[v84j3gs2uc7ns4]

[Gideon Zhi]

The first thing I thought when I saw this thread was "Beat me up and earn 15 silver points." :(
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Aeon Genesis ~ Ambassador Thorman great man! I do anything he say!

[Cacophanus]

The events aren't random though, their are always specific triggers. Lots of mecha games seem to do this; as in when you doing well changing the gameplay path to one of sheer adversity. Armored Core does it all the fucking time.

Silent Line has a few mission which cap you in the balls just when you think you're doing well. Naturally, a lot of the juicier parts are unlocked that way.
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[v84j3gs2uc7ns4]

[rabite gets whacked!]

Toll what the hell are you doing playing PS2 below 40 degrees? You all right over there?

[Gin]

Dude I am totally gonna make an AC named Gato in Silent Line.



Anyway, yeah, that's a kinda common thing in mecha games. When you're doing some totally newtype shit, they always start throwing like, extra AC battles, or Gundam Alexes and shit when you're in a gouf.

[v84j3gs2uc7ns4]

[haircute]

The heater is messed up. When it gets wicked cold outside (New England weather ;_;) the temperature plummets, as the hot water heater uses up what was inside of it and absolutely refuses to replenish itself. Basically, after each shower or dishwashing or whatever, we have to fill it manually--not too annoying at times, but the truly cold days have had us doing it at least 10 times in a day and still freezing our asses off. Before we had a recent "warm" spell (i.e. your eyelid liquid didn't freeze when you left the house) the skin on man hands was starting to die off. And when it gets really cold, you hand starts to form a kind of claw if it stays that cold for a while; the way the PS2 controller fits into my hand makes playing games weird/impossible at times.

I wrapped about half my windows in plastic wrap, which seemed to help a bit, and it's been warming up a bit lately, so hopefully this won't be as much of an issue. I could probably fix the heater myself (there's a switch that measures pressure I could probably experiment with), but if I touch it, then the landlords could say I broke it, and I don't really need that shit.

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So I am playing ININDO: WAY OF THE NINJA right.

The first thing you do is go into a dungeon to get a PASSWORD (it even says YOU SEE A PASSWORD / YOU HAVE TAKEN THE PASSWORD when you open the chest). There are rats and shit in there and when you come out...



Nobunaga has been defeated in battle! After that you travel the world getting ninja spells and recruiting dudes and invading territories and all that kind of stuff. But I have played this game before so I reloaded my savestate and dicked around in the dungeon for a while and THEN:



N-No... No... Nobunaga wins!?!?!?!?

I opened one additional treasure, gained one additional level, killed a few more enemies, took some more steps, spent some more time in the dungeon... so I'm pretty sure it's based on one of those. It might actually have Nobunaga win the battle if it thinks you are GRINDING or whatever, as sort of punishment or something, but chances are it's just random.

The rest of the game is semi-randomized too, in terms of who invades who and travellers' schedules, but this is the big thing you notice since there are PICTURES and shit. I don't think it does anything meaningful, but it was cool seeing that when I was a kid.