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57 minutes ago, x=usr(1536) said:
What a coincidence - so does mine!
It's good that you're taking your 5200 out for a walk. People don't realize how important it is for consoles to regular physical exercise.
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6 hours ago, Cebus Capucinis said:
It's the same thing with that stupid gape face thumbnail that everyone uses. It pleases The Algorithm. I have heard from a couple "content creators" (admittedly I scoff at that as a legitimate job title outside a couple people) that they hate doing it, but have tested the waters doing other things and it always results in being taken off the suggested videos, front page, what have you. I think it really just goes to show how mindless cattle our society has become when someone seizes the opportunity to force us to be told what to do, say, and watch on this level and everyone just....goes along with it. Candidly I find it alarming.
If it's all just a constant hustle of fakeness to get to the next number set to please The Algorithm, sounds like a soulless and devoid "profession" (and that's coming from MY profession!).
I always thought it was children driving those algorithms. But it might also be the dumbest in society, too.
One of the many reasons I just don't watch any Youtube unless I know I'm looking for a particular video. "Youtubers" are just not on my radar.
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59 minutes ago, Cebus Capucinis said:
That's the thing, I think, for me - I can tolerate the shilling if it's at least for interesting videos that actually have material and talk about something interesting or provide some context we don't have, etc. It's still annoying attention-whoring, but at least the product is fine.
When a post is essentially derailing a discussion to go "LOOK WE'RE PLAYING X GAME ON TWITCH/YOUTUBE" or "HERE'S A VIDEO OF THE GAME I MADE" on the other hand..... that's just shilling/attention-whoring with absolutely less than zero value add to the page of the thread (whether it's a commercial release or a homebrew).
Of course, I'm curmudgeonly and also believe any video of "oh look yet ANOTHER tired old nerd makes the 5469395857th 'review' of an 80s game while making stupid pop culture references" should be strictly verboten going forward. We have enough of those, and you aren't funny, whoever you are - go away.
This was 2007...
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48 minutes ago, zzip said:
Are you talking about the games with the "8-bit" pixelated style of graphics?
Many 8/16/32 bit 2D pixelated graphics games are actually decidedly modern, and would be an odd duck among actual older games. Doesn't mean they can't be fun, but retro style is more than just 2D graphics. And some games, like the New DKC ones, have a more retro feel even if the graphics are slightly more modern.
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6 hours ago, insertclevernamehere said:
Never read that. I always read it was a four or five season story arc planned out from the beginning. Here's a quote from an interview-
“Seven years ago, we planned out the complete story arc for Stranger Things,” the Duffer brothers said in their statement. “At the time, we predicted the story would last four to five seasons. It proved too large to tell in four but – as you'll see for yourselves – we are now hurtling towards our finale.”
The original idea predates this one. See this link with a different interview. (I skip the spoiler in the quote, but warning for those who don't want it to be spoiled to not click on the link.)
Quote“But once we realized that the show was potentially going to go on longer than one season, we needed to leave it more up in the air, because deep down we knew the show just wouldn’t really work [...]," Duffer continues.
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23 minutes ago, TrekMD said:
I need to watch this series. I like what I see for the game, though.
Strongly recommend season 1. Fun fact, the Duffer Brothers had originally wanted to make it only a single season. While parts of 2 and 3 are enjoyable, s1 is perfection.
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21 hours ago, fiddlepaddle said:
So, to summarize, in Germany the NES sold like French Toast, and in Australia it sold like Brussels Sprouts.
Man, oven roasted brussels sprouts with aioli was all the rage for a hot minute in some of the trendy spots. I don't see it as often, but it's so good. If all you ever had was boiled brussels sprouts, then you've never had them at all. Sauteed or oven roasted and salted showed me a completely different side to the veggie, and they're damn delicious that way. Heck, I'd rather eat them raw than boiled.
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5 hours ago, Mikebloke said:
The original version of the ninja (master system) on the mark III was a female ninja. I think someone has ported this version to the colecovision too.
Yep, opcode's Ninja Princess. I think the original version is the arcade, right?
Thinking of Sega reminded me of Twinkle Tale and Monster World IV, both of which have female protagonists. And Twinkle Tale is such a fun shooter.
Monster World IV's protagonist also reminds me of Shantae, but I never put much time into that. It seems to be regarded well enough. A few other GBC games come to mind, including Wendy Every Witch Way and Alice in Wonderland.
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Brr, I meant Rondo on the PC Engine CD, not Bloodlines. And yes, she's a playable character in the Saturn version of SotN:
https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Maria_Renard/Symphony_of_the_Night/Saturn
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Some great games here. Super Metroid is one of my top 10 all time favorites. Ignoring others in the series you named, I would definitely include Guardian Legend, Portal, Final Fantasy VI, and Castlevania Bloodlines and Symphony (Maria Renaud). Great games, great female protagonists.
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19 minutes ago, Frozone212 said:
depends on the game but I haven't posted on there in forever
99% of the games I've looked at have a walkthrough. Especially retro stuff. Maybe newer stuff isn't getting that treatment? But that's the whole purpose of the site. FAQs about various games. I remember getting on there back in 97 or so, so it has always been that way. If what you say is true, that newer games don't have guides, then that's a real shame.
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1 minute ago, Frozone212 said:
mostly Gamefaqs. It doesn't happen to me specifically, but to a lot of gamers by elitist snobs (I.e megaman)
GameFAQs, the site that...publishes guides and walkthroughs?
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On 6/22/2022 at 4:17 PM, Flojomojo said:
Please add Need for Speed to the list of fun arcade racers. The modern NFS games don't have much in common with the 3DO original, but they're still lots of fun, especially the many flavors of Hot Pursuit.
NFS Hot Pursuit II on the PS2 is one of my favorites, and the last game before they got silly with customization. Just give me some cool cars and let me drive! Instead of going forward, I ended up going backwards. There are a bunch of good arcade-style DC racers:
Crazy Taxi I & II
Metropolis Street Racer
Re-Volt (cart-ish)
Tokyo Xtreme Racer 1 & 2
Vanishing Point (underrated!)
Thinking about it, I wonder if something like NFS, Vanishing Point, etc. are less "arcade racers" and more "console racers," but they're definitely not sim racers or even sim-lites.
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On 4/27/2022 at 4:23 PM, Frozone212 said:
I am afraid to ask for help online because, as someone with anxiety and introversion, I fear getting a backlash.
Serious talk: you need help offline to help with you ask for help online. Introversion =/= social anxiety, and anxiety is treatable. Not even kidding.
On 4/27/2022 at 4:23 PM, Frozone212 said:Need to look up a guide? The hardcore will berate you. Stuck and want to ask for help? You might as well not do so.
Maybe you're hanging around the wrong parts? I've asked for help and consulted tons of guides. Who actually does this? Where are you seeing it? It's certainly not prevalent on AA.
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Six month update! A bunch of stuff is gone, prices lowered across the board. Willing to consider all fair offers.
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On 5/31/2022 at 10:56 AM, zzip said:
What they say is what defines Gen X is that we were cynical "latch-key" kids where both of our parents tended to work, and tended to have a "hands-off" parenting style, so we'd come home to an empty house after school (once we were old enough anyway). While at some point in the 80s milk cartons started showing missing children, the yellow "Baby On Board" signs started popping up on cars and a much greater focus was placed on child safety. And parents started overscheduling their kids activity rather than leave them alone to do their own thing, so the Millenial kids had a much different upbringing. So that I understand is the difference, but I don't think all that change happened in a single year and was probably gradual shift.
I think the cutoff date is probably later than 1981, but I get the impression that demographers picked a date around 1980 just so that they could use the year 2000 as a clean cut-off date for the next generation. But that's totally arbitrary.
Yeah, I don't think that's a good cut off. Kids in the 90s and even 00s still were generally free. Something happened about 15 years ago when everyone went nuts over a kid being left alone. But that wasn't standard fare in the 90s.
The actual age range on generations is way too large to border on meaninglessness. How is someone born in 1964 having the exact same childhood in the 70s as someone born in 1946 had in the 50s? Maybe in certain parts of the country, but changes occur much more rapidly than a "generation." It's all arbitrary.
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20 hours ago, Keatah said:
Sometimes this is beneficial, but it's still not ethical either. Like when I go to a certain car dealer I don't want to see used jalopies on the same lot. I don't want to see the low-end customers. I don't want my dealer distracted by apartment dwellers trading in ricers and gassers. My intent is to rise above that trash and get the experience I'm paying for!
That's one viewpoint. I also get that Nintendo wanted to eliminate the competition. And I don't like that either. But fuck'em'all. I'mma go play emulators!
Wal-Mart and KB Toys aren't really comparable to a Lexus dealership, though.
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8 hours ago, john_q_atari said:
It's called laserdisc. Never caught on in the states. Was popular for awhile in Japan. But been out of production going on about 2 decades now.
You misunderstood what I was saying. I can see the argument that Laserdisc is the video equivalent to vinyl, yes, but not that VHS is instead.
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On 6/2/2022 at 2:50 PM, The Usotsuki said:
I kinda blame Microsoft for that one in including a version of that with QBASIC in MS-DOS 5 and 6 (as well as PC DOS 5).
It was also on the old Nokia phones which saw it soar in popularity again, much like Breakout did (I think?) when it was included on the original iPod.
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80s/early 90s Konami was nigh unrivaled among its peers. I'd probably rank them #3 right under Nintendo and Sega and right above Capcom. Those four were responsible for so many great 8/16 bit games, both as developers and publishers.
So many nights were spent playing games from the Contra, Castlevania, and Gradius series. One thing they did right was just nailing atmosphere and aesthetic. The tight controls, the music, the art direction, the level design, just everything about those games are so perfect. And the difficulty was never too unfair. If you died, you knew it was your fault. Yes, even for Gradius and its sequels and spin-offs.
And before that, Frogger is easily among the top 10 greatest arcade games (imo), or at least certainly among the best known. What other arcade games are featured as an extensive gag in Seinfeld?
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On 6/2/2022 at 9:41 AM, zzip said:
VHS is one of those technologies I honestly don't miss. It was a means to an end since we had no other way to record or playback video. But it was clunky, the automatic eject that many VCRs had was likely to eventually get a tape trapped in it. The videotapes were huge. Programming them was annoying, especially the earlier ones that didn't have a menu-driven interface. And the quality of your recorded material was low- extra noise, picture was often jumpy on playback
I agree with this, and I always puzzle at the hipsters who like to collect VHS. When treated right, DVDs are better in every way. It's not even like vinyl, since you don't have to rewind a record or deal with weird tracking issues. Vinyl's only issue is the occasional bad needle. But the large sleeves also added something over CDs - big art. There is no equivalent with the VHS.
I do wish something better would come along that solves the degradation problem (that isn't streaming), but I suppose using anything physical is bound to perish at some point.
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10 hours ago, BIGHMW said:
1) The "local cable" is a specific package for the local channels only, including all of those subchannels, 70 in all, in which are not included on Hulu + Live TV, the price is after the promo price expires and including the cable box rental and taxes, fees, etc. you know that BS.
2) ESPN+ is ala carte and is a separate option and if you have Hulu + Live TV you don't have to get the Disney BS in order to get just it, saves a bit of money too, and you get a ton of content, mostly on demand as well as live, included with Hulu, cable does not offer that!!!
Notably if you have cable and miss Sportscenter, you're screwed but if you have Hulu you can watch it on demand, the vault uploads every episode of it a few hours later it's there for you to watch, cable doesn't offer that.
......and yes we do have a rooftop antenna but it does not work plus I live in a fringe mostly rural area and the signals are so weak you are pretty much screwed when it comes to locals
3) I have Verizon wireless for my phone and have since 2003 and I don't want to be tied to a landline phone. It's just the basic package 5gb data/month unlimited talk/text you know.
So yes I do realize I am on a budget as a matter of fact I even have to settle for the cheap gas from my work over at Safeway it costs 40 cents less/gallon than everyone else here does.
I totally get having some creature comforts, even in a time of want, but you really, really could cut down on some of that entertainment. At least one of those.
But the real deadweight here is the phone plan. You can get unlimited everything for $50 a month via Metro-PCS. And if they're not in your area, look around. You'll find one that is. You don't need a landline, but you're way overpaying at $89 a month, I guarantee it.
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23 hours ago, jeremiahjt said:
So I just watched John Riggs's Game Boy games of 1990 video and I saw a game I had completely forgot about: Bubble Ghost. I had no memory of the gameplay, the label, or even the title, but when I saw the gameplay I remembered playing it. Quite a bit too.
I love when this happens. It's how I rediscovered Midnight Resistance on the Genesis. I even had re-bought before I "re-discovered" it. But selecting it from the library one time it all hit me hard. The weird key things, the spread gun, the whole shebang. This was long before I got Contra III and I didn't have an NES at this point, so it filled my "run right and shoot" itch. It's not all that great, though!
I don't think any GB games hit me like that yet though.
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7 hours ago, jgkspsx said:
Plus many older people played the Game Boy and its lineup of brain games/puzzlers. I will say based on my Game Gear collection it was very popular with medical professionals due to all of the excellent golf sims.
They probably had a bit more money too to afford all the batteries. Me? I just kept mine plugged into the wall and only played it right before bed.
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Honestly, I blame Youtube. Yeah, the creators suck, but the platform gives them a voice. If not for greed, we'd be in a much better place.