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Oh, and this is a bit long - make sure you have plenty of time to watch and bandwidth to match.
Which, in actuality is just 14 superimposed hit sounds on top of each other I suppose. I managed to extract the ringing noise of death from a Japanese direct-feed match video because the music cuts out during that time.
I am looking for a British series called "Spaced". It's made by Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead), and was only released in Region 2 DVD.
If any of you can track down high quality Torrents of this, I would be most appreciative. If not, if anyone would like to be my friend and has a PayPal address, I would pay for a copy of the DVDs.
If you ever include a sequence like this in another RE game, I will hunt down each and every one of the people who programmed it, and do to them what Krauser's been doing to me.
FUCKING GODDAMN BITCHASS INSTANT DEATH BUTTON TAP SEQUENCES?!? WHAT THE FUCK POSSESSED YOU? HULK SMASH!! GRAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!
It depends on the age of the gear. Anything beyond a couple of years isn't worth much...and if it's really old, then it's really only useful as a keychain. Personally, I'd tell your friend "Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass."
Now, there are groups that take old PCs and strip the gold and stuff like that off the cards and what-not. However, it'd take a lot of hardware and equipment to make a venture such as that profitable. At the district, we've sold our old equipment to groups such as that. We've also given old busted tech to places that used the components to build machines for poor people...but that's prolly getting waaaaaaaay of the subject.
I think my PS2 hates me. The moment I try going above Easy difficulty, my CPU teammates get so smacktarded that it's like playing co-op with two sides of beef.
On Normal Decisions, Decisions, CPU David managed to walk out of the second floor hallway in Danger status despite there only being one zombie in that hallway. On Normal Below Freezing Point, CPU George ran into the central hub on B4 and got his ass poisoned three times in a row. That kind of thing.
Instead, my PS2 is that SCH30001 model, i.e. the magical disk-read-error one.
Strangely, I never ran into problems with the NPCs. They generally stayed alive long enough to be useful. I like to think of them not as NPCs, but as colorful and talkative meatshields.
Good God, the moment I DON'T have a PS2, network adapter, broadband connection, and working TV is the same moment you ask if someone wants to play Outbreak. Damn damn damn damn DAMN.
Well, not a big RE fan, but I guess I'm better than nothing.
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I don't have the HD, but I have a network adaptor, and I can always rent the game if you want to set up a session ahead of time. Personally, the last time I tried playing online, I played alone twice and was mauled by zombies. Then, I actually played a game with someone who proceeded to completely ditch me, leaving me to die when he triggered a timed event I didn't know how to escape the building in time for.
I need new things to listen to, preferably things so new that I can look totally cool by referring to bands that no one listens to or no one listens to anymore.
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
30 Seconds to Mars
Ambersunshower
Basement Jaxx
The Black Mages
Black Sheep
Calexico
Calla
Celldweller
Client
The Consortium of Genius
David Bowie
De-Phazz
Death From Above 1979
Desert Sessions
Eagles of Death Metal
Earthlings?
Failure
Fingathing
Foetus
Fu Manchu
Handsome Boy Modeling School
Helmet
Hum
Ian Brown
The Jimmy Chamberlain Quartet
The Joy Circuit
Killing Joke
Kyuss
Local H
Lords of Acid
Love Cup
Macha
Man...Or Astroman?
Mansun
MC Frontalot
Michael Buble
Minus the Bear
Misfits
The Music
Ohgr
On
Probot
Rasputina
Repliforce
Res
To My Suprise
TV on the Radio
Tweaker
Voltaire
William Shattner
Year of the Rabbit
The Unicorns, Of Montreal, The Darkness, Mirah, Neutral Milk Hotel, Badly Drawn Boy, and Blonde Redhead have all recently come to my attention and get k2's Music That Doesn't Suck Seal Of Approval™. And I always recommend The Sundays and Jellyfish, because they both make me happy.
that's a post where I put up five songs I've been listening to a fair bit of. The downloads have died, unfortunately.
other stuff I've been enjoying of late (it's all Artist - Album):
Mogwai - Government Commissions: A bunch of songs taken from performances done at the BBC. Good if you like Mogwai, great as an introduction to them.
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire: I don't know how much you'll like this, because I have no idea about your current tastes. In any case, it's fantastic Canadian pop, from a bunch of people who are also in Broken Social Scene (which you should also check out if you haven't).
British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power: Straightforward mildly nature themed rock. I quite like it, and they're probably playing near you sometime in May.
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm: Sort of like the whole new rock movement started with Interpol, but British and without cringe-worthy lyrics.
Autechre - LP5: what I imagine robots in dystopian future Japan might listen to.
From an Australian viewpoint, I'd say Soundgarden, first off.
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Name one song by Soundgarden that isn't *Black Hole Sun.* Exactly.
Also consider The Tea Party, Regurgitator (especially their albums Unit and *...art*), and the Boom Boom Satellites.
Of course, I don't know what's people listen to over there. For all I know, the latest fashion might be using condoms for hats and beating cows with stale baguettes while screaming "Call me Jennifer!"
There's Pretty Noose, Jesus Christ Pose, Rusty Chains, The Day I Tried to Live, 4th of July.. oh wait, you said name ONE song that isn't Black Hole Sun. Gee, I guess I fail that task.
For pure obscure cultural reference, my only suggestion is Tomoyasu Hotei, mostly because I'm pretty sure you've heard at least two of his songs already.
...woking in a music store now, I find that I'm catching up on all the cool stuff I missed out on when I was too busy listening to my dad's Pink Floyd records.
For example: Mercury Rev (Deserter's Songs), old Grandaddy.
Steve Burns, from Blue's Clues, album was pretty cool. "Songs for Dustmites" its called.
Am really won over by the Killers album "Hot Fuss." Its grungy-electro-pop-stuff.
New Doves was ok, but not really that good.
The Latest British Pop Band To Get Everyone Wet: Athlete. They're cool, I guess.
Theivery Corporation's Cosmic Game is also fun.
And you need to get the NZ/Australia version of the OC Mix 2, so that you can have a cool Evermore song without having to bother with Evermore's crappy album.
Oh, and my obligatory New Zealand Music Pimping: Breaks Co-op, Goldenhorse, Phoenix Foundation, the Black Seeds, Dimmer. Also: the Mutton Birds, Straitjacket Fits, and the Chills. These last three will reliably serve your musica obscura quota for the month.
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Oh, and, I need someone to point me to reliable OC season 2 torrents. Crappy late night Fridays means I have no idea if Ryan and Marissa got back together, or if Seth ever made it to tahiti, and etcetera...
Handsome Boy Modeling School, "White People" - Yeah, it's a bit of an egotrip, but it's hip-hop at it's most fun and irrelevant. Plus, anything with Del is good.
My Chemical Romance, "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" - Once you get past the fact that you can't possibly stand "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" anymore, the rest of the album is actually very good, and the focus on revenge killing puts a new and interesting spin on emo mourning. This band is considerably better live, but the album holds up much better then most other bands that are similar (most noticably Thrice and The Used). Besides - How can you not like a band with a lyric of - "I took a train out of New Orleans/And they shot me full of Ephedrine/This is how we like to do it in the murder scene"
Senses Fail, "Let It Enfold You" - This band isn't as good as it was (Jon Burch left for Further Seems Forever), but it's still good. Try to skip "Buried A Lie" - it's probably the most methodical, math-rocky song they've ever released.
Coheed and Cambria, "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3" - Because I mention this band to everyone ever. It's Prog, and it's fucking fantastic and you should go buy. Immediately. And while you're at it, Buy "The Second Stage Turbine Blade" - listen to "Everything Evil". Be freed.
Bright Eyes, "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn" - I'm not one of those people that things Conor Oberst is the second coming of Bowie. The Village Voice can say crap like that. I just happen to think this album is very good.
A Perfect Circle, "eMOTIVE" - I wonder why nobody talks about this band much anymore. This album is absolutely fantastic - and while it's a completely different direction from Mer De Noms, it's just as equal. Go get. (Bonus: All that really good crunchy music from "Constantine" - it's APC.)
Aesop Rock, "Bazooka Tooth" - This EP has a coat of dust on it, but it's simply because everyone missed this gem of an album. In fact, if you ever see a hip-hop album with Definitive Jux as the label, just fucking buy it. Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, Aceyalone, RJD2, Mr. Lip...any of them are worth the cash in your pocket.
Armor For Sleep, "Things to Do When Your Dead" - Loud, crunchy guitars and solid melodies. What were you looking for, panflute?
The Bravery, "The Bravery" - They're overhyped, but the reason that indie media is giving them a BJ is because it's very good stuff.
LCD Soundsystem, "LCD Soundsystem" - Every once in a while, for about five minutes, some band that's fucking irrelevant as hell, but really worth listening to comes out - This is that band. (As a note: The band they most remind me of in terms of weirdness is The Avalanches. That is also something you could get.)
Probably won't get it home until around nine, though. And then I may watch the episode of Smallville I'll have recorded before I start playing. However, I certainly intend to be playing it between ten and twelve-thirty. All times EST, of course.
tehJumpy. That's me XBL name. As of tomorrow the only things I have are MK:D and SFAC, with GGXX possibly coming back in my possession at the end of the week. I also just realized that Conker was pushed back a few months so now I'm a sad, sad panda. I do suppose now that I'm not holding out for Conker that I can find something else to get though.
Because of school and stuff, I fell out of contact with most everyone on the Net I used to hang out with. I don't MUD anymore, boards, anything. I realized, though, I actually missed you guys, and your sarcastic humor (and actual intelligence) ^_^
So blame Falc for me seeing the board again. I may be in Final Project again (I now have an Associate's Degree in Game Design, getting my Bachelor's in four months) then it's off to get a job as a codeslave! Er, game-person!
If anyone's interested, my Final Project last time was getting a team together and making a game (same as this time, actually, but the game this time is WAY different.) Last time, we made an RTS based on Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. It turned out.. eh, not too bad. Needed a LOT of work, but hell, we only got 2 months to code, and one month to design.
This time, we're making an arcade game. Action/Puzzle game. And a company called FlexArcade may actually publish it when we're done, we're going to be working out details and the like in the next couple months. So you know, maybe by the end of the year, I could actually have a game in someone's arcade! Man, that'd be so awesome.
Enough rambling. Anyone miss me, or are you reaching for your gun yet? ^_^
I haven't posted here in ages, to the point of where most of you forgot who the fuck I am, but for this, I felt the urge to post.
Some day we'll be laid to rest six feet under or scattered across our ocean of choice and that will be that. The Greeks would ask when a man dies, "did he have passion?"
For Hunter S. Thompson, that's a question that never had to be asked. The Muses are weeping once again, and if they aren't, they should be. A man who on his worst day could destroy some of the best writers out there with thoughts so bluntly eloquent that he was on the short list of people who forced me to a crossroads in choosing my future profession.
Pick up one of his books. It doesn't matter which one; Coltrane never released a bad album and Thompson never published a bad book. There is brilliance in there that is indescribable and a talent so perfectly harnessed that it pisses me off and sends me to the brink of hanging it all up and finding a job that pays. I didn't always agree with the man, in fact my beliefs and his had a few conflicts, and it still doesn't matter.
Hunter S. Thompson doesn't just slay me with his eloquence, he rams a pike through my chest and pins me to the wall of all the other people who make attempts at achieving a fraction of the skill he had.
Somewhere, out there, the gates are opening up for Hunter, and Socrates, Dante, Elliot Smith, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams are welcoming him in. And if they're not, they fucking should be.
So yeah, Falconer was looking at this when I passed by his room, so I had to check it out myself. ^_^
It looks awesome, a great start. And if you ever want anything like an article about game design schools.... *cough 'which have kept me busy for the last 2 years'*... well, yeah. ^_^
The local arcade in Chesapeake Square (If you call fifteen minutes away local) has recently acquired a Tekken 5 machine. Nice looking stuff there, and there's a place where you can hook up a PS2 controller as well as a Memory Card. It's safe to say no stops were pulled. And that I shall destroy you all with Yoshimitsu.
Also, you can buy a memory card for your character. Locks you into a character, costume, and keeps track of win/loss. You can win points to purchase more fashion stuff. A friend of mine has Lee wearing a fisherman's hat (aka Raiden's hat). Sunglasses, belts, pelts, whatever.
While the PS2 controller ports are awesome idea, the fact that Namco doesn't sell the game a la carte is not. Few arcades can afford to plunk down $7000 for an entire cabinet/game these days. In any case, it's coming out on console very soon, so it's moot anyways.
The cabinent is actually not very well built. The memory card dispenser sucks ass. (The memory cards are hideously expensive btw). The buttons/stick are japanese, which is fine, except japanese parts are a pain to get in the US. In addition, the connectors to the buttons are so poorly sized, we had to superglue them on.
Bleh.
Pick up Cave Story (both PC and Mac versions available with an English patch). It'll last you 4-6 hours, and it feels like it's straight out of 8-bit Nirvana. It was a solo project by a Japanese guy named Pixel, and took him about 5 years to complete.
Cave Story is GLORIOUS. I still can't get past the secret level, though. Haaaaaard. But the game is awesome. So awesome, that... that... I dunno, someone think of something to insert after that comment.
1: After the block room, get the hearts on the right pit, then go BACK into the block room. Repeat.
2: When fighting the crusher boss, you can easily get hearts from the angels that appear on both sides. It's much easier in that fight than when fighting the Core back then.
Also, there's the +25 missile expansion, and I hope you have the Nemesis.
I did it with the Spur (yuck), max health and 0/25 missiles, and a lifepot that was kind of unnecessary if you know how to beat Ballos. I wish I had the Nemesis, though. And it's a lot easier to charge missiles in the first pit room when you have some to shoot the suspended charge pods.
by the way, for fanart, download box.zip from that site.
Its not the downloading of things illegally, its the purchase of black market copies of programs and DVDs and such. Granted not all of it, and almost certainly not even most of it funds terrorism, but some of the money trail in those endeavors has been traced back to terrorist groups. Likely spots for such activity are Europe, Middle East, and the Far East.
Preliminary seating and sketch planning for Mystery Octagon Theater, Episode Two Hundred and Five (Tentatively Titled "Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2") has begun at Numba Two Son Forum. I shall remind you that there will be the standard number of seats (6) and that there will be positions for a Mad Conglomerate consisting of a Control Mad (who is without saying reserved for any MOT veteran who can be considered as "crusty") and an indeterminate amount of Lackies (which can vary depending on said primary mad.) As of this posting, permission has been considered "granted" due to Free Use policy as considered the MiSTed material is scripts from a well known and respected video game from Konami, also responsible for Contra. However, said compiling and script formatting of these script was obtained from gamefaqs.com, and as of now am going through and securing clearances that would, in technical speak "cover our bohunkus". If this, heaven forbid, is NOT cleared, then I have the fallback of "Day of the Barney" by Brian Bull, which we DO have clearance on. New bodies are as usual, are encouraged to shadowMiST, but seats in the theater shall be left to professional appeals to the dockets of Those In Charge on a case to case basis. And if someone can dig up Max "Mua" Meridus, I'm sure we could squeeze the Koosh Ball in somewhere in the sketches. Or something. Depends on if the blender still works.
