Deraldin

You underestimate the stupidity of your average computer user.

I saw that earlier today, but I totally missed the Obsidian shirt! I want one too! :sad:

They scored 10 goals on you? Weak man. :sad: Finished my game of Metroid Fusion now. That SA-X chase sequence is so much easier when you remember how to drop power bombs. Dunno why it seemed so hard last time. I just picked it up and beat it on my second try. Would have done it on the first, but I couldn't remember how to drop the power bombs. Now I need to find something new to play.

I managed to finish my hard run of Metroid Zero Mission. Only had a 66% item collection rate. I really thought I had less than that, but I guess it's just the bonuses for each tank were halved. I only had 600 health, 64 missles, 6 Super Missles and a single Super Bomb. It felt like I had a lot fewer items than I did. Maybe now I should finish my hard run of Fusion. I stopped that run a couple months ago right after the trip into the station power core. The SA-X chase sequence was killing me.

How confusing. One of these days Cant will have to straighten out all us alts.

"Man, do I need a haircut!" Sorry that was me. I think you have your wires crossed.

I've done that with several games. I've managed to work my way down from God Mode to multiplying ammo capacity by 10. Shotguns with 500 ammo clips makes me feel brave.

Microsoft has apparently released a couple of mini-service packs to fix a number of problems with Vista. Just thought that those of you using Vista might like to hear about this.

I'm finishing up a hard run of Metroid Zero Mission that I started several months ago. I just beat Mother Brain.

There shouldn't be any performance benefit other than it not dying.

It's the same here. I just never used my locker. If it wasn't in my backpack, then I didn't need it.

I was exaggerating at little bit. It didn't start for me until grade seven which would have only been two years before I started high school. Up until that time we had all our classes in one room and could therefore just keep everything in our desks, except for pencils, because people were jerks and kept stealing mine. :sad:

Just how much are we talking about here? My backpack was never lighter than 40 pounds throughout my high school career. Wasn't much lighter during elementary.

If Steam would just recognize my boxed version of the games...

Deraldin Apparently I'm "Teh Suck."

You can kill the jester? Ha! That's great. I'd never bothered wailing on him long enough to find out. I always stopped at "I hurt, I huuuuuurt!" It's cool to know it can be done, at least. Yeah, there was a report on the official forums somewhere about some guy that beat on the Jester for about an hour before he died.

I went to see the Bourne Ultimatum yesterday afternoon. I really liked the movie, but I do think that the shaky cam was horribly overused. I really didn't mind it in the action scenes, but there is absolutely no reason for them to be used in every effing dialogue scene as well!

I agree entirely with this post. Blocks are awesome. I remember we had these big wooden blocks. They came in rectangles, squares, triangles (of various types!), cylinders and more! I'd spend my entire free play time building huge perfectly symmetrical buildings, usually they ended up taller than I was, made all the more impressive because the buildings I made were really two dimensional and thus more likely to fall over. I fondly remember lunch times at my pre-school/daycare thing. We had awesome food there. Everyday a different person was chosen to help one of the teachers go bring lunch in for everyone. You would get to walk through the huge office building to the kitchen and help push the huge cart with all the food. I remember the day that I got to help. We had quiche that day. There are a number of other things that I can remember, like always being the last one up after nap time, because the teachers couldn't wake me up without shaking me. EDIT: Xard: I was barely three when I started pre-school.

You can also try killing Gnarl. If you target him and just keep whacking away I think you can kill him just like the jester. They aren't invincible, but the do have about a million health each...

It's : sad : instead. :sad:

Got fed up waiting for a good map in Civ4 so I took the first one that popped up this time. I ended up sharing a continent that covered half the map with 5 other civs. I managed to expand relatively quickly and pickup a good quarter of the continent before I was boxed in. I had one civ on my right about 15 squares from my capital, an inland sea about the same distance on my left, the northern coast of the island about 10 spaces north of me and a large mountain range 15 spaces south of me. I have 15 cities evenly spaced out in this area and all of them heavily built up with at least 10 people in each except for one which is being squeezed by a desert and the neighbouring civs cultural border on the other side so it doesn't have a lot of food production. I'd like to see other civs take the relative strengths of units into account when they decide to declare war on you. Yes, you outnumber me 2-1, but my units are twice as strong as yours are. Maybe attacking me is not such a great idea? When your 20 unit stack fails to take a city garrisoned by two units, maybe your picked a fight with the wrong guy. All that said, I reached the 1800's and now the game is taking to long to play out each turn so it's time to quit that map. I think for the next game I'll cut the world size in half and go with a single continent.

Haha! Bok only has a 5.7 for CPU score!

I don't really have a problem with it in the earlier games, but I find it a lot more difficult to wage war on others in Civ 4. The extra bonuses to defense that cities get really slows you down. It's impossible to really blitz an opponent because you take 2-3 turns per city you take + the time it takes you to move between cities. I think they should get rid of the commando ability and give everyone the ability to use roads no matter whose borders they are in. Why can't you use them, just because they aren't yours? Do the magically disappear when you try to use them? I know that they put all the civs in the old world when you play on a Terra map, but I don't think they do it on any other map types. They do tend to cluster though. You may get 2 or 3 on one continent and 8 on the other, but that's about it as far as I've noticed. I think the second game is still my most played Civilization game, although I always had the "Test of Time" version of it had an expanded space race option. The game didn't end once you reached Alpha Centauri, but kept going so you could colonize the new planet while conquering your neighboring civs back on Earth. It also had a second tech tree that was unlocked once you reached the planet. I don't think you can really say that the Civilization games have been getting shallower as time goes on. IMO, with the exception of Alpha Centauri-to-Civ 3 transition, they've been getting more and more complex. Maybe because they are fun?

How does it feel to play something other than Fallout for a change? Also, I've decided that Civ4 games on Marathon speed is no fun. Once you get going and have a half dozen cities I think it would be fun, but when it takes 3 hours to get there during which the vast majority of your time is spent repeatedly pressing "End Turn" it just doesn't seem worth it. I think I'll be sticking with Epic speed.