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Is there anybody here besides me in the "Valve can do no wrong" camp?

They do wrong all the time. They're just very good at going, "We totally meant to do that, now look over here at all this awesome."

There's nothing outright wrong with the latest update either, it's not like it outright stops people from doing well as Pyro, it's just a whole lot of work if you're not used to playing like that, and it's a style of play none of the other classes are forced to do like the Pyro is.

Valve: Masters of misdirection, and BSing. As you'll notice the forums are all mass guessing over the Engineer stuff now, and even suspecting more Pyro changes along with.

Edit: Man, I'm just jabbering and not making very good points. Ohwell.

That request will have to be made in Japanese and I'm not sure whether he takes requests, nor what the protocols are to make such a request.

Though in the meantime... same artist (requires Pixiv account to see):

Cat Flesh Helm (source):

Surrounded by Cats (source):

Oh damn, showing that first one to someone got an amusing story told.

I wonder if that's supposed to be Jim Rhisoulas. He's a swordsmith, and in the 80s, his cat had kittens, and one day, while they were getting all over everything, he was peicing out a side of cow in his kitchen, in his leather apron and jeans. The kittens were climbing up his jeans, trying to get at the Big Yummy Cow when a pair of door-to-door religion-peddlers knocked. He didn't even think about the image he presented when he opened the door, cleaver in one hand, squalling kitten in the other, blood on the apron, with, 'Can't talk. Making dinner.'

I call nostalgia. That and we've had time to shift through all piles of crap for older games.

I remember going on an Emulator searching spree for good old games. I couldn't find any games really that I hadn't played before. All the 'recommendations' were the same. So really of an age we've got several dozen good games everyone remembers and a mile high pile of crap we've hid under the rug.

As for game reviewers. You're generally better off with independent blogs than the official sites anymore, but then RPS probably spoils me on that front. Comparing old reviews to new ones is a bit difficult too, you'd have to adjust for score inflation, and then you've got different reviewers, different standards, and...

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Okay, I wrote all that and then typed 'different standards' and had to stop for a minute. Standards are lower, games are far less niche than they once were, and we've got more of them being released than ever before. And despite Activision wanting to recreate the crash of the industry in the 80s, all these games while not stellar are at least high quality.

So I'm wondering will we have more games everyone will remember in 2, or even 10 years by virtue of their being more games, or by virtue of there being more good games?

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The SMG does not have a low DPS, it's a pistol with a higher rate of fire, it actually does a bloody good deal of damage.

It's still the low-man on the totem pole by about 10 points per second.

Although I must admit it is fairly sad that the only thing with lower DPS than the flamethrower is the SMG.

Maybe if the site didn't take five minutes to load. x_X

Man... stupid eliminator! Why must you attack me in rooms where you can't get close enough for me to kill you! You made me get 95% completion!

In other news. That circle attack is in a semi-hidden room. (It's shown on your map) and you need the Level 3 barrier thing to get to it. (At least on normal mode) You can actually do it without finding the item that tells you how, but where's the fun in me just telling you. ;P

There's also another semi-hidden item that let's you do some other amusing things, but isn't actually useful. (*Flies upside down, wheeeeeee*)