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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Games 'In The End, Everybody Bleeds The Same.'

Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:14 PM

(Notice me not making a menstruation joke here. That's right ladies, I'm totally sensitive to your gross vag blood.)

The demo for Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena came to the various game download services this week. Vin Diesel may be quickly sliding into the angry obscurity of a Dolph Lundgren (one step above a Mark Dacascos, but one below a JCVD), but the man certainly knows how to slit throats and monologue like a duck with emphysema.

The weird bit is that the Chronicles of Riddick games are actually really good. I fully recommend the free demo to anyone who enjoys sneaking around in the dark and snarling gruff one-liners.

(Post Script: Diesel's game development studio also wins bonus points for programming the single most awesome menu system ever created: One part Rubik's Cube, one part T-1000, three parts totally unnecessary graphical polish.)

 

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You wouldn't think the stereotype of a gamer that likely hasn't seen a vagina in {var:years since birth} trying to make fun of menstrual flow would actually post on a blog--but there it is--documented for the world to see.
Posted by NIG GER on March 7, 2009 at 11:00 PM · Report
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I'd like to think the readers of The Merc would counter the irony of my first statement using something like that stereotype you mentioned, but somehow I get the feeling that you're just miffed about me mentioning ladybits. I'm too lazy to go into the hyper-PC anti-patriarchal reasons why you'd think I ought not make light of female issues as often as I dig at my own gender, so let's just say it's for the best that I didn't go with my alternate gay, black, robot, neo-Nazi punchline.
Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on March 7, 2009 at 11:34 PM · Report
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this blog is written by 14 year old boys.
Posted by jew on March 8, 2009 at 11:59 AM · Report

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