The Coop

Dragon Age: Origins

Because you find insanity and horrific mental images cute?

Actually, in my opinion of course, video games aren't as fair as you're making them sound... or at least, not all of them are. Ask around about how many times people have lost a life because of hit detection that's not 100 percent perfect, or because of regenerating enemies that suddenly pop up and gun you down because you made the screen scroll back a little (piss off Ninja Gaiden). There are variables in games, especially "sand box" ones, that can result in any number of things happening... many of which mirror what would happen in life if you were to do them (like say... firing a rocket at a police car after gunning down five hookers and stealing a firetruck). Life, similar to a game, is about meeting the challenges thrown at you. Some you'll make for yourself, while others will be forced upon you. Meet them, and you'll move forward. Fail at them, and you're going to have some problems. The main difference is, you can always reload a savestate if it's needed in a game. But in life, you have to go through the slow and sometimes painful process of getting back what was lost because of your mistakes and failures (respect, trust, love, friendship, money, etc.). ... And now that I think about it, life is really more fair than games in a way. In a game, you can always simply do over what you fucked up. You can't do that in life nearly as readily, making the idea of "reaping what you sew" (what many would consider fair) more in play. If you screw up, you pay the consequences. There's no reset button to hit, and no "do over". You deal with what happened, and move forward as best you can. But games let you break that rather well known saying with a simple button press, making things less fair, as it instantly gets you out of the trouble you caused, and the mistakes you made. Keep in mind, this is just one small area. There are a metric fuckton of areas that can be discussed regarding what's more fair in a game and life, and the scores of variables that surround them. The "reap what you sew" concept was just one thing that came to me as I was typing after reading your post.

H is for...

A flashback Bagel wanging

I just want to point this post out again for anyone interested in Sega Genesis music. Kudos for doing it atmuh.

F is for...

Perhaps you should both check the end of the previous page... you know, just in case something's there

The game Xevious is pronounced zeh-vee-us, so my guess is zeh-zeks.

Holy shit there are a lot of projects in need of mixers

Guess I'll have to resurrect this...

And the music from Wings of Wor has a number of good tracks as well (like both from Round 4, among others).

If it's from a first-person perspective, it won't matter to me. I'll see who has the most interesting abilities, and go with that. But if it's something where the character is always in front of you, I'll choose the female character. I'd rather have a nice feminine polygonal ass/figure leading the way through the game. Fran was the lead in my play through of Final Fantasy XII for that very reason (not to mention, she can kick some serious ass once she gets leveled up).

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Hang-On GP: BGM 4 (Sega CD version)

Where's the Mountain Dew dispenser?

Not that you can ever have too many, but in this instance, there's one too many...

A few more tunes... Batman: Ending Super Fantasy Zone: Opa-Opa Super Fantasy Zone: Mango! Super Fantasy Zone: Dreaming Tomorrow Super Fantasy Zone: Fresh Melon