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Nintendo had absolutely nothing to do with that. A long while back, Nintendo had plans to make a CD addon for the SNES. They originally were working with Sony, but backed out of that to go with Phillips. Of course, this pissed off Sony and the Playstation was born. Nintendo wound up dropping the whole thing with Phillips as well. However, due to some legal reasons Nintendo had to give some things up to Phillips. One of which was the use of some Nintendo characters for Phillips' CD-i, and interactive CD player game machine thing. So a few Zelda games were made, along with a couple random Mario ones. There was also a spinoff of Super Mario World that was never completed. Nintendo had absolutely nothing to do with the production of these games, which is why they are totally ignored and will hopefully be forgotten.

I prefer Lacuna Coil. They sound so simliar it's ridiculous. Lacuna Coil has been out far longer, and the vocals are almost exactly the same. The music is a bit different, but in my opinion far better. Evanescence can die a painful death for all I care... until they ditch the stupid rap stuff anyway, in which case they'd be a bit above average.

The games are based on the NES series. Back then, all the art from the instruction manuals I have had Link with brown hair and if I remember correctly, Zelda as blonde. It's not any different than it should have been.

Everyone that has played it so far has said completely the opposite... so I don't know what to say just yet to those comments heh. At first I figured it would be boring. Really, how much could there possibly be to do based on the descriptions we gave? However, if you read impressions on how to play it... or watch the various movies... I think you'll see that there is a bit more to it than is apparent. I guess we all just have to wait and see. I, myself, am looking forward to it quite a bit.

I think it would look a bit more interesting if it typed itself across... if you know what I mean.

I think you're talking about Captain N: The Game Master. That show was horrible, now that I look back on it. He could randomly pause everything around him, but for some reason never used it when it made the most sense to. Simon Belmont of Castlevania was a big, tan blonde guy... Mother Brain looked like dripping pudding. It was awful.

All I get is "It's okay Link, it only hurts the first time." I can only think of perverted things for most caption contests like this (some magazines do these)... There just isn't anything funny or interesting about that picture otherwise lol.

I remember seeing a trailer for Osiris, but not a full version. If I find it, I'll let you know. I forget where I saw it, but it most likely was at [url]www.apple.com.[/url] From what I can tell, they are just putting the first four up. 3 are available for download, the fourth will be put up for download next month... That's all they have space for on the main page... by then the DVD will be out.

According to what I've read, they're called Keese still in WW. I think it would be rather odd for Nintendo to go back to "Bad Bats" randomly, and I'm sure a few people would have been annoyed.

Well, maybe you're too young to have seen most of it. I guess you being 3 to 5 or so would make sense. Back when I was younger, we had something called the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. It was this goofy live action show, with a cartoon stuffed in it. Every Friday they'd show a Zelda cartoon instead of a Mario one. Let's just say it was awful and leave it at that. It became kind of infamous for Link always saying "Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me princess!" It's not worth seeing or hunting out. I did kind of like the Mario ones though. It came well after the games. The show is basically based on the Nintendo game, not the other way around.

[quote]HEATHER NEWMAN: Recording industry has warning: File-sharers have to face the music April 5, 2003 BY HEATHER NEWMAN FREE PRESS COLUMNIST Lawsuits against four college students accused of trading copyrighted songs are the biggest punch yet by the recording industry against its core audience, and has experts worried that the next step will be suing the colleges themselves. The Recording Industry Association of America filed the suits Thursday in three federal courts, naming one student each at Michigan Technological University and Princeton University and two others from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who ran Napster-like file-sharing services on their campus computer networks. The damages sought by the suits are astronomical: $150,000 per song, the maximum allowed by law. Multiply that by the 652,000 or so songs the RIAA alleges student Joseph Nievelt offered to other Michigan Tech students on his service, and the scope of the suit is clear. That total? About $97.8 trillion -- yes, trillion with a T -- or enough money to buy every CD sold in America last year over again for the next 120,000 years, according to RIAA statistics. And that's just Nievelt's case. (It's BILLION, the lady messed up the math - Semjaza) RIAA senior vice president for business and legal affairs Matthew Oppenheim said the suits are intended to send a clear message to anyone running these types of services that punishment will be swift and severe. Experts say they worry that the students, who are unlikely to actually have to pay those soaring sums, won't always be the sole targets of the RIAA's notoriously aggressive copyright defenses. The RIAA has traditionally encouraged colleges to work with it and other industry groups, sending two letters in the past six months to university presidents urging them to take action against student violators. But Oppenheim said he also expected Thursday's suits to be a notice to colleges officials who haven't kept track of what's happening on their networks. These weren't small violations, he stresses, and at this scale, the amount of Internet traffic generated by one account is huge. His group didn't send its standard cease-and-desist letter to Michigan Tech before filing suit, something that Michigan Tech officials have publicly complained about. But this wasn't a typical situation, he said. "Going forward, I wouldn't think there was a university in the country that wouldn't notice this kind of activity on their servers," he said. "My guess is universities are going to be much more concerned than they have in the past. I don't think any university wants to see their students sued." It's not that easy, said Michigan Tech spokeswoman Marcia Goodrich, who said the school has gone the extra mile in cooperating with copyright groups. "Now it's like, why did we go through all the trouble to work with you guys?" she said. Students operate more than 10,000 Web sites, she said. The university deals with 80,000 scans a day by potential hackers. And school officials have investigated nearly 80 complaints against students this year, putting nearly 60 on probation and taking other disciplinary measures. And that's where things get legally sticky for universities, said Virginia Rezmierski, adjunct associate professor at the University of Michigan's School of Information and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She said she thinks schools have made a mistake by cooperating with investigators and shutting down students who have been the subject of prior cease-and-desist letters from the RIAA and other organizations. "If you agree that you're liable in any way, then you have no alternative to monitor the networks," she said. "You're putting yourself in a position that you can't possibly fulfill." Even if that were technically possible with the staff the universities have, monitoring the flow of information on college networks is contrary to everything schools of higher education are about, she said. "We're providing this access as part of an environment for learning and teaching. It's used by a growing, learning community," she said. And the RIAA's lawsuits against the students and others who operate file-sharing systems? "The purpose is intimidation," said Rezmierski, "and they're winning." Published reports said the RIAA got the names of the four students from articles in college newspapers. Andrew Dobos, editor in chief of the Michigan Tech Lode, said that while he found an article decrying piracy in his archives, he found none that mention Nievelt specifically. "The general consensus is that it's horse manure," he said, adding that the penalties were too high. "Even if he was doing that, I don't see that any member of the recording industry is hurting as a result of what these students have done. If he's like an average student, he maybe makes $4,000 a year -- and these rich people are suing him for all this money? How heartless do you have to be?" "Stealing is stealing," Oppenheim said. "Those are major, significant networks. This was a student who created a piracy bazaar." Contact HEATHER NEWMAN at 313-223-3336, [email][email protected][/email] or [url]www.freep.com/tech.[/url][/quote] While I am sure this number will drop severely (or even completely) once it hits courts and appeals... I think this is a pretty big deal for anyone that uses the internet. Everyone has downloaded something off Kazaa or whatever else that they legally shouldn't have. I don't really download MP3s often. I mostly make them. I [i]do[/i] share with others (in the hope of mostly getting others into the band), but this is a big deal I'd say. The companies are finally going after the end users instead of the things used to share them (which is the real point of this I think, as the article makes it clear that the students most likely won't be paying this). So yeah, thoughts on this? I realize it's long, but you can skim it and get the basic idea. I originally got this off of slashdot.org Edit - I am under the impression that they shared via FTPs on the school servers, but it's not really clear about how. It doesn't seem as simple as some people going on Kazaa... it's as if they had their own server/whatever (which some programs like winMX, mIRC and DC allow). Edit 2: It's billion, not trillion. I'd appreciate it if someone in charge of this forum could change it for me.

Isn't this thread about the same thing as that "Super Flu" thread a while back or am I missing something? I'm not clear on if they are different things or not.

Final battle spoilers - - [spoiler]The last fight with Ganondorf wasn't super difficult, but it was amazingly cool. I still love that he whips out those two huge swords and goes nuts on you. I'd say it is one of the best boss fights in recent memory, and I really loved Zelda's role in it. This game added a lot of human characteristics to Ganondorf too... Before he rarely said much. He was intelligent, but never deep really. This game changed some of that. Sure, he didn't talk a lot... but you could see why he felt the way he did and almost identify with it (even though it was rather simple). I really liked the part where he said something about feeling/hearing the wind after you won.[/spoiler]

Threads like this. Anyway... nothing really ever pisses me off. I get annoyed or upset over some things, but I can't recall a time where I was ever truly mad or visibly angered over anything. All of my real life friends seem to agree with that. I've asked them before, because I find it pretty strange. My best friend couldn't even come up with something, and I've known him for god knows how long now.

Well, thanks for the response. We'll try that hosting thing I suggested last night, since your AOL is blocking pretty much everything. Anyway, another thread bites the dust and falls down the list into mediocrity.

You better post better than that or the future, or you won't even have one here. Anyway, I saw the one on CN the other night. I absolutely thought it was horrible. My little brother can't even stand the show, which is saying a lot. Kevin tried to convince me that the dubbing and editing is what killed it... But, no matter how much they cut out or whatever else, the story was still about trying to get that sumo wrestler some confidence. Nothing would have saved that story, especially considering how awful the dub was overall. I felt like I was watching some stupid moral tale on nickelodeon with better visuals and Japanese ideas stuffed into it. And........ Why does the owner of that cafe (I think, she has redish hair) almost sound like she's from the south? I never understood stuff like that. They are using Japanese words, but sound like they are from Alabama (and you can tell she is doing it on purpose). Not to mention the annoying voice of the smaller of the two girls. Is it that hard to get a child actor? Must every anime have some adult playing a child making a horrible squeaky voice that says things like "sowwie"? Of course, this is all based on one episode, and I'm sure it gets better or you all wouldn't like it so much. I'll have to check out a sub as well.

First of all... Skins don't just pop out of the thin air. They have to be designed and conceptualized, which is hard enough as it is. Then you have to actually make the things, get them to work flawlessly and install them. I suppose that is a good idea, but it's a little overzealous I guess heh. As for names... The board doesn't allow more than one active account per user. There is no reason for that to happen in RPGs anyway, as no one would know what the hell is going on. If you look at the RPGs, everyone here makes up new names for them all anyway (for the most part). It would be useless and confusing.

Unless you guys masturbate in the open for all to see and make some sort of lifestyle out of it, I don't really get how that expresses yourselves in any way.

Looks good. I much prefer the sketchy version myself.

There are lots of things I make and do and act like... I play music, I draw, I take pictures (or try to), I make sites and such. But I don't think I've ever done one thing where I looked back and was like "That's [i]me[/i]" or "That captures my personality" or anything remotely like that. ... If anyone even knows what I mean. I can't explain it much better than that without writing forever.

I bought Soundtrack of Our Lives' CD, Behind the Music, because I saw a few people mention how good it is... That and I randomly saw it at Best Buy for $6.99 one day. It has a copyright of 2002 on it, but I never even heard anyone talk about it til late this year and it was stuck in the New Releases section. They had an EP back in 2000 though. It's a pretty good rock album. I didn't really like it at first, but if you listen to the whole thing through it becomes pretty apparent that they are pretty talented (they apparently are great live as well). It has this whole oldschool classic rock sound to it (like 60s/70s), and it was kind of offputting at first... but I grew to appreciate it and the fact that no one seems to go for this sound anymore... with the exception of Stone Roses, who do it better. However, it's kind of double edged sword... because it makes nothing on it feel truly unique. You can detect so many parts in it that sound almost exactly like songs from way back then... it feels like they took Rolling Stones songs and rearranged them at times. I guess in a nutshell, it's a bit too derivative. Still, I think it's good to listen to... and when the band gets far enough to truly develop its own sound, they could be something really unique and special (which happens quite a lot actually; Lenny Kravitz is a good example, even though I'm not really a fan of his). Anyway, has anyone else heard of this group? If you want to try some tracks... Check out Mind the Gap, Independent Luxury and Broken Imaginary Time. [IMG]http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006JKCK.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg[/IMG]

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Panic Room was a mess too, I thought. Personally I found it incredibly boring, and I'm actually more interested in Phone Booth. Anyone who is diabetic (I am not, but a lot of friends of mine are) would know that the whole sequence involving that girl is impossible and is not what would ever happen. They messed up a lot of the terms too. You'd think they'd be able to get that right, diabetes isn't exactly uncommon lol. And yes, Schumacher ruins a lot of things. He did, however, do Lost Boys which I personally love to death... So I forgive a lot of it.

lol You're comparing tiny little midis to things that are many, many, many times their sizes. Computers have had no problems with midi for well over a decade now. You should be fine :p. I'd assume there'd be an option to turn it off, but I guess that depends on the hack.

Midis are rarely bigger than 20k maximum in general... I doubt that's much of a worry for most heh.