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    Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. There's not a lot of research about it because it's inherently difficult to do so. I would think it was fake if I didn't have it myself. Basically some people get a sort of relaxing sensation from certain sounds like gentle tapping, whispering, the sounds of a haircut, etc. I guess Reddit or something picked it up when a bunch of people realized they have it and now there's tons of videos and such specifically meant to cater to it. For example:

     

     

    It's like having tiny orgasms in your head and it is super nice.

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    My favourites are the ones with things like girls quietly reading children's books in Japanese or people silently unboxing Lego sets. As a result my suggested Youtube videos always look like really weird boring activities to people who don't get it.

     

    Seriously though if someone just made like a haircut simulator or something for this it would be a day one perch.

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    Wouldn't it be interesting if the ASMR community got interested in the Oculus Rift?

     

    I'm super-susceptible to ASMR stuff, and now all of a sudden I seriously want to try this.

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    Fourteenth Colossus (Cenobia) thoughts:

    I take back all the bad things I said about Celosia; its stupid older brother is much, much worse. I really like the way that you use the environment in this one, but Cenobia is really fond of stunlocking you and being damned near impossible to get a good grip on. I actually had the exact opposite of my usual experience this time. Usually I jump onto the next pillar just as the one I'm on is falling, whereas this time I missed the jump every single time. When I got to the final pillar, Cenobia got stuck in a looping animation where it kept nudging into a wall, so I had to climb down and draw its attention somewhere else before climbing all the way back up and trying again. Then it did it again.

    After I finally got its armour off, I was having trouble even getting onto it and it ended up running back out into the open area. I went for higher ground, climbing to the top of one of those platforms resting on top of two columns so that I could try to jump onto its back, and in the process learned that you can trick it into ramming the columns and stunning itself. I had no idea you could do that. I always just hung on for dear life and rode it around, stabbing it whenever I got a chance. This is a good thing to know.

    Next time: most agressive colossus!

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    Hey, for anyone who wasn't sold on the look of the game, there's a short trailer on the 3DS eshop now, under Nintendo Direct. When you actually see it on the system itself, it looks fantastic. The design of the new Link basically looks exactly like the Zelda 1 concept art. It's great.

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    Argh; I'm writing an email back to my mom and have no idea what to say. :getmecoat

     

    I'm trying to keep it short and to the point, but there's so much that needs to be said sooner or later.

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    I never finished Minish cap. The timed sequence near the end is just too hard for me. Otherwise I thought it was mostly enjoyable, though I also needed a walkthrough just to navigate sometimes. Otherwise I would wander for hours across that tiny little overworld trying to find the one specific thing that I had missed that would progress the story a little further.

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    Mari does seem like a fanfiction self-insert, and that's specifically why I like her. She's like Wesley Crusher if he were created as a joke. Asuka's too full of self-loathing to really drive the "fuck you, fanbase" message home.

     

    Speaking of Evangelion, I think Madoka may have actually beaten it to a hilarious merchandising tie-in.

     

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    hee hee, pink taco

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    As Jenm Frank once said, the strength of Smash Bros. is that you don't have to know how to play fighting games, you just have to know how to play the game that your character is in. If you play Metroid or Mario or Sonic or whatever, you already have a good handle on how that character is going to act. It plays and controls a lot more like a platformer than a fighting game.

     

     

     

    Every time I play Smash Bros. with someone, I insist on playing at least one round with the following rules:

     

    Initial damage set to 300%

    Knockback set to 2.0

    Stock set to 99

    Only item is the bumper, set to high appearance rate

     

    It's basically the best way to play. Every match takes at least fifteen minutes and there's virtually guaranteed to be at least one instance of somebody bouncing between two or three bumpers for a solid ten seconds before flying off the stage and everyone in the room falling over laughing because of it.

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    Outside of maybe Smash Bros., fighting games have gotten really intimidating. Every once in a while something like Skullgirls or Persona 4 Arena comes along and I get drawn in, but end up never actually playing the game because I know that my experience will consist entirely of playing a mediocre story mode and then immediately getting my butt handed to me if I play against anyone else.

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    For being a couple of years old, it's suprisingly modern

     

    Metroid Prime came out in 2002. It's more than a decade old.

    It still blows my mind that there's only a two year difference between Majora's Mask and Metroid Prime, considering how well the visuals of one have aged compared to the other.

     

    Also, prepare to be obsessed with scanning everything. The Prime trilogy are some of my favourite games and I made it my goal at one point to play through every major Metroid game in one year at one point. I did my last stretch of Prime 3 in something like a five-hour stretch. On my way to work, I saw a big tire track in the snow and my brain IMMEDIATELY said: "Magnetic Rail System. Press and Hold Z to activate Spider Ball" and realized I had already entered a crouch, attempting to become a morph ball.

     

    They are the best video games five out of five stars

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    what mari is the best

     

    The most frequent criticism I've ever heard of Evangelion is from people who think Shinji is a coward for not wanting to pilot Eva. I feel like Mari is a response to that, because she perfectly illustrates that anyone who actively wants to pilot Eva would have to be absolutely psychotic.