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Mapping Contest #2(Finished)

This may seem like a hollow question but here goes nothing: In terms of dungeons and sticking to what a dungeon is, is there any limit to how far you can go to implementing stuff such as systems? An example would be like a menu of instruments used to circumvent puzzles. I understand that this is just a perk and the meat of the map is, well, the map, but I thought that I'd throw it out there.

Also, count me in.

One more point that I'd like to touch on. When I think of dungeon, there are two types that come to mind. The first is the crummy place that's kind of like a dismal chamber-ish area and then there's the conventional RPG dungeon where you have to accomplish a certain goal in order to complete the dungeon; would it be against the rules to roll with the latter option? Thanks.

The Rare/Obscure RM Games Request Topic

Does anyone happen to have litearc's ABS demo lying around somewhere?

What's your favorite transportation in an RPG?

On that note, you can't forget the cannons that were in Secret of Mana, either.

There's no funner way to get from point A to point B than by being blasted through the sky and plopping on the ground at your destination - novel travel at its finest.

Are you happy with how your life has turned out?

I didn't notice this earlier, but...

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Really: I just have a great deal of trouble dealing with average things a great deal of people take for granted.

For example; smiling, expression emotion face to face, eye contact, idle chatter... Basic social behaviors that's second nature to most people. On some days, certain acts are far harder than others for no discernible reason.

At school, it was frequently embarrassing to ask for help as someone who was painfully shy. On one such occasion, a cute girl was grudgingly forced to help me with some math problem. I feigned understanding of the subject just to end the humiliation. Ho HO! Women were/are sure repulsed by me.

Oh boy, that reminds me of every instance I class where we did the obligatory "GROUP EXERCISE" where you were forced into groups of 4/5 people. OR EVEN BETTER, where you were given the free choice to join any group you want; but since you were that freak nobody likes - you had to be PUT on a group by the teacher... publicly. Like the fat kid at dodge ball, only not fat.

I still live with my parents.

I am not only a Virgin; but the last friendship I had with a women was in the third grade. I have never kissed a woman, nor have I held one's hand.


Everything that I quoted from this post truly spoke to me, because I can readily identify with it and there's a certain amount of solace in knowing that I am not alone.

Do you play RM games with headphones?

Whenever I play on the computer, I am always using a pair of headphones or earbuds, although I favor headphones(right now I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 202 at a fair asking price) - and the lightweight quality and mobility of earbuds makes them more geared towards an ipod or other small handheld device. So, yeah, while I use them when playing RM games, I use them for every other purpose, too.

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I'll be honest. I play most games with the sound off.

Do you actually play games this way or are you trying to troll us, mon?

Are you happy with how your life has turned out?

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I can't say that I'm entirely happy with how my life has turned out. I'm still dependent on my folks at age 20, have never had a job or a car (or even the legal documents required to experience such a privilege), watched as my friends moved on and started going to college and their jobs while I sat in my room and watched the world go by. They had the nerve to complain about their jobs, while all I can say is "hell, at least you have something to live for."

But you know what?

Reading all that has been written in this thread, my problems just sound like some little piss-ass emo kid complaining that his parents took his cellphone away.

I know where I want to go in life and nothing is stopping me but myself. Independence is my first priority and I'll be damned if I don't obtain it. In order to have this I'll need a couple of things:

1. Driver's license and a car
2. More education than what I currently have
3. A job that pays well enough to rent an apartment and pay for the things essential to live

These three main things can easily be mine in less than a decade and, let's face it, I'm still young. I've still got time.
I read this post and felt that parts of it truly resonated within me, and how I am currently living my life. Although I do have my own car which is technically my parents' since they haven't titled it over to me, and they also pay the insurance - but I am responsible for refueling it, changing the oil, and proper maintence whenever something goes awry. Fortunately, I do know what I want to do with my life and I'm enrolled in college to make it all happen.

I wouldn't claim that I am happy with my life and, while usually I would agree with being content, that isn't neccessarily true either. But I don't like to sit in my high chair and mope about how difficult of a trek my life has been when there are people who aren't able to celebrate the same privelages, rights, and freedoms that I do on a daily basis. There's still a lot that I would ask to be different, though, and it's primarily who I am which I'm not comfortable with. Besides procrastinating too much, I usually feel a major lack of motivation to complete anything that I know is an important life step. I have never had a job, I don't have many people who I would consider to be friends, and I have never had a girlfriend, ever - not even a friend who is a girl(yes I am making the distinction here.) My biggest character flaw is an overwhelming lack of self-confidence, even if I'm not gifted from an aesthetic or physical perspective, I do have the choice to feel better about myself.

Looking at my current state, I can't help but to think about the future and what it has in store for me. First and foremost, I need to create some independence and hightail it out of this shithole that I currently reside in. With as dependent of a person that I am now, I look fearfully at the prospect of it being any other way, and how I could possibly fare in the real world and its cruel intentions. At least I do have the will to make the progress, even if I do have a slow start, I know that it won't hold me back forever - in fact, it can't. I've essentially hit my own rock bottom, and where else do I have to go but up? Okay, I could go sideways...but there isn't much space down here.

I'm not trying to generalize the forum goers here, but one reason that I feel comfortable on this forum and ones that cater to similar interests is that my story is essentially the status quo for more people in them than anywhere else. I can read and empathize with a lot of what has been said, and it is a great relief to express myself and vent it all out right now. It's not like any of you know me, anyhow, and it's been pent up and repressed so much that it wears me down.

Dreams

When I was younger, as in my childhood on into my early-mid adolescent years; I would dream and be able to recall them almost every night. For some reason, I am rarely able to recall my dreams these days. This is something that sometimes I am grateful for, but other times I don't mind escaping into a dream world. I probably don't dream as much nowadays because I confine myself like a recluse and simply don't experience much aside from gazing at a computer screen for hours on end. Plus, seldomly does anything occur where it has any real emotion attached to it, which I am much more likely to dream about and recall the next day. Or maybe I just deprive myself of sleep too often which, by the way, is really beginning to fuck me up on a day to day basis - it's time to kick that habit and look after my health a little more.

To touch on a point I made earlier, nightmares weren't too uncommon for me when I was younger. There was this weird, dumb, yet oddly scary recurring dream that i'd have of a basketball slowly dribbling down the street; the sound would slowly build in magnitude as they got closer, and subside as they were walking away. Whoever "they" happened to be, since there was a basketball court about a 1/4th of a mile away at the local park and recreational center. Sometimes i'd experience the very brief type of nightmare, where you fall asleep, experience something terrifying, and happen to SNAP AWAKE almost as if you never intially fell asleep.

The worst nightmare that I recall involved me, my brother, and his friend inside of a gymnasium. The basketball court in the gym was lit in the center, and faded to darkness on the sides. My brother and his friend were playing basketball, but the ambient sound was fairly muffled, as if I was trying to focus on something else. I also began to see CLOCKS appear, then fade away. There were small, very dimly lit rooms adjoining the gym, one of which I decided to venture into. I noticed a coffin in the middle of the room which I slowly approached and...WHAM! My deceased grandmother popped out and screamed at me. It scared the holy bajeebus out of me and I can still vividly recall it even to this day - definitely something I won't forget anytime soon.

RMNCast: Episode 4

I love these podcasts; they are useful for catching up on what is happening throughout the community.

Did anyone else find it hilarious when they were laughing while discussing "Kinetic Cipher" at the end of the 14 minute range, and MOG busted out laughing?

Piracy, Why?

I pirate a lot of music(all of it pretty much), even though I probably shouldn't. As far as games go, I do not pirate anything newer than an n64 game(I buy n64 games usually since there aren't many of them I want.) How about NES and SNES games? There is no way in hell I am going to buy some of the old SNES and NES games off of Ebay for sometimes high prices. Although, if the game is rare then I might buy the cartridge, e.g. Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy VI. I wouldn't use the Wii's VC to buy SNES games for 8.00$ and NES games for 5.00$. That adds up rather quick - and I don't have that much money now to allocate to games. I just pirate a ton of NES and SNES games and play them on my PC with an Xbox 360 controller. Though, as I stated before, I certainly do not pirate newer games. I would share why I think that's unethical but I have class very soon. Goodbye!

The weird things you do

This might be unrelated, but anyhow. Do you guys remember going through Traverse Town in Kingdom Hearts? Whenever I would be in that town, for some reason the music makes me think of State Farm; "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!"