Walker's giving you a live commentary of how you've been conditioned to act in video games.