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Coming up next in the Marvel U:
The new Hobgoblin is really Aunt May!
Frank Castles wife faked her death, and has really been the Kingpins Mistress all these years!
Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk wasn't actually because of the Gamma Radiation, but because he was chosen by the mystical avatar of Rage!
Northstar was never REALLY gay, he just pretended to be in order to uncover the gay conspiracy under orders of Nick Fury!
Spider-man? Pffft, [censored] Spider-Man! -
Quote:Fixed.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
JustSomeRandomLlama.
And don't leave this sign up if you don't want Teldon sneaking in:
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Quote:Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
The first: Mary Jane and Parker being married. He has screwed the pooch on this one and it continues to get worse. Most likely, the second he steps down, whoever takes over will have them get "re-married" or retcon this all away.
How it should be retconned -
Link. May be NSFW due to awesome.
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Quote:I should point out that the blog post at Brainy Gamer was written by the teacher at Wabash College, who was instrumental in putting the course together as well as choosing Portal as part of the curriculum. In retrospect, rather then expecting people to read through the articles I linked to, I should have gone ahead and posted the specific reasoning for why he chose Portal (Especially when he also considered Bioshock and Planescape: Torment). Allow me to correct this now:Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Hamlet might make an interesting videogame if the game mechanics factored in multiple outcomes while leaving the possibility of losing the game if Claudius turns out to be innocent after all (or maybe simply accumulating penalties for Hamlet killing the wrong characters along the way). Hamlet as a sandbox game, however, would stink.
That said, I disagree with the syllabus's choice of videogame. While plenty of games challenge the players with puzzles, if the narrative itself is linear, it doesn't count as "thought-provoking" for undergraduate credit. For this course to work, Wabash's professor needs to decide on a game with (a) an array of choices for the player and (b) multiple outcomes determined by them.
Besides, how much philosophical exploration can there be when an independent panel of ethicists has absolved the Enrichment Center, Aperture Science employees, and all test subjects for all moral responsibility for the Companion Cube euthanizing process?
Quote:My very first thought was Portal. Accessible, smart, cross-platform, relatively short, full of big ideas worth exploring. I played it again to be sure my impressions still held. No problem there. If anything, I admire the game more now than when it first appeared. A beautiful design.
I recalled reading Daniel Johnson's recent essay on the game and its strong connections to Erving Goffman's seminal Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. One of the central questions of our new course, "Who am I?" is the focus of Goffman's study. He contends we strive to control how we're perceived by others, and he uses the metaphor of an actor performing on a stage to illustrate his ideas. Johnson describes it this way:
"…we're acting out a role that requires constant management…of the interaction. The front stage is the grounds of the performance. The backstage is a place we rarely ever want to reveal to others, it contains the truth of our obstruction and to reveal it would be to defraud our identity in front of the audience - it simply spoils the illusion of where we're placing ourself in the interaction."
This tension between backstage machination and onstage performance is precisely what Portal depicts so perfectly - and, no small detail, so interactively. Goffman would have found a perfect test subject in GLaDOS. Bingo! Assign students Goffman's Presentation of Self and follow it up with a collective playthrough of Portal. -
Link to Blog Post at Brainy Gamer
Link to Kotaku article
Wabash College, in Indiana, has started a new course called "Enduring Questions". The course description of the class:
Quote:The end result is that students, along with reading Gilgamesh, Aristotle's Politics, John Donne's poetry, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the Tao Te Ching, students will also play and contemplate Portal.Enduring Questions is a required freshman seminar offered during the spring semester. It is devoted to engaging students with fundamental questions of humanity from multiple perspectives and fostering a sense of community. Each section of the course includes a small group (approximately 15) of students who consider together classic and contemporary works from multiple disciplines. In so doing, students confront what it means to be human and how we understand ourselves, our relationships, and our world.
The daily activity of the course most often involves discussion, and students complete multiple writing assignments for the course. As such, assessment of student performance emphasizes written and oral expression of ideas.
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Quote:They were quite nice, and your mom makes a hellova Quiche.Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I see you've met my parents...
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Link to article
So, a company goes from having several hits and a proper office, to having to move out, sell their furniture, and code from their bedrooms. Yet thanks to the downright crazy sales Valve offers through Steam, they were able to bank enough cash to have a years worth of capital to continue development.
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Quote:...Don't you even JOKE about that, you son of a [censored]!Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Oh and Troy, while you were away Arcanaville made a math error.
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Thanks to the cultural impact that City of Heroes/Villains has had on the world, One More Day never happened, Peter Parker is happily married to Mary Jane, and Joe Quesada was last seen on a street corner holding a sign that said "Sux for a Bux". Meanwhile, Rob Liefeld was hailed as the greatest artist since Van Gogh, Wolverine is in only one book a month, and Common Grounds won an Eisner.
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Oh man, the things you have missed! Let's take a look, shall we?
- A new Time Travelling faction has been implemented, allowing you to fight against Cavemen cyborgs, Pirate Ninja Cowboys, Roman Soldiers riding dinosaurs, and a giant monster that's a gigantic T-Rex turned into a mobile weapons platform.
- Regen was unnerfed to it's original state
- Influence and Infamy have now been renamed "Money"
- BaBs has added a variety of new weapon models for Weapon customization, including Carps, Nerf weapons, Mops, Airblast guns, and other goofy joke weapons.
- In order to cut down on Powerleveling, the Devs have added a button that allows you to instantly reach level 50. Sadly, many people have flooded the boards complaining that it's too much work to have to use it.
- Beach Towels and Dish Towels have now been added as cape options.
- A new Task Force has been added where you use the new 1-Hit temp power "Hostess Fruit Pies" to defeat Lord Recluse and the rest of Arachnos with it's golden flaky crust and real fruit filling.
- Big Red Balls have been given to everyone, except Villains (Because the Devs hate villains).
- Due to complaints that the female characters in the game are exploited and treated as sex objects, all female costume options in the game have been removed and replaced with a style more befitting women in todays society. Sadly, certain forum goers feel that this is still too revealing, and have threated to sue.
- In their infinite wisdom, the Devs have added the greatest superhero of all time to the signature characters in the game: Volks-Wagner.
- Finally, and the most important change, is that the Devs have admitted that the declining server population means Doom for the game, and have thus decided that the only proper solution is to merge the servers...
...with the World of Warcraft servers.
- A new Time Travelling faction has been implemented, allowing you to fight against Cavemen cyborgs, Pirate Ninja Cowboys, Roman Soldiers riding dinosaurs, and a giant monster that's a gigantic T-Rex turned into a mobile weapons platform.
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Quote:Most likely, I'm thinking the stylistic changes on the Hex Girls is probably because they are intended to be younger then they were in the movie.Originally Posted by Divus
They seem to have changed the art on the Hex Girls a little. Also Velma is adorable as a super fan and spurned Scooby is funny!
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So, todays new episode features the Hex Girls, the same band from Scooby-Doo and the Witches Ghost. (Including singing "Hex Girls" and "Earth, Wind, Fire, and Air", the same songs they sung in the movie).
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Quote:Ah, but the information had Value: That of the reward.Originally Posted by Scooby_Dont
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Quote:Yes, but Bruce Wayne can't just walk into the local autobody shop and ask them to bang out the dents in the Batmobile without SOMEONE getting suspicious. In fact, using Batman Begins as an example, DESPITE being rich out his [censored], theres still a period where he's having to develop his gadgets, work out his costume, figure out how he's going to procure stuff, ect. This would represent low Influence in the beginning, because he hasn't learned who he can trust, where he securely buy stuff without it being traced back to him, ect.Originally Posted by Zaion
This too. If you had money you'd start with a lot of inf. Rich people are rarely unknown nobodies.
Also, you wouldn't need to hop around between crappy day jobs. -
So, it was recently discovered that an extinct species of turtle that was supposed to have died off 50,000 years ago, the Meiolania platyceps, actually died off as little as 3,000 years ago. Now, this isn't the most important factor. What IS the most important factor is just what the skeleton of said extinct turtle resembles.
My mind, it is teh blown. -
Quote:Yes, THAT Life of Riley. Back in my "Bad Boys of Computer Science" days, when you could still read stuff like "Under Power", "When I am King", "Ghastly's Ghastly Webcomic", "Ashfield Online", "Exploitation Now!", and "Errant Story".Originally Posted by LISAR
(Well, technically, Errant Story is still running.)
*EDIT*
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Quote:I suppose if I wanted to be really obscure, I could make references to "Spin and Catch Fire", "Shaw Island", or "Life of Riley" (Which I had a cameo in).Originally Posted by Quinch
Not that obscure - just deader than a dead thing that is dead.
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Yeah, it's actually the first Live Action show on CN that hasn't sucked rocks.
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Quote:Same here. He started writing it again, then suddendly stopped just like he did last time.Originally Posted by Organica
Ah, that's where I know that name from! (I wish he'd start writing that again
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Quote:Heh, and here I was thinking no one was gonna get that one.Originally Posted by Ironblade
oooooo... Elf Only Inn. That's pretty obscure.
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Quote:I learned that my neighbor had robbed a bank, and traded that information in for a reward. The cheese sandwich I bought afterwords was delicious.Originally Posted by Scooby_Dont
Okay. Gather up as much information as you can carry and go buy yourself a cheese sandwich. Let me know how it tasted.
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Quote:Basically, after the Rikti Invansion, the Golden Age of Automotives sank into the Dark Ages. With many of the STC's used for the newer models lost or destroyed, the Automotive industry was forced to resort back to the older models. Although now the automotive industry COULD start researching new technology again, the Auto-Priests of M.A.R.S. have decided this would upset the Automotive spirits that rest inside each automobile, and have since begun stonewalling any attempts to update the designs.Originally Posted by marc100
Ever notice the cars driving in the streets are from like 40 years ago?
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Quote:I'd say what, but it would get me banned faster than you can say Lord Woot the Eternal Sweeper.Originally Posted by Creole Ned
You love the dev's what?
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Quote:You DO realize that it's common for companies to build new games on existing engines, like Valves Source engine, Lucasarts SCUMM engine, or the Quake engine (Which Half-Life was built upon). Most companies don't build their engines from scratch, unless they simply can't do what they want to with an existing engine, or it would simply be easier/cheaper.Originally Posted by Turbo_Ski
CO and STO aren't sharing the same exe file and both were built from scratch. CO and STO don't share servers, they just end up being at the same location on the same network and not split between 2 or more. The same thing happens to WoW battlegroup servers since they are interconnected in the same fashion, so when server is down it's almost always going to be down with the rest of the battlegroup.