Posts by _LS_

I mean, there are no rules, yo.

Clementine would probably get a pass from people who hate video game names, because it's also a real person name. It shortens to Chloe and Tina, right?

I got that job, by the by. I'm pretty sure I've said as much elsewhere at this point, but given that this thread ended on Kaynil wishing me luck, it seems only appropriate that I add an update.

I got the job. I did some training yesterday, and I work my first real shift tomorrow. It's a small arcade. My actual job won't be anything too exciting, but the atmosphere is laid back with some opportunity for growth. Here's hoping it's enough to help smooth out some of my financial difficulties.

I know everyone has a big ol' boner for SMB3, but I think Super Mario World might be the best Mario game.

It's really true. Blizzard isn't running a game, quite so much as they're running a $15/month friendship service. The amount of hours I logged in that game just sitting around doing nothing while I chatted with my friends are countless.

Of course, the downside is that most of the connections I made through the game never successfully made the leap outside the game. When we played together for hours every day, it never seemed relevant to trade email addresses or social media connections. So most of those friendships have been lost. Though I did meet my girlfriend in Stormwind City, and now we live together. So there's that.

The frustrating thing is that I think there's a legitimate discussion to be had about cultural appropriation of the 'nerd community.' But the discussion got all fucked up because a bunch of losers decided to make the discussion about women, rather than about their frustration with their niche being absorbed by mainstream culture.

Of course, even the legitimate discussion seems a little frivolous to me. An academic curiosity, but not a real harm to anyone.

Not enough attention is being payed to the sick burn I just layed down.

I actually managed to mock you with a video that you made yourself. It was fucking glorious.

So, ya know that guy who starts all of his stories with "Oh man, so I got totally smashed last weekend..."?

We all agree that guy is an asshole, right?

None the less, sometimes mind-altering substances produce some interesting stories. So post your drugs and alcohol stories here. No judgements.

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So, I've been looking for work for about 4 months now. During that time, I never knew when I was going to get a job, and I didn't know if the job I would eventually get would perform drug tests. I'm not a big weed smoker usually, but it was annoying to pass up all the good opportunities to smoke that I had in those 4 months. (We seriously had a 12 hour blackout in my area. That would have been such a good time to smoke! Augh!)

So today I got stoned, and decided to go out for a pizza. I'm poor, so I just walked into the local Little Caesar's, and asked if they had any pepperoni hot-n-readies. (They're only $6). The lady behind the counter, as a joke, said "Nope. We've only got cheeseburger pizzas here today."

Now, I wasn't so high that I couldn't function in normal society. I could smile, ask for food, and pay for food, and act perfectly normal. But this joke fucking threw me. I couldn't tell it was a joke. So I just said "sure, a cheeseburger pizza sounds awesome."

She said she was joking. I said she should totally make cheeseburger pizzas anyway, because they sounded awesome.

(Full disclosure: this is about as exciting as my stories get.)

This is very true! You don't have to be a liar to be a dishonest person. When you really start to examine yourself, you find a lot of dishonesty you never even realized existed.

How many times do you just smile and nod when you don't understand what's happening? How often do you keep quiet about an opinion because you're scared of being forced to talk about it? How often do you downplay the parts of yourself that are embarassing? The stories that are the most human part of you? If you listen to the talk, Dan talks about a point in his life where he used a T-shirt as toilet paper. If that had happened to any one of us, we'd be humiliated. We'd thank goodness that no one ever saw it, because it meant no one ever needs to know. But Dan tells those stories about himself because they matter. It's a quality he and his wife both share, and I fucking love them both for it.

And yes, being constantly, aggressively honest may cause you to be less palatable to the people around you. But that's a good thing. Because it will repel the people who don't like the true you, and it will attract the people who DO like the true you.

Harmon is a funny guy, but the biggest impression he's made on me is his aggressive, unrepentant honesty. He's turned honesty into a philosophy of life, and it's something I want to cultivate in myself.

The whole thesis of the talk, that The Internet is not important except in the way it connects us to other people is something I'd like to do better at. I for sure take the internet too seriously sometimes.

Be honest, though. You only posted this thread because you enjoyed making that title pun.

So I'm gathering that you recommend:
-The Staff of Kings
-The Emperor's Tomb
-Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures (SNES)

I'll keep that in mind if I need a game to play, or I see them on Steam Sale.

Well, if this is what we're doing. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Quote from Kaynil

I tried it briefly with a Werewolf. I got bored of it straight away.
I think I didn't give it enough time and I was not used enough to the keyboard controls. I am still not used to them but I am more used to the idea now.

In my most humble opinion, the game had already started to go seriously downhill by the time the werewolves were added. And the werewolf starting area was so fucking boring.

WoW did grab me right away when I started playing. I ended up staying awake all night to play. But I wasn't really hooked until about level 50 when I really started making a lot of friends in the game. Some of my best friendships from those years have really stuck with me.

Quote from Sardonic Pickle

I am in recovery, have been for almost a decade. Never looked back.

Stupid addiction.

Did it hit you that hard?

My new job is about 4 miles from my house, so I'm going to try taking my bike to and from it. Hopefully that'll help me out some.

Speaking of Gyms, my girlfriend is actually planning to live out of her car for a few months, and is going to get a membership at a chain of gyms in the area so that she'll always have access to a shower and such.

DK Country really did has some great music. The games never grabbed me, but the music is toe-tappin goodness.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest sucked, but the music was neat:

The 7 one lists both "Battery Fluid" and "Windshield Wiper Fluid," neither of which seem very essential to me.

I mean, I guess if you have a car with a refillable battery. But I've never even seen one of those before.

Quote from The Inhaling One

My fondest memory of the N64 is going over to my friend's house in 1st Grade and playing it. That was way back in 2006, when the Wii came out. I feel old....

You're the youngest person on the forum, and literally half of my age. stfu

Quote from Sardonic Pickle

Haha why rubber bands?

Shadows of the Empire had an incredibly complex code. Essentially you had to hold down almost every button on the controller at once, then you had to move the control stick left and right extremely gently, something like 5 times. It was impossible to do with only two hands, so I held down most of the buttons with rubber bands.

Once you did get the code input, though, it unlocked a whole debug mode where you could change all sorts of neat stuff about the game.

Fucking region-locking, man. That sucks.

The little jump at the part of the opening where (in the original) Epona would rear up and whinny, was funny.

Quote from The Inhaling One

My favorite handheld console is the 3DS. Not sure why, probably because of the games. That's one of the main reasons I want a Wii U, for the games, and nothing else.

I mean, that's really the metric by which any console should be judged, right?

We can talk about neat aspects of the hardware, or how much we like the controller, or the aesthetic design of the case. But in the end the value of a console must be measured in its games.