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Posted by KP9000

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I'm KP9000. I've been lurking around Acmlm's since like 1999.

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I was one of those lurkers myself up until 2003, where i joined up as "gamefreak19" (god I hate that name). So while some really old people might not recognize me, I been around (Seeing how broken my English was back in 2003, maybe that was for the best I didn't join right away).

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Team Fortress 2. What else is there to play?

Dungeons of Dredmor had me hooked recently. It's a very nice indie roguelike, with elements that should appeal to both hardore Nethack players and more casual roguelike (Diablo) players. Unlike Nethack though, it's easy to learn but still hard to master. And make sure to play on hardcore mode if you're a real man.

Posted by Marzen64

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Well, in my personal opinion, if I gotta wait 50 hours for the game to get good, it's not really worth playing. I'm just playing it to say "Hey, I played FF13". Nonetheless, I may stick with it if I'm not distracted by far better games... Like Skyward Sword, something else I've been playing recently.

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I give the game enough time that I learned the base mechanics, this can sometimes take a bit for a game to get interesting especially if the whole early game is a glorified tutorial. I'm not a fan of Final Fantasy games though, or Square RPG's in general. I generally play games for their game mechanics more than story so most roleplaying games are admittedly lost on me, though Earthbound/Mother series is a major exception. And a good story is still memorable for me in a game (see Bioshock).

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I usually take it pretty easy on New Years Eve, about the most wild thing I did was using the fireworks I bought.

As for plans, well there is a certain project I want to continue on.

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I find phpBB to be quite solid forum software, although Acmlmboard 1.x easily had more features back in the day. Plus Acmlmboard always had that charm.

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I seen plenty of vulgar hacks before, most of them done in a childish fashion through the inbuilt tile editor of nesticle.

However that hack actual had plenty of work put into it. I'm not sure whenever I should be amused or scared that someone spent their time on making that. And then he does include a reference to the old OLD Acmlm Board URL as it was up until early-mid 2004, which both shows it's age and the fact that he might perhaps been banned/shunned back then?

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Well there are a (few) people using their monitor in portrait mode (flip it to the side, then flip the monitor within the control panel of the graphics card).

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I had two hardware failures, both being PSU's whoose fan stops working.

Which usually means the computer boots fine and all, but shuts down as soon it gets warm. A couple minutes of gaming is usually enough. :/ You can replace the fan but I'm not ballsy enough to do that (those capacitors are dangerous after all).

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Posted by Emuz

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Actually that was one of the first well propagated meme, and we where there on the front lines on that one. I had my whole Comp Sci class in High School watching it. lol

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What I find interesting is that AYB was a bit slower spreading and therefore longer lasting compared to latter memes. Compared to recent memes like "Chuck Testa" and "Then I took an arrow in the knee" (ugh I hate that one) that get's old within the day they're introduced in. I guess that's partially cause memes have far wider and viral reach nowadays due to social networks and sites like youtube.



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My only critique for Jet's layout is that I would probably personally prefer if there was some sort of separation between the post and the area on the left (postheader?). Can be something like a darkened gradient or something.

My layout is fairly simple, I was planning to make it more fancy but I never got myself assed to fix that. Hopefully the contrast and such makes it readable enough (it's just a straight copy/paste of my board2 postlayout).

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Hmm, did my Snivy obession rub off?

As soon I get home and find a camera I'm gonna take a photo of my set. I do feel like I'm the only one still using "standard" ratio monitors (been considering widescreen for awhile but I have no idea what brands are good).

I would love to turn my dual monitor into a trio setup with a widescreen in the middle but sadly I do not think I have the desktop space for that.

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Posted by KP9000

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Cave Story - Geothermal
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VVVVVV - Potential for Anything
<object width="560" height="25"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gA9kUMndxc8?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="25" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

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Cave Story and VVVVV are my favorite amongst "retro sounding games" sound. Although from those games, I have those as my favorites:

Cave Story - Gestation
<object width="560" height="25"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IsC4emfylsY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="25" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>
God I hated the "New" version of this song in the Wii/Cave Story + version. It was basically ruining the feel of the orginal, at least the Cave Story 3D version paid better respect (but then again, a better composer made that one).

VVVVVV - Positive force
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And for less electronic sounding music... I always been fond of the TF2 soundtrack.
Team Fortress 2 - MEDIC!
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Posted by DJ Bouche

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And my previous usernames will never be spoken of again ...

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Don't tempt me

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Rather on the too large side than on the too small side. I think it's size is fine.

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Remember the text only layouts that used to be so common on Acmlm's Board? "THERE IS A MESSAGE FROM MR MARIO: MR MARIO IS GOING OUT". Yeah we are not going to allow those, although it's been years since I ever seen someone try to make one.

I rather let people let me know if something about my layout affects their accessibility than being layout-blocked. Not that I can stop them.

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AIM: gamefreak1337, MSN: Emil_sim@spray.se, XMPP: ailure@xmpp.kafuka.org, YouTube

I want to meet the poor soul still on dial-up.

Times have changed really, it's a absolute extreme minority nowadays to be on dial-up

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Posted by GreyMaria

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C'mon guys, we can make 1000 before the day's out.

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I'd like to see more meaningful content, but pressuring too much tend to make things a bit spammy.

Not that some sillyness hurts now and then.

Trelior: I enjoyed Homestuck, but the regular walls of txtspk started to turn me away from it. Which is a shame, but it was becoming more of a bother than fun.

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Posted by Acmlm

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I'm mostly playing old games lately, or more precisely, racing them with others (I usually lose, but who cares as long as I'm having fun)


The last new game I played was Disgaea 4 when it came out (for about a month), then I played the whole series again for a while

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I heard about the racing thing the other week, I would love to try it out sometime. Maybe with someone from here.

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