Ok, some of us can be super a little eccentric. So what are you a fan of? Some of us are more easy going and passive, and that's great too!
Personally, I'm a huge Apple fan and NE Patriots fan.
Homestuck, Doctor Who, Looking For Group, Mythology and I'm quickly becoming obsessed with anime
What Jet said except without of homestuck and reading and Legend of Zelda instead.
I'm an old Apple fan, from back before everyone jumped on the bandwagon and they became the 'in-thing'. I believe the G3 PowerPC processor was up to twice as fast as competitors such as the Pentium II, and that System 7 and Mac OS 8 were leaps and bounds above all competition. Microsoft, Intel and their coalition of evil are the ultimate enemies of all true Mac and Apple fans. Windows operating systems have been, are, and will never be anything but cheap, inferior, blue-screen-of-death-ridden ripoffs of the Mac OS. :)
I'm also a fan of the Dallas Stars; I used to follow them quite thoroughly, and although I'm not as active nowadays, I do like the direction the new GM is taking the team. Also, I can recite most of their Stanley Cup-winning roster from memory (a little to my chagrin, since there's so many more important things I ought to know).
My life.......
Metal: I'm obsessed with it. :P I like the way it smells, feels, how it cuts stuff, how you can form it, welding it, blacksmithing. . . Shall I continue? I am an Apple fan, though I can live with either a Windows or Mac.
Really good graphics cards, tabletop roleplaying...
Redwall, reading, Free!, roleplaying, Percy Jackson, Twilight, math, rocks, dirt, animals, semi-precious and precious gemstones. . . . . . .
Free as in the song....?
She means the anime, you can tell because of the annoying ! that you have to put in the middle of a sentence
Grr, improper grammar! Must destroy!
I am a fan of books, one of my favorite things about them is when they use a certain kind of glue with the pages, then it smells amazing! I am also minorly obsessed with being able to quote random trivia, mainly about planes.
It's not improper grammar if it's part of the name Skarzy :D
Quote from: James Gryphon on October 17, 2014, 01:56:04 PM
I'm an old Apple fan, from back before everyone jumped on the bandwagon and they became the 'in-thing'. I believe the G3 PowerPC processor was up to twice as fast as competitors such as the Pentium II, and that System 7 and Mac OS 8 were leaps and bounds above all competition. Microsoft, Intel and their coalition of evil are the ultimate enemies of all true Mac and Apple fans. Windows operating systems have been, are, and will never be anything but cheap, inferior, blue-screen-of-death-ridden ripoffs of the Mac OS. :)
I'm also a fan of the Dallas Stars; I used to follow them quite thoroughly, and although I'm not as active nowadays, I do like the direction the new GM is taking the team. Also, I can recite most of their Stanley Cup-winning roster from memory (a little to my chagrin, since there's so many more important things I ought to know).
(http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fist_bump_shawn_gus_psych.gif)
(http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/psych-shawn-gus-roday-hill-stargate-star-trek.jpg) Being an original Battlestar Galactica fan, this fit rather well.
Quote from: Delthion on October 18, 2014, 01:58:24 AM
(http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/psych-shawn-gus-roday-hill-stargate-star-trek.jpg) Being an original Battlestar Galactica fan, this fit rather well.
Hahahahahaha ;D
I'm a hardcore Marvel fan!
Hmm... Right now I don't have enough time to fan over anything... TOO MUCH SCHOOL! :P
I am a lot more fun during the summer.
I'm a die hard fan of any rocks, period. Especially gemstones. In the rock form, not in the jewelry form.
I LOVE THEM TOO!!!!! Rocks are so cool!!!!!!!
As a die hard fan of Homestuck, I find it surprising that I am still alive after the newest update.
For Doctor Who fans, imagine a combination of The Parting of the Ways, Doomsday, The Sound of Drums, Journey's End, The End of Time, Cold Blood, The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang, A Good Man Goes to War, The Angels Take Manhattan and Time of the Doctor then multiply it by 100, that's how it feels
Quote from: Tam and Martin on October 26, 2014, 11:55:33 PM
I LOVE THEM TOO!!!!! Rocks are so cool!!!!!!!
YAAAY, fellow rock fan! High five! *Holds up hand for high five*
(You should see my rock collection. . .)
^^^^^ I have quite a few myself!!!! I love Marvel, Reading, Exploring in the woods, Camping, Mountain biking, Hiking, and more! I also love can..., anyone guess :D (Look at my profile pic!)
Quote from: Cornflower MM on October 27, 2014, 04:30:51 PM
Quote from: Tam and Martin on October 26, 2014, 11:55:33 PM
I LOVE THEM TOO!!!!! Rocks are so cool!!!!!!!
YAAAY, fellow rock fan! High five! *Holds up hand for high five*
*High Fives* WOOHOO! I wish we had better rocks around here though. SAND!!!!!!!! That's all we ahve.
Quote from: CaptainRocktree on October 27, 2014, 04:46:22 PM
^^^^^ I have quite a few myself!!!! I love Marvel, Reading, Exploring in the woods, Camping, Mountain biking, Hiking, and more! I also love can..., anyone guess :D (Look at my profile pic!)
DUCK DYNASTY!!!!!! :D :D :D
Quote from: James Gryphon on October 17, 2014, 01:56:04 PM
I'm an old Apple fan, from back before everyone jumped on the bandwagon and they became the 'in-thing'. I believe the G3 PowerPC processor was up to twice as fast as competitors such as the Pentium II, and that System 7 and Mac OS 8 were leaps and bounds above all competition. Microsoft, Intel and their coalition of evil are the ultimate enemies of all true Mac and Apple fans. Windows operating systems have been, are, and will never be anything but cheap, inferior, blue-screen-of-death-ridden ripoffs of the Mac OS. :)
I'm also a fan of the Dallas Stars; I used to follow them quite thoroughly, and although I'm not as active nowadays, I do like the direction the new GM is taking the team. Also, I can recite most of their Stanley Cup-winning roster from memory (a little to my chagrin, since there's so many more important things I ought to know).
Too bad everyone realized that Mac's are disorganized, over-priced, and overrated :P. Last I heard, Apple doesn't even have a support line, much less other companies that can offer support. You screw up your Mac, you're alone, you screw up your PC, everyone and their grandma's pet dog is there to assist. The programs aren't even formatted for easy use, my Web Coding teacher had to show us how to modify TextEdit just so we could write some
basic html! Notepad doesn't take any fiddling around, and Mac's Word is a horrid nightmare. Safari? Please, give me IE before you give me Safari! And then Finder..... Why do they have an omnipotent program that makes finding things harder than it has to be? It's the same thing as windows explorer, but it's twice as annoying to use. Also, I can't believe you've got the gall to bring up the blue screen of death (which I haven't seen in years and years), when apple has the rotating beach ball of death! Which happens quite frequently! PC was always superior because it was the handy-man computer almost from the start. You can do literally everything on a PC, but Mac's have limits.
How can you even stand the cluttered layout?! Please explain this to me, everything's a giant mess (I have to use these blasted things at school all the time). I'm more familiar with computers than the average person, so user error is not the problem here as I can use one just fine. (I tried to run the Windows side of the duel boot computers in Web Coding, but the Mac computer's couldn't handle it)(If you're willing to respect the PC, then I'll leave Mac's alone, and this doesn't have to go any farther. I never wanted to come and bash someone else's preferences, but I'm going to defend PC's if other people are going to attack it) I'm not even sure what the rest of your post was on though, sounds like racing?
AAAAANYWAY, I'm getting a taste for anime myself, though this was started off of RWBY which has an almost anime type of animation. Obviously I really like Redwall, but I also like Guardians of Ga'Hoole, as well as Bryan Davis's (Davis'? [looking for possessive]) Dragons in our Midst - Children of the Bard, and Starlight series. Big time Hi-Rez fan as well, LONG LIVE SMITE AND TRIBES (okay, so Tribes is already pretty much dead, but I can reminisce can't I?!)
So speaketh a PC person. :P Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before; I've heard a similar story from a Mac guy about PCs.
I'm using a Mac at this moment, and I have no complaints. I was going to buy a Windows computer, but got this instead. I will concede that PCs are better for gaming and are much better known, but Macs have many things on them already that one would have to pay extra for if they had a PC.
In all, I just say to watch a little youtube video called "Mac vs PC" done by Keshen8.
Quote from: danflorreguba on October 27, 2014, 09:53:56 PM
Too bad everyone realized that Mac's are disorganized, over-priced, and overrated :P.
I will grant that if you buy a computer straight from Apple that it's going to be expensive -- that's why we buy ours second-hand. The only one that I believe we ever bought when it was new was our Bondi Blue iMac -- my father wanted to get one soon so that he'd have it if Apple went out of business. (That's how 'overrated' they were back in the day. Either you loved them or you didn't know they even existed. Most of Apple's popularity, and almost all of its world-wide recognition, is because of the iPod and the Apple Music Store -- before that, they were lucky to get any kind of attention, good or bad.)
QuoteLast I heard, Apple doesn't even have a support line, much less other companies that can offer support.
If their website (https://www.apple.com/support/products/) and advertising is anything to go by, that is simply incorrect. I can't vouch for the quality of their service (as I've said, we buy used, and anyway I've rarely had problems a search on the Internet couldn't tell me how to fix), but it is there.
QuoteThe programs aren't even formatted for easy use, my Web Coding teacher had to show us how to modify TextEdit just so we could write some basic html!
You have to be more specific here as to what your problems are/were. Firstly, it would make more sense to compare TextEdit with WordPad... anyway, you're implying here that you were physically incapable of typing in code until the app was tinkered with, and I have never experienced anything like that. You might have had trouble with the file format, but anything that can be remedied by selecting a different option in the "Save" dialog's menu, I do not think can be fairly described as "requiring modification".
QuoteNotepad doesn't take any fiddling around,
Probably because it doesn't
have any options to fiddle with. ;)
Quoteand Mac's Word is a horrid nightmare.
Third-party program. If Microsoft chooses to make Word on the Macintosh worse than it is on Windows, that's their problem, and I don't see how you can give Apple blame for something another software vendor does. I use Google Sheets myself, so it's a moot point for me.
QuoteSafari? Please, give me IE before you give me Safari!
I have used both, as well as other browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome, and find Safari to be the best option for me (with the possible exception of Chrome). For what it's worth, IE is perhaps the most despised browser in the world today, and if you were to take a poll I doubt many people would share your belief.
QuoteAnd then Finder..... Why do they have an omnipotent program that makes finding things harder than it has to be? It's the same thing as windows explorer, but it's twice as annoying to use.
Saying that it is 'harder to find things' or 'twice as annoying to use', without statistics to back you up, is only an opinion. It may be true for you, but it isn't for me (I could say the same thing about Windows). What's likely is that you got used to Windows' way of doing things, and view anything that is different from that as inferior. (Not unlike Windows 7 users complaining about Windows 8.) ;)
There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, as long as you recognize that it is your opinion and is not objective fact. A thorough analysis of the operating systems' interfaces (not unlike what was done back in the Xerox PARC and early Apple days) would probably reveal a lot that's wrong with both of them.
QuoteAlso, I can't believe you've got the gall to bring up the blue screen of death (which I haven't seen in years and years), when apple has the rotating beach ball of death! Which happens quite frequently!
The time period that I was talking about is mid-to-late '90s, long before OS X and the latest, multi-colored incarnation of the beach ball came along, and when the BSOD was contemporary. While pre-OS X operating systems did have a spinning black-and-white beach ball, it wasn't recognized as the source of people's pain, just because there were worse things around the corner.
Almost all catastrophic errors and crashes resulted in something like this:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/MacOs_Syserror.png)
What was more likely to happen, when you got the odd interminable delay, (in which the beach ball may or may not spin) is that you would get sick of it, press the force-quit key combo, and get this:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tg.online/keyboard/images/force_quit_nn3.gif)
Then, as many attempts to force quit would fail as succeed, so usually you would end up having to manually restart the computer anyway.
That might sound bad (and it was; OS X was a huge step up in stability), but Mac users could console themselves because Windows users were stuck with the BSOD.
QuotePC was always superior because it was the handy-man computer almost from the start. You can do literally everything on a PC, but Mac's have limits.
I guess you never watched old spots like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmf8u7j0Tx8). ;) Anyway, when people think "handy-man", they think of a guy loaded down with specialty tools, spending a hour or so of manual labor to get the job done. That isn't exactly the kind of image you want to associate with your preferred computer.
As far as your second sentence goes, your wording here fails you. There are plenty of things that machines running Windows cannot do -- making toast, computing complex scientific equations at the speed of light, and running OS X software among them. Claiming that they have 'no limits' is simply hyperbole.
If what you actually mean is that Windows machines are more compatible (both with new and old) software, that's true, but most important software is released for both platforms today, and Windows grows less compatible with old software with every new release (out of self-defense (http://www.dailytech.com/Windows+9+Reportedly+Skipped+as+Name+Would+Have+Created+Code+Bugs/article36656.htm) as much as anything else). Mac users would say that we have 'quality, if not quantity'. :)
QuoteHow can you even stand the cluttered layout?! Please explain this to me, everything's a giant mess (I have to use these blasted things at school all the time). I'm more familiar with computers than the average person, so user error is not the problem here as I can use one just fine. (I tried to run the Windows side of the duel boot computers in Web Coding, but the Mac computer's couldn't handle it)
This is simply back to personal opinion. I have used Macintosh computers all of my life, running system 7, Mac OS 8 & 9, and OS X. My experience is that not only are any of these not 'a giant mess', but that Windows machines (from Windows 3.1 on up) are painfully difficult to use and navigate, at least if you want to do anything outside of the "Start" menu. I suspect that if you asked a hardcore Linux user, they would have little good to say about either Macintosh operating systems or Windows. An experienced software interface designer could point out flaws in all of them.
Also, you might be more familiar with using
Windows computers, but that doesn't mean that you have all of the experience anybody needs to do anything. There are people who have used Macs as long or longer than you have used computers of any kind who could say that they have trouble getting things done in Windows. Competence at one does not automatically confer similar capability over the other.
Quote(If you're willing to respect the PC, then I'll leave Mac's alone, and this doesn't have to go any farther. I never wanted to come and bash someone else's preferences, but I'm going to defend PC's if other people are going to attack it)
My original post was a historical perspective, talking about pre-iPod Apple fandom. Macs don't even use PowerPC processors any more -- they use chips from the same manufacturer, Intel, that we used to despise in the 90s. It isn't about respecting or not respecting Windows, it's about paying homage to that time period of fandom.
QuoteI'm not even sure what the rest of your post was on though, sounds like racing?
I could say the same about the anime part of your post, that I'm "not even sure" what it's about.
The Stars are a NHL (http://nhl.com) hockey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey) team.
Well. . . That was detailed.
Quote from: The Skarzs on October 28, 2014, 12:20:12 AM
Well. . . That was detailed.
That's what you get when you confront a lengthy writer on something they admit to being a 'die-hard fan' of. :)
Good point.
Die hard fan of......cartoon shows and animated movies. :) Kind of unusual for someone who's 30.
That spot was complete garbage, if it weren't for the fact that there was no human face in it, I could've sworn I was watching a political add. They're both computers! Their layout is different, but they both require knowledge to put together. Mud slinging, that's all that was.
QuoteAs far as your second sentence goes, your wording here fails you. There are plenty of things that machines running Windows cannot do -- making toast, computing complex scientific equations at the speed of light, and running OS X software among them. Claiming that they have 'no limits' is simply hyperbole.
You just completely undermined your entire argument. It was quite obvious what I meant, but you twisted my words just so you had one more thing to make your post longer.
As far as Notepad, I've never checked. You know why? Because I don't need to change anything! Go figure, program has good quality, doesn't need maintenance.
I can use both types fluently, so you just bombed yourself by saying that Mac users can use a computer longer than I've used anything and still not work on Windows. I haven't met an interface I couldn't work with, though I'd much prefer to avoid older operating systems (Windows Vista probably being the worst I've ever seen).
I was talking strictly about present-day, but apparently Apple can't do anything wrong and Microsoft is a horrible evil ogre just because they shoved Apple's nose into the ground with smarter marketing and focus. Mac quality my aunt's dirty pinafore.
And
what's wrong with asking a question!? You make it sound like I'm being terse just in asking what your other interest was! I was also willing to just put this down, but now I've got two people trying to tell me that the computers that have performed magnificently for me for years are garbage when
I've actually used both extensively. Sure, Garageband is nice, iMovie is convenient, but those are just for putting around, if you want to actually do something significant, you've got to purchase recognised software. Last I heard, Fruity Loops had a free version, so that completely negates Garageband.
Finally, I really don't appreciate you mocking me with smiley's, that's just downright rude.
EDIT: You know what, I'm just gonna say this now, I'm not putting up with any more of this, if you wanna hate on an operating system just because you don't use it, that's your problem. Enjoy your limited range of computers.
Quote from: James Gryphon on October 27, 2014, 11:10:10 PM
Quote from: danflorreguba on October 27, 2014, 09:53:56 PM
Too bad everyone realized that Mac's are disorganized, over-priced, and overrated :P.
I will grant that if you buy a computer straight from Apple that it's going to be expensive -- that's why we buy ours second-hand. The only one that I believe we ever bought when it was new was our Bondi Blue iMac -- my father wanted to get one soon so that he'd have it if Apple went out of business. (That's how 'overrated' they were back in the day. Either you loved them or you didn't know they even existed. Most of Apple's popularity, and almost all of its world-wide recognition, is because of the iPod and the Apple Music Store -- before that, they were lucky to get any kind of attention, good or bad.)
QuoteLast I heard, Apple doesn't even have a support line, much less other companies that can offer support.
If their website (https://www.apple.com/support/products/) and advertising is anything to go by, that is simply incorrect. I can't vouch for the quality of their service (as I've said, we buy used, and anyway I've rarely had problems a search on the Internet couldn't tell me how to fix), but it is there.
QuoteThe programs aren't even formatted for easy use, my Web Coding teacher had to show us how to modify TextEdit just so we could write some basic html!
You have to be more specific here as to what your problems are/were. Firstly, it would make more sense to compare TextEdit with WordPad... anyway, you're implying here that you were physically incapable of typing in code until the app was tinkered with, and I have never experienced anything like that. You might have had trouble with the file format, but anything that can be remedied by selecting a different option in the "Save" dialog's menu, I do not think can be fairly described as "requiring modification".
QuoteNotepad doesn't take any fiddling around,
Probably because it doesn't have any options to fiddle with. ;)
Quoteand Mac's Word is a horrid nightmare.
Third-party program. If Microsoft chooses to make Word on the Macintosh worse than it is on Windows, that's their problem, and I don't see how you can give Apple blame for something another software vendor does. I use Google Sheets myself, so it's a moot point for me.
QuoteSafari? Please, give me IE before you give me Safari!
I have used both, as well as other browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome, and find Safari to be the best option for me (with the possible exception of Chrome). For what it's worth, IE is perhaps the most despised browser in the world today, and if you were to take a poll I doubt many people would share your belief.
QuoteAnd then Finder..... Why do they have an omnipotent program that makes finding things harder than it has to be? It's the same thing as windows explorer, but it's twice as annoying to use.
Saying that it is 'harder to find things' or 'twice as annoying to use', without statistics to back you up, is only an opinion. It may be true for you, but it isn't for me (I could say the same thing about Windows). What's likely is that you got used to Windows' way of doing things, and view anything that is different from that as inferior. (Not unlike Windows 7 users complaining about Windows 8.) ;)
There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, as long as you recognize that it is your opinion and is not objective fact. A thorough analysis of the operating systems' interfaces (not unlike what was done back in the Xerox PARC and early Apple days) would probably reveal a lot that's wrong with both of them.
QuoteAlso, I can't believe you've got the gall to bring up the blue screen of death (which I haven't seen in years and years), when apple has the rotating beach ball of death! Which happens quite frequently!
The time period that I was talking about is mid-to-late '90s, long before OS X and the latest, multi-colored incarnation of the beach ball came along, and when the BSOD was contemporary. While pre-OS X operating systems did have a spinning black-and-white beach ball, it wasn't recognized as the source of people's pain, just because there were worse things around the corner.
Almost all catastrophic errors and crashes resulted in something like this:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/MacOs_Syserror.png)
What was more likely to happen, when you got the odd interminable delay, (in which the beach ball may or may not spin) is that you would get sick of it, press the force-quit key combo, and get this:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tg.online/keyboard/images/force_quit_nn3.gif)
Then, as many attempts to force quit would fail as succeed, so usually you would end up having to manually restart the computer anyway.
That might sound bad (and it was; OS X was a huge step up in stability), but Mac users could console themselves because Windows users were stuck with the BSOD.
QuotePC was always superior because it was the handy-man computer almost from the start. You can do literally everything on a PC, but Mac's have limits.
I guess you never watched old spots like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmf8u7j0Tx8). ;) Anyway, when people think "handy-man", they think of a guy loaded down with specialty tools, spending a hour or so of manual labor to get the job done. That isn't exactly the kind of image you want to associate with your preferred computer.
As far as your second sentence goes, your wording here fails you. There are plenty of things that machines running Windows cannot do -- making toast, computing complex scientific equations at the speed of light, and running OS X software among them. Claiming that they have 'no limits' is simply hyperbole.
If what you actually mean is that Windows machines are more compatible (both with new and old) software, that's true, but most important software is released for both platforms today, and Windows grows less compatible with old software with every new release (out of self-defense (http://www.dailytech.com/Windows+9+Reportedly+Skipped+as+Name+Would+Have+Created+Code+Bugs/article36656.htm) as much as anything else). Mac users would say that we have 'quality, if not quantity'. :)
QuoteHow can you even stand the cluttered layout?! Please explain this to me, everything's a giant mess (I have to use these blasted things at school all the time). I'm more familiar with computers than the average person, so user error is not the problem here as I can use one just fine. (I tried to run the Windows side of the duel boot computers in Web Coding, but the Mac computer's couldn't handle it)
This is simply back to personal opinion. I have used Macintosh computers all of my life, running system 7, Mac OS 8 & 9, and OS X. My experience is that not only are any of these not 'a giant mess', but that Windows machines (from Windows 3.1 on up) are painfully difficult to use and navigate, at least if you want to do anything outside of the "Start" menu. I suspect that if you asked a hardcore Linux user, they would have little good to say about either Macintosh operating systems or Windows. An experienced software interface designer could point out flaws in all of them.
Also, you might be more familiar with using Windows computers, but that doesn't mean that you have all of the experience anybody needs to do anything. There are people who have used Macs as long or longer than you have used computers of any kind who could say that they have trouble getting things done in Windows. Competence at one does not automatically confer similar capability over the other.
Quote(If you're willing to respect the PC, then I'll leave Mac's alone, and this doesn't have to go any farther. I never wanted to come and bash someone else's preferences, but I'm going to defend PC's if other people are going to attack it)
My original post was a historical perspective, talking about pre-iPod Apple fandom. Macs don't even use PowerPC processors any more -- they use chips from the same manufacturer, Intel, that we used to despise in the 90s. It isn't about respecting or not respecting Windows, it's about paying homage to that time period of fandom.
QuoteI'm not even sure what the rest of your post was on though, sounds like racing?
I could say the same about the anime part of your post, that I'm "not even sure" what it's about.
The Stars are a NHL (http://nhl.com) hockey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey) team.
I agree entirely. I can also attest to the
excellence of the Apple Support line.
And not only that, but when you also have iPhones, iPads and the rest of the Apple Ecosystem, there is nothing better in my opinion.
Quote from: danflorreguba on October 28, 2014, 01:46:41 AM
That spot was complete garbage, if it weren't for the fact that there was no human face in it, I could've sworn I was watching a political add. They're both computers! Their layout is different, but they both require knowledge to put together. Mud slinging, that's all that was.
Don't come in here, "bashing my preferences" as you put it with a one-sided post talking about how you believe Macs are terrible, and get nasty when I respond to you with anything less than awed obeisance. If you had expressed
anything like the attitude that they're "both computers", we probably wouldn't be here right now.
QuoteYou just completely undermined your entire argument. It was quite obvious what I meant, but you twisted my words just so you had one more thing to make your post longer.
No, it was quite obvious
to you what it meant. I can think of at least three different ways it could have been interpreted, and simply decided to choose the most literal, least logical one to attack.
QuoteAs far as Notepad, I've never checked. You know why? Because I don't need to change anything! Go figure, program has good quality, doesn't need maintenance.
A lack of any options to change is not synonymous with program quality.
My point, anyway, is that TextEdit is meant to handle many things, and writing HTML code and saving HTML files, while it can do that, was not its primary function; thus, you have to take one or two steps away from the default (which is rich-formatted text). Overall, TextEdit is best compared with WordPad, which I noticed you've never said anything about, probably because you know it isn't as easy to use for that purpose as Notepad is.
QuoteI can use both types fluently, so you just bombed yourself by saying that Mac users can use a computer longer than I've used anything and still not work on Windows. I haven't met an interface I couldn't work with, though I'd much prefer to avoid older operating systems (Windows Vista probably being the worst I've ever seen).
I said that they might have trouble using it, as might be expected from someone that has limited experience with that operating system. I never said that they couldn't ever figure it out.
You say you are 'fluent'. Well, people who are 'fluent', for an example, in multiple languages
do not go on record saying that x language is horrible, inferior to their preferred language in every way, and that they only learned it so that they can speak to the poor people who don't know any better. Using a computer at school sometimes is nothing like using it at home, day in, day out, for weeks, months and years on end. I used nothing but Windows for several months, out of necessity, but you don't see me claiming that I have mastered it. Being able to accomplish some tasks with something doesn't mean that someone knows everything they need to know about it.
QuoteI was talking strictly about present-day
I wasn't. My original paragraph that talked about this subject spoke almost exclusively about events that took place over a decade ago.
Quotebut apparently Apple can't do anything wrong and Microsoft is a horrible evil ogre just because they shoved Apple's nose into the ground with smarter marketing and focus. Mac quality my aunt's dirty pinafore.
Microsoft did use shrewd business strategy, at a time when Apple was lacking in that attribute -- for instance, it was a sound business move to make sure that Windows would run on different computer manufacturers' hardware. That said, if your position is that Microsoft has succeeded because of the quality of their product, that is simply wrong.
For the most part, they have succeeded because they got in the market early, got a dominant position, and then were able to make sure that everyone else had to remain 'compatible' with their products. They put companies out of business, yes, but mainly through their monopolistic business practices, which eventually got them, a little before the turn of the century, charged with violating antitrust law. Ask Netscape, Be Inc, Bristol, Caldera, Novell, Opera, Spyglass, Stac Electronics and Sun Microsystems whether they think that Microsoft's success is mainly or even largely due to great software design.
QuoteAnd what's wrong with asking a question!? You make it sound like I'm being terse just in asking what your other interest was!
Perhaps I overreacted there. The source of my problem was that "not even sure", at least to me, implies a dismissive or disdainful attitude. It might sound funny, but if you had omitted the word "even", I wouldn't have had any trouble with it.
QuoteI was also willing to just put this down, but now I've got two people trying to tell me that the computers that have performed magnificently for me for years are garbage when I've actually used both extensively.
Well, if it's any consolation, I know what that's like.
Quote
Finally, I really don't appreciate you mocking me with smiley's, that's just downright rude.
Some of my emoticons did contribute to mocking some of your points, but they were not intended to degrade you as a person. If my mission here was to be rude, I would not have spent this much time (over an hour) going back over my posts (yes, this one included) to make sure that they didn't say anything that I would regret, or that would undermine the office I hold on this forum, in the future.
I'm still not entirely comfortable with this post, but I'm too stubborn to easily back down from an argument I helped start about a subject I'm passionate about, so here it goes.
Edit: ... and I took so long pre-editing this that I didn't notice Danflor's edit until after the post was done. Oh well.
OKKKKKK, let's bring it down a notch, if you haven't done so. It obvious that neither of the two sides are gonna win this war. It's been raging for years now. And both sides love their respective products! That's why both of you posted in this thread! So, why don't t we change the subject to something less cutthroat more peaceful.
James, (or is it Mr. Gryphon sense your a moderator?) why don't we talk about the Dallas Stars.
Or Danflor, we could talk about the Owls of Ga'hoole books, or Anime stuff.
Quote from: Soren the Warrior on October 28, 2014, 04:31:48 AM
OKKKKKK, let's bring it down a notch, if you haven't done so. It obvious that neither of the two sides are gonna win this war. It's been raging for years now.
That's the truth. It's kinda like politics, I think. ;)
QuoteJames, (or is it Mr. Gryphon sense your a moderator?)
James or Gryph are fine.
Quote...we could talk about the Owls of Ga'hoole books
I actually heard about those, but I didn't read about them. They sound interesting enough. I had no idea there were so many of them (Wikipedia lists 16). Fifteen books in five years is an extremely fast writing and publishing output, too.
Argument unresolvable due to literally tens of thousands of people saying yay or nay for either one.
I am a die hard fan of metalworking and knives.
Lord of the Rings.
My life....... :P
LOTRO.
Quote from: CaptainRocktree on October 27, 2014, 04:46:22 PM
^^^^^ I have quite a few myself!!!! I love Marvel, Reading, Exploring in the woods, Camping, Mountain biking, Hiking, and more! I also love can..., anyone guess :D (Look at my profile pic!)
DUCK DYNASTY!!!!!! :D :D :D
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How'd you guess!, But everyone knows cause its a fact Jack! ;)
Guardians of Ga'Hoole. Owls of Ga'hoole is the stupid movie's name.
Quote from: The Mask on October 29, 2014, 07:40:08 AM
Guardians of Ga'Hoole. Owls of Ga'hoole is the stupid movie's name.
Stupid?! OH MY GODS THAT MOVIE WAS TERRIBLE! The Pure Ones and St. Aggie's were COMPLETELY UNRELATED UNTIL THE PURE ONES STOLE THE AGGIE'S OWL'S CANYON! Plus, Metal Beak is Kludd - BUT DO THEY CARE ABOUT THAT?! NO! And who the heck was the hedgehog-y guy?! He wasn't in the books! Digger and Twilight weren't living in a hollow together, either! And SOREN was the one who found Mr. P., NOT Twilight, and NOT that early in the books! And Soren and Kludd have NEVER brnached together! Kludd pushed Soren out of the nest! He DIDN'T fall out with him! Ah, I could go on for days. . . .
Every film based on a book has its changes. There were a lot for Guardians of Gahoole, naturally because you only have so long in the film. I've only seen one book to visual adaptation that was nearly unchanged, and that is Game of Thrones, but that's a tv show that's been on for some four seasons now so they have plenty of time to keep just about everything in line. Movies don't have that kind of time to work with. ;)
What Corn said.
TV show adaptations are almost invariably more accurate than film adaptations which is why I'm happy that the Mortal Instruments is getting a TV series instead of continuing the films (They better keep Jamie Campbell Bower and everyone else (except the guy who played Valentine because he was an awful Valentine)
Quote from: Cornflower MM on October 29, 2014, 04:25:55 PM
Quote from: The Mask on October 29, 2014, 07:40:08 AM
Guardians of Ga'Hoole. Owls of Ga'hoole is the stupid movie's name.
Stupid?! OH MY GODS THAT MOVIE WAS TERRIBLE! The Pure Ones and St. Aggie's were COMPLETELY UNRELATED UNTIL THE PURE ONES STOLE THE AGGIE'S OWL'S CANYON! Plus, Metal Beak is Kludd - BUT DO THEY CARE ABOUT THAT?! NO! And who the heck was the hedgehog-y guy?! He wasn't in the books! Digger and Twilight weren't living in a hollow together, either! And SOREN was the one who found Mr. P., NOT Twilight, and NOT that early in the books! And Soren and Kludd have NEVER brnached together! Kludd pushed Soren out of the nest! He DIDN'T fall out with him! Ah, I could go on for days. . . .
The book was so much better. *Cries.*
I've gotten re-obsessed with the Warriors series.
You don't talk about the Guardians or Ga'Hoole movie. You just don't.
As for the topic, I love Redwall(Naturally! Why else would I be here?), Pokemon, and Les Miserables. I often sing the songs, then everyone tells me to shut up because I'm a horrible singer.
Also, my most recent obsession is TPP, Twitch Plays Pokemon. Basically, someone gave a whole bunch of people a Pokemon game, and told them they could play it at the same time. It's hard to explain.
Imagine giving thousands of people simultaneous control of a video game. Utter chaos and stupidity. And hilarity, that too.
A few years ago, there used to be a massively multiplayer Pong game that worked like that, but unfortunately the site went offline and never came back up.
^^^^ I want to play :D
Quote from: James Gryphon on October 30, 2014, 07:30:12 PM
A few years ago, there used to be a massively multiplayer Pong game that worked like that, but unfortunately the site went offline and never came back up.
That sounds pretty cool.
I am a diehard fan of being alive.
(How's that even work?)
That is what I a wondering.
Quote from: rusvulthesaber on October 31, 2014, 04:48:06 AM
I am a diehard fan of being alive.
(How's that even work?)
Good question. Lemme think on it.
He is willing to die to be alive...that doesn't work.
Die hard fan of PITTSBURGH PENGUINS and PHILLY EAGLES. (Yes I know that's strange)
Me? I'm a die hard Brandon Mull fan. I'm also a die hard fan of writing, art, Avatar The Last Airbender, C. S. Lewis, elves, Pegasi, Scotland, and Josh Groban.
Have you read Fablehaven Mask?
I love GBA games, Super Smash Bros, Sin City, Graphic novels, and a little bit of the original Sonic themes from the Sega systems and such. Oh! I am also become quickly obsessed with SAO (Sword Art Online). ;D
Kirito, Kirito, Rescue me!* Gets kidnapped by creepy guy*
That's the small problem with anime. It gets creepy fast
I am obsessed with all things written by Tolkien, and I like knowing random and sometimes useless trivia, Ireland, the Redwall Abbey Forums, Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, Celtic music, chess, saber fencing, bagpipes, planes, and cars.
Quote from: The Mask on December 09, 2014, 09:37:34 PM
Have you read Fablehaven Mask?
Yes. I LOVE Fablehaven! I've read almost all of Brandon Mull's books. Fablehaven 5 is one of my ultimate favorite books!
Quote from: The Mask on December 09, 2014, 09:56:49 PM
Kirito, Kirito, Rescue me!* Gets kidnapped by creepy guy*
That's the small problem with anime. It gets creepy fast
Yea, I've seen the first season of SAO, and the end got REALLY creepy. :|
In one word: Minecraft.
Quote from: Mask on December 09, 2014, 10:11:18 PM
Quote from: The Mask on December 09, 2014, 09:37:34 PM
Have you read Fablehaven Mask?
Yes. I LOVE Fablehaven! I've read almost all of Brandon Mull's books. Fablehaven 5 is one of my ultimate favorite books!
Yeah they're pretty good. What about his new series, 5 Kingdoms?
Eh, I thought it was fine, but not like Fablehaven.
Fablehaven is really good. It's one of those things where the last book/s are almost entirely climax. It's great. Plus the writing is good, the stories are good, and aside from the fact that nearly every creature in it is from some fable or legend, and that putting that kind of thing in a modern setting is a common theme, it's quite original.
The only thing that I can be considered to be a "hardcore fan" of are the Rita and Runt cartoons on Animaniacs! I watch them religiously and I have all the songs from those toons on my MP4 and on my phone.
They really showed me a side of animation that I never though I'd see.
Also, I'm nuts about the first Deus Ex game on PC.
Redwall is my life, my teachers probably hate me because I find a way to include Redwall in all my papers while still staying on topic. It can be hard sometimes, but I'll find a way ;D I also really love Maximum Ride, Lord of the Rings (who doesn't?), Marvel, and... I think that's it :P
Homestuck, The Shadowhunter Chronicles, Skulduggery Pleasant, the Percy Jackson universe, Doctor Who, Looking For Group, Throne of Glass, Young Justice, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Chaos Walking, The Curseworkers, Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, Free!, Attack on Titan, Beyond the Boundary, Rain and The Magisterium (I NEED THE COPPER GAUNTLET, WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER? WHY AUTHORS? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?)
I'm not really a die-hard fan of any fandoms, not even Pokémon (It may seem so because so many of my profile pics have been Pokémon but I'm actually not that into it).
If I became a die-hard fan of anything, I would like it to be something academic. I don't know if these count, but I really like flute/piccolo and classical music related things and I have an interest in classic literature, which I hope to delve deeper into and maybe become that hardcore fan of 8)
STAR WARS!!!!
dun dun dun duunnn dun, dun dun dun dunnnn dun, dun dun dun dunnn dun, dun-dun-dun-dunnnn
(and that ain't weird)
I'm a little into Airsoft ;) Got into flying one of those little hover craft over the battle field while filming, until my friend shot it down with his Mk saw. I was a little peeved.
I'm also into RC things such as cars, helicopters, planes and boats.
Quote from: LT Sandpaw on March 07, 2015, 06:33:54 PM
I'm a little into Airsoft ;) Got into flying one of those little hover craft over the battle field while filming, until my friend shot it down with his Mk saw. I was a little peeved.
I'm also into RC things such as cars, helicopters, planes and boats.
Your friend shot down a drone? Dang.... What kind of drone was it (like, parrot, or DJI?)
(I. Like. Drones)
It was one of those sky warriors from a gas station, nothing fancy, it was the camera that was the real deal. A hundred dollars to fix it because the dang lenses broke.
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS IS GETTING A TV SERIES! THEY START FILMING IN MAY! I NEED IT IN MY LIFE!
Captain America, Agent Carter, Redwall, Harry Potter
IRON MAN!!!!!!!
Age of Empires, all the way! ;D
Quote from: Emperor Ublaz on March 13, 2015, 10:58:10 PM
Age of Empires, all the way! ;D
Oooooooh! :o :D I'm an old Age of Empires fan I haven't tried the new one yet but I still play the older games. They're so much fun. What's your favorite faction mines the Huns. ;)
Quote from: Emperor Ublaz on March 13, 2015, 10:58:10 PM
Age of Empires, all the way! ;D
Do you like the third one? I played it for like two days and then moved to something else. It could be a really fun game, but it just doesn't work for some reason.
Quote from: LT Sandpaw on March 13, 2015, 11:08:19 PM
Quote from: Emperor Ublaz on March 13, 2015, 10:58:10 PM
Age of Empires, all the way! ;D
Oooooooh! :o :D I'm an old Age of Empires fan I haven't tried the new one yet but I still play the older games. They're so much fun. What's your favorite faction mines the Huns. ;)
I really like AoG too! I have all three! For Age of Empires 2 my most used factions are either the Celts or the Britons.
the Detroit Tigers
Quote from: LT Sandpaw on March 13, 2015, 11:08:19 PM
Quote from: Emperor Ublaz on March 13, 2015, 10:58:10 PM
Age of Empires, all the way! ;D
Oooooooh! :o :D I'm an old Age of Empires fan I haven't tried the new one yet but I still play the older games. They're so much fun. What's your favorite faction mines the Huns. ;)
I like the French and Dutch civs from Age of Empires 3 the best. My French home city is level 70-ish and my Dutch home city is level 26. However, I prefer to fight with Swedish Fusilier Mercenaries (see profile picture).
In Age of Empires 2, I like using the Mongols. I'll start raiding enemy towns with Mangudai as soon as I reach the Castle Age (Those unsuspecting lumberjacks never know what hit them!). Once the Imperial Age rolls around, the Mangudai are fully upgraded and nearly unstoppable. ;D ;D ;D
I rambled a bit there. Sorry.
:o You can level up your cities in AOE 3?
Quote from: Lord_Ashenwyte on March 14, 2015, 01:16:45 PM
:o You can level up your cities in AOE 3?
Yes. Every time you earn a certain number of Experience Points, your Home City goes up a level, allowing you to customize it and select new shipments to send to your colony in the New World.
Yeah, my favorite in AoE 3 faction is the Ottomans, just train Jannisaries like crazy and then march into the enemy town and the town will crumble!
Quote from: Emperor Ublaz on March 14, 2015, 01:19:56 PM
Quote from: Lord_Ashenwyte on March 14, 2015, 01:16:45 PM
:o You can level up your cities in AOE 3?
Yes. Every time you earn a certain number of Experience Points, your Home City goes up a level, allowing you to customize it and select new shipments to send to your colony in the New World.
Whaaaaaa? I need to get it :o
I WAS also a big fan of everything Pokémon-related. I still play the Gameboy games from time to time, but it will never be the same again.
The latest SImCity!
Ottomans are pretty good. If you have the War Chiefs expansion pack, use the Sioux. Fast explorer, powerful cavalry, 200 pop straight up ... ;D
Anime, The Big Bang Theory, Nascar, Hiking, & Biking,
I keep these three banners around to show off what I like. I like more, but this is a good place to start:
(http://s6.postimg.org/p3cfjhj69/Criminal_Minds_Cast_Banner_resize.jpg)
(http://s6.postimg.org/6p1wfi6vl/dynomutt_fan_button.jpg)
(http://s6.postimg.org/u4jtkuqmp/ncis_portal_banner_resize.jpg)
And of course there's always Watership Down. :D http://honeycomb.highlonelyhills.com
Quote from: TheTaleOfSierra on March 14, 2015, 04:49:04 PM
I WAS also a big fan of everything Pokémon-related. I still play the Gameboy games from time to time, but it will never be the same again.
Yay! Me too!
Quote from: rrrrr on July 14, 2015, 06:45:22 PM
Quote from: TheTaleOfSierra on March 14, 2015, 04:49:04 PM
I WAS also a big fan of everything Pokémon-related. I still play the Gameboy games from time to time, but it will never be the same again.
Yay! Me too!
Cool! Which one is your favorite? :)
I like the classic version Red, but Gold/Silver is ... bigger. I'll say Red version though, because Charizard is awesome :)
For newer versions, Black/White is nice (look at my profile picture).
Quote from: rrrrr on July 15, 2015, 01:03:47 AM
I like the classic version Red, but Gold/Silver is ... bigger. I'll say Red version though, because Charizard is awesome :)
For newer versions, Black/White is nice (look at my profile picture).
Woah dude, aside for the fact that I prefer Yellow over Red (can't help it, I was presented with the game the same week the Animè started here) those are my thoughts exactly on the whole saga. For me, it was all over after Black and White 2 -which is kinda sad, actually... seeing how I played pretty much every installment on the series and only now they are feeling childish-.
That's interesting. For me personally, I generally prefer the Pokémon from the earlier games but the stories from the later ones. Ruby/Sapphire is where the villains started to get better rather than just "we want to steal your Pokémon" with Magma and Aqua both having actual motivation to do what they did. The high point of this for me is Black/White for obvious reasons. I haven't played any of the games after that but from what I know, B/W is my favourite of them.
I am a die hard fan of... nothing! Yay! :D
And that's not sarcasm, by the way. I just don't like getting into fandoms, except for the ones that exist in my inner world.
Living, breathing, dancing. . .
Breathing is good... ::)
Not dying.
(See what I did there?)
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 15, 2015, 01:42:25 AM
That's interesting. For me personally, I generally prefer the Pokémon from the earlier games but the stories from the later ones. Ruby/Sapphire is where the villains started to get better rather than just "we want to steal your Pokémon" with Magma and Aqua both having actual motivation to do what they did. The high point of this for me is Black/White for obvious reasons. I haven't played any of the games after that but from what I know, B/W is my favourite of them.
I totally understand what you are saying, but the Black and White games have a major flaw that, at least I, cannot ignore: they are just filled with some of the worst examples of Pokèmons that I have ever encountered in one of those games. I think that it would be safe to say that I only liked the starters -and even them weren't all that appealing (well, Snivy was)-.
Quote from: TheTaleOfSierra on July 15, 2015, 04:27:41 AM
I totally understand what you are saying, but the Black and White games have a major flaw that, at least I, cannot ignore: they are just filled with some of the worst examples of Pokèmons that I have ever encountered in one of those games. I think that it would be safe to say that I only liked the starters -and even them weren't all that appealing (well, Snivy was)-.
I know what you're saying. For people like us who are introduced to Pokemon earlier like Gen 1 or Gen 2, some later ones would seem strange (like Rotom :P) I usually choose the Fire-type starter, but Tepig was just so less (stats and moves-wise) compared to earlier starters (such as Chimchar, for example). Samurott turned out to be good, though.
I have several favorite fandoms, and here are a few.
Leviathan alternate universe
Star Wars
CHERUB
Quote from: rrrrr on July 15, 2015, 10:36:44 PM
Quote from: TheTaleOfSierra on July 15, 2015, 04:27:41 AM
I totally understand what you are saying, but the Black and White games have a major flaw that, at least I, cannot ignore: they are just filled with some of the worst examples of Pokèmons that I have ever encountered in one of those games. I think that it would be safe to say that I only liked the starters -and even them weren't all that appealing (well, Snivy was)-.
I know what you're saying. For people like us who are introduced to Pokemon earlier like Gen 1 or Gen 2, some later ones would seem strange (like Rotom :P) I usually choose the Fire-type starter, but Tepig was just so less (stats and moves-wise) compared to earlier starters (such as Chimchar, for example). Samurott turned out to be good, though.
Haha yeah. Generation 5 has to have the absolute record of strangeness. There was a Pokèmon who was a candle who then evolved into an oil-lamp (?) a baloon, a freaking ice cream cone! And the list goes on.
But for me the biggest sin came from the Animè itself... they tried way too hard to make all the starters look like the greatest thing ever and their effort fell short. Seriously... Tepig taking on two fully-evolved enemies at the same time? Snivy winning every battle she was on? Oshawott was ok, though.
Quote from: TheTaleOfSierra on July 15, 2015, 04:27:41 AM
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 15, 2015, 01:42:25 AM
That's interesting. For me personally, I generally prefer the Pokémon from the earlier games but the stories from the later ones. Ruby/Sapphire is where the villains started to get better rather than just "we want to steal your Pokémon" with Magma and Aqua both having actual motivation to do what they did. The high point of this for me is Black/White for obvious reasons. I haven't played any of the games after that but from what I know, B/W is my favourite of them.
I totally understand what you are saying, but the Black and White games have a major flaw that, at least I, cannot ignore: they are just filled with some of the worst examples of Pokèmons that I have ever encountered in one of those games. I think that it would be safe to say that I only liked the starters -and even them weren't all that appealing (well, Snivy was)-.
Eh, I find Pokémon I hate in every generation... I think. I do, however, like the vast majority of all of them. I suppose I just go on design so some of the terrible Pokémon you might not like are probably on my list because the designs are alright. Just because boredom I'm going to list off every Pokémon I hate or strongly dislike.
Spoiler
Gen1
Venusaur
Zubat
Gloom
Weepinbell
Magmar
Gen 2
Skiploom
Snubbull
Granbull
Smoochum
Magby
Gen 3
Slakoth
Skitty
Medicham
Feebas
Luvdisc
Gen 4
Bibarel
Burmy
Wormadam
Pink Shellos
Ambipom
Drifloon
Purugly
Lickilicky
Glaceon
Probopass
Gen 5
Simipour
Woobat
Swoobat
Gurdurr
Conkeldurr
Darumaka
Scraggy
Trubbish
Garbodor
Gothita
Gothorita
Vanillish
Vanilluxe
Foongus
Amoonguss
Tynamo
Cubchoo
Stunfisk
Vullaby
Gen 6
Quilladin
Braixen
Froakie
Bunnelby
Diggersby
Scatterbug
Swirlix
Slurpuff
Pumpkaboo
Gourgeist
Okay so most of my hated Pokémon are found in Gen 5 but the story and the other Pokémon make up for it.
Dyson vacuums.
Awww... :( I actually really like a lot of the Pokemon in Gen 5. Joltik and Swoobat are two of my favourite Pokemon ever, and I just love Yamask, Scrafty, Trubbish, Zoroark, Chandelure, Volcorona, Reuniclus, and Scolipede. Honestly, I don't think I really "hate" any Pokemon. At worst, there are some designs that I find a bit boring or uninteresting, but, at the end of the day, they are supposed to be creatures (well, monsters, really, but still), and since there is no animal in real life that I hate, the same naturally holds true for Pokemon.
Quote from: Sagetip, the hare on July 15, 2015, 10:37:47 PM
I have several favorite fandoms, and here are a few.
Leviathan alternate universe
Scott Westerfeld?
Quote from: SoranMBane on July 16, 2015, 12:19:32 AM
Awww... :( I actually really like a lot of the Pokemon in Gen 5. Joltik and Swoobat are two of my favourite Pokemon ever, and I just love Yamask, Scrafty, Trubbish, Zoroark, Chandelure, Volcorona, Reuniclus, and Scolipede. Honestly, I don't think I really "hate" any Pokemon. At worst, there are some designs that I find a bit boring or uninteresting, but, at the end of the day, they are supposed to be creatures (well, monsters, really, but still), and since there is no animal in real life that I hate, the same naturally holds true for Pokemon.
You must have started playing them later (like Gen. 4)?
I started at Gen 2 and I still love the majority of the later Pokémon. Besides, Soran is 22.
Quote from: The Skarzs on July 15, 2015, 02:58:29 AM
Not dying.
(See what I did there?)
No one sees what I did there.
@Jet: What's your opinion on the whole N thing? Because that character gave me a really hard time getting thru Black and White, just because how... strange he was.
@Skarzs: I saw what you did.
N is my favourite character in the entire series honestly. His power is really interesting, his plan and ideals likewise. His backstory is also really interesting, really scary and quite disturbing which I love. Also he has a really cool design and is the only character in the game's canon (aside from the player) to win the trust of a legendary Pokémon.
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 16, 2015, 01:16:23 AM
@Skarzs: I saw what you did.
N is my favourite character in the entire series honestly. His power is really interesting, his plan and ideals likewise. His backstory is also really interesting, really scary and quite disturbing which I love. Also he has a really cool design and is the only character in the game's canon (aside from the player) to win the trust of a legendary Pokémon.
Cool! I was actually kind of annoyed every time he showed up (specially in the treadmill... that part was like way too much) because of his cheesy dialogue and how uninteresting he was to me. The one good thing I'm going to say about him, though, is how unpredictable he was... even if only during the first playthought, I could never predict when or where he was going to show up (even though you can do that painfully easy with other characters of the earlier games).
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 16, 2015, 01:16:23 AM
@Skarzs: I saw what you did.
Someone sees what I did there. :3
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 16, 2015, 01:16:23 AM
@Skarzs: I saw what you did.
N is my favourite character in the entire series honestly. His power is really interesting, his plan and ideals likewise. His backstory is also really interesting, really scary and quite disturbing which I love. Also he has a really cool design and is the only character in the game's canon (aside from the player) to win the trust of a legendary Pokémon.
'
Creepy. ~shivers~. He's ok though sometimes.
Quote from: The Skarzs on July 16, 2015, 01:29:56 AM
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 16, 2015, 01:16:23 AM
@Skarzs: I saw what you did.
Someone sees what I did there. :3
I did. I just didn't comment. :P Do have any idea how hard it is to do anything at my grandparents'?!
Quote from: Cornflower MM on July 16, 2015, 07:57:45 AM
Quote from: The Skarzs on July 16, 2015, 01:29:56 AM
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 16, 2015, 01:16:23 AM
@Skarzs: I saw what you did.
Someone sees what I did there. :3
I did. I just didn't comment. :P Do have any idea how hard it is to do anything at my grandparents'?!
I did, just didn't feel like saying anything. :P
Quote from: rrrrr on July 16, 2015, 12:57:22 AM
You must have started playing them later (like Gen. 4)?
Nope. My first
Pokemon game was
Gold (Gen 2), and I'd been a fan of the anime for a long time before then. It's just that, for my tastes, the Pokemon designs have only gotten more and more interesting the series has gone on. The majority of my favourites are from the later generations.
Microsoft Windows, as I'm using a friend's MacBook Pro, and it makes little sense. Too many cons to list, but on the bright side, I can finally see Skarzs' script, which doesn't show up for non-Mac users.
Hazelnut. I absolutely adore hazelnut. Coffee, Nutella, these nuggets of awesomeness:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DkQMs7FOL.jpg)
...Captain Moroni. I may be just a little obsessed...
Quote from: Banya on July 16, 2015, 02:36:06 PM
Microsoft Windows, as I'm using a friend's MacBook Pro, and it makes little sense. Too many cons to list, but on the bright side, I can finally see Skarzs' script, which doesn't show up for non-Mac users.
YUS.
Quote from: SoranMBane on July 16, 2015, 12:04:27 PM
Quote from: rrrrr on July 16, 2015, 12:57:22 AM
You must have started playing them later (like Gen. 4)?
Nope. My first Pokemon game was Gold (Gen 2), and I'd been a fan of the anime for a long time before then. It's just that, for my tastes, the Pokemon designs have only gotten more and more interesting the series has gone on. The majority of my favourites are from the later generations.
Ohhhh. Yeah, there were new and interesting type combinations (Reuniclus - spelling, please?), along with a lot more legendaries. (But I still enjoy Gold more, I'm kind of "classic" :) )
@Soren: Those taste so good...
Quote from: rrrrr on July 16, 2015, 07:12:58 PM
Quote from: SoranMBane on July 16, 2015, 12:04:27 PM
Quote from: rrrrr on July 16, 2015, 12:57:22 AM
You must have started playing them later (like Gen. 4)?
Nope. My first Pokemon game was Gold (Gen 2), and I'd been a fan of the anime for a long time before then. It's just that, for my tastes, the Pokemon designs have only gotten more and more interesting the series has gone on. The majority of my favourites are from the later generations.
Ohhhh. Yeah, there were new and interesting type combinations (Reuniclus - spelling, please?), along with a lot more legendaries. (But I still enjoy Gold more, I'm kind of "classic" :) )
@Soren: Those taste so good...
I agree about the new types and combinations (except for the Fairy one, that's where I draw the line). The gameplay has definitely being improved by adding more and more typos, though it is still a little confusing for me.
(Also, I don't see Lucario as a fairy. I just don't).
I've no idea what y'all are talking about.
I think I'll go find a topic where I can actually join in the conversatiion. . . . *Wanders away*
Quote from: Cornflower MM on July 16, 2015, 09:33:50 PM
I've no idea what y'all are talking about.
I think I'll go find a topic where I can actually join in the conversatiion. . . . *Wanders away*
Wait... you don't know Pokèmon? Go play some of the games, they are fun :D!
Don't do that, Corny; much bad, such horror.
Hardcore fan of anything metal. :P
Quote from: TheTaleOfSierra on July 16, 2015, 09:56:13 PM
Quote from: Cornflower MM on July 16, 2015, 09:33:50 PM
I've no idea what y'all are talking about.
I think I'll go find a topic where I can actually join in the conversatiion. . . . *Wanders away*
Wait... you don't know Pokèmon? Go play some of the games, they are fun :D!
Know of it, know someone who used to be obsessed with it, but never played it myself.
Quote from: The Skarzs on July 16, 2015, 09:58:58 PM
Don't do that, Corny; much bad, such horror.
Hardcore fan of anything metal. :P
Well, if that's not contradicting then I don't know what is. :P
Pokémon is the definitive video game series, anyone who doesn't play it is doing themselves a disservice.
Umm. . . . . Okay.
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 17, 2015, 02:30:44 AM
Pokémon is the definitive video game series, anyone who doesn't play it is doing themselves a disservice.
^
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 17, 2015, 02:30:44 AM
Pokémon is the definitive video game series, anyone who doesn't play it is doing themselves a disservice.
Very well said, although that's not true for every installment on the series.
Meh...I don't care that I don't know what you're talking about.
I'm probably a die hard fan of eating. ::)
As in you like food or just like eating?
Quote from: Delthion on July 17, 2015, 02:53:46 AM
Meh...I don't care that I don't know what you're talking about.
Haha, you sound like me when I'm checking the upper boards :P
(But seriously, I'm surprised about how many of you don't know the first thing about Pokèmon. The thing hasn't exactly been subtle when it came to exist).
Quote from: TheTaleOfSierra on July 17, 2015, 02:50:04 AM
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 17, 2015, 02:30:44 AM
Pokémon is the definitive video game series, anyone who doesn't play it is doing themselves a disservice.
Very well said, although that's not true for every installment on the series.
What you want to play is either Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald or Firered/Leafgreen. You don't want to play Red/Blue because why would you when you could get the exact same game with better graphics and less bugs. Alternatively you want Heartgold/Soulsilver, because Lugia is the best and you're wrong if you disagree. I only gave the other two options because nostalgia (FR/LG) and the best installment overall (R/S/E).
Hmm... I have Ruby. I've beat it. And I found it astoundingly repetitive with a total lack of driving plot...
It's a Pokémon game, there is no driving plot in the earlier ones. They started getting plots with Diamond/Pearl but R/S/E had the best generation of Pokémon.
Well, I've only played the one I have, but I found it boring and repetitive. I mean, how long do I really need to walk around in tall grass? Because it gets boring pretty quickly. Add to that the fact that strategy is pretty much nonexistent, and I found it not worth replaying.
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 17, 2015, 03:07:12 AM
Quote from: TheTaleOfSierra on July 17, 2015, 02:50:04 AM
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on July 17, 2015, 02:30:44 AM
Pokémon is the definitive video game series, anyone who doesn't play it is doing themselves a disservice.
Very well said, although that's not true for every installment on the series.
What you want to play is either Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald or Firered/Leafgreen. You don't want to play Red/Blue because why would you when you could get the exact same game with better graphics and less bugs. Alternatively you want Heartgold/Soulsilver, because Lugia is the best and you're wrong if you disagree. I only gave the other two options because nostalgia (FR/LG) and the best installment overall (R/S/E).
I actually thought that the remakes were an awful idea that deprived the original games from their charm and glory. YES, they did add a lot of stuff that I really liked and yes they were less buggy but... not my style, sorry.
And I agree with SoulSilver, that game is *all kinds of cursing* awesome and it only enhanced the original game's experience.
I am as close as I come to being a die hard fan of Mount & Blade.
I've heard of that game Del, but never played it.
I am really a die hard fan of:
LotR
The Hobbit
Redwall
Sherlock
Video Games
Elder Scrolls
Books
And a bunch of other things.
Avatar: the Last Airbender and Yu-Gi-Oh!
FMA, LOTR, A Song of Ice and Fire, Kemono no Souja Erin, and Tabletop wargaming, just to name a few.
Redwalllllllllll!!!!!! My whole room rocks this theme!
Quote from: Leatho Shellhound on August 03, 2015, 04:32:16 AM
Redwalllllllllll!!!!!! My whole room rocks this theme!
;D, Can you show us a picture of your room?