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  1. Patman
    It' s even worse than that, she doesn' t see you just as a stranger, she sees you as a jailer. You' re a stranger who, for some reason unknown to her, won' t let her leave the house on her own, nor drive, nor cook ... She might even insult you or hit you. As strongly as you might still love her that is an incredibly painful situation to live, not everyone is equipped to deal with a situation so devastating morally and physically (it' s a full time job).

    Personally I wouldn' t want my (hypothetical) wife to endure such pain just to keep a promise :
    If she keeps her promise we' ll both suffer, if she doesn' t I' ll suffer just as much and she' ll suffer less. I know what choice I would wish her to do if I was still sane, but that' s her choice to make. Whatever she chooses is fine.
    Post by: Patman, Sep 15, 2011 in forum: Debate Corner
  2. Patman
    If that' s just a HD remaster then nope. The fixed camera angles were there for a reason :

    - To make sure no one would notice the backgrounds are made in chunky 3D. In FFXIII you can see huge polygons and horrible mappings if you place the camera the bad way in certain places. FFX, even if slightly improved, would look much much worse if you could look where you want.

    - To reduce their amount of work. If you could look where you want you' d see big chunks of nothing or poorly designed places here and there. Why would they waste their time on something that no one will ever see, or on something that will barely be seen from far away ? Also, why force the PS2 to load all those things and compute them for nothing ?

    - To allow SE to direct the game like they would direct a movie. SE tried for years to make FF games look like movies, I was really surprised when I saw the free camera in FFXIII. The free camera is a double edged sword, it enhances immersion but the developers loose control over what the players will see and how they' ll see it. For games supposed to create a cinematic mood and tell a story (FF, survival horrors) I think fixed cameras are actually a wiser choice, especially if they try to look pretty all the time and are linear anyway. But then of course I' ve studied directing and now when I watch something I pay attention to its direction. Before I studied directing I was, like most people, clueless about it, I only cared about the meaning and quality of what I saw, not the meaning and quality of how it was shown. I' m really surprised that pretty much every next gen games have free camera now, it saddens me (I' m talking to you Crapcom, what the hell have you done to Resident Evil ?) Oh well, SE were never too good at directing anyway. In Advent Children they made begginer mistakes, which were corrected in the Complete version, and in FFXIII CGs here they are again.

    Oh and finally some places in FFX are in 2D, just like in the PS1 FF.
    Post by: Patman, Sep 15, 2011 in forum: Gaming
  3. Patman
    SE owns the characters just as much as Nintendo, and I don' t see why Nintendo would mind SE using them in a 3DS game.
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    Maybe Disney wouldn' t agree though ...
    Anyway, I doubt we' ll see much SE characters that aren' t FF related (apart from short cameo stuff) unless they really make sense from a story perspective.
    Post by: Patman, Sep 15, 2011 in forum: The Spam Zone
  4. Patman
    ^ This.
    I' d also like to add those who ended up in jail for a crime they didn' t commit, which could happen to any self-proclaimed "more valuable than some" person.
    Post by: Patman, Sep 14, 2011 in forum: Debate Corner
  5. Patman
    ...
    Post by: Patman, Sep 14, 2011 in forum: Gaming
  6. Patman
    http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2022489,00.html

    But yes, it' s 20 light years away. Spaceships fast enough to get light years away wouldn' t run on fumes. If we ever want to send a few select people on another viable planet, which is not gonna happen anytime soon, first we' ll have to stop polluting and wasting resources at light-speed. Let' s not even talk of sending an entire population.

    People keep thinking, for no apparent reason, that science and technology can save them from anything, including the way they selfishly misuse science and technology to behave like there' s no tomorrow. Surprise, now there really isn' t any tomorrow !

    Behold the mighty humans and their brains, the pinnacle of evolution, the perfect creation of God ! We are SO intelligent ! :=D:
    Yeah right, so intelligent that we' re drowning in our own poop, hoping some more poop might save us. We could have thought of NOT eating ten times more than required, but that' s just ******ed, as opposed to, you know, drowning in our own poop ...
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    Post by: Patman, Sep 14, 2011 in forum: Debate Corner
  7. Patman
    Some added Dark Aeons boss fights (8), and one more ultimate boss to top them all. If you don' t max out (255) every stat of every character and forge some uber weapons you don' t stand a chance against them ... unless of course you don' t bother and just call Yojimbo to Zanmato their ass.
    Post by: Patman, Sep 14, 2011 in forum: Gaming
  8. Patman
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    Oh boy, this thread is so depressing. Really ? The scapegoat plan ? Yeah, cause that' s always sooooo clever and efficient. What you' re proposing is mass murder, which is supposed to lead to prison or death penalty, depends which country you live in. Remind me again what you suggested we do with prisoners anyway ?

    The only scapegoat plan I might agree with is the one in which the scapegoats are the very people who submitted the plan in the first place.
    Post by: Patman, Sep 13, 2011 in forum: Debate Corner
  9. Patman
    We saw Sora gliding fast for 20 seconds. I can' t even tell you in which level, the video quality was too bad (a troll award of the year level of badness, it' s not even worth searching for it on you-tube).
    Post by: Patman, Sep 13, 2011 in forum: Kingdom Hearts News & Updates
  10. Patman
    I doubt pollution will ever eradicate every life form on the planet. There are some life forms that can survive incredibly dire situations : some organisms can survive right over underwater volcanoes, some insects can enter a centuries-long stasis and survive a nuclear holocaust in the meantime, some shrimp eggs can hatch centuries after they were laid if they finally come in contact with water ... there may be a few inaccuracies in what I just said but you get the picture, just because humans interfered with their environment doesn' t change the rules, it' s still the survival of the fittest. We speak of the life-forms that disappeared because of us, but what of the species that have or will appear thanks to the changes we' ve made ? If anything we are just afraid that sooner or later we might not fit in the world as we changed it, we' ve decimated entire species happily and remorselessly from starters. If we were to all die nature would just reclaim the place.

    [video=youtube;_NLF3moePdo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NLF3moePdo[/video]
    See how many plants there are in Tchernobyl 10 years after the nuclear incident ?

    I honestly can' t think of a way out, unless ... banning any form of consumer society maybe ? If we only cared for food and shelter it might just work but ... I suspect it' s a cure no one would want, they' d find it worse than the disease.
    It' s just like they said in The Matrix, most human beings are so dependent on the system that they' d rather die defending their artificial illusion of happiness than face the gritty truth (including me, and probably you too).
    Post by: Patman, Sep 12, 2011 in forum: Debate Corner
  11. Patman
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    A test

    Bingo. They also call it Dual-role Transvestism :
    http://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/sage/results.htm
    Post by: Patman, Sep 11, 2011 in forum: The Spam Zone
  12. Patman
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    A test

    You are in a statistical minority as a anallophilic crossdresser. Most crossdressers are heterosexual.
    "Anallophilic crossdresser" does NOT mean asexual.
    Post by: Patman, Sep 11, 2011 in forum: The Spam Zone
  13. Patman
    I was going upstairs to my room. My sister was watching TV and she suddenly freaked out, shouting at me to come and see this. I was surprised to see that a plane crashed right in the middle of one of the twin towers, but I thought it was the end of it and went on with my daily occupations. When I saw the tower crumbling on the evening news I was like :
    "Huh ? What the ... huh ?"
    I still am actually, there are so much baffling inconsistencies in the "official" version of those events, so many things flying in the face of common sense that I still don' t know what to think of it, maybe someday I will but I doubt it.

    I also recall the destruction of the Berlin wall. I was too young to know what it meant at the time, but it brought my mother to tears, she told us we were watching History.
    Post by: Patman, Sep 11, 2011 in forum: Current Events
  14. Patman
    Sorry to disappoint.
    http://whois.domaintools.com/finalfantasyxiii-3.com
    Post by: Patman, Sep 10, 2011 in forum: The Spam Zone
  15. Patman
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    Post by: Patman, Sep 10, 2011 in forum: The Spam Zone
  16. Patman
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    Sexuality

    The major difference between your parents and a friend is that your parents probably expected you to give them grandchildren someday. Also, as P said, Being gay is far less preferable, socially, to being straight, so yeah, most heterosexual caring parents would take a coming out as a blow, Christian or not.
    Post by: Patman, Sep 10, 2011 in forum: Discussion
  17. Patman
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    Post by: Patman, Sep 10, 2011 in forum: The Spam Zone
  18. Patman
    He didn' t work for Nintendo at the time.

    The NES Zelda games are much more difficult than any other Zeda game, though when I was ten I knew the first Zelda game so well that I could finish it in 3-4 hours. Did someone tell him that this game also has a second, much harder quest ?
    Post by: Patman, Sep 9, 2011 in forum: Gaming
  19. Patman
    Post

    A test

    That and your avatar, it' s misleading for some people. Also, English is a gender neutral language so we can' t guess people' s gender just from the way they spell their posts.
    Post by: Patman, Sep 9, 2011 in forum: The Spam Zone
  20. Patman
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    A test

    I noticed. That' s weird since it' s supposed to be a "statistical minority". I' m one of the few who weren' t categorized as cross-dressers, maybe because I' m (probably) the oldest ? Maybe cross-dressers tend to love KH (or maybe that test just sucks) ?
    Post by: Patman, Sep 9, 2011 in forum: The Spam Zone