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    OCR FG 4: TMNT Tournament Fighters

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    Okay I just put everyone from last tournament in.

    Atmuh said something about being really really pressed for time, so I will probably take him off the list.

    There are two changes to the format. The effects are mostly visual.

    1) Instead of "losses," the first tiebreaker is "games played." This changes nothing and is simply there for positive reinforcement and appearances.

    2) Instead of "points," the second tiebreaker is "percentage." It is simply (fights won)/(fights won + fights lost). The numbers change slightly, to have a more balanced system - you no longer get points for "unplayed" fights. The effect is also mostly visual.

    I don't think that we've ever gotten to the second tiebreaker to decide a playoff spot, so it's likely inconsequential.

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    OCR FG 4: TMNT Tournament Fighters

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    Oh shit I forgot I even had that AOL SN :lol:

    man thats an old one. I actually go under the name "SGGambiani" these days.

    Tried to go with drake before but sadly its common.. and I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE names or even using names that have numbers in them...

    Ok get on AIM real quick there's one more thing...

    OCR FG 4: TMNT Tournament Fighters

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    Hello and welcome to the 4th Overclocked Remix Fighting Game tournament. The name of the tournament has changed, and for a good reason. We no longer are going to limit this tournament just to arcade games. Fighting games from all systems that can be emulated are now available.

    So welcome to the now newly named yet same old style thread for fighting action on ocr!

    Selected by last tournaments winner, EpicPoster, this tournament shall be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters for the Super Nintendo.

    In this tournament, we shall be doing the "round robin" format. Rules are simple for this. Default settings are mandatory.

    You will be playing best 3 out of 5.

    We will be using ZSNES as the emulator of choice for this tournament. Along with the emulator, it is mandatory that you download Hamatchi, so it is needed to be able to "netplay".

    Sign ups end May 2nd, so join in on the action!

    Practice hard and "kick some shell"!

    Whatever happened to "Day 14?"

    If the deadline to signup is 14 days from now, when does RR end?

    Oh, and btw, Epic declared HI-Speed 1 and 90 second rounds.

    OCR AG 3 : Hyper Street Fighter II

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    Posted

    I did notice that occasionally instead of blocking I hard punched... however, this oftentimes happened at opportune moments!

    Arek and EasyP, and anyone who's real interested:

    Since this playoff stage is going by pretty quickly (two matches left), I think we should axe my "staggered schedule" idea and simply go with a few set rules:

    Day 0: New game declared, tournament begins with Round-Robin stage.

    Day 10: Registration ends @ 11:59 pm Eastern Time.

    Day 17: Round-Robin ends @ 11:59 pm Eastern Time.

    Day 24: Playoffs must be completed by 11:59 pm Eastern Time.

    Virginia Tech Shooting

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    I was at work all day following this and i managed to get some inside info on the events of the day because one of the guys that came in has a buddy at VT.

    7:15 - One girl and one guy shot in their dorm rooms. Gunman disappears. Cops show up to investigate, classes are not canceled at this point.

    9:15 - Shooting academic side, 31 killed plus gunman commits suicide putting toll to 33. Classes are canceled at this point.

    10:15 - S.W.A.T. is FINALLY called in 1 hour after the second incident.

    We came to the conclusion at work that the only reason the cops and school officials kept saying they did not believe to two incidents were connected is because they needed to cover up their inaction with not canceling classes and calling S.W.A.T. after the first shooting.

    I personally don't think that VT was inactive about the first shooting. Two people get shot in the room of one of them all the time - it's a domestic dispute, and for them to say so and to say that it was an isolated incident makes sense to me. The cops were called, an investigation had to be started, and that's that. Double homicide is bad, but the impending process by the police is, across the nation, fairly routine and set in stone. They could never have considered that he would come back to kill 30 more people, so they figured that, based on the situation, while tragic, it didn't merit cancelling classes in a school that we know now has a problem with alerting students to danger (my school would be in the same boat).

    I can even excuse SWAT for an hour. It probably took school officials 20 minutes to figure out what was going on, the police 20 minutes to get there in force, and 20 minutes for SWAT to arrive after the call to bring them in was made.

    I also believe that the two shootings were only loosely connected. Same shooter, same weapons, same general location, yes.

    Motive changed.

    The first two were in pain, for revenge.

    Then he realized what he had done, that he wasn't going to escape, he couldn't live on the run forever.

    The massacre was about numbers, IMO. 32-for-1, and that, I hate to admit, makes a lot of sense to me.

    Virginia Tech Shooting

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    Shall we cage the monster for the rest of his life or are we the beasts for doing that?

    They tried that for two months, remember? How do you think I wasn't complaining about the taskbar?

    NOTE: I AM a Media Studies student (my major is Radio/TV/Film, but a lot of mass communications and journalism issues come into play here), so when I see EVERYONE in a conversation saying the same clichéd statements (like it is for the most part here), I want to shake things up a bit - I'm going to be towing the party line for most of my life, and I personally think that controversy sparks conversation and interest.

    In essence, I want you to grow a brain, because most of my career is going to be about making sheep out of the masses and I'd like a challenge once in a while.

    DFK, thanks for calling me out on that one cause I knew I was either right or wrong about American Samoa.

    Broken, I still have the jaw-drop effect going on (see my earlier posts too), but I think that I've just gone on to one step of tragedy while most everyone else is on a different one.

    Virginia Tech Shooting

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    Than you are no less a monster than he is.

    How? We as a society do NOT condone mass murder in any circumstance. What can we do, in a community that doesn't see this that often, but consider him to be an abberation, a psychotically murderous individual.

    Maybe the word "demonize" is too tough, but I don't feel any remorse for the shooter. Not only did he bring this on himself and 32 people who are now dead, but also on the entire world and killed our sense of community and security.

    No, and that's precisely why the cops and VT did what they did. If I had just killed two people, the first thing I'd do is put some distance between me and the crime scene, then go to ground for a little while until I can find a way to make it to Western Samoa. That's what most people would do. This is the first time that I can think of where a fugitive decided to come back and try to take more people with him.

    Western Samoa is NOT leaving the country, btw.

    *quick tension-relieving LOL for geography - W. Samoa also doesn't exist anymore*

    Virginia Tech Shooting

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    I want to make sure that all of you realize that I feel horrible about this, and have been watching the web and TV and radio for news about this all day. I'm more caring for everyone here though, because I didn't know anyone at VT except for, possibly, OCR people. Broken, especially you, since we've gotten close and talked a few times since the AG tournaments started, I hope you get better emotionally because something like this so close to home is just insane, and I can only imagine if it had been at SJSU.

    Please don't demonize the shooter. His family is in grief as well.

    What you must do now is try to show compassion before anything else.

    Why NOT demonize the shooter? He did something so mad and horrific that only one in ten million people would think to do AND carry out.

    If we don't demonize the shooter then I think we condone the actions. His family being in grief is fine, I'm not putting hate on parents or friends of this guy, but HE deserves worse than what he gave to himself.

    Two or three hours for the sadistic psychosis to kick in, I bet.

    Fifteen minutes to realize what he's done, realize his life is over, and then decide to take down as many other people with him as possible.

    It just took two hours to go home, reload, stock up, and head out.

    If YOU were a killer, and you knew this was going to be your fate, wouldn't you try and go out with a bang (sorry the pun) like this? I certainly would, from a statistical standpoint, but I'm also not the person to kill a bunch of innocent students.

    Virginia Tech Shooting

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    Posted

    With this and the Imus deal, I believe we're about to see a new age of censorship.

    Fuck.

    This has nothing to do with censorship though. The FCC is only concerned with the Imus thing, and they're not able to do anything but fine the hell out of him and Viacom. That was nothing compared to Janet Jackson.

    You can't really censor people from having guns - you can BAN guns, but there are plenty of people here that would argue that gun control on the VT campus might have been a big part of the problem here (bunk, I say, this would have happened had there been gun owners or not). Of course, that's not a censorship issue, that's more for the ATF and they aren't the FCC.

    Virginia Tech Shooting

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    Posted

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    The more I think about this...the more I feel so sick to my stomach.

    I am seriously becoming emotionally distraught by this.

    I suppose it is because the motive hits close to home. He did this *supposedly* because of problems with a female that he had relations with. It makes me think about how my ex fiancee left me and how I felt afterwards, and still feel from it. I understand that emotional pain can be such a strong driving force to create negativity, but it never warrents murder...

    I guess...I am thinking about what if I was the one that did this. Considering his actions, I had perfect motivation for it as well.

    Love is such a painful thing sometimes...I felt *and still feel* so much emotional pain from having my fiancee leave me...this action that just took place makes me scared of myself...

    Naw, he had something wrong in the head. ANYONE who would do this kind of thing does, and the mere fact that he did it is testament to the fact that you are ten million times better than that.

    Besides, being single is fun, isn't it? GO FOR BROKE!

    This affected me too - it was a while ago but I started being more aware and sensitive of the lives of people caught up in an event like this. I have to say that the whole Stalinistic perspective still rings true in my head (one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic), 9/11 being a perfect example, but I think there's a line you have to cross, and that's when you love someone so much that you put yourself or themselves in the position of those that died. That's when sensitivity occurs, in my experience, and I think that's why you're feeling the way you do, Arek.

    Virginia Tech Shooting

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    Posted

    I have highschool friends and a best friend at that school. I feel so distressed and I hope the families can quickly find at least some shred of peace. To take the lives of defenseless, young people... I can't even fathom it, nor do I want to try.

    Virginia Tech has had a bad year: with a shooting on the first day of classes, two different bomb threats last week, and now this. This may be soon to ask, but how is this gonna affect future enrollment as well as safety measures?

    Va Tech is a big school with a LOT of students - I don't see a lot of people that weren't victims leaving school because they don't think that VT is safe anymore (maybe because they're traumatized). This could have happened just about anywhere - any school, any college, any office, anywhere. To try and up security measures would be mostly useless and expensive. Not to be cold and talk about economics here, but they WOULD be forcing people out through tuition increases if they spent a lot of money on guards and security.

    This will likely effect enrollment numbers for 2007, but there are still going to be people scholarshipped and intent on going to VT that will still go.

    Again, this could have easily happened anywhere.

    Virginia Tech Shooting

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Exactly my point. I understand that journalists have to remain objective but a little empathy wouldn't hurt them.

    Also, calling it "the most tragic shooting in US history" with a straight face, covered in make up, doesn't make it very convincing.

    Their job must suck u_u.

    i was watching CNN through my breakfast (we ditched class today), and it just seemed awkward how they reported it. I couldn't hear them, closed captioning, but they were saying things like "we're having such a tough time etc etc reporting this story etc etc we don't know what would it have been like if we were actually there"

    It's obvious - you'd still be reporters.

    CNN is full of lamers.

    In other news, the first thing I thought about was any OCR peeps that might be at Va Tech. Can we get a list going of who we know goes there?

    OCR SNES Tourney Round 2: Super Mario Kart!

    in Competitions

    Posted

    dPaladin is declared the winner, and he will select a game soon (hopefully by tomorrow). The deadlines will be truncated quite a bit so that we can get a rotation for tournaments going, and we won't declare the number of playoff advancers until the registration deadline has passed. However, plan on a three-week tournament.

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