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Video Game Chat / Re: Best Brawl Music
« on: March 24, 2008, 11:50:15 AM »
Does anyone else think the opening of Tane no Uta sounds like the last few bars of Holy, Holy, Holy?

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Site Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday TMK!
« on: March 24, 2008, 10:57:33 AM »
I was 7 too. I'm having a hard time believing it's been a year already since the 10th anniversary, let alone 10 since the site started, or about 6 or 7 since I found it.

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General Chat / Re: Randumb Garfield
« on: March 11, 2008, 09:33:18 PM »
Can cats even digest chocolate? If not, that adds an interesting dimension.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Brawl's Ups and Downs
« on: March 11, 2008, 09:30:02 PM »
They took out the Earthbound demo. NOA officially hates Mother fans. But the rest of the game's pretty good. I'll describe it in more detail next week when I buy it.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Wii Remote Rechargeable Batteries
« on: March 11, 2008, 08:15:45 PM »
Still, it's a good idea to use the glove with the Nykos, or else the sweat from your hands will slowly corrode the exposed battery connectors on the back.

Also, I've had those for a while, and all of a sudden, they stopped working in all my remotes except one, and in that one, it turns off whenever I press the D-pad too hard. I've tested it with normal batteries, and the D-pad works fine. And the other remotes all work with normal batteries, too. Rechargeable AAs are probably the best way to go.

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General Chat / Re: (insert adjective here) stories
« on: March 11, 2008, 10:01:41 AM »
I played a little Brawl on a friend's Wii last night, and then came back to my room to engage in the following conversation with the same roommate as last time:

Roommate: So, how was Brawl?
Me: Good!
Roommate: No, like, how good?
Me: (in Cheerleader's voice) So good!
Roommate: Who says that?
Me: Cheerleader.
Roommate: Sweet, there are cheerleaders in Brawl?
Me: No, Teen Girl Squad.
Roommate: What's that from?
Me: Strong Bad.
Roommate: What's that from?
Me: Homestar.
Roommate: Homestar? ... Like... Homestar Runner?
Me: Yeah.
Roommate: Like homestarrunner.com?
Me: Yeah.
Roommate: You know, I've heard about that before. What is it, is it like a website?
Me: ... That is typically what the .com part references.
Roommate: Oh.

Incidentally, he's graduating from college at the end of this semester. Seriously, how do you go through college without ever seeing h*r? Maybe he actually does homework instead of watching cartoons all day

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Conspiracies
« on: March 08, 2008, 01:10:25 AM »
Mars isn't really red.

Guy on right: Rar! I'm a Soviet Martian polar bear!
Girl in middle: Hmph. I don't know why I associate with you.
Guy on left: Um... guys? It's lonely over here...

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General Chat / Re: Randumb Garfield
« on: March 07, 2008, 08:51:04 PM »

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Mario Chat / Re: Super Smash Bros. Character Suggestions
« on: March 07, 2008, 08:37:32 PM »

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General Chat / Re: fans of other things
« on: March 04, 2008, 12:08:16 PM »
Judge Judy
Zelda
Chris Sawyer games
Kneaded rubber erasers
House (the TV show)
Heroes (also the TV show)
Hats (the piece of clothing)
Old game shows (although old is a somewhat relative term, seeing as I count John Carpenter's million-dollar run in '99 as a "classic")
Photography
Nanowrimo
Showering
Sonic
Filmmaking
Dental hygiene
My mom's chocolate chip cookies

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Game Help / Re: Super Mario 64 on N64 need help!!!!
« on: March 03, 2008, 04:31:00 AM »
Everybody just believe what they want, already! We'll never be able to change eachother's minds and we'll all be dead someday, anyway.
That's assuming, of course, that death is the end. The reason that this issue is important is that if there is a god, or some group of gods, then at least one religion is probably right, and just about all of them say that something happens after you die -- usually something that requires some preparation during life in order to get a good result. It's not an issue that should be taken lightly, at least not until conclusive evidence can be found proving that there's not a god.

Everyone can believe what they want (though it would be better to base beliefs on evidence rather than what we want), but there's a difference between forcing people to believe things and merely discussing, or even debating them. For something as important as this, we ought to try to make as informed an opinion as we can.

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Game Help / Re: Super Mario 64 on N64 need help!!!!
« on: March 02, 2008, 01:42:36 PM »
God did not create Himself, because He was never created. He has no beginning, because for there to be a time when He didn't exist, there must be a timeflow for Him. Since He created time, however, He cannot be bound by time.

(Note: a decent grasp of geometry will help greatly with the rest of this post.)

Think about it this way: if space and time are the same thing scientifically, and God is omnipresent (in all places at the same time), then He is also, in limited human language, in all times at the same time.

Imagine, for a moment, that our world is only a two-dimensional plane, and that time is the third dimension.

this is time.
  |
 \/

  ^
  | - moar future
  |
  | - 2020
  |
  |  - lol2012
  |
_|_ <- this is us
  |
  | - 1999 (Pepsi girl commercials)
  |
  | - 1996 (Fresh Prince gets cancelled)
  |
  | - 1989 (I'm born)
  \/

The plane that represents our world is constantly moving through time, but only taking up a single point in time at a... time. If we were 3D, however, we could take up multiple points along the time axis, just as we can take up multiple points in height and width. That, compressed into graspable terms, is God. God extends infinitely across all axes. Asking who created God is exactly the same as asking where a line ends.

<-------------->

When we draw it with those arrows and say that it "goes on forever," it really doesn't do justice to the infinity of the line. Those are just analogies based on the way we draw and on the properties of limited line segments. In reality, that line doesn't just "go on forever," because there's no "going" involved -- it already exists at every point on that axis. It doesn't have a starting point because that's just not the way it works.

Similarly, saying that God is "eternal" or "never-ending" doesn't do full justice to His nature, and are just analogies based on mortal lifespans. God isn't never-ending simply because He lives a really long time, He is never-ending because beginnings and endings are simply non-sequitors when it comes to Him.

I know this is probably hard to grasp, but think of how difficult it would for a line segment to understand a sphere. Because the line segment can only see what's on the plane, he can only see the infinitely thin portion of the sphere that intersects with the plane at any one time - namely, different sized circles or a single point. However, even though all the line segment can see and fathom is two-dimensional shapes, the sphere is still three dimensions.

In a similar way, God may make Himself known to us by intersecting with our plane at various points in time, but that doesn't mean He is bound by time the way we are, restricted to a single point in time.

(BTW, thanks for the reciprocal compliment.)

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Game Help / Re: Super Mario 64 on N64 need help!!!!
« on: March 02, 2008, 06:42:32 AM »
*gives PL a cookie*

That was one of the most clear and concise explanations of the first cause argument I've seen, at least on the internet. One thing I'd add, though, is that if God created time, then it's meaningless to ask how He was created, because if He's outside of time, He has no past, so it's impossible to conceive of a "time" when He didn't exist. Your analogy to rules in a video game actually covered that and more, but it's still a useful detail to point out.

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Site Discussion / Re: How Did You Discover TMK?
« on: March 01, 2008, 12:39:41 PM »
It was mid-late 2001, and we had just gotten dial-up in our house. Lousy ISP, Surferz; pretty much impossible to load anything after 6 PM because the servers were overloaded. Still, I would procrastinate from doing schoolwork by AltaVista-ing (I'm not sure I'd even heard of Google at the time) Mario stuff all day. There were, of course, plenty of Angelfire sites that played Culex's battle theme as soon as you opened the page, but a few sites stood out from the rest. TMK was one of them, along with SMBHQ, NintendoLand, and World-of-Nintendo.com; and TMK quickly revealed itself to be the best Mario site out there. SMBHQ was close, especially back when NC was updating (I remember seeing most of the Bill & Fred series when they first came out), but nothing could top TMK. Especially once NintendoLand stopped updating and World-of-Nintendo.com shut down.

Now I'm going into nostalgia mode... I remember JJ answering mailbags, and then the guy that wrote a poem that compared JJ to "a pregnant woman who forgot to take her Midol"; I remember SMBHQ's hiatus; I remember back when Luigi in SM64 seemed somewhat feasible...



I remember following the name changes from Mario Story to Paper Mario Story (and Deezer pointing out the acronym, even though I didn't know what PMS was at the time) to just Paper Mario; I remember when the Dolphin was called the StarCube; I remember seeing pictures of the 100 Marios demo; I remember the sheer awe at the first screenshots of Melee; I remember when I first saw screenshots of Luigi's Mansion, I said "How are they doing these graphics? It can't be polygons, they're too smooth!"

For some reason, though, I didn't join the Fungi Forums until 2006. Although I think I may have joined before that, but then forgot both my password and the email address that I signed up with before even making any posts, and didn't get around to making another account for a while. Shame, too, because I can't fully appreciate this.

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Mario Chat / Re: New Yoshi Game
« on: February 28, 2008, 03:26:56 PM »
Have you ever seen a pink dragon that spits out lemonade and hovers by rapidly flailing its legs?

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