The Blackangel

I don't even need to read that article to believe it. PETA has degraded the entire concept of animal rights/protection to the point that a lot of people don't even take it seriously. "Oh your son killed your cat for fun? So get another cat. What difference does it make?" They perpetuate this kind of thought process under the guise of protecting nonhuman lives. Now, I'm all for animal rights. Hell I value their lives above my own. My babies are all more valuable than I am. No one is going to change my mind about that. But I still eat meat. I can go more into that if anyone is interested. But taking issue with a game and trying to get a meaningless mascot put into it? And that mascot being one that I seriously doubt anyone would even play as unless they were doing it as a joke, is just overstepping if you ask me. I don't see anyone entering a SSB tournament and choosing to play as Not A Nugget.

Do you mean you can't understand the lyrics (physical issue), or you can't the point (opinion issue)? If it's a physical issue, that's the way with a lot of music. You just can't follow what they're saying in the lyrics. If it's an opinion, like you don't understand how anyone could like it, you'll just have to agree to disagree with a lot of the members. I like some underground rap, but I'm for all intents and purposes a metalhead. The music I can't stand is country. I listened to it when I was a kid (no choice) but starting in my mid to late teens I got to where I absolutely couldn't stand it. Granted there's one or two songs I do still like, but that's it. If anyone wants to get into more specifics on members thoughts there's already a thread similar to this HERE.

It never did. Consciousness and self awareness may have, but don't confuse them with intelligence.

They also have their own roster of "games" (and I use the term loosely) HERE on their site.

I just saw this today, so I don't know if this is old news or new news since I couldn't find a date on it. But apparently, PETA is wanting Nintendo to add their mascot, Not A Nugget, as a playable character in Super Smash bros. It's a little baby chicken with some kind of gun or something. I'll add a pic as well. Personally, while I support animal rights, I would never get in bed with PETA. They kill and abuse more animals than any other animal rights related organization currently in action. There are animal rights groups out there that are truly fighting for animals, but aren't whoring themselves out to make money. I just can't wrap my head around this kind of blatant money grabbing attempt from something that is so far from games. And the game they chose is really what boggles me. They want to add a character, that is for creatures rights to not be abused, to a game where the objective is to beat the shit out of your opponents. These assholes have made a major misstep in their logic here. https://support.peta.org/page/32326/petition/1

Prejudice can be valid in certain circumstances.

Once again, Joust is a game that I considered, but I couldn't decide where it would land in any gaming style that it might have led to. Asteroids is another. It is the ultimate classic space shooter. I wasn't mentioning it, because I had already mentioned Galaga. There is no more iconic space shooter game than Asteroids. Despite the fact that you're just an oddly shaped triangle shooting white lines at other oddly polygons on a black screen, it is one of the most under looked games in the history of gaming. At least by the gamers of today. But that is simply because none of them know it exists. It may not look like much, but when it hit the Atari 2600 home console in 1981 people just about shit their pants. Everyone who was anyone had Asteroids at home on their Atari. I had one of their biggest competitors of the time, Colecovision. But I only had 3 games for it. Ladybug, which was a Pac-Man spinoff. Donkey Kong. And the 3rd one I cant remember. I think it was either Pitfall, Frogger, or Centipede most likely.

Ignore his comments. The staff will take care of his nonsense, as we can see the entire forum is getting tired of it.

Microsoft has a partnership with IBM Technologies and if I remember right (correct me if I'm wrong) owns a patent on their PC system, not just Windows. They have since the 80's. But they also have partnerships with dozens of other companies for dozens of other reasons, so their profits aren't solely from one single aspect of their business dealings. While one may generate more capital than the others, it isn't bringing in 95% of their yearly gross. They will make this $70 billion back in two years time. That much I am sure of. They may even make it back quicker than that. Microsoft is a huge company. Bigger than the average consumer even knows. And with a company that big, of course there are shady illegal things going on somewhere to generate even more money. I don't know exactly where the cracks are, just as I'm sure no one else here does. But that doesn't negate the fact that they are there. And until those cracks are sealed, you and I are just pouring our money into a black hole, and getting very little back in return, if anything at all. The shit rolls downhill people. Remember that.

I would like to nominate @Darth for Member Of The Month. His posts have held my attention, and he has been inquisitive and well thought out in his posting habits.

Not to mention the high humidity here. It frequently gets to 100%+ during the late Spring and all the way through Summer into early Fall.

He didn't half ass anything. He was sweet as candy, and friendly as hell. He talked in his natural voice and Arthur's voice. He gave me tips on voice acting ( @Rain Dew requested that) and he was just amazing as can be. I doubt you could request a redo of the cameo. That just doesn't sound legit. People would be requesting cameos just to get as many as they could for free. But Roger Clark is just amazing. He talked to me for over 4 minutes. To which even he was surprised that he talked to me that long.

I've had Blasphemous on my Switch for quite a while now. It's a great game. A total blast to play. I would highly recommend it to everyone.

Missouri's biggest weather worries are tornadoes and floods. We deal with them every year. Although we haven't had any statewide floods like we did in 1993, and we haven't had any F5's since 2011 when that one hit Joplin, we still have to put up with that shit. I live on a street that ends in a cul-de-sac and I'm just glad that I live on the top of the hill. Those are the natural weather problems. We also have to deal with robberies, and just random gun violence. Hearing gunshots around here is an almost daily occurrence. It gets old, but I'm ready.

I was going to add Frogger, but for some reason decided not to. It opened us up to obstacle games. Dig Dug is a game that I wouldn't say really led to any specific genre (despite being iconic), but its mechanics and game play design have been featured in a number of games. The most notable one that I can think of at the moment is SMB2.

What the hell is a sandbox game? I'm assuming it's not a game where you're playing a kid with a diaper rash and sand in their ass?

Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, and Mario Bros are some of the most impactful games. They led the way into games as we know them today. DK gave us Mario Bros. Mario Bros gave us SMB. Pac-Man gave us top down views instead of side scrolling views. There's also Galaga which paved the way for space shooters. Q*Bert helped open the world of puzzle games. A lot of my favorites, and a lot of gateway games.

Of the games I've played, I would say FF8. The opening sequence takes forever.

I love horror games. Especially psychological horror. Layers Of Fear: Legacy is one of the best I have ever played. Outlast is another series that is great too. Remothered: broken Porcelain is another good one. The Child's Sight is another one, but it's not for anyone who is easily frightened.

While the trailer was still playing, I was in the Nintendo eShop putting it in my wish list. This game reminds me so much of a longtime favorite it's uncanny. It is just like Castlevania SOTN. I honestly cant see a lot of differences. It has to have been modeled after the game. Or at least been the inspiration for the game.

Bill Gates actually had to pay to bail out Apple, or he would have had a monopoly on the computer market. He makes PC's and Apple makes their own version of a computing system. If they had gone under without him bailing them out, he would have had that monopoly. But hopefully Sony will get that acquisition of EA, assuming it's an actual thing in the works that wouldn't bankrupt them in the end. It would at least stop Microsoft from owning everything. But I have another question. Where does all this leave Nintendo? They're not buying up any studios as far as I'm aware. If all the studios get bought up, Nintendo is going to have a very limited game catalogue.

You don't need to really be a coder. Just take one of those mini consoles that have been all the rage. Rewire the controllers to a joystick and buttons, hook it up to a TV you have mounted on the box, and you have an arcade cabinet.

Caveat - 6/10 La Llorona (Shudder exclusive) - 7/10

Skyrim is a piece of shit game.

He was reburied in October 1875, with not only a tombstone, but a full on monument to him. Also an interesting note is that, for more than 50 years, every January 19th (Poe's birthday) a man dressed in black and fedora has left 3 red roses and a bottle of cognac on Poe's grave.