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General / Happy berfday, google!

« on: September 27, 2005, 08:09:09 am »

Today, Septermber 27, 2005, is the 7th year that GOogle has been in being.

You don't have to ask just Lazlo to hear how great google is.



HERE'S TO ANOTHER 7, GOOGLE! *streamers, fireworks and roman candles go off*

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General / The one stop Spam Station

« on: September 20, 2005, 07:46:33 am »

So I wasn't smart enough to think of my own title for this. SHUT UP! Blatant hacks from MMtL are funny, and I say so, cuz people like me gauldangit!

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General / Tape notes on Protoman's fridge

« on: September 20, 2005, 07:44:59 am »

*tapes "Where's the milk!?" on his fridge*




[this thread is totally not a hack of Pirate's one on MMtL >_>]

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General / The War of TPH

« on: September 20, 2005, 07:43:51 am »

I hereby declare war.....

Swiftman vs. Lazlo Falconi!

[just a general RP fight, mainly between me an' Lazlo, but anyone can feel free to pop in and join]

Yahar! *swings a salmon at Lazlo's face*

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General / The great TPH rectification

« on: September 20, 2005, 07:42:16 am »

As of late, a couple long time members and goers of TPH have left the forum.

Why?

Reasons of constant spamming, off-topicness is EVERY topic that comes up, n00by new members, such and such. The general quality of TPH has fallen, but with the help of you all, we'll fix that, and bring Trigger and Herb, two of the oldest members here, back in full swing!

What my plan is.......

Instead of having every damned topic getting to be an RP fight and spam war, we'll organize things.

I shall create the topics in which to post in. Feel free to make one that I may have missed, however.

What I need from you.....

I need you all [totally not Laqzlo when saying this. *cough*] is to stop being so spammy in general. A Little won't hurt much, just.... uhm.... HEY!

Just post like SuperYoshi, just more often than him! He always manages to stay on topic and stuff, yet still manages to retain a sense of awesomeness around him.

Just lower the spam, stick all spammy things to the appropriate topics [we already have one for Starfox quotes] and hopefully you all can keep those topics bumped enough to make newer people use them.


Now then..... Any thoughts on this? Different outtake? Hm?

[and yes, I did change my avatar to a roman god on purpose for this occasion.]

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General / Random topic #8675309

« on: September 18, 2005, 02:24:24 am »

Nah, me'n Lazlo can keep it going. But as Lazlo says, I'm the lifeblood of TPH. Without me the place dies. This has, unfortunately, been proven on several occasions.......

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General / HHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRBBBBBBBB!!!!

« on: September 16, 2005, 06:54:58 pm »

yo, d00d! Herb, where ya been? Finally see ya back. C'mon, walk with us, talk with us. Where ya been, dude?

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General / Sig Quest

« on: September 14, 2005, 11:36:22 pm »

I've gotten slightly bored with the sigs around here. MINIONS! *claps hands* CHANGE YOUR SIGS, FOR THE GOOD OF TPH!

Except you, Lazlo. Yours is good enough, and you can't get rid of that "Lazlo Falconi Classic" gif either.

Same goes for you, Peaches. You can't get rid of that Treasure sig. NEVER.


The reason behind this descision?

I did it, so I guess other people can too. Help keep this place more showy and up happening, making a slightly fresh new look.

[as a note, if you want to read Snowcraft without asking me for the word document, the image in my sig leads to another forum that has all the Snowcraft story relatively uninterupted, unlike the Snwocraft thread here on TPH.]

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General / This idea made MY HEAD A'SPLODE

« on: September 14, 2005, 07:33:32 pm »

As I was on the school bus today [YOU SO VERY BUS!] I was listening to the Corneria theme mp3 Lazlo had given me on my diskman. Whilst doing that, I felt the bus accelerate to get through a light. Whenever that happens, I imagine the Pyro-GX afterburning along the street.

At that moment, the picture of the Pyro-GX and the Corneria theme made me hit a great idea...

Once I got home I immediatly set forth to make the image to fit my dream.

Take a whiff:



I now really want to find a rom hacker and hack into the Starfox SNES rom, to make the ship the Pyro-GX instead. Have the same lasers, weapons and missiles of the Pyro-GX, only in Star fox.

But why stop there?

Why not add all of TPH into it?

Here's what I thought....

Pilot - Ship

Swift - Pyro GX

Lazlo - Arwing

Trigger - Arwing also [or whatever]

Jody - Something awesome

Jehuty - Jehuty mech [a one-time summon skill, maybe. Wipe the area clean]



That's all I got going on thoughts for now. More may come, and I'll work on more screenies for that idea.

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General / Peasentcraft

« on: September 13, 2005, 05:37:11 pm »

This is a little something I wrote for social class. Its purpose is to explain in detail how difficult it was to live as a peasent in the medieval days. I think I explained that point nicely...........

Anyways, take a whiff:





   “Eh?”
   Denn awoke to a strange sound. He lifted his head and looked to his feet. He saw nothing, but the sound continued. He got up and looked around the floor.
   He found that a rat was chewing on his working shoes.
   “Bloody ‘ell!” He cursed loudly and grabbed his walking stick.
   He took a half-asleep swing at the rat from behind. Luckily it didn’t see the pointed stick coming, and with the hefty swing it flew in the air and smacked against the wall. It bounced off the wall and lay on the floor, unmoving.
   “Oy, ‘un! Got a live ‘un ‘ere fer supper!” Denn yelled out and went to pick up the rodent.
   His wife Lona stuck her head out and into the bedroom. “Do ye?”
   Denn picked up the rat by the tail and showed her. “Eeyup!”
   Lona gave a small squeal. “Ooohhh! We’re eatin good tonight!”
   Denn tossed the dead rat to her. She made attempts to catch it, all failed though. She picked up the rodent from the grimy floor and carried it to the kitchen.
   Denn gave a hearty laugh and put on his boots. He pulled a dead mouse out of it first, then stuck his foot in again. He stood up, stretched a little, then reached for his filthy coat, brushed a couple fleas off it and adorned it upon his shoulders.
   After properly dressing, he walked into the kitchen and found his wife and three children were sitting on the floor eating breakfast.
   Denn sat beside Lora, took a slab of bread and began to eat it. The children ate smaller portions of bread, and a little cheese on the side. They scraped the mould off before taking a bite.
   After breakfast, Denn kissed his wife, walked for the door-less exit and left the meager mud building to do work in the fields.
   Denn walked not too far before he met his neighbor, friend and fellow worker, Jiem.
   “Oy, Jiem!” Denn called out from a distance and waved. Jiem rested his shovel and took a short break, waving back to Denn.
   Taking his time, Denn meandered through broken fences and rocks to the manure wagon Jiem was shoveling into. A large pile was already pre-made a short distance away, but there was only one shovel. Denn scooped up some manure in his arms and carried it to the wagon, then went back for another load. Jiem had the shovel, and thus hauled more than Denn did.
   Once the wagon was filled, Denn gripped the two handles on the front and pulled the wagon forward slowly. They went along the lines of crop, still in the very early stages of growth, and with the shovel Jiem scooped out the manure onto the lines of crop, fertilizing the soil.
   They continued working like this for several hours, occasionally switching places between shovel and pulling.
   The field that they were working on was massive, and they only could cover half of it with fertilizer before it got too dark to work. After that they parked their wagon and shovel then returned to their homes.
   Denn walked in to see his wife standing alone in the kitchen, holding a wooden stick, propping a metal cook plate that they had fortunately ‘acquired’, roasting the dead rat over an open flame.
   Denn stepped into the kitchen and took a big sniff of the air. “Smells great, ‘un!”
   Lora smiled to her husband. “Thanks! It’s turnin out great.”
   He walked over to his wife, still smelling the air gleefully. “Where’re the kids?”
   “Them’re still working for Lord Azerael, in his there castle place.”
   “A’ight. I’ma just gonna take me working clothes off.”
   And so Denn proceeded to his room and shedded his filthy clothing and put on his not-so-much-cleaner home clothes. They were the only two outfits he had, and during the bitter winter he had to wear them both at all times.
   Later that night, when the children got home, they enjoyed a rather delightful dinner of roast rat, bread and the rare delicacy, goat’s milk. With the hearty meal, Denn and Lora slept wonderfully, for the first time in weeks they felt relatively full.
   And it all began again the next day….





Short, sweet, and written in under an hour. Yeehaw.

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General / OH NOEZ! MY PHOTOBUCKET BEEN HAXXORZ'D!

« on: September 09, 2005, 08:23:41 am »

WHO IS BEHIND THIS DASTARDLY DEED!? ANSWER, HIETHEN!

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General / Load This

« on: September 04, 2005, 08:05:48 pm »

Today I read something most....... Interesting.

When the original Half-life came out in 1999 – good lord, ahs it been that long? – I sacrificed many, many otherwise productive hours playing multiplayer deathmatch online. I still have the layouts of classic maps like Crossfire, Bounce, Datacore, and Boot Camp taking up valuable space in the folds of my brain, even though it’s been years since I stalked their virtual corridors.
Well, looks like that knowledge is going to come in handy again. According to 1up.com, Valve is preparing a slightly graphically tweaked version of the original Half-life deathmatch experience to Half-life 2 owners, using the company’s software download service, Steam.
The updated version of Half-Life’s deathmatch mode will include 11 of the classic multiplayer maps that us old-schoolers know and love, and should be out in a matter of weeks. It’s kind of pathetic just how much this news excites me. No, actually, it’s REALLY pathetic.

-Steve Tilley, Game for Anything, Edmonton Sun, Sunday September 4

If he thinks that being able to play old Half-Life maps in Half-life 2 is pathetic, then what would he say to someone like me, someone who plays age-old games like Descent and Phantasy Star on a regular basis still? If it's considered pathetic to play old maps on a new game, then how are old maps in old games that came out before PATCHES even dammit?

How am I looked upon in the gaming Community? Is TPH amongst the last places for acceptance of my kind on the internet? Not even at the Planet Descent forums are old Descent players that common. They're mostly Descent 3 fanboys that haven't even played the original at all! And that's on a Descent Shrine site!

Am I just some old person in a young body that should be allowed to exit me? Should I stop playing old games and let that part of me wither and die out? Would it make TPH the better place if I did?

I'm leaning on yes.........

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General Games / What is your favorite game company?

« on: September 02, 2005, 07:39:42 pm »

Sure, we can argue on the best games. But what company is the best?

I personally, rate them in this order:

1. Origin [privateer, Ultima, etc]
2. Paralax [Descent, nuf' said]
3. Epic Megagames [One Must Fall, Jazz Jackrabbit, and more]
4. Microprose [Civalization, Master of Orion, the rest o' dem Sid Mier games]
5. Blizzard [Starcraft. Need I say more on this company?]

Now then.... It's your turn!

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General / Happy 100th, Alberta

« on: September 01, 2005, 11:40:24 pm »

Many of you don't know this.

I'm actually not very Canada proud.

DUN DUN DUN!

It's a true story.

I am FAR more loyal to my home province of Alberta. The main reason that I'm as Canada proud as I am is because Alberta is part of Canada.

Alberta has no debt, PLENTY of surplus money, a rapidly increasing in quality school system, better wages paid than other provinces, actualyl SANE politicians (this, peeps, is the biggest of all. Ralph Klein is better than your children [and Bush too.])

And, 100 years ago today, Alberta was established as an official province of Canada. 100 years ago today people, my home land and pride came into being.



Here's to another happy 100, Alberta. *stands and salutes*

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General / Sky High: TPH Chronicles

« on: August 31, 2005, 02:06:53 am »

I saw the movie Sky High today. It's about a kid who is the son of the two biggest super heroes around, so he goes to Super Hero High School, better known as Sky High. There the kid finds out that despite his two super parents, he himself has no powers. Then the school gets taken over via an overly complicated evil villian plot, and the two parents are immobolized, so it's up to the kid to save the day. He then finds out he has both his fathers strength and his mother's flying. He then uses the help of some sidekicks to save the day in a glorius final battle.

Now, more on the school of Sky High itself.

Students are taken there via a bus. Yes, a normal, yellow school bus. It goes around the neighbourhood, picking up the kids. Then, on it's way to the school, it goes on a blocked off road and rides off of into the airborne, hovering school of Sky High.

After that, the freshman are taken into the gym to be introduced to Coach Boom, to be segregated into the Hero or Sidekick classes. If your power is good and powerful, then to Hero you go. If it can't do much, then you to go Sidekick classes. (think Hogwarts, only minus the year round staying, and the only houses are Hero and Sidekick)

Now, after your class is designated, you take several courses. Things like:
Math (If you are zooming at the villian at 40 MPH and he is barreling to you at 60 MPH, how long before you collide?)
Mad Science (build a freeze gun!)
and PE

One of the biggest thigns in PE (other than changing. You step behind a curtain, and a second later you're changed, ala many super hero stories) but the biggest game in PE is "Save the Citizen!"

Basically they strap a dummy (not you, Trigger. *shot) over a myriad of spinning, sharp blades. The timer is sett for 3 minutes. A team (usually 2) choose to be villians, and the others the heroes. The villians must prevent the the heroes from rescuing the citizen, and the heroes must rescue the citizen before the timer is up.


Now, after seeing this movie, I got a brilliant idea....

We'll do what we did with the ill-fated but still outragouesly fun Resident Evil: Moline. We'll take turns doing a novel-style mini-chapters, where we show our mishaps in the school of Sky High (we'll leave out all movie characters, otehr than the staff of the school)

Now, what I need from you all, is your Hero stats (we'll all be int he Hero class, right?)

I'll go first, for an example.

Hero name: Swiftman
Mild-mannered alter ego: Devon Kirk (or just Kirk, cuz that sounds sounds better than my snobbish first name)
Powers: Higher than average running speed and extremely high agility
Main personality traits: Slightly random, a reminencer (one who reminences), can be a charmer if needed, but doesn't want to be [nor has the need ]
Ulterior skills: Operation of old computers, useage and workage of mechanics, operation of new computers, and the BEST to have on a dodgeball team


Now then..... Everyone who wants to join, say your skills and stuff, and we'll get underway!

(quick quote stats for you:
Hero name:
Mild-mannered alter ego:
Powers:
Main personality traits:
Ulterior skills:
[/quick quote]


You can introduce whoever you want in the story, so long as the amount of characters doesn't go overboard. Write in standard novel format, ala Snowcraft and RE: Moline.

And most of all, HAVE FUN!