Halo

What Are You Listening To?

Absolutely fantastic album. Somehow captures the quiet agony and sadness of human life. Acoustic, some'd say it's folk or indie-rock I guess.

Underrated Video Games

TheRogueRose said
It seems like the games I get invested in end up starting to be forgotten.I don't know if Skyrim falls into that category yet, but I feel that Dragon Age is getting there and Inquisition hasn't been released yet.Anyone remember Ty the Tasmanian Tiger?

gcold said
Mirror's edge. When people talk about DICE, Battlefield automatically gets associated.

You two take all of my yes. All of it. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger was about 50% of my childhood, and Mirror's Edge is easily one of my favourite games of all time - innovative and unique with an art style I really gelled with.

My addition to this list is Jak X: Combat Racing. It received decent reviews, but I haven't ever heard anyone else mention it in gaming conversations, despite Jak and Daxter obviously coming up a lot. Jak X was a fast-paced aggressive racing game in the spirit of Burnout Revenge. Imagine Gran Turismo with rocket launchers and machine guns, and then set it in the Jak series' dark post-first-game world, with the same humorous writing and excellent animation to add great texture and flavour to the story that supports the awesome, badass racing gameplay. I adored driving around the desert in Jak III, and they went and made a whole game out of it - and it's effing brilliant. Rather than being a cheap spinoff like it could have been, Naughty Dog managed to make it a legitimately fun, enjoyable addition to the series, with just as much merit as any of the other games. It had its faults, sure, but I sunk way too many hours into it as a kid.

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Dervish said
Just, stop. Seriously.

It's inevitable. Nothing can stop the coming tide.

Need some book recommendations

If you haven't already read it, and you probably have, Nineteen Eighty-Four is another one of those "has to be read" books. It's not really 'sci-fi' as such, but it is dystopian, and a fantastic piece of literature imo.
I also recently enjoyed reading The Player of Games by Iain Banks. It's sci-fi, but focuses more on the cultural aspects of that than the technology and such. It's about, as you may have guessed, games - not video games, I mean games in a more traditional sense - and touches on how games and the way we play them reflect on us and our society. Worth a read.

Last Night's Episode of GoT: My Reaction: Spoilers Ahead

Oh hey I'd love to talk about last night's episo- oh, everyone's talking about spoilers from the books. That... that's cool. I don't feel left out. :cry

EDIT: There's no "cry" emote? What even is this.

I read a review on pokemon ruby, and it was full of

Link? I like reading terrible reviews. It fills me with palpable smugness.

Check your phones

Watched a movie and spent several hours talking about the human condition and how it relates to ourselves and those we know (i.e. how universal are our traits/insecurities/etc.), and the university system here in Scotland versus that in England. We're such exciting people.

EDIT: Ooohhhhh, this is about Mother's Day. Nevermind, that was in March here.

1x1 Got me temp-banned from public wi-fi

Doivid said
there's no reason to call out the person because it was an honest mistake.

Does the person at least know what they did, so it doesn't happen again? >_>

1x1 Got me temp-banned from public wi-fi

I was under the impression that it was very explicitly pornographic RPing occurring in other languages, so that the mods couldn't pick up on it. Is that not why RPing in other languages was banned?

EDIT: It might help if the mods let us know what actually happened to cause such disaster, so we can avoid triggering anything like that again.

I'm officially a College Graduate. :3

WHY ARE YOU ALL SO OLD. FUCKING OCTOGENARIANS.