Maybe we should wait til it comes out before we judge and judge it based on it's own merits instead of comparing it to something we grew up with. Nothing will ever compare if we keep holding it to something we are already biased towards and have a on high pedestal.

*cough* Devil May Cry *cough*

They're just never effective. They always look like a bunch of commercial actors trying too hard, rather than being movie-like, they way they're intended. The worst I've seen was really recently, for Borderlands 2. The live-action commercial looked like a bunch of idiot cosplayers running around a playground somewhere. It's just... bad.
Use game footage, or don't do a commercial at all, I say.

Plastic makes animals gay!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/27/c ... e-females/

Give it a time.

It may the case that it will come and go for you.

The medium is in a creative crisis, that probably isn't helping.

Don't dwell on completion, trophies and the like.
Choose some fun, charismatic games and just try to have a blast with them.
That may help rekindle the old flame.

You can also purchase some hd remasters to remember why you loved the medium in the 1st place.

Love is meant to be lost and found again.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgACcUDttQ0[/youtube]

This might be the funniest I've ever seen.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZuowNcuGsc[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdEBu7ODVk8[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBwfZZvjKo[/youtube]

I have:

Mega Drive:
-Region free
-50/60Hz switch
-RGB mod

Super Famicom:
-Region free
-Cut flaps in order to accommodate US SNES cartridges
-50/60Hz switch

N64:
-Plays all NTSC games (US, Jap, any of them), but not PAL.
-Made the cut inside the cart port so Jap carts fit (it's a US '64)
-RGB mod

I think that's about it for my mods. What I would love to own is a fully-modded PS2. To be able to play PSone and PS2 pirate games of any region would be fantasti. There's also the question of leaked games. For example, I have an uncensored version of Manhunt 2 on my HDD, just begging for a modded PS2.

Martin, I can softmod your PS2 if you want. All I need is the serial on the back and an official Sony Mem Card.
The FreeMcBoot exploit runs off of the memory card and I can install it with my hacked PS2.

You can ESR patch Manhunt 2 and run it from a burnt disc.

As for pirate PSX games, you will need a hardmod unfortunately.
I know someone has been working on that though.

Shame about the crap music that plays.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIm2dnyJ1Ps[/youtube]

My guess is they were playing Guess Who? all this time.

Always liked this little skit. So simple, and probably everyone's thought about it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ECWDhh3Q9E[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2XeVs4wqdE[/youtube]

Will Kane ever win the WWE or World Title again or is Glen just going to to be the nice guy still and let the company walk over him as a jobber?

Probably one more time before he retires, I assume. No telling how long that will be though.

If a black guy was literally stealing chicken from me it what be so funny that I would forget to be mad. That sounds like a parody they might do on Boondocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FR1LGsT7E

Any FPS with an air strike power up/bonus.

Outrage on behalf of homosexuals is the new Christianity. Every few thousand years or so, people need to attach themselves to a morality so they might enjoy the feeling of righteous outrage and feel better than other people. It's very obvious. A century ago, it was the other way around, so the elites enjoyed the feeling of outrage over the concept of homosexuality. But then homosexuals got rich, so now the paradigm has shifted to the opposite end of the arbitrary spectrum, and I imagine it could even go back to the other side one day. But do not ever mistake this outrage as genuine. It's just the popular thing to be at the moment. These epochal moral paradigms exist so that people can do whatever they want as long as they firmly and publicly support popular moral principle A, B, or C. In other words, the idea is that you can cheat, murder, steal, lead your country to war, allow banks to ruin millions, utilize foreign sweatshops rather than more expense humane labor at high standards, etc. But as long as you publicly show outrage for the sake of popular moral principle A, B, or C, and so on, you're good. At this moment in time, caring about homosexuals is a big one. It may be the only universal maxim in the globalization process. It's so important, Piers Morgan asked the President of Iran about it... not because he thought an Iranian gave a damn, but because he was attempting to score moral outrage cred among the elites. Hence, in globalized elite society (all the rich and those who desperately want a piece of their pie), outrage on behalf of homsexuals has become the prime pragma of the age. All morality has been distilled to the love and public defense of homosexuals. Every major channel on TV, every major website, every school, every court, acts in concert at all times to enshrine this one last dogma beyond which there is no higher truth. You dig? Humanity 101. We're not rubik's cubes.

I love my bundles of sticks too.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/boot-sale-shru ... 25185.html

It grew to that size, outside, in the UK?

Hmm...

This is a really old joke I have had saved to the computer for years.

A Jamaican man wants a job, but the foreman won't hire him until he passes a little maths test.
Here is your first question, the foreman said. "Without using numbers, represent the number 9."
"Without numbers?" The Jamaican says, "Dat is easy." And proceeds to draw three trees.
"What's this?" the boss asks
"Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine," says the Jamaican.
"Fair enough," says the boss. "Here's your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99."
The Jamaican stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. "Ere you go."
The boss scratches his head and says, "How on earth do you get that to represent 99?"
"Each of da trees is dirty now. So, it's dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat is 99."
The boss is getting worried that he's going to actually have to hire this Jamaican, so he says, "All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100."
The Jamaican stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, "Ere you go. One hundred."
The boss looks at the attempt. "You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!"
The Jamaican leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, "A little dog come along and crap by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, which makes one hundred."
"So, when I start?"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLr5bHzmzY4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Eo4mCfj74[/youtube]

Ryudo was ban happy.

Like to think of it more as cleaning up a lot of mess left by the last administration happy

Yes. Over the course of ten years, I've posted well over 4000 twattish things. I've trolled, posted in colors, and hijacked literally thousands of threads because I was addicted to being a spectacular FAGGOT. We're talking on average 1.49 such posts every single day for nearly a decade. That's a lifestyle. Even typing this post, I almost colored it white out of instinct, and had to consciously stop myself. That's... messed... up! It took our trademarked friend to wake me up, by pointing out that I was straddling the nob end of the gay scale in assless chaps.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbunz007I71r801evo1_250.gif

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbudn5kKMO1qdbyylo1_500.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbt30wlwsW1qhedyvo1_500.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbupp8D96G1qgwosto1_500.jpg

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS1uDnIPTvo[/youtube]


This is why Silent Hill needs to be made by Team Silent again.

The game that keeps on giving.

He's one of the best. He added so much to the Shenmue community with his modding in the early days.

I understand what you mean. About mods, there are other guys who hang around here often enough so it should not be a problem to find a replacement IF we really need one. What surprised me most in this thread was the negative post by Peter actually. I'm just used to positive ones from him about Shenmue and this place.

Sidenote : Now that you mention LanDC, I vote for him as mod just for the hell of it. Like some honorary title people get at universities for earlier achievements. It's not like actually being here has always been mandatory as a mod during the Dojo's history :P

I can understand why he's left, if he's left. This place has become a place I don't really want to post at any longer, which if fine because all of my recent posts have been pointless shit. I like a lot of people here, but I can't stay.

Various personalities that linger around here that i just cant stand anymore, i fear posts will become less and less.

You shouldn't be a mod. I had a complaint and all you could say about it was that I'm a Ryudo supporter so "of course I'd say that". Then you ignored me. Fuck you.

All I had to say, goodbye.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYFqESd-SQI&t=01m43s

Yeah, his brother "rescued" him in his helicopter.

Don't you mean his "half brother"?

Are you suggesting that either Prince William, or Prince Harry, was not fathered by Prince Charles?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kxpzkzeShM[/youtube]

I once contemplated suicide. Hell, even now life is and always will be tough with exceptionally little in the way of reprieves. But when my world came crashing down all around me and I had no choice but to stop being in denial over feeling like a woman on the inside, that brought me to a dark place I was not prepared to deal with or preserver through one little bit. Even after being in denial, feeling trapped, like in a prison with no hope for parole or escape very nearly pushed me over the edge. A lot of people think taking your own life is cowardly. It practically means nothing to say you're thinking about it. I hear people say things like that all the time. Ironically I never told anyone, until now, and probably came a lot closer than those that did. Personally, I think it takes an awful lot of nerve to suppress that natural instinct of self preservation and go through with finally pulling the trigger than most would imagine. Ultimately though it's because of cases like this, when everyone you touched in your life loses it in their own downward spiral in the face of your demise that I think I could not see it through.