I LOVE GAMES -- displaced persons center

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and a fuller press clip showing Wii action

(both in japanese)

Deep breaths... Your channeling GZeus!

Cheers Michael, I'll check out the Shadow of the Colussus. ICO sounds a little too involved for me.

The questions is: get myself a new PS2 after christmas in the sales or go for a Wii?

EXCITING.

I was going to do the Animal Crossing friends code on here but it all seems to have gone a bit loco with the menks so maybe not right now...

btw after playing through Chrono Trigger (3 diff endings so far too!) I can honestly say that Robo is totally my favorite. I love his one LaserSpin attack or whatever where he goes all disco ball Death Blossom on everyone.

Robo was usually name Vibro, though.

* Humor-impaired = conversations like this, when my opponent has just killed another of my guys and I now have like 2 weak-ass characters left against his six dragons and super-powered witches and he's clearly slaughtering me:

ME: My plan is working perfectly.
ME: You're falling right into my trap.
THEM: okay
ME: I'm luring you into a false sense of confidence.
THEM: beat me, then
ME: The blood of my men will rust your swords until they prove useless.
THEM: i win in 2 moves
ME: You haven't counted on my invisible dragon cleric.
THEM: you can't get dragons without a gold account

Game over.

another emulator gem: Flashback. downloaded while pulling a bunch of shit from coolrom based on titles alone (of course mostly turning out to be untranslated japanese stuff) and wow! looks really great, really convincing visual style and sense and movement (a little prince of persia-y). i'd never heard of it before.

and here ya go

put out by Sega

(Mind you, my bf actively HAS to play games all day long, part of his job, bastardface. etc etc)

I play Tribal Wars at work and the amount of crap on the forums or I get by email. LOL? Fuck you! SPEAK ADULT grrrrrrr!

I have decided to buy myself a Wii because I was told to. Ah, l'amour etc.

My dad plays WoW. He & some members of his guild were beginning to suspect that one of their members was but a kid. Their suspicions were confirmed when, as a raid went sour, on the chat channel, full of "fuck!"s and "god damnit!"s, that particular guild-member swore "TARTAR SAUCE!"*.

*note: "tartar sauce" is used as a swear word on Spongebob Squarepants (other Spongebob swears include: "fish paste!", "barnacles!", "dirty barnacles!")

I wish I had this problem. C'mon Kevnol, at least you have the loffles factor!

2. Best Buy is releasing held-back Wii shipments this weekend, rumors are 40 units+ per store that they've been shoring up to boost sales.

New conversational highlights:

THEM: my other account has like 1200 xp
ME: My other car is a Ferrari.
THEM: yea right what year and model
ME: It's an 1824 special edition.
ME: From before cars were even INVENTED.
THEM: well if yr driving it then it must be a piece of crap
THEM: if it was worth nething u'd keep it in a glass case
ME: I have four others in a glass case.
THEM: i drive a honda

your opponent is an insufferable, spoiled 13-year-old. everything else follows from this:

1. your opponent will disconnect to avoid "actually" losing.
1a. the chances of this are roughly tripled if there is any kind of win/loss record-keeping or ranking system.
2. your opponent will accuse you of using "cheap" tactics. for a short while you will attempt to reason with them and fail 100% of the time.

etc

THEM: how old r u
ME: 29
THEM: omg old
ME: How old are YOU?
THEM: i'm almost 18, 17 now but i'll be 18 in a month
ME: I'm not your Congressman, dude, chill out.
THEM: ???

My son loves that game, especially the way it sounds like Joe is saying his own name when he jumps (Joe-HWOOO!).

In Runescape I always have the chat turned off, it's much better.

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=729

the reason being, there was one town in it that was supposed to be more vanilla and peaceful, so the random encounters were more civilian. but there was always a chance that any encounter would turn violent right away, no matter how advanced you were. so you would have to, at some point, fight off a family or group of unarmed bums that jumped you.

TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed CHILD with AUTORIFL.
TOM JETLAND has killed MOTHER with AUTORIFL.
SUCCESS.

I lucked him the first time around after a bazillion attempts and now on the "fight all the bastard bosses again" level I just have no clue what to do with him :(