coreytn81

I'm 29 and work a full time job and have a family to tend to as well. Work from 8:00 - 5:00, I play for about an hour a day when I get home from work before I workout for another hour. Basically from 7:00/7:30 until Midnight is my girlfriend's time with me. We also run a photography business on the side together and stay fairly busy with that during the evenings and weekends. I have a slug of caffeine in the morning to be alert enough to not fall asleep in the shower, and do it all over again 5 days a week. The days of gaming until 2:00AM and going to school are over for sure. I honestly don't miss is it as I think you grow older you tend to understand productivity and making something of yourself and leaving something behind for your kids. If you don't have kids, then leaving some sort of positive mark on the world so that your life mattered.

I think when you consider that these games types are included in games where you kill other characters, a gametype where you kill other people in the same context is only natural. Almost every major sport, sans competitive solo sports, is one team versus another it also seems only natural and more intuitive to include this mode. The "us versus them" idea is a proven mechanic. 
 
My question is what spurred this question in the first place?

The only thing I learned from this thread is that people who study law are overly sensitive and highly opinionated. GIVEMEREPLAY, Congratulations on the test score. If law school is where you want to go and have the means, then so be it. I think its ridiculous that a bunch of blowhards on a video game forum are all of a sudden scoffing and offering up "sage advice", comparing dick sizes in regards to collegiate merit and test scores. 

My favorite photo:   http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L1qxTj7C52Q/Sww3cKjVhsI/AAAAAAAAAXY/bKQ5ygzwtm8/s1600/kc.jpg 
 
Kevin Carter took this, who struggled as a photographer and never really "made it" aside from this shot which says a lot about the conditions in Sudan. He later committed suicide.
 
I think travelling or just getting out of your normal routine is great for creativity in general. Seeing things that you take for granted every day can stagnate your ability to think creatively, unless you have the ability to see things in a new light. Now that daily inspirational quip is out of the way, I don't have a favorite photograph per se as much as I have favorite photographers. I think people who churn out consistent, thought provoking work are far more interesting than any one single image they produce or capture. All this camera phone bashing is funny, because it's not always the medium but the photographer that makes the difference. A fast and accurate weapon indeed helps, but its the soldier behind the gun that has the ability to pull the trigger and make the shot. Chase Jarvis has an entire book of just iPhone photos that are very good, and its all done with a 2MP camera. 
 
So anyway, some favorite photogs are: David Nightingale, Zack Arias, Chase Jarvis, David Jackson, Joe McNally, Cliff Mautner, Jeremy Cowart, and a few others I can't think of off the top of my head. I tend to appreciate more commercial and editorial work than purely artistic or aesthetic photography.
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidicarus/ is my Flickr stream, and http://www.aperiophotographystudio.com is my business site between my girlfriend and I.

My first game machine was a Pong machine. It was red and took D batteries, which I can't seem to find listed here in the database. I need to pull that thing out of the attic. I also had this:  http://www.giantbomb.com/odyssey-2/60-60/ but I don't recall any cartridges for it. I think it had some very basic bowling game, so I wouldn't really count these at all since my comprehension of what was actually going on was limited. My first game would have to be River Raid for the 2600.

cologne reacts with your own natural body chemicals as well so the same cologne can smell totally different per person. I know when I was in high school everyone wore Cool Water, and on me it smelled like a medicine cabinet. I wear Polo Blue, and like many people have mentioned, I get a lot of complements on how nice I smell. I also (to my own chagrin) wear Axe Phoenix clear deodorant. Both smell clean, as I don't want to smell overbearing, like flowers, or any odd chemical. I think if you smell like anything in particular it can become nauseating to those who come in contact with you daily. I shower twice a day (I work out daily) and I wear deodorant and spray a little cologne on the back of my neck in the mornings. 
 
I guess that's a decent question - how much and where do you spray/put on cologne? I don't think the problem is always bad cologne but how much people wear thats offensive. Some people I work with seem to bathe in the stuff and the awful smell lingers for an hour or so even when they leave my office.

I always found it sort of patronizing when someone asked that that question. "hey lil'fella, you playin' a game? You winning? Attaboy!" as they tussle your hair, dismissing game playing as child's fair. On the flip side of that, it seems sort of elitist and smug to say that "they just don't understand how profound video game storytelling has become". 

less than a minute in, Jeff explains how its "not for me" and that he's not able to care about Sonic any longer. Brad tries to clarify that "its just a matter of taste, right?" and Jeff agrees.  I don't think anyone is dismissing it as garbage and that no one will enjoy Sonic 4, and they even say that a lot of the latter titles were geared towards kids. I guess I'm not quite sure what your issue is with the quick look? I think part of the problem with Sonic games as some of them simply are poorly rushed games that have not identified their target audience. A lot of us grew up with Sonic, whether we had a Sega or had a friend that had one he was very much a character of our childhood. As adults, we have since moved on (this is a generalization, but I think it's fairly accurate). Since Sonic began to target kids, I think they failed at marketing it as such in that children are probably more attracted to what they know, like cartoon shows or known properties they are familiar with. I'm making a lot of general assumptions but a company that continually churns out games that play on the exact same game mechanic, begs the question of why create a new game that does the exact same thing, so many times. 
 
Side scrollers became passe for awhile and made way for polygonal games and shooters. Those genres become tired as well and the market moves on. Side scrollers have seen a return on hand-helds and are doing well. Look at how Fighting games eventually became tired and are now seeing a renaissance. There was a time period of rest when you didn't see certain genres and specific games, but there has been no rest for Sonic.. just churning out the same tired formula without any sort of variance aside from going polygonal.

" There is an entire site dedicated to odd people at Wal-Mart.  I also live in the Deep South, so the percentage of people at Wal-Mart that are odd is greatly increased. "