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Re: Random Thoughts! v2.0

Birty wrote: I have 2 weeks off work starting from today and have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what to do with myself. ](*,)


Drink?
by St. Elmo's Fire
Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:29 pm
 
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Re: Happy Birthday Topic

Scheman, NOW I remember who you are! :D

Happy Birthday. :)
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:52 am
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day


There's always going to be some company offering products we want. It's no use fretting about all of this.

Also totally agree with that. Kinda surprised that you said that as well. ;-)

Acompany like Apple must have huge overheads, but with a quite obsessed userbase buying the "new" "updated" etc. products in the millions, worldwide, at their high prices, I can't see how they can be losing? Surely the hardware can't cost THAT much to develop, since it's pretty unremarkable really, it just looks nice and (mostly) is simple, smooth and nice to use?
by St. Elmo's Fire
Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:49 am
 
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Re: Your personal saddest moments in Gaming *SPOILERS*

Post it...oh and no Aeris isn't really that sad...it was funny.

Wrong. Must you resort to attention-seeking in every topic!?

Anyway, that moment above, plus the one where Nanaki finds the truth about his dad are about the only proper "sad" moments I remember, though I will probably remember some more if I read them here...
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sat Sep 29, 2012 6:10 am
 
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Re: Are you a guest or new to this forum?

Has anyone said they're all KiBa's alternate accounts yet?
by St. Elmo's Fire
Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:37 am
 
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Re: Are you a guest or new to this forum?

Multitasking like that whilst arguing at the same time (as KiBa sometimes does)? I may believe it's a "she" again, then.
by St. Elmo's Fire
Fri Sep 28, 2012 4:11 am
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day


My gaming thought of the day: I don't want Skies of Arcadia HD... I want a remake of Skies of Arcadia! This game deserves so much more!

What extra stuff would you put in it?
More backstory, (far) deeper battle system, bigger base expansion possibilities coming along with bigger maps and more NPCs. Basically, do the game again, but on a far bigger scale.

That would be good. I imagine the Dark Rift could be made pretty special these days, as long as it was done right anyway...

IIRC, one of the few things the DC version of the game got quite a slating for was the frequency of the random encounters, but I never really found them to be that much/any worse than other games I played around that time that also had random battles.
by St. Elmo's Fire
Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:17 pm
 
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Re: FAGGOT

I don't see it as one really, think it's the same with most of us here.

Don't use the word that often meself these days, seems to be almost as bad as using the N-word now, even though in Scotland we all swear like cunts most of the time.
You used to be fond of the word "paki"

Aren't we all?
:D
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:14 pm
 
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Re: FAGGOT

Well that was a waste of time! :lol: Yeah dunno about the sports guys, knew it was a popular term, but didn't know it was a "bad" one..
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:32 pm
 
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Re: Netflix Facebook Nintendo TVii Blu ray?

Games.

The Blu-ray PS3 made sense a few years back when stand alone players cost a fortune, so getting a great console that also plays Blu-ray disks did make sense back then. I'm generally not a fan of playing films on consoles though, to me, having the drive mechanism spinning constantly for that amount of time can't be good for it. I've no idea if it actually is any worse than playing games on it (which I sometimes do for a lot longer than a film lasts), I still don't like doing it though. Plus, even the crappiest £30 stand alone DVD player is more suited to the task than the 360 is anyway, especially since the remote control for it won't switch itself off and need switching back on when you want to pause or whatever. ;-)

The apps you get on XBL are a nice touch though, I don't use them, but I do like that it has that stuff.
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sun Oct 07, 2012 5:56 am
 
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Re: FAGGOT

KiBa wrote: :cry: Thank you.


Faggot.
by St. Elmo's Fire
Tue Oct 09, 2012 12:43 pm
 
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Re: Random Thoughts! v2.0

Personally Ryudo hasn't bothered me at all recently, and I looked on with envy at that haul of goodies he recently got...
by St. Elmo's Fire
Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:15 am
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

KiBa wrote: Isn't it funny how Final Fantasy regards bronze weapons as inferior to iron weapons, when in fact bronze is far superior to iron?


Silver and gold always struck me as pretty bad metals for making weapons and tools out of as well TBH. Too soft!
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:37 am
 
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Re: Belmfest

It is also suspected to cause cancer. So not only do you drink less calories, you'll lose LOADS of weight when you have to go for chemotherapy.
by St. Elmo's Fire
Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:23 pm
 
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Re: Last thing you bought

^kitting your place out very nicely recently. :D
by St. Elmo's Fire
Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:14 pm
 
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Re: Last thing you bought

Bluecast wrote: I'm done now. No more buying.


Was totally not having a go, I am fairly materialistic and like seeing nice things. :D
by St. Elmo's Fire
Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:03 pm
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Amazes me that we have so much that goes online anymore. Just the mid to late 90's when I was at school and HUGE CRT monitors ball mice and Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. Then I discovered the internet. You needed these monsters to use it and even then while cool at the time the internet as we know was in it's infancy. Websites looked like shit. Now I can browse on my Vita my 3DS my tablet or my TV with PS3. It was a total mind blow in 1999 when Dreamcast did it. The the tech allowed it DC would no doubt have DLC demos and video. You could browse the web on a console in 1999. Now we take it for granted.I never stop to be amazed how far we come. From Atari to PS3. From Game Boy to PS Vita. Remember when Game Gear was the most impressive handheld? I do. Well now we play online with them watch videos on them play parts of games not even released yet. Many take this for granted but me my mind still keeps being blown.

Agree with this. I work around a lot of current technology, not phones though, so when smartphones started appearing with the fast mobile data, able to go onto Youtube, Facebook, Google etc. anywhere, my mind was quite blown. It took me a long time to convert to smartphone usage myself, but "convert" is the key word, a smartphone is a seriously useful tool to have. Most of them even have GPS now!
by St. Elmo's Fire
Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:23 pm
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Pete got mad with me when I said he doesn't seem to actually enjoy video games per se, but seeing as he's selling his gaming collection outside of Shenmue, I can't help the feeling that I wasn't so far off.

It's something that I'm noticing more and more of late - people enjoy looking at and/or listening to video games, but they don't enjoy them veritably, as video games per se.


I've sorta done the opposite in the past year or so, Skyrim got me back into OCD-ish "do everything" gaming, I think I've put about 450+ hours into that game in total.

The gaming forum here is so active, there's usually talk about both current/new releases and about older games that some of the gaming "elitists" here like to mention a lot. I don't post in this forum very often, but I do like to read it and pay attention to stuff that'd usually be under my radar (for instance, quite a few people have spoke about Nier, which looks like it could be something I'd go for).
by St. Elmo's Fire
Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:49 pm
 
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Re: Random Thoughts! v2.0

Ryudo wrote: Since apple loves to overprice things I wonder how they can compete since so many great sub 250$ 7 inch tablets esp Samsung


Hipster/fanboy tax.
by St. Elmo's Fire
Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:43 pm
 
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Re: Random Thoughts! v2.0

Must be difficult for him to eat, since he has to, but like, EVERYONE else does it too!
by St. Elmo's Fire
Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:57 pm
 
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Re: Things That Made You Laugh Today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y7CpS0gtlk

I used to be the Tom Cruise of the Dojo.

By the way, I highly encourage everyone to watch the video on this page...

http://www.scientology.org/l-ron-hubbard.html?video=lrh_bio

Interesting post! Tom Cruise kinda freaked me out in that interview. Do you think he was trolling by going into acting mode and trying to be crazy/intimidating to keep rebuffing with stuff that wasn't the answer Matt wanted?

That Scientology site is incredibly well designed, too. Usually flash/sound on a website makes me sigh, let alone ten minutes worth, yet I scrolled back up and watched it all. Editing and presentation of the video is superb also, that nice smooth easy to listen to voice, even though you know he must have failed at something a few times and they left it out there, it still fucking convinced me he was talented and of brilliant intellect (seriously, psychology degree, doing a little side project into nuclear physics, a new and other-worldly thing at that time?) and seemed to have a Midas touch and was great at anything he turned his hand to. And even if that was all wrong, he still lived a pretty fucking incredible and action-packed life.
by St. Elmo's Fire
Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:51 pm
 
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Re: Things That Made You Genuinely Happy Today!

Spokane wrote: KiBa needs a translator to do his posts.


Read the Wiki link at the end, it makes that post make a lot more sense. ;-)
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:19 am
 
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Re: Things That Made You Laugh Today

Isn't it? I was blown away too! Did you notice the incredibly slick large button controls in their embedded videos? They actually scaled to the size of your screen, faded perfectly and never "got stuck," so you could easily navigate by touch, which hardware they can clearly afford! Indeed it was smoother than any streaming video I have ever come across. Flawless fullscreen transition... Unbelievable, really. Google ought to hire the Church of Scientology to reboot YouTube.

The video on the same site of the Scientology flagship (yes, they have an actual flagship at sea - full of Fallout 4 potential, if you ask me), the Freewind, was equally impressive. The ship I mean. It's stunning. It's like the Enterprise.

http://www.scientology.org/david-miscavige/churchopenings/the-sea-organization-motor-vessel-freewinds-scientology-religious-retreat-undergoes-refit.html?video=freewinds_tour

Only watched it small screen before, so going by your recommendation, I tried it full screen, and, yep :shock: , very impressive! On this shit connection, even Youtube takes longer, let alone news sites etc. with an embedded autostream vid!

Loved that ship too! Noticed a lot of symmetry and extremely straight lines, looks like someone with quite an OCD mind for tidiness designed and engineered it. That "Theory Course Room", with the boxy desks and headphones made me :shock: though, it wouldn't have looked out of place in a '70s or '80s James Bond movie, like what the bad guys would use to hypnotize or brainwash or draw psychic power from the people at the desks
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:19 pm
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

QWERTY™ wrote: Fucking hell Bioshock takes an age to install on PS3!


Simply not possible. Dorian said that anything taking more than about ten minutes was all imagined.
by St. Elmo's Fire
Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:47 pm
 
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Re: Things That Made You Laugh Today

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biGYm8voV0c[/youtube]
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:26 pm
 
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Re: Scenes in movies & TV shows that make you cry.

The I Am Legend dog scene got me pretty bad...
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sun Nov 04, 2012 3:43 pm
 
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Re: Is technology our Umbilical cord? To wired for our own g

I grew to like that show at times. It can be enjoyable. One thing that takes me out of it is the one guy I can never see past the fact he was on Roseanne as david.

Roseanne , Christ, that takes me back! Didn't actually know that he was on that, but a quick pull on my technological umbilical cord had me racing through Google and Wiki, to see that even though he looks too obviously "old" to be a student in Big Bang, he did look quite similar back in his Roseanne days. ! ;-)
by St. Elmo's Fire
Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:40 pm
 
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Re: What Nationality Are You?

Take it your voting "yes" in 2015 then :lol:

Even if I was a one of "those", I'd have hoped Salmond's Fat Lying Face would have still made me think independence was a bad idea. On a logical level, any good points to independence that I did a limited amount of research on and found positive evidence for are now wiped, 'cos of Salmond's Fat Lying Face looking smug while it tells some more lies, I'm now just convinced he wants to enter the history books as "The New King of Scotland"!
I'm reasonably politically aware of the various political "celebs" and co-fatheads that are in the news a lot, even though I tend to selectively read news online. But I still manage to see Mr. Salmond's fat head far too much, and even though I'm cynical and think "what did that actually mean?" anytime I hear a politician speak anyway, Salmond has some sort of sleaze to him that I can't quite justify, I just think he takes the piss even more than those types of people do anyway! :lol:
by St. Elmo's Fire
Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:20 pm
 
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Re: Things that pissed you off

Still bruises on my arm from the ER giving me an IV a while back. Always takes me a while to heal. Just annoys me and so used to be stuck with needles I'd be a great Heroin addict. Actually developing small scars from all the needles taken the last couple years.

As a diabetic, when I go get a check up every six months, they take blood from the inside of my arm opposite an elbow, proper H-style with the band around my upper arm to make the vein swell so there's a better target for the needle to get into! I don't even flinch anymore, but it still isn't much fun...
by St. Elmo's Fire
Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:50 pm
 
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Re: Random Thoughts! v2.0

His arguments with himself in threads he made when he had made alter-egoes were fucking priceless. :lol:
by St. Elmo's Fire
Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:31 pm
 
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Re: Random Thoughts! v2.0

To stop the bots, a gang of Russians with guns and big leather jackets and some black men with guns and sunglasses may be needed.
by St. Elmo's Fire
Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:27 pm
 
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Re: Random Thoughts! v2.0

Haha yes I admitted it at RP and people were shocked for some reason!?
by St. Elmo's Fire
Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:39 pm
 
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Re: Random Thoughts! v2.0

Remember Cyberman? IIRC he made even more alter egoes than Louis, TEEPO etc., usually pretending to be someone like them or Jeff. His Jeff impressions were much better than mine, too. :(
by St. Elmo's Fire
Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:41 pm
 
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Re: Random Thoughts! v2.0

Cyberman did have a lot of Megaman themed stuff, yeah. He was pretty cool, just made a LOT of accounts and made some dumb but hilarious comments, I never could work out if he was a bit simple or a really good troll...
by St. Elmo's Fire
Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:51 pm
 
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Re: Salute

Ryudo, you didn't like being picked on by QWERTY and Peter, so how about you quit being a hypocrite right about now?
by St. Elmo's Fire
Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:56 pm
 
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Re: Random Thoughts! v2.0

Yokosuka Martian wrote: Image

'Merica.

Pretty glad I'm in the UK haha.


Replace "Black Friday" with "January sales" for us. ;-)
by St. Elmo's Fire
Fri Nov 23, 2012 1:32 pm
 
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

I also am not a Nirvana fan, one of the most over-rated bands ever.
Same with the Beatles, except they actually are, THE most over-rated band ever.
Bush was actually nowhere near as bad as all the medias liked to make him look.
PS1 is the greatest console ever.
The DC was actually pretty crap (apart from the graphics) and was so poorly made and designed (hardware wise), it was unbelievable.
Lots of Muslims DO have plenty reasons to be pissed off with America, the UK and a few other countries.
Slavery ended up being good for some black people. Some ended up settling and leading decent lives in decent countries (like America), instead of still being stuck in some AIDS-infested civil war hotbed of a country that still exists in Africa.
Hitler, for all his wrongdoings, is still an impressive display of a "nobody" climbing his was to a "somebody", just through his unshakable belief in what he was saying, and the way he said what he said so convincingly. He was a man with a plan. Minus the war, genocide etc side., he'd have been a great poster-child for believing in oneself being a good healthy thing.
India stand a good chance of being one of the strongest economies in the world before too soon.
Titanic (film) was shit.
I do actually like Leo DiCaprio as an actor though.
The version of Riders on the Storm that has Snoop Dogg/Lion on it (which was in NFSU2) is actually pretty decent and worked because the producers respected and largely left alone the actual The Doors content of it...
EDIT to add;
P Diddy's (or whatever he's called now) Godzilla tune, Come With Me that had Jimmy Page riffing out Kashmir ? Yeah, I prefer the Diddy version...
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:17 am
 
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Christ glad that whole slavery thing went away. However I am still gonna stick to my guns on it, and yeah, EVERYONE knows that Europe and especially the UK were dicks in the past, why is that even being discussed like it's some big revelation? :roll:

That post of Ryudo's made me realise another one though. EVERY decade sucks/is as good as the next, more or less. The main defining characteristic that makes one better than any other is the memories and experiences associated with them.
by St. Elmo's Fire
Sun Nov 25, 2012 7:01 am
 
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Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)

I didn't think the random battles were THAT bad compared to FF7 or FF8 (as in, it had more of them, but not MUCH more), which were probably the RPGs I played closest to SoA, time wise...
by St. Elmo's Fire
Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:04 pm
 
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Re: Skies of Arcadia HD news (GAF topic)

Deep sea research lab? That was Ultima weapon, you could draw the GF Eden from him! I do know what you're talking about now though, if you did something wrong with the steam valves, you got spammed with enemies. Omega was WAY harder than Ultima though. ;-)
by St. Elmo's Fire
Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:44 pm
 
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Re: Things That Made You Genuinely Happy Today!

I am as well, the first two Abe games were some of my favourite PS1 games!
by St. Elmo's Fire
Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:20 pm
 
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