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In the PSX:
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Nothing
AC too fun.
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In the Genesis:
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Shining Force
AC too fun.
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In the Gameboy:
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My cousin's copy of Pokemon
DIE!
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In the SNES:
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Civilization
AC too fun.
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In the SMS:
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Phantasy Star
Always.
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In the NES:
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Nothing
AC too fun.
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In the Saturn:
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Nothing
No games yet
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In the N64:
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Nothing
AC too fun.
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In the Dreamcast:
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Soul Calibur
This victory strengthens the soul of... Sid Meier!
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Googleshng - February 29 '00- 1:30 Eastern Standard Time
I just had the delightful experience of inflicting my wrath upon
a mob screaming for my death. Good times were had by all. No, I'm not being sarcastic! It's
true! I guess you had to be there. Anyway, a couple people asked where the link to the release
dates are. Well, I DID just link to it in yesterday's column, but the standard way to get there
is through the news link in the big navigational thing up top.
By the way, this is the kind of day that only happens once every 200 years. For those of you
who don't care, there's a leap year every 4 years, except for every 20 years, except for every
200 years. Unless I scrwed those up because I'm tired. Well, who cares, let's get going.
Oh yeah, the reason I was asking about Fox Trot yesterday is that someone was telling me about
the plot thread of the last couple weeks which is so similar to the long plot thread I ended in
my cheesy little comic strip a couple months ago. So I spontaniously put a rant
up. Anyway, this morning a bunch of people sent me links to online comic archives, but the best
one is definately this. Updated daily, and
it's all in color some how. So, I saw the strips in question, funny.
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What's with all the poetry lately?
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Dearest Googleshng:
Enclosed is a sonnet for you.
O, slime of mine, who in the morning dawn
illuminates itself with paleish gold.
Do you, like salmon, frolic home to spawn,
or do you flicker, fade, and turn so cold?
How you can live, my friend, I'll never know.
You seem to have no lungs... how can you breathe?
Do you, like seeds, stay warm beneath the snow,
Or do your spells provide some cold relief?
My Googleshng, I wonder how you are
so loved, so hated, by admirers who
do naught but sit and worship from afar,
the firm, proud god that we may call the Goog?
Until this moment, no-one understood
The purity of you, the love, the good!
Silkenray The Goddess of Poetry?
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Googleshng:
I have a program called Shakespeare in a Toaster that randomly
generates sonnets. It's probably old enough to have been made into a Java applet on a
page somewhere.
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Old Stuff
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Hey Google,
You know what would be pretty useful for your column? A search engine!
No... wait... where are you going?
Hang on, just listen. I don't know how complicated one of these things
could be, but there are all those people who ask the same things that you
might have answered before (like, what does fithos lusec wecos vinosec
mean, etc.), and if you had a search engine through the archives, people
could type in keywords and see if their questions have been previously
answered.
-Folken
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Googleshng:
Interesting concept, I guess it wouldn't be too hard to write
a little script in say, Perl or Java to look for certain words in old Q&As, if anyone's
REALLY bored, go ahead and make one, I'll post it.
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Sound Tracks
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'sup goog,
I don't know why I'm writing in response to xenochick's question, I'm sure
you'll get a kadjillion letters, but I feel compelled. There's two xenogears
CDs that you can get, the original sound version and then the arranged
album, Creid (I assume she means the OSV when she says 'instrumental'?).
Both kick ass. Both are available at http://www.gamemusic.com. There's also
a book of arranged piano music, but unlike the final fantasy piano
arrangements, it isn't accompanied by a CD. At least not that I know of. As
for finding the xenogears perfect works book on ebay, dude, only go there if
you're willing to pay upwards of 180 smackers. Damn scalpers.
--Glass
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Googleshng:
There you have it.
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Title Quote
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Magic Knight Rayearth! Even I know that (well, I do have all 5 volumes of
the 1st series, and all of the manga in 2 1/2 years worth of MixxZine...)
But WHY is Presea spelled "Precia" and Cephiro spelled "Cephero?" Is this
how they're spelled in the Sega Saturn game? Geeeeez! I thought that Mixx
naming Caledina "Guardina" and a fansub calling Ferio "Phellio" was STUPID,
but...?
Believe me, if ya don't have any rabid MKR fans down your throat now, you're
gonna have them.
Ribby ~@-@~
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Googleshng:
Well sorry, I was going from memory. Anyway, here's your
tilde: ~
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Shining Force
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Hey Googleshng,
I remember you saying a few weeks back that Anri ruled. Um, excuse me, but
when does she start ruling? She never stays alive long enough for me to
level her up. Am I doing something wrong? Oh yeah, Domingo rules, after
you level him up some. High HP and defense...a very nice combination!!
-MagusAkaAlex
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Googleshng:
While it's true that when you first get Anri she dies if you
look at her funny and it takes a while before she learns her first multitarget spell,
it takes surprisingly little character building before her defense goes through the
roof. That combined with all the many ways in which mages are unbelievably degenerate
in that game makes her a tank if you actually give her a chance. Plus she gets a solid
black cloak and a floating staff when you promote her! 8)
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Hypocricy
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Number 1134 of the Q&A Host Collective: Googleshng,
Have you noticed that readers of RPGamer's Q&A column seem to be much
more interested in asking questions about the Q&A columnists rather than about
RPGs?
I've noticed this due to the fact that I've been on vacation in Florida for the past
week without Internet access, and have spent the last few hours wading through all
the columns I missed while I was away. The first thing I noticed was that Paws got
at least 3 notes per column asking, "What do you think of SaGa Frontier 2?" In
fact, most letters since Thor's demise (and possibly before, my memory's not too
good) have been mostly "What do you think of [Blarg]? If you had to choose
between [Blarg], [Sexypants] and [Crabbit], which would you choose? Are you
male or female?" I guess the 10 or 20 magazines written by people who get paid
to do nothing but review games isn't enough; the only reliable source is a
hermaphroditic slime or an anthropomorphic kitty cat.
I know this little ramble sounds cynical, but I'm not really complaining (much).
RPGamer's Q&A still offers a service by telling readers what to expect from
games, and there is the occasional tidbit about name origins and where to find so-
and-so, but I kind of miss having someone around who you can ask something and be assured
they'll do their best to research it, rather than say "Ask Mark" or "Ask
the Readers". I guess all I'm trying to say is, Q&A is no longer about Q&A, it's
about weird crackless women, and anybody who thinks otherwise is missing the
point.
Don't worry too much about it, though... I just felt like bringing it up.
(On a side note, I have noticed that this sort of thing has been clearing up a lot
lately, so I'll probably get flamed just because of the bad timing for writing this.)
Brentai the Hentai
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Googleshng:
You realize of course that you're writing this letter adds to
the very problem it complains about. Anyway, you have a fairly interesting point. On
the one hand, most letters I get don't seem to ask very serious questions, but on the
other hand, letters past a certain ammount of seriousness aren't my department. If you're
stuck in a game, that's what the walkthroughs are for. If you want to know about an
upcoming game, that's what news and new media are for. Broken link? The webmaster mailto.
Really the only questions I should be getting are obscure trivia, like which came first?
Phantasy Star or Dragon Warrior (it depends on whether you mean the US or Japan), or
heck, actually Q&A IS for handling stuff like weighing the pros and cons between game
A and game B. I'm just rambling, so I'll just shut up now.
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