This is the guy who managed to convince me that the Wii isn't all bad, though I'm still skeptical about soccer moms playing games. This guy got me to rethink some of my own gaming prejudices, too, if only by referring to the "hardcore" prejudices against anything that isn't, well, war, guns, Nazis, zombies, self-employed landscaping contractors, or Scarface-based wish fulfillment.

Maybe, just maybe, I'll try the FPS again? I mean, it HAS been since the PS2 days...

Anyway, yeah, I've become a fan of the Overthinker. Maybe in a few years' time he'll look like pretentious bullshit, but for now, he gets me thinking about this shit.

At 11/19/09 06:25 PM, Hedzshot01 wrote: Id like to join the Department of Flash if there is room. I meet the b/s points requirement, i've got more then 30 good reviews and im making my way to a silver whistle.

This place is, apparently, closed for a few months until an inevitable reboot of some sort. Because the NGDD is closed, it's not accepting new members at this time.

At 11/18/09 10:02 PM, Can-head wrote: When will the igniorance will stop and we will just stop acting like dick toward eachother?

That's not the goal. The goal is to get to the point where we're all laughing at being a dick towards each other, because we've all learned to ignore fucktards like the KKK and the Black Panthers while laughing off their ideologies and their desire for "race war" as the out-of-touch anachronistic shit that they are.

The Prime series comes after the original Metroid(/Zero Mission) but before Metroid II, I think. What I'm wondering is if Other M is finally going to go past Fusion. And I actually haven't played Super Metroid (I'll get it as soon as I get an SNES!), but I'd have to say that out of what I've played, I like Zero Mission best.

If you really do not know the answer, then no answer I can give you will tell you whether I am or not. Who is to say, if I tell you that I am honest, that I'm not lying to cover up other lies?

Patrick Stewart Award (I should be offended by or hateful to these characters, but I like them):
5. Link. Going around in a skirt, hanging with fairies, girlfriend dresses up like a dude? Sounds like a big gay metaphor to me, and by "gay" I mean that someone's got to be a homosexual in that series. But the Zelda games are some of my favorites, and the main reason that I think Miyamoto is far closer to infallible than any Pope, so Link becomes awesome just by being the hero, to say nothing of his own inherent awesome and the fact that, because he never talks, he's all action.
4. All the Assassins from the Assassin's Creed series. The Templars seek to bring peace and unity to the world, to end all the petty conflicts that destroy us, by bringing all of humanity into a collective hive-mind with the Piece of Eden. And you're opposing them?! Shit, guys, think about what you're doing! But you're still awesome anyway, to the point where I'd be willing to give up my ring finger for that Hidden Blade like Altair did.
3. Just about every attractive female in the Touhou Project. Most of them are kinda bitchy, or weirdos, or otherwise messed-up. But they're so damn hot... Special mentions go to kleptomaniac ultra-hot witch Marisa Kirisame and her even hotter mega-bitch neighbor Alice Margatroid.
2. Ridley. Yeah, he annihilated an entire Earth colony just a few decades ago. Yeah, his enemy is the living female embodiment of awesome, so he automatically looks bad in comparison 9as would anyone trying to compete with Samus Aran). But I gotta hand it to him: to keep getting killed and coming back, that takes guts and determination.
1. Bowser. You know as well as I do what's going on when he kidnaps Peach, but despite the inter-species rape, Bowser is one of the most memorable game villains of all time. At least, he's the perfect villain for the face of gaming, which says something about his quality as a bad guy.

At 11/18/09 12:02 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Who's doing what TURKEY DAY?

A whole week off from school = playing some video games I should have picked up years ago, and maybe getting a particular new one set in Renaissance Italy that interests me. And since I'm pretty much a pagan deity of gluttony, even I don't know how much I'm going to eat on the big day... We got a 21-pound turkey, actually, biggest one we've ever had. I don't like the white meat, too dry for me, but as long as there's leg, thigh, and wing meat, and some delicious whole-wheat/cornbread mixed stuffing and gravy, I'll probably set and break all-species records for eating.

By all that is good and holy...

Adolf Hitler:CAI493+D 240, by AlternativaPlatforms Type: Movie Rating: Ages 13+

People are still submitting spinoffs, ripoffs, and name drops of this stuff? Ugh. Actually, make that the next redefinition of "ugh". I mean, the "official" series died when Wade deleted that one, and that was almost a year and a half ago, right?

Not saying what to vote, of course, and it's not rule-breaking or anything, but I am saying that this sort of thing, in my opinion, probably should have died a long time ago.

Well, MindChamber made a news post a while back about a program called Joy2Key, doesn't that work with Windows 7? Or how about the device drivers and configuration programs your joystick came with?

Why link to the YouTube video when there's the same thing right here on NG and also on ScrewAttack?

At 11/12/09 08:27 PM, HeavyMetalGuy wrote:

At 11/12/09 07:20 PM, onilink19 wrote: IT's totally kickass!

inorite.

I'd deposit daily until I leave the physical world behind, just to look in from Purgatory and see that my account has that for an icon.

Also, is the lighting just bad in OP's pic, or does the sword look nothing like the Master Sword in real life? The hilt is the wrong color, and the markings don't look like the ones I remember. Oh, and the so-called "shield" sucks ass.

The real test of a game designer isn't what he can do with four buttons, four triggers, a D-pad and two joysticks. The test of a game designer is what he does just a joystick and a single button! Well, maybe a more reasonable test would utilize the NES controller, but the 2600 is fucking classic. Yar's Revenge fucking rules, and Adventure defined its genre. Even the "bad" games sometimes aren't as bad as they're made out to be. The crappy Pac-Man port is only crappy as a port, and isn't quite as bad when viewed as a game in its own right. Even the infamous ET, while dull, frustrating, and having that "makes me want to throw the controller out the nearest window" quality at times, isn't quite as bad as, say, just about any fighting game on Game Boy, or any officially licensed sports game ever made, or any racing game I've ever played that didn't have "Mario Kart" in the title.

I prefer cartridges. A disc gets scratched to unreadability within a few months in my house, but I've got all my old Game Boy cartridges, reaching all the way back to 1996, in perfect working condition. Discs take forever to load (even on the fucking 360!), and you have to buy memory cards, hard drives, whatever for saving. The higher capacity of a disc means nothing to me, because I play games for gameplay too, not just for cinematic cutscenes. If I just want cinematic cutscenes, I'll watch a damn movie. I benefit more from fast loading than from having three hours of movie footage on my game. Discs are popular for high capacity storage (much of which is often devoted to bonus footage or other useless extras) and for low cost, but for all that low cost I don't see lower game prices.

I never thought I'd say this, but...
I side with Hannah Montana. And yes, I just said that. At least that show is clear about being definitively for another demographic, while Family Guy is ruining if not people of my own age and gender, then boys of my brother's age group. It's like, shitty anime does more damage to me than, say, shitty reality shows, because anime may be aimed at me, or more likely they may ricochet off their Japanese target audience towards Western nerds like myself, while reality shows are aimed in the other direction. Family Guy is aimed, nominally, at teenagers and young adults, and it impresses preteens more than anyone. So Family Guy is aimed at me, misses, and hits my brother. But Hannah Montana is aimed in the other direction, at preteen girls, so it isn't something ruining people like me, just a few of my younger cousins.

At 11/11/09 05:27 PM, michelinman wrote: Sowwy. I put the effort into the post I made at the NGPD. Nothing really malicious about this flash, but if ever there was a time for you to go watch a UJ flash and vote based on its quality, now is it. I think that's fair to say, right?

It includes the "N" word, so you're not wholly off the mark with being wary. However, in its own way it was almost kinda funny, and very near legitimacy. Well, at least the closest Crebz has ever come to "funny", and major progress for someone who, not long ago, was little more than "i wish i were cr0m" combined with what seemed to be a wannabe Anonymous and a few pictures of Kurt Cobain.

At 11/11/09 12:16 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: Hehe... you should change your name to Troll-Finder. It'd make a nice idiot / troll combo addition to the thread! :P

I just happen to have a relatively good memory for spammers, rule-breakers, and trolls at my disposal. And he's in it, with multiple references, including Kitty Krew membership (then again, even I hung out on the KK forums) and submitting two movies a day for about two months to reach the Top 10 Uploaders. Nothing too nasty though, except maybe a large number of Flash about Andrea364. I also happen to remember threads in which I posted rather often, like the one I linked. I'd actually tell FatKidWitAJetPack about this, but he left NG.

At 11/11/09 05:33 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: I'm more interested in this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/51 7661
At the very least, it's borderline racism coupled with a seemingly personal attack on Jamoke. Should this be flagged as unsuitable?

Nah, not unsuitable. Hilarious. And hey, Jamoke even admits he likes fried chicken. See, humor in racism is about context and content. It's a lighthearted jab at a user based on a racial stereotype, not some KKK rant about "LYNCH ALL N****RS!" or anything. Nobody's sending Jamoke out to pick cotton under the threat of a whip, nobody's burning a cross in his yard, nobody's even making him sit at the back of a bus, just having him eat some fried chicken.

At 11/11/09 07:59 AM, TCD2008 wrote: NSMBWII'S super guide?
what about this is by far the worst offender because It says it there to help but if you save your screwed.

Miyamoto-sama innovates gaming, allows Nintendo to survive and even thrive again few years by bringing in a previously-untapped market of potential customers. He now hears the gamers complaining about these new "casuals", about how they're not learning anything about gaming, they're just fucking around and taking a title they do not deserve. He responds with a "Super Guide" system that has the "hardcore" gamers, who play for achievements and bragging rights rather than fun, screaming "BUT THEY NEED TO LEARN IT ON THEIR OWN! THIS IS OUR PASTIME, NOT THEIRS!" (ironic given that these "hardcores" may have been popular or jocks in their day, and their coming was treated the same way by nerds in 1996). And you complain about it being "cheating" and about penalizing players for using it. But you know what? He's Shigeru motherfucking Miyamoto, the man who saved gaming from its own asshole at least twice, with the astonishingly innovative Super Mario Bros. in the early 80s and with the less-"hardcore" more-accessible Wii and DS more recently. That man knows what he's doing, and for fuck's sake, he made The Legend of Zelda. I'm willing to go along with any mad scheme of his just for that, let alone a track record that makes him seem more than human.

At 11/11/09 04:59 AM, MadisonDavenport wrote: Now one thing I have al;ways wondered is... How the hell does the kitty Krew stay on newgrounds? And the clock krew is O.K... The Star Krew has good graphics some of the time... BUT THE KITTY KREW IS COMPLETLY IMMATURE! I just don't understand some of the humor that people have!

Well... Does anyone no of any other really annoying group? Because Tom Fulp deleted 100 of KK's subbmissions BTW (really!)

Sauron, if you're going to be like that, do it with something that I wouldn't recognize in my sleep. I remember WTF Kitty Krew probably as well as you do, or better. Come on, Levon and Fleek do better than that, and they write in such a butchered form of the English language that it takes an expert to decipher their posts!

At 11/11/09 09:13 AM, Sheizenhammer wrote: Just as long as it stays civil, and you know when to quit arguing, I suppose.

Not when he copied and pasted it from at least two different anti-spam threads, one of which I remember rather well, and the other I'm sure I've seen before but I forget where.

I'd seek out the other six, and if someone came to me with $10 million before I found any others I'd sell it, but otherwise I'd find the others and wish for, uh, I'd have to think about the wish.

They already remade OoT for Wii. It's called Twilight Princess.

Heh, just kidding. But OoT and MM should remain as they were, with the same graphics. Playing either of them is so much more than just a "game" to so many people: it's a nostalgic experience, the same as re-watching the old shows you loved as a kid. How do you think people would feel if this or that old cartoon was redone with modern computer-aided effects? I've even read rather mixed reactions to Super Mario All-Stars, the 16-bit rerelease of the NES Mario games. Same with the Xbox remake of Conker's Bad Fur Day. The old graphics are part of what people remember, and to upgrade those graphics would be to shit all over their experiences, to tell them, "Your memories aren't good enough for us." I don't know about the DS either: reduced button count, and the DS is more about the touch-screen gimmick than anything.

Twilight Princess needs its own sequel. The Wind Waker had Phantom Hourglass, Ocarina of Time had Majora's Mask, we need to know what happened to Twilight Princess Link after kicking Ganondorf's ass. And it should be to TP what MM was to OoT: a bit darker, and the world still wouldn't be quite so perfect (though not by any means a "bad" place) even if the villain wasn't around. The Mayor of Ordon Village needs a corrupt political opponent, and the gamers need a different villain. They had a chance to do so much with Zant, but no, Ganondorf was behind him all along, as usual.

I was always the loner, never fitting in with anyone. I had and have more than my share of nerd traits, but most of those nerds wouldn't know a filthy transdikon if one came up and rubbed its giant dick in their faces. Because I am the sworn enemy of the transdikoni, I could never hang out with anyone who couldn't tell the difference between humans and those evil creatures. Thus, I was alone. Always alone.

Even genius scientists in video games seem to do things that seem stupid, no? For example, let's take a trip to the Abstergo laboratories from the original Assassin's Creed. By now we all know that (spoilers) Lucy is with the Assassins, and Abstergo is a Templar front. But if Abstergo is so powerful and has all that knowledge, shouldn't they have done a background check to make sure that Lucy wasn't working with any of their enemies, that she wouldn't be sabotaging the company's/order's goals, before putting her on such a sensitive project and having her play such an important role on the Animus project? It just doesn't make sense to me that an order like the Templars, given that kind of wealth and power, would put a person on a sensitive, highly classified project like the Animus without subjecting her to extensive background checks to ensure that nobody in her family for the last three generations had run into someone in the streets who had ever met a relative of an Assassin. Especially given her habit of questioning about her friend's disappearance, you'd think that the Human Resources department at Abstergo would be looking quite closely at her files and seeing if she had any connections to those opposing the Knights Templar. I hope this shit is resolved in the sequel...

Also in Assassin's Creed, al-Mualim or however it's spelled was always telling Altair to pierce the illusion or whatever, to always seek the truth, while all along he was planning to set up a major illusion with the Piece of Eden. Did he expect Altair to support him? If anyone should have known Altair's intentions, it should have been al-Mualim, and he would have accordingly taught Altair traits less in conflict with his intentions: obedience, for example. Even when those lessons were there, they were always hidden or obscured to both the player and Altair by the "pierce the illusion" stuff.

You'd think the Space Pirates from the Metroid games, having little or no real use for such small tunnels, would stop installing them. They know perfectly well that their enemy Samus can roll up into a ball, and can get into places that she otherwise couldn't by using that ball. It's also shown, in the original Metroid Prime at least, that Space Pirates can build doors on bio-lock to only allow Space Pirates to enter. If they want their facilities to be Samus-proof, they should use more of that and fewer Morph Ball-sized tunnels.

Why does it seem that half of the gaming universe is retarded?

At 11/10/09 04:05 PM, SCTE3 wrote: It's been awhile, comp is back and fully fixed, how are my fellow friends and others of the such? Anywho, got my band together... well almost, still lack a drummer for now, aside from Clock Day, Madness day and those what have a I missed that I should know of?

Once again, Lord Hindol's plot is foiled. Did I tell you before the Dark Lord destroyed your computer? After your part in opposing Hindol's attempts to awaken Dysangol the Chaotic, the Council saw fit to award you the Order of the Spear, First Class. Don't worry, we're holding the Four Keys, and the Harlem Treasure Chamber is secure. Dysangol won't be back anytime soon.

Also, I rediscovered video gaming for the third or fourth time since my NG career began, some people are writing fanfiction and I am considering my own fanfic, the NGPD drama that Lizzardis mentioned, and if any of you remember that first news post I made from back in 2007 (I wouldn't expect that any of you would), here's the follow-up. Oh, and some mods got hacked/phished during the summer because they did some stupid things, but it's all under control now.

You can't beat a fanboy. His immense faith in his system's superiority gives him strength to stand up to any criticism, valid or not, aimed at his console of choice. I should know, I used to be a Nintendo fanboy. Nothing could change my mind about Nintendo superiority until I decided on my own to go outside my comfort zone. Now? Well, I still prefer Nintendo's franchises for the most part, and I honestly don't like the first-person shooter genre or the dull gray-and-brown graphical style inherent in most popular games, but I own a 360 and can see why people like it. Similarly, your fanboy will have to make his own decision to leave fanboyism behind him, you can't do it for him.

At 11/8/09 07:49 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: "This pancreas, it's useless, but the important thing is this: The doctors earn money getting that shit out of your body before it explodes!".

Don't you mean the appendix? I seem to remember hearing that the pancreas did something.

Anyway, this is awesome but rather impractical. Like everyone is saying, the toast would usually end up on the floor until you figured out where it was going to land. Still, this invention is awesome and I'd like to see more appliances use this kind of design where cool becomes more important than practical.

Yeah, they're mostly stereotypes because they have an element of truth. Do all emos cut themselves? No. Is cutting a common enough behavior among emos, at least when compared to its rate among the general population, that it's safer to assume an emo is a cutter than not? Yes. Of course, if a person manages to interest me personally despite being a part of a certain group, I'll get to know them a bit better, but yeah, most people have a stereotype, and most stereotypes have an element of truth.

I was one of the few who didn't fit a stereotype. I wasn't a jock, a prep, an emo, a wigga, a goth, or anything else. Well, except "the loner", who had some "nerd" elements but didn't even fit in with them.

We knew BlueHippo was a madman all along. Most of us just think he's the right kind of madman, friendly and helpful with odd quirks that define him as a raving lunatic. One of the best men on this site, though completely crazy.

At 11/2/09 09:46 PM, huntarus wrote: IMO, Twilight Princess was the spiritual successor to OoT. Both used Epona (for starters), both had a "switching" system, in which you could switch between forms (old/young, Human/wolf), and both were very f***in awesome.

Actually, looking back at the two, they really were the same damn game, only Midna was much cooler than Navi and there was the whole "twilight" thing. Oh, and Zant as a puppet villain. But in the end, Twilight Princess just felt like The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time: Greatest Hits Edition, except with a much shorter name.

Obviously Duke Nukem Forever was "all hype, no deliver", because the developers never even delivered on a game, much less a good one. Mortal Kombat 4 was more the sense OP meant: I had a copy of EGM back in the day with a cover with a 3D model of Raiden on it, but when I played it the game just didn't seem that good, or at least not as good as my precious memories of the first three (which are some of the few cases where the games aren't better remembered than played). Also every new <insert sports game with official license> released is all hype and doesn't deliver anything new on gameplay (only an updated roster), but of course that's as much because the sport doesn't change as anything.

I had a Meowth throw pillow, a few Pokémon shirts, I played the video games, I collected the cards, I watched the show almost religiously every Saturday morning until I started sleeping in on the weekends, I had the first two or three movies plus the Mewtwo Returns or whatever special on VHS, it got to the point where Mewtwo was my imaginary friend until about 2002. Yeah, I was into Pokémon, but I never had one of them. I would have had one, but I could never find one.

The moment the girl who sits next to you in class (you know the one) stops looking like a weird specimen who plays with dolls and starts looking like a masturbation fantasy. Around that same time, Mom and Dad stop seeming quite so cool, and you'd rather be with your friends, or better yet with that girl, than with anyone who can claim a blood relation to you. You make decisions utterly opposed to what you think your parents would make, just to prove your independence. As you grow older from there, you stop making decisions out of teenage rebellion and start making them out of something else, sometimes even common sense. And before you ever think about it, before you know what happened to you, you begin to make decisions the way your parents did, using at least a similar process even if you reach different results. That process, of moving you away from simply clinging to Mom and Dad's ways and then having you rediscover them yourself, that is growing up; when that switches from rebellion to rediscovery, you are an adult.

You may not believe it, but this is a lot of guys' biggest fetish. He's old, experienced, clearly a dominant partner intellectually even if he isn't quite as impressive physically as some others. She's young, probably attractive (by the culture's standards of beauty), and fully under his domination. Ugly dude with probably less than perfect physical form gets hottie + Age disparity that might as well be pedophilia? Throw in a little double penetration involving the new couple and his largest-dicked livestock, you've got the quintessential Internet sick fuck fantasy. I happen to know a website that would love this shit, though I left it long ago.