Recent content by Professor Doakes

Obviously religion has lost its prominence over the years, that much can clearly be seen in America. My parents were Catholic, I was baptized, but they sort of just stopped going to church. I was never really expected to do anything more than pay lip service to my benevolent deity, and I think...

Vampires don't sparkle. Also the books are terribly written fantasy fulfillment for teenage girls and Mormon housewives. I couldn't bring myself to be dragged to any of the movies. Vampires were so much cooler when they were bloated sacks of blood or had really sweet detachable heads that flew...

Goldeneye isn't too bad for the Wii. It feels a little dated, but the magic is still there. Also Sonic Colors is actually a decent start on making a good Sonic game again. If you haven't played any of the Metriod Prime games for some reason Metroid Prime Trilogy is really good and the first one...

I'm pretty loathe to admit that humankind will become extinct at all, we're like cockroaches. Pretty sure we'll be chilling out in space with lasers and robots going warp speed. That said, in the words of Yo La Tengo: Mother f'ers don't you know, if you push that button, your ass got to...

This right here. The thing about this, mostly with your first friend, is that people need to be willing to change for themselves. Your words alone won't make her stop her, and you letting her use you as a punching bag then running back when she apologizes only reinforces that behavior. You...

I love Dawkins and all the hate he gets for being that atheist guy that's missing the point. Unfortunately nobody'll ever be able to really take the church to task for anything they do, but at least the man is helping with publicity. I would like to see him attempt a citizen's arrest on the Pope.

Yeah, God of War games are pretty short. I can't play them for more than 1-2 hours at a time though, I guess it's too intense for me. Beat it last weekend, it was pretty good. Finally got that epic sense of scale, but a lot of the boss fights weren't particularly impressive. I kind of missed...

I didn't remember her being so tough, but the first time I fought her I ended up getting stomped to death despite being a good 7 levels higher. So the second time I just threw out Ghastly, laid a Curse, then had my starter soak up damage until Curse killed it. Easy!

Self-Destruct. For some reason people hate it when almost every pokemon on a team has that move. I wonder why. Snorlax is usually the one who leads with it.

FYI I'm a spy. It's been awhile since I played, but I still pop on every now and then. Still waiting for a bowler hat for the Spy, then I can take off the stupid Halloween hat.

I like Final Fantasy. I'm in. 6, 10, and 13 are the best of the lot.

Do you drink only one or two diet sodas a day? You're probably good. They do cut the calories a touch. They can also increase your blood pressure and do have some of that sweet aspartame in them, which has had studies done linking it to brain cancer but not had anything massively conclusive...

War is a painful but necessary process. Most of the time it's propagated by gangsters and criminals, people who only want to enrich themselves. Then there's other times when war is the only way to ignite social change, such as various successful and not-so successful revolutions throughout...

I just finished the Sprout Tower and I realized I don't remember any of G/S. Which is awesome. Got me a Ghastly and the Onyx with the lame name so I finally have three whole pokemon I can field without shame.

I'm slowly working my way through it. It's pretty impressive it only took you one day. I like that the weapons are kind of useful now, but I haven't got the sense of scale that the first or second game had yet. Here's hoping.