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Ok since were talking about video games here is a site that shows mini movies on the history of video games and such -- (link) - eag Nov 6, 13:04
The Terminator 2 and Aerosmith shooting games were always good times too. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 6, 13:00 5
- I just realized I never liked arcade "shooting games." Maybe this is why I never really liked FPS games on consoles. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 13:03
- The only shooting games I ever enjoyed were Sega (House of the Dead, Virtua Cop) and Namco (Time Crisis). - Mop Nov 6, 13:03
- Hated when the gun started to overheat and the rate of shots dropped lower and lower -- nm - amoxy Nov 6, 13:01 2
  - In the level where the creature attacks you on the rickety old bridge...we spent $'s trying to kill it. Till I just on a lark shot the rope on the - Will Hunting Nov 6, 13:02
  - That's what she said -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 13:01
LOL Bill Maher "Here's a guy who's not angry, he's not a phony, he's not cheating on his wife.... who needs a jerk like that around for 4 years?" -- nm - CrankYanker Nov 6, 12:58 5
- until they find the hooks into Obama, its going to be a rough time for the comedians -- nm - crash davis Nov 6, 12:58 4
  - They're getting ready... -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Nov 6, 13:05 1
    - TDS already beat them to it on election night when Larry Wilmore and Wyatt Cenac took over Jon's and Stephen's desks. - Trish Nov 6, 13:43
  - I'll be glad if SNL moves away from Oval Office comedy attempts, I love Fred Armison, but his Obama isn't very good. (nm) - musubi Nov 6, 13:03
  - They'll have Pelosi and Frank, there's enough for a couple careers right there -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 6, 13:01
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- Popeye Jones (nm) - musubi Nov 6, 12:56
- He's nowhere the player Tim Duncan is but that's the comparable game. He's a big fundamental, too. -- nm - David Nov 6, 12:55
ST Book Poll: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor: B-; Rant by Pahlaniuk: A; Lullaby by Pahlaniuk: B. -- nm - emoticripple Nov 6, 12:51 11
- Wicked, the story of oz from the other witches pov -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 6, 13:16
- I'm empty. I need to read the 2nd Prey book -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 13:04
- A Touch of Twiglight (Pettersson) C. I think I'm getting tired of this series. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 6, 12:57
- We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee. -- nm - Subversive Nov 6, 12:56
- Something by Jeremy Clarkson. Awful, awful book. -- nm - Loyola Nov 6, 12:54
- reading Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (it will be my answer for awhile as it's 700+ pages long) - Callisto Nov 6, 12:53 5
  - I was stuck in a long one a couple of weeks ago - Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Well worth it, though, and moved pretty quickly (B+). -- nm - emoticripple Nov 6, 12:55
  - awhile for you is what, five days? -- nm - loosilu Nov 6, 12:53 3
    - mmm, this one will probably take me a couple of weeks. -- nm - Callisto Nov 6, 12:54 2
      - Seriously, how much time do you spend reading each day? It takes me like 3 weeks for a 300-400 page book. - musubi Nov 6, 13:02
      - I envy fast readers. -- nm - loosilu Nov 6, 12:58
OK, this is funny -- (link) - zork Nov 6, 12:50 [Backboard] 1
- oh, that's just bad--visual puns are worse than verbal puns -- nm - Trish Nov 6, 13:37
Will, could you check something for me? - Beryllium Nov 6, 12:50 2
- Yeah, it's there; I dunno. They don't it for anything else. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 6, 12:53 1
  - Weird. If you load the full javascript link, do you see an actual error message? Maybe there's some filtering going on for that domain -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 12:54
Dragon's Lair is probably my #1 game I want released on the XBox arcade so I can play it with my 360 -- nm - crash davis Nov 6, 12:49 16
- I wonder how this would play on something like the Wii. *swing's Dirk's sword at the Dragon* -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 12:52 6
  - quit wondering about crap like that and wonder when you're going to get a 360 and play Halo with us instead! -- nm - crash davis Nov 6, 12:54 5
    - A bunch of guys at work play Halo too and are giving me shit to get one. - JaxSean Nov 6, 12:58 4
      - Sell one of the kids. (nm) - Will Hunting Nov 6, 13:00 3
        
        Alimony would cancel out the cost savings of the sold child, though. -- nm - kelly Nov 6, 13:04 1
        
        Fine, he can get the Mrs something fun as well. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 6, 13:05
        
        I need the tax breaks. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 13:04
- I bought the collector's edition for PC from a bargain bin. Still pretty cool. -- nm - VMan Nov 6, 12:50 6
  - Amazon - $18 -- (link) - VMan Nov 6, 12:51 5
    - *tempted* -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 12:57
    - thanks! I could probably rig one of my XBox controllers to work with my PC -- nm - crash davis Nov 6, 12:52 3
      - No trouble there. Plug the charger cable into any USB port on your PC. - Mop Nov 6, 12:55 1
        
        that sounds simple enough for me :) -- nm - crash davis Nov 6, 12:56
      - No prob. Comes with DL 2 and Space Ace as well. DL is available on Blu-ray, never seen or used it though. -- nm - VMan Nov 6, 12:54
- I was better at Space Ace -- nm - budice Nov 6, 12:49 1
  - my stupid arcade only had Dragon's Lair and wouldn't get Space Ace -- nm - crash davis Nov 6, 12:50
I have no distinct memories of the games played at the arcade of my youth, however I do know that hearing "Pop Goes The World" takes me back to it. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 6, 12:48 3
- i don't think i ever went to an arcade. -- nm - kare Nov 6, 12:48 2
  - I love the idea that when we're all old and grey, things like the arcade will be the "quaint" we think about. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 6, 12:53 1
    - hey! -- nm - kare Nov 6, 12:53
2008 Hurricane season mildest in 30 years. -- (link) - Dr.Vermin Nov 6, 12:46 12
- Wha--? Oh, I see. We got a lot of Atlantic hurricanes, but not so many Pacific cyclones. -- nm - Mop Nov 6, 12:53 3
  - "When combined, historically LOW levels of "hemispheric" activity are being experienced." -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 6, 12:58 2
    - Right. The lack of Pacific hurricanes made up for that rash of hurricanes we got in the Atlantic this summer. Averaged out to a low number. -- nm - Mop Nov 6, 13:01 1
      - Historically low! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 6, 13:03
- Hah! "Note!!! to Drudge Report visitors -- " - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 12:51 3
  - I like how you ignore the first two sentences of that 'note'. - Dr.Vermin Nov 6, 12:57 2
    - I didn't ignore them, I just didn't think they were salient to the point I was making. -- nm - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 13:03 1
      - Heh! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 6, 13:06
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  - huh, all the predictions I'm finding had forecasted an above-average year in the Atlantic, which in fact has been the case. -- nm - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 12:55
- Tell that to the turks and caicos and hati -- nm - eag Nov 6, 12:47 1
  - Bad hurricanes every so many seasons is the natural price for being situationed in hurricane alley. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 6, 12:54
Andie, instead of "fixing" it ... - zork Nov 6, 12:46 8
- This is so geeky, I think I just had an aneurysm. -- nm - loosilu Nov 6, 12:50
- I just need a cabinet and some room. -- nm - VMan Nov 6, 12:47
- intriguing. -- nm - Andie Nov 6, 12:47 4
  - I have mame and a boatload of roms on one (or more) of my old hard drives. I could burn it on a CD for you. -- nm - zork Nov 6, 12:48 3
    - i'll let you know. the case IS currently in an office in Oakville... -- nm - Andie Nov 6, 12:51 1
      - then definitely don't tell him the procedure until he brings it home! - zork Nov 6, 12:53
    - hell, the roms are mostly 10 to 30 kb and could be emailed. have to check the size of the program -- nm - zork Nov 6, 12:51
- "FIX IT!" -- nm - Max Nov 6, 12:46
Andie, I was stuck in B2. I don't disagree with you, but we aren't the most enlightened place in the whole world. We still had a lot of racist sentime - emoticripple Nov 6, 12:45 4
- I can't think of another Western country that has elected a leader who doesn't have a European background - Roger More Nov 6, 12:58 2
  - most of those countries are ... European though. -- nm - Andie Nov 6, 13:00 1
    - also, don't get me wrong, Obama winning *is* ground breaking... - Andie Nov 6, 13:06
- The racial narrative in this election is "silly", as Andie says, because racism itself is "silly". - con_carne Nov 6, 12:55
not that i'm actively planning to have kids, but i discovered the other day that Olivia was the #1 name in my state last year. what the hell?! - kare Nov 6, 12:45 16
- A couple of seasons ago, I had not one, but two, guys in my hockey pool named their daughter Olivia (unbeknownst to each other). -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 6, 12:59
- names are like fashion, in/out like hem lines and lapels -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 6, 12:51
- Spawn, we have to have another baby before my names are gone!!!! -- nm - Amy Nov 6, 12:49
- Kim likes Cooper. A woman in her office had a boy last week and named him...Cooper. -- nm - David Nov 6, 12:48 7
  - She should have known by osmosis that was a name I've chosen. - Callisto Nov 6, 12:51 2
    - i have two friends, who know each other only slightly. they had babies 4 months apart and named them both Tristan. - Andie Nov 6, 12:54
    - PS: Tivo = check mark. - David Nov 6, 12:54
  - Twin Peaks -- nm - budice Nov 6, 12:50 2
    - More like the forgotten Manning. -- nm - David Nov 6, 12:53 1
      - yeah, I always think of it the way Peyton says it. -- nm - Callisto Nov 6, 12:53
  - beeyatch! -- nm - kare Nov 6, 12:48
- You have to believe it's magic. -- nm - Max Nov 6, 12:46 1
  - *giggle* -- nm - kelly Nov 6, 12:48
- Lots of people into L&O SVU? -- nm - Trish Nov 6, 12:46 1
  - lots of name stealers stealing names!!! -- nm - kare Nov 6, 12:47
- I figure they're a bunch of Newton-John fans -- nm - budice Nov 6, 12:46
Hank Baskett had a 28 on his Wonderlic but he's just as susceptible to hot ass as the rest of us. - David Nov 6, 12:45 2
- Ain't a 28 pretty solid? at least for jocks? -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 6, 12:54 1
  - 28 is pretty good for a physicist. -- nm - David Nov 6, 12:56
From the bb's and this board for me it was Tempest, Centipede ,Dragon's Lair , Missile Comand -- nm - eag Nov 6, 12:45
SITWAP - No charges for Spitzer. -- (link) - Dano Nov 6, 12:44 5
- Not to mention the fact he's bankrolled by his family and their lawyers could tie charges up for years -- nm - budice Nov 6, 12:45
- He already put them all on his credit card. *rimshot* -- nm - crash davis Nov 6, 12:44 3
  - Bzzzzt! We would have accepted "He always pays cash. -- nm - Dano Nov 6, 12:51
  - Boo Boo Boo -- nm - The ST crowd Nov 6, 12:46
  - *perks up*...*looks at crash* -- nm - John Holmes Nov 6, 12:45
Interesting note from TWC. Guess we'll all be seeing this soon in some form. Start Over feature. - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 12:42 14
- ALL the channels will be in the buffer???? Woo Hoo!!!!! Of couse, I have Comcast. -- nm - Amy Nov 6, 13:05
- Boy if I can do this with a remote I can really eff up my wife's TV watching. Picture it. Grey's Anatomy season finale 2009 five minutes from ending. - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 12:48 2
  - You are just being mean! Besides, with Kevin McKidd on the show now and all the lesbian sex, it's really taken a left turn with the storyline. - Trish Nov 6, 12:56 1
    - Ans based on the news this week (spoils) - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 12:57
- thanks for replicating what my tivo has done for five years. -- nm - loosilu Nov 6, 12:43 9
  - So if you came across a show that was halfway through its run and you weren't recording it, Tivo has had this feature already? Alrighty then. I'll - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 12:45 6
    - It works IF your tv was already set on that particular channel. If you have dual tuners, one of them had to be set on *that* channel. - Trish Nov 6, 12:50 5
      - Yes, similar to TWC DVR but it appears the Start over feature means you could turn to a channel hit Start Over and it will go back to the beginning of - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 12:55 2
        
        I heard something about this. Apparently, the cable companies won the right to do, basically, head-end DVR-ing. That means... - Mop Nov 6, 12:59 1
        
        In other words...sweet. :) -- nm - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 13:07
      - is it me or was Hdn's sarcasm level set to "very subtle"? -- nm - zork Nov 6, 12:55 1
        
        *whistles all subtle-like* -- nm - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 12:58
  - not really. this will allow you to start *any* show you change channels to over - decline Nov 6, 12:45 1
    - it's basically on demand, all the time... -- nm - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 12:46
Marble Madness and Paperboy -- nm - budice Nov 6, 12:41
Space Port and Aladdin's Castle. What did you guys have? -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 12:41 11
- I spent much money at the Space Port when I was at IU. We also had a lot of games in the dorm. -- nm - Elvis Nov 6, 13:00
- I've never heard of *any of these places :-/ - con_carne Nov 6, 12:58
- Aladdin's Castle until a huge one opened up in the (then) new mall. -- nm - emoticripple Nov 6, 12:48 2
  - When our mall expanded, it went right through Alladins. When it reopened in the new mall, it was never quite the same. - Spawn Nov 6, 12:51 1
    - I liked Alladin's, but ours was really small and gross. It felt even smaller and grosser when it reopened as a pet store. -- nm - emoticripple Nov 6, 12:54
- My best friend managed our Aladdin's Castle. He still owns a few games. Return of the Jedi, Ghost and Goblins, Centipede. -- nm - TWuG Nov 6, 12:44
- Crystal Palace. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 6, 12:44
- Aladdin's Castle, Putt Putt, Golf n Stuff -- nm - budice Nov 6, 12:43
- The Fun Factory in our small town and Fast Eddy's was the largest and Captain Carnival was the pizza party arcade in the city. -- nm - VMan Nov 6, 12:43
- An apartment in a complex, freak. -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 12:42
- Aladdin's and Mr Arcade -- nm - HdnAgnda Nov 6, 12:42
"Your hair must be *this* tall for you to enter" -- nm - Sign outside 1980s arcade Nov 6, 12:41
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- "don't worry 'bout it Sidney...I've hustled alot better players than you." -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 6, 12:44
Jack's Lounge was where I played my video games as a kid... - Mel Profit Nov 6, 12:41 3
- We had 2 places as kids. Mellow Yellow, a arcade/ice cream store and Putt "N Puff, an arcade/miniature golf place -- nm - CQ with a gravy boat Nov 6, 12:42
- I had a Putt-Putt Golf and Games where it was $10 all day. -- nm - budice Nov 6, 12:42
- we had two arcades in town - the one at the mall was called "Wizards" and the one downtown (scarier, but, better games) was called "Bumpers." - Andie Nov 6, 12:42
I always felt too intimidated to play Guantlet because everyone on the machine seemed so good already. -- nm - zork Nov 6, 12:40 8
- i would only have punched you if you ate all the food -- nm - Redmond Nov 6, 12:42 1
  - *shoots the food* -- nm - znufrii -- least fighty poster Nov 6, 12:46
- One time, I got to level 150 on one quarter - amoxy Nov 6, 12:42
- suck on quarters like you wouldn't believe -- nm - budice Nov 6, 12:41 1
  - When I worked at Motorola we had a Gameworks close buy. $11 lunch = lunch + 30 minutes of gameplay. I would *always* play Gauntlet and I totally got - oblique Nov 6, 12:42
- I always felt the same about Pac Man -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 12:41 2
  - but you didn't have to share the game with them -- nm - zork Nov 6, 12:41 1
    - "Zork is being teabagged by Wizard!" -- nm - machine Nov 6, 12:43
I still remember one game of Cyberball - amoxy Nov 6, 12:39 8
- Ooooh, Laser Tag.....that stuff was fantastic fun. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 6, 12:40 7
  - I still play Laser Tag on occasion -- nm - amoxy Nov 6, 12:43
  - It was at a Laser Tag-ish center that I acquired my "Mop" nickname. -- nm - Mop Nov 6, 12:42 5
    - What does it mean? -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 12:44 4
      - It's full origins will remain a mystery... for now. -- nm - Mop Nov 6, 12:54 3
        
        They wiped the floor with you repeatedly? -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 6, 13:06
        
        You were the janitor. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 6, 13:05
        
        *knods knowingly* -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 12:57

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