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NEStalgia

@Anti-Matter True. I'm not sure "we have no ideas so lets take our old ones and rearrange them for modern socio-political tastes" is that much better though.

@AlohaPizzaJack They ban Song of the South from ever publishing again, despite it containing what is practically a company theme song because it's "racist", then they trash every other culture in the world with blithe historical makeovers, and that's fine.

NEStalgia

NEStalgia

@Morpheel LOL we're on the exact same wavelength. That may be moderately disturbing, but, still, internet high-five!

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HobbitGamer

All I'm sayin is... John Smith dies, Pocahontas marries the lawyer, then dies of small pox in england.
Sorry, @Anti-Matter. Spoiler Alert

These grapes are sour.

#MudStrongs

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RR529

After NL put up those videos of that old Japanese gaming show that had that pre-release footage of SM64 & SMRPG, I went to the YouTube channel that put them up and they have tons of episodes up, dating back to October 1994 (and they seem to be adding more pretty regularly.

Just watched one this morning (it was the second oldest one they had up, so October 14th or 16th, '94), where they had a quickfire game review section (I noticed a Mega Drive Mega Man game that got a middling score, some Go & Mahjong games with middling scores, and an isometric Kemco platformer for the Super Famicom that reviewed pretty well), a segment on Shin Megami Tensei IF, a segment inside the Kemco offices, and a segnent where they tried out some then upcoming arcade games at a trade expo (Samurai Spirits from SNK, Ace Driver from Namco, and some sort of widescreen 6 player light gun title called Attack of the Zolgear).

I don't understand a lick of Japanese (other than some Katakana), but these videos are highly interesting to me.

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SheldonRandoms

I had to move stuff and thangs today since i'm always getting the heavy things to lift. At the very least, I was provided with pizza WITHOUT pineapples! Also the pizza was from the FUTURE!

I made Sheldon & Mr. Randoms back on Flipnote Hatena, now i'm a kangaroo mod that has a funko pop collection!

I'm not keen politics since that stuff is spooky, I'd rather watch SpongeBob over Fox News anyways!

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HobbitGamer

That’s because in the future the government has become fearful of the healing powers of pineapple, and as such have outlawed it.

You tasted a dystopian pizza.

#MudStrongs

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NintendoByNature

Full disclosure, I gave up pizza for lent( I do every year). Not getting into religious belief discussion at all but man.... do you guys realize how hard it is that we always talk about pizza or pineapple pizza when i cant have it lol.. and you @AlohaPizzaJack ....youre the worst of all with your pizza face always smiling back at me, knowing darn well i can't eat It! 😅

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Tyranexx

Busy Wednesday was busy. X___X I did read everyone's replies earlier; I'm just now responding in turn.


@NintendoByNature Was that The Jailer? Didn't have any glitches with him thankfully. He was enough of a pain as is. XD

@ThanosReXXX The main issue with Tiamat was that I shouldn't have tried fighting him/her/it so close to my bedtime. I initially engaged them just to see what I was up against and then intended to quit for the evening, but it turned into a "just one more time" loop until I won the fight. XD

I probably spent a good hour struggling with that glitch; to be fair, some of that was just me becoming familiar with the fight (and thus dying), but over half of that time was definitely falling/reloading.

^ This was repeating in my brain ad nauseum.

The Wii is a family Wii, not belonging to any one person, ever since Christmas of '08. My asking was more to see if anyone still used it, and apparently they (rarely) do. My dad doesn't touch video games though, so I doubt he's ever used it. XD The old Pac-Man strategy guide I found in their house years ago tells me that things used to be different....

I wasn't ragging on Wii Sports BTW; I've gotten some enjoyment out of that game too! I was more poking fun at that Hannah Montana shovelware.

I'll try and fit that Darksiders documentary in at some point, though I'm not sure when. Thanks for the link!

@NEStalgia I don't mind a reasonable challenge, which Darksiders provides. With your description of III though, I'd probably like it a lot less. Challenging games are good, just not the throw-your-controller kind...which is why I've avoided Souls. I play games to relax and lower my stress levels, not raise them.

As for the Hannah Montana game....My sister was really, REALLY into the show way back when. She'd religiously watch it. She mainly played the game because she liked all the shopping; she at least recognized that the musical bits in it were garbage. I did try it a couple of times when I was bored and just didn't see the appeal. The controls during the songs were iffy about registering the movements. Plus, unlike most of my species, I dislike shopping unless it's a bookstore or (to an extent) a game store.

@Anti-Matter Yep, that one.


I normally dislike using the gaming terms "casual" and "hardcore" as the exact definitions vary from person to person, but my sister is (almost was) what I'd call a very casual gamer. She still has a DS Lite that she breaks out on family vacations and maybe once or twice a year besides. Some of the games that she has for it are from me (such as Super Mario 64 DS and WarioWare: Touched!) because I no longer wanted them and thought she'd enjoy them. The last DS game I believe she bought was the original Style Savvy at an out-of-the-way Walmart a few years ago; Trendsetters had just come out on the 3DS at the time, and I had been telling her about the latter because I thought it would be a game she'd enjoy (and upgrade for). Sure enough, she indeed enjoyed it! Besides that, she sometimes plays (mostly bad IMO) freemium mobile games on her phone.

To be fair, she doesn't have a ton of time to game or even follow her normal YouTube channels lately due to the sheer amount of her college workload and the fact that she's in the middle of a practicum at a local early childhood center. I'm proud of her for keeping her head afloat and staying on top of her work, but the amount of hours she's putting into her degree and eventual transfer into a four-year program from the two-year she's in is insane. It's cases like her's where I wish that full-time students were actively paid for their work.

@NintendoByNature In a sense I feel your pain, but that's mainly because pizza is one of my favorite foods. I crave it at least twice a week but am actively trying to eat a lot less of it! XD Now if only I had a better handle on my love of chocolate everything....

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ogo79

ThanosReXXX wrote:

@ogo79 A bit late with the pineapple reference there, my friend. Now all you've done is bring the topic back to the front of the line, whereas most of us, including the pineapple fans, had already moved on.

a real cowboy eats his peas with mashed potatoes

the_shpydar wrote:
As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)

HobbitGamer

@ogo79 And hot sauce. Always the hot sauce.

So the latest provider audit wrapped up after 3 days, and daaaaang. Some of us were sent the prelim report before the exit tomorrow morning, and all I know is there’s gonna be major pain and disciplinary action. We regressed and they’re coming back in 6 months instead of the hoped 12. I won’t get into the weeds, but I think this goes without saying; proper and concise documentation of services provided is key to justifying your service and existence in the health field.
Just sayin

#MudStrongs

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NintendoByNature

@Tyranexx i don't think it was a boss really. More like a mini battle with some darknut type guys. I've also noticed some sounding glitches in the switch version. Twice now half of the sound in the game works. For instance, wars sword makes noise but throwing something or pressing a lever to move a platform makes no sound. Not game breaking obviously but it's still kinda messed up. When it happens I just hit save and jump back in and its usually ok.

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NEStalgia

@ReaderRagfish I'd take that over today's obnoxious "Youtubers" in a heartbeat. I have no idea who watches that stuff or why. Remember kids, tubers are dangerous parasites!

Speaking of Youtube.....@ThanosRexxx and @rjejr would appreciate this. I don't really watch TV. Occasionally live events or special things at holidays or such is really all I watch. I don't even do Netflix...I'd never use it, games fill that role, but I did sign up last year for Youtube TV. For $35/mo it was pretty much basic cable when I'd have never had basic cable...it was nice getting TV for once without watching it through a haze of static (pre-HD), or without it stopping, stuttering and black-screening every 45 seconds (post_HD world) with OTA antennae. So last night Google pushes out an email: Good news, we've struck a deal with Discovery and are adding Discovery, HGTV, Food Network, some other network I don't care about, and Oprah Network! Also we're raising your price to $50/mo because of this.

Wait, WHAAAT?? That's a 43% price increase, overnight, because they just added a handful of channels I couldn't care about even if I were paid to?!? WTF is that??

The price point was the whole reason for it to exist versus other services. Now all the TV services start at $45, and go into the 50's for anything decent. I really can't imagine people watch that much TV to justify this pricing with all the entertainment available today. It now mimics old cable, but with less channels in all markets. I thought people were sick of cable pricing? I'm not sure how while Netflix services are competing to LOWER prices, and music services have had no ability to raise prices for 15 years, frequently compete for sale pricing/group pricing/annual pricing, and can only charge more for the small niche of audiophile quality tiers (Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz for CD quality uncompressed, Qobuz higher still for high-res audio above CD quality.) How is it possible that TV is the only thing that they can infinitely ratchet up pricing and people gladly seem to pay it? The least entertaining and worst quality product of all the services, overloaded with advertising? It doesn't make any sense to me that pricing goes UP rather than down on the dinosaur ad delivery system....while prices go down on on-demand services. I can't figure out what the market is for that.

I also can't figure out how HGTV is the most popular thing on television. It's literally a 24/7 infomercial for the construction industry, home improvement stores, and real estate agencies. How are people watching this in droves....and paying heftily to do so?!?!

And now they want to move gaming to this same audience that GLADLY wants to pay $50+/mo for infomercials interrupted by ads every 10 minutes?

So...just like that, I go back to having no access to TV programming of any kind other than NBC which I get intermittently with constant dropouts, with a coax cable just plopped across the yard to an antenna... games and music will have to do.

And this is complaining from someone currently subscribed to 4 different music services......yet all of them combined come out to about the price of one month of TV, now. And that's with 2 audiophile tier ones in the mix. (I do intend to drop one of them, and it was looking like Spotify was to be the unlucky one since Apple seems to have a lot more content for the same price, but worse connectivity....but then Spotify just sweetened the pot with including the budget $6 Hulu tier (with ads) free....so it's hard to pick again. Notice, again....music is offering MORE value and/or cut pricing to compete (though the artists are cut out of money making which is bad as well), while TV just keeps ratcheting up pricing every time it adds something like it's a governmental tax. And for some unknown reason, people seem to be paying this....

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HobbitGamer

yeah, I don’t like the way cable companies have to do theirs pricing either. I only ever watch less than 8 channels really. 4 cable news, a&e, syfy, and hallmark mystery, sometimes amc.

#MudStrongs

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