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Doomroar 2014-12-24 07:41:01

Why would someone target you specifically?
The series could be better, it has yet to Arise for me.

Man i am missing 2 all seeing eyes, and The PsychoSheep is probing to be quite the challenge.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-24 07:41:01

Well not me specifically. They targeted the ISP via the ISPs own routers through any random ISP clients that hadn't secured their wifi connections. I have my wifi turned off btw. But all clients had their Internet down for a few hours while the DNS servers were DDoSed... by their own customers; technology.

Yeah, it's Complex, Stands Alone.

I've got... a missing save file aaargh! Guess the submission's been updated. :/ Oh well, I remember having all 666 and ? references though. Think I was missing 2 eyes too, and one skull. How about swapping references?

Doomroar 2014-12-24 08:32:15

Lol

But it is a series not an stand alone!

Just found them, now i am only missing the bonus.
Sure man:

bzzzooooo: 1 skull on left arm; 2 666 on the fingers at the bottom; and 2 eyes on top
M-Abrantes: 1 eye at the top of the red tower (right upper corner); next to it is 1 666 vertical.
Glboom: 1 eye at the star on the tree; 1 owl next to the tree (right side background it is blue); 1 skull decoration ball; 1 666 gift box.
TricycleLord: 1 eye behind the chin of the king at the left; it appears from time to time.
Lobof: 1 skull on the left ghost; 1 eye kidnapping a cow on the right side
Cyberdevil: 1 666 belt buckles; 1 eye under the big X
Lobof: 1 eye right corner; 1 goat bottom right.
Rafaelzhino: 2 eyes on the tree and on the red band right side near the border.
Luwano: 1 eye as one of the buttons; 1 skull on the top left side near the pin that holds the picture.
Lobsterblues: 1 666 hand gesture; 1 butterfly on the bag.
Havegum: 1 eye on top of the tree.
Whirlguy: 1 owl on the stand; 1 skull photo on the wall; 2 eyes on each A of navidad; 1 spread 666 one on the girls earring, the guys shirt, and the tree decorations.
Mavruda: 3 eyes 1 at each side of the columns and one on the necklaces of the mom; 1 666 on the girl's dress.
Gween123: 1 eye on the ipad.
Test-Object: 1 eye on the base Hanuka thingy with the candles; 1 skull in the crowd.
Subliminalvirus: 1 owl on the green gift; 1 eye on top of the tree; 1 checkered pattern on the floor near the foot of the girl.
Cairos: 1 butterfly on the woman's panties; 1 checkered pattern on her gift box.
Lintire: 1 eye on the elf's zipper; 1 666 hand gesture; 1 checkered patter; 1 toy owl.
JackDCurleo: inside the gifts there's 1 checkered pattern and 1 eye.
Sockembop: 1 eye on the carpet; 1 red skull on the decoration balls on the floor.
SkimaskKass: 1 eye on the black part of the card; 1 green skull on the lower part of the card.
Creepyboy: 2 eyes 1 at each side on the decoration, 1 666 on the snowman's scarf.
WooleyWorld: 4 eyes; 1 in the cat, 1 in the opening of the bag, and 1 under the M of Merry, and 1 between the bag and the H of Helper.
M-Abrantes: 1 butterfly on the left tree, 1 eye on the lower part of the right tree it blends with the color of the tree.
PsychoSheep : 1 eye on the base of the reindeer's left horn.

Now if only i could know what the bonus is...

Cyberdevil 2014-12-24 08:32:15

Haha, I... have no counter for that... but better beware though, the series takes your Innocence away. :P

An extensive guide! :O Thanks for the collaboration man, turned out great!

Doomroar 2014-12-24 08:34:38

Found the bonus, oh man, it hurts, it hurts way too much, this is emotional sadism TurkeyOnAStick!

Cyberdevil 2014-12-24 08:34:38

Hah, yeah, was wondering where I should go from that article... turns out all you had to do was read. :)

Doomroar 2014-12-24 10:26:24

Once you lose your innocence all you have is a Human-Error Processor.
Glad to hear that.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-24 10:26:24

404

Doomroar 2014-12-26 08:14:26

Refresh page maybe it magically appears!

Cyberdevil 2014-12-26 08:14:26

It's a miracle!

Doomroar 2014-12-26 08:52:54

An x-mas miracle.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-26 08:52:54

Mas x-mas miracles!

Doomroar 2014-12-27 05:50:38

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/650910
There you have an idea for many great musicalish, i don't know if you already covered Prodigy and The Beastie Boys.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-27 05:50:38 (Updated 2014-12-27 07:14:27)

Hmm, don't think I have, though I used to listen a bunch to the both of them. Thanks for the tips. As for the game, it's on my playlist. :P So many games with a shitton of medals lately!

Doomroar 2014-12-27 08:14:38

Man i can't even compare my medal list to yours, it puts me to shame! T_T

Cyberdevil 2014-12-27 08:14:38

Haha well we all gotta start somewhere. ;P I'm way behind some other people though *cough* VicariousE *cough*... even though they started collecting after I did! It's a slow but steady grind towards the 10k medal/hexalist spot...

Doomroar 2014-12-28 05:59:22

10k? more like 100k, i am on 30k not even half there.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-28 05:59:22 (Updated 2014-12-28 06:05:31)

Nah, medals man, only medals count in the: http://hexalist.ngpot.com/

I'm almost halfway, closing in on 5k medals with almost 100k points. ;)

Doomroar 2014-12-28 06:14:38

I see almost 5k medals!
Talking about games Dr S3C just recomended this game http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/572374
He says it has the best story of all games in the whole page, but i find it hard to believe, any thoughts on it?

Cyberdevil 2014-12-28 06:14:38

Yupp, the time's closing in for... a post in the wi/ht level up lounge! :D
Hmm, haven't tried it, but it's got medals so... bookmarked. ;) Even if RPG games usually take the longest time to complete. The combination of shooter/RPG sounds intriguing, reviews seem positive, score is high, time will tell! Thanks for the tip.

Doomroar 2014-12-28 08:02:56

Oh boy soon you will be half way up there with the 1% medal holders.

Oh it is long alright, and the gameplay is average, but apparently it shines in the story, i ahven't encountered nothing special so far, the federation who are supposed to be the good guys are hunting pirates, but the pirates are also good guys, we are pirates, and there are some crystals of power that the leader of the federation is collecting to rule the universe, it is a generic story so far, apparently it has various endings like most RPGs, and it also has dating sim.... i am skipping that part maybe that is why i am not getting exited, it is just so much idle dialog, apparently the universe is in danger but we still have time to go and search for a girlfriend.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-28 08:02:56

When you put it that way it sounds pretty awesome! :O

Sounds a bit like One Piece... the it sounds a bit like Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy! The idle dialog is usually the part in RPG games I spend the most time with btw, I speak to everyone, speak to everyone again to see if they have something new to say, read people's minds if there's the opportunity (IOW Golden Sun)... I probably waste an unnecessary amount of time on fictional socializing, but that's one of the fun things with games like that, reading text. Hmm..

Doomroar 2014-12-28 12:16:45

But of course it is awesome you will be medal rich!

Yeah it sounds like OP but it is different, i find that part of the gameplay boring especially when it is just a detour and it is not helping me to get an enhancement, some characters do have some useful info, others are just part of the dating sim gameplay.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-28 12:16:45

Medals = time = money. Hell yeah! :D

Mmm. Yeah dialog isn't always the most useful, but if it's well-crafted dialog it's fun to read, not all games have that though. Crystal Story (2) didn't have the richest, most creative dialog, but they joked around a bit... I guess it adds 'life' to a game. It's the human aspect of it.

Doomroar 2014-12-29 07:41:24

If only XD.

I have rarely felt it, i usually feel like chopping the heads of chatty NPCs rather than getting attached to them.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-29 07:41:24

Well you know how they say that 'time is money'. ;)

Ah, you probably save a lot of time on skipping those! I wish I could!

Doomroar 2014-12-29 08:59:41

Yeah time invested in work generating a product or service, that can then be exchanged for money... similar to the cards on Steam that you can exchange for games in certain events... you know i wonder if Steam has card miners just like WoW had gold farmers... hmmm.

Yeah sometimes when i see that the NPC doesn't has anything important to say i furiously hit the next button XD, oh but that sometimes backfires, when it does i find it as a cheap move to force the player to listen to an NPC, why would you put this vital info after more than 50 lines of filler text!?

Cyberdevil 2014-12-29 08:59:41 (Updated 2014-12-29 09:37:16)

It should be: 'time well-spent is worth more than money'! ;) After all, money is just a means with which to get things you want or need, and some things you just cannot buy! Like cheap avocado in mid-winter Sweden. :/

lmao XD Only times I remember getting annoyed is when I accidentally press one time too much just when the conversations ended, starting right over again. Especially annoying with long convos. :P I remember some tired times where I was just trying to click away a conversation and kept going on a loop forever, this one part in Pokemon when you speak to an old lady to take a rest especially, there's no warning, soon as you talk to her you take a rest, soon as it's over she says just one thing, and if you're not careful with that confirmation button...

Doomroar 2014-12-29 12:35:28

Bad example you can still buy avocado, it just costs more, you can even buy cheap avocado, if you use money to build a trade company and import the avocado from the Caribbean, in essence money is just an unit of measure of worth used for trade, and as thus it doesn't has any value by itself, hell nowadays we don't even use money as the primary unit but credit, then we exchange that credit for money, which is then exchanged for other goods or services.

Oh the old "did you catch everything i said? do you want to hear it again? YES/NO" and they put the damn cursor on yes so you keep looping the damn thing, i have wasted so much time in those loops.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-29 12:35:28 (Updated 2014-12-29 13:37:58)

Well that was kinda the joke... but yeah, there are ways to achieve even that which seems unachievable! Only problem I see with opening up a trade company though is: that might require some money! We're living off of the illusion of money now!

Haha yeah that kind of thing. :) They're endless by our own initiative! Crazy.

Doomroar 2014-12-30 01:02:37

The point is that as long as you attach a price to it you can buy it.

I do think that they do it on purpose just to mess with us, after all if you talk again with them they usually give you the same rant.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-30 01:02:37

Yupp yupp, the stereotype thing here would be to say: you can't buy happiness! Love! Friendship! All of that which makes life worth living!

Hmm, so all these RPGs, all this time... all a giant conspiracy!!

Doomroar 2014-12-30 04:59:37

Mmmh it depends on how you invest that money, happiness is probably the easier one, then love (after all marriage was in the beginning just a transaction, and then the couples would warm to each other out of marital duty), friendship seems like the tricky one.

Illuminati!

Cyberdevil 2014-12-30 04:59:37

True love and longtime relational bonding are two different things! As for happiness, things don't make you happy don't you know, the less you have, the less responsibility, the more freedom! The more happiness. Into the wild don't you know? At least that's the theory. Well you might be able to buy everything to a certain extent if you're fortunate, even relations and emotions, but that'd be a truly tricky business.

And they've really quietened down all the hype around this thing. O_O Just imagine how many people discovered this horrid truth before us, and then...

Doomroar 2014-12-31 04:06:37

Pff say that to your great great grandparents who didn't went for the divorce even when they could; Things don't make you happy, necessarily, true, but having less things don't make you happy either, what gives the most amount of happiness is experiences, and to have access to some experiences you will need money, also no being free doesn't implies being happy, that's nonsense, top notch nonsense (Fuck you Rousseau!); Tricky but not impossible it is all about management.

The Japanese branch has been working hard on it.

Cyberdevil 2014-12-31 04:06:37

My grandparents are long gone by now, but my parents... yeah you might say they're in a similar kind of relationship. :/ That was the world back then though, when marriage was an almost obligatory form of unity and emotions didn't steer the way... it's different now! Not everyone even gets married! :OOn topic of having less... ever read the fisherman story? It's a classic: http://www.wambui-bahati.com/The-Fisherman-Story.html

Mmm, in the new world it's all so complicated!

Doomroar 2014-12-31 07:06:47

Yeah and now people marry in the name of love, and almost 1 out of 2 marriages end in divorce: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/divorces-in-england-and-wales/2011/sty-what-percentage-of-marriages-end-in-divorce.html
http://www.divorce.usu.edu/files/uploads/lesson3.pdf
http://www.apa.org/topics/divorce/
And that of course then leads to:
https://singlemotherguide.com/single-mother-statistics/
http://www.gingerbread.org.uk/content/365/Statistics
Which means that people nowadays go marry in the name of love or not even that, they start a relationship in the name of love, then get pregnant and have kids by themselves, which can work but it is irresponsible in a world where competition becomes harsher and harsher, in essence to promise a feeling to another person, is despicable, because feelings are one of the most unstable things in humans.
I know the story, but it is flawed, you don't become a millionaire to have the same life of a small fisherman, similarly people are not migrating to coastal areas to lead simpler lives, why? because in one hand we want more out of life than just that, and in the other small fishermen don't have that kind of carefree lifestyle they experience harshness too, to portray the contrary is to indulge in a fable, ambition (in more than just one sense of the word) was a thing that neither of the 2 men portrayed in the story had, one of them being the so called fool (the tourist, and likewise he was a fool for more than one reason).

Cyberdevil 2014-12-31 07:06:47

Hmm, seems like previous generations stuck together even if they were polar opposites (and not in the Yin/Yang way :P), wheras people don't take marriage as such a sacred oath any longer. Not so surprised divorce numbers are high, but if I was them I wouldn't get married in the first place if there's even a itsy bitsy potential for breaking up... or so I say now but they do say love does strange things to a person... yeah, feelings can be unstable, but then again I know at least a few incredibly happy couples, both old and young. Don't know if it all boils down to finding the right person or if it's more about finding the right purpose, the right place to live, not having incredibly stubborn personalities and no will to compromise, etc. There seem to be two kinds of relationships: those where you grow apart with time, and those where you grow together. I like to think there's also the type where you're just *bang* together forever.

Well, I agree that a poor fisherman probably wouldn't have the insight required to realize what a harmonious and peaceful life he leads; that he doesn't really need or want more, but the moral of the story is, as I see it, that we should check our heads. What do we really need? Do we need more than we have already? Would we feel better if we ___ or had ___ or did ___? So many times people take the long way around, go full circle and come back to step 1 and realize they didn't even need to take that journey. But I guess that's a journey everyone needs to take to really understand.

Doomroar 2015-01-01 10:13:06

"Don't know if it all boils down to finding the right person" that doesn't really works because in the spur of the moment people will always thing that they have found the right person even ignoring the flaws that everyone else sees in them.

Happiness is not really about what we need, but about what we want, and the trick is that what we want changes with time, for example i have no interest in the life of a fisherman, but the life of a scholar interest me, however it is worth it? the answer is probably not, somethings are designed only for people that can derive joy from the most tedious task, for example next year or ending this one i will come face to face with programming again, i haven't touched a code in years, i don't know what i am gonna do, however i prefer that to the life of the fisherman, is a bet to the future.

Cyberdevil 2015-01-01 10:13:06

No doubt people can be misleading, but I do believe there is a 'right' person out there, you just need to happen to find them. If there's an actual strategy you can use to get there, if it's all based on luck, karma, confidence, who knows...

Hmm, but isn't what we want the thing we need most? Discarding all superficial wants that we don't really 'need', only going for that one thing - that core value in life that we strive to reach, even if we don't know it yet. How do you know what you want until you know about it/until you find it? It's like saying your favorite fruit is an orange if all you've ever tasted are lemons. Do you think you know what you really want at this point in life? I get what you're saying, but I don't really agree, I think we all have a purpose we can find that REALLY makes us happy, even if it's something so simple like just fishing by the sea. I think many people discard the simple options and assume they won't be happy unless they have more, even though sometimes, less is more. That said, I don't want to be a fisherman either, and programming... man that stuff's complicated. Numbers and stuff. Ugh.

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