We were spitting venom at most everyone we know
It's starting to really get on my nerves that the only time the network slows down is when I decide to play Reach online. It has to be someone doing memory-intensive crap, but I'm not sure who or what to blame. I think everyone should be out of the house around 6:00 tomorrow, so I'm going to test my theory then. Get online, play a few matches, see what happens. But as it stands, the lag is just fucking ridiculous. In a game where sharp reflexes are key, pulling the trigger and nothing happening for almost a full second is not a good thing, no matter what you're using. I tried to compensate by pulling the trigger and just trying to lead out? Doesn't help much.
Pretty much raegquit the group I was with because it was getting to be that fucking annoying. minako134, pass on the apologies, if you would? I just couldn't deal with it anymore.
Edge Tek Jansen Maverick from Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope Adventures of Tek Jansen. He's such a generic protagonist with nothing standing out in his favor. First, can we just stop giving RPG protagonists swords? I'm not saying that all sci-fi adventures need to use guns and laser beams, but a little variation wouldn't hurt. So. Magical Advantage that he has that no one/few others have? Check. I particularly love this one, because as far as I can tell, it activates on sheer Burning Spirit alone. So when his Burning Spirit Gauge maxes out, this emblem shows up on his hand pretending to be the fucking Triforce. What does it do? ...good question. At least with Reimi's, you see some cause and effect.
Angst used as an attempted layer of development? Check. Look, okay, your primary goal in life was to find some place for humans to live that would be just as beautiful as Earth used to be. I can understand that. And alright, you went and blew up Earth indirectly. That sucked. But it turns out it was an alternate dimension! You have a get out of jail free card! The proper reaction is, "OH! Whew, didn't irrevocably destroy the future and my home. Dodged a bullet there." The proper reaction is not to go mope and frump and snap angrily at people. After a while, I was rooting for the pansy elven boy to fucking deck him.
Actually, no, there was a good thing in there. The first officer of the ship pulled a five second mutiny on his ass for it. "Well, you're not fit for leadership. I propose I should be leader. Objections? None? Awesome. Let's get shit done." And Tek Jansen continues to mope around and follow like a teenager being dragged through a public place by his parents. The worst thing is he's decided that he's going to be just like the song I Am A Rock, in which because he doesn't affect the world around him and maintains that barrier, nothing will get to him. So when someone is in trouble and his Heroic Instincts tell him to help, he'll do so and then tell the person he helped to fuck off. The only reason he snaps out of it, I am convinced, is because the pansy elven boy was about to become manlier than he. Or it could be because someone told him in no uncertain terms, "Get over yourself, the universe doesn't revolve around you."
The worst part is the ending. He decides, after all this, that if there is advanced technology, society should reject it and strive to make it on their accomplishments. And the ending makes it rather certain that this is supposed to be the good idea for everyone. But it's philosophically a terrible fucking idea! Yes, I get the point that if you gave nuclear weapons to a medieval civilization, there's going to be a huge problem. But using that analogy, giving nuclear weapons to a modern civilization isn't a better idea. We still flip and get nervous when anyone who isn't us gets them.
When you continue to look at it, where does it end? If the idea is to work based solely on your own accomplishments, how many of us would actually accomplish anything? If I'm supposed to reject advanced technology, well, I don't fully understand how a computer works or how to build one. Does that mean I shouldn't use it? I don't know fully understand how a car works, so I shouldn't use one? When you take it to the level he's discussing, it's advocating a singular sense of "this is all about me" instead of any sort of teamwork. Really, the phrase "no man is an island" sums it up rather well.
The best part about this is that his absolute dedication to this flawed line of thought is that he has the ear of the person who eventually because President of Earth, believing he owes it to Tek Jansen. He then abandons any technology that was co-developed or helped along by aliens because it wasn't human-designed. So Tek Jansen single-handedly pushed the advances of technology backwards. And then since those aliens lost their homeworld in the game and don't have a suitable colony elsewhere? Tek Jansen essentially talks an entire spacefaring race into becoming simple farmers on a medieval-level planet. This pretty much hit the bullshit line for me. And this was a supposed good ending! Then it occured to me that the entire game, Tek Jansen was using alien technology to reach that conclusion, the end process shaped by? An alien.
As a point, I should mention that this whole philosophical bend wasn't formulating afterwards, thinking about the ending. I came to these conclusions during the ending.
This was initially a tiebreaker until I realized that M.O.M.O. doesn't even come close to this.
Day 1 - Very first video game.
Day 2 - Your favorite character.
Day 3 - A game that is underrated.
Day 4 - Your guilty pleasure game.
Day 5 - Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were).
Day 6 - Most annoying character.
Day 7 - Favorite game couple.
Day 8 - Best soundtrack.
Day 9 - Saddest game scene.
Day 10 - Best gameplay.
Day 11 - Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 - A game everyone should play.
Day 13 - A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 - Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now.
Day 16 - Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 - Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 - Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 - Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 - Favorite genre.
Day 21 - Game with the best story.
Day 22 - A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 - Favorite classic game.
Day 25 - A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 - Best voice acting.
Day 27 - Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 - Favorite game developer.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.
Pretty much raegquit the group I was with because it was getting to be that fucking annoying. minako134, pass on the apologies, if you would? I just couldn't deal with it anymore.
Edge Tek Jansen Maverick from Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope Adventures of Tek Jansen. He's such a generic protagonist with nothing standing out in his favor. First, can we just stop giving RPG protagonists swords? I'm not saying that all sci-fi adventures need to use guns and laser beams, but a little variation wouldn't hurt. So. Magical Advantage that he has that no one/few others have? Check. I particularly love this one, because as far as I can tell, it activates on sheer Burning Spirit alone. So when his Burning Spirit Gauge maxes out, this emblem shows up on his hand pretending to be the fucking Triforce. What does it do? ...good question. At least with Reimi's, you see some cause and effect.
Angst used as an attempted layer of development? Check. Look, okay, your primary goal in life was to find some place for humans to live that would be just as beautiful as Earth used to be. I can understand that. And alright, you went and blew up Earth indirectly. That sucked. But it turns out it was an alternate dimension! You have a get out of jail free card! The proper reaction is, "OH! Whew, didn't irrevocably destroy the future and my home. Dodged a bullet there." The proper reaction is not to go mope and frump and snap angrily at people. After a while, I was rooting for the pansy elven boy to fucking deck him.
Actually, no, there was a good thing in there. The first officer of the ship pulled a five second mutiny on his ass for it. "Well, you're not fit for leadership. I propose I should be leader. Objections? None? Awesome. Let's get shit done." And Tek Jansen continues to mope around and follow like a teenager being dragged through a public place by his parents. The worst thing is he's decided that he's going to be just like the song I Am A Rock, in which because he doesn't affect the world around him and maintains that barrier, nothing will get to him. So when someone is in trouble and his Heroic Instincts tell him to help, he'll do so and then tell the person he helped to fuck off. The only reason he snaps out of it, I am convinced, is because the pansy elven boy was about to become manlier than he. Or it could be because someone told him in no uncertain terms, "Get over yourself, the universe doesn't revolve around you."
The worst part is the ending. He decides, after all this, that if there is advanced technology, society should reject it and strive to make it on their accomplishments. And the ending makes it rather certain that this is supposed to be the good idea for everyone. But it's philosophically a terrible fucking idea! Yes, I get the point that if you gave nuclear weapons to a medieval civilization, there's going to be a huge problem. But using that analogy, giving nuclear weapons to a modern civilization isn't a better idea. We still flip and get nervous when anyone who isn't us gets them.
When you continue to look at it, where does it end? If the idea is to work based solely on your own accomplishments, how many of us would actually accomplish anything? If I'm supposed to reject advanced technology, well, I don't fully understand how a computer works or how to build one. Does that mean I shouldn't use it? I don't know fully understand how a car works, so I shouldn't use one? When you take it to the level he's discussing, it's advocating a singular sense of "this is all about me" instead of any sort of teamwork. Really, the phrase "no man is an island" sums it up rather well.
The best part about this is that his absolute dedication to this flawed line of thought is that he has the ear of the person who eventually because President of Earth, believing he owes it to Tek Jansen. He then abandons any technology that was co-developed or helped along by aliens because it wasn't human-designed. So Tek Jansen single-handedly pushed the advances of technology backwards. And then since those aliens lost their homeworld in the game and don't have a suitable colony elsewhere? Tek Jansen essentially talks an entire spacefaring race into becoming simple farmers on a medieval-level planet. This pretty much hit the bullshit line for me. And this was a supposed good ending! Then it occured to me that the entire game, Tek Jansen was using alien technology to reach that conclusion, the end process shaped by? An alien.
As a point, I should mention that this whole philosophical bend wasn't formulating afterwards, thinking about the ending. I came to these conclusions during the ending.
This was initially a tiebreaker until I realized that M.O.M.O. doesn't even come close to this.
Day 1 - Very first video game.
Day 2 - Your favorite character.
Day 3 - A game that is underrated.
Day 4 - Your guilty pleasure game.
Day 5 - Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were).
Day 6 - Most annoying character.
Day 7 - Favorite game couple.
Day 8 - Best soundtrack.
Day 9 - Saddest game scene.
Day 10 - Best gameplay.
Day 11 - Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 - A game everyone should play.
Day 13 - A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 - Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now.
Day 16 - Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 - Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 - Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 - Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 - Favorite genre.
Day 21 - Game with the best story.
Day 22 - A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 - Favorite classic game.
Day 25 - A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 - Best voice acting.
Day 27 - Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 - Favorite game developer.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.