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jayson87:
Food is ready... I once ate shark in a Chinese delicacy sometime

u sabi lie

EwuOjota:
Greedy boy.

This big meat to himself?why won't he be crying tears of joy.

Ewu!

Rukitop:
Please anyone that has video games (any)they are not using again should please dash me. Thanks in advance

do u want to use it and sell crayfish?

Amarabae:
Sugar in jollof rice?
Nope.
I am a prof in cooking.

prof indeed, can i see ur credentials?

Merimental:
700k? dat ride has a v8 engine n too rugged 4 gentlemen...i tink its same one used in 60 secs by Cage..

the car in gone in 60 seconds was a Shelby Mustang GT500.

Vasaratti16:
https://www.gameskinny.com/0nwmx/we-need-more-black-protagonists-in-gaming

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Once upon a time in 2005, I saw my brother playing a game he called Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas . I shouldn't have been watching this game since I was only eight and there were massive amounts of violence and profanity. But there was something that really resonated with me at that time: my brother was playing as someone that was black.



This was surprising since in most games I would play, it was either an animal-like character or a white person that I controlled. The only games that I can remember playing from that time that had black playable characters were Beyond Good and Evil and the WWE games. But I felt like Carl Johnson, the main character in GTA: San Andreas, resonated with me because he looked like me.

Using the movie as a reference, the Hollywood movie industry has been shy of black protagonist for decades until the advent of the ground breaking Black Panther. In case you're having trouble keeping up Black Panther is currently the fourth top grossing movie of all time that just how profitable the potrayal of the black culture in movies could get.

https://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2018/02/e6681ed068da24d0-600x400.jpg

But why can't we get same in video games?




Modern gaming is certainly guilty of playing things too safe. For every Lucio, CJ, Lee Everett or an RPG where you have free reign over skin colour and gender, there are endless white protagonists.
There’s nothing WRONG with this, but try and list any well-known black protagonists, or female black protagonists. We’re in desperate need of projects that not only exude interest and engagement through everything I’ve mentioned, but to create games that wear these qualities on their sleeve, empowering, educating and progressing society in tow.


I remember the first time I played Mass Effect when I was 14, and I looked up to the character David Anderson. He was just this father figure and sort of a mentor to Commander Shepard, and he went against all the stereotypes of a black male in gaming at the time. I feel like he was a great representation of what a black male can be without verging into stereotype territory.

And let me not forget to say he was so damn cool.

https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/3/30036/1255725-anderson_01_o.jpg



I didn't get into the Final Fantasy series until just a few years ago, but I will always remember Final Fantasy VII because of how turned off I was from the game due to Barrett Wallace. He was loud, as the speech text would make him seem. He would curse at people like Cloud when he was mad, and he was also big and muscular. This seriously disappointed me, because it is not uncommon to find black stereotypical characters in Japanese media.


Understanding what makes these things offensive and not playing into stereotypes of black people is something Japanese developers and anime writers need to learn before feeding into it.


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Developers also have a problem with making black people the main antagonist or an "evil character" in games. One of the biggest offenders in this regard is Resident Evil 5. Since this game takes place in Africa, you are expecting to see a lot of black people. The problem is, you are playing as Chris Redfield , a white man , in the game who is killing a multitude of black people throughout.


This led to controversy and backlash when the game was first shown to the public. I remember being on the playground in school back when I was in Jss3 talking about this to friends, because I was such a big Resident Evil fan and this came as a huge shock.


The same can even be said for Resident Evil 4, which has you killing a bunch of Spanish people as a gruff, white man.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/58/Resident_Evil_5_Box_Artwork.jpg/220px-Resident_Evil_5_Box_Artwork.jpg




We need developers to start adding more black, playable characters in gaming, be they black males or females. We need more characters like Lincoln Clay and Marcus Holloway because there aren't many, and that is a shame.

seems like u haven't played
assassins creed liberation and assassins creed blackflag (freedom cry) both has Aveline and Adéwalé as black protagonists.

Petfriend:
This dog can't be less that 18months old

brother e done do na

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I'll flog u o
I'll call njiii for u

where's grandtheft VI? any news?

one look at this reminds me of the electric cooker we had back in the dormitory

pls check my signature

Blessinq1:
I hear shouts
Wetin happen

me too , logged in thinkin say we score another

dog business is a win win venture coupled with some challenges that can make u wanna give up but if u wish to go into this business, their re key things to consider before u venture into it.
the number one rule is;
-u must have an affinity love for dogs irrespective of the breed.

-u must ve a steady source of income(don't depend on savings alone) to enable u to maintain and care for them.

-don't go into it with the mindset of making money otherwise u will get frustrated.

-start with high quality stock(pure breeds) people love what they see.

-start with breeds that's on demand, make researches around ur area, find out what particular dog breeds people really fancy.eg seek for top quality or a pedigree German shepherd, Rottweiler if ur pocket says its ok.

-affordability is another key in this business ; not because u bought ur dog 1million should give u the reason to sell the pups 1million. mind u that u ve competition in this arena, if u sell ur pups in an exorbitant manner customers will run from u.

with that being said, hope u make ur choice wisely.

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abeg m not going anywhere till all Nairalanders contribute money and buy this for me.

if na 10 naira each person contribute twill go a long way

my question goes this way;is their any provision for most of these SSDs to fit right into or to be compatible with my 2014 lenovo g40?

honestly this late police officer has a striking resemblance with this our meme man?

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EmmGee:
are we witches?
why can't you put the price.


some of you don't know how to look for money. mtsw

well, we re in the jungle, his idea is to separate u from the crowd then kill u with the price

Rany4all:
If you've been a dog owner for a while now I bet you must have witnessed some weird things from your pooches. Dogs do a lot of weird stuff that may freak out their humans, especially newbie owners.

I have witnessed Spike growl and bark in his sleep when he was much younger. Seeing this happen totally convinced me that dogs can also dream while sleeping.

I have also seen my young pups hump each other, I mean like Spike humping Simba (male humping male) or both Chelseas humping Spike (female humping male). Czar has also once attempted to hump my leg, but I stopped him immediately I realised what he was up to.

Another weird stuff I've seen was Czar eating his own poop or Bella's poop, sometimes even right out of her butt hole...gross right!

But of all the weird stuff our dogs get up to, the one that really takes the prize was Czar standing upright like a man, I mean on his 2 hind legs only, to wee and sometimes to poo...impossible right but not for my Czar!

See pictures of Czar @ 3 months below doing his award winning performance...

kai, this one na ogbanje. what if theirs no vertical surface to hold on to, does he stand on his own?

chikalann ko medusa ni

temitimx19:
You think game no dey pay . Gaming na for leisure, not a full time work. We have many gamers on NL, just that they hardly post anything on NL

i know bro, people hardly spend time on leisures these days and that's why game folks hardly update or create threads, they rather spend some few moments alone with their games than going further in writing articles nd beating themselves up talking games in gaming community all in the name of leisure. In developed nations where things are balanced; you see families engage in full-time gaming because they make a living out of it. u hardly see such in Nigeria, to me i think our culture nd upbringing made the gaming lifestyle what it is today. an average Nigerian pson would tag gaming a time waster which has nothing to offer them because to him its only through education that one can make a decent living.

Thegamingorca:
You must be a fool

like the bombaclat that gave birth to u?

game no dey pay i guess, its only those wey chop belle full dey play upandan. Folks re thinking money nowadays, anything wey u do now in naija wey no dey pay u na stupidity dey worry the pson.

why he look like all these yahoo boys