The Blackangel
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Does breakfast food count?
if not, then this is a hard question to answer. I honestly can’t decide. I love Mexican, Chinese, and Italian. Sushi is good on occasion but not something I start salivating over.
I thought about it for a fews minutes while writing this, and my answer has to be breakfast.
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I moved this topic to general discussion, because you mentioned painters as options. Thus, it opens the discussion to any kind of artist. Not just musicians.
To answer the question at hand, sometimes writers still want to write, but want to distance themselves from previous works, for different reasons. Or they want to write something different from their previous works. So they adopt a pen name. For example, Stephen king sometimes uses the pen name Richard Bachman. Anne Rice uses the pen name A.N. Roquelaure. Sometimes writers and authors don’t like something about a work they previously published so they don’t want their new work to be associated with it.
Since this was posted in music, I’ll answer on musicians. Sometimes an artist is in a band, and then chooses to go solo. Or they get fired from a band and then continue with music solo. Take Ozzy Osbourne for example. He was fired from Black Sabbath, for good reason I may add, and then continued performing solo and released some of his best work as a singer. Mama I’m Coming Home is one of my absolute favorite songs.
You mentioned painters so I’ll respond to that too. Michaelangelo wasn’t particularly fond of painting, but when the pope commissioned him, he agreed to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. His real passion was sculpting. Granted he is best known for the statue of David moreso than the Sistine Chapel. Aside from simply enjoying it more, he also used sculpture to move away from painting.
So sometimes, reinventing one’s self is a good thing. Other times it’s completely pointless. It all depends on the reason.
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When he was little, Haley Joel Osment impressed me. The range of roles he was able to play was amazing for a child. His most iconic role is obviously The 6th Sense, but he was also able to do sitcoms. He was in the first season of The Jeff Foxworthy Show. If he’s able to pull off that kind of range before puberty, he was headed for one hell of a successful career. Unfortunately I’ve only seen him n a couple voice over roles since he grew up.
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AvP
9/10
I would have ranked it at 10/10, but it just starts off so damn slow.
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There’s a few that I really like. Disturbed has done s few, and just rocked it. For example, Remnants flows into Asylum so perfectly that seems as if Asylum just has a long intro.
Remnants is one of two instruments that I really like. Remnants obviously. The other one is God Bless The Children Of The Beast by Mötley Crüe
Here’s Remnants.
Here’s God Bless The Children Of The Beast.
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There’s tons of fan made videos on YouTube. We all know that. But have you ever made a music video? It doesn’t matter what kind of music it is or what the song is. I’ve made a lot of videos over the years, but only one music video. If you’ve made one, lets see it. Here’s the one I made.
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The only thing they could try is performance capture. Try making Mario look real. That’s the only thing I can think of that they haven’t done yet. As far as hardware goes, I don’t see anything left they could do that would at least seem new. It would have to be one hell of a console. Otherwise, they’ve shot themselves in the foot.
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It could be used to look at some of the deadliest diseases in the world to study them closer and from a safe distance. For example, either a digital view (like in Jurassic Park) or through a highly advanced robot that you can use a headset to see through its eyes and mechanical “gloves” to control it as if you right there in the death room.
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An app that can cook me dinner would be my number one pick.
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I didn’t know it could be hacked. But that’s a moot point as I have absolutely no clue C how to hack something. I wish I did, but I wouldn’t even know where to go to learn how.
As for how it affected me with gaming, it opened me up to new games that I didn’t know existed. GoW and vAC were newbies to me. So the PSP had a hell of an impact on gaming for me.
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4 hours ago, killamch89 said:
The only thing I can say for sure you can use in a new gaming PC build is HDD storage drives. Outside of that, every other component from older times is more or less obsolete. A big reason for that is requirements to run modern games acceptably is significantly higher anything any old PC can perform. It's one of those things that comes with PC gaming unfortunately.
It’s been determined that technology is moving so fast that computers and computer parts are obsolete six months before they hit the market.
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Is it possible to build a new gaming PC out of an older regular PC and still keep some of the components in order to save money? I have several computers that are fairly old, and I’m wondering if they could offer a head start on the build. A google search didn’t turn up a damn thing answering my question. If this was the Windows 98 era I wouldn’t have to ask. But I haven’t done jack with computers since then except for normal use. You guys are a hell of a lot more educated on this than I am. So I wanted to get it straight from the horse’s mouth.
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On 11/18/2024 at 4:59 PM, killamch89 said:
I haven't played Pneumata yet, but I’ll have to check it out now.
Here’s a post about it that I made back in February.
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1 hour ago, killamch89 said:
Have you seen the suicidal game that was once on Steam (name escapes me at the moment)? And that game didn't even get half the backlash that games like Manhunt and Mortal Kombat got in the 90s.
I can’t say that I have, but I also can’t say that I’m surprised that those games exist.
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I’m not selling a damn thing unless the money offered is obscenely high. I’m talking no less than 7 digits. I have some games that I love, but are next to impossible to find. But no one is really looking for them either. So there aren’t a high number of authentic copies.
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2024 has been the year of the remake. For this competition it was kinda to be expected.
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I myself don’t play many first person games, but that’s not to say that I never play any. Hexen has been a long time favorite of mine. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s Doom, but medieval/fantasy style. Other games that have the option of first or third, I have to play it third. I just can’t really see anything in first person, which is why I don’t play a lot of them. However I did recently pick a new one up. I preordered Pneumata. It’s a first person game, and honestly, IT’S FREAKING AWESOME! I’ve heard some say it’s Layers Of Fear meets TLOU. I have no idea since I can’t play TLOU, but so far I’ve come across nothing that would be a trigger.
I’m starting to warm up to first person. It seems the market is really warming up to it too. The only thing that prevents me from really diving in is the ability to see my surroundings. If it wasn’t for that, I’d probably have a lot more first person games in my library.
If you’re wondering about how @Rain Dew feels about first person, she can’t and won’t play them. She played a dinosaur game (probably JP. I’d have to ask) that was first person when she was a kid that gave her nightmares. She often got attacked by velociraptors from behind and it absolutely terrified her. So now, and rightly so, she will have nothing to do with first person. I would say my favorite first person game is Layers Of Fear: Legacy. I would love to know what your favorite is and why as well.
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Both PS5’s are fully capable of getting your games digitally. But the disc version gives you a more expansive range of games. Yes it is on average $100 more expensive on store shelves. I bought mine straight from playstation.com and it was only $500 and came with Horizon Forbidden West pre installed. I wanted to get a PS5 with GoW, but they were sold out when I got in the queue. However, from what I understand, HFW is an amazing game. I’ve just never gotten around to actually playing it. So I don’t know yet. If I’m not playing RDR2, I’m typically playing something in the Dark Pictures Anthology. So I just haven’t played it yet.
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I only saw a handful of games that I was actually familiar with, so I can’t really make an objective pic when I have no basis for comparison.
But the list looked good from my ignorant perspective.
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16 hours ago, Shagger said:
I'm posting under the assumption that controversies related to the business practices surrunding a game or the companies behind the game are not relevant here. Such complaints are understandable, but not actually related to the game itself. This is about games that are controversial because of thier content.
Weirdly, I actually miss the days of people complaining about violence in games and that being considered controversial. I don't think it's been brought up since Hatred (or possibly GTA 5), and even that wasn't a huge deal. Sex and sexualisation of characters has come up sometimes, but not to the point whare it's been exatly mainstream news. These days most "controversial" games get to be "controversial" for, quite frankly, ridiculous reasons. It's usually a load of buthurt man-babies upset that a game has gay or black people in it. Or because a game has a woman in that actually looks like a woman and not some teenager's wet dream. Embarasment is a more familiar feeling than anger for me these days.
I hate censorship as much as the next guy, there is just no need for it when we have the ratings system for games. So long parents respect both the ratings system video games themselves for what they are, an entertainment medium and not toys, children are pretty safe form content that is innapriate. Having said that, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. And let's be honest, there are good reasons why it's not gamers and the game developers that cater to them that decide whare that line should be.
You’re absolutely right. But for the wrong reasons. And you’re wrong, but for the right reasons.
The reason is because (as you stated) the rating system is in place so people know what age range it can be appropriate for. But there are games, mostly pretty obscure, that defy the ratings system. I’ll go back to Hatred for this. There is no actual rating for the game. Mostly because not a lot of people know it exists, and those that do are just gamers who enjoy extreme brutality. The rating association doesn’t rate games that are that obscure. Then, there are games made for pure shock value and to both offend people and piss them off. Kill The Faggot, JFK Reloaded, Columbine Massacre are just a few of them. Some may be next to impossible to find, but if you look long enough, you will find them. So while the rating system is a good thing to have in place, it’s not foolproof. It seems to apply only to mainstream games. A lot of indie titles don’t have a rating either. I have over 130 DDL’s on my Switch, and I would venture to say that less than 20 are actually rated. I have some that are definitely not for children that have no rating. I also have games that no one would ban their children from playing that are rated.
But I have no children and still play Hatred, so I probably have no horse in this race. Either way though, I’ve been playing games like this since I was knee high to a grasshopper.
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It's about time the scalpers were the ones getting screwed. They're all worthless pieces of shit, and the reason that often, people can't get the item in question because the scalpers have all of them and charge a 300% markup for the item. I absolutely DESPISE scalpers.
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Maybe they should get in touch with those of us who are classic gamers. As everyone knows, RDR2 is my favorite game, but I still spend more time playing NES, SNES, N64, PS1, Sega Genesis, Atari 2600, and Game Boy. With a small handful of exceptions, I don't play jack shit but classic systems and games.
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I never got what the problem was with Manhunt either. I think it was actually Manhunt 2 that was the big problem. I could see differences between it and the first Manhunt but nothing that would be the downfall of society, as they tried to make it seem.
Online Shopping vs. In-Store Shopping: Which Do You Prefer?
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It depends what I’m shopping for. Some things are ONLY available online. Like some of the shirts I have are pro-pitbull. Pitbulls are the greatest breed on earth. But they’re the most popular candidate for “boogeyman” in the dog world.
But if I’m shopping for poptarts, then I’ll just go to the goddamn store.