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Beard oil helps tremendously. Lather & Wood I think is what I have

eston posted...

I agree with every one of TC's points, especially in regards to how great Pagan Min is. When I got the secret ending, I legit wanted to play through the game as Pagan's partner. That would have been better than the shitty DLC they put out by far.

I'm a big fan of this series and I'd say 4 is my favorite. Primal is also very good

I would love a version of the game where you ally with Pagan, your kinda stepdad, and embark on crushing the golden path and ruining your child-killing father's legacy.

If only the Crab Rangoon had been a little better this is the life we could have had

Once I upgraded the .50 cal sniper rifle I had a blast silently clearing outposts along with a silenced side arm and the knife. Coming up on two soldiers and popping one in the head and stabbing the other in the throat before he knows what happened always made me giddy.

Sniping hostage takers was also a favorite activity

50Blessings posted...

Blood Dragon > 4 > 3 > Instincts:Predator > 2 > 5 > New Dawn

Never played Primal

I can't find blood dragon by itself for the 360. Just in a pack along with FC2 which I don't really have much of an interest in playing

Hairistotle posted...

It's really just my hate for troy baker. You're right pagan can be p fun sometimes

Might have to get over that bruh. Dude is in everything

Hairistotle posted...

I definitely like Ajay more. Pagan is kinda lame, as are the other two bad guys. Ended up siding with pagan. 5 is my favorite by far excluding the ending. New Dawn makes up for the ending tho

Pagan was hilarious! Lamenting that his body double Eric had to pose for hours for the golden statue that Ajay just destroyed. His cordiality and humor was a perfect mixer for his psychopathy.

The Admiral posted...

I was utterly bored with 4 since it was basically the same game as 3. The majority of my time is spent playing icon janitor and clearing loot crates off the map. And if you do that, you quickly max out your currency and need to waste time shooting off ammo and such just to get rid of money so you can continue collecting crates. Bad game design.

Also, the Shangri-La parts were terrible, and the combat arena took way too much time to unlock that special gun.

Im looking at it more from the campaign and story. I'm not too interested in the looting and 100%ing the game, rather just seeing the narrative through. Even after beating it I am only at 31%. I only did the Shangri-la sections that were part of the campaign and they looked great and were fun.

I thought it did everything 3 did but better and with a more compelling story/set of characters.

E32005 posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

"These guys didn't commit crimes

they literally did but keep shillin

It's definitely a piece of shit thing to do and they should be rightfully shamed for it, but unless they were the ones that shot the sign, what crime did they commit?

lww99 posted...

5 was the best imo.

Beat 3, played 4, beat 5 and Primal.

I only have a 360 :/ otherwise I would love playing through 5

potential Spoilers.

- Ajay is a way more compelling protagonist than Jason and far less whiny. The reason he was there connected with me better than the reason Jason was. And his history is better.

- There is way more to do when it comes to liberating fortresses as well as outposts, hostage rescues, assassinations, ambushing supply trucks and couriers, etc

- I liked the setting a lot more as I had already seen beautiful tropical environments in Dead Island

- The stealth is very satisfying

- The choices are more complex and each ending has its own merit

- Seeing the consequences of your choice of either Amita or Sabal after the game is done adds an interesting layer and allows you to live with or fix your choice of picking one over the other

- mini helicopter

- fucking shit up on elephants was a blast

- The ultimate in video game realism with the option to just sit and wait for Pagan at the start of the game like he tells you to

- Probably unpopular but.... Pagan was a way better villain than Vaas. More complex, very likable but also a psychopath. Just a more interesting character. And there is a decent case for not killing him at the end or at least hearing him out before you do

That's all. Will probably spend a good chunk of this evening further exploring Kyrat and squashing uprisings. And will probably go find Sabal and Paul and kill them both

And it was awesome. Wolfenstein 2009 was also fun enough and the gore effects were cool. Reminded me of the gore in Singularity

Alpha218 posted...

Zombies was way more than movies.

Fair enough, but the comment you were responding to seemed to be specifically regarding movies.

Alpha218 posted...

El Mexicano Texano posted...

Great timing I'm tired of all this superhero shit

Zombie media was much more oversaturated at its peak than superheroes ever were. Really astounding how much people seem to overreact over one studio making a specific genre of films.

You sure? Has any decade seen the same volume of wide release zombie movies as 2009-2019 has for superhero movies?

Jagr_68 posted...

LordMarshal posted...

One was good. 2 was bad. Never played 3.

Keep it that way.

Nah 3 was great. And a beautiful game. I recently played 2 and 3 for the 360 and thoroughly enjoyed them both. The games both look amazing and although the story is meh they do a great job of making you feel like both a stealth and run&gun badass.

Antifar posted...

Bio1590 posted...

Antifar posted...

But also, a distaste for musical theater is sort of to be expected from conservative pundits, no?

Is this supposed to be a bad liberal arts joke

No, this is about Broadway musicals generally being thought of as attracting a more liberal crowd.

I believe he says specifically in this segment that he enjoys musical theater but just thinks CATS is the worst production of all time

I am a big fan of Despised Icon. They blend death metal and hardcore perfectly

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Ruvan22 posted...

Fuparulez posted...

The key statistic here that's left out is whether the firearms used in the homicides were legally owned. Law abiding people in more dangerous areas are more likely to own firearms for self defense, yes, and due to these being high crime areas there are more homicides, yes. However, correlation does not equal causation. The guns they can count are not the ones being used to commit crime, because study after study shows people who carry guns are the most law abiding demographic of the country. Guns are used in self defense far more frequently than they're used for murder.

If you think not having any guns will make your household safer, by all means, don't buy any. I know mine aren't going to jump up and shoot anybody.

Do you have a source for "guns are used in self defense more than they are used in murder"? On a related note, I've always read that higher number of guns lead to higher higher rates of successful suicide (so causation) because having a gun in the household is much more lethal/quick than a knife etc, especially for rash, quick decisions.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/04/30/that-time-the-cdc-asked-about-defensive-gun-uses/amp/

This also important to note all the things that are used to inflate the gun violence total. Suicides account for the vast majority of gun deaths. This isn't okay, but it should be treated separate from the gun violence issue because it simply shouldn't be lumped in with mass shootings and other homicides.

You also have black/hispanic gang violence which accounts for the vast majority of gun homicides. Criminals killing criminals. But this is also lumped in to make the number seem extra scary.

Police shootings are also included, but the vast majority of those are justified.

With those things removed, that leaves us with a little over 2000 gun homicides a year. The kind that would affect normal people and not a bunch of gang bangers.

In a country of over 300 million with just as many guns, that seems extremely low.

I'm not a gun person. Don't own one, don't like being around them, if a magic wand existed to remove them all from existence then I'd use it. But people do try to exaggerate the issue by conflating many types of gun use that should be treated as separate issues

You're 7 times more likely to die by medical malpractice in America than a gun. That includes suicide and accidental shooting.

True, but one thing being a worse problem doesn't mean another isn't a problem at all. My point is that the problem is VASTLY overblown to score political points. Especially when you consider the number of people and guns in circulation.

Ruvan22 posted...

Fuparulez posted...

The key statistic here that's left out is whether the firearms used in the homicides were legally owned. Law abiding people in more dangerous areas are more likely to own firearms for self defense, yes, and due to these being high crime areas there are more homicides, yes. However, correlation does not equal causation. The guns they can count are not the ones being used to commit crime, because study after study shows people who carry guns are the most law abiding demographic of the country. Guns are used in self defense far more frequently than they're used for murder.

If you think not having any guns will make your household safer, by all means, don't buy any. I know mine aren't going to jump up and shoot anybody.

Do you have a source for "guns are used in self defense more than they are used in murder"? On a related note, I've always read that higher number of guns lead to higher higher rates of successful suicide (so causation) because having a gun in the household is much more lethal/quick than a knife etc, especially for rash, quick decisions.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/04/30/that-time-the-cdc-asked-about-defensive-gun-uses/amp/

This also important to note all the things that are used to inflate the gun violence total. Suicides account for the vast majority of gun deaths. This isn't okay, but it should be treated separate from the gun violence issue because it simply shouldn't be lumped in with mass shootings and other homicides.

You also have black/hispanic gang violence which accounts for the vast majority of gun homicides. Criminals killing criminals. But this is also lumped in to make the number seem extra scary.

Police shootings are also included, but the vast majority of those are justified.

With those things removed, that leaves us with a little over 2000 gun homicides a year. The kind that would affect normal people and not a bunch of gang bangers.

In a country of over 300 million with just as many guns, that seems extremely low.

I'm not a gun person. Don't own one, don't like being around them, if a magic wand existed to remove them all from existence then I'd use it. But people do try to exaggerate the issue by conflating many types of gun use that should be treated as separate issues

There used to be a subreddit called watchpeopledie that got shut down, but a lot of people said seeing the visceral and morbid reality of an actual death helped keep them from killing themselves because they didnt want their loved ones to find them like "that".

A lot of people also said it made them way more aware of their surroundings and more cautious when out and about.

Then there is just a morbid curiosity for macabre shit or the intrigue of seeing things as they are vs how they are sanitized or romanticized in entertainment.

But some who watch it do probably just get off to the violence.

Schwarz posted...

Dark Souls 2 is fantastic
Mass Effect 1 was the best one
The Dead Money DLC for Fallout NV is fantastic
RE4 has some of the shittiest controls ever
Silent Hill Homecoming was pretty good
Oblivion is far superior to Skyrim

IIRC it was ahead of its time and paved the way for over the shoulder action games. It was also a vast improvement over the RE games that cane before it

MasterGakke posted...

Any game that you can't pause can go fuck itself with a rusty fishing knife.

I had my controller batteries die as I was fighting a Big Sister in Bioshock 2 and the game didn't automatically pause like normal. I have a case of batteries right under the TV so I frantically discharged the old batteries and tries to reload the new ones as the Big Sister kicked the shit out of me. Got the controller back on with maybe one hit left before I died and was able to heal. Shit made my ass sweat

Looking at my game collection now and see a relatively unplayed Dead Rising.

It is one of the worst games I own, and I own Shell Shock blood lines.

Also, while Kane and Lynch: Dead Men was just "okay" Kane and Lynch: Dog Days was a vast improvement and had an awesome style.

sktgamer_13dude posted...

Its like white people have done some terrible shit to a lot of people of various races in this country throughout history (and is still trying to atm) and the reverse has been a much, much rarer event.

Its like being upset that black people drop the n-word in common talk and that when you, as a white person, say it, everyone gets upset. Theres context that you just refuse to think of.

Historically maybe. But presently white people are likelier to be killed by black people than the other way around

DarkProto05 posted...

Black people defend beloved rappers, white people defend school shooters, etc etc. Everyone lets others get away with too much.

Who here has ever defended a school shooter?

What are the numbers for non firearm related homicides?

non gang related, non police shooting gun homicides are about 2200 per year

MabusIncarnate posted...

TC somehow I disagree with every point you posted except for the Bioshock one.

I anticipated the Inversion/GoW to get a lot of hate since I know how revered GoW is, but EVERY point?

Another one:

Resident Evil ORC was fun and was a perfectly fine entry

Garioshi posted...

Chrono Cross > Chrono Trigger
Twin Snakes > Metal Gear Solid
Generation 5 is the peak of the mainline Pokemon games
Super Mario Sunshine is the worst 3D Mario
Resident Evil 6 is the second best game in the series
7 is the best Mario Party
Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat is one of the best Donkey Kong games ever made and one of the best 2D platformers ever made
Skyward Sword isn't that bad of a game
Metroid Prime 2 is an absolute slog
The Wii U is currently the second best Nintendo console behind the Wii
The Nintendo 64 is a bad console
Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is one of the best 3D platformers ever made

I don't really get the hate. So far I played Chris' campaign which is supposedly the worse one but it was fine. Just a more interesting GoW clone that didn't have the gameplay down as tight. I didn't have the "not muh RE" hatred for it even as a big RE fan and I think it is best consumed by treating each campaign like its own game, played separate from the rest.

Questionmarktarius posted...

The first Borderlands is still the best one.

I have about 90 games for the system, most either FPS, TPS, or survival horror and generally prefer shorter (10 or fewer hours) games (although I dug GTA5, Far Cry, RDR) but have been looking at borderlands and Mass Effect. Still on the fence

I've only had an Xbox 360 since last summer and it's the most recent system I've played, but the following are from my experience after playing 60 or so games since last August. As such, I haven't really had my finger on the pulse the last decade+ so some of these might not be unpopular. I also only really play campaigns.

- Inversion was better than Gears of War 1 and had some neato visuals

- I am about done with Far Cry 4 and so far enjoy it more than 3, which I loved. The hostage missions, assassinations, and fortresses are all great additions that improve the experience over 3. I also think Pagan (so far) is up there with Vaas.

- Bioshock 2 was just as good as 1. Infinite also wasn't bad at all and had such cool surreal vibe to it

- COD Ghosts had a badass campaign

- Crysis 3 was just as good if not better than 2

- Dead Island got boring very quickly and kinda sucked

- LA Noire was boring as shit

- The Medal of Honor reboot wasn't bad at all and Warfighter was decent enough

- Splinter Cell Conviction was still a pretty bad ass game, although that and Blacklist were the only two SCs Ive played

- Hitman Absolution was awesome and very fun

jpenny2 posted...

She battles a new enemy: menopause.

menopaws. Come on man... it was right there

No one is under the impression it will stop every illegal immigrant, but they do think it would reduce the number by thousands. Even if the majority over stay visas, that leaves a ton of untrackable people coming over land. I those at least can be reduced, then people consider it a worthy investment.

The wall would be presumably mitigating one aspect of illegal immigration That, while not constituting the majority, still accounts for a huge number of illegal immigrants.

Why not just tell some skateboarders that a group of inline skaters were making fun of them?

Depends on how things were going up to that point. If it was fun, then it just shifts from romantic interest to hanging out with someone that I was already enjoying a meal/event/whatever with. But I'd express that while the date has been fun and carry on the conversation, I would no longer have any sexual/romantic interest.

No reason to bag on the person or make them feel like shit if they tell you before things get further along.

Anything is better than nothing, especially if it is something you enjoy and can stick to.

DirkDiggles posted...

Touch posted...

Impressive but Masvidals record KO set the bar high as far as fast kos go

Askren was stupid when he lowered his head when Masvidal charged towards him. It was obvious that he was going for a flying knee.

I bet he is even more stupid now

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Anutha one

YookaLaylee posted...

I only like that last song.

Lizzo is too good for you. Too strong and independent.

Shit is too god damn catchy and her strong independent black woman message resonates deeply with me.

PleaseClap posted...

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hockeybub89 posted...

I mean, he still raped Anthony Rapp and made that deplorable "apology" and then made that weird ass YouTube video

He didn't rape Anthony Rapp and it was never claimed he did. He drunkenly laid on top of him to try to "seduce" him, which is damning enough given Rapp was 14 and alone at Spacey's apartment. But there's no need tonfalsely sensationalize already abhorrent behavior.

Oh, if that's it then, what's the big deal?

/s

I can see how one could take what I said that way if they were a complete moron with no reading comprehension.

hockeybub89 posted...

I mean, he still raped Anthony Rapp and made that deplorable "apology" and then made that weird ass YouTube video

He didn't rape Anthony Rapp and it was never claimed he did. He drunkenly laid on top of him to try to "seduce" him, which is damning enough given Rapp was 14 and alone at Spacey's apartment. But there's no need tonfalsely sensationalize already abhorrent behavior.

I listened to this yesterday. IIRC He acknowledges that 007 is just a code name and is likely judt a one movie thing in which she inherits the name for a time until James comes out of retirement then assumes the M position.

Race has nothing to do with it because race isn't an important aspect of the character. He says outright he was pulling for Idris Elba to be the next bond. Being male, however, is a defining aspect of the character and to have the ongoing series continue with a woman as 007 and replacing Craig once he's done, which would make her de facto James bond, would be a mistake and probably sink the franchise.

That's his issue. It is hijacking an existing character for the sake of wokeness and Twitter points rather than creating a new character with their own story like they did with Atomic blonde, which Ben says he enjoyed.

His only issue there was the same issue a lot of people have with women in super physical action roles: suspension of disbelief that they are (wo)manhandling train badasses despite the obvious and insurmountable physical disadvantages. Although the single take fight scene in AB was insanely cool and one of the best in the last few years.

hockeybub89 posted...

You are arguing that these poor fucking morons just don't know sex causes pregnancy. Them being stupid due to lack of education doesn't mean they don't know that. It means what being stupid generally means. Lack of foresight, low impulse control, instant gratification mimdset, etc. Sex ed isn't fixing any of that because sex ed isn't what teaches them that.

Regardless, even if you want to argue that some fucking idiot just doesn't know so gets pregnant, guess What? Now they know. And the topic is about then CONTINUING to have kids.

And that's granting a scenario in which it's some ignorant kid. There's absolutely no excuse for an adult to just not be educated enough that sex will lead to pregnancy.

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_RETS_ posted...

Whatever you can to shift responsibility. Everyone who has sex knows sex causes pregnancy. And we shouldn't have to rely on the state to educate people on the very base function of life. What a pitiful angle.

But if they all know then why are the biggest issues in places where sex ed is the poorest? Is it coincidence or does sex ed actually matter? And if sex education doesn't matter, then why even have it?

Because it is still important to teach consent, STDs, etc. Literally EVERYONE WHO HAS SEX WILLINGLY KNOWS IT LEADS TO PREGNANCY with or without sex education. You are pretending to be dumb.

Again, why do states with poor sex education have the highest rates of teen pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, and child poverty? None of that has anything to do with knowledge of STDs or consent. What explains that connection? Is it coincidence or are they linked?

Who knows. But you are ignorant if you believe any meaningful number of poor people in the south don't know sex makes you pregnant. They are just overall stupid, lack impulse control, and thrive on instant gratification. Same reason crime is high. Or is that because of there aren't any classes that say that stealing or assaulting someone is wrong?

But we're talking about something that is taught in classes and pointing out a clear connection. And your answer is "Nah. I don't know. The South must be full of the worst people"?

What is making people in the South stupid if not poor education? Airborne pathogens? Demonic possession? Does the climate attract the worst humans?

If it's not the education despite the numbers, then there is something else wrong with the South? I don't want you to tell why humans act a certain way. I want to know why more humans act a certain way in certain region of the country. Whatever the answer is, it isn't pure chance.

Lack of education definitely explains why they are generally stupid yes. However, sex ed specifically doesn't make much sense since these people don't need sex ed to tell them what happens when people have sex.