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Forum Games / Re: Your Desert Island List

« on: March 13, 2012, 03:05:15 AM »

Games:
Fallout (either 2, 3 or New Vegas. Not sure)
Half-Life 3 (derp)
Super Mario 64
Grand Theft Auto IV
DOOM

Books:
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Lord of the Rings series - J.R.R. Tolkien
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
The Inheritors - William Golding
The Art of Fiction - David Lodge (non-fiction, but heck, I want to have something to do)

Albums:
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
Nevermind - Nirvana
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
California - Mr. Bungle (would be perfect for a deserted island!)

Movies:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Dark Knight
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Wolf Creek
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Video Game Chat / Re: Capcom Crossover Character Content Controversy

« on: March 05, 2012, 06:16:22 AM »

Some DLC can be good. I like the old-fashioned idea of Expansion Packs for games like Quake or Half-Life, where it expands on the story, adds weapons, gives interesting new weapons or some sort of interesting gameplay experience. But these should be things to keep customers interested in the game after the release date, not just a way to make money. Sure, dressing Professor X up in a frilly french maid outfit might seem like a fun idea, but does it really warrant a paid release, much less one that's available from the very start? I think it's the fact that it's on disc that ensures it really is a total cash-grab, rather than legitimately wanting to enhance the gamer's experience. (And making money too, but that's another story).

Take Binding of Isaac for example. A brilliantly executed dungeon crawler (weird as hell, might I just add) indie game available on Steam, it has a buttload of items and randomly generated levels, along with fantastic updates, that will keep the user entertained for many hours. They've recently announced some paid DLC which promises to add 50% more content, including a new class of item, a new playable character, new enemies, a new final boss, and, most of all, some sense of finality to the story outlined in the original game. This is the sort of DLC that should be encouraged; something that really adds to the gamer's experience, and something that actually drives the game forward rather than acts as a vessel for making money.

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Forum Games / Re: What's on your Paste?

« on: February 10, 2012, 04:43:28 AM »

CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK

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General Chat / Re: The ANGST thread: Complain here!

« on: February 09, 2012, 06:43:35 PM »

It'll be a lot harder to move on if you keep thinking that. Trust me, I'm pretty much the same way, and 99% of the time it's your own head that'll stop you from moving forward. If you get rejected, fine. Go out and hang out with new people, take up a hobby, whatever. Just do something to keep yourself occupied, and happy, and eventually you'll find yourself over her.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Things in need of Pokéfication

« on: February 06, 2012, 04:59:02 AM »

Going in kind of a different direction, I'd love to see Poison become a more useful type.  Some of my favorite Pokemon designs I'll never use (especially Trubbish/Garbodor, but also Muk/Grimer and Koffing/Weezing), because Poison is such a worthless type.  It's POISON, why wouldn't it be good against grass?  Or most living things? 

I can't speak for how the game is currently, but Weezing always was very good as a defensive 'Mon. Competitively speaking though.

I'd love to see some Pokemon based off some of the creatures in the southern hemisphere. Australia and New Zealand especially. There are some freaky animals in this neck of the woods, there's no reason why they can't be adapted. I'd use the heck out of a dropbear Pokemon.

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Mario Chat / Re: So...Uh...Baby Waluigi?

« on: February 06, 2012, 12:23:19 AM »

Luigi is Wawaluigi.

Waluigi's name is a portmaneau of warui (meaning evil) and Luigi, making his name literally "evil Luigi" or "eviluigi". Wawaluigi then can't be Luigi, since he's not the evil evil Luigi. Or something.

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General Chat / Re: Winter 2011 ADVANCED Poster Awards!

« on: February 04, 2012, 05:57:47 AM »

Poster of the Year runner-up
BP

Post of the Year
I refuse to vote in this category on personal grounds.

Image of the Year
Identifying Wood

Most Amiable runner-up
Luigison

Funniest
Toad

Best Newbie
Qwerty

Most Missed
Kuromatsu

Most Improved


Best Name
Tim Buckley

Best Sig
"Luigison: Question everything
Me: Why?"
(PaperLuigi)

Most Mario-Wise Poster
The Chef

Princess of Posters (Queen of Posters runner-up)
Lizard Dude

The Glorb Award
TEM

THE DEEZER AWARD
Deezer

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General Chat / Re: Weather/Climate Topic

« on: February 01, 2012, 05:29:06 AM »

Temperature's hovering around a pleasant 27-28°C at the moment, before heating up to the mid-30s on the weekend, then cooling down again for next week. Beats having a heat wave like we normally do in February.

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Forum Games / Re: Ask a stupid Qusestion get a stupid answer

« on: January 30, 2012, 09:21:09 PM »

Only when I've been marsh.

What is you?

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General Chat / Re: Winter 2011 ADVANCED Poster Awards!

« on: January 17, 2012, 06:53:49 PM »

Most of my rl friends have become bronies too.

I don't have as many friends anymore.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Official Zelda timeline revealed?

« on: December 22, 2011, 09:04:52 PM »

Where do the CD-i games fit in?

The alternate timeline where Link has an acid trip.

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Latest News / Re: 3DS Ambassador GBA games now available for download

« on: December 21, 2011, 08:40:11 PM »

I never understood that anyway. Even emulators support multiplayer on a non-native platform. Why is it that Nintendo have never thought to have some sort of module in the software that redirects Link Cable requests onto local Wi-Fi? It's fair enough that the DS didn't have it (hardware emulation and all), but, really, the 3DS is software emulated anyway, it probably wouldn't be that hard to fit in and it would definitely boost sales for Gameboy games. It's not as if they're making a profit on legacy systems anyway.

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Forum Games / Re: The Funny GIF thread

« on: December 18, 2011, 02:58:05 AM »

Best you can do is click and drag the GIF into the Google Images search box.

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General Chat / Re: Things you like about yourself

« on: November 30, 2011, 03:11:14 AM »

I think we can all be thankful we're not Tim Buckley.

...[darn] it.

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Forum Games / Re: Paraprosdokian

« on: November 24, 2011, 05:17:17 PM »

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Most rhymes rhyme,
But this one doesn't.