I didn't know there was a Pocky and Rocky game for the GBA until today.
Is it any good in comparison with the SNES titles?
This blue eye perceives all things conjoined. The past, the future, and the present. Everything flows and all is connected. This eye is not merely seen reality. It is touching the truth. Open the eye of truth... There is nothing to fear.
@NEStalgia Oh boy, headlights. THOSE are fun, particularly when someone forgets to kill their brights. I also dislike LED lights on newer models. Nothing like some nice, healthy retina burn while you're simultaneously trying to pilot a metallic, plastic beast....
@Tyranexx I'd say about half the cars have their high beams on and the other half has all the LEDs/HID lights. The blue glare! Worse the fancy ones have wrap-around lights for wide angle shining, or pivoting lights that turn the direction their wheel tilts. Hooray for them, they can afford the best and to have the brightest light wherever they go. OTOH everyone behind me will take about 4 hours to get home because I'll be crawling and jamming the breaks about 30 times a minute, every time a car passes...which is non-stop. EVERY DAY. Plus virtually everyone has SUVs/pickup trucks. Which means their headlights are mounted high. Exactly at about eye level for me. What brilliant government officials allowed headlights to all be mounted different heights? It should have been one fixed standard height, EXACTLY 1.5ft off the ground and not an inch difference.
But what I don't understand at all is nobody else seems affectd by it. They just cruise around at full speed like it's not a problem. How are their eyes even OPEN!? It just makes no sense to me. I don't understand how it's physically possible.
@Heavyarms55 - I think your experience is much closer to normal/average than mine. If there was a defect with a large number, Nintendo would have to recall. It’s like some joy con factory somewhere had a bad shift/day/week in both production and QC. I was immediately dubious of my original cons, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt because I thought my gamepad for the WiiU also felt cheap and would break, but I used it as my sole controller for that entire generation, and it held up.
It took a year for the drift to appear, and then almost another year of occasional cleaning with canned air before that stopped working, and they became unusable. I’ll send them in for repair, and hopefully it’s all water under the bridge. I’ve never had a problem with a Nintendo controller, and I always planned on a second set of joy con. If my originals are repaired or replaced at no charge; it’s just a small blip in an otherwise strong run I’ve had with Nintendo in the quality department.
@ThanosReXXX - Yeah, real combat would be terrifying. No amount of training could possibly enact the same bodily response to real combat where your life is actually in danger. You just have to do it and hope you don’t drop into a fetal position. Have we discussed being fellow lefties? It’s hard out here for us. Most people don’t understand.
@Tyranexx - I don’t have to mow at my place, but I’ll probably mix the gallon of gas I got this winter for my snow blower and put it in my leaf blower this weekend and start blowing around the rest of the leaves and sticks I didn’t get last fall. I haven’t been out to poop scoop after my dog in a while either, so I’ll be paying a price for that soon as well.
@NEStalgia - Ali converted his faith in the early 60s. His last fight as Cassius Clay was against Liston in 64, but he never legally changed his name. He died, legally, as Cassius Clay. His family and team called him by his new name prior to that fight though. I’m totally with you on the draft, especially when you mention the volunteer trained soldier fighting alongside someone who didn’t want to be there. You can’t make someone become a warrior. You’re right about the truth and reasoning of our presence making a difference as well. When one side isn’t sure what they’re fighting for, and the other side is fighting against a homeland invasion, it’s a very lopsided advantage in fighting spirit.
@NEStalgia Yep, I just focus on an area of the lane I CAN see. TBH I don't drive in insanely high traffic areas too often, at night anyway. The blindness usually lasts for just a few seconds. But dang...talk about retina burn.
I do drive a car (one that sits higher due to where I used to live) and SUVs/vans/trucks are quite common here. I've adapted...mostly. XD
@bimmy-lee Do you pay an individual or lawn service to mow your grass? I've considered doing that, but there isn't really a good place for one to haul their equipment. They'd need a push mower at one point anyway as some of my backyard is quite steep in one spot. Too, part of the reason I put up with mowing is because I DO need the exercise. XD It doesn't do wonders for my spring allergies. I'm not sure if I'm allergic to tree pollen or the grass itself.
No poop scooping here, and I'm usually not too bothered by leaves unless they've really piled up in a few places....I do tend to leave them near my chain link fence for awhile though; that puts off having to take care of pain in the rear weeds in those spots.
You and @ThanosReXXX are both lefties? 8D I feel understood!
@Tyranexx@bimmy-lee luckily I’m able to run over all the poop with the riding mower, then drive over to a spigot and power wash the deck and wheels. I think I need to dethatch this year.
All you lefties remind me of the Dilbert comic gag for Elbonia. There was a civil war raging between lefties and righties. They mostly flung mud at each side, though that affected their economy since mud was their only export.
#MudStrongs
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@Tyranexx Ooh... don't get me started on printer issues... I can definitely relate to your frustration in that regard, so I hope you'll come out of it relatively unscathed. Best of luck.
On a side note: you're a lefty as WELL?? Yay, our club finally has a girl!
@bimmy-lee No, I don't think we've discussed being fellow lefties, so whatever's on your mind, fire away.
As for combat: I completely agree. There's no amount of preparing that'll ever make you 100% ready for that. Professionals are trained to keep it together to enough of an extent that they can function and perform their assigned tasks, but the effects, or rather: after-effects are going to be there nonetheless. We've seen that happening across the decades, from so many war veterans.
And training also never has that "real world" vibe, if you understand what I'm trying to say. You always know in the back of your mind, that no matter how real the training or simulation, it's still only a practice run, and you're not in any risk of dying. I still remember some pranksters in my period of service simply juggling practice grenades with blanks in them like they were baby fireworks, instead of throwing them away as instructed.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@bimmy-lee Not to mention, Vietnam was a particular mess in that, on the surface we went there, at least, to help a country that asked for help holding back a Communist invasion/civil war (signing up to fight a foreign civil war, on its own would be demoralizing...it makes you a mercenary, not a soldier...but of course....Soviet proxy war....) Even if the soldiers there didn't understand they were there to fight "the russkies" while pretending they weren't to avoid nuclear exchange, they could have been bolstered by knowing they were fighting along side people desperate to save their home FROM the "reds." But the South Vietnamese didn't actually want help, and didn't really want to fight the war. Our gung-ho officials were so eager to take any opportunity to bloody some USSR nose and keep the sphere of influence in check with a big texas-sized slice of freedom pie, they didn't bother finding out much about S. Vietnamese government....the initial request for help was genuine. But their government system was a fickle one that changed constantly in random directions as tradition. Right after we got there they had an election with a different government with a different agenda that didn't actually care about the "reds", their agenda was reunification of population even if it meant just surrendering immediately and accepting communist rule to unite the country again. So we got there and it was basically "oh, thanks but no thanks, we don't want to fight anymore." The US pretty much dug in and said "screw it, we already spent a billion dollars and got here to fight some commies and that's what we're going to do!" So we tried to fight a war alone to help a country that no longer wanted help after initially requesting help. And then we drafted accountants and pocket protectors to go fight behind enemy lines in a Soviet proxy war the country we were "defending" didn't actually want to win very much. Losing was a blow in the cold war. It enhanced to soviet sphere in the region, enhanced their freedom of coordination with China, and put Japan, S Korea, Philippines, and Hawaii at greater risk. But if throwing "Kenny from legal" in a foxhole with a box of grenades and a napalm flame thrower is your only hope at stopping "the red menace", then you're in pretty bad shape to begin with.
@HobbitGamer That means never looking up and running all the red lights, and ramming everyone in front of you. Which, honestly, is tempting. It's not "a car passing" It's 3200 cars non-stop in lines for an hour in otherwise unlit darkness. Plus the lane markers are faded or completely missing in half the area. Plus the glare STILL blinds you. For me I just see spots for about 20 seconds after each car goes by, and feel searing pain in my optic nerve. My eyes just automatically close. Can't do a thing about that. Nor should I. It's a reaction because it's damaging and painful!
I truly don't understand how it's at all physically possible for everyone else. It just doesn't make sense that it even could be possible. I suppose I do have wider than average vision, so I see the lights the whole way by. I can see slightly wider than 180 degrees. Predator eyes. Nobody can sneak up on me. But I'll see your headlights even after you pass, and fully even if I'm looking aside. That said, it wasn't as big an issue 20 years ago before idiot governments allowed idiot lights that are great for the person that owns them and physically harmful for the person opposing them. I swear I'm going to just get big diving lamps or stadium lights and mount them on the hood. If it's ok to point intense lights in people's eyes on the roads, then it's ok.....now I have the bigger light and see great, screw you. You get to inflict upon others whatever you can afford to buy.
@NintendoByNature I’m there but having trouble avoiding some of these attacks. I’ll get the hang of it eventually.
The route to the “real” ending is quite funny. There is probably some way you could figure out the way forward on your own, but I was stumped a lot of the time.
What the heck is up with this site? I've never even listed any of my games on my profile, and yet here they are, as of today, because previously, it would just display an empty page. And I didn't add that check mark on the left in the "Have" box either, so how the heck all that happened is beyond me. The mystery deepens...
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