miffy495

Yay! Birthdays! Enjoy aging!

You forgot the "sounds deep at first but really just dumb" philosophical slant they're adding to it!

I love startling birds without meaning to. Like, walking by a tree that has something like 50 birds hiding in its higher branches without knowing that they're there. Something I do startles them, and there's a huge rush of birds all flying at once quickly past my head in the other direction. It reminds me of playing hockey as a little kid, but I'll be damned if I can figure out why.

I just got it earlier today. How many people do you have to play with? Warioware seems like it would be great with a crowd, with everyone acting like an idiot and having a great time. Rayman is a better single player experience in my opinion. 'Course, I've only played through each of the characters' sets of games once (Time to credits: a little less than 2 hours. Still a bunch of games I haven't seen though) so make of that what you will. Rayman's games are, of course, longer and more involving. They also happen to be a lot of fun. Warioware is what it always is, which I'm a fan of so I don't mind. Hopefully though I'll be able to get some friends together this weekend-ish to give Wario a spin and see how it fares. Both good games. Rayman has superior single player, but (in my experience) the multi is a little unwieldy. Warioware has good single player, but you really need an audience to get the most of making that much of an ass of yourself. Enjoy the Wii.

Man, the wiimote didn't even get runner up. And how's this for a cheap shot? ...at least they gave Okami game of the year. There were better games, sure, but the award went to something at least decently original.

Exactly why I'm very careful to pace myself. Only had one cup this week so far, so doing pretty well.

Well, with the game mechanics already solidified, all Neversoft has to do is keep on adding more songs. On the plus side, this frees Harmonix up to start creating more awesome rhythm games. Much as I love GH, I'd hate to see the team at Harmonix stagnate after creating such games as Frequency and Amplitude. I want some more original content from those guys. All the same, I need a steady drip feed of downloadable content for the 360 GH when it hits, so I'd better get it.

"Employment? More like ENJOYMENT!" ...yeah, it's the best I could do on short notice. Congrats, man.

Black. Since I was 12. I appear to be in the minority nowadays, but I think that coffee is at its best when it's on its own. Milk/cream/sugar/whatever can be really good in it, but still not quite as good as black coffee. With espresso, I go for americano so that I have a full cup, but no not-coffee contents in it aside from hot water.

I really don't know. Just that this guy swears by the forums there. Never checked them out myself. I've checked out the main site for some articles and enjoyed them quite a bit, but that's the extent of my experience with the site. EDIT: Heh. "I only read it for the articles!" Quarter to Three: The shameful hidden playboy magazine of gamer sites.

Specifically for me, it's a couple of reasons. The first one is that most of my real life friends aren't gamers. There are a few though, and if they are, we play together in the same room with things like Smash Bros, Monkey Ball, or (now) Wii Sports. If I want to roleplay with my friends, I have a Monday night D&D game that I go to every week and I play with them there. Same reason you like MMOs, but they're in the same room, we can go out for a beer after we finish the game, we can go upstairs to the pizza place and grab a pizza (we play in the Drama Undergrad Society room at the Uni) if we decided to play rather than have dinner. I have tried MMOs, and they were, to me, just a watered down and inferior version of that experience. Because I have that, I have no desire to go into the world of MMOs other than that I like the mythology behind Warcraft. For me, it isn't worth the fee or the time that I'd have to put into it when I can just head over to the DUS on Monday night and play face to face with people there.

I like the French press coffee, but I never really bother to make it. I usually sleep too late to make coffee before leaving the house, so I go to a nice little sparsely populated coffee shop in a corner at the back of the University of Calgary before class. Every time I go there, I walk past the Tim Horton's with its massive line and nothing special coffee and thank God that I discovered that little shop before I got into the habit of going to Timmy's. Better coffee, shorter line. Works for me. As for the coffee at work, it's shit. There's no way around that. Still, it's enough to keep me going when I'm working a way early or way late shift, so that's all I ask of it. Oh, and I usually only drink one cup a day when I drink it, but have been doing so since I was about 12 years old. I go without whenever I can as I don't want to become dependant, and most of the time (meaning 4 or 5 days out of the week) I don't drink any during the day. Still, I love the taste, so I'm not about to stop drinking it altogether.

As others said and implied, updates would be nice but at this point are more of a bonus than anything else. I wouldn't have stuck around nearly as long as I have if it hadn't been for the feeling of finding a rare community of intelligent, literate gamers on the web. I know there are other similar forums out there, (for example, I have a friend who swears by Quarter to Three for the same reasons I visit the Thumb) but this was the one I found first. A reworking of the site would not be unwelcome, but wouldn't change the fact that I'm coming here for the people.

Damn. Rodi said it before I could. Also, way more eloquently than I would have. Well done, sir. After WCIII, I really wanted to see more of that universe. Putting that universe in an MMO means that although I'm interested in the mythology of it, I'll never see it as I don't play MMOs. In that respect, I also wish WoW was single player.

My friend walked into a Best Buy and asked them "When do you think you're getting your next Wii shipment?" To which they replied "About ten minutes ago." While not exactly grasping the concept of "next," this comment nonetheless secured my friend a Wii. Just keep on trying, eventually the gods will smile upon you. Or yeah, smite you with water. Fuck that's sad. My condolences to her children.

Not to derail the thread, but how are The "I'm COVERED IN BEES!" Pain and The "I'm old and sneaky" End any more dumb or pointless than Sniper "Love blooms on the battlefield" Wolf or Vulcan "I've got a really big fucking gun" Raven? Don't get me wrong, I actually love all of the MGS games, but to me the bosses from MGS3 were one of it's main high points. So yeah. Sorry 'bout the totally off-topic post, but I felt I had to stand up for MGS3's bosses here.

Yeah, that looks like something you'd see on the NES about halfway through its life. Y'know what? An NES-style show might still be alright. But your point about saying it looks like an SNES not boding well for its in-jokes is dead on. 'Course, it's moot to me as I don't get G4, but still...

Yeah, there probably will be more games from Ueda and co. This is actually a bit of a bad thing for me, as it means that when the team comes out with their next game, I'll have to either ignore it or bite the bullet and get a PS3. Hopefully the price will have gone down by then and Sony will have been humbled a bit so I dont' feel like I'm promoting asshole-ism. Man, that video gets me thinking. I'm very happy with SoTC the way it turned out, but seeing those 3 riders try to take down a colossus simultaneously really sets the mind racing. The possibilities of co-operative colossus slaying are very intriguing. I'm not quite sure how the logistics of it would end up working, but then I'm not a game designer. I can instead only dream of the exhileration of myself and several friends working together for a good period of time and finally succeeding in bringing down the beast. The whoop of joy that erupts when we conquer it. The satisfaction of knowing we'd all done our parts, and done them well. Perhaps one day it'll get a semi-sequel (or even a short downloadable game, as we seem to be in that era) that will live up to this. A guy can dream, eh?

I completely know what you guys are on about. I used to be PC all the way, with Gamecube every once in a while for a party game or something weird like Chibi-Robo. Luckily, I got a good deal on a 2nd hand PS2 around the same time FEAR came out, and that has meant that the droughts for the two systems that were my mainstays before didn't hurt me too much. This summer, when the PC still wasn't getting much interesting, I opted for a 360 so that when the Wii came out, I could play it and still have somewhere to play more traditional games. My PC has sat mostly dormant (forums aside) for a long while now. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed other PC games since then. Sam & Max, Darwinia, the PC version of Psychonauts, HL2 Ep 1, etc have all been great. Problem is that while there have been 5 or 6 really good PC releases over the last year or so, the 360, PS2, and Wii have each had a pretty constant stream of awesome (OK, it's a bit early to tell with the Wii, but so far so good.) to keep me gaming. The real kicker is how many of the best PC games have been multi-platform. LOPcagney mentions Rainbow Six in his post, and that's a great example of what I'm talking about. I was given Rainbow Six Vegas for Christmas (for once a misguided relative's "I saw him reading the book a few years ago" purchase works out!) for the PC. Installing it, I was appalled to discover that the install is 7GB. That's quite a long install. As soon as I had it ready to go, it insisted on patching itself first. The patching process took another 20 minutes, all told. I was starting to get frustrated, but the game looked really good, so I kept at it. I booted it up and looked for a widescreen option. Well damn, I guess that a game that was released on the 360 as well (a system that looooves widescreen) doesn't give users the same love on the PC. After finding a proper hack and getting it running, I had it in 16:10 (although the HUD wouldn't scale, leaving a weird semi-transparent 4:3 border in my view) and looking pretty. New problem: Computer, while by no means bad (AMD Athlon 3000+, Geforce 7800GTX, 3 gigs RAM, X-Fi sound card) is not quite up to running the game as smoothly as it should. Tweaking the settings finds the game running well, but missing some major prettification like advanced shadows and particle effects. Now, the game is great. Lotsa fun, very tense, and the cover system is brilliant. But if I'd had it on 360, I could've gotten straight into the game. Native widescreen support, no fucking around with installs and patching, and no worries about whether or not my 360 was powerful enough for the game. It would've just run smoothly. I don't mind having to install things on my computer. I don't mind patching. But mandatory patches before the game will run and 7 GB installs are crossing the line from innocuous little steps into major irritations. Then there's the fact that my PC, which while not top of the line is still pretty solid, is chugging when trying to run it as it should. It's mostly my processor that's the problem. Yet there it is. If I wanted to run it at full tilt, I could spend $350 on a new processor or $60 on a second copy of the game for 360. An interesting choice, no? Anyway, I've ranted enough. SiN seems to have most of it covered. And while Spore looks fantastic and I can't wait for it, one fantastic new game does not a fulfilling system make.

Holy crap, Tommy's alive! Flashback seems to have resurrected him somehow...

I realize that. Believe me, my phones and iPods and various portable game systems have taken their share of beatings over the years. Thing is, the iPhone has a touch screen. An unprotected touch screen. That's not so good. I don't care if a normal screen takes a few scuffs during its lifetime, but a touchscreen needs to stay in pretty good shape to maintain usefulness. So yeah, tech doesn't have to stay pristine, but an iPhone's primary interface seems a bit too easy to fuck up for my tastes.

Keep on posting. At 10, you can create threads. But don't expect the posts in idle banter to help. That doesn't count for some reason. As for the project, it's a really interesting idea. I hope it works out, but honestly these restoration things never really seem to pan out the way that the creators hope. Best of luck, but there's a lot of work to be done if it's ever meant to come even close to the original game. That said, the demo level looks solid, so I hope they don't get discouraged.

That is entirely possible, and actually quite likely. Again, all of that was off the top of my head.

It is pretty cool, but man will that thing get banged up fast. I dunno 'bout you guys, but my phone stays in my pocket most of the time. Right next to my keys, pocket knife, and occasionally a pen or two. When I'm at work, there's a flashlight in there. I've never bought a phone that isn't clamshell as a result, as otherwise the screen would get shredded by the various pocket debris I have. The iPhone looks sweet, but unfortunately my pocket is not really a safe environment for it.

That would be the rumble, which is (likely) why the SIXAXIS doesn't have it. I believe the copyright is held by some company by the name of Immersion. MS pays to lisence it, Sony doesn't. Ninty's rumble is different in some way that doesn't piss off the lawyers too much. I think. Feel free to correct me, this is all off the top of my head. As for the news, there are very, very few occasions that warrant this emote: Rofl. That is all.