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Is the FTP down? I keep getting denied access. (n/t) (Mike Chicago) (16:25:19 07/27/10 EST)

(Mike Chicago)

(19:50:48 07/28/10 EST)

I forgot to ask this before - does anyone need anything from japan? I'm here a couple more days (n/t) (exodus) (19:37:36 07/26/10 EST)

Oh man, too many things too feel good about asking for.

(substance J)

(20:16:02 07/26/10 EST)

well if you think of something that wouldn't be too hard for me to get, I will hit akihabara once for some CDs probably. messe sanoh is the only place that can fulfill my j-core needs.

(exodus)

(20:20:39 07/26/10 EST)

How scarce is Devil Crash for PCE? There's only ever one copy of it on eBay at a time, which is surprising. Wolfgames never stocks it either.

(substance J)

(20:29:04 07/26/10 EST)

not too scarce, I'll keep an eye out.

(exodus)

(20:45:27 07/26/10 EST)

Pocket Love If for NGPC for a good cheap price or X Japan - Vanishing Vision.

(web of hair)

(20:54:28 07/26/10 EST)

Years ago, I bought the official SNK battery charger and 4 rechargable SNK branded batteries and the guy threw in Pocket Love If as well for free! If only I knew Japanese I would play it along with Battle Ogre. I don't really want to sell it but you guys are free to borrow all my stuff.

(Comic-Kaze)

(21:01:45 07/26/10 EST)

Love if is the only game i need for a complete set... non-anal set anyway ;)

(WoH)

(21:09:07 07/26/10 EST)

What are you missing from the anal set? I am tempted to help you out just to donate it to create a complete set out there somewhere, but it would have to be anal and setup like a museum.

(Comic-Kaze)

(21:11:56 07/26/10 EST)

well I'd have to spend time on a spreadsheet. Basically if it was Japan only I bought it (a couple are cart only :( ), I have a variety of UK and USA versions of the games. Never bought any of the Best Of. Never bought Demos, always tried to win them but always was outbid in last 10 seconds (damn eBay.... they should add 30 seconds to bids outbid in the last 10 seconds.

(WoH)

(21:21:57 07/26/10 EST)

I remember those demo cartidges. They were impossible to get with last minute prices skyrocketing. Do you have any doubles of anything or any fun NGPC related items you want to trade?

(Comic-Kaze)

(22:49:06 07/26/10 EST)

okkkkk

(exodus)

(21:33:14 07/26/10 EST)

One Japanese Xbox 360 arcade please, the old style.

(Apples)

(22:01:51 07/26/10 EST)

oh...I can't carry that back :\

(exodus)

(22:18:09 07/26/10 EST)

Foiled again! Thanks anyway.

(Apples)

(22:37:37 07/26/10 EST)

A postcard from Brandon.

(Jeurja)

(00:44:52 07/27/10 EST)

If it's cheap, the Psiko collection with Dragon Blaze.

(PopaSmear)

(01:07:24 07/27/10 EST)

If you come across an Alice in Wonderdream complete for 40 or less I'd be pretty pumped. I realize that's a bit random, though!

(twelvest)

(01:08:13 07/27/10 EST)

I would like a large collection of 1980s-1990s AV girls on VHS or Betamax please.

(Comic-Kaze)

(02:05:31 07/27/10 EST)

I can send you a copy of Akira Fubuki's "Dressy" but it's in LP on the tail end of Michinoku Pro Wrestling: Yone Genjin's 1993 Year in Review. Not making this up.

(substance J)

(02:45:21 07/27/10 EST)

Shopping tip: when I was in Japan a couple of months ago all ゲオ stores had a 50% discount on all their pre-owned Famicom, Super Fami and Gameboy games, as well as some other systems. Saturn and Dreamcast games were dumped at 50¥ a piece. All the good stuff probably has been snatched away by now, but you never know.

(Rockman Pocket)

(08:03:20 07/27/10 EST)

cooool I'll keep an eye out for that.

(exodus)

(10:28:50 07/27/10 EST)

I kinda regret not taking advantage of their sale. All I ended up buying was a boxed Dracula XX for 900¥, but that was only because I had a lot of time to kill in a random shithole waiting for my train and there just happened to be a Geo across the street from the station. In retrospect I probably could've gotten a lot of great deals without much effort.

(Rockman Pocket)

(20:46:15 07/27/10 EST)

Speaking of taking advantage of others... anybody here going to Otakon?

(substance J)

(03:40:34 07/28/10 EST)

I think I have a buddy that is.

(Zero)

(16:42:50 07/28/10 EST)

I would like a very small Japanese man who speaks no English and wears a dark suit to do light work around my house and wash my car and stuff. Nothing you'd have to check, but if you can find a guy small enough to fit in your carry-on, that would be great. How much do these guys for nowadays anyway? eBay is no help.

(Sweater Fish Deluxe and Opa Opa)

(18:14:12 07/28/10 EST)

Cloned or old-fashioned. It's all the same to me.

(Sweater Fish Deluxe and Opa Opa)

(18:14:56 07/28/10 EST)

§§§

I only had time to go to a couple of stores, and I didn't find anything. bleh! Sorry.

(exodus)

(19:51:11 07/29/10 EST)

A-Star, I think I need to give you my address, assuming one if those Blasters is for me. (n/t) (PopaSmear) (21:47:57 07/25/10 EST)

Around the time you were posting this I was thinking the same thing. Synchronicity? I prolly won't ship it out until I get home, which I am trying to do as fast as possible. I'm stealing wi-fi from a mcdonald's in Idaho, and the redneck who just pulled up next to me is packing a handgun. I can't wait to get home.

(a-star)

(00:47:54 07/26/10 EST)

You too, Chad. I prolly coulda moved a few more of these guys, but they're too big to lug around.

(a-star)

(00:50:15 07/26/10 EST)

That's cool of you to pick up convention toys for us. If I didn't already still have my Blaster and Soundwave from when I was 10, I would have hit you up for one. Thanks for doing cool things like this.

(Comic-Kaze says PS, Ian, you still haven't paid me for the NNGPC :))

(00:53:52 07/26/10 EST)

$50 PayPalled to the address you emailed me from.

(PopaSmear)

(01:48:10 07/26/10 EST)

Thanks man. Wow, I just had a look for the prices for NGPC systems on ebay and there are a few Crystal slimlines asking over $100 and there are like 5 Hanshin Tiger systems out there for over $200. I guess it's reached that vintage where people are just trying to get collectors to bite.

(Comic-Kaze)

(02:20:02 07/26/10 EST)

The value on NGP stuff is pretty up and down from what I've seen.

(SignOfZeta)

(00:16:52 07/27/10 EST)

OK, I emailed it to you.

(SignOfZeta)

(19:03:25 07/26/10 EST)

Did you end up getting any free Scott Pilgrim stuff? I'd be happy to throw some money at you.

(Zero)

(16:44:48 07/28/10 EST)

Tell him you really, really need a "Solid Snake Play Arts Kai".

(substance J)

(16:45:49 07/28/10 EST)

That was supposed to go under your Otakon reply. But tell A-Star you need one, too. I just found out the Squenix booth was selling them at SDCC. FUCK!

(substance J)

(16:47:04 07/28/10 EST)

sorry buddy, I gots nothing. And I'm extremely ill right now, so I haven't shipped anything out. bleeeeaaggghhh!

(a-star)

(20:00:07 07/28/10 EST)

I can't believe this turned out to be real. (n/t) (substance J) (16:16:27 07/25/10 EST)

I can't believe you'll be begging for matches when its released.

But yeah, not a Dream Match Never Ends by any means. Two games that play nothing alike with different control schemes, etc. Not only does Tekken lack fireballs, etc...it doesn't even have jumps, does it? All those long as hell, impossible to remember telephone number type of move 1nputs...It would take a fucking genius to make this work. As a mid 90s b/w Gameboy game, I'd buy it, but as a real release...don't know about that.

(SignOfZeta)

(17:03:50 07/25/10 EST)

I think it's hilarious, because it's clear that Namco and Capcom realize the systems are totally incompatible, which is why there's Street Fighter vs. Tekken by Capcom and Tekken vs. Street Fighter by Namco. Means that both games are just going to squish the opposite fighters into their system, so "everyone is happy" and it saves them the effort of actually having to do any game design.

(aerisdead)

(17:34:09 07/25/10 EST)

Well, that worked, sorta, for CvS, but C and S games are %90 the same anyway. In this case...you might as well make Capcom versus The Legend of Zelda, they have as much in common.

(SignOfZeta)

(19:13:28 07/25/10 EST)

Or any new graphics. Hey look, it's "surprised cameraman" from SFIV!

(substance J)

(19:37:53 07/25/10 EST)

That's exactly what I was thinking. I might actually find this sort of interesting if they had bothered to try to merge elements from the games at all. You wouldn't have to include everything that's in both games, so it would be entirely feasible to make a unique system that includes a bit from both columns. This approach is just incredibly lazy.

(Maniac)

(19:43:40 07/25/10 EST)

They already did that, in 2005

(substance J)

(19:53:43 07/25/10 EST)

SF4 with Tekken characters. I love Tekken but I hate SF4's visual style. I didn't get excited at all watching the game footage although the team super thing is kind of neat. But overall it just kind of resembles the EX games.

(Esco)

(05:45:23 07/26/10 EST)

Well they certainly found an enthusiastic audience.

(Paleface)

(06:12:09 07/26/10 EST)

SO it's not coming out for two years. I like the idea of Namco and Capcom competing instead of collaborating, might make for a more interesting product.

(Esco)

(21:04:58 07/27/10 EST)

I'm calling their bluff. No way does it take 2 years to randomly insert Kobuns into some backgrounds.

(substance J)

(21:34:43 07/27/10 EST)

However, it takes at least two years to release movies and screenshots that suck and tweak them based on fan response, over and over again, until you have at least a mediocre product. It worked really well with SFIV, and that's quite possibly what they are trying to do again. It will be late, of course, so figure nearly three years, of doesn't get cancelled due to lack of interest over such a glacial time frame. Chinese Democracy, this one.

Because, yeah, it doesn't take two years to make a fighting game. It just doesn't. The original Marvel/Capcom series (CotA through MvC1, five games) was only 4 years worth of material, and those games were hell on wheels awesome.

(SignOfZeta)

(02:04:01 07/28/10 EST)

Maybe it does, at least when the systems and large number of the character models are new? SNK isn't making yearly KOFs anymore, for instance (and most of the sprites in those were always recycled, anyhow). What top of the line recent fighting game are you thinking of that was made in a year?

(Paleface)

(02:50:27 07/28/10 EST)

(substance J)

(04:53:28 07/28/10 EST)

Thank you.

(SignOfZeta)

(14:15:12 07/28/10 EST)

This would be funny if it wasn't 100% true. Well, it's still pretty funny.

(substance J)

(03:56:22 07/28/10 EST)

Those games featured a small number of characters compared to what's standard today, and were mostly recycled and tweaked versions of each other. Plus most of the sprites were just taken from past games and pasted in. They also didn't include the level of focus Capcom now puts into game balance, didn't have to have online play developed, didn't include all the bells and whistles that are standard now.

Of course those games were also a lot cooler than MvC3 or Capcom vs. Tekken are at all likely to be, so maybe a fighting game shouldn't take two years, but I'd say right now, by and large, it definitely does.

(Maniac)

(12:28:19 07/28/10 EST)

Yeah, it does, but it isn't two years of actual development, its two years of BS. The pussies making these new games don't have the skill or the fire or the confidence to make a game themselves and say, "Here you go, like it or leave it." Its typical committee driven BS.

While the old games were basically built with Capcom's own in-house version of Mugen, lets not forget that these SFIV people haven't been so creative either. The old characters look EXACTLY and play as close to EXACTLY the way they did in the last game they appeared in. They changed less moving from 2D to SFIV than they did moving from one 2D game to another. EXAMPLE: it makes no sense that Cody would still be wearing that outfit. And they characters that the did create...holy shit, are they lame...

(SignOfZeta)

(14:22:30 07/28/10 EST)

Well, to be fair, they tried not rehashing old characters with SF3 and it didn't work out so great for them financially. And Cody is still wearing that outfit because if he wasn't, all the Cody fans would be angry. SF4 pretends to fit in continuity but let's get real, in terms of story it is really a Dream Match. Chronologically speaking Makoto and Ibuki would be 9 years old or something when this game takes place. Cody's got an alternate outfit though, which is one of the many things that made the transition to SF4 a hell of a lot more work than it would have been between 2D vs. games.

If committee driven BS is what results in a game as well balanced and fan-pandering as SF4, I am OK with it. It's naturally the followups that are going to be, and are already appearing to be, pretty lame. I wasn't expecting anything as lame as SF vs. Tekken though.

(Maniac)

(17:52:50 07/28/10 EST)

Personally, as a fan of good work, and someone who does not hold stock in Capcom (or whoever owns them) I'm more concerned with them developing memorable works. While SFIII was no SFII/SFIV from a sales perspective, it is a game that many people love and still play religiously to this day. Also, while SFIII may look like an argument against innovation, the SFZ series could easily be seen as the counterpoint. Capcom invented all sorts of stuff for SFZ, it it was extremely popular.

(SignOfZeta)

(05:08:47 07/29/10 EST)

Actually, the Zero games are an argument for a middle path. Lots of innovation is cool, as long as you've got Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Sagat, and a Guile clone right out of the gate. I mean, by Third Strike they were bringing Chun Li into the SFIII world because as awesome as innovation was, people want their classics.

(PopaSmear)

(13:10:54 07/29/10 EST)

Guile wasn't in Zero until the home versions of Zero 3 came out, so not really "right out of the gate", right at the last possible moment, is more like it.

(SignOfZeta)

(14:10:02 07/29/10 EST)

I think he was referring to Charlie, hence "Guile clone."

(twelvest)

(15:00:59 07/29/10 EST)

I keep slipping and calling it Capcom vs. Namco, but let's remember this is Street Fighter vs. Tekken and so at least half the roster is guaranteed to be reused. All the design work has been done so it's just a matter of sending work orders to Singapore or Korea for the Tekken side. So far all the spectator models and animations are reused, though they are slightly retextured which suggests Capcom actually intends to use them. The NANCY-MI847J model in the background looks exactly like the one in Tekken 6, which Namco probably sent over in a whole bundle of other assets. Who knows how many Kobun heads they've got lying around. The online architecture is already in place. All these are sunk costs... which makes me wonder if this game has been on the drawing boards for several years already. I bet the only way SFIV got greenlighted was when they pitched Super, vs. Tekken, and maybe even MVC3 at the same meeting (though I think MVC3 might use some other weird engine).

(substance J)

(16:23:11 07/28/10 EST)

Those are all pretty fair points, yeah.

I'm pretty sure from the footage I've looked at that MvC3 is based on the Tatsunoko vs. Capcom engine but I don't have anything to verify that with.

(Maniac)

(17:54:14 07/28/10 EST)

I kind of recall hearing it was like... the Lost Planet 2 engine or something really strange.

(substance J)

(18:51:08 07/28/10 EST)

Yeah, that seems to be their primary engine these days. Also used for RE5.

(Paleface)

(21:06:21 07/28/10 EST)

I checked around and it is indeed the same engine used for Lost Planet 2. Bizarre! I also stumbled over the hilarious promise that the game will have a "robust plot." Great! I wasn't going to buy it, but I will now.

(Maniac)

(21:40:38 07/28/10 EST)

We can only hope it's as robust as SFIV's plot! (Dang, Lu, that was harsh.)

(Paleface)

(22:34:53 07/28/10 EST)

harsh but accurate.

(Maniac)

(03:13:13 07/29/10 EST)

Exactly, Lu. Vs. fighters on the DC did not bother you with storylines. It was enough that Ryu and Cyclops were beating the shit out of each other.

(Maniac)

(03:14:50 07/29/10 EST)

And development only started a couple months ago, so I guess these screenshots and videos are really showing proof of concept stuff--probably just quickly slapped together under a SFIV engine or something--rather than any sort of newly developed game system.

(Paleface)

(23:30:49 07/27/10 EST)

No way, I learned not to rely on you chumps for matchmaking already.

(substance J)

(19:38:42 07/25/10 EST)

I know that this is not aimed at me, because I don't post here.

(Apples)

(20:59:38 07/25/10 EST)

Whoa. Eff yeah at that background.

(Jeurja)

(21:57:11 07/25/10 EST)

So, this looks pretty rad:

Also, given the mechanical aesthetic, it will probably survive "morbidly glossy HD mode" in the inevitable 360 port much better than Death Smiles did. (n/t) (SignOfZeta) (15:20:45 07/24/10 EST)

What is it? As for Death Smiles everything was glossy and pre-rendered to begin with.

(substance J)

(18:14:22 07/24/10 EST)

Oh for please sake. This is a Cave game afterall. Can somebody else make a shooter for a change? I've been playing a ton of R-Type lately (getting kind of good, actually! and even enjoying the game!! after all these years!!) and the change of pace is really nice.

(substance J)

(19:10:20 07/24/10 EST)

I see where you are coming from, but this thing has Yamato-class battle ships doing whale flops with lasers shooting out of them the whole time. That is fucking awesome as fuck. Also, its vertical.

BTW, Guwange is coming out too, XBLA, I assume.

(SignOfZeta)

(20:51:37 07/24/10 EST)

I can't argue with that.

(substance J)

(21:27:03 07/24/10 EST)

What's vertical?

(Paleface)

(02:15:32 07/25/10 EST)

Sorry, I meant horizontal.

(SignOfZeta)

(02:23:50 07/25/10 EST)

I was gonna inject a "your mom" in here in reply to mine, then I thought it would be even better in response to yours, and then I thought better of it.

(Paleface is the big man)

(07:12:01 07/25/10 EST)

Apparently Guwange for XBLA is already up on PartnerNet or whatever. All you GAMES JOURNOS should see how it is.

(substance J)

(21:39:53 07/27/10 EST)

Yes, but at 15.75kHz it looks much better.

(SignOfZeta)

(20:39:12 07/24/10 EST)

looks like horizontally-scrolling ketsui.

(exodus)

(20:18:33 07/25/10 EST)

Well. i've come to realize that when it comes to growing up and letting baggage go and doing what you need to do and whatever the shit, one area i really just can't do is love interest relationships. fuck man (n/t) (Zero) (03:05:29 07/24/10 EST)

they're super hard forever

(exodus)

(05:25:57 07/24/10 EST)

I can't quite tell what you mean... are you talking about actual boyfriend/girlfriend type stuff or are you referring to friendships with people you are romantically interested in? Neither are easy for anyone, dude. It isn't just you. If you are referring to the latter I can definitely empathize with you, though. I've been in two really hard situations like that and while they ended up turning into great friendships it took a lot of slogging through bullshit and untying of stomach knots to get there.

(twelvest)

(15:11:01 07/24/10 EST)

There was a girl I just met, who seemed to be interested in me. She's gorgeous and really cool. I get frozen and cold when I get nervous around her, which I started doing as time went on.

And basically I decided to swallow shit and try today, and I call her to hang (in a more comfortable atmosphere to me, rather than dancy bars or clubs) and she basically starts being distancy. So I vibe it and ask her if anything's wrong. As we continue talking, I can definitely tell something's odd, so I say fuck it, I'm gonna be straight up. I tell her I'm interested and wanted to hang and get to know and whatever and see what's up. She says she's not interested in dating right now.

At least now I don't have any anxiety but I do feel down and can't help but feel I fucked up by misrepresenting myself.

(Zero)

(17:33:21 07/24/10 EST)

Look on the bright side, at least you didn't get "Its not you its me"'d this week. :( So much for the past 3 1/2 years...

(Bean)

(18:21:48 07/24/10 EST)

I'm really sorry about that man. My situation with the girl has only been a little more than a month, having gone on maybe one date, and what ended up being strung along since.

(Zero)

(18:45:01 07/24/10 EST)

Ha! Now you've got time to come visit.

(SignOfZeta)

(21:03:54 07/24/10 EST)

You've got a point...

(Bean)

(21:39:36 07/24/10 EST)

We're having a nerd-off here on Aug 28th. We're all meeting at Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Youtube that) then heading over to this one dude's house to play games. This guy has the biggest fucking collection you've ever seen.

(SignOfZeta)

(02:28:07 07/25/10 EST)

Haha, suckers. I'm glad things didn't work out between me and Sarah. She was way older than me to begin with. God, if we were still together I'd be hitched to someone in their mid 30's, and she would understandably want me to conf0rm to someone else's idea of a normal lifestyle. It was a fun 3 years and I'm sure we're both happier for it. Rock hard ride free!

(substance J)

(19:16:24 07/24/10 EST)

Pretty much.

(SignOfZeta)

(20:40:05 07/24/10 EST)

Ive been with my girlfriend for 2 years now, im 26, shes 34. Seems to work for us. Then again, its not THREE years yet, and that may be the breaking point.

(Mental)

(07:52:24 07/25/10 EST)

well I'm kind of sad for you anyway. rocking hard and riding free gets lonely after a while.

(exodus)

(19:31:35 07/25/10 EST)

This is exactly why I said "haha, suckers." Some people have enough self worth and self determination to not rely on other people to gratify their needs. Assuming all that fulfillment is going to come from just one other person who happens to be the opposite sex and coincidentally game enough to recipr0cate (why is this filtered?) is a really confining outlook on life. Be sad for yourself, sad sack.

(substance J)

(20:19:15 07/25/10 EST)

Some kind of sex drug spam name, I guess.

(Paleface)

(03:48:01 07/26/10 EST)

Yeaaaaaaa FBGM!

(Apples)

(17:30:14 07/26/10 EST)

this is a really rude comment and I don't appreciate it at all. if you actually think that's what I've been saying in our previous conversations you haven't been listening to me. Some people do have enough self worth to not rely on other people, but you've been demonstrating how unhappy you are with yourself for years, and so I don't get where this statement is coming from. I guess we're probably not going to have a real conversation about this though. If we were to have a real conversation I'd ask who you think I rely on? Do you even know? Do you have any idea what it is I'm looking for or need from a partner? Evidently not, but you're talking about it anyway.

(exodus)

(20:27:34 07/26/10 EST)

I've been alone for a long, long time, and the saying is true; happiness only matters when it is shared.

(a-star)

(01:08:01 07/27/10 EST)

I think he's just seen to many episodes of Single Female Lawyer, or some such girl power garbage.

(SignOfZeta)

(02:08:50 07/28/10 EST)

I think isn't exactly rude, but isn't necessarily a good blanket reply (if that was the intention), because you imply that those trying for relationships don't have enough self worth and self-determination without another. referencing a-star's reply to exodus: when you try to share happiness, but the person ends up being a bitch of some sort or complications just happen to arise, it screws things up that even if you end up being alone again, you naturally have to take a minute to get back to being 'fine' and 'alone'

(Zero)

(20:43:46 07/27/10 EST)

Mel Brooks said it best: "Women are a pain in the neck."

(Esco)

(20:03:08 07/24/10 EST)

Its easier when youre ridiculously good looking like me.

(Mental)

(07:50:45 07/25/10 EST)

Y'all make me feel like an old fuddy duddy. I've been with my wife for 12 years now.

(supergiantninja)

(10:51:30 07/25/10 EST)

I gotta say, Marvel vs Capcom 3 looks pretty good, but not as good as Shinkiro's renditions of the marvel characters. (n/t) (a-star) (14:42:00 07/22/10 EST)

f0rm the screens I've seen it looks kinda dark. Its one thing to make SFIV look all grimy and sleazy since that's the way all the non Alpha games looked, but the Marvel games, historically, have always been ridiculously colorful.

(SignOfZeta)

(15:19:12 07/22/10 EST)

Now that you mention it, it is waaaaay too dark. Very fluid and very detailed, but very dark.

(a-star)

(15:23:35 07/22/10 EST)

I don't mind the darkness all that much--although that stage looks a bit on the dull side--and the character models actually look quite good; I just wish they'd get off this 3D kick. ;P

(Paleface)

(20:39:29 07/22/10 EST)

I'm fine with 3D if the art style being used is good, which it is in this game. I like alternate costumes and stuff, that's one advantage of 3D. Too bad for me I don't really care about MvC3 from a gameplay perspective. It would be so much cooler if this was CvS3.

(Maniac)

(22:32:04 07/22/10 EST)

I agree the darkness sucks though.

(Maniac)

(22:35:46 07/22/10 EST)

I asked the producer why yesterday and he said they're trying to follow the look of current american comics, which are darker and more aggressively shaded. It might be bullshit, but it's a plausible explanation.

(exodus)

(12:14:25 07/24/10 EST)

Did you ask him how Capcom vs. Image is coming

(substance J)

(14:48:36 07/24/10 EST)

I believe him when he says that. Its a bad decision though, from a gameplay perspective, when you cant fucking see anything.

(SignOfZeta)

(14:56:16 07/24/10 EST)

I am so disappointed by the look of this game... and I had really no expectations. It's the darkness, but also the way everyone looks way too... realistic? Is this what comics look like now? I wonder if this is even being made in Japan. Now Namco vs. Capcom and Capcom vs. Namco... HELL YEAH!!!

(substance J)

(16:02:40 07/22/10 EST)

Some comics look like this now, but many don't. Also, a lot of them looked dark and realistic in the 90s, and they still made day glo MvC games. I guess there is the chance that the look will change. SFIV went through a lot of different styles before it actually came out.

I'm just kind of bummed because I was thinking maybe I'd be interested in this game, but it looks like fucking Mortal Kombat or some shit. Also, unless they do something with the levels its going to be really hard to tell WTF is going on if you are playing on a worn out crappy 19" CRT, which a lot of fighting people do.

(SignOfZeta)

(18:08:25 07/22/10 EST)

I tried it out, um....standing a foot away from a 32" screen makes it totally unplayable. Not that I'm any good at MvC, but you're right about it being very hard to tell what is going on. Felicia looked pretty cool tho.

(a-star)

(18:29:52 07/22/10 EST)

Wow, you made it to San Diego already?

(substance J)

(19:44:05 07/22/10 EST)

3 days man, and only $140 in fuel. I'll try to score you a Sgt. Slaughter tomorrow. The line was crazy today.

(a-star)

(00:03:49 07/23/10 EST)

Oh don't worry about that. You're awesome, though. Is the show even more crowded than last year? What I've seen has looked pretty scary... though I wish I was at the wrestling toy panel to see Macho Man debut his new action figure.

(substance J)

(01:46:40 07/23/10 EST)

I hate that Slaughter figure. Give me a friggin' buff Slaughter from the comic or the cartoon, not some tube-shaped torso with grossly undefined arms.

(Esco)

(02:10:37 07/23/10 EST)

So you're not interested in one?

(a-star)

(02:15:50 07/23/10 EST)

A-nope. I got the Build n' Brawl Slaughter that Jakks made, far superior and on way more steroids

(Esco)

(02:36:38 07/23/10 EST)

Are you sure? I was thinking a few Slaughters and some Blasters for the boyz. Didn't Zero mention something as well? Speak now.

(a-star)

(02:14:14 07/23/10 EST)

I'm with Esco on this one. That little dude is way too flabby. I wouldn't turn down a Mattel SDCC Ministry Undertaker! Though as it is I still haven't paid you back for last time.

(substance J)

(03:45:04 07/23/10 EST)

Alright. Too bad I didn't bring this up sooner, I hit the Mattel booth yesterday for an Orko and one of those little ghostbusters hotwheels and I don't think I'm gonna try that line again. The crowds on thursday are like saturday last year. I don't think I'll try to do this again,

(a-star)

(09:17:22 07/23/10 EST)

didn't know you were coming to comic con - i'm here too, but leaving tomorrow morning!

(exodus)

(19:53:01 07/23/10 EST)

I left this morning as well. Just wasn't up for the saturday crowds.

(a-star)

(15:05:54 07/24/10 EST)

Nerd stabs other nerd in the eye over panel seating, film at 11

(Esco)

(20:45:15 07/24/10 EST)

Oh my god there's inside text and a link.

(substance J)

(03:09:57 07/25/10 EST)

Maybe we should meet and say hello if you're going tomorrow. Maybe? E-mail me... mister dot raroo... gmail.

(Jeurja)

(01:33:52 07/24/10 EST)

I would have loved to meet you but I'm afraid I won't be there. I wasn't able to get online until just now either which is why I didn't send you a message. Hope you have fun!

(a-star is actually pretty shy)

(15:11:01 07/24/10 EST)

We've been having lots of fun, but we're tired. Maybe next time! :-)

(Jeurja)

(00:41:03 07/25/10 EST)

I just found out about the Blaster, sign me up! He'll go great with the Soundwave you got for me last year.

(SignOfZeta)

(05:23:30 07/23/10 EST)

If there's another Blaster in addition to the one Zeta grabs, I'd take you up on it. I love me some tiny transf0rming tapes.

(PopaSmear)

(17:40:32 07/23/10 EST)

Lulu warns not to bother!

(Maniac)

(17:50:27 07/23/10 EST)

dammit lulu, if you had said something sooner I wouldn't have grabbed them!

(a-star)

(15:13:40 07/24/10 EST)

FUCK IS IT TOO LATE. I really wanted some Scott Pilgrim stuff.

(Zero)

(18:47:18 07/24/10 EST)

I tried it at E3 and thought it was totally fucking unplayably terrible, and I liked MvC so...

(aerisdead)

(20:12:24 07/22/10 EST)

Maybe there is some way to change the graphic style like in SFIV. I honestly like the art style way more than SFIV, everyone is leaner and more realistic. I agree it's a bit dark. Maybe there is a cell shade option you can pick.

(Comic-Kaze)

(00:49:34 07/23/10 EST)

They had me at Super Skrull.

(Darius)

(02:19:18 07/23/10 EST)

People are going nutso for it at Comic-Con, just like they did for Super SFIV last year... and SFIV the year before... I didn't want to wait in line to try it. Ghost Trick seems rad, though!

(Jeurja)

(01:32:25 07/24/10 EST)

Comic-Con trailer:

(Paleface)

(03:51:39 07/26/10 EST)

Seriously, that is way WAY too fucking dark. I can't see shit. What is wrong with these morons?

(SignOfZeta)

(04:08:00 07/26/10 EST)

I can see everything fine, it's just dark. It's ugly but it's not going to impede gameplay.

(Maniac)

(14:48:25 07/27/10 EST)

Yeah... They also seem to kick in a particularly darkening effect during supers to highlight the fireworks, but that's when you can't control your character anyway.

(Paleface)

(02:52:21 07/28/10 EST)

Check out this documentary. It's been a problem in my home province of Alberta for some time now, but we're all too stupid and well paid to do anything about it.

(n/t) (a-star) (01:30:36 07/22/10 EST)

Dude, that is rad! You get $100,000, and free fire from your tap? Sign me up!

(SignOfZeta)

(01:58:34 07/22/10 EST)

Yah, I can only guess that the people *complaining* about the flaming taps, lesions, and cancer are the neighbors who didn't sell out.

(Paleface)

(02:01:16 07/22/10 EST)

And they are stealing precious precious natural gas with their pirate plumbing.

(SignOfZeta)

(03:25:57 07/22/10 EST)

When I was a kid, we used to live out on the marshlands in southern Sonoma County. We drank "well" water (which I'm sure must have just been underflow from the San Francisco bay that had seeped through the layers of anaerobically decomposing marsh matter) and when we turned on the faucets, they'd cough and choke for a few seconds before the water started coming out. If you held a lighter under it while it was doing that you'd get a bad ass multicolored flameball. I thought it was totally cool. I wonder if I have lesions in my brain now.

(Sweater Fish Deluxe and Opa Opa)

(20:05:00 07/22/10 EST)

I'm not well paid! Show me the asses to kick! Although this does kind of make me wish I owned property out in the country that some exploitative, environment-ruining gas industry people would pay me $100,000 in drilling rights for. :| Really interesting trailer.

(Paleface)

(01:59:56 07/22/10 EST)

I'm not well paid either, but most of my friends are, and they all work for these companies.

(a-star)

(15:04:24 07/22/10 EST)

Why do these trailers always have generic cliche action/thriller music on them? Is Harrison Ford going to show up and bust some Oil Baron chops after he is first broken down in humility and then discovers his true destiny while winning Single Female Lawyer's heart?

(Comic-Kaze)

(15:24:31 07/22/10 EST)

Don't forget the cameo by Weibo!

(a-star)

(15:34:39 07/22/10 EST)

Because, regardless of who made the actual movies, and regardless of what music is actually in it, trailers are usually made by a completely different group of people who's job it is to ram every editing cliche they possibly can into three minutes or less. During my Video Watch years I saw a shitload of trailers and I saw the theme from The Last of the Mohicans used in trailers for 4 or 5 different movies (that were not The Last of the Mohicans). Then there is All Star, by Smashmouth, which has probably been used in at least two dozen trailers.

Thats the worst thing about movies in general now, f0rmulas. There is almost no experimentation in Hollywood movies anymore. Its like they are stuck in a trillion dollar karaoke bar where all they can do is their rendition of someone else's greatest hits.

(SignOfZeta)

(18:04:15 07/22/10 EST)

I don't mind f0rmulaic movies or ideological/political documentaries but this style of music is actually one of the things I absolutely cannot stand and it practically ruins everything that I see with it...even worse is when you have the faux-opera choir singing the music instead of actual instruments. I find more and more crappy composers, crappy movies, and crappy trailer makes use this more and more because they don't know how to actually write for a full orchestra so they think it adds depth to just get a lame choir to sing hauntingly. Composers who do this might as well use the human choir midi effect on a crappy casio keyboard.

(Comic-Kaze)

(18:59:52 07/22/10 EST)

A large percentage of orchestral scores come from the same place as the haunting choir; a sampler. Its pretty incredible how authentic cutting edge fake orchestras sound. Even movies with infinite budgets use fake sounds often times. The problem though, again, is that everything ends up sounding the same when you are aping prior works and you don't get the organic experience of doing it for real. The Giant Robo OST, which is one greatest soundtracks of all time, sounds the way it does not only because of the people that composed it, but because of where they recorded it, and who they recorded it with. You could never do it exactly this way again since some of the key members of the orchestra in 1992 are now dead.

(SignOfZeta)

(20:31:19 07/22/10 EST)

I'd think it's probably also quick and cheap to make these soundtracks.

(Paleface)

(20:42:28 07/22/10 EST)

I recently noticed that Red Dead Redemption contains the exact same "chicken squak" sound effect as Tekken 6. Way to go, guys!

(substance J)

(21:02:54 07/22/10 EST)

Psh straight off my wish-list it goes!

(Paleface)

(20:13:01 07/23/10 EST)

This photo turned up on the PCEngineFX.com forums today.

Hardcore Hudson fans will recognize the guy on the left. (SignOfZeta) (03:45:46 07/21/10 EST)

Master Higgins' acid-washed jeans are pretty sleazy. Respect.

(Mike Chicago)

(04:06:07 07/21/10 EST)

Aw c'mon everyone wore those back then. I'm still embarrassed about it.

(Paleface)

(09:05:28 07/21/10 EST)

I think it's cool.

(Mike Chicago)

(14:24:26 07/21/10 EST)

I played a Turbografx 16 once at the house of some friends of my parents when I was about ten. I played Bonk and Splatterhouse. Haven't seen or touched one since. Tell me what is awesome about this system.

(Esco)

(10:41:18 07/21/10 EST)

GAY SHMUPS!

(a-star)

(11:23:48 07/21/10 EST)

(WARNING)

(10:34:37 07/22/10 EST)

Y'know, I have a gay friend who has those yellow warning symbols tattooed on his upper thighs. Or so I was told.

(a-star)

(18:32:52 07/22/10 EST)

Whoa!

(Paleface)

(20:43:10 07/22/10 EST)

Bondage tanlines!!

(substance J)

(19:45:08 07/22/10 EST)

Whoa!

(Paleface)

(20:43:26 07/22/10 EST)

I'm no expert on this console, but you know how NES games were ported to other systems like Commodore Amiga but often lost their playability and style? And SNES sequels lost some of the basics despite their advances? TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine makes/made "NES gaming" new again, with better graphics, nicer color palette and cool shooters. I think the system was handled badly in the United States. Mediocre stuff like Hit the Ice and China Warrior didn't exactly do the trick.

(Mike Chicago)

(14:38:13 07/21/10 EST)

Yeah, the PC Engine is most accurately described as "NES minus the flicker, plus tons of color" during its early period, and in the later days, thanks to a bunch of add-ons, it could easily hold its own against newer systems like the Mega Drive. By the end it looked almost as good as Neo Geo, with the port of Fatal Fury Special and games like Sapphire.

(SignOfZeta)

(15:40:56 07/21/10 EST)

for me it was my NES-era of games, what my idea of real games was f0rmed with. I'm not sure that it actually is as awesome as I think, but it was really fast, had tons of shooters, and was easy to program for, so encouraged a lot of exploration and experimentation on the part of developers. It also had a rather impressive lifecycle - looking at the first games to the later games you see a huge progression to stuff that was basically NES quality with no flicker to stuff that was pretty much genesis and occasionally SNES quality. Also the CD music meant that lots of crazy stuff could happen. Great music from Falcom's sound team, et cetera. The vibe of these games was rather exciting, in my opinion, but also spoke of a time when Japan didn't worry about western markets, and made weird things that I wouldn't understand until later in life, which as a middle schooler was pretty appealing.

(exodus)

(10:49:35 07/22/10 EST)

You understand these things???

(substance J)

(18:25:52 07/22/10 EST)

It takes a lifetime, but eventually you end up figure out...maybe 1/4 of WTF is going on with these games.

For example, that pic I used up there was taken from a thread that explains Hudson's obsession with trains, and how that relates to the naming convention they used for some of the PC Engine's chips.

(SignOfZeta)

(20:34:14 07/22/10 EST)

I'd like to think I understand a lot of it, but even with intimate knowledge of Japanese pro wrestling and bodybuilding, Cho Aniki is still incomprehensible. Hurray! I bet I could figure out why eggplants are so evil, but that's another one I might prefer to leave to the imagination.

(substance J)

(21:07:41 07/22/10 EST)

You should work on it. I 'll look into the moai thing.

(SignOfZeta)

(21:55:49 07/22/10 EST)

oh man, I don't understand all of it. just a bit more.

(exodus)

(03:26:52 07/23/10 EST)

Speaking of "lol X," I would re-submit "LOL metal in the bay area." Bands keep on coming here because of the legacy, buy nobody turns up to shows. It's super depressing. I went to this Inter Arma show last night, they're from Richmond VA. I was the first person there who paid, and the next three were the friends I brought. There may possibly have been two other people who paid. The first band was just noise and pedals, which obviously everyone's heard before a million times. The second band though, took an hour and a half to set up. And one of the guitarists kept asking if he could "borrow our IDs" to get his underaged friends in, but of course the one 35 year old lady who lent hers never got it back. They were actually pretty decent - Sentinal Beast, a bay area thrash band from 1984 who got back together. But they played to long for having taken a million years to set up, and I had to leave at 11:30 without seeing either of the two VA bands I was there to see. I bought a shirt and CD at least, so maybe they can get part of the way to their next venue, which is hopefully somewhere near more latinos/south americans. poor bastards :\ I like being able to see metal bands near me, but it's depressing to do it alone. It happens a lot these days. (n/t) (exodus) (14:40:46 07/20/10 EST)

Gahhh! That sucks!

(SignOfZeta)

(14:43:39 07/20/10 EST)

Out of curiosity, what sort of music is the opposite in your area? Around here, I feel like this exact type of scenario is increasingly the case at more and more shows I go to. I'm thinking perhaps it's not just metal or specific areas but that people are starting to lose interest in live music in general. Or not so much that, but that because music is becoming so incredibly oversaturated, people just find bands they like on the internet and only wait until those ones show up, rather than ever going out to a show just because there is a show happening. The only exceptions to this I'm aware of are small insular scenes where everybody knows each other and just goes to everything.

(Maniac)

(15:52:36 07/20/10 EST)

I keep hearing lately that live music is dead, and how Ticketmaster/Live Nation is dead, and how a lot of mainstream staples can't even tour anymore. I saw Iron Maiden last month and Bruce Dickinson had this several minute long bit ripping on people for listening to [his] music on youtube and iPods "with these little cotton balls in your ears" and thinking they've heard it. I think he's a self centered jerk, but probably right. I blame the internet for watering down a lot of enthusiasm for real life events rather than boosting it. There will certainly never be another super group or super this or that, with everybody's attention diffused across so many other ways to waste their time and attention. Dunno if that's a good thing or bad.

(substance J)

(16:42:23 07/20/10 EST)

I think it's good kinda, I'm not into seeing bands in huge venues.

(exodus)

(16:48:30 07/20/10 EST)

Didn't we just cover how the small shows aren't doing so great?

(substance J)

(16:52:36 07/20/10 EST)

well the small indie and hip hop and experimental shows all seem to do fine, around here. And I'm including Slim's level as "small."

(exodus)

(16:56:15 07/20/10 EST)

Most of this is true, but we need to get over the fact that Pink Floyd and AC/DC levels of fame/worship in huge stadiums generating enough money to build a mansion in every city was a weird anomaly of the mid-late 20th century. Nobody will ever be a Dethklok, and that's OK. Our favorite musicians will mostly have day jobs, and I'm fucking glad. They'll make much better music for longer this way,

(SignOfZeta)

(19:53:45 07/20/10 EST)

well yes, the insular scenes are still going, with indie stuff everywhere and DIY shows. I find that some stuff still sells out in minutes here though, like anything at the larger mid-sized venues (the step below coliseums). I see music in several different scenes, and metal is the weakest in terms of attendance, and the touring bands talk about how like...oregon, or the midwest, or toronto are great places to play, with tons of people - but the bay area just sucks. It might not be specific to metal, but it's really pronounced in that genre.

(exodus)

(16:55:09 07/20/10 EST)

Yeah, there are a ton of metal shows on here. Just constantly. I think there's maybe like a really strong, specific promoter though, who busts ass to make it work. Or maybe people here just really like metal.

(aerisdead)

(17:31:40 07/20/10 EST)

Where are you, again?

(Mike Chicago)

(20:35:59 07/20/10 EST)

toronto, one of the cities I mentioned metal bands like to visit.

(exodus)

(20:42:04 07/20/10 EST)

When I went to see Dragonforce with WebOfHair in Cleveland it was clear just from being there that the metal scene was significantly bigger and better than I imagine it could possibly be in my part of Michigan.

In my area music does pretty well but, you know, its Ann Arbor. I don't go to shows just because there are shows, so I do just wait for people I like to come through. I haven't been going to a lot of shows lately because I'm working this fucking 70 hour a week job. I'm hoping to be laid off so I can see Interpol next month, and wanted to catch the GBV reunion tour, but of course that shit sold out in like 30 seconds.

Last year I went to see the Mighty Underdogs open for Galactic. The Underdogs part of the show was very very thin, but Galactic brought out all the girls with red dreads from miles around, so it was quite packed.

That travesty of an attempt I made to see Francis and the Lights was sold out to hell and back.

Here I will also repeat a Twitter post I made the other day,

"9/18/10: Nickelback w/ Three Days Grace and Buckcherry at the Joe Louis Arena. $93 a ticket. Shitty bands are expensive! #worstconcertever"

(SignOfZeta)

(19:48:12 07/20/10 EST)

Cleveland rocks.

(Mike Chicago)

(20:39:19 07/20/10 EST)

Yeah, I always kind of thought it sucked ass, but when one considers the literal definition, yes, they rock.

(SignOfZeta)

(21:47:33 07/20/10 EST)

What do you consider the Bay Area? Because most people that would have this conversation seem to think it's just San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley.

(substance J)

(20:06:59 07/20/10 EST)

To save time: what I'm getting at is metal is quite strong outside the affected urban areas.

(substance J)

(20:10:03 07/20/10 EST)

well...that is the bay area. it's bigger in the southbay. I think it might even be bigger in LA.

(exodus)

(20:44:06 07/20/10 EST)

Concord.

(substance J)

(21:25:50 07/20/10 EST)

oh yes, also the...what do they call that. more east east bay. heh.

(exodus)

(02:42:34 07/21/10 EST)

Area.

(substance J)

(03:12:06 07/21/10 EST)

Blame the recession first. I've missed dozens of shows because I have no money. The Internet is certainly also a reason: saturation, lingering skepticism due to the fake MySpace band phenomenon, too savvy/too esoteric listening habits. The two-party culture war during the rise of the Web saw a generation of young adults infotaining themselves into artlessness. People are defined more by the Daily Show or the Huffington Post or Glen Beck or the Drudge Report or probably Nazi tabloid Der Stürmer than a would-be Iron Maiden or William S. Burroughs or Edvard Munch. Those parties, they've always fought against the arts, and now they're headlining the concert.

(Mike Chicago)

(17:09:06 07/20/10 EST)

Correction: Glenn Beck.

(Mike Chicago)

(19:11:21 07/20/10 EST)

Says the guy who opted out of Primal Fear! But yeah, San Francisco sucks ass.

(substance J)

(16:26:58 07/20/10 EST)

I was pretty sick, in my defense. self-inflicted, but still true.

(exodus)

(16:47:35 07/20/10 EST)

It's like that in Portland too. Our saving grace is our punks, and local bands like Deathcharge, Nerveskade and Warcry draw both crusties and fashion punx, both of which seem to be open to underground metal, accepting bands like Bone Awl and Midnight and Toxic Holocaust (who moved here) on the bills. The metal-punk/noise-punk/NOT-metalcore crossover stuff is fine with me. D-clone was pretty much the heaviest metal band I've ever seen, and they wear bondage trousers and aren't metal. Metal's hall scene is totally dying, though. So many legacy bands skip Portland now. But package tours suck, anyway. (And good riddance to the 20-minute 8 p.m. Vader sets.) Couple cool bars, though. We're finally getting Deströyer 666 next month, and I am so pumped!

(Mike Chicago)

(16:50:57 07/20/10 EST)

On my health binge, I recently discovered a love for oatmeal as I found a big box of rolled oats (not instant) in my cupboard that had been there for years. Does anybody have any good ways to prepare oatmeal? I've been doing blueberries and a bit of honey mostly to use up a cache of frozen blueberries that have been in the freezer for years as well. (n/t) (Comic-Kaze) (00:18:08 07/20/10 EST)

All you need is milk!

(Paleface)

(03:24:17 07/20/10 EST)

and a dash of salt.

(aerisdead)

(15:47:16 07/20/10 EST)

I'd skip the expired oatmeal and head straight for the sunny boy if I were you. Actually planet organic has a good 7 grain hot cereal in the bulk section.

(a-star)

(11:50:49 07/20/10 EST)

Rolled oats soaked in cloudy apple juice: great.

(Orange)

(02:57:21 07/22/10 EST)

Now I'm in Portland! This is also a place I rode to from my house. . (n/t) (PopaSmear) (02:03:37 07/19/10 EST)

good job, that's far.

(exodus)

(02:06:29 07/19/10 EST)

Ground Kontrol arcade is mandatory. 511 NW Couch St.

(Mike Chicago)

(04:52:40 07/19/10 EST)

Yeah, it's good.

(aerisdead)

(11:17:18 07/19/10 EST)

On a bicycle?? :o Unnatural!

(Paleface)

(05:46:56 07/19/10 EST)

I'm glad you're having such an awesome midlife crisis. Keep up the good work. I'm gonna go hiking in a minute.

(substance J)

(21:17:16 07/19/10 EST)

Sexually?

(Zero)

(22:06:07 07/19/10 EST)

That's pretty awesome. How long does it take you? How many calories do you think you are burning? I've recently started running 5KM (about 3 miles) a day but I'm hoping to double that to 10KM by August.

(Comic-Kaze)

(00:19:50 07/20/10 EST)

It took me 4 days. My friend is going cross country, and since I got laid off I decided to join for the first leg. All the other riding was training.

(PopaSmear)

(02:34:54 07/20/10 EST)

Rock Hard Ride Free!

(substance J)

(04:43:21 07/20/10 EST)

Ban ban ban ban ban DAAMMmmmmmmmmmm
(n/t) (Comic-Kaze) (04:33:39 07/18/10 EST)

Pants-pulling-up clip.

(Paleface)

(04:45:16 07/18/10 EST)

OK, this is funny to me because:

Back in the day, when I used to work for Video Watch, which was later bought out by Hollywood Video then then...you know, died, my coworkers and I used to enjoy picking on Blockbuster because...they sucked, always have. Anyway, in the 90s they used to have these straight up fucking retarded categories in their store. At Video Watch we just had stuff like "Comedy", "Drama", etc which which can be confusing enough, but at Blockbuster they dumb shit like, "Action", "Hot Action", "Super Action", and "Schwarzenegger".

A lot of times our dumb-ass customers would drop movies off at the wrong stores, and once when my friend and I were returning some Blockbuster VHS that were in our drop box, we were making fun of this system with an employee there. He was trying to explain this stupid shit to us. Evidently "Hot Action" has T&A, "Super Action" has more expulsions in it. We asked him about...some movie, maybe True Lies perhaps, and he says, "Oh, that's in Super Schwarzenegger".

That was a joke, of course, not even Blockbuster would have a Super Schwarzenegger section. This theater in Japan has a Super Vandamming Action festival. Pretty hilarious...to me anyway, maybe you had to be there.

(SignOfZeta)

(05:39:04 07/18/10 EST)

Post of the weekend.

(substance J)

(06:38:37 07/18/10 EST)

My Blockbuster didn't have a "Hot Action" section. :(

(Paleface)

(08:11:32 07/18/10 EST)

Yeah, how long ago was this? I never saw anything like that in a blockbuster, and I feel kind of ripped off.

(Maniac)

(13:33:15 07/18/10 EST)

Never being a Blockbuster customer, I can't say how long they used this. This story takes place in 1994 though.

(SignOfZeta)

(14:17:01 07/18/10 EST)

I remember hot action. I would go there for my T&A needs!

(exodus)

(21:19:07 07/18/10 EST)

Not for kids!

(

)

(22:16:35 07/18/10 EST)

Manga Man...you really suck.

(SignOfZeta)

(23:05:06 07/18/10 EST)

You're just bitter that he's already trademarked. The early bird gets the Manga Man.

(substance J)

(00:34:38 07/19/10 EST)

I need PAL SNES games that run exactly as fast as their NTSC counterparts, something I'm told European developers and Nintendo's own developers accomplished. Supposedly this is more the exception than the rule on SNES, with most U.S.- and Japanese-developed games playing "slow" (as was the case with NES) upon release in PAL regions. Ideas? This is for an emulation project. (n/t) (Mike Chicago) (23:45:10 07/17/10 EST)

Wait you're American, aren't you? You aren't allowed to mess with PAL stuff, I read that somewhere. >_>

(Paleface)

(23:53:43 07/17/10 EST)

Yeah. I'm also in the Commodore scene, where PAL dominates, and it's easier to emulate 50Hz SNES on Dreamcast than 60Hz.

(Mike Chicago)

(00:03:58 07/18/10 EST)

Huh! What's the Commodore scene up to these days?

(Paleface)

(01:36:27 07/18/10 EST)

Well, the Vice 2.2 C64 emulator is perfect. I added my first disk drive from 1985 to my headless server with an XM1541 adapter. There's a show next weekend in Vegas.

(Mike Chicago)

(01:55:30 07/18/10 EST)

C64...headless server...whaaaa?

(Paleface)

(02:01:51 07/18/10 EST)

Ubuntu/XP headless server, but I use OpenCBM on it for disk-image copying to and from the 1541 drive. No parallel port on clients.

(Mike Chicago)

(02:12:03 07/18/10 EST)

Today = Birthday! Tomorrow = Road Trip! (n/t) (a-star) (22:34:07 07/17/10 EST)

oh yeah
/a

(a-star)

(22:45:19 07/17/10 EST)

damn, bad f0rm.

(a-star)

(22:46:33 07/17/10 EST)

Feel free to swing on by.

(SignOfZeta)

(22:56:47 07/17/10 EST)

I'll take a stab at it, but I'm kinda on a western swing so it might be a little much. My sister is in Toronto and I was considering going there but like I said, it may be a little much.

(a-star)

(08:10:01 07/19/10 EST)

That's cool.

(SignOfZeta)

(14:42:08 07/20/10 EST)

Well happy birthday!

(Paleface)

(23:41:35 07/17/10 EST)

hb, a*

(Zero)

(00:09:30 07/18/10 EST)

Really? Mine is tomorrow.

(Comic-Kaze)

(00:19:09 07/18/10 EST)

happy belated birthday. I was in calgary yesterday but I spent my time there visiting my half-sister and her new baby in Okotoks.

(a-star)

(08:04:07 07/19/10 EST)

Happy Birthday! Where you heading to?

(Comic-Kaze)

(00:19:24 07/18/10 EST)

tijuana. want me to bring you back a double down?

(a-star)

(08:06:31 07/19/10 EST)

happy birthdays a-star and comic kaze!

(exodus)

(04:11:37 07/18/10 EST)

Rock Hard...Ride Free

(substance J)

(18:47:28 07/18/10 EST)

thanks guys.

(a-star)

(08:07:58 07/19/10 EST)

So, I dunno if anyone besides those taking part have noticed, but there is talk of vegetables and diseases and being healthier then skinny kids down below. So, with that said, fuck you California.

Everyone go look up pesticide, methyl iodide, California, and Strawberries.

Here's a taste:
"California is close to approving a pesticide whose main ingredient is used to induce cancer in cell cultures in laboratories." (n/t) (Zero) (18:18:05 07/14/10 EST)

What

(substance J)

(19:00:29 07/14/10 EST)

You snobs with all you beach and sun and 90210s

(Comic-Kaze)

(20:13:13 07/14/10 EST)

Hey J, After Burner Climax is pretty great. You should get it.

(aerisdead)

(01:10:43 07/16/10 EST)

Right on Lulu

(Comic-Kaze)

(13:24:10 07/16/10 EST)

Tee-hee! ... Not that I really think he's evil, I suppose, just maybe a dude who doesn't realize that he's kind of being a dick.

(Paleface)

(03:28:52 07/17/10 EST)

I really want to, but suddenly I'm spending all my time playing Red Dead and N64 games.

(substance J)

(18:00:24 07/16/10 EST)

Which N64 games?

(Comic-Kaze)

(18:26:28 07/16/10 EST)

Basically everything I mentioned in the main board thread. I'm dying to get ahold of Konami's "G.A.S.P!! Fighter's NEXTream", though.

(substance J)

(21:33:29 07/16/10 EST)

yup, thats the worst thing going on in California fight now. But i got a free pair of air jordans when i was down there so it evens out.

(Apples)

(21:22:08 07/14/10 EST)

Oh man I'm glad you could make it to Oakland last week. Footlocker's 100% off sale was awesome!

(substance J)

(21:51:51 07/14/10 EST)

A++ riot had fun would riot again

(

)

(21:58:50 07/14/10 EST)

So I just looked up what this riot was about, and....wow, I remember reading about Oscar Grant last year. And I remember watching the videos posted to Youtube. I think the riot's kinda stupid, I mean, it wasn't a murder, and the officer is still getting punished, so..

(Zero)

(13:13:55 07/17/10 EST)

It wasn't a murder? The dude is fucking dead as hell, last I heard.

(SignOfZeta)

(14:24:25 07/17/10 EST)

Wasn't he black, though?

(Sweater Fish Deluxe and Opa Opa)

(16:54:09 07/17/10 EST)

Murder is defined by intent. If the roles were reversed you'd spend a couple of lines stating how stupid I was for not understanding that.

(Zero)

(20:01:05 07/17/10 EST)

So you actually buy the cop's story that he meant to go for his taser? I don't, mainly because if that's true, if there are BARTCops who can't tell the diffrence between their firearm and a plastic taser, then I find that even scarier than outright race killings.

(SignOfZeta)

(20:52:51 07/17/10 EST)

Sooo you just choose to believe the option that's less scary for you? ;) Seems to me he didn't mean to shoot him, because what kind of moron shoots someone on purpose in front of witnesses--particularly angry witnesses who are surrounding you shouting and freaking you out, and anyway what would be the motive? Obviously he was some kind of moron, but it seems more likely that he's the kind of moron that wasn't paying sufficient attention to what he was doing in a high pressure situation. Still it amounts to the same thing for the dude he shot and it's not like I'd be crying injustice if he did get sent away for murder, because either way the guy is potentially lethal.

(Paleface)

(23:51:36 07/17/10 EST)

I've got an idea! Let's all assume our own conclusions about an incident we didn't witness between two individuals we did not and will not ever know. These are the foundations of all good morality plays.

(substance J)

(23:57:36 07/17/10 EST)

I watched Youtube clips of him being shot and before he was shot. The police officer clearly had a very surprised or confused expression on his face after he shot him.

(Zero)

(00:05:22 07/18/10 EST)

I don't get all worked up about this kind of thing and pretend I know everything about it, but I don't see anything wrong with discussing what we've seen or read about it and what our opinions are based on that--as long as we don't go assuming that we know things we can't possibly know. Which is why I said "seems to me" and so on. It's speculation, but I haven't forgotten that it's only speculation. Maybe saying I wouldn't mind if he got sent off for murder is a little harsh, but that's solely based on the fairly well established fact that he did shoot a handcuffed guy--I don't think the defense contested that part--whatever his intentions were.

(Paleface)

(00:47:53 07/18/10 EST)

Then again we do have certain impressionable people around here apparently drawing hard and fast conclusions of people based on their impressions of grainy videos, so yeah I suppose maybe this isn't the right forum in which to try to have a discussion about this type of thing. ;)

(Paleface)

(00:50:30 07/18/10 EST)

Oh, I'm not referring to anything you said, just generally. That's my take on this whole thing. Some jerk shot some jerk he was trying to arrest and whether that says anything about police brutality I think it's pretty impossible to determine. And if there was injustice in the verdict, it has to do with something much more fundamental to the structure of the legal system which these fashionable young urban rioters can't possibly speak to.

(substance J)

(01:01:56 07/18/10 EST)

I dunno, system-wise it might have more to do with the police end of things rather than the legal end, because it really does appear that they didn't handle things well--not only the bungled arrest, but things like the police chief or whoever it was giving really lame "let's not uh jump to uh conclusions" type comments that sounded like he had no intention of taking responsibility for this class-A screw-up that happened under his watch, measures to try to make sure this type of thing wouldn't happen anymore, measures to improve relations with alienated citizens, etc. No argument that those rioters appear to be douches, though.

(Paleface)

(01:48:30 07/18/10 EST)

In my general experience, law enforcement types are more likely to become angry and violent than confused and bumbling when under pressure.

(Sweater Fish Deluxe and Opa Opa)

(17:50:37 07/18/10 EST)

That may well be, but in the various cell phone videos I saw of this particular incident on YouTube, the behavior of the whole group of them fell more on the "confused and bumbling" side of things.

(Paleface)

(20:43:33 07/18/10 EST)

Yeah, I'm guessing few of you have bothered watching them?

(Zero)

(20:53:35 07/18/10 EST)

I watched them when it first happened (I was on the train after), and while he may not have intended to kill the guy, oscar grant was in no need of even tazing. so the situation in general was pretty awful. the thing it says the most is that bart police a) shouldn't carry guns, and b) need a lot more fucking training.

(exodus)

(21:59:52 07/18/10 EST)

Yup! I would've said some of this myself, but I would suspect it would be argued for whatever reason.

(Zero)

(22:43:21 07/18/10 EST)

the rioters want revenge more than justice, and it's hard to blame them. and...pretty much that's what they tried to do, by stealing shit. I guess! Shoes for blood!

(exodus)

(23:16:55 07/18/10 EST)

Revenge for who against what? Shouldn't they have broken into the Oakland police department instead of Macy's? It's quite easy to blame these people. For being pussies.

(substance J)

(00:41:15 07/19/10 EST)

Well...Macy's does suck though.

(Paleface)

(01:44:26 07/19/10 EST)

revenge for all the people who feel like they're pushed around by the cops, etc. I'm not saying it's justified or not, but I think that's where it comes from.

(exodus)

(02:06:16 07/19/10 EST)

It's not about buying any fucking stories from what they say, go scan through youtube to find clips. I have no clue if it's hard to find any now, but whether or not he meant to grab his clip and made such a stupid mistake, it's clear he's a moron as Pale said. It's clear he didn't mean to kill the guy. Murder is about intent you fucktard.

(Zero)

(00:07:10 07/18/10 EST)

I was in town for both of our quality riots in the last month - downtown LA and oakland. but I was generally about 5 miles away each time, not getting rioted on.

(exodus)

(02:42:38 07/15/10 EST)

The Downtown LA Lakers riot was pretty fun, I won't lie. Made it a little tricky going to 7 Grand, but I also sort of hate that bar!

(Perdew)

(11:02:24 07/15/10 EST)

I don't like it. Also the riot was not fun for business or automobile owners, nor the bus driver that people tried to kill, nor all the folk who got injured....... etc......................>>>

(exodus)

(12:35:58 07/15/10 EST)

I missed Oakland but was in Toronto for the G20 riots, which sucked. Thankfully I wasn't downtown for them.

(aerisdead)

(13:12:22 07/15/10 EST)

I think I said this already, but: lol urban people.

(substance J)

(01:02:39 07/18/10 EST)

you did, and then I loled at suburban people and then I think we stopped talking about it.

(exodus)

(14:27:30 07/20/10 EST)

Thank goodness for facebook!

(substance J)

(19:47:55 07/20/10 EST)

post a reasonably obscure rockin song that you enjoy, so that I may discover a new thing. I'll start with two. (exodus) (18:22:33 07/13/10 EST)

Hm.

(Paleface)

(21:38:24 07/13/10 EST)

our love is here to stay is a great song! and quite an amusing clip, besides. chungking's not too bad either.

(exodus)

(13:13:13 07/14/10 EST)

Yeh, Johnny and Pearl make a pretty cute couple. :D

(Paleface)

(22:36:33 07/14/10 EST)

Rock 'n' roll by Inepsy, Cock Sparrer and Slauter Xstroyes.

(Mike Chicago)

(04:22:17 07/14/10 EST)

interesting stuff - never heard of slauter xtroyes, what a name!

(exodus)

(13:24:06 07/14/10 EST)

(Atarianallstar)

(15:24:48 07/14/10 EST)

(Atarianallstar)

(15:27:04 07/14/10 EST)

(Atarianallstar)

(15:29:42 07/14/10 EST)

These are some great Belgian bands that must be pretty obscure outside Belgium

(Atarianallstar)

(15:30:32 07/14/10 EST)

Hooverphonic! Although really I'm mostly partial to their first two albums; later they started moving into more sing-songy stuff.

(Paleface)

(22:47:53 07/14/10 EST)

I was trying to listen to all the music here before posting my own, but I only got half way. Here's the two songs I heard most recently that I liked; potentially obscure I guess! Maybe not the second one. Anyway, they both have really good shoegazy guitar sounds.

(aerisdead)

(18:43:07 07/19/10 EST)

I listened to everyone else's songs! I think I liked the hooverphonic one best.

(aerisdead)

(16:27:27 07/21/10 EST)

Biked from my place in Ballard to the Admiral Junction in West Seattle. I guess that might mean something to Ben, and for the rest of you, it was 25 miles. That's a lot of miles. (n/t) (PopaSmear) (21:19:10 07/12/10 EST)

Not sure where Admiral Junction is exactly but West Seattle is far! :o

(Paleface)

(00:45:48 07/13/10 EST)

woah good job duuuuuuuude

(exodus)

(15:20:23 07/13/10 EST)

ive been using my motorcycle a lot lately as well. bada BANG!

(mental)

(11:37:42 07/14/10 EST)

I need you people to play so I have someone to compete against: (Perdew) (03:40:13 07/12/10 EST)

Whaaaaaat game is it?

(Paleface)

(03:45:21 07/12/10 EST)

It isn't Musha Aleste :(

(Esco)

(05:16:26 07/12/10 EST)

Sin and Punishment: Star Successor. I'm also guessing 'international' means Europe+US, no way the Japanese aren't better.

(Perdew)

(10:53:23 07/12/10 EST)

I'll get it. Soon. Promise.

(SignOfZeta)

(00:46:43 07/13/10 EST)

everyone told me conan the destroyer was a bad movie, but man. it sure does suck! especially after just having re-watched conan the barbarian. (n/t) (exodus) (03:11:25 07/12/10 EST)

But Wilt Chamberlain is in it! Wait now I need a picture.
Ah.

(Paleface)

(03:43:30 07/12/10 EST)

Hey, I just watched Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, which is actually based on a series of books called "The Destroyer" and you may remember was mentioned in Deadly Premonition. It was pretty bad too!

(aerisdead)

(13:09:30 07/12/10 EST)

oh neat! I bet it wasn't as bad by degrees as conan the destroyer though, which had an $18 million plus budget in the 80s.

(exodus)

(13:56:41 07/12/10 EST)

I'm pretty sure it wasn't. It was actually kind of fun. Really weird "yellowface" in it, though.

(aerisdead)

(14:36:31 07/12/10 EST)

woah yellowface. bela lugosi had that in some movie. somethingwhatsit of the black dragon. or maybe just black dragon.

(exodus)

(20:10:11 07/12/10 EST)

Bela Lugosi played Asian characters pretty often actually. Not as often as Boris Karloff, though.

(Sweater Fish Deluxe)

(12:45:12 07/13/10 EST)

Amateurs, I tell ya.

(SignOfTheDuke)

(14:05:20 07/13/10 EST)

Sweet.

(Paleface)

(21:39:16 07/13/10 EST)

VIVA THE ESPAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (n/t) (substance J) (17:07:07 07/11/10 EST)

I think S:NGP can take full credit for Spain's victory.

(Paleface)

(19:29:58 07/11/10 EST)

yes, well done, but only on the basis that the Dutch let their worst tendencies to the fore; the game was brutal. Netherlands should have had about three men on the pitch by the end.

(aerisdead)

(19:35:49 07/11/10 EST)

Would have been perfect if they showed that one guy's chest with each cleat neatly defined as a bruising welt.

(yoodaa)

(17:01:16 07/16/10 EST)

gracias chicos, ¿te gustaría comprar algunas medicinas? Me olvidé de lo que mi "schtick" fue. No hemos hablado desde hace 10 años

(Spain)

(19:46:13 07/11/10 EST)

Oh yeah, now I remember. You were stealing SNGP which was pretty good. You weren't a spam bot like I mistakenly recalled.

(Comic-Kaze)

(19:50:39 07/11/10 EST)

Si.

(Spam Bot)

(20:22:05 07/11/10 EST)

The only time autotune is good

(Comic-Kaze)

(20:28:54 07/11/10 EST)

I dunno, it pretty much drowns out just how flipped out he was.

(Paleface)

(02:54:26 07/12/10 EST)

*sniff* Lulu you're so right. ;_;

(Paleface)

(03:01:56 07/12/10 EST)

The middle was boring with so many yellows and a kick to the chest. The way it was going look very reminiscent to Spain VS Germany: Spain creating plenty of chances and not being able to finish, and knowing that eventually, Spain will get one.

(Zero)

(23:25:31 07/11/10 EST)

Whaddaya mean, the kick to the chest was awesome!

(Paleface)

(02:53:10 07/12/10 EST)

(ABC)

(03:02:34 07/12/10 EST)

Now that FIFA has said they will use goal line cameras, etc, in the future I can't help but wonder how this will effect penalty calls. I mean, there has always been such a psychological aspect to the things, with the "victim" often times over selling his suffering like a pro wrestler. It would kind of be sad to see that go away.

(SignOfZeta)

(15:55:05 07/12/10 EST)

I haven't read that article, and had no idea they would. I would've expected them to add more refs (like, a goal ref on each end) before using technology.

(Zero)

(16:17:36 07/12/10 EST)

They'll probably do both.

(SignOfZeta)

(00:47:50 07/13/10 EST)

Wrestlers sell so much better.

(substance J)

(17:12:38 07/12/10 EST)

Example:

(substance J)

(06:19:50 07/13/10 EST)

Such a stupid thing to do, but so awesome at the same time. If you're not going to play football you might as well fight.

(Rockman Pocket)

(17:28:51 07/12/10 EST)

I just went to a bbq at my friend's parents' house, and they sent me back with a bunch of spinach. it's "best by" today, but most of it looks fine. so here's my question - if I cook it, fry it up or boil it or whatnot - will that give me a couple extra days of it being good? or does that only make sense in my brain and not in reality? (n/t) (exodus) (05:50:51 07/10/10 EST)

Raw and uncooked vegetables will spoil via oxidization and decomposition but yes, if you cook it, you deactivate many of the enzymes, denature the proteins, and kill the bacteria counts that continue to grow as long as the spinach remains uncooked. In fact, most of the vegetables we eat have very high bacterial counts, even if you do your best to wash them. If you cook it, it will be good for much longer, especially if you refridgerate or freeze it.

(Comic-Kaze)

(07:38:01 07/10/10 EST)

I rarely wash vegetables. People think im strange, but i dont see the use. Ive never ever had a bad experience with unwashed mushrooms, lettuce, onions, etc. Fruits really dont need to be washed in my house either. Maybe i just have an iron stomach or something.

(mental)

(12:21:33 07/10/10 EST)

You're totally getting cancer from remnants of fertilizer when you're older! :) Your healthy body can deal with bacteria but not chemical fertilizers.

(Comic-Kaze)

(13:36:08 07/10/10 EST)

Yeah, I always thought the point of washing vegetables was to get the main made poisons off them. I'm no food expert though. In fact, these food posts basically irritate the shit of me, although I can't quite put my finger on why...

(SignOfZeta)

(14:57:55 07/10/10 EST)

I meant to say, "man made", but that works too.

(SignOfZeta)

(17:43:29 07/10/10 EST)

you've been indoctrinated, that's why. The main reason I wash vegetables is that I always expect the produce guy just used the washroom and didn't wash his hands.

(a-star)

(19:55:44 07/10/10 EST)

It's because your brain is desparately trying to override the signals from your intestines trying to tell you that you need to be eating better food.

(Sweater Fish Deluxe and Opa Opa)

(17:21:40 07/11/10 EST)

Nah, I'm pretty sure its just the hoity toity (sic?) attitude of people who are into food and/or make posts like this one. It's fine if you are really into every little detail of food (it totally makes sense since we eat three times a day, every day) but in all practicality...I've got shit to do, and don't have time to...can my own prunes, or WTF ever. My horrible health habbits haven't managed to actually fuck me up that bad...or at all, really. I have been to the doctor twice in the last 20 years and I almost never get sick. I'm just about the only one I know in my line of work with no back problems, and I still have most of my hair (will be 37 in thee weeks).

I'm going to outlive all you skinny little Pete Seeger wanabes.

(SignOfZeta)

(18:05:33 07/14/10 EST)

I'm sorry you don't like these posts, but I got a lot more mileage out of my free spinach because of it. I really don't see what's so hoity toity about it, and I don't even like food. but I like wasting it even less!

(exodus)

(02:41:44 07/15/10 EST)

There wasn't anything hoity toity about your post, just Fish's. I realize that science can't explain/solve everything, but basing other people's nutritional health based on what seems to be a totally abstract spiritual sliding scale is just %99 crap, IMO.

(SignOfZeta)

(14:28:02 07/17/10 EST)

Are you telling me I dont actually have a 3rd nipple? ka-CHING, Bada bada boom.

(Mental)

(19:26:25 07/10/10 EST)

We're all going to get cancer anyway, so I don't see the point in worrying about it.

(Sweater Fish Deluxe and Opa Opa)

(17:17:50 07/11/10 EST)

cool, makes sense to me! thanks!

(exodus)

(16:24:38 07/11/10 EST)

Cook it with some garlic for extra staying power. And spinach and garlic are dleicious together anyway.

(Sweater Fish Deluxe and Opa Opa)

(17:19:25 07/11/10 EST)

Garlic is the old pornography

(Comic-Kaze is sick of it in too many foods)

(19:49:34 07/11/10 EST)

yeah, that was the plan already.

(exodus)

(02:35:37 07/12/10 EST)

expiry dates are industry propaganda.

(a-star)

(19:47:53 07/10/10 EST)

Leftover cooked spinach, however, is just gross!

(substance J)

(20:54:26 07/10/10 EST)

Just imagine that you are popeye. Go have a can of soup and then print up your own Spinach label and then take a shot of spinach down your throat.

(Comic-Kaze)

(00:24:19 07/11/10 EST)

(substance J)

(05:47:03 07/11/10 EST)

This was always my favorite of those. Love generic 80s songs that were never successful in America but got stuck in Japanese commercials.

(Comic-Kaze)

(15:51:30 07/11/10 EST)

I am not going to watch those out of fear that I will go totally gay for young Travolta.

(Paleface)

(19:31:06 07/11/10 EST)

I like the way this thing looks.
(n/t) (Jason) (00:34:48 07/07/10 EST)

Indeed!
I was thinking about getting on of these things, but was saddened it didn't have control ports for all sorts of controllers. It doens't have the right looks though!

(Atarianallstar)

(02:36:36 07/07/10 EST)

I'm pretty sure three different sets of controller ports, plus a wireless link to its own controllers, is the world record. You want more? For what?

(SignOfZeta)

(06:12:22 07/07/10 EST)

My sentence didn't make sense at all!
I ment to say that I wanted to get something this, but didn't because I couldn't use original controllers. The only sad thing is that it looks so ugly!

(Atarianallstar)

(10:52:19 07/08/10 EST)

Really? The looks are what I like about it the most.

(Jason)

(22:43:01 07/09/10 EST)

These things generally look like the worst sort of cheap shit when you see them in person. Having all those controller ports would nice but...I'm a "real hardware" sort of person.

(SignOfZeta)

(03:14:25 07/07/10 EST)

I knew it! I knew you were a cyborg!

(Paleface)

(09:41:09 07/07/10 EST)

I've messed around with one of these before but we don't sell this particular model at the store. It's by Hyperkin so it should have very nice NES compatibility. The Hyperkin FC Mobile 2 that we sell is the first clone I've actually used that can run Castlevania 3 which is sort of the benchmark test for famiclones. The controllers it comes with are probably garbage but the availability of all those controller ports is nice. One of my biggest issues with a majority of clones (FC Twin excluded) is that they use proprietary controllers and if one breaks (usually the only mechanical problem with these units) it's nearly impossible to replace. This takes care of that problem wonderfully. On the negative side of things the machine looks like one of those Baby's First Computer type things by V-Tech. All it's missing are some animal shaped buttons. The Genesis portion of the show on these clones is almost always totally horrible with the sound emulation generally being garbage on even the most popular games. Lastly, Hyperkin's IR controllers are okay at close distances but if you want this in an entertainment center while you play from your couch it's probably gonna get frustrating. Despite all that I would definitely suggest it over the seemingly more common FC3 but depending on price maybe not more than the FC Twin.

(twelvest)

(17:43:12 07/07/10 EST)

Buyer beware! For my Bday I picked up a pair of MadCatz Tournament Edition Sticks for X360. They're certainly solid when it comes to construction but have one minor (but VERY annoying) flaw. (Darius) (23:08:56 07/06/10 EST)

As far as I can tell all of the arcade sticks for the 360 have a square gate. It caught me off guard first but I have to say that I honestly prefer it way more than the more common (in US arcades, anyways) octagonal ones. I know it's all personal preference but if you tighten up your motions you'll never hit the gate wall and the smoothness of movement is far better. The chunkyness of quarter and half circle motions on the machines at work (octagonal gates) now throw me a bit. Stick with it and see if you have a change of preference. If it really isn't your thing I understand that putting a new gate in takes about 15 minutes.

(twelvest)

(23:33:14 07/06/10 EST)

Or I should say "almost never hit the gate wall." All I was really trying to convey was that I actually find move 1nputs on them easier.

(twelvest)

(23:36:59 07/06/10 EST)

After looking at the math behind the different gates I've decided to go with the octagonal restrictor. Truthfully, I'll never be a good enough player to apppreciate the benefits of a square gate which otherwise is just a hinderance to my control.

(Darius)

(10:35:40 07/11/10 EST)

They are suposed to be that way. Its not a "flaw". If I spent that much cash on a stick with a round gate I'd be super pissed.

(SignOfZeta)

(23:44:39 07/06/10 EST)

Japanese-style square gates have really caught on for console sticks in recent ears, it seems. That didn't used to be the case. I used to think octagonal were better, but I have real trouble going back to my octagonal DC sticks now.

(Paleface)

(02:49:01 07/07/10 EST)

So who's ready for a Super SFIV tournament?!

(substance J)

(02:50:29 07/07/10 EST)

This guy.

(twelvest)

(15:34:02 07/07/10 EST)

*awaiting invite*

(Bean)

(08:46:09 07/08/10 EST)

We've got to hurry before Blazblue:CS comes out and I forget everything I know about SSFIV. ;)

(Darius)

(11:31:13 07/08/10 EST)

Alright, we're a-go. Everybody else can reply now. I know you have the game. We'll make it on a weekend so aeris can pretend that's his only free time. WHO WILL PROVE THE OLD AXIOM AGAIN TODAY? The tournament DLC is really fantastic, btw. I've only messed with it but it handles the whole thing beautifully, with full replays. The whole tourney will go on Youtube this time.

(substance J)

(20:08:22 07/08/10 EST)

I'm in, but give me at least a couple weeks warning, this is a crazy busy time for weekends.

(PopaSmear)

(22:25:39 07/08/10 EST)

yeah, just give me some notice.

(exodus)

(16:27:18 07/11/10 EST)

Oh snap... you guys are gonna xbox 360 it, aren't you.... :(

(Bean)

(00:26:02 07/13/10 EST)

I can't wait to get beat again.

(Jeurja)

(00:28:27 07/09/10 EST)

I am totally going to practice my shit this time. Getting tossed in the first round kind of invalidated my asian status. I already suck at badminton, ping pong and bowling so this is all I've got left.

(Darius)

(01:49:51 07/09/10 EST)

There's always mahjong

(yoodaa)

(17:12:43 07/16/10 EST)

Anybody know of a reliable place to get world cup torrents? This google search produces even more dead ends than I anticipated. (n/t) (substance J) (17:58:31 07/02/10 EST)

I just want to know a good site for European league football highlights.

(Paleface)

(19:07:42 07/02/10 EST)

I lost interest in pirating this year's Word Cup when I learned that ESPN has them all for free.

(SignOfZeta)

(19:36:09 07/02/10 EST)

Hmm... it's true. Oh web 2.0, how did I ever doubt you?

(substance J)

(18:41:01 07/03/10 EST)

Hey, After Burner Climax is 400 points on XBLA now. Haven't bought it yet but I guess I will.

(aerisdead)

(18:07:27 07/05/10 EST)

Damn, my account that I use to purchase stuff is Silver, so no discount for me.

(substance J)

(18:36:33 07/05/10 EST)

Why is your purchase account a silver? Odd.

(aerisdead)

(21:53:25 07/05/10 EST)

Because his gold account is straight japanese!

(Apples)

(23:21:57 07/05/10 EST)

Had I known how petty Microsoft would be, I might have registered a US account as my main one. But as it is I greatly prefer being on the Japanese version of Live, because there are no annoying ads, no annoying "Sent U A Message" homos, no Dorritos/US Army/Axe Body Wash promotions, etc. And the content on the JP side is actually very good. And that's just how I roll.

(substance J)

(00:15:25 07/06/10 EST)

From Magic Box (as denoted by the leading dash)

"- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick mentioned to Financial Times that he is frustrated by the Xbox Live business model, because Microsoft would benefit the most from the service. For example over 60% subscribers are on Live because of Call of Duty series, but Activision doesn't get any revenue from it."

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

(substance J)

(00:20:19 07/06/10 EST)

That's hilarious. In a way its kind of BS though since it assumes that every single one of those subscribers would be playing it on another platf0rm if there was no 360, and there are all sorts of reasons why that might not be true. Also, I thought that they got quite a bit of revenue from selling a trillion copies of the game at retail.

(SignOfZeta)

(13:34:56 07/06/10 EST)

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