Dan_Dare
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aye Slow Club are sound
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That's because there isn't one. I mean, they were alright but generally I think they're hugely overrated. They're the kind of band that sound amazing when you're younger and then when you've heard more music over time and listen again it's hard to say what you saw in them before.
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oh...well...umm...
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definitely. It's all about Steady Aim. I use my shotgun all the time but I never aim down the sight. Just run and fire from the hip at close range (keep the sights around chest/head height for lulz) and it almost always beats any other gun up close. Worth working on too: the SPAS-12 with foregrip is just a death machine. I took out maybe seven guys in a row last night with it without reloading. I was on fire.
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Are violent video games damaging to society?
Dan_Dare replied to flameboy's topic in General Chit Chat
Well that's kind of what I was getting at. Lets just say that in five years time, we have near-as-dammit photo realism and top draw animation to go with it. At this point, do you really want to be palying Modern Warfare 9 where headshots look like actual headshots? I can't see myself thinking 'man this shotgun is satisfying!' when it blows a guy in half in the most realistic way technonlogy allows it to. My point is that by that point, and hopefully before, we can say gaming will have matured creatively enough to move past the fairly basic and absurd cycle of violence and mindless killing and use that technology to make it so that if we do kill people in games, it should be as shocking and effective as the violence in (good) films and books that give you a mature and deep emotional response. -
They were only in the first few episodes/ first series I think. It was a lovely image. Shame they ditched it. /wrong thread.
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Good day today. We have guest lecture (the second of three) with Chris Dickie- major name in foreign correspondence journalism on terrorism etc. Yesterday he was absolutely enthralling so I'm really looking forward to it. Finally getting to grips with my patch work too. We have to act like proper news reporters and find stories in a designated area. I got given Chesterfield, which is kind of a small town but it has a market history and from the looks of things, plenty going on. I'm going to go to a creative business Q&A workshop on the 26th which should give me some stories worth submitting. Need to dress like this:
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Why did they drop Dexter's cool blood splatter office? it's much better than his lab room.
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I'd explain how wrong you are, but I dare say the effort would be wasted...
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Fair point. I use the FAL anyway so I'm a campy little bitch with a stupidly efficient clip
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I did. Don't worry!
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I'm with Chair. Natural photography is far more interesting.
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I feel that. I'm doing a lot of news beat journalism for my course and, while it's useful that we are being trained in a wide spectrum of disciplines, it's stuff I hope I never use professionally because I just don't want to be a reporter. On top of that, lecturers who haven't worked in magazines (my field) commonly dodge questions or try and twist them back to news. bah.
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You guys need to check out Braintax he's absolutely amazing.
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Today has been good. Hip Hoppin, guest lecturin, letter writing, report blazingly productive bullshittin' aww yeah.
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haha great game. I'm sure you'll dodge purgatory or whatever.
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Yeeeaaaaaah! Kick-Ass!
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lulz. I had no idea about them at all. Personally I think Sleight Of Hand is a little...superficial. Loading very rarely lands me in any kind of hot water. You absolutely have to use it for an LMG class, but for an AR I think you can use the slot better. I should work on getting it pro though. That gets you to scope faster, as well as reload. That sounds pretty pimp.
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It's not new, but it is win.
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what intel?
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Yeah SC the gun is a beaut! I went on an absolutely apocalyptic spree earlier with it- I was just casually headshotting guys with it easy as anything. It's probably the most ammo efficient gun in the game by my reckoning too which is really useful. I'm also deep in to a love affair with the Spas-12. few tips if anyone's struggling: the best basic set up is marathon, Stopping Power and Steady Aim use an assault rifle like the FAMAS at range. Get some scopes unlocked and practice long range shooting Take the Spas-12. Always. Up close and with Steady Aim you can just fire off the hip on reflex and kill anyone up to a room away easily. Marathon is crazy useful. The best tactic in the game is too move at speed and flank the enemy. Marathon does that for you. also: play stealthy. The UAV radar operates on sound so as long as you don't fire your guns before you have a kill shot, your enemy won't be able to track you. Once you make the kill, move. Often, lazy players come to look for you where they saw you stand on the kill cam so the best place to move to is somewhere you can cover that same spot. oh and when possible, kill silently. Knives and and silenced weapons are your friend. If the enemy team sees an orange dot line up with a skull marker, they'll come looking for a fight. Kill quietly and they have no idea where to look. oh and learn to love stun grenades. They're savagely effective, especially combined with the shotgun.
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I'm hoping for both, myself.
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Are violent video games damaging to society?
Dan_Dare replied to flameboy's topic in General Chit Chat
I do think the violent content has to peak sooner or later though. I mean, with the rising fidelity of the technology involved, you simply can't take the act of shooting someone in the face to the point where it genuinely looks realistic. Also, I'd like to think we all fancy something a bit more demanding from our hobby at some point. -
Are violent video games damaging to society?
Dan_Dare replied to flameboy's topic in General Chit Chat
I reckon most ciritcs of gaming fail to appreciate the fundamental disconnect between gamer and on screen actions. It's very rare that a game is well made enough to cause genuine emotional repsonse to violence on screen. Interestingly enough- I only note this happening twice but both in the last 2 years. the first was GTA 4: The new animation suite from Lucasarts (forget the name) produced some genuinely unsettling deaths. One in particular struck me as particularly gruesome and from that point on I chose to limit the amount of violence I caused throughout the game. and MW2 was unsettling. Not just the Airport (which, aside from being in the worst plot ever and totally out of place, was rather good) but a number of scripted, motion captured execution deaths were deeply unpleasant. That said- I've watched films with many, many more violent deaths and non of them have made me a psycho either. Winner. -
I basically have a low level interest where, without actively seeking it out, I can very much see myself getting the game eventually. It's been too long and too vague in coming though. Actually paying attention to any hype before the Edge review is a waste of time at this point.