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At 11/23/09 12:37 AM, BrianEtrius wrote: That's why you're special. In your own way.

If you're going to do the politically correct thing and call me "special," just go ahead and call me Special Fred, all right? ;-D

I know that the whole "Giant Amoeba" thing isn't near as cool sounding as slaying a giant dragon or killing a dark wizard would be in World of Warcraft, but... I had fun, and made quite a bit of in-game cash off the experience.

At 11/23/09 11:58 AM, Ravariel wrote: See, Pro... that's how you kill a conversation! ;-)

Please, I mastered the art of killing a conversation long before you ever signed up for an account.

But, here's a size comparison for people, just to give you an idea of how large this thing is.

Dammit... forgot the picture.

At 11/23/09 07:39 PM, Proteas wrote:

I know that the whole "Giant Amoeba" thing isn't near as cool sounding as slaying a giant dragon or killing a dark wizard would be in World of Warcraft, but... I had fun, and made quite a bit of in-game cash off the experience.

Actually my savored video game memories of the last week have been playing the sims, where the activities vary from"explore the cursed tomb" to "stomp the grapes for wine" and super dodgeball brawlers. The latter being a ds port of an nes rental I never counted on seeing again. Basically it's river city ransom characters playing dodgeball. It's awesome.

At 11/23/09 08:18 PM, stafffighter wrote: Basically it's river city ransom characters playing dodgeball. It's awesome.

See? I knew I was in the company of nerds.

At 11/23/09 02:41 PM, Tri-Nitro-Toluene wrote: I'M NOT DEAD!

;;;
Me either !
& my hangovers gone ;p
Nice to hear your still breathing.

HAI GUIZ!!!!

I have a Stone Temple Pilots rig & show tomorrow.

At 11/23/09 07:41 PM, Proteas wrote: Dammit... forgot the picture.

;;;
Oh, Shit !
That's such a distant shot..the mustache could still be there, I just can 't see it because of resolution problems !

I feel 'just the fool' ;p

At 11/23/09 06:04 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: I just got probated until the 25th on Something Awful. If anyone here ever thinks the NG mods are unfair and arbitrary, sign yourself up for an account over there.

I must disagree wholeheartedly with this statement! We have a reputation to uphold here, skunky! You insult us so. We try so hard and this is the thanks we get?

tri - take up history or government or political science. I've only got 1 semester to go and I'm taking an extra course and am still finding more than enough time to play video games and mess around on the internet, and I'm taking 4 upper level courses this semester.

Hamidon. pfft. all you need is a fat kid or two and tell em its Jello.

At 11/23/09 11:29 PM, Korriken wrote: Hamidon. pfft. all you need is a fat kid or two and tell em its Jello.

I just thought back to the when "3rd Rock from the Sun" was on and each of the main characters would turn to hysterics every time they saw Jello, thinking it some kind of man-eating slime creature from back home. Yeah.... Jello that can just about 1-shot you if you aren't careful. XD

At 11/22/09 08:49 PM, Proteas wrote: I did my first Hamidon Raid tonight. It went quickly and smoothly, all done in about an hour, a LOT better than the villain side Hami-raid we did last night which shall heretofore never be spoke of again.

Maybe I'm just stuck in the point-and-click era of 1990s gaming... but I'm assuming defeating that monster would be similar in strategy as exemplified in South Park.

At 11/24/09 12:45 PM, fli wrote:

At 11/22/09 08:49 PM, Proteas wrote: I did my first Hamidon Raid tonight. It went quickly and smoothly, all done in about an hour, a LOT better than the villain side Hami-raid we did last night which shall heretofore never be spoke of again.

Maybe I'm just stuck in the point-and-click era of 1990s gaming... but I'm assuming defeating that monster would be similar in strategy as exemplified in South Park.

Actually a lot of these games try to get away from that by having different actions that help at certain times and area of effect attacks that you have to move your character out of the way of. There's one boss in WoW who uses a blinding spell and all you have to do to avoid it is turn your character so it's not facing him when it happens.

At 11/24/09 06:15 PM, stafffighter wrote: Actually a lot of these games try to get away from that by having different actions that help at certain times and area of effect attacks that you have to move your character out of the way of. There's one boss in WoW who uses a blinding spell and all you have to do to avoid it is turn your character so it's not facing him when it happens.

Pretty much. Hamidon will spawn separate little electrolyte and mitochondria critters that serve the purpose offense and defense (those little yellow and blue dots inside the protoplasm) that you have to take out first before you can take out the core. I was on the team of strict offense taking out the yellow electrolytes first, then a separate team of people with ranged freeze/hold attacks weakened the blue mitochondria enough to be attacked, then when those two teams of critters went down everyone ganged up attacked the Hamidon Core. Being inside the protoplasm itself slows your movement and makes you more susceptible to it's attacks unless you have a certain rare power-boost item.

HOWEVER... when the Hamidon gets down to 75% health, it hits a Personal-Battle-Area-of-Effect attack that can one-shot everyone in range, so each team has one member who will quickly run to another part of the zone and teleport the whole team to safety (and ressurect the unfortunate ones). The Hamidon regenerates it's health, re-spawns it's defensive critters, and then you start the whole wave over again. You do it a total of 4 times (once at 75%, once at 50%, once at 25%, and then the final which is the kill shot).

Each wave took us about 15 minutes. This was after we went through the zone taking out about a dozen giant monsters of the Devouring Earth faction (like that Crystal Titan on the far right of that lineup picture), which we had to do in order for Hamidon spawn AND get that rare power-boost item. The Villain-side Hami-raid I did had 35 players, and it would take us a minute or two tops to take one out, the Hero-side Hami-raid I did had a full 50 players and we were taking those things out in 10 seconds or less.

Like I said; fun was had by all, and serious coin was made on my part. :-3

The #1 thing to remember about being funny.... you can't truly be funny until you can laugh at yourself.

At 11/24/09 08:18 PM, Proteas wrote: The #1 thing to remember about being funny.... you can't truly be funny until you can laugh at yourself.

That reminds me of an ad for D&D I saw once. It said that if you're going to spend your night in a basement pretending to be an elf you might as well do it with real people. It's funny because it's true.

At 11/24/09 08:46 PM, stafffighter wrote: It's funny because it's true.

It's even funnier because of the irony; here's the ad, and here's The D&D Online MMORPG.

You don't even have to be a gamer to see how dumb that is.

At 11/24/09 09:06 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 11/24/09 08:46 PM, stafffighter wrote: It's funny because it's true.

It's even funnier because of the irony; here's the ad, and here's The D&D Online MMORPG.

You don't even have to be a gamer to see how dumb that is.

Not saying there isn't a level of cheap moneymaking in that but seeing as every fantacy based game owes heavily to D&D I'd argue they have a right to it.

My head hurts with these gaming terms...
The oldest game that I played was the Final Fantasy XII. and that came out in ... 2007? Otherwise, I play my old games ad naseum.

I may buy the new super mario brothers for the wii...

At 11/25/09 03:46 AM, fli wrote: My head hurts with these gaming terms...

I'm not trying to be exlcusionary in all this, so I'll explain.

MMORPG = Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game, namely something like World of Warcraft or City of Heroes/Villains. Dungeons and Dragons is a largely pen and paper based role-playing-game which involves actual physical interaction with people, and that advertisement was aimed at poking fun at people who play games like WOW or CoH.

The irony of course being that Dungeons and Dragons now has a free online MMORPG.

The oldest game that I played was the Final Fantasy XII. and that came out in ... 2007? Otherwise, I play my old games ad naseum.

I understand. I can't play many games because of the way they set up the camera... first person view like Doom? Forget it, I get motion sick in a heart-beat. I have issues with my own game with the third-person-view camera if it whips around to quick as well.

So I hang around to my old games from the SNES days as well. I've gotten my characters up to Level 60 on Chrono Trigger and seen Samus Aran in her Bikini as well. :-D

I may buy the new super mario brothers for the wii...

You mean that Winter Olympics game?

At 11/25/09 06:48 AM, Proteas wrote:

The oldest game that I played was the Final Fantasy XII. and that came out in ... 2007? Otherwise, I play my old games ad naseum.

I understand. I can't play many games because of the way they set up the camera... first person view like Doom? Forget it, I get motion sick in a heart-beat. I have issues with my own game with the third-person-view camera if it whips around to quick as well.

I don´t get sick too often from things like that, on the contrary I tend to prefer first person view in a lot of games in which it seems suited. Morrowind, for example. Somehow, I seem to make the controls to respond infinitely better in first person.

Wonder what´s up with that.

So I hang around to my old games from the SNES days as well. I've gotten my characters up to Level 60 on Chrono Trigger and seen Samus Aran in her Bikini as well. :-D

Ace. Should´ve done that back when I still had an SNES.

I may buy the new super mario brothers for the wii...

You mean that Winter Olympics game?

Nah, I think he means a game called New Super Mario Brothers Wii or something like that. New Super Mario Brothers was initially a DS game, but they did some funky stuff with it and made a Wii version. It´s quite different, with all new bosses and a nifty special feature.

I´m waiting for Metroid: Other M on the other hand, seeing as NSMBW seems a bit more focused on multiplayer, which isn´t really that much of a big deal for me. I don´t have enough controls, OR enough friends.

I wonder how a side B`M`UP with Samus will look like...

At 11/25/09 09:58 AM, zephiran wrote: Ace. Should´ve done that back when I still had an SNES.

I'm trying to find that particular picture of Samus from the SNES... you have to beat the whole game in under 4 hours in order to see her swedish blond-locked glory. But it's not the zero-suit like in SSB, it's this black singlet/haltert-top thing.

But I got rather distracted and side tracked by this guy named Reiq and his depiction of Samus in her Zero-Suit...

I wonder how a side B`M`UP with Samus will look like...

b.m.... what?

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Okay. Enough gamer talk. This lounge needs moar PENIS.

all the indians and all the pilgrims were sitting around on the first thanksgiving. an indian looks to a pilgrim and says, "In the future, your descendants will exploit this occasion as an excuse to get drunk, gorge themselves on food, and play grabass football in the back yard.

how right he was.

I pulled my turkey out of the fridge a couple of hours ago to refresh the rub and discovered that it was still quite frozen :( After a couple of hours in a warm water bath, it seems to be in good shape.

Am I alone in thinking it looks like a Rorschach test?

At 11/25/09 08:27 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: The speckles remind me of a Silent Hill creature...

Yeah, doesn't look appetizing at all. That's brown sugar. Once you put the plastic wrap on it starts to ooze a little and gives full coverage, but when you pat it in place at first it sticks unevenly.

Also complete: mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole. Mom's bringing the pie and spare chairs!

At 11/25/09 08:07 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Am I alone in thinking it looks like a Rorschach test?

Rorschach? I thought it looked like a widdle fwuffy bunny. :-D

Also; Chainmail made with hardware store split washers. I made a short length of this using stainless steel lock washers, but... that guy has me beat.

At 11/25/09 08:36 PM, Proteas wrote:

Also; Chainmail made with hardware store split washers.

and that's what you'll eb wearing tommorow incase the turkeys make a break for it.

christ i'm not sick any more but my notion of hot and cold still aren't back to normal.
well at least theres turkey and metal in here.

At 11/25/09 09:24 PM, stafffighter wrote: and that's what you'll eb wearing tommorow incase the turkeys make a break for it.

Nah. Those are galvanized washers, rich with poisonous zinc to prevent rust. If I do anything, I'll probably load up a deer slug and snipe the stupid bird, or get out a sword and take it's head Highlander style.

I'm not buying those 3" 00 Buckshot Magnum shells ever again, though. The recoil on them is pure hell, they're expensive (even by shotgun shell standards), and it's my understanding that they are actually illegal to hunt with in my state... so they have no practical purpose besides home defense, and I've got deer slugs for that purpose.

Plus, the whole shoulder numbing pain of firing them left me with a big honkin' bruise on my shoulder. :-(

At 11/25/09 09:53 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: My family tends to think injury is funny.

I have never understood how falling = funny.