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PII last won the day on April 24 2023

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  1. Wow, all the way across the state; that's cool. I used to know this crazy "old" guy who was well into his fifties and had to live on a very small/tight budget. He survived on a diet of rice, chicken, free bread and snickers. The last one being what he took on bike rides. The guy really didn't look like much but he would go on rides like 6 days a week and he frequently did these crazy bike rides that were well over 100 miles. Have a blast! ..and maybe report in around here after the fact and let us know how it went...
  2. Nice, I am a teensy bit jelly ; hitting that kind of speed on the downhill can get a little scary if conditions/brakes/cars are not ideal, or at least that's been my experience. Pretty much all my bikes need at least a little lookin at; I'm a little behind on that right now. Where are you doing your 162 and your 50?
  3. All very cool! Looks and sounds like you are getting serious. I'm currently on a Trek 700 Multitrack Hybrid that is basically a tank compared to what you're riding, but it works well for what I do which boils down to "road and trail." I've also got a no namer that I Frankensteined and use as a single-speed trainer. I also have a mountain bike that I haven't used much yet that is probably very cheap since I got it for next to nothing and it says "Fear Factor" on it with a picture of a Tarantula.... + a few other old fixer uppers waiting for me to get at them any day now. That Fezzari looks slick as can be. I used to have a pretty sweet road bike, the make/model of which escapes me now, but it would have been light enough to chuck one-handed. Kinda wish I'd hung onto it...
  4. Sweet, that's a nice looking steed. I'ma be doing much the same soon.
  5. PII's MINIATURE SKINNIATURE SCOREBOARD Earth-Something-Japanese-Word - 487,250 M.y B.alloon D.oes 39 - 339,500 P.opp-I.n I.ndefinitely - 231,050 Bashful Carp - 112,250 Super Balloon-Can-Do - 93,250 Helium Fiend - 87,250 Separate Theater Award - 74,500 I Squat 4 Booty - 42,950 Skinny Balloon Animal - (posting instead of playing) Balloon Butler - (still tryna figure out the name of the game)
  6. I was thinking much the same about 227, especially on Sunday after I'd had the brunt of the week to forget about why I decided against screwing around any longer than I did with the red turtle. The thing is, I think, it's one of those things that seems like it's just waiting to be utilized and it shouldn't be that hard but then when you actually try to make it happen you see all these problems popping up left and right and it's just totally unworkable; it's too much to account for in too little time. You'd have to be in two places at once to make it work. If you can figure that out, I'm all ears. Until then the red turtle is just a red herring. ...And it is too bad more folks didn't dive in as you say. There are so many great bits of strategy we could've been comparing notes on... Oh well, ever onward.
  7. Yeah, I get it now. Seems like trouble though the way you have to keep dealing with red guy and taking hits...
  8. Can't say I perfectly understand your strat either, but here's what I did: After dropping out of the pipe and moving left I jump on the green turtle and pick him up and continue to run left to pick up 3 coins above the light blue rectangle, 1 coin above the white rectangle which also has the red turtle on it that I ignore more or less and then the 1 coin above the salmon rectangle. Then I move back to the right still carrying the green shell and hop over the two ground goombas. I'm still holding the shell because I don't want the green turtle to manifest yet. If he does he's walking left and bumps into the first goomba which screws everything up. So once I'm to the right of those goombas and have successfully prevented the green turtle from manifesting, I release the green shell to the right. Next I'm using my P-wing to avoid the advances of the flying goomba. FG lands and I fly over him to the right. FG lands a 2nd time and I fly over him and the other two goombas to the left in order to manifest the green turtle who will be marching to the right again. Then we all march to the flashing box in the following order: goomba, goomba, Mario, green turtle. FG is flying around and lands twice more on the way. Finally I jump into the flashing box and the 4 enemies present turn into coins. Also, I missed something insipidly obvious. I could have shaved a second or two off by picking up the green turtle right at the end and been able to jump into the box earlier. I guess I got so obsessed with avoiding the FG as well as making sure that FG sticks around that I didn't see it right in front of me. If you fly for the flashing box too soon, FG will leave the screen.
  9. It was not taking the flying leap off the turtle at the P-switch all week that kept me from 260's on 1-1. By the time I realized it wouldn't be as difficult as I thought to do it consistently, time was close to up. Glad to hear I'm not crazy thinking 240 is possible on 1-2. At first I was like how in the heck can he get a 224 on 1-4, but after a moment of thought I think I have an idea: A flying leap for a slightly earlier pipe might result in being partially up to speed upon emerging out the other side. Don't know why I didn't think of that during the week, but then that's how these things tend to go. It really is amazing how many little points there are to think about. So it looks like 9:30 - 9:31 might be the max... Hmmm, it sounds like you should have potentially walloped me a good one by ahem, holding your score until the end after figuring out that red shell stuff. I decided early on the first day or so that getting both turtles marching along just wouldn't work and then moved on. I always used the green one. I did wonder a little if someone was going to manage one more coin -looks like it might have been you w/a little more time to play...
  10. Mario 3 was a good precursor for all this floating around. All the Joust I played over the weekend was too...
  11. For any interested: About 5 min. before 11p.m. VGS time Sunday I got my first 260 left on the clock in 1-1 And my best time for 1-3 was a 206 left on the clock. I'm reasonably certain that 223 is the best possible time for 1-4. And my best for 1-2 was 239 left over. So I know that a 9:28 is possible. I believe I could get at least another second faster on 1-3 perhaps more. and I think a 2:40 might be possible on 1-2 but I think it would take a highly refined degree of perfection in the run. Anyway, I think a 9:29 or 9:30 might very well be in the realm of possibility. I'm also presuming that I haven't missed any major tactics that would significantly reduce the time of the run. This was a great ruleset and a smart way to make speed running more accessible for those without recording ability. I had a lot of fun and learned quite a bit about the mechanics of the game.
  12. Dino Riki Back To The Future Isolated Warrior Silver Surfer Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000 Dreadnaught Factor (whoops, that's six....) I have so many shooters on my "to play list"; classics, oddballs and otherwise that I haven't gotten to yet. Just the ones on Genesis will take me ages to get through...
  13. ESPN 8 “The Ocho” is reporting that you had a death in World 1 I get all my worm-related news from the daily @Murray...
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