Posts by Lace Sabatons

Well then it's my least favorite!

That's how this goes, right? =P

I was feeling contemplative today, and I wanted to put into words something I've been thinking about for awhile.

There is a pervasive idea in American culture that a successful life is one that is moving upwards. A successful year is one where your bank account is larger than it was the year before, and you've accomplished things in your work that have raised your prestige. If you're no better off than you were the year before, you're stagnant. If you have less money or prestige than the year before, then you're a failure. Or, at the very best, you've hit a rough patch in your life that you need to climb out of.

Regardless of what your specific pursuit is, you should always be moving up. I reject that ideology.

One year ago I was making a lot of money. I had a fairly prestigious occupation. I even turned down a promotion at one point that would have made me the #4 guy on the U.S. side of the company.

Today, a year later, I have about $100 to my name, no current income, and I just got back from an interview to be (essentially) a waiter. And my life is so much better today than it was a year ago. It's far from perfect, but I am happier than I've ever been. (Well, the last 3 months have been a bit of a bitch. But if you take an average of the last year and compare it to other years, this is easily the happiest I've ever been in my life).

I'm not an advocate of asceticism. I'm a materialist through-and-through. And we live in a capitalist society, so we must play the capitalist game. I'd like to hope that someday I can hit that ~$40k/year mark.* But I refuse to feel bad about the fact that I'm doing "worse" this year than I was last year. I'm happier, ergo I'm doing better.

QED

*$40k/year being a rough estimate of the amount of money a person needs to make in order to feel comfortable and safe.

That is a really curious looking game. THe gameplay looks pretty basic really, but I'd be interested to try it. The horse level in particular looks fun.

I'm currently listening to the thing I posted over in this thread:

http://forums.zeldacavern.com/index.php?thre…connectors.174/

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With that said, I believe it is still important to agree in what we can let slide and what kind of action staff needs to take when something becomes predominant.

I think any hard line on the subject of SPAM has to be based on one multiple incidents of spamming by a given member. If a member posts 1 message that counts as spam, that's not really a big deal. If a member is noticed posting multiple spammy messages, that would warrant some action.

Lets say we have a new member (or an old one, whatever). They pop into a thread and post something like "Zibba zabba zoo!" It sure looks like spam. It fits all the qualifications of being spam. But maybe it's a joke the moderator just doesn't get. Maybe it's a joke nobody gets. I'm sure we've all told jokes that have fallen completely flat before. It's embarrassing, and sending the member a message that says "stop spamming" would only compound their embarrassment.

Now, if in a different thread they post something like "Flip Flop Floobity Bop!," then it might warrant asking the member what they're doing. And if they post "Gabbity Hup Hup B'zow!" in a third thread, then at that point it would probably be appropriate for a moderator to step in, and send a PM saying "Yo, you're breaking the rules."

I tried playing New Super Mario Bros last night on the DS. I had some fun with it, although the controls feel a little imprecise to me.

I have to remind myself often to be less cynical about games. I've had more than a few conversations where people say something like "Wow...you sure hate a lot of things."

What's Charly Circuis? I've never even heard of that.

So, I'll make no bones about this: I'm an unrepentant, rabid Dan Harmon fan. If he has something to say I want to listen to it.

But his 2012 talk at the XOXO festival is of particular interest:

I found it again just now while going through some of my youtube favorites. I'd be interested to hear anyone's thoughts, but mostly I just think it's something that we could all benefit from thinking about.

As with so many things, I think the Internet has largely solved the problems posed by the '90s and '00s.

The music that gets promoted in the mainstream is still pretty manufactured. But who cares? Now I can listen to a bunch of bands who made themselves popular through the internet. The means of artistic production have returned to the people.

Definitely one of my favorite video games of all time.

The trailer for the new one makes me wish I had a WiiU. It looks like a straight-up remake in parts, with elements of the never-released "Starfox 2"

You reckless, hotlinking fiend! You'll damn us all!

That's a lovely picture of Shiek. I like art where it looks like something is happening, rather than all the static "character portraits" you tend to see.

Well "Sardonic Pickle" has no results on Steam, so I assume that's not the name you use there, bruh.

Ho shit! I forgot about that song. That's some seriously masterful composing right there. The overworld theme is also really solid:

Contra! I never played it on an NES myself, but I was a huge fan of Contra III on the SNES, so when I learned about emulators Contra was one of the first games I played. And damn if the music in this game isn't energetic as fuck:

I would definitely say it's better to build up to this game with less complex / more well polished strategy games. The time I spent playing Civ V helped me to understand the style of gameplay a lot better.

The Super Mario Brothers Super Show doesn't really hold up at all. If you ever wanna go back and watch cartoons from your childhood, there are much better choices than that. It's a curious relic of the early years of the video game resurgence. But it's not fun to watch.

So if Link is going to have a last name, with Zelda?

Come to think of it, is Ganon the only character in the series whose ever had a last name?

Just another tool of bourgeois oppression, comrade.

I actually just got a pretty good lead on a job at an oldschool game Arcade. I've got an interview tomorrow. Hopefully I get it, because if I don't start bringing in some money, I'm probably going to have to move. Which would really suck, cuz I like my house.

X is the last FF game I enjoyed. Coincidentally, I think X has possibly the strongest mechanics in the series, and the weakest narrative.

@Link I think we could do with a few more dirty games, really. =P