Lurker > Jeff Zero

It's probably one of the last things I'd ever touch in the gaming world. I'm just really not a fan of racing games. But yeah, I'm sure it's solid.

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Why thank you. It looks lovely on my desktop.

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JEFF ZEROOOOOO

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Fair enough. A lot of games are unequivocally not for me. But I wouldn't call Forza "Dumbza" just because I don't care for it. I can appreciate why many do.

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From: OlDirtyNumbers | #461

Argh why can't my phone reveal spoilers.

Go into message detail if you can. That brings them up for me.

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Tracks of soun are deep
Mysterious, incomplete
You can track my soun

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Jolteon!

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Abandoning what I heard was an actually good game from Square this generation for a bland as hell (from the looks of it) Western game?

Fallout 3 was amazingly immersive. But if Skyrim doesn't do jack for you, then unless you really enjoy postapocalyptic works, Fallout isn't for you either.

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Aggron
Dewott

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From: junk_funk | #018

Will accept any trade offer for Abomasnow, Beartic and Mr. Mime.

Abomasnow

Get Serperior please.

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First up was the lighthouse episode. This one kind of intrigued me as a kid, but it really fell mostly flat now. I mean, you know. By Pokemon anime standards and all that. But yeah, I guess it was kind of amusing getting to see Bill, but that's just from a meta perspective. Hearing him rant and rave about how there might be more than 150 Pokemon, and how Dragonite is the only of its kind, really date those early episodes. Not the writers' fault, obviously, but apart from Team Rocket going vaguely sympathetic (and then proceeding to blast rockets at Dragonite...) the writing wasn't all that great in general here. Krabby's intro and Oak's tofu were alright.

In a complete turnaround, the Vermilion Gym episode was spectacular, and a complete riot for all those lovably wrong Pokemon anime reasons. So over-the-top, so terrifically Team Rocket as James and Meowth weep for Pikachu's courage and determination, such good Pokemon-anime banter between the heroes, the cheerleading Team Rocket scene was genuinely entertaining, the rematch was good fun (although I'm continually convinced this episode remains the reason why, fourteen years later, people still ask me if their Pokemon will ever learn certain moves if they evolve, and also, Pikachu has Agility already...!) and it was just an all-around great romp.

The three-part SS Anne story was up and down, but almost entirely up. In the first scene of the first entry, Team Rocket's masquerade as preppy girls was amazing, mostly because James with that wig, that skirt and that repeated jumping forward and going "cool!" was positively the finest hoot he's been thus far this rewatch. The little subplot with Ash and his Butterfree was decidedly weak, however, especially when you meta and realize he's losing Butterfree shortly, anyway. And I do mean shortly, even by this anime's standards. But hey, if he'd lost Butterfree here, then Butterfree never would have found his mate, so that's d'aww, I guess.

The Magikarp stuff was predictably rich, and seeing Giovanni for the first time was cool. Things go south, the captain of the SS Anne proves himself to be about as incompetent as you'd expect anyone written as an idiotic comic foil in the Pokemon anime to be, and in the second episode, Ash and friends -- as well as Team Rocket -- find themselves trapped within the sunken ship. Thankfully, science doesn't exist in the Pokemon universe, so they're completely alright. They work together to escape, leading to a funny little recurring gig where the heroes' Pokemon keep wrangling Team Rocket when they're told to "bring something back". Also, Magikarp evolves into Gyarados because James doesn't know the golden rule about Magikarp -- don't kick them. Of particular note were the honest-to-goodness, non-Pokemon fish floating around through a viewing gallery on the Anne. So they do exist...

The third part, with the Island of the Giant Pokemon, which is conveniently the episode's title, was much better than I remembered from ancient memory. Mostly because of the Pokemon-speech with all the subtitles. I really felt for Ekans and Koffing a little bit here, and I hope to see more of that in the future, but I'm... not counting on it. Squirtle was terrific here as well, and Bulbasaur was an Emobulba, but it worked. My personal favorite, Charmander, was the cute straight guy to Squirtle's prankster and Meowth's... Meowth. Anyway, it worked. I really have to wonder why all those blown-up amusement park Pokemon were allowed to do things like fire thunderbolts and shoot flames all over the island, just in case poor hapless children ever... oh, whatever.

OK, so at this point I'm going to go ahead and rate the first seventeen episodes, because why the f*** not.

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"Pokemon! I Choose You!" 7/10
"Pokemon Emergency" 6.5/10
"Ash Catches A Pokemon" 6/10
"Challenge of the Samurai" 4/10
"Showdown in Pewter City" 7/10
"Clefairy and the Moon Stone" 7/10
"Water Flowers of Cerulean City" 5.5/10
"The Path to the Pokemon League" 5.5/10
"The School of Hard Knocks" 5/10
"Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" 5.5/10
"Charmander, The Stray Pokemon" 7.5/10
"Here Comes The Squirtle Squad" 7.5/10
"Mystery of the Lighthouse" 4.5/10
"Electric Shock Showdown" 8.5/10
"Battle Aboard The SS Anne" 7.5/10
"Pokemon Shipwreck" 7.5/10
"The Island of Giant Pokemon" 7.5/10

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Flareon
Espeon
Serperior

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Right.

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Mega Man X, of course.

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what a bunch of junkos

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It's actually true though.

Dammit Vlado.

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Dat Mass

Effect 2

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Watched five of 'em tonight. Some thoughts later.

Glad you're uh, enjoying Best Wishes, Anna!

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From: Pram_the_Oracle | #008

I'm okay with people voting even if they only played one of the choices.

As long as they don't vote despite not playing either choice.

Yeah, I understand, but I've always tried to avoid voting unless I'm really familiar with both at the very least. Just a personal policy. It's probably cost a couple of my favorites the match... oh well. D:

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XD at Anri.

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From: MoreDinosaurs | #014

Love SG-1. Never got into Atlantis or Universe. Did I miss out?

Atlantis was good for a while, but never SG-1 level. It fell apart though. If that doesn't bother you as much as it bothers me, check it out. It also has much more connectivity with SG-1, so that's cool.

Don't watch Universe.

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Yeah, such a great line

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It's a shame I can't in good conscience vote without having played TWEWY, because Fallout 3 is mostly fantastic.

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Sounds good.

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Since this is Board 8, I fully expect at least two people to come in here and demand you watch whichever version has a nude scene, even though it feels to me (as it always had to the creators) that it clashes with the rest of the product thematically, in silly ways.

Also, the picture and effects look much better in the 2008 cut.

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From: Nevest | #006

Man..I loved SG-1.

Until Teal'c got hair.

It really did seem like the show went downhill when he got hair.

I loved Seasons 8-10 just as much. But yeah, that is a relative consensus. And by that, I mean you're certainly not alone.

Really, 7-10 were my favorite years, which is blasphemy in some circles, but not as rare as pinning "200" as one of the show's two best.

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From: Anagram | #004

Tag

I can't wait for when you reach the two best episodes in the series that no one disagrees are the two best (Window of Opportunity and 200).

LMAO. I really hope the latter is a joke. "Window" gets mad love, but "200" is considered pretty damn weak across much of the fandom.

Don't get me wrong, it's good. But yeah.

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Also, if those headdresses are cracking you up, and you're anything remotely like me, prepare to laugh your ass off at the insane melodrama cheese factor in a few of those first-season episodes. All I can say is, they were laughably awful so all was not lost, but thank god they were phased out going forward.

"Emancipation" is amazingly awful, by the way, and it's up like... third. It's... probably the worst garbage in the franchise, which is amazing as SG-1 occurs in the same universe as SGU.

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I'd go with the movie first. I don't actually like it all that much, but it is the beginning.

Also, watch the 2008 cut for Children of the Gods. It's better.

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I'd say July 4th Weekend could have played a role in that decrease for sure. Hopefully Casshern bounches back; it's one of the better things on there right now for sure.

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Erm, really? I could have sworn.

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Well, uh, all of those characters have been in GameFAQs Character Battles.

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I read this and imagined you talking to an asteroid colony.

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but it seems really silly to me that people would get this worked up about the Pokemon anime...

My friend... I treasure your naivety.

;)

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That's definitely the impression I generally got around that time as well. That's not to say there weren't true fans of the game. Obviously, they're here tonight. But mostly, it was just celebrations that the GBA got an original JRPG.

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They're pretty bad. And I generally play do play RPGs for their stories. I have seen far worse though. Looking back on things most people typically seem to think had at least average scripts, like Kingdom Hearts and Tales of Symphonia, I can't say Golden Sun's really agitated me much.

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He'll have modified his list 83 times between now and then, anyway.

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Golden Sun's always been really divisive in my experience. To me it's just really, really average. Not something I'll probably ever replay, but not downright offensively bad.

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At last, Dragonite has been bumped down enough to be someone's Pokemon. I can't wait until Season 23. That's when Ash gets a Salamence, which will actually be really cool.

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:)

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Great blurbs man.

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^ Naw, I wasn't. To me that just added to it. I used her like 70% of the time up until that point, and yeah, it stung, but it was just all the more compelling to me to end Sephiroth because of it. :P

Besides, FFVII's party levels up at half your experience as you go into battle without them, so it wasn't the end of the world.

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Hey Yoblazer
Ain't that mister mister
On the radio, stereo
The way you post ain't fair, you know

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It's messed up and symbolizes all things evil.

/MWE; but seriously, I don't care for it much even though I know why it is what it is

You can always list a reasonable price and mention that you're standing firm to it in the title.

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Here's Jeff Zero I guess

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/body-transformation-jeff-looked-up-to-the-last-action-hero.html

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do y'all have any them gangster style games for them gameboy nintendo pokemons?

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JEFF ZERO humbly hands his newfound BRACER OF COURAGE to KAHU, thanking KAHU for KICKING ASS.

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