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I reached a dead-end in the life ending adventure game. I climb up the chain, over the cloud, jump over the spike trap, shoot the thingy that blocks my path, go over the whole killer spike thing with the pipe underneath, and then there's nothing more. Just a dead-end.
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About the swimming. Did you make sure to drift forwards after switching to Freeon-leeon? I think pressing forwards too soon can actually slow you down, since Bop-louie moves faster than Freeon-leeon, and you have Bop-louie's velocity when hitting the water. Am I making any sense at all?
Anyway, I think the way I did this is, I jumped as far as possible with Bop-louie, then switched to Freeon-leeon and let him drift forwards, and only pressed forwards when the drifting had slowed down to his normal speed. Something.
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I'm tempted to create a thread called "Steamed fish thread" where people can discuss steamed fish. However, I think it would end up being kinda lame. What's there to talk about with steamed fish anyway? It's fish. And it's steamed. Really, there's not much else to it. Then again, I'm not a steamed fish expert.
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VirtualAlex wrote:
Blublu, you think maybe you could have made those a little bigger?
I'm sorry, but my camera can't handle any more pixels than that. It would be pointless to enlarge the pictures since the amount of information in them would stay the same. However, since you ask so nicely I will provide you with an extreme close-up shot of my nose. Here. I know it's a little bit blurred, that's the best I could do in two tries.
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zefiris wrote:
- Abusing glitches (When it's good, when it's too much)
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Is there even such a thing as too much glitch abuse? I mean even games like Rygar and AlttP have runs with as much glitch abuse as possible.
Yes, a tutorial like that would be helpful to many people, and might bring us some more expert TASers, so that would be a very good thing.
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I thought the first question was about the sound byte and typed "Donkey Kong". I would definitely have gotten Excitebike right, so I get 1325 points. Nintendo Noob.
Is it supposed to be possible to get anywhere? If I go left, some spikes kill me. If I go right, I can kill the cat, but the next screen kills me instantly. :P
Edit: I figured out another way, down under the spikes. But then an ASCII Guile from SF2 kills me instantly. Blech... :P
Edit: Yay, I figured it out. I reached a room with two stick-figues holding up a big box. Whatever you do, don't shoot them.
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I see your point, but the understanding of when stuff takes place on other parts of the globe is largely imaginary anyway. You might know at what time the sun comes up in Japan in japanese time, but you probably have no idea right now what that time actually is. So you might have to ask when the sun comes up "there". With our current system, you still have no idea when the sun comes up "there", even if you know the local time. You would have to ask instead "what time-zone is over there and should I add or subtract how many hours to my current time?".
But yeah, I understand what you mean and I'm sure the new system would take some getting used to. It's hopeless, though - too many people (probably almost everyone) would simply reject it and keep using the old system anyway.
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Kuwaga wrote:
I agree with Blublu in that we don't need time zones. But that still wouldn't be a cure to jetlags. Oh, how I hate jetlags! :(
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Ha! I found a problem within Blublu's system. New Year's Eve! The date would change at 00:00, globally at the same time. But you won't see the fireworks when the sun is shining, haha. I win.
That can easily be fixed if everyone just celebrates for the whole 24-hour period. Blow stuff up whenever it gets dark, or something. Then get drunk and who cares what time it is!
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The way I see it, every glitch should be exploited in the most severe manner possible. If it breaks the game too much (like the ALttP one), then there should be two runs, one with super-glitchy-party-awesomeness, and one without. Rygar, for example.
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Deep Loner wrote:
Blublu wrote:
Of course, I'm a nut. If I were the king of the world, I would turn the 24-hour system into 20-hour or even 10-hour system, and make it global, so that 10 o'clock would be 10 o'clock everywhere. I mean, we do that for the months of the years, why not the hours?
Because it could be the middle of the day at 10 o'clock in part of the world and pitch black at 10 o'clock in the other part of the world.
That's why we have time zones. : )
I disagree. I think that people would simply learn what hours mean what for their area, and then when they go to another area, they would simply adapt. Really, it wouldn't be that much trouble.
It would make coordinations across the globe much easier and it would NOT make coordinations across the same region any more difficult. At least I don't see how. What's the downside? The biggest problem people have with this idea is that they are used to something else. Well, maybe this "something else" is not the best way of doing things.
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Well they don't use Daylight Savings in Iceland, so I really wouldn't know about the intricasies of such a strange sytem. However, I imagine I would just act like the time is what is is, and that everyone else is off by one hour instead of me. I'm stubborn like that. Of course, if my job depended on it, it might be different.
Of course, I'm a nut. If I were the king of the world, I would turn the 24-hour system into 20-hour or even 10-hour system, and make it global, so that 10 o'clock would be 10 o'clock everywhere. I mean, we do that for the months of the years, why not the hours? People would adapt very quickly. More quickly than many people think.
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I'd combine some fighting game with Carmageddon. Just imagine two players in a very even and exciting match, then a car abrubtly arrives out of nowhere and kills both players by driving over them.
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Because they don't own a PS1/2/3?
Fair enough, although I don't think there are that many people that own PS1 games and a PSP, but no PS1/2/3. But I think the point is that the PSP is mobile, so meh.
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I don't see why anyone would want to play PS1 games on a PSP when they can play them on a PS1/2/3. With a bigger screen, better sound and everything. Yes, I know the PSP is portable, and that does count for something, but .... meh.
As for emulation, don't you think it's kind of ironic that one of the best "features" of the PSP is that you can play Nintendo games on it. I for one think so.
Don't get me wrong, I think the PSP is a pretty cool gadget with a sweet ass screen, but I just would rather get a DS lite for handheld gaming. Actually I already did that. :D
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Opera is a fine browser. I used it myself for a while before I switched to Firefox. The only reason I switched was the permanent advertisement banner. That was a long time ago, though.
Now that IE has is internet-capable, though, I guess you have three choices. (Edit: of course I'm talking about Windows users here. If you use another OS, you have 5721 viable choices.)
Okay, you got me there. :D I needed more words to link to each useful extension I have installed. Anyway, even without any extensions, Firefox is still better. But everyone already knew that, right?
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Meh, I browse with images enabled, so that's not a problem for me.
I tried the latest IE the other day. It looks like they tried to do a 1:1 clone of Firefox. They finally added tabs. Welcome to 5 years ago if you just found out about those. They even use the same keyboard shortcuts. Bleh. Firefox is still better, not just because it won't give you 10 viruses every time you click a link, but also because of allthosewonderfulextensions.
