>>24347
I thought that this person was being a giant cock, so I wanted to hit him where it hurt. I strongly believe that these lists shouldn't be so easily accesible, probably for the same reasons as you do, but I felt like this person deserved to be shunned from the community he likes to post on, even if it is for an unrelated matter.

>>24354
>You're talking about after their prison time, right? Because in that case, that's just a case of American prisons failing. The entire point of a prison is that you take a person out of society for several years to teach him what he did was wrong. If you fail to convince him of that in multiple years of having complete control over his life, your prison system just sucks.

1: imprisonment NEVER deters or change criminals into upstanding citizens. Doesn't matter if you're from denmark, japan, USA, mexico or africa, or which period in time you're looking at. Stop trying to say "YOUR" prison system sucks, because ALL prison systems basically produce the same result.

2: There have been arguments that prisons have not been and are not institutes of social correction but a demonstration of social control/power, and an institute to make criminals into better factory workers/obedient drones rather than to make criminals reflect upon their crimes and never do crimes again. Some thoughts:

-imprisonment was used in the late 1700s as a main means of punishment (the recidivism rate was so high that it basically gave way to eugenics), yet we currently still use prisons as a form of punishment despite aforementioned failure of prisons everywhere.

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>>24370
I'm not against the use of prisons, but I disagree with how they're being used today.
Prisons usually have two main tasks:
1. Rehabilitate prisoners.
Rehabilitation's purpose isn't only to deter the prisoner from committing crime again, but also making him be able to function normally in society. He should be able to get a job etc.
2. The deterrence of the general population.
Prisons should also preclude others to not commit crimes.

I don't find prisons to be an effective form of punishment for traditional criminality, because it has failed its two tasks. The rate of recidivism is usually very high (60%-70% in the U.S.) which means that the former prisoners obviously do not function very well in society. Prisons may not even be that deterring to the general population either. High rate of crime is usually just a symptom of something else, in the U.S. it's probably a frothy mix of high unemployment, shitty health care and more. In cases like these, forms of punishment like probation have been shown to be more successful. If implemented correctly it could reduce the amount of prisoners with as much as 50%, the rate of recidivism is also lower.

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So /bun/ hates /jp/ but goes to /v/?

>>24377
There are some of us in every board, for all we know. Don't generalize.

>>24344
Misato doesn't have kids

>>24344
Fuck your shit.

I like the strong, life-experienced and womanly Milf, not the kind, motherly type.

Which sort of defeats the purpose.

>>24344
Eva has the best milfs.

>>24366

>>23279
4Chan Plus is quite nice, but not having backlinking is a deal breaker. The dev has been promising an update for at least half a year, but it still hasn't been updated.

>>23283
Dem separate backlinking-and-things-related extensions

Anyone have the link to the latest version of 4chan x/y/z/whatever? I've been out of the loop for some times, and now I found that my version doesn't work anymore.

>>23311
http://aeosynth.github.com/4chan-x/

>>23279
I haven't found a way on how to make it work on sites other than 4chan; how did you do it?

>>17500

I actually think I did.

Try swordfish.

What's the hint?

>>24274

Can't remember, but I formatted the piece of shit, and it works well for now.

>>24274
It was probably banana.

My high school literature teacher loved to quote "there is no word under the blue sky that was not spoken previously"
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I believe that until a new area is found, all games will somewhat "remind" their predecessors. So, in the end, what makes a game better than the rest is how they use the present technology (by that, I mean like physics engine and/or games that can be "ripped off"/"influenced") to apply the idea.
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Luckily for me, I choose games based on their promise of a story/plot rather than mechanics. And, to this day, I can still play games with "shitty graphics"
To exemplify; I played quite a lot adventure games in olden times. Overall, they did not diverged much. But I enjoyed Syberia on a different level than your average adventure game as Sokal told me a beautiful story . And I also still love playing AGS games. Someone can easily claim that they are "derivative of <insert a game here>" But that does not matter in my gaming experience. This can be applied to your generic shooter/FPS or any other genre.
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I get goosebumps whenever I hear the word "innovative" but that is how things roll in today's world. They (some argue - lol) say "be the first and be the best" It is not just if you have the idea/technology but how you present (showing off is better suited word, right?), as in the case of angry birds. When I saw the hype around angry birds, I remembered crush the castle as well as some other flash games in the same subgenre. But angry birds had somewhat better appeal, which won it that particular place. Yes, it is a derivative, but as the saying goes "the horns outgrew the ear"

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>>24085
LIMBO has had its art style since at least 2006 (that's when they first released footage of it,) NightSky wasn't even announced until 2007. If one ripped off the other it wasn't LIMBO.
I mean, I assume you're talking about the art style, cause that's the only thing they really have in common from what I can tell.

As a side note, there's also A Crow In Hell (2008) which also shares that sort of style.

>>24228

>I mean, I assume you're talking about the art style

I didn't even consider the art style. I meant the puzzles. I played NightSky before LIMBO and at times 'wow, it's like I'm really playinjg NightSky!' is exactly what I thought, as the solutions (especially to the gravity puzzles) were exactly the same.

>>24238
My bad then.
Either way my point still stands though, LIMBO's development started in 2004 and NightSky's in 2007. Also, if your issues is with puzzles and their solutions wouldn't they have had to, you know, play it? Unless they showed off the puzzles and their solutions in trailers or something.

>>24241

>Unless they showed off the puzzles and their solutions in trailers or something.

That's what I assumed.

Then again if they came up with it on their own it wouldn't be that surprising, it happened multiple times throughout history of mankind (we even have a saying ver here that goes 'the need is the mature of inventions but sometimes there are multiple fathers').

>>24206
Oh come on, he's not that much of a celebrity.

Hm, this was a lot better than I expected from Western drawn porn. Usually it's completely terrible.

I don't see how it's 'the most disturbing' or 'a whole new level', though. If you look well enough, you'll find equally or more disturbing Japanese drawn ero.

The art is quite good (though I much prefer the Japanese style over the Western style), but the dialogue becomes quite bland, boring and repetitive later on (although Japanese H-dialogue isn't exactly the most original either). Worst thing is, the author somehow thinks he must have at least one or two text balloons per panel, which distracts too much from the porn, making it not very fappable. The author should learn from ero manga, which often feature little or no text balloons when there simply isn't anything interesting to fill them.

>>24215
>whole new level
I was mostly referring to the guy when I said that. I've seen a lot of stuff that's worse than this, on the whole. I mean, you could just waltz through the guro thread and find something there in three seconds that's worse. But the main character in this is just thoroughly repulsive. He's borderline retarded, has no personal hygiene and is super-ugly. Seeing him juxtaposed with those girls is amazingly disgusting. The author definitely hit gold here, I think having an actual pig fucking the girls would be easier on the eyes for me.
This shit officially wins my "ugliest pig-man"-award.

>>24217
Actually, having disgusting pig-men having their way with pretty women is one of my fetishes. Although I do prefer manga.

>>24231
Whatever floats your boat, man.

I thought idols were forbidden to have boyfriends, kind of like Jedi.

>>24211
I thought obiwan had a boyfriend called quigon in episode 1.

Why does everyone care so much if idols are "impure" anyways?

>>24221
It's probably something along the lines of: "If I can't have her, no one else can have her either."

Besides, getting bent out of shape about the purity of fictional, 2D character is even more retarded, in my opinion, and that happens all the time.

>>24214
Who was the seme?

>>24181

I was expecting better, seeing as how he went on vacation for so fucking long.

>>24182
I find horribly mangled Japanese to be hilarious, so I'm cool. He explicitly stated it was only a warm-up, anyway.

>>24062

The gold chests right above the starting bed.
I generally try to keep some useful stuff in them, as it makes running back to grab the stuff you died with a *lot* easier, and it makes starting out much less tedious as well.
Take what you need.

Thanks for the Skeletron arena, Smurf. Due to the great mobility I had the fight against Skeletron was extremely easy (I had a Space Gun with full meteor set). Dungeon is now unlocked.

>>24021
That was my very first time on hardcore. It was not fun getting surprise raped by blobs and actually dying from it.

Since this is in mediumcore now I think I'll try again.

>>24069

The arena for the Wall of Flesh is complete as well.

If you'd like to give that boss a try, just remember that disconnecting won't save you from dying to the boss, as I learned when I allowed him to summon by mistake. Either the boss dies, or you and everybody else in the underworld die.

Though, with how dangerous the world gets after he's defeated, it'd be very, very difficult for new characters to get anywhere on their own.

Server updated, in case anybody still cares. If you're running a pirated version, please update to 1.1.2. If you're running a legit version, Steam updates your game automatically (hence the need for a server-side update because otherwise you'd be unable to play).