It's been years since I first joined Vizzed now, the site was around way longer than I knew about it, I've got a feeling it's going to be around for a lot longer to. I may not come around and post as often as I used to but I still like to talk to the many great people who use this site. Somehow I still see new guest referrals almost every time I check my notifications, nearly at 200 now.

If there's a copy of Project Temporality left I'd be happy to take it.

I've returned from the dead to say congratualion for reaching a meaningless number <3

Oh and I totally know I fall under the not so amazing category.

Dear lord, who actually remembered my goomy thread enough to vote it one of the best threads.

Look at me, I'm not dead.

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Alright, time to go inactive for a while, I'll come back soon (valve time.)

crush_overider : You've got nothing on this:

From:
$2586 Value, tf2 backpack roughly $127 with $155 spent on rift.

To:
https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561198105646510/?cc=us
$10142 Value,
906 Games owned,
795 (88%) Games not played.

$252 TF2 Backpack rough value, and dont even ask me about how much I've spent on badges and Rift.

Davideo7 : you might want to clarify one-handed bayonetta (has touchscreen option) is only available in the Wii U version not xbox or ps, same applys to Bayonetta 2. Personally would recommended playing on anything higher than normal with touchscreen tbh.

zanderlex : It really isn't that good, commonly selling on sale for pennies, if you want a diablo like game there are plenty of better alternatives.

vanelan: no way its in beta, it's been out since 2005.


Also if you want further info about it then you should probably know that the publisher meridian4 has several bad clone games under their belt and the games dev has no other games.

thing1 : Ignore all above responses, trust me on this. Source: me and my 500+ game steam library.

First thing; Garry's mod always goes on sale, during a sale it will be reduced to around $2.50 / £1.40. Chances are it will go on sale between now and the Summer Sale and if not it will be on sale during the aforementioned sale.

Secondly; I've checked your steam library and you already own all the games required for textures. You'd need them installed on your machine though; main ones you need are cs:source and Half-Life 2. (ep 2 also recommended.)

Finally; Gmod offers a lot of outlets, you can do creative stuff i.e. sandbox or you can join community based servers for things like ttt, prophunt and rp. As someone with over 500+ hrs on it I can safely say it gives 80% of players something they enjoy, I highly recommend buying if you have friends that play.

ps. you really dont need to have a lot of system memory for server stuff unless you're going on s***ty servers with bloated crap on it. If you want to know some good servers send me a message on steam (I'll look offline but I'll see it eventually)

SoL@R : I in no way mean that you would necessarily learn anything from any form of adaption, however I feel that it does promote learning and research to discover the origin of inspiration. As for Bayonetta 2 using angels, it should be noted that both "angels" and demonic creatures are fought. It fits within the games own theme. They have more connotations to religious zealots than biblical angels in character, in the first game they minipulate a lumen sage into having the umbran clan wiped out, he then corrupts and profits until a time in which both he and the angels can return Jubileus, the creator, as the ruler of the trinity of reality. Regardless of moral thats what they do. Notice how both clans are harmonious to start with. They accept that they both dont follow the same ideals and do not seek to change them.

There are several connections to god with Jubileus, however from completing the second game we know that Jublieus is technically not the true god within the worlds game, the true god being Omne, with Jubileus and Sheba (dark) both being a part of her. Making neither of the sides fundamentally evil.

It should also be noted the three realms of the trinity get there bases from a poem called Divine comedy, a famous piece of Italian literature by Dante Alighieri where he draws upon medieval Christian theology and philosophy. If you haven't heard about it or read it wikipedia does provide links to read it online. It has many meanings behind it and bayonetta only goes so far into that, however I wouldn't known about it, yes I haved heard of the Divine Comedy but had no further knowledge, this was what I meant in the first place, where I have new found knowledge of something that had only been presented to me in a video game format.

I myself am agnostic and find value in religious teachings, whether they come from Christian sources, or less common religions from where I'm from i.e. Hinduism and Sikhism, morals and values can be acknowledged regardless of faith, I myself have studied several religions within the past to years, in school and out and find it notable that many values that are found through many different religions are the same. However when I've asked people about what their belief about how you gain entrance to heaven, I've received several different answers, do you believe there is a problem that there are so many different answers to the question?

I actually want to move on from bayonetta here and talk about it in more of a broad way, saying that games and television can teach, thought they might not teach true Christianity, it still shows themes surrounding a diety above us is still an interesting idea, or in your case, faith. I myself believe in rebirth but I partially think that the only reason is my instinctual fear of death, something present within everyone, faith can be used to keep us going, to reassure us. I understand I ask more than I explain, but I think reading someone elses thoughts is far more interesting.

Sword legion : To address whether they use religion as evil can in some cases be good can it not? To show that hypocrisy is a real thing, those who follow their faith blindly to reprimand and condemn peoples lifestyles whether the aspects condemned are choosen or not? I'm not saying those who have any degree of faith are bad, no, what I'm saying is that religion has been used as a tool to control historically, and even to a degree in modern society with so much suppression of freedom. Perhaps showing an evil side of religion within entertainment can help towards realization. Think of it as this; removing the head of a weed won't remove the roots, in some way that makes sense in religion where corruption is still present.

Just while where on the subject what are your opinions of religion in legislation? There are those who use their Christian faith to further their own agendas. I believe this to be where religion falls under the most criticism. I've seen aspects of this in Bayonetta, allow me to explain:

In Bayonetta, there are basically a trinity of realities, Paradiso (the light), our world (chaos), and Inferno (the dark). Within chaos there is to clans that oversee the world governed by there their beliefs, the Lumen Sages (light) and Umbran Witches (dark), they oversee the world in peace until one Lumen Sage corrupts and starts a war, having beings of Paradiso destroy the Umbran Clan. Now you can see, clearly there was nothing wrong with the clans existing harmoniously, but one blinded by his beliefs causes a great inbalance. The story of the two games is a bit more complicated than the summary I gave but do you get the picture?

It shows blind faith as the evil, not just religion as a whole. There can also be other meanings with throughout analysis. But I'll leave that for now.

I'm also curious about your statement, "But it can give them a slanted idea in the process. I know lot's of people who claim to be Christians. You start to look at their lives and wonder." I myself have met several people who suddenly become christian but when I go to talk to them about their values and or what mythos they believe has anything of value to teach they can either never give me a straight answer or do not know of Christian subjects outside the bible, i.e. historical texts and etc. So could you also expand on what you meant for me?

I'm not one to summon often but I'm pretty curious about your opinions.
Davideo7 :
Juliet :

As the title says I want to talk about religion portrayed in media where the media doesn't serve use as an educational source. Now I don't mean references or small similarities, but media that uses entire aspects of religion to use as their basis, not just the stuff everyone would recognise like the devil and etc. Now I might not be making sense but for example, in the video-game series; Bayonetta, creative liberties aside, it uses the Christian angelic heirarchy as a basis for the games enemies, going into details such as using each of the spheres "tiers" such as Seraphim or Powers, whilst not completely accurate it did give me something to google. So basically what I want to ask is this, do you think its good for non-educational media to take aspects of Christianity or other religions, dated or more modern, and use them to create a different world.

Personally if it gives people an incentive to search and learn isn't it good? I don't think I would have even gained any knowledge about the above or other stuff relating to lesser known Christian mythos, whether it be disregarded or not by Christians.

LunarDarkness2 : I don't actually think they have anything wrong with them story-wise, they do provoke thought and speculation, its just as games they dont bring anything new or progressive to the horror genre, jumpscares are the lowest form of horror and personally I feel horror will never be at a higher peak than Silent Hill 2 (heres hoping Silent Hills will he good). Atmosphere is everything, jumpscare based horror is like Adam Sandler to comedy. If you want a true horror classic I'd recommend System Shock 2.

Galacta : I'd think that br not working wouldn't be a surprise since it's how vizzed handles new lines in posts, you can see it when you edit a post whilst using the basic text editor. Line breaks dont generally serve any purpose in a layout anyway.

Gamewiz : First suggestion on this thread with taste, well partially, Electronic Super Joy is by far the only "super hard" platformer worth playing.
The best experiences on steam are mostly single player games, I'd recommend the following;

Knights of the Old Republic: Oldie but one of the best rpgs ever made and quite possibly BioWares strongest title to date. You can pick it up for around £7 or regional equivalent or extremely cheap come steam sale.

Deus Ex Franchise: Generally you can pick any of them and if it's your style of game, enjoy it. People say the second installment Invisible War is bad, but in reality it isn't that terrible just not as good as the original or Human Revolution. Do not touch Deus Ex: The Fall with a 20 foot pole, its just not worth it.

Rift™: yes it's free to play, yes it's a mmorpg, but if I know anything with over 8 years of playing mmos, its the best one out there right now in my personal opinion. Combat is better than WoW and Runescape, Story is okay if you can follow it, Graphics are fantastic with a decent machine.

Besides those notable mentions include:
Team Fortress 2, Divinity Original Sin, Styx, On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness episode 1 and 2, Awesomenauts, Knights of the old Republic 2 The Sith Lords (with restored content mod), Alice Madness Returns, Half-Life Franchise.

Things to avoid:
Stanley Parable (Overated walking simulator,) FNAF 1 and 3 (2 isn't too bad but the others are subpar to other games in genre),
GTA games that require you to fly helicopters.

Brilliant. Japan needs to take a lesson from Gal on story.

zanderlex : First up, you're new banner is the entire size of a fullscreen banner, so mobile devices and windoweded screens have the text cut off around the edges and under channel picture. If you take a look at any popular youtuber they utilize the space so that their channel name is clearly readable regardless of window size. Any chance you could get a 720p or better opening?

Galacta : Btw your text box is a fixed size rather than relative to the layout size, meaning it goes over both the image and edge of your layout for me, I wouldn't mind it going over the image if I could actually read the text, i.e. using a white rgba low opacity would make the text more clear, I've seen this as a recurring issue since more browsers are heading towards html5.

On my Wii U so can't test for errors depending on browser, doesn't help wii u uses html 5 where the generic fonts tags dont work right.

Anyway simple layout, used an old image I had uploaded quite some time ago.

Disregard, double posted, guess thats what I get for using my Wii U.

Easy question; PC, beta 1.7.2 (not the update that changed the world) game was simple and enjoyable, had all the best mods like mo' creatures and so much more, community was still fresh and wasn't ruined by an army of reject 11 year olds.