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Squirrelygod's blog
on 03.23.2012
Dr. Albino, or How I Learned to Stop Crying and Not Hate Mass Effect 3s Ending
Oh hi, been a while. How are you? Annoyed? By either the crying about the ending, all the theories, the dlc either being begged for you that you know is coming? Well. I�m gonna tell you something, I think all this shit was planned. Bioware isn�t tarded�. Wait, wait, I know, I know, KOTOR 2, trust me I know. Bethesda made the same mistake, even though New Vegas didn�t turn out that bad when they handed it over to Obsidian for a round but still I know. And yes, Dragon Age 2, I know, everyone has things go wrong, but you know what, no one is that stupid.
Now I�m not here to tell you why I believe the Indoctrination Theory is correct, or why I don�t like the endings. There are plenty of things doing so already, some I might end up plugging cause I don�t want to rant about it myself. We don�t need me having a whinge, having a sulk, having a fucking cry about it, there�s enough of that.
No, I�m here to just state why I�m not worried or pissed anymore. Don�t care? Well then tl:dr this, I�m fine with that, from one troll to another, it�s ok bro. Stop asking me if I�m mad, I just told you it was cool, chill. FUCKING CHILL!
Now I�ve spent a few weeks after beating the game, not touching the damn thing. Playing mostly another EA title, in Battlefield 3, add a sucky job and a dame taking new game + time away. That being said my computer is next to my tv, so I�ve had the time to dig through the internet. In between Ninja The Mission Force, Botchamania and EpicMealTime (whom I�ve seen live!) I�ve caught a lot of this Indoctrination business. Oh and TED talks, fucking love those, but yeah, I�ve even read that �A Logical Breakdown of Why the Mass Effect 3 Ending Makes No Sense� Google.Doc (plug 1). I know, tl;dr or �FUCK YOU I CAN�T EAT ALL THEM FUCKING APPLES!� but it helped my confusion.
Unlike a lot of people though I didn�t leave the ending as a pissed off mess, I just left kinda confused. I chose the synthesis because, well I didn�t fill up Paragon so the blue option was out and I wasn�t doing a renegade run so red was out. I�ve been polarized like that ever since Fallout 3, it�s an issue I�ve developed with new game + games with morality systems. It was so easy when I was just doing it to get an ending that was different, looking at you Chrono games, looking at you.
ALRIGHT! WORD PAGE TWO! I�M ON A ROLL! Ok, so now, what spurred me writing this. I was watching Spoony review a shitty Tekken movie when I remembered I saw Angry Joe had a new video when I was on TGWTG, yes I�m telling you what I do on the internet, I�m sorry, but I�m lame. Now he did a review of ME3, a why the ending sucks video and I wasn�t sure what the fuck else he could have done. It was an indoctrination video. Now I�m getting tired of all this shit too, trust, so I went to see if other things updated, but I was out of luck. So I watched it, and he pointed out the video by ACAVYOS and the doc and all that shit. Now it didn�t make me decide what theory is correct but it did make me decide this.
Bioware isn�t the fucktards that people have been calling them. I honestly believe that they planned this shit, the arguments, the theories, the rage, the counter rage, and all this shit. I believe they are evil fucking masterminds who dangled what we want in front of our faces, and ripped it further away to make us create so much fucking buzz about this shit that people will want to see what the hell we are all bitching about. We have become their post-launch viral marketing, their fucking scheme worked.
It was god damn brilliant. Make everyone get a rager so hard that they have to wank it all over the fucking internet. YOUR RAGE SEMEN IS THEIR WAR MACHINE FUEL! They have been poking this fire from the first day the shitstorm started, polls, tweets, all that shit. I can�t say this enough, it�s fucking brilliant. They toss a Prothean behind a wall, give him story shit to say, people bitch an put it on youtube, but they toss the ending behind a shit ton of flak and make us try to figure it out just to get more people to fucking want to see what the fuck is actually gonna happen. That fucking donation drive for a ending is up to what now? A fuckton, all without the marketplaces cut? How many petitions and polls of people on their knees, begging, with mouths and wallets wide open for this?
And I�m not even saying it�s greed behind this. They want us, the fans, to show them how much we give a shit about this series. They are trolling an emotional response out of all of us. The way they are doing it seems evil as hell to me but god damn, Jim said it, this is fucking FANTASTIC! What the hell else has torn this kind of response out of our jaded community? I can�t remember the last time everyone talked about something video game related this long and hard(hehe) about anything that actually meant a shit to people. Bioware has trolled and we fed them like slaves feeding an emperor a bunch of grapes. Good show Bioware, Good show.
Now that�s not why I�ve come to accept the ending, I�ve come to accept it because, fuck it, why the hell should I get pissed. It�s a game, yes a game I�m really invested in but damn guys, we didn�t write this shit. We�re not entitled to shit. We can�t always have the things the way we want. They didn�t pull a George Lucas, they made something that sparked enough debate to cause an uproar, while knowing what is really up all along. Damn near all of the game up until the last hour was fantastic, I saw things happen to characters that I never would have thought. I saw some of my crew go out like heroes, because I don�t care what run I�m doing, they are my damn crew. Death, love, fear, rage, getting drunk of pancakes, ALL THAT SHIT! Journey, not the destination and all that fucking shit. I�m still going to do more playthroughs, I�m not gonna bitch about DLC in a game I fucking liked that had a confusing end. I want more, I�ve wanted more of worse games. Almost all of us have played shitty games without bitching like this yet just because this is Mass Effect, entitlement is everywhere. If you�re not in for any more of this, fine, if you want to bitch, fine, but don�t expect me to care, I�m gonna keep going with this and let it fucking happen.
Also, no pictures or links, I'm lazy and tired.
on 01.15.2011
2010 Sucked: Broke Assness
Some of us, the unlucky part of the community, are pretty damn strapped for cash. There are plenty of reasons behind the lack of expendable cash and I�m sure that it�s not hard to relate to. These budgets make things like steam sales and big releases a reminder of the fact that budgets suck. These things that we want but can�t afford always come with enticing incentives, incentives that look good and exciting but are actually worthless or have the same odds as hitting megabucks. You can�t blame them for trying, but you can blame them for what they try to push as worthy incentives. Even worse, is when the big releases come out not finished and buggy as all hell, �because that�s what patches are for, amiriteguiz?�
The Economy still blows.
Not to get political here, so I won�t! Unemployment is still high. A lot of us who play games don�t have years upon years of work experience so those of us who became unemployed have had a hard time getting anything beyond scraping by. Those able to maintain a job are doing whatever they are asked to keep them and staying above water. Then there are the lucky ones with decent jobs, who don�t have to worry so much about getting fired over something stupid or laid off. No matter which group you�re in we all probably got better things to spend our money on�..well unless you�re that annoying 13 year old on Xbox Live with parents buy everything they ask for, because they feel guilty about not actually loving you.
The Sales!
Let me ask you something. How many sales did Steam have in 2010? How about Good Old Games? Live and PSN? Whatever the Wii marketplace is called? How about the actual retailers? Even just the ones you�re aware of seem countless don�t they? There were so many sales this year, so many times where things were things seemed to have a great price. Low low prices so tantalizing it makes you not able to control yourself. Next thing you know you went from 10 games on steam to 60, or your xbox hard drive is demanding you delete something to make space for what you just bought. Impulse control is a bitch and they love when they rid you of it and your cash. You can�t blame them, it�s a business, they want and need to make money, you can only blame yourself for falling for it. What you can blame them for however is�
The cheap enticements!
CONTESTS! PREORDER BONUSES! MAP PACKS! OH MY! Sorry, bad joke/reference. While these things are nice, what real use are they? The contests have worse odds than being struck by lighting.
That's right little crab thing, you got no chance at those games.
The random preorder bonuses are usually useless. LIKE AVATAR CLOTHES!
Or don�t even change anything important and won�t even be noticed.
The map packs at least serve some use but will be under populated for a while, or disabled for you when playing with friends who don�t have it and don�t want to pay for it.
Hour later�
�Well if I trade this in at least I could get Reach�
Fast forward to that
A date further in time�
�I got some FFXIII now, should be a huge time sink.�
5 hours later
��is this going somewhere? �
3 more hours
A date further in time!
�Alright, Activision wouldn�t screw me twice, right?�
2 minutes later.
And that�s how consoles get thrown from windows and budgets get fucked.
Ok, so the examples of the fail have quite a bit of my own personal opinions. If you like those games there is nothing wrong with that. I won�t think any less of you, it�s ok, I promise. 2010 wasn�t completely filled with fail and gimmicks. Some games were really damn good, and were actually worth spending what we could on them. Those gems make being a broke ass all the more difficult. There is nothing like hearing �OMG RED DEAD IS SO GOOD, GO BUY IT.�, when you can�t afford to buy shit. Nothing makes being a broke ass worse than when you can�t get something awesome.
There is a lesson in all this.
on 06.30.2010
The Great Escape: The Double Wammy!
Ah, once upon a time life was good at least good for someone who couldn�t legally drink yet. Good as in having a decently paying job and a��what�s the politically correct term for fuck buddy? Is there anything else that sums that one up so well? Well I guess �Casual Relationship �. Or maybe we should just say
So all this and still having time to play videogames and screw around...How could this get any better?
Oh wait, it couldn�t. In fact it was about to slide so far downhill that it may just blow some minds
Sure, it wasn�t the best job around. Sure it was just a shitty warehouse job. But hey, the pay was pretty good and I liked most the people I worked with, there were benefits and paid time off. It was going well, then the departments management changed, and then my shift changed, and then my job changed and then WTF LEAVE ME ALONE! Then they don�t even train me for this new job, sure they say �We�re gonna have this fat chick follow you and train you� but then the fat chick follows me for 5 minutes, then goes to do fuck all I suppose. Two weeks pass until I get a �Hey, you�re doing this wrong, WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU� talk. Only to embarrass them with �Hey, you people NEVER TRAINED ME FOR THIS JOB YOU RETARDS� talk. So that gets resolved but the new supervisor of the area, who is a raging bitch that no one likes decides to mess with everyone, and I seem to be a prime target. Of course I�m a prime target; I�m pissed at the whole situation. The bitch picks out the tiniest of things to use to mess with me, and I see it happening, but instead of talking to the manager about it I do what any 18-20 year old would do. I fuck with the bitch right back. I think she threatened an illegals job or something because she suddenly got spies, so when I did what everyone else in the warehouse would do, say fuck about something, I get snitched on. Did I mention this all happened while the manager was gone so the supervisor could be a complete twat and send it right upstairs to the corporate tools? Yeah that happened, and then I get the whole �so you�re now suspended for 2 weeks while upstairs figures out what to do with you�. So again instead of trying to save my job I do what 18-20 year olds would do
Ok, I didn�t take very much. Mostly I just stuck random stickers on shit, I�m sure there is a cart or two with a Jinx sticker still on em. Mostly I just started all of my friends there being snide as shit about the whole situation and propagating it for a while. Though that all seemed to end once I found out the bitch supervisor just seemed to not show up anymore which made me laugh. Can�t say it was all bad, got good friends from it. (And I know one of you is gonna read this, so be glad you�re included in the good category.)
So job was done for, but I had money saved, good friends and hey, still a chick around for the happy fun times. So at least it�s not all bad�right? No, no, it�s just not gonna end, because FEMALE IS MOVING!
Well this sucks, it�s ok, I got a backup for just such times�.WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE OTHER CHICK MOVED THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY ON A WHIM? I�M SCREW! I�M SO SCREWED! WHY DIDN�T I PLAY IT SMART AND HAVE A PLAN C AS WELL? WHY AM I SO DUMB? Ok ok ok, just breathe, calm down, you still got enough money saved to live well till you get a new job, hell you got enough to take a vacation first, it�s ok, it will all end well.
Ok, I know
But let�s get to the actual topic here. The vidjamagames!
So that all started somewhere around TWO YEARS AGO, now scraping by is what I do but damnit I do it well. I�m still in enough good videogames to last me another 2 years (thank you steam sales), still got kick ass friends, and still, somehow, managing to go to Comic Con this year. I may be broke for Comic Con, but someone owes me for buying them food last time and another one is rich enough that I can get a line of credit from them for random shit I want to buy. HA HA! WIN BUTTON!
What�s that? That had nothing to do about videogames? Well how the hell do you think I got through the boring hours while my friends work? Or how I�m still able to joke about everything like I�ve done in this rant? Or how I went from 20 grand in achievement points to the number on the thing over to the right of this rant (53,585 at the time of this), I got some trophies to but I don�t have multiplayer PS3 games so I don�t even bother putting that up. How do you think I�m successfully making it through WoW rehab at the moment? Or how I got 700 hours of TF2 on steam(only way to play it I tells ya) under my belt? Well also the whole �casual relationship� area constantly fluctuates from WIN to oh god no�It�s
Videogames have managed to get me through a lot of shit that would cause a lot of others to spiral into a horrid depression. Sure I may be a bit crazy, but fuck it, I�m still happy and having fun, as shown by this �wtf is this weird ass albino kid ranting about?
Why am I reading this? I JUST WATSTED VALUABLE TIME OF MY LIFE THAT I�LL NEVER GET BACK! DAMN YOU SQUIRRELYGOD! DAMN YOU!�
And thank you Marvel, for allowing me to whore Deadpool before you kill him with yourselves by overwhoaring
on 05.29.2010
Friends or Enemies?
Nothing like online gaming! You get a whole other level of stuff to do with a game to get your monies worth out of it. There are so many people online that you�re bound to get in a decently sized game. You get to socialize with people who like gaming, just like you. Sure there will be some people you just can�t stand, but hell you may even be able to find a few decent ones that you can make friends with.
All that sounds great, and sometimes is, but what if those people whom you�ve think you�ve made friends with turn into asses? Have they changed? Have you? Is it something you just didn�t notice at first? The reasons for these things vary from case to case, but chances are, this has at happened to you at one point in time. It could be something as simple as saying you don�t like something then all the sudden BOOM!
It doesn�t matter if you�re both regs on a server and joke around all the time or if you�re in the same clan, someone who you once had fun with will rub you the wrong way or become a prick. Sometimes you see it coming, like if they do bs tactics when on your team and this time you�re on the other
other times�
It catches you by complete surprise and you don�t even know what the hell just happened.
A lot of times this ends with just cutting the person off completely. Perma-muting, friends list deleting, nothing playing with, cut right out of everything. It makes anytime that you somehow end up playing with the person awkward and could possibly end with some sort of griefing.
Other times you may just get an awkward ceasefire, usually because everyone else is tired for dealing with both of you. It�s possible though, that you just get into the hatefest all over again, even if it�s completely one-sided.
These things always end up in a few ways.
The Resolution: Just as it sounds, with issues resolved, friendship restored and everyone is happy.
Forgotten: After a while you don�t even know why the hell you don�t like each other anymore, and it either is laughed at or is too late and they have pretty much fallen off the face of the earth.
The Fade Away: You just stop playing with each other, communicating with each other, move on to different circles and it all just disappears.
Endless War: You can�t get away from each other, you can�t resolve anything, you just argue and cry and there�s nothing that can stop it.
Variations of those exist, but those really are the bases of any outcomes you could have from this nonsense happening. These things are bound to happen, it�s just something we humans do and have always done. It would be foolish to not think it would happen in any medium that we can come up with, even one where we might not even ever see the people we are talking to.
I really wish I had a way of closing this, but I don�t. There is really nothing witty to say, this is just human nature and it sucks but it serves a purpose. So, yeah, why are you still reading? I�m done, comment or something cause I�m out of stuff to say.
on 04.02.2010
Multiplayer Rant: I did so well, how come I still feel fail?
In this day of age, multiplayer seems to be the mainstay of that which we enjoy. Now I do know that great single player games do exist, I have beat GoW3 4 times, but other than the game and you, there is little that affects it. Meanwhile multiplayer has far too many variables to get the exact same result twice, which used to be a godsend, but now it may have lost its sheen. Once it reaches the point where multiplayer just pisses you off no matter how good you�re actually doing, it may be time to take a step back and look at multiplayer as a whole.
This is the place that I seem to be at, which is probably why I had any inspiration to write this. Yet for me, this has been a long time coming. Ever since Starcraft this seems to have been filling to overflowing like now. I really wish I could pinpoint where it all seemed to change, but I rea ��ok, Live, Live was probably the turning point. Don�t get me wrong, from its humble beginnings to now it has provided me hours upon hours of fun, but I think that�s when, at least for me, it lost its innocence. Yes, the next paragraph is going to turn into a more personal story, but if you don�t want to read it then skip the damned paragraph.
I always had an outdated computer growing up, and outdated internet. I never really hopped into online FPS games till the Xbox came out, but I was playing enough RTS online and Diablo 2 to eat up my fair share of bandwidth. Offline FPS however, I was all over that, me and my buddies have a good amount of stories from our N64 shooter days. I think the innocence was still alive because it would either be a text biased easily ignorable dbag, or someone you were at least within punching distance of.
Ok, that lil story is over, you can read again without having to fear. So, let us get to the first point.
Now I�m sure there was voice chat on the PC long before the consoles. Most things tend to originate from the PC because they can make things work for themselves most the time unlike console people. The thing is however, when it�s an actual voice it gets kinda harder to just ignore. The mute function always helps but when you have to mute an entire room of people, it just seems completely ridiculous. Be it annoying tards, whiny kids, racist idiots or general douchebags it just makes you wonder what the hell happened to us as a community. And with that, segue!
Ok I know, lame joke is lame, just deal with it.
COMMUNITY! (Don�t jump on me Dtoid, I know it�s not everyone. And if you�re reading this on my clan website, then this disclaimer really doesn�t mean anything to you.)
Speaking of what the hell happened to us as a community, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO US AS A COMMUNITY? There was once a time where 90% of the people I�d play against were pretty cool, or at least tolerable, what happened to those people? Did the stupidity of youths who started playing transfer over? Was there suddenly a mass acceptance of racism and general dbaggery that I missed? I don�t get how people can cheat/grief/steal/playlikeadbag/Sagat/V-13 and still manage to have any real fun. Sure they may get short term rewards but in the long run is it really worth it? Maybe they are just lazy and don�t want to actually try to do anything, or maybe they suck and it�s all they can do, I don�t know and I doubt I ever will. I know that sometimes the only way to fight the dbags is with dbag, but when it�s not just a reaction and sticks, we�ve just let them get to us in ways that we probably didn�t think they could.
I�m sure it�s not just me here. The games have gotten both simpler and far more complex. They are trying to make them all easily accessible yet hard to master, which is great in theory, but keeps falling flat. For example, every ones favorite horse to beat, Modern Warfare 2! The default classes are really quite easy to use, unfortunately it just shows people how to be giant aholes. Witchblades is in there, noob tube with scavenger is in there, if only it had a one man army class to complete the set of dbaggery. What�s that? Tired of MW2 complaints? Fine then Team Fortress 2 it is. Yeah that�s right, I can hold Valve to this nonsense to with just one word, Demomen. Not enough words, how about 2, Dead Ringer. Want 2 more, Random Drops, wait this one needs a little more explanation that the other 2. Valves random drops have done nothing but made idling a widely popular thing to do. Now while most people can get the weapons fairly easily, it�s completely nullified the coolness of having hats. When you see someone hop onto the server then immediately get 15 items, it just makes you feel like an idiot for getting all your stuff from actually playing the damned game.
Ok, I can�t just say all this and expect that all of the blame can be displaced. Sometimes there are just things going on in life that affect everything we do. Even can get to the things that we do to distract from all that. It happens to all hobbies, even our very expensive one. Sometimes things we do for fun just don�t seem fun for a little while. And while some may feel like this is all someone like me falls under there�s always some game, that one can fall back on and say �Well I�m still having fun with this.� Sometimes games just break themselves from us in such a way that whenever we play them, no matter how many of our friends are on, no matter how well we do, no matter how much fun everyone else is having, it�s just pisses us off to no end. Sometimes things never click, sometimes what did click snaps off and hangs there like poorly strung Christmas lighting, the mind works in mysterious ways and differently for everybody. Sometimes crap is just bound to happen to make us not like something, no matter what history it has with us. Case in point, I loved Halo 2, I played the hell out of it and I didn�t even own it, but halo 3 actually pissed me off to the point where I threw a controller against the wall(first occurrence of the rage throw for me)
I�m quite sure that I�m not the only one seeing this, however I�m also sure that not everyone sees this, hell I�m sure a lot of people see the exact opposite. And I would like to see some discussion sprout from this, which is why I�m holding off a day before posting this. Writing something on April 1st and trying to get anyone take it seriously is quite honestly a topic deathtrap.
on 03.15.2010
MW2 is broken and 1200 points for DLC is ridiculous because of it.
Hey gais, you want more maps to play on? Ok we�ll give you 5! Well 3 are gonna be new and probably just as fucked as some of the last but hey, we got 2 old ones you might have liked which we can now ruin with our broken gameplay. We�re also gonna promise you that you�re gonna get new maps in some playlists, but not mention anything about fixing matchmaking or any of the modded tags and hacking on the 360. Lets also dangle some exclusivity to the people on the 360 we�re screwing by making them get it a month earlier than the PS3, making people on both sides rage at us! We�re geniuses!
Ok, how about we get serious for a second here. We all know some people will love this pack, and in all honesty if the game wasn�t broken even my poor butt could look past the fact that their previous packs of 4 maps were only 800 and that one more map, much less one that�s a re-textured old one is somehow worth 400 more points. To some of us though, it�s another straw on already weakened backs, and a few of us are now breaking under it. Now before anyone gets mad or agrees I�ll explain what I feel about this whole thing.
As I already said, if this were a game that weren�t hindered by some serious issues I�d pay for this pack, maybe even gladly. If I wasn�t constantly getting spammed by people trying to sell me a 10th prestige then maybe I�d scrounge for it.
If I wasn�t losing party members in the terribad matchmaking then possibly I�d fap over it and have a mess to clean up.
If the game were solid and not full of stupid things and overpowered retardedness then maybe I�d get on my knees in front of Activision and take a full load.
Unfortunately so much of this game is still so broken that it�s not even fun to play anymore, the newness has worn off and we see it�s not so structurally sound. It�s almost hard to point out anything good with the game in all honesty. From gameplay mechanics to design choices to failed �innovations� there is a lot wrong and no amount of patches can fix the damage that has been done.
Time for me to point fingers and yell �FOR SHAME! FOR SHAME!� starting with kill/death streaks. Whoa whoa whoa, put down the pitchforks and torches, let me talk. In CoD4 everyone had the same killstreaks, sure it would get boring after a little bit when it was all you could do but it had a nice balance to it that these multiple killstreaks just tend to lack. Now don�t get me wrong, variety is the spice of life, but too much variety can cause problems. Sometimes it�s never having a uav up for an entire round, or an encouragement to campers just so they can let their streaks do the work for them. Some of them are disproportionate to the amount of kills it takes to get them, and others are just stupidly overpowered. Deathstreaks are not without some WTFness as well, as long as you�ve seen someone with painkiller take an AT4 to the face and live that is.
The perks, are hit and miss. Sometimes you see someone with stopping power and a Famas kill with on burst on a moving target, yet when you do it to a guy standing still it takes 2 bursts. A danger close RPG can get 3 kills yet a danger close tube next to a guy just wounds him. How does lightweight make you faster than a claymore? Why does commando pro basically give you the Blades of Chaos? Using Scrambler is a death sentence because it just gives away your position and barely ever helps. Oh and One Man Army has to be the most bs thing in the world, when in the correct evil hands.
The matchmaking! Oh the matchmaking! How could they screw up what they and many other games have had working for quite some time now? I don�t know how they did it but boy howdy, mission accomplished! Way to go Activision, you�re raising the bar for everyone once again! It�s pathetic how they could screw up something that�s been working online for years now. And lets not get started on how they have screwed the PC people by torturing them with this nonsense to.
But speaking of the PC people, we should thank them for taking the time to discover all these glitches that weren�t ever worked out and figuring out how to get them over to the consoles. We could have made the mistake of not being able to call Activision and Infinity Ward on these things if it weren�t for you guys. I want to take this time to put a second edge on this sword and tell you that you�re pricks for making us deal with some of this stuff to.
Now for the elephant in the room, the DLC! There is no way, in outright hell that I am paying that much for a broken games DLC. Personally no amount of patching can make this game not just seem ruined to me. I�m sure millions of people will buy it, and I�m sure they will make tons of cash that they don�t deserve. Then they will still gouge people for their money with future packs and it will be horse armor all over again.
With the way they are treating all of us they should be glad anyone plays their games at all, the only reason it�s popular is because it�s Call of Duty. It�s really a shame that they are destroying their own franchise, but hey, if halo can do it why can�t they right? They might as well because it seems like the popular thing to do now a days. It�s sad and I refuse to be a part of it anymore, gamestop here I come.
Also, shameless clan website plug since it's all new and whatnot. www.WeAreOG.com we just bs a lot and play games, feel free to stop by and to talk to us.
on 02.21.2010
My Expertise: Luck
We�ve all had the close calls and the �HOW DID I LIVE THROUGH THAT!� moments, but for a few of us it gets to the point where when we have a lucky streak going we become godly. Be it flailing on a analog stick and getting ridiculous dodges or someone dc�ing before being able to finish you of, these moments of luck can be surprisingly important. While anyone can argue and state that they are just skilled and don�t need luck, or are luckier, I don�t care. THAT�S RIGHT! I DON�T CARE ABOUT YOUR SILLY ARGUMENT! I�M WRITING THIS THING AND NOT YOU! DEAL WITH IT! I�m writing this to explain why I�m a lucky bastidge and you shouldn�t tempt the fates.
Luck comes in many forms, such as a sliver of life, or a few extra milliseconds on a timer, perhaps a accidentally perfectly timed cool down. While we all wish we could transpose what luck we have to different situations, like megabucks, god I want to win that, that would be so epic I�d poop a lil�..TRAIN OF THOUGHT TOOT TOOT! We should just be happy that we get any luck at all, and are not that sad sack who we see looking out the window at his own team, you know that sad sack that gets throwing knifed to the back of the skull. As shown by the sad sack, some of us have better luck than others, or maybe better sound systems, I don�t know, I don�t know what you spend your money on, stop looking at me like that, I�m not a prostitute.
Now all this might seem nonsensical to you, and you�re right, I haven�t said why it�s my expertise. Well I�M GETTING TO IT! SUCK IT UP! THIS ISN�T QUICKHITS BRAD! I�M NOT AFRAID OF YOU! Ok that last one was a lie, he could crush my skull with his pinky, I�d have to run like a little girl in a pretty pretty sundress to get away from such a death.
Oh yeah, my luck. Well lets reminisce, all the way back to when I was a WoWtard, yeah, that was a terrible time of my life that I�m quite ashamed of. Why did you have to open old wounds like that? Well since we�re already here we might as well bring up one decent moment. Was heroic Nexus, with a priest who respec�ed to holy because a healer was hard to find. I was a cute lil undead rogue, with my spine all nice and shined up, wasn�t the best DPS around but I could drop feasts so I was a credit to the team!
So adorable.
Server maintenance wasn�t far off, we got to the last boss with 10 or so minutes to go before it all went down when the unthinkable would happen, we wiped on the final dragon boss thingy. Well I say wiped but really I ran away and vanished when everyone dropped like flies. They ran back and we tried again, with the clock counting down. This time we were making good progress, till a heal didn�t make it in time and the tank died. We were sure we were doomed for there were minutes or less left before we could finally gtfo of the game. At 2 minutes left I was the last man standing, but the boss had little health left and I was determined to at least try. I hit evasion and BEAT THE HELL OUT OF THE THING with a minute left. We were all shocked and I was an instant badass to 4 other nerds, they all rez�ed and I hearthed cause hey, I was a winrar, and then we all left cause well we had to, the server was shutting down.
Ok let�s get me to a happy place, the time I beat a Korean in Starcraft. That�s right, another Blizzard story, and you�ll read it and like it! I don�t know if he was taking pity on me, or thought I was so bad that I couldn�t defend from a Zerg rush as Protoss but he was wrong either way. His pitiful zerglings come running into my base, only to meet up with 4 Zelots with someone who could micromanage them correctly in the commander seat. They would try this same tactic repeatedly, with every unit one could think of attacking with, only to run into me fighting back with the same vigor. That�s not to say there weren�t a few close calls, the mutalisks almost had my dragoons, but in the end those cripples in robots roughed it out. He gave me enough time to have a double layer ring of photon cannons around my base, the ultimate turtle. I sent my units out, like sacrificial lambs, just so I could get my unit count down to support my ever growing Carrier/Scout fleet until finally it was time. I rolled over his base with incredible ease. I may have just been facing the worst Korean in all of Starcraft, I may have been underestimated, I may have been younger and more into RTS games, but either way I got lucky.
My base pretty much looked like this for most of the time.
Should we get into something more up-to-date? MW2 nukes? Nah that game is too broken. Surviving with 1HP in TF2? Too easy to pull off. Accidental puzzle completion? Happens all the time. Getting all 37 questions right and being 4th out of 80000+ people on a video game section of 1 vs. 100 XBL? Nah, I could just be an huge nerd and people won�t believe it cause I haven�t received the screenshots from the friend I was playing with. How about a story about when my luck turned and I actually had to rely on what I could actually do. Yeah that sounds good, can�t have too much good luck without showing the downside.
Was a versus match of Left 4 Dead, No Mercy to be exact. Everything was going well, till about the third chapter, when 2 members of my usual team revealed to be under the influence of some things. I�m not telling you what, I don�t approve of such things in all honesty, but who am I to judge what others do. We scrape by, holding a marginal lead due to the two who aren�t thinking clearly being carried by me and our other member. We get to the finale, and we had to be the survivors first, we don�t make it to the chopper and our win, which is meaningless due to no leader boards or anything is slipping from our ghrasp. If even one of the opposing team were to make it in the chopper we would taste defeat, which tastes a lot like spoiled seafood. In any normal situation however, we would be in the clear, as we were always better as the infected, this wasn�t normal though. We get our first tank, it�s given to one of the messed up members, he can�t do anything with it, game hands it off to the other messed up one and they kill it in record time.
We get to our second tank, gives it to a messed up one again, the director hates us, but he didn�t count on the smoker hunter combo of me and the sober one. I pull one off a ledge and the hunter pins the person who comes to rescue them, while the other two survivors worry about witling down the useless tank. By the time the two know what�s going on we got two kills under our belts and my tongue is recharged. They get the tank and the chopper shows up, while running to it me and the other sober one manage to hit separate targets even though they were practically spooning their way up the helipad ramp and squeak out a win. Even when luck turns on me, it seems to always leave me an opening to squeeze through, and a bottle of lube on the nightstand.
That�s not to say I haven�t ever been spawn camped, or had a huntsman arrow fly past on my screen then end up killed by it anyway. Cheap deaths and aholes can get the best of the luckiest of us. I may not be the luckiest person ever, hell you might have better gaming luck than me. The important thing to remember here is I WON 100 LEGION BUCKS AND YOU DIDN�T! THAT�S RIGHT, DTOID GAVE ME MONEY AND NOT YOU! BOW DOWN TO MY LUCK! EAT IT! ..... Well unless you are one of the other 2 people who got the money, then you know, stuff, and things. Well I shall leave you with my luckiest MvC2 character, Should probably not want me to use him at all really.
on 02.01.2010
How often do the comments of a dtoid writers articles boil down to one of those four? Can I get a chart of those compared to constructive posts or even valid opinions that don�t include bashing/blowing the author? Is it impossible to discuss a topic without bounding into the great land of retardation? Do we really have to let what someone writes, someone who we don�t even know, hit us so hard that we have to work off our rageboner all over it? Can this paragraph get another question mark in it? Oh look it can, win and a half right there.
Lets use one of the dtoid writers as a example here, which one, which one.
Well not Brad, he can punch my spleen out in one hit. And not Anthony, rageboners over indy games rarely happen and I like HAWP(OH SHI~ AN OPINION! I�M A BASTARD!) What about Sarkar? Nah I can�t rage about sports games if I don�t care, so that�s right out. Ashley Davis perhaps? Psh, even Anthony loves her and he�s a cynical bastard. Jim maybe? He�s fat and seems to piss off people. Yeah that will work, besides I�m running out of podtoid/lulzyvideo people and I don�t pay attention to who writes stuff to know more names.
So Jim, Jimmy Jimmy Jimbo. Faps to Bayonetta and isn�t afraid of anything. Did I get the terrible meme right? Come on people, I wanna be sure I�m correct on my fail internet stuffs. So why does Jim make people have rage-ons? How he writes? What he writes? Is it because he�s a big fat fattie who you have nicknamed Fattie McButterchubs? Or is it because he has a wife and that makes you sad about life? Oh wait, is it because he found a way to get paid for this shit and you�re mad that you don�t get jack? I know that last one would get my broke ass��not like it does though��at all��ever��YOU CAN�T PROVE A DAMN THING! OBJECTION! ��Sorry, lost my train of thought�.toot toot.
Oh god, after that I think I need to towel off in the downstairs areas, good thing I�m not wearing pants while doing this or else I�d need to do some laundry.
Ok ok, back on topic. Are we internet dwellers that protective about stuff that in the end doesn�t really matter than we have to cry out in either ecstasy or dismay about it? Sure I love my videogames but surely we can all just see that if we�re not getting paid for it then it�s just a hobby? Or are we gonna pull a Korea and die because we were too hopped up on serum and gaming to eat or go use the toilet instead of dropping it where we are like some animal. Oh, we gonna kill our parents cause they took it away or our children for needing attention while we�re farming gold. GOTTA BEAT THOSE 13 YEAR OLD KIDS WHO ARE PRACTICALLY SLAVES WHO FARM GOLD! GOTTA BEAT THEM! GOTTA CATCH EM ALL!....damnit there I go again.
It might just be us internet generation. I can�t imagine our parents getting hut hut in the butt hurt about such trivial things, then again I can�t imagine anything that isn�t boob related anymore. I�m sure they had more important things to worry about, like where to get booze and if the whole rabbit killing pregnancy test thing they did in the day was accurate. You know, back when people actually had to get out of the house to occupy their time, unless they were hot boxing their room with some Led Zep playing of course.
Now I�m sure that no one will get the point of this, if there even is a point. I�m sure that twitter won�t be aflame with talk of �HOLY CRAP! THIS CBLOG ON DTOID IS WIN/FAIL.� Not like I will even check�..(@squirrelygod and is never EVER updated so why am I plugging it? Um shit um #Yankees Yeah that will save it!) No one will link this on facebook and no one will like it(honestly, can�t check that, no facebook) This will not ever make it on Digg and Kevin Rose won�t give me any little bit of the ad revenue cash, even though I remember him being dtip on the screensavers and got my gmail invite from his ass, back when I was hardcore and fighting for the code on dial-up. I might have to fear Brads fist though, everyone should fear that, all the time. Hell, I�ll be shocked if this gets a fap!
Can at least hope someone laughed at it though, makes the insanity worth it. Also being insane makes whining about people who are whining not seem like a huge contradiction, cause I can believe what I want, now if you excuse me I�m going to go bound through this fanciful forest, KILLING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!
Also I know tl;dr, stop making fun of me!
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Google has been reportedly asked by San Francisco Bay authorities to move its floating showroom at Treasure Island to an approved location.
The barge is still under construction and is touted to serve as the search giant's showroom and demonstration space for innovative Google X projects like Google Glass and autonomous cars.
According to Cnet, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission said that Google must move the once-mysterious project away from the Treasure Island pier where it's been docked for months, because it doesn't have the required permits.
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What factors have an influence in making us like sport in the physical education classes we receive in school? According to a new investigation, physical education teaching staff must develop the responsibility, encourage social interaction and avoid making comparisons between the pupils. The objective is to make us feel capable of doing physical exercise and playing sport throughout our lives.
The objective of the study recently published in the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education was to analyse the factors that influence whether or not we have a "good vibe" towards physical education, which is technically defined as 'dispositional flow', in other words, "an optimum psychological state that allows people to confront a task with the best possible psychic conditions".
"If a person manages to reach the flow state whilst performing the physical activity he/she will obtain high levels of enjoyment, and entertainment, and will want to perform it more to experience these sensations again", David Gonzlez-Cutre, main author of the study and researcher in the University of Almeria (UAL), explained to SINC.
The results of this investigation show that the motivational climate transmitted by teaching staff, the relationship and responsibility goals, and the perceived competence are all associated with enjoyment.
The researchers studied a sample of 779 students (358 boys and 421 girls), with ages ranging from 12 to 16 years who responded to different questionnaires.
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Umadevi loses billiards final
Revanna Umadevi's hopes of regaining the World billiards title were dashed as she went down 209-226 to Emma Bonney of England in the final here Wednesday. The English player thus won her eighth title.
Bonney and Umadevi finished in that order at the conclusion of the league phase with the English player remaining unbeaten while the Indian won three of the four matches to qualify for the final.
The two-hour final was marked by cautious play by both players with Umadevi leading by a small margin. However, nearing the end, Umadevi missed a cannon that saw Bonney back at the table to finish the match.
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In May, the Microsoft Partner Info mobile app V 1.0 was released. Based on input and feedback we have received from our partner community, the app has continued to evolve in respects to the interface and the information that it brings directly to the phones of partners.
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By David Thomas on October 6, 2008
Ford has created a new type of car key that will allow parents of teens to add all types of nanny-like features to a new car. Each key can get its own program to limit top speed, add extra seat belt warnings and limit the volume of the car stereo.
Called MyKey, the system will be standard on the 2010 Ford Focus and will later be available on many Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models. We're guessing the Focus is first because it's the most affordable car in Ford's lineup and thus probably the most likely one to be given to teens.
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Funeral held for Los Angeles police victim Rodney King
King, 47, was found dead two weeks ago at the bottom of a swimming pool in his home in California. There was no sign of foul play, but the official cause of his death is still under investigation.King grabbed headlines after his beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera. The LA riots started on April 29, 1992 when an all-white Simi Valley jury acquitted four LA Police Department (LAPD) officers of wrongdoing in King's beating. Over the course of six days, the unrest spread quickly throughout the city and left at least 53 people dead, about 2,500 injured, and caused over one billion dollars of property damage. Following the bloody protests, two of the four police officers were sentenced to two years in prison. At the time of the riots, police brutality and bigotry was the order of the day for the LAPD, according to the representatives of the African-American community. At 26, King had been imprisoned for robbery. On March 3, 1991, when temporarily released on bail, he was arrested again for refusing to stop his car after overspeeding. The four police officers who arrested King, brutality kicked and beat him with electroshock and ordinary batons. Meanwhile, a bystander videotaped the incident from his apartment window. The video rapidly spread and was viewed across the US. PG/PKH/AZ


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SUN1 depletion also reduces NE-localized torA-WT. The (GFP)torA-WT normally present in the NE of NIH-3T3 cells is reduced by SUN1 siRNA treatment. Images show anti-GFP labeling of NIH-3T3 cells expressing (GFP)torA-WT (green) and transfected with control (left) or SUN1 siRNA duplexes (right). Anti-LaminA/C labeling (red) highlights the position of the NE and lower panels show the merge (yellow) of (GFP)torA-WT and NE-marker signals, with less yellow signal present in the cell lacking SUN1. Scale bars show 10 μm.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 • Fort Collins, CO • Course Map
Voted the state's number-one half marathon by Colorado Running Magazine readers, the Horsetooth Half Marathon is a point-to-point half that starts runners in the shadows of nearby Horsetooth State Park on a course that includes both paved surfaces and bike trails, with some steep hills and elevation changes.
The start of the race begins at 5,195 feet above sea level and takes runners by the second mile on a nearly 600-ft. elevation climb to "Monster Mountain," after which the race begins a long, slow descent towards the finish with two major exceptions — Dam Hill, between miles 4 and 5, and Bingham Hill, between miles 7 and 8.
The starting line is located at Colorado State University's Hughes Stadium on the western side of town, and from there runners travel northward past Horsetooth Reservoir toward the towns of Bellvue and Laporte, where participants a brief detour (about 200 yards) onto the Overland Trail and then make an eastward turn onto the Poudre River bike path, which they take toward Fort Collins.
From there, the course follows the bike path into town to College Avenue and to Linden Street, where the finish line lies at the New Belgium Brewery.
(Note: Due to construction along the race route, for this year's event the course has been modified slightly, and will start just over half a mile from Hughes Stadium. Please see the official race website here for more details.)
Race Weather & Climate
Located along the front range of the Rocky Mountains in northern Colorado, about 65 miles north of Denver and roughly 45 miles south of Cheyenne, Wyo., Fort Collins typically sees cold to mild weather in April, a month that has brought record temperatures here as low as 10 degrees below zero (in 1945) and as high as 89 degrees (in 1992).
On race day (April 19), the average low is 35ºF and the average high is 62ºF.
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Designed in 1986 by renowned golf architect Dan Maples, Willbrook Plantation offers golfers of all skill levels the opportunity to enjoy the natural beauty of a golf course born out of a historic rice plantation. The championship golf course meanders through scenic marsh land as well as offering guests a historic overview of the plantation era long past.
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Steps from the 69th St./Roosevelt Ave. subway entrance and across from a huge evangelical church, this gay club caters to a mostly Latin clientele encompassing young guayabera- and Western-shirt-clad men, middle-aged gringos on the prowl, settled-down couples eager to salsa, and immaculately groomed twentysomethings resembling misplaced East Villagers. Surrounded by mirrored walls, the dance floor takes pride of place under the elevated D.J. booth in back; salsa, merengue, and cumbia segue into raucous reggaeton, dance-hall reggae, and hip-hop as the night wears on (and the shirts come off). Those who aren't moved to dance can perch at a neon-lit bar under a cabana hutch then watch the spinning lights and smoke machines at a distance. Weekly late-night drag shows make Lucho's a destination spot, especially for Mirkala Crystal's biweekly Star Search on Sundays.
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Stuart Dredge of The Guardian writes, "Google has launched its Google Now service for iOS devices, as an update to its existing Google Search app. Accessed by swiping upwards from the bottom of the app's homescreen, Google Now learns about its user through their activities and their history in various Google services. It then serves up weather forecasts, traffic reports, boarding passes, sports scores and other information when they may be relevant. On iOS, it's the sole new feature in version 3.0.0 of the Google Search app. Available for Android devices since the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software was released in 2012, Google Now's iOS incarnation has been subject to speculation this year."
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Eve Samples: Allen West can't back up claim that up to 81 Democrats in Congress 'are members of the Communist Party'
JENSEN BEACH — For a while on Tuesday night, U.S. Rep. Allen West was making sense.
He told about 100 people at a town-hall style campaign event that he supports three parts of the federal health care overhaul (coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, allowing children on parents' policies through age 26 and closing the Medicare doughnut hole).
Responding to a question about the Stand Your Ground law, the Republican from Plantation said it was the purview of the state — but noted that 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's shooter should be in custody while the case is investigated.
"He should not be out walking around with a concealed weapons license," he said of George Zimmerman.
Then, about an hour in, West dropped a bomb.
When an audience member asked him how many members of Congress were "card-carrying Marxists," West didn't dismiss the query. He praised it as "a good question."
His answer:
"I believe that there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party that are members of the Communist Party."
There was no irony in his tone.
The crowd murmured. People looked to their neighbors to make sure they'd heard him right.
This response didn't trigger the boisterous applause West had drawn earlier from the audience at the Jensen Beach Community Center.
We waited for him to cite his source. Instead, West went on to the next question.
After the meeting, West was asked which members he was referring to. He didn't want to name any names, but he mentioned the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
How did he know those members had links to communists?
"That's what I heard," he said, admitting that he had not researched the issue.
That didn't stop him from presenting it as fact.
So is there any truth to West's claim? I called the office of Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, who is vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus to find out.
"Is Rep. Pingree a communist?" I asked her spokesman, Willy Ritch.
"Chellie Pingree is a Democrat. She's a farmer. She's a Lutheran — but she is not now and never has been a member of the Communist Party," Ritch said.
"Did I just get transported back to 1952?" he asked me.
What about her fellow caucus members?
"She knows of no members of the Communist Party in Congress," Ritch said.
He pointed me to the independent fact-checking website, ThatsMyCongress.com that in 2010 debunked the claim that 70 members of the caucus were in the American Socialist Party. West's claims appear to be the latest incarnation of that rumor.
West's rivals in the newly drawn District 18 were just as perplexed as Ritch.
"No disrespect to Mr. West, but that sounds on its face like a pretty bizarre thing to say," said Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder, who is challenging West in the Republican primary. "If there's any truth to it, that certainly needs to be looked at.
"And if not, I'm very puzzled," Crowder said.
Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy said it sounded a lot like McCarthyism. He called for West to be censured in Congress.
"For him to continue to say things like this when there are so many serious problems in our country ... There's never going to be a point where he can go and negotiate with these individuals and get something done and solve the problems," said Murphy, who recently moved from Fort Lauderdale to Jupiter to challenge West.
Another Democratic challenger, Jerry Buechler of Port St. Lucie, said Americans need congressional representatives who will work together instead of dividing each other.
"He doesn't know the area, or the people here on the Treasure Coast. Does he think us fools?" said Jim Horn, a Democrat from Palm City also running in the new District 18. "I don't believe that he has any answers, he just likes to make a lot of noise."
West's office was in damage-control mode Wednesday.
"The Communist Party has publicly referred to the Progressive Caucus as its allies," spokeswoman Angela Melvin said in a statement. "The Progressive Caucus speaks for itself. These individuals certainly aren't proponents of free markets or individual economic freedom."
She didn't cite any sources.
Why would West's office start now?
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Byline: By Joanna Peart
As screen legends Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot prepare to celebrate their 70th birthdays this month, Joanna Peart takes a look back over their glittering film careers.
Born within a few days of each other in September 1934, it's hard to believe that Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot have now reached three score years and ten.
But the parallels that exist between them are even more extraordinary.
Both began their public careers at very young ages under the guidance of their mothers, with Loren appearing in a beauty pageant at 14 and Bardot modelling at 15.
They spent almost their entire careers making movies in Europe (Bardot is French and Loren is Italian), rather than falling under the spell of Hollywood.
Initially viewed primarily from a sexual point of view, both women were compared to Marilyn Monroe ( the reigning Hollywood sex goddess of the time.
Another striking similarity is that they each had scandalising relationships with directors ( Bardot with Roger Vadim and Loren with Carlo Ponti ( with whom they met and fell in love as teenagers.
The younger of the two, Bardot was born on September 28, 1934, to a wealthy Parisian family.
By 1950 her image had already graced the cover of Elle magazine, where she was spotted by director Marc Allegret, who had earlier discovered the young Simone Simon.
After marrying Allegret's assistant, Roger Vadim, Bardot made her film debut in Jean Boyer's comedy Le Trou Normand, in 1952.
A series of bit roles followed before she appeared in her first American film, Act of Love, in 1953.
Like Sophia Loren, Bardot primarily appeared in movies made in the country of her birth. Only three other English language films followed her role in Act of Love. These were Doctor at Sea (1955), Helen of Troy (1956), and Dear Brigitte (1955), in which she played a cameo role as herself.
By 1957, she had become France's top sex symbol, and an international star. Her 1956 And God Created Woman, even started a trend for skimpy bikinis. Sadly her marriage to Vadim did not last, but their respective careers remained inter-twined for years to come.
Bardot's popularity with American audiences was unprecedented for a non-English speaking actress. The archetypal sex kitten, she was the first foreign language star ever to attain a level of international success comparable to that of America's most popular home-grown talents.
Her motion pictures proved a major breakthrough in establishing a market for foreign films in English-speaking countries, with Bardot's sultry allure being a crucial factor behind her success.
After a brief second marriage to actor Jacques Charrier in 1960, she even released a pop music album, Inside Brigitte Bardot. Several other LPs, including 1963's Brigitte Bardot Sings and 1968's Special Bardot, followed, and she scored a number of hit singles with the infamous singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.
Just before she turned 40, Bardot retired from movies. Previously, she had been coerced out of retirement to star in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris.
While recognised today as a classic, the film at the time of its release was subject to mixed reviews, with considerable editing required for release outside France.
As a result, it was a commercial disaster, and Bardot's standing as Europe's most popular actress was usurped by Sophia Loren.
Loren, born just eight days before Bardot, rose from a sea of troubles to become one of cinema's great sex symbols.
Her mother, Romilda Villani, was a poverty-stricken woman whose lover refused to marry her, although he later allowed Sophia and her younger sister Maria to use his last name ( Scicolone. …