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    How did you come up with your Username?

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    Currently using the name of a Chinese historical figure that I greatly admire for his intellect. Also for going as a pair with my best friend since she's using the (fictionalised accounts of) the name of his wife as her username.

    Zhuge Liang is awesome. And so is the Han Dynasty.

    Current Music

    in Entertainment

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    I second Foo Fighters. You might like them.

    My favorite band, The Dear Hunter, might not be what you're lookng for, but they do a lot of different stuff. Especially The Color Spectrum, which is supposed to go from sort of grungy music to calm, soothing tunes. You might like the Black songs.

    How many games will you play at once?

    in General Gaming

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    Generally, I'll have one console, one handheld game that I'm playing at any one time. Plus possibly casual games, like you mention. Right now I'm playing Xenoblade Chronicles, Pokemon Red and that's it. But Red I can only play through Pokemon Stadium so it's essentially two console games...

    I also sometimes play Advance Wars casually as a handheld, and Bloons Tower Defence 5 if I'm online and bored.

    There's a Bloons Tower Defense 5?!!!?

    How many games will you play at once?

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    How long will your "currently playing" list get? I usually keep it to 3 games max, excluding casual games like TimeSplitters, RPG Maker, Samurai Warriors, etc. But I'm currently playing Path of Radiance, Persona 4, Baten Kaitos, Radiant Dawn, Rekka no Ken, and Twiligh Princess. I feel like I'm playing way too many games at once.

    Saving ROM's

    in GameBoy Advance Era

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    So I'm about to finish up FE6, and I need to know how to save the file. I've been using save states, cause they work, but now I need to save so I can see my logs, unlock trial maps, get hard mode, etc.

    I'm playing on my phone, using GameBoid, saving with Automatic. I've tried every save type availale on Gameboid, but none of them ever worked. Maybe I need a new emulator?

    Final Battles

    in General Gaming

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    What are some of your favorite final battles? These can be final bosses, maybe last dungeons, or in FE's case, Endgame chapter. One rule: They have to be the last for the story. No extra/sidequest things. Or not. Whatever, it's your list. Here are some of mine.

    Path of Radiance Endgame

    Seriously, who doesn't love this chapter? Closing in on this castle, with three different routes to cover. Every type of enemy is going to be here, and you've got to cover all your weaknesses. Pretty fun.

    God Hand Final Boss

    Not trying to brag, but I was pretty awesome at this game. I didn't even think it was that hard. But Lord Zedd here destroyed me. Repeatedly. I lost to this guy at least 30 times, and it took me about a week to do it because I kept rage-quitting. In the end, I'm pretty sure I just got lucky. Can't exactly remember.

    Ace Combat 4

    Seriously, this last level was sooo epic.

    It starts out with you, now the leader of your own team squadron, taking on a team of Yellows, the previously unbeatable possibly alien fighters. Then after the fight is over, you're probably going to be alone. And you've got to fly through these tiny tunnels, bomb the thing at the end, and escape before you crash. Or you can choose to skip the fight,go straight to the mission, and listen to your team go through it. Either way, you will feel like a hero at the end. And the music that plays is just... Auugh, such a good game.

    Persona 3

    Do I need to explain this one? If you've played, you know. This boss can take a crazy long time to beat, and you will have to bring everything you've got to the table if you want to win, just like PoR.

    Especially fun if you use Akihiko. "What, you're a God here to destroy all of humanity? I'm gonna punch you."

    Also, the "battle" afterwards is one of the most epic things in gaming. The music is fantastic, the MC's determination is tear-jerking, and the end is so... :sob:

    Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

    :cry: I'd give my liiife! Not for honor, but foooor, yooooooou! :cry:

    Snake Eater!

    :cry: In my tiiiiiiiiiime, there'll be noooo oooone eeeeeeeeeelse! :cry:

    :cry: Criiiiiiiiime, that's the wha-ay! I fly to! Yooooooooou! :cry:

    Snake Eater!!!

    :cry: I'm stiiiiiiill in a dreeeeeeam, Snake Eaaaaaater! :sob:

    I give up. :sob:

    Am I the only one that didn't like The Dark Knight Rises?

    in Entertainment

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    if you were a true detective / fan of the series you would have recognized from the get go that

    amanda tate was ras al ghul's daughter natalia, and her interest in the reactor was fishy. the only problem here concerning your 3rd point is that yes, bane IS an assassin in the lore, but in no way ever tied to natalia's original story

    p.s. dagget in the animated series was always just a little fish in gotham's pool, like a splinter to batman / bruce, so i don't know why you expected him to do much as just the financial paper pusher

    So what you're saying is: I should have known these completely stupid plot twists would happen because they happen in the rest of the series. I never claimed to be a "true fan". I am a fan of Batman, but admittedly don't know too much of his lore. I just wanted to see a good movie.

    Am I the only one that didn't like The Dark Knight Rises?

    in Entertainment

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    All right, I'll just do both. This is the whole conversation from Facebook. Kinda lengthy.

    Friend (John)

    MAYBE SOME SPOILERS?

    The biggest reason I don't like it is because Batman is SO USELESS and there's SO LITTLE OF HIM.

    You wait forever through the beginning of the film with everyone acting out of character or a lot of characters and plot lines being introduced way too fast, and when there finally is some Batman, the film doesn't focus on him and he gets totally rocked. TOTALLY rocked. And then you wait EVEN LONGER for him to come back and he's only useful because he has a super plane! The movie was way too much about Bruce Wayne, and Christian Bale is not a very good Bruce Wayne. Though I blame the script for a lot of that.

    Bane was a waste of a character. Before his last couple of scenes, oh man, he's SO COOL (when you can understand him, and yes, that is definitely a problem), but...how he leaves the movie...is almost like, disrespectful to the character. Actually, it IS. But I want to stay spoiler free.

    This movie is also Deus Ex Machina City, USA. It gets really ridiculous, cliche, and just dumb, especially in regards to Catwoman and Batman. It reinforces my first point. Or like...Alfred hearing a really helpful and specific piece of information going around "through a rumor", and it's such a weak explanation of how he would POSSIBLY KNOW THAT.

    This movie is full of twists, and all of them are unsatisfying and feel really forced. And then, towards the end, they're downright useless. Seriously, it makes me mad how many twists they think they needed.

    And lastly for now, the ending is DUMB AND STUPID AND MAKES NO SENSE.

    Me: (Me)

    Wow, you actually did it. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. To everything. My main problems:

    1. Why wasn't Batman in the Batman movie? He's in like 3 scenes total. The firs one was pointless. The second was awesome, but so un-Batman. And the last one was the end, and... oh god the end.

    2. This movie never decided what it wanted to be about. First scene, Bane is this super-genius with followers that are willing to die for him because they have crazy amounts of respect for him and he calls them "Brother". I thought that was awesome. Next scene he crushes a guy's windpipe for talking. Then we have this Dagget guy, who looks like he's going to be Bruce's enemy, while Bane is Batman's. But then, nope. That's taken care of. Then after Batman gets utterly whooped (is this a spoiler?), he trains by himself for 4 months, comes back, and completely destroys Bane. How. What did he do dfferent? Why can he suddenly come back after 8 years of no sort of physical activity and beat this guy that could've beat him in his prime? Never explained. And oh god, the end.

    3. This is the last movie in a trilogy that everyone loves. The last time we're going to see this Batman rise up to a new threat and defeat it. But it doesn't feel like that. At all. It feels like a follow-up to The Dark Knight. Or like a prologue to a new movie. The Joker completely messed up Gotham and made it his playground, then Bane just came and said "Yeah. This city is mine now." And he turns the whole city into the most messed up thing I've ever seen. Then Batman shows up and everything is solved in 15 minutes. Clearly they need a lot more time to restore Gotham to what it was. And... oh god, the end. What the hell, Nolan. What the hell.

    John:

    I definitely agree about the identity crisis in the movie.

    Here's another huge huge problem I had: The relationship between Selina and Bruce is stupider than Anakin and Padme's. WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PERSON? Because they kissed you ONCE? Why are you totally okay with them doing something totally against what you stand for like five times?

    As for the second fight and Batman somehow being dominant, everyone says that it's because he took out Bane's mask. But why didn't he try to aim for that before? Didn't he think it would be important? Why does Bane not take extra measures to defend something so crucial to his life?

    And the ending is so...well, irresponsible of Batman. I mean, yeah, it works out well for Gotham THEN but...what about later? It's very un-Spider-Man of Batman to do what he did. Also it's stupid and dumb and what the Hell HOW?

    There's also the matter of JGL's character at the end, and the whole "name" thing. We're not stupid, Nolan. It was extremely forced and unnecessary.

    Me:

    Very un-Spider-Man indeed. What he did was impossible. Not unrealistic, not unlikey; impossible. I'm glad someone else hated it. I thought I was alone here. I think I hated it as much as Sucker Punch.

    John:

    I kind of feel bad for really not liking it. I really wanted to like it, but the problems are way too obvious for me to look past them.

    I will say this: Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway did amazing jobs. And oh man, Anne Hathaway is super hot.

    Brother: (Josh)

    What's un-Batman-like about the second Bat scene?

    Me:

    Teaming up with this person he clearly shouldn't have trusted to go fist-fight a guy 3 times bigger than himself with no discernible plan after 8 years without training. It was dumb. And seeing him get destroyed like that, along with Bane showing that he pretty much owns him now afterwards was totally unlike the guy that took on an entire building full of Joker's men, along with SWAT teams that were coming after him, with enough time left after to bash The Joker's face in a little at the end of The Dark Knight. I know that was the point, but still.

    Josh:

    Well yeah, he got complacent in eight years of peace. Bane even says this. And she hadn't exactly made it known that she was totally untrustworthy, just that she had an affection for thievery. He thought he could give her something she needed, and underestimated her fear. And then, of course, neither Joker's men nor the SWAT teams were trained by the League of Shadows so that's not really much of a reason why Bane couldn't destroy him.

    And then, of course, the fact that he literally said "he was trained by Ra's and I beat Ra's."

    And also, the multiple mentions that he very much might have WANTED to die.

    Me:

    Sure, all of that is true. I'm not trying to say none of it made sense. My problem is this is the last movie in the trilogy, and instead of seeing Batman get better and better, rising up to stop an enemy better than the last one, we have Batsy drop off completely and have to rise all the way back to where he was. Which is a cool idea, but not for the last movie.

    And even seeing him do that was boring. 4 months of sit-ups and push-ups? That's all it takes? Just not what I wanted to see in the last movie.

    Josh:

    Sit-ups are magic.

    I might also mention that after getting your ass stomped, coming back to thoroughly destroy the man who broke you is pretty much the definition of getting better and better. That and that the exercise was not actually the important part of his "training." It was a state of mind.

    Am I the only one that didn't like The Dark Knight Rises?

    in Entertainment

    Posted

    Okay, well my main problems:

    1. Why wasn't Batman in the Batman movie? He was in 3 scenes. The first one went nowhere, the second was cool, but so un-Batman, and the third was just... kinda boring.

    2. The movie never decided what it wanted to be about. First scene Bane is this super-genius with a team of loyal "brothers" that will die for him just because he asks them to. Next scene he crushes one of his men's throat for talking. Then we have that Dagget guy, who looks like he'll be Bruce's enemy while Bane is Batman's. But nope. Bane kills him. It just felt like a mess of events with not much tying them together.

    3. The 37 twists at the end. What was up with that? I don't think I need to explain that one. But the one that bothered me most was how we find out Bane wasn't the Big Bad, and we have this new girl to deal with. And then she's taken care of in 5 minutes. It wasn't even necessary.

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