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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82  Posts: 2022/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Hey guys, just a reminder that all fights will be ending on April 5th, as opposed to March 28th. Due to lack of activity, the fights will last for a month instead of three weeks. Keep on fightin'! | |||
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2023/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Hey guys, just a reminder that all fights will be ending on April 5th, as opposed to March 28th. Due to lack of activity, the fights will last for a month instead of three weeks. Keep on fightin'! | |||
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2024/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Something that is a reminder of the past, I.E. a disco ball would be 1970s memorabilia. Is it that? | |||
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2025/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Assuming that's sarcasm, you need to broaden your horizons, Ziffie. If it's not, then consider the relative cheapness of the average PS2 in used form in most gaming stores nowadays, and the fact that you can get Kingdom Hearts almost as cheap proportionate to its original price. I fail to see what's wrong with RPGs, particularly this one, since it's not really so much an RPG as it is an action game. |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2026/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Alright, I've tried to stay out of this one, but I just have to interject now. Firstoff, I'd like to enter this with the obvious knowledge that while Ziff claims to not be one of the X-Box crowd, I am one of the Nintendo crowd. They were the first (well, not the first electronic wise, but the first game and entertainment wise), and I believe they will remain the best in at least one of the markets they pursue. There is no breaking Nintendo's grip on the handheld market. In fact, if worst comes to worst and Nintendo is forced out of the console market, they would more than likely shift all of their resources to handheld gaming and tighten their fists even further than they already have. The GBA as it stands now is a dreadnought of console wars. It's been completely untouchable by efforts such as the N-Gage, and despite the release of the PSP, the odds of gamers seriously abandoning something as versatile and powerful (we're playing VIDEOS on this thing now, however crappy they may be it's certainly a huge step up from Advance Wars) as the GBA for Sony's second (if you'll remember the first time they tried to make a handheld and connect it to the PS-X...) attempt to rock the handheld gaming world are extremely low. I also doubt the European market should be written off in the way that it is now. There are more people in Europe than in Latin America or Australia, or North America and Japan (just those two countries) combined. With that many people in the European market, I seriously believe companies could easily shunt their resources across the pond (or mountains, depending on where we're coming from) and gain some serious profit. Nintendo's fKitten Yiffer to truly grab the Japanese market back from Sony is what should be written off. If Nintendo were to do something like market heavily to Europe, then they could probably turn up enough profit to get the ball rolling again in Japan. The Gamecube was much more successful than the N64, but it's still nowhere near the Super Famicom. What it's going to come down to anyway, no matter what happens, is the games. People get the systems with the games they want to play. The problem with gaming nowadays is that it's overextending itself to include all sorts of extra features. I didn't buy a PS2 to play DVDs, I bought it to play video games. By spreading their resources away from what they were originally focusing on, gaming companies are just weakening themselves. When you start including superficial facets in your development, like DVD playability or a built in hard drive or something of that sort, you also start turning your attention away from THE GAMES. Maybe the reason why games seem so much crappier nowadays is because the hardware companies aren't caring as much about the games that are being released for their systems. It's a buy now, pay later type deal. We're paying for special features that largely have nothing to do with what we were originally going to get the system for, and we're suffering for it. But enough about that, back to the PSP. It's also got another weakness that Nintendo trumps it with; Recognizablilty (that's probably a made-up word). Sony has no characters that they can really attach themselves to and make themselves accessible with. Nintendo has Mario, Link, Samus Aran, Donkey Kong, and god knows what else. Hell, there's not one but two (incredibly fun) fighting games based entirely around these extremely recognizable names and characters. When people see a kid with a sword and a shield, they think "Link" and they think "Zelda" and they think "Nintendo". It's the ultimate form of advertising, placing mascots and recognizable characters everywhere, making them look as cool as possible. Sony doesn't have that. Sony has third party companies that make games exclusively for them, but could jump ship at any time (Like, say, Insomniac or Naughty Dog). While Sony has third party support like whoa, Nintendo has the best first party games on the planet. First party support was what got Nintendo through the N64, and it should be regarded as a paramount weapon in the upcoming wars, especially with the constant flow of new titles being announced from third party companies. Nintendo learned its multiplayer lesson from the GC, too. Yes, people still like to gather their buddies and sit around a TV all night, but Sony and Microsoft showed them that those people are not shelling out 15 bucks a month to do it with more htan just their buddies (and I'll thank Ziff for that revelation). Now that the DS has a well-made form of online play, all that Nintendo needs is a decent few multiplayer games (taking a page from Microsoft's Halo Book of Moneymaking) and a subscription package. The PSP may already have a solution for that, but the fact is that Nintendo is getting stronger and learning from their mistakes, and that is going to bring Sony in for the long haul. Nintendo is unstoppable in the handheld market as it stands. The PSP can't compete. EDIT: Say, doesn't it release today? Guess now's the time for the real test of might... (edited by Grey on 03-24-05 10:09 AM) |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2027/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| There are two special EBs in Rhode Island that I know of. They are within ten miles of each other. The first EB, at the Warwick Mall, is a "Poser" store. It is filled with tall, well-groomed salesmen that talk in projected voices about things they have no clue about. I was in said store with one of my friends once, and we were talking about Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, which was coming out soon at the time. He was really looking forward to it, and the store manager himself came up to us, claiming to have played the game and describing several features that he said he knew were gonna be in the game. Immediately after he left, my friend told me he was filled with BS because what he had told us was actually all in a press release at Gamespot.com, and many of the features he mentioned had been scrapped, along with a total lack of demos released. Occasionally I go in there and see the staff arguing about sports games. The second EB, at the Rhode Island Mall, is a better store. It's filled with stout, well-flabbed, introverted gamers that actually play the games they're selling. They WILL tell you, in the case of two games of differing prices and quality, which game is crappy and which game is not, regardless of whether or not it means they lose money. They will tell you about games you want to hear about, and won't mention particular statistics from the yearly sports game releases, like the WMEB. In fact, the staff from RIM tried to encroach on the staff at WM by hosting a Super Smash Brothers Melee tournament, but the credit for the idea was taken by the WM staff because they were taller and more assertive. I can't stand poser stores, because more often than not they'll try to shaft you. I appreciate the hardcore stores and the staff that plays the games they sell instead of just reading press releases and assuming they know everything about games after that. |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2028/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by LenophisOriginally posted by Toxic |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2029/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| -Meet Ziff -Fight Ziff -Find self -Fight self -Hurt self -Heal self -Become a math teacher -Bungee Jump -Skydive -Become an expert marksman, then devote my life to anti-gun rallying -Become an animal-rights activist -Read all those novels I've been meaning to read -Compose Orwellian vision of the future -Take over Asia -Preserve body through cryogenics -Place brain in robot body -Get married -Travel to Japan, Germany, Sweden, the UK, and take up residence hopefully in either one of those or Canada after the eventual market collapse of the United States -Burn Rhode Island to the ground -Eat more fake meat -Get fitter -Become a DDR Masta -Learn some form of martial arts/self defense (my calc teacher says we're gonna be needing it in the future...) |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2030/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| How about the Armamull? It's derived from "Armaments" and "Mulligan stew", which is basically a stew made of whatever there is to make stew out of. Just an idea, of course. In any case, it looks pretty cool. |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2031/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Does the reason have to do with the two men's occupation? | |||
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2032/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Thunder Force 4. But Emptyeye should get the points for this one. I cheated. |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2033/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| So I wanna play some MUDDs, right? And I'm trying to use Windows' Telnet. I go to the panel, and I enter in the domain name of the server I want to play on whem prompted, and the port too. Problem is, it doesn't connect. I've never used telnet before, so I really have no clue what I'm doing, but if anyone wanted to give me a few pointers as to what I might possibly be doing wrong, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! | |||
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2034/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Probably not, but what's that thing on the ground as Kirby and Yoshi are heading for the exit? Is it a sign, or a piece of rubble? | |||
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2035/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| OMG man i red this nad now i hat evolushun. Jesus holds teh atom 2gether. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp But seriously people, I think the worst thing we can do while on the subject of religious debate in schools is to publish articles like this from outside sources. If you take a close look at his asterisks, they're all from antievolutionist sources. When it comes to beliefs in schools, we need to keep away from documents like this, which are biased and uneducated. I would much rather suggest a course of action that includes views from both sides or perhaps a melting together of them. That said, I also have an english teacher who enjoys forcing her views on people. She points constantly to unnecessary symbolism in novels, and focuses on points that hold very little interest for the rest of the class. I've tried time and again to argue my views with her, but her reigning argument is usually that she is the teacher and I am the student. My questions are thus rendered useless. I dislike it. |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2036/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Janus: "Schwa, what do you think you're doing? Origin's tower is WAY too charged with energy to be safe to crash into like that! This is too risky, no matter what Dracoon's gonna do!" But then Janus got an idea... "But Dracoon's aim may be a bit better if the castle weren't falling as fast..." He places his hands together, and archaic symbols appear around his feet as he drops to his knees, slapping his palms on the surface of Crystal Psipalace's floor... "Slowga!!!" A rush of Time Magic flows through the palace to its bottom, and the falling building is slowed ever so slightly... "If... I keep this up.... Dracoon's chances of hitting will increase..." As Sensae's shield swirls over the tower, Janus' magic keeps flowing through, slowing it down more and more as it compiles... |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2037/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Janus: "So... Odin's on one side, and Star's on the other..." Janus knew what was going on. He always tried to track his friends, and his foes. Fenrir was dangerous, but he had Star helping him, so that couldn't be a bad thing. Odin was powerful and good, but Janus didn't want to fight his friends. "Hm, moral dilemma! I wonder..." Neoterra wasn't too good of a place to be a few hours back. It was one hell of an explosion. Janus never liked taking vacations, they usually ended up like this... "I guess I will have to wait and see. Actions speak louder than words, after all." |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2038/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| I love sugar! Sugar tastes like the best thing in the world and you just can't get enough of it unless it makes you fat and I like brown sugar the most because if I put it in my cereal it makes corn flakes taste less boring but too much sugar in your cereal tastes alright but not the best and when you have too much you know because theres the sugar mixed in with the milk at the bottom of the bowl and you scoop it up and it's all ew but tasty. In other news, I just had breakfast. |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2039/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Janus retracts his magical flow, and heaves a deep sigh... Janus: "Well, at least it's not falling to the ground anymore..." Grey: "What the hell just happened? Where are we? Why won't anyone tell me what's going on?" Ignoring the detective's comments, Janus turned to Schwa. Janus: "Two things: Schwa, I'd like you to meet my friend, Detective Grey Davis. He's been helping me for a while now. I can't really tell you what about, but you'll find out in about 50 years or so. And second..." At this Janus looks toward the energy core of Crystal Psipalace. "...This place seems to be gaining energy at a superfast rate. We're gonna need something that can absorb and control a lot of energy before it explodes. I've got a few ideas, but I don't think any of them will really work, not for this energy. I doubt even Satchel could store this much..." |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2040/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Grey holstered his guns and grinned evilly, stepping aside and allowing the blah man's blades to slash downward beside him, tearing off a bit of his already battered garments. He delivered a swift upward kick at the attacker, which turned into a back handspring that Grey came out of with both guns twirling around his index fingers. He pointed them at Durmed and fired rapidly, beginning to strafe as the bullets flew forward! Grey: "Lee Harvey Oswald? I like that... But watch out, or you might find that I fire like Jim Garrison's investigation was true!" |
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