The Blackangel

You sound almost identical to me. Sure our life experiences have been different, but they have also been the same. If that makes sense. So let me give you some advice: You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.

Sleepy Bunny. I've had him since I was a baby, and he's my most important material possession.

Number 1 would be to increase the funds in my bank account to the billions. Number 2 would be to collect as many games as I wanted. Number 3 would be to make my loans be paid off. Number 4 would be to have a large garage built that can house a hell of a lot of vehicles. Number 5 would be to acquire those vehicles. Number 6 would be to get a few house appliances. There's probably more, but at the moment that's all I can think of.

Does anyone else play any fan made games and ROM-hacks? I have 3 that I play. All are Zelda games and on the SNES. Zelda: Parallel Worlds Zelda: Goddess Of Wisdom Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets Goddess Of Wisdom is so far beyond hard. I've never seen a game like it. I honestly believe that whoever created it never intended for it to be beaten. Considering that to even hit some of the bosses you're required to use a spin attack. Regular sword slashes do literally nothing. Some enemies can only be hurt by things like arrows. The bosses from Link To The Past are now used as mini bosses in the dungeons. I've been playing it for over two years, and I've only made it to the third temple. I haven't beaten it yet. I can't get through it because Vitreous is a mini boss in the third room as you enter, and the bastard is impossible to fight, let alone beat. The little eyes are now on steroids. They come at you so fast and are so strong you don't really have any time to attack. Those are the only fan made games, AKA ROM-hacks that I have. They're fun-ish. The fact that they are so damn hard takes away a good chunk of the fun. Don't get me wrong, I love a challenge. But this one is at the level of cruel with it's difficulty. You think Dark Souls was hard? It's a cake walk compared to this. And GoW isn't even the hardest one of the 3. That one reportedly goes to Parallel Worlds. I have yet to try that one, mainly because I'm already stuck in GoW. I want to at least beat the third temple before I try one of the others.

Anyone else curious about The Blackangel?

I'm just the opposite. The shadow and spirit temples are extremely easy. The spirit temple is actually my favorite temple in the game. As for pissing anyone off, fuck em. Everyone has different capabilities, experiences, and play styles. You find the water temple easy. Awesome! I find it a major bitch, especially since I'm trying to get all the gold skulltulas as well. As for the bongo playing penis, that's one trick I hope no man has. I would turn and run if a guy was doing that. especially if two appendages suddenly appeared. My thought on that: GENITAL WARTS FROM HELL

I still use a guide to get through the water temple in Zelda OoT. That temple is so vast and such a maze that after more than 20 years, I still can't find my way around by memory. Add in having to change the damn water levels and your boots all the damn time, that makes it worse than any other temple. It is all but impossible. For the rest of the game, I have no problem. They're easy as hell. It's just that damn water temple that causes me to break out the guide.

I merged these two topics as they are about the exact same thing. We don't need two separate threads when they are talking about the same thing at the same time. As for Stadia, who gives a shit? It was a joke from the beginning.

One thing I forgot to mention is that I would take my revenge on several people.

I knew a guy several years ago that would drone on and on about how great he was. How high his IQ was, how rich was, how strong he was, how big his dick was and more. He was so in love with himself that he would consider it an honor for you to be allowed to be in his presence. I finally told him one time to let me know when he was done kissing his own ass, because my ass was full of shit too. He was so pissed off that I called him out like that (taking a baseball bat to his fragile overinflated ego), that he was red in the face and ran away like the scared little pussy he was. I haven't run into him in probably 20 years. I have no idea what happened to him since then, but I'm sure he has received several ass kickings. As for me bragging about something, the only thing I can think of is my pets and my car. I don't look down on anyone who doesn't have things. I've been there. I'm just proud of those two things. I don't have any skills or abilities in anything to brag about. I'm actually a pretty boring person IRL.

Either another bedroom, a hot tub, or an in ground pool.

I save a decent portion of my files on microSD cards often. I have a lot of DDL's and documents on my comuputer, so I need to keep a copy in case my computer crashes again.

Another thing, is a mental game. All too often, people think that price equals quality. If one game is $30, and another game is $70, they think the $70 game is better than the $30 game. That's not true at all. Maybe the $70 is more popular, but the $30 game is hands down better in the eyes of the gaming community. Still they go for the most expensive because they trust the developers, when we all know is a fools errand. It's ignorance, gullibility, stupidity, and being easily manipulated, all rolled into one gamer. And it's done over and over and over again.

Fatigued. I'm tired all the time. No-Doz helps, but it doesn't cure it.

Shelter, even if it's just a small tent, and some plastic to purify my water. I can make a spear to fish with. With purifying my own water, you just need a plastic sheet to have a couple feet up (preferably clear) that's angled downward and a plastic sheet below to catch the rain droplets of pure water. Then have some kind of reservoir to catch the water. Hence, pure drinkable water. I would also need some kind of game. Something to do with my hands, eyes, and thoughts. Something to occupy empty time. I know how to make fire, so that's no issue. I can hunt and fish, so that's no problem. I could easily survive as long as I had my mind occupied. Maybe a Switch wit an infinite battery.

I would wait in a bank watching the tellers changing account numbers, then when everyone was leaving I would steal one of their ID cards, hide it, remember their username and password, then log into my account and add about 10 digits. After that, I would do a few things politically that I probably shouldn't mention here, but should also be obvious due to this statement....

The closest I come to this is printing up checklists to keep track of what I need for different things, and what I’ve already got.

I concur with @Shagger on this. If I can, I avoid walkthroughs and guides as much ad possible. If I do use one, it’s usually just for reference. Like seeing what some items refine to in FF8. I did have to have a guide for a certain part at the end of disc one. It’s so damn cryptic and hidden that no gamer is going to figure it out without help. That was part of the reason why it didn’t do very well. With games like RDR2, we have a guide, but don’t use it but rarely. We don’t use it for quests, but as a reference manual. We do our own discovering, and to us, that makes the game immensely more enjoyable. I would rather earn it than have it handed to me. Having everything handed to you defeats the purpose of the game in my opinion.

I’m not a fan of Xbox, so that leaves me with PlayStation and Nintendo. I’m fine with that since I’m a big fan of both systems. Depending on the game availability can determine what I play it on. For example RDR2 isn’t on Switch. But it is on PlayStation. There are system exclusive’s. There are system features that make it a preference for me. So the game and what systems it’s on determine it for me. With my dislike for Xbox doesn’t mean I won’t play on it. There’s a couple Xbox exclusive’s that I enjoy the hell out of. So the game in question determines what system I boot up.

Getting back to topic, Nintendo can charge these prices due to brand loyalty. There are loyalists for every gaming platform, and they’re not willing to give other platforms a chance. Nintendo has the biggest amount of loyalists simply because it has been around so much longer. Those of us who grew up on Nintendo, tend to (at the very least) prefer Nintendo. I started out gaming on Atari 2600 and Colecovision. When the NES hit the market in 1985, I desperately wanted one. Ever since then I’ve mainly been a fan. Especially for some of their exclusive’s like the Zelda franchise. All that said, they can jack up the prices however high they want, and people will pay it. It’s a sad fact of corporate greed. They know they can get away with gouging consumers, so they see no reason not to.

We got the Series X today. @Rain Dew has been wanting one like crazy, and we found a preowned one at GameStop. Iy was a hell of a deal too. The only issue I really have with it is the weight. THAT DAMN THING WEIGHS A FREAKING TON! I’ve never seen a console weigh so much. I thought the PS5 was heavy, but it’s nothing compared to the X. It looks like a concrete block and weighs about the same.

Unfortunately this is very true. So many are false, despite having the name brand and design on the face of the card, that you won't get what you think you're buying. Go to either a reputable electronics store like Best Buy, or Walmart to buy them. You will have to spend more money than getting them off eBay or Amazon, but you can rest assured that you will get the real product and not a fake one.

Somewhere around here I still have my iPhone 5. I don't honestly know where. When I got my first real cell phone, it was one of those slider phones that had a full keyboard under the main phone face. I specifically wanted that one because I thought it would make texting easier. That wasn't the case. By "real cell phone" that means that my first one was a TracFone. Or "burner cell" as they're typically called now.

That's a good question. I got notified on this, so I assume @Kane99 will too.

I don't have any real basis for comparison, as my eyes are still used to both the blocky 8, 16, and 64 bit graphics. But I can switch from Mario 64, to RDR2 and suffer no issues. But then again, I'm weird as hell, so it may be a mind thing. But in that area with me, if you can find it, you can keep it.