The Battle Bar, Our Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

freaking sweet actually.

And RN, no its not. He is a really good guy. And almost always posts on topic, except that bear thing...

I bring good tidings. I have passed both of the tests, both of which would have set me back at least another semester had I failed, with ease. Victory is mine.

Great, now show me your allegiance by making me a mod.

Just wrote an essay on a George R.R. Martin story in about 5 hours.

Feelin' kinda badass.

Also tired. Very tired.

Also horny. DS come here, I need to 'make it so.' edit: Wut?

found somethin funneh. yuo guys might like:

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That looks retarded so I didn't read it.

You know, Torvus has been on my friend's list for about a year now, and I still haven't spoken a single word to him or played a single game with him.

I sent you a Reach invite not like three weeks ago.

But did you send him a friend invite, is the real question. It gets lonely in Haloes.

That looks retarded so I didn't read it.

haters

"But I don't wish to own cheese."

Was funny. After that, not so much.

The f*ck... where is that from?

God Bioshock is proving difficult to get through. It's something I really wanted to like as well and it's probably been the most dissapointing game I've played since the incredibly overrated Chrono Trigger. Why is it that everyone (aside from Nepthys and Blax it seems) gives it such mad praise?

i never could get it to work without a terrible staticky noise in the background.... only played it for about 10 minutes....

I sort of respected it for being different and real artistic for like the first 20 minutes but ever since then it's just been really repetitive and the story's way too minimalistic and slow moving and generally just boring. I've only played like two hours of it anyhow but I hear it doesn't change too much in that regard.

The story does pick up iirc, especially if you listen to all the recordings you pick up. One of the best aspects of the game is trying to piece together the mystery of what exactly happened to Rapture. Just like the gameplay picks up after the first time a Big Daddy cockslaps you. But yeah, aside from the above and actually managing to sneak a plot surprise past me its incredibly overrated and rife with so many flaws it ends up shooting itself in the foot. I had to force myself to be scared of the atmosphere and that went out the window at about the time I first set someone on fire with my mind.

yeah, i read the story on Wiki to see if i wanted to buy the game... guessing that was a bad idea.

Yeah. Thats just about the worst thing you could have done. >:]

I have to say, one thing I will give Bioshock is that they have created one of the most badass figures I've ever come across in the Big Daddy. The Big Daddy/Little Sister/ADAM relationship is also very intruiging. And the concept of Rapture is great and Andrew Ryan's monologue are pretty awesome. To be honest I would have preffered it if they made Boshock more along the lines of something like Metal Gear Solid with a defined main character rather than the silent protagonist and frequent, long cutscenes rather than the in game and minimal story elements. Trying to use the game world itself to subtley tell the story is something I can respect, but ultimately something I don't think is very effective.