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    Posts made by Arkandel

    • RE: Are MU* videogames

      @Ganymede said in Are MU* videogames:

      @Arkandel said in Are MU* videogames:

      There's text. Text adventures used to be considered video games, and were celebrated as such.

      No.

      Don't you make me bust out the wikipedia link, lawyer-bot! I'll do it!

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: Are MU* videogames

      @Kanye-Qwest There's text. Text adventures used to be considered video games, and were celebrated as such.

      I'm just asking what you think though.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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      Arkandel
    • Are MU* videogames

      Hey,

      Do you consider MU* to be video games?

      That's all!

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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      Arkandel
    • RE: Good TV

      BrainDead is so good.

      That's all.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: RL things I love

      @Coin My parents never really had any idea what I studied and/or do for a living.

      "He does computer stuff".

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: RL things I love

      I'm witty as a wet noodle but either way I hadn't heard of the pop reference before (let alone what it was referencing).

      I had to go ask @Coin's mom.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: RL things I love

      @Cupcake You made me go google that up. 😞

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: ROGUE: It is coming...

      @Auspice What does an RP admin do?

      I imagine someone tapping their foot while looking at the pose-production dipping this week on the Excel sheet. Those numbers won't do, man! Someone's gotta take the fall for this and it ain't gonna be them!

      posted in Adver-tis-ments
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      Arkandel
    • RE: ROGUE: It is coming...

      It's one of the 2-3 MU* I'm waiting to see how/if it turns up so keep us posted please. 🙂

      posted in Adver-tis-ments
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      Arkandel
    • RE: Random links

      @Auspice Hey, nice cast too.

      Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon
      Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday
      Emily Browning as Laura Moon
      Yetide Badaki as Bilquis
      Bruce Langley as Technical Boy
      Jonathan Tucker as Low Key Lyesmith
      Pablo Schreiber as Mad Sweeney
      Crispin Glover as Mr. World
      Cloris Leachman as Zorya Vechernyaya
      Peter Stormare as Czernobog
      Chris Obi as Mr. Jacquel
      Mousa Kraish as the Jinn
      Gillian Anderson as Media
      Omid Abtahi as Salim
      Orlando Jones as the Mr. Nancy
      Demore Barnes as the Mr. Ibis

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: Random links

      @Coin said in Random links:

      @Arkandel said in Random links:

      Which brings us to Independence Day: Resurgence-level kind of woes. Wtf cares what's gonna happen to Thor's little brother?

      Anyone who's ever read American Gods. 😞

      Btw, am I wrong or did I hear they're making a TV series out of that?

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: Random links

      @Coin Even smart, thoughtful people seem to want more spectacle out of their entertainment, I guess. I mean aside from some concerns highlit in that article which make producers and directors pick one scene to cut over another (it won't be the one you just spent $$$ to get effects for, it'll be the blah-blah one) audiences also prefer the 'important' parts possibly because it's natural that they remember those and not what made them important in the first place.

      For example a friend at work is complaining because there's a lot of dialogue and politics in GoT sometimes instead of battle scenes. Who cares about all the talky parts Jon Snow is in, just show him in battle, right?

      But he neglects to think that the reason he cares about Jon Snow to begin with is because of such scenes. It's how we cared about the character by seeing him treated unfairly, challenged and belittled in Castle Black and placed in bad situations again and again - else why would we really give a damn if those weird ice zombies eat him or not?

      Well, I suspect producers fall into the same pitfall sometimes. They want trailers with cool things, previews to set up, and you can't shove dialogue in those... so I wouldn't be surprised to hear they actively push directors in that direction.

      Which brings us to Independence Day: Resurgence-level kind of woes. Wtf cares what's gonna happen to Thor's little brother?

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: Good TV

      @Coin said in Good TV:

      As seen on Twitter:

      who run the world
      GIRLS
      who sit on thrones
      GIRLS
      who make the speeches
      GIRLS
      how bout the library
      NO WOMEN NO CHILDREN

      When I first read your comment something was nagging me about it but I couldn't place it...like I had read something else similar recently.

      It finally came to me this morning! It was in Ian Mortimer's excellent The Time Traveller's Guide To Elizabethan England where he was discussing the real life historical period.

      In one of the book's chapters Mortimer was going over the respective rights of either gender back then and was rather dryly pointing out that although Elizabeth herself was the absolute monarch of the time, feared and respected throughout the realm - there were several rebellions to challenge her reign of course but they didn't end well for those leading them - women had very few other opportunities to rise to any position at all. They couldn't be magistrates or judges or, of course, priests - hell, even physicians other than nurses. They could be scholars (translators, etc) but that was about it.

      So even in real life! ABSOLUTE POWER in the hands of a woman with the literal (and often demonstrated!) power to be rid of officials and members of parliament at will, disgracing or chop-chopping their heads if they nagged her? Sure thing! But A WOMAN as small town mayor? lolno.

      Human beings, right?

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: RL Anger

      @surreality The little bastards grow on us. 😞

      Izzy has... something on her stomach which feels like a tumour. We have an appointment to take her to the vet but it'll really suck if something happens to that damn pest.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Cheap or Free Games!

      @lordbelh If you had asked 'has anyone bought them?' I'd have said yes.

      I have bought so many games on Steam sales I've never played or only launched, played for five minutes then for some reason never touched since.

      posted in Other Games
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      Arkandel
    • RE: RL Anger

      @hedgehog Neo was my German shepherd.

      I had just come overseas for a couple of months when I called my mom one morning. So I asked her how she was, and she was like "eh, not great, what with Neo dying".

      I went "uhhhh...WHAT?!?!!" which made my mom realise my sister, who was supposed to have already told me apparently, hadn't actually called yet to let me know... so the news were broken to me in a pretty brutal way.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: RL Anger

      @Pondscum I am really sorry. 😞

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: Random links

      A blog post about why second acts are disappearing from blockbuster movies.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Arkandel
    • RE: Do you believe in paranormal things?

      Vorpal said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

      I think the definition of 'supernatural' and 'paranormal' are pretty clear- manifestations or events attributed to some force beyond scientific principle or the laws of nature. Hence the 'super' part of the word.

      Of the currently understood laws of nature's scope. Of things which are sort of kind of on the horizon from where we are at.

      For example if I was told there may be a machine that cab conjure any food I like from a huge list, perfectly cooked and seasoned seemingly from nothing almost instantly that's not supernatural to me. I mean it doesn't exist, it won't exist within my lifetime or maybe even ever but we have 3D printers and Star Trek has visualized it already so... well, it's within the scope of my understanding.

      But that's kind of what supernatural kids' tales sounded like during the time Isaac Newton was alive. That's the kind of treasure you recovered from a troll's lair or whatever the hell. That's without going into marvels like devices that let you talk instantly with almost anyone on the planet any time you like which can also make instant picture-perfect paintings of anything you point them at and much more. I think both these things would be legitimately considered magic by scholars of the age because nothing remotely like them existed - and if we asked them which of the two was more likely to be real I don't know the correct answer would be obvious to them.

      Now, I don't believe in ghosts or spirits. But - for the sake of argument, I don't actually believe that either - let's say one of the multiverse theories is true and some people can somehow get glimpses of a neighboring parallel one, similar to how teenagers can hear sounds at higher frequencies... that's kinda different, right? They might be actually perceiving Aunt Martha when they're at her house - who just happens to be alive in her own parallel reality - and at that point aren't they essentially communicating with the dead?

      (Again, that's an example, I've no reason to think it's actually the case)

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Do you believe in paranormal things?

      @Vorpal said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

      Because we exist in a universe where the paranormal doesn't exist and isn't possible. No argument will get you from this world to a supernatural world. No reason will lead you to a world contradicting this one.

      That's true but in an axiomatic way. What I mean is, take a perfectly intelligent, reasonable person from three centuries ago into today's world and we'll see how much of what we've achieved would cross right into their idea of paranormal and supernatural.

      There comes a point where actually defining these words may be a necessity and not just pedantic MSB crap.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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