Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 20-12-14, 09:40 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
|
|
Custom title here
 Post: #961 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
I've been playing Cosmo Police Galivan, the Nintendo version. I'm actually having a lot of fun with this one, and it seems a shame to let it just languish in obscurity, so here we are. First things first: Nichibutsu apparently made two different games of the same title, and the Nintendo game is very different from the arcade game(there's several home computer ports, all based on the arcade). The Galivan I'M playing is an exploratory platformer, compartmentalized into sections, like Iji. Each section is a distinct "level" to explore and scrape out the secrets within. Once you defeat the boss and leave the level there's no going back. ... I'm not sure if this means the game can be rendered unbeatable by skipping a necessary pickup. That would take some experimentation on my part that I am not sure I care to embark upon. I know the first stage you need two of three pickups to reach the boss and the third is required to harm him, but I don't know if that holds true on other stages. The game came out in June 1988, placing it the same month as the fairly influential Blaster Master/MetaFight(actually about a week before MetaFight, if the release dates I'm seeing are accurate), and it seems like the folks at Nichibutsu had some similar ideas in regards to more detailed backgrounds and powerup-gating(though their spritework is not as good as Sunsoft's pixelmancy). But Nichibutsu also put some light RPG elements into their game: collecting experience points by killing monsters will raise Galivan's level, which increases his maximum hit points and "cosmo power"(written CP, pronounced MP), and his swords can be made more powerful by killing monsters with them. Special weapons are fixed in power and cost CP to use, but are also ranged. ... There's actually a third consumable point the game tracks in your status bar next to HP and CP. It is labelled GP, I've got no idea what it is supposed to stand for, but it is the coolest points. If you collect the eight P item drops it takes to fill the GP meter, Galivan will strike a pose, a little explosion animation will play atop his sprite, and he will morphin' time into his Cosmo Police standard issue armored suit. While armored, all damage is halved, and each hit will reduce the GP gauge by one. When it falls to zero, Galivan's transformation will end and he will return to being a dude in combat fatigues instead of a power-armored defender of justice. There is one major control quirk, in that peak jump height can only be attained with a running start. It is kinda weird, and it throws me off pretty regularly. Other than that, the controls seem to just do what you want them to. Quite surprisingly, the game has not just a battery-backed save, but an AUTOMATIC battery-backed save. Craziness, I tell ya. The plot, such as it is(filtered through the english translation patch I am playing, and the readme confesses they had to remove about half the text for space reasons), is pretty straightforward. It is Cosmo Year 2010(whatever that means, but probably "present day AD" if I had to guess). You are a the titular Galivan, a member of the Cosmo Police, a peacekeeping agency who have apparently just had their shit WRECKED by the evil crime syndicate Mado. The Mado have seized "control of the universe" as well as several other Cosmo Police officers and a bunch of cool space law enforcement tools like high-jump boots and laser swords and hyper rays. Basically, they've done a lot of seizing in a very short period of time, and they seem to have pissed off the wrong people while doing so. As the last active member of the Cosmo Police, you have hopped in your ship and booked it for the enemy planet Badurr so you can invade the Mado's dimension, wreck THEIR shit, free your coworkers, retrieve your stuff, kill the Mado's boss Madius, and restore peace to the universe. You know, just another day on the job. (This story, it must be noted, is completely unrelated to the early-80s japanese TV show Space Sheriff Gavan. Any resemblance to any other interstellar force of power-armor-clad, lightsaber-wielding law officers battling extradimensional crime syndicates is purely coincidental.) --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 20-12-21, 22:53 in Computer Hardware News
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #962 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Yeah, there's nothing really wrong with NTFS, aside from Linux users accessing it with glitchy drivers and then blaming NTFS when everything goes wrong. ... Or Linux users making feature comparisons between their newest incompatible file system and versions of NTFS from the 90s when there was time for Klax. And if we're going to do that... well, Windows doesn't use a file system developed by and named after a murderer. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 20-12-21, 22:55 in Board feature requests/suggestions
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #963 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by Mei KoyokiHow is it Oracle's fault that a non-Oracle developer named a product after his kid? --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 20-12-21, 22:59 in Mozilla, *sigh*
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #964 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by Mei Koyoki Mozilla never killed off Seamonkey. Seamonkey was never a Mozilla project. They merely stopped providing support to a third-party fork of the discontinued Mozilla project(which was still a dick move). But really, in hindsight the writing was on the wall as soon as the Moz/B team took over the Mozilla Foundation. Moz/b\Phoenix\Firebird\Firefox was always terrible, and the people that claim otherwise never used a good browser. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 20-12-22, 07:39 in Computer Hardware News
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #965 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by tomman Apaprently they're still trying to get the new version into the kernel. They think they might need to change the name to do so, for some reason. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 20-12-25, 04:47 in Happy holidays!
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #966 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
BUMP --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 20-12-27, 01:34 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #967 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
I'm not reading an entire wikipedia article to figure out what you vandalized. I'm annoyed I had to click through to find out it was a link to a wikipedia article's edit history. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-01, 08:36 in Happy holidays!
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #968 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Upon review, the Office of Morals & Public Decency has voted to uphold their prior ban on eight maids a-milking. As per last year, send complaints to Google Image Search. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-01, 23:09 in Local copy of the old forum
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #969 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
I believe Kawa's the sole holder. Unless archive.org got us again. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-03, 04:33 in Mozilla, *sigh*
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #970 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Quickly! We must redesign the interface so no one knows where anything is! That is the best way to retain existing users and attract new ones! --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-06, 12:24 in Mozilla, *sigh*
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #971 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by Mei KoyokiWell, someone takes criticism poorly. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-08, 09:16 in Cartoons, imported
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #972 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
And somehow, it has been an entire fucking year since Railgun season 3 started, and I'm only just now getting to it. Six episodes in, and the antagonists have made a series of bad decisions in close proximity. They keep doing things to make our heroes be personally invested in KICKING THEIR ASS. Which is a really bad decision when one of them is basically Magneto and Thor combined into a schoolgirl. (I've been reading the comics, so I have in fact seen this arc play out, but that was quite a while ago and the details are fuzzy. At this point, I honestly don't recall what the plan was, but I am absolutely certain that it did NOT involve pissing off a level 5 with a penchant for converting pocket change into artillery shells.) --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-13, 11:05 in Cartoons, imported
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #973 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
And moving onto the new... it's Isekai O'Clock, as episode one of "I'm a Spider, So What?" airs. It is the best isekai show, by virtue of being an adaptation of "I'm a Spider, So What?". The premise is that a fight between the hero and demon lord in some bullshit fantasy realm went very wrong. The magical backlash spilled out into another world, and destroyed an ordinary classroom in an ordinary island nation. And our heroine, having been in that classroom, has reincarnated in that fantasy world as an overpowered hero with every advantage possib- naw, I'm just fuckin' with ya. She reincarnated as a giant spider in a cave. Fortunately, she takes this in stride. She's not very social to start with, and she figures if she can just set up a nice web somewhere and live a lazy and indolent life, she'll take it.Food will get caught in her web, she will eat the food, and life will be simple, peaceful, and uneventful. Spoilers: the world will not let her live a lazy and indolent life. She is gonna get mad OP and cause all KINDS of trouble. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-13, 11:55 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #974 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
How can Maduro still be in power? We made a sternly-worded appeal for him to step down on international television! --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-15, 00:40 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #975 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Glad you could resurrect it. And yeah, fuck RoHS. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-19, 07:52 in Cartoons, imported
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #976 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
This season, I'm watching Spider, season 2 of Cells at Work(but not Cells at Work Black, I like my bloodstream happy and chipper, thanks), and "Soukou Musume Senki"(because mech-girls, don't kinkshame). Last season, it wvs just Tonikaku Kawaii, and... before that I basically watched no anime because working during the plague apparently left me dead inside. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-19, 12:32 in Cartoons, imported
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #977 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by creaothceannI apparently just couldn't care enough to find something to watch. Hell, Railgun 3 was skipped for a literal year, and I LOVE Railgun. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-25, 01:31 in Hardware/Product Recommendations Thread
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #978 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
I have had good luck with both the Boox Nova and LikeBook Mars. Both carry an adjustable frontlight, selectable between white and amber at brightnesses from stupid high to barely there, as well as off. They also both run Android, so installing new reader software if the built-in reader is inadequate isn't very hard at all. I've not had issue with the integral reader on either, but also haven't pressed them hard. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-25, 03:26 in Hardware/Product Recommendations Thread (revision 1)
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #979 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Max is 'spensive as hell, though. Only reason I didn't get one. I believe it has been replaced with the mostly-the-same Max 2 now. Onyx releases new minor-difference models as easily as breathing. (case in point, Max 2 was replaced with Max 3, which itself was replaced with the lit Max Lumi) Software should be very similar to the Nova, from what I understand. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 21-01-31, 03:02 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
|
|
Custom title here
Post: #980 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by tommanThat's actually hilarious, in a terrible sort of way. Posted by tomman Was the shirt stolen in the mail?
Speaking of hilarious in a terrible sort of way... --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
