"Final" Fantasy, obvs

Can't quite think of ten, so I'll add cool ones as I think of them.

Rico Rodriguez's grappling hook from any of the Just Cause games would be a total game changer though. In fact in game terms it IS such a "game" changer that I think all 3D games should have one! It makes a real difference to the feeling of freedom in a game!

A Daedric one handed sword from Skyrim. They just look cool and they're pretty damned sharp as well.

FF8's battle/boss themes were OK, but sounded a bit like watered down and not quite as good versions of what was in FF7. The Man with the Machine Gun (the fight theme for the Laguna parts) made up for that though, by being one of my favourite FF tunes of them all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jho-peCAKs

Nice intro, and your list of favourites looks like you should find stuff to talk about here since those games have a lot of fans here.

Unless you're Brosauce!

Cliched as it's gonna sound, it really is a voice for the people too. It's interesting reading people's reactions to what's going on in Syria, there is a massive amount of cynicism about it, 'cos people have looked up stuff beyond what their news has told them, and shared their findings on the comment sections. I remember before the internet was a thing that was easy to get, the only news we had was what we heard on TV or read in a paper. Now we have SO much stuff to look into in massive detail from ALL sides on nearly every topic available. It's fantastic for learning stuff, and related to that there is a ton of useful practical instructional vids on Youtube. Last weekend I had Youtube on my phone, watching a vid and pausing it, on how to remove the inlet manifold of my car to clean everything inside. Made it MUCH easier than reading a text document would have done anyway, 'cos there were a load of connectors and hoses needed removing, the vid showed me a few I'd have missed, and a few others I'd have probably removed that I didn't need to. Technology is amazing, the practicality of having an internet, gaming device, music/video player and storage, GPS navigation etc. in something the size of a mobile phone still impresses me. It's WAY more than just a "tech novelty" now.

I avoid all this by not watching regular TV news, it just annoys me and they all have some bias or another.

Monkei, Trump is a better option than that Cruz bible-psycho, I thought! I can't believe how republicans like those guys make big claims that'll set the American society back decades though, like God-fearing stuff like being anti-choice (abortion) and anti gay marriage, like they actually want to oppress and control certain people and give them different rights, and they're saying it like it's a good thing!

BTW, holy CRAP at the spambots attack! I wish NASA would fix that one first!

I think we can at least agree that Mr. President George "dubb-ya" played a significant role in that, and everyone else after the fact is still trying to pick up all the pieces from the mess he had a huge hand in creating.

It goes all the way back to his father, but Clinton and Obama have been even worse. None of them have defended our border, constitution, culture, economy, and most importantly, people. Enough with career politicians. 90% of them are corrupt, elitist trash.

I agree with what you guys are saying (as in, NASA is more important than helping turn Syria into rubble), but to be fair, a lot of technology also comes from expensive military-related undertakings. Especially during war time (or even cold war time, lots of cool stuff was developed back then too).

Maybe I'm being misunderstood here. I support increased funding of our military, but we never should have gone into the Middle East in 2003, and we shouldn't go back now. Sending those rebels (who are probably part of ISIS) weapons was an absolute mistake, just like when we left the incompetent Iraqis all those (((Abrams)))' and other vehicles and weapons when we pulled out. Fuck Syria, they can kill each other for another 50 years for all I care, and Russia can do what they like there.

Well I agree with all that (especially that it all was re-kicked off in 2003), but didn't wanna say since I thought you would disagree with it sounding a bit "lefty". ;-)
Also, last time I brought this up, someone who obviously worked in some sort of intelligence job bounced in and owned me. :sad:

One of the things I like about Trump is that he says he kind of agrees with us on this issue too (one of the other things I also like is what you touched on, he isn't a "career politician", he's a businessman so probably has a lot more real world experience than most senior political figures).

But Syria didn't happen by accident, I'm not sure where the truth and conspiracy lines sit, but quite a lot of the conspiracies are believable and I personally believe we (the West) have had a lot to do with it. Granted I'm a bit leftist, but to me the humanitarian side is the worst, we clandestinely sneaked in and started helping organise a revolution. Only Assad held on for a lot longer than they thought he would. But his country was in disarray. This helped ISIS come in (and IMO we've had a hand in them, too, some of ISIS came from the remains of Iraq.*) and take advantage, then the Russians come along (though at least they were invited!) and shit REALLY kicks off. Populace have enough, jump on boats to the EU. All our messing about has caused 1m+ people to have to get the fuck out of their own country. To be honest I think Europe and the UK deserve it, if they hadn't meddled in the Middle East, they'd not have to deal with so many pissed off Muslims on their doorsteps.
Also the way we turn a blind eye to Turkey and Saudi "apparently" giving help to ISIS as well, so much corruption and hypocrisy, and in mainstream media they tell it to us with such blatant falseness.

You know it's a twisted set of events when Hezbollah and the Russians are pretty much the good guys! Also, ISIS must be pretty scummy if even Hezbollah would rather help the leader of the country than help ISIS! (though Syria does "support" Hezbollah, which may be the reason they wanted rid of Assad so much?)

* The Iraqi army was legendary for its crapness, with soldiers surrendering when US forces came along. How is it when they turn into religious nutters sleeping in caves, they become so unafraid of the West all of a sudden?!

Trump vs Hitler..? :lol:

Americans wouldn't stand for that sorta authoritarianism anyway I bet, wasn't the guns part of the constitution set up for that purpose, pretty much?

I dunno. I'd still choose Trump over that sleazy nutjob Ted Cruz anyday! Though I'd probably also still choose Hitler over Ted Cruz any day, too. :lol:

Bet he has an iPhone 6 as well...

This new spambot, WTF is the point in spamming an English language dominated forum with that language they're using!?

Where the fucking fuck did the member, South Carmain, go? He always had an insightful and wise view on events...

Peter wrote: I will see it tomorrow night at midnight. Not going in to love it or hate it, I will remain just as a movie goer should. A blank slate.

Then...

Peter wrote:

This movie can fucking die.

Space X rocket successfully re-enters Earth's atmosphere and lands itself on a barge, in the sea;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPGUQySBikQ

:shock: If this is real and not sped up footage, then IMO it's damned impressive!

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/8/11392138/spacex-landing-success-falcon-9-rocket-barge-at-sea

Paypal, Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX....Elon Musk is quite an impressive person..!

First world problems. Life must be pretty sweet for a LOT of people if something as innocent as a change in a banknote has them taking to the internet in indignation.

Does this mean that the white supremacists will have to do all their cash deals without twenties from when this starts to happen!? :lol:

Oh yeah, Scotland also has the original town/city called Aberdeen that the Aberdeen Harbour in Hong Kong featured in Shenmue 2 has sort of taken its name from. :D

Your travelling life sounds fantastic, well done! 8)

On a side note I can see why a percentage of Americans don't have a passport/have never left the USA. It's such a huge place that there is like, everything to see and do there, from baking hot desert through rich fertile agricultural land to cold and mountainous, all sorts of cool shit like huge national parks that would probably take someone years alone to properly explore, it is geographically one epic continent!

^Sorry OL but you must have not been on the internet this past year.

We have to hate everything Konami does no matter what and not give it any rational thought. Just thought I'd let you know so you don't embarrass yourself anymore.

TBH every topic discussed just about anywhere on the whole internet seems to end up like that. You HAVE to either love or hate something. You DEFINITELY cannot like something but then also say good things about a competitor! Divisionism FTW!

Guylians are indeed brilliant.


Going to the cheaper end of the scale, I think these are immense;

Yep, the publicist and propaganda types did latch onto it pretty damned quickly. The internet is great though in that you're NOT limited to your selection of brainwashing-enabled TV news or newspapers, you can go off and find your own stuff. I quite like some comment sections for this reason, you can immediately go there and argue about how one sided the story you have just read is. I also hate the comment sections too though for showing just how many people ARE brainwashed dummies who believe the media and will argue with full vitriol and thumb-down tactics if you dare be more enlightened than them!

I think people in general are slowly becoming more aware, it will take a long time before they realise pretty much everything we're told is bullshit, or at least presented in a style that's as good as bullshit, but I think more and more will latch on...

Do they have DPD over there? They are a marvellous delivery company!

To be fair the regular brown UPS seems pretty decent most of the time too though...

south carmain wrote: Robbing people at knifepoint like ren? oh wait that's already happening.

The martial arts didn't help this poor bastard much either

Oh, and lol@topic!

Meh, we have the internet, so actually finding decent stuff you like has never been easier, you have literally a whole world of it from every age to search through!

OL is right when he says people have always had this complaint and music changes. And its funny that the original poster said that for him (or her) that music fell off in the 2000s because in the early 2000s most made the switch from analog recording to digital recording. It used to be you needed $100,000 worth of equipment to record indusry level music. now a days it only takes about $2,000. Before if you wanted reverb you had a machine that did that. You want an 808 in your song? better have an 808 machine. now a days all of these gadgets are done by a single recording program thats on a single computer so the whole recording process is easier to do and more accessible to the average joe blow. This is part of why music has changed so much in the past 16ish years. This is also why professional recording studios world wide are shutting down. People are creating music at home now instead. hardware being replaced by software gave birth to plugins like autotune, time correction etc... Before if you needed a singer he/she better be able to sing. Your drummer better actually be able to keep time and stay on beat, but now its more of a "well lets just get it laid down then we'll correct it later" approach. This new approach makes scouting for talent completely different. Screw talent! we'll digitally create talent. How marketable is the artist? Is the artist attractive? etc... These are the things that matter now. Because theres so many people recording from home and going viral online from their amateur shit projects, their tasteless talentless music becomes a trend to the point that even the major artists start to emulate it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZjmliqhZ-c

When I went to find the URL for that I noticed I'd already liked it! :lol:

Do any of you gals have a Huawei phone? I gotta admit I'm in love with iOS but I'm reading shit about this Huawei P9 and I'm finna jump ship.

It's gonna be my next phone (it's also sold as an Honor Hsomenumber). China is on a steep learning curve, they make some really good and high quality shit for much cheapness now.

Holy thread bump Batman! [/internet 2005-ish]

You're lucky, this is what my landline gets;

Way back in the days where everyone used to get together on MSN, wS hinted that he thought about implementing a filter that would automatically change every correct spelling of it to a wrong one too!

Yeah. I think people are just sick of the "more of the same"-ism way of doing things, be it Republican or Democrats, that they're now ready to go full batshit and bring in someone as yet untested, rather than elevate someone like Hillary who has already done so much damage. She's been party to quite a lot of nasty and inappropriate goings on, and is part of the same "club" who pushes for military intervention and interference in foreign places which are no threat to any of us BEFORE they interfere there. She also received donations from some Saudi high-ups, and those guys support full bore terrorists in the Middle East, which makes it look like Hillary fully intends to keep the current situation going. Basically putting America and ISIS on the same side in some cases, more or less! America already has quite a bit of debt and already spends insane amounts on military related stuff, I think people are sick of their taxes being wasted like that, instead of being spent on things that could make the lives of the tax-paying Americans better.

The Donald may be "gifted" $20m worth of stocks and shares in various arms manufacturers if he wins, mind you. And I think the President hardly matters sometimes, there are some insane nutters who love wars and nukes who seem to be permanent influential members of US political circles like John McCain and Ash Carter who seem borderline insane, even just from the Wikis I have read!

Anyone else here tried Bojack Horseman and/or Rick and Morty?

I think both are pretty awesome!

Anyone else here tried Bojack Horseman and/or Rick and Morty?

I think both are pretty awesome! 8)


I've seen seasons 1 and 2 of Bojack, fucking brilliant. :D Guess I should check out Rick and Morty then.

Different kind of comedy, but have you tried Brooklyn Nine Nine?

Heard things about it, but not tried it yet.

Rick and Morty is even more cynical and dark than Bojack, but even more hilarious as a result!

Black Mirror. S3 Ep3. Holy FUCK that is probably one of the darkest bits of TV I have ever watched, I could feel the tension just watching it!

I think I remember you, did you have a Man Utd signature/avatar at some point?

I think the longest serving regular poster here is probably Sonikku, though Ziming/Hellraiser still posts too.

Meh, if you "like" a celeb or actor/actress, then it's natural to feel sad about it.

Not quite the same (in fact not even close really), but when Rolf Harris was found guilty of his crimes, I was proper gutted, 'cos I always loved seeing him on TV when I was a young'in! Jimmy Savile wasn't too surprising, since he was always weird, but Rolf always seemed like a good guy...

Not too bad. It's weird, I started posting on here at a time of my life that now seems "awesome" so is viewed with a lot of nostalgia, but also when the "internet" and forums were kinda new and crazy and people who trolled could be highly funny because back then you may not have seen that particular stunt yet. Definitely fun times. A lot of us are quite cynical old cunts now. :lol:

Can't help but feel more at risk of a World War 3 and being bombed to hell in Japan. We got U.S and Japanese Military base not too far from me and just the fact I live in the closest major city to China and North Korea.

Not like we couldn't shoot some of the missles out of the sky before they land but you know, thats still an act of war. That or we are doing the shooting in the first place.

Just a fear I have. Trump isn't level headed.
Looks he'd declare war over twitter at 2am in his jammies.

Surely Hilary talking about "nuclear first strikes" with the conversation aimed in Russia's direction, as well as her other antagonism towards them, was an even worse prospect? Russia doesn't really have the armed forces to go trying to conquer everything, but if someone else attacked them first, then they DO still have a pretty sizeable arsenal of nukes available, along with ways of launching them.

I think China is enjoying their economy right now and don't want to start BAD nuclear trouble with Japan. North Korea is a different story by the looks of it, but I am also of the mind that China will let him push his luck for a while, but when he does something REALLY stupid, they will move in and neuter him, rather than let the rest of the world attack and then occupy their close neighbour...

I am re-watching Burn Notice whilst I await the next season of Person of Interest on Netflix, whether it be UK or US proxy (which is the only thing letting me watch Burn Notice right now). Have to say, even though The Mighty Bruce Campbell pretty much plays the same character whatever his role, he is fucking awesome regardless, and Burn Notice would be a much lesser show without his presence!
If only Person of Interest could have cameo'd him in somehow...
He'd have been great in "Chuck" too, although he'd almost certainly have had to have been a bad guy, so would have got his ass kicked, which is less becoming of him...

Jack Nicholson is probably the greatest example of an actor who seems like an unstoppable force of nature (who also plays quite similarly in a lot of his roles, i.e. pretty much himself a la The Brucey baby), but The Mighty Bruce Campbell, even though, as an actor, he is WAY less of a high profile than ol' Jack, manages to blow in roughly the same direction to almost as good of an effect!

For me, from the UK, it was purely self-serving. I'd heard enough of Hilary's WW3-ish sort of talking (which is pretty baffling for someone meant to be "liberal" TBH) to be pretty scared by it. Her boss Obama was quite keen on the whole "Let's get Russia!" thing too. Since The Donald was friends with Putin beforehand, I figured that WW3 was less likely under him. WW3 is something bad enough to affect the whole world, so obviously I wanted it to be avoided...

The fact that we live in a world where this is the lesser of two evils, where this is the better choice (I'm glad Hilary didn't win, that fucking evil cunt) makes me feel frustrated as hell. As you can probably tell.

Yep, agreed. Amazing that the most advanced country on the planet had two such shit options to vote for! I bet the DNC are kicking themselves that they didn't choose Bernie instead, he was probably "more of the same" sort of politics, but was a lot more likeable and trustworthy than Clinton and Trump.

For some reason the above comments made me go find this;

(very NSFW, loud rude words)



3:14 is about where the main punchline starts.

Got myself FFXV and popped it into my XB1. Installed the bloody massive disk content (think it was about 44GB) reasonably quickly. Game launches. "This game needs an update! Update size 13.35GB.". :???: :cry:


Just been told it needs another update, 7.4GB this time. :roll:

How about NO!? FUCK YOU SQUARE ENIX! I want to play it NOW, so you made me make my XBox "go offline" just to play a fucking game? 7.4GB isn't pocket change, what kind of fucking "update" needs to be so massive? How about you cunts develop your games properly the first time instead, save us all the bandwidth?

I'm watching a few right now. I'm watching Designated Survivor,

I think that is a surprisingly excellent show. Maggie Q is pretty good in it, though the last thing I watched with her in it was Nikita (which I also enjoyed lot), so keep expecting her to be better at fighting than she is in Designated Survivor , though to be fair she has kicked some ass and done some lockpicking already, and has been a sort of shadowy force operating a secret mission in plain sight, so not a million miles away from Nikita either...

It does suck, yeah. RIP.

It looks like depression is becoming more understood now though, since I've seen a lot less of the "FFS, he had it all, what did he have to be depressed about?" sort of comments this time...

Oh, and RIP Roger Moore.

Dec 2003, yeah you're proper OG!
Did your name not have the "S" on the end before? I vaguely remember a "Fin".

I also think it's nice to see Bluecast posting again, good that you seem to be doing better now, dude!

Yeah well I joined in about 2003 myself, so conveniently left that out!

About the whole Ryudo thing, let's just put that down and never mention those times again...

Haha I remember that!

"I DON'T!
SUCK!
I DON'T!
SUCK!".

Was a pretty catchy theme!

EDIT: HELL YEAH!