Simplistic works a bit better regardless positioning and focus points, but I'm still a mess just look at that Lana tag it's everywhere.
Not sure I get what you mean by that, sorry. :XD:
Anyway I suppose that if you notice that from past works that is a good signal that you have improved since then.
Messy and all I still cannot do something close to many of the signatures you are sharing here.
How did I forget about this 1V1 Me mate I'll rek u
Hahah. It definitely sounds like a plan that we must face sometime online.
You will mop with me but I know I'll be laughing the whole time. :XD:
I don't check many blogs. I like following certain webs, some from years now:
I am sure I check other blogs but these are the main ones I can recall recently and that are in English.
It is funny. Kind of reminds me of the uproar about Skyward Sword getting a low review in one of those popular websites. 
There are some games I didn't even know existed until now thanks to this second collect of games. N64 has some interesting hidden gems.
There's a lot of recent games I wish I had more than retro garbage to be honest.
But oh man I'm so poor.
Each to its own. You go for what you enjoy.
On topic, while packing my SNES games, I found that I really don't own many SNES games. It's a bummer. I want more SNES games.
Go for it! I hope you can find some of them. I know I need to play many titles I just briefly tried.
I find the Water Temple more tedious than hard. I suppose I played OoT so much that I more or less know the layout of the temple, but on your first times if youu miss a level it can be a challenge finding not so much where could be a an unopened chest but how to get there if you can't recall exactly where is level-changing area is. I rememebr I used to miss a chest in the second floor so now every time I do taht temple I make sure to check all I can the first time I am in the second level.
Well, might as well go deeper. This is as you say a bit delicate for me, so I am not here to debate it just to explain where I am coming from.
Given your specification that you believe in the Christian god, I think you might be more appropriately termed a Christian who doesn't participate in organized religion. “Theist,” while technically referring to anyone who believes in a god, is typically used to refer to people who believe in a deity, but not in any specific conception of one.
Fair enough. I just assumed that since a-theist was not believing in any, theist encompassed all who believed in one or more deities. "Christian who doesn't participate in organized religion" sound more like a shot version than a term but I guess there is really not a one or two words way to put it.
What does your worship look like? The act of going to church and participating in a group is such a huge part of the Christian culture I'm familiar with.
Finding people that share your beliefs is important for your self esteem. We all need to feel we belong, as you probably know christians are told through the Bible to find one another to keep strong in faith. Seeing other people of faith help reaffirm your own concepts when you feel "weak". Not going to any church is a double edged sword in the sense that the nurturing of my beliefs is not so much the external interactions but your own.
I am not actively finding people who share my exact thoughts, but I always enjoy being able to discuss with someone things like how they interpret certain verses and stuff. In Juarez I had a few friends we could openly talk in depth our Christian beliefs without risking the other person thinking we were being blasphemous and actually paying attention to each other. For example talking how we reconcile Science with Genesis. In Australia I haven't really shared much of my belifs as almost every person I've met has openly declared to me to be atheists. Having at least one person you can open about it can do wonders for a person like me who is reluctant to become a regular at any church.
What does it mean to be a Christian who doesn't organize?
Christianity is founded in the belief of salvation through believing Jesus Christ died for our sins and he is a bridge between you and God. Some Christians think Jesus is God, some people see Jesus as a separated entity. Beyond this different braches put weights on certain beliefs, habits and tasks you must perform in order to be a "good Christian". I don't know for other people in my position but for me it means that I found a dissonance between what I've read in the Bible or simply what I believe in and what it is being taught in the congregations to a point where I can no longer reconcile them nor feel at ease at the place so I rather not to be involved and carry things the way I think it's better. You can say it is arrogant of me, but at the same time the same Bible urge you to leave what is not helping you. I can't recall the quote but it is a favourite verse for a sect to warn about any other "false" religion.
Is there an active component to your faith? (A regular bible study, or regularly caring for the poor?)
Probably reading the Bible. I am not in a I must read this much every day or pray at these specific times but I definitely consider important to keep what people call a relationship with God and the roots for your reason to believe. This include reading the Bible to grasp things better and try to keep communication through prayer. I definitely should be more active but I don't really go volunteering or trying to help other people. There have been times I feel an urge for someone and I have acted to give out my shoes or jacket but I never have been the proper Christian to check afterwards and actually tries to actively make a change at least in one person's life. I just try to be kind and care for people around me. If a stranger knocks and asks for something I can provide I will try to, so long I don't feel I can be endangering my life in the process. I am far from a proper ideal Christian and while I strive to be a better person I am not making my main goal to become the closest to what Jesus used to be. I don't know if that makes me an hypocrite or a false Jesus follower but I think part of the free will and different talents is so we can live a fulfilling life in many diverse ways more and still being able to keep the ideals you cherish close to you. It is a process after all.
If you don't mind delving into your childhood a bit, what is it like growing up with influences from Jehova's Witnesses, Catholicism, and Pentacostal sources? Those are all very strong minded beliefs systems, none of which like each other much in my experience.
They are very different but as a kid you don't even notice. For me they all believed in God and Jesus. They all hold the Bible with great respect. My mother grew Catholic
and switched to another Christian branch as an adult, my Grandma on my dad's side was pentecostal. I had a neighbour who was a Jehovah Witness. At the time I didn't know my bible book she gave me and I loved reading had ideas different to what my family believed in. I kept reading it over and over. I used to know because of it many of the stories in the old and new testament. My best friend and his family were catholics.
Catholicism still has a good impact in many Mexican lives, it is full of traditions linked to our festivals even if our festivities precedes the introduction of religion. Catholics also have some sort of path you must follow, some rituals in order to become a full certified member. To be married by a catholic priest you will need that. Anyway my mother tried to make me have the first communion or whatever you call it, it is a ritual you usually start when you're a young kid. You dress in white, hold a candle pass a quiz based on a book they give you and yada yada. Thing is, if I recall things correctly, Grandma got wind of this and basically nagged for it not to happen. I was around six years old.
I also recall Grandma got angry at me when I proudly showed her a drawing I made of Jesus. She said to me he shouldn't be drawn as no one know God's face.
If I may ask, what was the simple stuff you started to resist when the cracks first started forming?
During pre-teenage years we started going to a Christian congregation. I don't remember the branch but it was nice. Small and cozy. Even though at first it was just mum and I, my father finally accepted to start going. He did not liked some of the preachers and some of the lectures. Around that brief time he accepted to go I twisted my left leg trying to learn to skate with some friends. I was ready to believe my leg would be healed that night when the Pastor did the Jesus is doing miracles number. My parents stopped me. I couldn't understand why? Wasn't I supposed to have faith and believe he can make possible the impossible? Why did my mum hold me back? I started to realise this weird separation on how far you can go. Soon enough my hobbies became a target and I started to find out that there were misinformation being parroted (Oh, no Pikachu means 1000 better than God. Protect your kids!), people that were so fanatic they would not pay attention to their kids needs because they religiously needed to attend each mass. A mother not going to her only son's wedding because they were married in a different branch.
When I started being uncomfortable with some of the lectures received I started paying attention to other branches. I tried to get into the Jehovah Witnesses because at first I thought that was closer to my beliefs. Of what I knew (Catholic and Christian) they seemed to hold the notion of the trinity. I couldn't accept that Jesus was God and JW also don't believe in the Trinity I also share the idea that there is not hell. I realised my beliefs started with a book from their religion point of view and I had an aunt who also was a JW so I thought I had found the "real" one. The religion I would settle with. After the fourth lesson I couldn't take anymore. I don't remember what specifically were the last straws but I think they had to do with the idea that the blood is your spirit, the breath of life, so when the Bible says to keep your spirit pure it means not dwelling with blood, for this reason transfusions are a big no. Receiving blood is making it impure it is not longer just your blood. They can do all they can to prevent you to get a transfusion even if it is the only thing that might save your life because it is better to die than let you lose your soul. For them it is a reversal sin. There is more, like their "calculations" on how old the earth is and stuff based on their interpretation on words like each "day" in genesis. That was too extreme for me. So I ditched the idea of trying to become a JW.
Then I listen to the Mormons, all good until they showed me the book found in the new world and told me on how when we die we'll get each our own planet and a bunch of weird things that I had never read before, many based on the newer book. So I also stopped the visits from them.
At that point I realised that even though I had some JW beliefs I also had a lot of Christian ideas that made difficult for me to fit in. I found out that many religious and Christian branches had this weird idea that someone that believed in God and Jesus but weren't part of their congregation were in a false sect. Any other branch was a sect. they all were the true religion. Some lectures were about how wrong the sister religion is for doing this or believing that. They talked about this urgent fight where you must go and get souls for God before Satan does, but rather than focussing in Spreading the news on God existing, they rather engage in the petty change into our religion or go to hell. Someone told me off for saying I liked to dance and was telling me I should use my talents to give him Glory, as in paint Christian stuff and Dance only to Hallelujah at church. The rest is flesh and is evil. I've always been attracted to magic, tales of fantasy. Were they evil? Was I wrong for liking them was that the fight against the flesh? Everything is the fight against the flesh for them.
Then I used to spend my 10% of allowances in God related stuff, pamphlets, stickers, recordings, etc. But church insisted I was supposed to give them that money and somehow putting them to them meant giving it to God. The more time that passed the less I believed that. At some point I read in the New Testament that the first Pastors had to work and should depend on the people to subsist. What they were doing was in addition of their normal lives. Many of the pastors I met growing up had a very good life just out of people's donations since the poor things were 24/7 under Gods commandment to steer the sheep. Anyway the more I red the New Testament the more I started to question church paradigms, like addressing the preacher as "father". There is a part where Jesus clearly says we shouldn't do that as we only have one, in another he points their expensive clothes and stuff... So you have this Chrsitian guy talking on how catholics are wrong for "idolatry" yet he's talking from a higher bench, is still called father and keeps expensive clothes and lifestyle. Things like these were cracks popping all over. I just can't grasp how they can do exactly what was said through Jesus was wrong with the religious of the past and not realise it.
As I said I kind of just stopped trying to find the true religion and started getting comfortable with the idea of your spirituality being something personal. When I was down, the college friends refreshed me and it was great but as usual once I got involved and they opened more of their belies I couldn't keep up. I don't think Homosexuality is a sin. I don't believe artists that draw naked people even if just temporary to get the proportions right are perverts, I don't believe bands are Satanic because of some symbol or lyrics. I can choose not to listen to it if I don't like what they say. I don't believe that whether I go to church is in itself what will save me, or that if I respect my neighbour decision not to belief I am going to be held responsible for their soul. Or that I will get crowns or a place next to God. I don't even have a set idea on what is paradise and what to expect from it. I don't think if I die before I baptism myself I won't be saved. I don't believe many things that people take for granted. I admit that not all of them steam from me reading the bible but I definitely find some things too inconsistent.
sorry about the edits. :XD:
I will leave the post alone now... I think... maybe....
As explained in the guidelines of the second commandment rule, necroposting is fine so long you add something.
If you just say BUMP it falls into Spam but bumping it up with news, explanations, info or material perfectly acceptable. Just make your posts worth it and it should be fine.
Zelda Connection Penitentiary
I've got the new name for the Fighting Forum. Thanks, LS!
I asked the wayback machine. You guys might care about these urls:
This one has the captures of the early forums.
http://web.archive.org/web/2001120503…lhq.com/forums/
This one is extremely interesting. It is all the urls under the domain it could capture on the lapse of at least 3 years.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.zcentralhq.com/*
Like this one:
http://web.archive.org/web/2002022514…om/z9pics.shtml
Kilovh and Ashley talking about the The Zelda Windwaker impressions and how it clashed with the Gamecube tech demo.
It is so effing cool~
It is quite interesting seeing the names and layout changes as well as the addition of boards and active members from capture to capture.
This is probably the look around the time I arrived:
http://web.archive.org/web/2002060410…lhq.com/forums/
The change to Spira Online:
http://web.archive.org/web/2002120408…lhq.com/forums/
I had even forgotten Ashley had changed her name to Yuna. And look, we appear as the last posters in some sections!
Hmm Link1512 I knew him from HCA, I wonder how he's doing nowadays. one of the few that rather call me 'nil more so than Kay as a way to shorten my nick.
Other captions have some names that I know were users I kind of new even if we didn't interact yet I forgot about them like *Tooty Fruity*, SSJChibiGohan1212
Then chack again the Top Posters:
http://web.archive.org/web/2003060118…lhq.com/forums/
Six months only between captures and what a difference not only in position but amount of posts.
Then the restarting and back to a Zelda theme:
http://web.archive.org/web/2003080118…lhq.com/forums/
The past users say "Kokiri Girl", it could be that user was me. By then I was a close friend of a certain Kokiri Kid and I do recall joining a few communities with this username after both agreed to join, so this must have been a bit before he joined or maybe @Sardonic Pickle didn't remain active afterwards.
And so, it turned out that the the Dark layout of my capture happened somewhere 2004, when the url; changed from zcentralhq to zeldacentralhq...
http://web.archive.org/web/2004120411…lhq.com/forums/
^Bonus! Check in the sidebar what is the thread with the most views. LS and SP might get a giggle out of it.
It seems like it reminded this way from at least December of 2004.
YES!! ONE CAPTURE OF THE SHOUTBOX!
http://web.archive.org/web/2005050408…cf9783648628121
I think at the bottom are the older shouts.
Sorry if this is too much. I just got excited and started pasting and babbling all over. :XD:
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There was also a member called Linker I think, who kept getting banned, but kept making new accounts. At some point he prompted me to make this:
linker is back
i shall absorb all the world's souls- linker
Just found this signature in neo-linker account through this thread:
http://web.archive.org/web/2005052211…hp?postid=21120
3. I was more of a GDT (Great Deku Tree forums) guy. Pfft... TSR.
I think you could make a thread to talk about TGDT if you want. There's also for me HCMA ... maybe we need a thread so everyone can talk about those old communities they used to visit, Zelda related or not... or an area to make threads like this to talk about the other origin communities we come from. I am open to suggestions.
So, are there any WiiU games you've got your eye on? :D
What kind of threads might be Mature, but not against the rules?
Two kinds pop in my mind.
- We might discuss our opinions on controversial topics such as religion, strippers, drugs, use of porn, etc but it is against the rules to share nudity, facility a site to get drugs, etc.
- We might want to share a video with crude humour that might not be suitable for young viewers or people with no appreciation for the grotesque or vulgar style.
If that still confused the best way I can put it is: Use "mature" [NRC 15+] to inform people before opening a thread if they are getting into a not-for-Everyone kind of topic.
The idea is to have a way to discern "normal" topics from those that might not be adequate for our younger members. If you think a rename of the prefix or a different approach could be more effective please start a new topic in feedback for the later to discuss this idea or suggest here the alternative name or prefixes to address this.
What kind of threads might be Recurrent?
Recurrent threads are those that we are expected to come back to them and answer them in a regular bases. A"interview threads, actions of the moment, Forum games, those are recurrent topics taht you can come and post again after other people or when a reasonable amount of time withouta response has passed.
I really like how the shares so far all have been computer related.
I wish I had something to share too.
What does a nerd party at Kaynil's look like?
I've posted a few pics in my twitter:
[MEDIA=twitter]609622417695059968[/MEDIA]
For my 30th Birthday I wanted to have a gaming party. We used a mobile phone to play some songs as people requested them and we remembered them some included Gamegrumps remixes, flight of the conchords, tripod, DK 64 Rap, Metroid and other VG OST music, etc.
Although for comedy bands Psychostick is still my favorite.
I don't think I've heard of them. That was a pretty cool share.
:XD:
The humans are dead
Flight of the Concords
Spirit tracks corrects a bit the input misreads but keeps the same game style. It is a bit weird at first but you do get used to it.
My only complain comes to drawing certain symbols. I know what they are but they won't register until I draw them like the game expect me, some are easier than others.
I also know some people have trouble with the rolling action but I didn't have much trouble with it. Link rolled when I intended him to roll.
That's pretty funny . I am happy you did this. :D
I actually kinda regret getting these speakers. It's a 5.1 system, but the sound is pretty weak. I can barely get it loud enough to hear it in the next room without blowing the levels.
Next time I'm buying computer speakers, I'm going to buy them from a speaker store, rather than a computer store.
Soubds like s plan.
Yeah they are not very loud. I got them for the surround effwct but I want to replace them with proper hometheather speakers at some point. Our current desktop sorakers are worse so I'll probably start by replacing those. :XD:
I know Erin's work back from Newgrounds but I think his sequelitis is of the stuff I enjoy the most. I particularly like this video because it dares to tear the "OoT is the best N64 aura" aura that seemed to permeate the Zelda discussion - Now MM seems to be the one being hailed as the Masterpiece.
Anyway I really want to hear your opinions on Arin's opinions, haha.
The video last around half an hour but brings excellent points even just from the game developing angle.
That was pretty interesting. I thought at first once they diverted from the movie that there was going to be just general media "did you know" of Mario Bros. but all the interesting bits thrown after were pretty cool.
It is a shame the movie changed so much into something so separated from its root.
Also this video answer some questions posed in "Everything wrong" with....
Hahah. I don't know why would they purposely neglect giving you some, maybe the workers that received weren't aware of their existence if their job wasn't related to handle them at the back.
Glad you found some. Maybe you should use the rest to cover yourself in a cardboard armor and just visit again said businesses, haha.
I think you have the same speakers we use for our TV. :lengua:
