...Who ****ing cares about grades?
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*hides*
EDIT: haha, Jebbers. I just actually clicked your link and watched the video. Priceless!
Apparently you're a stranger to the feeling of accomplishment. Like the only kid who fails a test in class saying "Who ****ing cares about grades?".
Edit: You've been emblazoned on my signature now, hope you're happy.
I play video games to have fun, not to be a pompous showoff.
I play video games to have fun, not to be a pompous showoff.
I play video games to have fun and to be a pompous showoff. : P
But seriously, saying I'm a pompous dick about my gamerscore is like saying I can't be happy for a highscore I get on Rockband or something. -Oh, I beat CoD4 on Hardcore and I tell everyone about it, now I'm a pompous dick?- I got 1000/1000 points on Assassin's Creed after playing it for well over 30 hours, sucking every hour of value out of that game. Skate and Assassin's Creed are probably in my Top Ten Games of all Time list right now, so I can't be happy when I get an achievement to show off my dedication? Or be amazed that I've skated for over 350 miles? Or how I have many track times on DiRT in the hundreds on the world leaderboards, even one that was in the single digits out of 250,000+ people? I'm working on getting six stars on expert guitar on Rockband in as many songs as I can - I just used a guide for Burnout Paradise so I could jump every superjump so I could get an exclusive car - Collected every single flag in AC - Completed every challenge in Skate. So what if I feel a little like a completionist in some games? I don't see how the way I play my games, how I have fun with them, should matter any bit to you.
Edit - Woohoo, 5,555 posts. :V
Look, I know I came off a bit harsh. I'm not against being proud of gaming accomplishments or achievements in general, but you're just making the whole practice sound like a huge competition when you're really not competing against anyone (unless, of course, you're an actual professional gamer). I apologize for sounding like a jerk, but I still think the practice of showing self accomplishments in the terms of numbers related to a videogame in a forum is a bit obnoxious.
I will bitch slap the next person to continue the argument going on.:¬:
I will bitch slap the next person to continue the argument going on.:¬:
I can bitch slap for 9000pts. Beats your measly 999.
I've just been catching up on some of the old Pink Floyd albums - 'Meddle' and 'Atom Heart Mother'. Prior to that I picked up 'Dark Passion Play' by Nightwish. Nice albums.
On the hardware front I finally got around to hooking up all the PCs at home to a wired network with a new modem/router/firewall (don't trust wireless), so we can all finally get on the net at the same time. Downloaded Ubuntu 7.10 to try that out and my kids like it, along with the bunch of Linux games I downloaded at the same time.
Meanwhile they've both been blasting through the original Jedi Knight game, which brings a smile to my face.
Oh, and I got the entire DVD collection of 'The Saint' starring Roger Moore. Great viewing, with a high nostalgia quotient. 8)
I'm going to my friend's birthday party tonight and I decided this would be the first time I would spend more than $10 on a gift for anyone (lol) - so I plan on trading in like, 11 games at the Gamestop, 5 360 games, 1 XBOX, 1 GC, and 4 PS2 games. I only plan on getting around $50-70 for all of them, maybe less. But they're games I'll never play again (or for 3 of those 4 PS2 games, ever play - this friend gave me these PS2 games, lol). Besides, I'm running out of room for my game tubs.
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But I'm planning on getting two copies of Lost Odyssey - one for him (he's a RPG/J-RPG fan) and one for me.
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I like the shot of the acoustic guitar in the background, as if to show there is a gentle, emotional soul inside of the murderous killing machine that savagely plays all those violent video games.
(I'm watching you, Katamari Damacy!)
I like the shot of the acoustic guitar in the background, as if to show there is a gentle, emotional soul inside of the murderous killing machine that savagely plays all those violent video games.
(I'm watching you, Katamari Damacy!)
That's the one I play on seldomly. But I'm a total novice. Only know a handful of chords, can do a simple pentonic scale and read tabs. My brother is a lot better, he's got a Fender Stratocaster and he's been playing daily for a year now. Though he's not awesome, he knows stuff.
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Neighborhood cats and pigeons... beware...
Edit: Well, there was exactly one copy of Lost Odyssey left (to the clerk's surprise, actually - I had to point it out on the display) and I got $52 for my trade-ins. So I paid like $15 for it... Well, at my friend's birthday party I was gonna see if he was expecting presents. But naw, it was just a party, nothing much to it, so I decided to keep it (yeah, I'm greedy, lawl).
But anyway, I've gotten 3 hours into it. So far the one thing I've noticed is that it's got some of the coolest in-game cutscenes I've seen in a game in recent memory. Not for action or anything (MGS2/3/4 and DMC1/2/3/4 pwns in that area) but it's snappy and funny so far. And the voice acting isn't full of "generic anime voice actors" - it's pretty good. There are a lot of loading screens, but not nearly as bad as Mass Effect's elevators. And so far, the characters are pretty interesting.
Kaim is a quiet hard-ass without seeming emo. Seth (the resident spunky girl) seems to be very energetic but isn't annoying like every other characters like her. And Jansen, the funny-man / support character - his lines are really freakin' awesome and his voice acting is pure ****ing gold (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q50FK2rK0BU).
Only annoying this I've found so far is the well delivered but too long short stories that happen around once an hour, which can take 6-10 minutes to read. They're well done and the backgrounds are pretty, and the words move and stuff, but it's hard to stop and read 2 or 3 pages worth of material in the middle of the game, when it essentially doesn't have anything to do with the current game. But that's really just me I guess. And they could have put some lip syncing for the battle taunts.
But so far, I feel like I'll actually get into this game unlike FFXII and DQVIII, which just wanted me to either fall asleep or throw the controller at the wall.
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TK made me read Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund so now I have to find all the other books by Hesse because I liked those two. >:|
I would post a pic, but I feel it unnessecary. I got an old PS1, The Legend of Dragoon, and Rock Band for the 360. Sad part is in 4 days of having Rock Band, I've 5 starred every single song with the guitar on Expert(including bonus tracks and downloaded tracks), and I've gold starred atleast 17, but the actual count eludes me since I'm sitting at work trying not to fall asleep.
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I'm just waiting for Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 now.
I'm just waiting for Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 now.
Me too, that's my game. Out of every 360 game I have ever played, I have probably devoted more time to playing Vegas terrorist hunts online. I only started playing last summer and I am a rank of Major now...
Me and my employees (most of them play Vegas also) are trying franticly to have a midnight launch for that game in my store....problem is, we don't know WHEN it is shipping yet... Good times.
I have not really bought a whole lot of things lately. Game releases have been rather stale, and I am saving money for a down payment on a house. I bought a used network adapter for my 360, used Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End for 360, and used Warhawk for PS3. I used left over store credit to pay for all 3.
Neighborhood cats and pigeons... beware...
That'd probably be a bad idea since I dont have paint ammo quite yet. I have rubber "practice" ammo.
which shoots straight through two cardboard boxes.
I would post a pic, but I feel it unnessecary. I got an old PS1, The Legend of Dragoon, and Rock Band for the 360. Sad part is in 4 days of having Rock Band, I've 5 starred every single song with the guitar on Expert(including bonus tracks and downloaded tracks), and I've gold starred atleast 17, but the actual count eludes me since I'm sitting at work trying not to fall asleep.
Download the Metallica pack, Workingman and Number of the Beast. And maybe Joker and the Thief. Should continue your challenge.
Also, XBL gamer tag much?
shoots straight through two cardboard boxes.
Or one (1) Cat Skull.
Legend of Dragoon = one of my most favorite games ever :x
Download the Metallica pack, Workingman and Number of the Beast. And maybe Joker and the Thief. Should continue your challenge.
Orrrr one could play real guitar instead. :p
Orrrr one could play real guitar instead. :p
Don't say that, unless you want Bongo to play Hide the Pickle with you as his jar. :|
Orrrr one could play real guitar instead. :pI have enough fun yelling at my brother for following that idea with a $450 Stratocaster he bought almost on a whim... he plays at least an hour a day - so he may actually get better after a bit... if he just ****ing stopped playing the god awful tunes of The Pillows (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillows). Seriously, with the entertainment in one area (Computer and 360 + HDTV) with the amp in the other corner really sucks. I'll be playing something or watching some TV show and he'll start playing randomly. Though we did once make the thing sound like a 2-stroke engine one day. :D
Don't say that, unless you want Bongo to play Hide the Chainsaw with you as his toolshed. :|
Fixxor'd.
I have enough fun yelling at my brother for following that idea with a $450 Stratocaster he bought almost on a whim... he plays at least an hour a day - so he may actually get better after a bit... if he just ****ing stopped playing the god awful tunes of The Pillows (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillows).
I counter The Pillows god-awful Jap Pop crap with the exact reason why I believe multiculturalism is a sin against God. (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LosE4e0CRKM)
I play NIGHT PANDAS! (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueqRMUhwSZY)
You, sir, win the internet and my dreams.
Download the Metallica pack, Workingman and Number of the Beast. And maybe Joker and the Thief. Should continue your challenge.
Also, XBL gamer tag much?
Or one (1) Cat Skull.
Yea. Well, I've played them songs before at my buds. Its saved me about $25...
As far as XBL goes, I've had enough reports against my...how shall I say..? Rudeness that I'd really rather not run into some little prick whose gonna get my account suspended. That and I ain't had the internet in some time now (currently on my bosses computer at work). Actually, funny story; I got my friends account in trouble because we were playing GH3 on XBL and in the middle of playing some dude in Cherub Rock (where I was ahead by atleast 150,000 points) I ran out of beer, so I tells the guy "Hold on, I gotta go get another beer," and I got up, put the guitar down, walked to the kitchen, got a beer, walked back, sat down, opened it up, drank a drink, and finally started playing again. Final Score - Me: 421,200+, the guy: 201,000+.
And I got out of the cat skull business. Now I make muffins.
I'm not sayin games like Rockband/GH are pointless cause they are fun sometimes, but when you spend so much time honing your skills in it... well.... wouldnt it be a lot more worthwhile and self-fulfilling to try and get good at real guitar instead?
Its kinda hard to serenade a girl with a guitar that has fret "buttons" :p
Guys, do not turn this into another GH vs real guitar thread. This is your only warning.
On-topic:
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yay for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Just bought tickets to go see Flogging Molly at the House of Blues on March 15!
I'm so f***ing excited :D
It's almost hard to fathom how old this thread is.
Just bought tickets to go see Flogging Molly at the House of Blues on March 15!
I'm so f***ing excited :D
Yea f*** off just cause my town is too small for any good band but RED to come too, and I'm on probation so I can't go to a concert
Yea f*** off just cause my town is too small for any good band but RED to come too, and I'm on probation so I can't go to a concert
Probation meaning that you're grounded, or probation meaning...you killed a man twenty years before and have only recently tasted the sweet nectar of freedom?
Probation meaning that you're grounded, or probation meaning...you killed a man twenty years before and have only recently tasted the sweet nectar of freedom?Probably a combination of the two would be my guess. Mom wasn't happy when he graffitied his victim's tomb stone last week.
That's just the part that was released to the public. You don't want to know the rest :|
Just bought tickets to go see Flogging Molly at the House of Blues on March 15!
I'm so f***ing excited :D
Heh. I saw them last year at Provinssirock.
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Microsoft Zune 30GB.
I was originally going to get an I pod, a couple of years ago, and many members on here had talked me out of it. I had a Creative Jukebox Zen, I got in like 2002. That was a great MP3 player, until I got a new computer with Vista, and the old software would no longer run....nor did Creative make any effort at all to update the software... So I bought a smaller 1GB Zen V. That worked great, but I missed having all of the extra space. I was not going to get a Zune, because I think they are ugly, but where I work I have the advantage of trading in games and DVDs for store credit, where I can purchase anything we sell. We sell Zunes. So I bought this thing entirely with store credit from a pile of 360 games I traded in. I have had this thing for about a week now, and other than it being kind of ugly, I can really find no fault with it. It has a marketplace, which is basically the same thing as I tunes. Low and behold they have a TON of industrial stuff on there that I was never able to find in stores. I get a discount on the points if I buy them at work, and I use those to purchase full albums. I been like a kid in a candy store. Best of all, it also works in my car, so I don't have to have piles of CDs sitting in my passenger seat anymore! I love it!
Alestorm were just confirmed for Wacken 2008. I think this cover-art says enough about how awesome this will be:
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Scottish pirate-metal = pretty sweet.
Alestorm were just confirmed for Wacken 2008. I think this cover-art says enough about how awesome this will be:
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/3747/po1nx3.jpg)
Scottish pirate-metal = pretty sweet.
You are my hero for finding this.
Just got this in the mail from a guy who sold it to me for $14 and $5 shipping. So I got a new $20 game on it's opening day for a dollar less. I think it was only on sale for a hour or so before I bought it.
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And I pre-ordered this:
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And I hear that two other games, Wipeout Pulse and that FF game are pretty good. Good time to be a PSP owner I guess. The hardware of the PSP is still amazing today, it's just that it doesn't have as many games. PSP is much more enjoyable than the DS, I'll say that right now.
Edit: My bro, sister, and I split the cash and got this:
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And my bro got a digital camcorder, one of those flip ones. Takes 720p video that looks pretty damn decent. Only problem is that it's .mov format only (I can work around that) and it can record for over an hour on 2 gigs.
Rock Band for the Xbawx360 TiE?
I just played CoD4:MW Team Deathmatch for 24 hours straight. I went from level 1(Private) to level 38(Lt. Col.) My hands are almost permanently shaped to the PS3 controller. Had to take Ibuprofen for the pain. I haven't gamed this hard in a few years so my hands are weak sauce.
At 11:58 AM - RRoD - It froze in the start of a song. I went "hmm, never froze on Rockband before." And in the back of my mind I had the joke of "wouldn't it be hilarious if it was RRoD?" ****.
20 months and it dies. Oh well. I'm going to try the towel trick - I'll let you know how that goes. I just hope this gets fixed quickly and that they replace the innards only, I have a sweet decal set on it.
Edit: It took around 50 minutes to do, but the towel trick worked!
I just hope this gets fixed quickly and that they replace the innards only, I have a sweet decal set on it.
After my second RRoD, I marked my initials on the back of the Xbox before shipping it off in its coffin. We got back a completely different casing. My initials weren't on the back.
Yeah, I've read stories where people will send in a special 360 with an autograph or something on it and they'll clean them off. So I'm guessing I'll have a 50-50 chance of getting it back with the decals. Not a huge deal, it was $25, though. And took me well over an hour to apply.
Alestorm were just confirmed for Wacken 2008. I think this cover-art says enough about how awesome this will be:
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/3747/po1nx3.jpg)
Scottish pirate-metal = pretty sweet.
I love Pirates, and I love Metal. We should talk about this!
TiE I hope you get your 360 fixed. When you do, we need to do some Rock Band. Download the NIN pack, I have a need to belt out March of The Pigs at the top of my lungs while you drum or jam on the guitar. Should be fun. :)
You know about Running Wild (
http://www.running-wild.net), correct?
That Alestorm stuff is pretty good, I remimber listening to some of their first EPs as Battleheart.
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This is seriously the funnest party game ever. Me and my friends played it last week after drunk bowling and it was just a blast. For most of us here that watch plenty of movies it shouldn't be so bad. It came with 4 controllers and they even threw in all the batteries so that was a plus.
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I also got this reserved and I cant wait to play it when it comes out. Groove's I know you play the first one alot so we should play when it comes out.
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