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General Sonic / Re: TSC Race Night

« on: July 18, 2009, 07:19:09 pm »

I dropped out after the timer hit 30 seconds and I still hadn't passed Palmtree Panic's first Zone.
Sorry guys, I guess trying to do this not having played the game in so long and being very tired in the middle of the night was foolish.
I'd like it we could repeat such a thing during the day or in the evening though, as I was quite looking forward to it. :(

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 18, 2009, 03:52:11 pm »

Also this doesn't have anything to do with humour; he couldn't get the joke as he doesn't possess the background knowledge concerning the games of epicmafia we at TSC used to play a lot once ago.

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 18, 2009, 02:28:16 am »

No. I meant that you didn't get SonicAD's joke judging by your post.

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 18, 2009, 02:17:27 am »

ITT Cort doesn't get jokes
Also lynch genus

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 17, 2009, 02:30:11 pm »

WALKING STICK YOU SAY

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General Sonic / Re: TSC Race Night

« on: July 17, 2009, 04:12:43 am »

Perhaps I'll join in if I'm still awake then (which I usually am, but not always...). Don't expect me to perform well at 1:00 at night though.

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 17, 2009, 01:39:16 am »

This isn't thread necromancy, the last post was not even one day ago.
Posting three times in a row for absolutely no reason at all is a sin though.

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 16, 2009, 04:53:53 pm »

Blame my father. ThereÄs another one with the background sharpened and me blurred, I didn't even upload it tho.
Also there are some more of me in the batch here: http://s782.photobucket.com/albums/yy103/HuCard/

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Gaming and Grazing / Re: ZELDA TIMELINE DISCUSSION

« on: July 16, 2009, 03:31:50 am »

Actually Zelda timelines were brought up in the channel and I mentioned that I made a post at CulT in a related topic. Zeupar wanted to see it but couldn't access the forum without registering to I pasted it here for him to see.

Also I do not entirely understand the overreactions. Anything fundamentally wrong with my theory?

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Gaming and Grazing / ZELDA TIMELINE DISCUSSION

« on: July 15, 2009, 02:46:46 pm »

These three arcs are officially confirmed, as in through developer interviews or completely undoubted in-game references. Put into quotes to save space, also I AM A NERD AND HAVE TOO MUCH TIME
TIMELINE 1-A:

Ocarina of Time: Ganondorf gets a hold of the Triforce of Power for the first time, the other two awaken as well. Link travels into the ruined future; Ganondorf is defeated and sealed away by the 7 mages.
Child Ending:After Link, the Hero of Time, beats Ganon in the future, he is sent back into the present by Zelda.
[(TP) Zelda, being aware of what Ganondorf is up to, lets him be captured and executed. That fails, so he is locked away in the Twilight Ream.] (Placement A)
Majora's Mask: The Hero of Time traverses Termina and saves it from destruction and returns to Hyrule.[(TP) Zelda, being aware of what Ganondorf is up to, lets him be captured and executed. That fails, so he is locked away in the Twilight Ream.]
(Placement B, doesn't really matter actually)
[(TP) About a century passes. New Link, new Zelda, OoT Ganondorf takes over the Twilight Realm and plots his return to Hyrule.]Twilight Princess: OoT Ganondorf returns from his shady exile and tries to take over Hyrule once more; TP Zelda and TP Link, Hero of Beasts, defeat him, he turns into stone.

TIMELINE 1-B:

Ocarina of Time: Ganondorf gets a hold of the Triforce of Power for the first time, the other two awaken as well.Link travels into the ruined future; Ganondorf is defeated and sealed away by the 7 mages.
Adult Ending: Link is sent back into the present, Zelda and the others remain and start rebuilding the destroyed Hyrule.
[(WW) Eventually, Ganon returns and starts wreaking havoc in Hyrule again. Since Link is in a different time line no hero returns to save the country, and thus the Gods seal it under the ocean along with Ganondorf and the King while parts of the population evades onto the mountaintops.]
[(WW) A few centuries pass, the Zora evolve into the Orni, the story about he legendary hero becomes a legend and Hyrule is forgotten.]
Wind Waker A reincarnation of the Hero of Time starts his adventure from Outset Island to defeat Ganondorf, whose seal was weakened. Ganondorf plans to resurrect Hyrule draining the dead, fishless ocean and almost succeeds in doing so, but the King of Hyrule wishes to sink the country forever and so it happens. The Hero of Wind and the new Princess Zelda aka Tetra befeat Ganondorf who turns into stone.
Phantom Hourglass Haven't played it yet, but of what I read it takes place shortly after WW, still using the hero of Winds and Tetra-Princess Zelda. Also the Wind Fish is awake, ergo this takes place after Link's Awakening somehow.

TIMELINE 2:

[(TMC) The Minish bestow a holy sword upon an unnamed hero who defeats evil with it.]
The Minish Cap: Vaati unleashes hell in Hyrule trying to get his hands on the Force, lying dormant within Zelda. Link, the Hero of... I don't know actually manages to restore the Sword of Four to its old power, seals Vaati, and returns peace to Hyrule.
[A few centuries or so pass.]
Four Swords: A new Princess Zelda is kidnapped by Vaati, whose seal was weakened over time. A new Link uses the Sword of Four to defeat and seal him again.
Four Swords Adventures The Link from Four Swords encounters Shadow Link and is forced to draw the Sword of Four again, freeing Vaati once again. He rescues the 7 maidens, including Zelda, and defeats Shadow Link and Vaati, this time for good. Ganon is then revealed to have been manipulating stuff from a while, and he claims that magic trident, but is defeated by Link in the Dark World. Then the 7 wise maidens seal him away. SINCE THE OOT->ALTTP CONNECTION WAS RECTONNED VIA WW AND TP, THIS IS MOST LIKELY THE SEAL WAR ALTTP TALKS ABOUT, NOT 100% CONFIRMED THOUGH
[(ALttP) A few centuries pass again]
A Link to the Past: Through Agahnim, Ganon plots his return from the Shadow Realm/Dark World through the sacrifice of the maiden descendants of the 7 wise "men" having sealed Ganon during the Seal Wars. Link, said to be the descendant of an heroic knight having fought there, foils his plans and Ganon with hois trident is slain.
[(OoA/OoS)SPECULATION: Link gets bored and rides around a bit, ending up in the countries the games take place in.
Oracle of Ages/Oracle of Seasons (linkup): Through General Onox and whatever that villain from OoA was called again, Twinrova try to resurrect Ganon. With the help of Zelda's nurse Impa (ergo this Link knew a Zelda, making a connection to ALttP likely), Link defeats them/her/whatever and then kills a half-baked, semi-ressurected Ganon (wielding a trident HINT HINT).
[(LA)SPECULATION: Link wants home.]
Link's Awakening: Link, who knows a Zelda, is on his way home from an adventure in a faraway country but ends up in the dreams of the Wind Fish. He awakens him and continues his travel homewards.

TIMELINE 3, no known connections to anything else:

[(AoL) Zelda in the possession of the Triforce of Wisdom hides it from ehr greedy brother. In response he uses an evil wizard to put ehr into an eternal sleep. He feels guilty and thus declares that henceforth, all females born into the royal family of Hyrule shall be named "Zelda".]
Legend of Zelda: Link reunites the Triforce of Power and kills Ganon.
Adventure of Link The Triforce of Courage appears on Link's hand, and Zelda's nurse Impa tells him to go and get an alarm clock for the second Zelda who has been sleeping for centuries. Link gets the Triforce of Wisdom and awakens her. Meanwhile, Ganon's minions including a Shadow Link try to resurrect him but fail.

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 14, 2009, 01:01:56 pm »

A small (about a 5th or 10th of the ones I took) selection of the photosat 1/4 their original resolution. Perhaps I'll upload a >3GB RAR of all the ones I have eventually.

http://s782.photobucket.com/albums/yy103/HuCard/

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 12, 2009, 03:12:04 pm »

Also for completeness' sake.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/26/1382984/Stralsund-Ich%20an%20der%20Ostsee.jpg Stralsund, with the Baltic Sea and the island of Rügen in the background
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/26/1382984/Stargard%20Szczecinski-Ich%20vorm%20Stadttor.jpg Stargard Szczecinski, Poland
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/26/1382984/Neubrandenburg-Ich%20an%20der%20Stadtmauer.jpg Neubrandenburg
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/26/1382984/Stettin-Ich%20am%20Hafen.jpg Szczecin/Stettin, Poland
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/26/1382984/Schloss%20G%C3%BCstrow-Ich%20vorm%20Garten.jpg Garden of Schloss Güstrow

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 12, 2009, 02:50:20 pm »

PPA, you need dark sunglasses.  It's the only thing lacking in that last pic.

Sure.

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 12, 2009, 01:22:07 pm »

What region did you go to? I hope you visited the Rhineland, as it's the most beautiful area here!
Screw Bavaria and their towering mountains or the East with its endless empty fields!

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 12, 2009, 12:09:53 pm »

This was in Greifswald. Dunno if I should post others of me being elsewhere as well. Also I am smiling here.

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 11, 2009, 06:42:42 pm »

Thanks. I'll deliver pictures after I'll have slept. :O

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 11, 2009, 12:00:56 pm »

After a terrible 7-hour car ride I am back at home! The Rhineland is beautiful! It's great to be here again!

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 10, 2009, 01:57:22 pm »

I am back from a second trip to Neubrandenburg. When I visited on Sunday I only took pictures of the nice buildings there, but the rest of the city always gave me such strong GDR vibes that I just had to return to also capture the very broad streets (but only partially accessible to cars) streets limited by rows of samey buildings lining their sides, distingushed only by added colour and a few neoclassicistic ornaments. I don't know why, perhaps I've seen photos of Russian cities like that without remembering, but it really gave me a feeling of being in former East Germany. And to complete that, I also saw a Trabbi! Now my trip is truly complete!

Well, I will be returning home tomorrow. Perhaps I'll stop and take a look around Hamburg on the way back though, as we'd pass by it anyway.

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 10, 2009, 08:18:21 am »

Rostock was... eh, rather uninteresting. There wasn't really anything to see aside from a street forming the coreof the city, which was lined with Northern Renaissance and Jugendstil buildings, with the highlights being a giant palace and the city hall.
Aside from these two most of the buildings were sadly host to prominently advertised stores like McDonalds, O², Vodafone, McPaper etc etc. I really detest globalisation and its assimilation of every city's commercial identity.
There also was a church which had solar panels on the roof... and as we drove closer we noticed it had balconies and windows embedded in its roof. A Brick Gothic ecclesial monument that had its function changed to be the host of apartments and flats was truly as bewildering sight. Too bad I failed to take any photos of it, as the perspectiive from which I saw it was disadvantageous, and unlike expected I didn't come past it on the way back. :(

It was raining until near the end, which was a first. Up until today, and with the exception of very brief rainshowers when it was irrelevant anyway, I have been blessed with a warm but not hot sunny weather ever since I arrived.

I also slipped on a metal plate embedded in the floor of a sidewalk which seriously offered no grip whatsoever in its wet state. I ended up falling straight down onto my back! I was a bit shocked afterwards, but otherwise it was an interesting experience, as I am not used to external physical pain (and just yesterday I was becoming curious of how that felt again, seeing as my body hasn't been hurt for a few months or years now (excluding perhaps hitting a door with a toe once in a few months or something))!

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 09, 2009, 10:46:20 am »

I visited Greifswald in the morning, it was a pleasant surprise. The city is very bright and open, it's got a lot of well-maintained Nothern Renaissance and Jugendstil/Biedermeier buildings with a few Brick Gothic ones inbetween. The city's centre is very nice, with cars having to drive around it and two large plazas forming its core. Old buildings go hand in hand with newer post-war ones, which look actually great.
Usually these houses clash with older ones in cities and usually look ugly, however some, despire being modern, retain the feel of the older ones and fit in very nicely in the overall image. And ones that would look bad per se have been touched up with colours and ornaments to also harmonise with the rest of the city. The small port at the river with the lot of old ships tied up was splendid as well.
Truly a small gem!

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 09, 2009, 03:02:02 am »

Yesterday I returned from a 2-day trip to Poland. I spent an afternoon in Szczecin/Stettin, slept in a hotel there, and the next day visited Stargard Szczecinski.

Stettin was a bit disappoitning; while in the evening and after some internet research I realised that I missed a third of the city somehow which just happened to be the part I was most interested in, the old town, the rest was quite depressing anyway. Giant wide streets, a lot of decayed and run down houses, and only a few restored older buildings in between the unpleasant looking post-war 50s housing blocks. It did have some really nice parts though, like part of the promenade at the Oder which was enriched by a museum within a giant neoclassicistical palace a bit higher up; there also was a lot of green, with parks being plentiful. Still, I wouldn't overly recommend it.

Stargard Szczecinski on the other hand was kind of nice. It was a small town, and there were too a lot of  large more modern and ugly block-buildings. But its core, which still had some older Northern Renaissance and Brick Gothic buildings and churches in between the cheap housing establishments, was still partially surrounded by city walls in which there were embedded a handful of nice towers. This wall in turn was in the middle of a large, circular park,which was also host to a few churches and towers, as well as a statue of Johl Paul II.

Overall, I think I could say Poland is pretty... "rough". A lot of the buildings, old and new, are in a bad condition and the nature is quite untamed. Compared to what comes on the German side of the border there's a lot less cultivated land, and large forests and wild vegetation dominate the sight when driving along the also not that well maintained roads. It's not bad though, and it was an interesting trip overall.

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Wikkity! / Re: Why you shouldn't recolor.

« on: July 06, 2009, 04:06:06 pm »

I wonder if magnum knows that the actual inquisition was a very civil thing and also the first introduction of the judical system as we know it, where every herectic defendant was defended and had to be proven quilty via hard evidence or believable witness reports, and that in most cases the people were just released unharmed if they promised to stop being herectics and/or converted to Catholicism, perhaps being marked by a sign on their clothes for a while. Some had their possessions taken away, but that wasn't that commonplace either. Torture was also sometime sused, but overall rather sparsely at it was barely needed. I think in all the time the inquisition took place, only about 400-500 people actually died in a fire due to it; and those were usually cases in which they vehemently refused to just pretend to be believing Catholics from now on or who were also the church's eyesore for other reasons.

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 06, 2009, 12:05:00 pm »

Stralsund is awesome. I visited the old town, and there were a lot of beautiful Brick Gothic and Northern Renaissance buildings throughout its charming streets. I saw the Baltic Sea for the first time in my life there as well! Once I'm back home I'll post pictures, aside from (especially one of) the three churches and the town hall there were many a pleasurable stone- and brick-crafted sight.

Speaking of the town hall though, in its front there were engraved a handful of coats of arms. While most were obviousl, like the one of Stralsund itself or the Pomeranian gryphon, there one one that still bothers me. It presented a sable, double-headed eagle on Or (or I think it was Or, the colours had wilthered after the hundreds of years; might have been argent), which would have meant that it was the coat of arms of a Holy Roman Emperor. Yet on its chest it had an escutcheon, vertically split in either azure, gules or even vert (again, hard to tell as the colour had come off a bit; being colourblind doesn't help, although my father couldn't tell either) and below it, Or. BUT I DON'T KNOW ANY HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR WHO HAD ANY SUCH A COAT OF ARMS AND IT BOTHERS ME
Pics once I get home, although I doubt anyone here would know.
EDIT: GAAH UPON CLOSER INSPECTION OF THE PHOTO I TOOK I NOTICED THE TOP HALF OF THE INNER COAT OF ARMS HAS A PATTERN BUT I CAN'T SEE WHAT SORT OF FUR, if it's one, IT IS AND LESS SO THE COLOURS IT'S MADE OF

Afterwards my father wanted to take a small trip to the island of Rügen, to which a large (modern) bridge led. We failed to see the open sea though (as in the harbour of Stralsund it was a rather enclosed area between Rügen and the continent, only partially leading into the open), but we somehow landed in what I assume to be the tiniest place ever (5-7 hourses, 2-3 of which were decaying) in the middle of fields (which caused me to develop hay fever reactions again) and only reachable through a very badly maintained path. On the map it looked like it'd have a connection to the see and also be bigger, but that was an illusion! :(
Still it was sort of hilarious as I'm sure it was a place no man had ever set foot on before. Or at least no West German.

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 05, 2009, 12:15:00 pm »

And the afternoon I spent visiting a Renaissance castle/mansion (how do you accurately translate "Schloss"?) in Güstrow. There was a museum inside, with Gothic paintings and sculpture in the basement, German and Dutch Renaissance art in the base floor, and various ornate hunting firearms as well as coins from various periods in the first one. Along with a dance hall, where I could identify half of the coat of arms already withut having to look at the engravings next to them. Actually I didn't even notice the latter until I had already given my father a lecture on the origin on some of the CoA's elements, haha.

also lol "BRANTENBVRGK"

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 05, 2009, 06:54:34 am »

Neubrandenburg is rather unimpressive, but going there was a mostly spontaneous decision anyway. It did have two quite impressive Brick Gothic churches and a nice city all including city portals, two of which were particularly good-looking. The rest was post-war GDR buildings though and rather unappealing.

I'll post pictures of the more charming parts once I get back home on Saturday and have proper internet again.

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 04, 2009, 04:03:21 pm »

Arrived in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and am using a crappy mobile phone network to go online right now.
It's very rural and very empty and natural here. But the silence is wonderful!

Also Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony which I passed through on my 6-hour ride sort of look like the Netherlands, except with elevation.

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 04, 2009, 06:54:19 am »

Alright, I'm departing. Bye everyone, if I'm able to I'll post again when I've arrived.

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Wikkity! / Re: Post your face!

« on: July 04, 2009, 06:45:39 am »

Forced smiles are not my specialty.

High five! :(

EDIT: I just realised the irony in this post. SORRY SONDOW

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Gaming and Grazing / Re: Ys ~The Oath in Felghana

« on: July 04, 2009, 01:32:30 am »

I need to play Ys Book I & II for PC-Engine CD. :(
(Or "TurboGrafx-16 CD" (ugh), as I couldn't understand the Japanese version.)

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Wikkity! / Re: To the Baltic sea!

« on: July 03, 2009, 12:31:40 pm »

I'll take photos and post them here when I come back!