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Post by default on Apr 28, 2011 22:43:21 GMT -5
Glad to see the Eagles picked Watkins. I saw him going to them in a mock draft and after reading up on him and others, I expected he'd be Reid's guy. Plus, protecting Vick is key with the seemingly constant lack of calls last season.
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Post by default on Apr 26, 2011 21:18:37 GMT -5
XBox has a retro deal running til May 2nd. Apparently, it's open to Silver accounts as well.
Banjo Kazooie (600 pts) Centipede & Millipede (200 pts) Contra (200 pts) RISK Factions (400 pts) Street Fighter 2: Hyper Fighting (200 pts)
Everything's 50% off. Pretty sweet deals for the 200 point games... And I guess a good deal for Banjo or RISK if you want it and haven't taken advantage of any of the past 100 sales they've done on them.
Oh and another one open to everyone.
The Halo Reach: RvB Griffball avatar prop is on sale for 80 points. It's 240 regular.
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Post by default on Apr 26, 2011 20:58:38 GMT -5
Oh and... crappy quality.
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Post by default on Apr 26, 2011 15:07:14 GMT -5
So I just finished up Scientific Pursuits in Fallout 3. I'm already lvl 20... so yeah, things are going pretty much the same as they did for me in Oblivion and Morrowind. Random side missions FTW.
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Post by default on Apr 26, 2011 8:15:32 GMT -5
Malls need more arcades. Consoles are be dominant but they still don't beat the charm of playing a coin-operated video game Sadly, the youth (and their parents) won't support them. There used to be an arcade in the back of the FYE at my mall. They started selling off their equipment and then it turned into fye's discount room. They had a cramped but decent selection including some skee-ball and similar ticket games that you could cash in for prizes. There was another kick ass arcade up at State College (non-mall) that closed down as well. They had tons of retro games and almost everything was 25 or 50 cents to play, minus some of the newer fighting games which were $1 and people gladly paid to play them. But as awesome as arcades are, rent is usually too damn high. My mall is still doing pretty well. There's a Wal-Mart, Target (and huge shopping area attached to it with Kohl's, etc.) but again you have to travel a fairly decent way to reach another mall. It also provides the only theatre in a roughly forty-fifty mile radius (and easily the best quality one) and is nearby a private college. And the college-aged girl demographic is probably one of the top for the mall. There's talk though of redirecting traffic and people are up in arms about what will happen to the mall. I can't imagine much, I know people who ignore that area just because of traffic and it's not like people driving out of state on the road are spending a lot of time and money on the mall. The fast food places don't even do well since they're pretty much all a pain to get in and out of.
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Post by default on Apr 26, 2011 7:56:55 GMT -5
So Deal of the Week is Dead Rising related.
Case Zero is 200 down from 400 Case West is 400 down from 800 Skills Pack Psycho is 80 down from 160 Skills Pack Soldier is 80 down from 160
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Post by default on Apr 25, 2011 12:55:32 GMT -5
In no particular order...
Zoey (L4D) Has some of the best pop culture lines in gaming.
Jack/Subject Zero (Mass Effect 2) The ultimate in badass chicks.
Shaundi (Saints Row 2) The type of chick I'd love to hang out with.
Moira Brown (Fallout 3) Loved her midwestern style accent and dialogue. Made the Wasteland Guide mission a ton of fun.
Princess Peach (Mario) She was the greatest in Mario 2. (And I don't care if she was the noob pick. It just made playing more fun.)
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Post by default on Apr 24, 2011 17:27:19 GMT -5
I'll guess 1-9. If it was over that, it was barely.
I can remember eating my first (I was fairly young) and my last (my friend had a buy 1 get 1 coupon)
For years, though, I ate Crispy Chicken (Arch) Deluxes then moved onto the Big N Tasty. Now I usually just grab wraps or something from the dollar menu.
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Post by default on Apr 24, 2011 6:46:36 GMT -5
Definitely agree with the sports titles. When you consider how much the titles depreciate in value it's pretty obvious they're selling a crapload of copies and thus have some killer profitability. But it's incredibly easy to pick up a new copy of a sports title for half price around six months after its release and dirt cheap after that.
There's also nothing wrong with gaming companies charging $10 for used copies to get multiplayer. Ditto with hidden disc content that you have to pay for. It's no different than buying a computer and having a 30-day trial of Norton's or buying World of Warcraft and paying the monthly subscription. I don't see people complaining as much about paying sales tax on used stuff. It can be a little annoying in some instances, but it's still they're right and not shady.
I also don't get the hate on a lot of ports of older games and people saying games don't hold up today. Final Fight, Crazy Taxi, etc. are all still as fun to play now as they were when they were released.
Oh, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater through Tony Hawk Proving Ground was a killer series. I don't get all the THPS hate. They have some of the best controls ever, imo, and were all fun to play.
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Post by default on Apr 24, 2011 5:36:29 GMT -5
Let's talk about some cereals that sound like they'd be pretty terrible. I'll start off with this gem. Because Oranges and milk sound so delicious when mixed together. Orange smoothies/creamsicles are the best. I gotta go with the shortlived Hidden Treasures. Basically they were little square shaped cereal pieces and random ones had flavored frostings inside. Some of them packed a serious punch and almost everyone I know who did try them hated them. I grew to like them, however, as the local discount grocery ended up with a few crates of them for .99 cents. The other thing was, is despite the whole marketing gimmick that you didn't know which ones were flavored... it was pretty easy to tell as most of the frostings were bright enough that they glowed through the casings.
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Post by default on Apr 21, 2011 11:16:04 GMT -5
I got a weird as hell sound glitch on Fallout 3. GNR started cracking in my Megaton house after I got back from, oddly enough, another radio station. I played for a bit, then fast traveled somewhere and wow... it sounded like someone firing up a jet engine with popcorn inside. Luckily, it went away and I was able to resume hunting Teddy Bears in my swank Abe Lincoln hat.
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Post by default on Apr 20, 2011 13:03:13 GMT -5
I haven't picked anything up in a while (at least physical) as my backlog is beyond absurd.
I think my last purchase was in February-ish when I snagged Super Mario RPG at a thrift shop that had just opened for $3 and also got my nephew Pokemon Red for $2.
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Post by default on Apr 19, 2011 1:01:18 GMT -5
I'm 27 and I've been balding pretty noticably since I was 20. After a somewhat short period where I wore it slicked back like a greaser, I gave up and just buzz it short and don't care. Over the last year or so, I've began noticing quite a few grays as well which is cool with me.
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Post by default on Apr 19, 2011 0:57:13 GMT -5
Wyngz I get but cookies? In what way do they go together? You bake both? I'd imagine they've worked them for the same temperature. Plus, who doesn't love pizza and cookies? It's pretty much all my nephews want when they visit (along with chips and lunchables)
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Post by default on Apr 19, 2011 0:52:37 GMT -5
Gillette acknowledging Schick in the US, at least, would be like WWE acknowledging TNA. Occassionally a nod is made, but they're hardly in the same league in popularity. Ditto with Apple and their iPhones and iPads.
But I've switched to Fusion and enjoy it. Gillette was nice enough to send me a free starter kit to try it out and with their coupons/sales at CVS and other places, I just keep grabbing new starter kits for $2-$5. Luckily, a head usually lasts me six months or more, especially if it doesn't mysteriously end up in the bath where the steam kills it quicker.
Schick's wires are weird but my beef with them with the Quatro (last I used) was that the head was just too big. It was too much work trimming around my sideburns, stache and goat. Gillettes slightly smaller heads and precision blade are money.
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Post by default on Apr 18, 2011 13:19:00 GMT -5
How do you wake up Lady Gaga?
Poker Face.
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Post by default on Apr 17, 2011 8:40:29 GMT -5
Hey guys, the kombat code doesn't work for chilean accounts, so I had to spend it in a northamerican that I had This code will work with all the accounts in my console, or this idiots only let me play with the account that spend the code? I'd think it works on both similar to arcade titles, but I'm not positive. It sounds like another bad move on the gaming company's part when it comes to globalizing.
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Post by default on Apr 16, 2011 6:36:37 GMT -5
I'm really starting to love some of the absurdity of Fallout 3. {Spoiler}I just went to Angela and Diego's marriage. Angela showed up clutching a butcher's knife the entire time. After the wedding I talked to her in the hall and she went into a movement where she clutched her hands by her chin. The knife was literally right on the side of her throat during it. From now on, I'm referring to her as Psycho B****.
Doing some exploring, I ran into some super mutants and killed two of them in the same spot by blowing up a bus. I'd just figured out the object manipulation stuff so I managed to leave them laying in a 69.
I did a small side quest where I picked a lock to get into a room. Then I noticed a computer outside so I hacked it and noticed it just controlled the door. ...Then on my way out, I found a corpse with the key to it. Tons of xp! As for Oblivion, I was a fan, but don't expect it to be quite as good as Fallout (or even as good as its predecessor Morrowind in my personal opinion). Still for the price, it's well worth it. Just make sure you pick up the Game of the Year edition if you do as it has both major DLC packs which were fun. Plus last I checked, GOTY was $30 new and the normal one was like $20. But the standout difference in Oblivion is that almost all enemies are leveled. Some prefer this as it's fair battles almost all the time, but I'd rather deal with the occassional unwinnable battle in an area I'm not ready to explore and just wait for payback and enjoy the satisfaction of one move killing random idiots. But it's sill one of the best "submergion" games around. Even after I finished everything, I still parkoured roofs and would go to a little island I found where I could chase down this deer that spawned and punch it to death.
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Post by default on Apr 14, 2011 9:56:57 GMT -5
I learned how to fall off a twenty foot ladder.
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Post by default on Apr 14, 2011 9:53:50 GMT -5
There was a guy at my last job, who would stop everyone and ask them the most random non-work related questions you could think of. Science, religion, politics, etc. So basically, he annoyed or angered about all of the plant by just seemingly trying to talk over their heads. This wasn't on break, so much as it was on the floor. It didn't help that he was given about the only job with some real downtime while most were rushing through stuff.
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