The Gamer's Quarter

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You know, one random thing that I secretly suspect is more than just symbolic about TGQ vs SB?

TGQ is white with black test, and by default SB is the opposite.

I don't know how people deal with ...

Man.
I keep thinking about the piece I had in mind, about how I did a homebrew original Atari 2600 game around the same time my marriage was (unbeknownst to me) heading into the rocks, and if there ...

Did we once have a "games you make yourself out of an existing game" thread?

Here's stuff for it from Mercenaries 2:
http://www.pandemicstudios.com/community/viewtopic.php?id=26131

Transformers 2 was pretty decent.

[url=http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/287#comment-1634]I've pointed this out before but your single-eybrow raising ability is frightening.

Just got through gta4:the lost and damned.

Killing people got to be a chore. Still a helluva city, though.

Also I'm kind of grinding through Wario World but stopped liking it a number of levels ...

I've noticed an odd phenomenon...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo-Threeie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_of_war_2

In both cases there's a lot of speculation and expectation that's never ...

on the other hand you have to live on a fucking boat. (i know someone who was living on the gowanus canal. it smells bad in the middle of winter.)
"even in the middle of winter, (worse during the su ...

Retro Game Challenge!

I've been doing the same thing for games, books, movies, and videos for the past 8 years in my own little online db.

Which one is worth mirroring the game part on?

Jeez. i wasn't paying attention and like totally missed this.

or maybe I heard the term bakedown but didn't realize it was IC/SB related.

My gaming buddy picked up Resistance 'cause it was cheap and in general he's feeling his PS3 is underutilized.

Admittedly we only played the first level, and I saw on Wikipedia that after that it ...

After a bit too long of mostly watching my gaming buddy play Fallout 3 tonight we're going to revisit Earth Defense Force 2017.

Such an awesome dumb game.

I wanted to pick something from Banjo -Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts.
Maybe that one level where you have to keep pool ballls away from Gruntilda.

The Banjo reviews are really upsetting. It's probably pretty representative of how people might think of the game though. I showed it to Matt and he shrugged at the bad controls and got annoyed that y ...

Hadn't really looked at metacritic.
The cognitive dissonance between the quoted excerpt and the numerical score is kind of funny.

Or maybe it's my irritation at reviewers who don't "get" Banjo-Ka ...

Just my thoughts. But it boils down to "trashy writing is trashy writing."
True enough.
It might be a domain issue though.
I guess gaming *could* get into chest thumping "MAN I ROCK AT VIDEO GAMES ...

I was thinking about how uneven Yelp is... so many of the entries say more about the reviewer than the place reviewed. Reviews of tattoo parlors that are all "let me tell you about my tattoos" and bar ...

i would have said the annoying woman from seinfeld but then had to add a OH YEAH THEY WERE ALL ANNOYING WOMEN and throw in a few elbows to the rib just in case the joke hadn't taken hold.
I was kind ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/24sex.html?em

banging for jesus.
Is that Sigourney Weaver in the front row?

it's kinda ondcp-ish. since when do eggs bleed? who's dumb enough to actually get sucked into this?

ON THE OTHER HAND

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/20/sarah-palin-holds-news-co_n_145375. ...

What time of day/week is the KotMK for them downunder folk, anyway?

So what are the rules for this game in terms of split screen and online modes, for 360?

It has 2 player only split screen? can those 2 players than connect online?

OK, this post wasn't as entertaining as I had envisioned.
Probably twice as aspergers-y, though!
Yeah, I wonder if I'm using the term too loosely, but still.

Retrogaming seems to bring out that k ...

I'd like to get the Apple II version of Prince of Persia to work. Sad

I really want to see side 2 of Karateka.

Kirk, you should see the horrific daisy chain of automatic RF switches
I could imagi ...

Wow, just when I worry that I'm a little odd for wanting to go back to Star Fox... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCh1a6kkjto&fmt=18

I'm a little amused, and alarmed, as the Atari 2600's TV connection gets more and more out of date.

Most "properly" (and interference-y) it goes to a switchbox that you screw in to where the antenn ...

I went back to Star Fox: Assault.
(This probably causes Dess to weep hot tears for the Starfox 2 that never quite was)

I wanted to see how that game and "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2" looked on my ...

I have to get the memory expansion for the system, and when I do, you bet I'm going to strap my arms and legs down and try to play even an hour of Donkey Kong 64. We'll see how far I get before my hea ...

I think it was in my bathroom for a while.

I don't remember liking it that much. It didn't do that much of that recontextualizing of games that I dig.

it's almost like a twitter account for the stupidest pile of nonsense you could throw together.

shorter version: twitter.
For some reason I quoted this exchange and the "stupidest pile of nonsense ...

Gears of War 2!

(very minor level setting spoilers ahead)

Oy.

It's not bad, the combat is still pretty grand.

It's always funny to see how games incrementally improve themselves. Like, now ...

Whoa, I thought I was the only person who liked Silicon Valley. Great game! So is blastcorps. Man, the N64 had some great games.
Yeah, I just looked up my "best 10+" list.
It was a pretty amazing t ...

totally different eras, really. bioshock is more of an art deco thing.
well, are you think of the levels, or the plasmid media:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVIXS4i7484
vs
http://www.youtube.c ...

What else should I get that isn't likely to come to Virtual Console anytime soon?

Excitebike 64 is my answer for everything.

And Majora's Mask.

Blast Corps. and Space Station Silicon Valley.

Never played fallout (don't dig RPGs or turnbased stuff) but am digging looking at some of the movies and checking out the scenario w/ wikipedia.

that 40s/50s retro thing -- did Bioshock steal that ...

The multiplayer is... I dunno. I kind of wish there were more opportunities to help each other, rather than hinder.
Isn't this pretty much totally dependant on the level creator? It's really hard to ...

Played another round, 4 or 5 levels, 3 player.

The multiplayer is... I dunno. I kind of wish there were more opportunities to help each other, rather than hinder.

We had a lot of fun once we fi ...

It's just a way of categorizing thinking, it doesn't posit super natural entities, what's the big deal?

Yeah, I know about Barnum Words.
I'm still not sure I get it, because Briggs-Meyer is about ...

i have this bad habit of making fun of meyers-briggs nonsense when it is not appropriate, but i just plain don't fucking get the appeal. especially when it's people i know who are deeply atheistic or ...

When this game works right it's one of my favorite games ever. When it doesn't it's a total waste of time.

Also: have you noticed that when you quit the game by holding down the PS button it actu ...

I think some of it is the frustration with the jumps, and that terrible ambiguity of "is it my hands or my brains that are not up to this task?"

also, as someone who in theory is all hot to be a ga ...

So.... Little Big Planet.

I bought it for the one friend of mine who has a PS3.

It's a good game, and maybe I'm too harsh because A. we only tried it 2 player and B. I haven't really looked in ...

While there's probably a surplus of ignorance all around, some of those thing in the article about dumb americans are more like factoids. Like, I remembered only the last name of PM of England, (and f ...

It's difficult to feel confident in any game of "follow that meme", since it's less of "what appeared first" as "what inspired the core group of meme repeaters"

JP Mario Sunshine seems to be more t ...

Slate had an ok article on the origin of "FAIL!"
http://www.slate.com/id/2202262/
it had a bit too much of "look what I found on wikipedia!" about it, especially in terms of the origin of the FAIL m ...

amazing and hypnotic in its restraint: (no not that kind of restraint)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAokUZS4ISM&NR=1

Didn't researchers also come up with some kind of fake fish that was sexi ...

More than ever I want a copy of Wesleyan Tetris / Obnoxious Tetris / Randall Cook's Tetris.
And a Mac to play it on.
And a pony.

Hey, and yeah, this kind of trolling, but in a positive and non-mischievous way, what do you guys think of Chomsky?

A guy who read my mortality site (http://kisrael.com/mortal/ ) and my feelings o ...