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I have to say this: if you're the kind of person who's ever in your life thrown a controller, stay away from the Buffy X-Box game like it was a radioactive, poisonous rat.
While most of the game's fairly easy, there are occasional stages that are difficult, not because of genuine challenge, but because the CPU opponents suddenly don't have to follow the same rules you do. For example, the next-to-last level is infested with fire-chucking gray demons who can block everything you throw, and don't die even after you hit them for roughly 300% of their hit points; there's a similar situation in effect with these giant fish demons that show up in packs sometimes, who will continue to attack and block with great ferocity even with an empty lifebar.
That's before they stuck in the level that's making me take the goddamn game back to EB tomorrow, mind: the Dreamland stage, where Buffy must do all sorts of platformy stuff in order to find her way back to reality. At one point, you must jump onto a ledge while dodging an instant-kill swinging sawblade; the trick is, however, that you cannot pull yourself up onto the ledge fast enough to avoid getting killed. Oh, sure, I know it's technically possible, but fuck it. I've tried it half a dozen times, and Buffy doesn't get more than halfway up the ledge before she's hit and killed by the sawblade.
This game will make me kill someone if I keep playing it. It's a pity, because there are some stages that are kinda fun, like the bit where you get to throw vampires into a pool of molten metal. It's still a mediocre game.
We are going to have another game. But! We're waiting to see if Dan does get a reduced weekend workload, and waiting to get our Ty back on (those knots are tricky if you have a Dex of one or two), and probably waiting for the end of all the school-starting orientation and book-buying things.
Either that or we're waiting for the world to end, so our ST doesn't have to put up with any more of our bizarre plot-breaking antics. But that would mean very small quotefile updates.
WalkieTalkie
<Wanderer> There is no Floyd! Bwahahaha!
And in all of the KOF2002 hoopla, we missed something. (warning: pictures)
by
MMCafe, people. Right UNDER the KOF stuff. We need to look harder
"Capcom has released images of their upcoming new 3D fighter game through Enterbrain Inc.'s Arcadia magazine.
Capcom's new 3D fighter- title not yet announced, is confirmed to have a series of Capcom characters and a number of new original characters. 9 characters are revealed at this point, going as follows: Ryu, Chunli, Strider Hiryu, Mike Haggar, Akira, Nash(Charlie), New Characters: D.D., Ingrid, Rook(Luke).
No details on the game's storyline or system have been revealed, but the three htw characters are confirmed to each have an emblem which resembles a God. D.D : The Goddess of thunder/Fierce God, Ingrid: Eternal Goddess, Rook(Luke): Rengoku/Fallen Angel.
The release date and running board of Capcom's new 3D title is unannounced. The game will be appearing at the upcoming AM (Amusement MAchine) Show. For images, check below."
There are also character portraits, but IMO, Strider is definitely the coolest:
Now if he just doesn't break THIS game, I can go back to worshipping him like in the old days.
Racewing
Resisting the urge to blow up his college.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Target said Wednesday that it is recalling baseball caps and shorts from all of its stores after a customer in Davis, Calif., realized symbols printed on the clothing are a code for "Heil Hitler."
The caps and shorts are imprinted with "eight eight" and "88." Among white supremacists, that stands for "Heil Hitler" because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
The chain told all of its 1,100 stores to stop selling the clothing.
"Target apologizes for any discomfort that may have been caused by the baseball caps and shorts carrying the insignia 88," the company said in a statement. "Target is a family oriented store and company and it is not our intent to carry any merchandise that promotes hate."
And the X I wore on my cap when I was thirteen could have stood for ten.
Of course, that didn't stop white people from looking at me either crossed and nervous like. And that assumption did prompt most schools in the district (This was around the time Denzel starred in 'Malcolm X') to ban such items in school because they 'were hate filled and had no place in an educational setting'.
Uh huh. And while you're telling me another one, would you like to pull the other leg?
How many people knew, exactly, about this particularly esoteric usage of "88" as racist terminology? Are we to believe that a clothing company was marketing their line of sub rosa cheapwear to Target under the aegis of subtly placing supremacist labeling on everyone who shops at Target?
That strikes me as a bit too subtle for a neo-Nazi group.
Military Intelligence sucks *ass.* That's why we have the CIA, NSA, FBI, INS, USPS, State Department, and the freaking New York Times.
--Frosty
CIA Cable from Afghanistan to HQ:
"Waited hours for package. Package came three hours late. Received nothing but horse feed rpt. horse feed. We do not have any fucking horses."
The point of your joke, as I understand it, is that "military intelligence" was an oxymoron (i.e. "military" is a synonym for "dumb-assed").
Now, all I was saying is that Nick is a military type and it might be kind of a faux pas to cast oblique aspersions on his intelligence. I mean, I was obviously exaggerating how mad he would get -- I'm sure he's heard that one a million times already, so I doubt he'd even be angry at all -- I was just unsure whether or not you had remembered the dynamics of this board when you posted that, so I thought I'd remind you in a humorous way.
I totally fail to see how you got from what I had posted to thinking I had actually expressed an opinion one way or the other about military intelligence in this country.
This was clearly a misunderstanding. I do have opinions about military intelligence, but I had no intention of bringing them up. Let's drop it, 'kay?
See the clothing line only had clothing with 88 or EIGHTEIGHT on it, so it was without a doubt it was refering to Heil Hitler (The skulls and flames rule out Buckaroo Banzai too). Now while the phrase's meaning is too obscure for most of the world, it still is offensive. Would you want your five year old kid walking around with a shirt that says, "Chinks make shitty drivers."? (I'm aware that the clothing wasn't for five year olds, I was refering to the naieveity of the wearer.)
And now that I think about this, perhaps this was a ploy designed by some japanese t-shirt manufacterer to see if they could start selling in the states? (As for the case against japanese T-shirts, "Urine Tester" and "Beaver Hole" come to mind)
Textual description from memory: bright red shirt with kawaii rainbows and flowers or stars or something, declaring in big block letters, "I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO DIE."
<< Textual description from memory: bright red shirt with kawaii rainbows and flowers or stars or something, declaring in big block letters, "I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO DIE." >>
Since, just at the moment, my machine can't even find Engrish.com's front page, that description helps muchly. And yeah, that's a pretty off-base use of English, I must concede.
I haven't been to gameFAQs for a couple weeks since school starts on the 13th in my district. So Gavok's thread (LEEENK! WEEEEN! HAHAHAHA!) reminded me of the contest, and...
Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono? Mario? Or Chrono?
The voting hasn't even started yet, and I've already got a strange sense of impending doom for some irrational reason.
Now, as much as I like Samus, she's not in Sephiroth's class. Just because she's one of the first (the first?) videogame heroines doesn't mean she should win fights she shouldn't.
I also don't see why it would be "stupid" to put Sephiroth on top of this thing, but then again, I haven't been following this battle.
And to Erathia: Kefka = Loser. Seph would make him his bitch. The only FF villain Kefka would get to beat up would be ExDeath, and maybe Ultimecia.
As in, from the beginning of the batle, even in the face of so many more deserving, influential characters. I predicted Sephy from the very beginning, because people were that dummb.
And I was damn near right.
Scary, isn't it?
Seph was pure badass, but a MUCH overated badass than he should have been. ("The best villain in the world? " HELL no. Gimme Ghaleon anyday.) Sephiroth should should not have gotten past the likes of Sonic and Megaman, dude. The later two are icons. The first is a fangirl liquification device with a superiority complex.
I hypothesize that if Smash Bros. Melee hadn't come out just before this poll, Samus wouldn't have had a chance. .. hell, NINTENDO as a whole itself might not have made as well a showing as it did.
And I cetainly agree she certainly can't hold up to someone who destroys the entire Milky Way just to kick your ass.
Seph was like someone took the Lestat from the 'Queen of the Damned' Movie, gave him a leather coat and a Compensation sword and said "Go on, you can blow up the world. It'll be fun!"
Do you know how many hopeless Video Geeks want to BE Sephy?! To wield a big bad ass sword, to look good in black, to have leigions of fangirls drooling over the thought of you AND have the power to destroy the world?!
What with Robin Hood: Men in Tights having a 12,000 vote lead over Norman Bates. But amusing as it would have been, I still think Dante vs. Q*Bert takes the cake. Go on. Just try to imagine that fight. Try to imagine Q*Bert winning.
Oh, well. Link's already won. We'll just have to see what the next Link game is like compared to Sunshine (I don't care what you say concerning THAT, Wanderer). I just have to say that CJayC will have to be careful next time about starting something like this next timAAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHCRUCIFYHEEEMCRUCIFYHEEEMTHEBLASPHEMERRRRRR!!
Uh. Heh-heh.
You see, the thing is, when Mario was emerging out of the pipe leading to the arena, Link was already there with his bow aimed...
I have a bunch of people coming in from out of town to party the Labor Day weekend away with, so I won't be running an IN game this weekend. Enjoy, and be ready to do all sorts of wacky stuff next time.
...took a left turn at Albuquerque, ended up at IndieMadnesse, went three blocks south to ImproFicRoast, linked to MOT and landed my happy ass right the fuck here.
Name's Zeroin; I'll be your eccentric entity for the evening. Please enjoy. ^_^
Anyhoo, I figured that, since I'd already invaded both the Indie and the FicRoast boards, why not this one, eh?
You see, Scorpion only has eyes when he has his hood and mask on. And even when he does have eyes, they lack any pupils. So that, as you can guess, makes it really hard for him to read.
So when he was given a message that his next match was against "Link", he misread the note. During the time the match was supposed to take place, Scorpion was off beating the bejeezus out of fellow ninja "Lin" and his KOF teammate "K'". Link didn't have an opponent and the match was given to him out of forfeit.
Upon hearing this information, Scorpion flipped out and kicked Lin in the ribs some more out of anger. Then he blamed it on Sub-Zero.
So in other words: Shut up, MMK! ^_^
In other news, I bought Illbleed for really cheap today and looked for a FAQ. In one that was put up just the other day, the author calls our very own Thomas Wilde a jackass and lists him with Osama and Satan for his post-911 ramblings.
Gavok
And also: Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!
Where the freedom of speech and right to have an opinion is only limited to your neighbors feeling the same way. If they don't, you must shut up about it this instant and pretend you never had it.
Relian Cortland,
absolutely thrilled to be born in the land where free speeech is king.
The guy who wrote the blurb concerning the Wanderer said, "...Anti-American tirades are neither cool nor funny..."
I seriously don't see what was cool or funny, because it WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE. That's what he doesn't realize.
It gets me angry (albiet in a futile manner) when there are people like him and others around me who have the hubris to think that anything challenging America (and Wandy was writing about REACTIONS to 9/11 and the current status of SOCIETY, not every single little goddamn thing associated with the nation) isn't valid, and should only be considered as quaint.
Then again, I get angry over the extreme injustice of Metamucil vs. Citrucel glass comparison magazine ads, so there you go.
Pei, who can't even watch TV or read without getting frustrated.
Daigle is the guy I didn't name, mentioned in my rant about the American reaction to the WTC attacks. I was under the impression that we'd settled our differences and I'd never hear from his ass again.
Apparently a company named Tartan in the UK released a Regionless NTSC version (as well as a PAL version) of Battle Royale, and supposedly the quality is nice. I grabbed mine off of amazon.co.uk.
... Now I wanna get me an embroidered backpack with the BR logo on it... =D~ (Unfortunately the logo has a 1-time fee of $95 for processing at a place I know online, but if anyone else wants to pitch in for backpacks, messenger bags and etc, hit me up.)
... Given that I am now officially back and online at college (mmmm, ethernet), when do we want this gaming thing to go down?
(The bad side is that, for the most part, this week isn't much good for me; we have mucho orientation and whatnot. Classes start a week from Thursday.)
Thoughts?
-- Amanda: assuming any of you even knew I was gone
School just started for me, too, my schedule for the weekdays and weekends are all tentative, right now. So once I figure out what I'm doing, I'll give a notice on scheduling.
Except in order to start to worry I'd need you to, say, tell me you'd gone somewhere ^_^
But welcome back, I too know the pain of being stuck in a dead minivan prolonging a trip longer than it should reasonably go... just be glad your car didn't break down and leave you stranded in Saskatchewan...
As I sit and watch my copy of Versus, I will say that it is a an acceptable DVD copy. Compression artifacts are present but only really noticeable during closeups.
The subtitles are very clear and much easier to read than the version seen at Otakon. I don't remember if they are exactly the same though.
My copy has chapters and a small amount of extras and removable subtitles. Pretty nice overall.
If you've been wanting to pick up a copy of Versus based upon the ravings of this year's Otakon crowd, then you're apparently in luck. Tokyo Shock has announced that they acquired the American rights to the film. No word yet on when it'll be out, though.
