Why this fucking game not have skip button?

[Mask Mods]

Ah my fellow people of the forum. Judge him not too harshly for I think what we have here is a simple case of misunderstanding. I have seen through the semantic fog and I think I know about what he is speaking. I will now say that I wholeheartedly agree with him; the game is in desperate need of a skip button.

Let me explain.

There has been many a time, when after killing what seems like an entire sub-continent of Zin, I find the streets littered with the guns that were once zeroed in on my very self. Now I'm sure you all will agree that this is a very dangerous state of affairs. A small child could trip over one of these munitions and graze their knee. Do you want to be responsible for a child's grazed knee? I think not.

What we need, my dear friends, is some way of spawning a large, open topped, metallic container into which we can throw these lethal sticks of juvenile abrasiveness. This object could be spawned by a simple button, a skip button.

 

[M3nace]

Why do you have to act like a complete fucking douchebag instead of simply making a suggestion? I guess it's just another mystery that the world will never know.

Original:
"Don't fuck with the mayor!" ~ Viola Dewinter
Fixed
"Don't fuck with Idol Ninja or Volition!" ~Common Sense

 

[Devianza]

Nah. People have been saying the same shit since the time of Plato:

And Plato was right. If you look at how we've evolved as a species, we have slowly become more degenerate like.

Human behavior experts started studying the millennial generation years ago when they were children, and they said there was a good chance millennial generation would be more socially inept, more impatient, and more self entitled than previous generations. Now many of the millennial generation are adults and guess what, many are more socially inept, more impatient, and far more self entitled. This may also play into why so many of the young men coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan have ptsd, even though World War 2 was a far more brutal war and cost many more American lives and yet those who came home from the war without severe injuries quickly got blue collar jobs, got married, and had a lot of children and never showed any signs of psychological issues.

Here's the thing though, while these studies by human behavior experts have turned out to be true when it comes to young Americans, I don't think the studies can be used for younger people in other countries. For example, Finland has a strong economy and many of their young citizens are hard workers, and rather intelligent. Then there's the Japanese, they're younger generations are also just as career motivated, socially capable, and total achievers. It's really only the US, Italy, and a few other countries that have slipped down the evolutionary ladder.

 

[Corrodias]

I'd accuse this thread of being off topic, but the original topic was never worthwhile.

When it comes to Japan, I would read "career motivated" as "slaves to corporate traditions" and "socially capable" as "browbeat by social pressure into conforming and not speaking out". I disagree with certain analysts' opinions that the supposedly growing rate of celibacy and threat of underpopulation is a problem, but it's worth mentioning.

I suspect we have more to blame on the educational system and media glamorization of intentional ignorance with regard to people being inept, rather than genetic mutations. I doubt selfishness is actually any worse than in the past; you just weren't around then to see it.

Your comparisons to WW2 are silly. The scale of the conflict and the country's involvement breaks any economic parallels with Iraq. A quick romp through Google tells me that WW2 veterans were not as clear of psychological effects as you seem to believe. It doesn't take a happy and healthy mind to make children. Abusive parents that molest their children prove that handily, I think.

 

[Devianza]

The economic differences between WW2 and Iraq are quite different due to various things from inflation etc, and so on, but the fact is, far more Americans died during WW2 than Iraq, and far more was on the line. On top of that, many of the men who were sent off to that war were drafted, that means they had two choices, go put their life on the line or run to Canada. Also, you can't shoot down hard facts, the number of soldier suicides among those coming home from the war on terror is extremely high in comparison to WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. And there's a pretty big difference between coming home and putting a bullet in ones head or having ptsd and an abusive parent, also keep in mind that back in the era of WW2, it was perfectly the norm to smack your kid across the face if they acted up or use the belt, it was even somewhat tolerated for a man to his wife if she acted up back in those days. So in some ways we've made progress, a man can no longer hit his wife or his child across the face and not risk getting severely punished for it.

And I'm not some 20 year, I've been around for awhile and I can say that Americans did start getting greedier and more selfish in the 80's, and many political analysts blame Reagan since he actually encouraged and praised greed. Again, one can't ignore facts, there was more balance economically back in the 50's through 70's. The US had a very strong middle class backbone, and many men back then didn't have to get a degree to make a good living, they were able to just get a solid blue collar job working at a factory or what have you and make enough to raise his family, and many had the unions to make sure they also had job security. These days, there's a huge underemployment issue because the rich have gotten more greedy, there's far more outsourcing, as well as the exploitation of undocumented workers. So yes, people have become far more selfish, at least the rich have.

However, I totally agree that some blame can be put on the educational system, and celebrity worship. The educational system in the US, excluding ivy league universities (we still have some of the best universities), are a mess these days, and over the years more and more kids see celebrities making a fortune and think they don't need to focus on school, they'll just be the next Kardashian. Scream 4 kind of had some fun at how reality tv is putting across the wrong message to teenagers, but well Kevin Williams has always been a witty writer that has touched on societies issues while not bumming people out. Back in the 80's some male teens who were athletic used to think they'd be the next Magic Johnson, and a few of those teens that I went to school with, they're now working at Walmart and Home Depot, kind of sad. However, athlete worship didn't seem to be as bad because it only seemed to affect the handful that were into sports, while reality tv seems to impact a larger group.

 

[[V] IdolNinja]

This is one dead horse that's been soundly beaten. Locking thread.