Quote from: Zonda on February 07, 2017, 02:30:52 PM

What did Ender do?

TL;DR version: Posted a bunch of spam text that was so large it broke the layout of the threads.

oh really what's the long version

You don't get it. The same posts were on other boards.

do you think psy is blind

repooted.

way to go, slugger

Quote from: Verbatim on February 07, 2017, 01:39:55 PM

Quote from: Dietrich Six on February 07, 2017, 01:38:07 PM

The first two were awful and I didn't finish any of the GBA games.

Zelda II was the Dark Souls of the NES.

The game wasn't bad--you're bad.

It was shit and you and I both know it.

I'm dead serious, it's actually pretty great.

I can see why you wouldn't like the first one, even though that one isn't that bad either.

I've never even made it to the temple itself. I get the lens of truth and follow the goron ghost then just give up.

Uh-huh, it's a slog. The temple is actually where it picks back up, in my opinion--but there's a lot of mixed opinions of that section overall.

The main appeal of the game is, as Vien said, the sidequesting. You get to know all the people in the town very well over the course of the three day cycle, and the constant brooding atmosphere is remarkable. I'd say give it another shot when you're able--but I dunno how many times you've tried it already.

thanks for the reply

TV remote - a convenient device that allows us to expedite an otherwise tedious process, or a symbol of sloth and lethargy that only exists to keep us from getting off our own asses and changing the settings ourselves

modern TVs don't even function without a remote--does that say anything about us

and maybe if we didn't rely on cars so much, we'd actually have an excuse to skip leg day--or are cars just that convenient

where is the line drawn

I've actually been trying to play all the Zeldas I haven't played/beaten yet. Progress:

Played	Beaten	Game
☑	☑	The Legend of Zelda
☑	☑	Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
☑	☑	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
☑	☑	The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
☑	☐	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
☑	☑	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
☑	☐	The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
☑	☑	The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
☐	☐	The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
☑	☑	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
☑	☐	The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
☑	☐	The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
☑	☐	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
☑	☑	The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
☑	☐	The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
☑	☐	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
☑	☐	The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
☐	☐	The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes

I've also never played any spin-offs or anything outside the core series, incuding Link's Crossbow Training, Hyrule Warriors, or any of Tingle's games. I've also never played any of the CD-i games, despite owning a CD-i. I really want to try them out some day, but they're very rare and expensive, last I checked.

I'll probably never get to play Four Swords, because it's MP only and I'm not about to go around asking people if they want to play through an entire Zelda game with me--and even if I found someone like that, they'd probably be an unpleasant weirdo (because that's just my luck).

Wikipedia tells me that a special single-player edition of the game was actually released free for a limited time over the past few years, and every time, it slid under my radar. I'll be on the lookout from now on, because that's my only chance at playing this game.

As for Tri Force Heroes, I really don't even want to play it. I'm kinda sad that it even exists, to be honest. I'll probably pick it up if I see it for $10 or less.

Quote from: Gatortag on February 06, 2017, 07:46:35 PM

I know it's the typical answer, but for me, it really is my favorite. OoT. No game has ever made me feel the way OoT has. In fact, I wouldn't even put any games in a list with it that have come out in the past 10 years or so. No game has come close to it, or other games near its time. I know a lot of people don't like The Witcher 3. But now that I think about it, I would put that up there with OoT. TW3 was the best game I have played in years.

do u ever shut up about the witcher 3

ikr

like flee with quake

I've purposely avoided all trailers except the reveal and namedrop trailers for BOTW so my excitement level is about 10%. Being careful not to get overhyped.

Normally, I'm the same way, but this time, I've actually taken to absorbing as much information about the game as possible. Skyward Sword was painfully disappointing, and it's been sixteen years since I've experienced genuine amazement with a game, so I'm just super thirsty.

Needless to say, Wind Waker is my favorite too. I've talked about this a lot, but it's one of only three games I've ever felt deserved a perfect 10/10. It just rocks my socks.

I actually just finished Oracle of Ages today, which inspired me to make the thread in the first place. Excellent game--I'd place it in my top 5 Zeldas for sure. That being, WW > MM > LttP > Zelda 2 > OoA. I'll play Seasons next, of course.

Quote from: Naru on February 06, 2017, 03:41:47 PM

god this is where my knowledge of calc would help but fuck calc 2 gave me cancer and ptsd to even bother explaining

Everyone says calc 3 is the hardest but calc 2 took me in a dark alley and fucked me like a little bitch.

what makes it so difficult

Quote from: Verbatim on February 06, 2017, 03:05:45 PM

Competitive games just aren't your taste, it seems. There's nothing you can really do about that. I get pretty salty when I lose ten straight games after practicing for hours, but I have a drive to improve and become a competent player--so that keeps me going.

You have to have a hunger--not just to win, but to be the best. Whether it's best on your block or best in the world. You also have to be very patient and realize that your lofty aspirations are months if not years away. You don't really seem to have a hunger for any of that--you just wanna have fun playing games, right?

It's kinda funny you mention the hunger and drive to be the best. Whenever I'm playing RL with my buddies if we're not playing ranked for whatever reason I'll be secretly (or openly) wanting to play ranked instead. Whenever someone asks why I need to play ranked I'll word it almost exactly the way you did. The thrill of beating a foe in a pressure game is just so satisfying.

exactly

even if you lose, the idea of being able to look back to that game and say, "that was a great match, we both performed very well" is highly cathartic--and the knowledge that the loss only made you a wiser player should excite and invigorate you

basically you have to find the fun in losing, or "hold that L" as the cool kids say

No, it will always be infinitely less than than the number of decimal places needed, because you can't express 1/3 as a number. No matter how far you measure it, the "decimal form" (which shouldn't exist) of 1/3 will ALWAYS be less than the expression. You could go on eternally, for all of time and then some, and it would never, ever, ever be 1/3.

but wouldn't that only apply if you stopped counting decimals at any point

which you can't do if we're talking about an endless repeating decimal

Look, this isn't hard. All I'm saying is that the decimal form of 1/3 (or any repeating numbers) don't exist in the physical world because the more you measured it, the bigger it would get. Look at conservation of matter to see why that's impossible.

is it getting "bigger" or do we just have a more precise measurement

when we express 3/10 as .3, we assume that the following decimal points are all 0, right

but in the real world, it could be 0.30000010000000100000200001

we don't really account for small imperfections because they're not significant enough

If what you're stuck on is the "gets bigger" part (really?), then just look at how a repeating number works. The more you measure it (.333 vs .333333), the larger it becomes.

i understand what you mean now--you were just being insanely inarticulate

i believe what you're attempting to describe is called an asymptote

EVEN IF IT WAS ENDLESS, it does not equal 1/3. It will always have infinitely less decimal places than it needs to be 1/3.

won't there always be the precise number of decimal places needed

because it's endless

If you need clarification to the second paragraph, I don't know what to tell you.

oh good, because i do

you tell me, "sorry for typing a sentence that reads like it was written by a 9 year old," and then you clarify

Competitive games just aren't your taste, it seems. There's nothing you can really do about that. I get pretty salty when I lose ten straight games after practicing for hours, but I have a drive to improve and become a competent player--so that keeps me going.

You have to have a hunger--not just to win, but to be the best. Whether it's best on your block or best in the world. You also have to be very patient and realize that your lofty aspirations are months if not years away. You don't really seem to have a hunger for any of that--you just wanna have fun playing games, right?