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Tagging every competitors just to make sure they're aware of the rule change : @PII @Dr. Morbis @Krunch @the_wizard_666 @mbd39 @NESfiend @docile tapeworm @JamesRobot

2 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said:

Normally I'd agree with you for skill based stuff, but in this particular instance, there is a large heart to refill your health that always reappears and only a couple of enemies in the "fall through the floor" loop, so it is literally a matter of who's going to spend the most of his free time doing that loop over and over and over.  It's not even a matter of risk vs reward since your health doesn't slowly dwindle the more you do the loop.  So even if you posted like a 200k score a week ahead of time, whoever wanted to win would just do the loop until he hit 201k.

Man, I've always hated point scumming...

If you can exploit a loop infinitely, it should be forbidden in a high score contest.

@BeaIank, what's your thought on this? If there was a timer it would be okay, but looping forever a part of a stage should be frown upon, especially if you can replenish health in the process.

If anyone playing in the tournament want to weigh in, please do so.

7 hours ago, fcgamer said:

Well you are part of the events team.

 And here I am unmasked!

Okay, I give in, 25% off on all my tickets for VGS users!

10 minutes ago, darkchylde28 said:

At the point where things are now, it's really more on we, the people, to go march on our representatives' offices, write letters, make phone calls, etc., until we can force those people who are supposed to represent us, but frequently don't, to do what they're supposed to do.  It's sad that it's come to that point, but that's really where we are.  We can only expect people backing ideas and programs that we like to openly bring to the floor ideas that it's known will immediately fail so many times before we start doing our part to force the holdouts and obstructors to knock off their shenanigans and vote for the changes and improvements that we so desperately want to see.

Not withstanding, there are also rules and regulations in both houses of Congress regarding how things can be brought up, if something can be brought up, how often something can be brought up, etc., so what you're complaining about may very likely be well outside of AOC's hands due to the rules, regulations, bylaws, etc. that she's bound by in regard to Congressional processes.  As such, I'm not willing to condemn her for not doing enough while still conducting other business directly tied to her office simply because I haven't walked a mile in her shoes and don't have all the facts and figures regarding what she can and can't do.

Couldn't agree more on the bolded part, and I concur that your position is more than reasonable and I can definitely respect you for standing on this ground. But as a Canadian that is already spoiled with healthcare and that doesn't even have a say in voting in the USA, let me be the annoying neighbor that says 'push them to get a vote on the floor as a first step' !

1 hour ago, CodysGameRoom said:

https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/legislation/healthcare

Exactly, let's go ALL the way in and never give up until it is 100 % done!

In the mean time, we can always scalp tickets to pay our health bills, lol!

1 hour ago, darkchylde28 said:

Generally, yes, but there's such a thing as picking your battles.  It costs money and time to draft and attempt to introduce legislation each time it's done, so unless the things you're talking about suddenly have a real chance at passing, a lot of legislators that support and argue for those things realize that there's no point in just constantly bringing it to the floor of their respective houses every 5 minutes, as it would just waste a ton of time and money that could otherwise be spent addressing other issues that have been brought to them, many of which have an actual chance of being considered and actually passing into law.

If you think legislators are "doing nothing" because they're not bringing up these issues every moment possible, imagine what you and everyone else would think if that's solely what they drowned both houses of Congress in until their opposition actually allowed them to pass (most likely years, if not decades).  There's "doing nothing" about a few issues, then there's literally "doing nothing" because everything is deadlocked over a single issue that's the only thing being discussed, with neither side budging.

Plenty of conversations and messages go back and forth about all the larger issues all the time, they just don't garner a ton of publicity until some sort of legislation is drafted, or hits the floor of one house or another to actually be argued by Congress.  Sadly, those things don't happen nearly as often as we would like simply due to what a waste it would be without enough support to actually get it passed.

Without diving into details because we're obviously going off topic here (and I put myself in the bag first), I do agree with what you're saying about picking battles. But my opinion is still that some of these crucial issues are constantly put on the back burner as if they were impossible to pass when they are overwhelmingly wanted by the US people (the people that are supposed to be represented in the first place). Actually bringing them to the floor for a vote and knowing who of the house representatives voted for and against IS a first step worth voicing for IMO. I also think opportunities came by to push for such a vote and unfortunately nobody went all the way in on it. I personally find this disappointing, especially seeing how going through a 2 years+ health crisis is not enough to make this a constant priority. Constructive criticism is due at some point, and cheerleading politicians is not my favorite indoor sports, so, ah!

As for 'doing nothing', my stance is that you can never ask enough from your politicians, so my point is not that they're doing nothing but rather not enough. And sorry, but in regards of all of this, Taylor Swift concert tickets... The irony?

Edit : Also, I'm not sure if you guys know but I'm Canadian, so to my eyes, that the richest country in the world doesn't give 'free' (nothing is 100 % free in society) healthcare to all citizen at this point is 'truly unreal' to me.

2 hours ago, darkchylde28 said:

Yes, of course, because other problems are not problems at all because there are different, larger problems already present.  So why not accomplish nothing (since all of the things you specifically mentioned will get blocked or held up indefinitely by the opposing political party) versus working on smaller issues in addition to the larger ones...I guess?

But do they really fight for the larger ones too? I'm not seeing much of that honestly, but wish I would.

I never said disbanding ticketmaster monopoly wasn't a good thing, but apparently I'm a ticket scalper because I press AOC to fight for Medicare4all, hilarious!

Also, how come irony be so unwell received? We should all embrace irony my friends.

Nice to see AOC using her congressional power to fight the important fights. Fair ticket prices to go to popular shows like Taylor Swift must be a progressive priority compared to futile things like Medicare4all, decent living wages, or anything that could really help the US people.

Consider me in!

On 10/24/2022 at 4:08 PM, Reed Rothchild said:

Oh, right.  Inductees were added to the committee.  It's all coming back to me...

Way to out me Doug!

What happened to all of this @guillavoie ! 

I'm certainly not against it per say, but let's say that the decline of participation in the contest over the last years make it harder to justify a revival of the HoF. Whenever a big boost in participation occur would be a good timing to 'think' about bringing it back.

On 10/24/2022 at 4:06 PM, Reed Rothchild said:

I didn't think my involvement with the HoF was ever made public... someone talked.

It's funny to think of it now given how much work you actually did to make this happens. The whole stats grinding was definitely the bulk of the work to do, and probably the most interesting part of the whole thing. If someone want to step up and update newer stats with the older you already compiled, this would be a good start to revive any of this.

Maybe Doug could do it? (@Bearcat-Doug)

Patiently waiting for JamesRobot's winning entry.

I got to admit it now, I was rooting for Super Metroid to be ranked 1st. 4th is absolutely satisfying, no reason to rant here. But it is an opinion that I have held for decades. To me, despite all the wonderful games in the SNES library (and counting very dearly the last 3 to come as well), I always thought and felt that Super Metroid was the closest to perfection on the console.

No need to go in length about it, we all know there are thousands of reasons why this game is awesome. But one of the most satisfying thing about it is the way the game make you feel how powerful Samus is as she becomes stronger and stronger with all the powerups and extra abilities. You really feel like you own Zebes' environments and annihilate your foes just by cruising through the game with your crazy tech suit.

When it came out, there was literally no other game that made you feel how technically powerful your character was through the controls, and this feeling held up astonishingly well even 28 years later.

Though I can understand various reasons to go for dubs and respect them, the ultimate correct answer is subs.

Now, please, tell me that you still have that homemade drawing of the overworld map?

6 hours ago, fcgamer said:

Hahaha perhaps, though free English lessons tend to make any hard feelings disappear around these parts.

Yeah, it sounds weird for us North Americans, but I can understand that it can be a more common thing to do in Taiwan. If she's cute on top of that, I say go for it, lol!

1 hour ago, Gloves said:

And offering someone English lessons as apology is super weird. You're gonna look like you're trying to catch a date with the clerk. 

The free English lessons offering is definitely the weirdest idea in this whole situation, Dave should add a vote on this too, it might prevent further embarrassment.

31 minutes ago, OptOut said:

Ultimately, the logic of cryptocurrency, or at least the logic of the sorts of people buying it and how it exists in its current state, are that it will inevitably crash in value over a long enough period of time.

The VAST majority of the people who bought these coins did so as a lottery ticket, with the hope and expectation that they would be able to cash out after making extraordinary gains. VERY few people actually have any interest whatsoever in the use value of the "coins", and they only buy and hold them for the purpose of making money. I mean REAL money here, hard US fiat.

The obvious problem is that the "value" of the coins on paper is VASTLY in excess, and I mean MANY orders of magnitude higher than the amount of ACTUAL money in the system. So it is absolutely and completely and utterly impossible for all the supposed "gains" of the currencies to be realised. The SOLE reason most people are invested in the first place, to be able to sell and make a fortune is actually fully impossible, and any attempt to realise it leads to an exponential devaluing of the currency as people attempt to "realise" their "gains".

 

Bitcoin never WAS worth 60,000 dollars. If you had one, and sold one at the top for that much, well yeah you could have probably have converted it into USDT and then into actual cash. But if too many people followed suit, the liquidity would dry up SUPER fast, like a TINY fraction of the total Bitcoin in the market could ever realistically have ever converted into 60K USD. After that, it's it's panic selling at ever larger discounts straight to the bottom... There was never the money there that people thought they had in the first place, it was ALWAYS an illusion.

Cryptocurrencies, in their current form, gain value from money pumped into the system from outside. The gullible schmucks who put in their covid checks in 2020 and 2021, and then continued to put in their paychecks each month, as well as their life savings. THAT is where all that magical money came from, that's where all those "gains" came from. People paying in to the system, there is no actual value there, it's robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Now, Paul has been paid, Peter has been robbed, and the numbers on the screen have been revealed as just that, numbers. It was NEVER possible for "ALL OF US TO MAKE IT", because there was very little ACTUAL money to make, at least not for the VAST majority of people "invested".

Hold, diamond hands, the moon. All lies to make the dumbest people leave their cash on the table for as long as possible, so Paul could slip it into his own pocket. Now the money is gone, and the bigger fool has been revealed. 

Could it come back? I'm thinking a whole generation of easy money and goodwill has been burned, it's not going to be anywhere NEAR this easy to rope in the marks next time. All the most desperate, dumb and greedy have already been exploited and chewed up and spat out. I think it's going to be a LONG time before we see a significant recovery in the price of Bitcoin specifically (that is if Tether doesn't FUBAR) and in general I think most of crypto in its present form is basically done.

 

They are going to have to find something to actually do with it that isn't just gambling before any true value is possible to generate AND sustain, IMO. And hey, if they DO, maybe I will use a coin or two myself one day, you know, when there's actually a legit REASON to and I'm not going to get hacked and lose my entire lifesavings! 

 

You forgot to mention that this is not financial advice.

Sorry to reopen an old would @Krunch, I remember my score made you miss the cut for round 2.

The worst part for me is that I pretty much flushed my chance down the drain in round 2, I planned to do my run during Sunday, but totally forgot I had a family reunion taking up pretty much all my weekend. Ended practicing all week long and not being able to actually sat down and do my run. You would have done better than that for sure, lol!

14 minutes ago, NESfiend said:

Except for shreddar. Shreddar is beatable on 3. Thats why the grind is worth it. Never beat or saw anyone beat shreddar on tmnt 2. Its herculean 

 Iwas about to say that I never beat Shredder in 1-life before, but after looking up the NA archives, I apparently did it in 2013, along with 6 other fellows! There got to be a trick because I sure as hell know that I would normally defeat Krang with very low health left!

https://archive.nes.science/nintendoage-forums/nintendoage.com/forum/messageviewd1f5.html?StartRow=1&catid=31&threadid=106891

4 minutes ago, the_wizard_666 said:

Not me.  I don't really care for beat-em-ups in general, so I just don't find grinding out a no-death run in this game to be fun.  A one credit run could be fun, but not a 1 life.  I also have a hard time playing this when I've played the crap out of TMNT 3...it's hard to go backwards for me.  I have that same problem with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms games...they're both great, but after playing 2 it's hard to play 1 again.  That's just me though, I'm sure a few others will manage to get through with ease and enjoyment.

It is indeed a painful experience to learn all the right patterns to beat the game in 1-life, and can be quite hurtful on the wrist/thumb. I know what you mean, you have to have a little fun in doing it to make it worthwhile.

If you can find the will inside of you, the main upside of tackling TMNT 2 after TMNT 3 is that 2 is easier and, most important, shorter!

Scientists' consensus claims that failing at BeBop early in the week is, quote, ''normal'' !

If you guys keep playing it, you'll all be able to go all the way to the end of the game in 1 life by Sunday.

5 hours ago, docile tapeworm said:

Mike?!!!! You can blame that on guil!!!! Dang share bear!

Speaking of that, where is my share bear trophy of the week already?

37 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said:

Thanks   I actually died at the exact same spot that you did in your recorded run, and I was only 12k behind you, so I felt a sense of accomplishment knowing that my point-scumming skills were pretty well maxed out and I had most of the game mastered; the only question was how many magicians I could make it through on any given run, and I finally got past the third one and made it to the fourth magician that one time, and that's all I needed to beat 700k.  If I ever got past him, it would be around 900k before I would have to face him again...

I think I died at the 4th loop Boomerang guy on the video (stupid error of going for the knife guy before the boomerang guy...), but regardless, 750k at the 4th magician is definitely up there in the point scumming elite performance. And in the whole scheme, point pressing a few more 5ks is nothing compared to getting past one more magician, it is the make it or break it point of the game, no question asked here! Again, beautifully done in a week!

39 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said:

Isn't that the game where each enemy kill only gives a single point?  If so, whoever wins is going to win by a very small margin of points, and it'll be the lowest scoring game all year.  Hopefully it's a one-life contest so we don't have to play for half an hour just to see if we're having a good run or not...

The best scores usually go all the way through the game in one life, so even with one life this is likely going to be a 'who beats the game with 3 points more than the other guy' contest. But this will be fun!

Also congrats on the Kung Fu win, beating Michael's score last minute style, this is great!

5 hours ago, NESfiend said:

@guillavoiethe videos you posted are insane! We need a gui vs bea contest during a break week some time! @Jeevancan moderate

I appreciate you liking them, and thank you for giving me a good reason to play a few rounds of Kung Fu and feel like a man again.

It's funny cause there is definitely some games that Bea and I are both decent at that could make for a good match up. We could play Makaimura (Harder jap version of Ghosts & Goblins), even though I would probably get my ass kicked, lol!

10 hours ago, mbd39 said:

I never knew that about the 5th stage and knife throwers. I'll keep that in mind.

By the third loop I'm just trying to survive that stage with a decent amount of health for Mr. X.

4th stage is easy to point press on the first loop. After that it might be better to play it safe and get out of there ASAP. I especially hate when I kill the magician and die at the same time, so annoying.

 

Yeah, by the 3rd loop, the 12th jump kick kill strat is definitely a 'do it at your own risk' thing for the 3rd-4th-5th stages. When playing more conservatively, I usually drop it as soon as I get hit by a knife or if the pattern of enemies looks too risky. But I always keep the door open in case it unfolds well.

4th stage is very problematic because the wizard is the biggest asshole in the game. You want to get to him with full health, at least not getting hit by a knife or moth before tackling him. I like to set the stage for the possibility of point pressing after the boss (getting a 11th kill on the knife thrower strat explained in my post above), see how the boss fight goes, and if I get out of it it with a bunch of health, point press, but if I got wrecked badly by the wizard, GTFO of here ASAP.