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I have change my layout due to a few demands, if I did not change it, there are people waiting outside with tar a feathers, then I asked for help, but I made it sound like I wanted other people to do all the work for me, I say no to that, I do need an extra guy to help with articles, two people are better then one, also I need at least 2 mods up in my message boards, I may change my boards, so I will give notice to those who signed up, proboards is ticking me off, it keeps going down and has limited controls, I want more control over my boards, so I may or may not change it, it all depends on if I can find better.
Well, I am going to go, I need to get back on track, I will be reviewing Azure Dreams, this time, I am going to add a reviews page. That way those with sore eyes from reading too much text can click there to read the rest of the review.
Laters!
ARTICLE BY:codemasterdavis
There has been alot happening this year, the Hot Coffee scandel, Jack Thomson emails, Video Game legislations and school shootings
I am one of the few trying to make sense of all of this, I have tried email Jack, no luck, we winded up argueing and getting my mom pissed and her emailing him, then he insulted her, I am sure you have been in similar situations.
It just feels like the world is against us, saying we are a violent bunch of punks, but we kept on going, even when things look bad, we kept together, there are alot of gaming communities out there speaking of the subject, the best being gamepolitics.com, there are others such as www.stopstopkill.com. We have been working hard to plan an attack, most of us are not that good at politics, some of us are still children, some of us have just grown into adulthood, and some of us have been playing games since the 80s.
Gaming is not just a childs toy anymore and most politicians do not realize this, so they lash out against the gaming industry claiming they are marketing M rated games to children or changing ratings because of one sex scene.
We are having other problems besides Video Games, what about the victems of Hurricane Katrina, the current war on Iraq, Hurricane Rita, they are not worried so much about it, instead they concentrate on the less important issue, Videogames.
Alot has happened, this has been a really terrible year, we have suffered losses and the politicians are hardly doing a damn thing about it, instead they are too busy with stupid Videogame bills. those bills will not help reduce crime rate, all they going to do is tick alot of retailers off for they take away their freedoms. Instead of Videogames, senators, governers, and Jack Thompson, consentrate on the more devastating disasters, people are dying, it is not Videogames fault.
ARTICLE BY: codemasterdavis
Time for my first review, I shall review Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children.
Plot Summary for
Final Fantasy: Advent Children (2004) (V)
Two years after the events in "Final Fantasy VII", a disease called 'Seikon-Shoukougun', or 'Geostigma', is spreading through the planet. This disease is believed to have been caused by the body fighting off foreign material that invaded the body two years earlier, at the end of "Final Fantasy VII". Guilt-ridden and haunted by his past, ex-SOLDIER Cloud Strife has decided to live a secluded, solitary life away from his friends while maintaining "Strife's Delivery Service", whose headquarters is located in Tifa Lockheart's bar, the Seventh Heaven. Tifa's bar serves as an orphanage for children stricken with Geostigma. Here, Tifa keeps an eye on Barret's six-year-old daughter, Marlene, while Barret searches the planet for an alternative energy source to the fossil fuel, Mako. One day, Cloud receives a phone call from the former Shinra, Inc. president, Rufus, asking him for protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj. Kadaj, in the meantime, along with his brothers Loz and Yazoo, are searching for their "mother", and seem to believe that Cloud knows where to find her. Meanwhile, Vincent Valentine has been wandering the planet gathering information on Kadaj's scheme, and Cloud and his friends must come together again to fight these new enemies.
source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385700/
Graphics 9/10
The animation is to die for, the environments are beutiful the character look great, the action scenes are near perfect, my only gripe is the action scenes defy the laws of gravity, but that can be forgiven, the over all look of this movie is excellent.
Music 10/10
The music is awsome, I heard alot of remixes in there that are outta this world, FF fans will enjoy the soundtrack, the song, calling, was a great song,I see no flaws.
Story 8/10
The story was good, though some of you might miss the meaning of it since it moves too fast, I like to think of this movie as the happy ending to FF7, it just about wraps it up. Some might not like the story, FF fams may hate it too, but that depends of your type of story, I liked it.
Beautiful action scenes, great story, awsome music, is this movie worthy of buying, I say yes, that is if you are an FF fan and loved Final Fantasy 7, for you non fans, I suggest renting it and judging for yourselves, the movie is good apart from FF7. My final verdict is --------------------------(drum roll)---------------------- 8/10
ARTICLE BY: codemasterdavis
Ok this is the rather infamus threatening letter Jack Thompson sent to someone addressing the whole gaming coommunity. Now pay close attention, this shows how intelligent this man is.
"Allow me to make this very clear to all in the so-called "gaming community" who continue to email me for the purpose not of sharing information or engaging in civil conversation but for the sole purpose of harassing me, with garbage like the below email:
"My input: Jack replied to some guy(forgot his name) saying his email was garbage, I am pretty sure the guy who recieved this was trying to challenge his views, this guy does not like to be proved wrong by us gamers."
In Florida we have a cyber-stalking law. There are federal statutes as well that prohibit what many of you are doing to me. Some of you have emailed me and threatened to kill me. How interesting that you claim that I have infringed on YOUR First Amendment rights. Your lack of courtesy and your utter lack of reflection prove my and others' points about the corrosive effects of the games.
My input:"Cyberstalking: the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk someone. This term is used interchangeably with online harassment and online abuse.
While some gamers out right insult you, does not mean all of us are cyberstalking, giving intelligent responses and correcting your errors and mistruths which some of us is trying to do is not cyberstalking."
I am warning all of you whom I have not invited to communicate with me after an initial contact by you that I shall consider any further emails from you as violative of my rights and violative of the aforementioned criminal statutes.
My input: Some of us are trying to have a intelligent conversation with you, you must be afraid that some of us may be right, that the industry is not involved in this so called conspiricy. We are not violating your rights, well the childish ones who are threatening to kill you are, maybe but some of us who actually have valid points are not violating your rights, you however are violating our rights to speak and our right to choose. We speak the truth that your little crusade is going nowhere.
There is nothing more hypocritical than a bunch of gamer thugs who harass me and threaten me all in the name of "freedom of expression."
My input: Very intteligent, call us thugs name calling is very mature, you must be really convinced that we all go out and do violent crimes,I hate to tell you gamers are not thugs, all we want to do is just play, thats it, play, not go out and shoot people.
I have a constitutional right to talk, at the Senator's request, to the staff of Senator Clinton. I did that. I have a right to point out that Electronic Arts is engaged in a knowing conspiracy with the "mod community" (what's next, "a pedophile community"?) to distribute porn to children. Any of you who don't think that is what EA is doing need to get a law degree and practice for 30 years, as I have. Then I'll be interested in your "opinions" about The Sims 2 scandal.
My input: We also have the constitutional right to debate what you have to say, at the constitution's request, and you do not need to have a law degree for thirty years to see that EA is not involved in some scandel, the Sims 2 is not violating any thing, you can remove the blur but you see only a smooth maniquinn like body,yes, you can post genitals on there but the porn industry is not work with EA to do this, Will Wright accepts all kinds of MOSs, Alot of the sims community are parents not pedophiles. For crying out loud, my mom plays that game! EA is not distributing porn to children.
If you videogaming thugs don't like what I do, then get off your rear ends and talk to the media, talk to your representatives, and write articles for your Internet game news sites. Don't flood my email inbox with your petulant tirades which are neither welcome nor productive.
My input: Anything we say rather intelligent or not is not productivem you do not like people disagreeing with you. We tried being nice, but you keep pushing our buttens and you can push a man so far before he blows. Not just gamers blow up, your so called normal people are capible of it too. We shall become more active and to you fellow gamers, don't email this joker, if you have something to say that is productive, when the topic comes up, email a news site, email your senators, just do not email this radical jerk.
All they do is encourage me in my knowledge that normal people who have a right to stop predatory video game companies' practices are going to succeed in protecting children from those practices. Honestly, some of you email me and threaten me because you say "You want to ban all video games." That is reflective, by and large, of the perspicacity of the typical threatening emails I get. Such people don't want facts. They want an argument. They want to treat me as if I were some punching bag prostitute in GTA. I've had it with this. I am going to stop it.
My input: Well when you attack a popular industry, what do you expect, we be quiet, no! we will debate you, some will insult you, just like you would get if you attack the movie industry or the music industry, it is not because of the videogames, The monkey see monkey do thing is getting old, the reason we debate, is because we believe that the gaming industry is trying every thing they can to keep M rated games out of children's hands, The ESRB is there to guide the parents into what games they think are appropriate, Parents choose not to listen and blindly buy the games and then gripe that the game they bought little johnny is to violent and then they attack the industry when it is the parent's themselves fault. Those who tell the story defines the culture, what a load of bull.
We won the "Hot Coffee mod" battle, and we shall win other battles. If any of you clowns are still dumb enough to threaten me and harass me after receiving this email, then contact your lawyers. You're going to need them.
My input: Well we give you hot coffee, Rockstar got punished and still are getting whiped by the Government, The ESRB changed the rating quickly,It was hidden code though, so therefore, you can only acess it through a cheat usility or patch, and at the rate you are going you will lose most battles because now you spout ot nonsense."
Jack Thompson"
This shows this guy is not very intelligent, Clinton applaud the ESRB when they handled the hot coffee issue, the Hot coffee was an easy win because the code was there, the ESRB is not going to go after EA because of some MODs, kids have no business ine those so called porn sites, parents need to employ net nanny.
This letter is treatening, he is lucky we do not sue, but then again lawyers are tricky and can twist the truth in their favor.
ARTICLE BY: codemasterdavis
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