CP3S

xhonzi said:

When I was back in Vault 101, I was having visions of how great a Fallout TV series would be.  The mystery of the vaults, the brutal wasteland.

That could be some fantastic TV.

That was one thing I loved so much about the game. Outside of the main storyline, it felt like a collection of short, mostly unconnected, serials. Kind of like a twilight zone type series of strange tales, but interconnected throughout a small region of wasteland.

That was another disappointment of New Vegas for me, everything felt a lot more connected, even side missions; making for a much tighter narrative. Everyone in the game seemed concerned about the same basic things as everyone else ("The Legion's coming and is going to kill us!" "Ohs no! The NCR is too weak to hold off the Legion! I sure wish they'd send us more re-enforcements!" "We're thinking about allying with the Legion to save ourselves from their impending invasion." "I am a member of the Legion, and our invasion of the Mojave desert is impending!" "I am just a trader, lived in the Mojave all my life, but I am preparing to hightail it out of this region prior to the impending invasion of the Legion." "There is an impending invasion from the Legion coming! We should run!" "The Legion's invasion is impending, our tribe is trying to decide if we are with the Legion or the NCR." "I am a Legion Legionnaire, our invasion is impending and will happen very soon, eventually you'll have to join us or die." And so on).

I liked how in the first one everyone had their own troubles and concerns, and very few were aware of the bigger picture stuff. In New Vegas you'll meet a few groups like this, but for the most part everyone is all bothered about the whole Legion/NCR conflict and almost everything in the game revolves around that.

Xhonzi, have you been to the small town (more like neighborhood) of Andale yet? It is one of my favorite examples of how brilliant FO3 can be from a storytelling standpoint. With just a small handful of NPCs, a few hundred words a dialogue, and a small number of generic buildings they managed to deliver a very engaging story for the player to uncover. Or, you could just as easily stumble upon it, see a fairly boring tiny little settlement, and breeze on by without ever learning a thing about the place. Forgot how much I loved that game! All those people that claim FO:NV is ten times the game FO3 was must not have played much beyond the story missions.

What the fuck? Away for a few hours and come back to find every other thread on lock down. Kind of excessive, isn't it? Off Topic is starting to look like FE or TF.n. 

Thanks to the (nice) lax moderation, we end up with a severe troll problem, then when Fink tries to deal with the troll problem we decide it is moderation time and moderate the hell out of his attempt. Meanwhile, yay, troll's still here!

I kind of want to overlap the audio from the Willy Wonka boat tunnel with You Spin Me Round and a clip of Sean Connery saying "Zeist" looped throughout. No doubt it would be quite the experience.

Ziggy Stardust said:

theprequelsrule said:

TV's Frink said:

Maybe it won't be boring this time!  Yay!

 

 

 

(I'm only half kidding - I should have said "maybe it won't be meh this time)

No, you were right. The movie was boring. Scott is very hit and miss IMHO. When he misses it's never terrible, but almost always bland-city. Alien is one of my favourite movies, but Blade Runner and Robin Hood were snorefests.

How..............................dare you.

I am with Ziggy on this one! Robin Hood was one of the greatest movies of all time!

;)

You back them up in as far as saying that the things you are disagreeing with are bullshit because they are bullshit, you just say it in as many words as possible.

I mean, I have never seen you "respectfully disagree" with anything. Anytime you disagree, you call some forms of bullshit or another.

When I expressed my views on Islam, I initially had nothing backing them up and yet you commented on what a great post I had made and how well I had managed to back up my views for once... this left me scratching my head and bemused. When I made that post I was actually slightly bothered by the fact that I had made a bunch of claims, but hadn't provided anything to back them. That post was only a good post to you, because you happened to agree with it. If you disagreed with it, you could have just as easily called bullshit on that post as any of my others.

That was a very telling example of how right and wrong to you is stuck within the strict confines of your own views. You aren't disagreeing with it because it is bullshit, it is bullshit simply because you disagree with it. A reasonable person would disagree with any number of things that they would find to be understandable enough (for example: I can clearly see all the merits of driving a manual, I understand all my friends arguments for why stick is better, but I still prefer automatics. If I thought like you, I'd probably think my friends were at least "BEING" at "THAT TIME" slightly stupid for thinking manual transmissions are better than automatics).

twooffour said:

Well, as you might've guessed, it was bait question, and you provided the exact answers I'd expected.

Oh no! I hate when he uses his massive intellect! Fink, be careful.

(Hehehe, for the last couple of weeks I've been reading twooffour's posts with Wallace Shawn's voice, it is extremely fun. Everyone should try it. It is even more fun than reading Psycho Dayv with Forrest Gump's voice, or Ziggy Stardust's as Slippy the frog from Starfox).

twooffour said:

As I said, I only attack bullshit opinions. You may think whatever nonsense you want.

Curious how bullshit opinions seem to be every opinion you disagree with...

xhonzi said:

I'm curious, [CE](3?)[PR](3?)(i?)[CSX]/i, which solutions to the Tranquility Lane, Oasis, and Pitt quests did you go with and why?

 

Tranquility lane was so extremely cool to me, I saved the game and played around with it to complete every scenario I possibly could. Oasis, I don't remember very well, but I know I did whatever the talking tree wished me to do. I found that place after I had played the game quite a lot and my interest was starting to wind down for a bit, otherwise I probably would have played around with it more. And the Pitt... I am trying to remember all the details of its storyline. I killed the leader in the crazy tribal power armor, I stole the baby, then found out what they wanted to do with it... and talked them out of it. So they raised it rather than harvesting it. 

YAY!!! Glad you were still able to do the vault.

Don't miss that Bobble head in Raven Rock (or whatever the Combine base is called). Once you leave that place you can never go back.

TV's Frink said:

twooffour said:

I'm done here.

Please let "here" be ot.com.

Seriously. Sick of his bullshit gumming up EVERY last topic. I think being a general public nuisance needs to be a ban-able offense. I am pretty sure Ziggy isn't the only one who has thought of leaving this place for a while in hopes that twooffour will get bored/a life/hit by a bus.

I really don't care if you agree, the real question is: Does your mom agree?

She looks okay enough in the picture Bingo posted, but she looks pretty awful throughout the entire movie of TDK. I seem to recall when the movie first came out many other members expressed similar feelings regarding her looks.

She'd be pain enough, if it weren't for the very protrusive cheek bones and the droopy eyes thing she has going on.

She is the type of actress who I can only assume gave absolutely fantastic head on the casting couch.

RedFive said:

Tyrphanax said:  ....

Also, J.R.R. Tolkien is an awful writer.

First of all, I like that no one even felt the need to refute this unbelievable statement. 

Whoa! I somehow missed that comment. I will refute it to hell and back, and then all over again. Unbelievable is right! Tolkien is brilliant! I love the way he writes, as have countless others, as evident by the popularity of the books since they were first published.

But it seems most people queef eloquent on the greatness of Stephen King's writing, and yet I've never managed to make it more than a few chapters into one of his books before wanted to beat my own head in with a blunt object. While unquestionably bad writing exists, once you get into the realm of decent to fantastic writing, it becomes very much subject to the reader's tastes.

darth_ender said:

I finished this one, and I do like it, but...I think my biggest problem with it was the lack of a real overarching conflict.  The whole thing that ties it together is silly Reepicheep (who had some good lines) wanting to prove his valor by going as far east as he could.  It seemed like nothing more than a bunch of subplots.  But for what it was, in the end I liked it better than I expected.

You're right, it [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader] is a travelogue with episodic events taking place, rather than having a solid main story arch. That is possibly one of the things I have always really loved so much about it. Reading it at a very young age, it was very imagination inspiring. It made me want to want to go on my own adventures through strange lands (and amusingly enough, I actually made a career of doing just that, for a short while). The idea of stepping through a wardrobe into another world was the only other concept in any of the other Narnia books that excited me anywhere near as much as the things that happen in Voyage. I admit, some of the things in that book are rather silly, but as a kid I didn't really see that.

Warbler said:

TV's Frink said:

I hated Mrs. Tom Cruise. 

Katie Holmes didn't appear to be bad to me.

What is with the near consistent Katie Holmes hate? Her acting wasn't that bad in the movie, so it wasn't that. I used to find that girl insanely attractive; not at all in recent pics though, haven't really taken time to consider why. Seems like the whole Tom Cruise thing has brought her a lot of hate. Is it more than that?

Bringing in new actors to replace old ones and passing them off as the same character has always really bothered me, I would have much rather seen Katie Holmes in The Dark Night than the really ugly actress they got to replace her. I think they should have just written her character out of the story for continuity sake. Everything her character does in TDK could have just as well been done with a different new female character. I guess it made her death more dramatic since she'd been close to Bruce since childhood, but it is still an awkward transition from actress to actress.

doubleofive said:

They also had another promotion that one of their fan club members could win 1984 wings (they were founded in 1984, I guess). Mrs O'Five got a call that she had won some gift cards, so she went to the post office to pick them up. Inside the envelope were 3 $500 and 1 $484 gift cards.

Mmmmm, dystopian onion rings. Wow, that is amazing! Two grand in gift cards from a place that serves beer.

Someone is really bored. What's with the trolling? Making a whole new thread just to post a link to a Rick Ashtley video is pretty lame.

Maybe they read them out loud to each other, or they listen to the audiobooks together. Or perhaps they each independently have a copy so they can read at the same time, or they just share the same one copy and read it when the other is not.

doubleofive said:

 

CP3S said:

It's control layout being a tradition Nintendo setup makes it ideal for emulating old Nintendo systems.

....

With the price drop, I'd consider grabbing one instead of a DSi, but then I've heard a lot of murmurs that Nintendo intends to monitor and ban, or possibly even brick units, that are used to run unauthorized software (i.e. pirated stuff, which I don't care about; and homebrew which is all I care about).

I hate to break it to you, but emulation is piracy, especially games you can buy in the Nintendo eStore. Just saying. :-)

 

Reselling games to me I have already purchased is its own kind of theft. It isn't piracy if I own them.

I own all those games, but now instead of having to dig them out of boxes in storage and hooking their respective console up to my TV, I can carry them all around with me in the side pocket of my backpack.

doubleofive said:

This is the DSi, 3DS, and DSXL side by side. As you can see, the screens are comically huge on the XL. I can't decide if that's cool, or something for old people who can't see without their glasses. ;-)

The thing is, I hate DS games. I've never found any I am actually interested in. I don't own a single DS game, and the only one I ever played more than a few minutes of was Resident Evil DS, which was a fantastic port of the PlayStation game (really wish they'd port RE2, 3, and Code Veronica to the DS as well). But once you get into the realm of homebrew, it becomes one of my favorite little pieces of technology, Gameboy, NES, and SNES emulation, SCUMM VM, old text adventure games, comicbook reader, it does all these things really well. It's control layout being a tradition Nintendo setup makes it ideal for emulating old Nintendo systems.

This is why I think the DSi XL would be the ideal replacement for my silver brick. With all the things I do on it, the bigger screen would be a definite plus.

The 3DS doesn't impress me in the least. I don't find 3D stuff that exciting, and the game library is pathetic, and everything scheduled for it on the horizon are things that should probably have been launch titles to start with. The fact that its flagship piece of software at the moment is a port of a game that is 13 years doesn't bode well for it.

With the price drop, I'd consider grabbing one instead of a DSi, but then I've heard a lot of murmurs that Nintendo intends to monitor and ban, or possibly even brick units, that are used to run unauthorized software (i.e. pirated stuff, which I don't care about; and homebrew which is all I care about). If that isn't the case, the fact that Nintendo can update it at anytime could potentially mean that they could create "fixes" to prevent use of flashcards just as fast as flashcard makers could develop new ones to get around the heightened security measures. 

@Red Five: $20 dollar price difference between the DSi and 3DS; the DSi XL was already $20 dollars more than the DSi, so when the price drop hits at the end of the month, the DSi XL and the 3DS are going to be the same price ($169.99USD).

I suddenly really want a DSi XL... I think. I am still using an old silver brick, feels like it is time for an upgrade. Wish the 3DS was going over better, then maybe the price of DSis would plummet. Kind of crazy there is about to be only a $20 difference between a 3DS and a DSi.

Maybe I should just upgrade my DS's R4 to an DSTwo flashcard and call it good. Would be nice to be able to play Super Mario RPG on the thing, and to emulate GBA games.

No, your stuff induces some pretty serious out loud laughings.

Ow, that one was pretty weak, even for you.

skyjedi2005 said:

Because he wanted to ovoid latinisms or frenchisms...

 

"ovoid" is my new preferred spelling of "avoid".

darth_ender said:

But as for the audiobooks, I'm currently listening to The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (my least favorite so far).

That one is my favorite! A lot better than the second book, that one and the Magician's Nephew are the ones I like the least.

DuracellEnergizer said:

...and stopped after getting halfway through to take a break from it.

...I decided to take a break from it...

I'm now reading The Lost World by Michael Crichton. So far it's okay, not great, but still a lot better than the shitty film.

You don't finish a whole lot of books, do you? ;)

I actually read The Lost World before Jurassic Park, and I really, really, really loved it, so much so that I went out and bought Jurassic Park first chance I got and read it immediately after. I still love those two books. I guess they are kind of silly, but I really like the way they are written, and the subject matter fascinates me.