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@Link I'm pretty casual about this, just using whatever I happen to have on hand as far as bread crumbs/coating goes. I gave up frying pretty quick and always bake, but the mayo thing sounds like it would work really good for frying...
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I played Gun.Smoke twice in row just recently and the ending was exactly the same the second time. Is there some additional qualification to get a different ending, like beating it twice without dying?........
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7 minutes ago, Link said:
Lolol, looks like the two I posted had a lovechild
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15 minutes ago, Link said:
I was referring to the garden variety grill that you mentioned, you don't have one of those? Sorry, I am confused.
The one on the left is more or less what I thought you were referring to when you said "flip-top." The one on the right is like the kettle grill that I have with a lift-off lid. I'm not a super-supremo-grill-lord or anything so maybe I misunderstood what you were getting at..
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9 hours ago, Link said:
You can definitely smoke stuff with a fliptop barbecue grill. I know a facebook group "Sausage Debauchery" would be very helpful. Plenty of people there have custom, homemade setups, and would also be happy with their physics and technique experience to advise on doing it on the cheap and adaptable to simple gear like a walkabout grill, as that's how many started.
I don't have a flip top either, but maybe we'll see if I can pull something off...
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8 minutes ago, Jeevan said:
Might I suggest a bacon wrap? I heard a good smoked meatloaf that has been wrapped in bacon is delicious.
Oddly enough, one of the ones I was looking at is wrapped in either bacon or pancetta and another one I was looking at was a smoked variety. I don't have a smoker so I was wondering if that can be simulated with a garden variety grill?
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37 minutes ago, NESfiend said:
WORLD pool championships
Nice goin ! I've been meaning to get into these pool games for a while now. One of these years....
Also, will hafta keep my eyes peeled for a "Break Time: World Pool Tour" or "Break Time: World Pool Championship" Prototype..
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3 hours ago, NESfiend said:
I am so dejected. Had that bastard Rocking Rob on the ropes last night. One shot away from beating him 2 games out of 3 to put break time on the completed list. Sank the 9 ball, but put just a little too much english on it and it spun back jusssssst fast enough to roll into the corner pocket. Loss. God knows how many games I will have to sit through before another opportunity like that comes up.
You've just gotta ask yourself one thing:
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I've never made one before but I've got a few recipes that look really good. Just gotta figure out which one to go for...
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2 hours ago, NESfiend said:
The waiting for your opponent aspect is torture. Your opponent spends a LOT of time thinking. Then, after a long period of time thinking, he or she will say something like "grumble grumble," or "Im not sure," or my favorite, "Im starved." Then he or she will go back to thinking again. The eyes on the opponent's face blink here and there, so you have that to watch while you wait. There so many useless prompts to click through, so you cant really walk away and just play here and there. An actual game of pool against a person who spends way too much time thinking would be faster.
It's sounds like they tried too hard to simulate the actual experience of playing someone else in a bar. The worst is when you're playing doubles and the other two guys take forever every single time, like one guy has to get out his slide-ruler and the other guy has to throw his graphing calculator on the table and then they have to confer and compare notes on their respective geometries/trigonometries, then perform a bit of Calculus together, then more conferring and finally after you've drank the better part of your beer waiting for them, finally, one of 'em decides to actually propel the Cueball...
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4 hours ago, guitarzombie said:
I think the frustrating aspect of it, is that theres a guise that its a really easy game. I did like it when I was playing it at first, but they just require too much from the player. It would have been a lot better if it was more puzzle based, than platform based at the end. Thats really where my frustration came from, the 'reactionary' stuff, like jumping, or shooting.
Yeah, you really gotta get every move down = another memorization game most people don't care much for, but I find it too unique not to enjoy...
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2 hours ago, Dr. Morbis said:
Anyway, I couldn't beat this game with @the_wizard_666 on Saturday after we spent all evening playing it, but the practice must've paid off, because I was able to knock off Kung Fu Heroes in less than an hour and a half today, and I'm really, really glad to be done with it foreva...
I gave this one a go a couple of years ago and got relatively close to the end using warps, but IIRC the last warp I intended to take just wasn't where it was supposed to be. Either that or I didn't do something correctly, I have no idea really, but I ended up on tough level that did me in and haven't tried again since..
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3 hours ago, guitarzombie said:
Just beat Castelian... if you want my NSFW review here it is:
FUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK YYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUU! This game pissed me off to no end. Its so easy but its so bogged down from such shitty controls, weird hitboxes and unfair randomness. The game really isn't that bad (I used a video playthru) but the last level is just so incredibly unfair for what they ask of you, and you have to learn to jump at the VERY edge of the platform and sometimes the game eats your input and you fall to the ground. At the end you have to perform these jumps MULTIPLE times. God daamn... its only 8 levels and not super long but this is a game you have to be one with the controls. UGGGGGH I NEED A BREAK. I actually threw my controller against the floor and turned it off in frustration when I reached almost the end and time ran out, I was probably 30 seconds away from finishing it earlier today.
Nice job! I was planning to do this one again... eventually. If I felt more competitive at "Beat The NES" I would probably take a note like: never beat Castelian for the points. Always let someone else destroy their overall resolve by going after it instead. Pretty much everything you've said about it is dead on but for some reason I'm still convinced that I really like this game.. I even have it CIB for Atari 7800...
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On 2/1/2024 at 11:12 AM, GiygasKaz said:
Been working my way through Snow Crash. I wasn't sure what to expect going in, but I definitely didn't think I'd be getting almost dadaist levels of absurdist humor. It often feels like a post-ironic satire of the old internet from a modern perspective at times, despite having come from that era. Pays tribute to the campiness of old sci-fi and the political satire of Carpenter's They Live.
That's the first description of Snow Crash, I've read that actually makes me kind of want to read it.
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49 minutes ago, avatar! said:
Actually none of the story is "bunk" it's all correct. Here's a local paper espousing the same thing --
Colorado pastor facing fraud charges after targeting congregation in alleged $3.2 million cryptocurrency scheme
As for the picture you're referring too, I imagine it's from some online meeting (service perhaps) that he was running. It's easy to add fake backgrounds to online meetings and the result makes any still image look photoshopped similar to the picture in the original article I linked.
I never said it was bunk, lol.
If you're suggesting that he may have photoshopped his own image over a background (or added a fake background behind his own image, [what's the difference, really?]) for his own ends, his own benefit, that would mean that the original publisher somehow got ahold of it and decided to use it even though it's not accurate. And my final point would still stand. And why would he select an image of himself looking like he just got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, so to speak?
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5 minutes ago, Khromak said:
. There were a couple occasions where a 1up would spawn when I was already at 9 so it went to waste.
I've always detested that when I finish the "2nd mission" with 9 lives the game dials that back to 5 lives to start the "3rd mission." Still, challenging as NES Smash TV is it pales in comparison to the difficulty of its Arcade brother. That one has got to be one of the all time quarter munchers.
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2 hours ago, Khromak said:
Just beat smash tv, in my first try, without even looking at maps. This game's for babies! In fact, the game said I might be the best smash tv player ever. Not sure how it would know that, but I'll take it
Edit: I thought I would try this game on Playchoice via Powerpak, but unfortunately since the game thinks you're holding the controllers sideways, the joysticks don't line up with screen directions. It might be possible to re-train your brain, or I guess you could re-wire your joystick, but it would be very difficult. I was really hoping for true twin-stick action.
Jeez, for a guy who doesn't care much for shooters whupping Smash TV on the first go is pretty impressive. Nice going!
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On 1/23/2024 at 5:02 PM, avatar! said:
I'm not claiming the whole story is bunk but the picture of that guy is pasted in over the background. The image of him is flat and clearly not a 3 dimensional person who is physically present in the room. Look at the edges of the person, particularly along the shirt. His image is too sharply delineated from the background. Once you know what it looks like it will always jump right out at you. Furthermore that room is gloriously well lit. With very nearly nothing like a shadow to be found there is light shining down over almost every visible inch including a massive glare on the table and yet, the guy is poorly lit by comparison. Conclusion: He isn't actually in that room (If it didn't have that guy pasted in it would look like a very professional shot for a real estate magazine or something.) If I had to take an educated guess, I'd say that whoever produced the photo wanted people to see this guy in a really nice looking home with an absolutely KILLER view. Was that part of the remodel too? Kinda makes the original publisher a lier doesn't it?
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2 hours ago, guitarzombie said:
I grabbed a few games to test and wow, I forgot I really liked Stanley: The search for Dr. Livingston. I wanted to just play a little and it sucked me in. I beat it a while ago but remembered very little. I didn't remember it being very hard but it's slightly challenging, has passwords, very generous with continuing and has light metroidvania elements. I'm digging it! Ill prob beat it by tomorrow (it is a bit long) but I strongly suggest people give this one a shot.
Yeah, Metroid is weak. Stanley is the best MetroidVania on the NES!
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18 minutes ago, NESfiend said:
Empire Strikes Back is once again down. Formerly a 10 pointer and it is that tough, but so damn fun once you know what to do. My impatience to play it continues to deflate its point value. Oh well, I feel like a jedi!
I almost made it past the level with the giant mechanical camels (I forget what they're really called) the other night. You are right though, it is a lot of fun once you know what to do, just takes a little getting used to but then the fast pace is fun, really does feel you're controlling a Jedi.. I'll play the whole thing, one of these years...
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47 minutes ago, the_wizard_666 said:
I did that a bunch as a kid. Climbing through the sky and popping up at the bottom only happened once, but a bunch of weird shit frequently happens if you just eat people instead of blowing up the buildings. When that happened to me I had been eating people for so long and not triggering it that I gave up, only for that to happen after I'd given up on the glitch. That was one of my 10 year old memories that really stands out, and you are the first person I know of to ever corroborate it!
Interesting. Seems like this really ought to have happened sooner, but then I don't think I ever really played this port as a kid. I grew up playing this on the Commodore 64 and of course, in the Arcade. The C64 port was way better than this NES port. You could really efficiently level buildings by climbing to the top and then steadily punching down/toward while climbing down + in the NES port once you've punched a given area down/toward you can no longer punch that area with a direct left or right punch whereas on the C64 port you could which made it possible to switch up those two ways of punching as you climbed down the building for maximum destruction as well as max potential for finding out what's behind windows. And then of course it also had all three characters including Ralph who is missing from the NES port..
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Rampage has been razed to the ground.
At one point I was able to climb a building that had already collapsed until I went through the "ceiling" and climbed through the ground. Can't remember having done that before. Also noticed, oddly, that Milwaukee received 3 levels in a row which I didn't notice for any other city although I may have been out to lunch on that but I don't recall seeing more than two levels in a row for the large cities like New York, L.A., Chicago etc.
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Vice Project DOOM! is done.
..was feelin' a little rusty on this one, but I also think It'd be fun to start honing for a speedrun one of these days...
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Ghosts N Goblins is done.
Had me some great level 5's and 6's that went really smoothly...
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VGS Cooking Club: The Fast Food Inspired (Jan 2024)
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Oh, you're right. I'm remembering now the mayo coating I used on my first grilled cheese produced a lot of oil in the pan.. not sure why I was thinking that would work with frying, but I'll probably try that recipe and bake it...