I gave it a good look but decided 'nah, another day'.

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

(Also blatantly ignoring the post above the post above this one)

He's all yours.

That's extremely good for a home connection in Canada.

Whoops.



Decided "why the hell not" the other day and tried out the Zune. WHAT ON EARTH MAKES YOU LIKE IT SO MUCH JC. LIKE SERIOUSLY. The hardware is fine, but the software is even worse than itunes, and it's taken me almost a week to find the right transcoding settings to even get the silly program to SEE my mkvs and avis. AND WHY NO FILE MANAGER?!

Stop complaining.
I have to deal with THIS.

Wow, that's terrible... is that DSL or just horribly restrictive cable?

Low upload (upload is fairly tightly restricted by my ISP) but pretty damned good download for a home service.

Also, #####ING AWESOME PING FOR A CABLE CONNECTION. SERIOUSLY.

Pretty good. That upload is unbelievable, actually. Are you sure you don't have the numbers backwards?

At school I can get upwards of 20Mbps down, but UDP packets are #####ed over with extreme prejudice. It's almost impossible to do any online play there.

Careful, ASR. If you keep it up, you run the risk of giving him a heartache tonight.

EDIT: I feel empty inside for having said that.

Happy birthday, then. Enjoy.

War Machine is so badass it hurts.

Super Street Fighter Alpha Beta Gamma Hyper Speed Fighting 2.5?

Hi Alec!

Charged shotgun ice can get Kuwanger's heart tank as well.

Some more:

Flame Mammoth OOB through the dragon dispenser. Green background, instant death if you don't know what you're doing, etc.

Vile cutscene skip in fortress 1. Because the tops of ladders can be wallkicked, you can avoid ever touching the ground near the Vile door. The first cutscene is completely skipped, and with crafty maneuvering you can skip most of the rest.

There's a bunch of little MMX trivia bits mostly only relevant to speedrunning that I could share, but that would get pretty tedious pretty quickly.

The red X only pops up when the forum code can't retrieve the image. In this case, there's no image to retrieve or not.

And I'm happy with less than a third of the posts YOU have!

Like it or not, every arcade box has a system, just like every computer does and every console.

Of course it was! Would he complain about latency if it didn't slow down the game?

Sure, respond with a cat. Be predictable.

I find 4 the easiest of 4-7, but that's just because it's the only one of those I owned on the original hardware so I have lots more experience with it.

I don't know about the new one, but the 1994 is worth a laugh or two, at least, especially Raul Julia's M. Bison.

Mega Man 7 looks great and the soundtrack is top-notch, but the play control is so loose and... floaty. And a lot of the sound effects are decided downgrades from their MMX counterparts.

Plus they'd need to put MM4-6 up first. I personally would love to see MM4 on the VC as it's my favourite Classic series game, but I'd much rather see MMX (my favourite platformer in general).

LIKE LIGHTNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING






Ahem, excuse the outburst.

I could have sworn I heard it again!

Same here*







*if immature trolling can be considered 'activity'.

Anybody else hear a whooshing sound?

I love shmups so I couldn't resist playing it, even if it is pretty short and unimaginative. Still worth the quick playthrough.

Me too. I've seen a grand total of one performance. That was Andre Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra, who stopped by Vancouver a few years ago. It was a great show with fantastic music, but it's not exactly what most people would brag about.

Seen that before, but definitely worth the second viewing

intarwebz perhaps?

We'll have missed you.

Got around to seeing a gameplay video and it looks bleh enough for me to take a pass completely. Maybe... just maybe... next time they'll put some more effort in.

Mouse and keyboard > wii remote, but beyond that yes.

Also why are we comparing the game to Halo? Is it that bland?

Exactly.

I'm glad they're taking their time making/announcing MM10 (or even not making it at all) rather than rushing it out to hastily cash in on their success. Deadlines are the mortal enemy of quality.

That would depend on your definition of 'consistent'. At least three of the timelines you mentioned have been shot to hell, practically to Star Trek levels in the case of Zelda.

Rediscovered Super Mario Galaxy the other day, been playing that.

Also playing Delta-V, a fifteen-year-old game nobody else has played before.

And TF2, still. Probably will keep playing TF2 for a good long time.

ThunderMan really pissed me off mostly because I was rocking an AquaGuts at the time :O

Wait.

WHAT?!







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WHAT?!

I thought Acer was bad, but that... is unconscionable.

The reason you want to copy the files over and then wipe the harddrive is... well actually I can think of two just off the top of my head.

1) Different OSes don't play well together.

2) If you're not using the OS you may as well remove the couple gigs of system files it stashes on your harddrive.

That would be 'continues to sell', but yes.

Your brother sounds a lot like me as far as discs go. The majority of mine are in a few massive stacks at various spots in my room. I haven't bothered finding cases for all of them; there wouldn't be enough anyway.

Other people's stuff, however, I treat with respect.

I can't stand the new taskbar, and it seems like there's even MORE security bull##### to disable this time than Vista.

Otherwise, I love it.

Only 16 >s between BN2 and a brain tumor?

The weapon names are similar enough that I was willing to forgive him (or it, if I happen to be right) that.

: TheOnly  27 June 2009, 18:09:05

In my life. I have only played MM8, Astro Crash hands down.

This weapon clones Megaman or Bass, which can be bashed into the enemy like a projectile.

You sure?

EDIT: Ahah, I am unwittingly setting a trap for him, for I am actually saying this to ASR, not him!

Bot is smarter than most but still a bot. Or enough of an idiot to look like a bot.

Well, orchestration itself lives on anyway, even though it's been mostly relegated to soundtracks, but there's still nothing to truly compare with Tchaikovsky in my book.

John Williams comes close, though. It could be argued is more or less undeniable that without his compositional brilliance Star Wars couldn't have possibly become what it did.

I looked at it and decided "I've played this game before."

And I have. From what I've seen it's just System Shock underwater, and those games never quite appealed to me enough to get me really into them.

Metal Slug is not for everyone, although I personally like it enough.