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Radical Dreamer- Yeah, I remember that it was on the orange boards, and I can even picture that funky way the site had responses to posts lined up. But I can't for the life of me find that archive. It was around two or three years ago, but it may have been lost. I hope not. phill- I've decided that I'm going to put all the Quirk stuff on the same site as the Nice Work Archive, since like the NWA, it's something for OCR as a whole, and not just my personal usage. As such, it needs to be taken care of first and foremost. As for my personal website, I really don't want to be leeching off of other people's PCs or websites. Back in the days of old, it was really frowned upon to leech off of others. I was guilty of this to a degree for a while with Lightbunny's Comcast setup (he gave me a 30MB mini-site on his account there) until it vanished when LB quit Comcast. Since then, I've done everything I can to not leech off of others, as it always felt like having my fun on someone else's bill. So while I do appreciate the offer, I'm afraid I'll have to decline it. Thanks nonetheless

Necrobump. After loosing my Geocities Plus account, I've moved the Quirks thread to a new host. Click my sig to go there. I also went through and updated every link in the various Quirks pages, and every last one of them works now. No more dead links. And I still haven't found that thread where "Your opinions of late have been ridiculous" came about. Edit: Nevermind. I'm without a site again. The place that seemed so handy was basically useless to me, which I found out about only after I'd uploaded everything. Sorry folks, but the quirks and such are gone again.

Hmmm... let's see if I can keep this short. I've never had a musical lesson in my life, and I can't read or write sheet music. Instead, when I was younger, I was given a half-sized keys keyboard because of (if you can believe it) the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I saw that seen with the keyboard, and it struck up an interest in me. So, a year or so later, I was given a Yamaha Portasound PSS-470, and began playing on it. I never got particularly good, but I did get skilled enough to be able to play a bunch of game tunes pretty accurately, start fleshing out original compositions, and eventually begin recording complete original songs (all by ear). Needless to say, that little keyboard got a lot of use over the years, and I still have it to this day. About five years ago, I bought myself a full-sized keyboard (a Casio WK 1300), and continued playing game tunes and writing new original works (multi-instrument ones thanks to the 6 track recording ability of the WK 1300). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to play much at all over the last four years, as I simply don't have the room to set it all up. As a result, most of my original tunes have been written completely in Cakewalk's Music Creator 2002. Anyway, there's my musical background.

Re-uploaded the three Liquid Kids ones. I have no idea how a white background got on them, but they've got transparencies now. Also, are you suggesting gradients with your reply LT? LT: Yes, sir. Big problem seems to be that no matter what color is used on those last three, part of the character's outfit or body gets absorbed into the background and it just doesn't look good. And some of the lightest colors are just too much of a contrast and don't work with the sprite as a good background.

So it's going to be littered with 'American Pie'-style sexual innuendo jokes, horribly lame 'I'm cool' lines, walk on characters repeatedly trying to get into Bulma's pants, and teen angst sprinkled over the top?

Paper airplanes tend to fly well, as do remote control helicopters and planes thanks to there being such little wind. Of course, that means kites don't get much use here, but you can't have everything.

Here are the three Liquid Kids avatars you liked... LT: Need transparent backgrounds on these. Seems like some white/blank backgrounds got retained somoehow. ... and here's my next attempt for the final four from Puzzle Bobble 2... LT: Whoaz. Haha! Gradients?

"What a resolute ass he is." - unknown character, Exile "Taste the blow of this reborn titan! Ha cha cha!" - Big Bear, Fatal Fury Special "Coin detected in pocket!" - Berzerk in Attract Mode "VICTOLY!" - Samurai Shodown IV win screen

You can thank No Script, Adblock, and programs like them for that. Perhaps you should request people to not block them on OCR.

Timely arrival, but did not do what was expected- Will not call again!

Change the title to "Nintendo comics for sale", and people will flood to this thread

The cops knew exactly what it was in the window. They just wanted an excuse to "cop" a feel on it as it were.

You hate Batman?

Pinball games you say? http://irpinball.ztnet.com/ Go. Donwload. Enjoy. Also, try Dragon's Fury on the Genesis. It's a port of the TG-16's Devil's Crush, but with better music and graphics. Avoid Dragon's Revenge, which is a sequel made by Tengen that looks alright, but plays rather poorly.

No video game work, no video game ties, and have not met even a semi-famous game maker. 'Tis sad, I know

Sadly, I missed out on the PC games of old. When I was younger, the closest thing to a computer that I owned was an Atari XE (which I still have, and love). Some of my friends had C64s, C128s, and one even had an older IBM, but I rarely got to play anything on them. My first PC came in 2001, by which time even Quake 3 was 'old'. But, little by little since then, I've been finding the games I missed out on. The Immortal, Nova 9, Stellar 7, Might and Magic 1-8, Silpheed, the first three Wing Commander games, MechWarrior 2, a good number of the FPSs that came out (Wolfenstein 3D to Blood)... stuff like that. I've yet to venture into the old Lucas Arts adventure games though, as some of the prices that the more popular ones go for are ridiculous at times. Someday I'll take the plunge though.

I was just about to edit my post after a Google search, but Wilhelm it is, and here it is... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream Thanks nonetheless, Abadoss.

If I recall, isn't there another "used in many films" scream that crops up in the Indiana Jones trilogy (back when it was a trilogy)? It's usually used for enemy soldiers as they fall as well.

Read the content policy, and come up with a catchy/goofy name or acronym of your own. When you're ready, make a new thread announcing the new podcast, and then you'll be good to go. No "ownership" drama, no "permission" needs, no "OCR representation quality" arguments (which I'm sure will come up with the VGDJ name), no nothing. Just you, some mixes, and a little chit-chat scattered in-between for however long you feel like doing it. That's my advice.

Oh, I know the goofy commentary that gets unleashed by some folks. But, the inability of those folks to keep to themselves over the mere mentioning of a game character shouldn't be a deciding sig factor here. Sure, some will do it just to be a smart ass since bashing the game's reached meme-like levels, but a part of me would like to think that the majority of folks here have gotten past the "OMFGROFL U LIEK Ff7!" foolishness by now.

Why should he/she? It's not breaking any rules. If an anti-FF7 fanboy gives him/her shit, he/she can ignore them... quite literally now with vBulletin. Would you remove your Kirby sig if some folks gave you shit for having it? ... Didn't think so

I think you need something for the Quick Links on the left... especially the last two links. "Music" and "Biography/Misc" almost vanish into the background art, so perhaps a borderless table with a semi-transparent background for each row could be used to help them stand out more, without blotting out the BG art.

No problem. At nearly a year since its last post, I'm not surprised you didn't know about it But never fear a little necro-bumping if it's actually adding something. No one will bite your head off... I think...

Yeah, I brought up that unreleased zip last year here. We named a good amount of them, but not all of them.