COZZER'S PROFILE

author=halibabica
It's all too often asked "lol if there's a god who loves us why's he let bad things happen." My answer: God wants us to suffer. But that puts it too plainly, really. It needs some elaboration. What happens to people who have everything handed to them in life? They get spoiled, don't they? Bratty, privileged, more than a little entitled? This is why God "lets" bad things happen. If life on earth wasn't painful, we could never appreciate the sheer bliss that heaven promises. It makes sense to me, at least.

That makes sense from an human standpoint.
But an hypotetical all-knowing, all-powerful god could just have made things work differently, couldn't it? We get spoiled and entitled because of how our minds works, which it decided.
Also yeah, children with terminal cancer. Unless they are sacrificial lambs for their parents to "appreciate" the sheer bliss and don't get "entitled".

If I have to consider the existance of some "Creator", the only way it can make sense to me is if it has some kind of limitations on what he can and cannot do. Like, some meta-rules even more powerful, or some kind of a zero-sum game.
Maybe our universe is just one of many unfinished project that God wanted to upload on the divine equivalent of rmn.

I'm agnostic, brought up by agnostic parents (my mother started as a Christian and had an anti-revelation, while my father never really cared). So, not much conflict there.

Almost all of my friends are agnostic/atheists, but I find it very fun to argue with a not-nutcase believer when I can find one.
The only thing I find annoying is when someone tells me "you have to believe in something". I do; they're called "ideals", you may want to look up on them, thank you.

The worst thing about SO3 was how the creator of the game is a random bishonen with godly powers living in a space magic castle instead of a fat nerd with a neckbeard with negative STR, DEX and CON scores living in a basement.

Unless that part was in the game too, and the final boss was his avatar? But in that case, why couldn't he just create a new one?

Yeah, it's horrible. Luckily, I was too busy enjoing the battles to care.

Hmm... I can think of a lot of RPGs where romance is a secondary part of the story, but not ones where it's the main focus.

In "The Way" series, love is the force that drives a lot of the main characters. The game itself is more about self-mindrape than romance, though. Definitively interesting, though, if you can forgive Gainax endings.

I wouldn't say Romancing Walker is 'sexist', but its romances are basically your typical harem shonen anime. If you dislike them, you won't like this game either.

Laxius Power's "romance" is just wannabe fap material.

Talking about more recent games, there's some romance in Vacant Sky, though it becomes very important only in one of the possible endings...

And calunio's suggestion IS technically right.

author=Deckiller
2. FF7 - Cloud in general. Such a mass of "lame" for me.

Huh. "The main character isn't the war hero but Random Mook #34" is one of my favorite twists, personally.

MGS2 is a massive joke with the player at the butt end. I liked it (if I remember well, there's a part where someone talks about VR simulations being bad because 'they make people think war is a game' while images of MGS1 are on the screen), but I see how a lot of people don't like this kind of meta-post-whatever.

My vote is for FFVIII orphanage scene, mostly because of Irvine. "Oh hey we all grew up togheter. I didn't think it was worth mentioning in the past weeks."