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The Historian

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  1. I thought about getting both but I decided the standard box was good enough. Comes with neat stuff and the box is baller. Ordering for it ended on 12/24 anyway so you had to get it in before then. Thankfully, I got it in before then. xD
  2. Mario 3. One of the best, if not THE best, in the entire 2D section of the Mario franchise. I still play it to this day and it's still absolutely incredible to play through. I love Mario World, don't get me wrong but Mario 3 was a childhood defining platformer for me. There are better Super NES platformers anyway. DKC2 immediately springs to mind.
  3. I have a standard big box ordered from LRG. Can't wait to get it.
  4. World of Warcraft. I tried it more than once but couldn't get into it. Felt too much like work and not enough fun or engagement. It's not bad, but I can't get into it.
  5. You might say I might be a little bit of a fan.
  6. You'll be surprised at how often you actually kind of use it. It's not daily but it's not so uncommon that learning it isn't helpful. Algebra and geometry are the two math disciplines that are very much required beyond the basics. I use quite a bit of higher level math in the course of software development and I'd be even more lost without it.
  7. Can confirm. I drive minimum 45 minutes one way to work but it's usually closer to a full hour, then the same back home. If I don't have a car, I'm completely screwed. Not that I'd use public transit either way - too many people I don't want to be near.
  8. Back in my day, all we had was Pong and we were damn grateful for it!
  9. Art and shop. Neither are things I really enjoy, nor am good at. I loathed shop class. The teacher was a jackass and I didn't like being there. It was the worst.
  10. I have, but not in a while thankfully. My last one was out of nowhere while at work.
  11. Here's the main difference though: Call of Duty is still fun. :p
  12. I have nothing against the BR genre as a whole but the games made for it in the last few years have just been so terrible. I'm used to massive arena shooters like Tribes or fast paced things like Quake and UT. I don't have any interest in watered down iterations that bore me to tears. The fan-bases are criminally annoying and toxic.
  13. My personal favorite is A Link to the Past. Easily one of the best games in the entire Super NES library. It has the right difficulty curve, the puzzles are good but you never feel like you're stumped, the world is fantastic, the music is incredible (Dark World Theme is the shit, yo) and it's overall, one of the best top down games of the era. Even put against games from today, you'd be hard pressed to say it doesn't hold up. Ocarina of Time is my second favorite. It expanded what Hyrule could genuinely be and it felt like the place was so much more alive. It's not perfect but it's one of the games I enjoyed most behind A Link to the Past. While I love Ocarina of Time and still play it to this day, it's not the best for me. Majora's Mask... super underrated.
  14. Reading through the SCP Archive is a great way to pass several hours before you realize it. I don't think I'm quite skilled enough to make a properly believable SCP, but I'd like to give it a shot sometime. Preferably doing something with mirrors since one of the mirror portal SCPs has been my absolute favorite so far.
  15. Mega Man 1 to 6 on the NES/Famicom. I love the original Mega Man games. Excellent platforming action, but they are relentlessly difficult. I love to try them again and again, but I find myself stopping because I'm pissed at the damn games. The same thing holds true for Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden. Super great games but the difficulty is punishingly infuriating.
  16. I don't actively collect for consoles, but I do for PC-based platforms. I need to get some old hardware. I'm looking to get an MSX2/MSX2+, a PC-9801, an X68000, a US Apple II, a US Amiga A-series and a few more in that vein. Oh yeah, and a Tandy TRS-80.
  17. The original Smash. Oh the frustration I've had with that game. I broke accessories and controllers from the rage it produced. Star Fox 64 is a close second. If you're wondering why, it's not because either game is difficult. I am a perfectionist and when I get into a game, I get REALLY into it. Those happened to be two games I got seriously into...
  18. Jafar is my favorite because he's just so deliciously evil. Just the perfect amount of evil and he's got a bit of charisma too, but not enough to be truly likable. In terms of villains to hate the most and with the most passion? Scar. Easily. What a jackass.
  19. Physical media is underrated. I get the convenience of digital but things like LRG prove that people do still want physical goods. Then again, I collect things that came long before the era of digital goods.
  20. There are a variety of factors why I still live with my parents. Not the least of which is that I'm moderately, to severely, mentally ill!
  21. I don't write a lot of public MLP stuff but I sure will not stop writing stories in the FiM world, nor stop roleplaying there either. Some of the best characters I've seen in the last decade are from this magical world. Why would I give it up?
  22. SilverTiara and TwistBelle. You people shush. They're adorable together.
  23. I'm not a big fan of religion. Don't care if you believe but it's not as pleasant as some like to think it is. But if you dig it and you're not a horrible person, more power to ya.
  24. Your subjective opinion is 1000 percent incorrect. I fall under two letters of the LGBT umbrella and I most definitely exist. As do my closest friends who also happen to fall under the same umbrella. I'm not sure why you think your opinion outweighs reality. Even though this thread is about one thing specifically, you seem like the type who would still blather on about it in a thread that was not specifically about it. If you're going to target one group, might as well go after anything and everything that's "questionable." Your argument was flimsy at best (not that you had one), but eventually, we find the real reason - you don't like the "lifestyle." I'll get to that later. My keks are out of control. You make a complete strawman argument made of utter tripe then have the gall to whine when you get called on your hateful rhetoric? Calm your boots there, Hoss. Your statements do the damage, not the responses. I made a logical leap, but if you want me to actually attack you, I can do that. I used to be quite the champ, but I'll pass on it today. Here's why your statement of "I have no problem with gay people in real life" doesn't work. There's a twofold issue with it. First, it's literally the homophobic equivalent of "I can't be a racist, I totally have a black friend." It's equally disparaging while pretending not to be. Second, it implies that LGBT people are fine so long as you don't need to know that they exist and anything to do with them is then wrong. Quite a shitty thing to say and doesn't make those of us who are LGBT feel too good about ourselves. And it makes me question your overall character if you're that incensed by media depicting what you're not. Regardless of your reasoning, suggesting that a character simply being LGBT is "repulsive" (your word mind you), you've shredded any sort of moral high ground you could have assumed, not that you had any after such a statement in the first place. In a very roundabout way, you said my entire effing existence is repulsive. Then you doubled down and tried to defend your stance, albeit poorly. Now that you've been slagged by several users, you're recanting. I hope that means you've learned something. I'm inclined not to be positive about it but I'm also not one to rugsweep this kind of thing. You said, point blank, that LGBT people in moves and television was, in your words, repulsive. How did you expect people to react when you lay out such an anti-FIM message like that? This is meant to be an open, accepting community and you threw down a very close-minded, negative statement. There can be worse things said about you and everyone's doing a remarkable job not ripping into you. But here's where we come to the magical, and fake, crux of your argument: our lifestyle. Pray tell, what is my lifestyle? What about me is so different? Oh right, not a damn thing. Yes, I'm trans and very much not heterosexual, but what does that mean in terms of lifestyle? Well... nothing. I work a steady, full time job, I have hobbies, I have bills, I do the same things "normal people" do. I don't have a "lifestyle" super unique to me for being LGBT. I'm not sure where people get the idea that LGBT people have some special lifestyle... cause... we ain't got one. But I'm sure you'd be fine with a totes hetero couple doing the same things. If so, you're just foisting a pointless, archaic double standard that has no place in modern society. This is what happens when people look to mystical books from a bygone era for tales of morality.
  25. I'll be getting these sometime this year. I want the stripey kind. hehe. xD
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