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Wow, what a boring snorefest. Robert Downey's accent was horrible.

Wewt. I got my first S ranking in Resident Evil 5's Mercenaries mode. I used Battle Suit Jill in Ship Deck and got around 69K. I loved killing the 2 Chainsaw Maijinis (1 blue, 1 red) with one rocket. It was awesome. I found a location where the baddies can't follow me. Of course this means they won't congregate in an area either and it's harder for me to get kills, but I did get some kills from the invulnerable spot.

I don't know why no one can see this. The artwork for the game and the actual, in-game model look nothing alike.

Life sucks. "Oo, look at me. I suck figurative genitalia. Give me money!" Capitalism is basically pimping and whoring. Those with money are the pimps and the employees are whores. They'll do almost anything for money. It is as simple as that. I, however, have standards. I'm not gonna buff up my resume to beg for money. I don't give a damn, you feeble-minded masses! Sheep, the lot of you! I am a wolf. Hear me howl! AWOOOOOOOOOOO!

Uncertain of his Sister’s Fate, a Boy enters LIMBO This is a fantastic game. Why? 1. It is atmospheric. It is creepy, spooky, scary, whatever you want to call it; it is also mysterious. 2. The controls are basic, but the gameplay is complex. There are two buttons in the game: one for jumping and one for all the context-sensitive actions. It's all it really needs. The controls are sometimes not as precise as I would like them and they have weird nuances, like if you hold down the jump button, you will eternally make little hops. It is hard to make consecutive jumps without stopping. For example, to make two jumps in a row with little to no stop in-between, you have to jump, stop, and then jump again. If you press the jump button immediately after you land, you will do this awkward, short jump and fall to your death. 3. The puzzles are usually intuitive, except for the later ones, which get more and more complex to the point of absurdity. They do not exist in the natural worl...

Yep. Ninja Gaiden (2004), for the Xbox, is overrated. Ninja Gaiden 2 (2008) is better this game. Ninja Gaiden tried too much to be an epic, action-adventure game, and it ended up diluting the action of the game. There is too much wandering around, trying to figure out what to do. I hate games like this, unless it's a puzzle presented directly to you and you possess all the tools you need to solve it, like Limbo. Limbo pwnz0rz. Anyway, Ninja Gaiden 2 shits all over this game because Team Ninja realized that the parts where they were trying to emulate Zelda were bad, but the action kicked ass, so they nuked the shitty adventure parts and buffed the awesome action parts. Good job, Team Ninja. So what, you ask? Ninja Gaiden 2 should be better than Ninja Gaiden because it's the fucking sequel, right? Wrong. Ninja Gaiden 2 was universally lambasted by so-called video game critics, while Ninja Gaiden was put on a pedestal as the second coming. They're so dumb. Mainstream video ...

Life is bad, especially this American culture and economic system we live in. I saw a video about rape on Native American reservations and I realize that the entire American system - the whole Western civilization promotes crime and self-destruction. It is pretty remarkable. Before the crackers came to what is now North and South America, there was very little crime and much less disease. Now, you bring STDs, alcohol and capitalism over and now you're fucking everything up. Sure, Natives still engaged in tribal warfare, but their way of life, overall, was self-sustaining. They lived off the land, and not each other. Capitalism is not good, because it forces people to live off of each other, and to take advantage of each other. The Native lifestyle, which I will generalize, is so much better, because you're not living off of people; rather, you're living off the earth, which, if you believe in God, was the way He meant for us to live. Capitalism breeds greed. Part of tha...

Sup people! So I tried Alan Wake for the first time tonight, having borrowed it from the library. It's pretty bad. The game starts off with a quote from Stephen King, saying how nightmares don't make sense, and that's why they're good - how the mystery makes it good. I groaned in my mind, thinking of the philosophy behind the television show "Lost," - how they just pour questions and more questions into the show and answer questions with more questions. It is very unsatisfying. So Alan Wake's graphics are certainly not top-tier, but at least it doesn't look like Deadly Premonitions. The setting is nice: an out-of-the way place dominated by nature - a perfect place for a getaway for a writer such as Alan Wake. I really prefer natural environments and levels in video games, so this is a good thing. Unfortunately, the levels are like those in most modern video games, meaning they are extremely linear, shepherding you, the player, from one point to the n...