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I'm putting these in the order I got them. Atari 2600 - I have had this as long as I can remember. Two systems, sixty or so games, a few sticks, a few paddle controllers, etc. I no longer have the correct adapter for the system, so I've not been able to hook it up recently. It's all packed away currently. NES - I got this for my birthday back in the late 80s from my Great Grandparents. Definitely the best present I got that year. I wound up getting the new model version years later at Cut Rate Toys for $40. That's currently hooked up to my TV via the RF switch. The new models ditched the composite cables for some reason. Game Boy - I got the original Game Boy as a present from my Grandma. I was supposed to get shoes, but I asked for this instead. I personally paid for Link's Awakening and played it in the car on the way back to my house. I wound up buying a second one years later... it was clear, but wasn't a pocket model. Those weren't out yet. SNES - Hooked up via S-Video to my television. A birthday present from my mom years back. Zelda came packed in. I still remember how amazed I was by the sound when I first hooked it up that night. N64 - I bought this when I was in Las Vegas and was very annoyed that I couldn't hook it up to my grandma's TV there. I also bought Super Mario 64. It's currently hooked up via S-Video to my TV. Playstation - I bought this after my cousin left his at our house. He only had some lame football game, but I rented Resident Evil instead and fell in love with it. I bought mine shortly after. I later sold that one because it was scatching my discs and bought one of the later models. Still works. It's next to the TV, but not hooked up since I have a PS2. Dreamcast - I ordered this online and it was delivered to my house on 9-9-99. I got Sonic Adventure with it, which was decent for the time. It's currently hooked up with S-Video to my television. It's the only one I've played in the last few days, mostly for Seaman. I also bought a blue casing for it, but only replaced the top half. Looks cooler, I think. Game Boy Color - Christmas present from my Grandma in Vegas. I have the purple one. Saturn - I got this years after it was released, mostly for fighting game imports. Vampire Savior (Dark Stalkers 3) in particular. Most of what I have for the system is Japanese, although I do own Nights and Shining Force III. It's next to the TV, but not hooked up currently. Genesis - I wound up getting this only a few years back. Mostly for the Phantasy Star games. I own II and IV, but haven't managed to find III yet. It's not hooked up right now. Playstation 2 - I bought this for myself along with Onimusha several months after it came out. It's hooked up with component cables to my TV. Game Boy Advance - Also bought this for myself, in Arctic. GameCube - Bought this for myself with a preorder. I had to get three games with it so I chose Wave Race, Luigi's Manson and Star Wars. I have Jet and it is hooked up with component cables. Xbox - I got one and sold it. Then I bought another for KotOR. It doesn't get much use, but I enjoy it. It's also hooked up with component cables, but the TV only has two sections for that... so it's not currently plugged in. I need a component switch box. Famicom - Japanese version of the NES. This is a legitimate version and not a knock-off. I also own a weird rip-off version that looks like a Playstation. GBA SP - I bought one for myself on launch, but it mysteriously disappeared. I got another one for this past Christmas. It's the limited edition gold version. This picture is rather old. A year or more. It's missing the Xbox and doesn't include all my controllers and stuff. Just an assortment of them. I'm missing my maracas for Samba de Amigo, for example. My TV is a 36" Sony Vega HDTV that took me forever to pay off.

Nintendo has already said that the DS wouldn't be getting ports, based on some things I read. I wouldn't even concern myself with it. Mario 64 is likely just a demo to show what the DS is capable of in terms of 3D, as was stated. Good enough for me, as long as the thing doesn't display blurry textures and too much anti-aliasing like many N64 games.

My favorite boots are from K-Mart. I usually just buy All-Stars for $30 otherwise. Most of my shirts are just band shirts and a good deal of those are used off of eBay. I pay maybe $4 for most of them. I wear ski caps and fitted baseball hats usually, so I don't even bother fixing my hair. I get my hair cuts for free. Recently, I've just been cutting off the excess myself because I'm trying to grow it out. I'm not concerned with that stuff. I don't feel I dress badly, considering. I think the most I spend on anything for my appearance is probably hair dye overall.

I don't really know where this thread can go. Halo is two years old already, why would it still have active rumors? Perhaps Halo 2, but you're not even talking about that game. Calling games stores does nothing. They'll tell you anything to get you off the line if you're wasting their time. They don't just hire game experts, you know. I can't tell you how many times I've seen them right out lie to customers. Back when PS2 first came out, the clerk was naming games off for it that were owned by Nintendo. They'll say anything.

The only real issue is that a lot of people on myOtaku really have almost no sense of design. I'm not trying to sound offensive, but a lot of the color schemes and stuff are blinding already as it is. Trying to read small typefaces on a super busy background (which is very likely to happen) is a very scary thought. Not saying that it shouldn't be an option... just saying I hope people think about what they put together on their page so that people can still read it lol.

[QUOTE=ReFlux][color=green][size=1] I like Muse alot actually, or atleast "Origin of Symmetry", which I heard while I lived in Germany. I guess they were alot popular their because once I moved back to America, I never heard of them again. I wondered what happened to them. I guess they were just a one hit wonder, but in Germnay, they were very popular, so I don't know.[/color][/size][/QUOTE] The main problem in the US was simply that no company bothered to release anything of theirs other than Showbiz. Origin of Symmetry, Hullabaloo and such were completely ignored. I don't think Showbiz got any marketing push here either. Muse is substantially popular in European countries. Hopefully Absolution will do well here in the US, but you never know.

I don't hate Metallica. At one point, they were a very important band in many respects. Image, attitude and sound. To me, however, Metallica fell into the same problem that many other bands do... they really didn't evolve at all. By the time they realized they needed a change, it was too late and they were already behind again. That's how St. Anger is for me, personally. Metallica really is just tired at this point. They're living off past successes as of right now. Of course, the supposed eight million people who bought St. Anger probably disagree with me, so who cares what I think about it. They do have some great stuff in the past though. I think it's unfair to deny them that much at least.

I've not been to a show since Apocalypse Hoboken, The Traitors and The Bollweevils way back in November. Was the best show of my entire life. My favorite punk band reunited (AH) and played one last show (the other two bands also reunited for the show, although The Traitors are putting new material out since then). Great set, great playing and great energy. I loved every last second of it and wish it didn't have to end. Obviously that's not that recent though. I have my tickets to see Muse at the Metro this month. The 23rd, to be exact. I'm really excited about that one. I'll post in here about it if this thread is still around a couple of months from now. Otherwise, Pixies tickets for their Chicago show in November go on sale tomorrow. Please pray that I manage to get a couple. Please.

I don't get the Orlando Bloom love. He looks downright awful in the upcoming Troy movie lol. I generally don't go for celebrities. The only person I ever had an interest in that I never personally met was Kim Deal of the Pixies. I don't know why. She doesn't look amazing, she has a lisp and she smokes... but I really, really liked the Pixies, The Amps and the Breeders and I absoultely love her singing voice. I think that's what did it. I'm over her heh.

Ryu Hayabusa was quite the badass in the early Ninja Gaiden games. His father too. I still love that opening duel scene in the original NES game. I hated Surf Ninjas. It was better than Three Ninjas though. What an awful series that was. Horrible movies always seem to give birth to sequels. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for another addition to the Evil Dead series. Meh. This is a lot harder than I expected. There's so many cool Japanese fighters, warriors and whatever else that I love... but none are really ninja. I'm going to have to go with Goemon. He's that guy with spiky blue hair and a red suit from the Mystical Ninja games. Why? I don't know. I've always loved the Goemon games, particularly the really weird N64 version. He seems almost like the anti-Ninja. He doesn't wear clothes I usually figure ninjas wear, he is kind of short, he's pudgy and he gets in really stupid situations. I've never seem him try to be stealthy either Second place would probably be Ryu lol. He's a more traditional example.

Interesting. I don't know that I put soundtracks with things I read. Usually when I read a comic, I'm on the L (the local electric train system) listening to some music to drown out all the outside noises. If I get into the comic enough, I don't even hear the music I'm blaring. I do notice that I imagine the sounds going on in the comic and what people would sound like... but I don't honestly think I've ever added music to that.

Eh, really the CD is nothing more than a novelty despite what I've said (which was a joke anyway... I don't think anyone got that on my site either lol). I'm surprised people think I'd actually think that, but whatever. Not that you know me as well as other people that thought it was true, but yes lol. Thinking this is out of my character. If you want to combat bad music, you should do so by buying good music and Hung obviously isn't it. I'd recommend a billion things over that and so would any other sane person. All the time I spend talking about music and people honestly think I'd tell them to buy something that sounds horrible in place of someone that at least slightly deserves where they're at? lol There's a bunch of bands I'd like to see do well in his stead. There's plenty of goofy satirical releases such as this one. Usually, though, they know what they're getting into. Hung seems oblivious to all of it... but perhaps that's just what he wants us to think, really. I find it really hard to believe that he'd think he was that good after everything that has happened. I will admit that I still think this is all really ironic and funny, but I'm not planning on buying the CD and I find it strange that it's doing so well. It was pretty high on Amazon's best selling list. I think number eight. I doubt anyone is buying it for much more than a laugh, and that's fine enough with me. If a label wants to put it out, knowing full well how stupid it is, what's the problem? In any case, they're all in competition as far as I am concerned. People are voting for those they want and those they don't right now. The show is a competition by nature. Certainly Hung didn't make it that far, but obviously buying one CD means not buying another. It's an economic cost - doing one thing means not doing another. If I was in American Idol, I think I'd probably be put off by Hung's success for no reason honestly lol. It would be more disheartening than amusing after all that work involved. I'll say this again so I don't get any other repsonses going along with or against my first post -- [i]I was joking[/i]. Going with the joke doesn't seem worth it right now heh. Perhaps I seemed too sincere in it, but I did work some truth into it. I do think that bum at the subway is more talented, for example lol.

I don't know that it is ignorant. The music industry is already filled with a billion cookie cutter artists that all sound the same and aren't distinguishable from eachother. American Idol does nothing to change this in any sense. We need more average voiced people who can't write songs without the help of five lyricists, can't dance and can't play an instrument. I'm tired of all these "solo" artists that have little more talent than the bum I pass by that sings R&B every morning in the subway. I think the existance of Hung is a great thing. He throws all of this nonsense back in everyone's faces. Whether or not he is a good singer is irrelevent in terms of that. He was trashed and now he's going to come back with an album that will most likely sell better than whatever the winner of American Idol puts out this year. It's totally ironic and I love it. I personally would not buy it because I think he is a joke or anything like that. In some ways, I think of it as a protest to all the crap people want us to buy in the first place. A purhase for Hung is a purchase against this other stuff. He's the total opposite of everything that's being spoonfed to the general music buying populace right now and I think that's a GOOD thing. It's definitely not a sign of something wrong with the recording industry, especially considering it's ****** up beyond belief already as it is. Whether or not he's being taken advantage of is up to argument. The guy can't sing fair enough. Why wouldn't he take the chance to finally do what he has wanted to do all this time? Regardless of how good he really is or not. He has a huge opportunity because of this and I am all for him taking advantage of it. That's my thoughts on it, anyway.

I asked James about this awhile back. It's just something that's built into vB3 and there are no plans to utilize it for OB last I heard. So basically, no one is in any member groups.

There's one person in my life I would like to erase entirely. Avoid ever meeting him. Avoid ever letting me be tricked into thinking he was normal. Avoid ever hanging out with him. This person makes me so miserable that I cannot stand it. He is pretty much the sole source of stress in my life. I'm an overly patient person, but I want to hurt this guy so much I can taste it. I wouldn't, but I want to heh. So, despite sounding insane, I'd to change that. I'm fine with the rest of my life. **** happens.

I originally came here because I knew James. He and I first got into contact over some random news post at Xbox Otaku that I felt sounded rather biased. I got responses from everyone, but James and I wound up talking after that as well. Later he showed me a thread here on OB way back. I think it was 2001 and it involved Charles and some others arguing about Xbox and GameCube. Apparently it was all a joke at the time, but you wouldn't know if you had no experience with him lol. I wound up posting like 30 times under the name of Gr3ymalkin until I left completely. Somehow I was convinced to come back here and I registered under my current name. At the time, I really just posted in the game sections that were substantially more busy (but not as busy as when I was here under the other name). That was mostly because I think the gaming sections of theotaku were still around. I wish they still were sometimes. In any case, I wound up becoming a mod months later. I had a couple friends here and it wound up growing more over the following year or whatever it was. They're why I even bother to stay here anymore. That and random people who join every so often that I take notice of. It's certainly not so I have to ban idiots, delete posts, get on people about things, read repetitive OL threads and delete horrible pictures posted by people named Yisan.

This is hard. I'll try and mix it up some. I don't want to name just old stuff, but I probably will lol. I should say right out that I'm very particular with my interest in horror movies. I do not like new teen-aimed crap that is everywhere lately. I also like a nice mix of gore and humor. I'm generally not into things that are nothing but violence and boring deaths like that awful Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake. Anyway. [B]Evil Dead Trilogy [/B]- While I'm not as fond of Army of Darkness as the two Evil Dead films before it, they're all pretty great. Evil Dead, obviously very b-movie-ish at this point, was rather influential in many ways. There's a lot of cool angles and subtle effects in it that really heighten the film for me, such as that part where the camera zooms past the rafters in the cabin. Evil Dead II is basically just Evil Dead remade with a better budget and some slapstick. It really is the better of the two. Definitely worth seeing if you haven't already. [B]Suspiria [/B]- I believe this was made in the 70s. A really nice special edition of this was put on DVD recently... Only $25 and it's two discs plus the soundtrack. Totally worth getting and one of the best horror films out there. I've not seen it in a very long time, but it's still a fond horror memory you could say heh. I really want to get the DVD set lol. [B]Cabin Fever [/B]- This is a really recent one. Most people at the theater hated it, but I loved it. I still think it was the best horror film of its year. It's humorous, but also extremely morbid. If it wasn't for some of the goofiness, I think it would have come off a lot darker than it did. I really enjoyed it. [B]Dawn of the Dead[/B] - I thought the remake was great, but I'm talking the original. I think it's the best of the three. It does a great job of conveying how insane everything had become... Meanwhile, Day of the Dead takes a more serious approach for quite some time until it becomes a crazy, kill-all-zombies movie. Dawn of the Dead just has a better balance of the drama and the violence. Plus, even to this day, that movie (and Day) had better gore effects than half the crap I see around now. There's stuff like Near Dark that could be considered "horror" I suppose, in the fact that it deals with vampires. Horror doesn't have to be overly violent, really. It's worth seeing if you've not seen it before. I really enjoyed it. Others I like... Final Destination 2 (WAY better than the first, you'd be surprised), Lost Boys (I suppose that's horror), Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, Vampire Hunter D (animated horror? lol), House of 1,000 Corpses, The Thing, Cube (not the second one), Freddy vs. Jason, a few of the Nightmare films (1, Dream Warriors, New Nightmare), etc. I also am very fond of the Hellraiser movies.

[QUOTE=ScirosDarkblade] Lifeforce (Gradius Salamander U.S. release) The above are all worth purchasing (though Lifeforce you can't find so don't even try I'm not even sure a soundtrack exists; just try to get as much Gradius music as you can from the internet)[/QUOTE] Lifeforce was and always has been my favorite shooter. I love every last minute of that game and play it all the time to this day. The soundtrack does infact exist. It even has songs from Salamander, Salamander 2 and Lifeforce on it. You can get it here: [url]http://www.otaku.com/cgi-bin/itemview.asp?itemid=62363l[/url]

Well, someone can PM you over this if they know. I can't see leaving it open as it is obviously goes against the wishes of whoever actually owns your computer. I'm not one to go against someone's parents lol.

:laugh: Why would anyone help you do something you're obviously not supposed to do?

[QUOTE=Sara][list] [*]Maybe an option on the sidebar for a discreet [b]link to your OtakuBoards profile.[/b] It would go under the contact section if people wanted to fill it out. I don't know how simple or complicated it would be to work ot, but it woud be a nice convenience. For me, anyway. [/list][/QUOTE] This is one I'd like to second. There's things tying Otakuboards into myOtaku, but not vice-versa. It'd be nice to at least have a box saying what their OB username is, if they even have one. People don't use the same ones for both sometimes. Some of the suggestions thus far by some people seem a bit extreme and server intensive. Honestly, for what some people want, you might as well just download your own updating program and make your own site lol. Sure it's not free, but this isn't free for Adam either heh.

Anyone that told you this is a moron, because no studio in the world would plan to purposely make a movie seven to eight years ahead of now. It'd make no sense. In fact, the whole "seven to eight" years comment makes it seem like this person just came up with a large number so that if a Zelda movie is made within that time span, he could be like "see, I was right!". That and no one owns the Zelda film rights to my knowledge. Nintendo licensed out the Metroid rights, but only for a few years and nothing was made, so the film studio lost it. There's no way Nintendo would allow a company to take eight years to make a movie based on a game that's several years old to begin with. Also, please clean up your post quality. Using numbers to spell words doesn't cut it here, I'm afraid. Edit - Apparently John Woo and company have picked up the film rights to Metroid and want to get something out within two years... hm.

Guys, please don't bring back threads that are almost three years old. They stopped getting responses for a reason and most of those people don't even visit here anymore.

Many movies of this type hope for a sequel and X-Men was no exception. I don't think anyone expected it to bomb and a sequel was being planned for quite some time. Everyone involved seemed to know there would be more. Hugh Jackman said sometime before the second film was even released that he wanted to be in a large trilogy like the X-Men films. People knew. Personally, I don't think the idea of what the film is about matters. Storm is one of the main X-Man and if Halle was too dense to figure that out, I don't think she should have signed onto a franchise that was obviously planned to be at least two films. She already seemingly gave up before the second one even started, so a third doesn't even matter. She was hired for it, she took the job, she should do it right. You can't really compare the popularity of people like Wolverine and Magneto to someone like Storm though. I don't know how she, or anyone, could expect the scripts to not concentrate on the more popular characters like that. I don't think it's comparable to the many little cameos in the films either. Storm had a substantial part (certainly more than the handful of lines she made it sound like she had prior to the films release) and she did what was required of her in the movie. No more or no less than she really has in any of the X-Men comics I ever read. Does Berry just expect to be given a bigger role in the X-Men simply because of who she is? Because, honestly, I don't know what she could have expected going into this film knowing these things about Storm and knowing that there are like twenty central characters in the film they're trying to develop at once, some more than others. Oh well. That's all I have to say about it lol.

I hate threads as pointless as this one.