Fenrir

Aw hells yeah.

I'm pretty sure that was a shot directed at you.

One reply isn't enough to warrant an ITT.

Who, coincidentally, was riding in the car with him at the time. If you're talking about the Australian code-breaker, that is.

Beat me to it. Goddamn.

The slowdown is built into the programming. No amount of overclocking or modding will allow you to do anything about it. It's probably all in your head. The slowdown is a killer for me, and the new classes don't really do anything for me, but I absolutely love the new cutscenes and retranslation. It's about damn time this stuff starting making sense. That said, unless I get a friend I could regularly play against with wireless, I may just go back to the PS1 version. I dunno.

Finally got the hint did you? Took you long enough, you lazy tool.

Fair enough, but as a fellow writer, I'd caution against praising your own work very much (if at all). Letting other people acclaim (should we be so lucky) or criticize us gives us a much more realistic idea of the quality of our writing.

The wonders of google.

You don't get much more pretentious than this.

Finished downloading/watching the movie with my little sister. Simply beautiful. I am pleased to see it end with dignity and a reasonable degree of closure. That said, I really don't want to see any sort of miniseries or movie spinoff, simply because it will lack the drive and vision that made Avatar unique, compelling, and capable of holding its own in a sea of mediocrity. The only reason I say this is because I suspect that the series was given the axe some time ago to allocate more money to slapstick shows geared toward the network's target audience. The only reason a spinoff would even be considered would be to cash in on the franchise with as little investment as possible, resulting in what I like to call a "Disney-derivative marketing bitch". I'd rather Avatar end with its dignity intact than suffer that abuse. And for now, I can live that dream. Well done.

Horseboy wrote a furry fanfic about me and Bummerdude once. I came.

I started a few fanfics a few years back, mostly as writing exercises to keep my craft sharp. It's just that so much of the form is terrible. It's rife with inconsistent characterizations, Mary Sue original characters, and plagued with easily avoidable writing errors. Good fanfics do exist, I've seen a couple, but they are truly few and far between.

You're in my thoughts and prayers.

Go play God Hand, boy.

I find the audio squigglies on OCR4-tan's swimsuit to be quite humorous.

Substantial new content or it ain't worth it.

Quoted for truth. Someone ostracize that boy.

Snake had to take a nap after a run in with Vamp in MGS2, so I refute your statement that two years isn't enough to degrade his acrobatics. And while we're on the subject, how many combat-oriented cutscenes did you see Snake in Sons of Liberty, exactly? You were around him for about a third of the game, if that. Ray didn't exactly give him much of an opportunity to do much. SPOILERZLOL This doesn't have anything to do with MGS4's progression of Snake's Werner's Syndrome. If you'll recall, people tell Snake at regular intervals that he's not aging well and looks old. He's aging at a constant rate, and I'd wager that those two years are enough to keep Snake from wanting to jump off of any more missiles. Werner's syndrome didn't just decide to kick in a couple years after Sons of Liberty. He's been getting older the whole time.[/sPOILOLERZ] Let's face it, over-the-top action is a part of the MGS franchise. Let's not forget that EVA does a Goddamn BACKFLIP with her motorcycle in MGS3. If you don't want to read the spoiler tags, then just trust me on this one: an age difference of two years between the first two games isn't going to suddenly break his ability to pull those stunts. Your argument still doesn't work, and Twin Snakes is still just as flawed in this regard as it was yesterday. So you're still wrong.

Snake got old. Why is it this hard to grasp?

Way to go, douchebag. Why would you even bring that up? Do everyone a favor and edit it out of your post, so some people can still enjoy the surprise, please.

I was talking about in-game stuff. Mostly to point out how silly it is to fret over acrobatic cutscenes when Snake can survive approximately eight buckets of bullets as long as he's got a few rations on hand.

I still maintain that making him able to take a tank round to the face entitles Konami to do whatever the fuck they want with him. Besides that, I can only think of three instances when the choreography got out of hand, so I don't see why it's such a big deal.

Snake's a goddamn super soldier. He shouldn't be able to get back up after half the shit he gets hit by, and you want to nitpick over some fucking action sequences? Jumping off a missile is just as stupid as being able to get back up after getting slammed by a tank round or razed by Vulcan Raven's machine gun. OR carrying around twelve different guns, or having nanomachines that make it so you don't have to eat. Who knew someone was going to play the REALISM card in fucking METAL GEAR SOLID game.

This will be a project that's going to take a hell of a long time to finish.