http://apps.facebook.com/voxbloc/set-your-goals <— “Product of the 80s” my new theme song
lol DC Imaging themselves.
Oh mainstream comics.
Because despite not being relevant she’s still rather popular among the fanbase and it’s a reboot so she will probably be relevant again.
(Damn DVR. Time to post in the movie thread.)
Hmmm…this Darker than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini OST is rather good. I didn’t think I’d like a song entitled “Jesus Cloud” of all things, but apparently I do.
This is why I said “pretty much everyone”. Daredevil/Iron Fist couldn’t exactly make up for almost everyone else being a colossal idiot in this situation outside of the mutants who just sat it out.
What white shadow said. Even as much as I think MvC2 is overrated at times, pretty much everyone but Cable took more rather significant skill to kill you with a 100% combo (and even in Cable’s case, you could fuck up tiger knees or not get all the damage you needed). MvC3 Wolverine is just…stupid among other things.
X-Factor doesn’t exactly help matters here.
Heh. Yeah, having heard that he was drinking beforehand doesn’t exactly earn him any points.
…What the hell indeed. This just reminds me why I don’t bother with American comics anymore, though I should perhaps still try to get around to still catching stuff that isn’t tainted by the Big Two like Invincible or even non-superhero stuff.
(Seriously, though. What the fuck is this? I’d say that I’m surprised the 90s fad came back so fast, but that seems insulting to the 90s.)
didn’t R. Kelly try to marry Alliyah when she was 14? maybe they shop at the same stores.
and Amanda Knox isn’t worth getting herpes for.
Just watched Wall-E for the first time. That movie is kind of fucking great.
EEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.
Best Pixar movie might be Wall-E or Ratattouie and this is coming from someone who adores the incredibles.
The incredibles just has that pre “Computer graphics have gotten to a level where our movies won’t look dated anymore” look. Rat and Wall are both beautiful and have great stories.
(That mod to see above SF4 stages is pretty interesting. …So of course people bitch about it.)
Yeah, Wall-E is pretty great. I only got around to seeing it myself less than a month ago. I can’t remember why I didn’t see it sooner. Perhaps because I’ve kind of hated to go theaters in the past half a decade.
I’ve yet to see Ratatouille, though.
I think I forgot around the same time she forgot that weight limits for planes weren’t just iffy suggestions.
I don’t accept links to cold-blooded murderers.
Really dude?
we all make mistakes.
i don’t.
Elvis fucked with Priscilla when she was 14.
I just realized I haven’t heard or seen any mention of Elvis in years. I like that. Not so much that I don’t like Elvis as it is a testament to absurdity.
Did I mention these Plackers Hi-Performance Flossers are great?
Picture I took of a statue called Star Maiden. Haven’t taken the time to choose/make a new avatar, so I just used a picture I already had.
Re: SF4 mixups
When I say basic I mean it seems like throw/poke mixups have been elevated to a higher level of importance in the SF4 games. There have been crossup loops in since the SF2 games, and they sometimes did 100% damage- but you would see them far less often. They have been made easier, and deliberately made to repeat themselves, and it’s weird to adjust to. It’s like a more advanced version of the predetermined chain combos in MK3. They were cool in a way, but in a way were also super lame because they didn’t feel natural, at least to me.
SF4 mixups are more safe than SF3 ones, and easier to set up than in other games because so many of them loop into themselves- Akuma “vortex”, divekick shenanigans, wakeup throw games which work at any range, etc.
And there’s a difference psychologically, because some throws for example take three times as long to finish for some characters (see: Balrog, Blanka, Rufus, etc). So with mixups in SF4 you’re put into a state where you have no control of your character until you get up. I’m sure it sounds like a minor difference, but there’s a difference between being stuck blocking or not being sure what to do (ie. MvC2 Magneto nonsense), and literally being on your back or being able to let go of the stick for a full two seconds while you wait to finish getting thrown, and then being put into that guessing again when you get up. It’s not only demoralizing in the normal way, but it’s actually disengaging.
And just personally, I’ve always viewed stuff like crossups as being one of the lowest levels of SF. Classically, you can know which direction the opponent has to block and try to outguess them, but it’s not necessary in many cases. A 50/50 situation like that is your reward for finding good spacing or landing specific attacks, etc. They shouldn’t be so simple to come by for so many characters, just the way one attack shouldn’t put your opponent’s back to the corner for you, or allow you to charge your super meter.
I for one am glad that they solved all their problems by turning Harley into an Image Comics castoff. Sales will skyrocket!
So the whole “girl that likes me” thing was not germane. Firstly, after voicing my frustrations last week, I realized the whole thing surrounding her was merely infatuation. I had poured too much time and effort, more effort than I’ve ever applied to anything in my life, into the relationship with my fiance to jump ship now. On top of that, I know well enough that my fiance has put more into our relationship than any other relationship she has or has had (and I can only reference platonic relationships, as she has never had a boyfriend before me), and there is no way I could walk all over that.
It’s not just feelings of guilt over that, but I genuinely care for her. We honestly had a rough week last week, with some good and bad times. Thursday, we had a tiff. And I think my confusion helped add on to it. But we came out of it better. And the more I know her, the more I care for her. I’ve done some retarded “WTF were you thinking” things in my life, but to walk away from someone whom I do love, and have committed myself to enough that I was willing to put a ring on her finger, over some decent looking girl whom I just met, and barely know anything about, but can really only base feelings on an external level? Might as well be shooting myself in the genitalia.
So, fast forward to today. Yesterday Ms. Infatuation invites me to lunch with her. By now, I understood this was mere infatuation, and I was pretty much done with it. I accepted her offer. We met at Pizza Hut, and were talking, and she asked questions about my fiance. Woman knew I was engaged. So I talked about my fiance with her.
So the whole scenario was either innocuous, she was playing Devil’s Advocate to see how devoted I was to my fiance, to test my character, or she just didn’t care, but then realized I was committed to the woman I put a ring on, and backed off some.
She is a nice girl, or at least that’s the impression I’ve had since I’ve met her, and at the very least, will be a friend I’d like to keep in contact with. But no more, no less. Not going to do anything stupid.
(Hmmm…I wonder why songs #13 and #19 on this OST don’t play. I guess I’ll have to see if they’re on Youtube.)
Pfft. Your pathetic gifs…
takes off sunglasses
…mean nothing to me!
gets stopped by a jab because we’re talking about SF4 again all of a sudden
God damn it!
Indeed, dudette.
Even when she was alive, wasn’t her biggest claim to fame ultimately being in Romeo Must Die opposite of Jet Li? While she was predominantly a singer? What exactly did she do in that movie again besides be the main love interest and get off a few kicks?
It’s not like anyone talks about her anymore as it is because a) as fucked as it is, she did it to herself after it ignoring several warnings and b) her only posthumous claim to fame was Queen of the Damned–lol–and I’m pretty sure that was largely agreed upon to be a horrible movie IIRC.
That said, it’s not like I hate(d) her and she had a degree of talent that’s rather lacking in most pop today, so I’d much rather she’d still be alive and making albums instead of someone else like say Ke$ha or whoever. However, that doesn’t stop what she did from being incredibly bone-headed and as a result she and a couple of other people are six feet under. (Or did the pilots not die because of her decision? Because I’m pretty sure they did. Not that they’re blameless either.)
I’ve been wanting to somewhat comment on this since you brought it up at least a week ago, but I don’t feel like I know enough about SF4 still to say anything of substance; “I think the name ‘vortex’ is dumb” isn’t exactly a substantive argument.
That admission out of the way, I have to actually disagree with this particular bit here. I think that, comparative to the game speed of other games, SF4 throws are actually kinda quick, especially since you can’t mash to (somewhat arbitrarily) make them do more hits as you could in a lot of (or perhaps even most) other 2D games. It’s just that SF4 is still relatively slower than the (actually) 2D games that came before it. Whether that’s because of it being “downback fighter” or “jab fighter” or 2.5D or something else I can’t really say, though.
That image reminded me of Kool Moe Dee.
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she’s also 16 and hasnt even begun life. like aignt no way their letting her bring him to jr.prom
Yo GIFs are weak, and I had originally posted about the scenario in the lounge, it’s only fitting the followup reside…in the lounge.