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  Topic: Shin Reading Thread Gaiden
Ethoscapade

Replies: 1106
Views: 828549

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:12 pm   Subject: Shin Reading Thread Gaiden
I read that on a beautiful morning in the south of Rome after waking up on the couch of a gay American studies professor. It's my favorite work of Auster's.
  Topic: KAREER IN KOREA (clever name huh)
Ethoscapade

Replies: 34
Views: 29596

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:30 pm   Subject: KAREER IN KOREA (clever name huh)
ㅈㄷㄱㅈㄷㄱㅈㄷㄱㅈㄷㄱ gOD DAMN these fucking keyboards

having fun?
  Topic: Secret of Evermore is uh...
Ethoscapade

Replies: 24
Views: 24867

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:31 am   Subject: Secret of Evermore is uh...
mystic quest was the first RPG i ever played, in the second grade; i consider myself pretty fortunate on that count. really fucking good block puzzles, iirc.

tim rogers always liked to say of SoE t ...
  Topic: Moretress! (Actually we didn't play, but we could have!)
Ethoscapade

Replies: 18
Views: 12843

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:49 pm   Subject: Moretress! (Actually we didn't play, but we could have!)
i don't think i've played TF2 since it was actually released as non-beta.

Sad
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:42 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
gonna be a total asshole here, wes:

1) no more heroes is about as much "an ubisoft game" as is lumines

2) definitely. like definite. only definite-ly. this typo is infuriating.
  Topic: Gradius question
Ethoscapade

Replies: 3
Views: 5559

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:43 am   Subject: Gradius question
I suppose the translator or whoever picked the wrong word and it stuck?
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:10 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
fuck off; so aren't the majority of ueda/miyazaki works (heteronormative, that is) because this is a means of working with established storytelling conventions. it's not trying to offend you.
  Topic: I got so fucking SMASHed last night...
Ethoscapade

Replies: 137
Views: 114646

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:59 pm   Subject: I got so fucking SMASHed last night...
Lucas can KO at something like 70-80% with his standing up-smash, recover from nearly any situation and deal fairly ridiculous damage with his enormously improved PK Thunder (and rope snake!), actuall ...
  Topic: I got so fucking SMASHed last night...
Ethoscapade

Replies: 137
Views: 114646

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:39 pm   Subject: I got so fucking SMASHed last night...
really? i'm, i think, 39% through, and the boss fights have just seemed so.. sloppy so far. like, i can tell they've got patterns, but the floatiness of the controls doesn't really help me with reacti ...
  Topic: Mother 3 excitement thread / General MOTHER discussion
Ethoscapade

Replies: 40
Views: 81538

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:43 pm   Subject: Mother 3 excitement thread / General MOTHER discussion
I own the MOTHER 3 SUPER BOXSET WILLENIUM EDITION, but I don't want to play the game until a real translation is out. I refuse to play it with a translation guide!

I should really finish earthbound ...
  Topic: I got so fucking SMASHed last night...
Ethoscapade

Replies: 137
Views: 114646

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:30 pm   Subject: I got so fucking SMASHed last night...
so far, i'm a little bored.

then again, i hadn't even planned on buying it; i just didn't have anything to do today (already cleaned the house and read rubin on murakami cover to cover this weekend ...
  Topic: Authentic Videogame Link Dump Thread (news?)
Ethoscapade

Replies: 1215
Views: 847600

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:32 pm   Subject: Authentic Videogame Link Dump Thread (news?)
i can 1cc metal slug too and i'm by and large not very good at videogames.

(other games i can 1cc: NES contra, 3/5 of ikaruga, gradius v until the stage 5 boss...)
  Topic: Audio Surf is one of the greates things ever made
Ethoscapade

Replies: 70
Views: 49405

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:41 pm   Subject: Audio Surf is one of the greates things ever made
Is there, or will there be, any way to just, you know, buy this game? I don't have Steam and I don't want Steam.

abandon your materialist ways

you can buy the game for $9.95. some of us have.
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:31 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
i enjoyed rocket slime, though i definitely felt as though the game peaked around the middle.
  Topic: videogame school
Ethoscapade

Replies: 209
Views: 154963

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:29 pm   Subject: videogame school
i'm a student with a bullshit IT job!
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:57 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
right, that's why it's (all the more strangely) appropriate that full price is $30.
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:41 am   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
But what about all those Nintendo titles?

the only one to date that hasn't been considerably underwhelming is warioware, and that.. needs to be cheaper. it does.
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:08 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
ghost squad is really remarkably decent, if my time in kentucky is to be any indication.

like, between it and kororinpa, the wii has almost actually started to define itself as a platform. i don't ...
  Topic: the wii transfer
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4
Views: 4956

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:31 am   Subject: the wii transfer
this may be out of line, but i find it profoundly profound that one of a handful of forums i frequent has as one of its most distinguished members a person who knows more about bdsm paraphernalia than ...
  Topic: TGQ Best of 200000.......000007
Ethoscapade

Replies: 178
Views: 97195

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:59 pm   Subject: TGQ Best of 200000.......000007
1. portal
2. knytt stories
3. kororinpa
4. civilization: beyond the sword
  Topic: we are playing team fortress 2 on monday, december 17.
Ethoscapade

Replies: 76
Views: 41279

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:39 pm   Subject: we are playing team fortress 2 on monday, december 17.
just got back from work, making a bowl of chili, nobody is around, and i wish you guys were playing on PC that much more =(
  Topic: we are playing team fortress 2 on monday, december 17.
Ethoscapade

Replies: 76
Views: 41279

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:52 am   Subject: we are playing team fortress 2 on monday, december 17.
fie on your "proper" pc team fortress experience. we're playing team fortress 2 on the xbox monday night. be there or be one of those angry internet nerds who gets in arguments on message boards about ...
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:07 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
i just want the happiness back

this game better get fucking happy because if this is some kind of analogy about adulthood being miserable well id ont need any more of that

it hardly is, don't wo ...
  Topic: Braying and Naying about Select Button Within
Ethoscapade

Replies: 82
Views: 52360

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:30 am   Subject: Braying and Naying about Select Button Within
it's probably just time and place considerations but i really like SB more than any other iteration of forums this "circle" runs in.

i don't know- certain personalities are definitely aligned with ...
  Topic: tell me about ds homebrew
Ethoscapade

Replies: 95
Views: 78285

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:17 pm   Subject: tell me about ds homebrew
d'oh. sorry i didn't see this earlier.

what's happening sounds like it can't actually see the files other than the .nds.. i know the DLDI version of dscrawl was hacked after the fact; you're using ...
  Topic: I want to appreciate horizontal scrolling shooters.
Ethoscapade

Replies: 38
Views: 30451

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:55 am   Subject: I want to appreciate horizontal scrolling shooters.
play gradius v before you play any other other gradius game. seriously.

blazing star is pretty accessible.

EDIT re below post: delta is very enjoyable and accessible too.

i know you specifica ...
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:26 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
no, you just happened to pick the worst one.

game starts out comparatively pretty okay, though..
  Topic: Mario Galaxy Quest
Ethoscapade

Replies: 49
Views: 33631

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:16 pm   Subject: Mario Galaxy Quest
Unless the self-satire is so subtle that I've completely missed it.

play paper mario and you'll want to believe it's there that much more?

(i have unqualified affection for thousand year door th ...
  Topic: Key Mapping
Ethoscapade

Replies: 8
Views: 7156

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 1:03 pm   Subject: Key Mapping
joytokey, baby.
  Topic: Mass Effect looks like shit
Ethoscapade

Replies: 103
Views: 62800

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:33 am   Subject: Mass Effect looks like shit
guys, are you kidding? faithless doesn't work for bioware, she writes for play and does some standup comedy.

is there really that much ill will towards SB here?
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 2:21 am   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
dess - i played the king of swing at a time when, if i recall correctly, i was just beginning some sort of horrible subconscious quest for evidence of nintendo's new(?) horrid design philosophy (which ...
  Topic: what if you woke up one day and you were a pokemon?
Ethoscapade

Replies: 84
Views: 47907

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:02 am   Subject: what if you woke up one day and you were a pokemon?
judging from the choices available, i'm pretty sure they just took whatever was available to you in that mystery dungeon game.

which, yeah, was convinced that everybody on the planet was a mudkip.
  Topic: tell me about ds homebrew
Ethoscapade

Replies: 95
Views: 78285

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:40 am   Subject: tell me about ds homebrew
i don't know what it says that everything you listed just there is a port/remake of another title (much like the DS' retail software catalog, eh?), but IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO GBA as well, you'd do well ...
  Topic: Two Bestsellers & Two Capcom Games
Ethoscapade

Replies: 32
Views: 23683

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:53 pm   Subject: Two Bestsellers & Two Capcom Games
dess that's extraordinarily disappointing about the hub world
  Topic: Super Metroid's control scheme
Ethoscapade

Replies: 22
Views: 14805

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:51 am   Subject: Super Metroid's control scheme
balance.
  Topic: The lowdown on Wii procurement (a cheap plea)
Ethoscapade

Replies: 17
Views: 12027

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:35 am   Subject: The lowdown on Wii procurement (a cheap plea)
i sold mine, unboxed, complete, from launch, on ebay for exactly what it'd cost plus the value of the points thus far spent ($50), a month or so ago.

for what that's worth.
  Topic: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 977
Views: 740101

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:12 pm   Subject: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread
Sorry, huh? I'm not getting the connection here.

as in, you leave an SD card in the wii at all times, it automatically archives anything you haven't played in ~2 weeks to said SD card, yet leaves t ...
  Topic: the very thorough crawl thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 317
Views: 489686

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:59 pm   Subject: the very thorough crawl thread
centaurs have pretty terrible dex; the main incentive to use them for hunters is because they can move so quickly.

we call that balancing =(

but yeah, i've never had much luck, either. centaur c ...
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:39 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
dess, i am amazed that you had not played canvas curse before now.

i actually hundred-percented that game, and, well.. that roughly quadruples the time investment on that one.
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:52 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
the only bad kirby games are the dreamland games.

the only kirby games that aren't among the absolute BEST on their respective platforms are the dreamland games.

***this includes kirby 64
  Topic: The Witcher, important PC RPG itt
Ethoscapade

Replies: 7
Views: 5498

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:43 am   Subject: The Witcher, important PC RPG itt
for some reason i'm actually curious about this, even though between orange box and mother 3 a couple of weeks ago i honestly thought i finished any and all gaming for a good while. also i hardly have ...
  Topic: the very thorough crawl thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 317
Views: 489686

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:38 am   Subject: the very thorough crawl thread
works in parallels, by the by. and parallels is dramatically less - heavy(?) - than you might think, provided you configure it to run on 192mB of ram or so (out of hopefully a gig or more) with a comp ...
  Topic: i've got my spine i've got my orange box
Ethoscapade

Replies: 259
Views: 155895

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:58 am   Subject: i've got my spine i've got my orange box
I have a hard time believing more than $20 for HL2 proper or more than $20 for Ep2, but hey, the point stands.
  Topic: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 4229
Views: 2972140

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:27 pm   Subject: the tell us about the games you are playing thread
This is just a quick heads up, I didn't know where else to post this, but today I found a boxed copy of Darwinia for four bucks brand new at a local Big Lots. It might be worth checking out for peopl ...
  Topic: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread
Ethoscapade

Replies: 977
Views: 740101

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:04 am   Subject: Official TGQ Virtual Console And Live Arcade Games Thread
daph, the only reason those games are so huge is because they all had CDDA - if they put it in mp3, then they're suddenly n64-game sized.
  Topic: Squad-based multiplayer games
Ethoscapade

Replies: 66
Views: 34216

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:23 pm   Subject: Squad-based multiplayer games
i played counterstrike for an hour once.

i ascertained that what makes it good is the fact that you do not respawn. it's "round" based; your whole team starts in one area, you go meet the other tea ...
  Topic: Everyday Shooter is beautiful.
Ethoscapade

Replies: 20
Views: 14743

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:30 pm   Subject: Everyday Shooter is beautiful.
okay there's officially a ps3 game that i am jealous of not being able to play
  Topic: Third Party Brawlers
Ethoscapade

Replies: 19
Views: 14939

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:49 pm   Subject: Third Party Brawlers
goemon would be fabulous, actually.
  Topic: Third Party Brawlers
Ethoscapade

Replies: 19
Views: 14939

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:36 pm   Subject: Third Party Brawlers
bomberman, honestly, is the only one other than an anthropormorphized pac-man i can see fitting in at this point.

although, y'know, snake.
  Topic: Squad-based multiplayer games
Ethoscapade

Replies: 66
Views: 34216

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:03 pm   Subject: Squad-based multiplayer games
worms can be co-op; when setting up a multiplayer game, you assign each player's team a different color, and if you assign two people the same colors (exactly like smash bros., now that i think of it) ...
 
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