Special K

Barron has this weird thing where he sticks up for all aspects of a celebrity he likes, like they're his personal friends or something. I actually think Cruise is decent and is very good at picking scripts. That doesn't mean he isn't acting like a complete retard here.

The flaming uppercut was the punch I meant. Took off massive amounts of damage, could be used over and over. I just remembered the animation of his special because it looked badass. It's been years since I played the game.

SoR2 is incredible, except the main char has that spinning flaming punch that you can pretty much use ad nauseum to beat the game.

I'm semi-competent at DDR, and I'm sure I'd be better if a practiced, but I'm also sure that a 6'4 280 guy flailing away at that game is cause for much pointing and laughing. I should get a home dance pad.

I actually hated the game with a passion, but I beat Beyond the Beyond. That game's terrible. You gotta understand though, there hadn't been an RPG in America since Chrono Trigger.

1. I know the difference, but i've often heard of psycology also encompassing the both, while there is a clear difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist. To be fair, from what I remember, Cruise specifically said psychiatry. But to dismiss chemical imbalances clearly shows a disdain for neroscience in general.

SJ is way too hot for him anyway. EDIT: Get Johans off me. *Snort*

I find it hilarious that you're able to discount an entire field of research after taking one class in it. And I don't take issue with him saying that Matt Lauer doesn't know about psychology, nor do I think he's evil or anything like that. However, it irks me that he makes these broad, sweeping statements, and doesn't back them up. In fact almost every concrete thing he says is wrong, or irrelevant.

Oh, can't forget this one. As a big white guy with a great sense of rhythm who's also really clumsy, Samba De amigo is the perfect halfway point. Girls love the game too. It's a Dreamcast game, instead of a dance pad, you have a little pad you stand on, and you shake maracas to the beat, in 6 different positions. The pad senses the height of the maracas, so you have three heights on each side. It's such a great game.

Heh, I think Tommy Dreamer used both. Although I stil have a bit of trouble discerning between the TFD and the Emeralf Frosion.

Where's all the Tom Cruise defenders now?

I liked the Pumpkins mostly for their awesome guitar work. Without James Iha it's going to be a real stretch. And last I heard, they were still talking shit to each other over the net about the Pumpkins breakup as recently as like a year and a half ago.

I voted McNuggets. I don't much like them, it's more in protest over the laughably overpriced chicken selects. You can go to any grocery store deli or diner and get real chicken strips with good-->decent fries over their wimpy strips, and disgusting fries.

I voted Cheddar and Sour Cream, tasty. However Wasabi is probably the best flavor. Mmmm.

He obviously doesn't know what he's talking about, and HASN'T done the research. He says chemical imbalances don't exist. Many of the drugs he rails against are specifically created to modify the balance of neurotransmitters in the brain. If they work right, they correct the balance of neurotranmitters, if prescribed incorrectly, they can actually create a chemical imbalance. Zoloft, for example, is a Seratonin reuptake inhibitor, I believe. Many recreational drugs do the same thing. Cocaine is a Dopamine reuptake inhibitor. Long time cocaine addicts can become depressed because after the brain has been flooded with Dopamine for so long it stops manufacturing it by itself at a normal level. This may be a chemical imbalance that the former drug-user is responsible for, but it IS a chemical imbalance. Morphine and the opiates work because they are artificial neurotransmitters. They essentially go to the brain and flood it with artificial endorphins (Endorphins = endorphic [naturally produced by the body] morphine, so called because morphine was discovered before endorphins). Again, this is a chemical imbalance caused by drugs, but it is a chemical imbalance. I'm sure when Cruise talks about having studied psychology, and constantly mentions electroshock, I'm sure he's only studied the excesses of the past. Just because doctors used to bleed and leech patients doesn't mean that the surgeons today are full of shit. Just because Greek physicists theorised that all motion was comprised of arcs and straight lines doesn't mean all physicists, or all Greek science for that matter is bunk. And I've read a large part of Dianetics. It's startly similar in its arguments to Tom Cruise's tactics. Make a contentious statement, say it's been scientifically observed/proven many times, don't back it up, don't footnote, don't name studies. It actually pisses me off. A religion taking the name of science absolutely refuses the scientific process. If a person demonstrates better behavior by taking psychiatric drugs, then by all OBSERVABLE means the drugs are worthwhile in treating the condition. All the touchy-feely shit Scientology employs is not scientifically proveable. Of course psychiatry is a difficult science. We are dealing with the most complex organ in the most complex organism in the known universe. That's why we continue to observe with an open mind. And L. Ron Hubbard is a fucking awful author.

Parappa is a fun and goofy game, but it's more a visual game than a rhythm game, it's much easier to just watch the button presses than to try to mimic the raps. A good rhythm game requires you to really be in sync with the music to succeed.

Bust a Groove 2 was really easy too. Anyone ever play Cool Cool Tunes? Now there's one hard motherfuckin' game. import only, though. Gitaroo Man on Hard was brutal as well. Frequency and Amplitude will always be my favourite rhythm games. Frequency has better music, Amplitude plays better. Hope there's a sequel to these one day.

Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage was a truly bad Final Fight Clone, but I got quite a bit of fun out of it, just because you can play as Venom stomping the crap of what looks like a bunch of bums and 16 year old kids. And the apparently obligatory women who whip you with their hair. I don't really love them, but if I see a light-gun game at an arcade, I always have to play a life or two, even if I know the game sucks. Games like Lethal Enforcers, that Jurassic Park game, CarnEvil, terrible games, but sometimes you just need to shoot some stuff, and they don't really make light gun games for consoles anymore.

That's not inconsistent at all. I said I'm surprised it's not on there, not that it should be on there. If they put #28 on there, why wouldn't they put 'no, I am your father'? At least 'no I am your father' is very very close to 'Luke I am your father.' Closer than "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" is to 'Play it again, Sam.'

Then why'd you post it in this thread?

One of the only meaningful things we can speculate on is part support. I heard Squeenix's going fully multi-platform. That's gotta be a big blow to Sony (like Squeenix or not, they hugely influence sales in Japan, hence they influence developers). Nintendo will have its awesome 1st-party games. I would assume most of the other big companies: Capcom, Konami, Namco, Rockstar, will go multi-platform. We may see an era where it really doesn't matter too much what system you own. Either that, or maybe Sony and Microsoft will start shelling out big bucks for exclusive rights to games.

The classics never go out of style. He looks like the Emperor from Star Wars.

^^^ I'll definitely be getting a PS3 eventually, but that's because my POS PS2 is breaking down.

It doesn't even hurt unless something goes wrong.

Ridiculously stupid ruling. The scariest part is that I'm sure 'fair market value' errs heavily on the side of cheap. Anyone who's looked at a blue book can tell you that.