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Post by Dashe on Mar 10, 2013 13:04:32 GMT -5
Which one of us is the admin again? I keep forgetting. [/sarcasm]
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Post by Kyle on Mar 10, 2013 13:33:01 GMT -5
Which one of us is the admin again? I keep forgetting. [/sarcasm] Ooooh. Flaunting around the Admin Card, are we, Dashe? Tsk, tsk, tsk. Seriously, though. You shouldn't do that. It doesn't really help.
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Post by Dashe on Mar 10, 2013 14:26:11 GMT -5
Well, I think this cover is nothing and I found it randomly. If you want a topic for it, go on. You're the one who's retouching it, though. If I made a thread about it that'd be weird. Actually, since (IIRC) you're pulling the Volnutt off of the image, wouldn't it be best to post it as fanart with your PSP stuff? @all: Anyway, my point is, it's not against the rules to put it here, but the notion of threads getting sucked into this one like it's some kind of thread black hole is something we should all probably consider more carefully. Chat threads like this tend to have that effect on boards. I've seen them halt the creation of other discussions entirely before and warp the whole place into something completely unrelated to the main point of the forum, so it's definitely something to think about. There's been a general trend favoring adding information to existing threads instead of making new threads. Is everyone just worried about accidentally making dupes and necroposting?
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Post by Dashe on Mar 10, 2013 15:11:40 GMT -5
The drink from the Kattelox vending machine got its own thread, so there really isn't much to what constitutes a thread-worthy topic. We've even done threads on articles from other news sites about Mega Man Legends that have nothing to do with Capcom. I remember having this discussion with fAB about what constitutes front page news, too. There are really only a finite amount of things to discuss about these games, considering how much new information we've had about them pop up over the years, so we can certainly afford to be more lax in that area. It's like a beggars can't be choosers sort of situation.
With that train of thought, I'd imagine a generalized Legends random rubbish thread might end up having that same black hole effect that this thread has, only with every Legends board we have now. It's one thing if we've got chat items like, "My hair looks great!" disappearing into a huge thread, but considering where the series is right now, a giant thread for Mega Man Legends things would probably do more harm than good.
In any case, I wouldn't worry too much about it now. Just something to consider for future reference.
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Post by Loken on Mar 10, 2013 18:03:30 GMT -5
It's not like we have too many threads around the place! I guess that Capcom didn't tell them what Megaman Neo really was from the way that cover looks. I can certainly see why Megaman fans were upset with what Neo/Legends ended up being. Personally I'm very grateful for it!
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Post by Dashe on Mar 10, 2013 19:10:28 GMT -5
Me too. I'm not even sure MMLS would be a thing if Legends had been closer to what fans of the older games were used to.
...Actually, trying to picture a Legends Station built upon the foundation of a Mega Man Legends that's completely different in terms of gameplay and overall content is interesting, to say the least. All I can assert for sure is that there's a 99.9% chance I wouldn't have joined it at all.
I could see it going two ways, actually. Either Parallel Universe Legends turns out to be a serious seller due to meeting everyone's expectations for a Mega Man game and the series ends up running a good 6-7 years, or the controls wind up being so clunky and the platforming ends up so difficult that the series does even worse than the real Legends did and completely tanks, yielding a VERY desolate MMLS that barely gets into v2 before turning into a total ghost town.
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Post by Loken on Mar 10, 2013 19:33:23 GMT -5
Either way I'm pretty sure we'd still end up with the Capcom of today and it's apathy towards Megaman.
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Post by Bean on Mar 11, 2013 16:13:50 GMT -5
I'm kind of glad Capcom took some chances with the franchise to create series that weren't like the original 2D platformers, even if I'm not the biggest fan of them. It kept the series going while the original Blue Bomber was in exile for nearly a decade. I sometimes wonder what would have happened had they have been better at console transitions myself.
Mega Man 4 and up on the SNES instead of sticking to the NES, making more titles in the line of MM8 on the PS1, actually knowing how the PS2 worked when MMX7 came out, and not rushing out x games in y amount of years just to meet some sort of quota. They were not always good at handling the franchise.
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Mr. Foetus
Arukoitan
Disclaimer: Subject is not an actual foetus. Please stop congratulating his mom.
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Post by Mr. Foetus on Mar 11, 2013 23:05:59 GMT -5
I didn't really want to open a new topic for this, so instead, I'm posting this here. I had this thing saved for a while (found it just now). Probably everyone knows about this already, but maybe someone'll need a higher resolution scan... for some reason... like finishing the drawing. Is it just me or do Volnutt's fingers look like blue potato chips? Lay's® Volnutt Patater Chips. It took me seven years to insert that trademark symbol. My god, Proboards. Why does-- how easy it is to lose your train of thought in it --and then I baked the greatest cake of all time. Too bad the ducks never came back, since they'd forgotten their tuxedos.
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joshmnky
Miroc
Out of hospital after Hot Pocket Incident
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Post by joshmnky on Mar 13, 2013 22:55:51 GMT -5
If anyone is interested in hearing how my team's rocket flights went last weekend: Our rocket survived by two miracles on the first flight. It split in two, and the end with over $600 in electronics began hurdling to Earth under a chute that had failed to open. Out of the 25+ square miles of field, it happened to glance off a mobile irrigation system and the chute got caught, saving all the electronics. It sounded like a baseball bat striking a metal pole. When walking over to it, I felt like the other side should be coming down at about this time, so I scanned across the treetops and saw it disappear into another field. We never would have found it otherwise. On the second flight, half of the chute came undone (steel hook was violently snapped by ejection charge), but it managed to land safely with no other damage. There was one other college out there that day. I won't mention a name... but let's just say I don't think they found the crater.
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Post by Loken on Mar 13, 2013 23:04:21 GMT -5
I can't tell if this was a great success or not! Is this some kind of competition? If so how did you do?
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joshmnky
Miroc
Out of hospital after Hot Pocket Incident
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Post by joshmnky on Mar 13, 2013 23:21:13 GMT -5
This was the last available testing session before our last big paper and the competition itself. It's good that we could learn from these awful awful things now, and we didn't lose everything in the process. Launching with other colleges present has so far only increased my confidence that I'm on an S-class team
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Post by Loken on Mar 14, 2013 17:18:39 GMT -5
So what's up with the massive amounts of guests we have all the time now? Is this people interested in TLT or are they bots or something? lol I can't quite believe we have 26 guests right now.
EDIT: Message to guests: make an account!
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Post by Dashe on Mar 15, 2013 19:05:51 GMT -5
If the guests are legitimately unregistered human guests reading this thread, then I commend them on their diligence in sifting through the whole thing. You'd have to really be into MMLS to do that.
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Post by Bean on Mar 15, 2013 21:29:47 GMT -5
Yeah, they're definitely bots for the most part. I wouldn't be surprised if one or two were a lurker, though. You never know for sure, but Proboards does have issues with bots that the sign up procedure thankfully keeps them from spamming up the boards.
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