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NWR Forums Discord / Here there be Grump

« on: January 25, 2013, 11:20:26 AM »

Game Grumps is a show where youtube stars Egoraptor (of metal gear awesome fame) and JohnTron play video games and shoot the ****:

and the community for the series is awesome as well, effectively making the gamegrumps a band:

as well as animating moments of the show:

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General Chat / Coursera

« on: August 01, 2012, 01:28:22 PM »

Well it was after watching this recently updated Ted talk:

that i discovered this website called Coursera, its main goal is to bring the university learning experience to your computer for free I recomend that you watch the video because it's a really awesome idea. It got me excited enough to sign up for this course pretty much as soon as the video was over
https://www.coursera.org/course/programming1 (and then write this post)


I've already been Using Khan Academy a similar(ly awesome) website (online learning) but it isn't really structured like a course it seems geared for interested people to learn about certain subjects. So this whole thing isn't new to me, but still i know first hand that Khan Academy is awesome, and i hope that after i use coursera that it'll be even more so. Figured i should take the opportunity to tell you guys about these two websites.

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Nintendo Gaming / PGC e3 2002 dvd?

« on: May 07, 2012, 02:38:11 AM »

With the hype of e3 setting in i was curious about past e3s after some searching i managed to find Nintendo's e3 conferences for 2001-2011 except for 2002 which doesn't seem to exist anywhere. I found 2001's video thanks to that old PGC e3 2001 video and i was hoping if anyone here had the PGC e3 2002 dvd that they could upload for the rest of us. Or maybe if any NWR staff are reading this they could upload their 2002 dvd to their NWR youtube channel like they did for 2001.


anyways im planning on tossing this all together onto a torrent and backing this up for posterity's sake.

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Reader Reviews / How do you use your ratings scale?

« on: November 29, 2011, 08:40:39 PM »

dont you hate how the backspace key doubles as the back key for browsers?
then you lose a post you spent about an hour working on?

so screw that. I'm just going to make a quick version.

post how you use your ratings scale here. I'm curious to see how it differs from person to person yadda, yadda, yadda, words, words, words.

so here's my own personal scale:

10 one of my favourite games of all time/generation
examples: Half-life, Metroid Prime/Super

9 while not an alltime favorite it is worthy of high praise.
examples: Viewtiful Joe

8 worth more than the sum of its parts and/or a great memorable experience
examples: 999, Killer 7, No more heroes 1 & 2, Phoenix Wright

7 a good game
examples: professor layton: unwound future

6 above average but will be hit or miss for most. Or good, but shallow.
examples: Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Metroid other M, Punch-out

5 average, bland but not good/bad
examples: Counter-Strike, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2

4 below average
examples: most 3-d sonic games

3 so bad its good
examples: Custer's revenge, Night Trap

2 I hate this game
examples: Shovelware games i rented in hopes it would be a 3

1 Single Indian Tear
examples: E.T

0propaganda games with malicious intent
but 0 is a theoretical score since I wouldn't actually play those.

Then I started writing about the factors that influence how much i like a game the most but whatever, just pretend there's a good paragraph or two under here.

Long story short its the Story and World/Art Design that influence me most.

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General Chat / Sony anounces...the nintendo ON?

« on: August 31, 2011, 07:19:14 AM »

Sony anounces the "Head Mounted Display Personal 3D Viewer HMZ-T1"

This head mounted 3-d display looks kind of familiar