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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:07AM (Unverified) said

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*peers out, looking for Spyder.*

This one deserved to win. It was well-written, funny, and to the point.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:10AM (Unverified) said

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I've been here longer. My profile no starts with a '1'.

That means it's better. I think.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:14AM (Unverified) said

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That's okay. I don't care about my Gamerscore or Trophy count anyway.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 3:16AM finnith said

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I've been a member a like 7 or 8 months more than you and you have more than three times the comments. Nice.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 3:30AM Sly C said

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i have over 5500. khan has over 10000.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 3:35AM (Unverified) said

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Wow.

I may be a Sith Lord, but even I bow before the Master of Joystiq Commentary.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 4:00AM Slaziman said

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Wow, Mr Khan is insane.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 7:47AM mrln said

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I have 300. :D
...

[crawls back into hole and sits in fetal position]
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 10:20AM HydrophobicFish PSN ID Hydrophob said

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So, anybody feel like actually talking about the comic(s)... or at the very least, video games, mayhaps?
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 10:51AM vidguy said

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@ Nah. Let's continue to stroke our massive e-egos.

Some of you guys have me on post count (4581) but I wonder who is the oldest? I've been here since late 2005.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 10:59AM Omega2k3 said

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lol, vidguy

I joined a single day earlier than you.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 11:00AM Sly C said

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i've been here since mid-2006, but my first account stopped working for some reason. i didn't comment much back then anyways. if i ever did, it was only on PSP fanboy.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 11:05AM vidguy said

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Damnit, beat already! Haha, that's cool though. There's so many young-uns that it's hard to remember who has been around since then.

Remember when we had to confirm every comment through email? So much slicker now.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 1:51PM Huey2k2 said

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According to my profile page I have been here since December 21st 2005...

Woo?
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:03PM Omega2k3 said

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Yeah, and we had to comment uphill both ways. These kids and their new-fangled 'reply' buttons. Why, back in my day, we manually replied to each other by comment numbers! It was always, "@17 - You suck balls" or, "Hey, 23, your opinion is invalid because xbox is hueg."

*sigh*

Those were the days...
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:22PM BananaBoat said

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When I got here, we still had to mail our comments to Joystiq. Boy how times have changed.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:49PM bongoes said

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Apr 7th, 2009 with only 586 comments. I feel so young.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:13AM (Unverified) said

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How can you tell? His back is turned!

Also, see how the comments alternate? That's a recipe for win, that is.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:20AM (Unverified) said

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Then let's stop replying to each others posts. My Inbox is tired.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:25AM AntiVillian said

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C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:52AM Omega2k3 said

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Anyone else think that Spyder and Bradtwart need to just elope and get on with their lives?
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:58AM (Unverified) said

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Actually, I was thinking of killing someone...

Whoops, guess I know who.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 3:18AM Saihna said

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They're perfect for each other. :P
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 3:36AM (Unverified) said

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If you'd looked at posting histories, Spyder and I actually DON'T like each other...
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 4:19AM Saihna said

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Yeah, i'm just kidding. :P
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 5:01AM Omega2k3 said

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Do not want.

I actually would like for you guys to chill out with the spam, though. Spyder has over a thousand posts since this time last year, and Bradwart has 1,750. I'm guessing a lot of that is comment spam, like the wall of text above.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 1:44PM Mr Khan said

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Around half of my comments were made in the past year

:/
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:52PM bongoes said

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Really Khan? How is that possible, you have like a billion comments.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 3:28PM manyquestions said

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A billion and one, get it right!
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 3:19AM finnith said

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I bet you sick bastards never mourned the death of the thousands of stormtroopers that perished during the destruction of the two Death Stars either.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 3:22AM (Unverified) said

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Wrong Darth. I'm from a different era.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 1:44PM HighFiveJesus said

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No you're not.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 4:45AM LanceIcarus said

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It's comics like this that remind people how good Penny Arcade can be. It's amazing how much they can tell without dialog, just a little written word.

Here's the +1 Comics submission for the week:

http://www.plusonecomics.com/toomuchprotein.html

Enjoy!
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 5:52AM (Unverified) said

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I'm assuming you're the artist of this comic so I'll just be nice.

Can you please stop making comics? They're pretty fucking terrible.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 7:50AM mrln said

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Sorry, that isn't...

anything. It's got no punchline, no setup for a punchline, nothing even related to humor.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 5:31AM (Unverified) said

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ehh
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 7:50AM mrln said

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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 1:55PM finnith said

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What kind of fancy restaurant serves punch? Still funny though.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 8:38AM Alienmastermind said

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Nice!

Well, Dipswitch had comics this week, only one was really about video games.

http://www.dipswitchcomics.com/136

Enjoy, and congrats to the reigning champs!

:)

AM
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 9:07AM (Unverified) said

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"Nathan Drake is a straight up genocidal maniac. Now, this fact is never really explored by the game..."

It is obvious that society is in decline, paranoia and sick-mindedness is today's top values and are spread like a disease through every possible medium -including comics.
This paranoia has become an essential element of our definition of "entertainment" -and "art" too.
Your minds have been so much corrupted, that you cannot have much fun without the existence of heavily sick elements in movies, games, comics etc.
So today you're no better than the crowd at Colosseum at Ancient Rome where the high -class society was going there regularly, dressed to fashion, to be "entertained" with the people that were thrown to the lions.
So have fun with your sick "genocidal maniac" heroes they create for you.
Only if *your* country (whichever it is) and if *your* families were beaten by such "heroes" for real, would you wake up and realize that sickness.
For now, you are just a single unit of the mass. With no values and capabilities to distinguish them and filter what you get from society you will remain just a part of that mass. And some might want you be like that, you make them feel safe!
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 9:22AM Hooch said

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Weren't you the guy trolling the Jennifer Strange post yesterday? Your priorities are fed up.
I find you disgusting.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 9:47AM Hooch said

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F'ed up i mean.

And wow, someone forgot their coffee.
And to sleep.
And their happy pills.

And yeah, you're probably still a virgin.

Seriously - it's a joke.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 11:10AM Sly C said

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dude, calm down. it's just a game. if i killed a real guy in real life, i would feel horrible, even if the guy would have killed me if i didn't kill him. but i can massacre thousands in uncharted without a second thought.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 8:54PM (Unverified) said

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@Sly:
Are you sure you would do *anything" in a "game"? How about involving in such a game persons you know and love?
Think about it.

If not, then this is the proof that the theory "it's just a game" is totally wrong. You have missed something (not just you).

In fact, everything we do, whether *we* consider it "a game" or not, has real consequences (to us and everything related).
Our brain in such "games" get used to accept the wrong messages and ideas without thinking and gets trained in a constant basis with the wrong lessons. We constantly learn, we can’t help it.

The fact that we are usually not aware of this damage, is because it happens slowly.
It is like the famous experiment with the frog, where if you put a frog in a hot water he will jump out immediately. But if you put the frog first and start heating the water slowly, he will never jump - until he dies from the extremely hot (boiling) water!
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 11:18PM Vordus said

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I feel I must correct you on one point; the Colosseum of Ancient Rome was not an entertainment for the upper classes, but for the masses, with the elite individuals of the time paying for free entertainment for the population in order to curry political favour and to pacify the masses.

The assumption that these violent elements within media suggests that society is in decline is to ignore hundreds of years of how western english-language culture has developed. The Bible, passion plays, Chaucer, Shakespeare, colonialism, Opera, romanticism, war poetry, hollywood, each interweaving violence and hatred and love and sex and war and bloodshed with language and ideas; themes which have remained within our blood since the earliest proto-beasts left the primordial ooze, and which will remain with us until the stars burn out.
The fact is, human nature is violent and visceral, and to try and purge such elements from our culture would be a folly and entirely impossible. Better that it be confined to simulated entertainments than for it to enter our everyday lives.
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Posted: Nov 1st 2009 2:06PM (Unverified) said

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Yes, you can find violent elements since the beginning, but that’s an oversimplification:

1. We are still primitives. The time period that have passed since we started to discover higher values and ideas is extremely short compared to our evolution But still, we’ve made some progress.

2. In history, there have been dark periods where even the priests were violent, and golden periods where people focused on discovering and applying higher values.

3. In all history, violent cases were rather extreme cases, either from the army where most of them were forced to be violent, the criminals (minority), people with paranoia from desperation or psychosis (again minority), etc.

4. Were the above minorities violent because of their genes, or because they learnt to be violent? Of course people can learn anything. They can reach goals of high wisdom or they can become like the worst beast -dehumanized. If there are violent genes, do all people have them? To what degree? We are not all the same, why take the worst case? We are still evolving and now that we are aware of ourselves, we should try to become better -not worse.

5. Never before in the history of man kind, have been so powerful mass mediums as today’s audio-visual, that every day bombard the minds of millions, through TV, movies and interactive entertainment. This is too dangerous to leave it on luck. Recent studies in marketing have shown how vulnerable is the human mind and how (unbelievably) controllable is with the right messages. The vast majority of people are not aware of these findings -except the researchers, marketing people and politicians.
So if today the vast majority of young people (and older) are bombarded constantly through these powerful mediums with the wrong messages, either controlled towards specific goals each time, or constantly trained to ignore any values, we can say that our society is currently in decline. Having said that, I’m personally optimistic, that this situation will change.

7. “...themes which have remained within our blood since the earliest proto-beasts left the primordial ooze, and which will remain with us until the stars burn out.”

I totally disagree. We are not only still evolving, but we are also becoming able to accelerate our natural course of evolution and even direct it. Unfortunately we now have more power than we can handle We are still totally immature to touch our genes but we can achieve more and safer, by developing a far better education system, which will focus to make humans more humans, NOT downgrade humans to machines, as today’s education does. Science and technology can help a lot on this area and even there are no trends currently towards let’s say a “perfect” education, this will be a fact some day tomorrow.
If we just don’t stop evolving, we are destined to become better, in all areas.



P.S Thanks for the correction about the Colosseum. As you said, it was meant to pacify the masses (and keep them controlled). Think about today’s Colosseum(s) inside every home...
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 9:41AM (Unverified) said

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No I am not. This is my first time here.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 9:49AM Hooch said

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*Winces*

Sorry dude, you share the name "Me" with someone who was frankly horrific with his trolling on a post involving a women who suffered a very unfortunate death.

So, ignore my hostility as it belongs to someone else.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 9:43AM (Unverified) said

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No, I'm not. This is my first time here.
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Posted: Oct 31st 2009 11:18AM (Unverified) said

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Here's our latest comic with a new one coming soon:

http://www.walkinginsquares.com/comic.php?id=61

Happy Halloween er'body!
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