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    OCR Secret Santa 2012 - the PMs are out!

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    That said, creative gifts are really awesome too. Dark Link gave me an awesome bead-sprite a few years ago and I still have it hanging around somewhere.

    :mrgreen:

    I'm really flattered that you liked it so much.

    As for me, this year I don't have anything specific in mind. I've gotten music two years running now, and that's been great to me. But if you draw my name and you have the desire to spend money, I'll also give some general ideas:

    -Like many, I am a college student.

    -I wear a medium in men's

    -I have a 3DS and a 360 (I don't have access to Live for the foreseeable future) that I do most of my gaming on, in addition to an old PSP (not hacked, sadly), a PS2, and on occasion, a Wii (it's out right now for repairs).

    -I also have Steam, but it's spotty what I can and can't run on this laptop. Portal 2 barely runs if I shut everything else down, so that's the absolute upper limit.

    -I love just about anything Zelda.

    -Other series I happen to like a lot: Assassin's Creed, Kingdom Hearts, and Alan Wake

    -While I love music, I have absolutely no shortage of it right now. Which is not to say you can't gift me some, but if you're going to, it might not be a bad idea to ask if I have it.

    -I am also a fan of creative gifts, both giving and receiving. Make it a good one, and that's good enough for me. ;-)

    Recent games with great soundtracks

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    I actually really dug the Alan Wake Soundtrack, and not just for

    either.
    does a great job with capturing the
    of the game, both in and out of it.

    I've also got to cast a vote for Bastion, Radiant Historia (play this game, it's awesome) and Shatter.

    I liked Assassin's Creed overall, even if the theme from Revelations sounds too much like Nolan's Batman, otherwise they tend to be

    .

    What's everyone being for halloween?

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    Remember earlier when I said this:

    I thought about dressing up as Alan Wake, but the thought of having to explain that I'm not a professor from my college (Alan wears a tweed jacket) and actually a character from a two year old game just doesn't have a lot of appeal.

    I decided to stop being a wuss and just go do it. As it turned out, I found a perfect tweed jacket and green shirt at a thrift store. Pictures to follow once I get everything else in order.

    3DS: Friend Codes on First Page, OMG THE THIRD DIMENSION

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    Ugh, way to ruin the secret for everyone, Mirby. Especially Halycon. But most especially Mirby.

    Disclosure time:

    For the last several years, I have been acting as a sort of secret Santa for other members of OCR. My job in the oilfield/energy industry not only affords me a tidy income, but also the means to save up and dispose of income as I see fit.

    This includes acts of charity and good will towards complete strangers. Why? Part of it is simply helping out where it is needed. Part of it is to instill that sense of that "What? Really!?" feeling people get... sort of like when a NPC gives you an item when you talk to them. I guess I'm trying to make real life like video games? So once a year, usually around the end of fall, early winter, I keep an eye out for OCR members that would like a video game or system of some kind, but can't afford one of their own (school, employment, kids, they're in minimum security prison, you know how it is).

    I'm not going to disclose whom, aside from Mirby and HalcyonSpirit (who blabbered about it :tomatoface:) getting 3DSs, because:

    1) They might not like having me say "oh yeah, they were too poor, so I took pity on them" because it would be embarrassing, and not necessarily true. Some of them just didn't have the means due to parents saying so (and you all know how much I like to undermine authority) or they were serving overseas, or other reasons (note that these are made-up examples: no clues for you!)

    2) It was supposed to be kind of a secret ninja thing, and ninjas are cool. Like bow ties. But less obvious and more deadly.

    Past recipients have received a PSP, a DSi, a DS Lite and one person wanted a GBA SP even though they weren't the newest system at the time. Which is cool, 'cause GBA be ballin' yo.

    3) I can use this against them ... somehow. Maybe something to do with guilting them into something? I don't know, I really haven't thought this through since I started t.

    But now the secret is out, RUINED FOREVER by loose lips.

    Until next year, I guess. Whatever. But don't go around expecting freebies, greedy people. I'm giving, but not a sucker.

    If they gave person of the year awards, I believe you would be the winner. That is the coolest thing I've heard anyone do for other people in a long time. :nicework:

    OCR Mascot Bios - 20 more up for grabs!

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    Posted · Edited by Darklink42

    This is a question, not specifically an issue to be fixed.

    On the Vault Boy mascot page, the bottom of the page indicates that the database doesn't list any remixes for the Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3.

    I'm curious, any reason why the remix wasn't listed under both versions of the game? Is this the appropriate thread for this question?

    I think that's because, at least at the time I wrote it, that remix hadn't been posted yet to the site.

    Edit: Ha, I totally missed that it was listed under PS3. Saw the "no remixes in database" under the whole deal and took it as a catchall.

    Fun games with really stressful parts and/or, dramatic shifts

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    Loved that part in Zero Mission. They also bring back one of the classic tunes once you get through, which just makes it all better.

    I remember the first Crysis had a tone shift at the end of the game that was jarring. It's all FPS-centered run and gun up until that point, and then all of the sudden it's a vehicle section straight out of nowhere.

    Could also bring up the oft reviled Mario Sunshine, and more specifically the sections where you don't get to use Fludd. Those are real palm-sweaters, and I can recall more than once being quite glad to be able to hover again once I got through them.

    The Gamer's Dictionary

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    Team kill- killing members of your own team, either by accident or on purpose. Generally frowned upon, especially if it occurs often.

    Sandbox/open world- refers to the kind of game that features a large world in which the player is capable of wandering freely to any area and of doing anything they wish beyond the storyline.

    Playthrough- One complete session of the game from opening to the end credits, either continuous or over time.

    Bunge- From my Gunbound days, I don't know if people still use this, but it used to mean that you dug the ground out from under a player and made them fall to their death.

    RNG- Random number generator. (someone else can describe this in a pithy sentence if they like)

    PECFN- Personal experience counts for nothing. This was used a lot when Fire Emblem came out, but really the term applies to anything in which stats are randomized. The idea is that your playthrough, characters, and experiences will be different enough from someone else's that they will be incomparable.

    The Gamer's Dictionary

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    To Kite is a two-fold process of aggroing an enemy and leading it to or from strategic points. (these two are probably wrong somehow)

    I'd argue that kiting doesn't necessarily need strategic points, only that one uses aggro to lead a mob or boss around and attack them from long range while running to avoid damage.

    National Suicide Prevention day/week, and a farewell to a good friend

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    I would also like to show my support for this. Even though I've suffered from major depression for a long time, I know that it's not always people who have the diagnosis who end up taking their lives. Sometimes life just has a way of taking a turn you don't expect. Things get bleak too fast, and there's nothing else to do. But I always say, please don't. As much as I respect a person's right to do so, I don't want to see anyone go like that when they've got so much good left to bring to the world and to have given back to them. I've lost friends this way, and I've seen others lose family to suicide as well. I nearly did it myself, a long time ago. The thing is, if you've got anyone who's bringing it up or who is reaching out, tell them how you feel about them. Tell them that they aren't facing life alone, even if it seems like they are. Even if they fight you about it, press on. And get them to seek help if they're able or willing. Like others have said, there's no shame in it.

    Heartfelt condolences for the loss of your friend, Doug.

    Great Accomplishments in Gaming: get your brag on

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    Soloing Halo Reach on legendary. Never. Doing. Again. Three words sum this experience up: Hunters in nightclub.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, since I may have suppressed this particular memory, but can you not just run from them after activating the thingamajig?

    Either way, I can make the claim now of having soloed, on legendary, every HALO game they've put out. Which is odd when I think about it, because I didn't set out to do that on purpose. Something of a product of only owning a few games for the original XBOX, and later at the goading of a close friend who said I couldn't do it on Reach if he couldn't. (He never has either.)

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