When I finally play Pokemon Black 2, I want to do a playthrough that will be unique in some way. I want to do something that involves me talking about it with other people.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what's kind of impressive? The brilliant exercise in one-upsmanship that was the marketing for the Sega Genesis.
Executive #1: We've got to make this product sound more impressive than Nintendo's.
Executive #2: We'll, we're using a 16-bit CPU and they're using an 8-bit one. What if we take that out of context and just call the whole thing "16-bit", as if that's reflective of the console's quality and performance as a whole whole instead of just one component?
Executive #1: Brilliant! Let's do it.
~one Super Nintendo Entertainment System later~
Executive #1: Damn, now they're pushing the 16-bit thing too. We've got to come up with something else.
Executive #2: Hey developer, why is our console better than theirs?
Developer: Well, doing this one thing is easier, 'cause you can just sorta blast--
Executive #2: Blast processing! Perfect!
Executive #1: You just made that up.
Executive #2: So what? Do you want to sell consoles or don't you?
You know what's kind of impressive? The brilliant exercise in one-upsmanship that was the marketing for the Sega Genesis.
Executive #1: We've got to make this product sound more impressive than Nintendo's.
Executive #2: We'll, we're using a 16-bit CPU and they're using an 8-bit one. What if we take that out of context and just call the whole thing "16-bit", as if that's reflective of the console's quality and performance as a whole whole instead of just one component?
Executive #1: Brilliant! Let's do it.
~one Super Nintendo Entertainment System later~
Executive #1: Damn, now they're pushing the 16-bit thing too. We've got to come up with something else.
Executive #2: Hey developer, why is our console better than theirs?
Developer: Well, doing this one thing is easier, 'cause you can just sorta blast--
Executive #2: Blast processing! Perfect!
Executive #1: You just made that up.
Executive #2: So what? Do you want to sell consoles or don't you?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
No, wait, the other part of that policy was 'if this game isn't available for purchase in America, then I will pirate it'. Touhou technically falls under that.
...Yeah, justifying pirating when it comes to Touhou is always a tetchy thing.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know, you can do a similar trick in real life using a square of paper cut the same way. Obviously the paper can't magically lengthen itself the way the chocolate in the animation does, but the difference in size is so subtle that most people won't notice it until it's pointed out.
Here's a video of it, albeit with differently shaped pieces:
How in the hell are you going to--in 2013--release a paid, professionally-published game that lacks control-rebinding? Or at least some alternate setups aside from WASD/Spacebar/Mouse?
It may damn well be the best game ever made but I'll never know because I can't fucking play it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The AM/FM radio in my alarm clock from 1995 still works. I hadn't turned it on in years before today.
It crackles noticeably when I adjust the volume knob, though. I can't remember if it used to do that, since I had it on "alarm" for years.
I don't even use the alarm in the clock anymore, but I like to have it because its big red LED numbers are easy for someone as nearsighted as I am to see from the bed. Amusingly, it now rests on top of a cable box that displays the time in horrible tiny blue LEDs.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Discovery: sleep deprivation seems to be the only time using a stylus with my tablet is helpful rather than a hindrance.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Why am i listening to the Buffy "once more with feeling" soundtrack
The AM/FM radio in my alarm clock from 1995 still works. I hadn't turned it on in years before today.
It crackles noticeably when I adjust the volume knob, though. I can't remember if it used to do that, since I had it on "alarm" for years.
I don't even use the alarm in the clock anymore, but I like to have it because its big red LED numbers are easy for someone as nearsighted as I am to see from the bed. Amusingly, it now rests on top of a cable box that displays the time in horrible tiny blue LEDs.
I don't have any clock radios that old anymore, sadly (though I do still have my 1990-vintage GE boombox around someplace...and yes, it still works). However, the Sony alarm clock I bought not too long ago has big green numbers and is sufficiently loud. (And the radio section is analog. Amazing!)
tales of the unexpected: it turns out ice can conduct vibrations well enough for a contact mic to pick up sound through it, and now the muffled sound of me talking drunkenly and hitting/being hit with a whip is being released as part of a future-minimal red cassette limited run
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
You'll have to kill sex workers and steal from shopkeeping pimps, and make sacrifices to dark gods and generally be a terrible person.
You must do this or you will fail.
bah.
You say all this like it's a bad thing.
After all, you're after the most important thing! Which is uh.
....
well it's not treasure
it's um
hmm.
BLAST PROCESSING
MEGA SOUND
ULTRA DYNAMICS
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Entire pits filled with snakes.
I haven't even gotten to the spiders yet.
If there are no melting faces I will be disappoint
Sexruct: You could be a naughty boy and pirate 999 and stream it from a DS emulator which is probs what people do to record/stream DS games. ;)
if you and I ever meet, we must watch Raiders of the Lost Ark
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
...except concerning Touhou.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
...Yeah, justifying pirating when it comes to Touhou is always a tetchy thing.
Here's a video of it, albeit with differently shaped pieces:
Antichamber is officially on my shitlist.
How in the hell are you going to--in 2013--release a paid, professionally-published game that lacks control-rebinding? Or at least some alternate setups aside from WASD/Spacebar/Mouse?
It may damn well be the best game ever made but I'll never know because I can't fucking play it.
:)
Swype helps too.
really