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General Chat / RE:Nintendo has started to study customer responses on the Internet!

« on: February 23, 2004, 04:15:36 PM »

My point was good ideas do still come out of fans, albeit rarely, and I admire developers like Denis Dyack that keep in touch with them.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Zelda: Wind Waker was it a let down?

« on: February 23, 2004, 12:19:46 PM »

There's dissension amongst the ranks!

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OoT had big, large and interesting places to explore. What made you actually WANT to explore in WW?

I think Wind Waker had just as many places to explore, they were just farther apart. As for incentive for exploration, I think it comes down to personal opinion. Even though I did get a little tired of sailing everywhere, I voluntarily mapped out every single square in the game- I've been enamoured with the ocean my whole life (I lived on an island for a large part of it), and and if anything I loved Wind Waker's sense of vastness. Personally I wouldn't mind just as much sailing in Wind Waker 2, as long as it has much larger land masses to snoop around, as well.

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General Chat / RE:Anti-Aliasing?

« on: February 23, 2004, 12:13:44 PM »

I don't know for sure, but I think the PS2 is able to do anti-aliasing, it just has some trouble with it and hence most developers will not worry about it. That's just my guess, though.  

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TalkBack / RE:Student Fashions Bomb From Game Boy

« on: February 23, 2004, 10:40:13 AM »

Heh, I didn't read PGC's article at all- I heard it from my friend (the same one that made the joke).

In fact, he probably read it on PGC first- the bastard! Can't even come up with his own bad jokes.  

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TalkBack / RE:Student Fashions Bomb From Game Boy

« on: February 23, 2004, 10:15:33 AM »

I bet he had Bomberman in his Gameboy at the time.





Seriously, though I'm just quoting a friend- I didn't come up with that joke.  

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General Chat / RE:Anti-Aliasing?

« on: February 23, 2004, 10:14:31 AM »

In my opinion, anti-aliasing certainly doesn't hurt, but I'd rather a developer not focus on such minute graphical touches over the actual game. If they have the time I think it's a great effect to have.

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 23, 2004, 02:22:29 AM »

Omen, I understand what the heads of education think- I think they're wrong, hence my argument here.

In any case, we have gotten quite off base with the discussion.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Final Fantasy Rumors

« on: February 22, 2004, 05:31:42 PM »

If you turn off the URL Auto Parse option when you post it doesn't censor words. And unless you're spamming the words with curse words I don't think it really matter all that much.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Zelda: Wind Waker was it a let down?

« on: February 22, 2004, 04:41:34 PM »

I'm not angry, either, like in the sense that I'm going to bomb your house or anything. I just don't see how anyone was content with its level of difficulty. I think if Nintendo had upped the amount of damage Link takes, made the overworld smaller or the islands bigger, and replaced the Rare-esque treasure hunt with some actual dungeons, the game just might have been perfect.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Zelda: Wind Waker was it a let down?

« on: February 22, 2004, 04:00:00 PM »

Ugh, I don't see how anybody could be happy with Wind Waker's level of difficulty- it didn't give me a challenge at all, I never felt like I was in danger. It got boring because I knew I'd never die.

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 22, 2004, 03:58:35 PM »

Perm: Even now I don't really belong to any social class- I guess you could say I'm a gamer, but msot nongamers don't even know what that means. Regardless, I was ranked 16th in my class of 565 students and had a 4.1 gpa last semester.

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 22, 2004, 01:22:22 PM »

I've never been one to be needlessly submissive, Omen, and I see no reason to change now. As for school shootings, just as you can't prove school uniforms don't stop them you can't prove lack of uniforms encourage them, meaning uniforms should never have been introduced at all, going by your logic.  

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 22, 2004, 01:01:48 PM »

Termin8, it's the principle of the matter. How many times do I have to say that to get though to you people? No, a school having uniforms is not going to turn everyone, or really anyone, into a faceless zombie. It's the pretentiousness of the school to think that forcing everyone to look the same will solve any problem whatsoever that pisses me off- it's the motives behind the act combined with the act that I detest so much, not just the act itself.  

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General Gaming / RE:Hey guys check out this new game I got

« on: February 22, 2004, 10:54:54 AM »

Vivaldi's Four Seasons- in my opinion one of the greatest classical compositions ever made.

I had a Vivaldi shirt a while back, but it's too small, now. So is my Tchaikovsky shirt.

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 22, 2004, 10:39:52 AM »

You people are sick.

Especially you, Bill.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Zelda: Wind Waker was it a let down?

« on: February 22, 2004, 10:22:16 AM »

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(And I'll just add that in at least 95% of the cases, the only reason that those pollers like OoT more than WW is because of the graphics, handsdown)

Actually, I'd warrant it would be because Wind Waker became boring having to sail around the gigantic overworld to tiny little specks of island- this was amplified when you not only had to search for the Triforce pieces, but the Triforce charts to -find- the Triforce pieces. The game also didn't challenge you, which left a lot to be desired. Wind Waker is still one of the best games I've ever played, if only for the atmosphere, but I think both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are the better games hands down.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:I'm gonna need a good cheap RF switch for my new cube. Suggestions?

« on: February 22, 2004, 09:31:24 AM »

He would still have to hook the VCR up to the TV with a composite cable, though, meaning not only would he be paying more for the RF adaptor but the picture/sound quality wouldn't be any better.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Nintendo: Out of Gamecubes?

« on: February 22, 2004, 08:42:52 AM »

Only in retrospect- at the time it was the only thing Nintendo could have done.

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TalkBack / RE:Student Fashions Bomb From Game Boy

« on: February 21, 2004, 10:21:31 PM »

I think he used an original Gameboy- from the Gameboy Pocket and onwards I don't think there's enough room inside the machine to really fill with enough gunpowder and whatnot to cause a significant explosion.

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 21, 2004, 10:19:33 PM »

I'm actually not upset at all, I just write better when I'm worked up. It has nothing to do with you.

Even if uniforms make kids calmer, though (I'm really having a hard time believing this), is that really worth the cost of having a tool of self expression taken away? Do we really want kids watered down, as if we're inducing them with a sedative? Again, isn't that just a quick fix to a larger problem? Shouldn't we be trying to teach kids not to act violently or badly by explaining the negatives of such an action, instead of artifically reproducing the effect by forcing them all to look alike? Like I've said, the act in of itself isn't all that bad, but it's the principle of the matter, that schools would not only consider such a course of action, but would actually think it would make any difference at all.

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General Gaming / RE:Hey guys check out this new game I got

« on: February 21, 2004, 09:48:20 PM »

Goddammit, Ty, what's with you and having to look better than us at Bemani games?

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General Gaming / RE:Hey guys check out this new game I got

« on: February 21, 2004, 09:44:45 PM »

Goddammit, Ty, what's with you and having to be better than everyone else at Bemani games?

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 21, 2004, 09:32:51 PM »

How would having uniforms make anyone easier to handle? If my school made us wear uniforms, I wouldn't, and I know many others that would join me. Mandatory uniforms only causes new problems. Making everyone look the same isn't going to solve a damned thing and everyone knows it.

And why should the ability to express yourself be removed simply because you think some people don't use it as they should be? Did you read what I said? I may not agree with what they wear and for what reasons but it's there right to wear it and it would not only be immoral but completely pointless to restrict that right to such a degree as forcing everyone to wear the same thing. Clothes ARE a very important method of self expression- taking it away isn't turning everyone into a robot, no, and if you want to debate semantics, we can- it's the principle of the matter, that a school would actually intervene in a kid's right to wear what he wants simply because it will supposedly lessen how left out  or alienated some people are. They think that making everyone look the same will tear down social barriers, which is complete crap. Should be encouraging kids to express ourself, not forcing them not to. Schools should be teaching us that everyone is different and we should embrace that instead of slapping one image on everyone. It may be easier but it's certainly the worse option. I find it funny that you point to the face in particular as an indication of genetic backround, when the idea that school uniforms operates on would be similar to making everyone the same genetic backround simply to get around our differences- it would be like making black people white instead of teaching people that racism is wrong. The act in of itself isn't a huge deal, no, but like I said, it's the principle of the matter.  

In any case, we're getting sidetracked from the actual discussion at hand.

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 21, 2004, 08:04:20 PM »

I am vehemently against school uniforms- I think it rips a kid's freedom of speech away under the guise that it will remove any social barriers, but what it's really doing is making everyone a facelsss facsimile of eachother. I may not like how many people wear clothes from Abercrombie and Fitch, but it's their choice and I'll fight for their right to make it despite the fact I disagree with it. I'm glad no school I've ever been to has forced me to wear a uniform.  

That's just me, though.

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 21, 2004, 01:04:47 PM »

It's interesting, Berny, that you mention both Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister, since A&B owns Hollister.

In any case, I think you raise a very good point, Berny, although it's not Abercrombie and Fitch alone that is perpetuating such a stereotype that so many kids follow. It's also not A&F's fault that so many people shop there, although it appears they know what kind of power they wield. I still think A&F appeals to younger people for a reason, though- it all goes back to the sheep following the leader of the week I mentioned in my first post. A&F offers a template that kids will invariably follow- it's the younger kids that take such a bold stand against it that really surprise me. That kind of self awareness, that desire to go down your own both, generally doesn't develop until later, which is really the whole point of this ordeal, I guess. Social classes emerge when people get tired of modeling themselves after someone else and branch off from the main group, and from what I remember of 6th grade, most people were perfectly content in trailing in the wake of others.

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Ouch, I feel a shot towards me...

Not directly, no. I actually made the comment to a friend of mine, who's 18. He said where he comes from that's called statutory rape, and I reminded him that I was only 15.