Nerd Power!

[SexyCleric]

because you're probably going to be handing over some nerd cred after this one.

With all due apologies to Darth Lik, Vandal is my newest hero.
Congratulations, and please enjoy this complimentary Cure Critical Thumb Wounds.

And I hear you on the clock bit.
I taped the words fuck over 2,3, and 4.
While I considered myself terribly clever, it has rendered most of it useless.
*Shrug*

Kudos.

 

[Spins]

Think what would have happened if you had gone to Best Buy instead of Wal-Mart!

 

[SpeX125]

I practically live at Best Buy,I call it 'the temple of SpeX'.(actually,I use my real name,but you get the idea)
They've had Guitar Hero,set up on display for ages,on a big screen TV,no less.
Now,you'd think a guy like me,who has been playing air guitar since I was 15,would be all over this game. For some reason,though,I have no interest in it.

But,then again,I've never tried it.

 

[chronicle_tenko]

Ah video game related hand injuries.

Then there are fighting games. There are lots of wonderful examples, such as "Wasn't Middle School great?" a.k.a., Street Fighter. Or there was, "RIP THAT FUCKERS SPINE OUT!!!" a.k.a. Mortal Combat. Then my personal favorite, "Don't fuck with me, asshole, I have a big fucking sword," a.k.a. Soul Calibur. And ther are even less mentionable titles, such as "Aren't the gazungas pretty when they bounce?" a.k.a. Dead or Alive. No matter the game, before long, if you play them, you will get frustrated getting pimp slapped on a regular basis by one character or another, and you eventually resort to crazed, desperate button mashing. With your right thumb. Which by this point, hurts like hell. Got it? Good.

The skin has almost fully grown back from my own thumb injury two weeks. Was playing Guilty Gear Isuka as Jam and wore out my left thumb with all the moving. Of course, it had to be when my dad and I were working in the back yard lifting a bunch of 50-100 pound stones. It also kinda sucked that I had a great big hole in my thumb when I was trying to get my fingerprints done.

Ah Guilty Gear XX I have a story for that one. The aforementioned destroyer of thumbs. Not since the days of Mario Party have I given myself such injuries. Listen oh people to my stories.

My name is Chronie (At least to some) and I play fighting games. I play them well. So well that NONE of my freinds will play them with me any more. Good enough to win provicial tournaments at the beginning of Street Fighter 2. proving that Chun-Li and Guile were broken to all hell.

And I'm not perfect I can't play the newer version of Capcom vs. or Tekken. (Which is some kind of impossible.) And I'm only passable enough to win lorts of Soul Cal matches, and two freinds are actually better at the game.

But then there was guilty gear. it was odd a 2-d that should never exist in the land of 3-d fighters. A game requiring Twitch skills, with counters and a deep learning curve on EVERY CHARACTER. It was awesome and I practiced for a long time. I learned a lot fo tricks inculding the shocking realisation that. EVERY character is different , I tried a few and found my man. Chipp.

Even for fighting games Chipp is wierd. First off he teleports and falls with style, Other charactes dot his but usually not with the grace or mid air tenacity Chipp does. He makes Spiderman look like a walker. Chipp is also (I think) unique in requiring a minimum of two or sometimes three times as many Joystick or controller direction inputs. Most of the the standard quarter circle Fireball input, or the z pattern Quarter circle Dragon punch input.

In playing a small mall tournament I made it to finals with a lot of bitching, complaining, and reefing the hell out of their slightly damaged joystick. Against far too many oriental arcade rats who were shocked the white boy was winning I made it to the finals. And won. Now I had to endure a lot of dirty looks, taunts and geneeral abuse form a lot of people who thought I really shouldn't be allowed to win, (And that happens if you don't go to teh arcade to practice), so I got a little carried away, and pretty much at the killing stroke, threw my hand in a dismissive way at my finals opponent with an In your face. And it was. My blood was in his face. The bad edging on thier player 2 controller combined with incredible amount of mass jerking and rotating had caused me to either burn or shred a hole in the web and palm of my left hand, causing the sudden motion and removal of the Joystick head currrently lodged in it to spray blood across my now shocked opponent's face.

To this day I don't know who was more embarassed, but I finally hurt my hand more than Mario Party did.

 

[Trombonus]

Yet more evidence that video games are hazardous to your health. Proceed with caution friends.

 

[microbiology311]

ok.. on vandals lovely story... all I can say is that I'm glad I was in bed or my stomach would be hurting very badly from laughing my ass off at him while this was going on. It is bad enough that I can picture this completely and in perfect color. The best part of this whole story is when he came into my bedroom, he asked me to massge his forearm and thumb because it hurt so bad. hehehe.. poor vandal..

and it is my fault we went to walmart. I had to get stuff for macoroni salad and baked beans since my roommate was doing hamburgers( SOOOO good!!!). But it was his fault completely for going to the electronics section. I just wanted to go to cooking wares. *note to self-never take vandal to walmart again hehe*

 

[JagFarlane]

ok.. on vandals lovely story... all I can say is that I'm glad I was in bed or my stomach would be hurting very badly from laughing my ass off at him while this was going on. It is bad enough that I can picture this completely and in perfect color. The best part of this whole story is when he came into my bedroom, he asked me to massge his forearm and thumb because it hurt so bad. hehehe.. poor vandal..

and it is my fault we went to walmart. I had to get stuff for macoroni salad and baked beans since my roommate was doing hamburgers( SOOOO good!!!). But it was his fault completely for going to the electronics section. I just wanted to go to cooking wares. *note to self-never take vandal to walmart again hehe*

ROTFLMAO well wow the two of you tell such interesting stories

 

[SexyCleric]

Tales of video game shame and humor, eh?

Gather round, nerdlings, and hear my tale, short though it be.

Twas three years ago, at a local laser tag joint.

They held a Soul Calibur II tournament. Now, I'm no ace certainly, but I play an mean Talim. Very mean. Mean like a razor soaked in lemon juices.

Anyway, the tournie went well enough, and I made it to the finals.
*Sigh* Everyone either played Nightmare or freakin Ivy, cept me, as Talim, and my last opponent, as Voldo.

I loathe Voldo with a hatred that gives pause to the likes of Naga Sadow.

We fight, and come up pretty even.
I can't fight Voldo well, and whoever heard of a dangerous Talim?
We both took a round a piece, and the final round had me and my foe at even life. Perhaps two hits left in each of us.

Lightning rent the sky asunder as we charged each other, and right as I was about to Wind Dance my way out of harm's reach and Blade Cyclone my way into legend, tragedy struck.

My stick broke. Talim stood still. I died a little that moment.
A part of me perished, and my hands and mind froze.
The broken joystick still clutched in my hand.

Voldo slid into me, and Broken Wheeled me to death.
Fuck Voldo.

I of course protested the match, but the owner convincingly pointed out that I could rematch if I paid the money to fix the cabinet game.

Needless to say, I took the dishonor of my loss.

 

[JagFarlane]

Tales of video game shame and humor, eh?

Gather round, nerdlings, and hear my tale, short though it be.

Twas three years ago, at a local laser tag joint.

They held a Soul Calibur II tournament. Now, I'm no ace certainly, but I play an mean Talim. Very mean. Mean like a razor soaked in lemon juices.

Anyway, the tournie went well enough, and I made it to the finals.
*Sigh* Everyone either played Nightmare or freakin Ivy, cept me, as Talim, and my last opponent, as Voldo.

I loathe Voldo with a hatred that gives pause to the likes of Naga Sadow.

We fight, and come up pretty even.
I can't fight Voldo well, and whoever heard of a dangerous Talim?
We both took a round a piece, and the final round had me and my foe at even life. Perhaps two hits left in each of us.

Lightning rent the sky asunder as we charged each other, and right as I was about to Wind Dance my way out of harm's reach and Blade Cyclone my way into legend, tragedy struck.

My stick broke. Talim stood still. I died a little that moment.
A part of me perished, and my hands and mind froze.
The broken joystick still clutched in my hand.

Voldo slid into me, and Broken Wheeled me to death.
Fuck Voldo.

I of course protested the match, but the owner convincingly pointed out that I could rematch if I paid the money to fix the cabinet game.

Needless to say, I took the dishonor of my loss.

Bleh...everyone played Nightmare -sigh-

 

[SexyCleric]

Bleh...everyone played Nightmare -sigh-

Seriously.

Granted, he's a good character, but come on...

Play some Kilik, Xiahghuahanana, or Maxi.
Anyone who isn't Ivy or Nightmare...

 

[JagFarlane]

Seriously.

Granted, he's a good character, but come on...

Play some Kilik, Xiahghuahanana, or Maxi.
Anyone who isn't Ivy or Nightmare...

LOL its been a couple years since I played...but yea I know I mean variety is the spice of life

 

[Lady Reiha]

went and saw pirates 3 last night.. it was good but WAY TOOOOOOO LONG!!!!!!!!!! Make sure you dont see it when you have been up since 4:15am and you are going to the 10:30pm show...(wow.. I had to edit after realizing I didn't get all of the words in there that should have been there)

I saw Pirates after going to Anime North- which friggen rawked!
I agree. Pirates 3 was long, however I did enjoy it!

 

[Lady Reiha]

Moogles are the enemies of my clan and shall be dealt with.
Demons. All of them.
They try to hide it, but we know the truth.

And that truth can only be expressed with a 60+ ton metal foot.

Also, where were the Al Bhed during the Beville/Zanarkand wars?
Ever think of that? Huh?

And also, why doesn't Sin ever target the Al Bhed?

*thinks about this*

yeah...why dosen't sin target the Al-Bhed?

well..he somewhat targeted Yuna a little in X.. same with Rikku. But never really went out of his/it's way to do so..*ponders*
As for Moogles...


anything that cute must be evil!

 

[JagFarlane]

*thinks about this*

yeah...why dosen't sin target the Al-Bhed?

well..he somewhat targeted Yuna a little in X.. same with Rikku. But never really went out of his/it's way to do so..*ponders*
As for Moogles...


anything that cute must be evil!

Hmmmm k anime I dunno...lol whats it called?

 

[Lady Reiha]

Eh yea it was a bit on the longish side but I enjoyed all of it [didn't hurt I downed some beer too during it LOL]

me and a few of my pals drank rum in flasks during it. Pictures will be up soon!

 

[JagFarlane]

me and a few of my pals drank rum in flasks during it. Pictures will be up soon!

LOL eh I had a pitcher of Yuengling

 

[Lady Reiha]

Has everyone seen the new "bendable tv": http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=250507BENDABLE_TV

the...hell???

 

[Lady Reiha]

Alright, everyone, set down with a nice drink, smoke 'em if ya' got 'em, and get ready to laugh, because this is a good one. You might want to open your Geek Wallets, too, because you're probably going to be handing over some nerd cred after this one.

SO.

I was walking through Wally World today with Micro, shopping for dinner stuffs, because her roommate offered to cook and we were all a flutter at the prospect of eating her food. She probably could have demanded sexual favors. Yeah. It's that good.

But I decided I wanted to purchase some cinematic bliss and made a detour towards the electronics department, which, as you all know, is a BAD IDEA if you're on a budget, and even if your not...DON'T DO IT. I found the special widescreen edition of The Punisher, all hail Frank Castle, and the Special Edition (With Flair!) of Office Space, all hail Mike Judge. Into the shopping cart they went. I was trying, vaguely to ignore the loud music coming from behind me. Moving on. Then Micro and I began to move on, and we found the a copy of Shaun of the Dead, all hail George Romero and everything he inspired. Office Space, allhailMikeJudge went back on the shelf, because I've seen it thousands of times, and in a fight between carreer comedy, comic book movie and zombie apocolypse, career comedy loses. Plus, I'd be able to catch it on TV at some point, because they play the shit out of that movie. Anyhow, I was still trying to ignore the loud music, but now I was failing. Miserably.

Why they fuck do they keep playing the same songs over and over again, why are there mistakes, and why is there a large crowd gathering aroung the music's source? I must investigate, because I am a slave to popular opinion. Except Paris Hilton is still an ugly whore with no redeeming qualities. So I still have SOME mind of my own left.

What should I find, but a small child playing Guitar Hero II on the 360. Now, I've passively avoided this game in the past, not because I thought it would suck, but because the only chance I've ever had to play it, I was more interested in the pair of tits that made sounds that may have been words sitting across from me offering me weed (no thank you) and looking mildly interested in the contents of my jeans (yes, please). Other than that, I've had next to no exposure to this game. I think now that the universe was trying to protect me from my own stupidity by keeping me away from it. Well, yesterday, the universe failed.

Of course, I had to give it a shot.

Half an hour later, I had Guitar Hero II for the PS2, the copy that comes with a guitar controller, and an extra controller, this one wireless. Hells. Yeah. Mother. Fucker. It was time for a Guitar Hero party after dinner. Oh, and time to ask my boss about my paycheck, since I am now as broke as a Turkish hooker who got robbed, hitch-hiked with a bunch of hippies and their lack of money and belief in "free love," started walking when they ran out of gas and somehow found herself at a KKK convention. Yeah. That broke. Completely and utterly financially embarassed.

So, fast forwarding, much fun is had by all. Dinner was great, the Guitar Hero party was great, and everyone else went to bed, except for loser moi. I had to unlock new songs, because I swear to the gods if I have to hear "Strutter" by KISS one more fucking time I'm going to scream. Must have new songs. Fast foreward again. I beat every song on Easy Mode, getting a five star rating on all of them. Go me. Only now, I have a problem.

For the non-gamers, I need to pause and explain something about video games in general before I proceed. Most video game controllers have the directional pad on the left and the buttons on the right. This is important. You'll see why in a moment.

There are a few genres of video games that need to be addressed. The first is platform games. Where you run around in a usually multi-tiered environment, usually killing things. Whether you're beating the shit out of things or shooting at them, your usually mashing buttons like crazy. With your right thumb. Noted? Good. Continuing.

Then we have shooter games. Not necessarily Doom or the like, but also games like Raiden or even classics like Galaga. In these, you shoot stuff, and usually, you don't have automatic fire. Which means you rapidly push buttons. With your right thumb. Seeing a pattern?

Then there are fighting games. There are lots of wonderful examples, such as "Wasn't Middle School great?" a.k.a., Street Fighter. Or there was, "RIP THAT FUCKERS SPINE OUT!!!" a.k.a. Mortal Combat. Then my personal favorite, "Don't fuck with me, asshole, I have a big fucking sword," a.k.a. Soul Calibur. And ther are even less mentionable titles, such as "Aren't the gazungas pretty when they bounce?" a.k.a. Dead or Alive. No matter the game, before long, if you play them, you will get frustrated getting pimp slapped on a regular basis by one character or another, and you eventually resort to crazed, desperate button mashing. With your right thumb. Which by this point, hurts like hell. Got it? Good.

Now, I have longs since become accustomed to Gamer's Thumb and have learned to accept it as a fact of life. But now, I'm playing Guitar Hero, which requires some different uses of the hands than a regular video game. Now, I have to keep a tyrant's grip on the neck of the guitar controller with my LEFT hand. After playing until fuck in the morning (look at your clock...if it doesn't have a position marked FUCK, A.M., it's flawed), my right thumb is now laughing hysterically at my left hand.

"NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS, DONCHA, FUCKER?!? HA!!!"

"Yeah, whatever, shut up...and fuck you."

"NO, BITCH!!! I'M THE ONE DOING THE FUCKING, BECAUSE WHEN HE GETS LONELY--"

Actually, you don't need to hear the rest of that conversation. Moving on.

So, by now, I need a fucking cigarette. I find my smokes and go outside. I have lost my lighter, but I'm not about to go looking for the damn thing, because it was hard enough trying to find my godsdamned cigarettes. Fuck it. I KNOW there's a lighter on the back porch, and I have to go out there to smoke anyways.

Problem.

It rained last night.

And some jackass *points at self* left the spare lighter on the hand railing.

The lighter is now wet.

Wet lighters don't function very well.

So, now I have to repeatedly flick on this lighter to dry out the flint and get it sparking. I do this once or twice with my right hand, and now guess what? My fucking thumb starts to hurt.

"Oh, oh, oh, what the fuck is this, what in the blue fuck is this shit? Sweet, evil, zombie, hippy, Jesus on a pink, polka-dotted pogo stick, what in the holy fuck is this noise? Weren't you just making fun on me for being in pain, Mr. Now You Know How It Feels, Fucker?"

"But that strike wheel hurts...."

"FUCK YOU. AND DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT BRINGING UP THE JACKING OFF, BECAUSE--"

Again, I've said too much.

So, I try to switch hands to give my right thumb a break. I strike the lighter once using my left hand, and then think better of it as I recite the mantra:

"Owowowowowowowowowowowowowooooooooooowwwwww!!!"

My left hand chooses this moment to chime in once again.

"Oh, no, fuckwad, I've done my job for the night. This is in the fucking union rules, cocksucker, I'm done. Don't even TRY that shit again."

So, now I've got my Gamer's Thumb and Mister Useless Lefty in extreme agony, they're fighting in the back of my head and trying to blame me for shit now, and all I want is a fucking smoke, not the anthropomorphic personifications of my mistreated body parts bickering in my imagination. But finally, the lighter works. Now, as my left hand and my right thumb are still acting like two year olds, I take my first drage off of my smoke, and up pops the voice of my lungs.

"Hey, both of you, shut it...I don't want to hear ANY bitching from either one of you."

*laughs hard* best story ever. Paws down.


Congrats on getting GH2

 

[SexyCleric]

*thinks about this*

yeah...why dosen't sin target the Al-Bhed?

well..he somewhat targeted Yuna a little in X.. same with Rikku. But never really went out of his/it's way to do so..*ponders*
As for Moogles...


anything that cute must be evil!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/Derekthecleric/ffxmap.jpg

Two important facts.
One; all major cities and temples are built on the coast.
Why? When Sin keeps coming in, and blowing everything up, when not relocate?

Two; The war was between Bevelle and Zanarkand.
The Al Bhed either had nothing to do with that war or didn't exist yet.

Conclusion; both nations used summoners during the war, and Zanarkand had especially talented ones (FFX2 told us this). For there to be summons, Aeons, there must be Fayth, so they also existed before the war. And fayth are made from dead or dying individuals; Yue Yevon being one of them. My theory is that Sin was created by one of the nations, probably Zanarkand, and probably created from Yue Yevon's energy, and got out of hand. Weapon goes wild and kills everyone.

 

[Spins]

Why Role-players should watch thier backs. Ya never know when some other role-player is going to decide you aren't up to the "standards"

The Horde

 

[chronicle_tenko]

I played Maxi. I still do, I can play night mare but Maxi is way more fun. Always has been too.

As for the Al-Bhed thing. I think he does attack them we just never get to see it. They're scared fo him know what he does and risk a lot to try and stop him. They know all the history and fayth.

I think it says in the Game that they were normal people too, and then they found machina and began using that, and beame outcasts. As for not being attacked in game....

Don't the Al-Bhed live in the Middle of the freaking desert?

 

[SexyCleric]

I played Maxi. I still do, I can play night mare but Maxi is way more fun. Always has been too.

As for the Al-Bhed thing. I think he does attack them we just never get to see it. They're scared fo him know what he does and risk a lot to try and stop him. They know all the history and fayth.

I think it says in the Game that they were normal people too, and then they found machina and began using that, and beame outcasts. As for not being attacked in game....

Don't the Al-Bhed live in the Middle of the freaking desert?

Middle of a freakin desert island.

The eye thing though...
What's up with that, I wonder out loud?

 

[SpeX125]

You guys are making me want to play FF10 again,and I still haven't finished FF12.

 

[papillon24]

Hey there everyone

 

[Lady Reiha]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/Derekthecleric/ffxmap.jpg

Two important facts.
One; all major cities and temples are built on the coast.
Why? When Sin keeps coming in, and blowing everything up, when not relocate?

Two; The war was between Bevelle and Zanarkand.
The Al Bhed either had nothing to do with that war or didn't exist yet.

Conclusion; both nations used summoners during the war, and Zanarkand had especially talented ones (FFX2 told us this). For there to be summons, Aeons, there must be Fayth, so they also existed before the war. And fayth are made from dead or dying individuals; Yue Yevon being one of them. My theory is that Sin was created by one of the nations, probably Zanarkand, and probably created from Yue Yevon's energy, and got out of hand. Weapon goes wild and kills everyone.

Oh My God...

Your absoultely right *looks at the map*
who knows, maybe Square will eventually come out with FFX spin-off that mentions the creation of Sin.. prehaps it was the Al Bhed that created Sin, therefore he/it does not turn on them. Prehaps there was a small, elite group of them, and considering Yuna's half-Al Bhed, possibly her Al Bhed side of her family created it or something..It would deffinately make an interesting offspin to the X series.