The Gamer's Quarter

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I made a giant Tommy Wiseau in the Selectbutton server. If someone establishes a TGQ server, I will build another large thing.

So instead here is a graduate school thread.

My program (PhD economics at George Mason University) is a curious little place. There's a huge emphasis on blogging--see [url=http://cafehayek.com/]her ...

Yeah, I miss the community here. SB just has a different vibe.
I've had exactly the same thoughts lately. TGQ was pretty optimistic overall. We actually liked games. SB is completely the opposite. Re ...

I haven't checked this forum in ages. Thanks, Sergei.

The funny thing is, I'm not sure why I stopped posting here. Pretty sure I bowed out before most people, but it's easily the best forum I've ev ...

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qMe7Z3EYg&fmt=]Chuck the SEO Rapper explains design coding.

Oh, Illusion. Thanks to IC I've managed to keep tabs on them since around high school. I've never actually played their games, it's just. . . Battle Raper. God damn.

I've always heard that Daggerfall makes Morrowind look tiny. I'd like to play it, but old blocky first person games often make me sick. Don't suppose there are any graphics patches around?

Siren, but only if you have a Gameshark. Slap on invincibility and infinite ammo and certain segments of the game STILL manage to be too hard. (One character dies if she is touched by a Shibito no mat ...

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232498051
On the one hand, yeah.

On the other, I went to an inaugural ball and it was FUCKING AWESOME.

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/17092

radley lays down the law.
The bit about the brothel is the best. You don't see these kinds of stories with other consensual crimes, nosir.

My friend was just saying that maybe the company loyalty to Apple has to do with their good service in case of product faults.

Sorry Microsoft kinda sucks! I've had friends who got their boxes repa ...

Everything Wes said about DQIV + 10. The game expects you to remember every freakin' dialogue box, apparently, or write down everything villagers say that sounds even a little important. Either that o ...

[url=http://soundsfamiliar.blogspot.com/2009/01/colbert-report-intro-sequence.html]I love the Colbert Report.

There are probably other amusing words thrown in the intro sequence too, my girlfriend ...

Because people besides Valve get to decide achievements.

I got Bangi-O Spirits. Hard to pick a level from this that's really extremely noteworthy. They're all such tiny ideas, one-at-a-time. Also i ...

I got to see [url=http://econlog.econlib.org//archives/2007/09/the_wittmancapl.html]this debate. It's really entertaining to see a new theory overpower an old one. Wittman took the main survey Caplan ...

I like to think that I'm one of those people who can enjoy a game that's just a playground without any coherent objectives, but I'm really lying to myself. Without the ability to turn a playground int ...

I've been playing Ocarina of Time with my girlfriend, and thanking every second I'm not playing Master Quest. MQ is clearly the better game, mind, but almost all of the puzzles in the original can be ...

I like at least 2 levels in Turok 2 (the first level and the swamp). The rest is ass, though. I've played Turok 2 more than the first because I, uh, actually owned it, but in retrospect it is pretty b ...

Shame, I think this is such a good idea for a thread, but I don't have any modern consoles or a PC worth playing anything, so I can hardly participate.

Some of the zero-g stuff in Dead Space looked ...

I'm probably the only person here who feels about zombies to this extent so you can ignore me if you want, I don't mind.
Nah, I'm right there with you. I watched my roommates play the demo of this an ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Rbi8symcc&fmt=

http://pushingback.com/blogs/pushing_back/archive/2008/11/06/44960.aspx
Balko's [url=http://www.theagitator.com/2008/11/07/successful-pot-smokers-lets-make-a-list/]push back is pretty great. 200 comm ...

[url=http://www.snotr.com/video/774]Yet another masocore game, surprised I didn't know about this one.

Congrats, Wes! That's awesomely exciting.

It's just a way of categorizing thinking, it doesn't posit super natural entities, what's the big deal?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect

I'm not a liar. When my dad asked how things were going at church here, I told him. He kept it secret for a while, until I had a similar conversation with my old pastor. He was much more "tell the wor ...

So here's a thing, because I want to share this thing on the internet, with you fine folks.

Not quite a year ago, I dereligionized, but kept it largely a secret. As these things tend to go, the sec ...

I thought the origin of "___ GET" was Super Formation Soccer, JP version:

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f242/swimmytherevolutionfish/SuperFormationSoccer.jpg

Although the only web page I can ...

Yeah, way to miss the point. Even if the last generation weren't any smarter or informed than ours, it would only stress the point. Were the last generation's leaders that much better than ours? Minus ...

http://mother3.fobby.net/

The fan translation is complete.

Unfortunately, thanks to midterms I don't have a second of spare time to play this until Thursday night. But when I do, oh, I'll be hap ...

Oh Lord I wish I had a picture of that.

From what I understand, different versions of Tetris have different block probabilities. In fact, there's a version of Tetris that specifically analyzes your current game and gives you the worst possi ...

That is quite a bit better. Maybe it's one of those things I appreciate more in comparison, but I love how you've cleaned it up, especially the tree's shadow and the invader.

the next time someone near you calls barney frank "smart" i want you to ball up your fist and give them a good twack on the nose. when they grab their face and ask you why, i want you to do it again. ...

Fuuuuuck Mars Matrix is probably the best shooter ever made, woman!

Ugh. That one's even worse than the "wasting your vote" idea. Median voter model, people!

Ok but seriously I'm gonna start writing more now. It's one of those things where I really just want to bui ...

I started the whole writing about voting thing because of a fight with my girlfriend. I caved and told her I would vote. I figure it doesn't matter at all to me and it does to her, so I may as well. B ...

Dhex, [url=http://soundsfamiliar.blogspot.com/]I'm writing lots and lots about voting, you might be interested. Gonna be a long series.

Chex Quest 3
Wow. After all these years. . .

Too bad in all that time I've developed an inability to play choppy first person shooters. I get motion sick.

Actually, having just watched the actual original clip, that isn't what the second guy is really saying, so I think this is in fact kind of lazy. It's pretty easy to sneer at these guys- much harder t ...

Brook Pridemore is totally great, although I really wish the "antifolk" chaps would have a less pretentious name. You know, like "folk." Listen to [url=http://swimmymusic.googlepages.com/BrookPridemor ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-vnmejwXo&fmt=

Edit: Dess, those videos are awesome. "Get the hint?"

[url=http://www.reason.com/blog/show/128557.html]Good for this guy. California charges $2,315 for the stuff that ignorance of is no excuse to keep you out of jail? Unbelievable.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html?pagewanted=5&em

man that teacher is all sorts of patient. good for him.
Yeah, Florida is absolutely one of the worst statesfor this ...

It does if you've spent the entirety of hell powering your missiles up. If they're level 3, you can do exactly that even without a turbo controller.

I might have just gotten the buttons wrong. Black and white is where it's at.

I think it detracts from it.

And, by the way, you can go back to the original colors on a GBA by pressing, I think, Right + B at the initial GameBoy screen.

That's horrifying. Pretty uplifting that they saved the baby, though.

I think the size discrepancy is fitting, considering how completely awkward all the animation is.