Yeah, the news broke on io9 for me, too.
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Anyone who can re-engergize a genre not once but twice to the point where their name becomes eponymous with it for decades is a master of their art. Mad respect to a big part of movie history.
Man, I love that book so much. (Backs slowly from the room)
Don’t let it put you off Mieville totally. “The City & The City” is great.
Sad. I really loved this (just read it this year) but I can see the divisive nature of it. Care to explain why? Curious not looking to start a fight
This is an older book, and therefore does not contain anything likea modern game, but it’s a great overview of the earlier days of video gaming.
Yeah, you are anamorphizing.
Unless Samuel L Jackson is in this i’m not going to bother. You just can’t do a “X on a Y” thing without the man who made the genre what it is.
From June 1991:
I don’t think I ever said it should. This whole thread is 100% based on the OP stating that everyone who uses guns is (paraphrased) a pussy gun nut with a god complex. I was explaining that there are regular people who do this.
No, I understand your point and it has nothing to do with my point, that the author’s attempt to pretend that guns give you a god-complex is full of shit. If power to kill at will and with ease is all that constitutes a god-complex, the original purpose of the item is irrelevant, because it is the power to snuff life…
Just change “these kids” to “this newfangled technology” and I think it still works.
Have you entertained the possibility that you are just getting old and don't understand these kids nowadays?
Not really. Especially since they make purpose built shotguns for sporting clays and pistols and rifles for target shooting. If I wanted to shoot people, I wouldn’t own an over-under and a .22. Your implication was that I must have a God complex from holding an item that has the ability to snuff out life. Since a car…
I don’t have to dress up to go shooting. I can go by myself and not feel like a jackass. I don’t have to pay anything to go to my county’s range. I enjoy some things more than others. Do you have some things you like more than others? For instance, I prefer squash to raquetball. I don’t go through a long list of pros…
Typical liberal keyboard warrior rhetoric, what do this guy, batman theater guy, and every other shooter - hell - every other KILLER (lets just broaden this scope of conversation) - like nurse mom who dismembered her fucking son, have in common?
THEY ARE MENTALLY ILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No amount of background checking…
Do you also believe that there should be no Free Speech on the internet? Because, you know, computers and the internet weren’t around in 1791.
Because the framers of the Constitution surely believed that no technological advancement would ever happen in the future.
By that logic, freedom of the press should only apply to people who publish old timey broadsheets on physical paper. This is the type of discussion that doesn’t help the issue - just straight up say you want to ban all guns and leave it at that. It’s more intellectually honest.