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Let's plays are best when silly. Thus I can't get enough Raocow despite his stuff being 80% Super Mario World hacks. I really wonder if he's gonna play New Super Marisa Land eventually though.

Raocow?  Never heard of that guy.  Gotta check it out, thanks!

Hey, this guy actually translates stuff.  It's amazing that I don't know anybody else that even does this. 

We must kill them all, except ourselves.  Ourselves have justifiable reasons.

Quote from: ToonyMan on July 20, 2011, 06:56:07 pm

Quote from: SalmonGod on July 20, 2011, 06:44:14 pm

My dad grew up on the shore of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin.  Him and his brother would go for weeks long canoe trips in their mid-late teens and it was no big deal.  They weathered a blizzard and a tornado on their own in the wilderness while out on those trips.

This sounds fine.  I would do it with my Dad today since it's the summer and everything if I wanted to.

Hey hey, I was speaking of my Dad as a friend.  He would be the only person I know interested and he's not even my legal guardian anyway.  Plus I was thinking of him because he's the only person I know with a canoe as well. 

Quote from: ToonyMan on July 20, 2011, 06:56:07 pm

You are very lucky and should be grateful.  I believe the only reason nobody got in trouble is because nobody got hurt.

There are several factors here.  First, things really were tons more relaxed back then.  Today, the idea of incorporating that kind of thing into a school function wouldn't even cross anyone's mind.  People have lost their jobs or been expelled for even joking about such things.

Bombs are dangerous.  The reason school's don't allow explosives in their school is because somebody really could die.  I would put it in the same classification of guns if guns were more show-like.  I suppose the reason bombs aren't acceptable in schools now is because it's too jeopardizing to the people there.

Second, this was a very, very small town.  Everyone knew each other.  Everyone knew my dad and his best friend were the pyromaniac kids in town, and could laugh it off.

Well that's good then?  It would be easier to manage stuff like this in a smaller town, however not everybody has that option because some schools are in large towns were it would be nigh impossible to know everybody and laugh off that they almost injured you.  I don't think knowing somebody should be an excuse to let them be able to hurt you, but eh.

Third, they actually knew what they were doing and were aware of their mistake in advance, but that nobody would get hurt.  The other guy even secured himself a state fireworks license a couple years later, and has been working in academics at the University of Wisconsin Center for Nanotechnology for 21 years.  My dad's a pharmacokineticist who is globally respected for his work in medicine.  They weren't your typical stupid punk kids.

Aware of their mistake in advance?  I will congratulate them on predicting that nobody would get hurt then.  Although if they knew the accident would happen I would have halted the play if it was going on and fix the mistake before the accident occurred.

Quote from: ToonyMan on July 20, 2011, 06:56:07 pm

Quote from: SalmonGod on July 20, 2011, 06:44:14 pm

before agro-business was highly corporatized.

That's farm life.

Even farm life has changed a lot, though that's not something I can comment on with many specifics.  I've never experienced it myself, only seen bits and pieces, heard family who are still in farming talk about things, and compared kids growing up on farms today and their stories to what I know about my parent's childhoods.  Generally things are owned and operated by bigger businesses now rather than families and farmhands, and more and more farmlands slowly surrounded by growing suburbs.  There are still exceptions, but that doesn't mean much in the larger context.

Same, I can't really comment on this either.  It's a fact that farm life is decreasing rapidly each year and it may or may not bother someone.  It doesn't really bother me but for somebody who lived like so or at least knew somebody closely like so I'm sure it would be disheartening to see their childhood gradually phased out of normal daily living now.

Good job scum, I had no suspicions of any of you besides Vector but that was post-death I think.  I'm not gonna be a dick and try to sound cool like "I KNEW ALL THE SCUM" because I really didn't and I sucked bad, oh well.

Not really, those examples aren't very good.

My dad grew up on the shore of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin.  Him and his brother would go for weeks long canoe trips in their mid-late teens and it was no big deal.  They weathered a blizzard and a tornado on their own in the wilderness while out on those trips.

This sounds fine.  I would do it with my Dad today since it's the summer and everything if I wanted to.

His high school commissioned him and a friend to make a pipe bomb for a special effect in a school play.  It was supposed to just pop the lid off a trash can.  He kind of overdid it and turned the entire trash can into shrapnel and deafened the auditorium for a minute or two.  No one got in any trouble.  There's no way in hell that kind of thing would happen today.

You are very lucky and should be grateful.  I believe the only reason nobody got in trouble is because nobody got hurt.  Although I am certain an audience member complained about the noise from losing their hearing temporarily, they could have even been hurt past that if they were sick or elderly.  If I was part of the High School staff I would be apologizing so hard, good thing nobody got hurt as far as I know.

My mom grew up with second generation immigrant parents on a farm in the days before agro-business was highly corporatized.  That was an adventure in itself.  She was also given a lot of independence, including walking a few miles by herself to school from a pretty early age.

That's farm life.  There are still people growing up in more rural areas in the USA with this kind of life.  It's not something that everybody can experience anymore whether that's fortunate or not.  This is a case of society moving on with population growth and everything.

Refute my comments and/or provide more examples?

Quote from: ToonyMan on July 20, 2011, 05:59:20 pm

Yume Nikki is pretty good.  Do not spoil yourself and check a wiki or guide or anything.  That would ruin the whole game.  Also, check out Ao Oni too.

I watched a bit of an Ao Oni LP one day.
It looked kind of boring, and not very scary.
Although that may be different when you're playing yourself, and not listening to a brother and sister squeal and giggle while getting chased around. Every single time.

Yep, watching the game I would say is 1,000 times less scary than playing it.  I actually let out audible sounds of fear while playing.

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Ah yeah, I remember when my Mom and Dad had to travel all the way to the west coast when their cousin's sibling was stricken with an evil illness!  On the way they encountered an old man who taught them about life's hardships and near the end they saved a town of people who were being terrorized by a gorilla!  Life was so adventurous back then, I don't know how I live today.  I mean, it's not like my parents hung out and talked with their friends and went to school/work regularly right?  That would be so boring and stuff!  I know for a fact my Dad would have went crazy if he was restricted from driving his car off roads and through buildings, oh wait...no screw buildings!  Buildings are for lameos.

Why is this a big deal again.