Medium well? Eurgh. Mikero or not, that is simply too tough for any but the most hardcore of customers.

Probably.

Fortunately, my gaming will never be ruined because I find nearly infinite replay value in most of my favourite games (I could play a game like StarCraft or Mega Man X or TIE Fighter pretty much forever).

17 can't be done, unless you let the first Maverick fight not count. All the rest I've done before, except for that silly 10 minutes nonsense. Completing the game without the leg upgrade is not as hard as it sounds. What IS as hard as it sounds is completing the game without the leg upgrade and with only the X-Buster.

Lots of Pink Floyd. :3

I approve. They're more or less the only band I have a high enough opinion of to physically collect (various "resources" of a computing science major being what they are), although I almost went and made my way through the Eagles' discography once.

$100 for only 120GB of storage is a travesty, console or not.

I... just... I... wow.

Some of the levels are annoying, but that should be expected from a deathmatch game. I still love UT3 to bits and am genuinely saddened by how poorly it's done sales-wise.

With my internet on the fritz and too unstable to reliably play games online these days (3-400 ms ping spikes every 4-5 seconds, and I'm too lazy to check it out) I've been playing a lot of old games (TIE Fighter and Monkey Island games mostly) AND finally got around to finishing Cave Story.



Amazing.



Now that I have beaten it once the normal way without help I consider myself in the right to consult guides and do a 100% run for all the wonderful bonus stuff. Which I am about to continue right now because I just got back from work and am in no condition to sleep. But yeah I wish I'd played it five years ago when I first heard of it but I guess now is good enough.

Open the link in new tab/window, click the URL and hit enter again.

I as well, but not only am I too white I'm also a terrible poet even for a white guy.

But anyway, enjoy your day Nova

I have no specific issue with the 360, I simply consider it superfluous. For platformers and quirky games I have a Wii and DS (well actually two of them now that I have a dsi but whatever), and for everything else (including what are so arrogantly referred to as "hardcore" games - is there something more "hardcore" about, say, Half-Life than there is about, say, Yoshi's Island? Like seriously, guys, a game is a game, it's for fun) I'd have much more fun playing on a PC than on a console.

EDIT: Actually I do have a problem with the 360, I almost forgot about it.

Subscription-based internet services. We're already paying for our internet AND in some cases for online games via the internet, why levy an ADDITIONAL charge for services we can get for free on a PC?

360/PS3 release instantly kills any chance of my playing it, unless they wise up and give me a PC version, because there is no game or combination of games that could ever compel me to get a 360 or PS3.

Lots of my most vivid dreams either become stories or are incorporated into them, because apparently I have a bit of a plot-oriented subconscious and I'm not one to pass up free ideas.

Finally got around to doing a complete playthrough of Half-Life 2. I'd gotten about 2-3 levels from the finish in my last one, but the save file was safely tucked away on a laptop I'll never touch again. Just finished it about half an hour ago.







Wow. Can't believe how much I missed just in those couple of levels.

Now picking up where I left off in Ep.1, though I kind of screwed myself over heading into the first zombie level :O

The Secret of Monkey Island.

IN HIGH DEFINITION.

And if that wasn't enough...

Tales of Monkey Island, a new Monkey Island game. The only worry I have about this is the episodic format.

To be fair, in the video description it says that the animator is looking to make it an actual game in some game-maker program, but that's so far off in the distance that I won't even bother.

: Fatso  31 May 2009, 18:53:26

IIRC Ikaruga is on XBLA, so I'd suggest picking that up if you like shmups that fill the screen with bullets

Is that the one where you have to flip your ship to kill different colors enemies? I've played the demo before; it seemed pretty insane but I wasn't sure if I liked it.

That's exactly the game I was talking about, and yeah it's not for everyone. If I had a 360 I personally would pick it up without a second thought though.

IIRC Ikaruga is on XBLA, so I'd suggest picking that up if you like shmups that fill the screen with bullets

Forgot to mention that I don't like the music at all, with the exception of the main stage theme, which was okay (though by no means great)

It's not even a fangame, just an animation.

It's Putt-Putt in disguise!

SANDVICH AND I ARE COMING TO GET YOUUUU

Our school had a 30-hour requirement, but employment experience could stand in for volunteer work YAAAAAAAY

I tend to play Sniper, Soldier or Medic, with a healthy dose of Pyro just to be annoying.

Definitely hilarious to play Medic in 2v2 Arena matches though, especially since unlike CS or COD I've never really gotten the hang of the actual combat of this game

Yes, but the games are not.

"My Gryphon and Me"

Fan'd and bad luck on the naming

That... was amazing.

Both of them, in fact.

Looks like it'll be a wonderful movie but a terrible Sherlock Holmes story

Ten hour shift into the wee hours of the morning, and my next shift starts in just over nine hours.

Well at least I'll be #####en set up for school by the end of all this.

Picked up a DSi today on an impulse, felt (of course) obligated to make a post on it.

Based on the way it handles, this is going to be the only such post.

I suddenly feel sad that I did not have cable until early '97 :O

Possibly because I did not check up afterwards, it took me about 30-40 spammed-out resumes/applications to get my current job.

Apply everywhere. Seriously. Everywhere. Everyone is looking for cushy jobs, you should expand your search area beyond just those highly-sought-after jobs and maybe, just maybe, someone will be willing to have you on.

Ker-plunk = YES. YES YES YES YES.

A bagel and cream cheese just happens to be my snack of the day so I SALUTE YOU MR ASR (even though there is no way those bagels are being flown to Vancouver but whatever).

POGs were the #####, I wish I'd held onto them, unfortunately several moves precluded that possibility

Sunday I finally fully realized what I'd signed up for. It was hell.

Today (well yesterday by now, whatever) was much easier, to the point that I, on my fifth shift no less, was able to keep the dish area more or less under control alone.

I hope to have more of the latter shifts than the former, although the former are better for my wallet with the tip pool and all.

Same here.



Also happened to find a physical copy of the studio version of On an Island by David Gilmour (you'd think it would have been easier to find, being only a couple years old, but noooo I'd been hunting it down for almost a year).

Already knew it would be good from the live version I already had, but still it impressed me. Gilmour's always been my favourite guitarist and among my favourite musicians, and he did not let me down.

It's Star Trek. They accept and embrace their plot holes, not patch them.

The Xtreme games suffered from a shortage of buttons and trying to translate the music from 8-channel PCM to 3-4 channels PSG (which was done remarkably well in some places but not so much others).

15 minutes with MMZ was enough to put me off that series.

Have not played ZX, but ZXA was worth my $10, if only barely.

I have BN2-3 and love them both.

MM&B is fun enough, but it suffered from the port, partially a not-enough-buttons problem like Xtreme, partially a music problem (listen to the SFC soundtrack then the GBA soundtrack and you'll know what I mean), and most of all a screen size problem (the lower resolution of the GBA forced them to cut portions of the screen out).

There's a spell check function? I actually never noticed.

Also,

WIND = -Alucard-

...Words cannot express the level of facepalmery induced by that post.

AH LOV EEEEEET

But seriously, good job.

The moviemaking implications alone...!

It's highly overrated.

And it's not rated all that highly to begin with.

Ahaha, I'd seen it before but that was definitely worth the second viewing.

I think there may need to be an entirely new category for this particular brand of noob.

I don't think it's a huge percentage.

Also, this is a nice restaurant, I don't think many of the waitresses are hurting for cash.