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by icycalm » 22 Feb 2009 16:25
by icycalm » 23 Feb 2009 13:20
The big thing about Alex is: He doesn't believe in people. And I can't look at his writing without thinking that all of it has that belief as an underpinning, and it's rather easy to see that it is there. That belief so offends me that I cannot think about accepting anything he says without first thinking whether that means that I'd be accepting that viewpoint.
by icycalm » 25 Feb 2009 15:37
orly wrote:insomnia.ac is the be all end all Authority on gaming. bitches
by icycalm » 27 Feb 2009 13:55
dark steve wrote:I'd write something about complexity v. sophistication, but uh, yeah, why even bother with this guy.
by icycalm » 27 Feb 2009 18:35
Why would they delete it? It's the most interesting thread they've ever had on rllmuk. Twats.
by Bradford » 27 Feb 2009 18:35
by icycalm » 04 Mar 2009 16:05
by JoshF » 04 Mar 2009 17:12
by icycalm » 04 Mar 2009 17:21
by BlackerOmegalon » 04 Mar 2009 18:48
by icycalm » 04 Mar 2009 19:14
BlackerOmegalon wrote:Also, challenge is considered by these sorts to be the opposite of "fun", the legendary thing that they always fall back on in their arguments.
I really can't understand how come some people support this douche bag Icycalm. I always thought his articles, reviews and whatnot are mostly really missing the point, like he doesn't understand video games much while pretending to be an "expert". Insomnia is mostly a hilarious failure of a site to me.
by icycalm » 07 Mar 2009 18:28
Taurus wrote:I don't know what 'pushes gaming onwards' means. I think that metaphor, of one line of progress, or some apes standing up, is a bit simplistic. I prefer to see it like a fern leaf, or an amorphous network with different branches that cascade off into different directions. And I think that the phrase sort of implies that subsequent games need to have adopted something that a particular game invented for it to count, and I'm not sure that's an especially good criteria for innovation (because generally other developers seem to pick up on the most boring things about successful or interesting games to copy/rip-off).
AndyG&T wrote:Careful with the leaf/branch/tree analogies, Taurus. You're starting to sound like icycalm.
by icycalm » 08 Mar 2009 18:21
by icycalm » 09 Mar 2009 18:29
While we're still on video games...Alex Kierkegaard, anyone?
by Bradford » 09 Mar 2009 19:40
by Tain » 09 Mar 2009 20:18
On the plus side you've found me somewhere new to troll; anyone who has a banner featuring that white haired fag from Devil May Cry above a slew of articles on the philosphies of Baudrillard needs to be trolled hard for being a massively pretentious cockhead. Merry fucking Xmas. Crakwhrrr 04:22, 11 December 2008 (CST)
by BlackerOmegalon » 09 Mar 2009 20:24
by icycalm » 10 Mar 2009 00:34
Bradford wrote:What irony that a page to mock (I assume; I could not discern any real purpose to the page) the taking of things too seriously would contain a list of examples over 14,000 words long!
by dai jou bu » 11 Mar 2009 10:05
icycalm wrote:And here.
by icycalm » 13 Mar 2009 13:19
He also has total BS claims in there, like the fact that only schizophrenics can role play a party of characters. A good pen and paper dungeon master plays dozens of roles. But I guess that since it's pen and paper, it's all great and healthy.
meh. It's all semantics.
by icycalm » 17 Mar 2009 20:03
Ready to rage? - Steam Users' Forums
Ready to rage? Team Fortress 2. ... edit: lol - http://forum.insomnia.ac/ viewtopic.php?t=2659 ... TF2 is in constant-development, always changing. ...
forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=824647 - 11 hours ago -
by icycalm » 17 Mar 2009 20:47
Page 2-Ready to rage? Team Fortress 2. ... Imma join their forums and have a lil ' chat with this guy. ... Ready to rage? Nope, but I'm ready to laugh. ...
Ready to rage? Team Fortress 2. ... Reload this Page Ready to rage? ... This is not a forum for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ -- no one should have to convince anyone else ...
Ready to rage? Team Fortress 2. ... Reload this Page Ready to rage? ... Most of the forum posters that at least to me sounded like they were good players ...
Ready to rage? Team Fortress 2. ... Reload this Page Ready to rage? .... dude's saying that the sniper is one of the weakest classes in TF2 in the forums. ...