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Postby Giovenith » Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:27 pm

I was thinking Belgium because of SATW too, Tilt. :lol:
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Postby Tiltjuice » Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:33 pm

Giovenith wrote:I was thinking Belgium because of SATW too, Tilt. :lol:


:lol:

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Postby Swith Witherward » Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:51 pm

Yep, I'm bothering Luce! Unless you had something different planned for him, Tilty?

Also... is it me, or have Dora and Katya drifted apart?
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Postby Tiltjuice » Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:54 pm

*grins* Nope! No worries, Swithers.

It looks that way. *nods* A bit surprising, for me. Surprises are good sometimes, though.
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Postby New Aksarben » Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:57 pm

Swith Witherward wrote:Yep, I'm bothering Luce! Unless you had something different planned for him, Tilty?

Also... is it me, or have Dora and Katya drifted apart?

Nope. I see it too. Katya finding out that Dora wasn't just hers seemed to drive a wedge between them, closer to just being friends or something like that.

I'm kinda interested to see how it turns out, if Katya can ever accept that Dora is polyamorous and stuff like that.


Edit:

Oh, my god. GTA 5 is simply amazing. I need to get that game when it comes out on PC, or at least on my Xbox. The glitches alone are amazingly hilarious(I've been watching videos of the game on Youtube) like this one I saw where Ambulances get messed up when their target body despawns. It was literally driving donuts as its destination got messed up. And it kept ramming into other cars XD
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Postby AETEN II » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:07 pm

New Aksarben wrote:
Swith Witherward wrote:Yep, I'm bothering Luce! Unless you had something different planned for him, Tilty?

Also... is it me, or have Dora and Katya drifted apart?

Nope. I see it too. Katya finding out that Dora wasn't just hers seemed to drive a wedge between them, closer to just being friends or something like that.

I'm kinda interested to see how it turns out, if Katya can ever accept that Dora is polyamorous and stuff like that.


Edit:

Oh, my god. GTA 5 is simply amazing. I need to get that game when it comes out on PC, or at least on my Xbox. The glitches alone are amazingly hilarious(I've been watching videos of the game on Youtube) like this one I saw where Ambulances get messed up when their target body despawns. It was literally driving donuts as its destination got messed up. And it kept ramming into other cars XD

Sounds better than the glitches in Warframe. Warframe's terrific and I highly advise you all to get it (it's just three gigs and downloads in a couple hours), but there's just this one small glitch that when a guy dies- their gun hovers a foot above the ground and gos full-auto endlessly and autotargets everything. Just in one day, I've gotten my health up to 300+ and my shields 200+ by fusing my stat cards, and that glitch still utterly butchers me.
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Postby Giovenith » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:10 pm

It does seem to me like Dora and Katya are having some distance problems. My highly amateur guessing would guess something similar to the triad observation, though that doesn't quite exactly fit the situation.

By the way, I apologize for the recent ginormo-posts that all seem a little self-serving, if they bug you. I promise they won't be status quo, but they're my way of laying out the foundations for basic traits and interactions. Maybe not the best way, but yeah.
But damn, I don't think I've ever written Gio that angry before... :blink: It just came out.
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Postby New Aksarben » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:13 pm

AETEN II wrote:
New Aksarben wrote:Nope. I see it too. Katya finding out that Dora wasn't just hers seemed to drive a wedge between them, closer to just being friends or something like that.

I'm kinda interested to see how it turns out, if Katya can ever accept that Dora is polyamorous and stuff like that.


Edit:

Oh, my god. GTA 5 is simply amazing. I need to get that game when it comes out on PC, or at least on my Xbox. The glitches alone are amazingly hilarious(I've been watching videos of the game on Youtube) like this one I saw where Ambulances get messed up when their target body despawns. It was literally driving donuts as its destination got messed up. And it kept ramming into other cars XD

Sounds better than the glitches in Warframe. Warframe's terrific and I highly advise you all to get it (it's just three gigs and downloads in a couple hours), but there's just this one small glitch that when a guy dies- their gun hovers a foot above the ground and gos full-auto endlessly and autotargets everything. Just in one day, I've gotten my health up to 300+ and my shields 200+ by fusing my stat cards, and that glitch still utterly butchers me.

..... I do play warframe. I just haven't in a while, due to my computer's HDD crashing and needing to replace it.

But that glitch is amazing. And its just amazing how insanely aggressive the AI for police are in GTA5. They aim their cars directly at you should you have any wanted level! It gets insane when in the middle of a city! And it looks fun to run up to someone, and knock them out with a haymaker to the face. You can literally just run up and knock someone out in one blow like that. And the ragdoll animations are awesome....
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Postby Erucia » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:15 pm

Alright, going to bed now. Goodnight!
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Postby Tiltjuice » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:22 pm

Giovenith wrote:It does seem to me like Dora and Katya are having some distance problems. My highly amateur guessing would guess something similar to the triad observation, though that doesn't quite exactly fit the situation.

By the way, I apologize for the recent ginormo-posts that all seem a little self-serving, if they bug you. I promise they won't be status quo, but they're my way of laying out the foundations for basic traits and interactions. Maybe not the best way, but yeah.
But damn, I don't think I've ever written Gio that angry before... :blink: It just came out.


No no, those posts are awesome! *offers penguin* :)

That's a good thought, too. I think it might have been stable for a little bit, as Dora tried to compromise with Yoshi (and perhaps, in a sense, took a more dominant role), and as Yoshi went off to fight. However, too, I'm only guessing as Katya wasn't involved there, and as I only know what Dora really thought of the whole situation.
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Postby Swith Witherward » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:29 pm

Giovenith wrote:It does seem to me like Dora and Katya are having some distance problems. My highly amateur guessing would guess something similar to the triad observation, though that doesn't quite exactly fit the situation.

By the way, I apologize for the recent ginormo-posts that all seem a little self-serving, if they bug you. I promise they won't be status quo, but they're my way of laying out the foundations for basic traits and interactions. Maybe not the best way, but yeah.
But damn, I don't think I've ever written Gio that angry before... :blink: It just came out.

I haven't minded the posts. They give insight.

Hmmm... actually, the triad thing makes sense.

Then again, since I'm in an analyzing mood...

Maybe Katya is starting to settle down and realize that being a party girl is going to be difficult with a child?

Was Jacob a pityF?

Did Dora and Ogoti actually do the deed on the beach? It was implied, but did they? I actually miss reading the courting posts.

Whatever happened to Ozzall? Is he still at the Observatory?

Will Ogoti and Kei get together? They looked promising but then Ti resurfaced.

Will Gio ever find love, or is it now an Equus thing?

What's with Chrys and Dia anyway? Is he controlling?


That reminds me. Blythe and Xanthe are due to come back.
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Postby New Aksarben » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:35 pm

@Swith: I've been wondering the second one as well. Jacob's been meaning to ask her, but Dora's been either with Ogoti or Katya since he's decided to ask her about that.

also, Conan O'Brien playing GTA5 <-- I was literally rolling around in my chair laughing at some points during that video.
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Postby AETEN II » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:43 pm

New Aksarben wrote:
AETEN II wrote:Sounds better than the glitches in Warframe. Warframe's terrific and I highly advise you all to get it (it's just three gigs and downloads in a couple hours), but there's just this one small glitch that when a guy dies- their gun hovers a foot above the ground and gos full-auto endlessly and autotargets everything. Just in one day, I've gotten my health up to 300+ and my shields 200+ by fusing my stat cards, and that glitch still utterly butchers me.

..... I do play warframe. I just haven't in a while, due to my computer's HDD crashing and needing to replace it.

But that glitch is amazing. And its just amazing how insanely aggressive the AI for police are in GTA5. They aim their cars directly at you should you have any wanted level! It gets insane when in the middle of a city! And it looks fun to run up to someone, and knock them out with a haymaker to the face. You can literally just run up and knock someone out in one blow like that. And the ragdoll animations are awesome....


Still isn't the insane degree that was the Simpsons game. I remember that when it came out, and how I got good at dodging the magic cop cars and learned how to make them crash into each other. Eventually you end up with a scene similar to the Blue's Brothers. Done that in GTAIV as well.
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Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.


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Postby New Aksarben » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:47 pm

AETEN II wrote:
New Aksarben wrote:..... I do play warframe. I just haven't in a while, due to my computer's HDD crashing and needing to replace it.

But that glitch is amazing. And its just amazing how insanely aggressive the AI for police are in GTA5. They aim their cars directly at you should you have any wanted level! It gets insane when in the middle of a city! And it looks fun to run up to someone, and knock them out with a haymaker to the face. You can literally just run up and knock someone out in one blow like that. And the ragdoll animations are awesome....


Still isn't the insane degree that was the Simpsons game. I remember that when it came out, and how I got good at dodging the magic cop cars and learned how to make them crash into each other. Eventually you end up with a scene similar to the Blue's Brothers. Done that in GTAIV as well.

Which Simpson's game? there were a few, I believe.
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Postby Tiltjuice » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:05 am

Swith Witherward wrote:
Giovenith wrote:It does seem to me like Dora and Katya are having some distance problems. My highly amateur guessing would guess something similar to the triad observation, though that doesn't quite exactly fit the situation.

By the way, I apologize for the recent ginormo-posts that all seem a little self-serving, if they bug you. I promise they won't be status quo, but they're my way of laying out the foundations for basic traits and interactions. Maybe not the best way, but yeah.
But damn, I don't think I've ever written Gio that angry before... :blink: It just came out.

I haven't minded the posts. They give insight.

Hmmm... actually, the triad thing makes sense.

Then again, since I'm in an analyzing mood...

Maybe Katya is starting to settle down and realize that being a party girl is going to be difficult with a child?

Was Jacob a pityF?

Did Dora and Ogoti actually do the deed on the beach? It was implied, but did they? I actually miss reading the courting posts.

Whatever happened to Ozzall? Is he still at the Observatory?

Will Ogoti and Kei get together? They looked promising but then Ti resurfaced.

Will Gio ever find love, or is it now an Equus thing?

What's with Chrys and Dia anyway? Is he controlling?


That reminds me. Blythe and Xanthe are due to come back.


OK, sorry about that! I was off folding laundry. *grumble* I need a bigger closet. Or else a bigger frame. I still fit clothes I wore when I was in middle school. And that includes the bulking up I did after I started doing martial arts. *laughs* Still the same old weedy little nerd.

Was Jacob a pityF?
> No. On the other hand...

Did Dora and Ogoti actually do the deed on the beach? It was implied, but did they? I actually miss reading the courting posts.
> Eggplant. Or aubergine, if you prefer the British answer. :geek:

What's with Chrys and Dia anyway? Is he controlling?
> No, he's not controlling. He's actually rather nice. I think. *scratches head*
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Postby Swith Witherward » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:11 am

New Aksarben wrote:@Swith: I've been wondering the second one as well. Jacob's been meaning to ask her, but Dora's been either with Ogoti or Katya since he's decided to ask her about that.

also, Conan O'Brien playing GTA5 <-- I was literally rolling around in my chair laughing at some points during that video.

Ogoti hasn't interacted with her much, either. He and Jacob should form a club.

Hmm... Tilt's answer was unclear. "On the other hand..." which lead to talking about Ogoti. So was he a pityF?

*laughs* Night high.
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Postby Tiltjuice » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:17 am

Swith Witherward wrote:Ogoti hasn't interacted with her much, either. He and Jacob should form a club.

Hmm... Tilt's answer was unclear. "On the other hand..." which lead to talking about Ogoti. So was he a pityF?

*laughs* Night high.


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Night high-five. *high-fives Nightkill*
Night high-five-iron-frenzy. :shock: *runs*

As for the questions...I might answer them in more detail in my next video.

Maybe. ;)

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NS and Flash need to quit fighting. Flash keeps crashing. -_-
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Postby New Aksarben » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:27 am

Tiltjuice wrote:
Swith Witherward wrote:Ogoti hasn't interacted with her much, either. He and Jacob should form a club.

Hmm... Tilt's answer was unclear. "On the other hand..." which lead to talking about Ogoti. So was he a pityF?

*laughs* Night high.


Night high?
Night high-five. *high-fives Nightkill*
Night high-five-iron-frenzy. :shock: *runs*

As for the questions...I might answer them in more detail in my next video.

Maybe. ;)

No, I will. Or if I don't, I'll answer them here.

NS and Flash need to quit fighting. Flash keeps crashing. -_-

NS does take quite a lot of stuffs, doesn't it?

But yes, Ogoti and Jacob should actually interact more. I've had fun having JAcob talk with him in the past, like during the drone invasion. But I for some reason can not think what they would talk about...... Meh. I'll blame that on being awake at 2:28 AM.


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Postby Giovenith » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:41 am

Meh, I've thought about the background to some of Gio's actions before. It's slightly still in development, but it does have it's basic ideas...

All her life, Gio has lived in a highly stable environment, with little to no of the usual outside influences such as school, many friends her age, etc. The world around her was almost solely controlled by one parent, whose rules and philosophies were literally tenant to her very existence and future. She's been crafted into a loyal helper for her mother by her mother and family, been told how to respect other gods pretty much no matter what, and there has been pretty much nothing else to try and sway from wanting to do or be anything else otherwise. In other words, she's every over controlling parent's dream come true: She'll believe whatever her family wants, do the job her family wants her to do, and up until recently, there has been near zero influence that would knock her off this mentality. It also has made her a bit childish, due to the comforts of home never really being ripped away from her in any way. By sheer dumb luck all of that teaching managed to be something rather artsy, tolerant, and sweet. God help us if Pearlelei had been a stereotypically stiff, cranky, perfection-obsessed mother instead, we would have had a highly different Gio.

As for love, that's a bit of a combination of previous stated IC reasons, and the mere current set-up of things.
Set-up reason: Gio does like guys, and is sixteen years old. There just so happens to not really be any guy characters her age in sight.
IC reason: For one thing, absolutely nobody aside from one of her brothers has ever been in a relationship. Like ever. Not her mom, not her sister, not her oldest brother, nobody. Gio already doesn't like any of Hadenyx's girlfriends, and since the rest of the family has made it this far without significant others, she fails to see the importance (I get the idea that she was also kept away from gooey teenage drama shows depicting romance as well in favor of stuff like "Wishbone"). She see's her chaste, celibate mother and older sister as ideal women of their culture, and is leaning towards the idea that she might want to imitate them. It might also be a comfort thing, too. Gio thrives (probably almost unhealthily) in her comfort zone (as if I hadn't made that painfully obvious), and as anyone knows, getting involved with someone for the first time usually involves stepping waaaaaaaaaaaaay out of one's comfort zone. She's also used to thinking of herself as the child (who wouldn't?), and "kids don't date."
So in summary: No available potential partners, no positive experiences with relationships, idealized singlehood, comfort zones, and half under the delusion that she's still too young despite that hardly being true.

So here comes Willow: Despite the usual notions of ponies, Willow can be quite the blatant asshole. He doesn't try to be, but if he see's something he views as nonsensical, he is going to call it out as just that (as shown with his attitude toward Black Jack in the first post). Thus when he heard about the behavior of the gods in Greek mythology, he thought it didn't make sense, said so, and gave his reasons. This essentially threw a wrecking ball into some of the basic foundations of Gio's upbringing. Her mother, the one she doesn't question, is a god, the elders around her and in her mother's "career" are gods, one does not simply go against the gods so harshly in her head, even if they are not her own pantheon. Gio did get rather pissed at Torii that one time for inferring that Elohim was the only real god, but at least Torii didn't compare everyone else to pyromaniacs. Willow did because Willow doesn't know when to draw the line about when one needs to stop being so honest.
The fact that Willow is a pony more-so threw off Gio because, obviously, ponies have kind of been idealized for little girls via merchandise and, well, My Little Pony-esque things all around. She currently views Willow as something of a breathing toy, she expected him to just shut up and agree with her like any other toy, and then it startled her when he didn't. Not only did he disagree with her, but he disagreed with her about something she barely thinks is possible to be disagreed about. Now she's all rattled up because several core points of what she considers stability have been shaken up and put up for harsh examination by that which she thought she had control over. That would piss anyone off.

Basically Gio lives in a little house made out of hardened sugar, and Willow is in the business of smashing sugar houses. She wears a bell over her head, he took a spoon and banged it repeatedly. Willow tried to steal her rosey-eyed glasses, and she will bite to get them back. Why did this happen? Because I felt like someone actually needed to be harsh to her for once, even if unintentionally. From what I've seen, a lot of characters seem very unwilling to just jab a knife into that girl's sugar-world, so now I've assigned that job to the pony. But will Willow also learn some things out of this? Only time will tell.
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Postby Swith Witherward » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:41 am

New Aksarben wrote:NS does take quite a lot of stuffs, doesn't it?

But yes, Ogoti and Jacob should actually interact more. I've had fun having JAcob talk with him in the past, like during the drone invasion. But I for some reason can not think what they would talk about...... Meh. I'll blame that on being awake at 2:28 AM.


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Jacob and Ogoti could talk about Dora. *nods*

Jeez Tilt, I hope he wasn't a pityF. That would be sad. He's a really awesome character, very compassionate, and not someone who needed the sexual attention. I say that because I absolute adore that character.
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Postby Tiltjuice » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:44 am

Giovenith wrote:Meh, I've thought about the background to some of Gio's actions before. It's slightly still in development, but it does have it's basic ideas...

All her life, Gio has lived in a highly stable environment, with little to no of the usual outside influences such as school, many friends her age, etc. The world around her was almost solely controlled by one parent, whose rules and philosophies were literally tenant to her very existence and future. She's been crafted into a loyal helper for her mother by her mother and family, been told how to respect other gods pretty much no matter what, and there has been pretty much nothing else to try and sway from wanting to do or be anything else otherwise. In other words, she's every over controlling parent's dream come true: She'll believe whatever her family wants, do the job her family wants her to do, and up until recently, there has been near zero influence that would knock her off this mentality. It also has made her a bit childish, due to the comforts of home never really being ripped away from her in any way. By sheer dumb luck all of that teaching managed to be something rather artsy, tolerant, and sweet. God help us if Pearlelei had been a stereotypically stiff, cranky, perfection-obsessed mother instead, we would have had a highly different Gio.

As for love, that's a bit of a combination of previous stated IC reasons, and the mere current set-up of things.
Set-up reason: Gio does like guys, and is sixteen years old. There just so happens to not really be any guy characters her age in sight.
IC reason: For one thing, absolutely nobody aside from one of her brothers has ever been in a relationship. Like ever. Not her mom, not her sister, not her oldest brother, nobody. Gio already doesn't like any of Hadenyx's girlfriends, and since the rest of the family has made it this far without significant others, she fails to see the importance (I get the idea that she was also kept away from gooey teenage drama shows depicting romance as well in favor of stuff like "Wishbone"). She see's her chaste, celibate mother and older sister as ideal women of their culture, and is leaning towards the idea that she might want to imitate them. It might also be a comfort thing, too. Gio thrives (probably almost unhealthily) in her comfort zone (as if I hadn't made that painfully obvious), and as anyone knows, getting involved with someone for the first time usually involves stepping waaaaaaaaaaaaay out of one's comfort zone. She's also used to thinking of herself as the child (who wouldn't?), and "kids don't date."
So in summary: No available potential partners, no positive experiences with relationships, idealized singlehood, comfort zones, and half under the delusion that she's still too young despite that hardly being true.

So here comes Willow: Despite the usual notions of ponies, Willow can be quite the blatant asshole. He doesn't try to be, but if he see's something he views as nonsensical, he is going to call it out as just that (as shown with his attitude toward Black Jack in the first post). Thus when he heard about the behavior of the gods in Greek mythology, he thought it didn't make sense, said so, and gave his reasons. This essentially threw a wrecking ball into some of the basic foundations of Gio's upbringing. Her mother, the one she doesn't question, is a god, the elders around her and in her mother's "career" are gods, one does not simply go against the gods so harshly in her head, even if they are not her own pantheon. Gio did get rather pissed at Torii that one time for inferring that Elohim was the only real god, but at least Torii didn't compare everyone else to pyromaniacs. Willow did because Willow doesn't know when to draw the line about when one needs to stop being so honest.
The fact that Willow is a pony more-so threw off Gio because, obviously, ponies have kind of been idealized for little girls via merchandise and, well, My Little Pony-esque things all around. She currently views Willow as something of a breathing toy, she expected him to just shut up and agree with her like any other toy, and then it startled her when he didn't. Not only did he disagree with her, but he disagreed with her about something she barely thinks is possible to be disagreed about. Now she's all rattled up because several core points of what she considers stability have been shaken up and put up for harsh examination by that which she thought she had control over. That would piss anyone off.

Basically Gio lives in a little house made out of hardened sugar, and Willow is in the business of smashing sugar houses. She wears a bell over her head, he took a spoon and banged it repeatedly. Willow tried to steal her rosey-eyed glasses, and she will bite to get them back. Why did this happen? Because I felt like someone actually needed to be harsh to her for once, even if unintentionally. From what I've seen, a lot of characters seem very unwilling to just jab a knife into that girl's sugar-world, so now I've assigned that job to the pony. But will Willow also learn some things out of this? Only time will tell.


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Postby Tiltjuice » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:45 am

New Aksarben wrote:NS does take quite a lot of stuffs, doesn't it?


Definitely! *nods*

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Jacob and Ogoti could talk about Dora. *nods*

Jeez Tilt, I hope he wasn't a pityF. That would be sad. He's a really awesome character, very compassionate, and not someone who needed the sexual attention. I say that because I absolute adore that character.


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Postby Giovenith » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:48 am

Adlbocker is the best! I only recently realized how much of the stress in my life came from looking at the faces of people in advertisements with their fake smiles. It's quite amazing, actually.
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Postby AETEN II » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:49 am

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Still isn't the insane degree that was the Simpsons game. I remember that when it came out, and how I got good at dodging the magic cop cars and learned how to make them crash into each other. Eventually you end up with a scene similar to the Blue's Brothers. Done that in GTAIV as well.

Which Simpson's game? there were a few, I believe.

The old roadrage one with the psychic cop cars that would ram anything and everything- and take you down by simply touching you.
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Postby New Aksarben » Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:51 am

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New Aksarben wrote:Which Simpson's game? there were a few, I believe.

The old roadrage one with the psychic cop cars that would ram anything and everything- and take you down by simply touching you.

Oooh... I loved those. They were terrible in hindsight, but then I thought they were awesome.....
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