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    super colombine massacre RPG

    in General Discussion

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    Well then.. that makes me kind of wonder what all the descendants of Chinese Emperors and historical figures we've placed in games would think.

    What I'm trying to point out is that the family and friends of the victims at Columbine are still alive and still grieving. I don't think it's very respectful to or conducive to their grief for their dead friends that they are put into a game like this. The descendants of Chinese emperors never knew their ancient ancestors, so their grief can't be as strong.

    Neither do I agree with placing anyone recently dead into a game for fear of hurting that family further.

    That's my personal opinion, though, and maybe it's just my right-wing conservative, Christian bias speaking.

    super colombine massacre RPG

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    I read an article about this game a while back, but I never bothered to download it because the premise disgusted me. Games are meant to be pleasurable, not to explain something like a massacre. There are news articles for things like that.

    It's worse than a war game, because most often war games will put you on the "good guys" team, you may have justice in mind, and you're playing with anonymous characters, anyway. The guy that made this game used all of the real peoples' names and faces, even used quotes. How do you think the families of the victims of such a tragedy would feel if they knew their deceased relatives were being put into a game like this?

    Transformers score

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    Throughout the whole movie, the orchestral score stood out to me. I was looking forward to going home and getting my hands on it somehow, but all I could find was the dumb soundtrack, from which I listen to a whole two songs.

    WCT - The Writing Competition Thread [September Round]

    in Competitions

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    Please don't ask me what inspired (possessed) me to write this because I don't know.

    Here's my submission:

    A Herculean Effort

    He sat there, abdominal muscles tensed to the breaking point, straining, moaning, panting, pushing. His foot tapped at the ground, and his toes curled as if attempting to dig through the tiled floor. A groan escaped his lips, and a quiet whimper followed not far behind. He rocked back and forth, his arms wrapped tightly around his middle, while his palms dug deep trenches into his flanks. His eyes seemed to bore through the far wall, feigning an intensity to shame both hammer and chisel, that is, when they were not rolled back into his head, not withstanding the agony that roiled throughout the man's body, seemingly racking his very life away from him.

    He gulped for a breath of air, and then held it. His face turned crimson, and the thin vessels in the whites of his eyes bulged and popped as if mortal man were not built for such an experience. He breathed the air out, and continued to rock, continued to grip, continued to dig through the ground beneath his feet. He arched his neck backwards and opened his mouth as if to bellow. But nothing came out. And when he threw his head back down it was in perfect sync with the jerking rock of his body. His foot now pounded at the ground, and his toes no longer curled, they writhed. They seemed to scream in-tune with the man and with his pain. Morbidly, his entire body seemed a chorus, synchronized, and in tune with his moribund agony.

    It just wouldn't come out.

    Also, could we possibly get the thread title changed from May submission to July submission?

    AMA pushes for video game addiction as diagnosable disorder

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    I don't know. I think of the problem more as a bad habit than as an actual addiction. Your body doesn't develop a need for videogames that, if the need is not met, causes your body to start experiencing withdrawal symptoms like with a drug or alcohol addiction. If a videogame "addict" is taken away from his games he would, of course, be sad. He would be forlorn, even angry. But his body wouldn't rebel against him.

    Then again, compulsive gambling is widely considered to be an addiction, so maybe my argument has no merit. Maybe.

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