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Discordian

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  1. I finally beat Tomba. I've played the game on and off since it came out but never got very far until this run. This time I actually put the effort into beating it. There's so many sidequests in the game it's almost overwhelming. Or it would be if the flow of the game wasn't so silky smooth and lets you complete them super quickly, even if it takes literally half the game from the start to end of a quest. Sometimes you'll find and finish them at the same time. Gotta give the game credit for packing so much into such small levels. Definitely a good example of taking advantage of nearly every part of a level. No real empty spaces.

     

    Onward to Tomba 2 now.

  2. 14 hours ago, A.V. said:

    Sonic R has one of the most-underrated soundtracks of all time.

    Example:

     

    Probably one of the first games that convinced me that lyrical, non-video game music could work in a video game. Hell, at this point I generally prefer it to regular video game soundtracks. You can bet I also loved when future games did the same, if only for major bosses.

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  3. 14 minutes ago, Snowflurry said:

    ... Love the cartoons. I've read 70% of the comics. Played nearly all the games. I have StH merch. And I'm super stoked for the new movie. :mlp_icwudt:

    Even if it was for a moment, when Sonic showed up in Wreck It Ralph my inner fanboy went SQUEEE

     

    I forgot all about the movie. I don't think I've even seen a trailer yet, just knew that it was coming.

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  4. I would have actually graduated, for one thing. I had a tendency to ignore homework. When I left school I was done with it. I didn't want to even hear about it until I was back there the next morning.


    That's assuming I went at all. Pretty much through middle and high school I skipped at least a third of every year because I haaaaated waking up that early. I still hate waking up to alarms but now I'm not as dumb about it.

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  5. For the most part I'm a fan of the oldies almost exclusively. The Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra kind of Christmas music. A lot of the old hymns too though. Most modern Christmas music just isn't the same. I am fully aware that this is probably just "because it's different" syndrome though.

     

    There are a few modern songs I like though such as this one:

     

     

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  6. I've been a huge fan of Sonic since his debut almost. I've played a lot of the games, read a lot of the comics, seen most of the cartoons. Hell, I've read quite a few fan comics as well and usually enjoy the fanart. I haven't played many of the most recent ones so far. I recently played Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and I'll probably get Sonic Forces soon. Until I played Sonic Boom the last I had played was Generations which I really liked.

     

    I'm actually currently watching The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog via DVD. Of the cartoons this one is probably my favorite. It's quality is the best. SatAM is nice and all but it pales in comparison to the Archie comic universe it's based on.

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  7. The exact amount varies but I always have particular groups of tabs open. In order:

     

    Email > RSS feed > various webcomics > My Anime List > True Trophies > trophy guides and walkthroughs for any games I'm playing > tabs I only open long enough to use and then close like MLPForums and Youtube.

     

    Some of these can be anywhere from one to six tabs open at any given time. Right now I have twelve tabs, including MLPForums.

  8. I've had some really bad experiences in the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom. You couldn't disagree with anyone about anything, especially if you're actually liked anything after the original Sega Genesis and Sega CD games. You'd be the retard, the autistic, get attacked by people you weren't even talking to at the time or even people you've never even seen before because you don't follow the hive mind. They coordinate group attacks even. Doesn't matter how legitimate your reasons were, they will hate you and they will drill you until you crack or leave.

  9. Transformers. I was never really into cars or anything at all so they never really appealed to me as a kid until Beast Wars. For the most part I also don't care for cartoons that try to be gritty and gory like Flapjack. You'd also never ever ever find me watching anything live action. Even to this day most live action things don't interest me in the slightest. Animated or bust imo.

  10. Well Witcher 3 is gonna have to wait. Sudden need to replay Lunar 2 after beating the first one. I never finished the postgame story. I fought a ridiculously hard boss right at the start that I guess I was supposed to do later on that wiped out all of my rare healing items so I gave up thinking it would only get harder from there.

  11. I just finished the first Caiphus Cain omnibus and moving on to the War for Armageddon omnibus. It'll be quite the shift from Cain's semi-comical tone but I'm told the first book, Helsreach, is one of the best books in the series, maybe of all time.

  12. I beat Lunar: Silver Star Harmony today. I've heard much better things about the PS1 version. The PSP one had a few annoyances I had to deal with like liading at every screen change. Overall pretty much the standard if what an RPG should be at its most basic though.

     

    Next up is Warhammer 40k: Squad Command. Last time I played this one I got wrecked in the first two missions which aren't even hard. I did much better this time around though.

  13. I've never played the tabletop but lore-wise it would not only be ridiculous to throw away armies' worth of elite soldiers but it probably isn't possible to turn the current Marines into the new ones. If the new Marines are anything like the others they have to be altered from a young enough age for it to be any sort of successful.

     

    But I haven't really read up on the process to make the Primaris Marines so maybe it is possible.

  14. Another possibility is that the collection just isn't of good quality in the first place. Often collections of older shows are made by third party, low budget companies that aren't really looking for anything beyond a quick buck. The disc could be shoddy or the data on it could be faulty straight out of the box. This includes all forms of DVD, not just double-sided ones. 

  15. Something about this song is just...inherently nostalgic. Whether it's your first or twentieth time hearing it you always feel like you've known the melody your entire life. I realize that's maybe the point considering the context in which it plays but it reaches beyond the scope of the game for me. It's chilling and always puts me in a sort of trance state when I hear it.

  16. I got all three Platinum trophies in a week. It would have been sooner but work kept getting in the way. How dare they exchange money for labor. :P

     

    Most of the trophies were actually really easy. Almost all of them were tied to doing specific things in every level of the game. A lot of the time they'd be things you were going to do anyway or there was specific places in a level that the trophy seemed to have in mind to do them. I was glad to get a few rapid fire Plats out. A lot of the games I've been playing this year feel like they've taken forever to get through.

     

    It really felt like they ran out of time with Spyro 3. Not that the game is unfinished or anything but it deviates the least from the original game out of the three. This especially shows in the dragon eggs which aren't all unique like the dragons in the first game, as well as the trophies where they mostly stop asking you to do out of the way tasks and almost seem like it just has you doing things you would have done to 100% the levels. Hell, the Plat doesn't even go all the way to the end of the game. You can get the last trophy without ever doing the last level and final fight with the Sorceress. The only reason you have to fight her at all is because there's one level that doesn't unlock until you beat her for the first time.

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