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You're in 8th grade.

You don't go to real parties.

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Chargin' Chuck even promotes safe driving.

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GuessMyUserName posted...
if we don't get E. Gadd, heads will roll

I mean we even have a new Luigi's Mansion coming!


Exactly why it should have King Boo!

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...If any of these replaced Dry Bones and King Boo, I swear things will not be pretty.

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TetraAntler posted...
If Crono really is a 7, how is Sonic still a 2?


Because Sonic still gets games, and actual good ones, lately. And Crono hasn't been relevant in years.

Well, that's why Sonic's > Crono.

See other posts for the answer to your main question.

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Raka_Putra posted...
Yeah, I've been wondering about it too. Is it like a fighting game with living skeletal fossils?


As if it'd be that lame. It's too original for that. It's too funky fresh, in your face AWESOME for that. It doesn't play by your rules. It doesn't fly with the norm.

It's like Pokemon with dinosaurs.

FACE.

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Why yes, that would be the Jeopardy answer to "This is the greatest game ever made that isn't called Cool Spot."

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I was so looking forward to Fossil Fighters 64, too! [/Decade old jokes]

But seriously. Super Fossil Fighters > Fossil Fighters: Champions.

...Unless...

Fossil Fighters: Champions
Fossil Fighters: Champions
Fossil Fighters: Champions Edition

Street Fighter jokes still okay! WHOO!

This topic will get no posts because nobody likes Fossil Fighters. And I made it.

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Death Cat Mach 5
Zorok, Destroyer O' Worlds
Sir Reginald Ferdinand IV of Peruvian Manor, Esquire
The Formidable Czar Clawsikins
Keith

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The Great Bluedini.

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Shoenin_Kakashi posted...
Fossils exist before Nintendo existed, so that doesn't count either.

Think he meant the Nintendo sports games.


He said sports existed before Nintendo existed.

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Guys with swords going on adventures was invented before.

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Artoo_D2 posted...
Sports were invented before Nintendo existed, so that doesn't count.


So then what you're saying is that no company has created an original franchise in the last... Ever, because everything was invented before.

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You rock, good sir.

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I could use one if you've got spare.

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Gotta get pumped for the sequel!

Because you can never have enough digging, collecting, and battling!

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SlymDayspring posted...
While I am inclined to agree based on hope, that is like, the exact same argument people made for heroes when it got cancelled. I do think that it is safe if they don't get any decent pilots, but if they do, I think it is doomed. BBT, Two and a half men, HIMYM, the office, etc are pretty much crowding the syndication market and get WAYYYYY better ratings.


Yeah, but Heroes just ended up being absolutely terrible and didn't have specific genre competition contributing to its death. It just... Died on its own. Even the core fanbase began to turn on it when it ended up so convoluted, and it was never really an exec darling like Community.

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I still think it's pretty safe, all things considered.

It's not doing THAT much worse than Parks and Whitney, which have a better timeslot, and a better timeslot + wider target audience, respectively. I'm sure they realize that you put any of those three in the 8:00 slot and they're going to be the worst.

That, and they have a pretty bad track record with new shows, lately. I think Whitney's the only one that has stuck, and it's not even doing that great. It's just better business to stick with the show that is at least doing decent enough given the Death Slot, and is close to syndication. And, competition or not, it's pretty easy to sell any half-popular show into syndication because networks will fall for the "Hey, we can stick it at a time when it's not against America's favorite comedy and people singing, advertise the hell out of it, and make people assume it's the only thing on at the time."

And it gets pretty good DVD sales, doesn't it?

NBC doesn't have the money to risk new pilots when their track record is less than stellar lately.

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Jeff Zero posted...
Well yeah, but the difference lies in a 2.9 for The Office despite a 1.4 for Community directly preceding it. That's painful. NBC will basically look at the 8 timeslot and wince.

Yeah, but NBC knows they're not gonna win the 8 o'clock. Community is still beating stuff that isn't X-Factor and Big Bang Theory. Yesterday was a terrible night for comedies in general, not a sign that Community is still dropping.

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Jeff Zero posted...
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/28/thursday-final-ratings-world-series-game-6-finals-big-bang-vampire-diaries-office-person-adjusted-up-rules-secret-circle-whitney-prime-suspect-adjusted-down/108807/

It didn't.


Odd. Every link I found said they both did a 1.4, but Community had 3.5 million viewers to VP's 3.2.

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To expand on that... Community went down 18 percent, Parks 14 percent, Office 15 percent (...Whitney up 5 percent. Baseball doesn't stop chicks.)

Hell, even Big Bang Theory was down 12 percent.

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Its ratings haven't actually been going down much until the World Series, which hurt EVERY comedy. Dramas, somehow, remained.

That said, everything I'm finding says that Community still beat Vampire Diaries.

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RevolverSaro posted...
Sure it is. Its thematically linked and stylistically linked. Plus there is continuity between characters (in particular Michael Madsen's character and John Trevolta's characters are brothers)


Being set in the same universe, with no actual in-film link, does not make something a sequel.

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RevolverSaro posted...
Pulp Fiction (Sequel to Reservoir Dogs)


...No it's not?

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Wanglicious posted...
activities don't really matter there. one's boys, one's girls.
if you open the gates to either one then besides butchering the name you never run into this issue.
you only run into it if you stick to what the name says and somehow start trying to expand the definition.

and the reason is exactly why the situation is different.


So then girls shouldn't have ever been allowed to play football, since they had sports like softball.

I mean, you just said girls can play football because there isn't an alternative. But now you're saying it doesn't matter. So, by your current logic, girls should have never been allowed to play football, since it was strictly a male sport. After all, they had stuff like softball, right?

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Wanglicious posted...
there's no alternative, so no reason they shouldn't join. and kinda ignores the most obvious piece that htis is the girl scouts. it's not an issue of 'well you don't accept girls/boys!' because that's self-evident. they're just trying to go 'well he identifies himself as girl sooo' as some kind of excuse when really, stick with biology. it's clearcut, there's no debate or issues. go by the sex of the kid as the standard. it's not the cleanest analogy basically.

and it definitely wasn't 'situations like this.' it was the case of chicks who wanted to play football or wrestle. not chicks who went 'so i think i should've been born with a dick now gimme a helmet and pads. no not those.'


They were situations like this. Regardless of the REASON, it was somebody of the opposite gender wanting to get in on an activity that was exclusive to the opposite gender.

The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are not "alternatives" to each other. The activities they do aren't really all that similar at all. It's like football and baseball. Yeah, they're both sports, but, uh...

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Emporer_Kazbar posted...
Why even call it the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts if the other gender can join? Why not just merge them and call them the People Scouts?


To be fair, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts aren't really equal in activities... At all, so it's not really like they took the same thing and just made a male and female component of each.

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Wanglicious posted...
chicks can play football too, same for wrestling. if you aren't exclusive to a gender that should be the end of it. the girl scouts are exclusive to girls, the boy scouts are exclusive to boys.


And in America, sports like football and wrestling WERE exclusive to a gender until situations like this happened. >_>

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Just playing devil's advocate, but...

To all those saying "Boy parts = no," do you think it's equally fair for a football, wrestling, etc. coach to say "Girl parts = no?"

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Biolizard28 posted...
Are we posting links now?

http://imagemacros.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/roomful.jpeg


So you're proven wrong and just do that.

Oh, Biolizard. Don't change.

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Biolizard28 posted...
From: RayDyn | #034
The scout leader is a f***ing idiot, Bobby is a gender neutral name
No, Bobby isn't, it's explicitly a boy's name.

Bobbi, on the other hand...


http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Bobby

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FateStayAlbion posted...
Sonic 2 sold 6 million. Are you really telling me this'll get anywhere close? If so, that means it'll sell more than big hits like Uncharted 3 and Skyrim this holiday season... and thats not happening.


Did you just completely ignore the posts saying that most games don't sell that much, and so it's stupid to even bring it up?

I have a feeling you ignored those posts.

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Well, that's what I meant by "super quick." As soon as they cared enough to do it, it happened in no time.

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OmarsComin posted...
no one preordered games when we were all six and Sonic 2 or 3 was coming out, and its surprising to no one that Generations is more anticipated than games like Sonic Riders, Sonic 2006, and Shadow the Hedgehog.


My parents preordered games for us all the time. It was often the only way to get more popular ones, or... Anything during the holidays.

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Yeah, there's like, zero reason to be impressed with Sony here. Piracy happened super quick. This is more... The system being broken completely open beyond the norm.

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metroid composite posted...
Speaking of which--I'm actually kind-of impressed. If it's only just on the verge of getting fully cracked, then they've managed to evade pirates for five years.


Pretty sure PS3 piracy has been around since like, 2008.

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Fair enough, I somehow missed the voice acting complaint.

Granted, I think it's dumb. Not every game needs it.

Besides, wouldn't they have to condense the audio quite a bit if it was full on voice acting? That's technically a hardware limitation.

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OmarsComin posted...
So it's pretty much a perfect game except they don't like the hardware. Ok, joke review.

I don't see how you can look at the cons list and come to that conclusion in any way


Maybe because, other than the overworld map, which seems to be in dispute, the other cons likely come from hardware limitations?

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...Okay? What does that have to do with anything I said.

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64 easily had a better battle mode than SMK. "lol items go along ground so flat = better" is a really dumb argument and you should feel bad.

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I've never had a problem with blur, either.

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LeonhartFour posted...
First place generally gets mushrooms and stuff you can drag behind your kart to neutralize red shells.

But 2nd place gets triple red shells often enough to counteract that and mushrooms anyway. I don't really remember having a problem winning a race from behind on a consistent basis.


Well, I'll be fair. With two players + CPU, this is true.

With four players, the balance is terrible. First place gets waaaay too many mushrooms.

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First place gets an abundance of green shells, bananas, and mushrooms. Enough so, anyway, that it rarely mattered how many red shells second place got unless you really sucked.

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OmarsComin posted...
But that's exactly what it is. In Wii, it's easy to lose first because of the Blue Shells, and thus harder to win.

it's not "harder to win" in the traditional sense. it's more like "I have no idea who will win because I don't exert much control over the situation." I also am skeptical of your claim that it's tough to lose first place in MK64. Whether you're playing with two people and computers or four people, I haven't found that to be the case.


There was a discussion about this in another topic. It's really hard to lose first place in MK64 because not only do you get the usual ways of dealing with red shells, which are the only thing that can really hurt you if you're any good... But you also get mushrooms, which are just flat out overkill.

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LeonhartFour posted...
Well, the argument was "How can you not like both because they're both imbalanced?"

We had an argument.

I just answered your question.


Well, I didn't mean "How can you not like both." I meant people who hate on/bash Wii specifically for imbalance, but then outright praise 64. I meant it more as "How can you bash one for imbalance but praise the other."

Liking is different.

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Then we have no argument.

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LeonhartFour posted...
I didn't bash MKWii for imbalance, and I never have. I don't like MKWii because its version of imbalance isn't fun.

It's like asking how someone could like Melee and not Brawl when they're both ridiculously imbalanced. Their versions of imbalance are quite different.


...But... But... You're the one that replied to me, not vice-versa! You bolded the part about Wii imbalance!

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LeonhartFour posted...
But if you'd like some elaboration, I like Mario Kart 64 because it's fun. I don't really care about the lack of balance, but it's the way that's imbalanced that matters.

You can't just say "How can you not like both they're both imbalanced!" because they're not imbalanced the same way.


So you're admitting that you're fine with MK64 being imbalanced makes it too easy/one-sided, but not okay with Wii's imbalance making it too hard/luck-based.

That's all I needed, and I'm not going to argue it. Personal opinion is personal opinion.

I'm just saying you can't bash one for imbalance and not admit the other is, as well. I didn't say you couldn't like one more.

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LeonhartFour posted...
In a word:

No.


But that's exactly what it is. In Wii, it's easy to lose first because of the Blue Shells, and thus harder to win.

In 64, the first person to get first is basically never going to lose it, making it too easy to win.

I, personally, don't find a huge fault with either. But I also think that if you're going to find fault with Wii, you should turn off the blinders and admit fault with 64 as well.

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LeonhartFour posted...
From: StealThisSheen | #017
The only difference is that instead of an over-abundance of blue shells
Ding ding ding



So, basically, too hard = No go, but too easy = Yaaaaaaay?

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