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hmm, haven't even checked xbox live yet. Cable has to do the dreaded doorway-cross to make it to the room with the modem in it. So far I've just been hammering table tennis.
-- badg (...), September 1st, 2006.

you can get a router and a wireless receiver.

and tomb raider legend IS good.

katarina (katarina), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

played more of Caesar IV demo, and CivCity Rome

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 1 September 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Nathalie, did you ever get logged in to ISC/install Wordbiz?

I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 September 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

can't cross Animals until this weekend. I'm a couple days behind, but may try to catch up over the weekend to take advantage of new bugs and fish!

anyone going to be around this weekend for visiting? I feel all weird going to the AC online community and finding 15 yr olds to befriend.

patita (patita), Friday, 1 September 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

We're traveling again this weekend, but will be in a hotel with fairly decent connectivity - look for Pulquedo or drop me a note :)

I caught red dragonflies, monarch butterflies, and a migratory locust at lunchtime today. Mr. Jaq caught a rainbow stag beetle - 10,000 bells!

I think I have maxed out my house - three huge downstairs rooms and the second floor?

jaq (jaq), Friday, 1 September 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Nathalie, did you ever get logged in to ISC/install Wordbiz?

wot u saying? i dont understand! :-(

stevie nixed (stevienixed), Friday, 1 September 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah that's it. Don't waste money by paying the last mortgage, you won't get anything.

xpost

Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Friday, 1 September 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

You may not have seen this on the regular-ILX Scrabble thread before it went down, but I linked to the Internet Scrabble Club, where you can also get the Wordbiz program to play online.

I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 September 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I shall now play counterstrike using the power of drunk. Wish me faces.

nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 September 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw, I must have missed half of the stuff from the last Animal Xing season :( I am looking forward to winter though, like on the ads when the game launched.

Yesterday I spent over £20 on a Megadrive game :/

melton mowbray (melton), Saturday, 2 September 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

What game?

stet (stet), Saturday, 2 September 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Shining in the Darkness. It shouldn't necessarily be that expensive, but it was hard to see it in such great condition in real life and not buy it.

On the other hand though, I've just worked out it's my 200th PAL megadrive game, unless there are any I've forgotten to count!

melton mowbray (melton), Saturday, 2 September 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Flea Market day always gives me the shits. Especially when they've already been to my place and then complain when I'm not at home when I want them to go home so I can visit and buy. Plus, Lucy tried to buy EVERYTHING I own.

But tonight I got me...K.K. SLIDER'S PICTURE! BOOYAH!

ESTEBAN BUTTEZ IN THA HIZZOUSE, Saturday, 2 September 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

You may not have seen this on the regular-ILX Scrabble thread before it went down, but I linked to the Internet Scrabble Club, where you can also get the Wordbiz program to play online.

Oh THANKS so MUCH! :-))))

stevie nixed (stevienixed), Saturday, 2 September 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I made about 50k selling shit thanks to the flea market. Who rules? I DO.

Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 September 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
tell me what i should get: rocket slime, mario & luigi: partners in crime, or contact? contact looks pretty cool, i think it dropped today, it's made by the same dudes that made earthbound, anyone played it yet?

also, ffiv advance vs. tactics advance? is tactics just like advance wars? or can you wander around villages and stuff?

deep kid, Monday, 16 October 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't walk around freely in ffta, and i's not much like the FF series at all, though it's pretty addictive and fun in its own right. All you do in it is choose a mission, find the place where the mission is (on a kind of map screen, no wandering around much), fight, wash, rinse, repeat, whilst levelling up and switching jobs. I'd go for ffiv myself, it seems to get drowned out by vi and some of the later FFs when people talk about the best ones and doesn't get the credit it deserves..

Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I picked up a card game at the HPL Film Fest called Creatures & Cultists:

http://www.eos-press.com/images/creatures-cover-250.gif

which also has the fun card of Suck the President's Brain.

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
issue of The Escapist with a nice article on Psychonauts and the use of art in games.

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Sunday, 26 November 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

SpikeTV is having the Mega64 dorks do the adverts for the game awards this year, and fully admit in the ad how shitty the previous awards have been.

their 2nd bit is not quite as good.


kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Sunday, 26 November 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello this is all rather odd. How are we?

K Man (Darramouss), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

BNA!

Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

So what's up? Who here likes Guitar Hero and Chronos Trigger?

Kevin (kv_nol), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Mmm Guitar Hero has been fun. I've been seriously digging Okami too.

patita (patita), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

god, excite truck

cousin larry bundgee, Monday, 27 November 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone playing Vice City Stories?

I got a psp last week with this. Its great, athough i hate the pop up when you drive really fast. and my radio keeps cutting out, which is quite realistic actually.

Just opened up the second island. I'm loving the fact that you can replay rampages, and the option to buy back all your weapons once you die or get busted.

the AK is king.

Ste, Monday, 27 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Should I buy Yoshi's Island DS or Yoshi's Island Advance? I never played the original.

JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone playing Vice City Stories?

I think I'm done with the GTA series for awhile.

I was playing plain ol' Vice City, trying to get 100%. That was ruined when one of the rampages I failed didn't regenerate. I was aiming for 99% just for kicks when last night, while I was doing some boat thingy, I just lost interest. Just like that.

When I think of a new GTA, but still with fire, paramedic, and vigilanted missions, my brain just dulls up. They better think of something different - and NOT DATING OR EATING - fast.

PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

the wiki for GTA IV, apparently written and edited by 12 year olds.

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

1. Playing Chrono Trigger for the first time ever FINALLY. OMG

- August 23rd, 2006

LOLZ way to post prematurely (I didn't have a memory card and gave up within 1 hour)

However NOW I am playing CT, and saving game.

nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

My mom took the week off to play Twilight Princess. She just called me all like hyperventilating "he just turned into a WOLF!".

nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha. my dork friends will take the day off work to bounce from store to store in an early morning scrounge for a new GTA game and play it for the rest of the day, but this is the first time I've heard of somebody doing it for a week, much less somebody's mom.

kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

finished gears of war on casual, must be again

playing a bit of elder scrolls oblivion, dont know how i feel about it yet

this is cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

omg yr mom is pwnj

teh_kit, Monday, 27 November 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Finished FFXII last night, the last boss is cake if you set up a bunch of support Gambits.

Just got a DS Lite the other day so I'll be playing FFIII, Animal Crossing, New SMB and Mario Kart for a while along with finishing up Bully on the PS2.

Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 27 November 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

They better think of something different - and NOT DATING OR EATING - fast.

no this is perfect actually it could take place present day starting out w/trying to decide on a restaurant and learning all the kinds of sushi and stuff in the end you open yr own bistro in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood.

jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 27 November 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

My mom and dad both have like 7 weeks of vacation/year now, they take weeks off for the most random, awesome things.

nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

does anyone have the wii need for speed carbon?

cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Wii = pre-ordered. hurrah!

Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 09:09 (seventeen years ago) link

When I think of a new GTA, but still with fire, paramedic, and vigilanted missions, my brain just dulls up.

I kinda know what you mean, but I still love the vigilante missions because they're always different. I've never liked the Paramedic missions and the fire ones are just ho hum.
They tried some variety in VCS at least, have you driven the ambulance and fire helicopters? And there's beach patrol, and you don't have to start at level 1 each time either. So yes I do hope the next big GTA game tries something new here.

It's the pizza delivery missions I find pointless, LCS had at least 3 of these alone. bah.

For me GTA is all about racing other cars, those crafty fish tailing manoeuvres, the old luring the other car into a wall trick, and all the fun to be had when the cops are after you. The on foot missions are too easy.

I'm loving VCS at the moment, the 99 red balloons thing is genius. Have you seen the 'little willy' copter, oh my!

Ste, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I stayed up until the wee small hours opening all the Lego Star Wars 2 levels and characters up for my sons.

I'm getting too old for this shit.

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/lethal_weapon_4/danny_glover/glover.jpg

nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

wp tho!

Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link

:)

The thing is, when I told the boys this morning they were like "Yay, now we can make a character with Darth Vadar's head and Princess Leia's boobs!" and Anne ended up shouting at them for being rude.

nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Best kids ever!

Kevin (kv_nol), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

whoops!

kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Just opened up the second island.

i have been playing for a month and am still on the first island. great game tho, although the cut scenes are pretty rubbish, esp. for GTA. feels like some rub. exploitation movie.

have found exactly one balloon so far, near the stadium i think, but cannot reach it. also found the 'defending your businesses' bits tres glitchy, so now just let 'em damage the premises and then go by to fix it up. every time i get in/out of a car, two bikers come and try and kill me - happens like 3 times every ten minutes. i must have pissed them off.

the businesses thing is great, the radio awesome.

stevie (stevie2), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

you know you only have to pop the balloons right? so you can shoot them from a distance.

it's great when you open the second island, you get access to most of the helicopters and boats.

i haven't had to defend my business yet, is this because you've purchased all the buildings? i haven't done that yet.

Ste, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

are we allowed to take electronics on planes? ive got 19 hours of flying to do next week and im thinking maybe VCS on the psp

sunny successor (katarina), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Check with all your airlines especially the day before as the rules change all the time. I cannot emphasise the 'all' enough, it's not worth the hassle to get to a hub for a changeover to discover that you can't bring it on. Bye bye PSP!

kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

right. im sure qantas will be cool with it but american is another story

sunny successor (katarina), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man ride-by slapping trolls upside the head is hilarious. I also like locking on with the boomerang whenever one of those bird fuckers comes in on my six and then letting them eat my dust while they float around stunned.

TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I still haven't made as big a dent in Zelda as I feel I should have, just haven't had a chance to dedicate a whole day to it like I really should. Maybe this weekend. maybe.

Same here - I'm only just catching my stride thirteen hours into the damn thing! (I do have to applaud the designers for building in a pretty brilliant degree of compartmentalization - as someone who rarely has the patience for gigantic sprawling games, it's a huge boost for the game to be structured by goals which can be accomplished in an hour or so, like "find the tears" or "get into the castle" or whatever. Maybe this has been an element of Zelda forever and it's just new to me since TP is the first Zelda I've ever owned and therefore had the time to obsess over; I 'unno.)

James Cobo (trdn89), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I am still playing Circle of the Moon. I spent too long trying to get specific item drops from certain monsters.

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Too long away from Animal Xing again. I felt ashamed to switch it on last night.

The Shrink guy (Shrunk?) is making me touch him!

Captain Purple Items (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah zelda still hasn't grabbed me like i want it to, it hasn't become compulsive yet (i played snes zelda recently and literally breathed that shit for a week) tho' i'm only at the zora lake so i guess there's still time. it seems a bit episodic at the moment. i can't wait to properly explore the castle town.

red steel is atrocious. terrible graphics (made worse by the fact that the game relies on long range shooting, often far away enemies can only be detected by gun fire or when they hit you), unresponsive controls, it is neither realistic nor fun to simulate opening a door with a flick of the nunchuck, so much time spent fucking around trying to escape through doors while getting shot the fuck up when a simple button press would suffice, ditto sword fighting, it just doesn't work. the music sounds like fucking propellerheads or some shit, like 10 minute tom rolls and played james bond melodies into atmospheric exhale drones/corny fake "j pop" drum n bass with insulting fake japanese vocals, terrible enemy ai and voice acting ("he's gone..", no i'm fucking not i'm shooting you in the head, dick). it's not so good. i just can't believe they fucked the controls up so bad, like who tests this shit?? how does it get through??

rio natsume (rio natsume), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

The Shrink guy (Shrunk?) is making me touch him!

Can you show us on the doll where he touched you?

kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

God I miss San Andreas.

It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

lookee lookee, promo image for the Wii Fire Emblem game

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 07:09 (seventeen years ago) link

the wiimote makes it really difficult to smoke whilst playing

rio natsume (rio natsume), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I got Guitar Hero 2. Rock!

also playing mario & luigi: superstar saga. too many tutorials, not enough fun yet.

a.b. (abanana), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

like who tests this shit??

hahahahaha i think i know people who did.

Will M. (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn sandbox, since I have to come in ILE to get to my ILG substitute, I've actually started reading ILE/posting occasionally... I am out of my element and sad. Maybe I should be less ILG centric in general (only forum I ever go to).

Will M. (Will M.), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

You're not missing much, honestly.

Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Finally beat Circle of the Moon. Took me long enough.

Now to get a used copy of Dawn of Sorrow...

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Thursday, 22 February 2007 07:36 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha, this cat has more wii than the rest of us

http://www.knitemare.org/cats/feb_12_07-13.jpg

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

finally got Dawn of Sorrow. Had to drive out to the meth-fueled lands of Clackamas, to a nice kid who lived in his grandparents stinky house.

they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Friday, 23 February 2007 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

gutted i can't play the pinball series games on my amiga emulator on xbox, need keyboard. Nothing a quick adaptor won't fix mind.

I'm surprised by how much fun most of these games still are, usually with emulators i'll play for a few seconds and then switch off but I was well into Robocod the other day. Alien Breed too was something I couldn't stop playing last night.

Ste (fuzzy), Friday, 23 February 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link


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