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| Topic | FL81 Ranks 140 Songs (Ranking Phase) |
| NBIceman 03/09/21 10:48:23 PM #272 | Certainly don't mind losing to TYS! Those guys can hardly seem to ever put out a bad track. Fun topic, thanks for doing it! --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | FL81 Ranks 140 Songs (Ranking Phase) |
| NBIceman 03/02/21 12:38:47 AM #260 | Damn! Thought I may have been going all the way. No, I had no idea that was one of your go-tos when I threw it in; it just happens to be one of mine as well! DSO took a while to grow on me and they can still be somewhat hit or miss for me at times, but when they land, they really land, and Tap Dancer still feels like their magnum opus even if Karma Bonfire and Exit Strategy of a Wrecking Ball occasionally spend brief periods as my favorite. TheArkOfTurus posted... I got The Butcher's Ballrom back in the day, really enjoyed it, then proceeded to never get another album by them again. I have no idea why.Sing Along Songs for the Damned and Delirious is a must-listen, I think. I personally say they've gotten a little better with every release, but that second album is still a lot of folks' favorites. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | FL81 Ranks 140 Songs (Ranking Phase) |
| NBIceman 01/30/21 1:21:46 AM #240 | |
| Topic | FL81 Ranks 140 Songs (Ranking Phase) |
| NBIceman 01/22/21 12:16:03 AM #233 | Coheed and Cambria took a while to grow on me, but once they clicked, they did it in a big way. Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness is one of the most ridiculous and awesome titles ever for one of the best albums ever. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Raetsel continues listening to music, V2 |
| NBIceman 04/15/20 5:18:11 PM #242 | Haven't popped in on this topic for a good while, but I've had this EP on repeat for the past couple days so I figured I'd share it since you've tended to enjoy my contributions to your topics. https://open.spotify.com/album/2HPg9oLV61ZJ8rCu2e4Gvy One of my favorite releases last year but I've gained even more appreciation for it recently. Whole thing's only ~20 minutes but if you're pressed for time, The River and The Downpour are the real prizes. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | FL81 Ranks 140 Songs (Ranking Phase) |
| NBIceman 03/12/20 5:41:04 PM #92 | DPR do love their artsy lyrics. They're mostly a concept album band so some of their stuff can seem especially abstract out of context, but it's always interesting to see what people think the first time they hear them. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | another year of tabletop rankings and writeups |
| NBIceman 02/12/20 12:47:55 PM #490 | And there's my #1 down. Lame pick but it's popular for a reason! --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | another year of tabletop rankings and writeups |
| NBIceman 01/30/20 7:44:58 PM #409 | My entire gaming group loves Mysterium... Except for me. It's gorgeous, like you said, but I am not what one would consider an abstract thinker and I generally prefer competitive games to cooperative, so it holds precious little appeal to me in terms of actual gameplay. I always sort of enjoy it at the beginning, but by the end I'm just bored. I also kind of feel like the ending is kind of a crapshoot that makes the rest of the game feel almost pointless, but maybe our group is just particularly bad at it. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| NBIceman 01/23/20 9:04:08 PM #212 | |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| NBIceman 01/09/20 11:55:10 PM #471 | Panthera posted... It's possible my perspective is influenced by the fact that I've been steadily losing interest in wrestling anyway for a while. Dumb stories are less annoying to me because I have lower expectations for wrestling as a whole at this point due to not caring about it as much anymore (and I don't actually follow super closely so I don't end up sitting through every shit segment anyway). Meanwhile things that make it harder to buy into pro wrestling play into my feelings that maybe I just don't like the medium itself. So a bigger wrestling fan is willing to let fundamental stuff like the rules slide because they're still invested in the genre but individual stories piss them off for producing shitty segments, while I'm less bothered by shit segments since I have lower expectations but the fundamental stuff pushes me away from the medium as a whole and I'm not willing to engage in the suspension of disbelief that pro wrestling requires.That makes sense, yeah. I think I'd still be inclined to argue that no matter how much something like AEW reffing breaks suspension of disbelief, the Fiend still does it worse, but I do get where you're coming from. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| NBIceman 01/09/20 11:49:06 PM #468 | Jakyl25 posted... I side more with Panthera here.I don't think that is necessarily siding with Panthera, though. They're not "ignoring the rules at any time with no warning or explanation." They've pounded it into everyone's heads on commentary that the ref has full discretion. Again, if the argument is that it's stupid, there is no argument. I think we all agree on that. I just think it stops far short of ruining the principal concept of pro wrestling. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| NBIceman 01/09/20 11:22:19 PM #462 | The refs are portrayed as having all the power. They have the leeway not to call for a disqualification if they so desire. If you want to say it's stupid that they never do, I'll agree. But at least get what you're complaining about correct. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| NBIceman 01/09/20 11:02:59 PM #458 | I've been as harsh an AEW critic as anyone here but if you honestly think anything about them is worse than the Fiend or Rusev/Lana I don't know what to tell you. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Anagram Aces Ace Attorney: A Phoenix Wright Playthrough Topic (spoilers) |
| NBIceman 01/06/20 11:37:14 PM #366 | |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| NBIceman 01/04/20 1:39:19 AM #118 | I'm pretty sure multiple apricorns = multiple balls. Not 100% positive but like 95%. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Para's top 100 games of the decade, 2010-2019 |
| NBIceman 01/01/20 9:28:25 PM #40 | Paratroopa1 posted... Playing through Pokemon games feels like a chore just to get to the competitive endgame now and it kinda makes me sad, I dunno. They're consistently feeling less like RPG adventures and more like extremely extended tutorials, and the increased focus on having human characters talk at you and having weird plots about legendary Pokemon hasn't really been to my taste.This is a really good articulation of my feelings on the series. A lot of people who like Sw/Sh talk about how "it's the Pokemon formula - even when it's not great it's still pretty fun," but newer games really don't feel like the Pokemon formula I remember. X/Y simply does not feel the same way HG/SS did and does. For a while I thought that was just nostalgia and that I'd just sort of outgrown my ability to immerse myself in a Pokemon world again, but in the last few years I've even played some excellent ROM hacks, the kind that are made with genuine effort and love for the series, that do recapture that feeling of wanting to see what was around the next corner and not being able to step away from the game for hours. So I've confirmed that it really is the specific GameFreak products of recent times that don't have what I'm looking for and not Pokemon as a whole. I'm assuming you've played the GameCube Pokemon games? Flawed as they may be, I've always appreciated how they do things so different from other Pokemon adventures, and the good things about them are really good. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Anagram Aces Ace Attorney: A Phoenix Wright Playthrough Topic (spoilers) |
| NBIceman 01/01/20 12:08:09 AM #236 | Most people hate Meekins more than Oldbag. Therefore, Meekins is indeed over-hated. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Scarlet Ranks the Top 10 Top Tens of 2019 |
| NBIceman 12/31/19 11:27:48 PM #66 | And I figured you got plenty of wrestling takes out of me in the Discord so I didn't want to just clog the topic here. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | what is the best first level in a game? |
| NBIceman 12/31/19 7:50:54 PM #22 | Not knowing what's going on sucks, because all you're left with then is this random kid doing odd jobs around town while intermittently having confrontations with characters from CoM. It's frustrating - I hit a wall so quickly where I was like "just get to Sora already for crying out loud." And then in all subsequent playthroughs when you do know what's going on, those problems still remain, because the rest of the game is so fun that the prologue ends up feeling like even more of a chore than before. I legit never realized there were people that loved it so much. I know most don't dislike it as much as me, but this amount of praise surprises me. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/31/19 7:40:25 PM #323 | Lopen posted... Let me explain why they're the same to startWhen you put it like that, I see why you would regard them as being pretty similar. To me, though, the difference between jumping straight to the end of the game and using something like savestates is that, in the latter case, you're still doing everything that would normally be involved in a full playthrough of the game. Making it easier on yourself is not the same thing as completely bypassing it. Heat Man's stage is actually a great example, because you can circumvent the entire disappearing blocks section with Item 2 if you like. That's a tool given to you by the game, the same as a rewind function is. I realize that's not a perfect one-to-one comparison, because as you said, it wasn't in the original release, but trivializing the challenge is a pretty broad term, which is why this whole debate gets so fuzzy. What about something like grinding excessively in RPGs? Or take something like the recent Fire Emblems that have a literal rewind function built in. Wouldn't it be silly if someone accused another player of not "truly" finishing Three Houses because they used it? I just don't know if it makes that much difference whether it was in the original release or not - it isn't like all games are perfectly balanced around every mechanic in their default form. There's pretty often going to be exploits of some kind or another. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | what is the best first level in a game? |
| NBIceman 12/31/19 7:33:33 PM #18 | Leonhart4 posted... Destiny Islands is lameI'll not stand for this slander. DI is the perfect tutorial level.
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| Topic | what is the best first level in a game? |
| NBIceman 12/31/19 4:30:23 PM #9 | Leonhart4 posted... Kingdom Hearts IIHe said best, not worst. Destiny Islands in KH1, on the other hand, would be a great answer. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/31/19 3:10:31 PM #300 | "Rewinding and skipping are the same thing." Man, that's definitely a take. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Ever have a dream where you do something evil and everyone hates you for it? |
| NBIceman 12/31/19 12:33:15 AM #3 | I've had dreams where I do something completely reasonable and everyone hates me for it. Wait, experiences. I've had experiences like that. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | another year of tabletop rankings and writeups |
| NBIceman 12/30/19 8:12:04 PM #66 | |
| Topic | So what exactly is bad about Pokemon Sword and Shield? |
| NBIceman 12/30/19 7:15:14 PM #103 | MariaTaylor posted... add ten zubats and fifteen geodudes and this is accurateExcept this isn't even the case anymore because you can see wild encounters on the field and completely avoid them if you want. Isn't that supposed to be the big lauded new feature that absolves the two Switch Pokemon efforts of all their other problems? --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/30/19 7:10:30 PM #171 | Alright, you have a nice day lmao --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/30/19 7:05:48 PM #166 | MariaTaylor posted... it's funny because that is exactly what I see when reading this topic.No, we haven't. We have a direct quote from the guy that started the whole discussion (again, for absolutely no reason and provoked by absolutely nothing) saying that finishing a game with these functions is akin to slapping him in the face. We didn't have to create anything. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/30/19 6:57:41 PM #154 | MariaTaylor posted... but aren't you doing the exact same thing? the only difference is that you have decided that it 'is' beating a game, while your opposite side has decided that it 'isn't' beating a game. you are acting superior to mike matei. he is acting superior to people who use rewind states.The difference is that one side doesn't have an air of obnoxious gatekeeping led by some guy picking rhetoric-laden fights with strawmen. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Are you supposed to tip at Sonic |
| NBIceman 12/30/19 6:25:53 PM #16 | I use the drive thru at Sonic so no. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/30/19 12:39:12 AM #131 | MetalmindStats posted... Admittedly, I did use save states to beat (the 3DS ports of) Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3, though I wasn't exactly saving in front of every little obstacle and sequence. Nonetheless, the lordjers of the world can feel free to disregard my opinion now.I was speaking more to the implication that YES votes are "seeking validation" by "insisting" their way of beating the game still counts. The idea that they're triggered because they feel personally attacked or like there's a targeted effort to discredit their accomplishments or something. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/30/19 12:26:48 AM #125 | This Matei dude would be right at home on wrestling twitter. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/30/19 12:22:41 AM #123 | For the record, I myself don't think I've ever used save states or the like to finish a game that I otherwise couldn't have. My stance has no bearing on my own playstyle. And while I'm not gonna poke through >100 posts to confirm it, I don't think anyone in this topic has done what you're saying they have. I don't think hardly anyone has at all, because again, this was not a conversation until some dude made it one by sending out a hostile tweet about it. In essence, it seems to me that the only people who care how someone finishes a game are the people who, as Jakyl said, think there's some kind of superiority proven by doing it a particular way. Because otherwise, why would you care? --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/29/19 11:43:04 PM #115 | lordjers posted... It ain't wrong though, or what do you think about calling the other side judgemental, or elitist, or deciding what's fun or not.Well, the verbiage I personally used was "gatekeeping," which I stand by and regard as pretty reasonable considering the tweet that prompted this topic was an unprovoked and unnecessarily aggressive argument as part of a discussion that literally no one was having. I don't see how "let people play (and finish) single-player video games the way they want to" is seeking validation. Do you, on the other hand, not see how an opinion like that presented in Matei's tweet comes off as a hilarious attempt to claim some kind of feeling of superiority? "Maybe we both finished the game, but I did it the REAL way, so I'm better than you." That may not have been the intent, but it's how it reads. And people pointing out why that's a ridiculous sentiment aren't automatically "triggered" by it. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/29/19 11:17:38 PM #110 | lordjers posted... I don't get why the ones voting "Yes" are getting so triggered, it's like they need the validation they're so ironically mocking.This is the most nonsensical opinion yet uttered in this topic, and think of the ground that covers. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | So what exactly is bad about Pokemon Sword and Shield? |
| NBIceman 12/29/19 11:12:38 PM #14 | StealThisSheen posted... I think it's because a lot of people that whine about the Natdex being gone are kinda insufferable about it. They say Pokemon is "dead" and anybody buying it is "cancer" and blahblahblah, and then nitpick every single thing just to try and argue that the game is objectively garbage. Thus, a very vocal, toxic part of the community blew up a legit complaint into something ridiculous that people are just much more likely to roll their eyes at.There's always extreme opinions at both ends, though. I've seen just as many people saying anyone not buying the game, no matter their reason, is toxic or stupid or entitled or what have you. Why do we give so much focus to the vocal minority these days? --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | So what exactly is bad about Pokemon Sword and Shield? |
| NBIceman 12/29/19 11:09:38 PM #11 | People claiming the outrage was just people whining for no reason or because their favorite Pokemon wasn't included are, as usual, simplifying the issue. People were upset to start with, yeah, some very much so. But a lot of folks were just kind of annoyed or disappointed. The outrage was because the explanation GameFreak gave for why they couldn't include all of them was flat-out bunk. They essentially said that they didn't have time to do models for every Pokemon because they're made from the ground up, and that the development time that they could have spent on that was instead directed towards polishing the game itself. Turns out they imported models from Sun and Moon, so the first part was just a complete lie, and while it's obviously subjective whether they accomplished the second part, it's far from an unreasonable opinion to say the polish is largely absent when compared to a lot of modern games. Then there's just a lot of smaller complaints which, again, may not bother an individual player, but that are still perfectly valid. EXP Share has no "off" option for absolutely no reason. I've heard many people say the rival is terrible or that the game is too hand-holdy. The trend has continued where features that people quite liked from recent generations have been removed. All in all, I get the impression that a lot of longtime fans like myself would probably enjoy it just fine if we played. It's still Pokemon. But after many, many years of a real console Pokemon adventure becoming something of a holy grail, and after seeing what other much beloved franchises have put out on the Switch thus far (whether the comparisons are fair or not, and you can make your own determination there), Sword and Shield is just kind of a letdown. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/29/19 8:52:42 PM #106 | Can you believe there's people out there who think they've "beaten" Pokemon after they had to use a Revive during the Champion battle? Freaking cheaters should be ashamed of themselves. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Can a name make someone more/less attractive to you? |
| NBIceman 12/29/19 8:32:54 PM #3 | I don't think I could discount its possibility as a subconscious thing, but I doubt it's ever been a deciding factor for whether or not I'm attracted to someone. I have had a thing for a disproportionate amount of girls named Katie, but that's a common enough name that I imagine it's a coincidence. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| NBIceman 12/29/19 2:23:24 PM #61 | This is some extreme way of gatekeeping. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | another year of tabletop rankings and writeups |
| NBIceman 12/28/19 10:01:15 PM #35 | One of my friends loves Dead of Winter but it's not a particular favorite of mine, either. Feels like there's too much going on for how simple a game it really is. Feels like a chore sometimes. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | All Purpose Wrestling Topic Year End Awards Ballot and Debate Topic 1 |
| NBIceman 12/27/19 12:57:36 AM #23 | I'm open to some suggestions for Best Angle, New Character, and Personality if anyone has candidates they feel strongly about. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | another year of tabletop rankings and writeups |
| NBIceman 12/27/19 12:28:59 AM #12 | I wish my circle of friends was amenable to Secret Hitler alternatives, but they seem to really love calling people fascists for whatever reason. Oh well. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | My Annual Christmas Topic |
| NBIceman 12/26/19 12:41:09 AM #27 | Merry Christmas, scarlet! Hopefully when I eventually move back to Texas we can take in a show together sometime (or I guess if I just happen to be in-state when one's going on). --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | My brother got me KH3 for Christmas |
| NBIceman 12/26/19 12:39:24 AM #18 | I agree that 1 and 2 are the only ones actually worth playing, but age isn't the issue from my perspective - KH1 remains my favorite to this day and I didn't even like most of the portable entries when they originally released. That being said, there's no reason not to try playing them first before resorting to the videos. I know I'm the minority opinion so there's a pretty decent chance you'll enjoy them. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | If a game comes out for PS4 and Switch, which version do you get? |
| NBIceman 12/24/19 1:52:57 AM #11 | PS4 for the superior controller. Trophies can be nice too, depending on the game. Really, though, the most important decision driver is that I hardly ever use the Switch in portable mode to begin with, so its big selling point doesn't matter to me. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Switch Game Recommendations |
| NBIceman 12/22/19 9:42:40 PM #7 | |
| Topic | All Purpose Wrestling Topic Year End Awards Ballot and Debate Topic 1 |
| NBIceman 12/22/19 8:50:39 PM #18 | Strong BJ and Birds of Prey will likely get votes from me. I'll look into Aussie Open as well. Want to watch some of Nakajima/Shiozaki from NOAH before I commit, been hearing a lot of praise for them in certain circles. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Anagram Aces Ace Attorney: A Phoenix Wright Playthrough Topic (spoilers) |
| NBIceman 12/21/19 5:05:26 PM #70 | Anagram posted... "Indeed! Verily, I say Ergo!Possibly my favorite AA quote. --- https://imgur.com/UYamul2 Spurs - Yankees - Eagles - Golden Knights |
| Topic | Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492 |
| NBIceman 12/21/19 4:21:48 PM #343 | |
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