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Rydain Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42  Posts: 242/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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Not everybody gets games as soon as they come out or winds up playing them right away. Though I enjoy console gaming very much, it's not my #1 free-time priority, so it's pretty common for me to not get around to a new game for a while, especially when we get more than one at a time. We got Ratchet and Clank ages ago, and I literally haven't touched it yet.  |
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Rydain Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 243/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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Is this contest like the last one, where women could take bra and panty pics? Or does the bottom half have to be boxers?  |
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 246/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Colleen - That's funny...I haven't finished Metroid Prime or Wind Waker either, and I put a significant amount of time into both. I guess I really don't care as much about beating games as I used to. |
On the subject of the game - In chapter 1, I had found the room that Ranko mentioned, but there was a search square I'd missed when playing through it the first time. D'oh. I'm in the forest now, and I'm being very careful to hit all the search squares in each area before I beat it. So far, I think I'm doing OK, and I think the difficulty curve problem was temporary. I recruited a hippo and have been focusing on buying better items and making long streams of energy to purify (to power up said items), and I haven't had to do any real leveling since getting ready for that boss battle in chapter 2. I think my problem was that I just didn't have enough strong characters, but now I do, so life is good.  I've also discovered that setting up miracles really isn't as tough or random as some people claim it is. If you just try to move your characters around and lengthen the energy stream, you may very well wind up being able to connect a long stream with an enemy inside, and there ya go. It's not going to happen in every single battle, but it's definitely something to try for.
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 247/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Oh, I can't believe I forgot this one... |
...bring back the awesome rock music! I enjoyed DW3's soundtrack much, much more than 4's. The music in 4 was good, but it just didn't have that same pump-up effect as driving electric guitars. I'd also like to see more options for viewing character outfits and weapons in detail. In DW4, you can rotate the character, but I haven't found any zoom button. When you're trying to replicate intricate applique or embroidery shapes, it's annoying to not be able to see exactly what they're supposed to be. Also, I can't seem to find any way to closely examine all of an officer's weapons, not just the highest level one that you've found. Luckily, I have some artbook scans that clearly show most of the details of what I'm making, but still, would it have been that tough to let you scroll through all the levels of weapon that you've come across?
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 248/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Honestly, I'd suggest saving up for something like a Cobalt Flux. Before I'd known that arcade-like metal DDR pads are rather commonplace, I ordered a similar pad to that Play Asia one off eBay, and though it's decent, it's not as responsive as a Flux. Also, a screw got stuck in one of the foam pads underneath an arrow during assembly, and we didn't know about it until the arrow started to crack while Rando was dancing. |
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 249/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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I was so happy that the latest sex change fad involves a fun game that I'm currently playing. It gave me a great excuse to finally get a layout, too (which Prier kindly made for me)... |
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 250/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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So let's see if I have this straight... |
Phase 1 - Notice that the iPod, a sleek, sophisticated-looking piece of nicely-functioning hardware with a simple and easy-to-use interface, is selling very well. Phase 2 - Jump on the coattails of said iPod's success by peddling a fugly plastic computer. Phase 3 - Profit! Phase 2 really ought to be replaced with ????? because it makes no sense whatsoever. I could see this computer being marketed as an iMac competitor, but an iPod and an entire computer are not the same thing at all, and that computer doesn't even resemble an iPod in any way, shape, or form. It's not even portable, which is one of the iPod's main selling points.
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 251/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Yeah, I'm still here...generally quiet, but still here. |
 *pokes around the website some more* Wow...they'll soon be selling a notebook variant of the computer, and from its preview picture, it doesn't appear to be fugly. There's also a playme gadget that serves as portable media storage and plays mp3's. It's not exactly as good-looking as the iPod, but it seems to have a similar interface (with buttons arranged logically in a ring). Maybe there is some hope for this product line after all. I also found a CNN article about the hip-e products. Evidently they're trying to make hardware that looks good (like Apple's gear) and works together well (like Apple's gear) but runs Windows or is initially intended for Windows-based systems (unlike Apple's gear). They also did market research to see what teenagers wanted. Still, though, I'm reminded that New Coke did triumph in taste tests, and look how that turned out. (Yeah, I know it's not a good analogy because hip-e's stuff isn't replacing a popular brand of computer hardware, but it's an interesting example of how market research can colossally flop.)
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 252/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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I'm all about function over form. My computer is a collection of assorted good hardware - dual Athlon 1800 MP's, some sort of GeForce that was cheap but has pretty good specs and works fine and dandy for my purposes, Audigy 2 sound card, monster hard drive, 512 MB ECC DDR RAM - stuck in a basic black server case. Its only embellishments are a blinking blue side fan (which was an accidental choice - Rando didn't know it blinked until after he got it), a Cartman sticker (just for fun), and a few scratches incurred when a window fell on it and broke (yes, this really happened). Its monitor is a basic 21" Philips that has served me well for 3 years and isn't going anywhere any time soon. |
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 253/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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The logout button currently uses JS to submit a form with the POST method to the script that does the logging out. I tried "submitting" it myself by pasting the URL with the proper hidden input and value appended, and it didn't log me out. I don't know why that is (I'm guessing that the script is set up to ignore parameters appended to the URL), but I don't see why it couldn't be used on a separate logout page. Clicking the link would get you a page that said "You are currently logged in as (username). Would you like to log out?" and gave you a button that would submit a similar form. That would prevent people from logging out by accident, prevent the logout script from being abused to annoy people, and make the feature work without JavaScript. |
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 255/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Originally posted by Jean Grey That reminds me...many drag racers drive sleepers, which look average to ugly but kick serious ass. It can be advantageous to have people think that your car isn't a winning contender...and it must be absolutely hilarious if you drive a rusty, primer-smeared boat that completely whups a decaled, giant airplane winged monstrosity. Rando goes to LAN parties on a fairly regular basis (there's a small local group that hosts them), and he actually bought a mini computer case just so he wouldn't have to drag a monstrous tower to and fro. I can see how carting your computer around could be part of the fun of the whole experience, but being an engineer, Rando is all about efficiency. (restricted) | (restricted) |
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 258/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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The original Silent Hill is the scariest in the series. I could barely stand to watch a friend go through the sewers, let alone do so myself. I played it years ago and never made it past the first area because it sawed on my nerves so badly. I've since bought it and am trying to get up the guts to actually play this time. |
Silent Hill 2 didn't frighten me as much. Its radio wasn't nerve-grating like the one in Silent Hill, it had some good background music (unearthly moans, sick industrial whines, and other fun stuff) but nothing matching the sheer terror of Devil's Lyric, and there weren't any garden-variety enemies that attacked from overhead or didn't set off the radio. (One reason the Silent Hill sewers are so frightening is that your radio doesn't work and there are enemies lurking above, so a monster might swipe at you from the ceiling and scare the crap out of you.) Still, it was disturbing enough that I had to talk myself into picking up again if I took a break from playing it. Pyramid Head is partially to blame for that. Silent Hill 3 really isn't that scary, but it is more difficult than the other two. I generally didn't have serious trouble on Easy mode, but I had to be much more careful with supplies than I did in the original Silent Hill. Silent Hill 4 is the least freaky of all (it's rather spooky, tense, and disturbing, but that's about it), but it evidently has a very sharp and nasty difficulty spike halfway through. That's what's keeping me from playing it any more for the time being.
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 259/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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It annoys the snot out of me. I don't actually have operational MIDI on here at the moment, so I haven't been subjected to very much background music at all, but I have come across a couple of Flash sites that felt the need to provide their own soundtrack. Luckily, they also provided a Stop button, but it was still annoying to be browsing along in peace and quiet and suddenly hear some music start up. Of course, it's even worse when it overlaps music that you were already listening to. |
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 260/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Arwon beat me to it. It's actually up to each state to decide how to allocate their electoral votes, and I think we would make some major progress by convincing the vast majority of them to kick the winner-take-all system, which I think is grossly unfair because it effectively discards all the votes that weren't for the winner and keeps third-party candidates from having any real chance at succeeding. Ross Perot won 19% of the popular vote in 1992, but his electoral vote count was zero, which doesn't represent his actual popularity at all. I would love to see the instant-runoff system implemented everywhere because, as he said, it would let people vote for their true #1 choice while also selecting "safe" candidate(s) that they think would be good for the job. As the Wikipedia link on the subject explains, it does have some possible drawbacks, but I feel that its potential for giving third parties more representation would be well worth it. |
DahrkDaiz - Actually, it was the third. 1876 and 1888 were the other two years in which a candidate (Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison, respectively) lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote. (restricted) | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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