which games are you excited for then? Hopefully nothing 3 years away or more like Doom4.

Are any of you guys excited for any of these three games (Dragon's Dogma, Max Payne 3, Witcher 2) for the Xbox?

I think I have the same issue. When streaming, the loading circle gets "stuck" at 3/4 full. I didn't wait a couple of hours to see if it would finally load, but it seems to get stuck. I also tried downloading the video and it also seemed "stuck" in the 5 minutes I tried to download it.

I also found it a little ridiculous that people were saying "kill her" but most of them were joking because that would be quite an overreaction especially since his spouse is made of pixels. I'm pretty sure a lot of people wouldn't have any idea if two people with brown eyes can have a child with green eyes so they probably wouldn't give that much thought. Its not about race. Not for most people, I suspect. It is about infidelity plain and simple. I bet you were one of those people that thought Resident Evil 5 was racist because a white guy was killing black zombies... even though he was in AFRICA. You should honestly not come back to this site if you're going to be so irrational about little things like this. At this rate you'll die of a heart attack before you ever grow a functioning brain.

I really think this is a joke cause no one would use the "it happened 150 years before I was born" to justify the non-existence of the effects of something that happened "150 years before I was born". By that same token, if you were lving in the 60s, you would have said the civil rights movement is a bunch of malarkey cause people haven't been slaves for 100 years. Wow, I guess people think that when you think critically about national social issues and across an index of time, people seem to take the very act of trying to think or interpret as an act of hostility. Critical thinking makes you feel angry, makes you feel vulnerable...IQ puzzles are fun and smart because you can measure intelligence!!!Maybe you're insecure about something, I dunno.

ITs not about race "consciously" in your mind or even nationally in the minds of most of your populace. But I guess thats the whole point, I get it you were taught in school that color of skin doesn't matter, we are all people, equal. You know in a lot of countries with multi-racial societies, people don't need to be taught this at home or school with words. It is understood everyone is the same because there isn't any domestic historic emotional animosity between races that needs to be intellectualized and broken down.

It must be good to have had the economic prosperity given to you by an enormous underpopulated fertile land, worked by the hands of "indentured" servitude to later go into World Wars towards the closing rings of the bell, take the industrial bounty that comes with rebuilding the world when you are the last minute victor and can dictate legal and economic terms to the globe, plus your land's infrastructure was not exactly destroyed by the "invasion", now was it?. So, yes I get , its never about race, all people are equal, and all "good" countries are equal, you never had a slave, you've never been aggressive towards someone of a different race because of their race. Great, I never called anyone a racist. And I didn't call the game racist. I said the joke is not funny to me because of the killing given its implications.

I did however call Americans aggressive, which is mostly true given that I am "an idiot" and you "hope I have a heart attack before I grow a brain". Don't worry, the EMTS and Firemen you send oversees to fight in compassionate holy wars will gun me down with state of the art weapons loaded with Founding Fathers' Freedom Ammo. I'll try to disarm them with a "joke" about how in Fable III, my white avatar and white wife character had a black baby and I decided to kill the guilty parties and the destroy the evidence, cause its just pixels and its not racist cause Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves long ago and I have a black friend/ adoptive Haitian baby brother, and its all about unfaithful wives and bastard children that deserve to die! LOL!

Actually, I thought Resident Evil 5 was predictably satyric in its treatment of Western post industrial societies and how they selectively meddle in the affairs of third world countries with unstable goverments. The main character is white, the sexy female partner is brown and the Africans that don't speak English are zombies! It is kind of over the top and obvious...but I enjoyed it.

you said you're British. I was somewhat aware of that as I wrote it...you know "The Ghost Writer" thing about Blair being a proxy-patsy for the US, so the behavior trickles down to you. That was the angle.

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this is what i'm talking about. Old style american, no passive ignoring. Just active silencing; just send out CIA agents down, I live in Chile in Allende's dilapidated house. Dude, I'm glad you graduated college too. I don't practice psychology and all my arguments are based on cross-cultural semiotics as applied to history and genetics (i know, I had to look up a thesaurus, maybe you should too as I am sure you had to use it when reading my last post cause I certainly didn't think it was language aimed for highly educated adults). Go to your church or read dianetics again, tom cruise. All your argument was missing was a ROTFLOL and LMAO after "at your local community college"

I love the "its just a game"..."it happened long ago"...."relax forget about it".

and numbnuts, i know long messages scare the living text out of your twitter brain, and high school level civics class vocabulary sometimes seem daunting, but my arguments were never EVER about the game. It was about my reactions to people's reactions related to a player's incident in the game.

I took cheap shots cause the defender has to retaliate against the attacker's cheap shots.

I really wish I knew what you were going for, but I don't. This made little to no sense.

this is what rhetoricians say when they are tired and defeated and want to discredit their opponents: "I really don't understand anything you're saying, whats your point? Bunch of nonsense...let's ignore him..makes no sense...he's mad and unfocused. My opponent is unintelligible, I win by default!!! Pay no attention to anything more he says, its gibberish..nonsense, every time he speaks, ignore, its not even worth or our time and energy to try to silence him...he's a loony to the loony bin"

let's marginalize!!....very sophisticated, passively and seemingly open minded way to deal with people or countries you don't like and make them outcasts...very big stick, soft, or in this case, no voice. Very American!

[QUOTE="GameGuy642003"][QUOTE="paradiggam"]

the thing is , its not only about cheating. Its about race and interracial infidelity of the wife with a black man which is one of the most historically documented fears of the white slaver. For example, if you said, my baby has green eyes but me and my wife have brown eyes, nobody would say "its hilarious, kill the cheating strumpet and the bastard child". You would think, "wait, is it genetically possible -and realistically probable, even if unlikely- for that to happen. And it wouldn't even become a joke. Or, what about"I played Fable 3 and my baby doesn't look like my wife and me!!! How is this possible.? Oh wait, my child has a unibrow, my character wife and I don't have a unibrow!! Kill the wife and baby!!!".

Oh and by the way, babies with moderately-significantly lighter/darker skin happens much more than you know. You can't study it in the US, where people stay within their class and class is overwhelmingly mediated by race. Chances are you need to go to the real melting pot of the Americas...latin america to do so.

No lesson and I don't pretend the game pretends to teach anything, it is silly. What isn't silly is all of your reaction LOL ROTFL (KILL KILL KILL, Hahaha!) specially to Americans who know everything, and if you levy a criticism they'll go from defensive to overkill offensive ...BE careful don't atomic bomb me, kill 100,000 of my civilian friends ....i know I know, i'm just kidding don't attack me and tell me I'm wrong...I know I'm wrong all americans have BIG BIG MISILES...WE LOVE Angelina Jolie and BRad Pitt and Mel Gibson ...lol...we all now ALL Americans are the Patron saints of world wide philanthropy and caring as well as hero soldiers that really only act as Firemen and EMTs when they go to war over the size, color and petroleum content of my flaming underwear.

wii60own

the game might or might not be funny... you guys might or might not be racists...the thread is definitely not funny but I guess, you guys don't care that your industrialized, "post racial", insulated world view is based on history specially the way it dealt with genetic markers, nor how other people in cross cultural scenarios might react to this same instance of the game. I guess you wanna hear me echo the chorus of "Man, that is funny hahaha...if that happened to me I would KILL KILL KILL". That is what a real community is, individuals parroting back the same thing the group says; which often is little.

Don't worry...your worldview is "normative" and you export your "normative" worldview to other poorer, less powerful countries so I guess I will find it normal eventually after my mind gets colonized some more from reading and writing these posts. You have convinced me: kill my harlot wife, kill the black man, kill the mulatto obama president baby.

I hope all your pretend virtual girlfriends cheat on you with a virtual eskimo-mexican-samoan-nigerian-chinese-french canadian hybrid and you have to end up killing them and their virtual offspring. I hope you all get lynched by his digital mixed-racial extended family.

Didn't Britain have a messy colonial history and gave birth to Austrailia, South Africa and the US - three countries with beautiful passages of racial history and a "authentically" polite, politically correct present consumer culture...KILLL KILL KILL SELL SELL SELL

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[QUOTE="El_Zo1212o"] Jeez. Thanks for bringing socio-science in to kill all hilarity.julianwelton

well "hilarity" here comes from some truth (the way "you" nationally perceive race and apply it to all scenarios including fictional fantasy lands), mostly narrow-mindedness, ethnocentricism, and lack of experience and knowledge when it comes to the gentic and cultural impact of popularly permissive mixing of races. So while you all laugh, the joke's really on you as a nation of slavers and slaves and you're laughing at the fact that, in your world view, skin color is automatically segragated not just genetically but socio-culturally.

I guess this applies to Earl, and is the reason this show sucks ass.

the thing is , its not only about cheating. Its about race and interracial infidelity of the wife with a black man which is one of the most historically documented fears of the white slaver. For example, if you said, my baby has green eyes but me and my wife have brown eyes, nobody would say "its hilarious, kill the cheating strumpet and the bastard child". You would think, "wait, is it genetically possible -and realistically probable, even if unlikely- for that to happen. And it wouldn't even become a joke. Or, what about"I played Fable 3 and my baby doesn't look like my wife and me!!! How is this possible.? Oh wait, my child has a unibrow, my character wife and I don't have a unibrow!! Kill the wife and baby!!!".

Oh and by the way, babies with moderately-significantly lighter/darker skin happens much more than you know. You can't study it in the US, where people stay within their class and class is overwhelmingly mediated by race. Chances are you need to go to the real melting pot of the Americas...latin america to do so.

No lesson and I don't pretend the game pretends to teach anything, it is silly. What isn't silly is all of your reaction LOL ROTFL (KILL KILL KILL, Hahaha!) specially to Americans who know everything, and if you levy a criticism they'll go from defensive to overkill offensive ...BE careful don't atomic bomb me, kill 100,000 of my civilian friends ....i know I know, i'm just kidding don't attack me and tell me I'm wrong...I know I'm wrong all americans have BIG BIG MISILES...WE LOVE Angelina Jolie and BRad Pitt and Mel Gibson ...lol...we all now ALL Americans are the Patron saints of world wide philanthropy and caring as well as hero soldiers that really only act as Firemen and EMTs when they go to war over the size, color and petroleum content of my flaming underwear.

[QUOTE="paradiggam"]

there are recessive genes for skin color; if both recessive genes get triggered the skin color of offspring is different from both parents. This happens way more often in countries were interracial marraige has little meaning because the popular and accepted national identity is predicated on the mixing of races (thats not to say there is no segregation or covert/overt racism between groups different shades of skin color, but that even people that express "white" skin most generally have genes for other skin colors and vice versa).

El_Zo1212o

well "hilarity" here comes from some truth (the way "you" nationally perceive race and apply it to all scenarios including fictional fantasy lands), mostly narrow-mindedness, ethnocentricism, and lack of experience and knowledge when it comes to the gentic and cultural impact of popularly permissive mixing of races. So while you all laugh, the joke's really on you as a nation of slavers and slaves and you're laughing at the fact that, in your world view, skin color is automatically segragated not just genetically but socio-culturally.

I guess this applies to Earl, and is the reason this show sucks ass.