10am I will have Mass Effect 3! Probably take me until friday to finish Mass Effect 2 though...so I have to suffer for a few days.

gamingeek said:

edgecrusher said:

So just register...you don't have to pay or anything. I did it just a few weeks ago.

I'm sick of registering for every fecking website on teh internetz.

Look at this shit. I ordered this amazing chinese brush painting, waited weeks for it to come. It arrives this morning and the top 3 inches is covered in mould like it was sitting in stagnant water for a week.

That ain't right.

First review

CVG said:

Official Nintendo Magazine has delivered the world's first review of Kid Icarus Uprising, the latest game from Nintendo legend Masahiro Sakurai.


ONM opens by calling Kid Icarus Uprising a "remarkably beautiful game". It's "stunning to behold, in fact, a visual masterpiece on 3DS that routinely surprises with impressive, expansive and detailed sprawling landscapes".



The review praises the game's "rich fantasy world" which has been "teased from the abstract visuals of an 8-bit NES game", as well as the amount of content available. "The single player campaign is huge, for a start, and it sits alongside two full-featured local and online multiplayer modes [offering] countless equippable weapons and powers that work across both."


Many have expressed concerns about Uprising's potentially awkward controls, and ONM acknowledges "it takes perseverance to comfortably wrap your paws around the game's on-foot sections", but adds that "it's intuitive enough once mastered". Uprising's on foot sections are also described as "spectacular, self-contained arenas".


Other notable features include a weapons store "from which you can purchase new armaments and you can fuse weapons", mini-achievements, and a scalable risk-versus-reward difficulty system.


The mag sticks 91% on the end of its review and concludes by saying: "[It feels far bigger than the console upon which it appears, it's deeper than most home console titles and more content-packed than any other 3DS game yet released. Pit might've been sorry to keep us waiting, but this was a wait worth every second."

gamingeek said:

Imageshack.us is now asking that you register to post pics. Anyone know somewhere else to upload batches of pics for free without registration?

Good, you shouldn't be using imageshack in the first place.  imgur is the defacto image upload site.

Wow Xcom looks fantastic!

Today was SUPPOSED to be about gaming, relaxing, unwinding and being stress free. I took time off to chill, get my Mass Effect and SF X Tekken, and just enjoy myself, peacefully for a little while. I posted a few quick impressions on GS last night about SF X Tekken and woke up anticipating excitement all around on the boards. I should know better by now. There WAS a Topic on GS, thankfully taken down by Travo btw, that was entirely devoted to "BioWare Pushing a Ghay Agenda in Mass Effect 3." In it, the completely ignorant and phobic TC went on and on about gay relationships being forced upon him in the game... How it was offensive that some male character in the game was expressing worry about his husband (compete with a *cough* *cough* after the word husband, thrown in so thoughtfully) being captured or killed (I don't remember) and how there was a sub-quest with Shepard saving some man in the game whom then hit upon him... The TC said BioWare actually stressed there was a message of Shepard going around in the game teaching people to be more tolerant of races, species and orientations... and how much that angered him. He even went as far as to bring up that female BioWare employee the entire underworld of the internet was trolling so badly a few weeks ago, calling her a fat bitch, or something to that effect.

Reading that ruined my day before it even started.

That there are people out there who still feel this way and then think it's OK to go on a public board to try and find sympathetic ears to rant to about it sickens me, literally. Thankfully Travo took care of everything before too many people started to gather there, but the damage was already done... to me, at least. I tried to make light of it and make the guy look foolish, but it got to me nonetheless.

It's obvious this kid is closeted and angry. It pisses me off he needs to ruin an event like the release of ME3 to push his hate on the world. The Mass Effect games (at least when you play as a Paragon) ARE all about bringing people (aliens) of different walks together to defeat a comon threat... Apparently, gay people don't have a place in the universe next to Krogans, Turians and Earthlings...

This shouldn't bother me as much as it does, but it does. My stomach has been twisted for hours and my hands hurt from the fists I was making involuntarily for most of this morning. I find I can't even PLAY the games I have been waiting for, for soooo long because I was so annoyed. In case you haven't guessed by now, when I can't play or I am feeling stressed, I write and/or create elaborate topics to distract myself...

Sometimes the internet is the greatest gift to humanity, and sometimes it allows exposure to people and elements I just don't need to deal with in my life anymore... Sorry about MY rant in here now... I just felt the need to get this off of my chest.

Edit: Topics like this are why I am sooo against Trolling as a whole. People underestimate the power of their words. Trolls have this near sociopathic desensitivity about them... They may think they are having harmless fun, or maybe they really do intend to do harm, I dunno... but the more a troll trolls, the more truly troll like he becomes, to the point where he doesn't fit in with normal society anymore. Sadly, they never seem to change or even want to change until they bring harm upon others, or someone brings harm on to them. I just don't "get it" sometimes...

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I  Am  Alive looks intriguing.

Stop with the spoilers goddamn it. I'm not reading any more post until after I get mine  grrrr.