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Star Lord · 07-11-2016 06:35PM

Any of you with android phones, give PinOut a try, it's an endless pinball game, with time as the only limit (but you can pick up time extensions)

CiDeRmAn · 07-11-2016 07:16PM

Star Lord wrote: »

Any of you with android phones, give PinOut a try, it's an endless pinball game, with time as the only limit (but you can pick up time extensions)

It doesn't ask you to watch ads for more coins does it, because then I'm going to beat you to death with Retr0s arm, the one I tore off of him in another thread.

Andrew76 · 07-11-2016 07:33PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

It doesn't ask you to watch ads for more coins does it, because then I'm going to beat you to death with Retr0s arm, the one I tore off of him in another thread.

No, it doesn't. You can buy the game for 1.99 if you want which enables checkpoint saving, or just play for free. No BS ads. Played a bit of it earlier after reading an article on Eurogamer about it. Not too bad for a free game.

Retr0gamer · 07-11-2016 08:19PM

o1s1n wrote: »

At this stage, do you ever think that maybe, just maybe, your arcade 1cc of GnG was just a lucid dream? :pac:

I played a cab of it in Akihabara. It was a nightmare. Nearly every chest was a sword and you never got the daggers. Whatever cab I was playing it on must have been on a much lower dipswitch because it was never that unfair!

Retr0gamer · 07-11-2016 08:31PM

Stoner · 08-11-2016 01:29AM

Retr0gamer wrote:

Can't be as bad as that megadrive yoke. So bad I couldn't finish GnG in one credit.

That was muck right, you'd think they put some decent plastic and buttons on it.

I had one and totally forgot about it, I've no idea what happened to it. The original controllers worked on it right ? I remember crappy controllers with short leads on them.

I honestly don't know what I did with it. I think I gave it away .

I don't know why I buy these things anyway . I've about 8 megadrives in the attic.

Ahh I remember, did it have streets of rage built into it?

CiDeRmAn · 08-11-2016 09:34AM

"But it's the stick!"
That's what we listened to all night....

He might have also blamed it for failing at DDR as well, against Atavan, although Atavan is simply a better mover than Retr0, and that is that.

Retr0gamer · 08-11-2016 10:30AM

Stoner wrote: »

That was muck right, you'd think they put some decent plastic and buttons on it.

The problem is they are still pumping that **** out using the same internals. So a post on facebook the other day with a clueless news article about how glorious the megadrive being back in production is and it was just the new iteration of this Chinese POS.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

He might have also blamed it for failing at DDR as well, against Atavan, although Atavan is simply a better mover than Retr0, and that is that.

Dems fighting words.

CiDeRmAn · 08-11-2016 11:38AM

He could twerk, you could not Retr0.... just let it go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU

Retr0gamer · 09-11-2016 10:00AM

Anyone got a time machine ala Chrono Trigger so we can stop Lavos Trump becoming president.

Jack burton · 09-11-2016 10:02AM

Clinton is worse, she's an evil ****

Retr0gamer · 09-11-2016 10:20AM

Jack burton wrote: »

Clinton is worse, she's an evil ****

Clinton is an evil wagon that would have kept the status quo and kept tensions high across the globe with proxy oil wars and done nothing for the poor of America but I somehow think she would probably be better than Trump. Definitely better for Europe and Ireland anyway.

CiDeRmAn · 09-11-2016 10:58AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Anyone got a time machine ala Chrono Trigger so we can stop Lavos Trump becoming president.

Any moment a terminator is going to arrive from the future and kill him.

o1s1n · 09-11-2016 11:03AM

He's going to have a hard time staying alive for a term of 4 years. I can imagine some leftist loon doing a JFK on him at some point.

It's really interesting (although incredibly disheartening) to see how the left has literally done an about turn and become in many ways, a lot of what it previously fought against. People are absolutely sick to death of it at this stage and it's more than likely why he won.

I'm just going to sit back and observe the whole thing in a 'wouldn't nuclear war be exciting in a certain light?' kind of a way.

CiDeRmAn · 09-11-2016 11:10AM

Clinton was a career, professional, politician.
Not evil, a manipulator perhaps, but not some sort of nefarious criminal with mutant, laser equipped sea bass on hand.
Trump though, he took the worst of America and turned it into leverage, a way to gain support, appealing to that darkness in people, giving it a voice after decades of people knowing better. Akin to everyone coming down with Tourette's.
At least Obama, and less effectively Clinton, used hope instead as a marketing tool, trying to bring out the positivity in people.
And now, as Commander in Chief, he has a frightening amount of power, power to inflict misery on others, without any cause to listen to congress, the senate or his advisors, if he want's boots on the ground in North Korea, if he wants to withdraw the Pacific fleet from the region, he can, with an order.
The status quo may have been unsatisfactory, but there's a reason why it is that way, with this new bully on the block, stomping his petulant feet about in the most sensitive areas in the world, it could be chaos, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Pacific trade, China in Africa, Russia becoming more adventurous... I don't like what the next four years might be like.

Retr0gamer · 09-11-2016 12:21PM

I'd actually think Clinton would be more likely to start wars and put boots on the ground. People forget what Bill did in the Balkans and most of his success was on the back of his genius of a financial advisor. Hilary is cut from that same cloth and probably would lead to an America with heavily strained tensions between the US with Russia and China.

I guess we can blame the Democrats choice of candidate. Hilary was too much like the last few Liberal presidents that would have kept up the status quo that many were dissatisfied with, rightly or wrongly. It was a safe choice that backfired and it doesn't help that Hilary is kind of a despicable unlikable person as is. I think Saunders was the right candidate and would make an excellent president but them America is a weird place. American's don't want the social reforms he would bring in despite them desperately needing them. Socialism = Communism to them :rolleyes:

Trump though is a total disaster for Europe. Way too insular and not open to dealing with the rest of the world except on America's terms

TL;DR we're ****ed

DinoRex · 09-11-2016 12:24PM

The traditional Republician Party would have wiped the floor with Bernie, you'd have ended up with Ted Cruz as president, which might arguably have been worse.

Andrew76 · 09-11-2016 01:32PM

o1s1n wrote: »

People are absolutely sick to death of it at this stage and it's more than likely why he won.

Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. No doubt they had valid grievances but they might have put themselves in a worse situation now, same as the UK crowd deciding to leave the EU.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I guess we can blame the Democrats choice of candidate.

I don't know the details but I thought I read somewhere that the Republicans successfully blocked Obama's first choice candidate to succeed him. Not sure if that was Saunders or someone else (presumably that person would have been more likable/less corrupt than Hillary).

Ever since the FBI strangely came out the other week saying they were looking into Clinton's dodgy email dealings again and the race started to get much closer - I still figured sense would prevail and she'd win as the lesser of two evils. Nope.

I'm still surprised someone with zero political experience, who is openly racist and sexist, can become President. Delighted I do not live in that country.

johnny_ultimate · 09-11-2016 01:43PM

I don't really agree with the lesser of two evils argument in this case. There was such a gaping divide between the quality of the two candidates that even a candidate as bland, neo-liberal, conservative and painfully establishment as Hillary Clinton was the run-away preference. I don't think she'd have made a particularly good president to be frank - maybe even quite a bad one - but it'd have been the familiar type of frustrations that society has consistently shown itself capable of dealing with. It'd have been a case of sucking it up for four years and trying this **** again in 2020.

But what we got... It's a terrifying victory for fear and bigotry. A candidate who not only blatantly, shamelessly lied almost every time he opened his mouth, but has a well-established track record of racism and sexism to boot. It's a sad day when facts really and truly don't matter - Trump can throw out any populist guff he wants, completely divorced from reality, and win. In one sense, it's refreshing to see a rebuke to the elite and establishment, it's about bloody time to be honest. But to see that justified anger so farcically misdirected is disturbing.

So: for all the apocalyptic talk this morning we'll probably emerge the other side intact. But this victory is a dark one regardless of how extreme the Trump presidency is - there's now an urgent need for a more compassionate, left-leaning politics to emerge to truly speak for the working class and counter the false prophets of the right. Centrism won't cut it anymore.

Jack burton · 09-11-2016 02:15PM

Well no matter what at least trump will be the first president to be in the WWE hall of fame

http://www.wwe.com/superstars/donald-trump

Retr0gamer · 09-11-2016 02:19PM

Jack burton wrote: »

Well no matter what at least trump will be the first president to be in the WWE hall of fame

http://www.wwe.com/superstars/donald-trump

Farcical. I wouldn't want a man that can't even sell a stone cold stunner to be my president.

As for WWE hall of famers that I want for president, get Jesse Ventura in there. The name is surprisingly liberal and when I hear him talking he makes a lot of sense.

Jack burton · 09-11-2016 02:40PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Farcical. I wouldn't want a man that can't even sell a stone cold stunner to be my president.

As for WWE hall of famers that I want for president, get Jesse Ventura in there. The name is surprisingly liberal and when I hear him talking he makes a lot of sense.

Well id love to see the Rock as president, man sells a stunner like he was shot. Would be a amazing in office.

Speaking of Jessie Ventura he popped up in my YouTube feed on the Joe Rogan podcast a few weeks ago. Joe Rogan + the presenter of a conspiracy theory programme = some amazing and hilarious conversations. I was surprised of how much sense Jessie actually made, seems like a good dude!

DinoRex · 09-11-2016 02:48PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmfqpOGzOhI

CiDeRmAn · 09-11-2016 04:06PM

Someone, quick, change the pin number on the nuclear football!

o1s1n · 09-11-2016 04:25PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Someone, quick, change the pin number on the nuclear football!

If his luck is anything to go by, he'll guess the new pin on his first try

CiDeRmAn · 09-11-2016 04:59PM

o1s1n wrote: »

If his luck is anything to go by, he'll guess the new pin on his first try

N'ah
He'll get some Russian friends to hack it.
I wonder if Trump will pardon Julian Assange?
Given all the good service Wikileaks did for the Republican campaign, it's the least Trump can do

DinoRex · 09-11-2016 05:00PM

The dumb f*ck can't even operate a comb, I don't think he' be able to operate nukes.

DinoRex · 09-11-2016 05:03PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EO9y4rGxvk

the groutch · 09-11-2016 05:13PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPBrt-mdNmQ

o1s1n · 09-11-2016 05:21PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

there's now an urgent need for a more compassionate, left-leaning politics to emerge to truly speak for the working class and counter the false prophets of the right. Centrism won't cut it anymore.

Actually I'd disagree there and say what we need is a well thought out, logical Centrism to counter both the bombastic idiots of the right and the regressive leftists which have cropped up in the last few years. They're both as hysterical and ridiculous as each other.

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