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General / Re: Secret Santa 2018 - Part 3. Gift buying/shipping (need sent updates!!!!)

« on: December 11, 2018, 08:51:36 am »

I've posted mine yesterday afternoon, I picked up my gift from the delivery office yesterday.  Can't wait to see what's inside!

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General / Re: How important are video games to you on a scale of 1-10? (Gamer scale)

« on: November 28, 2018, 02:37:52 pm »

I believe I would within the 7.5 range.  I love video games, relative to a lot of people on here I think I have a pretty humble collection.  I've never camped out for a midnight launch or anything. 

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Off Topic / Re: Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95

« on: November 13, 2018, 05:00:51 pm »

I'm not gonna lie, I'm not much of a Comic Book person, but I have the utmost respect for Stan.  I respect that not only did he continue to work and inspire many creatives into his older years, but he always appeared to sincerely enjoy his work, even if things got tough at some point for Stan Lee. When I saw him appear in Avengers Infinity War, I knew who he was immediately, that was a nice surprise. 

Excelsior!

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Modern Video Games / Re: Super Smash Bros Ultimate final Nintendo Direct thoughts

« on: November 02, 2018, 01:32:44 pm »

The whole 'Spirits' thing felt like it went on for too long, and it is a little upsetting to know that the trophies have not only been replaced with pictures, but it's all existing artwork.  I get it, that's a lot of content to produce, but it's still quite the step backwards.  Hey look! Shantae is in the game now, Sakurai Googled "Shantay", it auto-corrected, then he copy/pasted that PNG into 'Muh_game.exe'

Piranha Plant caught me by surprise but a very nice surprise, suck it Waluigi.  I'm also really digging Spring Man, Tiki and the Wily Capsule assist trophies. 

Edit: I just rewatched the Direct and I'm a bit more positive on the Spirits now. 

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General / Re: Secret Santa 2018 - Part 2. Wishlist/address info time!

« on: October 18, 2018, 07:59:10 pm »

I've sent mine. 

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Modern Video Games / Re: If Cartridges And Disc Based Games Make a Comeback Would You Buy?

« on: October 18, 2018, 12:41:02 pm »

See, with consoles like the Switch, I've come to realise that having a bunch of digital games on the system is just so much more convenient.
 That pretty much personifies the system's existence, utter versatility, it's a system that can meld around your own lifestyle.  I used to be in that physical media club, I have physical carts of all the first party Nintendo Switch games I own, so that saves up a lot of space from those bigger games. 

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General / Re: Can I ask this ahead of time if you guys don't mind me asking ahead of time

« on: October 15, 2018, 07:33:55 pm »

I've never been more deterred to read a paragraph of text until now. 

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General / Re: Secret Santa 2018 !!!

« on: October 11, 2018, 06:32:59 pm »

Yayyyy!

I'm sorry about the hefty shipping costs last year, I didn't mean to be this far away!

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General / Re: Secret Santa 2018 !!!

« on: October 11, 2018, 02:39:22 pm »

I think you may have just made it

Yes yes!! Sign me up please!!

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General / Re: Secret Santa 2018 !!!

« on: October 11, 2018, 12:57:37 pm »

Looking at the list, it looks like we're missing DashV, Doctor Ladunam, and...maybe a few others?

It feels good to just meld into the background noise

Ooohhh man I was thinking about this today, am I too late???

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Off Topic / Re: Have You Ever Had A Trusted Person Steal From You

« on: September 11, 2018, 11:56:22 am »

Back in high school I had a long time friend that went on hard times during junior and senior year and his parents ended up loosing their house half way through senior year so we let him come and stay with us till we finished high school. he ended up staying with us through the summer as well and ended up earning a full ride scholarship to a university. about that time he must have decided he didn't need us anymore because on his last day at the house he stole a 50 inch flat screen hd tv (at the time it was a $3000-4000 tv) 3 game consoles and all the games, every laptop in the house and my dads coin collection (I have to estimate it to around 4-6k but he ended up melting them down so he probably only got 4-600 for them) and disappeared for a while.

he had never stolen from us before nor did we ever think he would have. obviously we called the police and they found him a week later when he showed up to his university. if im not mistaken he either just got out of prison this year or last year

Even if you did get 'most' of you stuff back, the damage is done.  All that hospitality just fell on deaf ears. 

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Off Topic / Re: Have You Ever Had A Trusted Person Steal From You

« on: September 09, 2018, 01:22:49 pm »

Dirty Laundry time!! I was that kid, it happened on 2 separate occasions but I do regret it.  Pokemon LeafGreen (which I already had a copy of, I'm not sure why I felt I needed a second one, jealousy?) and 'Age of Empires: The Age of Kings' which I gave back to him after I "Found it".  Why didn't I just ask to 'borrow' these games?  That was a healthy habit, you know, sharing!!

I was such a conniving scoundrel! 

I 'thought' my Pokemon SoulSilver was stolen by my best friend for a while because he had a copy around the time mine went missing.  Until my Mom pulled it out of her handbag one day.  I had a wash-over of guilt for believing my friend would do that & frustration that my mom let that happen. 

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General / Re: What Would A Video Game Be Like Without Life and Death Scenario

« on: April 23, 2018, 08:01:55 pm »

Out of my own collection, I found non-sports games that do not feature any kind of death:
Animal Crossing, Ape Escape, ARMS, Billy Hatcher, Bust-a-Move, DDR, King of Fighters, every single Mario Kart, Luigi's Mansion, Professor Layton, Puyo Puyo, Rhythm Paradise, Rumble Roses, Samba de Amigo, Super Smash Bros., Tetris, Warioware. 

These games exist, they always have, they just may not be as popular as CoD

I also found a couple of games that would practically be ruined without the concept of life and death in place:
Fire Emblem, Pikmin, Trauma Center (The Sims? maybe??). 

Meanwhile Crash Bandicoot can 'Die', he has a couple 'Death' animations which do not involve a death.   

Even Cel Damage makes a joke that they're all cartoon characters, so they never get injured. 

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General / Re: Underrated/unexpectedly good game soundtracks

« on: March 29, 2018, 07:38:54 pm »

Original Tekken, Arcade or PS version, they both resonate near and dear to my heart. 

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Do german releases count as EU?

« on: March 12, 2018, 10:02:21 pm »

I think a better question would be: do UK releases count as EU?
Awwwwww SNAP

Well the UK is still in Europe.  At least I think it is???