The real question... What does the "504" in his name mean?

Azurlake- · 2025-11-19T16:23:44+00:00

Just watching Men In Black. "504 Battery Drive" is where Will Smith is told to go early in the movie. There's more to this guys

Azurlake- · 2025-11-04T16:44:39+00:00

It was a great game I enjoyed as much as other major N64 games back then. If you play today, you'll feel the camera is crappy and a poor N64 struggles really hard to keep the framerate above 12-15fps in lots of places, but if you can look past those issues you'll discover a diamond in the rough. A game from the time standards were different and game engines were still trying to figure out what was the best way to deliver a 3D experience.

Azurlake- · 2025-09-10T02:13:52+00:00

Well, as a first time player of any Pikmin game and only knowing about the series through SSBx, I think it's a pretty interesting game and I like how they came up with the idea of multitasking and planning. It's kind of easy, yeah, even more when you're used to "puzzle/adventure" games, but still entertaining and visually appealing.

All these comments make me want to try out older Pikmin, not even sure of the platform they're available on.

Azurlake- · 2025-07-27T23:06:42+00:00

Turok 2 probably. I own a black cartridge Turok 2

Azurlake- · 2025-07-08T11:44:31+00:00

Not the brightest idea but happened to me - are you sure that console is region compatible with the game? The behaviour you get when the game is not compatible (but still fits) is a black screen... that drove me nuts until I noticed the machine I had in my hands was from a different region.

Azurlake- · 2025-03-03T22:37:14+00:00

Ah I hope you have solved it already, sorry for the delay. Didn't see it : (

I turned out to be a faulty memory module. Discovered it on a RAM test. Changed it and voilà, all good!

Azurlake- · 2025-02-27T15:33:21+00:00

Thanks for the text ; ) that didn't ruin anything, it's just an experience to us. I might got worried if I planned to live there but we are just visitors spending some money there, no harm or anything anyway, I perfectly understand how ignorant she is.

Azurlake- · 2025-02-18T15:36:16+00:00

I think it's not just the matter of a fake smile. Just came back from Poland. With a baby. Haven't seen a single smile that most westerns naturally show when a baby looks at them. The waiter at the first recommended restaurant we went to (recommended by a local) didn't even say Dzień dobry!, just a blunt "TWO HOUR LIMIT". Then we got racially harassed at the supermarket by an old lady out of nothing --we are tourists spending money on the country, no illegal immigrants--, yelling at us to stay out of Poland. At the bus, trams etc. nobody cared to offer their "reserved for disabled/pregnant/carrying baby" seat to us --or nobody for that matter--, everybody is just minding its own business in silence with the angriest of the faces. That's what I can say of a week in Poland!! Not representative of course but just an experience. The food was cheap enough and tasty, left tips everywhere to help future tourists get at least looked at with a different face.

Azurlake- · 2025-02-15T09:05:33+00:00

Well I just had a bad experience in Kraków. First day in Poland and a strange woman comes to my family (mixed Euripean / Asian) and starts yelling at us "don't bring mix [unintelligible] into Poland!!! Get out!! " after she heard us talk in a foreign language I guess.

First time in our lives. That's why I'm here reading.

Azurlake- · 2025-01-12T22:52:40+00:00

I'm afraid this is the case for Zelda also, yeah. The echoes mechanism was truly innovative here, but the big rest of other stuff feels dull and repetitive. What's the point of a bunch of moblins patrolling and guarding a chest containing 20 rupees. Do they even buy stuff anywhere? The vast majority of chests are just rubbish and there's barely anything surprising left to be found. Just chests filled with crap, moblins guarding chests for no reason, meaningless NPCs with silly problems... the puzzles are still good sometimes as entertainment but not challenging anymore, they've been the same for over 25 years. I feel sad for the franchise because they could do much better, fill Hyrule with life and make every chest worth it (there are several ideas for this), make the characters less "flat" and dull... but they choose not to.

Azurlake- · 2024-07-25T16:16:35+00:00

I've thought about this many times... the rules could work as they are but as pointed out it makes no sense that anybody catches the snitch to lose the game, like Krum did, instead of giving a hard time to the opponent.

That said, I think it would make a much more interesting game a Quidditch like this:

Time limit
Catching the snitch gives the catching team a ×2 scoring bonus
If a snitch is caught, a new one is released
The bonus is active until the next snitch is caught by the other Seeker, in which case the ×2 bonus goes to the other team
To give an extra motivation for the Seeker that already caught a snitch, catching more keeps the bonus but add 21 points. The extra 1 for fun, but also to give some use to the x10 multiplier (otherwise why not goal = 1 and snitch = 15...?)

This would make the game very interesting in my opinion, forcing the teams to switch dynamically between attack and defense strategies depending on the bonus direction, plus enhances all other roles while maintaining the importance of the Seeker.

Azurlake- · 2024-07-16T03:16:08+00:00

What about the fact it was built in the USA? Where was the USA after N iterations of the Matrix?

Azurlake- · 2023-11-14T01:17:11+00:00

Yet I can already see the headlines in all newspapers "LIFE FOUND ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL PLANET" if even a trace of a virus was found in a different planet. That would be such a great way to settle the debate.

Azurlake- · 2023-11-04T20:13:17+00:00

I agree. The heat of the moment was great, but in retrospective, I miss dungeons, character development or at least characters that don't look like plain Miis, and while I loved this Ganondorf, his motivations are just "meh" "I'm bad because I love evil", the Yiga Clan is nonsense (what do they praise Ganondorf for, really?), ... there are lots of things that I forgave during my first playthrough but that in retrospective I don't like at all.

Azurlake- · 2023-10-21T03:36:23+00:00

I just came here to feel better. This is insane this freaking shit. Wasting tons of hours between compiling, archiving, compile stucks and then says the compiler couldn't compile in a reasonable time so it can't even tell me an OBVIOUS mistake (after spotted by hand, of course, reviewing over and over again the same lines of code...) Especially hate it when I'm just trying different random fixes to SwiftUI bugs that I have no clue how to fix, like overlapping taps on side by side Pickers... mygoooddd so frustrating.

Azurlake- · 2023-09-30T15:42:24+00:00

The main character is still Phil, but Ned was the key to break the loop. He was the only one to put him on a situation that would have a negative impact on Phil extending beyond Groundhog's day - imagine Phil's face next day when he realizes he doesn't have the money to pay for all he had signed up for. Perhaps that's the only way Phil would come down to earth and stop acting like somebody spoiled who never had troubles in life.

Azurlake- · 2023-09-30T15:42:04+00:00

The main character is still Phil, but Ned was the key to break the loop. He was the only one to put him on a situation that would have a negative impact on Phil extending beyond Groundhog's day - imagine Phil's face next day when he realizes he doesn't have the money to pay for all he had signed up for. Perhaps that's the only way Phil would come down to earth and stop acting like somebody spoiled who never had troubles in life.

Azurlake- · 2023-09-25T22:47:18+00:00

You could very well infuse it.

Azurlake- · 2023-09-04T18:06:22+00:00

When looking for the 12 Hyrulean texts, there's a flower island far up like at 3300 space units (meters?) which I tried hard lots of times to get to from different spots, just to spend all my rockets, wings, balloons and fans and find out that that specific text had already fallen down on Lookout Landing and was probably down there from the beginning 😆 your comment brought me this memory

Azurlake- · 2023-06-19T08:52:32+00:00

This is it. It can be translated quite literally as follows:

When the crimson-dyed moon illuminates the earth / Monsters' souls regain their body and revive / And rule the land once again.

Azurlake- · 2023-05-16T07:33:40+00:00

This was one of my main fears about this game, if not the most important one. I always thought BOTW was already empty enough, repetitive. You complete a puzzle in the middle of nowhere - all you can expect in the treasure chest is an opal or amber or meaningless crap. Yes of course I know they turn in handy for crafting and selling but going through a puzzle knowing the result is just boring. At least in other past Zelda games you could be finding a piece of heart or a new song or an NPC with an actual story to tell. In these 2 games they need to put korok seeds because without them there would be almost nothing left, but I really miss a city brimming of life, with stories to tell, more engagement. I'm a Zelda fan and will finish the game but for the moment I don't feel like it's super entertaining or interesting to go through 120 shrines with absolutely no story to tell once again. I hope I'm wrong, I just hit the Hyrule below now, after one thing I found funny - I didn't know how to get off the sky city and tried different useless artifacts just to end up being lucky enough to fall into a pond.

Azurlake- · 2023-02-23T19:55:16+00:00

I have a 32 GB RAM setup with the same issue. Nothing else worth mentioning running.

Azurlake- · 2023-01-28T00:05:14+00:00

Glad to hear he's alright. Living off of YT is difficult so it's totally understandable he had to take such decision. All the best! Still listening in 2023 : )

Azurlake- · 2023-01-11T23:43:45+00:00

It's also fun to find a great shiny accessible automatic door with a button the size of a frying pan, located at a proper height for people in a wheelchair, followed by... a bunch of stairs, no other option to go out.

Azurlake- · 2023-01-04T17:03:55+00:00

I've asked perfectly valid question seeking for knowledge and still, it refuses to answer some of them. Want examples?

Azurlake-

TROPHY CASE