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Ban The User Above You!

Everyone is banned because Squee didn't create this thread.

Newbs, Noobs, and Newbies:

BrobyDDark said
Did it end with somebody actually getting banned?

Yeah I think Chazz or Manic might've gotten banned for a day or two. Haven't seen them in forever. No permas that I remember.

Newbs, Noobs, and Newbies:

I remember the fall of the "You're Banned Game" thread.

Pity party thread

Actually, turns out I got someone to cover for me at work last night. So we did go out to a movie and have a wonderful time. Then we came back and played a game of Cards Against Humanity with friends.

As far as evening outings go, 8/10, HTTYD was just as good the second time around.

Pity party thread

But it just can't fill the void.

When playing video games...

Kaga said
If you get "game over" and then the opportunity to use a "continue", and you use it, do you almost feel like... a ghost? Like, you ALREADY DIED but you keep playing. You weren't willing to just sit there and accept your death so you kept going - but because you'd already lost the game of life the whole thing feels hollow and almost meaningless. Like, on one hand you sort of want to finish what you started, that's why you chose continue, but on the other hand... you KNOW that you shouldn't still be moving forward with it, anyway. YOU LOST. Any "victory" now is kind of meaningless. You know it really shouldn't count.

Which raises the question, why put a continue in there in the first place? I know it originated from the old arcade games, where in order to accept that "continue" you had to put in another quarter - but that made sense. You had a real choice to make, then: either accept your loss, or desperately reach into your pockets and hand the machine more money so you'd have one more chance. If you kept losing, you'd eventually reach the point where you'd decide you'd spent enough money and it was time to throw in the towel. But with a game you own, there's no decision like that to make. It's just like... game over! Except, not really! Want to keep playing?

I just don't get it.

And yet I admit to using "continue"'s all the time. It still makes me feel like a ghost, though.

I ponder this query myself every time I die in Assassin's Creed by accidentally jumping off a building, except it respawns and "continues" automatically, so it's like I'm forced to go on living without any choice.

Electrons - A Story of Robots and Human Demise

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If you could

Become a Jedi.

Pity party thread

So I kind of had a date tonight, and it got cancelled.

So we rescheduled for tomorrow, but then I remembered I have to work because I picked up an extra shift.

And all I wanna do is wind down because this has been a helluva stressful week and I just want to have some fun. But I guess I can't.

How's your night going?

How to Train Your Dragon 2

9/10 would watch again several consecutive times.