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Jax Mandrake

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    Reed City, MI
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    Former retail slave droid, unemployed stand-up comedian/author/songwriter.

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  1. You should receive an official apology... and a .
  2. It's time to kick a hornet's nest, dear friends. I did a quick search of the forums and found another topic concerning bad movies that has been dead for four years, but I wanted to bring up something similar: guilty pleasures. Another forum I frequent has a topic that asks this same question, and I want to know: what are the worst games and movies you have in your personal library? The first thing you may be thinking is probably "You idiot. If I don't like a game or movie, why would I keep it?" Well, I don't know about you, but I've kept a few such media items because either I like them more than I probably should or just to have them. Permit me to share some examples from my movie collection, and maybe I'll get to the games later in the thread. In no particular alphabetical order: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (Just to go with the first one) Detroit Rock City (I love KISS and maybe one day I'll convince myself to watch this) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (I like it despite its only tie to the FF game series being the name of Dr. Sid) Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (I have yet to watch it) Flight of the Navigator (One of those I adored as a child but find a touch too cheeseball to watch now) Ghostbusters 2 (I got it in a Ghostbusters two-pack) Heartbeeps (badmovies.org gave it a skull rating but I still like it) Memoirs of an Invisible Man (I just grew into it) Mortal Kombat Annihilation (which has already been mentioned) Mystery Men (my sister took me to see it in the theatre and I rather enjoyed it) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (I can't explain why, but it got me hooked on to Aerosmith) The Wizard (is any explanation necessary? I'll also eventually pick up the Super Mario Bros movie like the loser I am) I also have an unhealthy number of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes in box sets and single discs, but can those really be considered ‘bad’ when the riffing is so damn funny? Continuing the also, I fail to understand all the Star Wars prequel hate. Please don't try to explain it to me, as I shall fail to absorb it. Finally, I could mention a few stand-up comedy discs I've amassed, but I tend to ignore or discard the ones I truly dislike. I do have a few that are collections of clips, most of which is complete drivel with enough diamonds in the rough to keep in my library for now. Maybe sometime I'll start a topic about that subject...
  3. The description of that video says: "This part includes Inga Rasen, Crazy Train and music from Wangan Midnight." I don't know if that's helpful, but it might narrow the selection through which you'd want to look.
  4. SA-X made things tense... but nothing beats the first time one encounters Nightmare face to horrifying face. Also, I recently scraped some rust off my wallet to get the Batman Arkham games on PS3 - double pack of Asylum GotY and City for $20 at a Walmart in Cadillac, MI. Kickass deal. Anyway, the first time I faced Scarecrow and realized the Select button stopped working, I nearly lost my shit.
  5. I had the habit of replaying Super Mario World on Halloween for a few years (not so much anymore), and I make it a point to play both of the NES Zelda games at least once a year. Back in the days when my NES was hooked up to an ancient 13-inch TV which was slowly dying, I would listen to comedy records while playing. As a result, I have a few wonderful memories linked to certain routines. For example, Bill Cosby talking about going to monster movies with friends and never seeing the monsters because they were too scared to look at them is irreversibly tied to Desert Hill in Super Mario 3 and parts of Mappy-Land. That may not necessarily qualify as a "habit" but I still enjoy listening to humour and music while playing games, so similar memories are likely to occur in future.
  6. On a vaguely related note, another OCReMix is being used as the theme of a new feature on The Escapist. Jim & Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular uses Gux's DuckTales mix "The Amazon Session." http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jim-yahtzees-rhymedown-spectacular/7140-A-Tale-of-Two-Poets?utm_source=videos&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all# Thought ya'll might like to know.
  7. "Whatever you want, just keep giving me these eggs."
  8. Agree with Terranigma. In the same thought pattern: both Killer Instincts and Blast Corps would have been on XBox Live Arcade years ago.
  9. Ladles and jelly spoons, I've jumped on the Let's Play train with a playthrough of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. I had to break it into ten parts due to a fifteen minute video limit, all of which follows an introductory vid. Why'd I do it? Well, what else am I going to do with my time? Be productive in some manner? *Snork!* Please enjoy, and then feel free to tell me just how badly I've missed the entire point of Let's Playing or how I can do it better for the next one [barring the acquisition of better video equipment which I can't afford] or precisely how much I bore you, your families and your pets.
  10. I am the Old Mandrake - a month short of 35. No women, no exes, no kids; no reason. In fact I've reached that point of not even trying. I've long accepted the fact that the only human beings who could find me attractive already have livestock.
  11. Sorry, that is too low. I'm aiming for around $30. These figure models can go for $50 or higher, especially the discontinued ones and what I have is pretty old.

  12. Is $10 for the Mega Man X figure too low? I'd offer more but my budget is painfully limited.

  13. Once again, late to the party and hoarding the good low-carb snax... I'm making my own video on Metroid and this is part of what I have to say about Other M. It has a few outstanding flaws but it is hardly a bad game. My major problems are the pixel-hunt scenes and the fact that enemies don't drop health and weapon pickups like in every other game. As far as the story scenes, I just skip them and go straight back to the action. There are people who like Sonic 06? Where, Bizarro World?
  14. The first episode was uploaded Decembre 1, 2012 - so let's call them out. NURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSE!!!
  15. Was that before they did the Nintendoland episodes?
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