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Forum Games / Re: Mario Word Association

« on: May 25, 2006, 08:26:59 PM »

ducky

(I just noticed that the number of posts in this topic is greater than the number of views, no doubt due to the board changes.)

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Mario Chat / Re: is mario offensive?

« on: May 25, 2006, 08:20:44 PM »

Yeah, actually that sounds about right. Stereotype parody.


Mario decidedly was born in the Mushroom Kingdom. If you disagree, then you are rejecting Yoshi's Island, one of the most prominent Mario games, as not canon.

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Mario Chat / Re: Do you like the new SMB?

« on: May 25, 2006, 08:14:00 PM »

yeah, I have a friend who is in world nine (sorry for the spoiler) but he didn't do very much. I am trying for 100% and I am only in the middle of world 5, and the only one I have 100% is world 1.

Wait a minute... what?! What's world 9?!

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Video Game Chat / Re: Who cares about game ratings?

« on: May 25, 2006, 08:11:18 PM »

My views are as follows:

Games that are violent to a reasonable degree like the Lord of the Rings games are okay.

Games that are excessively and gratuitously violent, showing blood and gore mostly just for the sake of showing blood and gore, are BAD. Maybe not quite the "spawn of Satan", but not all that far off from it in my view. The same goes for movies.

Games with sexual content in them = always bad (as far as I know).


Disagree with me if you will, but that's how I'm going to continue to think.


Oh, and Lizard Dude: I don't think SushieBoy really meant "bland fun". I suspect his choice of words was just a little off.

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Site Discussion / Re: TMK Grand Event

« on: May 23, 2006, 08:45:54 AM »

I've met people in real life that I previously only knew online before, but the message boards I knew them on at first were on the website of a friend of mine. So that's somewhat different.

There's no way I'll ever end up meeting anyone off this site, but then again nobody would really want to, probably.

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General Chat / Re: fans of other things

« on: May 23, 2006, 08:41:48 AM »

Ninjas: Because they can beat zombies and pirates.

Pirates > Ninjas

*remembers the "argument" about this on KRR*

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Site Discussion / Re: Which Moderator are you a fan of?

« on: May 23, 2006, 08:37:43 AM »

I'm still not sure why TEM posted that picture up there, but since he seems to have put it up to provoke me (it was after my post), I don't think it's funny at all. >:(

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Mario Chat / Re: Favorite Mario Realm

« on: May 23, 2006, 08:35:40 AM »

If I recall correctly, the kings' kingdoms from SMB3 are in the Mushroom World.

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Mario Chat / Re: could this happen?

« on: May 23, 2006, 08:34:30 AM »

Ahem, cutsey charachters aren't like that forever.*cough*Conker*cough*

I tried to reply to this last night, but the stupid Internet time limit on this computer forced me to get off.

Conker didn't have an established past before they made BFD. The idea of taking someone like Mario, who already is a very well-known family-friendly character, and putting him in a "mature" game would instantly be rejected by everyone with a brain. With Conker, it wasn't so absurd, since he was only an obscure character who appeared in like two games before BFD.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Female game portayals

« on: May 22, 2006, 08:58:38 PM »

It's not even certain that the Amazons actually existed. I certainly have my doubts.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Who cares about game ratings?

« on: May 22, 2006, 08:54:11 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_books

[offtopic]

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was banned in China in 1931 because the animals used the human language."

What is this retardedness? XD

"Black Beauty by Anna Sewell was banned in South Africa due to the use of the word 'black' in the title."

I almost laughed at this one. I suppose anything called "black" should be banned now. ::)

Anybody who calls me a racist (unlikely, but you never know) shall die.

[/offtopic]

Sry.

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Mario Chat / Re: could this happen?

« on: May 22, 2006, 08:44:28 PM »

No, it will never happen with Mario. Think about it for just a few moments. A series about a cartoonish, jolly Italian plumber fighting a bunch of giant turtles, becoming "mature"? No way in the universe.

I think it was better when Sonic was more kid-friendly, but Shadow the Hedgehog is still good IMO, and it was honestly not that kid-unfriendly. (Sure, there is that one word appearing all the time in there, and I don't like that particular aspect at all, but I like other stuff about the game, and apparently my mom, who's strict about what games I get, doesn't have too much of a problem with this game, so I figure there's not much to worry about.) The game is nothing at all like M-rated games. If it were, I would want nothing to do with it.

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Mario Chat / Re: is mario offensive?

« on: May 22, 2006, 08:39:09 PM »

I cannot even believe that this topic was made. The idea of Mario being offensive because he's a cartoonish Italian stereotype is so outside the realm of reason that I can't imagine anyone on earth could really think that.

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Mario Chat / Re: could this happen?

« on: May 22, 2006, 08:35:25 PM »

Shadow the hedgehog made me want to puke.

AHEM. There we go again with the inflammatory comments.

Now that There has been a sonic shooting game, what will be next, Mario Gear Solid? Or how about Mariohunt? or Grand theft Mario?

This argument doesn't make sense due to the fact that the Sonic series, with its "cool" sort of air about it, is and always has been more suitable for changes to please the older gamer crowd (regardless of whether such changes are really a good thing or not) than the Mario series, which by its very nature must remain more or less family-friendly.


The Chef's post below the one quoted is more reasonable, citing some causes for dissatisfaction with certain aspects of the game (though it still contains words like "crappy").

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General Chat / Re: Funny/Interesting Messenger Conversations

« on: May 22, 2006, 08:22:24 PM »

No, of course it isn't spam.