>Reality Warpers and Randall Flagg He's not quite so broken as all that. He is none the less a force to be reckoned with no matter what universe he may find himself in (One of the things about him is he knows thousands of hidden doorways that allow him to cross multiple universes and realities). He's got precognitive abilities, and the ability to influence the hearts and minds of anyone evil, or bitter and hate filled. Were he placed in the Dragonball universe he'd have all the villains, Vegeta, Piccolo, Bulma, Roshi, almost anyone with any sort of vice willing to follow his every word, and stand and sacrifice their lives for him. You've never heard of this character at all?

>Lost the weight It feels great does it not? I've enjoyed thoroughly shoving in the faces of people, especially women, who treated me cruelly because of my weight how much I've lost, and how they've never had to do anything that requires that sort of effort and discipline with their bodies. I lost it by running, lifting weights, and boxing. How about yourself?

>Suspended

>Race car driver It was because I expressed my opinion that driving the world's least fuel efficient cars in circles for hundreds of laps consumes a disproportionate amount of fossil fuels to the amount of "entertainment (I can't put enough quotes around the word entertainment) derived from the activity. Some people even consider it a sport, despite the fact that it requires no physicality whatsoever. By that same logic chess is a sport.

>George Lucas I think he lost a lot of tenacity between the original and prequel trilogies. There's a really good documentary on the original trilogy that explains a lot of the hardships with creating the original 3 movies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrme_mgZKpA. If you watch that documentary you'll see a very determined and hard working Lucas refusing to take no for an answer in an ambitious undertaking, while the prequel trilogy shows an overweight and lazy Lucas rushing out scripts in order to make the films as quickly as possible. I don't think it's that much of an exaggeration to say he wrote the scripts in 1 draft and that ended up being the script for the movies.

>The Emperor I preferred the monkey eyed old lady Emperor myself. He could have potentially been a cool villain in the prequels had the protagonists not collectively thought and acted as if they'd recently suffered severe concussions. He was the main thing that made Episode 3 the best of the prequels, but despite him being not half bad the writing was too poor. I was never too keen on Darth Vader being space Jesus either, nor do I think it was a good idea to have the reason he is not as strong later as earlier be that he lost midichlorians from having all 4 of his limbs severed.

>Magic Girls Not familiar with Randy Flagg I take it? Hopefully in time you will become so. I would very much enjoy a well written crossover where he, or maybe even Robert Gray, are the antagonist of a dragonball saga. I tend to think up ideas for a lot of crossovers though. A few examples would be Diablo and Home Alone, and King Kong and 12 angry men,

>Action game protagonists I know Dante from the Devil May Cry games, and Dante from Dante's Inferno, the third Dante I'm not familiar with. I'm also not sure who Prince is. If Kratos were liberal with the Head of Eurayle he might be able to defeat even the Dragonball characters. It really depends on how his items would react. If he could deflect ki blasts with the golden fleece (I see no reason why he wouldn't be able to) he'd make an interesting opponent for the Dragonball characters if written right.

>Gumption I have it for a lot of things (I've lost 100 lbs) but I wouldn't be able to make all those skeletons. I don't even know what most of the locations for the fights are called. What does NER stand for?

>RedLetterMedia reviews Glad to hear you're liking it so far. The episode 3 review is the best in my opinion.

>Suspended I'm sorry to hear that. Some serious runners are gonna miss out on help because of it I'm sure. I got suspended once. Stupid race car drivers dying.

>Boba Fett and Darth Vader Both were ruined by the prequels. Boba Fett is pretty cool but is somewhat overrated. He found Han Solo and turned him over to vader, but then he got eaten by a big hole in the desert that can't even move. That monster is obviously derived from the sandworms from Dune, they should have made it more like a sandworm and have it be large enough to swallow the entire ships 30X over with one bite. In the prequels it's revealed that Boba Fett is some Mexican looking guy who's just a copy of his dad. It's also revealed Darth Vader only became like he did because he was a whining coward afraid of the future like Mike Tyson.

>Magic girls Do they have Randall Flagg style modes of operation? I.E. using their powers to see the future and influence people to worship them across multiple universes, never truly dying?

>Run coverage It was very generous of you to make those run skeletons. I take it no one else had the gumption to do it so it fell upon you to do it. Without those providing run coverage would be significantly more difficult.

>Reviews Let me know what you think. hopefully you'll enjoy them. I met at a sci fi convention back in 99 the guy who played Nute Gunray, and Ray Park who played Darth Maul, and even Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca. It was neat, but like I said I was never really that into star wars so the experience wasn't as memorable to me as it may have been to a lot of other people.

>Moderations Did you get suspended for that message that was deleted in the topic on the Ascension board about multiplayer?

>Magic Girls Are they Randall Flagg like characters sowing destruction and using their magic to make people do their bidding across multiple universes, or more like full on reality warpers like the Genie from Aladdin?

>The vets When I say the vets I think of people like yourself, and the gent, and taz, and people like that who have done all kinds of runs with every single weapon and whatnot. I wouldn't think invitations into such an elite circle would be handed out lightly.

>Coverage At first I didn't even know anyone cared about other people's runs, and for a while I didn't know about skeletons so my coverage was patchy, mostly just hitting the highlights. Once I joined the union and that run skeleton topic was posted I've been using them. I still want some way to record some video coverage. It would surely show a lot of things I forgot to mention.

>GMG You do know more about the God of War games than anyone I've ever met. Don't you have the enemy setup of every fight in every game memorized? Do you have memorized the locations of every hidden chest in every game? Did you go by GMG or Mr. Starkiller first?

>Prequel reviews Enjoy them. I wish I could watch them again for the first time.

>Doom 2 on the hardest That's basically exactly what it is. You have to know the levels ahead of time pretty well to stand a chance. Since that game has I think 32 levels I haven't played it enough to want to attempt doing it that way.

>Disruptive posting I never liked this at all. It's too much of a blanket term a mod can use to delete a post for almost any reason, including being structured certain ways as you pointed out. Do you know the name of the mod? It'd be funny if it was one of the mods I know from the LUE board.

>DBG I gave up on that board a while back. It was the reason I made my gamefaqs account way back in 2000. I guess I just got jaded of so many Dabura vs Cell vs Brolly vs Bojack vs Pikkon, and why doesn't Goku use Kaio-ken while Super Saiyan, could X character from some comic book/anime/video game defeat character Y from Dragonball? style topics.

>Favors me to have begun run work You were pretty stern with me at first, although I had done some run work before talking to you about it. I finished my NUR of GoS and posted about it on the boards and you made it quite clear in the future I won't be able to get credit for runs without some decent coverage to back it up.

>Casuals and spelling and grammar correction It figures those would be the type. I would figure people would be glad for some clarification, but people are so sensitive these days. I don't know if it's the schools that do it or the parents or what.

>Testing their stamina against yours An empty gesture. How much gratification can one possibly derive from having played some single player action game more than another person over the internet?

>RedLetterMedia reviews of the prequel trilogy "comically hard on them" is a drastic understatement. They're extremely funny in my opinion and they are relentless on the movies. The episode 1 review is 70 minutes while the reviews of 2 and 3 are both 90 minutes. The guy who reviews them does so as a character named Mr. Plinkett, who is over 100 years old (he was a survivor of the Titanic). Anyone who has ever watched those movies or liked Star Wars at all should check them out. Here's a link. http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/

>God Mode Makes sense I wasn't thinking about God difficulty from the first game. Didn't you also note you used a lot of God Mode as a boy? That'd have to predate the first God of War game.

>Brutal Doom Thanks for the link it looks like there's some fun stuff there. That person's name is Jan. That can be a name for a man or a woman. The more I play it the more impressed I am with the work and attention to detail. Some enemies will become enraged if you taunt them, killing enemies with a fatality grants health, but is dangerous to go for since you have to kill them with the fist. There is a kick you can use at melee range without having to switch weapons, and you can kick certain enemies in the balls to stun them. Tons of work has gone into the sprites and animations. Vertical aiming and jumping have been in most programs like Zdoom for a while, but this mod utilizes both to a new extent. You can jump in the air and kick to do a special jumping kick that does extra damage for example, and the abilitly to aim vertically lets you get headshots.

>That sort of treatment for God of War I wouldn't expect anything for a few decades. I'm sure eventually, if not already, there's some sort of emulated version people could potentially modify. That's what happened with old 8 and 16 bit games, but those are all sprites and a lot easier to work with than 3d graphics and combat I'm sure.

>Doom 2 on the highest difficulty I've beaten it several times on the second hardest, but I've never tried the very hardest. The main difference is that the enemies respawn shortly after being killed, I think something like 2 minutes later, while the ammo, armor, health, etc, don't respawn. You'd pretty much have to have all the levels memorized. Hopefully I'll get another playthrough or 2 with Brutal Doom.

>The Mother games Only 1 has been released in the states for the SNES called Earthbound. This is the second one, called Mother 2 in Japan. Mother 1 I have played and beaten, but only because I'm such a huge fan of the series. That game was for Famicom, and it is one of the most difficult games I have ever played in my entire life. We're talking like Battletoads or Ghosts n' Goblins hard, but as an RPG. It has a great story though. Mother 3 was released back in 2005 for GBA and it's my personal favorite. These games are drastically different than God of War though. God of War games are all about anger and hatred and action, while Mother games have child protagonists and carry themes of love (specifically that between parents and children) friendship, and fear. The games are also really crazy, taking place in a world that's pretty much a Japanese person's idea of what America is like. It's got interesting moments such as fighting a sentient pile of vomit as a boss who is defeated by distracting him with honey made from flies, a character who is a man who turned himself into a dungeon, and the most frightening part of any game I personally have ever played.

>Some folks didn't like you I wonder why. I noticed the folks on the DBG board don't like you either. You seem an agreeable fellow, willing to help out with any part of any God of War game. Even going out of your way to find coverage and videos relevant to the situation. And you like to chat about all sorts of various things. I have found in my experiences people often get butthurt when a man says something with some authority.

>Princess Amidlin I know of the character I just don't remember much of the specifics of that movie. Have you ever seen those RedLetterMedia reviews of the prequels?

>God Mode In the context you're using it is the phrase "God Mode" slang for some variety of drug? I can't think of having heard the phrase God Mode anywhere except for the code in Doom.

>Deception from the game developers Why would they withhold that information from the public? They've gotta know people are gonna figure it out. I find that decision on their part to be morally questionable.

>Brutal Doom I hadn't until you mentioned it. I looked it up and downloaded it. I've played it some and so far it's really fun. I'm liking the improvements to the weapons and enemy AI. The attention to detail is admirable for something someone, or maybe a few people, did for free. They really covered their bases, when the shotgun zombies have to reload there's an animation for it, you can main enemies by severing their limbs and use them as shields. I hope one day the technology will be publicly available for someone to touch up the God of War games in this fashion. If you have a good video of some antics I'd love to see it. Doom 2 is one of my favorite games ever made, right up there with God of War 2 and Mother 3.

>TUGOWU There were people trying to make other God of War unions after this one was already established? I wonder what their motivation was besides not liking certain people etc. I can only imagine the hayday. There must have been hundreds of runners with their own topics of their coverage, and dozens of vets helping. Every discovery new and innovative. I would have been all over that if I'd had the gumption to look for it.

>Arena I'm gonna unlock it before PAIN+ for sure. That's not a run to go into lightly. Is using Rage of the Titans to break out of being stoned a DQ in PAIN+? I assume it is, but since you can use the bow to trick for defensive purposes I'm not 100% sure.

>Padme I don't remember. I saw that movie when it first came out and I didn't think it was very good and I never have seen it again. I watched the Redlettermedia review of it though. Good stuff.

>Progress Forgiveness please, I haven't made a lot of progress the last couple of days. I haven't had much time to play, and the time I have had has been at bad times when others were using the television. I played a few tries today on the first wave and I'm doing much better with my setups. I am still confused as to when the legionnaires will chase you, and when they will taunt though. It feels as if when i'm a decent distance away they're equally inclined to do either, which is causing me to take some damage.

>Doom 2 I would consider FPS to be a sub genre of action games. Have you played much Doom 2? I would think with a name like GodModeGOD you'd have played it considering how prominent God Mode is in that game. There are levels where there aren't enough ammo in the level to kill everything without having to use the fist or chainsaw if you don't utilize monster infighting. There are parts where you can get 30-40 monsters fighting each other at once pretty easily. I've not played much STFU like I said, but if it can match that level of friendly fire on enemies I really want to try it.

>Damage values Did you say you were working on figuring out the damage values for Ascension? For other titles was there some sort of publication like a strategy guide you got the values from?:

>The old days of TUGOWU Was TUGOWU around when 2 was first released? If so back when the series was more in it's hayday was this board more active?

>Tricking It's gonna take some work but I'll get it down.

>Proving capable Thanks. To really get good help will be necessary though. For example I probably never would have figured out punts, homeruns, bow tricking, barrier abuse, etc alone.

>Deimos in NGRNUR+ Was that coverage lost in the alt.TUGOWU incident? If it was me doing it I'd probably just abuse spear chucking.

>Arena I haven't actually unlocked it. I cleared Challenge of the Titans for the achievement, but I didn't get high enough rank. I might work on unlocking it soon.

>Legacy of Kain games The combat is pretty basic and when they tried to improve it with Defiance it came out worse than Blood Omen 2. If you haven't played it Defiance is a complete copy of the first Devil May Cry complete with camera angle issues. I much prefer the games where you play as Kain. His ruthlessness and disregard for the well being of anyone but himself make him a fun character to play as. Raziel is somewhat of a gaunt wet blanket in comparison. I went from murdering entire villages and feeding on the innocent in Blood Omen to solving a bunch of block pushing puzzles with the plot being almost nothing but exposition in Soul Reaver.

>Violence and Star Wars It makes sense with the original trilogy being aimed mostly towards teens. The prequel trilogy tries to please everybody and be everything. It's got everything from stuff for really little kids with jar jar, to adult oriented stuff like boring political scenes that are hard to follow, and Anakin being burned then immediately put into the vader suit with no anesthesia or cream for his burns or anything. The only instance of actual blood I can think of in any of the movies is from the first one when OB1 cuts that guy's arm off because he doesn't speak English.

>Friendly fire It's hard to top Doom 2 on that front.

>PS Vita What's the deal with the Vita? I have one, and I can use it to take videos of stuff, and there's an application that lets me get on youtube and sign in with my account, but I can't upload videos from my vita onto youtube. Nor do I know of any way to upload them to my computer to do it from there. That could have been a way I could have some recorded run coverage.