If atheists truly are atheists (in every sense of the word) then they truly believe that no God/gods or high beings actually exist, ergo religion is something or a tool that man created (for what ever reason) and hence the the origin of the problem exists only in human beings themselves.

From the point of view of an atheist, blaming religion would be like blaming effect of a problem rather then curing the actual issue, much like how many medications stop the pain without stopping the cause of the pain.

Which continues onto another question, where did human beings get this 'instinct' from? But I guess that is a whole other issue which can be left to the millions of other online debates anyone could easily get into.

I don't think most logical/smart atheists believe this (that religion causes many/most/all wars, etc), but many trolls (including Dawkins ironically) find themselves using it as an excuse to why religion is negative on society. But it seems it cannot at all stand up in the long term when you actually think about who is saying it and what they are specifically saying it in relation to their own beliefs and the beliefs of the specific religion.

Well Microsoft is doing SOMETHING right (sort of) regardless because most people continuously send their 360 in for repairs instead of trading them in for PS3s/Wiis

-Oath

Yes, because basing your game library on the 360 has nothing to do with it at all.

If NES had such a high rate of failures as the 360, console wars wouldn't even exist.

two different games, two different audiences

wow will slowly lose out after hitting its peek with TBC

if aion is a solid game (and stays that way) then it will slowly over take wow since wow is aging and people will get sick of recycled content

highlyskeptical that TOR will get anywhere (the info ive seen pretty much tells me that it completely removes MMO from the genre, and im getting sick of star wars getting milked), the details on FF14 sound interesting (and it could end up being a good game) but not revolutionary, i dont trust blizzard at all atm with their new business attitude so cant really say im going to be that interested in their new MMORPG (which they switched their big guns to)

either way, i hope aion end up well, the CBT isnt doing them any favours though

original pocket monsters green version, probably not rare, but got it before ebay from a mate who got it from a brother who was an english teacher in japan... so would have been rare when i got it consider i was in new zealand... got full packaging, box, handbook and game... ironically i had clocked red/blue/yellow so often at the time that i could play it without needing a translation, the pokemon images are GREAT though, TBH after green/red/blue the quality of pokemon images went downhill (since they all made them cute and cuddly after it was such a big hit)

also have an original duke nukem atomic edition, also not that great, but i think what makes games special is the fact that you played them so much, etc

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Just got my first PS2 and wondering if there are any games that are online (which have a good online community still) with the PS2 and are fun, etc?

How is Sonic over-rated? Most know Sonic games are bad stuff, what, over-rated with seven-year-olds? lol?

Just some no-name biased trying to look cool ('gamerevolution' seems ironic in this situation, a site I have personally never heard of or at least recognise). Most know FF7, Halo series and Bioshock are over-rated. Doesn't mean their not good games (and stuff like Bioshock and FF7 are known for their unique qualities [e.g. graphics] more then anything even though the overall gameplay isn't the greatest), just means that there are better games that get less noticed. Otherwise, most professionals that have had years of experience would disagree with this opinionated late-teen, considering the complete lack of evidence for any of the games.

E.G. SMG

Awkward controls? how is that? Only time it was awkward was with flying, and a few harder end-game levels where you need to change gravital-position perfectly. Even the unique Wii-Motion or IR gameplay moments were amazing fun and didn't have a hitch in them.

Worthless items? Like that? The items required to finish each level? The items that gave you unique abilities?

The camera was mostly never wonky, in certain situations the views were far from ideal but were no where near majorly interruption the gameplay at all.

Final boss fight was a disappoint and pretty much half of them weren't that hard, either way, many boss fights were well designed and calling a mario game easy is stupid considering overall the core game of SMG was made to be easy... but made to be fun

Lack of Depth? You really know nothing about what goes into balancing a game do you? The Polish that perfect games require, you just prove that you really have no right to be blogging, of course I guess that is what the internet is for, giving voices you people like you.

'Un-intuitive' lives-system: Meh, could have used without it, overall it is a non-issue since the lives system didn't really matter anyway. Why complain about something that didn't really get in anyones way? And I doubt it required much work to input this system in so it wouldn't have taken away from any other area of the game.

makes me wonder why game journalist didn't consider all these problems into account in their reviews: because journalists seem to factor in the fact that they were having one of the most amazing times they have ever had in a game for years, without it being hard or over-bearing. A few problems they encountered every few hours in between awesome gameplay isn't going to change their minds.

I think that the only reason why this game got alot of praise, was simply because it was a new Mario game. OF COURSE, every game that has ever starred Mario has gotten AMAZING reviews!

WHY DIDN'T WE SEE THIS BEFORE! This is just one HUGEconspiracy for Mario games and Nintendo! IGN, Gamespot, and every reviewer who gave this game over 9 MUST be in on it!

EVEN YAHTZEE

WHY YAHTZEE WHY

I THOUGHT YOU HATED THE WII

NOOOOOOOO

Does anyone remember this game? Did it ever come out lol? I don't even think i know what they are talking about?

AmayaPapaya

:(

Sadness makes me sad... either way, Silent Hill: SM looks good and hopefully it will revive the genre a bit considering the failage that was RE5

Metroid Prime had a story?

Both were awesome, that is all.

Chutebox

oh yes, it had a story,

just because you were too daft to be able to follow the complexity of Metroid Prime doesn't mean it didn't have a story...

sorry that the main characters didnt tell you specifically what the story was with over-acting and unrealistic anime-styled 'making it obvious' dialogue

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