Our golden years.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:17 pm

howmuchkeefe wrote:UFO - "old fellas"? Don't you know, life begins at 40?

Yeah, that's right. You guys sound like a bunch of senior citizens with all that talk about the golden days.

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:37 pm

Rob wrote:Here's a good resource for deciphering the English language.

Cute. But you do realize this rosetta stone of yours just lead you to more words so somewhere in this vicious cycle each individual must accumulate (he he) some sort of understanding from these symbols.

Let's look at the definitions given by this amazing discovery of yours:

1. The act of gathering or amassing, as into a heap or pile

I've been charged with accumulation, yet I don't have a heap or pile of games. Hmm.

2. The process of growing into a large amount or heap.

Hmm, now maybe we are getting somewhere....like far away from any kind of absolute. Large is subjective and relative, again nothing definitive has been gained, just more dissonance.

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:54 pm

Specineff wrote:Hello? Recycling?

1) You don't get a 100% 'return' from recyling. There is always some loss involved.

2) If the rate of recyling is less than the demand for production..you have a shortage.

It goes beyond plastics. A boggling amount of everyday items have reliance on petrochemicals. Materials advancements in the last few decades have mostly been based on petrochemical research. Many useful chemicals have a petroleum-based component.

People focus on automobiles because it's the obvious visible thing. It has a direct effect on our lives. We SEE the price flucuations on a daily basis, it hurts our bottom lines directly. However, hydrocarbons are pretty much a necessary part of nearly every aspect of our lives, as things currently stand.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:01 pm

I don't know about this for sure, but I think age has little to do with a gamer's skill.

Maybe Alsheimer's Disease might increase the twitch in twitch shmupping, but other than that...

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:04 pm

Let's look at the definitions given by this amazing discovery of yours:

While you're there look up synonym and context. For example, in the context of the sentence you used accumulate as a synonym for collect. No one cares what collect means to you and it's totally irrelevant to anything and everything, including the entertainment value of this thread. Put on your favorite screamo record and let it out offline.

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:09 pm

Rob wrote:
Let's look at the definitions given by this amazing discovery of yours:
While you're there look up synonym and context. For example, in the context of the sentence you used accumulate as a synonym for collect. No one cares what collect means to you and it's totally irrelevant to anything and everything, including the entertainment value of this thread. Put on your favorite screamo record and let it out offline.

It's all just more words and ideas though, bro, nasty cycle idn't? And no one cares what accumulate means to you either, that's the POINT, it means something different to almost everyone. Get it?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:13 pm

Nemo wrote: It's all just more words and ideas though, bro, nasty cycle idn't? And no one cares what accumulate means to you either, that's the POINT, it means something different to almost everyone. Get it?

Yeah, I know, when I'm browsing the shmups forum it's all like

what does it mean??

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:15 am

You people are the typical old fogeys...nitpicky over words, bitching about the weather, protesting about wastes of useful things. Speaking of which, has someone seen my hat

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:28 am

Randorama wrote:...nitpicky over words...

Yeah, seriously...who wastes time on dumb ol' semantics anyways?

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:10 pm

BulletMagnet wrote: Yeah, seriously...who wastes time on dumb ol' semantics anyways?

Eh, i should show you my ongoing project, nitpickyness beyond any possible limit...it is also true that, among linguists, the semanticists easily qualify as the ubernerds

RegulustheShade · Post by **RegulustheShade** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:40 pm

mice wrote:
Somehow I don't see us getting more active as we age.
Sad, but true.
Turning 35 this year, and I can already feel my back aching.

But if you mean active in front of the TV with the latest consoles and gadgets, then yeah, our generation will kick a**e!

Wow, I'm a younger in here.... I've just recently turned 18 in December.

It is indeed surmisable though, after all, inexoribly shmups are more for the older generation then the younger. I've only played games like Galaga and Galaxia when I come across them, but I never did aspire to search out for arcades. Chaos Field is probably the only shmup I own.

Questionable..... am I one of the youngest on this forum?? Is it common?

If so, then I suppose I really don't fit in here...... I have always really did like shmups, but I really didn't know where to look. Albiet that I am probably one of the youngest here, if not, the youngest.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:28 am

BulletMagnet wrote:seriously...who wastes time on dumb ol' semantics anyways?

Yeah, syntax is where it's at.

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:34 am

professor ganson wrote:
BulletMagnet wrote:seriously...who wastes time on dumb ol' semantics anyways?
Yeah, syntax is where it's at.

Meh, i do them both, syntactictians are not smart enough to do them both as well

mice · Post by **mice** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:55 am

RegulustheShade wrote: If so, then I suppose I really don't fit in here......

Ofcourse you do. We all have mindsets of about 18, which is quite obvious when reading some of the posts in this thread.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:35 am

I don't know about you guys but I still play H2O POLO so I'm fit!

Not planning on stopping any time soon either.

Shooters also help you stay fit, your palms & fingers amongst other things!

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:42 am

I turned 20 a few weeks back felt pretty old but you guys have made feel better

I don't think getting old will be that bad, seen a few 80 year old marathon runners, truly inspirational to know theres old age pensioners who fought in the second world war that can kick my ass at running.

I'm pretty sure plastics can be made from milk, can't remember, but its true we aren't far off significantly cleaner and effective means of automotive transport and that oil companies buy the rights to that technology as soon as its availabe to prevent its development.

Have they cracked how to make non petrol cars fast yet?

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:10 pm

mice wrote:We all have mindsets of about 18...

Wow, I'm farther along than I thought!

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:36 pm

I'm not as old as you old farts at the moment (hitting 25 soon) but given the way you're all whining and nitpicking about the little minor things, I'm somewhat glad I'm not at the moment. I can just see it now, all of you busy arguing about the price of a can of beans, trying to hit each other with your walking sticks.

I'll be listening to hard house and psychedelic trance on my iPod when I'm 60, or spinning vinyl on the decks in the old folks home.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:39 am

Diabollokus wrote:I turned 20 a few weeks back felt pretty old but you guys have made feel better I don't think getting old will be that bad, seen a few 80 year old marathon runners, truly inspirational to know theres old age pensioners who fought in the second world war that can kick my ass at running.

I'm pretty sure plastics can be made from milk, can't remember, but its true we aren't far off significantly cleaner and effective means of automotive transport and that oil companies buy the rights to that technology as soon as its availabe to prevent its development.

Have they cracked how to make non petrol cars fast yet?

Getting old won't be too bad for me, after all, I'll be able to see what life will be like in 2050!

Does anyone here think electric cars might be useful in a city environment? It's mostly stop & go traffic in urban settings anyway, and a small electric moblie could easily fit in cramped spots and it'd be easy to stick recharging stations at different places. The concept of an electric vechile isn't new either, there were electric cars in the 1900's. Maybe in the near future, we might be seeing electric cars again.

No jokes about plugging the darn thing in, either. Don't the current gas/electric hybrids use the friction from braking to charge the battery?

We could go back to steam as well, the second Victorian age perhaps?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:10 am

FatCobra wrote: Does anyone here think electric cars might be useful in a city environment?

I think walking would be useful in the city environment, especially when temps are consistently above 50F. America might lose its fatass stereotype.

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:32 am

^^^No shit. My company just moved offices, and I told my co-workers I'd start walking to work once the weather warms up. They thought that was nice. Then I told them I lived, like, 1.25 miles from the office. "You're going to WALK that?"

The best, though, are the people in my building that think me walking 15-20 minutes to the gym is some kind of biblical trek. Yet if I drove there and spent just as much time walking on a treadmill, that would probably be considered pretty weak.

People.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:00 am

Rob wrote:
FatCobra wrote: Does anyone here think electric cars might be useful in a city environment?
I think walking would be useful in the city environment, especially when temps are consistently above 50F. America might lose its fatass stereotype.

Well, yeah DUH walking would be better, but if you needed to buy food or carry something too heavy or bulky? That's where an EV could come in handy.

I'd walk to work if it wasn't 10 miles away from where I live, so I've got to drive the gas guzzler.

EDIT: Electric Cars don't have to be boring oversized golf carts, either. A French car company is making a two-seater roadster, and it's electric powered!

I don't know why I am overexcited about electric cars, maybe because I'm tired of high gas prices?

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:15 am

RegulustheShade wrote: Chaos Field is probably the only shmup I own.

Saddest statement I have ever heard in all my days. At least you've found your way onto the right path in coming to this website.

Pa

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:31 am

I'll be 36 this May 7th...my girlfriend will be 46...THE SAME DAY!!!
Yea, we share the same birthdate!

I still play video games, but not as much as I used to.

I'm a smoker, and I work in an asbestos filled building...I feel I have about maybe 20 years left.

I don't want to get too old anyway...most of my family were healthy, only to grow old, only to slowly suffer to be bedridden and thus die slowly.

My mother/grandmother is there now...for how much longer, who knows?
Tomorrow could be her last. I'll be sad to see her go.

Hell, my girlfriend just lost her first cousin last weekend. She didn't find this out later, because she was with me at the time.

On a good note, I'm building up my car to make it even faster and better!
I have my "outlets", but deep inside I'm already grieving...

I''ll always play video games and shmups, till the bitter end.

RegulustheShade · Post by **RegulustheShade** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:18 pm

PaCrappa wrote:
RegulustheShade wrote: Chaos Field is probably the only shmup I own.
Saddest statement I have ever heard in all my days. At least you've found your way onto the right path in coming to this website.

Pa

Meh, it could be considered sad, in shmupers terms. But that's becuz my main focus was on other games at the time. I was focused on video games such as Mario and Sonic primarily. Basically Nintendo and Sega. But I'm expanding my horizons. I just got a new game called Zone of The Enders The Second Runner

RegulustheShade · Post by **RegulustheShade** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:23 pm

mice wrote:
RegulustheShade wrote: If so, then I suppose I really don't fit in here......
Ofcourse you do. We all have mindsets of about 18, which is quite obvious when reading some of the posts in this thread.

Hm, never thought of it that way, thanks. I feel like I do fit in more here.

I tried getting Ikuraga a few days ago, but I was told that only 300,000 copies were made... Gamestop told me.

I was dissapointed, that game looked like a really good shmup.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:07 pm

RegulustheShade wrote:I tried getting Ikuraga a few days ago, but I was told that only 300,000 copies were made... Gamestop told me.

I was dissapointed, that game looked like a really good shmup.

You're going to need to get used to buying games on the internet if you want to get into shmups. The risks are very small, the rewards great.

RegulustheShade · Post by **RegulustheShade** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:50 am

professor ganson wrote:
RegulustheShade wrote:I tried getting Ikuraga a few days ago, but I was told that only 300,000 copies were made... Gamestop told me.

I was dissapointed, that game looked like a really good shmup.
You're going to need to get used to buying games on the internet if you want to get into shmups. The risks are very small, the rewards great.

Yeah I figured I'd have to buy most of them on the internet now. Now that I know how much value they have. The man at Gamestop told me that I'd only find it on the internet, and that it would be 50 to 60 dollars.

ntscGee · Post by **ntscGee** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:19 pm

Eps · Post by **Eps** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:15 am

RegulustheShade wrote:
professor ganson wrote:
RegulustheShade wrote:I tried getting Ikuraga a few days ago, but I was told that only 300,000 copies were made... Gamestop told me.

I was dissapointed, that game looked like a really good shmup.
You're going to need to get used to buying games on the internet if you want to get into shmups. The risks are very small, the rewards great.
Yeah I figured I'd have to buy most of them on the internet now. Now that I know how much value they have. The man at Gamestop told me that I'd only find it on the internet, and that it would be 50 to 60 dollars.

Depends what version. $50-$60 is about £30 or £40. I bought the PAL GameCube version a few weeks ago for £10 from Gamestation. The Dreamcast version is a bit trickier to find, but not that much. But, to be fair, Ikaruga (on the GC) was one of the few shoot-'em-ups to get a 'mainstream' style marketing push in recent years. You will definitely need to use the Net, though.

Also, I don't suppose anyone has considered the fact that we're all already into the kind of 'dated old stuff' (as 95% of younger/newer gamers would describe it) that marks out the inorexable ageing process. Our love of shooting games reminds me of pensioners' love of big band music: it's still being made, and new releases can always be found, but it's a genre whose heyday, as far as most people are concerned, was in the past.