I'm watching the local news, who knows why, and their top story is a "for the people" piece about a crosswalk with no crossing guard near a local school. Honestly, has it been reduced to this? A minor "problem" that countless schools have?

So, I made this thread. This thread is a CELEBRATION of the mediocrity of local news! Post your favorite utterly pointless news story from your local area here!

Drum roll please...

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Wee. Okay so it's nothing special, but it might be our first peak at a new Zelda game so I'm very excited. If this is real I'm glad they're still using the water aspect of the game as if improved upon could be really amazing (even though I still loved it in WW). I just hope they improve the water effects.

When you get too caught up in chasing women around, working a job and trying to do 10,000 things at once, sometimes, you forget who you used to be, or in this case, really are.

I have to admit, during this time, I got away from playing video games. I didn't have the desire to play them, despite everything I invested in them I kept buying games, just kept most of them in the shrink wrap and never got around to them. When I wasn't sexing some woman, have my nose buried in some book or working at troubleshooting someone's network. I certainly wasn't holding a controller in my hand.

It wasn't until one day, I was playing Mario Kart Double Dash with my daughter was when I had this little revelation. She beat me. A 7 year old beat me. Now, this is no ordinary 7 year old (she is my daughter after all, and I did buy her Gamecube and N64), but for her to beat me at Mario Kart Double Dash????


AW HELL NAW! :mariowin:


I whooped her ass and she didn't win a game afgterwards. Afterwards she attacked me and tried to take my controller away from me. LOL I'm competitive as hell, and she gets it from me, so I knew she was pissed :D. But I learned a valuable lesson that day: never stray too far from the roots that gave you good in life. :D

You can view a gallery of them over here, but unfortunately you need to register a Nintendo game in Europe in order to get them... legally. If anyone wants to know how you can still get them if you don't live in Europe, just send me an e-mail. Right now I'm using the very cool Zelda theme, but there are tons to choose from.

If only you had XP ABF, you could get this super keen ED theme:

They're easy to do! Just search 'posts' under your username in a forum, and copy the number down.

Tendo City-46 posts
Ramble City-492 posts
Multiconsole City-12 posts
Debate Forum-152 posts
Star Wars WOOO!-18 posts

Which gives me a total of 720 of the 45, 669 posts on the immediate forums. (I have 18 posts in other ones, mainly, Emulation District).

Furthermore, I have approximatly 0.0157 % of all posts (in the immediate forums) and on average since these forums opened. And, according to my profile, I post 1.17 times per day, but according to the day that these forums first opened (Jan. 3, 2003, the day the very first post made in TC was) then my posts/day is more like 1.50.

And, new stat that I forgot. I've started 34 threads, with "Favourite Movie Trilogies" garnering the most replies...165.

This is the most boring Saturday of my life. :hmm:

<a href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_903083.html?menu=">Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it</a>

Quote:Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor.

Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthy, happier and probably better in tune with their bodies.

He says society should adopt a new approach to nose-picking and encourage children to take it up.

<b>Dr Bischinger said: "With the finger you can get to places you just can't reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner.

"And eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body's immune system.</b>

"Medically it makes great sense and is a perfectly natural thing to do. In terms of the immune system the nose is a filter in which a great deal of bacteria are collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine.

"Modern medicine is constantly trying to do the same thing through far more complicated methods, people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free."

He pointed out that children happily pick their noses, yet by the time they have become adults they have stopped under pressure from a society that has branded it disgusting and anti social.

He said: "I would recommend a new approach where children are encouraged to pick their nose. It is a completely natural response and medically a good idea as well."

And he pointed out that if anyone was really worried about what their neighbour was thinking, they could still enjoy picking their nose in private if they still wanted to get the benefits it offered.

Quote: A Japanese company unveiled a 3.5-metre (11.55-foot) tall robot that can forage its way through a heap of debris as a trailblazer for rescue workers following a disaster such as an earthquake.


AFP Photo



The five-tonne T-52 Enryu (literally "rescue dragon") is hydraulically operated and equipped with two arms ending in pincer "hands" that can grasp and remove obstacles to help rescuers reach people trapped under rubble.


Each arm is capable of lifting 500 kilogrammes (1,100 pounds) and when they are fully extended the two pincers are 10 metres (33 feet) apart.


The prototype robot was developed by Tmsuk, a company based in the southwestern Japan city of Kita-Kyushu, in cooperation with fire-department officials and university researchers.


The company aims to develop a commercial model by the end of the year.

Most of my game collection is now in pictures! Someone asked me to do it at N-Philes so I thought I'd post the links to the pics here too. Here ya go:

NES Games

SNES and N64 Games

Lotsa Controllers

The Current Gen

Dreamcast and the Playstation games I didn't sell when my PSX broke

Game Boy Games

Quote:The real April fool's joke of the video game industry seems to be the whole month of April. April is known for being the time that the 'bottom of the barrel' titles get released. Hardly any games come out during the entire month in the first place because companies are winding down their operations and finishing up their fiscal year. Here are the scant amount of GCN and GBA titles being released this month — all but one of them coming in at discounted prices.


WarioWare Inc. (GCN) $30

Space Raiders (GCN) $20

Serious Sam: The Next Encounter (GCN) $20

Future Tactics: The Uprising (GCN) $20

Disney's Home on the Range (GBA) $20

Serious Sam Advance (GBA) $20

Shining Soul 2 (GBA) $30

There may be a couple additional titles that appear at certain retailers during April, but they'll probably be ones that were supposed to come out in March.

From CVG:

Quote:Friday 2nd April 2004


NINTENDO: MORE ON DS, CUBE 2 SPECS AT E3?

Seems Nintendo is shifting its target audience with the DS...

16:49 More info on Nintendo's DS is gradually coming to light; this time the source is Nintendo's executive vice president of sales and marketing Reggie Fils-Aime, who gave away a few more details on the portable console in an interview with business site CNN.
When the DS is publicly unveiled at May's E3 showcase, Nintendo will specify a release date as well as a price for the unit. Previously Nintendo has only confirmed plans to launch the console worldwide before the end of the year.

However, it does seem as though Nintendo has opted to move away from its previous "games only" stance; the DS is rumoured to feature an Instant Messaging facility and movie playback capabilities.

Nintendo has so far refused to comment on those rumours, but Fils-Aime admitted that the company is seeking to attract "early adopters who are looking for more complex gameplay and the gamer who has a little more money to spend."

The VP of marketing also commented that "the gamer needs to see it, to see the games, to see the full functionality of the machine. We're reticent to give details until we can show it."

Nintendo will also "discuss" its next-generation home console at E3 according to Fils-Aime, though quite how much information the ever-secretive company is likely to make available is unclear. "Comment will come from the highest levels," said Fils-Aime. "The focus and commitment we have on this will be shown at E3."

Steve Colton