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user15026

7:09 PM

Being hostile does nothing to make this an environment where people want to stay and contribute.

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Q: G-con45 gun wont work with LCD TV PS1 Time Crisis Project Titan

I've just raked out my old PS1 Mini console as I bought The G-Con45 Gun Controller to play Time Crisis Project Titan, alas the controller is picked up but wont shoot at the screen when calibrating I was wondering if it was something to do with the LCD screen? does the gun not fire at LCD TVs or a...

Origami Robot

I need to figure out what method will legally get me Mario Kart 8 before the free download deal expires for the least amount of money.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Waiting for 2 more generations of consoles to launch and buying it used.

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria Hey! That's my strategy.

@OrigamiRobot Often it's easier to find some way to earn $60 more.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria Happy?

@JasonBerkan I can sell compliments. Want to be my first customer?

Jason Berkan

7:16 PM

@OrigamiRobot No can do. I'm saving up for the Wii U Mario Kart 8 bundle.

Origami Robot

Damn.

StrixVaria

Mario Kart 8 is just as frustrating as I remember.

Origami Robot

Meaning?

StrixVaria

If I'm in 1st throughout the race, I finish 5th. If I'm in 2nd, I finish 5th. If I'm in 10th, I finish 2nd.

But I can't ever catch 1st place.

Origami Robot

l2kart bro

Ben Brocka

7:19 PM

rubber band AI or what?

Yuuki

@StrixVaria Rubberband too stronk.

StrixVaria

@BenBrocka I'm talking mostly online.

But the game is obviously designed to keep the first place player close and to give huge advantages the further back you are.

I knew that going in, but it's already proven it.

Ben Brocka

@StrixVaria item design has been like that since 64, though I thought they introduced some blue shell counter this time

Origami Robot

Items are definitely weighted that way.

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria That's what has always made Mario Kart a great game in my eyes. You can easily get anyone to play with you.

StrixVaria

7:20 PM

@BenBrocka Yeah there's an item that cancels blue shells (not sure what else it does).

It's really rare, though.

Ben Brocka

No items, mario only, rainbow road

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan I get what they're going for. I usually like to win when I outskill my opponent, though.

Origami Robot

It cancels more than just blue shells

StrixVaria

There is a way to play with no items!

I don't think you can in random online lobbies, though.

Ben Brocka

I felt Wipeout did item balance better. Quake was really the only "screw you" button and still didn't hit has hard as blue shell

Jason Berkan

7:21 PM

@StrixVaria But do the other people like to lose when they are outskilled?

StrixVaria

I was holding onto one of those blue-shell-canceling items in first place. Then I got lightninged (which removes your items), and then I got blue shelled.

Then I came in 5th.

Ben Brocka

there's Plasma but it takes aim to use that

Origami Robot

@JasonBerkan WINNERS DON'T CARE ABOUT LOSERS

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan That's why I'm on the fence. Sometimes yes, but most people would say no.

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot If the girl you want to date is holding the other controller, you may care.

Origami Robot

7:22 PM

Any girl I'd want to date can beat me in Mario Kart

Jason Berkan

Touché.

Ben Brocka

I usually prefer to go easy on people rather than play games that are balanced by RNG/uncontrollable handicaps

StrixVaria

I was playing through the levels with my wife on 50cc, and I was getting 1st every race and she was hovering around 4th-8th.

Ben Brocka

but I prefer even more to just play something cooperative

StrixVaria

I turned it up to 100cc for one cup, and I kept getting 1st and she kept coming in 10th-12th. :(

Ben Brocka

7:24 PM

I really don't see the joy in playing a competitive game without a reasonably fair matchup of skill

StrixVaria

Mario Kart is not a competitive game, because of the RNG/uncontrollable handicaps.

That's why people still play Melee instead of Brawl.

Origami Robot

It sucks, but going easy on people is doing them a disservice. You won't get better if people go easy on you all the time.

Jason Berkan

@BenBrocka As I said above, because constantly losing because you lack skills is not fun. Since you can't ELO your couch...

Ben Brocka

Well, it's not cooperative though. I mean, why would you play a game where the point is to beat other people if you're both admitting one of you is insurmountably more skilled than the other?

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan I understand the need for casual multiplayer games as well as competitive multiplayer games.

Mario Kart is very much a casual game.

I kind of wish it had a competitive mode. I guess that's what time trials are, but it's like single player competitive which is pretty lame.

Ben Brocka

7:26 PM

Not that you can have co-op racing...aside from double dash but...eh

StrixVaria

If Double Dash was the one where you could tag in and take over racing, that was the trolliest Mario Kart game.

Origami Robot

Still, even with the way the items are, there is still strategy and tactics.

Yuuki

@BenBrocka ... I'm trying to remember that old definition of the word "dick", but I'm not coming up with anything.

Ben Brocka

Marvel has been around long enough that at one time "solid dick" was slang for "straight talk". http://t.co/1i69H6SfIP

Tweeted by ForgottenOrder on June 2, 2014 at 4:40 PM

Yuuki

@BenBrocka Ah.

Ben Brocka

7:30 PM

I assume that has something to do with the phrase "private dick" but I was never sure wtf was up with that either

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot This is true. I was thinking about if I should try to use items differently to help stay in first place.

The main issue is just that lightning can steal your item away at any time without warning.

Ben Brocka

@StrixVaria stay in second, use Bullet Bill, win?

@StrixVaria the entire purpose of the last 4 places is to randomly fuck over the entire rest of the racers

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria Generally, you are better off in second place. You have the chance for a red shell.

Origami Robot

Like if you're in first and someone tries to blue shell you, slow down so the other drivers get hit with the blast.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Doesn't work. The blue shell targets whoever's in first when it's used.

Origami Robot

7:31 PM

@StrixVaria Read again.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot If you're in first, and someone blue shells, and then someone passes you, the blue shell will still hit you. If you're in first and someone has a blue shell but hasn't used it yet, how do you know they have a blue shell so you know to slow down and let someone else eat it?

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria The blue shell hits you, but the blast also hits people near you.

Jason Berkan

There is a sound that is played when a blue shell is launched.

Origami Robot

I'm not saying you don't get hit, I'm saying you take other people with you.

Jason Berkan

You then make certain to say close to 2nd place until it hits.

StrixVaria

7:33 PM

@OrigamiRobot Oh, right.

That makes sense now.

I wish there was an on-screen map that showed you where everyone is on the course.

Like in every other kart racing game in history.

Origami Robot

In Mario Kart DS, you could also hear the shell coming from a pretty good distance.

@StrixVaria That just makes lightning even more rude.

People are jumping over lava? yea, lightning.

Ben Brocka

@StrixVaria there isn't?

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot That was my brother-in-law's preferred strategy if he was out of the top 5. Race in circles around boxes until he got a lightning bolt and use it to drop the 1st place driver into water / lava / something bad.

StrixVaria

@BenBrocka It's on the game pad thing, but who has time to look at that during a race?

Jason Berkan

It became a strategy to not go into first on certain maps unless you had a star.

Yuuki

7:38 PM

@StrixVaria Someone who wants to drop drivers into water/lava/something bad with lightning.

Ben Brocka

@StrixVaria Oh that's surprisingly useless

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria That's why I'm thinking about getting a pro controller and setting the gamepad near the TV.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Of the 3 times I've played that long down-hill ski mountain level, twice at the bottom of that long ramp with all the boosters I got lightninged, completely ruining all the speed I had just built up.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria leet strats

Yuuki

@StrixVaria Talk about a cock-block...

StrixVaria

7:40 PM

@Yuuki I KNOW

badp

@Frank That's for lack of trying. One game that will remove save files on uninstall (and thus reinstall, too) is Final Fantasy 7 on Steam.

Just FYI.

user15026

I've had it happen with some of my casual games as well.

badp

Another one is Assassins' Creed 2 on Steam.

Origami Robot

Now I just want someone to make a mashup gif of Iroh/Zuko/Aang redirecting Mario Kart lightning.

cc @AvatarFans

StrixVaria

I was just going to ask if that was an Avatar reference.

user15026

7:41 PM

@OrigamiRobot omg yes

StrixVaria

I'm like 9 episodes in. No spoilers.

It's really good so far.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria It's really good the whole time with the exception of one episode: S1E11

Yuuki

@StrixVaria SPOILER ALERT: M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN KILLS AVATAR MOVIE.

AND ANY CHANCE OF A LEGEND OF KORRA MOVIE.

Origami Robot

I'm fine with Avatar staying animated.

Yuuki

Animated -> live-action is always a weird transition.

badp

7:45 PM

Jul 21 '13 at 21:17, by badp

Yuuki

And really hard to pull off.

badp

Correction: that's every game ever on uPlay.

3ventic

@badp if you reinstall uplay, not a game in uplay

but it's supposed to have cloud saves for everything anyway

badp

(Same as FF7.)

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria 10 is really good.

StrixVaria

7:49 PM

@OrigamiRobot I just saw the one where they steal the water scroll thing. I have no clue what number it is.

Was that 11?

GnomeSlice

I liked The Last Airbender but that's probably because I know next to nothing about the show.

Origami Robot

No, that was 9.

That episode is slow, but it is relevant to the story.

11 is 100% skippable.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot :(

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice That's most likely it.

Origami Robot

The only good thing to come from it is a joke later on about how skippable the events were.

badp

7:51 PM

btw, if you're in the UK, Skyrim is stupid cheap on Gamefly.

Yuuki

I didn't watch it myself, but apparently there was so much deviation from the source material, it was immediately un-enjoyable by anyone who was a fan of the animated series.

Origami Robot

Also, if you want the true Avatar experience, every three episodes roll a d6. Wait that many weeks before watching another. After season 2, wait a year before watching any more. Halfway through season 3, wait another year.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Pass.

I made the mistake of starting the series with my wife, though, so now I can't watch it unless she's there.

That will slow me down enough.

Origami Robot

Keep in mind that Nickelodeon does not talk about cancellations as a policy, so we didn't know if there would ever be more.

Jason Berkan

The true Avatar experiences sounds remarkably inferior to the Netflix Avatar experience.

StrixVaria

8:01 PM

THERE IS NO NETFLIX AVATAR EXPERIENCE

Derrick Mashburn

Hi

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria There is in Canada.

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan There used to be here, but Netflix dropped all Nickelodeon stuff starting in 2014.

Which is about the same time that I got Netflix.

Derrick Mashburn

Why

StrixVaria

@DerrickMashburn One of them wanted more money than the other was willing to pay.

That's pretty much why everything bad happens.

Derrick Mashburn

8:04 PM

@Stri

StrixVaria

@Derr

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria Which is when Avatar appeared on Canadian Netflix. Odd. Regardless, you should be able to use one of those fancy IP programs to pretend you are Canadian in order to watch it.

Derrick Mashburn

@StrixVaria That seems like the logical reason for a lot of things.

Origami Robot

The best part was near the end of season 2:
Tales of Ba Sing Se
2 weeks of silence
Appas Lost Days
Everyone gets super depressed
2 weeks of silence

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan It's on Amazon Prime.

Origami Robot

8:07 PM

The delay between seasons 2 and 3 is understandable though because one of the voice actors died :(

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot :(

Is the change noticeable?

Origami Robot

It's easily noticeable to me, but it's not bad.

Ben Brocka

More luigi death stare (lots of gifs warning)

My fav new one

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria Did you see the 2007 TMNT?

Derrick Mashburn

I'm a retro kinda guy, I like the older 8-bit games myself.

Can't forget the Nintendo 64

Yuuki

8:13 PM

@BenBrocka Cool guys do look at explosions.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Nope.

Ben Brocka

isn't at least one of the NES TMNT games unplayably difficult?

Ronan Forman

@Yuuki The important part is to look unimpressed by it.

Origami Robot

The episode that they dedicated to him was so sad.

Derrick Mashburn

@BenBrocka Most of the NES games are

Origami Robot

8:16 PM

Leaves from the vine
Falling so slow
Like fragile, tiny shells
Drifting in the foam
Little soldier boy
Come marching home
Brave soldier boy
Comes marching home

cc @AshleyNunn T_T

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot I don't know who Iroh is yet. Maybe I am just bad at names, or maybe I haven't met him yet...

Jason Berkan

@StrixVaria Uncle.

Lazers

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Q: How do I fix my microphone in Garry’s mod and other Source games?

When I play on a Garry’s mod server, if I hold the push to talk and icon with my steam profile picture and name appears at the side of the screen showing that my microphone is open and ready to broadcast any sounds it detects. Although, this box does not highlight when my microphone is exposed to...

garrys-mod voice-chat

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria You have met him. You might know him be the name "Best Character"

@JasonBerkan Have you read the comics?

StrixVaria

@JasonBerkan Ah ok.

Home time!

Jason Berkan

8:25 PM

@OrigamiRobot Not yet. They are very high on my list of things to purchase.

Origami Robot

I've read The Promise, but not The Search.

I think there's a 3rd series too which I haven't read

Krazer

@OrigamiRobot The Rift

Lazers

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Q: Any recommendations for web game?

Im new here and hopefully i am getting to the right place:p As im studying abroad with my little mac air with crappy 64G flash memory...my laptop really cant support large PC games.. Does anyone have any recommendations for web game??? Fantasy or Sci-fi ones would be perfect! And graphic reall...

os-x

badp

Good news everybody. I've reasonably finished Half Minute Hero 2. I should be done talking about it and asking questions for it!

Ben Brocka

Our long international nightmare is finally over

badp

8:35 PM

You are free! So am I.

Derrick Mashburn

Yay....I guess.

badp

Multiplayer isn't working either, so it's over. It's over.

sniff

Ben Brocka

Is the game really that long?

badp

Well I unlocked 250 "titles"

154 come from fulfilling 2 hinted-at side objectives in each of the 77 quests.

80 come from hunting "odd looking" tiles in the overworld.

The other 16 are odds and ends, including 6 from DLC missions.

So depending on how far you want to go, there's a lot to do.

That said I spent some of my 50 hours alt-tabbed away, so I don't know exactly how long I took.

In other news I see Apple replaced a language anyone could use but only OS X did use with a language only OS X can use

Good for them? Objective C looks awful.

Lazers

8:53 PM

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Q: How do I get at the bad guys during 'Caught in the Loop'

I'm trying to complete Caught in the Loop, and the requirement to knock down rather than kill the enemies is really making things hard. Right now I'm focusing on attacking while they're trapped in a narrow alley with blockers at the end. I can reliably get them out of their trucks, but as soon ...

watch-dogs

Krazer

badp

@Krazer The first half of the DLC can be safely skipped, unless you want 250 titles.

And, since this is a game from Japan, and there's 3 quests on the theme of "sexy dynamite", and you're probably wondering if 2 plus 2 does indeed make 4, I'll spare you the pain of playing through the quests

This does happen.

(It doesn't get graphic at all though.)

I hope your curiosity has been sufficiently sated and you can rest easily knowing that you won't miss much by skipping those 3 quests.

Krazer

@badp tell us about the oculus rift support!

badp

@Krazer All I have to say is lurk more! :P

Also I'm happy for @Michel who may, after all, not have to learn Objective C.

(wishful thinking)

Krazer

Lazers

9:06 PM

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Q: Minecraft 1.7.9 won't launch

I downloaded the launcher (from www.minecraft.net) after purchasing and registering. I run windows 7 ultimate (YES, i downloaded the windows .exe version). I start the launcher and it works fine. I sign in, works fine. I hit play, and all seems normal, until the Mojang screen pops up. Stays up fo...

minecraft

Origami Robot

If I buy Mario Kart today, you jerks better play with me.

Ben Brocka

@badp I thought objective C was completely useless without a mac anyway

I'm still waiting on my copy

user15026

@OrigamiRobot :(

badp

@BenBrocka Is it actually impossible to write an Objective C program in Windows, given sufficient masochism?

I mean I don't think Apple ported iTunes and friends off ObjC for their Windows ports.

Ben Brocka

I don't think there's any point in doing so, can't publish to iTunes without a mac

And I'm pretty sure making a non-iOS program in ObjectiveC as basically "programming in redstone" levels of pointless

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Krazer

9:10 PM

@badp Objective-C, the language, not unpossible. GCC compiles Objective-C just fine

badp

Yeah. Swift's basically Apple's own .Net 1.0

Ben Brocka

It's basically apples "please god don't hate us"

Not sure I've ever heard a positive thing about objective c

Yuuki

@OrigamiRobot Don't do it! Don't make me get a copy too!

Krazer

@BenBrocka it's closures are better then most :p

Ben Brocka

Yuuki

9:32 PM

@BenBrocka If I fits, I fires an armor-piercing shell.

Also, that's quite the thousand-yard stare.

badp

@BenBrocka That wasn't in my copy of the game.

Krazer

@badp Gamestop preorder exclusive

badp

@Krazer what's nice about them?

SaintWacko

Wow

Mario Kart 8 looks great

Must... resist...

Krazer

@SaintWacko give in to the 'uigi

resistance is futile

Lazers

9:42 PM

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Q: PS plus membership renewed but games say expired, why

First using a phone so forgive spelling. My PS plus membership renewed in May, today when I went to play then today they said they were expired but some were still playable. Games playable soul caliber list swords and infamous 2, games not playable demon's soul, kingdoms of Amalur, and gri...

playstation-plus

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Q: Lure of the Temptress - Sewerage in flask

I'm currently playing Lure of the Temptress and I encountered a rather big problem: I filled the flask that Nellie gave me with the 'liquid' that comes from the sewer. No-one wants to drink it and I have absolutely no idea how to dispose of the disgusting contents. Is there any way to empty th...

dos

3ventic

What.

Frank

@SaintWacko If you get it, make sure to get Monster Hunter, too.

SaintWacko

@3ventic Wow

Lazers

0

Q: Pay without taxes?

I am considering buying the Bat & Switch minigame in Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, and I do not want to pay taxes for the game. Is there any way I could cut the taxes on the eShop or in the game itself?

eshop rustys-real-deal-baseball

0

Q: Changing audio language in Hearthstone

I am aware that you can try and set your localization of you Hearthstone client in client.config and several sources claim it changes in-game text and spoken language. I set it to spanish (having an english client) - then texts did change accordingly but the voices remained english. Is there an...

hearthstone

user15026

9:59 PM

@Lazers What.

Frank

Freespace 2 is apparently being released this week.

Even though it came out 15 years ago.

Origami Robot

@Yuuki Too late. I do'd it.

Yuuki

@OrigamiRobot Dammit...

Guess I'm going to GameStop tomorrow...

Wipqozn

@StrixVaria: You can turn items off in multiplayer (in mario kart).

re: that entire conversation from earlier which I reada small part of

Origami Robot

@Yuuki Ugh, anywhere but there.

user15026

10:03 PM

Wonder why I got a downvote for that.

user15026

Because it's not wrong.

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn When are we going to race?

user15026

I assume someone doesn't like my answering it.

badp

@AshleyNunn ?

Origami Robot

@SaintWacko Give in.

user15026

10:05 PM

@badp The question about turning off taxes. I got a downvote. :P

Wipqozn

@AshleyNunn I down voted because I just blindly vote on posts without looking on them.

(also I have no idea what post you're talking about)

@OrigamiRobot You bought it?

user15026

@Wipqozn Oh well then. I know who to blame ;)

Origami Robot

@Wipqozn Just now, yes.

badp

@AshleyNunn They obviously didn't like the answer!

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I'll be around tomorrow night.

badp

10:06 PM

I HAVE A RIGHT TO EVADE MY TAXES DAMMIT THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY

Origami Robot

What a jerk.

Wipqozn

I just spent the past few hours playing so I'm not planning to play again tonight.

user15026

@badp SORRY TO RUIN YOUR FUN

Origami Robot

Double jerk.

Frank

@badp It's your right, indeed! I just don't think you should be asking for help to do so. :P

Wipqozn

10:06 PM

Managed to get Gold on Special Cup 150cc. Difficult task was difficult.

badp

@AshleyNunn THE EXTRA 2% IS GOING TO RUIN MY FINANCES

Frank

@badp 2%? That's it?

user15026

@badp SORRY RUINING THINGS IS MY JOB

Frank

We have 13% taxes here.

user15026

ITS PART OF HAVING THE DIAMOND

Wipqozn

10:06 PM

15% in Nova Scotia.

badp

@Frank They were asking about the US

I figure the average VAT there is in that whereabout

so yes, thatsthejoke.gif

Ronan Forman

This is a weird question, but is this a thing that exists?

user15026

@RonanForman Is which?

Ronan Forman

This hat thing.

Chrome decided uploading a image was the best time to lock up on me.

badp

@RonanForman This looks like a thing that would exist

Frank

10:14 PM

A sorta viking helm with eyes and a mustache?

badp

Perhaps not exactly like that.

Ronan Forman

Yeah, because I drew it and now it reminds me of something.

badp

Scribblenautical

hey, can someone help me delete the question

user15026

@Scribblenautical Which question?

Scribblenautical

10:15 PM

the one you answered lol

the taxes one

Ronan Forman

I'll assume it's not a thing and I'm crazy then.

Frank

@RonanForman Nothing wrong with being crazy.

Scribblenautical

I have already asked 3 question with my new tag xD

Lazers

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Q: How do I give Rusty the Cooking class invite?

In Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, I am trying to haggle him to unlock the next episode. So, I decide to talk to him, and the conversation gets to a point where he mentions Cooking classes to feed his children "fresh food." I offer him the Cooking class invite ticket twice, and he's rejected it both ...

rustys-real-deal-baseball

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Q: Determine ball/hit?

In the minigame Cage Match, there are levels where you have to swing the bat only when it is in the "Strike zone" These are part of levels 3-1 to 3-5. Is there any way to know if the ball is going to be a ball or a hit?

rustys-real-deal-baseball

Scribblenautical

what is lazers

Jason Berkan

10:22 PM

@Scribblenautical An RSS feed of questions that get asked on the site.

Ronan Forman

@Frank Normally I realise sooner though.

Scribblenautical

ok

Frank

@RonanForman It's a permanent state of mind; it's not temporary in any sense. :P

Yuuki

@Scribblenautical Mu.

Actually, since I'm Chinese, that should be "wu", I guess.

user15026

One of my friends suggests we all become like the Elcor.

Yuuki

10:35 PM

@AshleyNunn [with firm agreement] I believe this is a good idea.

badp

@AshleyNunn [deadpan sarcasm] [candid sincerity] I can't see this backfiring at all.

Unionhawk

> [cannibalistic threat] I'm hungry

...

Yep

Yep.

Ronan Forman

Why is it that whenever aliens say human it always sounds like an insult?

Unionhawk

Because it is, probably

Probably.

badp

@RonanForman You just said "aliens" to be fair

Origami Robot

10:43 PM

Whoa, Mario Kart is a lot harder now.

Frank

Is anyone playing MK8 multiplayer? I'd be up for some of that.

Ronan Forman

Sex is a lot like Mario Kart, you go really fast, you throw some bananas, Wario is there.

Tweeted by weinerdog4life on January 29, 2014 at 12:43 AM

Chippies

Home sweet home!

had a 10 hour trip, used laptop as an mp3 player the whole time and now just before I plugged it in it told me it has 10% battery left and I should plug it in. I'm very impressed

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