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I loved the first one, even if I always had trouble getting past Bloody Malth. The later games never interested me all that much, though - for whatever reason, the first one caught me at precisely the right time, but apparently my tastes had changed by the time the second one came out. Or maybe it was just a lamer story.
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OH SHIT.

Now they're showing The Mass Device miniseries.

Truly, today is a good day.
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captpackrat posted...

Do any of you even remember The Critic?

Yes. It was great, and it mostly died because it was too smart for the audience.

The problem with most cartoons on that list is that even the ones that were good tended to stay on the air too long, to the point where they stopped being good. So the shittier later seasons tend to pull the overall average of the series down.

So no matter how brilliant early Simpsons might have been, or how good early Family Guy was (no matter how much the Internet in general loves shitting on it), or how fantastic Futurama was before it got cancelled at the end of season five (it should never have come back), it's hard to look at the entire series and be all that enthusiastic about them as "the best ever". But The Critic died before it could suffer that sort of rot.
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No, because it doesn't actually protect me in any way.
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Hasbro is currently live-streaming old episodes of GI Joe on YouTube. They're showing the first episode of the Pyramid of Darkness miniseries right now.

This makes me oddly happy. Which doesn't even make all that much sense, considering I already own the entire original series on DVD, so I could watch it whenever I want.

And yet, I'm probably going to binge watch the fuck out of this for the rest of today (at least until I have to go out later).
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Entity13 posted...

DQ11 is a decent leap, in terms of gameplay, from the middle of the franchise, but I wouldn't recommend the game to anyone who cannot stomach by-the-cook tropes en masse.

It probably also wouldn't help if you kind of hate Toriyama's art style.

It was less of an issue in the earlier games (where the graphics couldn't really duplicate his art style all that well anyway), but the better graphics get, the more his influence shows, and the less appealing I find it (this is probably part of why I don't fellate Chrono Trigger as much as some people do, as well).

Arguably, I sort of feel the same way about Amano and Final Fantasy. As much as people shit on Nomura's designs (and obsession with belts), I feel like Amano's style wouldn't necessarily have translated as well into modern graphical fidelity. Amano worked for the earlier games, but I'm not sure it would have looked as good in more recent games.
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Zeus posted...

I know that you get your idea of justice from Hammurabi and Draco

Nah - if you were going by Draco or Hammurabi, they should just slit the dude's throat and throw his corpse in a ditch somewhere. Unless he's rich, of course, in which case we just get him to pay a fine and then everything's fine.

Or we could go with other traditional tribal laws and custom, and just have someone else murder the guy in retaliation, because vendettas are perfectly acceptable (except in situations where Blood Price and Blood Debt apply).

but 10 years for murder isn't unreasonably short

It honestly is, because of how the legal system works (at least in the US). Unless there's a specific "no chance of parole" clause, a 10-year sentence can result in someone being out in less than a year (parole is generally 1 month served per year sentenced).

But also notice the article doesn't say 10 years. It says between 3-10 years. So unless he gets the max sentence, it could easily be bordering on a slap on the wrist.

But even 10 years is going to seem like too little time when you're dealing with a premeditated murder in cold blood. Moreso when you're dealing with prison systems that focus more on incarceration than reform - there's a very strong perception that the person coming out is just as bad (if not worse) than they were when they went in, meaning maybe they shouldn't come out at all. Especially since, as people will point out, it's not like their victim gets to come back to life in 10 years - they're dead for good. So there's always a perception that "the punishment should fit the crime", even if there's a competing assumption that punishment shouldn't be "cruel or unusual" or "excessive".
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No option for me.

My mother was very religious (the sort of person who would kind of hush you for using the Lord's name in vain or anything too blasphemous), but also kind of in to a lot of New Age stuff that would get you burned as a witch (I've often made the joke to her that if she lived 500 years ago, she'd have to burn herself).

My father, meanwhile, was an avowed atheist who generally only ever mentioned God when shitting on Him as a concept, talking about how God was an asshole scientist and we're all just rats in a maze, and He just got off on watching us suffer.

Which I suppose made it kind of inevitable that I'd eventually turn out to be agnostic. Though that's also partly due to my cynicism and misanthropy (which definitely came from my dad), which has sort of led me to conclude that, no matter what the true nature of reality and the universe might be, humans are way too stupid to have managed to stumble over the "correct" answer, either via religion or science. At the moment, we're the metaphorical blind men fumbling around in the dark feeling different parts of an elephant and trying to figure out what the hell it is.
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Zeus posted...

Therefore I've never been that much into ex-parrots, but I can really sink my teeth into something like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E

It was never just "sophistication" for me - as much as I liked drier, more "intellectual" British humor, I also enjoyed Three Stooges. I could span the gamut from slapstick or surreal all the way up to pure quick-fire verbal sparring and dripping sarcasm and irony, and usually find something to appeal.

But for some reason, there was always something about American presentation (or maybe just choice of content/subject) that kind of left me cold. Most pre-Seinfeld sitcoms just don't seem all that funny to me (though most post-Seinfeld sitcoms don't seem all that funny to me either).

Though now that we've mentioned Monty Python at least a few times, I feel compelled to mention that I literally did this sketch as part of my high school's one-act play revue (I was John Cleese):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
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I loved the early Dragon Warrior games, but they felt like they peaked for me at DW3. And then other RPGs felt like they kept improving and improving while DQ as a whole sort of stayed the same, or only improved in incremental amounts, to the point where it never seemed worth it to try and get back into it.
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EclairReturns posted...

I don't know why the most frightening thing about these scam e-mails is the terrible grammar and spelling. It scares me very subtly.

It's because most of them are coming from countries where they don't speak English, so you're either seeing someone's halting attempt to try and translate based on what little they know, or the end result of just running it through Google Translate.
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I was never into it, or any of the other popular sitcoms of the era (like Home Improvement), because I basically grew up watching British comedy like Blackadder, 'Allo 'Allo, Are You Being Served?, Monty Python, Red Dwarf, and others - which have a VERY different style of humor. So I was so keyed to that British style of humor I never really found most American stuff funny. Especially the more saccharine, sterilized humor you'd tend to get in sitcoms in general.

It didn't help that there was a huge stand-up comedy boom in the late 1980s, which meant there were tons of stand-up shows on TV around that time (Evening at the Improv, The Half-Hour Comedy Hour, One Night Stand, etc). So when I did watch American comedy, I tended to gravitate to that instead of sitcoms.
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Korruptor posted...

There likely won't be a vaccine like the prior coronavirus back in '03 (SARS) or the ones back in '15 and '18 (MERS). Enjoy this song.

To be fair, in the end there wasn't much need for one, while this time around there very much is. And they've already done a lot of the work necessary to produce one - they're already in the human trial phase for a number of potential vaccines.

It'll still probably be another year or so before we actually see one, so it's lot like we all get shots come June and this is over forever, but odds are we won't have to hide in our houses until the 22nd century, either.
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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

Someone (Leno? Conan? Letterman?) asked Affleck "Why did you do Paycheck?", and he said "The answer lies in the title, fittingly enough." ^_^

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoneyDearBoy
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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

Reminds me of something Eddie Murphy once said: "But the money they gave me to do Best Defense, yall woulda done Best Defense too, okay? ... I was like, 'What?! How dare you give me a script like this! Oh, that much money? Lets go!"

Michael Madsen has mentioned that he does movies mainly to pay the bills ("I've got six kids, I got to keep food in the refrigerator"), and that he can literally go down the list of movies he's been in on IMDB and tell you which ones he did for a paycheck and which ones he did because he actually cared about the role.

And then there's the scene in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back where Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are talking about doing the money pictures in-between art pictures to pay the bills.
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FatalAccident posted...

Maybe thats what happens when you dont just get typecast all the time

It's more like he makes most of his movies as an excuse to get free vacations and hang out with his friends (he's pretty much openly admitted this in the past), so he doesn't really give much of a shit about the material or his performance, and half-asses his way through it.

When he actually takes a role seriously and/or cares about it, he can be surprisingly good. Because that's when he puts the effort in.

It's similar to how Will Smith is actually a great actor, but you never really see it because Hollywood just keeps paying him to play the Fresh Prince over and over and over again. So he basically just shrugs and cashes the check. But when he gets a role he's passionate about, he becomes way better.
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Lokarin posted...

If there's a better word for unknown period of time than "indefinite" I'll hear it

An indefinite period of time implies a period of time with no specified end. At no point has anyone suggested that people who catch this would be contagious for the rest of their lives, or for years at a time, which is what "indefinite" implies.

If you're just looking for something to describe "Well, we're not quite sure if you're contagious for a week, or 10 days, or 14 days, but somewhere in that range", you're probably looking more for a word like "indeterminate" or even "uncertain", maybe something like "non-specific".

We've always had a pretty good idea of how long this thing tends to last. The margin of error has always been just a few days, not someone shrugging and going "Well, you could be contagious for anything from two days to 17 years."
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adjl posted...

More often than not, trying to accommodate an "evil" route consists of offering the player a choice between "pet puppy" and "kick puppy"

I prefer "pet kitten" and "eat kitten".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD71ip1osM4
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agesboy posted...

why is it called true neutral instead of neutral neutral

cowards

Because in the original version of the game, it tended to be a more specific niche for people who literally went out of their way to balance their actions to maintain neutrality. So it's less "neutral through apathy" and more "Neutral via constant conflicting action".

That idea eventually evolved more into the concept of "Balance", and it's the motivating principle behind characters like Mordenkainen (Gary Gygax's old D&D character) and druids in general (who tend to ignore human needs and morality in favor of defending nature).
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Amuseum posted...

For most CRPGs, usually no benefits to being Evil, and worse, the games punish you for even a slight evil tendency. because the devs don't put enough effort and content to support evil and allow you to complete the main story.

It's also a holdover from the time where being seen to "encourage" players to be evil would get concerned parent groups coming after you with pitchforks and torches. It's part of why GTA was always a favored target once it started getting popular - you're encouraging children to be criminals!

It's not so much a concern now, but old habits can die hard, especially for larger developers who are more worried about reputation and sales than artistic aesthetics.

Though it's also like you touched on - having a distinct "Evil" path which is radically different from the "Good" path would effectively require the developer to make two entirely different games, which would raise costs far beyond what most developers are willing to eat for something that minor. Which is why most Evil characters wind up being "Evil guy who has to stop someone else from being even more Evil", where you play through 99% of the story exactly the same as the "Good" guy would, in spite of the fact that you'd lack the motivation to save the world simply because it's the right thing to do. At best, you might get a different ending cutscene where you conquer the world yourself.
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fantomas418 posted...

in real life, i think most people would be around neutral good / chaotic good

In real life, most people are True Neutral (or "Unaligned", if you go by 4e). Basically, you don't have strong enough opinions to hold an extreme stance, and tend to react to situations based on context.

The average person tends to obey laws they morally agree with, but will tend to break laws based on their own convenience, their chances of getting caught, and the degree to which they will be punished if they are caught. They're not rebels who completely disregard laws or codes of honor for moral or selfish reasons, but they're also not paragons of obedience, loyalty, and honor who are willing to always sacrifice self-interest to keep their word or follow the laws and rules of any organization, institution, or political entity they're a part of.

In the same way, no matter how much people would like to believe otherwise about themselves, most people aren't "Good" either. Good is self-sacrificing, and will generally judge other people's needs and well-being over their own. People can be good, but it's more often after they've satisfied their own hierarchy of needs and helped out friends and family. But they'll also overlook (or even facilitate) injustice or inequality as long as it benefits them.

Most of the alignments outside of True Neutral would be extremely rare in the real world. But that's the point - PCs are exceptional people who have taken up lives that the average person would never be able to maintain. They're driven, they have extremely strong opinions, and they're willing to fight for them, one way or another. So they can be incredibly heroes, rebellious champions, or even total monsters, in the way that Bob from Accounting really isn't going to be in the real world. It's part of why people love pretending to BE these fantasy characters so much.



streamofthesky posted...

and honestly only shy away from the CE they secretly lust for because of social stigma.

Even beside that, most DMs won't allow players to play Evil characters, either because they feel like epic fantasy adventures should be about heroes and not cruel and selfish villains, because they're afraid Evil characters will make party dynamics utterly terrible, or because either they or their players misunderstand what Evil IS.

Basically, you can be an Evil character without having to murder or betray everyone you meet at all times. Evil doesn't have to be impulsive and stupid (though obviously Chaotic Evil will tend to be). Evil characters can still obey rules, maintain alliances, or even love others without being a complete unsympathetic one-dimensional monster.

Evil and Chaotic generally have the same problem - with mature and experienced players, they're fine. It's only when you're playing with people who don't really understand Alignment or are just murderhobo munckhins who don't care about Alignment except as an excuse for disruptive behavior that they become problems. But those types of people are going to be problems no matter what Alignment they have (they're the same types who tend to play Lawful Good as uptight intolerant assholes).

Chaotic Neutral is really only a problem if someone uses it as an excuse to do whatever they want regardless of consequences or logic. Or if they go with the usual misinterpretation that Chaotic Neutral means spastic random idiot. But again, those are usually cases where the problem is the player, not the Alignment.
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Lokarin posted...

I just mean for the normies the spread period is now suspected (need more confirmations) to max out at about 3 weeks as opposed to indefinitely.

It's never been assumed to be "indefinitely", though.

We've known almost from the beginning of things that the timescale seemed somewhere between two to three weeks, with the first week or so potentially being an asymptomatic period where someone could show no symptoms yet still be infected enough to be contagious (which is the main reason why the rate of infection is so high for this virus - people who are sick spend something like 1/3rd to 1/2 the time completely unaware they're contagious and likely making no real effort to avoid people or prevent spread).

The standard advice from doctors has always been for people who are confirmed infected to self-isolate for about two weeks after they stop showing symptoms, just to be safe. After that, the assumption is that you're non-infectious.

The long quarantine period overall has never been because of how long we assume the infectious period to be as much as it was meant to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by a massive spike of infections all at one. Which we've generally succeeded at.

Ironically, the quarantine was potentially too effective - after two months, we've still only got about 1-2% of the population as confirmed cases (and infection rates have actually been dropping for a while now). The problem is, you need somewhere around 70% to develop effective herd immunity. Essentially, at the current rate, we'd have to stay in self-isolation for something like 7 years (at which point, the economy would be a smoking crater and most of us would be pretty much fucked anyway).

It's why so many people are pointing out just how necessary a vaccine is for this - it's pretty much the only thing that's going to allow everyone to get back to normal functioning without just shrugging and accepting a few million elderly/health-impaired are just going to die. Until a vaccine exists, pretty much everything we do causes problems.
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VeeVees posted...

Curb by far. Seinfeld is not funny at all.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny
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Smiffwilm posted...

Using her own logic, that means she was faking it the whole time lol.

No, she was clearly poisoned by the lizard people of the Illuminati New World Order.
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Lordkill posted...

I'd like someone to explain to me wtf lawful evil is? Cause the two don't even sound right together...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NobleDemon
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Zeus posted...

I guess you really got into things late?

Depends on how you define things.

Late for the era of arcade popularity? Yes - arcades were pretty much dead by the time I'd ever really had the option to go to one. I mostly only got shitty run down arcade rooms in bowling alleys or some of the arcade parlors on the boardwalk at the Shore. Or at my local grocery store - that's basically where I played most of my earliest arcade games. I'd go off and sink a handful of quarters while my mom was shopping, and then I'd go pester her for more. Other than Chuck E Cheese (which, like I said, I never went to as a kid), I can't really think of any real arcades anywhere local.

Late for me personally? I wouldn't say so - I was like 10 at the time. I can't imagine too many people were going to arcades much younger than that, unless they had weird or really permissive parents.

For gaming in general, I started somewhere around 5-6, which was pretty young for the time period.



Zeus posted...

That's not casual dining, that's an entertainment center. If anything, it's closest to an arcade that serves food.

Yeah, but I brought it up as an alternative because, like I kind of said, I couldn't really think of that many "casual dining" places near me that had arcade games at all (let alone Pac-Man specifically).

I remember my one local Ground Round had Altered Beast, but that wasn't until 1988 or so (it didn't come out until that year, and I didn't go back to Ground Round all that much after that). One local restaurant/banquet hall had the TMNT cabinet I mentioned, and one local pizza place had two cabinets before it closed. But no others did.

Oh, and a local borderline-bodega deli had Tron, which I loved, because it was Tron. But that place was a dump. And may actually be part of the reason why I tended to associate arcade games with dumps and run-down places, because those were mostly the only places that still had them. And even those seemed to dry up eventually. I don't think I've seen an arcade cabinet in the wild for decades at this point, outside of movie theaters and Chuck E Cheese.

I vaguely remember someone who used to be here on PotD actually used to work in an old style arcade/bar in NJ, but even they mentioned it was unusual and acknowledged there weren't really any other similar places anywhere close.

I suppose Dave & Busters could count, but that's basically just "adult Chuck E Cheese".
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Just checked - the statistics seem to validate my personal anecdotal perception.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/chaotic-good-is-the-most-popular-alignment.666420

Whee!
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Most players I know pick Chaotic Good, except for the ones who want to play Chaotic Neutral.

"Fuck you, I do what I think is right/what I want, and you can't stop me because I can kill anyone who gets in my way" is like 90% of PC philosophy.

(Also, if players were basing their in-game alignment on real life, 99% of characters would be True Neutral/Unaligned.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice
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rexcrk posted...

For the love of goodness please tell me that isnt something that people actually think

It used to be confirmed canon in the EU.

It IS canon even in the films that they literally allowed them to escape the Death Star so that they could follow them back to the Rebel base (which they immediately and successfully do), so shooting them would have been somewhat counter-productive.

Leia literally points out "the ease of their escape". Han scoffs at the idea, but the films kind of establish that Leia is usually right and Han is kind of an idiot, sooo...

Plus Grand Moff Tarkin literally tells Vader that "I'm taking an awful risk" and mentions the homing beacon they put on their ship. It doesn't make all that much sense to bother tagging someone's ship so you can follow them if you have no intention of ever letting them escape.
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FatalAccident posted...

does TC have a brother on this board btw?

Oreon, though he hasn't really posted regularly in like forever.
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DDirtyDastard posted...

I play disc golf because I'm not a yuppie prick.

Not a yuppie prick, sure.
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OniRonin posted...

you realize you can just admit that you misunderstood something, right

The irony, it burns.
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OniRonin posted...

POwned again by your inability to understand a very simple argument

Ahh, I see, reading comprehension clearly isn't your strong suit. I was obviously expecting too much of you.

Please feel free to ignore me and go back to getting trolled by a gimmick account if that's what helps you grease your hog.
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We truly are living in the darkest timeline.
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Zeus posted...

You'd still see Pac-Man machines throughout the 80s. They weren't all replaced by Ms Pac-Man.

I never really saw one. I only ever saw Ms. Pac-Man. (At least until they started doing some of those retro-cabinet mini-arcade style games for home use like Wal-Mart sells, but I'd argue those don't count.)

Then again, some of the first arcade games I ever really saw/played were games like Rampage, Gauntlet, and the original Street Fighter, so that gives you a sense of time scale for when I was exposed to them.

I think the oldest arcade game I've ever seen was Donkey Kong, and even that was iffy because it was in one of those NES collection cabinets where they did a rerelease of older games as an all-in-one deal. Those were around about the same time as the Spyhunter cabinet (some time in the mid-80s or so).

I also remember that my local Ground Round had Golden Axe, which makes me sad because I never appreciated Ground Round enough as a kid, and they're mostly all gone now (and what few are left aren't really the same at all).



Zeus posted...

And older machines might not have always hung around in arcades, but you'd still them in casual dining restaurants (like pizza joints).

I never did. I feel like, if I remember right, the only arcade game I ever saw in a local pizza place was the original TMNT arcade game. And maybe one of those built-in gun games that were either based on Schwarzenegger movies or just very clearly inspired by Schwarzenegger movies and stuff like Rambo: First Blood Part II (with those big meaty guns with force feedback when you shoot).

Maybe you could find them in places like a Chuck E Cheese, but I literally never set foot in one until I was in my late 30s. So I mostly just wound up playing Let's Go Jungle!, and not being able to play Mario Kart because the cabinet was broken.

A lot of this might also depend on where one lives, I suppose.
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Revelation34 posted...

That's clearly wrong if they're also PETA members.

OniRonin posted...

im so tired of cultural relativism and identitarian bullshit. sorry peta criticized your favorite toy for promoting outdated ideologies, lmao

You should both probably look at the name of the gimmick account you're replying to there.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

They stopped observing it on May 30th in 1970.

Which always annoyed my father, because his birthday was May 30th.
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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Yep, with an option for "no clue, but I have played Pac-man before" would have made the options complete.

Yeah, but then you get the same problem that would come up every single time if they put "Other" as an option in polls - literally everyone would vote for that one and the entire poll would essentially become meaningless.
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It's like 4th of July, except the Diet Coke version.
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Zeus posted...

So 1977? You mean the year after Breakout? Wait, you never played Breakout?!

Not AS Breakout, no.

The 1976 release was arcade only, and I wasn't going to arcades as an infant. And by the time I was going to arcades, the days of games like Breakout (and Pac-Man, and Defender, and Galaxian/Galaga, etc) having cabinets there were looooong dead.

There WAS a version of Breakout on the Atari 2600, but a) the console versions of arcade games were usually different from the arcade version back then, b) it wasn't released until after I was born, and c) I never played it anyway.

I have played Arkanoid and Brickles, but those are technically different games, and they both came out after I was born.

I think the oldest arcade games I've ever played (in arcade form) are Pac-Man and Centipede, and those were both 1980s. Which I think is true across the board for me - even games that were released in the 70s (like Asteroids and Space Invaders) that I have played, I only played ported console versions that were released in the 1980s. I don't think I've ever played the original version of any game released in the 1970s. And like I said, my earliest console games were all on ColecoVision or Atari 2600, which were both second gen consoles (and the first ones to have cartridges), and both of which were released after I was born.

And no, I haven't played old PC games either - I've never played Spacewar. I've never played Lunar Lander. I've never played Hamurabi. I've never played Akalabeth. I've never played Pong (at least in its original form).

So yeah, I don't think I've ever played a single game that existed in the same form before I was born. Only later ports, rereleases, or clones.
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TheOrangeMisfit posted...

This is arguably the stupidest poll of all time

I feel like you've forgotten about 90% of the polls that have been on this site.



TheOrangeMisfit posted...

even though they're just lazy color swaps

They're actually not. Each one is programmed with different AI, so they behave in different ways. Which the poll actually alludes to.

One ghost always follows you. Another generally tries to move to where it thinks you're going to go to box you in. A third will follow you, but also backs off if it gets too close. And the third randomizes the behaviors of the other three so you can't predict what it's going to do.

Once you know this, you might actually pay more attention to which one kills you most of the time, so you know WHY you're getting killed. And which one gets you the most will actually give other people an idea of what sort of playstyle you have.

If anything, the real problem with this poll is that it only matters to people who are professional Pac-Man players, whereas most people on GameFAQs are scrubs.
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The Wave Master posted...

Go ahead and agree on the new topic title as we are pretty close to the end here.

We will never agree on anything. That's why we always make you do it.
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Judgmenl posted...

I think this was blown way out of proportion. Like she's weird but like seriously? Why is this getting so much controversy behind it.

Probably for the same reason half of PotD and most of Board 8 flipped their shit when Ail got made a mod back in the day.

If you're batshit crazy, people tend to doubt whether or not you'll actually be capable of doing your job. And when you give that person power that will allow them to directly influence other people, those other people may tend to feel quite strongly about it.
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Geico commercials in general have basically become one long endless series of commercials where people like the commercials, and remember them for a long time afterwards, but rarely remember what they're actually selling in the first place.
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Entity13 posted...

That one I'm sure has been used, or something similar. lol

It might just be one that was recommended and not used.

Along those lines, I feel almost certain that "The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth" has been suggested, but I can't remember if it's ever actually been used.

Again, 12 years worth of these things. We've used or at least recommended pretty much every title ever at this point.
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I was born the same year the Atari 2600 was released (and I predate it by about 7 months). So the only games older than me are from the First Generation, where consoles didn't even have interchangeable cartridges, just preloaded games.

As far as I know, I have never played a single game older than me.
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The Andromeda Geek
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Lobomoon posted...

She looks like a gold-digger.

She ain't looking for no broke PotDer.
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Zeus posted...

I didn't like him before he became a murderer and I never thought he had much talent, in addition to being a bit on the small side.

Between this, and knowing where you live, I've now solved the riddle of your true identity... Vince.
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