That's BULLSHIT.

Caulk Bite 6

The Geek wrote: »

I think this thread is making me want to play MMX again.

And then Super Metroid, because that is another ridiculously awesome SNES game.

all this is making me want to get back into my first playthrough of Earthbound. it's my buddy's game, and it's been in the snes for months. Waiting.

Caulk Bite 6

last thing I remember doing is saving Paula.

Arang

mensch-o-matic wrote:

haha!! dogns

if I had a signature this would be it

Caulk Bite 6

It can be!

Jephery

Caulk Bite 6 wrote:

last thing I remember doing is saving Paula.

Happy Happy town is one of the best and worst parts of the game.

Fuck you trees and mushrooms. Fuck nature!

Caulk Bite 6

Jephery wrote: »

Caulk Bite 6 wrote:

last thing I remember doing is saving Paula.

Happy Happy town is one of the best and worst parts of the game.

Fuck you trees and mushrooms. Fuck nature!

is that the one where everything is blue?

Jephery

Yeah, hilariously. They painted everything blue.

JoeUser

Biology test omits creation theory, complains Kentucky educator

In Hart County, about an hour and 20 minutes south of Louisville, the local school superintendent is now expressing his frustration that a new state biology test is, in his opinion, treating evolution as a fact, rather than a theory.

He also charges that the test is omitting the "creation story" that cites God as the originator of the universe.

unintentional

remind me never to go to kentucky

Jephery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment

This is something that should be included every high school biology curriculum.

Well, not the experiment itself, just the results. But if some how you could recreate the experiment in a single year (which is doubtful) that would be amazing.

Dichotomy

pfft what can experiments tell you about the way the world works that you can't read in the good book

FCD

Creationists would likely respond to that experiment by saying it's only microevolution, and thus doesn't count. Ignorance is invincible.

SirToasty

MMX: I played it a while a few years ago and never beat any of the bosses.

Super Metroid: I need to play this again because it is SO GOOD.

Earthbound: I have never beaten it. I don't know how far in I've gotten (many hours as far as I know) but I have played the first few hours multiple times and its hard to redo them again.

Shabooty

wow, the scopes trial was crazy

Caulk Bite 6

pretty sure I have, but haven't beaten super metroid.

as for MMX or any of the other games, I think I only ever rented them sometimes, and never got far with them.

Kamar

This thread has reminded me that there are two MMXZ games and apparently another series after THAT that I haven't played yet.

Although apparently they stopped being as nutscrushingly difficult after 1's and to a lesser extent 2's punishment.

TrippyJing

Ugh, this Lowes thing.

Dichotomy

Ur religion?

you mean the worship of the Sumerian moon god?

Veretas

ALL HAIL UR

Centipede Damascus

No no, I think he means "ur-religion", although why understanding the origins of religion in human culture would help here, I don't know.

Blink

MMX is easily top 3 Super Nintendo. Super Metroid and LttP are probably the other two.

autono-wally, erotibot300

Grey Ghost wrote:

ASimPerson wrote:

This has always been the best

I always liked this piece very much

Shorty

I want a metroid II remake

autono-wally, erotibot300

some guy is making a fan remake, the demo is nice, but plays a bit differently. don't know if I like it...

-SPI-

It's a real shame it hasn't gotten the Zero Mission treatment. If there's one major Nintendo game that could use a remake like that I'd say it's Metroid 2.

... Maybe Zelda 2 also.

Pony

hey if you like the original metroids

check out Shadow Complex

f'serious y'all

Riale

Jephery wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment

This is something that should be included every high school biology curriculum.

Well, not the experiment itself, just the results. But if some how you could recreate the experiment in a single year (which is doubtful) that would be amazing.

this was super interesting, but what was even more interesting was the attempt by the fool who runs Conservapedia to 'obtain the data from the experiment' and the subsequent written smackdown that ensued. It's long as hell, but it's pretty entertaining to read:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Lenski_dialog

-SPI-

That second reply is delicious. I especially like the p.p.p.s.

Arang

In other words, it’s not that we claim to have glimpsed “a unicorn in the garden” – we have a whole population of them living in my lab! [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn_in_the_Garden] And lest you accuse me further of fraud, I do not literally mean that we have unicorns in the lab. Rather, I am making a literary allusion. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allusion]

this part is so good that I've googled for it just to read it again

Larlar

Caulk Bite 6 wrote:

last thing I remember doing is saving Paula.

Earthbound is the only RPG I've ever played where I force myself to change the characters' names before playing. Paula is my most hated female name ever. (If anyone here is named Paula, your name sucks.)

And then, of course, there's Poo...

The Lovely Bastard

a name you should never change

Rolo

One of my friends named his baby girl Gretchen.

Apparently it's after his wife's grandmother.

But still

Gretchen.

FAQ

sheesh that's no way to go through life

KalTorak

What do you even shorten that to? Greta?

The Geek

Rolo

KalTorak wrote:

What do you even shorten that to? Greta?

gretch

rhymes with

retch

Enc

Rita
Chinny
Greta
Tachen
Or, more likely, whatever her middle name is.

KalTorak

G-Bone

Rolo

Enc wrote:

Rita
Chinny
Greta
Tachen
Or, more likely, whatever her middle name is.

Franchesca

DisruptedCapitalist

Riale wrote:

Jephery wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment

This is something that should be included every high school biology curriculum.

Well, not the experiment itself, just the results. But if some how you could recreate the experiment in a single year (which is doubtful) that would be amazing.

this was super interesting, but what was even more interesting was the attempt by the fool who runs Conservapedia to 'obtain the data from the experiment' and the subsequent written smackdown that ensued. It's long as hell, but it's pretty entertaining to read:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Lenski_dialog

The conservapedia version was censored (surprise surprise.) More info here:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Censoring_Lenski's_RW_ref

All of the letters are here, uncensored:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lenski_affair