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This is actually something that happend to me in real life.

I've been playing a lot of Raiden Fighters Jet the last couple of days. Wonderful game, but I think it's gotten to my head. I was about to fry two eggs for lunch today when my brain quite literary forced me to break both the eggs at the same time to get a "DESTROYED AT A TIME!"
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SFKhoa wrote:Playing Touhou with a bunch of girls surrounding me.
KindGrind wrote:Playing Cotton and stopping every 5 minutes for tea.

Or something.
maybe I could have girls serving me tea while I played these. That would be pretty good.
Pretty much as good as it gets.


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beating the first loop of gunbird 2, then letting a blonde samurai rape you to the verge of tears.

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brannon wrote:beating the first loop of gunbird 2, then letting a blonde samurai rape you to the verge of tears.

(i'll be honest, i just wanted an excuse to post that pic)
This picture amazing. I would bow to you, but this is the internet.
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SockPuppetHyren wrote:
brannon wrote:beating the first loop of gunbird 2, then letting a blonde samurai rape you to the verge of tears.

(i'll be honest, i just wanted an excuse to post that pic)
This picture amazing. I would bow to you, but this is the internet.
All Gunbird 2 endings and pics are that amazing, it's true.
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MX7 wrote:
Thunder Force wrote:
Setup a game of Ikaruga with a dual signal splitter to two TVs facing each other, sit in the middle of them on a swivel chair, with the front/back of your body painted black/white, and spin 180 each time you change polarity in the game
Lol, you win.

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..understanding last hope?
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Playing Soldner X while having 5 Chinese programmers fire yellow ping pong balls at you while throwing golf balls of the same color in the air for particle effects.
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You are Harry Potter and you play Magical Chase
or one of the Cotton-games.


As a magican this games are so realistic for you.


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Playing Cho Aniki while surround by big muscle-bound men in speedos :|
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Metal Slug in the middle of a grassy field.

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Dragoforce wrote:This is actually something that happend to me in real life.

I've been playing a lot of Raiden Fighters Jet the last couple of days. Wonderful game, but I think it's gotten to my head. I was about to fry two eggs for lunch today when my brain quite literary forced me to break both the eggs at the same time to get a "DESTROYED AT A TIME!"
I laughed at this, nice going sir.

Absurd dedication to shmups = holding out hope after 6 years and counting that someday I'm going to be able to play X68000 shooters right. But at least in that time I discovered that I enjoy shmups, making my purchase of those systems not a definite waste after all :mrgreen:

Also, I think the sheer amount of golds I have dropped on the hobby auto-qualify for absurd dedication. I spend a lot of time with the hobby, but if I had to work for minimum wage to buy the things I have...I'm not sure which I would have spent more time doing, lol.
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Unlocking EVERYTHING in Mars Matrix within a month of starting the game.
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Playing Dodonpachi with BEEEEEEEEEES flying around you.

... Well, seriously;
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Playing Battle Garegga while pursuing a military career sullied by enough war-crimes to assure any promotion will be snubbed, but making sure you always save enough wounded comrades so that you never miss a medal, all the while surrounded by flamingos.
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okay guys let's drive to campus

don't step on the gas a lot, you'll increase the traffic. let's brake every now and then, maybe i'll find a 10,000-point medal under a manhole

okay we got our tests ba--You're a real liar! This is fake. You can't get an A on this test! ONLY JAPAN CAN DO THAT
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Playing Batrider (especially while fighting Conflict) when you're chasing somebody's car (no, you're not driving. Someone else drives the car)

Plays Raiden II's 'Gallantry' song every time you wake up.

Turn on Zero Wing's intro when there's a bomb exploding (especially right in 'Somebody set up us the bomb' phrase)

Go to Mars only to play Mars Matrix and Border Down.
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playing espgaluda with a tranny/androgynous/trap

playing Salamander while i watch the Salamander OVA

playing Rez on LSD
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Van_Artic wrote: playing Rez on LSD
Playing Rez while sitting inside your console...
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spadgy wrote:
Van_Artic wrote: playing Rez on LSD
Playing Rez while sitting inside your console...
Playing Rez while my girlfriend "uses" the trance vibrator
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I threw a bomb at a flock of flamingoes.
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