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.
I guess I'm lucky that I generally like the same things as my brother and also play a lot of games with my Dad...
Generally only point and clicks because he can't really play anything else...
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.
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.
1) Video games are for kids. (not they're not, but my parents think so)
2) It's easier to find things to talk to people about when you have common interests with them. You don't care much for things they like; they don't care much for things you like. It's easy to see how it can be awkward, but it happens.
Now, if your girlfriend can't come to appreciate you for liking what you like, then that's an issue (though some friendly picking-on can still occur).
You don't get to choose your family. You just have to cope and pretend to be civil at Thanksgiving. Pick other people to share interests with.
And you know that Play4Real site is legendary for its dedicated journalism and fishing out the truth. However, I was thinking that if it is true that video games are much easier these days than they used to be, it's probably a result of the competitive environment.
In the early days, pay-to-play arcades were king. At a quarter to 50 cents per game, their job was to lure you in by being easy at first, then get progressively harder to try to get you addicted to them. They couldn't stay easy, or you'd spend all day on just one quarter, which isn't good for revenue, and they couldn't be too hard, or you wouldn't play them a second time.
The first home consoles had to compete with the arcades. They were geared toward people who liked the arcades, and if you were going to pay $200 for a home system, then $40 a game or so, you'd have to play it enough times to amortize out the quarter per game you otherwise would have paid. So they were made like the arcade games, as close as their primitive CPUs and graphics could manage.
These days, arcades aren't as big a deal, so they don't factor in much to game design. Now people buy a game and want to get their money's worth by being able to "complete" it. A game too hard to complete isn't going to result in huge profits for the makers. No one will buy Grand Theft Auto part 28 if they can't finish Grand Theft Auto part 27.
So if you want a challenge, find the old stuff. It isn't as pretty, but it will keep you busier.
There is a version of Super Mario All-Stars that comes with Super Mario World.
of course, that means you'd be using this controller:
not this one:
Except I have incredibly clear memories of the second controller. Like, I know that was the one I used. And I have really clear memories of playing with Yoshi. Would it have been possible to have some weird hybrid where an older controller was used with a newer machine? Because I'm really sure I've never used the top one.
1) Video games are for kids. (not they're not, but my parents think so)
2) It's easier to find things to talk to people about when you have common interests with them. You don't care much for things they like; they don't care much for things you like. It's easy to see how it can be awkward, but it happens.
Now, if your girlfriend can't come to appreciate you for liking what you like, then that's an issue (though some friendly picking-on can still occur).
She appreciates me enough to stick with me even though my only job is working on adventure games, and boy will she regret that in time I'm sure.
Then again it isn't because she likes games, although she does like some few examples, it's because she's been treated like shit her whole life by her family up until meeting me and mine, and I don't think she wants to give up on people who will certainly treat her like a person who deserves respect. Her family are a collection of the worst fucking people on the planet, with maybe three exceptions, two of which are little kids her family passed from parent to parent until their druggy mother got out of prison, at which point they ended up back with her. They all hate me and think I'm responsible for my girlfriend going to Hell. Her Dad hates all ethnicities. I can get over pretty much any difference between us when I know that my love for her gave her the courage to get away from those people and seek a better life with me, even if that life is in a dumpster.
It just sucks to not be able to discuss things with my parents or siblings or anyone. My fiance will try her best to listen to me, but I know she's only interested in what I'm saying because I'm saying it. She always surprises me, though. She doesn't talk about nerdy things she loves because she doesn't think they're important, so I typically find out she likes Dr. Horrible or Star Trek or Abbott and Costello or Charlie Chaplin by accident.
Except I have incredibly clear memories of the second controller. Like, I know that was the one I used. And I have really clear memories of playing with Yoshi. Would it have been possible to have some weird hybrid where an older controller was used with a newer machine? Because I'm really sure I've never used the top one.
There was never a rectangle controller for the Super Nintendo, only for the Nintendo Entertainment System. And the only NES game Yoshi ever appeared in was a mediocre Tetris-inspired game called Yoshi, released late in the NES's lifecycle. Yoshi's earliest appearance was in Super Mario World for the SNES.
Does this look like the game you played as Yoshi in?
There was never a rectangle controller for the Super Nintendo, only for the Nintendo Entertainment System. And the only NES game Yoshi ever appeared in was a mediocre Tetris-inspired game called Yoshi, released late in the NES's lifecycle. Yoshi's earliest appearance was in Super Mario World for the SNES.
Does this look like the game you played as Yoshi in?
Yep. That looks like it. Except I never had that many lives. XP
My main memory is of jumping off Yoshi when I didn't mean to and then chasing him around the screen to try to get back on.
So one of the reasons it took me and my dad so long to get started on the bathroom during his vacation (we started the day after the halfway point, after a good 9 days) was because of a skunk problem. My dad was coming home from somewhere one morning and saw the neighbors' cat run out of our bushes, followed by two baby skunks. A day or two later, he saw one of the babies crawl under our front porch. We shoved ammonia soaked rags under the porch to drive the skunks out. Another day after that, we saw the two babies and the mom as we were coming home one night, but weren't in time to block access to the den before one of them got in. After that, my dad shot a can of pepper spray down the hole. No skunks came out, so we assumed the ammonia had worked. We blocked the hole a couple days later.
Within the last hour, I put the dogs out to go to the bathroom before bed. I heard them barking like crazy and went out to see what was up. To my horror, I found that a skunk had entered the back yard (it must've burrowed, as skunks are horrible climbers*), and I frantically started calling the dogs back. Too late. Max had gotten sprayed. My dad and I just finished giving him a bath, first in a mixture of peroxide, baking soda, and hand soap, then in puppy shampoo. The smell is definitely diminished, but it's still there, and I have to sleep next to him because I have nowhere else to put him. Hopefully it won't be too bad. Tomorrow, we have to go out and buy a new collar.
What's even more concerning than the smell is that skunks are the number one carrier of rabies along the Front Range. It appears that Max and Lexi only barked at it and pinned it up against the fence, and they don't appear to have gotten into a fight with it, so they should be okay for now, but their vaccinations are out of date and I don't want anything happening to them.
Tomorrow, we're going to have to do our best to get the skunk out of the yard. My dad's thinking BB gun. Aside from any other problems I have with that (ethics aside, a dead skunk is going to be an awful smell), I think a BB gun won't be enough to kill it, just to piss it off. I'll end up having to make a trip to the store for a shitload of peroxide and baking soda.
*My dad and I have done ridiculous amounts of skunk research, hence a good chunk of those 9 days that was lost. Now we both know way more than any normal person should need to know about skunks.
And here I thought you were a gamer. Or like to watch movies. Or TV. Or read comics. Or do anything.
Indeed, I haven't watched TV for three years now. I don't miss it at all. German 'free' TV is just crap and I don't want anything to do with it.
I'd rather have a bit of nudity in my games and movies than a buttload of violence. And even then - there's some sick shit in some of the movies I like. None of them has been 'censored' for a German audience. I'm not sure how many of the games I've played were censored; of the adventure games, I can say with certainty that none of them were. Of the RPGs, hardly any. Were even any cuts applied to Dragon Age? If not, then indeed probably none of the games presently in my possession were censored.
As to the censorship of comics... errrrr, was any comic in the last 15 years even censored in any way? Seriously - we never had the kind of CCA bullshit the American market had to go through before comics even had the chance to become a free form of art.
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Well... Same here.
Generally only point and clicks because he can't really play anything else...
They might have a point with both of those.
If only Steam wasn't that great I'd play more games.
I had a girlfriend like that.
2) It's easier to find things to talk to people about when you have common interests with them. You don't care much for things they like; they don't care much for things you like. It's easy to see how it can be awkward, but it happens.
Now, if your girlfriend can't come to appreciate you for liking what you like, then that's an issue (though some friendly picking-on can still occur).
And you know that Play4Real site is legendary for its dedicated journalism and fishing out the truth. However, I was thinking that if it is true that video games are much easier these days than they used to be, it's probably a result of the competitive environment.
In the early days, pay-to-play arcades were king. At a quarter to 50 cents per game, their job was to lure you in by being easy at first, then get progressively harder to try to get you addicted to them. They couldn't stay easy, or you'd spend all day on just one quarter, which isn't good for revenue, and they couldn't be too hard, or you wouldn't play them a second time.
The first home consoles had to compete with the arcades. They were geared toward people who liked the arcades, and if you were going to pay $200 for a home system, then $40 a game or so, you'd have to play it enough times to amortize out the quarter per game you otherwise would have paid. So they were made like the arcade games, as close as their primitive CPUs and graphics could manage.
These days, arcades aren't as big a deal, so they don't factor in much to game design. Now people buy a game and want to get their money's worth by being able to "complete" it. A game too hard to complete isn't going to result in huge profits for the makers. No one will buy Grand Theft Auto part 28 if they can't finish Grand Theft Auto part 27.
So if you want a challenge, find the old stuff. It isn't as pretty, but it will keep you busier.
Except I have incredibly clear memories of the second controller. Like, I know that was the one I used. And I have really clear memories of playing with Yoshi. Would it have been possible to have some weird hybrid where an older controller was used with a newer machine? Because I'm really sure I've never used the top one.
Then again it isn't because she likes games, although she does like some few examples, it's because she's been treated like shit her whole life by her family up until meeting me and mine, and I don't think she wants to give up on people who will certainly treat her like a person who deserves respect. Her family are a collection of the worst fucking people on the planet, with maybe three exceptions, two of which are little kids her family passed from parent to parent until their druggy mother got out of prison, at which point they ended up back with her. They all hate me and think I'm responsible for my girlfriend going to Hell. Her Dad hates all ethnicities. I can get over pretty much any difference between us when I know that my love for her gave her the courage to get away from those people and seek a better life with me, even if that life is in a dumpster.
It just sucks to not be able to discuss things with my parents or siblings or anyone. My fiance will try her best to listen to me, but I know she's only interested in what I'm saying because I'm saying it. She always surprises me, though. She doesn't talk about nerdy things she loves because she doesn't think they're important, so I typically find out she likes Dr. Horrible or Star Trek or Abbott and Costello or Charlie Chaplin by accident.
There was never a rectangle controller for the Super Nintendo, only for the Nintendo Entertainment System. And the only NES game Yoshi ever appeared in was a mediocre Tetris-inspired game called Yoshi, released late in the NES's lifecycle. Yoshi's earliest appearance was in Super Mario World for the SNES.
Does this look like the game you played as Yoshi in?
Also, I found this:
And now I want it. I have the Sega Genesis version and I love it.
Seriously. This is a thing.
So many awesome ideas for a show, and Fox goes with a modern interpretation of Sleepy fucking Hollow.
...I have no words.
Yep. That looks like it. Except I never had that many lives. XP
My main memory is of jumping off Yoshi when I didn't mean to and then chasing him around the screen to try to get back on.
Within the last hour, I put the dogs out to go to the bathroom before bed. I heard them barking like crazy and went out to see what was up. To my horror, I found that a skunk had entered the back yard (it must've burrowed, as skunks are horrible climbers*), and I frantically started calling the dogs back. Too late. Max had gotten sprayed. My dad and I just finished giving him a bath, first in a mixture of peroxide, baking soda, and hand soap, then in puppy shampoo. The smell is definitely diminished, but it's still there, and I have to sleep next to him because I have nowhere else to put him. Hopefully it won't be too bad. Tomorrow, we have to go out and buy a new collar.
What's even more concerning than the smell is that skunks are the number one carrier of rabies along the Front Range. It appears that Max and Lexi only barked at it and pinned it up against the fence, and they don't appear to have gotten into a fight with it, so they should be okay for now, but their vaccinations are out of date and I don't want anything happening to them.
Tomorrow, we're going to have to do our best to get the skunk out of the yard. My dad's thinking BB gun. Aside from any other problems I have with that (ethics aside, a dead skunk is going to be an awful smell), I think a BB gun won't be enough to kill it, just to piss it off. I'll end up having to make a trip to the store for a shitload of peroxide and baking soda.
*My dad and I have done ridiculous amounts of skunk research, hence a good chunk of those 9 days that was lost. Now we both know way more than any normal person should need to know about skunks.
I will neither confirm nor deny that living in Germany sucks, but at least we don't have skunks.
I'd take skunks over censorship.
That said, one of the really bad things about Germany is the tobacco lobby's absurd hold on politics.
Indeed, I haven't watched TV for three years now. I don't miss it at all. German 'free' TV is just crap and I don't want anything to do with it.
I'd rather have a bit of nudity in my games and movies than a buttload of violence. And even then - there's some sick shit in some of the movies I like. None of them has been 'censored' for a German audience. I'm not sure how many of the games I've played were censored; of the adventure games, I can say with certainty that none of them were. Of the RPGs, hardly any. Were even any cuts applied to Dragon Age? If not, then indeed probably none of the games presently in my possession were censored.
As to the censorship of comics... errrrr, was any comic in the last 15 years even censored in any way? Seriously - we never had the kind of CCA bullshit the American market had to go through before comics even had the chance to become a free form of art.
Squirt on her. HARHARHARHARHAR
I'd rather have a bowl of Coco pops.
Bob Gale??
George Burns.
The adventure game puzzle, according to most people.
I regret nothing.
He also does soft-shoe.
These 2 vids are by far my favorite Game Grumps animations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgI-EjRiGck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjJb35toNmc