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I grew up in New York City, and have been playing video games pretty much as soon as I could pick up a controller. The earliest game I remember playing was Nintendos Baseball, and all I really remember from that was hitting a home run, only to be stopped by the game freezing right before I saw any recognition of my achievement. Thats why I became a gamer.
Let me get the big cardinal sin out of the way, and tell you my favorite games. My favorite game is Metal Gear Solid 4, for its amazing storyline, with Final Fantasy 10 following up for the same reason. Killer 7 and No More Heroes are next, Killer 7 because of its absolutely extravagant storyline and extremely fun gameplay, and No More Heroes because it is extremely, extremely fun. Currently its a tie between Fallout 3 and Uncharted 2 for the 5th slot.
I am a big Matt Groening fan, and am eagerly awaiting the return of one of my favorite shows, Futurama. Another eagerly awaited show for me is the third season of The Boondocks, which is just one of the most hilarious shows ever made.
I listen to all different kinds of music, but mostly what I refer to as alternative hip-hop. Currently my favorite rapper is Chali 2na, who has a ridiculously awesome voice. Then there isThe Gift of Gab, who is part of the duo Blackalicious. Silly name, great group. (yes its where I got the name) The Third place trophy goes to Lupe Fiasco, whos over the top references and unreserved style remind me heavily of The Wire.
So, who can explain why there's a a white square where my gamertag and psn ID are supposed to be? greatly appreciated.
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Why I like motion controls
on 07.07.2010
Once again, I have to invoke the notion of the arrogance of the hardcore gamer. Many of them seem to hold either ambivalence or hatred towards motion controls as used in gaming. Not without cause or reason, the Wii had just a midgets handful of good games until very, very recently. The combination of the Wii being the champion of motion controlled gaming and the lack of any good games for the gamer crowd meant that the Wii was shunned by most traditional gamers, and as a consequence motion controlled gaming was written off as a casual fad. And maybe it is, we have so far only had the Wii and Sixaxis to demonstrate this. However I believe motion controls if done correctly can be equally as fun as the standard controller.
Kinect, regardless of its demonstrations, has the potential to supplement the already existing gamer experience. Not in all situations, nor in just casual ones, but assuming that it can track your motions effectively, how would this not make, for example, Fight Night a more interesting game. While I understand that part of the allure is playing with established names in the boxing franchise, imagine a boxing game where you work your way up from a created character, and get to face all the greats of boxing. Actually, heres a more succinct question: How many of you really hate Mo-Cap Boxing, from the arcade? Silent Scope? Burnout Paradise? The applications arent endless, but I dont expect this to be the future of gaming, I expect it to be an addition to gaming. Nothing more than an alternate option.
Yahtzee, in his most recent extra punctuation article (On Kinect and Playstation Move) discusses why he thinks motion controls are essentially a parlor trick, states that the zenith of gaming would one day be where youre plugged in and your thoughts immediately turn into your actions, and that the least possible transition from thought to action is what gaming should be moving towards, and therefore large actions from motion gaming detract from that. While I agree with the statement that thoughts turned into action are where gaming should eventually go, I disagree that motion controls detract tremendously from getting to that stage. For the sake of argument, lets say that the motion controls are 1:1 and that every move you make can be replicated instantly in the game. When you lean around a corner, your character leans around the corner in an FPS, following everything that you do, down to when you sneeze and wipe your nose. How would this not be a more immersive experience than simply moving the left stick to turn around a corner? The actions would be grander yes, but should your motion determine your action, I think that the control set could be equally as fun and immersive, if given the correct parameters.
Take Time Crisis for example. Everyone loves Time Crisis, everyone played and loved Time Crisis both in the arcades and at home. How could a dedicated control set for Time Crisis, an already established franchise be a bad thing? Its like Organic Food. Converting completely over to the system would be an absolutely horrendous idea, but having the option and the ability to experience both types isnt a detraction, just a supplementary experience, for those that choose to enjoy it.
I personally think that the Playstation Move is more adaptable to gaming in its current state than the Kinect. While I hate to agree in any way with the monolithic cereberus-style behemoth that is Sony PR, it is because of the buttons, and having a physical controller in hand. Not only is it that much easier to track, but with something in each hand you can essentially track the upper half of the body, making the peeking around a corner in an FPS reality that much easier, but now only with the added effect of pushing a button (in the same way you would on a standard controller) to kill that particular enemy. Assuming the experience isnt infused with enough lag to make it seem as if the character has Parkinsons, it could be a really immersive experience, if you allow yourself to be immersed within it.
Sports Games, RPGs and all manner of swordplay are obvious choices for motion gaming, and FPSs and RTSs could be fashioned to fit without too much degradation of the way we do traditional gaming. That to me is a large enough market to create it and allow developers to create ideas to fit with the system. At the end of the day though, these are nothing more than expensive accessories, at the most slightly more relevant than Rock Band and Guitar Hero. To all those that have cried foul on these new motion controls, ask yourself how many of you wanted a Wii HD. This is your opportunity to have just that.
When the terms casual and motion control are bonded so closely as they are on the Wii, and as they have been in demonstrations of both Kinect and Move, then it can be said that they are detracting from traditional gaming. However relax and keep an open mind guys, theyre not taking away your controller, just giving you the option to not only try games a new way, but try different games in a new way.
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That Game Sucks!
on 06.22.2010
95% of hardcore gamers can be summed up in one category. We all want to see the new games, play the new cool games coming off the shelves. It is the basis of our whole relationship with new games. Ive been doing something recently in direct contrast to that. Ive been playing bad games. Games I knew were bad when I bought them, and I still bought them. Im not attempting to make any kind of point with this article, just to pose to myself the same question all of my friends have consistently asked me since I did it. Why?
One quick tidbit before I start: I will admit I havent been consistently buying bad games. I bought one and was given another one for free, but still play it. I am actually determined to finish them both. However it obviously goes contrary to all thought. There are very few movie lovers who watch bad movies because there bad, and im pretty sure nobody reads bad books anymore. So why am I doing this?
First, lets name the games in question: I was in the store and saw that Play N Trade had a buy one get one half off on some games, so I looked through it to see what I could find. It had always been a running joke with me that should I ever find Sonic the Hedgehog (the PS3/360 version) for around five dollars I would buy it, to show my friends how bad it was. I was given the game as a gift while at college, and found it to be hilariously bad, but still sold it before I returned. I found Sonic: Ultimate Genesis collection for fifteen dollars. I figured that was a cheap enough price to ride the nostalgia train, so now I had to choose my half off game. I came upon Sonic the Hedgehog, and proudly proclaimed to my friend next to me: I have to do this. It has to be done. After getting over the initial embarrassment of walking to the counter with of all things Sonic the Hedgehog in hand, (this included getting stopped by someone who thought I was a Sonic fan, to which I responded no, but this game is so awful I have to buy it. This brought a look of such confusion that it was probably the basis for the article you are currently reading.) I managed to make it out of the store, laughing with my friend on how terrible we both knew the game was. Honestly, what is there left to say about Sonic Team, I admire theyre tenacity?
So after the nostalgia had run out on the Ultimate Genesis collection, we then turned to Sonic the Hedgehog. Since we were obviously in the mood for bad things after marathoning The Tester, we turned to Sonic the Hedgehog with an almost glee-like anticipation of how hilarious this game would be. And I think that is the first reason. Certain games are so terrible that they are honestly hilarious. Sonic team has more loading screens than the PSP trying to load Tekken 6, and they come so frequently that they might as well be high school freshmen. It just isnt in any way good. The dialogue is so bad it might as well be on Engrish.com. This aspect provides an endless amount of hilarity for me, (like F.K in the coffee) and at least in short bursts, I can actually say that I want to put myself through that.
A normal phrase that is used when people dont know how to react is, What were they thinking!?!? This is especially prevalent in Sonic games. But the tone is different: I legitimately want to know what they were thinking. You have to know the game your putting out is terrible, it couldnt have gone through any testing, and how did anyone sign off on the final product? There should have been more red flags than a slalom course on this game, especially because it was supposed to be the rebirth of Sonic. Someone was making this game, with all its furry undertones, and thought it was just going to be like the original Sonic game. For those of you who dont know, Sonic and this princess have this weird relationship that I havent figured out yet. Why they felt the need to add a relationship (especially a human one, Im sure Amy is pissed) to Sonic I still have no idea. The day I see Pikachu and a human in a relationship is the day I declare war on Pokemon.
I think the only concrete reasoning I have for why I want to play bad games is as simple as this: I want to analyze them. Everyday I spend buying and playing the absolute cream of the crop when it comes to games, and I have to spend time researching and evaluating them. But in all honesty, evaluation of a known terrible game opens so many doors on how to evaluate good ones. To a certain extent, you know what your looking for in every game you buy, and you know what is good and bad about it, but after playing such a terrible game, you start to notice things in games that you would have never noticed without them. It isnt a real tangible effect, either. Ive even started appreciating my good games more when I play them. If youve ever seen The Oblongs then you know that Pickles will take a cigarette break, where shed smoke a different pack than her regular brand, in order to take a break. The same thing applies to bad and good games.
I recently traded my iPhone 3GS for a PSP, because Ill be purchasing the iPhone 4. So I was given a used PSP, and about 3 games with it. The games were Sonic Rivals and Crisis Core FFVII. Given the two options, I chose Work Time Fun. (I had it from the last time I owned a PSP) But after a while I popped in Sonic Rivals, because the DS Sonic game was good, why couldnt the PSP one be? Granted I had not seen or read a review of the game beforehand. Now to be completely honest, Sonic Rivals only has two problems. The story sucks, and the camera is in a 2D position. Since its a PSP game (and since its Sonic) I dont really care about the story too much. But every single problem with Sonic Rivals stems from the fact that the camera puts you at the center of the screen on a 2D plane. I cant see enemies, I cant see traps, I cant see holes, I cant see where Im going. These things are important when youre racing. Imagine a Burnout game where the car is in the middle of the screen in a side profile. and there were bombs and angry robots everywhere. It would be kind of difficult. While these games are both undoubtably bad, they still happen to be fun, even in the most basic sense.
Then there is Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks. If this game is anywhere near your current location, you should stop reading this and go get it. It is without a doubt one of the most fun games ever created. It is also a terrible game when compared. The voice acting is bad, the characters do nothing but scream, its easy to get lost, so many problems with this game. None of them matter. It is literally what would happen if you put Mortal Kombat in a Streets of Rage setting, and it is just as fun. Its one of the best things about the game industry in my opinion, that fun is the spade set. Its the one thing that trumps all other aspects. No matter what else is happening, you have to be having fun.
I am still determined to finish Sonic the Hedgehog someday, and it has led me to believe that its important, every once in a while, to play a bad game. A fun bad game is better than just a terrible one, but somehow, playing a couple of bad games every once in a while is relaxing. I still look upon bad games with disdain (at the ending of Assassins Creed, I took the disk out, put it back in the case, and stomped on it for at least 20 minutes) but some manage to be charming in their own way.
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Gamer is dead.
on 06.09.2010
Nas stated in this album, Hip Hop is Dead. It was used to describe the current state of what people know as "Hip Hop." Likewise, I say that the term Gamer is dead. Should you truly enjoy video games and care about them, at a certain point youll have to distinguish yourself, just like Nas does, from the rest of the people who claim to reside in your medium.
For those that have played the game Resistance, allow me to present an analogy. Gamers seem as if they are the embodiment of the Chimeran Swarm. They have become this amorphous blob of ignorance which leaves nothing but destruction in its wake. Whether they are unified in attacking a specific target or fighting amongst themselves, the people that are gamers are not the same people who care about the world of games.
Lets take the example of Cooper Lawrence. To refresh your memory, Cooper Lawrence was on Fox news and saying that Mass Effect has Full Graphic Nudity and Sex. Anyone that played Mass Effect knew that it wasnt true, and this story was sensationalized beyond Biowares wildest dreams. I am in no way condoning her actions, I think they were not only idiotic, but deplorable. So it was understandable that apart of me understood and enjoyed the reaction through Amazon that fell upon Ms Lawrences book. However like the Chimeran Swarm, they did not stop attacking her or threatening her. Amazon has done their best to delete the reviews of her book in some way relating to Mass Effect, but they are still there. Thats right. Still there. Three years later, people are still writing reviews on that book and what she said about Mass Effect. I agree that she should have actually played the game before going on T.V and making up lies, but she has essentially been tormented for three years for that act, like a prison sentence. Her other books on Amazon (that have come out since the interview) also have reviews relating to Mass Effect. Plainly put: is there any legitimate reason for this still to be occurring?
Gamers dont even like to help each other. How many times have you heard people in the defense of publishers or Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo say the following phrase: You people seem to forget that gaming is a business, and they can do whatever the hell they want to make money. Yes. Gaming is a business. And as consumers, we have to be treated fairly as long as we are giving money to the business. Yes I know. You arent the problem, and I shouldnt judge everyone in the context of what some people continue to do. But like it or not, gamers are representative of the gaming community as a whole, and how gamers are seen is how the gaming community is defined. At this point, there needs to be a distinction between the people who are actually gamers and people who spread ignorance with a stamp of gamer.
Its not just that ignorance has perforated the gaming community. Its that ignorance has opened a whole, and sucked gamers directly into it, to the point where gamers live inside ignorance like it was a Poke-Ball. Remember the Jade Raymond controversy? The producer of Assassins Creed was undoubtedly the face of the game, but was that any excuse for the comic or the response? Ive heard both the right to free speech and the defamation arguments, the former being an argument about as deep as a sheet of paper. Yes, you can in fact make a comic about Jade Raymond. Yes, it does make you look like you have the intelligence of a perverted seal who huffs flammable paint in the process. Its not even just Jade Raymond. Girls in gaming are rare because it is to a certain extent (despite my hatred of this phrase) a boys club. Girls are either heralded for their attractiveness, or treated like crap. Some of my friends dont even bother going on Xbox live multiplayer anymore, just because no matter their skill set, theyll be ridiculed for being a girl. Obviously the only exception to this is Elsa, as she is awesome.
This is the paragraph where I talk about the Humble Indie Bundle. Cooper Lawrence at least, was an idiot. We all know she was an idiot, she knows she was an idiot too. The people who believed that Resident Evil 5 was somehow racist were idiots, (or caught up in White Guilt"(
) Even the that girl from Shakeys who thought that the development team from Fat Princess were misogynists was an idiot. To a certain extent, those people deserved some of the reception they got. The Humble Indie Bundle was for Charity. But its not just that. Even when Kotaku called gamers out on the stealing that they were doing, while there were a lot of people who joined, saying that the stealing of games whose revenue was designed for charity is in fact, wrong, there were people who defended the pirates. There were a lot of people who defended the pirates. Some people didnt have a credit card doesnt mean that they are justified in stealing them. Everyone torrents, but at least agree that using the companys own resources to take something whose sole purpose was for charity is nowhere near morally justifiable.
When you see the title of this article, and the title of Nass album, it comes off as a bit alarmist. Gamer/Hip Hop is dead? do we all have to switch to something else now? It also sounds like I am saying all gamers are pirates and degenerates (something ive tried hard to distinguish during the writing of this article, but will undoubtedly come up in the comments.) First off, this is in no way an alarmist article. There are wonderful people who play games, and the stereotype is in fact just a stereotype and is in no way representative of all of the gaming community. But at a certain point, it just seems like the people who actually buy their games, the people who are civil on Xbox Live/PSN, the people who dont go around flaming everything in relation to gaming in articles or on Amazon reviews should be distinguished from the people who actually do those things. Other media undoubtedly have their own version of fanboys and pirates, but are they really as bad as gamers? More to the point, are these people really something that gamers want to be connected to?
I dont necessarily want gaming to be taken seriously. Something where fun is such a crucial factor being taken seriously is ridiculous. However I would like to look at gamers as a whole and think that overall, they werent mostly group of idiots attached to something great. In criticizing, the people who have managed to come above the massive wall of ignorance should be commended. The people that actually enjoy games, enjoy discussing them and arent just fanboys. The people that have to mute everyone else on Xbox Live when they play a Halo match. Gaming at its core is something that instantly gathers everyone around no matter whether your in an arcade, your house, or on the road. With that attraction brings new gamers. At least give them something to look forward to.
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Welcome to Steam, (Please wait, Updating)
on 05.16.2010
Up until very recently, Ive always had some sort of Dell laptop. The first made playing Unreal Tournament 2003 (practically Lan party style in high school during lunch) extremely fun. However that was the extent of my knowledge of PC gaming, aside from You Dont Know Jack. I just never got into it, the lack of a controller made it seem like I wasnt playing a real game, just a computer one, in the way people play Bejeweled or Peggle. Even in my college years, I stuck exclusively with console gaming, and I had heard of Steam, I just didnt care about it. Remember how you first felt when you heard about Arrested Development before you watched it? I felt like that about Steam, it was probably good, I just had no motivation to try it.
Last September I bought a Mac, and really nothing changed for me. (Other than the hate I get for owning one, in which no good argument still has been given to me to make me think I shouldnt) I still did the same things I did with my Dell, just on a Mac. Console gaming was still my life, and life moved on with or without Steam. So with Steams release on the Mac, my initial reaction was Yeah...thats nice dont care. However when they said Free Portal! I downloaded it immediately. (I was slightly beaten out by one of my friends who when told about this, flew like Lugia with A.D.D down the stairs to her computer to download it.)
The paragraph that everyone is expecting now is something that should essentially say Steam opened up a whole new world of gaming for me! Well, it did and it didnt. Direct2Drive was always there and always had games, but those same games I could have bought on a console and had more fun with. Through a set of funny coincidences I ended up buying the Steam Indie Bundle with World of Goo, And Yet it Moves, Machinarium, Osmos, and Galcon Fusion (the last of which still hasnt worked) for $20. At least this means that I dont feel like an incompetent Madden-loving idiot for not buying World of Goo, something the gaming media has constantly told me I was some sort of anti-game Leeland Yee type character for not purchasing. (if they find out I dont have Psychonauts, Yahtzee will personally come to my house and break my fingers with an army of pencils) And thats wonderful, I love what Steam is doing with Indie game development, which I should extend to the PC gaming (am I still allowed to call it PC gaming?) in general. While I love supporting the Indie developer, I dont ever see myself buying a game I could buy on a console on my Mac through Steam, assuming their the same price, for several reasons:
In all honestly, my circle of gamer friends have done the exact opposite of the norms. Almost all of them own PS3s, and most of them use the PS3 as their primary console. In every case within multiple console ownership, the 360 was purchased second, at a much later date, if at all. I know about four or five people with a Wii, and only one of them currently uses it. (Okay I guess thats normal, but he has no other next gen console) Why is it that nobody I know has Steam? Most of my aforementioned friends despise Macs with the Passion of Joan of Arc and Kyle Broflovski combined so it isnt that they have Macs and couldnt use Steam, they all have consoles & PCs, and none of them use Steam. I am curious to see if Steam is an equal counterpart to Xbox Live however, though it doesnt seem like it. I am always looking for Steam friends though!
I cant stand not having a controller. Its like sleeping without a blanket. it just doesnt feel right. Keyboards are great for MMOs id imagine because you need all the buttons, but going both by feeling and ease of use ill stick with my controller. I am however quite aware that PC gamers can plug in their controllers and use them on PC games. To me, thats similar to bootcamp being used to run Steam. It is in no way more advantageous for me to play on a smaller screen when I have a TV almost double its size in front of me, which I could be using with the consoles and controllers to play the game.
Do you remember awhile back when the PS3 had this reputation of having too many updates? While I was fine with their amount of updates, Steam just has way too many updates for me. At least 75% of the time I run Steam, its updating something, I have no idea what. But its updating. This could be an issue with just Macs however, and not necessarily reflective of all of Steam. But if it is something that happens throughout Steam, is this not an annoyance to anyone else? The constant updating every time I open Steam just angers me before I even get to the game I want to play. There is also a downloading problem I had with that indie pack, where only four out of the five games I bought actually downloaded, however thats only a minor issue.
My last problem on my initial impressions of Steam is with Steams need of an internet connection. To my knowledge, if I dont have an internet connection, I cant play my games on Steam. I had heard of this with Ubisofts DRM, but I was unaware that this was the case with Steam as well. (For reference, I didnt have an internet connection and opened Steam in an offline mode to play Portal, in which it promptly said that it could not complete this action in offline mode) As a console gamer, Im used to buying games and them working, internet connection or not. Both XBLA and PSNs games work fine without an internet connection, why is this a problem with Steam? And if there is a reason for it, is it really a necessary one?
Now lets turn to things that I think make Steam a wonderful program. First, there is the obvious portability. My Mac's height when closed is about the width of my thumb. Neither my PS3 or my TV or all the cords necessary to make them work are the width of my thumb. Portability of the computer is awesome, however usually I dont mind bringing my TV and console places, the console, games and cords fit in my bag quite easily and dont get damaged.
More importantly are the Steam sales. Steam has the best sales and package deals Ive ever seen. They would probably be the driving force behind all of my purchases on Steam. These five (four) games for $20 were worth it even after only knowing World of Goo. In retrospect I wanted to spend it on Deadly Premonition, but this was faster. Still, Steams sales are amazing and are absolutely one of the better points of the service.
Overall, Unless the sales drag me kicking and screaming to it, I probably wont use Steam very much. Though that does not mean that it is not a great service, just one that I dont ever see myself using. I think id be writing this even if I still had my old Dell when they said free portal id come running. Either way, Steam will be a great way for me to give good indie developers money, but I dont see it ever getting in the way of my consoles. Now Ill return to wishing I could play Audiosurf.
Is there anything Im missing that I should know about Steam?
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Not addressing the n-word in Def Jam Rapstar
on 04.16.2010
In this day and age, you cant NOT offend somebody, somewhere, and I think people need to come to terms with that. - Jim Sterling
Frankly, I wasnt sure how to start this article, or how I could condense such frustration at an article into meaningful words. This debate over whether or not certain people are allowed to say The N-Word has to stop. Immediately. And as always before writing something about race, I have to do the old I have black friends or I have a 360 so im not a fanboy excuse of explaining who I am before I am allowed to write anything. So without further adieu, here goes:
I am Sebastian, 21, Black, Born in NY, and a gamer.
Being a black man from Brooklyn, there are a lot of differences between me, and, lets say, a white man from Mont Alto, Pennsylvania. We probably have different tastes in music, different taste in food, clothing, or even speech. But the argument that I am somehow entitled to say a word that the man from Mont Alto is not, simply based on his skin color is asinine. Let me be clear:
That is racism
. It is denying any human being the right to say any word because of the color of his skin. If you want equality, if you want to be treated fairly, then anyone of any race has the right to say the n-word.
I have absolutely no concept of what it must have been like to be a slave. It must have been absolutely torturous. It was wrong, disgusting, and an ugly part of humanity. When the Civil Rights movement started, black people demanded to be treated fairly, and even they had to go through extreme hardships just to be given the same treatment as white people. We all know this. Anyone whos been to high school has studied this. In this time, The N-Word was derogatory, it was disgusting, it was wrong to use. Today, you could argue that it is still wrong to use, I am not here to make that claim. However, when a generation of us, as black people, use this word every day in various places ranging from TV, Movies, Music, and everyday life (I can tell you that I have said it, and I am not ashamed of it) then it is improper, immoral and illogical to say that other people, other human beings, cannot use this word.
In my high school, the n-word was once used in a derogatory manner by a white person. This person used it with intention to harm, and to make the people that it was directed toward feel like less of a human being. It was completely unnecessary and an absolutely terrible thing to say, regardless of the circumstances. However it was not a terrible thing for him to say the N-Word because he was a white man, on the contrary, it was because he used it in a hateful, derogatory manner that made the term unacceptable. Especially with the N-Word used in music so blatantly, its absolutely ridiculous to think that people, regardless of their race should have to shy away from it, or feel uncomfortable by its use in those terms.
the n-word caught me completely off-guard. What would I do? What should I do?
This is in no way an acceptable reaction. How could it be? Putting people in a situation where there is no clear cut response is a terrible idea. But you cannot blame the man for his reaction, it is basically what was ingrained in him, to not say it and to avoid any sort of reaction or discussion about it. Why? because hes not black. Because his race is not my race, somehow he should not be able to say words that we are allowed to say, even use as terms of endearment, no less. Once again.
This is racism.
Ill admit, I was pretty angry at the fact that this article needed to exist. However since it is a pretty normal reaction, I wasnt too angry. That is, until the quote from Mr Jamie King:
We don't have ownership, as [white people], of that word. I think that word does come up, and that is perhaps a word where, with the radio edits, there is an opportunity to not say it. We certainly don't make it a central part of the story or the career mode. That is a very personal decision in that point and time, regardless of race, creed and color as for how you use that word in the context of the song. Obviously, these artists are using it; they've empowered it and own it. To just shy away and be frightened doesn't mean we should abuse it, and hopefully I think we've treated it in a respectful manner the way all these artists and their content in their work would expect us to.
We dont have ownership, as [white people], of that word.
Are you kidding me? Do people, regardless of race, think that they do not have ownership of a word? Well, Ill admit he is right. Why? Because it is a word! You couldnt own a word more than you could own the vaccine for Polio. Nobody has ownership of words. Nobody. And nobody has any right, no matter who they are to tell you that there are words you cannot say. That is the very definition of discrimination.
Obviously, these artists are using it; theyve empowered it and own it.
Theres that word again. Own. What he means by this statement is: black people use it, and they own the word, and have empowered it. Now everyone has heard this we took the word and made it cool argument before. Thats fine. If you took it and made it cool, I absolutely support that. But if that is true, then you cannot say to someone else that they are not allowed to use it. Black people are not a club. They are not the Boy Scouts of America, and therefore cannot discriminate against people and tell them what they can and cannot do. If you took the word and made it acceptable, than it is acceptable for every single person to say, no matter who they are. If it is not acceptable to say, you yourself cannot use the word. If you use the n word, you are entitling everyone of every race, age and background to use the n word. Its that simple.
To just shy away and be frightened doesnt mean we should abuse it, and hopefully I think weve treated it in a respectful manner the way all these artists and their content in their work would expect us to.
This actually makes the most sense out of everything that hes said. If it is acceptable to say (as it has obviously become) than no one should shy away and be frightened from it. The rest of that statement is basically justifying that they put the N-Word in there and are not going to take it out. Which I support. In fact I wish that they would have used the actual songs, and not the radio edits, because if we are purchasing that product, we should be allowed to sing the song as it was made, and not a version acceptable for parents and the FCC.
Among my friends, every person I know knows it is completely acceptable to say the n word around me, use it in jokes, statements or whatever way they want to use it, as long as it is not used with intent to harm. Why? because I use it in jokes, statements and other ways, but I do not use it with intent to demean. I dont of course use it in all social circles, in the same way that I do not curse in all social circles. So to black people: know that if you use the N-Word, you must be willing to invite everyone you know to use the word with you. If it is acceptable for you to use, it is acceptable for everyone to use. To everyone else: at some point in your life, youll come across the N-Word. It happens, especially in todays society. In a perfect world, I wouldnt be writing this post now. Hopefully the people using it are enlightened enough to realize that it is, in all aspects, just a word. The only meaning it has is the meaning that you give it, and the intent in which you have to use it.
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There was a time, long ago, when the XMB was much better than the dashboard. It was easier to use, everything was displayed right in front of you, and you didn't have to go hunting for what you wanted like the blades system. With the arrival of the new dashboard however, The XMB became increasingly obsolete and frustrating to use. When they
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I feel like talking about party support and cross game chat has been beaten to death and will probably only happen if people start catapulting themselves into Sony's offices worldwide, so I wont even bother to address that glaring issue. But things that I take for granted when I play my 360 are such a hassle on my PS3. I tried to play Borderlands with my friend, who had his own save file on his PS3, so I had the brilliant idea of "Oh just bring it over and we'll copy it onto my PS3" Which I had to do because XMB only supports having one person be logged in at a time. Did that work? Of
not. It thought I was trying to use that save to play over my own account, and disabled trophies and everything else. Yes I know it said that, but I thought it was for the file that was copied over. I'm not even sure when the log in feature was implemented into the 360, because I didn't even have one whenever it was put in. If it was since launch, then holy hell this is worse than I thought. When you turn on a second controller, there are no prompts to sign in (unless your playing Little Big Planet, and if they can have it in that game...) and it makes me question what the people are doing. The last update was to add facebook. Now I love publishing my stuff to facebook on PS3 much more so than the silly 360 application, but was that really what they needed to be working on at the moment?
That's not even bothering to talk about custom soundtracks. In an earlier article I talked about how being given the option was necessary whether or not it was being used, and even though its not used often, I still feel that getting some time in Borderlands with some good music can lead to a great time when you have to do the single player mode. Sony has begrudgingly applied the feature to the PS3, but they count on developers to support it. This has lead to almost no games actually using the blasted thing. Granted I have a separate problem with the 360 not being able to copy music from a USB stick, but at least they give me the option to play it during games.
Even the most basic things for the 360 are unheard of concepts on the PS3. When i'm downloading something on my 360, and I say to myself, "Gee its 3:30 am and i'm tired of this absurd chain fight of Big Daddy-Big Daddy-Big Sister another friggin Big Daddy, I want to go to go to sleep..." I turn off my system and guess what happens? The System turns off. Oh wait! No it doesn't! It's still downloading... in the background. I guess people aren't clamoring for this, but thats because we are so apathetic to getting cross game chat and a party system that nobody has time to worry about these things. The PS3 uses a lot of electricity when its on. I'd like it to use less electricity when all i'm doing is downloading something, or charging the controller. Why is this so difficult? It's 2010 now, they've had plenty of time to do this, but they've been working on things like "dynamic avatars" which have caught on like the N-Gage.
Yes, there are several things I'd like from my 360 as well. Bluetooth would be nice, and the rechargeable batteries are worse than using AA's on the Wii, and just like everyone i'd like to pay much less or none for live, but as odd as it is to say this, I feel like with the 360 my money is actually going somewhere. Yeah the console still sounds like a lawnmower when you turn it on, and sounds like a lawnmower going through a blender when you turn it on, but at least the interface functions and responds like any normal machine made within the past 10 years should. I love my PS3 and use it much more than my 360 because thats where my favorite games are, but I hope that sometime soon the XMB gets the makeover that it sorely needed 2 years ago.
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Posted January 23, 2013 at 9:30AM
I'd always thought we were a Parliamentary Democracy, and, as such, we elect paid representatives to take difficult decisions on our behalf.
Membership of Europe is a difficult , complicated topic, and most people (including myself) would be hard pushed to appreciate all the pros and cons - so the populace will now be bombarded by media propaganda aimed at the lowest common denominator, I suspect.
Loads of 'crazy' EU stories will emerge and be fed to the Great British public, with 'good' EU stories being more difficult to show. Hence the media barons will, once again, get their way and politicians can then 'blame' us if it turns out bad.
Weak leadership I'm afraid.
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Posted January 24, 2013 at 8:04PM
The forum description says something about 'lively'.
But not arrogantly or rude.
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Posted January 24, 2013 at 8:30PM
That referendum was fixed so that it didn't really matter what anybody really wanted, there was no way of stating it.
As an ordinary sort of bloke I understood it was for inclusion in the common market. So I voted "Yes". If it had been for a fully fledged European United State or States I would have said "Yes" at that time too. But it wasn't.
After watching the way this country has been treated by France, Germany and others, if we get a chance to opt out now by voting then I would be all for coming out. But there is no way this government is going to allow us to have that type of vote. Oh, yes! we may get the semi promised vote, if Cameron and his gang get in again. But it will be so worded that most of us will not understand it, and if we think we do understand it we will be wrong. We will end up voting for the opposite of what we really want.
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Posted January 25, 2013 at 8:01AM
I do not like homogenized milk and i do not think an homogenized Europe can work free from the power of national sentiment and the strength of the cultures underpinning that sentiment, these serve to undermine the federal european project.
In the USA a diverse people forged a new identity in a new world from scratch,the old world is still behoven to a tradition forged through centuries of conflict and relative peace,i may be wrong and probably will be but the time for this brave new Europe is,probably, not now.
Maybe like the USA it will take longer than we or the EU understand.
It is a condition of the future that change is inevitable,maybe if it was managed better it would be less problematical.
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Posted January 25, 2013 at 8:37AM
Just trying to think back to the first vote for the EU and I cannot remember if it was just a vote for the EU or was it bundled with the Local election votes.
Anybody actually know what % of people voted was it low High I just cannot remember if I actually voted or not and if I did not I can only assume it came bundled with Local Election votes.
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Posted January 25, 2013 at 8:47AM
Should have searched first. 67.2% in favour, with a turnout of 64.0%.
Edward Heath did not hold a referendum before the United Kingdom joined.
I suppose as we had already joined the EU without a referendum I suppose the yes vote was probably as we are already in we are as well staying in.
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Posted January 25, 2013 at 8:55AM
'We didn't pay enough attention in 1975'?
I think that that's true of the electorate after any election when the votes have been counted and we start to get the actions put into place.
The difference being that nearly 40 years on, there seems to be quite a majority that don't consider that we have what we thought we were getting, including the PM (as was referenced by himself in his speech).
So like the cooling off period that we're allowed on contracts signed on the door step, and the recovery of PPI premiums that we thought were the right thing at the time, and nearly 40 years of dissatisfaction with a service that we're not generally happy with, and with another generation of adults now in place since 1975 that resent inheritance we have given them, I think that we're now entitled to demand a thorough review of the entire EU machine's purpose for the 21st century.
And if that falls on deaf ears, we should be given the option to leave. It's clear from the PM's speech that he wants that EU wide review for the benefit of all EU nations.
It's not just Britain that's dissatisfied, I have a sister near Milan and a cousin in Rome, both for more than 30 years and with families raised, and they report that they think just the same of Brussels as we do.
So when the Brussels bureaucrats tell us that they know best, just who is it that is agreeing with them?
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Posted January 25, 2013 at 10:04AM
FE You asked
What are you basing your decisions on,
Unlike yourself I haven't made a decision yet, however at present my gut reaction which I believe is the feeling of many is concerns of where this EU is destined to take us if we allow it to role on. We are no now simply talking common market but of a federal Europe.
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Posted January 25, 2013 at 11:32AM
I am pro Europe but the EU is changing all the time and many people, in many countries, appear to dislike being ruled, in nearly every way by Brussels. I think that the whole organisation needs looking at particularly the finances.
Cameron may have made his Referendum for the wrong reasons but it has made people think which must be a good thing.
If the EU looks like becoming a federal state because of the adoption of the Euro Common Currency I for one will vote OUT. I just hope that I live long enough to have my say.
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Posted January 25, 2013 at 12:46PM
fm. Your erudition does you credit but you know what I mean
Thinking that the grass is always greener elsewhere is a trap for young players but this does not mean that efforts should be made to improve a situation.
I invest in shares- carefully- but I will have nothing to do with firms whose finances are uncertain. The EU finances are in a mess and need sorting. It is not a Company that any sensible investor would consider.
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Posted January 25, 2013 at 1:29PM
Unless the Government produce a 'pros and cons' fact sheet I do not see how any member of the public can make an informed decision.
The uninformed whim of the masses is not a good way to decide In/Out.
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