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not necessarily, don't jump to any conclusions k'dash. Capcom, its 100 posts. don't spam now that I backed you up

for crying out loud... it seems to be an add for kikkoman soy sauce (over here at japanese food stalls they give out kikkoman soy sauce in little fishes). It's either that, or a parody involving kikkoman soy sauce.

True...but when it comes down to it, what with the amazing speed for such graphics-intensive games, ZiNc is probably my favourite emulator. I'm really excited about the list, but I'll be sorry once it's no longer worked on

Well, don't forget that the US and Japanese series' went in different orders. I can't remember what numbers were what though. I'm sure k'dash could enlighten us though.

Well, I know jack all about these things, but 'overdump' means the rom is somehow bigger than the data it contains, or something like that. Don't ask me how that happens, though.

Yeah, I've been following the zinc forums on and off for a while. The upshot of the whole thing is, they're pulling the plug on zinc because the coding is getting to be a nightmare, but it seems like all the authors of zinc are also on the MAME team, so theoretically that means MAME should have the same compatability rate for zn1+2 games as ZiNc does. Still I'm looking forward to Zinc's final release (I have been for a while) and am still hoping they release the source code, so that some other genius emu developers can take up the project (but it's not looking likely though)!

Well..yeah, but that's like saying 'sure this guy is racist and sexist, and sure he beats up non-white people and rapes women as much as he can, but that's his choice, and good luck to him'. You can't let activities like this go uncriticised, just as you can't let homophobic hate-speech on the internet go uncriticised. Sure it's their perogative to post whatever message they feel like (freedom of speech and all that), but if they do, it's MY perogative to openly criticise their ideas. After all, I'm just exercising MY freedom of speech in response to their comments.

Um, yes, unfortunately they were a product of human selfishness and closed-mindedness. Unless you meant they weren't born out of people like us, which I agree with. Unfortunately, people like us have always been a minority.

When did this topic turn from being about friends to being about seinfeld vs friends?

Was that "Raptor: Call of the Shadows"? I (vaguely) remember that game

Yeah, this is somewhat perplexing! But even so their offsprings shouldn't go through their iron fist rules!!! They think they are protecting them but in fact they are just blinding him from the real world!!! These kids usually are very naive and get raped more often !! Yeah, well I just sent an angry e-mail to some fundamentalist christian group that was calling to boycott Disney because they were forwarding a pro-homosexual agenda! That letter pissed me off so much I ranted for ages. Here is a (slightly edited for space) transcript of the email I sent:

Yeah, but don't you notice that it's usually those people who end up becoming the MOST chronic alcoholics, or the sluttiest girls, etc. etc. etc...

Tactics was on the psone. Damn confusing game, that.

No competition. the Amiga was the absolute king of everything. Man I wish i hadn't gotten rid of mine! On the plus side, there's a new amiga that has come or is coming out soon, and is rumoured to have complete compatability with windows and mac programs. I don't know how that'll work, but we'll have to see.

I'm not going to show you a picture (mainly because it's REALLY messy), but I have a separate mini-room attached to my bedroom. It's only about 3ft-12ft big (it's really thin, but as wide as my room), but it's perfect for the computer. Plus I have an annoying, seriously-dead old couch jammed in (and I DO mean JAMMED in) here between the computer desk and the wall. Goodness knows how I got it in here: it was at the shops near my house when I was stumbling back home drunk sometime late at night years ago, and somehow I managed to push it all the way to my house and into my extremely small room. Don't ask me how, it was a miracle. The funny thing is, some guy saw me pushing the couch and started yelling at me, and so to piss him off I took a break by sitting on the couch on the middle of the pathway . Plus I have a mini-tv off to the side, and a stereo in here: I spend most of my time at home in this room (because I am often on the computer). EDIT: Oh and I used to be in a band with some guy who had a BC Rich. I have a Squire precision, a Fender Precision bass knock-off (it was made by the Fender corporation, it sounds about the same as a fender p-bass (but a little bit worse), and better yet it was only $325 new for a left-handed precision (the same guitar only with a "Fender" label would have cost me $1595 brand new)

you're in high-school, I'm guessing? All you have to do is find classes you're interested in to do when (if?) you go to uni. That way, you'll be motivated to do stuff. They don't have to be easy, just interesting. Yeah, but there'd still be distractions for them, like movies or music or reading the bible - no matter what you're into, that's what you're going to be doing when procrastinating from doing work.

Yeah, I think they're dying. I never really liked top-down shooters that much though, I'd much prefer something like Metal Slug - can that be considered a shooter?

Geez, I thought someone else was leaving the forum from the title! I really didn't care much for friends. I watched it when I was a kid but that was it. Once the crew started getting paid $1million an episode, I was just like, WHAAAT?

The connection speed depends on a number of things - your connection speed, the connection speed of the person you're downloading from, and how many simultaneous downloads/uploads the you and the person you are downloading from are undertaking. but if you have a connection speed like the one you said, you should be fine. (Are you sure you got that right though? I've never even HEARD of a connection speed as fast as 34Mbits! Edit: come to think of it that connection speed is probably only the speed of the LAN you have in your uni. Your connection speed to the internet/outside computers will be ALOT slower than that!

Black and white was cool, but more than a little unusual.

The hub's probably down at the moment. That's what happens when you get that message.

Yeah, I got what you're saying, but what I'm saying is, if you saw a character standing to the very, very right of you (as in the perspective in 2D fighters), you'd see his t-shirt in one view, and then saw him standing to the very-very left of you, your view of the t-shirt would be a mirror image of your original view.

I don't really see what the difference would be, because seeing a t-shirt (or word) from the other side would look like a mirror image of the original anyway.

ditto. I just wanna mow em all down by the time i get halfway though the level. But codes like that dectract the player from the experience of "dying". Agreed. I've never cheated on a hitman game. I've been tempted to, but it really would ruin the whole point of the game.

I think games actually have a positive effect, so I don't know whether to vote yes or no (you didn't specify negative in the name of the poll). First of all, once you reach a certain age, games are not going to make you stoopider (sic) -the only way they can make you fail is that you're spending too much time playing games and not enough time studying. Once the neural synapses take place, they're not going to be destroyed except by chemicals and senility. Also, during your first few years of life, when your brain is still in a form called "placticity", it has been proven that visual and auditory stimulation actually helps brain development, and games are ideal for that sort of stimulation. Also, I think games helped me mentally. First off all, I grew up with text adventures. That means that when others were veging out in front of the TV, I was reading and writing (even if I WAS playing Leisure Suit Larry, and Space Quest games). Also, games, just like movies, are riddled with little factoids and tidbits. Take 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis', for example - lots of historical and geological facts there. Also it has been proven that adventure/puzzle games help your lateral thinking, which translates to better test performance. There you have it - proof positive that games, if played only moderately, will not have a negative effect on your academic success. In fact, they CAN have a positive effect.