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  1. On 8/12/2019 at 8:09 PM, BTGBullseye said:

    Also, there's no guarantee that you can keep others like them out of power for any length of time.

    That's the really depressing bit. You can implement the perfect, truly fair system, and there'll always be a segment of the population who will game it for their own personal gain, eventually to the detriment of others. But then, how do you enforce the system without becoming too authoritarian? At what point does peace become oppressive? Is the fight for freedom more valuable than the freedom itself?

     

    Disclaimer: it's past midnight am I'm slightly drunk. Does existence even make sense? Don't answer that, I need to go to bed.

  2. How about old games that you like, but reckon younger generations wouldn't?

     

    Two of my all-time favourite games - Timesplitters 2 and GTA III would probably be considered too restrictive and basic compared to juggernauts like GTA Online and Fortnight. But back in the day they were considered part of the gold standard of PS2 games, and I'll forever defend them with my Dualshock 2. Also Vice City and Timesplitters Future Perfect.

  3. Whoa, this thread is still going? Points to the OP ;)

     

    These days I've realised that I'm not fully comfortable with having any -isms attached to my views. To re-post a rant I sent to a friend last month:

     

    It's this attitude I see from some people online that being left-wing or advocating Socialism makes you naive and that you don't know understand how the world or economics works. I mean I'm only left-wing because my outlook on life fits the Socialist narrative. I'm vaguely aware of how the world works, but I want to CHANGE how it works so humanity, as a whole, is smarter and able to look past their own selfish needs and not destroy the environment and other people's live for short-term gain. Does that make me naive, or just convinced that humanity can do better than what it currently is?

  4. Holiday, by Isabella Eklof.

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    I got to the end of that movie feeling like I'd been beaten up - for about an hour or more afterwards I had no feelings of joy or happiness in any part of my being. I would rather watch Schindler's List 1000 times than this movie again. At least in SL, there is a degree of hope, redemption, an eventual faith in the good of humanity. There is *none* in this film, just bleak, awful violence and misogyny. 

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    Do NOT watch this if you have a sexual violence trigger. I don't have a trigger, but by christ was I traumatised.

     

    But, it was brilliantly constructed and just about achieves what it was meant to do. 8/10

    Recommendation: only watch if you hate positive feelings, 

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    and have the emotional strength to deal with watching a fully uncensored r-p- sequence. I'm still trying to process it while typing this, 24 hours later. I feel sick.

     

  5. There's a similarity I feel, but it's more with the pitching of the voice, than the actual accent. I could do a similar thing with my weird Anglo-Scot hybrid mess.

     

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    Admittedly, Ross, I planned a project based on Freeman Across The Universe after you released that video, to the point where I could have made about three episodes, however it never went anywhere because the voice acting would have to have effectively been an impression of you, and it would probably be an embarrassment to both your work and myself as a fan. I'd probably also get a C&D considering your request to fans not to directly call a non-AF work 'Freeman's Mind' (although it would have been titled 'Freeman's Mind Across The Universe' with clear credit and tributes). But again, it's in my 'won't get made' basket of ideas.

     

  6. *Battle Royale in the Biased Against list*

     

    Thank you Ross. The explosive popularity of Fortnite makes me feel concerned that it will define the common perception of videogames. The stress I get from the state of the videogame world is how superficially bloated and routine the big releases have become. I mean, I don't really play new games - I upgraded to a PS3 at the beginning of this year - but I look at AAA title trailers and images and they all look homogenised and habit-reinforcing. That's not to say it was never like that before, but it feels especially nauseating considering the amount of money spent both by publishers and audiences, and which feels significantly misspent.

     

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    To quote Yahtzee: "Twenty years ago, Half-Life was a focal point in gaming's ongoing development as an artistic narrative medium; the next few years saw a slew of titles that combined AAA game design with genuine emotional story. But what happened between then and now?! Why are the games routinely rewarded with AAA status and income exclusively loot box-infested live service bullshit, games designed not to inspire or stimulate our emotions, but to numb them and hypnotize us into lab rats, mindlessly pawing the button that makes treats come out, while the games created with love and artistic integrity drown beneath waves of bottom-feeders like Hunt Down The Freeman, that tear chunks of rotten flesh from the corpses of Valve's children as Valve itself, once-habitual founders of new ages of narrative gaming, merely waves them on, barely glancing up from their tax paperwork?!"

     

    And you make a good point about the sheer scale of great games out there. There is more than you'll be able to play in your lifetime, so it's a stroke of luck if a small studio makes a breakthrough game and gets noticed. It's exactly the same with the music industry. I'd love to hit it big with my bands, but there's so much music already out there, and people doing the exact same thing as me, that even the smallest amount of attention has to be savored and promoted.

     

    I'll definitely have a gander at this list.

  7. How can you possibly provide fast and efficient technical support service when the systems you use run achingly slow and sometimes lock you out? Britain's telecommunication infrastructure is ass.

  8. Happy New Year all. What better way to start 2017 off than with a cold.

     

    And a house party full of coke-snorting radgies playing hardcore EDM.

    My housemate said it'd only be a small gathering.

    This wasn't meant to be a party house either.

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  9. Alreet lads? Just thought I'd pop by and give an update with me life to those who are interested:

     

    Working full-time, moving between houses, picking up a girlfriend, and having a hectic time with the band (guitarist leaving during festival season, and training up a new one) has all left me with no real time to stay up to date with both the forum and Accursed Farms in general. But I'm on the second of three days off where I don't have anything to do (me lass is in Germany for the holidays). Hope everyone's well :)

     

    Not sure how active I'll be on here moving forward, but I'll do what I can. I'm getting holidays booked over the next few months to do music and games, so I'll put some time aside for the forum (and my AF spin-off).

     

    In the meantime, stay cool, feel beautiful, and have a picture from my most recent gig.

     

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    (I'm on the left)

     

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