I went this year to the first ever Midwest Bronyfest KC. It was fantastic. There were several great artists, well organized events, and a good attendance. The guest VA was Sam Vincent. He was great to talk with, and really was happy with the convention, as well. If you're around the KC area next year, be sure to check it out! C: I may even be helping work it next year.

So, there's this plot going on right now, following a group of people originally working on a film called Marble Hornets, together, whose lives have been drastically changed over the last several years by a very tall humanoid form in a suit--who appears to have the ability to plague people with disease, possibly control people, and do a real number on recordings of it, as well as two masked individuals. Jay, the narrating voice, is attempting to figure out the mystery of what is going on, as well as recover whatever scraps of memories he can from the past 7 months of his life that he does not remember at all, having awaken in a hotel in a place he does not recognize, and encountering only one other person in the hotel, save the staff. Both of them have experienced severe memory loss, and when Jay finally decides to open up to the other person, she vanishes. He discovers the passcode to get into the safe in his hotel in her room, and upon opening the safe, to a large stack of tapes and a hard drive, he is attacked and has to flee. Present day, he is going through this new mess of tapes to try and figure out what has happened over the past few years, as well as his total blackout for 7 months.

All the information is organized here, join in the mystery. (If you read everything on the page, please don't spoil it for others.)

http://marblehornets.wikidot.com/start

I made a thread about this years ago, and the project kept on, though it has drastically changed in tone and quality... For those of you who don't know (or don't remember) I am in the process of writing a book, and it's coming along at varying paces as time goes on... I had a large influx of writing a couple of years ago, and then I stripped the work of all the lackluster things (they're still available, but not included in the book's framework) and started anew, basically.

For anyone interested, here is the current list of works.

Tell me what you think, what you like, what could be improved, etc.

I hope making a new thread for this after all this time is acceptable.

I got this idea from my custom PC playlist to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

What would be your playlist for a dungeon crawler?

These are the songs I use for my current playlist on Morrowind, some might seem unusual for the occasion, but it feels perfect in-game.

 1. War - Sick Puppies
 2. Kyur4 Th Ich - Linkin Park
 3. Don't Stay (Instrumental Remix) - DJ Bloodfrost, DJ Ravok, and Linkin Park
 4. Freak Out - Avril Lavigne
 5. What U Do 2 Me - Boomkat
 6. All Real - Hydroponikz ft. Skillionaire
 7. Find My Way - P.O.D.
 8. Runaway (Instrumental Remix) - DJ Bloodfrost and Linkin Park
 9. State of the Art - DJ Lethal ft. Chester Bennington
10. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
12. Indestructible - Disturbed
13. The Time Is Wrong - Tickle Me Pink
14. Feeling Way Too Damn Good - Nickelback
15. No Roads Left - Linkin Park
16. Tomorrow's Ending - Tickle Me Pink
17. Is This The Real Thing? - DJ Madson
18. Immortal - Adema
19. So Young, So Sick - The Mile After
20. Jumper - Third Eye Blind
21. Move Your Body - Eiffel 65
22. Gotta Get Thru This - Daniel Bedingfield
23. One More Time - Daft Punk
24. Days Go By - Dirty Vegas
25. Ice Storm (Floating Island Cover) - The JV Allstars
26. Good Time Island - The JV Allstars
27. The Answer - Tickle Me Pink
28. I Can't Breathe - Tickle Me Pink
29. Go Die - Tickle Me Pink
30. Second Chance - Shinedown

I don't know how popular this topic will be, but I figured I'd post it in case it sparked someone's curiosity (LBTL?)

Charles Darwin's 200th birthday would coincide today, so, happy birthday to the father of Evolution!

Keeping with my usual expertise of not knowing in which of a couple of Fora to place this... I've had a long fascination with several things in gaming...

1. Glitches; above all else, glitches fascinate me, when coding goes wrong, in a harmless or even beneficial way... (bugs are crashes/etc. to me...)

2. 100%'s; while the total amount of games I've acquired 100% on could be counted on one hand (Kirby 64, Paper Mario*, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Super Paper Mario,) 100% fascinates me "total" completion... especially when 100% is more than 100% (101-3 in Donkey Kong games, 117 in a Spyro game, or just a notable 100%+, such as a total completion plus the Stop and Swops in Banjo-Kazooie...)

3. Instant Gratification; who doesn't like getting what they want instantly every now and then?

4. Oddities; things in games, oft due to an idea removed, but not in full, or some cameo/allusion for entertainment's sake...

5. A Good Show; something that really knocks you off your feet, be it a great game, great story, or one of those flukes that, on the contrary, brings you jumping TO your feet

6. An Old Game Brought Back To Life; when you dust off that cabinet and discover old treasures...

7. Minimalists; the reverse of 100%, common in Metroid games...

8. Luck Manipulation; beating the clock of the game, to a degree

* I am convinced I am stuck at 99.9999% as I'm missing 1 star piece and hence, badge... even though I did a walk through of piece by piece online countless times and still am missing the one...


Where am I going with this? My fascination in these has led me to several discoveries... several interesting sites... and strong interest in specific games...

Topping the game list are:

Pokemon Red/Green/Blue, and to a lesser extent, Yellow (Loath Pikachu, besides, a few fixes) - Due to several ways of saving space, may variables rely on strange things, it's why you can get Mew, Missingno., and M' without a Game Genie...
Donkey Kong 64 - There are a few bits and pieces that are peculiar about this game, good examples are the "AB room" as I'll call it, the control tower inside the island, and its connection to the leading game of the moment for me...

Banjo-Kazooie (the series) - Stop N' Swop... this little novelty has a few things known about it... and I have links which will elaborate... This game went through MANY changes in the time from conception to release, and to which have been alluded in every game since...

Super Mario RPG: The Legend of the Seven Stars - on a lower level, Abarna10 uncovered a few interesting things with debug which were, at least, entertaining, and it also holds one of the most peculiar, and arguably difficult challenges of any game I know... that isn't actually impossible

Numerous Legend of Zelda and (other) Donkey Kong games - for some reason these series have both had very extreme glitches... which lead to very interesting events...
Sonic 2 - I'm not sure how many of you know of it, but the omitted levels which were discovered from a New York Toy Show release sample cartridge which was stolen, and later copied to a pirated cartridge in China, have been released and are somewhat easy to find online... heading the list is the Hidden Palace Zone, which I believe has better art than its counterpart in S3K

Sonic Adventure 2 - this game has an unbelievable amount of glitches, which are very, very strange...

On a watching level, Super Mario 64, as I shall explain in video links...
And also I must note any game with a debug mode is very interesting, due to the ability to truly experience all the little toys in the game (to use all the rarest items and actually see their uses... not just for entertainment, but to really find out about them, sometimes they aren't quite as useful as they seemed)

Some sites I have stumbled upon for this include:

Flying Omelette's Kitchen
Flying Omelette's Kitchen (I linked to the oddities page, as that's what I am specifically referencing)

The Speed Demos Archive I really love speed runs, they can combine any number of the above interests (except 100%/Minimalist... I think anyway XD)

TASVideos Tool-assisted speed runs take this one step further, by even falsifying the statement above...

The Rare Witch Project Specifically for Banjo-Kazooie, the place for Stop N' Swop info...

TRsRockin THE page for PokÈmon Glitch-ness

Glitch City Laboratories if not, this is

S2B formerly known as Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta Page, this is a thorough explanation of the mysteries lost in the Sonic 2 product...

Secrets of Sonic Team one of two hubs of study for Sonic games... unfortunately left for dead as of now, though the site still works, just out of date...

Sonic Cult Viewer Discretion Advised the second of the two hubs, a little raunchier...

X-Cult the parent site for Sonic Cult...

Unseen64 another unreleased/prelease study site... I don't know as much about this one, so take a little caution, it may have popups, etc.

Super Mario RPG Secrets Abarna10's webside... and yes, I managed to find a Tripod page that has interesting stuff on it (no offense if someone... happens to have a Tripod)

The Mushroom Kingdom a plethora of Mario info...


Now... as for Super Mario 64... No game has been so thoroughly beaten as this... First... you can beat it with 100%, 120 Stars, or you can beat it with 70 Stars, the minimum requirement for the final boss fight... There used to be videos of others, 50 stars, to get in to the last area, 20 stars to get to the second boss fight, then, came the 16 Star run... now the only requirement is that rabbit appearing (hence 16)... Then people figured... that was too much, let's narrow it down to one, why one? to get to the second boss, behind a painting until you get the star on the submarine... but that just wasn't satisfactory... who needs stars anyway? but... don't you think that means it's over... this game's speed run has been fought for years, don't be shocked if one day someone figures out how to skip the keys as well... some other strange videos have been made as well... I may update this if people show interest...

Fandumbs are specific personalities which vex, or even offend others because of the burden they put on the rest of the society related to their fandumbness...

I already know I have been a Freedom Fighter and Martyr... on this site alone... and have even, perhaps, in the SAME thread stooped so low as to become a Toxic Visionary...

Okay, now that I've proven I am more than willing to sling mud at the mirror...

Anyone else willing to step up to the plate or am I the only one who seems to wander blindly through the halls of Artistic License?

This is a great show I love it, the goofy jokes, the interesting plot, the overall continuity.... it's spectacular... and their music (by Christopher Tyng) is so good that I actually downloaded the opening theme XD

*vague spoiler* The continuity is spectacular... a character who doesn't show up until a later episode... though not much later... has cues about his existence in the first episode... as well as any major plot holes you can point out, are often summed up, explained, and fully covered... it's spectacular... *vague spoiler*

They are no longer airing the show... at least not new episodes, though Comedy Central plays reruns...

They were signed once more by Fox for 4 movies... and I have the first two... and they're great! The special features are even worth checking out! I rarely say that about DVDs, and even more stunning to me, is how the commentary is so great! The cast seems like a lot of fun... and Tress MacNeille (Petrie's Mom) voices no less than 50 characters over the course of the show...

The detail that the team puts into it is astounding... so much real math and physics goes into making things unnecessarily precise, and all the more amazing... the team has several PHDs in math and science between the editors, directors, artists, etc. and they make some jokes so subtle that it's amazing, math jokes that nearly no one would get (I didn't get them until I did even geekier research to actually explain what I missed...

In all this series is amazing, funny, and all around great What do you think?

Foreword: This poem is very important to me, because I wrote it for my sister, who was adopted by us after having lived with an abusive family

 
It’s not fair, not fair
Not at all;
You’ve done nothing
wrong
The only thing you did
Was live.

It’s not fair, not fair
Not at all;
I wish for the same
Every time I see it
I wish to be there, to
defend
To defend you from
them
Who don’t want you
To Live




I wish for the same
Every time I see it
I see it the same
Every time I see it
That terror and pain
So clear in your eyes
Screaming.

Screaming, loud,
So loud
The screaming in your eyes
Deafens to the point
The screams from your mouth
Are lost, unheard

Just as unheard as they were,
By the ears of the one who
Left you like this
Left you like this.


For you it was not too late
But for some… for some
Help never comes…
Never comes…
They lie all alone, asking
What did I do?
But they did nothing wrong
All they did
Was live.

It’s not fair, not fair
Not at all;
I wish for the same
Every time I see it
I wish to be there, to
defend   
To defend you from
them   
Who don’t want you
To Live

The Head On Collision is a local band that played last Tuesday...

Tell me what ya think