What's that picture from Foolz?

Also, got a Kindle Paper White today, already got some magazines and books.  I don;t think I'll be doing ANYTHING for the next several days other than reading.  This is awesome.

aspro said:

Also, got a Kindle Paper White today, already got some magazines and books.  I don;t think I'll be doing ANYTHING for the next several days other than reading.  This is awesome.

Yup, the Kindle Paperwhite awesome. I take it with me where ever I go.

With this Kindle though, it bought to mind some deeper thoughts, and it somewhat relates to the digital apocalypse facing games.

I was reading the 2013 Baseball Prospectus on the Kindle, and as involved as I would be with an actual book, and I looked over at the 10 phonebook sized volumes from the prior years.  At some point, those physical books will be given the option to live on, and perhaps 94 years from now, someone will find them, read over them, look at the notes I scrawled in them.  But his Kindle version... doesn't really exist.

I few years a go, at a swap meet (flea market to most of you), I bought a box of books for $8.  Inside was a diary written by a young nurse who lived in New York in 1917.  She worte in longhand about her various dates, various dances and the war.  It's somethig I still own and though I don;t know her name or, of course, whatever happened to her life, that physical record remains.  But likely none of this site, or any other digital contribution we make, will last that long.

Unless the NSA is keeping it for us...

All that to say this. Technology sucks.

aspro said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Yesterday we gave 5 demonstration in a big outdoors festival. We even got on TV! Afterwards 5 of us went to an arcade. I played Virtual Cop 3, TIme Crisis #? (don't remember which one), Ghost squard, Mario Kart GP2, Daytona and more that I can't remember!

Living the dream. Nice going Iga.

My dream is to play F-Zero AX. That one that is so awesome they build an emergency stop in it!

Nintyfan17 said:

Dvader said:

gamingeek said:

So how many courses are there? TBH the end was a fluke I fell off and instinctively tilted to the left and my wheels fell right onto the end flag.

Two. The second one is impossible.

There are 4 different courses in DK Crash Course; I beat all 4 parts.

You crazy man.

SteelAttack said:

It's ridiculous because even that wasn't really made at the proper resolution, so it always ended up looking shitty. So of course you ended up jumping through idiotic hoops to keep your grass or snow safe from vanishing away into ugly patches of fucking dirt. I mean, come the fuck on. What was the need for that? What was the reasoning behind the taking of that decision during development time? What's even worse, what on earth made the dev team MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE ONCE MORE?

I just used a path tile, that's why they give it to you so you can plan your own path layout.

travo said:

GG has been extremely quiet about AC lately.  Hasn't it seen a release in the UK?

It came out Friday, I was going to hold fire on it for a while but Nintendo Europe has this game promo going where if you get 3 games they give you a free one. It has been dispatched, will get it this week I guess. I haven't even had time to play Fire Emblem yet. Too many games for this thing.

ED: It just arrived.

aspro said:

Skyrim eh? That came from no-where.

I work with a teenager at the store who brought in his Xbox with Far Cry 3 and Skyrim. He was showing off his level 82 Elf.  It made me realize that I played through the main campaign and a ton of side missions, but still had tons more to go through.  I'm not playing it now because of TLoU, but I can guarantee I'll jump back in soon.  It's addictive!

travo said:

GG, you got bold and chose Lego City again, eh?  

The choice isn't great if you buy the great ones, Luigi, FE, AC

• Castlevania - played the demo, didn't like much, bring back proper 2D Igarashi CV plz
• Lego City Chase Begins - A 6/10 game I hear but some like it more. I'm getting it because I love lego city U and want more.
• Pokemon Dungeon - No LOL!
• DKCR - own it on Wii great game but I wont pay twice for it.
• Monster Hunter 3 - This game, too much for me, if it was the U version maybe but I tried the demo on the tiny 3DS normal screen, no.

aspro said:

With this Kindle though, it bought to mind some deeper thoughts, and it somewhat relates to the digital apocalypse facing games.

I was reading the 2013 Baseball Prospectus on the Kindle, and as involved as I would be with an actual book, and I looked over at the 10 phonebook sized volumes from the prior years.  At some point, those physical books will be given the option to live on, and perhaps 94 years from now, someone will find them, read over them, look at the notes I scrawled in them.  But his Kindle version... doesn't really exist.

I few years a go, at a swap meet (flea market to most of you), I bought a box of books for $8.  Inside was a diary written by a young nurse who lived in New York in 1917.  She worte in longhand about her various dates, various dances and the war.  It's somethig I still own and though I don;t know her name or, of course, whatever happened to her life, that physical record remains.  But likely none of this site, or any other digital contribution we make, will last that long.

Unless the NSA is keeping it for us...

All that to say this. Technology sucks.

There is far, far more record of my activities than would exist without technology.

Animal Crossing New Leaf is like... wow.... feels like Ultimate Animal Crossing. Graphics better than the wii game, awesome 3d effect, faster text, touch screen. So good. If they ever make a U Animal Crossing that looks as good as MK8..... FU....