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Crawl and 1OOO		#21	[-]
Posts: 224 (10/19/08 18:15:21) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The worst are people who try to argue petty semantics about what I call "space shooters" (some people call them shoot-em-ups): R-Type, Gradius, Mars Matrix, Zanac, and, yes, some that don't take place in space, like Lords of Thunder, Dragon Spirit, etc. Someone will always say that Contra is a shoot-em-up "because you shoot". As though the difference between those types of games isn't obvious. Last Edited By: Flying Omelette 10/20/08 02:15:36. Edited 1 times.
Crawl and 1OOO		#22	[-]
Posts: 225 (10/19/08 18:16:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Though at some point, like with music, who gives a shit what genre something is?
CLOUDBOND007		#23	[-]
Posts: 174 (10/19/08 19:03:20) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	If Everquest is anything like WoW and LOTRO, and I think it is, it's almost completely different from the Baldur's Gate games and those like it. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
Crawl and 1OOO		#24	[-]
Posts: 227 (10/20/08 02:07:23) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	From what I remember playing of Phantasy Star Online, I don't even know if I'd call that game an RPG.
Crawl and 1OOO		#25	[-]
Posts: 228 (10/20/08 08:38:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It seems to me like a lot of that pedantic semantic stuff could come down to autistic literal mindedness. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
ACC KAIN		#26	[-]
Posts: 146 (10/20/08 13:01:29) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Or TermiteJr mindedness. "No one can withstand the power of KAIN"
Crawl and 1OOO		#27	[-]
Posts: 229 (10/20/08 13:40:01) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	But I look for patterns across multiple people, and literal mindedness, with an accompanying lack of common sense, is something that is very prevalent on the internet. It's like that, "If you can't precisely define 'art', then you can't call anything art" crap.
ACC KAIN		#28	[-]
Posts: 150 (10/21/08 03:09:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Go right ahead, but be mindful of the blacklist. Oh, thanks BTW. I forgot to respond to that. FO and James are becoming like this powerhouse anti-lamer duo. FO in the Site Tracking Adventures and James in Memory Lane. Sethra righted the "wrong" of the Benji vs. Pero match, and I felt that whole topic was a wrong that needed to be righted. Man, we have changed and grown so much. No way would that guy have gotten let off so easily if I had been back then what I am now. It's too bad that some of the worst "wrongs" at that forum that deserve to be "righted" probably don't exist anymore. "No one can withstand the power of KAIN"
Crawl and 1OOO		#29	[-]
Posts: 233 (10/21/08 05:03:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I still agree with what I said in that topic. (Of course, it's only a year old) What defines an RPG is that you do not directly control your character in real time. Like I said, that describes everything from Dragon Warrior to Final Fantasy 4 to Tactics Ogre to Vagrant Story. It accounts for games with "hidden" menus, like FO talked about. And it describes Dungeons and Dragons! When I was about 3~6 years old, we got a Dungeons and Dragons set. It supposedly went to my sister, but I think it was supposed to be a family thing. My mother spent hours and hours drawing maps for adventures on graph paper. (I'd say she is a hobbyist artist) It was finally time for the three of us to play. My mother was the dungeon master. She said, "You're walking through a dark tunnel." My sister and I got up, and kind of shuffled around, pretending we were walking through a dark tunnel. My mother got pissed and said we weren't playing the game right. That's because for RPGs, you don't actually do what your character does. As for the "role playing" aspect of role playing games, that's impossible to define, since it's really just in the player's head. FJ McCloud said on Nsider that games like Super Mario Bros. or Star Fox could be "role playing games" if you got into the idea of assuming the main character's role. (In my opinion, I dispute that definition, even if you do get into the role). Even for Dungeons and Dragons, you could try to get into a role, and your Dungeon Master might encourage it, and I've read the rule books and they kind of enourage it -- but you don't really have to. There's a lot more in the rule books about monsters' hit dice and saving throws and experience points. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Last Edited By: Crawl and 1OOO 10/21/08 05:24:30. Edited 1 times.
perothecat		#30	[-]
Posts: 65 (10/21/08 09:03:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Oh man, was I ever being an asshole in that topic. I'm not even sure what was up with that. Yeah, I tried EverQuest at a friend's insistence and I could barely keep my eyes open. I wonder if maybe I was offended by the suggestion that anyone who plays EverQuest will become an instant babykiller.
James FP		#31	[-]
Posts: 509 (10/21/08 09:14:14) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	ACC KAIN wrote: It's too bad that some of the worst "wrongs" at that forum that deserve to be "righted" probably don't exist anymore. With all due respect, no it isn't too bad. While I wouldn't doubt that I could say a few things about some of those situations now that I couldn't back then for various reasons, I really don't want to (and besides, I already have addressed some of those things on the forum anyway). It's one thing to pick on one-off "John Q. Internet" types like Bssteph and HeartofPain who aren't representative of the community in any way, but I don't want to stir up old bad feelings between friends. I also really don't want anything on the site that reminds me of that terrible time in my life right before I left to go live with DH. For the most part, I want to stick to our credo of archiving the good times and ignoring the bullshit. Get out of my cheese, get into my corn!
Emerald Lynk		#32	[-]
Posts: 10 (10/21/08 09:22:14) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	James FP wrote: DH was telling me that she thinks the reason everyone got so heebie-jeebie over the lesbian issue was because Termite had a tendency to be a pushy person and they knew that once he got on that track, there'd be no getting him off, so everyone gets on the wall of defense. Still, I don't think anyone in that topic did a good job of rebutting him. Obvsiouly, the surface joke is that Ryoko will do whatever it takes to get Tenchi and she's not shy about being naked (that's part of her personality), but even the writers seem aware of the underlying lesbian overtones and made jokes about it (Ryoko stealing Ayeka's towel/the two getting hit with a love arrow, etc.) It reminds me of what you said in that Game Pond post where you believed people don't really perceive things for what they really are. I'd think if you love Tenchi, you should probably realize that that type of humor is at its very core. Otherwise, I don't know what reasons you'd have to like it. This is going back a bit in this topic, but... In defense of Kiera and FO - they technically are not wrong by saying Ryoko and Ayeka aren't lesbians and that those scenes are not about lesbianism. I know that from screenshots it's hard to tell, so Agisuro and Setzer aren't entirely unjustified in saying you really have to see the episode to understand what's going on. Ryoko is naked because she thinks that will make her win Tenchi over Ayeka. The last thing Ayeka wants to be is naked in public view, and Ryoko knows this, so she pulls her towel off to embarrass the shizz out of her. On the other hand, Kiyone and Mihoshi's relationship does seem to have a lesbian undertone, but only in the TV series, and that's really only if you choose to interpret it that way. (Well, Kiyone's not in the OAV anyway, and their role in the movies isn't big enough for it to come through.)
Officer Prowl		#33	[-]
Posts: 35 (10/23/08 09:19:02) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The Easiest Final Bosses looks like something FO once planned to have on her website, but since she never went through with it, I guess it's ours for the taking. You're free to take it now, of course, but just for the record, I did used to have an "Opinions" section on my site way, way, way back when I first moved from go to geocities. (Don't know if the oldest versions of my site on archive.org will have those pages or not.) I got rid of it for several reasons: 1. Lack of interest. I didn't get very many submissions or feedback on it, and I didn't really feel like updating it in the rare occasion that I did. 2. To avoid confusion. I decided that I'd rather have the site be mostly for my own opinions. Example, someone might read an opinion in that section and later on, recall they read it on my site but not the name of the person who actually submitted it and ergo, might automatically attribute it to me. 3. Distancing myself from the Game Pond. There were some names involved that I didn't want to have associated with me or the site at the time due to the 2001 breakup and other issues. There might be some other topics like that scattered around. I actually had forgotten all about them until I saw that again on your site. Man...it's amazing how much I disagree with some of the things I said in that Equinox conversation now. I don't really know why I was acting so hung up on the overworld graphics, and they're not even really that bad. I think the rotation effect is actually kind of neat. Maybe I was playing it on an emulator back when it wasn't emulated very well and it didn't look right...and I judged it by that instead of the actual cart (even though I own the cart, maybe I just hadn't played it on the cart in awhile).
DEATHAMSTER		#34	[-]
Posts: 755 (10/24/08 18:43:49) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	And, like FO said, they stayed up all hours of the night chatting online. The strange thing is, I was a teenager during those years, too, and even I wasn't usually able to stay up all hours of the night chatting. I pulled a few over and late-nighters on the weekends occasionally, but I had things like school and parents that would kill me if they caught me staying up that late. If I believed for a brief moment that some people were adults and not really teenagers, that would've actually been one of my reasons. I figured they must be adults who don't have jobs, don't go to school, and are "living in their parents basement", so to speak.
CLOUDBOND007		#35	[-]
Posts: 175 (10/24/08 18:46:38) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I used to stay up pretty late online even when I had school. I was seriously sleep deprived for a couple of years, I think. Wasn't just the internet, I used to do the same thing, watching TV until all hours of the night. Then when I finally got over the compulsion to stay up late, I got a job working until 10PM or Midnight. It's taken until age 24 for me to actually sleep like a normal person. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
Agisuro		#36	[-]
Posts: 51 (10/24/08 19:03:43) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I am SO glad I was a teenager during the brief window of time that the ezboard fad was around. I wouldn't have traded that shit for anything. Nowadays, the internet is so dull. ----- There is no spoon!
Flying Omelette		#37	[-]
Posts: 1042 (10/24/08 20:26:28) PRANCE, TWIRL, JUMP! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	When there's a lot of people on all at once, like there was tonight, I can find it difficult to pull away because I keep thinking that with that many people, someone's eventually going to make a post. Strange how even before I stopped going to other message boards, I never felt that way about anyplace else. Other places I was content to check once or twice a day and that was it. Another reason I'm glad I kicked the outside message board habit is because I sort of felt like it was my own personal version of "obsessed webcomic fan mentality". I noticed people on that John Solomon blog saying that they had like 80-100 webcomics bookmarked and they'd spend all their time cycling through them. While I was never going to THAT many message boards (I don't even think I was in the ezboard heyday), I still felt like what I was doing was the same sort of thing. I've fallen down, but I'll rise above this... rise above this doubt. www.flyingomelette.com
DOVEBLOB		#38	[-]
Posts: 107 (10/25/08 06:06:09) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Has Tyler beaten Battletoads? His posts in that easiest final bosses thing would seem to indicate he did.
pOrn Sigma		#39	[-]
Posts: 3 (10/25/08 10:41:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Flying Omelette wrote: When there's a lot of people on all at once, like there was tonight, I can find it difficult to pull away because I keep thinking that with that many people, someone's eventually going to make a post. This is one of the things that makes me glad I stopped going to VGF, along with the general stupidity of the member base that frequently made me depressed about my hobby. There were so many members and so many posts I'd often spend most of the day hawking that place. I'd never get anything done on my site, and I didn't play nearly as many or as various games as I do now (although I still probably played more games than most of the people there combined, and I know I played games across a broader spectrum of series, consoles, and genres). Now I've got a steady update schedule for my site, plus I can make the content somewhat more mature since I no longer have to cater to a bunch of kids, and the last time I got depressed about being a gamer was when I tried the I-Mockery forums. It's time for revenge...
Flying Omelette		#40	[-]
Posts: 1046 (10/25/08 13:11:28) PRANCE, TWIRL, JUMP! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	There were actually so many people on last night, it set a new record for this board. I've fallen down, but I'll rise above this... rise above this doubt. www.flyingomelette.com

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