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tylerh1701 said:
I've showed these off before, right?

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I havn't seen them if you did, but those are friggen awesome. I need to buy those books to reread. Got them from the library on my first go round.
 
I'm also finally getting around to watching Gotham tonight, and just noticed Corey from That's So Raven in the beginning of episode 2. I don't know why I'm excited about this.
 
GatorBeerGeek said:
I can understand that. I loved playing them, and I played them all for free. The arcade I went to sold a bag of 100 tokens for $10. I would buy a bag and then stand by the token machines. Those gave out 4 tokens for $1. I would give people 5 for a $1. I would then use the other 50 to play for the day.

I feel sorry for anyone who likes games and never played X-Men or Ninja Turtles on a 4 player arcade machine with 3 of their friends.
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Your story reminds me of the arcade that was around when I was younger. We lived across the street from a mall that had an Aladdin's Castle so I used to walk there as a kid. I cut my teeth on games like Pole Position, Gauntlet, Hogan's Alley, etc. but years later I remember one day a friend of mine and me both decided that we were going to beat The Simpsons arcade game that day. I had never beaten an arcade game so this was a big deal to me.

We made sure to buy enough tokens so we wouldn't get stuck going back for more (which for us at the time was a considerable investment). We got all the way to the end, literally fighting Mr. Burns, and this shitbag excuse of an employee tells us we can't put any more tokens in because he has to move the machine. We tried explaining to him that we were at the end and also how many tokens we had used to get there, but he wasn't hearing it.

So with that we watched as our last lives slithered away and the countdown to "game over" went unanswered. He unplugged the machine and we trudged off to a few other friends at another game. Five minutes went by and The Simpsons cabinet remained where it was. Fifteen minutes later... still no movement. It eventually became obvious to our young minds that he was simply being a dick and had no intention of moving the machine. More than likely waited for us to get that far in the game on purpose before pulling the rug out from our feet.

So after a week of careful planning, we each got a handful of eggs from my fridge and egged the fuck out his car.

And then we ran like pussies because we were scared shitless we were going to get caught.

 
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TopsideKracker said:
Your story reminds me of the arcade that was around when I was younger. We lived across the street from a mall that had an Aladdin's Castle so I used to walk their as a kid. I cut my teeth on games like Pole Position, Gauntlet, Hogan's Alley, etc. but years later I remember one day a friend of mine and me both decided that we were going to beat The Simpsons arcade game that day.

We made sure to buy enough tokens so we wouldn't get stuck going back for more (which for us at the time was a considerable investment). We got all the way to the end, literally fighting Mr. Burns, and this shitbag excuse of an employee tells us we can't put any more tokens in because he has to move the machine. We tried explaining to him that we were at the end and also how many tokens we had used to get there, but he wasn't hearing it.

So with that we watched as our last lives slithered away and the countdown to "game over" went unanswered. He unplugged the machine and we trudged off to a few other friends at another game. Five minutes went by and The Simpsons cabinet remained where it was. Fifteen minutes later... still no movement. It eventually became obvious to our young minds that he was simply being a dick and had no intention of moving the machine. More than likely waited for us to get that far in the game on purpose before pulling the rug out from our feet.

So after a week of careful planning, we each got a handful of eggs from my fridge and egged the fuck out his car.

And then we ran like pussies because we were scared shitless we were going to get caught.
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What an asshole!

Good for you guys!
 
Zimm108 said:
I havn't seen them if you did, but those are friggen awesome. I need to buy those books to reread. Got them from the library on my first go round.
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Yeah I borrowed them all from my cousin to read, but I'd love to own the collection too. Looks like they're rather pricey on Amazon though.

 
TopsideKracker said:
Your story reminds me of the arcade that was around when I was younger. We lived across the street from a mall that had an Aladdin's Castle so I used to walk their as a kid. I cut my teeth on games like Pole Position, Gauntlet, Hogan's Alley, etc. but years later I remember one day a friend of mine and me both decided that we were going to beat The Simpsons arcade game that day.

We made sure to buy enough tokens so we wouldn't get stuck going back for more (which for us at the time was a considerable investment). We got all the way to the end, literally fighting Mr. Burns, and this shitbag excuse of an employee tells us we can't put any more tokens in because he has to move the machine. We tried explaining to him that we were at the end and also how many tokens we had used to get there, but he wasn't hearing it.

So with that we watched as our last lives slithered away and the countdown to "game over" went unanswered. He unplugged the machine and we trudged off to a few other friends at another game. Five minutes went by and The Simpsons cabinet remained where it was. Fifteen minutes later... still no movement. It eventually became obvious to our young minds that he was simply being a dick and had no intention of moving the machine. More than likely waited for us to get that far in the game on purpose before pulling the rug out from our feet.

So after a week of careful planning, we each got a handful of eggs from my fridge and egged the fuck out his car.

And then we ran like pussies because we were scared shitless we were going to get caught.
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HAHAHA

Great story.

1000 likes.

 
tylerh1701 said:
Yeah I borrowed them all from my cousin to read, but I'd love to own the collection too. Looks like they're rather pricey on Amazon though.
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That box set doesn't look too bad, especially with that poster that comes with it. Damnit. Now I'm thinking about using my gift card for that.
 
Equistina said:
Hows fifa15? (I think that's what you're playing, not the old one right?)
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Havent played it a ton yet (thanks destiny) but its good. Plays slightly different than 14, graphics are a little better.

Only thing pissing me off is how they changed the lineup screen. On previous versions you could hit a button and it would auto change your entire lineup to best one for the current game (basically change out players fatigued). Either took that out or I aint figured out how it works this year. Pain is ass to have to manually change lineup game to game as they STILL aint fixed the damn scheduleing to be fucking realistic (still want to change games and schedule them one or two days apart some times)

But yea, its great.

 
ProfessorStotch said:
Last week I did the hard more fight, and then the whole raid. I only got drops for doing the hard mode finish. The rest of the raid gave me rewards, but when we finished Atheon I got nothing. So either I was extremely lucky, or you can't get rewards twice. I've always heard it's one set of rewards, irregardless of difficulty.
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We might be saying the same thing and I worded it poorly. At each of the hard mode checkpoints you get 2x the rewards if you're doing the raid for the first time. It stacks with normal difficulty. If you do normal first, you can still do hard and get rewards. This is what @cro was asking about.

I believe what you're saying is that you beat Atheon on hard first, and then went back to complete the rest of the hard raid. That would explain why you didn't get any rewards for doing Atheon a second time but got them at the other checkpoints. And, again, the Gorgon chests do not stack (except for the last). That's been my experience, at least.
 
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Thermopyle said:
Went with a buddy to see Dracula Untold. It's actually pretty decent as long as you don't go in expecting a traditional Dracula movie. You know, like a ton of the fucking idiots reviewing it apparently did. Very strongly set up for a sequel and it's already well over budget at the box office (96m to 70m) so there's good reason to expect that to happen.

Still bummed about Dredd not getting a sequel.
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It is an interesting choice that this generation is seeking to turn monsters that were once the villains into the heroes of the story. I wonder what is causing that impulse. Are the perceived problems of the world so great and the system deemed so corrupt that we rally behind "evil" beings of immense power to fight back, fighting fire with fire? The Dracula TV series from last year on NBC was actually pretty good (probably because it is a co-production like Hannibal), and had much the same arc, Dracula as the protagonist of the story.

 
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guardian_owl said:
It is an interesting choice that this generation is seeking to turn monsters that were once the villains into the heroes of the story. I wonder what is causing that impulse. Are the perceived problems of the world so great and the system deemed so corrupt that we rally behind "evil" beings of immense power to fight back, fighting fire with fire? The Dracula TV series from last year on NBC was actually pretty good (probably because it is a co-production like Hannibal), and had much the same arc, Dracula as the protagonist of the story.
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I'd planned to check that out, but never got to it. It did look pretty interesting. Did it end on a decent not or a cliffhanger?

As far as the question of why villains are becoming the heroes...it's probably just to put a spin on things. Offhand I can't think of a recent hero movie that was any good. Having an "evil" protagonist opens up some doors for interesting internal conflict that heroes typically don't have to deal with.

 
TopsideKracker said:
Your story reminds me of the arcade that was around when I was younger. We lived across the street from a mall that had an Aladdin's Castle so I used to walk there as a kid. I cut my teeth on games like Pole Position, Gauntlet, Hogan's Alley, etc. but years later I remember one day a friend of mine and me both decided that we were going to beat The Simpsons arcade game that day. I had never beaten an arcade game so this was a big deal to me.

We made sure to buy enough tokens so we wouldn't get stuck going back for more (which for us at the time was a considerable investment). We got all the way to the end, literally fighting Mr. Burns, and this shitbag excuse of an employee tells us we can't put any more tokens in because he has to move the machine. We tried explaining to him that we were at the end and also how many tokens we had used to get there, but he wasn't hearing it.

So with that we watched as our last lives slithered away and the countdown to "game over" went unanswered. He unplugged the machine and we trudged off to a few other friends at another game. Five minutes went by and The Simpsons cabinet remained where it was. Fifteen minutes later... still no movement. It eventually became obvious to our young minds that he was simply being a dick and had no intention of moving the machine. More than likely waited for us to get that far in the game on purpose before pulling the rug out from our feet.

So after a week of careful planning, we each got a handful of eggs from my fridge and egged the fuck out his car.

And then we ran like pussies because we were scared shitless we were going to get caught.
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Thermopyle said:
I'd planned to check that out, but never got to it. It did look pretty interesting. Did it end on a decent not or a cliffhanger?
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It finished its season long arc while setting up a couple of things that could have been done in season 2. So it is a bit of a cliffhanger, but not a major one so it ended pretty satisfyingly. It's also only 10 episodes so it's not that big of a time commitment.

 
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Thermopyle said:
BTW you guys all HAVE to check this out. Watch the video. Not sure if it'll come to console, but it looks hilarious.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/321110/
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You buried the lead, there is a 15 minute short film about Jesus fighting zombies that I guess this game is based on? I thought it strange that they would have filmed live action scenes for some low-budget indie game trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuKV2Z3eYTY

 
God, now even I am thinking about picking up that Project Diva game for the Vita.

If it was under $10 I probably wouldn't even hesitate. Gonna try the demo and make myself hate it.

 
I wish there was a trophy type between Gold and Platinum only worth slightly more than Gold, "Diamond Tipped" or something. Downloadable games which were not deemed "big" enough for a plat could have instead been given a diamond tipped trophy for 100%ing. I find it harder to care about 100%ing non-plat games as it just adds to the large total of bronze and silver statues, you don't get any sense of final accomplishment. It's the same reason I don't like xbox's gamer score system as much, as you don't know if they have completely 100%ed 10 games which is difficult or just done the low hanging fruit achievements on 30 games which isn't impressive at all, without digging into their achievement profile.

 
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Not Eric said:
God, now even I am thinking about picking up that Project Diva game for the Vita.

If it was under $10 I probably wouldn't even hesitate. Gonna try the demo and make myself hate it.
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Gah. I'd check out the demo but I hate having that crap in my download list. I've got an extra account on my PS3 just for demos, but can't really do that for Vita easily.

 
guardian_owl said:
It is an interesting choice that this generation is seeking to turn monsters that were once the villains into the heroes of the story. I wonder what is causing that impulse. Are the perceived problems of the world so great and the system deemed so corrupt that we rally behind "evil" beings of immense power to fight back, fighting fire with fire? The Dracula TV series from last year on NBC was actually pretty good (probably because it is a co-production like Hannibal), and had much the same arc, Dracula as the protagonist of the story.
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Protagonist != hero.
 
Indeed, his motivations are a bit murkier in the series which is why I thought protagonist was a better label than hero, though he is fighting against something I wouldn't exactly categorize as "good" so maybe anti-hero is closer to the right term.

 
breakfuss said:
We might be saying the same thing and I worded it poorly. At each of the hard mode checkpoints you get 2x the rewards if you're doing the raid for the first time. It stacks with normal difficulty. If you do normal first, you can still do hard and get rewards. This is what @cro was asking about.

I believe what you're saying is that you beat Atheon on hard first, and then went back to complete the rest of the hard raid. That would explain why you didn't get any rewards for doing Atheon a second time but got them at the other checkpoints. And, again, the Gorgon chests do not stack (except for the last). That's been my experience, at least.
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Nope, that's not what I was saying at all. I thought you could only get rewards once, no matter the difficulty. So if I beat it on normal, and then did it on hard I would get nothing from hard. But what you're saying makes sense and now I need to start finding people with a Templar checkpoint on hard each week.
 
Huge mj laugh. Speaking of music, lets all watch this Jewish girl from nyc shake some ass in Just Dance. 

http://www.twitch.tv/snugzmeow

 
Good news, the Best Buy ad has Shadow Warrior $10 gift card this week.  Means I don't have to pre-order it.  Nice.

 
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Oh and i was wrong. Apparently that girl is Catholic. Everyone is callin her fat ass and sayin die to her in the stream. hahahahah

She's in nyc, uh oh. Brb guys :)

 
K, I think Spelunky is straight up scared of me.  Dark Black Market?  Back to back Wet Fur levels?  Severely depriving me of bombs?  C'mon game, give me a decent chance!

Anyways, made it back to hell and fucked Vlad up with a bomb and got his cape and amulet.  So got the "Seen it all" trophy.  Still need one random character (which sucks) and I'll probably start on the $500,000 trophy.

I haven't read any guides or anything, but any tips for the $500K trophy?

 
tylerh1701 said:
K, I think Spelunky is straight up scared of me. Dark Black Market? Back to back Wet Fur levels? Severely depriving me of bombs? C'mon game, give me a decent chance!

Anyways, made it back to hell and fucked Vlad up with a bomb and got his cape and amulet. So got the "Seen it all" trophy. Still need one random character (which sucks) and I'll probably start on the $500,000 trophy.

I haven't read any guides or anything, but any tips for the $500K trophy?
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Probably get as much gold and stuff as possible.
 
tylerh1701 said:
K, I think Spelunky is straight up scared of me. Dark Black Market? Back to back Wet Fur levels? Severely depriving me of bombs? C'mon game, give me a decent chance!

Anyways, made it back to hell and fucked Vlad up with a bomb and got his cape and amulet. So got the "Seen it all" trophy. Still need one random character (which sucks) and I'll probably start on the $500,000 trophy.

I haven't read any guides or anything, but any tips for the $500K trophy?
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Short cuts are good for the random characters.

I don't remember exactly what I did for $500K but I watched a couple videos and combined strategies. I think I used the ghost on worlds 1 and 3. Spend the level making an easy to maneuver path circling the level and lead the ghost around. Also work on going to City of Gold. I got my trophy while in the City of Gold.
 
If u can find a better stream tyler, then go ahead

Did not realize that girl playin Diabro was speaking French, srry. lol

Another hot girl playing Hearthstone, srry.

http://www.twitch.tv/katgunn

 
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