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Messages - Raptor the Kid (24)
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« on: January 09, 2016, 05:52:26 PM »
Metal Gear isn't that difficult to understand
If you've been following it game to game maybe. Try jumping into 2 or 4 without any references.
Jumping into any franchise without playing previous installments is confusing.
MGS is no different.
you're one of a very small amount of people who have actually played the MGS games in sequence, though
prior to the MGS collection being released, you couldn't really blame western gamers for not owning an MSX 2 to play the original two games on--and the one we did get on NES ended up having nothing to do with anything
then there was snake's revenge, so we assumed that was part of the story, too
and there were no smug internet assholes to tell you how wrong you were, so
yeah, i'd say it's pretty fucked up
all you're saying is, "it's not fucked up if you take away what makes it fucked up"
MG1 and MG2 aren't all that integral to the franchise. MGS1 onwards is, minus PO, Revengeance, and any non-canonical games.
I thought PO was canon?
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« on: January 08, 2016, 11:16:37 AM »
sick animation
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« on: January 08, 2016, 11:10:10 AM »
I was referring more to the likes of parts of Al Qeade and IS
So your argument here is that IS has captured equipment given to the Iraqi military. . . The same military with the same equipment that recently dealt a massive blow to IS by capturing a key city and wearing down their control over certain territories?
And that the MAK, which wasn't involved in fighting the Soviets, was responsible for channeling aid. . . And that the MAK eventually evolved in to al-Qaeda, while conveniently ignoring the fact that they were supported by both the Saudis and bin Laden personally regardless of US aid?
And the problem with former mujahideen joining the Taliban has been corrected by the convenient fact that Afghanistan is no longer under Taliban rule and is doing terrifically compared to how it was doing before the invasion.
My argument is that intervention still aided those groups that why, no matter if they also received other support or less of a threat. A different type of intervention is needed to avoid issues like that.
And that type is...
Needs to be figured out...
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« on: January 03, 2016, 10:42:52 AM »
I was referring more to the likes of parts of Al Qeade and IS
So your argument here is that IS has captured equipment given to the Iraqi military. . . The same military with the same equipment that recently dealt a massive blow to IS by capturing a key city and wearing down their control over certain territories?
And that the MAK, which wasn't involved in fighting the Soviets, was responsible for channeling aid. . . And that the MAK eventually evolved in to al-Qaeda, while conveniently ignoring the fact that they were supported by both the Saudis and bin Laden personally regardless of US aid?
And the problem with former mujahideen joining the Taliban has been corrected by the convenient fact that Afghanistan is no longer under Taliban rule and is doing terrifically compared to how it was doing before the invasion.
My argument is that intervention still aided those groups that why, no matter if they also received other support or less of a threat. A different type of intervention is needed to avoid issues like that.
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« on: January 02, 2016, 07:12:26 PM »
I'm saying that international intervention has had a string of creating or fuelling extremist groups
Despite this claim being made constantly, I've seen very little evidence in favour of it. The number of Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli strikes, for example, is not correlated with Palestinian support for hostility against Israel. Drone strikes, too, have an incredibly strong deterrent effect against terrorist attacks.
I was referring more to the likes of parts of Al Qeade and IS; militia groups supported by the US or Western powers with either weapons or equipment or training in the hopes of combating a larger threat (a sort of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' situation), but end up using said support to fuel extremist activities:
[url=https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-US-is-funding-ISIS
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« on: January 02, 2016, 06:39:40 PM »
A lot of these new militia and terror groups like IS are a result or partially a result of western intervention.
So? Some parts of our foreign policy are based on values which are fundamentally non-negotiable. Given al-Qaeda killed a bunch of australian touritsts because the West wouldn't allow a genocide to occur in East Timor, I'm not all that concerned about what ISIS' possible grievances are.
I'm not excusing ISIS, or care about their grievances, I'm saying that international intervention has had a string of creating or fuelling extremist groups, whether deliberately or not, and then getting attacked by said groups.
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« on: January 02, 2016, 03:03:47 PM »
A lot of these new militia and terror groups like IS are a result or partially a result of western intervention. It makes sense on paper, support the enemy of your enemy to protect your interests with little risk. But being world police is becoming harder, proxy wars get out of hand, and direct intervention carries more risk for lives and international reputation. Its a lot harder than it seems.
And I'm not sure China's government can keep up its reign for much longer. The public are growing a lot bolder over there.
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« on: January 02, 2016, 02:48:03 PM »
Hey, not new, but back after a long while to see how the shit is. Might stay, might not, but kinda surprised that Bacon, Admirals, and Rampancy are here.
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« on: February 21, 2015, 04:47:45 PM »
Halsey has teamed up with Jul, the head of the 'Storm', a covenant remnant.
The Didact is now pixels.
Chief has gone AWOL for some raisin.
A new guy called Locke has teamed up with Arby to go find Chief.
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« on: February 19, 2015, 08:08:39 AM »
"U.K. handguns used in crime have doubled since they were banned in 1997"
Well yeah. Anybody who had a handgun now was committing another crime.
And hell no. You seen the people on my street? I barely trust them with a butter knife. Hell as soon as I got a paintball gun I accidentally shot my friend point blank in the neck and leg.
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« on: February 19, 2015, 08:05:50 AM »
Long guns are better than handguns. Why not advocate for less gun restrictions so you can enjoy them as a sport, not just as a tool to feel safer?
I dunno. Sport wise, it always seemed to be just golf, with more noise and less walking. Or snooker, with more walking. Or javelin, with less throwing.
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« on: January 31, 2015, 06:46:44 PM »
Don't seem that bad.
Lil arrogant, but that would be rich coming from you, and a bit old style-ish.
What did piss me off was that systems hashtag. I hate people who like to blame everything on 'the system' or some shit like that.
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« on: January 30, 2015, 05:13:10 PM »
dun care
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« on: January 30, 2015, 05:11:08 PM »
I thought our whole values boiled down to 'fuck France and every other country'.
I never really saw us as the whole 'freedom of speech and liberty ya da ya da' like the US or France.
Partly because of our imperial and monarchical history kinda shat on those ideals, a lot.
But also because now we're kinda the people that just likes to...umm...for lack of a better term 'run on common sense'. No flashing lights or shit, just do the right decent thing and have a cup of tea.
Alright, it don't make that much sense, I'm a lil drunk atm and don't take philosophy or whatever, but I go to a school which is pretty much half Asian, and by the time the kids are in year 12 they tend to have been worn down by the shit-load of science work and the nonstop religious debates going on that their pretty much jaded about their religion and their culture. A lil better of passive cultural appropriation or some shit like that. Hell, I think I made my mate atheist just by non-stop whining (well his crazy semi-orthodox parents didn't help either).
In short, cynicism and nat geo will wear the masses down to beautiful English comfortimy, and hopefully the police can weed out the radicals. And western culture ain't that superior, we have to wear fucking ties which is the msot stupid piece of clothing ever devised by man and TV's gon to bollocks and then there's the global warming and shit and the empires (though we were just kinda the first ones to get served the imperial pie, instead of the asians getting it). But compared to bloody radical islam were you have to wear five layers of fcuking robes IN A DESERT its pretty smart.
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« on: January 29, 2015, 04:01:52 PM »
Humanity is on the brink of extinction. The Flood, "Prometheans" and the fragmented Covenant have joined forces to eradicate the last of Humanity.
After losing almost all of their strongholds, the UNSC is pushed back to it's last: Earth.
Hoping to save the human race, Master Chief journeys to the edge of the galaxy and beyond in search of the last true Forerunners. Upon arriving, John is shocked. It turns out they all died quite some time ago. On the bright side, they had left behind even more advanced technology than what the Prometheans had at their disposal.
Amongst these relics is a new Cryptum protoype, which is far larger and more versatile than anything the Forerunners built before. Believing this Cryptum to be Humanity's last hope, John travels back to Earth in an attempt to fend off the Promethean/Flood/Covenant forces.
In cahoots with The Arbiter, Master Chief learns that this new Cryptum is capable of generating a "force-field" of sorts that is strong enough to protect against the Halo Array itself! Unfortunately, this requires an extremely specific activation gene-sequence. Luckily, thanks to the Librarian AI's genetic mutation of the Master Chief in Halo 4, Chief now possesses said sequence.
After a devastating attack against Humanity, the majority of the planet has been glassed, save a few countries in South-West Europe.
Sacrificing himself and the majority of the galaxy in an attempt to end the war, Thel activates the array, forcing John to use the force field. Upon activation, John learns that this would kill him and would only save a very small portion of the earth from the blast. Force to pick a city and finally end his life, Master Chief makes his stand. In his final moments, John thinks to himself whilst looking down at his chosen City.
"This is it. The last safe city."
As the final blast of the Halo Array cleanses earth, Humanity's "Golden Age" has ended. The Flood's reign of Darkness has been repulsed. And that was the end of everything.
But it was also a beginning.
What a twist...
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« on: January 28, 2015, 03:43:46 PM »
You rage, you lose.
"Women who choose the assholes will fucking end this race. They will fucking end this human race if we don't start holding them a-fucking-ccountable. [...] Look. Women who choose assholes guarantee child abuse. Women who choose assholes guarantee criminality. Sociopathy. Politicians. All the cold-hearted jerks who run the world came out of the vaginas of women who married assholes. And I don't know how to make the world a better place without holding women accountable for choosing ASSHOLES! Your dad was an asshole because your mother chose him. Because it works on so many women! If "asshole" wasn't a great reproductive strategy, it would've been gone long ago. Women keep that black bastard flame alive. They cup their hand around it. They protect it with their bodies. They keep the evil of the species going by continually choosing these guys! If being an asshole didn't get women, there would be no assholes left! If women chose nice guys over assholes, we would have a glorious and peaceful world in one generation. Women determine the personality traits of the men because women choose who to have sex with, and who to have children with, and who to expose those children to. I get that you're angry at your dad, and you have every reason to be angry at your dad. Your dad is who he is, fundamentally, because your mother was willing to fuck him and have you. Willing and eager to fuck the monster. Stop fucking monsters, we get a great world. Keep fucking monsters, we get catastrophes. We get war, we get nuclear weapons, we get national debts, we get incarcerations and prison guards, and all the other floored assholes who rule the world. Women worship at the feet of the devil and wonder why the world is evil. And then, you know what they say? 'We're victims! Poor us!' And some women are, absolutely. But dear God in heaven. Men will become whatever women will want them to become. Because women are the gatekeepers. Men will become whatever women want them to become. 'Oh, you want us to have a tan? We'll have a tan! Oh, do you like six-packs? We'll do six million sit-ups! Oh, you want money? I'll go make money!' Nothing wrong with it. It's the nature of being a mammal. Masculinity is a shadow of feminine desire. It moves as feminine desires move. Every woman who breeds with assholes is a traitor to virtue, and more than a colluder, but a creator of evil."
What the ever loving fuck...
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« on: January 28, 2015, 11:12:33 AM »
Who is this guy?
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« on: January 28, 2015, 11:02:00 AM »
I think I heard somewhere that their bad reputation comes from people in the military who faced other snipers, and were batshit terrified that there was some guy killing of the friends just by sitting in a corner yards away.
...Actually, that might have been a ghost in the shell episode...
Make of it what you will then.
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« on: January 28, 2015, 10:47:39 AM »
Literal cannon fodder are better than the very creatures that wiped them out?
Please tell me more.
You mean the creatures that died in droves and lost a whole planet to a bunch of 12 year old cannon fodder?
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« on: December 19, 2014, 07:25:38 PM »
I'm on ep 11 atm.
Fucking Megatron has shown up.
How the fuck they built that in like 2 weeks, or how that thing stands on skinny legs with a bloody magic nuke launcher on one arm is beyond me.
I'm just gonna guess that each limb is filled with 50 metal benders.
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« on: December 19, 2014, 05:44:45 AM »
Actually, scratch Halo Follower getting me access. I just got access courtesy of 343i.
Well, aren't you special.
Not really. Scratch what I said too.
Eh, it'll probably suck anyway. Don't worry about it.
I'm optimistic.
After years of games getting worse and showing no signs of changing for the better, then I salute you for somehow being that optimistic or delusional.
So, come the 19th, I'll share my opinions on the Beta, and I'll also give a viewpoint that compares it to the more traditional hardcore Halo experiences. IE Halo CE, Halo 2.
I'm optimistic though because this is gonna be the first standalone Arena Halo in 5 years. And 343i is giving it a very competitive focus, which previously, has always lead to a solid game.
Ehh, never much cared for competitive. Any news on BTB stuff? I hope they bring back H3 style social playlists, and Reach like gametypes. Heavies and Invasion were awesome. A new multi-objective BTB would be brilliant.
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« on: December 19, 2014, 05:27:01 AM »
Is the plasma launcher back? Why was that cut 
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« on: December 19, 2014, 05:26:10 AM »
So, is this gonna be like the lego movie, where you're messing around with some 8 year olds imagination?
Or they actually gonna put some lore behind this?
The tragic story of how creeper Johnny joined ISIS, or how Steve murdered an entire village because he was obsessed with diamonds.
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« on: December 13, 2014, 11:30:30 AM »
Bungie have been a joke since 2009. No surprise here.
For myself I want to say 2007 because of the campaign for Halo 3.
But ODST
The game does have a better story and atmosphere than what Halo 2 has for a story, and the campaign for Halo 3 and Reach. But the game could have been much better. In the live action trailer for it we saw an ODST drop down into a live combat zone. Did we do anything like that in ODST? Nope. We just dropped into a building and by the time we woke up the battle was over. The game could have been more action packed to make up for that disappointing Earth invasion in Halo 2 and 3.
For the gameplay it was nothing more than another Master Chief game. The only real difference is that you have health packs and your stamina which acts as your energy shields don't recharge. They could have made the game feel like you're playing as a normal human instead of a Spartan.
Being more 'action' driven would have completely destroyed the noir vibe they were going for.
That's what made ODST unique and enjoyable. It wasn't another Master Chief story. It was a standalone plot following a normal soldier and his team in the aftermath of a broken New Mombasa. That game had atmosphere out the wazoo. Due in no small part to Marty's amazing soundtrack.
Makes Destiny, for all its pretty skyboxes, look like a cardboard backdrop in comparison.
Its kinda sad how ODST, which was made by a small team and another small hired team of hired writers in one year, had 20x the atmosphere, characters, story,gameplay variety, and exploration incentives than the huge budget, 5 year long developed destiny. Sadie's story alone trumps Destiny's plot and the grimoire ten fold.
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« on: December 11, 2014, 03:15:14 PM »
GamerGate, after learning Gawker lost apparently thousands due to advertising pulling from the site...
Guess the internet can get things done.
I heard it was over a million.
Goddamn... That much? Can they even afford that?
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« on: December 11, 2014, 03:03:44 PM »
What I meant was, how does that relate to values and how is that bad? Compare, for instance, the tension between liberal and Islamic values in my own country. When you have two or more ideologies/philosophies/methodologies competing not just for political power, but moral authority too, then it's bound to get ugly.
I think that's overall a good thing. Alright, it does bring out extremism, which can result in of course death and other horrors. But it also forces cultures to question their own morales and values. Conflict and arguing allows values to morph and change, so you aren't stuck in an isolationist rut where bad values continue on and on and on.
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« on: December 11, 2014, 02:08:53 PM »
How do highschools work? Poorly.
Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.
So how the hell do you get kids to love maths?
You make a good point, its just, I'm struggling to think what makes me like surds, or -1.
By teaching them to embrace struggle if it frustrates them as opposed to suggesting alternatives or decreasing math exposure. Teaching them that math is not really a static concept to be written on boards and tested on, that the abstractions we use to express it can't fully give light to its universal beauty, that to understand those things we have to see it functioning in action.
People like getting over humps and understanding content after struggling with it, the "aha!" moment where everything clicks. If education could put that alone to use more often, I think we'd see an improvement in people enjoying education instead of seeing it as an obstacle to overcome
Why would this notion garner a -1?
That sounds extremely difficult, and would require some kind of either a reward system, or a mental attitude built up from pre-school. No easy feat. And its just my least favourite number. Can't square root the bugger.
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« on: December 11, 2014, 02:05:35 PM »
Whats wrong with multiculturalism?
It can often lead to pluralism in the arena of values as opposed to just mere culture.
You can't have value pluralism like that in the general populace.
What do you mean by pluralism?
Here.
-_- ... Yes, I can google the definition. What I meant was, how does that relate to values and how is that bad? Maybe I shoulda been more specific, but that goddamn site is my number one reason for we should be able to slap people through the internet.
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« on: December 11, 2014, 01:50:09 PM »
Whats wrong with multiculturalism?
It can often lead to pluralism in the arena of values as opposed to just mere culture.
You can't have value pluralism like that in the general populace.
What do you mean by pluralism?
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« on: December 11, 2014, 01:49:02 PM »
How do highschools work? Poorly.
Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.
So how the hell do you get kids to love maths? You make a good point, its just, I'm struggling to think what makes me like surds, or -1.
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