Dragon Ball Z Uncensored

[johnbuisthegreat]

(4:56:50 PM) Duke_Nukem: http://www.ajc.com/multimedia/dynamic/00600/Pedestrians_0514_e_600777c.jpg
(4:58:34 PM) Pizzarino: Haha
(4:58:52 PM) Pizzarino: If that guy was holding his dick instead of that coffee cup
(4:58:56 PM) Pizzarino: That picture would be perfect
(4:59:38 PM) TL: l8r bros
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johnbuisthegreat
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(Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:36 am)
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Morgan owned herself!!!!
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(Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:59 pm)
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[ChrisPsaros]

The joke itself is fine, but the problem is that they've just been doing that same joke, over and over again, for a week straight, and now the point of the original joke has been lost by THAT becoming the joke - being annoying by relentlessly doing the same joke. That's a sort of humor that's only funny to the performer.

Fuck people who do that, am I right??

[ChrisPsaros]

http://animalsbeingdicks.com/

So brilliant.

[ChrisPsaros]

Another perfect Donkey Kong game instantly down the drain because of the elevator/springs level.

I'm somehow psyching myself out, or something. I used to be able to get to level 5 on my first man, but not anymore.

I'm just completely choking on level 4 now.

I'm getting really goddamn tired of getting to the elevators with 3 men and blowing them all, one after another (screaming in rage the whole time). It's just completely unyielding in how perfectly you have to execute it.

[Theldorrin]

Donkey Kong is not a good game.
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[ChrisPsaros]

I MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!

Not really.

Just DROPPING BY to say that Big Fagot's PP got married, and I now have a top 20 ranking at Donkey Kong (18th on MAME; 33rd overall between MAME and arcade), and I've literally done nothing for the past month except play Donkey Kong and I'm sinking into a "debt period" for the second time in my life because I'm underemployed.

There was something else but I can't remember.

Sometimes I think I should just come back and start posting regularly again!

Other times I say "I shouldn't come back, yet it's childish to NEVER make a post, as if I'm pretending the board doesn't exist. I mean, come on."

Other times I think I should have absolutely no contact with the board at all, and that this very post is akin to a recovering alcoholic taking a drink.

But, in any case, I'm definitely going to press the submit button now *eyes dart faggishly back and forth*.

[Ryoko's Biatch]

Just do whatever you want, you retard.

It's not like posting is a bigger waste of time than playing Donkey Kong instead of looking for a job.

[Theldorrin]

We should collaborate on a website, Christopher.
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[Theldorrin]

I find that all of my best thinking happens when I'm trying to go to sleep, and that I forget a lot of it by the time I wake up.
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[Theldorrin]

I started wondering this morning if it'd make sense to work only every other night, and rely on my super active brain during those nights to do all of my work.

I think it could work, but I won't know until tonight when my brain goes SSJ.
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[Action Hank]

Try it, Theldorrin!

[Big Fagot]

Chris, what's the deal with that beached ship in Aptos?

[Clotho]

Chris, I think that you should post more. The board's pretty much dead without you, and don't even get me started on how bland and tasteless chat is. It's like tofu! Even if no one here will admit to missing your posts, pretty much everyone does. I really don't care though, but that's because I exist on a higher plane than the rest of the posters.

[Magic Juan]

I really enjoy tofu. I made a really good tofu jerkey once.

[ChrisPsaros]

A Step Toward Donkey Kong Recording Rules Reform


Many if not most of the rules for recording a Donkey Kong game for the arcade platform are dubious at best and outright absurd at worst.

They were set up based on complaints and issues from far more naive times, to appease people who, frankly, did not know as much about the game as is known now... or who had a very apparent axe to grind with a player or two in particular and were actively looking for reasons to doubt them.

The bottom line is that submitting for DK is a huge, submission-deterring, unnecessary hassle, and something needs to be done about it. If TG's "sure, we'll take your word for it" policy of 30 years ago was too lax (which of course it was), this is merely the other end of the spectrum.

Let's start with the beginning-of-game walk-around, cabinet opening, and board check.

First of all, the end-of-game procedure makes this entire step redundant. You're going to see the board and dipswitches at the end; you don't need to see them at the beginning. All this does is add a potentially enormous amount of cumulative time to the recordings of a player who makes many attempts, and discourages restarting of the recording when the player wishes to abort a game and start a new one (which would greatly streamline things for both the ref and the player if the player were freer to do so).

One might argue, "the initial walk-around may be redundant, but we want to know right away if we should bother to continue watching the tape," and that would be an excellent argument, but it's satisfied by my "second of all:" the behavior of the game itself will reveal the facts about the hardware within the first couple of minutes.

1. If the title screen shows "Nintendo of America" (as opposed to "Nintendo"), then the board cannot be any other than a TKG4. If you see "Nintendo of America" on the screen, there is no need to get a shot of the part number on the PCB itself. All "Nintendo of America" boards are TKG4's, and all TKG4's are "Nintendo of America" boards.

2. The dipswitch settings control only 4 things: number of lives, bonus life score, coins-per-credit, and cocktail/upright. The setting of the first can be observed immediately upon game start (you either have 3 lives or you don't), the second before the beginning of level 2 (you'll either get your bonus life at 7K or you won't), and the last two have no bearing on gameplay at all.

Moving on to mid- and post-game...

RESTART RULE: This makes no sense at all. Kill off all your men, enter your initials, AND let it go through the title screen, attract, and high score table? Huh?? Why on earth can't you simply power-cycle the machine? Since I can't even fathom the reasoning behind this one, I will admit that I can't argue with it. If nothing else, I'd be curious to have it explained.

CONTROL PANEL INSPECTION: He who plays Donkey Kong with anything but a 4-way joystick not only doesn't play with an advantage, but plays with a *dis*advantage. I have come across many a DK player who agrees, and not a single one who doesn't. There is no reason to detach the control panel to prove that it's a 4-way. If anything, whatever score someone manages to get with an 8(or more)(or less!)-way stick, or with an improper restrictor plate, or no restrictor plate, deserves a self-aggravation bonus, not a disqualification for cheating. Playing Donkey Kong with an 8-way is like playing without a thumb. Nobody in their right mind would choose to compete that way.

Directionality aside, the throw on the original 23-50 joystick may actually be a disadvantage because it's wider and not as stiff as that of other sticks, so a (weak) argument could be made there in terms of leveling the playing field by ensuring that everyone plays with the good ol' Nintendo "loose tooth." You can't require everyone to change their stick uniformly to something *other* than the original.

The salient fact is that you don't need to remove the control panel to show that it's original. In fact, you don't even need to show the stick at all! A serious arcade player will recognize the sound of a real Nintendo stick from across the street, while chainsawing steel, 15 years since he last heard it. The 23-50 is the only stick in the world that makes that iconic "schlunk." Nothing sounds like a 23-50 but another 23-50.

THE TWO PLAYER KAMIKAZE GAME: I assume that you must start/kill off a two-player game in order to show that the dipswitch is set to upright and not cocktail. The thing is, what possible difference could it possibly make if it WERE on cocktail? This is undistilled madness.

POWER SUPPLY: if someone can demonstrate, with proof, that a non-original power supply has any affect on gameplay whatsoever, I'm ready to see it, and TG should demand it before putting a rule in place.

This one rule is an enormous burden on the competitive DK community, and it might be the worst of them all. True story: not two hours ago I was looking into buying a DK machine in my area that I had to disqualify because the power supply died THIS VERY NIGHT when the guy was testing it for prospective buyers, which he will now be replacing with a newer one that is NOT the ancient, crumbling fire-machine-in-a-tinder-box that TG demands.

The idea that somebody with a DK machine can't submit a score because they don't have the original power supply makes me want to tear my hair out. Every day, another one of these things goes up in smoke and takes another competitor with an otherwise perfectly good machine out of the running. Honestly, how long does TG expect these to last? Considering their apparent rate of decay, I'll be surprised if there are *any* surviving original power supplies left in 20 years. Hell, even 15. They're becoming more and more unsafe by the day for the boards, the monitors, and the life, limb, and property of the people forced to keep them in their machines in order to compete.

ROM CHIPS: Simply showing these neither proves nor disproves anything. The EPROMS could be unseated, erased with UV, reburned with god-knows-what code, and reseated with no visual evidence whatsoever, intact stickers or not, with or without gummy substances.

NO KITS: Devil's advocate: if you have a Double Donkey Kong, or a Donkey Kong 2, or a Braze High Score Save, or some other lesser-known upgrade kit, there's no way TG can know what code is on there. I understand this. (Though, again, there's no way to audit the original ROM chips for that issue anyway.)

The problem with this rule is that (just like the power supply) it holds people's machines hostage. Nobody can play (the awesome) D2K without uninstalling it in order to compete at DK, or waiting to install it until after they're done competing at DK. Every time you move that Z80, you're risking the life of your board, your kit, your Z80, or all three (particularly once the Z80 is on the D2K board, which is a damn snug fit).

It's unanimous among players: there is absolutely no difference in how an original TKG4 game will play versus a game played through a DDK (other than for the walking and jumping audio), a D2K, or a Braze.

I can understand a rule against unrecognized hardware. But the above three are well known at this point, and should not disqualify anyone. I'm sure those involved in their development would be happy to explain exactly how their kits interact with the code.

Ultimately it comes down to one factor that cannot be emphasized enough: the ref MUST go purely based on gameplay. He has to trust his eyes. He has to do that anyway regardless of what is shown of the electronics, so what difference do the electronics truly make?

Any code differences that change gameplay significantly enough to significantly move a score will be plainly noticeable to any ref who understands the game. Needless to say, if someone like Stephen Boyer - a DK verification veteran and kill screen-caliber player himself - is involved in the verification, everyone can sleep soundly in that regard. I'll bet Stephen's expertise against that of all the Dwayne Richards, Brian Kuhs, and Tim Sczerbys in the world.

IN CONCLUSION...: "Somebody complained about that once" just isn't a good reason to have a rule in place. The only time a complaint has merit is when its premises can be justified and conclusively supported. Otherwise you're just going to be placating crazies and cranks and obsessive doubters all day, and why would you let the lunatics run the asylum? Who cares what they say?

If someone is emotionally motivated to doubt a score or the integrity of a gamer, they will continue to doubt no matter how many times the gamer "solves any kind of doubt that there ever could have been..." but I won't get into that.

Lifting the "live only" rule in 2009 was a huge step in the right direction that reversed a huge step in the wrong direction. And we got a wonderful new world champion out of it.

It's time to go "full reverse" and stop treating this game differently than all the rest.

WHAT NOW: My questions are:
- What are other people's ideas about what I've said?
- What would you add? What would you disagree with?
- Who do we go to with our appeal?
- Can all of these rules be annotated with the specific reasons for their existence? At the very least the reasons should be transparent, unless transparency itself creates an a integrity concern.

Let's talk!

[Mike Dunn]

tl;dr

[johnbuisthegreat]

Mike what is your favorite alcoholic drink, just a beer a shot a mixed drink?

[Theldorrin]

Did you post that garbage on your blog, Chris? Oh wait, you won't reply to any messages here, and your post was just your typical masturbation.
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[ChrisPsaros]

Haha, I pasted that in the box, just to post it without a word so that I could then disappear back into the night like a li'l SCAMP, but then I immediately reconsidered and deleted it, and thought I HAD deleted it, but I didn't actually reload and was looking at the cached version of the page and had posted it after all!!!!!

Anyway, it's the nerdiest thing I've ever written.

[ChrisPsaros]

Been thinking about Big Fagot lately!

hungering for him