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Nintendo Gaming / Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam confirmed for Rev

« on: April 20, 2006, 10:47:03 PM »

According to the latest issue of Nintendo Power. Not that exciting, but using the revmote for tricks could be interesting. Hopefully the game will be out at launch.

edit: linkification  

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Nintendo Gaming / April 20th-aton!

« on: April 19, 2006, 08:10:45 PM »

Discuss.

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General Chat / Disney kills again

« on: April 13, 2006, 10:08:36 PM »

"Woman dies after ride at Disney World"

For the second time, someone's fallen ill while riding mission space, and then died later in the hospital. (Although according to the article, the first death was later thought to be related to a rare heart condition.)

This is in addition to the man who died when Thunder Mountain in Disneyland crashed, and the man who died when a piece of a boat came flying off and hit him.

It's...hard to put this into perspective. On the one hand, there's the argument that, statistically, Disney is pretty safe. On the other hand, until recently, deaths at Disney were NEVER, ever the result of negligence on the part of the company...and now we have, what, four deaths and more injuries in 7 years? Imagine if Nintendo killed an average of one person every two years.

edit: and the ride's been reopened. After determining it's operating normally. I don't suppose the thought's occured that the ride's normal operation, you know, kills people, and should maybe be stopped?

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NWR Forums Discord / stay away from were-rabbits

« on: April 10, 2006, 09:37:18 PM »

link

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Grower Jeff Smith, 63, said: "This is no ordinary rabbit. We are dealing with a monster.

"It is absolutely massive. I have seen its prints and they are huge, bigger than a deer. It is a brute of a thing."

Mr Smith, who has kept an allotment for 25 years, added: "We have two lads here with guns who are trying to shoot it, but it is clever.

"They never see it. There were big rabbits in the 1950s and 1960s before pesticides were introduced, but not like this."

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The ravenous giant rabbit, named after the famed Wallace and Gromit character, is reported to have ripped up dozens of prize-winning leeks and turnips.

[Ty]

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NWR Forums Discord / Mafia IV: The Grand Finale

« on: April 09, 2006, 08:46:46 PM »

Mayor Bloomershelaiplarestian was walking home, chuckling to himself, when a ghostly figure jumped out and scared him into running right into an oncomming UGO.
The mayor got up, brushed himself off, and looked down at his mangled corpse.
The ghost of Bill Aurion approached him. "Sorry, I needed to exact my revenge without actually being liable for your death."
"Wait, what?" asked the mayor.
Bill Aurion gave him his best puppy-dog eyes as the ghost of the mayor was dragged away by weird cartoonish blobs.

***

Jack Thompson stepped out of his UGO and gasped in shock.

***

Pryopizm, walking in the woods with Ty, stepped on something.
“What is it?” asked Ty.
“I don’t know,” said Pryo. “Some kind of bioluminescent mushroom.”

***

Ken Katarugi sipped his tea, quietly. As soon as all of this got out, he would be demoted again for sure.

***

The three werewolves made their move.

***

A loose plot thread wandered off into the woods, never to be seen or heard from again. No one really seemed to care.

***

“If you want Pryo, you’ll have to get through me!” screamed Ty.
“Who said anything about wanting pryo?” asked the werewolf king.
Ty looked at the three werewolves in horror. “What…me? Are you kidding? I OWN this town!” Being the skilled doctor that he was, Ty slipped off his backback and began unzipping it with one fell swoop of his right hand. But before he could get to the wolfsbane, the backback was knocked out of his hand.
"Oh."
Pryopizm, knowing there was nothing he could do, walked away sadly as the werewolves ripped into Ty's flesh.

***

The three werewolves looked around Ty’s famed Funhouse.
“This place is good,” said the king. "This will make an excellent new hideout. Lots of space…”
A stripper approached them. “Excuse me honeys, what the hell? We aren’t open yet.”
“Free food…”

***

Jack Thompson began a speech in the town square. "Excuse, please. Pietriot act provision 1234.78"
A nearby citizen got out and flipped through his pocket pietriot act. "1234.78...Each day must begin with a novel's worth of introductory text..."
Jack frowned. "No, no. Maybe point seven nine."
The citizen read. "In the event of the death of the mayor, the person with the most law experience shall take his place." He looked up. "Oh. Crap."
Thompson smiled. "Jack Thompson save town yet."  

[TVMan]

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NWR Forums Discord / Mafia IV: Day Five

« on: April 08, 2006, 10:01:28 PM »

IceCold, the head of the secret police, walked into the mayor’s office. The naked mayor, and the naked vampire he was with, turned in shock.
“Oh, uh..” began IceCold. “I, uh, just came to tell you I killed TVMan as ordered. Turns out he was just a townie.”
The mayor (an exceedingly unpleasant sight) forced a smile as he walked back to his desk. “Very good, IceCold, my dear vigilante.” He pulled a gun out of the drawer. “But you’ll understand when I say your services will no longer be required.”
Bang.

***

The vampire, meanwhile, slipped on his leather and cape, and vanished into a moonbeam. When he reappeared at the foot of Castle Fantabulous, he was shocked to see, on the castle’s tallest spire, a hooded figure struggling against three pairs of bright red eyes.
“My King!” he screamed. But, by the time he reached Pale, it was far too late.
“O king of the vampires,” he said tearfully, holding Pale’s bloody head in his hands. “I love you. Platonically, of course.”
Pale coughed. “I love you, too. Platonically.” He looked down at the place where his stomach once was. “It’s all up to you, now.”  

[Sir Stabby’s]

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NWR Forums Discord / Mafia IV: Day Four

« on: April 08, 2006, 02:41:40 AM »

By the light of the full moon, Iwamatsu practiced with his blade. He had time. There was no way the kings of both the vampires and the werewolves would learn his name and perform the ritual of ghost destruction on the same night.

***

Sir Stabby’s knighting ceremony had run late. As the newly-knighted townie walked home, it was far too dark for his taste. And to make matters worse, he was sure he could hear a second set of footsteps. But when he stopped, they stopped. And when he looked back… darkness.

…Just to be safe, he ducked into a dark alley.

…Only now, the echoing sound of footsteps was clearer than ever. Stabby stopped. They didn’t.

Click. Click. Click.

Stabby looked back. Nothing. The footsteps stopped. He drew a sigh of relief, and continued walking.

…Straight into the hooded, smiling figure of a vampire.

Oh.  

[vigilante]

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NWR Forums Discord / Mafia IV: Day Three

« on: April 06, 2006, 11:02:21 PM »

By the light of the full moon, the vigilante crept towards Iwamatsu’s house stealthily, tactfully, hungrily. Blood would be spilt.
A twig cracked. The vigilante whirled. A growling werewolf, with glistening red eyes and white slobber, stood there, staring.
“W-What are you doing here?”
The werewolf wasn't pleased. “What I am doing here? What are you doing here?”
“I’m, uh, here to kill Iwamatsu,” said the vigilante.
“What? I’m here to kill Iwamatsu!”
“Oh,” said the vigilante. “Why, uh, are you wearing a cardboard Buger King Crown?”
The werewolf touched it self consciously. “Because. I’m King. King of the werewolves”
“Okay then.”
Awkard silence.
“On three then?” asked the werewolf.
The vigilante fingered the countdown. The two of them charged.

Two minutes later, the two of them walked back out of the house.
"Well, this is awkward," said the vigilante.
"Tell me about it," said the werewolf.    

[Vudu]

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NWR Forums Discord / Mafia IV: Day Two

« on: April 05, 2006, 10:39:28 PM »

In a dark corner of the Wheresville woods, Vudu laughed in a pool of his own blood. The Mushroom’s Assassin had been taken out by a human vigilante.

***

UncleBob awoke at 3 in the morning. He fumbled for a light.
Click.
There was an oily-chested man lying in the bed next to him.
“Hello,” said UncleBob, his face as blank as his avatar.
The man barred his fangs.
“Oh.”
Another townie bit the dust.
 

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NWR Forums Discord / sonic + tails

« on: April 05, 2006, 10:17:09 PM »

Why didn't anyone tell me they had this kind of relationship?

(I'm scarred for life now.)

[Kirby]

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NWR Forums Discord / Mafia IV: Day One

« on: April 05, 2006, 12:18:54 AM »

Wheresville, Transylvania wasn’t a very pleasant place to live, thought Mayor Bloomershelaiplarestian as he walked the cobbled streets. It was a cluster of homes and shops on a hill surrounded by woods... filled with heavy winds, dark alleyways, centuries old buildings in horrific disrepair, and the metric system. And now with these mysterious disappearances, there was a very real chance the town would be named as one of Time magazine’s ‘50 worst places to live’ for the second year in a row. And that couldn’t be allowed to happen.

The mayor knew the PIEtriot Act had to be passed. But, in order for that to happen, there needed to be proof that the disappearances were actually caused by vampires and werewolves, and not just people running away to Norway. There was only one thing that made sense: the mayor had to kill the next person to walk by, stab his neck with fake teeth marks, rip open his stomach, and eat his innards.

...The next person to walk by was Kirby.

Which would’ve been fine, except, as the mayor raised his blood soaked face, he saw Bill Aurion had witnessed the entire event...and the mayor was forced to strangle him with Kirby’s intestine. By the time Breakyboy and Degeullo were sliced open with Bill’s teeth, the mayor was starting to see the folly of killing Kirby on a well-trafficked street. Fortunately, breaky-boy carried a pistol, and the dispatching of PIAC, SS4, Bloodworth and Infernal Monkey was fairly quick.

The PIEtriot act passed with flying colors. Mayor Bloomershelaiplarestian was named official judge, jury, and executioner for the Town of Wheresville.

“Ladies and gentlemen,” the mayor shouted, the pink light of early sun illuminating the cobblestones where seven bloody bodies once laid. “Though the PIEtriot act dictates I can kill whomever I please, this isn’t the middle ages. I would never kill a Wheresville citizen without due process.”

“Then why do you need the powers the PIEtriot acts provides?” asked KnowsNothing.

The mayor shot him. “UNLESS, they unpietriotically question the law, me, or my motives.” He grinned. “The vampires and werewolves will be eliminated. Every day, you will vote for who you suspect. And every night, the loser of the vote will be declared guilty, killed, and then hanged in the public square as an example. Voting begins now.”      

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General Chat / Don't try Super Mario Bros in real life

« on: April 02, 2006, 08:44:11 PM »

You may have heard of a capaign of sorts to get people to make super mario bros. boxes, fill them with powerups, and hang them in public places.

Well, 2 girls tried it, and are now facing possible criminal charges for nefariously placing suspicious packages around town.

There's no way I'm not making and placing some mario boxes myself now.

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Nintendo Gaming / Revolution's Last Secret Revealed

« on: March 31, 2006, 10:35:28 PM »

say videogame experts.

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NWR Forums Discord / Mafia IV has been cancelled

« on: March 31, 2006, 10:23:56 PM »

and also should be recognized as being much better than that other guy. You know the one.

All in agreement with this proposal speek now.  

[The Players:]

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NWR Forums Discord / Mafia IV: Mushroom's Assassin players, roles, rules

« on: March 30, 2006, 09:11:25 PM »

The Players:

--Not Dead:--
Blackfootsteps, werewolf, the fighter
BlackNMild, king of the werewolves
Mario, werewolf, the moonster
MysticGohan, Reinfeld

--Dead:--
Pryopizm, the ghost of Iwamatsu, death by werewolf
Dasmos, death by werewolf
Hostile Creation. the seer, death by werewolf
MaryJane, the sweet transvestite, death by vote
Ty, the good doctor, death by werewolf
ShyGuy, vampire, pretendor, death by vote
Pale, king of the vampires, death by werewolf
IceCold, vigilante, death by mayor Bloomershelaiplarestian
TVMan, death by vigilante
TYP, vampire, the giver, death by vote
Sir Stabby, death by vampire
Toruresu, death by vote
Animecyberrat, death by vote
Uncle Bob, death by vampire
Vudu, mushroom's assassin, death by vigilante
Stevey, death by vote

The Rules:

Before the game begins, you may be pmed with one of many secret roles, which are outlined below. If you have a role, actions are performed by pming me with what you want to do.

Every game day, everyone in the game can vote for who they suspect to be either werewolf or vampire. Everyone can (and should) vote, including those with roles. At the end of every game day, the person who looses the vote is killed in-game.

When someone is killed, their role is revealed and that person is no longer allowed to post in mafia threads or participate in the game.

Although voting is voluntary, participation is not. Failure to post within a 2-day timeframe may result in in-game death.

Game begins Wednesday, April 5th. Each game day will generally last from early in the morning to midnight EST. The game is over when either: all the bad guys are killed, the number of vampires or werewolves outnumbers the other players, or there is only one player left standing.

The annoying introductory text:

Things had been getting far too ridiculous lately, the waitress thought as she adjusted her breasts. Mysterious disappearances were one thing, but handsome American tourists were quite the other.

He was sitting by the large window, his powdery hair glinting in the light of the full moon. “Here’s your coffee, sir,” said the waitress, in as seductive a manner as possible. She set the coffee down. “Anything with that…sugar?”

The American got out his American-to-Transylvanian dictionary and flipped through it. “Ah…no. Coffee…black….as…..’Rockstar’…employee soul.” He chuckled at his joke. “And….don’t call me….sugar.”

The waitress nodded confusedly. “‘Rockstar’?” She thought. “Ah! Like Marilyn Manson.”

The man nodded. “Exactly.”

A wolf howled in the distance.

The waitress nervously turned back to the conversation. “So. what brings you to Wheresville?”

The American grinned. “My Name is Jack Thompson. And I’m…” he flipped through his dictionary again, “save town.”

“We don’t need saving,” a long haired man sitting in the table opposite growled. “We have the incredibly handsome and talented seer on our side..."              

[Wheresville, Transylvania]

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NWR Forums Discord / Mafia IV: The Mafia Horror Picture Show

« on: March 26, 2006, 08:17:05 PM »

The boy approached the bioluminescent mushroom.
“What do you see?” asked the boy.
“Blood. Murder. Betrayal. The feasting on man’s flesh as they approach the dark twilight of their last remaining days on earth,” said the mushroom.
The boy smiled. “Sounds like fun. What do you will of me?”
The bioluminescent mushroom twinkled in thought. “Things are progressing far too slowly. We need help.”
The boy frowned. “I’ve been killing several people a day. Yesterday I killed five!”
“You’ve been doing an excellent job," The mushroom said, reasuringly. "But time is running out. I’m the only one who can turn you back into a mushroom. And when that happens, do you want to become a…a pizza topping?”
The boy looked at his feet. “No.”
“Of course not. I only have several hundred years left. And you are already 17 of their years old. We need help.”
“What should I do?”
The mushroom turned slightly blue in relief. “Are you aware of this thing the humans call…mafia?”
“Yes,” the boy said.
“Good. We’ll need their help to set up a meeting with Ken Kutaragi.”
The boy gave a faint smile. “Tell me what to do.”

The mushroom chuckled to himself. He wasn't chuckling because the impending slaughter of the citizens of Wheresville, Transylvania was funny. Though it was. He was chuckling because the humans would blame their most horrible misfortune on the vampires and werewolves...when the real culprits would, as always, be the humans themselves.

I’ve been given the go-ahead by Pryopizm. Game starts the Wednesday after next (April 5). Sign up in this thread before Monday.        

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General Gaming / what if the ps3-mote was revealed at E3?

« on: March 22, 2006, 09:45:03 PM »

From GameStop:

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Harrison then said that "the PS3 controller will be revealed at E3." (Emphasis added.) Though he would not elaborate, his comments appear to imply that the PS3 controller has been redesigned, as some sites have reported. When asked for clarification, a Sony rep would only say, "To date the PS3 controller shown has been a prototype. I can confirm that Phil stated the final PS3 controller will be at E3."

So. Serious question. What if Sony comes out at e3 with a revmote-alike. I know this has been discussed before, but the conclusion has generally been that Sony either couldn't get around Nintendo's patents or they couldn't make one in time or they couldn't get Nintendo's radical design to gel with the traditional dual shock design.

...But let's assume they can. Let's assume that the ps3 will come out around the same time as the rev this holiday season, and let's assume they have a good revmote-alike as their primary controller.

What then? Does Nintendo's system, with it's inferior capabilites, fail? Would a better price point (which Nintendo isn't willing to take a loss on, while Sony is) be enough to keep the system afloat? Or would Nintendo come in last place once again?

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NWR Forums Discord / Nintendo Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Shiggy

« on: March 19, 2006, 09:35:38 PM »

This would be more enjoyable if you didn't have to click 2 links to get to it, but I didn't want to exceed the image posting limit by several thousand kilobytes, so.

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General Chat / the new Doctor Who....

« on: March 19, 2006, 06:51:45 PM »

is very good.

It takes what was good about the old series, and then modernizes everything else. In a good way. Like OSX.

Also, the show is very fun. And Christopher Eccl-whatshisname is very good.

You should watch it.

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NWR Forums Discord / Reggie biopic now in theatres

« on: March 17, 2006, 10:00:11 AM »

"I have a bachelor's in kicking butt and taking names."  

[Yea]

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NWR Forums Discord / MAFIA III: The Takeover

« on: March 06, 2006, 11:18:52 PM »

Pryo's unexplained absence has gone on long enough. I put to you that you should vote for a new supreme chancellor of Mafia. Someone with the leadership to see us through to the bloody end. Someone like me.

If you elect me for this task, I will assign new roles to everyone. And then I would fulfill all gamely duties, including receiving kills from the mafia, starting new days, writing intros and outros to each day, etc.

Will you accept this bold new leadership?

Will you, in this month of mayhem, herald in a revolution?

Vote Yea or Nea before 9pm tonight.  

[The players]

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NWR Forums Discord / MAFIA III: Unofficial player's list from NubyTech

« on: March 06, 2006, 02:36:00 PM »

...not really.

The players in the order in which they signed up:

breakyboy - townie
TVMan - townie

People who died (I will update this list as people die):

Toruresu - pirate, death by vote
Deguello - judge and attorney, death by pirate
Mystic Gohan - pirate, hoisted by his own pretard, or something
The Rat - townie, death by vote
Dasmos - ninja, death by pirate.
Infernal Monkey - Judge Wapner, death by vote
Uncle Bob - Storm Snake, death by vote
TYP - Senhor Policia, death by ninja
Ice Cold - ninja, death by pirate
Mary Jane - Iwamatsu the Ronin. death by Seppuku
stevey - Pheonix Wright. death by Iwamatsu the Ronin
ShyGuy - ninja, death by Iwamatsu the Ronin
Bloodworth - Piranha, death by ninja
Ty - pirate, death by vote
KnowsNothing - ninja-pirate, death by pirate
Mario - townie, death by ninja-pirate
Stabby - townie, death by vote
Aurion - Sweet Pete, death by ninja-pirate
Pale - townie, death by ninja
Vudu - townie, death by ninja-pirate
BlackNMild - townie, death by pirate
Wandering - townie, death by vote
Pryopizm - Master of Ceremonies

People who were never a part of the game (I will update this list as transdimensional shifts change the list of players who originally signed up):

kirby        

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NWR Forums Discord / the greatest game of all time is.....

« on: March 04, 2006, 11:07:42 PM »

Final Fantasy X!

Thanks for clearing that up, Japan!

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1. Final Fantasy X (2001)
2. Final Fantasy VII (1997)
3. Dragon Quest III (1988)
4. Dragon Quest VIII (2004)
5. Machi (1998)
6. Final Fantasy IV (1991)
7. Tactics Ogre (1995)
8. Final Fantasy III (1990)
9. Dragon Quest VII (2000)
10. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
....
96. Tetris (Gameboy) (1989)
97. Secret of Mana (1993)
98. Gradius (1986)
99. Super Mario Bros III (1988)
100. Resident Evil IV (PS2) 2005

 

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Nintendo Gaming / Trauma Center on rev

« on: March 04, 2006, 10:43:16 PM »

...and playable at e3.

http://www.4colorrebellion.com/archives/2006/03/04/trauma-center-confirmed-for-revolution/

Woohoo. I assume this is good news, from what I hear of the game. I could never actually find a copy.

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NWR Forums Discord / confirmed: nintendo partnering with apple

« on: March 03, 2006, 09:28:12 PM »

The Mactendo Mini: