Coop feels vindicated in his decision to leave the bike at home. Congratulations to:
RogerBK: Level 24

At 8/10/11 06:52 AM, Soapbubble wrote: Not sure how I should feel about the London riots. On one side I think the looting and destruction is completely outrageous and would see every single one of these mindless looters spending jailtime for ruining other people's property. On one side, it was only a matter of time before something on this scale happened, with all the budget cuts and so that has directly affected many students that already struggle to get along on what little they have. I still don't think that justifies such action, nothing good will come out of it.

It's shown David Cameron that he can't cut police numbers, because if anything, we need to spend more on their sector.

The jails are already full - giving each and every one of these jail time for their crimes is ludicrous. If you bring in the army, you produce corpses, which keep the jail numbers down, plus if they had jobs, you suddenly end up creating more opportunities for level headed members of society.

My dad suggested that we should bring out water cannon with dye in the water. That way people wouldn't come out, for fear of being hit and stained. I countered, by suggesting that when you round up all of these people that are dyed, you get them to clean up the mess.

But as usual, I'm even more disgusted by the hatred I've seen from some. Along the lines of "line them up along a wall and shoot them". Hope it all works out in the end, with repercussions for the more violent rioters.

The police are under too much scrutiny. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) gets complains based on "heavy handed" tactics from the cops and frankly, I don't think you can be heavy handed enough with people that are running amok, smashing, vandalising burning and looting my country!

At 8/10/11 07:12 AM, Odyssic wrote:

At 8/10/11 03:37 AM, Coop wrote: If this makes me anything, it's ashamed to be English, as they have tarnished our good name. If I'm inspired to do anything, it's head to Birmingham with a broom and help with the cleanup.

Yeah, I understand how you feel.

Thankfully, the cricket carried on and we are in a strong position. This is how we get past the troubles, by keeping the British end up.

At 8/10/11 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: Riots hit Birkenhead. The punks burned some cars nearby as well as smashing windows of all shops going all the way down to where my mum works. Her shop didn't get badly damaged but I still think it's unsafe for many to even work down there right now.

Hopefully, things will quieten down a bit now.

It's amazing that twelve months for now, people will be running the streets of London in pursuit of Gold, Silver and Bronze, all started off by the firing of one gun.

Level 34

This is post number 7777. Looks good, time to visit the casino.

Riots have settled down. I'm glad they've got this under control now.

Listening to:

Manilla Road - Playground of the Damned

At 8/10/11 03:27 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/10/11 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yeah, that was the main issue with the 3DS. It was very expensive for a handheld. It was almost twice was much as the DS' original price. I blame the 3D gimmick. It was never necessary to input that and besides, the 3D effects suck.

I have played it for a couple of minutes and although I thought it was much better than the 3D-glasses at the cinema, it was kinda difficult to see clearly. If you tilted your DS just a little bit the screen already became blurry.

I do wonder what they saw from the 3D gimmick. Was it really that good for them?

It's a good thing you turn it off I suppose, but then again... what are you paying those 250 euros for?

A new handheld, of course. One that will play plenty of future titles.

LOL!

Is that a funny pick? :p

I guess it'd be asking too much...

It is because Earthbound has far too many copyright issues to even have a re-release outside of Japan.

Sorry, the 3DS Ambassadors is restricted to 10 NES and 10 GBA games. It's not any game of your choice but some of these games will be exclusive to the early 3DS owners.

Oh well that's too bad. Though I suppose it could still be a sweet deal. So what interesting titles can you pick then?

"1.Beginning Sept. 1st, Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors will be able to download 10 NES%u2122 Virtual Console%u2122 games at no charge and before they are available in Nintendo eShop for the general public. These games, including Super Mario Bros.%u2122, Donkey Kong Jr.%u2122, Balloon Fight%u2122, Ice Climber%u2122 and The Legend of Zelda%u2122, will be released as paid downloadable games, but Ambassadors can download them in advance of launch for free. Once the paid versions of the games are released in Nintendo eShop later in the year, the updated versions will be available to Ambassadors for download at no cost.

2. By the end of 2011, Nintendo will provide Ambassadors with 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games. These include games like Yoshi's Island%u2122: Super Mario%u2122 Advance 3, Mario Kart%u2122: Super Circuit, Metroid%u2122 Fusion, WarioWare%u2122, Inc.: Minigame Mania and Mario vs. Donkey Kong%u2122. These games will be available exclusively to Ambassadors, and Nintendo currently has no plans to make these 10 games available to the general public on Nintendo 3DS in the future."

I really hope Spoony didn't do that and I can't see why he would. Ever since his girlfriend left him, he has vastly improved with his videos and how he interacts with his fans. I want it to stay that way.

Yeah, he would pretty much lose his entire European fanbase (apart from the UK) that way.

I didn't know his girlfriend left him, but I guess that would explain why he's putting out more videos (and taking more time to go through Final Fantasy X-2).

I'd say it explains why his videos from this year are a whole lot better than what he did last year. Beating the shit out of FFX-2, reviewing bad movies based on fighting games and the Beastmaster reviews have shown he's made quite a comeback.

Then we should have an army of Rucklos.

Shit! That'd be a spam overkill and no mod could do anything about it :o

Which is why we freeze them all and unfreeze one at a time.

It sure will but only viewable on my end. I'll probably reach a post milestone while I'm level 49.

Well take a screenshot of it and post that pictures then.

Of course I'll show it.

Only EXP and posts can keep me going right now.

But on Exp you're not gaining on me and I'm pretty damn sure I can get more BP per day than you can post. So this is a won battle :)

Hey, even I admit to losing here.

At 8/10/11 04:04 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/10/11 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: Riots hit Birkenhead. The punks burned some cars nearby as well as smashing windows of all shops going all the way down to where my mum works. Her shop didn't get badly damaged but I still think it's unsafe for many to even work down there right now.

I really don't know what to make of all this rioting. Surely one single dead guy who got shot by the police can't be the reason for ALL of this. :/

The original riots were to do with that. The rest was just copycats. Basically, all the yobs started causing mayhem on the streets.

Make it never but I suppose you'll hear it at some point. I think No Sacrifice, No Victory is a lot better than it and the majority hated that album.

HammerFall isn't high on my list at this moment anyway.

I'm glad for that. So what is high on your list right now?

Maybe Falconer covers that.

Hm, I don't know them too well so I can't comment on that.

You should give them a shot. Although I only have three of their albums, they have done some really good stuff on the self-titled album and the latest album. Their newest release is sung entirely in Swedish.

That Wylo guy kept making fun of my name. He'll pay for that!

Overtired should go to sleep!

I'm glad humantarget left!

The argument about modern technology?

Oh yeah.

That was our greatest agreement ever.

At 8/10/11 11:39 PM, Jolly wrote: I've been wondering recently, what happened to LittleWashu? She hasn't made a post since May 31st.

They come and go (and repeat several times).

At 8/11/11 01:11 AM, reverend wrote:

At 8/10/11 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: You really expect that from a dull individual?

He's not dull. Just unexcitable. And yeah, boring as he is he can still respect people, dragons.

He doesn't make such a big fuss about dragons.

You should have called dibs on my laptop. TOO LATE NOW!

Dammit! Well I could use both but I guess a laptop would be easier to carry and run with.

Good luck taking my TV along with it.

Level 41. Just doesn't feel the same as the old Level 20.

At 8/10/11 04:04 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/9/11 12:50 PM, Auz wrote: It's not that I turn my TV on for it, but when I zap passed it I usually put it on. It's quite an hilarious show in my opinion, but maybe the Dutch dub is better than the German one.

I will never know since my dutch isn't good enouh to express an educated opinion on that matter. ^^

I suppose I wouldn't know about the German dub either. But I'd probably find the German dub hilarious anyway :p

I do think that is a much better way, but we simply don't have enough voice actors for that. Perhaps if we would dub more, more people would be willing to lend their voices...

I think the dubs in Germany is one of the best you can find. Sometimes (if it's available on a DVD I bought for example) I watch part of movies in a different language. Most of the time it sounds awful and isn't even lip synchronized.

Still though, I'd rather see the original than a dub in most cases. I got a feeling that more of the original work gets lost by dubbing than by subbing.

I've seen a few films where they even changed the original soundtrack in the dub, and it turned out awful. It didn't suit the film at all.

A downside is that I have the feeling that people from countries where movies don't get dubbed so often are much better in speaking/writing english than people from Germany.

Probably. Watching English films and playing English video games did really help me improve my English early on in life. I think it's the reason why I ended up with one of the top grades in English class in high school ^^

And it's weird, because I've always been more of a math and physics guy than a languages guy.

Oh hey, Hermoine sounds just like Timmy Turner...

Timmy Turner actually is dubbed by a man. :P

Not here he isn't. He's dubbed by a 48 year old woman, who's also an actress in the Dutch Sesame Street.

It's not uncommon for a male kid to be voiced by a woman by the way. I believe the English Ash (from Pokemon) is also dubbed by a woman.

I mean, most of the times when you're supposed to look at what is going on on the screen (i.e: action scenes, cinematographic shots) not much is said anyway. Except for a black guy going "Oh shit!" or something, but you don't have to read subtitles to understand that :p

Yeah, but there are movies that aren't just action movies, like "Last Year at Marienbad" for example. I would hate to read all the dialogue (ah well, it's more like a monologue most of the time) in the subtitles. If I want to read something, I'd get myself a book! :P

When you do have to read a lot of subtitles is when characters are having conversations, but then there's usually not much else going on at the screen anyway so you won't miss much.

See above. "Last Year at Marienbad" has lots of dialogues and some pretty confusing images. If you have to relate to subtitles to get what is being said and at the same time you have to try and concentrate on the images... it wouldn't work out well, I guess.

Oh well, I guess that's just one problem case, but for most films it works fine.

But since I'm talking about a french movie right now. I never understood why there are so many french movies that make use of FRENCH subtitles. There's one french TV station I can watch on television and very often they show french movies with french subtitles. What's the use of that? ^^

They sometimes do that here too, but only for the news when they interview someone who talks in a horrible accent :p

Admittedly, you might see less of the actors performances, but for some actors you don't want to see it anyway :p

Hey, Steven Seagal is a great actor! >:(

He sure is :p

Yeah well... usually it is done in such a way that it is not complete gibberish to the layman, because Americans hate reading subtitles too ;) I believe that was actually the biggest complaint of the American cinema goers when they saw Inglourious Basterds.

Yeah, but as a native speaker it's more easy to understand the accents. If I hear some of the german accents, like bavarian, swabian or (even worse) hessian I can usually make out most of what is said. Someone who's not a german native speaker will have a hard time understanding anything.

I don't know how good your german is, but try to understand something of this video. It's the dialect of the Saarland.

I could make out some lines and words, but it's difficult. Then again, I don't know if I would understand a normal German sitcom any better.

Speaking of which, how did they dub that film in Germany? The different languages was kind of a big point in the film.

I don't know, I watched the original version. XD

Ah I see. I thought that film would be pretty odd if they all talked German. Considering they need someone to speak Italian at some point and Hans Landa's big thing is that he speaks four languages fluently.

At 7/20/11 11:28 AM, Haggard wrote: At 7/19/11 04:42 PM, Auz wrote:

*Assuming all Germans are named Herman (just like Hans Landa)* XD

Yes, of course. We all are little "Herman the German". :P

Or Heinz? :p

When love is lost beyond your control
A pale shadow of lust can not enlight your soul

So keep your ice cold bitter illusions
I don't need your empty world my only solution
Is a Violent Revolution

Violent Revolution, Violent Revolution
Reason for the people to destroy

At 8/11/11 01:11 AM, reverend wrote:

At 8/10/11 03:27 PM, Auz wrote: I'm more expecting a kick out of the team.

Nah, if Thomas hasn't done it yet when he pruned a lot of people last month, then he isn't going to at all.

Oh I didn't even know he pruned people.

But I guess he knows I'm still a very active user, so I suppose he'll just let me stay on the team. Who knows, maybe I'll get back to work someday.

Oh I guess. Though I think the steak sandwich is a bit more expensive.

You never know. They can use some fillers like cat meat to make it cheaper.

Cat meat? I'd be pretty surprised if that's what they used :p

Hmm better look for a different location to set up your factory then. How does China sound?

It sounds like a hassle to move across an ocean.I'm not sure how inviting the Chinese are to an American company trying to but in in a industry already monopolized by them. What about the Netherlands? How is the business industry over there?

Not much competition, but it's too crowded here for such a business. You'll have the cops all over your ass in no time. Better set it up in Canada then, in some remote forest.

At 8/11/11 09:12 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/10/11 03:27 PM, Auz wrote: I have played it for a couple of minutes and although I thought it was much better than the 3D-glasses at the cinema, it was kinda difficult to see clearly. If you tilted your DS just a little bit the screen already became blurry.

I do wonder what they saw from the 3D gimmick. Was it really that good for them?

I guess they're just doing their best to innovate and the 3D gimmick IS catching on in the cinemas (sadly).

It's a good thing you turn it off I suppose, but then again... what are you paying those 250 euros for?

A new handheld, of course. One that will play plenty of future titles.

Yeah, but if it's just a standard upgrade from the DS they wouldn't charge 250 euros would they?

Is that a funny pick? :p

I guess it'd be asking too much...

It is because Earthbound has far too many copyright issues to even have a re-release outside of Japan.

Really? But I thought Earthbound was released in Europe and America too. I don't see what the big deal is.

Oh well that's too bad. Though I suppose it could still be a sweet deal. So what interesting titles can you pick then?

"1.Beginning Sept. 1st, Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors will be able to download 10 NES%u2122 Virtual Console%u2122 games at no charge and before they are available in Nintendo eShop for the general public. These games, including Super Mario Bros.%u2122, Donkey Kong Jr.%u2122, Balloon Fight%u2122, Ice Climber%u2122 and The Legend of Zelda%u2122, will be released as paid downloadable games, but Ambassadors can download them in advance of launch for free. Once the paid versions of the games are released in Nintendo eShop later in the year, the updated versions will be available to Ambassadors for download at no cost.

2. By the end of 2011, Nintendo will provide Ambassadors with 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games. These include games like Yoshi's Island%u2122: Super Mario%u2122 Advance 3, Mario Kart%u2122: Super Circuit, Metroid%u2122 Fusion, WarioWare%u2122, Inc.: Minigame Mania and Mario vs. Donkey Kong%u2122. These games will be available exclusively to Ambassadors, and Nintendo currently has no plans to make these 10 games available to the general public on Nintendo 3DS in the future."

I see. Some good titles there I guess, but I'd hope for some more good ones.

I'd at least get Metroid Fusion, Warioware and The Legend of Zelda.

Yeah, he would pretty much lose his entire European fanbase (apart from the UK) that way.

I didn't know his girlfriend left him, but I guess that would explain why he's putting out more videos (and taking more time to go through Final Fantasy X-2).

I'd say it explains why his videos from this year are a whole lot better than what he did last year. Beating the shit out of FFX-2, reviewing bad movies based on fighting games and the Beastmaster reviews have shown he's made quite a comeback.

I haven't checked out Beastmaster yet, but his FFX-2 does look very good so far. Like I said before somewhere, this time it does look like he takes his time to explain the games mechanics and go more in-depth. Something I thought I was missing in his FFX review.

Shit! That'd be a spam overkill and no mod could do anything about it :o

Which is why we freeze them all and unfreeze one at a time.

Yeah. Hopefully no-one will break into our secret lab and set all the clones free. 'Zat would be a disaster'.

Well take a screenshot of it and post that pictures then.

Of course I'll show it.

Good.

But on Exp you're not gaining on me and I'm pretty damn sure I can get more BP per day than you can post. So this is a won battle :)

Hey, even I admit to losing here.

Now to find out a way to beat Coop.

You entered the top 3000 in Experience Points. Outstanding!

At 8/11/11 09:12 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/10/11 04:04 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/10/11 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: Riots hit Birkenhead. The punks burned some cars nearby as well as smashing windows of all shops going all the way down to where my mum works. Her shop didn't get badly damaged but I still think it's unsafe for many to even work down there right now.

I really don't know what to make of all this rioting. Surely one single dead guy who got shot by the police can't be the reason for ALL of this. :/

The original riots were to do with that. The rest was just copycats. Basically, all the yobs started causing mayhem on the streets.

Yeah, that's what I thought. "Oh hey, let's go rioting and looting some shops! YAAAAY!"
Also, I just learned a new word. "Yob". Interesting.

Make it never but I suppose you'll hear it at some point. I think No Sacrifice, No Victory is a lot better than it and the majority hated that album.

HammerFall isn't high on my list at this moment anyway.

I'm glad for that. So what is high on your list right now?

More Opeth, I guess. ^^
And some more Death, maybe.

Maybe Falconer covers that.

Hm, I don't know them too well so I can't comment on that.

You should give them a shot. Although I only have three of their albums, they have done some really good stuff on the self-titled album and the latest album. Their newest release is sung entirely in Swedish.

Will do.

That Wylo guy kept making fun of my name. He'll pay for that!

Overtired should go to sleep!

I'm glad humantarget left!

Still over a year before I pass him. >:(

The argument about modern technology?

Oh yeah.

That was our greatest agreement ever.

I'm glad you think so. It at least was more fun than any "Manowar is gay" argument. ^^

At 8/11/11 03:59 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/10/11 04:04 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/9/11 12:50 PM, Auz wrote: It's not that I turn my TV on for it, but when I zap passed it I usually put it on. It's quite an hilarious show in my opinion, but maybe the Dutch dub is better than the German one.

I will never know since my dutch isn't good enouh to express an educated opinion on that matter. ^^

I suppose I wouldn't know about the German dub either. But I'd probably find the German dub hilarious anyway :p

Same for the dutch dub. :P
I guess I should give the danish dub a try as well. XD

I do think that is a much better way, but we simply don't have enough voice actors for that. Perhaps if we would dub more, more people would be willing to lend their voices...

I think the dubs in Germany is one of the best you can find. Sometimes (if it's available on a DVD I bought for example) I watch part of movies in a different language. Most of the time it sounds awful and isn't even lip synchronized.

Still though, I'd rather see the original than a dub in most cases. I got a feeling that more of the original work gets lost by dubbing than by subbing.

True. Sometimes the translations are shit.

I've seen a few films where they even changed the original soundtrack in the dub, and it turned out awful. It didn't suit the film at all.

Heh. I've never seen that. But sometimes the original sound (ie the voices, etc) are too quiet in the original - or the sounds from the environment are too loud. Especially some of the older Columbo films have that problem. A dub (or subtitles) really helps here, because all the voices are cristal clear.

A downside is that I have the feeling that people from countries where movies don't get dubbed so often are much better in speaking/writing english than people from Germany.

Probably. Watching English films and playing English video games did really help me improve my English early on in life. I think it's the reason why I ended up with one of the top grades in English class in high school ^^

Yes. Video games can teach you important things! :D

Oh hey, Hermoine sounds just like Timmy Turner...

Timmy Turner actually is dubbed by a man. :P

Not here he isn't. He's dubbed by a 48 year old woman, who's also an actress in the Dutch Sesame Street.

I know. That's why I mentioned it. :P
Bart Simpson is dubbed by a woman as well (Nancy Cartwright in english, Sandra Schwittau in german)

It's not uncommon for a male kid to be voiced by a woman by the way. I believe the English Ash (from Pokemon) is also dubbed by a woman.

Yes, because male kids have the problem that their voice WILL change once they get older. Grown women aren't that far away from sounding like a little kid, since their voices don't change too much in their life time.

When you do have to read a lot of subtitles is when characters are having conversations, but then there's usually not much else going on at the screen anyway so you won't miss much.

See above. "Last Year at Marienbad" has lots of dialogues and some pretty confusing images. If you have to relate to subtitles to get what is being said and at the same time you have to try and concentrate on the images... it wouldn't work out well, I guess.

Oh well, I guess that's just one problem case, but for most films it works fine.

Depends on the kind of movies you like to watch, I guess. :P

But since I'm talking about a french movie right now. I never understood why there are so many french movies that make use of FRENCH subtitles. There's one french TV station I can watch on television and very often they show french movies with french subtitles. What's the use of that? ^^

They sometimes do that here too, but only for the news when they interview someone who talks in a horrible accent :p

Oh yeah, sometimes on those horrobile TV shows they show during the day some people are subtitled as well. But I only ever see that on RTL, which we call "Unterschichtenfernsehen" (underclass television) anyway. XD

Admittedly, you might see less of the actors performances, but for some actors you don't want to see it anyway :p

Hey, Steven Seagal is a great actor! >:(

He sure is :p

Yes. I like how he can express all those different feelings with only minor changes in his mimic.

Yeah, but as a native speaker it's more easy to understand the accents. If I hear some of the german accents, like bavarian, swabian or (even worse) hessian I can usually make out most of what is said. Someone who's not a german native speaker will have a hard time understanding anything.

I don't know how good your german is, but try to understand something of this video. It's the dialect of the Saarland.

I could make out some lines and words, but it's difficult. Then again, I don't know if I would understand a normal German sitcom any better.

How about some Married with children, then?
Oh, and don't mind the artificial laughter, everybody here thinks it sucks as well.

Speaking of which, how did they dub that film in Germany? The different languages was kind of a big point in the film.

I don't know, I watched the original version. XD

Ah I see. I thought that film would be pretty odd if they all talked German. Considering they need someone to speak Italian at some point and Hans Landa's big thing is that he speaks four languages fluently.

I remember "Saving Privat Ryan", where they met that german guy. That scene made no sense in the german dub.

*Assuming all Germans are named Herman (just like Hans Landa)* XD

Yes, of course. We all are little "Herman the German". :P

Or Heinz? :p

No no, that's the ketchup brand. :P

When love is lost beyond your control
A pale shadow of lust can not enlight your soul

So keep your ice cold bitter illusions
I don't need your empty world my only solution
Is a Violent Revolution

Violent Revolution, Violent Revolution
Reason for the people to destroy

Beauty is no more it's all gone
And utopia will not come

I crossed the 55,000 Saves mark somewhere in the last couple of hours.

12

Wont have internet while I'm moving, so I'll be back on Monday, hopefully. DOn't want to miss Clock Day again.

Congrats to:
Hemlok: Level 34
Asandir: 7,777 Posts
reverend: Level 41
Tycrane: Top 3,000 in EXP
Auz: 55,000 Saves

Congrats to:
Hemlok: Level 34
Asandir: 7,777 Post
reverend: Level 41
Tycrane: Top 3,000 in Experience
Auz: 55,000 Saves

At 8/12/11 01:52 AM, Soapbubble wrote: Wont have internet while I'm moving, so I'll be back on Monday, hopefully. DOn't want to miss Clock Day again.

I'm not really looking forward to clock day. I've been trying to make my Save/Blam ratio better, and I've managed to go from 7:1 to 6:1. I don't want to not vote on Clock day though. I'll just blam every shitty B remake and hope a lot of them are eventually removed. Looking back at the past clock days, a lot of the submissions are eventually removed for some reason.

Finally clocked up 12k blams somehow.

Listening to:

Satan - Court in the Act

At 8/11/11 04:01 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/11/11 09:12 AM, Bahamut wrote: I do wonder what they saw from the 3D gimmick. Was it really that good for them?

I guess they're just doing their best to innovate and the 3D gimmick IS catching on in the cinemas (sadly).

The cinemas it might be a hit but for a handheld, it's not clicking on.

A new handheld, of course. One that will play plenty of future titles.

Yeah, but if it's just a standard upgrade from the DS they wouldn't charge 250 euros would they?

Ah, but they're not charging 250 euros anymore. :P

It is because Earthbound has far too many copyright issues to even have a re-release outside of Japan.

Really? But I thought Earthbound was released in Europe and America too. I don't see what the big deal is.

That was in the 90s and it was a different age for gaming. And no, it wasn't released in Europe so you're really fucked with picking it up on console.

I see. Some good titles there I guess, but I'd hope for some more good ones.

Oh yeah, they'll have more to announce shortly.

I'd at least get Metroid Fusion, Warioware and The Legend of Zelda.

I already have Metroid Fusion on cartridge and the original Zelda is already on the collector's edition I have. However, I think it will work nicely on the 3DS. Warioware is another game I may as well pick up. I already played Touched and Smooth Moves so I may as well see what the original is like. I may have SMB on GBA cartridge already but there's no harm in downloading them all considering they're free.

I'd say it explains why his videos from this year are a whole lot better than what he did last year. Beating the shit out of FFX-2, reviewing bad movies based on fighting games and the Beastmaster reviews have shown he's made quite a comeback.

I haven't checked out Beastmaster yet, but his FFX-2 does look very good so far. Like I said before somewhere, this time it does look like he takes his time to explain the games mechanics and go more in-depth. Something I thought I was missing in his FFX review.

Yeah, Spoony really missed out on the Sphere Grid for the FFX review and when fans asked him about it on Twitter, he actually told them to piss off. That's one of many reasons why he became a target on ED as well as other sites.

Which is why we freeze them all and unfreeze one at a time.

Yeah. Hopefully no-one will break into our secret lab and set all the clones free. 'Zat would be a disaster'.

Then we keep it as secured as possible.

Hey, even I admit to losing here.

Now to find out a way to beat Coop.

Well, have fun with that. Coop's well ahead of me at this point.

At 8/11/11 05:48 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/11/11 09:12 AM, Bahamut wrote: The original riots were to do with that. The rest was just copycats. Basically, all the yobs started causing mayhem on the streets.

Yeah, that's what I thought. "Oh hey, let's go rioting and looting some shops! YAAAAY!"
Also, I just learned a new word. "Yob". Interesting.

I'd call them terrorists, especially those that set buildings and cars on fire.

I'm glad for that. So what is high on your list right now?

More Opeth, I guess. ^^
And some more Death, maybe.

Good and good. Well, not that HammerFall are bad or anything but Infected is one album that sucks.

You should give them a shot. Although I only have three of their albums, they have done some really good stuff on the self-titled album and the latest album. Their newest release is sung entirely in Swedish.

Will do.

Oh, and the new album is called Armod.

I'm glad humantarget left!

Still over a year before I pass him. >:(

And that paperbag wearing douche Shrapnel is gone as well.

That was our greatest agreement ever.

I'm glad you think so. It at least was more fun than any "Manowar is gay" argument. ^^

Don't forget that German firefighting dragon.

At 8/12/11 06:23 AM, Odyssic wrote: Isn't Clock Day like the best day for other groups, if other groups know, they will just put a title with clock in it, and everyone with 5 it. Also, I'm guilty of making crap B remakes for clock day.

You can make something better this year. I know I'm doing something that's a whole lot better than a crappy B remake but the graphics are taken from game screenshots.

On another note, GO WI/HT? TEAM!

Coop takes a break from conquering the world, to congratulates:
Hemlok: Level 34
Asandir: 7,777 Posts
reverend: Level 41
Auz: 55,000 Saves
jonthomson: 12,000 Blams
Martin: Top 100 B/Per
Odyssic: 19,000 Experience

At 8/11/11 04:01 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/11/11 09:12 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/10/11 03:27 PM, Auz wrote: But on Exp you're not gaining on me and I'm pretty damn sure I can get more BP per day than you can post. So this is a won battle :)

Hey, even I admit to losing here.

Now to find out a way to beat Coop.

What's this? Talk of my demise? Forget it!

At 8/12/11 10:02 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/11/11 04:01 PM, Auz wrote: Now to find out a way to beat Coop.

Well, have fun with that. Coop's well ahead of me at this point.

There's a man who knows when he's beaten.

On another note, GO WI/HT? TEAM!

Oh, so that's the game you're playing, is it? Right, time for me to dig out a photo of my own...

At 8/12/11 10:02 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/11/11 05:48 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/11/11 09:12 AM, Bahamut wrote: The original riots were to do with that. The rest was just copycats. Basically, all the yobs started causing mayhem on the streets.

Yeah, that's what I thought. "Oh hey, let's go rioting and looting some shops! YAAAAY!"
Also, I just learned a new word. "Yob". Interesting.

I'd call them terrorists, especially those that set buildings and cars on fire.

Yes, that description fits quite well.

I'm glad for that. So what is high on your list right now?

More Opeth, I guess. ^^
And some more Death, maybe.

Good and good. Well, not that HammerFall are bad or anything but Infected is one album that sucks.

I just ordered Death's "Symbolic" together with the 9th season of Columbo. Sad thing is, the 9th season isn't released before October, so I have to wait that long to recieve the CD as well. :(

I'm glad humantarget left!

Still over a year before I pass him. >:(

And that paperbag wearing douche Shrapnel is gone as well.

Now if only Rage could fuck off...

That was our greatest agreement ever.

I'm glad you think so. It at least was more fun than any "Manowar is gay" argument. ^^

Don't forget that German firefighting dragon.

You mean Grisu? He's italian. :P
His name derives from the word "grisù", which means Firedamp.

At 8/11/11 09:12 AM, Bahamut wrote: He doesn't make such a big fuss about dragons.

Is there bad blood between the two of you?

Good luck taking my TV along with it.

I might bring a wheelbarrow along to make things easier.

At 8/11/11 03:59 PM, Auz wrote: Oh I didn't even know he pruned people.

But I guess he knows I'm still a very active user, so I suppose he'll just let me stay on the team. Who knows, maybe I'll get back to work someday.

Yeah like a month or two ago. You know those who originally signed up for the aura way back when and those who have done absolutely nothing.

Cat meat? I'd be pretty surprised if that's what they used :p

You never know. Next time you go in ask them. Say you'd like a side of cat meat with your steak sandwich.

Not much competition, but it's too crowded here for such a business. You'll have the cops all over your ass in no time. Better set it up in Canada then, in some remote forest.

You know I think gang infested Mexico is more habitable than Canada.

At 8/12/11 10:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: On another note, GO WI/HT? TEAM!

Is Coop going for the Chronamut look? O.o

50,000 total stats!!!

Congrats to:
jonthomson: 12,000 Blams
Martin: Top 100 B/Pers
Odyssic: 19,000 Experience
idiot-buster: 50,000 Total stats

Coop gets ready to watch the fourth day of England's triumphant march to the top of the World Rankings. Congratulations to:
idiot-buster: 50,000 Total Points

Listening to:
Foo Fighters - I Feel Free
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion

At 8/12/11 08:05 PM, reverend wrote:

At 8/12/11 10:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: On another note, GO WI/HT? TEAM!

Is Coop going for the Chronamut look? O.o

What's wrong with my look? I like the goatee and the hair was there for Maiden - I'll keep it until the end of the cricket season, that's guaranteed.

One of my favourite release games for the PS2 appears to have been remade for the PS3. SSX
looks better than ever.

Listening to:

Argus - Boldly Stride the Doomed

At 8/12/11 11:05 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/12/11 10:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: Well, have fun with that. Coop's well ahead of me at this point.

There's a man who knows when he's beaten.

What do you think I can do at this point?

On another note, GO WI/HT? TEAM!

Oh, so that's the game you're playing, is it? Right, time for me to dig out a photo of my own...

I like. Now if only you could post a few more pictures. ;)

At 8/12/11 05:03 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/12/11 10:02 AM, Bahamut wrote: I'd call them terrorists, especially those that set buildings and cars on fire.

Yes, that description fits quite well.

Now if only the court can see them as terrorists. On the bright side, there's going to be eviction notices for them.

Good and good. Well, not that HammerFall are bad or anything but Infected is one album that sucks.

I just ordered Death's "Symbolic"

Good stuff! Individual Thought Patterns is another Death album to get.

And that paperbag wearing douche Shrapnel is gone as well.

Now if only Rage could fuck off...

He should ragequit!

Don't forget that German firefighting dragon.

You mean Grisu? He's italian. :P

What the?

His name derives from the word "grisù", which means Firedamp.

Well, at least we're remembering this adorable dragon.

At 8/12/11 08:05 PM, reverend wrote:

At 8/11/11 09:12 AM, Bahamut wrote: He doesn't make such a big fuss about dragons.

Is there bad blood between the two of you?

Well, he is the boring fuck who watches crappy soap operas.

Good luck taking my TV along with it.

I might bring a wheelbarrow along to make things easier.

Uhh, yeah, you do that. I'll have my shotgun ready.

At 8/13/11 05:31 AM, Coop wrote: One of my favourite release games for the PS2 appears to have been remade for the PS3. SSX
looks better than ever.

Is it actually a remake? I assumed it was some sort of reboot.

Real life level up! Reached level 30 now!

Top 4,000 in Exp (:

Level 30! Technically halfway to 60.. But in terms of experience I'm nowhere near

At 8/11/11 05:48 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 8/11/11 03:59 PM, Auz wrote: I suppose I wouldn't know about the German dub either. But I'd probably find the German dub hilarious anyway :p

Same for the dutch dub. :P
I guess I should give the danish dub a try as well. XD

Lol! I always imagine Scandinavian languages sounding even more silly to foreigners than Dutch does :p

Still though, I'd rather see the original than a dub in most cases. I got a feeling that more of the original work gets lost by dubbing than by subbing.

True. Sometimes the translations are shit.

Yeah. I know sometimes the subbing is also shit, but at least I can hear it then and laugh at the terrible job someone did translating it.

Furthermore, phrases like "What an asshole!" have lead to plenty of creative and hilarious translations in the subtitles :p

I've seen a few films where they even changed the original soundtrack in the dub, and it turned out awful. It didn't suit the film at all.

Heh. I've never seen that. But sometimes the original sound (ie the voices, etc) are too quiet in the original - or the sounds from the environment are too loud. Especially some of the older Columbo films have that problem. A dub (or subtitles) really helps here, because all the voices are cristal clear.

Seen it happen in several cartoons. I believe it was/is kinda hip to change the soundtrack from Japanese cartoons to something more... American if it's ever broadcasted on TV for children. This can sometimes just set an entirely different mood for a scene.

Probably. Watching English films and playing English video games did really help me improve my English early on in life. I think it's the reason why I ended up with one of the top grades in English class in high school ^^

Yes. Video games can teach you important things! :D

Yeah! They taught me how to double jump :D

Not here he isn't. He's dubbed by a 48 year old woman, who's also an actress in the Dutch Sesame Street.

I know. That's why I mentioned it. :P
Bart Simpson is dubbed by a woman as well (Nancy Cartwright in english, Sandra Schwittau in german)

Oh yeah, I've heard that too. I'm sure there are more examples to find.

It's not uncommon for a male kid to be voiced by a woman by the way. I believe the English Ash (from Pokemon) is also dubbed by a woman.

Yes, because male kids have the problem that their voice WILL change once they get older. Grown women aren't that far away from sounding like a little kid, since their voices don't change too much in their life time.

I guess that's the idea. It's usually not such a big deal, as long as it's not too recognizabely a woman.

Oh well, I guess that's just one problem case, but for most films it works fine.

Depends on the kind of movies you like to watch, I guess. :P

As long as it's not romantic comedies I'm open for anything.

They sometimes do that here too, but only for the news when they interview someone who talks in a horrible accent :p

Oh yeah, sometimes on those horrobile TV shows they show during the day some people are subtitled as well. But I only ever see that on RTL, which we call "Unterschichtenfernsehen" (underclass television) anyway. XD

Lol!

We call our SBS6 the "camping channel", I suppose it's a similar set-up as your RTL.

He sure is :p

Yes. I like how he can express all those different feelings with only minor changes in his mimic.

It looks like they haven't included his horrible pain pace yet.

I could make out some lines and words, but it's difficult. Then again, I don't know if I would understand a normal German sitcom any better.

How about some Married with children, then?
Oh, and don't mind the artificial laughter, everybody here thinks it sucks as well.

Oh but the artificial laughter is in the original show as well, and plenty of sitcom shows use it so I'm kinda used to it by now (even though I don't like it much either).

Anyway I think Peg needs to sound more whiney, like she does in the original ("but AAAAHAAAAAAAAL") :p

Again I can make out a couple of words and lines, but I can't understand it entirely.

Ah I see. I thought that film would be pretty odd if they all talked German. Considering they need someone to speak Italian at some point and Hans Landa's big thing is that he speaks four languages fluently.

I remember "Saving Privat Ryan", where they met that german guy. That scene made no sense in the german dub.

Lol, I can imagine. I thought one thing was that he kept talking to them but they couldn't really understand him.

Or Heinz? :p

No no, that's the ketchup brand. :P

Heinrich then?

Beauty is no more it's all gone
And utopia will not come

Trust I can not feel, only pain
And my burning mind has gone insane

At 8/12/11 10:02 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 8/11/11 04:01 PM, Auz wrote:

At 8/11/11 09:12 AM, Bahamut wrote:

I guess they're just doing their best to innovate and the 3D gimmick IS catching on in the cinemas (sadly).

The cinemas it might be a hit but for a handheld, it's not clicking on.

Well not everybody is happy with the hype. In fact, most of the other regular cinema goers I talk with hate it as much as I do. Tickets cost extra, but it's never worth the money.

Maybe more and more people have come to realize this and that's why the 3D on handhelds isn't clicking on?

Yeah, but if it's just a standard upgrade from the DS they wouldn't charge 250 euros would they?

Ah, but they're not charging 250 euros anymore. :P

Not anymore, no. Still, it is kinda lame that the price cut in America is from $250 to $170 and in Europe it's from 250 euros to 170 euros which is still about $250 -.-'

Really? But I thought Earthbound was released in Europe and America too. I don't see what the big deal is.

That was in the 90s and it was a different age for gaming. And no, it wasn't released in Europe so you're really fucked with picking it up on console.

FFFFFFFFF

People keep recommending me this game, but I suppose I'll have a tough time trying to find it then... =/

I see. Some good titles there I guess, but I'd hope for some more good ones.

Oh yeah, they'll have more to announce shortly.

Good. Good.

I'd at least get Metroid Fusion, Warioware and The Legend of Zelda.

I already have Metroid Fusion on cartridge and the original Zelda is already on the collector's edition I have. However, I think it will work nicely on the 3DS. Warioware is another game I may as well pick up. I already played Touched and Smooth Moves so I may as well see what the original is like. I may have SMB on GBA cartridge already but there's no harm in downloading them all considering they're free.

Hmm I'm generally a bit less interested in SMB, but I'd probably pick it up too if I still had some downloads left.

I haven't checked out Beastmaster yet, but his FFX-2 does look very good so far. Like I said before somewhere, this time it does look like he takes his time to explain the games mechanics and go more in-depth. Something I thought I was missing in his FFX review.

Yeah, Spoony really missed out on the Sphere Grid for the FFX review and when fans asked him about it on Twitter, he actually told them to piss off. That's one of many reasons why he became a target on ED as well as other sites.

I think he gave a few short comments on it, but yeah... I wish he went as in-depth as he did in FFVIII on the Junction system and the Triple Triad game.

Yeah. Hopefully no-one will break into our secret lab and set all the clones free. 'Zat would be a disaster'.

Then we keep it as secured as possible.

Get one of your dragon buddies to guard the front door. That'll do the trick.

Now to find out a way to beat Coop.

Well, have fun with that. Coop's well ahead of me at this point.

So he is of me, but recently it has come to my attention that I post more than he does :D

At 8/12/11 11:05 AM, Coop wrote:

At 8/11/11 04:01 PM, Auz wrote: Now to find out a way to beat Coop.

What's this? Talk of my demise? Forget it!

"Dr Coop. I'm Doug Roth, I write for the Nova Express. I wonder if you remember Wally Weaver. Back in the sixties, the newspapers called him "Dr. Coops buddy". He died of cancer in 1971.".

At 8/12/11 08:05 PM, reverend wrote:

At 8/11/11 03:59 PM, Auz wrote: Oh I didn't even know he pruned people.

But I guess he knows I'm still a very active user, so I suppose he'll just let me stay on the team. Who knows, maybe I'll get back to work someday.

Yeah like a month or two ago. You know those who originally signed up for the aura way back when and those who have done absolutely nothing.

Oh yeah there were a bunch of people who had done next to nothing. At least I have done something, even though it's not much compared to the likes of Bahamut and Tom himself.

Cat meat? I'd be pretty surprised if that's what they used :p

You never know. Next time you go in ask them. Say you'd like a side of cat meat with your steak sandwich.

I think they'll look at me like 0.0 whaa...?

I'm not under the impression that employees of (fast food) restaurants know all that much about the food they're selling.

Not much competition, but it's too crowded here for such a business. You'll have the cops all over your ass in no time. Better set it up in Canada then, in some remote forest.

You know I think gang infested Mexico is more habitable than Canada.

Oh come on. What can a couple of bears do?

At 8/13/11 06:58 AM, Haggard wrote: Real life level up! Reached level 30 now!

Happy birthday you old fart!

Time for you to have kids and get married.

Did someone make you a birthday thread yet?

At 8/13/11 06:58 AM, Haggard wrote: Real life level up! Reached level 30 now!

Here you go, sport.

Hope you like it.

Reached Level 34! Hooray! What a great way to start my college days!

Congrats to:
Haggard: 30 Years IRL
Soapbubble: Top 4,000 in EXP
Ship: Level 30
SCTE3: 1,111 Audio review responses
ZJ: Level 34

Level 7. Fuck yea!

I am actually trying to level now.