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5 minutes ago, Richardhead said:

Condos nice. Jennie’s friend brought two fucking dogs and it’s smoky outside. So Nintendo it is.

It's that time of year. The smokey smell just adds to the charm of doing something outdoorsy... I hope you guys are staying safe. 

40 minutes ago, Richardhead said:

Stuck in Breckenridge for a few days. Made sure to bring the AVS and a copy of mappy though. @Murray will be joining us shortly too. 

 

Tell us of the gold rush history of this town!  Let's see some photos! Also, who's @Murray?

Saber race: 47.9 seconds
Mate toss: 93 foots
Dino vault: 28 foots
 

Sale to @Jeevan of N64 games and such. 

8 minutes ago, LastCat said:

Will there be Sega Saturn?

There better be or I'm OUT!

23 hours ago, bertsampson said:

I've been playing some Super Mario.  Haven't started Caveman yet.

I got mine in this week too. I was truly SHOCKED at how large the box was! I paid no attention to these details before buying  

20 minutes ago, NESfiend said:

Tom Green would make a good skinny.

Austin.... Austin, Massachusetts. 

You mean Boston?

Yeah, that's what I said. Boston... Boston, Massachusetts. 

I'm having flashbacks of Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular. While no goombas or turtles were harmed that week, I can't say the same for NES controllers. 

39 minutes ago, Jeevan said:

i pinged him in discord, he hasn't responded, he prolly gonna drop a 2 milly soon

@Jeevan @NESfiend you guys are funny.  I updated my score about an hour ago. Nothing too crazy. I fell ONE FRUIT short of beating @JamesRobot's score. This is a fun, neat game but I wasn't into it this week. Glad I was still able to get a top 8 spot. 

1 hour ago, NESfiend said:

I really like making the devil chase me on 1-2 and 1-3. Its become its own little game. And my win rate is not impressive. But its fun

The most important part  

9 hours ago, Sumez said:

Wait, is it better to keep your scoring tricks to yourself?

I was just trying to be helpful.

There's no rule for this, it's up to everyone at their discretion. My personal thoughts: I don't like spoilers for the contests myself, I like to figure it out. One thing that's different here versus NintendoAge is that there's a "spoiler" button at the top of the post composer (it looks like an eye). If you highlight and mark the text with this, it will hide it and must be clicked to reveal. We've not seen wide use of this yet here, but I'm hoping it catches on  Spoiler:

6 hours ago, Murray said:

Are you using a broken piece of styrofoam cup as an eating utensil?

Hahaha. @Murray beat me to it!  I could hardly read the posts after this. I just kept thinking "WTF is he eating with, styrofoam?!"  

5 hours ago, docile tapeworm said:

i used to live with a guy named "A" (that was his real name). that was my blood brother we used to do everything together. dude would get wasted! he ran into a stop sign riding his bike one time and f his face up.  we disnt have a car. i was riding my bike home from work one night and i hear this like moaning coming out of the mangroves... "A"'s hobo girlfriend who lived on a derilict boat was anchored bear by. so i kinda knew it might be him. i crawled into the mangroves and sure as shit he is laying there wasted crying and talking nonsence. 

im like dude wtf happen buddy lol! he starts up about whatever and im like dude i cant lay here with you right now i got way to much weed on me i gotta ride to the house and ill come back for you. 

so i go and drop off the weed and roll a fatty blunt and grab a couplr beers from the apartment. ride back to the mangroves and lay with my boy brouggt him a blunt and a beer. he told me he loved me that night "you came back" he said. course i did brother lets crawl outta here.

You went and laid down next to your wasted buddy in the trees... you can't make this shit up

That was fun.   NES controllers are not meant for drawing  

17 minutes ago, NESfiend said:

Well maybe it was the right week to be work buried. Played a few more games and Im still having trouble breaking 100k. And whatever this dudes hand is doing to that controller was never going to happen. 

That's hypercramping, I mean hypertapping!

256,700
39,200

Final score posted, which was of no consequence to my position this week. I appreciate the opportunity to improve my Tetris skills, which really was in need of some updating. I am now truly conscious of DAS and can see an immediate improvement. I still feel the challenge level this week was more appropriate for a tournament than for engaging in casual play. Congrats to everyone who placed this week. Glad to see that you remembered to stop by, @Sumez!

26 minutes ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

Thank's for reminding me. I almost forgot. It's that darn Alzheimer's acting up again.

You're welco... what were we talking about again?

6 minutes ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

I just call it arthritis.

We're old. 

13 minutes ago, Splain said:

This has been really interesting for me. My Tetris skills have been pretty stagnant for a long time. It's served me pretty well over the years to just brute-force my way to a high score. If I don't get a lucky round, abandon it and try again. Given enough attempts, I'll get a series of pieces that meshes really well with my playstyle, and I'll end up with a bangin' score. Wellll, looking at the high scorers in this thread, my approach is going to end up sliding me right out of the top ten. I have to learn new things in order to progress. If my best plan is to "wait for a lucky round," then I suck at Tetris. Sure, unlucky rounds exist, and I'll still sacrifice rounds that give me garbage pieces to start with (first ten pieces are nothing but S's, Z's, and squares) but I'd imagine that if there were a ten-game limit, allowing everyone an absolute maximum of ten attempts to get a high score, there would still be some very impressive scores, and they would definitely not be from me.

I hate the word "hypertapping" though.

It should be called "handcramping"

1 hour ago, docile tapeworm said:

17280

You should buy some of those sticky-on-top, felt on the bottom pads to protect your floor!  You'll need sooooo many.  BTW, house looks fresh so far!

3 hours ago, NESfiend said:

I am usually a proponent of not poking the sleeping bears week to week in the contest. I assumed tetris would bring out a few badass nonregular participants though. And Im not gitting gud at all. My pipedream that this may be the week I buckle down and become a tetris master is already pretty well out the window. I suck pretty hard

A big part of the problem is I played this using A only growing up. I didnt even realize B was a thing until watching that tetris movie. The switch to a and b is just so contrary to instinct after 20 years. Im not getting that down and getting top 8 good in a week. 

3 hours ago, mbd39 said:

I'm a one way flipper too. I always use B.

 

I'm also a one-way flipper. I think this needs to change stat. Also, 1989 called and it said "Hey man, I'm 31. I do what I want!". 

1 minute ago, Sumez said:

Is 15 the minimum starting level or the only starting level?

Typically the rules are pretty static. I'd say you must start at level 15, but @BeaIank and @guillavoie have the final say. 

I realize it's over, but I did another one just for fun  

"Midnight Mushroom Marauder"

1 hour ago, docile tapeworm said:

i am now. thank you. do you have experience with it? 

No problem! My house came with it installed in the attic, which is where I learned about it. I bought some for my garage door, but haven't installed it yet, so no personal experience using it. I will say that I installed the super light "bubble" type of this under insulation in the panels of my garage door. It keeps the temp about 10 degrees cooloer than the outside reading. It also feels NOTICEABLY much more like you're inside versus outside / behind a standard metal garage door. This stuff is meant to block much more than what I've used so far. It's said to be like a heavy tinfoil. If you do install it into the attic ceiling, there are two types: the type that's meant to be stapled, and the type that's not. There are also different ratings based on how much UV gets blocked. You may need some air space between this and the inside of the ceiling. I watched a number of videos on it, but my use case is different than this type of installation. Here's a similar product, if you're looking. I'd definitely research on the best way to install it / best way to use it in attics before buying.

https://www.amazon.com/RadiantGUARD-Industrial-U-1000-B-Reflective-Breathable/dp/B00B1HG2NA

On 7/24/2020 at 7:32 AM, docile tapeworm said:

my new game room

Will you be putting some radiant heat barrier on the ceiling?