A new retro game shop opened up, so I was able to pick up some more N64:

Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2
BattleTanx: Global Assault
ECW Hardcore Revolution
Madden Football 64
NBA In The Zone '98
NBA Live 2000
Triple Play 2000
WCW Backstage Assault

Nothing spectacular, but I do have every single Madden on the system now, so... There's that. They also had Resident Evil 2, Starcraft, and WWF No Mercy on display, but they were asking a bit too much for those, and I was already going way over budget. Had I bought No Mercy, I would have every single wrestling game for the system. Looking back, I kinda wish I had just bought it, but whatever. Maybe it'll still be there the next time I visit.

161/297 (54%)

Also bought a whole bunch of 8 and 16-bit shovelware with nothing "good" to speak of, with the exception of Mega Man X, which I'm currently playing right now.

I officially own over half the official NES library at this point, which is pretty exciting, but I still have a ton of important gaps to fill.

When was "trap" ever supposed to be derogatory?

it was originally just a dumb star wars reference until it started being used to describe transwomen or crossdressers who were presumed to be actively attempting to deceive heterosexual men, when in reality, they're just minding their own business while dressing the way they please—they're not trying to "trap" anyone

i'm sure there are men who go to public places dressed as women with the sole intent of tricking hetero guys into sleeping with them, and you would probably be justified in calling them traps, especially if that's how they identify themselves

but the word does have transphobic history, and you could argue that its use tends to lump you into a group of people that the enlightened (or just humorless) folk among us would consider undesirable

A couple N64 pick-ups: Flying Dragon and Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense. The latter is a sequel to Vigilante 8, which I don't own, and the former is a fighting game with RPG elements, which actually sounds very interesting.

2nd Offense happens to be more valuable than the first game anyway. It seems I have a knack for always finding the top dollar sequels of series that I haven't found the first installment of. Same deal with Turok and Castlevania.

Not Banjo-Tooie, though. One of these days...

153/297 (52%)

Anybody play Melee? Slippi.gg has replaced standard Melee Netplay and the rollback netcode is actually pretty fun, even on wifi with a bad connection (previously it would look like a slide show). If anybody wants to try friendlies sometime hit me up

even if my brain/hands could process melee, i don't even have a machine that i think could run it

otherwise i definitely would

Pikmin 3 was just announced for Switch



THE ABSOLUTE   S T A T E   OF THIS MACHINE

Not going to lie, Rust reminded me of Verbatim a bit, at least back when he was more volatile. I'm just going to assume that current Verbatim is the same one from old Bungie. He seems simmered down a bit.

who were you on bnet

Bad user

What do you guys think about not thinking of the president as a king who will or even has the power to fix your problems

perfectly rational

what they do have the power to do is fuck shit up, which is why it's still important to vote for someone who will do the least damage

huh, what'd he get blacklisted for?

he wanted to be

Quote from: Verbatim on July 31, 2020, 11:29:39 AM

naruto peaks at rock lee vs. gaara tbh, but shika vs. temari was also pretty dope

You seem to be the resident mass media consumer here. By any chance have you ever watched the first season of true detective? That shit seems like it'd be right up your alley.

so i've been told, but i've yet to actually watch it

as much media as i do consume, TV shows probably represent the biggest lacuna in my wheelhouse

given how many people have recommended this one to me, though, i guess i have no choice but to check it out

better than the lizard with tits he usually dons

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Extremely dumb. What's their justification this time?

"nobody used it and the ones who did sucked" i guess

They done this to annotations before with same justification too

well, part of it too was that annotations don't show up for videos on mobile devices, and the majority of people watch youtube videos on their phones now

why they couldn't have just made them work instead, i have no idea

you have a mal?

gimme gimme

https://myanimelist.net/profile/V3rbatim

haven't updated it in at least a year, but yeah

IIRC wasn’t Dustin banned because he was shitting up the place years ago? I wasn’t around for that but that’s what I’ve heard.

i seem to recall him doing something specific to get himself perma'd, but maybe it really was just his nonstop obnoxiousness

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I remember finishing Cowboy Bebop and Trigun and then never getting back into anime.

was that because you didn't like them

If I didn't like them, I wouldn't have finished them.

right haha yeah that makes sense

Spoiler

>has 150 finished shows that i've rated a 1/10 on MAL

but why

it's more like 50, i exaggerated

i normally drop shows i don't like after just one episode, but sometimes i just feel compelled to see it through, especially if it's a show that's considered significant in spite of its awfulness, like gurren lagann

i'm also just really weird