Quoting: KlaasBetween the cleanup I managed to get Lego: Pirates to 100%.

Well done mate.... Pity it was such a chore.......

Quoting: whizseIn the whole history of that video game, I don't think anyone ever got the same amount of joy and excitement out of that game as you do. You seem to have just as much fun off-screen writing these recaps as you do playing the game.

LOL thanks..... I think...... I do have a lot of fun writing the recaps..... It allows me to bring out my creative side...... Instead of just doing the races over and over and over again....... The added drama in the recaps is just like Days Of Our Lives..... Only good.......

Quoting: whizseOh dear, oh dear. This meme was so terrible I feel an urge to print a hard-copy, burn it, bury the ashes in consecrated ground and finally spread salt on the grave so it may never be posted again!

Ive got plenty more of them too.....

Quoting: whizseThe yellow secret finally revealed! What a beaut!

We had a bunch of beetles when I grew up. A white one, a red one, and a couple of blue ones. This was mine, never got a chance to drive it though. It served as a combination playground, club house, or sometime target for my bb gun.

Thanks...... I recently stripped the car down and resprayed it..... It is still yellow...... Just a slightly different shade now......

Your blue one looked quite nice and just needed some work done to it..... Complete with redneck bullet holes.....

Quoting: whizseCongrats on beating the game. RE: the "encouragement" from Spider. I'm not sure if what you are describing would be positive peer pressure or folie à deux...

LOL!!!....... A lot of people have said that I am delusional...... So that might be the case.......

Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: whizseWas there ever a Bomberwoman made?

Not in the Ms. Pac-Man sense, as such, but amongst his eight younger siblings, Bomberman has three sisters;

Once sex robots become mainstream....... There will definitely be a Bomberwoman made........

Quoting: whizseTo unlock all stages you need to place at least sixth or higher (in each difficulty). Some locations end with a super special where you race another car. This game mode have some sort of timing issue on modern hardware where it fails to register button presses for shifts half the time. Not too much of a problem on lower difficulties but it makes progress on expert quite a challenge!

Yeah I always hated that...... It was always such a massive problem with racing games........ I use to either use cheats or download a save file with everything unlocked.......

Quoting: whizseAnyhow, maybe it's time to play something newer, possibly even from this decade?

If your PC is powerful enough I can highly recommend WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship...... If you do get it...... Once in the game...... Go into the graphics options menu and change it from DX12 to DX11...... It runs really damn good after doing that....... DX12 causing really bad stuttering and game crashes...... And by default everything is unlocked from the start in quick race mode....... You can race any car on any rally stage.......

Quoting: whizseHow long have you been at it? My play through of the original was around 20 hours but I cheated a little bit with the cyberspace stuff.

I'm at about 20 hours. I'm not a fast gamer and I like to explore although I remember the latter half of the game progressing much faster than the first half. I do recall it being a very influential game. I don't really remember any scifi dungeon crawlers from that era.

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderOnce sex robots become mainstream....... There will definitely be a Bomberwoman made........

Ew.

Quoting: PenglingNot in the Ms. Pac-Man sense, as such, but amongst his eight younger siblings, Bomberman has three sisters;

Bombersisters, Bombersiblings. it's the Nuclear Bomberfamily! Try not to split them up, it wouldn't end well!

Quoting: PenglingWe can't think about winter-themed gaming yet - we've got Halloween to deal with first!

Halloween is sorted, I have Costume Quest 2 lined up!

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThanks...... I recently stripped the car down and resprayed it..... It is still yellow...... Just a slightly different shade now......

Huge kudos for fixing your car. I admire that!

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderIf your PC is powerful enough I can highly recommend WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship.

Little bit of shameless self promotion:

My only contribution (so far) to upstream Proton was helping make WRC 10 and 9 run out of the box, and make force feedback for steering wheels work. The Ff stuff took most of a weekend to figure out. In the end all that was needed was to flip a single bit from 0 to 1. Such a small patch - but sometimes it's all about knowing where to tap.

(...I still haven't played the game more than was needed to test the force feedback.)

Quoting: denyasisI'm at about 20 hours. I'm not a fast gamer and I like to explore although I remember the latter half of the game progressing much faster than the first half.

The remake appears to be a bit longer than the original so sounds like plenty more exploring left!

Quoting: whizseBombersisters, Bombersiblings. it's the Nuclear Bomberfamily! Try not to split them up, it wouldn't end well!

Heheheheheh, very good, very good.

Quoting: whizseHalloween is sorted, I have Costume Quest 2 lined up!

Since I'm the one who said it, I can now only respond that I wish I was that organised. I haven't thought of anything yet, aside from intending to use the Castlevania-themed costumes that're slated to return in Super Bomberman R 2 when I'm playing online in October.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderOnce sex robots become mainstream....... There will definitely be a Bomberwoman made........

Ew.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......

Quoting: whizseHuge kudos for fixing your car. I admire that!

Ill see if i can dig out some photos of the restoration and post them later......

Quoting: whizseLittle bit of shameless self promotion:

My only contribution (so far) to upstream Proton was helping make WRC 10 and 9 run out of the box, and make force feedback for steering wheels work. The Ff stuff took most of a weekend to figure out. In the end all that was needed was to flip a single bit from 0 to 1. Such a small patch - but sometimes it's all about knowing where to tap.

(...I still haven't played the game more than was needed to test the force feedback.)

You really should play it more...... I am really enjoying it...... Even though I am playing on a gamepad......

Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: whizseHalloween is sorted, I have Costume Quest 2 lined up!

Since I'm the one who said it, I can now only respond that I wish I was that organised. I haven't thought of anything yet, aside from intending to use the Castlevania-themed costumes that're slated to return in Super Bomberman R 2 when I'm playing online in October.

I keep going going back and fourth on what to play this Halloween........

Quoting: whizse

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThanks...... I recently stripped the car down and resprayed it..... It is still yellow...... Just a slightly different shade now......

Huge kudos for fixing your car. I admire that!

I found the photos........ I did it myself a few years ago with the help of my dad who use to be a panel beater/spray painter....... Inside the Spider Cave...... Also known as my garage......

I changed the colour from Hyundai Vivid Yellow to Ford Rapid Yellow....... And while the interior was stripped out I got the windows re-tinted......

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderI found the photos........ I did it myself a few years ago with the help of my dad who use to be a panel beater/spray painter....... Inside the Spider Cave...... Also known as my garage......

I changed the colour from Hyundai Vivid Yellow to Ford Rapid Yellow....... And while the interior was stripped out I got the windows re-tinted......

Thanks for sharing the photos. Mad respect for your work!

Hope the Ford paint doesn't let you down. They do say Ford stands for Fix It Again Tony...

Quoting: PenglingSince it's believed that golems may have subconsciously influenced the plot of Rossum's Universal Robots (a 1921 science-fiction play that coined the term "robot", albeit not quite as we know it today), Minetest's Iron Golem has definitely earned a place in my robot army.

I totally forgot to thank you for the clue in to R.U.R! The ebook available on Gutenberg have been added to my reading list!

Quoting: whizseI totally forgot to thank you for the clue in to R.U.R! The ebook available on Gutenberg have been added to my reading list!

Glad to point it out! Been a fan of robot-fiction for most of my life, mainly influenced by video games, which, at least in the case of numerous Japanese-made ones, tend to take an approach to sentient, sapient robots that's most similar to the "man-made humans" thing from the very work that coined the term in the first place* (barring R.U.R.'s robots being organic and modern-day pop-culture robots being inorganic), and it's always fun to direct folks to this sort of thing.

*If anyone ever tells you that a key point of robot characters is a lack of sapience and sentience, and they're just machines that can be switched off, the originator of the term disagrees.

EDIT: There's a 2018 production of the play on YouTube, as well, posted by one of the actors who appeared in it.

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