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Captain Ladd Spencer

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(05/05/08 10:40 PM)

Behold the many
uses of my amazing
BIONIC ARM!

I got a bunch of other Ultraverse books and holy crap, the guy sent me, like, four copies of Strangers #1 and three Mantra #1s.

Crawl and 1OOO

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(05/13/08 12:06 PM)

The Fuzzy Physicist
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We went to Target last night, because a woman in our group broke her shoes (they weren't high heels, but they had heels) and another guy tore his jacket (though it turned out that Target didn't have jackets). My pants weren't doing so good, so I got another pair. I also got a couple of new but cheap movies (300, which I've seen before, and The Prestige, which I haven't. I've read the spoilers, and thought it sounded interesting). I brought season 3 of Arrested Development from home, and I've already watched all but 1 episode over the past few nights before bed.

I also got some medicine for my digestive problem yesterday. I feel better so far.

See how your opinion ruined Christmas for everyone!

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Cesium

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(05/14/08 11:55 AM)

Bought a VHS copy of The Addams Family for $2.

My Wii has a strange problem with the internet. According to what the customer service guy told me over the phone, the issue is the first of its kind. I can use the Internet Channel and Shop Channel fine, but the news and weather channels won't work, even though WiiConnect24 is activated with standby mode enabled.

Magnus CROWE

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(05/14/08 12:46 PM)

Snooze Alarm

I bought a second copy of Star Ocean since my brother took the original with him when he moved out and I never got a chance to finish it. I enjoyed what I played of it from what I remember.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

Crawl and 1OOO

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(05/14/08 12:53 PM)

The Fuzzy Physicist
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Star Ocean for the Super Famicom?

See how your opinion ruined Christmas for everyone!

Magnus CROWE

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(05/14/08 12:54 PM)

Snooze Alarm

No, the PS1. I guess it's actually Star Ocean: The Second Story.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

perothecat

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(05/15/08 12:51 PM)

Last two games I bought were God of War 2 and Super Mario Galaxy. I haven't played either yet, though.

"Alas, Horatio, I knew you well...now prepare for the long bomb!"

TaroSH

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(05/25/08 1:44 PM)

I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost

I bought a 1G stick of RAM from Best Buy with a 12% off coupon and ordered the Orange Box off Amazon. I want to play Portal, dammit.

CLOUDBOND007

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(05/26/08 1:14 AM)

Lunitari Mage
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Portal shouldn't need very high system requirements. It's based on the now somewhat old Half-Life 2 engine and the environments in Portal aren't nearly that large or complex. More RAM sure can't hurt, though.

It's too bad that you probably won't be surprised by certain things as much as I was considering all the posts about the game, but hopefully you'll find the gameplay itself as entertaining as I did.

I bought one of those alarm clocks that sets itself automatically and restores everything after any power outages. It's nifty. Took it out of the box, plugged it in, and it was at the right time and date in a few seconds. It's also got one of those alarm sounds that starts off quiet and gradually gets louder until you turn it off, which is nicer than having it scare the crap out of you every day. It was good timing because we've had a couple power outages in the last few days.

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Kitsunexus

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(05/26/08 5:05 AM)

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I bought a handgun.

I'm only kidding. I bought a Slurpee, but it was half-melted.

Crawl and 1OOO

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(05/26/08 8:26 AM)

The Fuzzy Physicist
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I bought one of those alarm clocks that sets itself automatically and restores everything after any power outages. It's nifty. Took it out of the box, plugged it in, and it was at the right time and date in a few seconds. It's also got one of those alarm sounds that starts off quiet and gradually gets louder until you turn it off, which is nicer than having it scare the crap out of you every day. It was good timing because we've had a couple power outages in the last few days.

At first, I thought, "How can it set itself? How can it know what time you want to wake up?" But it sounds like it sets the real time, not the alarm time. I guess it might do that with GPS or something?

When I was working nights at FedEx, FO wanted me to chat with her before she went to bed, so I'd have to set the alarm to wake me up for that. Sometimes, though, I think I slept right through it.

TaroSH

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(05/26/08 11:45 AM)

I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost

CLOUDBOND007 wrote:
Portal shouldn't need very high system requirements. It's based on the now somewhat old Half-Life 2 engine and the environments in Portal aren't nearly that large or complex. More RAM sure can't hurt, though.

It's too bad that you probably won't be surprised by certain things as much as I was considering all the posts about the game, but hopefully you'll find the gameplay itself as entertaining as I did.

Well, I only had half a gig of RAM which was the minimum, 1G the recommended. I left in the half gig stick as well, so I have 1.5G now.

And the only thing I really know about Portal is incinerating the Weighted Companion Cube, and "THE CAKE IS A LIE" so I'm sure there'll be plenty of surprises in store.

Crawl and 1OOO

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(05/26/08 12:20 PM)

The Fuzzy Physicist
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I still remember my first PC: 4 MB of RAM.

I had to upgrade it just to run Netscape.

Kitsunexus

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(05/26/08 1:57 PM)

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2GB of RAM.

CLOUDBOND007

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(05/27/08 1:59 AM)

Lunitari Mage
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But it sounds like it sets the real time, not the alarm time. I guess it might do that with GPS or something?

I was wondering about that. I looked it up and I guess some use a radio signal to get the official government time and some are just preset at the factory factory for the time zone it's sold in. You can still adjust the time yourself, so that's really more of a novelty than anything else unless you have OCD about your clock always being right to the exact second.

As for the RAM thing, this computer came with 1 Gig because I couldn't afford more at the time. I eventually brought it up to 1.5 and don't see that it would help to go any further since the video card is the bottleneck now.

I think the first computer I went on the internet with had 64MB.

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Cesium

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(05/27/08 7:41 PM)

Picked up Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Vol. 1 new for $10 at Wal-Mart. It was either that or World Heroes Anthology, and we all know how lackluster that series is. Also got a Hard Rock Cafe shirt.

Kitsunexus

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(05/27/08 8:10 PM)

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Cesium wrote:
Picked up Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Vol. 1 new for $10 at Wal-Mart.

I have both volumes. They pwn.

Today I bought Rygar, Shinobi, Mad Maestro, Bomberman Generation, King Of Fighters 2002/2003, Chameleon, and Neopets PetPet Adventures: The Wand Of Wishing.

Out of what I played: Rygar is fucking AMAZING, like GOW without the dumb Western-styled meathead jock love, which is awesome. Chameleon is stupid. It's going back to the store and I am NEVER buying another Starfish/UFO product again (I should have learned after Heavenly Guardian, which ironically I traded in today). Neopets PetPet Adventures is awesome actually, very good presentation, and plays almost exactly like Ys: Ark of Napsthim. Love the music too.

TaroSH

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(05/28/08 3:41 PM)

I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost

I wanted to test out my new graphics card, and since the Orange Box is still in transit (I would have bought it local, except Amazon had it for $10 less than everyone else and shipped for free on top of it), I went to Best Buy and got Clive Barker's Clive Barker's Jericho (by Clive Barker) and the FEAR Platinum Collection because they were both cheap and some day I may feel like a shitty shooter.

Flying Omelette

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(05/28/08 7:46 PM)

Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts

My stuff from NES Reproductions arrived today:

Zelda Outlands
Chronicle of the Radia War
Sweet Home

Think of what you're saying,
You can get it wrong
And still you think that it's all right.
Think of what I'm saying,
We can work it out
And get it straight or say good night.

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one

TaroSH

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(05/30/08 1:58 PM)

I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost

I went to Gamer's Anonymous, and holy crap, some diehard Sega fan unloaded their gear on them! They had a Master system, another Sega CD (this is where I bought mine), a 32X, and a ton of Genesis and Saturn games. My biggest catch there today was getting a complete Guardian Heroes for $30.

And he said they were going to be getting in another haul tomorrow, as they were buying up the stuff the guy who owned RePlay Games kept when it went out of business.

Captain Ladd Spencer

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(06/04/08 4:46 PM)

Behold the many
uses of my amazing
BIONIC ARM!

Where's my Orange Box, Amazon???

I ordered The Darkness and the Starcraft Battle Chest four days after I ordered it, and I got those today but am STILL waiting for the Orange Box!

Gengarian Junus

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(06/05/08 12:59 PM)

I got the Transformers game (the one that's NOT based on the recent movie) for the PS2.

I also scored a copy of Rainbow Islands for NES which I know was lucky because it's somewhat rare.

TWEETER911

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(06/06/08 4:33 AM)

Phantom King

Snatched up Summon Night Twin Age for DS for only 16 dollars yesterday. Also finally downloaded Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, but I need to upgrade Direct X and am being lazy about downloading and running the verifier thing.

S-G: "Goood morning! How're you?"
Kunagi: "Huh? Didn't I kill you?"
S-G: "NOPE! Nice try though."
Kunagi: "Curses."

Musings of a bird

Captain Ladd Spencer

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(06/06/08 3:15 PM)

Behold the many
uses of my amazing
BIONIC ARM!

I'm starting to wish I had just plunked down the extra $10 on the Orange Box and gotten it right away. This is ridiculous.

CLOUDBOND007

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(06/06/08 3:21 PM)

Lunitari Mage
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Did you use the free shipping option on it? Even so, it's starting to sound like something might have gone wrong.

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Captain Ladd Spencer

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(06/06/08 4:38 PM)

Behold the many
uses of my amazing
BIONIC ARM!

I always use free shipping and it's never taken this long. And like I said, I got a package I ordered four days after the Orange Box a couple days ago, but I'm still waiting for the Orange Box!

Crawl and 1OOO

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(06/06/08 5:05 PM)

The Fuzzy Physicist
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One of the very first things I ordered on Amazon.com, before I even had a credit card, was Vandal Hearts 2. It took over a month for me to get it!

I was sort of amazed that they even had Vandal Hearts 2 (this was several months after the game was released, and it disappeared from local store shelves within about a month) so part of me wonders if it was an issue of them having trouble locating it. I think their claim was that it took that long for payment to clear or something. But I paid with a post office money order, which are supposedly insured and guaranteed; in theory, they should be better than a check.

That made me wary of amazon, but it never happened again.

See how your opinion ruined Christmas for everyone!

Psycho Penguin

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(06/11/08 1:12 PM)

Doesn't amazon use different sellers though? So you could be getting different things from different sellers.

Game Progress: Suikoden, Xenosaga 2, Seiken Densetsu 3

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TaroSH

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(06/11/08 1:21 PM)

I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost

Okay, maybe I shouldn't be blaming Amazon, but rather the local post office. According to Amazon's package tracker, it's been in my city for a week now.

Today's mail hasn't come yet. Cross my fingers?

TaroSH

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(06/13/08 3:08 PM)

I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost

I finally sent Amazon an email asking about the Orange Box because I ordered Mass Effect on the 7th when I caught Amazon selling it for $35, and that arrived today.

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