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Yeah, the timing for SNB sucks for me since I have really important scrims with my TF2 team at exactly that time every saturday.

This reminds me that I wanted to participate in saturday night bingo next time it came up, despite the fact that I can't actually perform any glitches in OoT and don't even know the game particularly inside-out (though well enough, at least), just to see how long it would take. I don't think I can tonight though.

Prediction: WV is eventually going to be these guys' mayor.

I think I find the romance in The Room more believable than the romance in AotC.

I have a really hard time being as up in arms about this as everyone else is. I don't think headhunting is the sort of thing that should be encouraged, but when I watch football I basically want to see the defense murder the guy carrying the ball. Football is a violent sport, that's more than a small part of what makes the sport entertaining. So... ehhhh. I don't love the whole bounty thing, but I honestly don't see what's just so awful about it. I don't think the Saints should get the death penalty for it. Fines would suffice.

I don't have a link on me to exactly where Lucas has said it, but I know for certain that he has stated before that he considers the prequel trilogy to be his superior works.

I feel like RedLetterMedia's reviews of these movies have completely destroyed my ability to argue about how terrible the prequel trilogy is, because I have no original points to make about them that he didn't already cover. He's right in every single way about just how awful these movies are. And they're not just bad movies - they take a giant crap all over an important backstory to the good Star Wars movies. The best I can do is pretend they don't exist, but that's hard when Lucas keeps saying that he hates the original trilogy and thinks the prequel trilogy is better. The prequel trilogy genuinely did a lot of damage to Star Wars's image.

GHOST PUNCH!

Homestuck's tone changes a lot in Act 5, I think. The zany antics are toned down (there's very little fake adventure game stuff going on at all by that point, especially in part 2) and s*** starts to get pretty serious. If you really want to like Homestuck, end of act 4 is not the place to stop, in my opinion. That's just me though - if you don't like it, you don't like it.

I like how Dirk's TV is flipping between Rainbow Dash cosplay and SBaHJ cosplay.

This is probably the most unsurprising story to come out of the NFL in months.

Dude, really?

I don't see how you could say the game isn't similar to Zelda. Obviously, the genre of game is a very different one, and it takes everything to a whole new level, but the dungeon format is taken directly out of Zelda, some enemies and the style of enemy placement are taken directly out of Zelda, three items are taken directly out of Zelda (map, compass, ladder), even the visual interface with the rupees/bombs/keys thing is totally Zelda. I'm not trying to say that Binding of Isaac is a Zelda clone, it's obviously not, but it's clearly trying to evoke Zelda in a lot of ways and the whole game feels like a souped up Zelda dungeon with Smash TV-esque gameplay.

Having played this game for a bit now (seeing this convinced me to buy it finally), it's an awesome game but I don't disagree with Nintendo's decision to not carry it. I don't really agree with it either, I'm just kinda neutral. It's not like Nintendo has to carry the game if they don't want to, and while I'm not personally offended or disgusted by the game in the least, it's pretty damn extreme. So I mean, whatever. I'd like to see the game on the 3DS, but if Nintendo doesn't want to do that, fine. They don't have to, and I can't see a reason to particularly hold it against them.

Icehawk posted...

well it needs to not be 60 f***ing dollars if that's the case. I can buy a whole season of a TV show for less

and yes, very valid point. Video games are more expensive for interactivity. Limited interactivity = limited price imo LOL

I think it's less "video games are expensive because they're interactive" and more "video games are expensive because those are the expected prices consumers will pay." If people shell out 60 bucks for this, then it was the correct price tag. If they don't, they f***ed up. But I don't think it really matters how much of a "game" it is.

If life was like a video game, I'd have extras.

It's not our fault, maybe they should've thought twice before they made Virginia such a sexy-looking word!

I somehow read this as "religion successfully test fired in vagina" and was EXTREMELY CONFUSED

You know, it wasn't until I realized how much uu is like Karkat that I realized how much UU is also like Karkat, but in a really less obvious way. UU is like the good part of Karkat if Karkat was an obnoxiously nice person.

Yeah, I think that UU and uu are... probably not pre-scratch trolls - or at least, they're not part of the group of 12 that we're familiar with. Although this had already been foreshadowed, really - I think the usage of the Ophiuchus symbol was probably intended to tell us just that.

But who f***ing knows. We don't know anything about uu yet, so speculation is pretty difficult. I am eager to see where this goes.

The timing of uu's message after the Condesce is like trying to kill Roxy just gives me a bad feeling though.

You know what, at this point I'm done hoping for some kind of dream Mega Man game. I'd be thrilled if Capcom released any new game with Mega Man in the title at all, because until further notice the entire franchise is basically dead.

Takfloyd_mkII__ posted...
^You guys are missing the point that in the pre-scratch troll universe, Alternia is a peaceful planet full of nice, weak people.

These are not the same characters as the "ancestors" we know. This Mindfang is obviously a nice girl, just look at her clothes.

The reason the Condesce is still a b**** is to contrast against Feferi, who is a wise and benevolent empress in this universe.

Am I a "you guy?" This is exactly what I think is true, and moreover it's why Feferi's character exists in the first place, to show us what she'd be like if she were a ruler - say, of pre-scratch trollverse.

oh my f***ing god

s*** I mean oh my f***ing dog

dog anime

could not stop laughing

kevwaffles posted...
Also I just realized, if these are indeed the A1 scratched trolls, how hilariously fitting it is to have punk royalty as the precursor to hipster royalty.

It's really the other way around, though! A1 is ruled by adult Feferi and the Condesce is presumably the heir (or maybe not - really don't know how it works in the pre-scratch trollverse).

Oh I wasn't asking where the thing about scratched people not existing anymore was stated, I already knew about that. I'm asking you how you know it for a fact just because Doc Scratch told us. He doesn't lie, but there are so many possible different meanings behind what he said that you don't know what is and is not exactly true.

Basically, unless Hussie specifically states it in a non-joking manner in his blog, nothing's assured. It is pretty certain, however, that we're dealing with the pre-scratch trolls here, and I just don't know if it's at a point in their timeline before or after the scratch. The fact that they're dead and in some kind of dreambubble situation is starting to make me think the latter, although it doesn't explain UU.

I really dig the B2 creates A1 theory, honestly. There's a lot we don't know about how this could work, but I know it can work because it's Homestuck and if there's anything that Homestuck loves, it's time loops and symmetry. Every time something doesn't make sense, I assume that a time loop is involved, and that it parallels something in the story.

Takfloyd_mkII__ posted...
No, The Scratch deletes everyone involved completely.

How could you possibly know that for sure? Are you Andrew Hussie in disguise?

Oh s***, no, I think I get it.

These are pre-scratch trolls we're seeing. We're seeing them in the void because they're scratched. That's where they went.

Still don't know how UU relates to this!

All right, I'm absolutely certain of it now.

B2 is linked to A1 somehow. The trolls we have met are pre-scratch trolls.

Except I STILL don't know what the f*** is up with UU.

I am similarly now very confident that the reason Feferi even exists is to give us a hint about the other three versions of her, not because she herself is actually important.

am I the only one who thinks the philosopher's stone and the sorcerer's stone are both cool

the name change is unnecessary but sorcerer's stone is seriously a pretty snazzy name and the fact that it's not named after a real legend kind of makes it cooler in my opinion

but whatever anyway

Moldorm would kill me in the Tail Cave.

I was going to totally mock the idea of watching them in IV > V > II > III > VI order (with my suggestion being to watch IV > V > VI and then strongly consider ignoring the prequels entirely), but actually that article makes a lot of good points and has me kind of intrigued by the idea of the IV > V > II > III > VI order.

As for finding the movie with the fewest objectionable changes, shrug. If you can avoid the most recent changes, do so. I'd personally prefer to watch the oldest version of the films you can, but it's not really the end of the world if you don't. If there's a version that changes Palpatine to not be stupid in ESB but before Greedo Shoots First, that would probably be the best version, but I can't remember if there is a version like that or if those changes were introduced at the same time.

Is GameFAQs Protests the opposite of GameFAQs Contests?

Fountain Sprite is like my favorite beverage period. Fountain Sierra Mist is roughly the same thing. 7-Up is a bit behind those two and I haven't actually had it in a long time, most places here don't sell it anymore.

1) Link's Awakening - Yesterday
2) Team Fortress 2 - Today
3) Mega Man 10 - A couple of months ago
4) Mega Man 3 - Yesterday
5) Super Mario Bros. 3 - Last week

Yeeeep.

Yeah, I know, it's just weird that I haven't really seen word of it since the contest ended. I submitted a song so I was curious about the album's progress.

There's an album coming today? I haven't seen anything about it.

Calling it now: the thing in the lab is Sawtooth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Basco

Danté Basco (born August 29, 1975) is an American actor, voice actor, poet, and dancer. He is best known for playing Rufio in the 1991 live-action Peter Pan film Hook and reading Homestuck.

Also, you guys caught [S] Ride, right? Just making sure.

Personally I think this is a great update and not pointless at all.

Haha, I enjoyed that flash.

I didn't remember seeing Jaspersprite with John and Jade before, though?

Wanglicious posted...
...<<; the regular battle theme changes a ton for Skies within the single piece. you start with like 30 seconds of battle theme and then you finish with saving the world or something.


i mean nobody ever made those fights go for the full length, but still.

Huh, no I mean I really like songs that have several different modes that change contextually based on what's happening in the fight. SoA's boss battle does this - it has a normal mode, then a part that plays when someone is dead and then a triumphant part that plays when the boss is at critical health. I love video game songs that do this, so SoA's boss theme stands out more in my head.

I find CT's normal battle theme to be kind of unremarkable really. I don't get tired of it by the end of the game, which is good - that is really the most I can ask for out of an RPG's battle theme. There aren't a lot of RPGs that actually pull this off, which is probably why the boss themes all usually sound so much better to me.

Man, what at people saying Super Mario RPG. No.

Don't get the hate for CT's first boss theme either, I think it's great. Basically no song in CT isn't great, though.

Don't agree with Skies of Arcadia, I really dig the boss theme. I am kind of a sucker for really low, menacing piano riffs and songs that change based on the status of the fight, though.

If a dude I was reasonably certain was God just sort of showed up in front of me and told me being gay is wrong, his motives are still unknowable, so I guess I'd just stand up for myself and either pass his test or go to hell and hang out with Satan and all the cool dudes there. Why did I answer this question seriously?

Got all 20 first try. Fun.

I think the Mega Man bosses actually do have supervisory roles - the ones in Mega Man 1 definitely do. I mean hell, they're called "Robot Masters," which is what I usually refer to them as instead of bosses.

It is sort of a legacy term I guess, but I see it like the evolution of any other language. What else would you call the extremely common video game cliche of having a particularly strong enemy at the end of levels? It's just "boss." The word "boss" means that now. In fact, I'd say the word is common enough in our overall language that the dictionary is being negligent in not including this definition of the word "boss."

(Other video game words that are funny if you break them down: enemy, level)

I mean, I go to community college in-state and it's like roughly 100 dollars per credit for me, after fees. And that's quarterly! I just can't even fathom that someone could pay only 260 dollars for a 15-credit schedule, that must not be including fees or something.

26 dollars per credit? There's no f***ing way that's possible.