The "whatever's on your mind" thread 1.3

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  • edited July 2013
    Cook any good meals recently, guru?
  • edited July 2013
    I hear the drywall parfait is to die for.
  • edited July 2013
    Giant Tope wrote: »
    Cook any good meals recently, guru?

    Been too busy to cook anything lately. The best I've done recently was cooking jambalaya out of a box last night. The worst? Frozen pizza because I was too exhausted to do anything harder.

    Oh, I did get to do some delicious baked trout just before the bathroom project started. Wrapped in foil with lemon pepper, dill, onion, butter, and lemon juice, with some long grain and wild rice. That was pretty awesome.
  • edited July 2013
    I wrote a whole long screed about how I hate everyone. The truth is, I do. And the truth is, people that might remotely identify with what I'm saying, like Fawful, don't really know. You don't know what it is to wish for the deaths of people you know. Maybe you do. Most don't. Most don't know what it is to want every person you're acquainted with to die. I struggle. Every day. To hold back the hatred in my heart. To hold back the fold of anger I feel toward people. To tell people, be yourself. When I hate who you are. I don't know you, but I hate you. I want you to die. I wish you would cease to exist, and the parents that birthed you would be erased from history.

    Hatred. Pure, real hatred. I don't want to have it. I don't want to live with it. I'm trying so hard to control it. I live with people that deal in politics, policy, shit that actually influences the lives of thousands and millions. And I fight every day to restrain this hatred I have for everything. I hate so much. I hate so much. But I know it's not right.

    It's so damned hard for me to live by the Golden Rule. That's the fucking rule of Christ got dangit. Love others as you love yourself. Do to them as you'd do to you. My instinct is to want you to die. But that's not right. It's not moral. So I fight to keep my instincts under control.

    For some people. The instinct to hate. To want death. Is stronger than the instinct for life. To want love. I am fighting for life. I don't want this hatred in my heart.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited July 2013
    :eek:

    Your next step would be to complain about back pain, your exploding car and the Amish on your roof.
  • edited July 2013
    Don't forget to complain about the present lack of bacon.
  • edited July 2013
    As long as I'm not on that list, I'm good with it. I'm already on too many lists as it is. Even Santa's death list, and he's been checking it twice!

    I hate people sometimes, and I definitely get angry a lot. I've thought about murder before. Then what? It's no answer. Death isn't a place you can affect, so why send people there. That's not a solution. Anger is one of the most primitive emotions we have, and I'm not sure why it would ever be necessary. Maybe defensively. I do understand where you're coming from, and I'm sure if I knew the people around you, I'd hate them too. Or find them uncomfortable. I'm in a state full of people I don't like and I know more people in it who hate me than like me.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited July 2013
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Don't forget to complain about the present lack of bacon.

    There, uhh, was a lot of bacon in that new forum.
  • edited July 2013
    So I finally got US Netflix sorted.
    So any recommendations now that the library is alot bigger? XD
  • edited July 2013
    There, uhh, was a lot of bacon in that new forum.

    Don't remind me of that.
  • edited July 2013
    http://www.p4rgaming.com/majority-of-gamers-today-cant-finish-level-1-in-super-mario-bros/

    I don't know if you guys have ever seen that but. My god... O_0

    EDIT: Thats probably satire, but I think many of us probably can easily believe that.
  • edited July 2013
    Pretty sure it's satire, but with no instruction, I'd believe it. Do you know how long it took me to be "okay" with jumping down an unseen area as games started changing? For someone picking up the game for the first time, yeah, I'd completely believe someone not making it through the first level the first time.
  • edited July 2013
    The hell? Even me as a five year old, playing for a few hours every other month could get about two thirds of the way through World 1 before someone else took up my save slot.

    Yeah, it may be a satire, but it's an easily believable one, especially given reactions to similar games that have come out more recently.
  • edited July 2013
    save slot?

    You're talking about Mario All-Stars, right?
    The original Super Mario Bros. didn't have save slots. It didn't even have (an obvious) way to continue after you lost all your lives.
  • edited July 2013
    On the "satire" point, just so you know, their linked source takes advantage of the language barrier. Super Mario Bros. and the concept of difficulty aren't mentioned at all.
  • edited July 2013
    Oh, I did get to do some delicious baked trout just before the bathroom project started. Wrapped in foil with lemon pepper, dill, onion, butter, and lemon juice, with some long grain and wild rice. That was pretty awesome.

    Was that from your fishing trip? Before my weird fish problems, I used to go fishing with my dad and remembered liking trout a lot. Then again, he used to deep fry it, and it's pretty hard to get a kid to not like deep fried anything.
  • edited July 2013
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    save slot?

    You're talking about Mario All-Stars, right?
    The original Super Mario Bros. didn't have save slots. It didn't even have (an obvious) way to continue after you lost all your lives.

    The days of having to leave the system on and unscrewing the coaxial cable.
    Okay, so maybe some more recent innovations were for the better.
  • edited July 2013
    Johro wrote: »
    Pretty sure it's satire, but with no instruction, I'd believe it. Do you know how long it took me to be "okay" with jumping down an unseen area as games started changing? For someone picking up the game for the first time, yeah, I'd completely believe someone not making it through the first level the first time.

    Tried the 3ds version and it feels unusually floaty. I have to train to get back to my old shape in this game. That's not a fault of the game. It's mine.
    But then again look at the rest of the articles on the site and it's clearly satire.
  • edited July 2013
    Johro wrote: »
    The days of having to leave the system on and unscrewing the coaxial cable.
    Okay, so maybe some more recent innovations were for the better.
    Many tech ones are.

    Digital(Discs, downloads, coax) is better than analog(cartridges, arcade boards, HDMI). Wireless controllers with next to no latency are better than wired ones. Video trailers are better than magazine ads(there was television, but do you think you'd get a TV spot for a niche import in '89? MAYBE if you were in the bootleg tape scene). Digitally distributed demos are better than demo discs in magazines or something like Sega Channel. Etc etc soforth.
  • edited July 2013
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    save slot?

    You're talking about Mario All-Stars, right?
    The original Super Mario Bros. didn't have save slots. It didn't even have (an obvious) way to continue after you lost all your lives.

    I honestly have no idea what I was playing. I know it was Mario and it was on the NES, because I definitely remember that rectangular controller. I know that it had a bunch of different games on a single disk that you could alternate between and that I always played the one with Yoshi in it because I was a kid and liked Yoshi. I know I was pretty terrible but still managed to make it through about a dozen levels.

    And that's about it.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited July 2013
    DAISHI wrote: »
    I met a gorgeous beautiful black woman at the club last night.

    Please dear God. Please. LET THIS ONE WORK OUT.
    WarpSpeed wrote: »
    Whatever you've been doing that's been scaring off all the other women, try something different.
    DAISHI wrote: »
    Most don't know what it is to want every person you're acquainted with to die. [...] I don't know you, but I hate you. I want you to die.

    We may have hit upon the issue here.
  • edited July 2013
    I honestly have no idea what I was playing. I know it was Mario and it was on the NES, because I definitely remember that rectangular controller. I know that it had a bunch of different games on a single disk that you could alternate between and that I always played the one with Yoshi in it because I was a kid and liked Yoshi. I know I was pretty terrible but still managed to make it through about a dozen levels.

    And that's about it.

    Definitely SNES. Yoshi was never on NES. That was almost certainly All-Stars.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited July 2013
    http://www.p4rgaming.com/majority-of-gamers-today-cant-finish-level-1-in-super-mario-bros/

    I don't know if you guys have ever seen that but. My god... O_0

    EDIT: Thats probably satire, but I think many of us probably can easily believe that.


    NO!! That site is NOT satire. It's the truth!! The ugly truths no one wants to hear!

    http://www.p4rgaming.com/valve-reveals-steam-users-spend-more-time-buying-games-than-playing-them/

    http://www.p4rgaming.com/tim-schafer-claims-he-just-lost-2-5-million-dollars-from-broken-age-kickstarter/
  • edited July 2013
    inb4 DAISHI says Super Mario Bros. is archaic and should be given an easy mode.
  • edited July 2013
    inb4 DAISHI says Super Mario Bros. is archaic and should be given an easy mode.

    There is an easy mode, it is called New Super Mario Bros :p
  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited July 2013
    I'm actually better now at gaming then I was when I was a kid. I can play through all three NES Super Mario games easily, whereas the games used to give me a huge amount of trouble in thier final worlds (particularly the final levels in the original Super Mario Bros.).

    I finally completed the light world of Super Meat Boy. :D I highly doubt my younger self would have been able to do that.
  • edited July 2013
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    There is an easy mode, it is called New Super Mario Bros :p

    It must be a masterpiece then.
  • edited July 2013
    Trying to put my The Walking Dead Foil Badge on the Steam Market Place for over an hour now and it constantly fails because the servers are overloaded. This couldn't have come in a worse moment.
  • edited July 2013
    I need to admit that I have a problem when I had to go to 3 different coffee houses to pick up very specific items by different roasters when normal people can just pick up folgers at a safeway
  • edited July 2013
    It must be a masterpiece then.

    It surely is. It even has the "NEW" in the title. Because new is always better.
  • edited July 2013
    Giant Tope wrote: »
    Was that from your fishing trip? Before my weird fish problems, I used to go fishing with my dad and remembered liking trout a lot. Then again, he used to deep fry it, and it's pretty hard to get a kid to not like deep fried anything.

    Yeah, that was from our second fishing trip recently. After the first trip, my dad insisted that we fry our fish. I used to love fried fish when I was little, but that was when my mom would take the time to fillet the fish. I wasn't thrilled with it the way my dad fried it whole. After the second trip, I insisted we bake it the way my mom used to. The lemon pepper and dill were really awesome flavors with the trout.
  • edited July 2013
    I just realised that I live in Germany.
    Wiltshire
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    Germany

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  • edited July 2013
    I honestly have no idea what I was playing. I know it was Mario and it was on the NES, because I definitely remember that rectangular controller. I know that it had a bunch of different games on a single disk that you could alternate between and that I always played the one with Yoshi in it because I was a kid and liked Yoshi. I know I was pretty terrible but still managed to make it through about a dozen levels.

    And that's about it.
    Yoshi appeared on Super Mario World for the SNES.

    There is a version of Super Mario All-Stars that comes with Super Mario World.

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    of course, that means you'd be using this controller:

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    not this one:

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  • edited July 2013
    Friar wrote: »
    I just realised that I live in Germany.
    I hope you realize now that it sucks to live in Germany.
  • edited July 2013
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    Trying to put my The Walking Dead Foil Badge on the Steam Market Place for over an hour now and it constantly fails because the servers are overloaded. This couldn't have come in a worse moment.

    I crafted the badge hoping I'd get Clementime which was like $10 at the time, but instead I got Carley :/
  • edited July 2013
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    I crafted the badge hoping I'd get Clementime which was like $10 at the time, but instead I got Carley :/

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  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited July 2013
    Oh no. The US zonk prices were so much better. That up there is just the sissy version of a zonk.

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  • edited July 2013
    TIL let's make a deal is a thing internationally
  • edited July 2013
    Yes. That woman looks horrible.
  • edited July 2013
    Why doesn't my family like or try to like or understand the things that I like. They scoff at everything I like. And act condescending about it. I hate it. I don't even want to talk about my interests with them.
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