The Ticking Time-Out: psychoticragemonkey

[Ivolt]

I should increase my knowledge of Shakespeare. I've only the bog standard amount that everyone who ever graduated from High School ever obtains (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet)

[Slacker Magician]

I should increase my knowledge of Shakespeare. I've only the bog standard amount that everyone who ever graduated from High School ever obtains (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet)

[Slacker Magician]

Slamming my head into a wall would be more enjoyable than reading Shakespeare again.

[Jase]

The money has absolutely no use in game.

But i has to help momma out with the loan sharks.
its okay, maybe i just gravitate to this game because its pulling on my wog heart strings.

[Mistral]

I should increase my knowledge of Shakespeare. I've only the bog standard amount that everyone who ever graduated from High School ever obtains (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet)

Yeah, sorry. There's a reason those are bog standard; they're effectively the simplest ones for a teenager to wrap their head around. Hamlet is basically archetypal revenge drama (and, to be fair, it's archetypal in large part because it's considered one of the best, which makes it oft-imitated), and R&J pretty much straightforward teen romance melodrama. The Taming of the Shrew is all "woo misogyny," The Merchant of Venice all "woo anti-Semitism," the "problem plays" tend to be structurally problematic as far as defining a strict genre between comedy or tragedy (hence the name; it generally refers to the plays written as he transitioned from romcoms to drama), his historical plays are long and tend to overlap/conflict with history coursework, a Midsummer Night's Dream has multiple interweaved plots, and a lot of his plays in general tend to have...awkward conversation material for more prudish school districts (as our joking about "country matters" implies, but it's really all much ado about not'ing). It's easier for the teacher's blood pressure when they can just gloss over euphemisms that English has passed on since the Elizabethan era, like such as the "nunneries" (brothels) of Hamlet, or Juliet wishing to behold Romeo's death (the little death, to be precise).

Of course, since they're plays, they're all better performed than read. All in all, high school standard presentation of Shakespeare is all but engineered to suck all of the fun out of it, especially if you got the sort of English teacher who loved ramming their particular interpretation for creative analysis down the class's collective throat.

[Slacker Magician]

Sleep.

[Dr Mario]

Indeed. People tend to forget that Shakespeare was essentially lowest common denominator material of the Elizabethan era, more akin to modern TV comedy-dramas than to anything associated with theatre nowadays.

Which means its about as rude, crude and vulgar as anything you'd see on the box. If you know how the language has changed.

[Yip Yip]

Which means its about as rude, crude and vulgar as anything you'd see on the box. If you know how the language has changed.

Shakespeare was a master of insults of which I am quite fond.

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/qu...reinsults.html

[Kouen Hasuki]

Morning peoples

[Jase]

OH MAN, The bit in Mafia II, where he goes to jail, FUCK ME, VERY well done.

[Nemkoon]

I just had dinner.
At 2:30 AM.
Lack of sleep is expected.

[Kouen Hasuki]

OH MAN, The bit in Mafia II, where he goes to jail, FUCK ME, VERY well done.

Never actually played that, worth looking into?

[Jase]

Never actually played that, worth looking into?

I enjoy it, and i hate most games.

[Kouen Hasuki]

I enjoy it, and i hate most games.

Thats a good sign Im not normally one for Crime em ups but I do normally give em a shot.

Ill prolly have a look around see if i can find a demo or something before looking into splashing some cash on it. I Dont even know what I plan to play next still. im like a stick in the mud after finishing Fear 3 and Dungeon Siege 3

[Kouen Hasuki]

Sweet, steam has a demo ill have a look at it Jase, cheers