The Blackangel

Animal Protection. No question or hesitation about it.

Trump has used his own personal prejudice to guide every last thing he has done and tried to do since his campaign. He lied on the entire campaign, and it's a proven fact that he lies more than six times a day to the American people. At this point there are even republicans that aren't supporting him anymore. We've had some worthless presidents in this country, but this bastard will go down as the worst in American history. I swear to the Gods, if somehow it happens again, then I'm officially Canadian.

It was honestly a bit of a toss up for me between the SNES and N64. I love the N64 controller. It's one of my favorites. But I couldn't ignore the leaps the SNES controller made. But still, N64 will be a close second for me.

He wanted WW3, and he fought hard to get it. This impeachment has been a long time coming. Even before Putin got him in office. He is a disgrace and nothing more. It has become beyond crystal clear that when he said "Make America Great Again" he was referring to the Great Depression. There have been more mass murders, school shootings, and racially motivated killings in his first three years in office than there were in the previous 30 years if you don't count wars. That's pretty fucking pathetic, and sickening at the same time. But the worst of it is that there are actually people stupid enough to think that Trump has actually done even one good thing. And there is no sense showing them the light. They will just close their eyes, run into a closet with their fingers in their ears and scream "NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!"

I think chat in any form is dead. Unless it's in-game. Any other time, I don't see it surviving much longer for any reason. Not to mention that discord is pure shit.

Some of the old classics from NES. The more obscure games though, none of the big names. No Zelda or Mario.

It depends if I have duplicates or not. Typically I have more than one of every system, just in case one decides to be an asshole. If I have more than that, then I bundle them together and resell them, or trade them. Otherwise I hang on to them. I've said this before, but at the moment I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 PS2's and I think 4 PS3's. As far as Nintendo consoles, I have no clue. Too many to count.

I'm going to go over a few systems, but I'm not including any handheld systems on this, even though several have separate controllers. I'll start with a quick one. PlayStation kept an identical controller from PS1-PS3, so I can't pick one of them over the other, but in the PS realm I have to say that the PS4 controller is the most comfortable. Possibly the most comfortable controller in console gaming. Xbox, I have never been a fan of, but their controllers were always comfortable, and the buttons easy to land the fingers on. Sega Genesis had an interesting controller. It was my first experience with a 3 button setup. The controller fit rather well into the hand, but the button setup I wasn't a fan of. Also I was coming from the Nintendo world, so I was used to a completely different system, even though they shared several game titles. I never really had any kind of interaction with Dreamcast, so I can't comment on its controller. Atari was a good one. They didn't screw around with bells and whistles. A joystick and a button. That was all that was needed, that was all that was made. I liked it then, and I like it now. Colecovision was an odd one. I never fully got what the point of the numerical pad was until I was older and found out that there were cards you could slip onto it that lined up the buttons you could use in your games. Also the rotary dial was entirely unique, and something I personally have never seen on another system. So it gets points for originality. Now the big one. Nintendo. With the NES, it was simple and basic. 2 buttons, a D-pad, and Start/Select. You didn't need any more at the time, so they didn't offer more. I like that. Then SNES comes along. Four new buttons that would be the base for every controller design from then on out. Not only did you have A & B, but now you had X & Y, plus the two shoulder buttons L & R. Very innovative design. N64 changed things up a bit more. They got rid of X & Y, and replaced them with the C buttons and a trigger button (Z button). I was a big fan of the trigger button. I loved how that all worked out. The one thing that never made any real sense to me though was the D-pad on it. There were only a handful of games that had even the slightest bit of need/use for it. So, I'm left wondering why they kept it instead of replacing it with something that there was intent to be used. Game Cube, I absolutely hated. It was extremely uncomfortable, the C button was now more like the joystick on the N64, and the trigger button was in such a messed up spot that it was useless. It was hands down the worst controller design I have ever seen. Wii didn't, in my mind, have a controller. The system was set up so wildly different, that I just look at it as having a goofy Power Glove more or less. So taking all that into consideration, I would have to say that my favorite controller would be the SNES controller, mainly because it introduced us to just how much a video game controller could be capable of. Especially since it was only a 16 bit system.

Everyone in America has heard of both of them. And there's a huge percentage of us that are sick of them since they are all the exact same fucking thing.

I'm going to head out pretty soon and pick up some supplies for my rats, and pick up some groceries. Nothing big. I'm also thinking of getting a new gaming chair for my best friend since her birthday is coming up soon.

What is the most insane thing you've ever been dared to do and actually done?

If you combine all the systems I play, I probably have a backlog of around 100.

I wouldn't be confined to a wheelchair.

What are your thoughts on marriage?

B.S. stands for "Broadcast Satellaview". It's a game that was released only in Japan, and was online for only an hour at a time, for (if I remember correctly) a week or so. Players had to be online at the designated time to play the game. It was kind of a tournament thing that everyone went into completely blind. It's also known as Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets. I have another copy of Stone Tablets, but it's for Super Famicom so I need to buy a SFC. I bought it on eBay, and was under the impression I was getting the SNES copy. I was wrong apparently. The seller didn't accept returns, so I'm stuck with a game I'm unable to play at the moment. I have Goddess Of Wisdom and Parallel Worlds on SNES. I haven't tried PW yet, but I play Goddess until my brain hurts then take a few weeks off. That's because the game is THE MOST INSANELY DIFFICULT GAME IN HISTORY. I have never played a game that was this hard. Don't get me wrong, I love a challenge, but there's a such thing known as moderation. This one is just too much of a good thing. But the most surprising thing about the whole thing is that it's an SNES game. A system that old, has a ROM-hack that is that difficult. This is something I would expect to see on the PS4 or Xbox One. Someone hacks Skyrim, or TLOU or something.

I got this Zelda pack a couple weeks ago, and have been wanting to open it, but fighting the temptation at the same time. One really awesome thing about it that I do know for a fact, is that these carts are gold like the Zelda carts on NES. That kicks some serious ass, to me.

Tiny Barbarians on Switch is pretty sweet.

It all depends on how urgent my reason for contacting them is. If it's just a general inquiry, then a ticket is fine. If it's truly urgent, then I go with phone or live chat. But then again, considering the type of person I am, that usually doesn't go over too well.

I pick up a lot of bundles off CL, not for the systems, but for the games. More often that not, the people selling aren't willing to part it out, if there's only one or two games I'm wanting out of the set. So I buy it, rebundle it with several games I already have that I didn't want and sell it off at a profit. Granted doing it that way isn't going to make someone rich, but it does typically put $10 or $20 in my pocket.

I got Mario Kart 64 a couple days ago. I've wanted it for years, but it was always too expensive in stores around here and on eBay. I tried bidding a few times and the final bid price always went to someone willing to pay $100+ which I wasn't willing to pay. And the buy it now was always around $75, which I also wasn't willing to pay. I finally found the game at Vintage Stock for $50 and snatched it up quick. And I've been playing the hell out of it.

It's just putting more waste and pollution into the planet. If they want to sell in a store, then they should just have you go to the counter, the person behind it scans the code for the game you want, and on your receipt is the code you need to download the game you just bought. That would save time, money and resources. And it would make money for game stores. Because they would no longer have to tell customers that they are out of a certain game. They just scan and print a code. Money saved, product sold, pollution down, everyone's happy. The simplest answer is often the best. And those game stores can then use their shelves to hold games for older systems like PS2-PS3 and Xbox-Xbox 360. Maybe even some early cartridge systems.

I hate to say it, but a lot of the earlier Zelda games are like this. Loads of content, ten minutes to beat. A couple others that go by in the blink of an eye are Wizards & Warriors (NES) and Castlevania SOTN. They have tons of content, but are so damn short. With Castlevania, unless you're hell bent on getting certain items, you're done with the entire game in a couple hours, and I mean both castles here. Wizards & Warriors is a straight shot through. I love the game, but it's quick as hell. You need something in reserves, ready to play when you're done with this one.

Did I miss something?

In a word: Pepsiman.