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Holy goddamn fuck I cannot believe there are some people here who think that social ostracizing ever fucking works. When the hell has singling out a group of people you don't like ever made them turn around and go, "You're right, we're sorry."? Goddamn never.

You want fat people to lose weight? You help them do it. Making someone feel like shit only adds to their anxieties. Considering how many of you assholes probably have some anxieties around shit that people made you feel bad about, I'd think we'd all know better. Then again, I guess we're on the internet, where common sense and rational behavior takes a back seat to vindictive bullshit.

It's not kids today that are the problem. Every kid this age has the potential to be this awful. It's that buses don't have nearly enough regulation anymore.

Being someone only out of high school for about four years now, there was never anyone that could actually enforce any sort of restraint on anyone on the bus. The bus driver could write kids up, but that usually only happened if a fight started. Beyond that, all they could do was look up every now and then and be prickly assholes to everyone because a handful of kids caused all the problems. My particular bus went through at least six bus drivers in the course of a year because of how bad the kids acted, but there was nothing the bus drivers could do to stop it.

It's like people are expecting somehow that a bunch of kids stuck in box for a half an hour will ever result in anything but chaos and that one pre-goddamn-occupied adult is sufficient to quell said chaos. So I'd put away the "kids these days" complaints. That's not the problem here.

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On topic: I feel bad for this lady, since these are the conditions my drivers were put in pretty much constantly. Really, I just fuckin' hate school buses. However, lets not hunt these kids down and ruin their lives with the internet. They're shitheads, but they're in an environment that basically compels them to be shitheads.

@Video_Game_King said:

@MikeGosot said:

Because bad game design will magically fix itself later in the game?

Perhaps they will? If you don't finish the game, you have absolutely no way of knowing.

And there's equal chance that they won't. A horrible game with an amazing ending is still a horrible game. Unless that "ending" somehow flips the whole thing on its goddamn head, but that doesn't exactly make it better, does it? It still means that they shipped an inherently flawed product and it's generally my feeling that a super-great ending would only make those flaws harder to bare.

A game that shows signs of being something that could've been good is not actuallya good game, so I don't know why anyone acts like this would have a massive change in the nature of the review.

But then, this is all kind of predicated on the flawed notion that endings are fundamentally more important than any other aspect of a story, which is kind of silly.

I'm going to put it this way: How many of you have been public figures on the internet? How many of you public figures have gotten a bad reputation for some sloppy comments and had the internet (read: more than five people) jump on your back for it?

No one?

What a surprise. He seems like a regular dude who's not good with PR. For all the, "He's a dick" comments, you guys seem pretty catty yourselves.

Tank or crowd control machine. I like to live longer than the people around me.

I like healing also, but only in PvP. It's fun to make an iron curtain of your teammates and not so fun to faceroll through a dungeon staring at health bars.

The reason why no one gives a shit when dudes kill dudes is because of nature. Males are the hunters in our species and breaking down into tears every time another guy died would've spelled the end of humans pretty damn fast. We had to be the high risk-reward automatons that did the shitty, unpleasant and unsafe jobs that have a high mortality rate attached to them. Not giving a fuck about your fellow man is an ancient coping mechanism.

Women, on the other hand, had to be more emotionally diverse, as their job was specifically in dealing with and raising other humans. The reason men also want to protect them is because a woman is more important for reproduction and the continuation of the species. Thus, they were treasured and jealously guarded. Ironically, this also leads into why they were repressed.

Now we've come nearly full circle and the problem is that men are still seen as having inherently less value than women (unless they make a lot of money). See how these things are related?

The people who are claiming advertising are right. This game was on my radar before it came out and I never knew that it even had.

It literally doesn't matter how good your product is if no one knows about it. Frankly, advertising is equally important as quality content. Success generally requires both.

I had a similar thing happen. Did some fanart for the Mythbusters a semester ago and had it retweeted by Adam. I was pretty thrilled at the time, but it's been kinda' downhill from there.

Glad to hear things have gone well for you, as someone who has been in shockingly similar positions (art-wise and relationship-wise). And from one art student to another - learn to love art history. It'll blow your goddamn mind if you let it.

I always get super bummed when I think about the theoretical potential of things in games and then realize that their usefulness in competitive gaming is ruled out by math-hammering and degrees of conformity. I truly dislike that it often comes down to mathematics deciding the usefulness of something, regardless of the way in which it affects the game experience. (Especially since math-hammering, in many cases, ends up not being as definitive as it gets treated).

So, I'll probably be a carebear forever. =/

It's a one way trip and you're meant to have sex with your co-passengers and have children.

I'm one of the biggest supporters you can find about going to space and colonizing and generally not sitting around on Earth until everything goes to shit. However! This all seems like a very bad, "by the whims of the people," concept. Private funding is most likely the future of space travel, but generating revenue off of a television series - basically - is a quick way to objectify those people, lose all the money and then easily say, "Fuck 'em" since they're so far away.