Quicksilver don’t get discouraged! Both Unreallystic and my good buddy CrouchingTiger were once EEs, and they just figured out it’s not what they wanted to do.
As for your roommate, just grit your teeth and deal with it. I have a roommate now, since I’m in the Navy… we get along well, but that’s not to say I’ve had shit ass roommates who I both hated or were just total slobs. Soon one of you will go and it’ll be the epic dance of “omg who’s gonna be my roomie” lol.
Glad to see your back to SRK…
Not much new with me either… work all of the time. Finally in my job, and stationed in Maryland. Going home for Christmas!
Tonda: You should know by now that any news concerning my death is more of the government’s attempts at control. As long as they continue to shake it, all will be good in this world. I had lost my internet for a little while, but it’s back now.
R.P.D. : I know you’re gonna OCV that final, so I’m not even gonna bother with the pep talk. Just do what the Hulk would do and smash it.
Damn. Dan the man made VH1 worth watching for once, and I miss it. Let that be a lesson to you all, pay your bills on time. the only thing worse is that I didn’t get any of that cake. That really ticks me off. I’m hungry even now.
As far as my own, not much. For Thanksgiving the church ladies actually brought me a turkey. Not joking. It was good too. I thanked them and God, then tore through that thing in a way that would’ve made Jaws proud. Monday I had a birthday. Yup, one year older and they’re still shaking it. :tup:
Hey star. I was wondering what you are, up above the world so high. Like a diamo… awww you no the rest. Glad to have you back in cyberspace buddy. On a side note, I started up a thread about dumb things that you done today. It hasn’t been doing so hot, because apparently, everyone on SRK is perfect and doth not maketh mistakeums… I had one particular post that I’d like to share with you guys, just to hear your thoughts on the situation and all.
I SWEAR SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST ASSHOLES!!! Ok, sure I did something dumb today, but there was no reason for things to go down like they did. I was pulling up to the clinic on base here and there was one other car in front of me. This guy went the long way around while I decided to cut through the DO NOT ENTER sign. There were no cars coming and I had allready parked my car and started walking towards the building. The other guy who had finally made it all the way around was a 1st Seargeant. In the military, these guys are big shit. I’m allready running late as it is, but I would have taken that turn anyway just to save time. BIG FUCKING MISTAKE!!! I had a boy scout on my hands. He yells across the parking lot with “Hey, didn’t you see that do not enter sign?” I look at the guy and then I turn away to go about my buisness figuring that he was just some asshat complaining.
He called out to me and then used his title of 1st shirt. He was in civillian clothes, so I didn’t care who he was at the time. Once I heard what he was, that changed all the rules. So I go back over to see what he had to say. He ask for my ID and he got the info down so he can tell the cops in order to get me a ticket. Now because I had an emotionless look on my face and wasn’t talking to him, he thought I had a pissy attitude. Now, I know what I did was wrong, but if other cars were coming towards me, then there was no way in hell would I have made the turn. I have better sense than that, and no one was in danger. I don’t know weather to be mad at myself for taking the turn, or mad at the guy for being a fucksuck. Either way, it’s over. But what I would like to know, is why did he have to tell me he was a 1st Seargeant. Was not being a man enough? It just goes to show you how fucked up the military mindset is.
Yeah, sounds like you were dealing with a captain america there. That’s one thing I liked about the Navy. Our boy was Popeye. You KNOW he didn’t give a fuck about rules. Yeah, what you did was wrong. you went in through the exit only. But it sounds like you made sure that the danger was not present. As I’ve said before, being right or wrong isn’t always the problem. you just got caught is all. I say fuck it and keep on going. No sense in letting something like this hold you down for even a moment.
Cosign on that. It sounds like he was just being an ass hat. Were you in uniform at the time? That might have been why he called you out and used his rank and all that good shit. Just don’t let it get you down. I just failed my last final for the year and I’m not going to let it phase me. Normally I would get pretty upset over something like this but I realize that putting it in perspective in the long run it’s going to be ok.
I’m used to being an A student so it does irk me to say the least that I’m pulling failing grades.
Also if any body knows someone that is looking to sell an original 8-bit Nintendo NES PM me ASAP please. I’m looking for the original flip top Nintendo model not the top loader or the 30 other knock off brands that have been produced since some of the patents have expired.
I’m only looking for the system and a couple regular controllers if they have them. I don’t want any games with it unless they have any of the original Mega Man series. For the system itself with cords and controllers I’m willing to go as high as 45 bucks give or take depending on shipping. If someone is willing to part with the system and has any of the Mega Man games we can work out a price.
I’m good man. I was just angry because he almost made me late for work. It was supposed to be an in and out thing and fucking around with him was wasting precious seconds on my time table. As for the NES thing. Are you doing this for collectors purposes? If so, then power to ya. If not, I suggest you just go EMUS and ROMS. Not only does it cut down on physical junk, but you don’t have to give your computer a blow job just to play a game.:bgrin:
lol, yeah I’m doing it for both reasons. I actually do want to play the games in original format and everything but I also want an NES for myself before they all become ridiculously expensive. I actually have Mega Man Anniversay Edition for the Xbox but nearly all of the glitches have been fixed which is a shame cause some of the skill and fun of beating come in using them.
I recenlty became interested in the old G Mega Man series after I saw a speed run of Mega Man 2 here.
Just control + F and type in Mega Man for the page to find the movie quicker.
I know that these speed runs are tool assisted but damn some of that stuff is God-tier game playing. I would definitely recommend all of those Mega Man videos.
I do have an N64 so I am well acquainted with the days of giving your favorite cartridge a good BJ before you could play it. lol
I’ve seen a lot of replays over the past few months. Exactly what do they mean by “tool assisted” in the replay? I thought that they might mean gameshark/genie or using some kind of “thing” to skip intros or something. But if your cheating in anyway besides exploiting glitches, then that doesn’t count towards overall skill if you ask me. What are they talking about?
Check out the video for Mega Man 5 on the site that I linked too. If you watch the first boss fight with Star Man you’ll see that Mega Man can stand right next to him, touch his shield, and shoot through it too. Normally in the game Star Man is invincible while he has his shield up and will just deflect or cancel out Mega Man’s shots, so by “tool assisted” they mean that someone has actually gone inside the game data and taken out the hit box for Star Man’s attack and various other tweaks such as changing a boss attack pattern to something exact instead of random. They even say that they manipulate the luck in the game so that certain enemies have certain item drops. Like for instance you kill a certain enemy and you can know what random item they will drop. They do this in Mega Man 5 so that they can use the Speed Arrow glitch as often as possible.
I would agree that tool assisted are not truly skill worthy. In some places you can actually see where the movie slows down so that they aren’t even playing the game in real time anymore. It’s crappy but the whole point for the movies is to make the fastest theoretical time to run through the game as possible. Another thing I think they do is use save states instead of actually playing through the game in one session. They’re still entertaining to watch none the less.
From all of those videos Mega Man 2 is the most broken game I’ve ever seen by far.
As far as speed runs that are not tool assisted and only utilize in game glitches and bugs this is the place to look.
I always thought that “tool assisted” was the constant saving and reloading of games and not just playing it one time through. Huh. Learn something new everyday.
That’s the site I visit. It combines SDA, bisqwit, and other random sites with speed runs. Good ish if I say so myself.
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Quicksilver - EE major huh? What classes are you taking? I’m always interested in what other classes us engineering majors are taking. I may be a CS major, but I am trying to get into more EE/ECE classes as I think many of those topics are just fascinating.
And good luck with your NES quest. Sorry man, but I will never part ways with my NES. I only have one MM game and that’s MM2. When I was like 10, I went over to my friends house to play some games. As I left, he just handed me his copy of MM2. Said the game is boring and he doesn’t want it. I gladly took it off his hands.
MM2 and MM4 are two personal favorites of mine. Metal Man and Dust Man 4 life. :wgrin:
Tonight’s love: Well, Starhammer has learned yet again another lesson about the place where he lives. that lesson is simply to trust nobody and nothing. I ended up on a 4 mile walk because of that. the last mile or so of which was ended by a friendly face with a car. the details are a bit long winded, so I’ll skip it.
so far, watching Cable TV again is crazy. Wrestling is nuts now…at least for Thursday. the rest of it is about the same. I wouldn’t watch most of it unless you forced me, but there were a few good nuggets inbetween the river of crap. mainly, it looks more and more like I should make my own stuff if I want something good to see. Still, I’ll check out what’s up for a while more. this is only the first day.
I just came back from Taco Bell. Me and 3 buds ate it in the car cuz the inside was closed.
We then took our friend to go grocery shopping. While he was on the phone with his ball and chain, we snuck some chips called “Pirates’s Booty” into the cart and he bought them lol.
This semester I took Introduction to Signal Processing and Introduction to Computer Engineering besides all the standard core stuff. Signal Processing was pretty much a drag, mostly theory dealing with signals and systems, but Computer Engineering was very interesting although definitely not easy. We got a pretty good feel for how a lot of basic hardware operates and how to design some circuits. Unfortunately we haven’t gotten to do any hands on work as of yet. What I’m really looking forward to is a teacher cutting me lose and letting me use a soldering iron.:bgrin: It’s awesome now because I can actually look at a circuit schematic and have a basic idea of what’s going in the circuit. I am actually also interested in computer science myself and I think that I may be dual majoring after I transfer to Georgia Tech. I’m doing some reading on photoshop at the moment. If I had to pick a single program to learn every aspect of that would be it.
Yeah Mega Man 4 is actually my favorite of the series with 2 being a close second. Pharaoh Man is my favorite boss (too bad he’s so easy to beat) and the Balloon upgrade is broken as hell and useful on damn near every level. I hope I can find a NES before Christmas. You definitely lucked out with your friend there.
Damn man I think you need to expand on that story just a little bit there. Yeah Thursday night TV does kinda suck donkey balls but that’s to be expected. If I made my own TV show it would pretty much be a rip off of Fastlane starring me where I successfully foiled drug lords and counterfitters with my superhuman reverse engineering skills. (The scripts would be a beast to write but it’s a solid premise.) Then after all is well Tiffany Thiesen, Elisha Cuthbert, and I would make sweet sweet lovin.:smokin:
Edit: Tonda - lol I want some damn pirate’s booty chips now.