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I didn't really play much in the way of video games as a kid. Most of our games were puzzle games because that's what came with our Commodore. Oh, and Sarcen.
But once I got older, I started playing a lot of SNES games, the most memorable and hardest for me was Lavos in Chrono Trigger. He was a MAJOR pain in the ass, but I really felt like I had acomplished something when I finally beat him.

I hated facing the final boss, a badass Htiler, in Wolfenstein.

That would require a huge cultural change for the entire world. I don't see it happening in our lifetimes. I would say that the internet has been good in terms of spreading a more global equality rights movement and a more openness to anti-violence, but at the same time most of the social networking sites out there are full of flaming assholes. I swear negativity and asshole commentary has spread throughout the entire internet. So many hatemongers and trolls. Every site has comments and replies or facebook pages for every thing they do and not a single moderator or admin to stop the aggressive assholes from ruining a story. Even most youtube videos I look at have asshole comments. Anyway, seeing as assholeism keeps spreading, then I could see how some people could come to a conclusion of regulating guns and ammunition. Mostly because its easier to make a law to try and restrict weapons than to try and actually improve society to the point where those weapons won't be needed for human on human violence.
 
On a side note, I have a theory about the glorification of guns in American society. The US does not draft into the military. The main reason they don't do any drafting is because we have plenty of citizens that are willing to fight and die for our country and join the army, navy, marines, air force and coast guard and for that I am grateful. The problem we really have in the US is our education system. Our education system sucks. Its almost as if our education system is setup to purposefully fail for a large percentage of people. And don't get me wrong when I say this because I'm sure our armed forces have quite a few intelligent people, but there are a lot of people that join the army, etc, because of education, money and career problems. When I was going to high school, the army recruiter guy was there.. almost all the time. I could get in contact with an army recruiter easier than talking to a councilor. We could call this a government conspiracy, but it might be. As long as the higher ups keep a certain percentage of citizens in a lower class and lower educated state of mind, then they will have plenty of recruits for the army. There have been countless war movies, video games depicting war heroes, etc. Some could say that is also part of it. The game America's Army was made specifically to encourage our youth into joining the army. With our poor education and crappy career prospects, army recruiters in the high schools will tell you how you can get a larger private salary by getting your friends to enlist with you and how the army will pay for your college degree.
 
With all of that in place, most US citizens have the right to bear arms trained into them from an early age. Even if you have never shown any interest in joining the army, many of us have been conditioned towards firearms in some way. I think its pretty ridiculous for our society to glorify guns and then want to restrict their ownership. I myself don't feel the need to own a gun. Even though I don't feel the need to own one for defense, I would like to own one anyway. I've been target shooting and its fun. I can understand why people would want a ban on assault rifles, but at the same time there are a crap ton of ex-army people that would love to own versions of the assault rifles they grew to love while serving our country. Putting all this gun violence off as a means to regulate and restrict firearms seems mostly political to me. There are so many guns out there now that restricting them at this point will not stop anyone that wants to get a gun and killing people from doing so. The only thing it will do is restrict the mass population just to try and stop the few psychos that are out there that do go on a killing spree. But those people are psychos regardless if they have guns or not. If not guns, they'll make a homebrew of mustard gas and throw a bunch of cannisters into a high school sporting event and lock the gymnasium doors. What would government do then, restrict bleach purchases? No.. the problem are the psychos. And honestly, if we had a better education system, maybe these people wouldn't turn into psychos, or if they were then maybe they could be identified at an early age for specialty classes to help them with any issues.

Borderlands creators Gearbox teams up with SEGA to bring you a intense FPS experience in Aliens: Colonial Marines. The game will feature its own story mode and will be accompanied with a 4v4 Multiplayer that will let you play as various types of Xenomorphs. Aliens: Colonial Marines will be released February 14th.
Check out these trailers:
Single Player

Multiplayer

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LMAO!!! But you had to do it, the game was impossible otherwise!!

Equality is not about putting one side down, its about providing all sides with the same rights and opportunities. Ending patriarchy doesn't mean drag men down, I think it means just the opposite. There are entire countries that regulate half of their population cannot go out in public unattended let alone contribute to the world. If these primitive dickbags educated every child equally they might not be living in mud houses in seismically active zones derp. A human brain is a fantastic resource and we as a species need to utilize our ingenuity and creativity and cognitive reasoning abilities to deal with the problems the climate destabilization is causing. It's not just a sea level rise problem, its water, food, temperature, and the challenges of creating a grid a tornado or blizzard can't fuck over. We need everybody's mind on the job not just dudes. A hundred percent of the population adding to and implementing global knowledge is a good thing for everyone; that's why it will happen. In the process patriarchy is lashing out violently in its death throws. What we need is for women and men both to denounce violence, inequality and an inherited sense of superiority.

For those of you that do not know, Syfy has teamed up with Trion Worlds to create something truly unique. It is called Defiance. Defiance is a TV series and it is also a MMO shooter game. Events that happen in the tv series will affect the game and events in the game will affect the tv series.
First lets look at the show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJN2ssm8QgIt already has my interest. It looks good, has potential.. and now look at this quote from an announcement made back on 05/21/2012 with some info on the impressive group of people that are working on this project:
http://community.defiance.com/en/2012/05/21/defiance-pilot-production-begins/
That sounds like a great combination of talent and now my expectations are pretty high.
Now lets look at the game:

It looks like a mix of Borderlands with Resident Evil's 3rd person perspective. Could be good. I'll have to sign up for the beta.
Defiance is set to premiere Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. on the Syfy channel. Defiance the game will be released April 2013 for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
Check the official site here:
http://defiance.com/
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Oh, they're still buried deep within the gallery.

Super Test

Shineys!  Looks good so far. 

That reminds me of RBI baseball for the NES. If you held down (or was it up?) while you pitched, the ball would hit the plate and would result in a strike every time. It was so cheap. Me and my brothers would get pissed at each other.

Yeah those new articles look cool.

I think that was the issue with any Sports game during that era.. the poor controls due to the limited technology made some of these games so ridiculously hard that sometimes it actually required a little bit of luck to win. I think that is why in a lot of these games there was one tactic that worked flawlessly to where you could win easily if you found out how to exploit it.
I remember in Joe Montana's Sports Talk Football, on offense you could run the halfback pass and it would result it a bomb to the endzone for a TD every time. Then on defense you could run the punt block on every down and you would stop them easily, even block the punt great percentage of the time. The would result in football scores of 109-0 .

Super Mario RPG was great. That final battle against the sword was hard.. but nothing compared to the final fantasy styled bonus boss you can find in the game. It was the equivalent of the Emerald weapon from FFVII. I could never beat it.
 
Legend of Dragoon was an awesome game.
 
The hardest boss battle for me was the very first boxer in the game "George Foreman's KO Boxing"
 

 
So f*cking difficult. I rented this game for a weekend from blockbuster when I was a kid. It made me rage so bad. It felt so good to beat the first boxer. I could never beat the second guy. So damn hard.
 
Sephiroth final battle of FFVII
 
He transformed into a one winged angel:
 

Have any of you seen some of the multiple exclusive Japan only oreos?
 
Heres a link that shows only some of them:
 
http://www.napajapan.com/Products.asp?brand=27
 
They also have rectangular oreos and a variety of flavors. There are even some with a completely different kind of cookie part with no chocolate varieties. The US market is being screwed by not getting these.

A lot of folks scream 2nd amendment when it comes to the gun issue and technically speaking a private citizen could have whatever the military had so ppl could unite and have a chance at overthrowing a tyrannical govt. At the time it was possible, now it is not. Period. All the daydreaming and posturing aside, if the US military turned on its people we would be totally screwed. Our military can kill millions of us without ever putting boots on the ground. This cold hard fact gives rise to fear which leads to nutty shit, think conspiracy theory, all of them. Throw in all the religious end times garbage on top of that. Presto, you have a frightened population and this is where the brain takes over.
Fight or flight has been with us perpetually as we've evolved and is present in many species on this planet. A sane fight response to the reality that our military could fucking end us could be something like paying attention to our military budget, weaponry, what they're doing for our troops. A person who protests the militarization of our police force is reacting with a fight response. A fight response by someone more extreme could be anything from hoarding weapons and ammo to blowing up govt buildings. Flight response doesn't mean they pack their shit and move to Canada eh. It means they put the responsibility for their protection in somebody else's hands. They leave keeping them safe from all the scary in the big world up to the (usually awful) politicians they elect. Extremism in politics/relgion rising with advances in technology and equal social integration is not a coincidence, its psychology. Flight response to death manifests itself in religion. The person leaves their salvation, ie the protection of their eternal consciousness/soul up to their clergy, prophet or deity. For some the need to flee reality is so great that they believe they will not die they will be raptured up cuz the end is now. They are so terrified of death they convince themselves it ins't going to happen to them. That's nutbag shit, but they believe it. Oh, and they vote republican in large numbers.
 
These things need to be taken into consideration when we are discussing the mental health of the country. We also need to stop dancing around the subject and call this bullshit out for what it is. We are riding a wave of very public male pattern violence in this country and I don't think we've crested yet. Some neighborhoods are akin to the wild wild west. Dudes start shooting each other at two in the afternoon in Syracuse. I believe we are living through a paradigm shift that will lead to equal human rights and civil protections to every person on the planet. Some cultures will handle this better then other. Patriarchy does not want equality they want control and when they see the loss of control their fight or flight response kicks in. We have primitive humans murdering women to satisfy some twisted delusion of honor they hold on to. We have men in power that actively work to legislate women's bodies, marriage, the definition of rape for crying out loud. The same sore losers that won't sign on to the violence against women act. When half of the population believes that not only are they superior to the other half but they deserve to lord over the other half, we have a fucking problem. I'm not optimistic enough to think this kind of bullshittery is going to disappear, but it is going to have to be reigned in and put in the back seat in a childproof car seat if we want to make it as a fucking species. We can start by not indoctrinating children.                

Who owned an Atari 2600? Who's even played Atari? If you're an old man like me, what where you're favorite games?!

Defender was my all time favorite... I didn't know what the hell was going on, but flying the ship and blasting lasers was so cool as a kid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBeCJzg6L8I
 
Yar's Revenge! That little line that followed you around and killed you if you let it touch you... UGH!! I had nightmares about that thing...

Tis very spiffy, so much better then the white one

http://gizmodo.com/5974463/australia-is-so-hot-they-had-to-add-new-colors-to-their-weather-maps
 
Australia Is So Hot They Had to Add New Colors to Their Weather Maps:
 

All of my heroes from wrestling were actually heels, ended up being washed up, or are now dead. Jake The Snake Roberts & Kevin Nash come to mind. Mainly because Jake Roberts was my first Hero & Kevin Nash was my last. I started a PS Home Biker Gang & Clubhouse last month named "The Adams Family" in memory of the late Brian Adams, The Wrestler. It also is a reference to The Addams Family the Comics / TV Shows / Movies.
 
My Heroes in Animation Eek The Cat, Freakazoid, & Jay Sherman (The Critic) have been forgotten about.
 
My Heroes in Anime tend to be Adults. Motoko (Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex), Roger Smith (Big O), Scharzwald (Big O), & Vash The Stampede (Trigun) all come to mind at the moment.
 
My Heroes in Gaming all have had tragic ends. Duke Nukem's last game that took unfortunately Forever was pretty bad & not the way I wanted to remember him. Travis Touchdown (No More Heroes) won't be getting another game. Eddie Riggs (Brutal Legend) had a fun game that most people didn't like.
 
My Heroes in Comics have been ruined & or recently retconned. Deadpool's last comic series was horrible due to Danial Way's writing & was retconned last year. Lobo was also retconned (again) though his 90's retcon was better & sorry to say he's still barely used.
 
My Heroes in Movies when I still bought movies were Chev Chelios (Crank) & Mr. Smith (Shoot 'Em Up).
 
My Heroes in "furry fandom" don't stick out well enough.... unless we were to talk about villains.... In that case Rain Silves comes to mind....
 
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Sorry some of these weren't from my childhood....

I just played Hardcore TDM... the only reason I don't like it is I cant wildly lob grenades since you can kill your own teammates... but the damage increase to all guns is wicked. One shot for the SWAT-556... I went 33-11 and somehow my team still lost because someone went 0-21... 0-21!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
COD only allows 20 clips... I got most my kills in it. Im using the PDW-57

 

 
Now that I have Ghost permanently unlocked and supressors on many of my firearms. This game has become a lot more enjoyable.

http://www.screwattack.com/shows/originals/death-battle/death-battle-goku-vs-superman
 
 
The results speak for them selves, the stats they do are awesome
 
 

problem with guns is they are there already, 
It is impossible to pull them from circulation, any one who thinks banning guns would be like banning porn. There is to much of it around to disappear 
 It would be better if they where never there to begin with,
 
What Piers was getting at is if you want a gun ok,  You don't need an assault rifle.
 
A point people made about guns being illegal but still attainable. Guns to my knowledge are not constructed easily, weed on the other hand is, 
If there was no legal factories making guns other then for military purposes, which would be insainly regulated to the point on random finger print testing to check for evil twins, The ability to make guns would be rather difficult. thus very hard to attain, or stupidly priced
 
Most illegal guns are probably made legally
 
A very valid point is guns don't kill people (unless manufactured defectively) people kill people.
 
Guns are build with the single purpose of causing harm, 
 
Knives and fertiliser which can be used easily as weapons and in reality are behind more death then guns, primary purpose is something else

http://gizmodo.com/5974982/the-smartest-computer-in-the-world-also-has-the-dirtiest-mouth
  I need some video of this.

Nooo!! ;_; They must try anyways!. What if they found a peice of amber in the ice in Siberia or Antarctica?!  There must be a way!