do girls play shooters?
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elvis
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If you did it the other way around I could make some lewd reference to your girlfriend controlling the stick/shaft while you shoot.MrQuan wrote:Sometimes my gf asks me to control the space ship, so she can just hit the fire buttonWe can usually get really good scores like this!
...I'll slink back to my hovel now...
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MrQuan
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Haha. Well who's to say....elvis wrote:If you did it the other way around I could make some lewd reference to your girlfriend controlling the stick/shaft while you shoot.MrQuan wrote:Sometimes my gf asks me to control the space ship, so she can just hit the fire buttonWe can usually get really good scores like this!
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...I'll slink back to my hovel now...
ok ok, this is degrading waaay to fast. This isn't the Aussie Arcade forums is it??
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sneek
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hmm... now thats a manoeuvre ive never triedMrQuan wrote:Haha. Well who's to say....elvis wrote:If you did it the other way around I could make some lewd reference to your girlfriend controlling the stick/shaft while you shoot.MrQuan wrote:Sometimes my gf asks me to control the space ship, so she can just hit the fire buttonWe can usually get really good scores like this!
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...I'll slink back to my hovel now...
ok ok, this is degrading waaay to fast. This isn't the Aussie Arcade forums is it??
We need coolspot to spam this forum too
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ROBOTRON
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Sorry, that particular page builder doesn't give you a choice, if you don't choose music, it does it for you. The only thing you can do is to download your own tunes...which cost money. I'm too cheap. However, it does have a stop/play/pause music button at the very bottom (Firefox Browser)...u can simply turn it off.unsane wrote:doctorx0079 wrote:Goddammit, I just hate it when ppls web sites automatically blast their lame MIDI files all over my poor speakers.
Haha yeah, i cringed a little as well. It seems to be a dying/dead practice though. It's much, much rarer than it used to be - probly been a year since the last time i came across a site doing that, and i'm online all the damn time.
EDIT: Someone just told me a way to turn off the music (with HTML), so its a done deal...all except the main page which I paid for ("Blue water, blue sky" - Guilty Gear Soundtrack).

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RiotGrrl
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I am a girl.
I absolutely adore shmups.
This is my first post here. Hello, gentlemen.
It's true, I don't really know any other females that like shmups, or even know what they are, for that matter. Hell, I don't even know many PEOPLE in general that play these games. But there's something about the twitch reflexes and the pure focus that's needed to get through these games that intrigues me to no end.
Oddly enough, my favorite genre of games is actually RPGs, and I love old-school adventure, action/adventure, platformer, strategy, etc. as well. So I guess I'm the odd duck out.
Just today I played DoDonPachi and Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. I'm not that great at them, I've never 1CC'ed anything. I only got into shmups in the last year or so, but they've slowly become this creeping obsession. It might be the pick-up-and-playness of them.
Anyway, yeah. there are girls that play shmups, because I am one.
I absolutely adore shmups.
This is my first post here. Hello, gentlemen.
It's true, I don't really know any other females that like shmups, or even know what they are, for that matter. Hell, I don't even know many PEOPLE in general that play these games. But there's something about the twitch reflexes and the pure focus that's needed to get through these games that intrigues me to no end.
Oddly enough, my favorite genre of games is actually RPGs, and I love old-school adventure, action/adventure, platformer, strategy, etc. as well. So I guess I'm the odd duck out.
Just today I played DoDonPachi and Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. I'm not that great at them, I've never 1CC'ed anything. I only got into shmups in the last year or so, but they've slowly become this creeping obsession. It might be the pick-up-and-playness of them.
Anyway, yeah. there are girls that play shmups, because I am one.
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to be honest the biggest dorks ive met/seen have all been girls.. usually the type that are heavily into RPG/MMORPGs and anime (weve all seen em, bunny ears and all), theyre just like the guys but seem to have this attention/confirmation-seeking quality to them aswell.. disturbing.jpj wrote: the idea of spending hours on end learning chains and combos on your own in a darkened room seems a bit too dorky and anti-social (which is obviously untrue).
also, why is this thread still alive?
the destruction of everything, is the beginning of something new. your whole world is on fire, and soon, you'll be too..
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I am very much an isolated lover of shmups, but I play them purely to see if I can, which I can't.
The best shmuppers in the world definitely have issues though, too much of anything is a bad thing. Well except money.
Am I the only one that doesn't care if anyone else likes them?
The best shmuppers in the world definitely have issues though, too much of anything is a bad thing. Well except money.
Am I the only one that doesn't care if anyone else likes them?
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
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glitch
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can i quote you completely out of context on that? ^___^neorichieb1971 wrote:Am I the only one that doesn't care if anyone else likes them?
also guys c'mon RiotGrrl says hi and just gets the internet default "it's a bot" and "there are no girls on the internet" respons? i thought we had a great tradition going here of asking about her highscore in game X instead whenever a female poster pops up no? that was way better and more welcoming. wait i'll do it.
hi RiotGrrl!
what's you ChoRenSha highscore?
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glitch
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no actually RiotGrrl, let me just cut the crap and be frank with you, this place sucks badly for girls. expect to be annoyed out of your skull in no time if you decide to stick around. i mean hell, i've been on this board for close to a year now (and been reading it for a fair while before that), but look at my post count. good info from a couple of awesome hardcore players, but besides that it's really just trash. ;_;Twiddle wrote:post scores or gtfo
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MX7
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Forum chivalry makes me lol so much.glitch wrote:no actually RiotGrrl, let me just cut the crap and be frank with you, this place sucks badly for girls. expect to be annoyed out of your skull in no time if you decide to stick around. i mean hell, i've been on this board for close to a year now (and been reading it for a fair while before that), but look at my post count. good info from a couple of awesome hardcore players, but besides that it's really just trash. ;_;Twiddle wrote:post scores or gtfo
And if you honestly think this forum is trash, you clearly are not familliar with the internet.
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glitch
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chivalry more like disappointment. ( ._.)DJ Rectal Prolapse wrote:Forum chivalry makes me lol so much.
And if you honestly think this forum is trash, you clearly are not familliar with the internet.
trying hard to like this place but at times that's harder than ultra mode.
i mean c'mon guys you call that a welcome? -_-;;
and yes i know that most of the internet is much worse, but that's a pretty poor measure of quality don't you think?
let's aim higher and go for the highscore?
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Nah, it's just a bit of joking around. I've always thought of this place as being particularly welcoming, but as with any enthusiast site you get a lot of big characters flying around. As with anything else on the internet, just take it with a grain of salt. Of course, since the only way to interact with the userbase of a forum is to post your own opinions, thus i'm sure the more you post, the more you'll come to like it here. You hit the nail on the head with your last statement, now keep to your end of the bargain and post more!glitch wrote:chivalry more like disappointment. ( ._.)DJ Rectal Prolapse wrote:Forum chivalry makes me lol so much.
And if you honestly think this forum is trash, you clearly are not familliar with the internet.
trying hard to like this place but at times that's harder than ultra mode.
i mean c'mon guys you call that a welcome? -_-;;
and yes i know that most of the internet is much worse, but that's a pretty poor measure of quality don't you think?
let's aim higher and go for the highscore?
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LOL UR DUMBglitch wrote:chivalry more like disappointment. ( ._.)DJ Rectal Prolapse wrote:Forum chivalry makes me lol so much.
And if you honestly think this forum is trash, you clearly are not familliar with the internet.
trying hard to like this place but at times that's harder than ultra mode.
i mean c'mon guys you call that a welcome? -_-;;
and yes i know that most of the internet is much worse, but that's a pretty poor measure of quality don't you think?
let's aim higher and go for the highscore?
<Sidwell> TSS is manlier than a jet figher made of biceps.
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glitch
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DJ i want to believe but...shoe-sama wrote:LOL UR DUMBglitch wrote:chivalry more like disappointment. ( ._.)DJ Rectal Prolapse wrote:Forum chivalry makes me lol so much.
And if you honestly think this forum is trash, you clearly are not familliar with the internet.
trying hard to like this place but at times that's harder than ultra mode.
i mean c'mon guys you call that a welcome? -_-;;
and yes i know that most of the internet is much worse, but that's a pretty poor measure of quality don't you think?
let's aim higher and go for the highscore?
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Okay, leave, then.glitch wrote:DJ i want to believe but...shoe-sama wrote:LOL UR DUMBglitch wrote: chivalry more like disappointment. ( ._.)
trying hard to like this place but at times that's harder than ultra mode.
i mean c'mon guys you call that a welcome? -_-;;
and yes i know that most of the internet is much worse, but that's a pretty poor measure of quality don't you think?
let's aim higher and go for the highscore?
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thanks for replying to a completely non-misogynist post in a very misogynist mannerglitch wrote:no actually RiotGrrl, let me just cut the crap and be frank with you, this place sucks badly for girls. expect to be annoyed out of your skull in no time if you decide to stick around. i mean hell, i've been on this board for close to a year now (and been reading it for a fair while before that), but look at my post count. good info from a couple of awesome hardcore players, but besides that it's really just trash. ;_;Twiddle wrote:post scores or gtfo
so long and tanks for all the spacefish
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<Megalixir> now that i know garegga is faggot central i can disregard it entirely
<Megalixir> i'm stuck in a hobby with gays
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<Megalixir> now that i know garegga is faggot central i can disregard it entirely
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Dandy J
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why cant you just post as a player instead of a male/female?
i dont go round asking for shmup tips geared for a guy
i dont go round asking for shmup tips geared for a guy
<BEOWOOF> my lifes like battle garegga every time i kill man life becomes harder and the only solution to making things easier is killing ymself.
<SCRUNBABBY> my lifes like gwangs
<SCRUNBABBY> cause .. theres lots of wangs
<SCRUNBABBY> my lifes like gwangs
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