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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Brothers
« on: March 10, 2021, 04:55:42 PM »
world tour 2.0 let's go. Hope nintendo doesn't catch wind of this one
any reason to think they won't?

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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Brothers
« on: March 07, 2021, 08:32:35 PM »
so i got the guy who got blown up on twitter for making an "exaggerated jiggle physics" mod to give me a tutorial on how to reduce the jiggle physics to 0

hey guys, i changed my mind—mods are pretty cool after all
theres jiggle physics in this game??
i believe pyra/mythra are the first smash characters to have jiggle physics in the chest region, yeah

pretty embarrassing, but not super noticeable—now there really is no excuse for Mai not to be in the background of that one Fatal Fury stage, i guess

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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Brothers
« on: March 07, 2021, 06:44:24 PM »
so i got the guy who got blown up on twitter for making an "exaggerated jiggle physics" mod to give me a tutorial on how to reduce the jiggle physics to 0

hey guys, i changed my mind—mods are pretty cool after all

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The Flood / Re: Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time; SPOILERS
« on: March 07, 2021, 06:14:42 PM »
aw, i didn't know it was gonna be a missable stream

guess i'll just twiddle my thumbs

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Gaming / Re: Halo.Bungie.net is going to shut down on February 9th
« on: March 06, 2021, 06:55:55 AM »
Kinda wanted to take one last look at my first profile before the nuke, but I never got around to it. Too bad.
You're just the master of procrastination aren't you. Memory's dim on that one, but how the hell'd you get into Halo in the first place? Or did you just stumble onto the bungie forums and just make a home there?
More of the latter, yeah. Never cared for Halo, but I had a few friends who did. One of them told me all about B.net—how cool the community was, despite being a Halo forum, and how the Flood was the most popular board anyway, so if I were to join, I would never actually have to talk about Halo.

Much like a hipster atheist choosing to wear a cross necklace "because it's ironic," I signed up because the idea of posting on a website centered around something that I don't like was incredibly amusing to me—and as my friend indicated, the off-topic board was where most of the activity was anyway, so I spent most of my time there (until I found private groups).

My one regret—just kidding, I have a lot—but a smaller one that I've never really disclosed before, is that I never really had a turnaround on Halo. It'll never not be that one stupid shooter series that my dumb friends forced me to play with them as a kid, after they "grew out of" playing Nintendo games (even though they were still only 12).

I've since played through Halo: CE's campaign on my own in the interest of having a more adult perspective on it, and I wasn't terribly impressed. The music was good, and it felt great to play and shoot stuff, but the guns themselves were hella boring, and the combat was repetitive and monotonous—I also didn't find myself particularly invested in the story, either. It's just one of those games that doesn't really do a whole lot for me, which is a shame, given how special and resonant the series was to pretty much everybody here.

Then again, even if I did turn around on it, it would be difficult to dissociate it from those bad childhood memories. That built up a lot of resentment within me, not only for Halo, but for the FPS genre itself—though at the very least, that sweeping hatred has pretty much fallen by the wayside at this point. I've had a lot of time to try out a lot of different shooters since then, and while it's still not my favorite genre, I'm at least capable of naming a decent number of shooters that I've enjoyed quite thoroughly, such as Half-Life and Borderlands.

That said, I guess I would have to concede that Halo probably opened the floodgates in terms of how modern shooters are designed (for better or for worse), so I guess you could say that I have an appreciation for it on that angle.

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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Brothers
« on: March 04, 2021, 01:13:31 PM »
so now Lloyd is the last smash 4 mii costume that needs to be added (besides the generic hoodie)

also i guess a moveset was discussed or something? idk who gives a fuck

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The Flood / Re: 4 days until 3.0+1.0
« on: March 03, 2021, 09:35:34 AM »
so those 2 minutes would serve as an alternate ending of sorts? huh

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Gaming / Re: Pokémon 25th Anniversary Presentation (9:00 AM CST)
« on: March 02, 2021, 08:57:24 AM »
rip to making your own chatot cry
yeah... although i wouldn't rule out the possibility of them keeping that in via some kind of phone app, or some shit, that does seem pretty unlikely

they could even just make it so it doesn't work online, if they're worried about people saying naughty shit

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Gaming / Re: Pokémon 25th Anniversary Presentation (9:00 AM CST)
« on: March 01, 2021, 10:50:01 AM »
Gen IV probably has one of my least favorite dexes in the series, and for me, it honestly goes far beyond giving shitty-looking evolutions to older Pokémon. Look no further than stupid shit like Purugly, Wormadam, and Bronzong.

That said, I've had a lot of fun putting together a team that I'd actually have fun with in Shining Pearl.



I love all of these guys—and check out that color coordination. There's a few repeat types, I suppose, but I've never really seen a reason to give a shit about that outside of competitive. I'd also like to use a Vespiquen or a Gliscor, but that'll depend heavily on how accessible hidden abilities are going to be.

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The Flood / Re: 8 days until 3.0+1.0
« on: February 27, 2021, 02:34:10 PM »
makes sense given japanese timezones

how long does it generally take for weebs to translate these things, and how difficult will it be to get a good stream?

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The Flood / Re: Discord?
« on: February 27, 2021, 01:27:53 AM »
There's no one central Discord that's active, unfortunately. We've pretty much all kinda splintered off into our own circles at this point, and those who still check in more or less just do so out of habit.

I vaguely remember you, but I don't think we got along for whatever reason. Nonetheless, I'm glad you still think about this place.

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The Flood / what do you call it when you steal an atheist's tea?
« on: February 26, 2021, 02:13:28 PM »
a heist

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The Flood / Re: 0 days since 3.0+1.0 was delayed; Game Time
« on: February 26, 2021, 10:49:35 AM »
I got a game for you Verb and anyone else who wants to participate. I’ll be counting up from when it was delayed and you place your bets on when we get an announcement on a new date.

If your answer is five days or more out from when we actually get news you win nothing. If it’s four to one day out I’ll give you a small but noticeable prize. If you’re right on the money I’ll import you the Japanese BD whenever it releases. Only one person can win that one obviously.
i missed this post, but i can say for certain that i absolutely would not have guessed a date anywhere near march 8

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Official runtime is 155 minutes. Two hours and thirty five minutes.
holy fucking christ

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Gaming / Re: Pokémon 25th Anniversary Presentation (9:00 AM CST)
« on: February 26, 2021, 09:31:25 AM »
i was a big believer that we didn't need gen 4 remakes at all, but whatever i guess

so our acronym is literally BDSP

bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, and pokémon

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The Flood / We did it
« on: February 25, 2021, 01:29:02 AM »

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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Brothers
« on: February 22, 2021, 07:06:48 AM »


Current thoughts on Ultimate DLC so far.

I still don't really care for Persona as a franchise, but Joker getting in was such a huge mindfuck that I couldn't even deny how hype it was. It's the first and only time a character was added whose home game isn't available on a Nintendo console, which seemed like a big deal at the time, and like it would open the floodgates to a whole new universe of possibilities—which it didn't really do, but still. It was a pretty kick-ass choice, and one hell of a way to begin the initial DLC cycle. He's also one of the few DLC fighters that doesn't completely suck to fight online, in my opinion, which is a plus.

Despite my lack of interest in Banjo-Kazooie, I've been pulling for Banjo fans to get their characters in since Brawl, because I've always agreed that they always seemed like a great fit for the roster. They wound up getting the most exciting trailer, too—even if the punchline relies on reusing a joke from the King K. Rool trailer. Super annoying character to fight online, unfortunately, but that doesn't take away from how good of a choice he was.

Piranha Plant was a great meme, and all my homies agree with me. Anybody who got salty about this thing was revealed has literally zero sense of humor, especially when they gave him out for free (you can complain about him not being free anymore, though). The only problem I have with Plant is that he got in before my boy Waluigi, which is pretty stupid, but whatever. Still the funniest joke character in the game.

Sephiroth is aight. After Byleth, I had a mental list of all the anime swordfighters that I would still be okay with getting added, and Sephiroth was one of those guys (the other two being Dante and Sora). It's nice having more villains to play as, and we were due for more Final Fantasy content anyway, so anime fatigue aside, this was one of the better choices they could've gone with on that end of things.

Min Min is whatever, just like the game she's from. Her presence on the roster has proven two things: DLC from newly-introduced franchises do NOT necessarily have to be the main character (even though the Arms creator said that everyone in Arms is the main character... but whatever), and that Spirits don't actually disconfirm characters at all, opening the door for other hopefuls like Geno, Rayman, or Shantae. That's cool, and Min Min's a pretty unique character with some fun gimmicks, even if she's not the hypest choice ever.

Terry is kinda whatever, too. The Fatal Fury games don't really ligiht a candle to Street Fighter, in my opinion (I still need to play some King of Fighters games, though)—and while Sakurai's presentation did manage to sell me on the concept of having him in the roster, considering the sheer amount of love they put into all his stuff, I still can't help but shake the feeling that Terry is basically just Ken with a hat.

Hero is whatever. Definitely not opposed to having Dragon Quest content in Smash, but boy, is Dragon Quest shit ever boring. It certainly doesn't help that his completely RNG-based kit is a total fucking abomination to everything I believe is good in life.

Steve is pretty dumb. I like Minecraft just fine, and I appreciate that they also gave us Enderman and stuff, but... yeah. One of the most obnoxious characters to fight online, too.

It's difficult for me to argue that Pyra and Mythra shouldn't be in Smash, and I don't even know if that's what I think—all I know is that I hate them intensely, and that Xenoblade is one of the cringiest franchises that Nintendo is responsible for publishing.

Byleth was an insult, and is the reason why I'm glad I never bought a fighter pass.

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Gaming / Re: NIntendo Direct 2021
« on: February 18, 2021, 04:49:49 AM »


the only type of person nintendo wanted to make happy last night, apparently

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The Flood / holy fuck, he actually said it
« on: February 14, 2021, 11:51:09 AM »
YouTube

wait for it

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The Flood / Re: Hey so uh
« on: February 14, 2021, 12:15:18 AM »
not for another eight months
thanks so much for this legitimate and non-semantic contribution

this really has changed everything
i was talking about your PMS, but apparently i was eight months off
bruh you literally just walked into chat and dropped an akshyuwally
i mean, that's practically the basis of my existence

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Gaming / Re: Game collecting
« on: February 13, 2021, 03:45:21 AM »
Okay, so I finally have Turok 3... Crisis averted.

That and seven more titles for the N64 library, nine more for the NES library, and nine for the SNES library—all while still keeping within my budget, somehow, with the caveat that none of the games are particularly notable, with the exception of Turok 3 and Street Fighter 2010 for the NES, which I'm pretty fucking stoked about.



Anyone who has seen its AVGN episode would know that, while it was made by Capcom, has the Street Fighter branding, and even has a protagonist named Ken, it actually has fuck all to do with the Street Fighter franchise—it's just another generic and notoriously difficult action-based platformer in the vein of Ninja Gaiden with a sci-fi twinge. I'm pretty sure they just called it Street Fighter so that more people would buy it, or something—similar to Contra Force. It might not be the greatest game, or anything, but I do consider to be a pretty funny historical gem, if nothing else, so I'm proud to own it.

This and the other eight games bring the NES total from 56% to 57%... slowly trucking along on that one. The SNES collection slowly trails behind at 21%—but at least we broke the 20% barrier with this haul.

Most excitingly, for N64, I'm presently just two games shy of having 70%. I went ahead and ordered a copy of Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage on Amazon, because of an issue I have with my custom end labels. They come in these regular-sized sheets, as you'd expect, but I guess they had to push these six leftover names on a very small and easy-to-lose sliver of paper—and I've used all but one of them. There's just one goddamn sticker left. And because it's for a somewhat rare yet inexpensive game anyway, I decided to just order it. That'll bring me ever closer to 70%, and I won't have to keep track of that fucking sliver anymore.

Aidyn Chronicles also happens to be among the last ten games made for the system, owing to its rarity. It's one of a very small number of traditional RPGs made for the system, too.

Of the 90 games I have left to purchase, 42 of them fall under the sports/racing category—and of those games, only 10 of them are worth $40 or more. After Aidyn Chronicles gets delivered, if I get 30 of the cheapest sports/racing games, I'll be up to 80%, which will be very awesome. I can practically feel the breeze from the top of this mountain, and I can't wait to reach it.

Once I get my hands on my current most-coveted prizes—Banjo-Tooie and Harvest Moon 64—I'm not sure what my next ones will be. A lot of the remaining stuff I really wanna get—like Snowboard Kids 1 and 2, as well as the Mystical Ninja games—are pretty goddamn pricey. And when it comes to stuff like Ogre Battle, forget about it. It goes for around $80, which is well beyond reason, so if it comes down to it, I may have to settle for the virtual console on that one.

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Gaming / Re: Halo.Bungie.net is going to shut down on February 9th
« on: February 13, 2021, 03:03:07 AM »
Kinda wanted to take one last look at my first profile before the nuke, but I never got around to it. Too bad.

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The Flood / Re: Hey so uh
« on: February 13, 2021, 01:29:54 AM »
not for another eight months
thanks so much for this legitimate and non-semantic contribution

this really has changed everything
i was talking about your PMS, but apparently i was eight months off

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The Flood / Re: Hey so uh
« on: February 12, 2021, 12:21:03 AM »
not for another eight months

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The Flood / Re: math
« on: February 07, 2021, 11:00:05 AM »
i hate the way math classes are taught far more than i hate math itself

history bores the ever-loving shit out of me, and to this day represents the biggest lacuna in my education

we had a lot of history nerds on this forum, which has always mystified me
Those who don't know history are bound to repeat it
and those who do know history are bound to watch other people repeat it

there's only so many lessons you can take from it
- killing bad
- lying bad
- war bad
- religion bad
- bigotry bad
- humans stupid
- selfishness evil
- presidents suck
- capitalism bad
- feminism good
- basically learn a bunch of -isms and pick which ones you like
- economics complicated
- free speech good
- voting good

i don't exactly need a billion case studies for this shit

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The Flood / Re: math
« on: February 06, 2021, 08:30:15 PM »
i hate the way math classes are taught far more than i hate math itself

history bores the ever-loving shit out of me, and to this day represents the biggest lacuna in my education

we had a lot of history nerds on this forum, which has always mystified me

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Serious / Re: Donald Trump impeached (again)
« on: January 19, 2021, 01:39:48 AM »
You don't think it's a bit of an overstatement on Trump being the worst?
Not even slightly.

While you're certainly not going to catch me defending Andrew Jackson, it's important to acknowledge that we're talking about two completely different eras here. If you're comfortable with giving Trump extra credit just for being born in the 21st century, where you can't really get away with overtly committing genocide anymore, then you can be my guest, but I'm not so charitable. The fact that we've reached a point in modern civilization where we'll probably never allow another Trail of Tears to happen again is a feather in the cap of society, not Trump.

That said, frankly, I'm perfectly comfortable with pinning 400K+ ongoing COVID deaths on the man who refused to do anything about the issue, and has even contributed to the ongoing culture of complacency that we're continuing to see in this country. Whether you agree or disagree, I think that's a perfectly reasonable and uncontroversial take on the matter.

So yeah. Worst president ever (relative to how good a president ought to be in the current year). I wouldn't call it an overstatement at all, but I'll concede that it's a statement that requires a bit of framing.

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Serious / Re: Donald Trump impeached (again)
« on: January 14, 2021, 11:05:49 AM »
i don't really know what to expect from this, but my gut's telling me that we might actually be able to defenestrate the cunt this time

probably wishful thinking though

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Serious / Re: Donald Trump impeached (again)
« on: January 14, 2021, 10:58:11 AM »
This is just ridiculous political theater, he's not getting convicted when he has literally only a week left.
the goal, of course, is to ensure he'll never able to run again, so the number of days he has left doesn't really matter—it's about destroying his future in politics

it also piles on yet another well-deserved mark of disgrace to the worst president in history, which is also good

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The Flood / Re: ?? Days Until 3.0+1.0; Eternal Waiting Room
« on: January 14, 2021, 10:25:31 AM »
big sad

this poster got a new addition, though:



"Together, we will overcome."

heartwarming sentiment, and i'm a patient guy, but honestly, streaming services exist, guys

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Gaming / Re: Game collecting
« on: January 08, 2021, 07:15:05 PM »
Good N64 progress. Tried to post this earlier, but something fucked up and it got deleted, which sucks, because I had little blurbs for every single game written up, and I really don't feel like starting from scratch, so whatever.

All-Star Baseball 2000
Mischief Makers
NFL QB Club 2001
Mia Hamm Soccer 64
Fighters Destiny
Nightmare Creatures
Polaris SnoCross
Wetrix
Forsaken 64
Tigger's Honey Hunt
Chopper Attack
Mace: The Dark Age
Vigilante 8
Knife Edge: Nose Gunner
Lode Runner 3-D
Gex 64: Enter the Gecko
Aero Fighters Assault
NBA Jam 99
Top Gear Rally

197/296. That leaves less than 100 games to collect, and if I get just one more, I'll be able to say that I own just over two thirds of the entire library, which is pretty awesome. Mischief Makers and Gex 64 are the biggest prizes here, and with the addition of All-Star Baseball 2000, I happen to own all eight baseball games released for the system. So that's a thing.

I'll have to update my 3x3 of most-wanteds soon, but I'm honestly starting to run out of stuff. I really just need Banjo-Tooie and Turok 3, and I'll be pretty happy.

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