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  8. Posted

    I think it was an old Zork text adventure game that when typed in a naughty word you would get a message "Such languge in a high class establishment like this!"

     

    Pretty much the entire Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion...anything Sheogorath says is comedic gold! :D

     

    The facial expressions in any Punch Out!! game.

     

    The text in the original Metal Gear for the NES classic lines like: "I feel asleep."

     

    The expressions on the Battletoads when a boss is coming. Eyes bug out and Jaw drops.

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    I'm glad some other folks are pointing out that "the old ways" of discipline meant something other than abuse. There is a fine line between abuse and corporal punishment and what my grandmother did to me was not abuse it was my fault as I had been getting more out of line as most kids do and she brought me back to reality. Hitting with a closed fist or bruising or drawing blood is abuse and not acceptable.

     

    As i mentioned before some kids are intelligent and or mature enough that verbal warnings,groundings,and discussion of the problem is enough but sometimes you get kids who will not respond to anything less than physical correction.

     

    When I was growing up these were rules not just for me but for all the kids in the neighborhood:

     

    Until i was 18 I had to refer to all adults as Mr./Ms./Mrs. Smith never by the first name.

     

    You had to ask permission to set foot on someone else's property (to retrieve a ball etc...) there was no running through peoples yards.

     

    Profanity was not allowed period until age 18.

     

    If we acted up in school the nuns would punish us and when we got home we got punished again because we acted up in school.

     

    If we were shopping no running,no screaming,and absolutely no touching or picking up merchandise.

  14. Posted · Edited by kroogur

    The economy is in the dumper, people are losing jobs left and right, companies laying people off by the thousands, 10% unemployment rate, and you guys are complaining that you might see one advertisement in a video game.

     

    Perspective, people. Can we have some?

     

    Those ads represent someone else having a job. In fact, they probably represent 100 people keeping their job.

     

    I lost my job back in April and I finally got a new one and start tomorrow, why am I telling anyone this? because while sitting around waiting for callbacks for interviews I played alot of games and one thing that was nice about playing those games was the escape from the fear,slight depression and stress that I would not be able to find work it made me feel better by taking my mind off it all! :) Now that I have work the same applies I come home after a hard day at the job and I just want to relax and get away from it all.

     

    Except that I can't.....why? Because some %$^@$#^% at XYZ Game Company puts freakin commercials in my ^%$^%$# game! Thats just what I need to take my mind offa things! more crass commercialism..... I just paid $60 for the stinking game and I just want to enjoy it but I can't because even though they already got my money they continue the commercial assault and this is the absolute worst due to the game actually stopping to load and play this garbage if I had State Farm Insurance i'd be on the phone right now canceling my policy.

     

     

    *btw I'm not being grumpy with you Underball, i'm just venting about the ads in games.*

  16. Posted

    That's only the most awesome thing ever, I'd buy on (if it existed :P ) Aw heck,maybe I'll mold a 2600 case and make a new one outof genuine import chinese lead. That'll be the heavy part, now for the record player attachment to read games from :D

     

     

    Maybe fiber optic lights on the spikes and a built in lava lamp? :cool:

  18. Posted

    First off, calling your mother a bitch makes you a bad person no matter how much of a bitch your mother actually is. Dude, she's your mom. If I ever did anything like that to my mom when I was a kid, my dad would have knocked me straight through a wall.

     

    Second, how about you just stop doing things that would make your mother threaten to take your games away? I mean, I rarely showed up to school during high school and I still graduated in the top 10%, scoring over 30 on the ACT. Nothing about high school is hard, especially when compared to the real world.

     

    How does it make you a bad person if she has been a bitch towards you?

    The key thing here is you may think it to yourself but you do not say that is disrespectful and that is what makes one a bad person

     

    I'm just trying to understand this attitude which most Americans have. It doesn't seem to be the same way over here in Britian.

     

    I can't speak for Britain but the attitude you mention is certainly carried over from Europe my grand parents and great grandparents on my mothers side came from Poland and children were taught their place early on My family on dads side German, Irish, an Scottish and again children were taught their place in life early on and it usually meant heavy handed discipline if needed the neighborhood I grew up was heavily ethnic (Polish) and thats how my friends parents were raised and we were raised

     

    And it seems as though you think a dad knocking his son through the wall or hitting him (which is child abuse) for doing so is a good thing.

     

    Parents will know their children and what works for discipline things like grounding,time outs,talking the problems out etc... that works on some kids.With other kids the only thing they seem to respond to is corporal punishment and If that is whats needed then it should be the parents right to use it.

     

    Speaking for myself my folks divorced back in 1975 or so and my grandmother and mother raised me (mostly gram because mom had to work) And I can remember the one time I lied to my grandmothers face and she knew I was lying she slapped me so hard i thought my teeth on the right side of my mouth would be crooked. That slap did not hurt me nearly as much as when I realized that I hurt her by lying to her after all that she had done for me :( that hurts me more that the physical pain ever did.

  20. Posted

    Best thing about it is when you get done playing and power it down, you can yell "Jag off!"

     

    :D This is true! If I ever get the skills maybe I could program it Pittsburgh style and when it powers down it would say "Game over yinz jag offs" and for start up instead of the roar it would say "Game on an 'at" and of course the voice would have to closely match the late great Myron Cope! :)

  22. Posted

    I just moved into a new place and have limited room so I have been swapping my consoles out of storage.

    I just dragged my Jag outta the mothballs and well dang if it ain't everybit as awesome as I remember! :) I got in about 3 hours ago and have been playing nonstop. I'm not totally in love with the Jagpad but I have been having a blast.

     

    I am disappointed in my amount of games as I thought I had more but all I could find was:

     

    Alien vs. Predator

    Wolfie3d

    Cybermorph

    Troy Aikman Football

    Dino Dudes

    Tempest 2000

    Iron Soldier

     

    What are the cheaper games that I should be on the lookout for?

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