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Off The Wall / Re: RPM's Personal Meet-up or Who on RPM would you like to meet?

« on: June 26, 2010, 10:26:33 PM »

I'm with this fella, Libraries and Movies usually are required to maintain quiet while yer there. In certain places in some areas however, you are allowed to speak, but in a tone so you won't disrupt everyone else.

Here in the US you must be 21 to get wasted, but I've seen kids my age break the law an get thier little asses in trouble with thier parents, which makes them very selective to groups they hang out with (mostly those that look like they have came out of prison or something, two words: Actual Experience. I have experinced this myself, because people at the school I used to go to actually look like they come from downtown NYC).

As I said, you don't need to get wasted to have fun. You just need to have fun... socially. Going out to watch a movie can be fun, but it's not a very social experience. People are just there. Now if you can find a good bar with a free pool table, or something similar like an arcade with cool fighting games, you can have fun through the whole night. And you don't need to get drunk. Just being social and having fun is the only thing you need to do.

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Off The Wall / Re: RPM's Personal Meet-up or Who on RPM would you like to meet?

« on: June 26, 2010, 10:09:44 PM »

I'm fine with getting wasted. The legal drinking age in most of Europe is 18, right?

Hell yeah. Heck, around here is 15/16. I've been drinking wine since I was 13, my grandfather is a big wine producer. It's freaking awesome! You don't HAVE to get drunk to socially have fun, but just let loose and have a good time!

Different strokes for different folks.

I guess. I just kinda think of libraries and movies as places you go in order to keep your eyes on something other than your friends, and be quiet. =P If you meet, why not let loose? I'm betting most of these people haven't even had a fulfilling experience like that. A real going-out in style.

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Off The Wall / Re: Could my life be more awesome?

« on: June 26, 2010, 10:06:27 PM »

Ehh, I had little luck with that strategy in my high school. Meh, what you could at least do is try to find a good hobby, but don't let it consume ya.

Works well for me, and for alot of people. Why shouldn't he hang out with friends with common interests? Sociability is the light of life.

I say go out. See the world. Do something crazy. Try volunteer work. Helping people in need is always good and you're able to put a smile on someone else's face, and also your own. If you can't find a good job, get one of those heavy work jobs that pay little. I've had several of those, and they do something to people. They kinda awaken them to live, it's like playing a sport, you get full of adrenaline and you end up feeling really good at the end of the day.

Work on three fronts:

1- Do sports and work out. Having a healthy body's awesome, and you FEEL awesome. Having TONS of energy to do alot of stuff, being able to run for awhile without getting tired, or just being able to be strong and doing manual labour easily. It's good for everyone.
2- Work on your culture. See your country? Read its in-depth history. Start catching up with current political affairs. Watch the news everyday. Get a ton of classic books from your library and READ THEM. Find out what you're missing. Be a cultured, knowledgeable individual. Improve yourself on that front.
3- Be sociable. Hang out with people. See that money you're saving to buy the latest game/manga/anime? Take it, and go get drunk with friends. have FUN. Do some kind of social activity, meet people, be smart and witty, get a girlfriend if you don't have one. Having good friends is the best thing in the world. You get to have one hell of a time in your life, and you get to enjoy amazing moments with them.

Do that, and you'll have an incredibly awesome life.

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Off The Wall / Re: RPM's Personal Meet-up or Who on RPM would you like to meet?

« on: June 26, 2010, 09:57:19 PM »

Movies, restaurants, library, shopping, or just hanging out, chattering, and playing video games and card games.

Restaurants, sure. Big dinner, lotsa talking, that's good. Playing card games and hanging out, great. But movies and library are the kinds of activities you can do alone, they don't offer alot of interaction between people. Can't we all just go out and get drunk? Just get wasted, then go to some paintball place and be crazy. Then going to some kind of heavy concert and rock the mosh pit. That'd be freaking awesome.

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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"

« on: June 26, 2010, 09:54:43 PM »

This is something I had to be told repeatedly before I finally realized it. In the case of depression like this, saying stuff like that feeds it, and draws you deeper into the darkness, into the despair. Try your damnedest to remain positive, and the darkness should go away. Sure, the depression may remain in some capacity, but don't let it control you. You aren't pointless, worthless, a waste, any of that.

In fact, I find you to be a pretty cool guy. So chin up; pull yourself out of the abyss and step back into the light.

's not just about being positive. Being cheerful doesn't make [parasitic bomb] go away by itself. What does help, is simply getting ahold of yourself, slapping yourself in the face and getting realistic. Then thinking of ways to clean up the [parasitic bomb] around you, and doing so. There's almost always a solution for anything you're in, you just gotta be man enough to just do it.

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Off The Wall / Re: Wanting to Hurt Someone

« on: June 26, 2010, 09:52:53 PM »

It's a natural instinct in all animals to either lash or or defend themselves when agitated/[tornado fang]'d with. Even if they have no qualm with the giving end. Fighting is natural, and it should be taken as such. To hold that in you is a large mistake that will only turn you into someone who's brooding and will eventually explode and do something dangerous. However, you should only fight when you, or someone close to you is in danger. Beating someone up because they [acid burst] you off, simply is no better than the person pissing you off. Anyone can beat the crap out of someone else, but to actually defend yourself in a situation, now that's a challenge.

Turning the other cheek isn't as fun though. I prefer to fake turning the other cheek, then keep turning rapidly and do a full roundhouse kick.

This just gave me the motivation to challenge Theodore "Mother [tornado fang]ing" Roosevelt.

Do so!

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Off The Wall / Re: RPM's Personal Meet-up or Who on RPM would you like to meet?

« on: June 26, 2010, 09:49:59 PM »

This Europe meet's a good idea, but honestly, what do you guys do when you go out? I don't particularly see RPM as a place full of very sociable, popular and outgoing people.

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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"

« on: June 26, 2010, 11:42:48 AM »

why would anybody want to waste their life with me

im pointless

Life is what you make of it. If you're pointless, it's your own damn fault. So make a little effort and stop being pointless.

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Gaming / Re: ITS MAHVEL 3 BAYBEE (The MvC3 topic)

« on: June 26, 2010, 11:32:42 AM »

It's really only a "mistake" if the company itself thinks as such. One thing you may neglect is the notion of how a company stands to make MORE money through an arcade release, as opposed to the console port.

For example, Namco. They make their arcade wares on proprietary hardware that's specified to their liking, and then unleash them on the arcade market. Who do the proceeds of those units go to? Their very maker, and then the arcade operators get their small cut. So when Tekken 6 does well in the arcades, Bandai-Namco is the main one that benefits. This is an entirely different position from the console market, where there's not only the thing of making sure a console port is able to be "arcade perfect" (or better), you have to deal with the hardware and its manufacturer themselves, along with everything else that goes with such a thing for marketing a console port. All of which, costs money that is cut from proceeds before some one like Namco even sees the profits from the console ports themselves.   

There in lies the reason why companies like Capcom and Namco, for the most part, love to make their money in arcades first. Doing it there means they get the largest, unfettered portion of cash possible. Then, after they make as much money as they can there, then they start considering the home market.   

So again, pretty much the main reason why MvC3 is not getting an arcade release is because MAHVEL is much more relevant to Western interests, arcades are decidedly dead over here and the recent success of MvC2 on LIVE and PSN in the West (it wasn't even released on PSN/XBLA in Japan...) only made it clear how and where Marvel vs. Capcom 3 should be marketed. Thus, the focus on the western console market in MvC3's particular instance, makes as much as sense as how Namco does so for Soul Calibur currently. Namco doesn't care about SC basically being a "console-only" franchise, because they still have Tekken and Gundam doing plenty to hold it down in arcades. I wouldn't be surprised if Capcom sees it the same way for other things they may have in mind...

Considering the tons upon tons of units a game with enough cred can sell in the world, even with the cut profits, I kinda believe a game stands to make way more much money through console release. Even through a percentage, and with the manufacturing, exporting and taxing costs, games that get attention drawn to them are able to make alot of money. With all the math done, the developer still stands to gain quite a hefty percentage. I'd understand their inclination if the arcade business was international, or even Japan and US. But just in Japan? Just give enough hype to a game, don't cheap out on adverts, and you got a sure seller.

I'm not saying all games sell around here. There's plenty of good reasons why Visual Novels/Dating Sims have always stayed in Japan (one of them being that they're boring, with kinda clichéd storylines by now =P), and I'm not opposed to typical japanese genres to be stuck around there. But COME ON. Virtua Fighter is an unexplored goldmine as far as it goes. And Street Fighter, being the world's most widely known fighting game, could have had an international release easily.

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Gaming / Re: Classic Games for 3DS

« on: June 26, 2010, 11:09:14 AM »

I knew I didn't say that right. I was trying to say that hopefully, Nintendo will release more games that never left Japan here in the West, like Pulseman(It didn't get release in the States, really). And I would want a Game Boy/GBC/GBA on the 3DS. A Vitural HANDHELD! I was trying to say that why just start on the Game Boy chain? Why not Game Gear, Wonderswan, and NGPC, as well?

THANK YOU. Now that was well understood, at least.

Pulseman did get released in the States, but only through Sega Channel.

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Off The Wall / Re: Post a Random Fact About Yourself

« on: June 26, 2010, 04:53:29 AM »

Sometimes I wish life could be better, I wish did half the things I wanted to do.

Why don't you just do those things?

(as long as they aren't out of your financial reach or supernatural)

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Off The Wall / Re: FIFA world cup 2010, where surprise happened.

« on: June 26, 2010, 04:52:53 AM »

Spain vs Portugal, one word. WAR!. I expect a lot cards in this match. Bitter rivalry at its best. (Flash should agree) 

You have NO idea.

...although I'm [tornado fang]ing pumped for the game. One thing I'm sure of. We're gonna see awesome stuff happen on that field.

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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"

« on: June 26, 2010, 04:51:13 AM »

and I need some tips on how to write a story.

What kind? PM me if you need help.

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Gaming / Re: ITS MAHVEL 3 BAYBEE (The MvC3 topic)

« on: June 26, 2010, 04:50:18 AM »

Again, it's all relative. And unlike over in the West, Arcades are still relevant in Japan and a good portion of the East Asian sphere. People over there still like to go to the Arcades, often, just for the "experience". Saying that they are "small-time" is definitely a misnomer.

For example, to this date, the various Gundam Vs.'s arcade releases have still pulled in more revenue for Bamco than any one of their home releases in that region on PS2 or PSP. And when you consider that Gundam is, also, only really relevant in Japan, being able to focus mainly on the arcade market makes that much more sense. 

Of course japanese companies are conservative when taking care of their own markets and not giving a damn about the rest of the world. But considering the independent titles with a huge fanbase over here which end up being ported and translated all the time, I think they're making a BIG mistake not to expand their market. Yes, the arcade business is very "small-time". Compared to the rest of the world, that is. Gundam might be a tough brand to sell internationally, but by simply closing its business on the japanese arcades alone, they're missing quite alot of fans on the other side of the globe who would be VERY happy to pay big money for their favorite new fighting game.

Capcom's decision to keep Street Fighter 4 in arcades for so long was stupid, for example. They could have kept it in arcades in Japan, but released it in consoles in the rest of the world. Importers are normally the hardcore clientelle, so that would guarantee the arcades' success. But having such a conservative approach for games which could easily turn big bucks with a huge audience? Mistake.

It's amazing the number of companies who keep porting their games mostly due to their enormous success abroad when the translation was finally released years later abroad. They just don't really seem to put faith in the international console business, and stick to arcades. Which, as much as they may continue to be a form of japanese culture, will eventually fail financially and dissapear.

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Gaming / Re: Classic Games for 3DS

« on: June 26, 2010, 04:37:53 AM »

NO game has been brought to a handheld in VC format, thus the nature of the game in discussing a hypothetical handheld VC is irrelevant.  By that logic you just invalidated this entire line of discussion.
Boy, we have a real battle of wits going on here.

Oh really? Let's take a look at the post he was replying to.

Hm. That would certainly be interesting. If such GBA VC does get made, I would love to see the games support the 3D effects. Playin' Golden Sun, Pokemon, Metroid Fusion, and other GBA games in 3D would be uberly awesome.

Oh, yeah. Considering he was originally replying in context to a hypothetical GBA VC, discussing a hypothetical handheld VC is irrelevant. Boy, I've surely invalidated my whole line of discussion now, haven't I?

Get equipped with: Dictionary

im·port
1.
to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
2.
to bring or introduce from one use, connection, or relation into another: foreign bodies imported into the blood; foodstuffs imported from the farm.

Most people around here have heard the term "import" in that context (that is, application; not region) applied to data (Fire Emblem and Pokemon come to mind).  You are clearly not nerdy enough.

Because as we all know, that matters a whole [tornado fang]ing lot when buying old japanese software in an online store. By your logic, we could pretty much count every single game made in another country of the world as "importing", as long as the original software wasn't made in the country the person obtained it in. He was talking about "legally importing", and as far as I know, I don't say I'm "legally importing" a game everytime I buy it at the store. The word might have that meaning, but its clear use here wasn't the one you're implying. If he meant it as the VC Hanabi Festival title, although it's not importing, it might be perceived as such, as it's a title that was only released in its cart-based form in Japan. That's what I'm trying to find. From HIM.

I'm in no way forbidding him from doing so.  But if you want to discourage chime-ins from a third party, it would help if you could ask questions that weren't ludicrously obvious.

Next time, pay more attention to the original post he's referring to and don't say [parasitic bomb] like "that invalidates your whole line of logic" in some kind of effort to humiliate. Makes you sound like a whiny brat on a power trip.

Anyway, as I was originally saying, I'm asking geekgo4 on what he means by that, and not your conspiracy theories. So please, if you will, [tornado fang] off.

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Gaming / Re: Classic Games for 3DS

« on: June 26, 2010, 02:40:36 AM »

1. Console games being officially emulated on handhelds is something Nintendo was already doing back on GBA.

2. He said "legally imported".  Exactly where do you think they'd be imported from?  He's talking about cross-functionality between Wii and 3DS for Virtual Console titles.

On the latter point, as awesome as that would be, I wouldn't get my hopes up.  Nintendo hasn't been into solutions for transferring downloaded content between systems, and I haven't seen reason to believe that would change.  Further, as Reggie himself said, classic games on 3DS are expected to utilize the 3DS system capabilities, so the straight emulation of the VC is probably not all there is to it.

1- Not in a VC format, which is what we're discussing.
2- An "import" is something material which is brought from another country. VC titles do not fit into that standard. I was asking him to explain. As far as it isn't against the law, anything can be "imported", but it has to be brought from another country. Buying downloadable Hanabi Festival software online doesn't count as an "import". He never mentioned anything about cross-functionality.

Let the guy reply for himself.

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Off The Wall / Re: FIFA world cup 2010, where surprise happened.

« on: June 26, 2010, 01:31:18 AM »

YAY! Chile ranked... then vs Brazil!! =__= ,lol

Awwww, I wanted to go against Chile. That'd give me a great reason to mock a girl I know there.

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Off The Wall / Re: Post a Random Fact About Yourself

« on: June 26, 2010, 01:28:17 AM »

I am bored as all hell.

Need something to do urgently.

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Gaming / Re: Classic Games for 3DS

« on: June 26, 2010, 12:38:38 AM »

How was that unclear?  Geekgo was responding to a post about 3D effects, which last I checked the Wii isn't doing.

My point was knowing why he mentioned a console game in a Portable VC response. I said that too.

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Gaming / Re: ITS MAHVEL 3 BAYBEE (The MvC3 topic)

« on: June 25, 2010, 11:31:42 PM »

It's not just competitive players who flock to arcades, though. Again, take for example, the Gundam Vs. series. As long as that game stays in arcades, operators are guaranteed to get hit up by everyone ranging from die-hard Gundam fans, diehard Gundam Vs. fans, casuals and even the salary man who just wants to bash in a few Zakus through 1P/2P Co-op mode after work.

In short, that's a lot of business. Business which would basically do more to be cut in more than half, once a home version arrives. And nobody, ranging from Capcom+Bamco or the Arcade Operators, wants that to be cut into any sooner than necessary.

Small-time japanese business versus bigtime international home release business? I'm gonna go with the big guys on this.

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Gaming / Re: ITS MAHVEL 3 BAYBEE (The MvC3 topic)

« on: June 25, 2010, 09:49:50 PM »

In a perfect world...!

But seriously, an arcade/console thing wouldn't work. If people had the option of playing in their own homes, that does a lot to kill the possible sales on the Arcade side. Arcade operators would not be pleased by this type of thing (they have to pay out plenty of money for those arcade cabinets and PCBs, after all), which is why the usual rule is to give an arcade version of a game at least 6 months to rack in those quarters and keep said operators happy.

I mean, believe me: I'd love nothing better than to be able to play Gundam EXTREME Versus asap. And with the game being built on Namco System 356 (PS3-based  tech), a PS3 port would be easy. But Bamco and Capcom want to make that money, and the Arcade owners want that return on their hundred thousand dollar investment, so I and others gotta wait til next spring at the earliest.

Aren't the people who play at arcades the most competitive? Would they stop playing in competitions such as those if the home console version was released at the same time?

They could do something like having special characters in the arcade version, that would be added through free DLC later.

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Off The Wall / Re: FIFA world cup 2010, where surprise happened.

« on: June 25, 2010, 09:48:10 PM »

And hey, Portugal moves on!

Yeah, but we shoulda won. >_>

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Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)

« on: June 25, 2010, 08:57:27 PM »

What do you consider "Modern" Music?

Me? Or someone else?

I consider "modern" music, the genres that have been getting more and more popular in the last two decades, such as pop, rap and hip-hop. Also, techno, dance and house if you wanna get into the robot people. They can be good genres when used creatively. But ultimately, 90% of all the mainstream stuff nowadays is incredibly bad. It's plastic music. Pre-recorded sounds, mixes and so much lack of talent.

There are some really rare exceptions, though.

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Off The Wall / Re: FIFA world cup 2010, where surprise happened.

« on: June 25, 2010, 08:52:54 PM »

RAAAAAAAAGE FOR NO GOALS

Although it was a pretty good game with great defense.

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Gaming / Re: Classic Games for 3DS

« on: June 25, 2010, 08:44:45 PM »

And maybe some legally imported games, as well? Like Pulseman?

And why just stop there? I would like to see some Game Gear, NeoGeo Pocket, and Wonderswan love.

Pulseman's on VC already. You talking about portable VC for the 3DS? Be CLEAR on what you're saying.