I was bored and on Youtube, watching this series called "Kingdom Hearts Crazy Files" and saw the videos were credited to here. So I came by and had a look around.
Good luck with that. The freshman tried to foil our senior pep rally by joining in the tagging battle. What that means is that every year at Thanksgiving we held a pep rally. Classes were usually the following colors: seniors=black, juniors=blue, sophomores=red, freshman= white or green, depending on how much we liked them. Upperclassmen could tag underclassmen using their colors, and we used anything we could get our hands on (I fronted a battery of Super Soakers filled with watered down black paint). The freshmen when I was a senior decided they'd be the first to tag back, so they tried tagging upperclassmen using baby powder, chalk, and white out. They failed so hard they crashed and burned.
Thanks for the update, Mike. Sounds like I'm going to need Kleenex while playing this game, if it's going to be such a sob story.
We also found that out the hard way when we first wanted to see what it was like. Big mistake.
Ok...do you know if someone changed the sounds on your computer? Few people know how to do this, but if you download sound files (like WAVs), keep them in a easy to find folder, and open your control panel, you can replace the Windows default noises with the WAVs; for exmaple, I have Homer's "Doh!" as an error message. Somebody might have put the siren on your computer so when some process finishes loading the siren goes off as a prank. Other than that, I'm quite stumped.
It was...until you turned the lights on. Retina-burning goodness.
Tales of Symphonia, but mostly because it's the only one I've got and the only one I've been able to beat.
So let me see if I understand you...you hear a siren if you ry to get a video or game on the internet to load? Only guess I can make is maybe you have something installed on your PC that's trying to block the video/game, and the siren is a warning of some sort, like "Hey!This stuff's bad! Abort!ABORT!". I've never heard of a program doing that before, which is stumping me. What do you have installed for spyware removal/antivrus programs? Give 'em a scan on your system just to check for anything funky, and see if one of them is blocking Javascript or Runtime things from the Internet. Also, do you live in a suburban or urban neighborhood? Sirens, if I'm correct in assuming so, are about as regular an occurance in an urban environment as anything. Maybe you're just mixing up the sound while you're using the computer.
Senior year of high school we tinfoiled the band teacher's office. Everything in there was coated in tinfoil: the desk, the file cabinet, pencil cup on top of the desk, pencils in the cup on the desk, ceiling fan. Only thing we didn't foil was the lightbulbs in the ceiling fan. That was fun, but a mess to clean up afterward. I don't know what I'll do for my senior year of college. I need ideas.
I didn't believe it at first, until I saw this thing staring at me while on a day trip up to New Hampshire. Not wanting to give it a miss (because it was rather hard to ignore this thing blaring at you), I went over to try it. Here's what I noticed. The Machine The game itself looks exactly like that picture up there, but when I first saw it I saw it from the back and mistook it for another DDR game. When I got around to the front of it, I understood what it was. Those two guitars are heavy. They weigh about as much as the real thing and are modeled after the Kramer controller used in GHIII. If you look closely, you'll notice something's missing: no whammy bar. For me, that was a major disappointment, because I like using the bar on a hold note to get Star Power. Also, it took a bit more effort to tilt the guitar up to activate said Star Power. My biggest gripe though - and it might be because of the arcade I played this in - was the price. It costs $1 per play, and you only get to pick one song. Compared to the DDR machine behind me, which cost $.75 to play and could net you 3 songs, GH seemed rather pricey. For 2 people to play, it was a dollar per person. It would cost you $6 to play 3 songs. That's a lot of quarters. The Gameplay So I caved and decided to take the game for a whirl. There's 50 songs to choose from, from GH III and World Tour. The characters are all the ones from GH III, including unlockables such as Slash. I didn't choose single player mode so I didn't see what was offered there, but Multiplayer Mode offers Face Off, Pro Face Off, and Co-Op. There was a lack of Guitar Battles, which I feel could have been a selling point for this game. While playing, I missed more often than I hit, either because the game was slightly out of sync, or because the controls were so new they were still sticking as opposed to my well-worn guitar back home. Missing was even more insulting because the notes were exactly the same as their home-console counterparts. When I would get Star Power, just enough to fill the meter halfway, a message would show up on the screen telling you how to activate it. It was distracting and in the way, and didn't disappear after a set period of time. When the song was over, as I mentioned before, it takes you to the title screen and asks for more credits. I was half expecting it to give you a second song if you did over a set percentile, much like how DDR will let you continue if you score over a certain grade. But it doesn't. You get your score, see the high score board, and game's over. So while it was interesting to see them take a home console game to an arcade rather than the other way around, unless you have enough pocket change to make your pants droop, it doesn't seem worthwhile to me.
So is that basically the same as a game guide that we'd see in a game or book store?
Huh. 13 days. Organization 13. Sorry, random observation. But cool find.
I'm sigging that. That's a classic.
My senior college roommate is graduating tomorrow afternoon. She's a Sociology major. It's kind of wild to think we entered school together (she was a transfer when I was a freshie) and now she's poofing. Ok, so it's not a high school graduation, but she's still a 2009 senior, in a sense.
Think if I ask them they'll make a toboggan peripheral, or a luge(sp?) one? Nothing puts you in the game better than lying prone on a hunk of plastic, wires, and batteries.
Totally loving the second poem now too, bud. Very nice.
Congrats, you have indeed topped me. I would have left sooner myself but unlucky me had a final on the very last day to have one.
A treadmill thing? That's what I just pictured....
D'aww, we missed you too. Nice to see you haven't disappeared.
You know what, nix my last post. I'm reading The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster now. I found it at Barnes and Noble today and I honestly haven't read it in almost 10 years. Feels good to get a chance to pick it up again. Any Lewis Carroll fans out there will want to give this a read; it's very Wonderland-esque.
