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If you're strong You can fly You can reach the other side Of the rainbooow Words to live by.
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If it makes you feel better, the next season will probably start in just ten months. Does that make you feel better? No?
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I may have exaggerated a little. It's really only 999,999 times better.
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If they ever decide to kill you off on NCIS, I'll be sure to warn you beforehand! :p
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Man, you know your console is a flop when even the biggest Sony fanboy on the forum thinks it belongs in a dumpster.
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Should be in a dumpster. Dohoho. No, but seriously, these games look terrible.
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I sometimes find myself pressured into watching things just to avoid spoilers. I recently watched The Cabin in the Woods because I'd heard that the less you knew about the movie, the better, and I'd stayed completely spoiler-free up until that point. It was the same with Scream 4, where I made sure to watch the movie before I stumbled upon any spoilers. I usually avoid spoilers for things I think I may watch/play at some point in the future, but I love reading spoilers for bad things. I know about most of the big moments on Smallville thanks to reading spoilers for it and every time I see an article about a "shocking turn" on NCIS, I'll click on it in the hopes that it's something the fans will hate. :p Though sometimes it's a bit hard to avoid television spoilers just because the writers on entertainment blogs are so inconsistent with what they consider a spoiler or not. They won't spoil if a character gets written off a show because of creative reasons, but if an actor chooses to leave a show, it's all over the blogs weeks in advance. And sometimes they're just jerks. On one blog, there was a post about a "shocking surprise on [TV show]", which was spoiler-marked, so I didn't click on it. Then a few days later, there was another post with "pictures from the surprise wedding between [characters] on [the same TV show as before]". Spoilers, right? Apparently not! "This isn't a spoiler anymore, since I already posted about it the other day." Well, thanks for that! For the full spoiler experience, I recommend the IMDb boards, where even suggesting that people should spoiler mark their threads always leads to the person suggesting it being ripped to shreds. Because God forbid people want to come there to discuss a TV show when they haven't watched the latest episode - or if they don't live in the US. Ironically, the Caprica board was filled with Americans sternly reminding people not to post spoilers when the second batch of episodes aired in another country first. The GameFAQs boards have a policy against people posting unmarked spoilers, which is great if you want to read about a game before buying it. If they were like the IMDb boards, you'd only get three posts down before getting the Mass Effect 3 ending spoiled, and then the rest of the first page would be filled with spoilers for every major moment in the game. It's a good thing the story in Revelations was absolute pants, because I had the ending spoiled to me, and that would normally have annoyed me to no end.
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Aww, man. No one told me these deals were only for Gold members. Not today, American Nightmare. Not today.
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I bet she went home and complained about how rude British tourists are. "One of them called me a cow today, Steve!"
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Well, it's only about a million times better than NCIS. So no.
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Campaign for people to use the chat room again
Magnus replied to Supergrunch's topic in General Chit Chat
Yeah, Twozzok's awful. I'll be in the chat room for a while. You can listen to me complain if the final boss in the game I'm playing is too hard. :p -
What a strange way to end the show. OH WAIT THEY'RE SAVING HALF THE SEASON FOR NEXT YEAR. *Bitter*
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Achievements/Trophies: Where do you draw the line?
Magnus replied to jayseven's topic in General Gaming Discussion
Bearable' date=' yes (and I wouldn't have bothered if I hadn't been able to see the collectibles on the map), but a complete waste of time after the first thirty. If I go to the trouble of finding 100 collectibles, I expect some sort of in-game reward, even if it's just an alternate outfit or something. I loved the collectibles in [i']Grand Theft Auto 3[/i] and Vice City, but found less than a dozen pigeons in Grand Theft Auto IV. In the previous games, you'd look behind that big mansion or make your way to the top of that large skyscraper and there'd often be a package/statue there, so I felt like I was being rewarded for exploring. In IV, the pigeons were in really strange places and were so hard to find that there were times when I was standing right next to one and couldn't spot it. -
I don't usually touch things out in public with my mouth. I do kiss my pets, though. But not on the mouth.
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He owes it all to this:
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Just dress up like the guy in that picture and no one will care what your skin looks like.
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Achievements/Trophies: Where do you draw the line?
Magnus replied to jayseven's topic in General Gaming Discussion
Some trophies/achievements do encourage you to do fun things that you may not have done otherwise, though. Just Cause 2 has a trophy for reaching the highest point on the island, which I probably wouldn't have bothered doing otherwise. There's another one for doing a really high base jump. I like it when you're encouraged to do things like that and are rewarded for it. There are also several trophies for killing enemies in different ways. It's like, "hey, you can attach people to cars and drive away with them in tow!" and because there's a trophy for it you may try it out and find that it's a fun way to kill people. Then there are games like Assassin's Creed: Revelations, which has 100 collectibles scattered across the map. The first 30 unlock bonus puzzle levels (which are absolutely terrible, but whatever), while the remaining 70 are just there for a trophy. That just felt like a waste of time. -
Achievements/Trophies: Where do you draw the line?
Magnus replied to jayseven's topic in General Gaming Discussion
I played Eternal Sonata on the PS3 recently and was disappointed because it didn't have trophies. I think they can be a fun bonus, but I don't care about them enough to go out of my way too much to get them. I don't bother if they seem to difficult or if they require multiple playthroughs and definitely not if there are any multiplayer achievements. Just the ones I can get while playing through the game normally and occasionally going out of my way to do things that seem fun/easy. It's hard to be too obsessive about achievements/trophies when you spread your multi-platform games out over three systems. :p -
Campaign for people to use the chat room again
Magnus replied to Supergrunch's topic in General Chit Chat
It's safe to enter the chat room now, Eddie. -
Just don't use it on your testicles.