Paul beats and abuses his Pokemon? I always thought he was more of a 'you're a useless POS, get out of my face' and 'you're fighting for me but don't expect any HUGGLES you wimps' kind of trainer, which makes him no worse than an 80s business guy.PA wrote:and abusing and beating animals into pure aggression.
Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.
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Lago PARANOIA
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Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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I've been particularly enjoying Amazing Super Powers lately. Particularly the one from Monday, as well as its corresponding alt comic.
They're actually all pretty much the same with a standard two panel setup followed by some surreal subversion in the third panel. Still, I find a lot of them quite funny.
Hint: if you go through reading them, to find the alt comic, you have to click a hidden button to the upper right of the comic. A question mark will appear when you mouse-over the button.
They're actually all pretty much the same with a standard two panel setup followed by some surreal subversion in the third panel. Still, I find a lot of them quite funny.
Hint: if you go through reading them, to find the alt comic, you have to click a hidden button to the upper right of the comic. A question mark will appear when you mouse-over the button.
Sort of like letting your kid take Tae Kwon Do versus tossing them to the school bully?PA wrote:Actually... there's a difference between putting an animal you love and have trained well into a fight with another animal, and abusing and beating animals into pure aggression.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
I really don't even know who the hell Paul is, if he doesn't use the item that actually causes the pokemon pain during training, then I was just clarifying the difference between michael vick and the usual pokemon trainer.Lago PARANOIA wrote:Paul beats and abuses his Pokemon? I always thought he was more of a 'you're a useless POS, get out of my face' and 'you're fighting for me but don't expect any HUGGLES you wimps' kind of trainer, which makes him no worse than an 80s business guy.PA wrote:and abusing and beating animals into pure aggression.
Hell, if I were a pokemon trainer, there wouldn't be huggles (partially because I'm not that type, and partially because that would be a suicidal propostion due to my taste in pokemon) but there would be drinks at the bar and time at the pokeranch for them to get some tail...
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One thing I'd like to note; the Japanese fucking love Uchiha, or so I heard. I guess it's cultural disonance.
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Frank on the Fighter (Abridged)
FrankTrollman wrote:...God_of_Awesome wrote: Could I inquire on the motive behind the design decisions on the Fighter class?
The Fighter is intended to be, like the Wizard, a character who can and does adapt their tactics to the opposition and draws upon player experience to deliver tactical victories. And to do it without "feeling" like it was using Magic.
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So honestly, when someone tells me "I know the game backwards and forwards, and when I pull out all the stops with the Fighter I totally win!" And my response is "OK, good." Because that's exactly what people report with the Wizard too.
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"The C Programming Language 4.10" is a great revisionist take on that old aged language.
It is a must read for all Computer enthusiasts and those who aren't.
And oh yes, it's been rewritten by the great programmer Lovecraft...
It is a must read for all Computer enthusiasts and those who aren't.
And oh yes, it's been rewritten by the great programmer Lovecraft...
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Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
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Thanks Cynic. I particularly like the excercises for the reader at the bottom. I have a new project today!
The wiki you should be linking to when you need a wiki link - http://www.dnd-wiki.org
Fectin: "Ant, what is best in life?"
Ant: "Ethically, a task well-completed for the good of the colony. Experientially, endorphins."
Fectin: "Ant, what is best in life?"
Ant: "Ethically, a task well-completed for the good of the colony. Experientially, endorphins."
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Moment: Beating Cosmic Fantasy 2 (the very first console RPG I ever played) and being completely rocked by the twist to the ending. Like, childlike me had tears in his eyes. I think the anime cut scenes, voice acting, and decent music played a part in all of that. It's too bad the game was so graphically simple. I'm almost tempted to code a remake.
Moment: Playing Daggerfall for the first time and leaving the initial dungeon to find myself in the middle of nowhere, as night and snow were falling. No game since has managed to recreate that sense of immersion in a fantasy world. Bethesda still hasn't implemented a lot of the things that made it so good in the sequels.
Moment: When the Big Twist in Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn trilogy hit me. I don't think I was really ready for a deconstruction of a fantasy trope when I first read it, but it's stuck with me ever since.
Moment: Secret Of Mana. The whole game. For srsly. The music, the graphical style, the pacing ... So GOOD! I go back and play it pretty often.
Moment: Lunar: The Silver Star. The whole game. For srsly. JRPG perfection, as far as I'm concerned. It had a battlefield on which distance and formation matter, and it did so long before anything like that was common.
Moment: Oldboy. The whole movie. For srsly. Note: do not watch this movie.
Moment: Playing Daggerfall for the first time and leaving the initial dungeon to find myself in the middle of nowhere, as night and snow were falling. No game since has managed to recreate that sense of immersion in a fantasy world. Bethesda still hasn't implemented a lot of the things that made it so good in the sequels.
Moment: When the Big Twist in Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn trilogy hit me. I don't think I was really ready for a deconstruction of a fantasy trope when I first read it, but it's stuck with me ever since.
Moment: Secret Of Mana. The whole game. For srsly. The music, the graphical style, the pacing ... So GOOD! I go back and play it pretty often.
Moment: Lunar: The Silver Star. The whole game. For srsly. JRPG perfection, as far as I'm concerned. It had a battlefield on which distance and formation matter, and it did so long before anything like that was common.
Moment: Oldboy. The whole movie. For srsly. Note: do not watch this movie.
Current pet peeves:
Misuse of "per se". It means "[in] itself", not "precisely". Learn English.
Malformed singular possessives. It's almost always supposed to be 's.
Misuse of "per se". It means "[in] itself", not "precisely". Learn English.
Malformed singular possessives. It's almost always supposed to be 's.
Reading The Colour of Magic.
the moment: Rincewind not being able to create a dragon in a high magic area because he doesn't believe in them, but actually being able to teleport himself and Twoflower to a plane in our world because he believes in technology, even if he doesn't know what it is... Fucking Awesome.
the moment: Rincewind not being able to create a dragon in a high magic area because he doesn't believe in them, but actually being able to teleport himself and Twoflower to a plane in our world because he believes in technology, even if he doesn't know what it is... Fucking Awesome.
Oh Aizen, you magnificent troll bastard. You both make this manga irredeemably shitty and unrepentantly awesome.
FrankTrollman wrote: Halfling women, as I'm sure you are aware, combine all the "fun" parts of pedophilia without any of the disturbing, illegal, or immoral parts.
K wrote:That being said, the usefulness of airships for society is still transporting cargo because it's an option that doesn't require a powerful wizard to show up for work on time instead of blowing the day in his harem of extraplanar sex demons/angels.
Chamomile wrote: See, it's because K's belief in leaving generation of individual monsters to GMs makes him Chaotic, whereas Frank's belief in the easier usability of monsters pre-generated by game designers makes him Lawful, and clearly these philosophies are so irreconcilable as to be best represented as fundamentally opposed metaphysical forces.
Whipstitch wrote:You're on a mad quest, dude. I'd sooner bet on Zeus getting bored and letting Sisyphus put down the fucking rock.
Definitely.TOZ wrote:Old Man Genocide says fuck you, I don't need no stinkin' sword.
I want to see more of his fights.
I also want them to hurry up and kill Aizen so we can see what happens next...
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Lago PARANOIA
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The Angry Video Game Nerd has been on a roll with his videos lately.
Nostalgia Critic ain't looking too good. Which is kind of a shame. You'd think there would be a lot more shitty 70's-90's movies than shitty 1st-5th generation video games. But I guess not.
Nostalgia Critic ain't looking too good. Which is kind of a shame. You'd think there would be a lot more shitty 70's-90's movies than shitty 1st-5th generation video games. But I guess not.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Lago PARANOIA
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The Angry Video Game Nerd has been on a roll with his videos lately.
Nostalgia Critic ain't looking too good. Which is kind of a shame. You'd think there would be a lot more shitty 70's-90's movies than shitty 1st-5th generation video games. But I guess not.
Nostalgia Critic ain't looking too good. Which is kind of a shame. You'd think there would be a lot more shitty 70's-90's movies than shitty 1st-5th generation video games. But I guess not.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Just got back from seeing Alice in Wonderland, shelled out the few extra bucks for 3d, I hadn't seen a modern 3d movie before.
so, first, the way the Tron Legacy trailer used 3d (in gameworld scenes only).
The Toy Story 3 trailer was pretty good, and reminded me why Pixar rocks (even if I wish they'd played the Ken doll's appearance straight and made him act gay... pun completely intended.)
How To Train a Dragon looks awesome, I already wanted to see it, now I have to.
As for the actual movie, it was great, and probably the scene(s) that rocked me most were:
Alice riding the Bandersnatch, Mad Hatter walking out to the battlefield in a kilt, and Mad Hatter doing the "futterwack".
Oh, and every scene with Cheshire, but that's no surprise.
so, first, the way the Tron Legacy trailer used 3d (in gameworld scenes only).
The Toy Story 3 trailer was pretty good, and reminded me why Pixar rocks (even if I wish they'd played the Ken doll's appearance straight and made him act gay... pun completely intended.)
How To Train a Dragon looks awesome, I already wanted to see it, now I have to.
As for the actual movie, it was great, and probably the scene(s) that rocked me most were:
Alice riding the Bandersnatch, Mad Hatter walking out to the battlefield in a kilt, and Mad Hatter doing the "futterwack".
Oh, and every scene with Cheshire, but that's no surprise.
Sammi thought it wasn't 'mad' enough. I just think the bar is set too high.
Same as Prak here, though I saw it in IMAX as well, and it was interesting to see a movie which some elements even pushed that level of resolution.
Admittedly, I'm starting to think the experience is highly dependent upon which glasses they use. The big, traditional IMAX ones give the best image, but are a bit heavy. The disposable, RealD or similar are light, but easily munged, leaving you to watch the rest of the movie with a blurry spot. And the first series of reusable glasses with the small lenses are just a pain to see through. I really want to buy my own pair.
Or maybe I just watch too many movies.
-Crissa
Same as Prak here, though I saw it in IMAX as well, and it was interesting to see a movie which some elements even pushed that level of resolution.
Admittedly, I'm starting to think the experience is highly dependent upon which glasses they use. The big, traditional IMAX ones give the best image, but are a bit heavy. The disposable, RealD or similar are light, but easily munged, leaving you to watch the rest of the movie with a blurry spot. And the first series of reusable glasses with the small lenses are just a pain to see through. I really want to buy my own pair.
Or maybe I just watch too many movies.
-Crissa
Saw it in non-3D and enjoyed it as well. Agreed on all points there Prak.
As for trailers, maybe it's because I never saw the original, but Karate Kid looks enjoyable. Toy Story 3 looks worth the wait. I'd like to say there were others, but obviously they weren't important since I don't remember them.
As for trailers, maybe it's because I never saw the original, but Karate Kid looks enjoyable. Toy Story 3 looks worth the wait. I'd like to say there were others, but obviously they weren't important since I don't remember them.
yeah, it certainly could have been "madder."
I think Johnny Depp is getting too well known, or something.. or he's having to many of these oddball rolls, he's getting to the point where it's more of "Oh, Johnny's gone a bit mad today, so he's running around in white face and a top hat. He'll be back to normal soon."
ie, it's almost getting to the point where he's not playing characters anymore, just versions of himself. Like Shatner, except that Depp's a good actor....
I think Johnny Depp is getting too well known, or something.. or he's having to many of these oddball rolls, he's getting to the point where it's more of "Oh, Johnny's gone a bit mad today, so he's running around in white face and a top hat. He'll be back to normal soon."
ie, it's almost getting to the point where he's not playing characters anymore, just versions of himself. Like Shatner, except that Depp's a good actor....
Depp's always been doing weird roles.
It's just when he got into Pirates of the Caribbean, they decided Weird and Quirky is Good.
He said once that he takes roles that interest him--so he's not against success, he just wants success doing what he actually likes to do.
Anyways. I tried to go see Avatar today, but scheduling conflicts messed with that. Or, more like it: due to a couple of blown LED lights and glare from the sunlight on the sign out front) I thought it was coming on at 1:35, and therefore I was fifteen minutes early. But, no, it was supposed to say 12:35. And the next showing was at 4.
So I went and saw Percy Jackson with the family.
It's not...*bad*. Someone just had to fight the concept of the books past some suits who don't know what cool is.
They cut the plot down to its bare bones, made Hades evil, made the Underworld actually Hell, didn't have any gods show up more than necessary (ticked me off Ares didn't show up to buy cheeseburgers), and didn't mention Kronos at all apart from the history lesson at the start, therefore leaving them boned if they want to do a smooth sequel.
Seeing Alan Rickman as Hades (looking like a combination of Snape and Keith Richards after a bad cocaine bender) was fun, though.
It's just when he got into Pirates of the Caribbean, they decided Weird and Quirky is Good.
He said once that he takes roles that interest him--so he's not against success, he just wants success doing what he actually likes to do.
Anyways. I tried to go see Avatar today, but scheduling conflicts messed with that. Or, more like it: due to a couple of blown LED lights and glare from the sunlight on the sign out front) I thought it was coming on at 1:35, and therefore I was fifteen minutes early. But, no, it was supposed to say 12:35. And the next showing was at 4.
So I went and saw Percy Jackson with the family.
It's not...*bad*. Someone just had to fight the concept of the books past some suits who don't know what cool is.
They cut the plot down to its bare bones, made Hades evil, made the Underworld actually Hell, didn't have any gods show up more than necessary (ticked me off Ares didn't show up to buy cheeseburgers), and didn't mention Kronos at all apart from the history lesson at the start, therefore leaving them boned if they want to do a smooth sequel.
Seeing Alan Rickman as Hades (looking like a combination of Snape and Keith Richards after a bad cocaine bender) was fun, though.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
I didn't even realize it was Rickman in Percy Jackson. I even read the credits because I knew there was an inside joke I was missing when he came on screen, and the name didn't even register.
Which is funny because Rickman voices the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland and after the movie, I remarked to my friend that, of the roles I've seen him in, that was the nicest and most helpful character he's played. Which says... a lot...
Which is funny because Rickman voices the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland and after the movie, I remarked to my friend that, of the roles I've seen him in, that was the nicest and most helpful character he's played. Which says... a lot...
I've been playing Tales of Phantasia recently, and the times when Dhaos completely blew my face off were great. He's got great voice acting and is really hard. If you're not attacking him constantly and with good timing he will ruin you.
Even doing that is a challenge, and he wiped me out several times, something which hasn't really happened in most jrpgs in the history of ever. He's one of the best villains I've ever seen come out of japan. In the end, he has an incredibly good motivation for doing what he does, and while he's still a villain, he's one you can respect.
He's also very stylish.
Even doing that is a challenge, and he wiped me out several times, something which hasn't really happened in most jrpgs in the history of ever. He's one of the best villains I've ever seen come out of japan. In the end, he has an incredibly good motivation for doing what he does, and while he's still a villain, he's one you can respect.
He's also very stylish.
Which version? The Gameboy Advance Phantasia?Vnonymous wrote:I've been playing Tales of Phantasia recently, and the times when Dhaos completely blew my face off were great. He's got great voice acting and is really hard. If you're not attacking him constantly and with good timing he will ruin you.
Even doing that is a challenge, and he wiped me out several times, something which hasn't really happened in most jrpgs in the history of ever. He's one of the best villains I've ever seen come out of japan. In the end, he has an incredibly good motivation for doing what he does, and while he's still a villain, he's one you can respect.
He's also very stylish.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
I found an old game on my Xbox (it has several emulators and an assload of roms on it) a few days ago called Demon's Crest. It's apparently a spin off of Ghosts and Goblins and is about the demon Firebrand escaping the Colosseum and seeking out the six elemental crests.
It's a lot of fun and really fucking annoying because it has like four different endings depending on amount of completion of the game. Annoying in a really good way, though.
It's a lot of fun and really fucking annoying because it has like four different endings depending on amount of completion of the game. Annoying in a really good way, though.