You are not logged in. Please register or login.
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
#221 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 447 weeks ago
Had a wee blast of ghost recon there, initial impressions were mostly positive. It has potential to be good fun multiplayer, it looks great & its guns n shit have a bit of spice & variety to them.
It does suffer typical Ubisoft problems tho, as impressive as the world is it's populated with typical Ubisoft side missions & inexplicable weapons/intel caches. My biggest gripe however is the dialogue: it is just so humourless. It's all nondescript exposition that takes me out of the relatively unscripted fun of the missions/gameplay to remind me it's aiming for something more serious.
The core gameplay potentially offers scope for some experimentation & silliness as well as being a run of the mill tactical shooter. Good fun.
#222 Re: Guns N' Roses » Australian Tour 2017 » 447 weeks ago
V cool Aussie. U come across really well too, cool man.
#223 Re: Guns N' Roses » Steven Adler Reddit AMA » 447 weeks ago
If you want to bitch about the lack of recording/new material, all the power to you. There is literally no argument to be made against that.
At the same time, if people are bitching that this reunion isn't a "true" reunion because it's missing two of the people that played on tracks you lost your virginity to in the 80s, that's lame. Taking Axl's side over Steven's...no shame in that game.
It's not about taking sides: they're all wrong, to various degrees they're all assholes & it's the fans who lose out. But it's hardly fair to single out Steven when they're all guilty of something or other. & I mean anyone can hear, & feel, the difference in the rhythm when Steven was drummer. I did actually agree with your post about Steven not being accountable in his own mind, but when people start diminishing his credits, or even Matt's in comparison to Frank who has what, appeared on a freakin DVD release? I mean, come on! People are trying to deny Steven's place in the alchemy. He fuckin played on the greatest fuckin album ever made for fucks sake. He deserves more love than he gets is what I'm thinking.
#224 Re: Guns N' Roses » Steven Adler Reddit AMA » 447 weeks ago
SG is correct with both his posts.
There are no "very good reasons" why they haven't recorded: again SG is right, it's sad(!) the direction Axl has chosen. The only reason is because Axl doesn't want to, he's happy milking the touring machine for as long as he can be bothered, until his greed will be satisfied.
+ Axl's been neutered, TB have him anaesthetised with whatever meds they've been pumping into him the past 15 years.
These Axl apologists get right up my nose. The guy has spent his entire career ripping off his fans & acting in his own interests & people are fuckin stupid enough to think this is a good thing & to be grateful to breathe the same air as that asshole, like he's gonna descend from the sky & empower them to be even bigger dickheads than they already are.
Axlin is absolutely full of long winded nonsensical bullshit. As per usual. Talking out of his fat ass.
#225 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 447 weeks ago
Ghost Recon open beta this weekend, gonna give it a whirl. Wasn't taken with for honour last week. It was fun enough don't get me wrong, just not something I'd spend £40/50 on. Ghost recon seems more up my alley, but I'd feel guilty about it as I still have the division lying unopened since Christmas..
#226 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 447 weeks ago
Lotta games coming out for PS4 next few months.
Horizon zero dawn
Ghost recon
Nier automata
Lego worlds
Mass effect
Persona 5
Yooka-laylee
Little nightmares
Prey
Anyone? I'm interested in all those, except lego really. Def wanna do nier automata & mass effect + little nightmares/yooka laylee. Wanna do Prey but may hold off & pick up Dishonoured 2 instead. Busy few month..
#227 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 447 weeks ago
Katheryn Winnick vs Emilia Clarke
That's a tough one
Ha! The talent in Vikings was ridiculous, a bit distracting. There was a while there at the start of one of the seasons they seemed to introduce a super hot Viking woman every episode. Needed more bewbs tho. & dragons.
#228 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 448 weeks ago
This show is still the best. Far better than Vikings. Because it has dragons.
#229 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 448 weeks ago
This made me smile:
An Eminent Psychiatrist Demurs on Trump’s Mental State
FEB. 14, 2017
To the Editor:Fevered media speculation about Donald Trump’s psychological motivations and psychiatric diagnosis has recently encouraged mental health professionals to disregard the usual ethical constraints against diagnosing public figures at a distance. They have sponsored several petitions and a Feb. 14 letter to The New York Times suggesting that Mr. Trump is incapable, on psychiatric grounds, of serving as president.
Most amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled President Trump with the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. I wrote the criteria that define this disorder, and Mr. Trump doesn’t meet them. He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn’t make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder.
Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy. It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither).
Bad behavior is rarely a sign of mental illness, and the mentally ill behave badly only rarely. Psychiatric name-calling is a misguided way of countering Mr. Trump’s attack on democracy. He can, and should, be appropriately denounced for his ignorance, incompetence, impulsivity and pursuit of dictatorial powers.
His psychological motivations are too obvious to be interesting, and analyzing them will not halt his headlong power grab. The antidote to a dystopic Trumpean dark age is political, not psychological.
ALLEN FRANCES
Coronado, Calif.
#230 Re: The Sunset Strip » Vikings » 449 weeks ago
Enjoying season 3 a bit more than I did season 2, seems to be moving on at a bit more speed than the 2nd which got mired in love stories.
Dunno about floki the shipbuilder tho. His character and the actor playing him annoy the hell out of me.
