The "whatever's on your mind" thread

[Johro]

Originally Posted by coolsome

Is Justice League The new frontire any good? It's on PSN video store and I dunno if I should get it

completely missed that one.... Jeremy Sisto as Batman! Harris as Flash? O.O
Lawless as wonder woman and ferrer as manhunter are interesting though.
I'd be suspicious from the casting

[VeronicanPlay]

Wow, an addition to my Deviant art, I think I am feeling creative at the moment, and yea I think it was about time I took it out of Work in progress. I still have a lot of things lying about I need to scan in, but that can wait till later.

[WarpSpeed]

Originally Posted by VeronicanPlay

Wow, an addition to my Deviant art, I think I am feeling creative at the moment, and yea I think it was about time I took it out of Work in progress.

Yeah, you definitely need to update that "Favorite movies" entry in your profile!

[Comrade Pants]

I'd like Telltale to try to explain this. I mean, it really paints them in a bad light. Lots of bad press, lots of people have seen it. It's the sort of thing that, left uncorrected, can cost them a lot of top talent and create a lot of ill will in the gaming community.

EDIT: The original post apparently can't be seen: Alukima comments: "I'm glad it's a joke to him now. I was repeatedly threatened and spent days worrying about my safety. I've lost jobs because Telltale won't give me a reference, or they give me a bad one based on my follow up. I've had to slow down hosting meetups which was one of my passions and how I met most of my friends.
I'm now unemployed, lost my health insurance and have no way to get medical treatment for a issue that is probably going to cost me the use of one of my hands... so I won't even be able to play games anymore.
But, whatever. He got paid multiple [1] times for a shitty, at home paint job by using a community he made fun of and I loved dearly to harass me and my ex-employer."

[RetroVortex]

I think what I like the most about the internet is that it can allow one to have a really good conversation.

And those are pretty rare in real life.

Well for me at least, as I don't know any like-minded individuals, at least ones that can think on a similar level to myself that is.

Don't think I'm being snobbish because I'm not. Its just an interesting analysis based on experience.

In the end of the day, what most interests me is videogames, and funnily enough, despite its mainstreaming in the past decade or so, its still far off from being a popular topic for the average person.

Most people I've ever talked to about videogames have a very casual experience with it.

My parents only ever played Space Invaders or Pac-man back in their day, and since then only ever dabbled in Tetris or Bejewelled Blitz, (which they play against each other like competative sports! XD). They are the Highscore junkies. They like playing simple games that are self-explanatory, not very strong in skill curve, and easy to pick up and play in short bursts that fit around the other stuff they do.

Naturally they don't "get" gaming beyond that very basic level.

Stepping up some more from that, I know three people of similar age to me that play videogames, but only on a sort of regular, casual-ish affair.

My older brother pretty much uses everything I have, BUT, and this is important, nothing ever sticks with him. He'll try out the shiny new thing I get, but most of the time he gets frustrated, calls it crap, then quits.
Yeaaah.... He's that type of gamer. Mr. RAGE
Well, to be fair to him, he likes to play RPGs.
He'll play Pokemon, (though he's not gotten any better at it since we were both playing it as kids! XD), and he will play almost every Bioware RPG I ever get, most of time even more than I do. He loves them with a passion.

But, his bread and butter is sports, racing, and first person shooting games.
Yep. COD, Gran Turismo/Forza, and FIFA.

He used to play fighting games to, but he's a terrible loser, (always has been. always will be), so I don't play them with him anymore.

He's also broken those poor PS3 controllers from throwing them around the room in RAGE! (Mostly COD induced)

So its difficult talking to him, since he has no knowledge and doesn't really care.

The other two people are a person I know at uni, (again he only knows what his gamer friend knows, so he's very casual and new to it all), and one of my little brothers carers (likewise, he has only dibble-dabbled in stuff as well).

The only people I knew in real life I could ever talk to about this stuff was my friends at school, and most of those people have moved on in life to uni and everything.

You had the Melee guys, that were good gamers, and we would play Super Smash Bros. Melee every lunch, (well, they would play it every chance they got! XD), but they were a bit dickish, and I wasn't really all that deep with them as it were. They all went their seperate ways, and I only ever see an occasional post of Facebook about them.

Then you had the RTS nut. He was a great pal, I hung out with him loads, but again, he dropped out of A levels and went to college instead, (even though it was literally next door, the timeslots didn't match up to well, and the guy always hung out at home. He would go home every lunch to watch Loose Women! The guy was a total fruit, but he was a great laugh). I still talk to him occasionally, but he went a very different route to me, as he plays old games, mostly RTS games, Final Fantasys, Sonic and doom.
And he does walkthroughs to these on his youtube and he gets mild success and a lot of hapiness from that.

Then there was my second best friend. He's still very active as a gamer, though being a science student he has very little spare time, and he's not too talkative. We occasionally stumble into a conversation. Mostly on the forum he occasionally moderates (which is having a horrible spam problem again! XD (He moderates the Video Games Live forum btw)).

Finally, I have my best friend. We always try our hardest to meet up with each other. Man, the times we have had were just fantastic. You would have never seen two people so in sync with each other, its crazy!
We have the best fun two straight guys could ever have! XD

A true kindred spirit, but again, getting into contact with him is difficult too.
He works full-time ever since he quit uni, and he lives quite far away, (about an hour on the bus), so I never get the chance to just pop over and visit.
Steam and Facebook has helped keep the embers going though, so once he gets his lappy back we can still keep chatting here and there.

But yeah.. you guys get the point.
The internet give me an outlet to explore, learn, communicate, and develop as a person.
It is very, very important to me, which is why I am so against it ever changing, (as its pretty much perfect just the way it is now! ).

It allows like-minded people to find each other and share their thoughts, feelings, ideas, and humour in a way people must have dreamed of so much before.
But most importantly without the barriers that get in the way. The social barriers, the commitments, the pre-judgmental instincts that we all posses to some degree.
It allows us to really be ourselves, warts and all.

So all I can say, is thanks internet, thanks you guys who read my ramblings and share yours.

Here's a virtual cookie:



ITS RAINBOW FLAVOURED!

EDIT: Oh, and I can't obviously talk to my little bro about it either since he's autistic and all of this stuff just goes straight over his head, though out of my family he is the closest to a gamer I got!

He loves to watch people play stuff, he's always watching walkthroughs on youtube, (mostly its games he would never be good at. Its difficult for him to grasp what many games want him to do. He's not good with text so much. The game has to have simple mechanics (like a platformer or racing game), or closed-puzzles (stuff like Yoshi's Cookie or puzzle bobble for instance. A puzzle he can literally see), else he just won't get it.
When he plays a fighting game, he presses the same button, (maybe press a different one if that one isn't working).
He couldn't get to grips with something like Pokemon. Battling maybe, but finding, catching, and being able to figure out moves, effects ect. would be very, very hard for him at the moment.
(Maybe he'll figure that out in the future, as he gets smarter and more talkative every day. (Though at the moment he's still very self-centred and a bit selfish! XD))

[Vainamoinen]

Errrr... the actual major internet anniversary was celebrated last year in August...?!

[RetroVortex]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

Errrr... the actual major internet anniversary was celebrated last year in August...?!

Quiet you!

Let me have my moment of reflection.
(Its important for my ego!)

[coolsome]

[RetroVortex]

Originally Posted by coolsome

[supmandude85]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

Doug Walker's Star Trek reviews are awful, lack critical analysis, and should never have been made. This is the first time I've seen any of his reviews and can say I think they're just shouting unfunny jokes at the screen. They're not just bad reviews. They're bad videos and they make him look like a moron and an asshole.

Did you actually watch all of them? I couldn't finish.

[Zeek]

Originally Posted by coolsome

And there's my new Facebook Cover image for my Timeline Profile.,,

[RetroVortex]

Originally Posted by Zeek

And there's my new Facebook Cover image for my Timeline Profile.,,

[supmandude85]

[RetroVortex]

Originally Posted by supmandude85

[Johro]

timeline is a piece of shit. I'm liquored up.

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by Johro

timeline is a piece of shit. I'm liquored up.

I'm not too fond of telling the internet my entire life story unasked. If people want to know, I'd like them to ask. At least so I can keep distinct what version of my past I've told people so I don't mess that up.

[supmandude85]

Facebook sucks now. I'm deleting my account as soon as they force the new profile layouts.

[Johro]

Originally Posted by Alcoremortis

I'm not too fond of telling the internet my entire life story unasked. If people want to know, I'd like them to ask. At least so I can keep distinct what version of my past I've told people so I don't mess that up.

as long as you can still select who can see what post, I'm good. If they force anti-privacy, fuck'm

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by supmandude85

Facebook sucks now. I'm deleting my account as soon as they force the new profile layouts.

[Johro]

Timeline is so much worse than the other updates, coolsome. It's a framing nightmare. Two columns with bisecting rows and you can't control it. It looks like garbage. A child's art project. Trash.