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[Pachinkosam]

lol that's pretty damn close to how i describe the toy story movies

i've said this before and ill say it again, somebody needs to write a 2-paragraph blogpost with a short list of stupid misconceptions about 64

my favorite is toy story 2.

 

[Vinylic.]

toy story 2.

Oh my god, all the nostalgia came into me when I read this.
That was my absolutely my most favorite game in my N64 childhood.

This level was my most favorite:

 

[M!nt]

That was one of the only 3 games I had for n64 and I'm sad to say i can't remember any of it D:
it was an great game though.

 

[Pachinkosam]

That was one of the only 3 games I had for n64 and I'm sad to say i can't remember any of it D:
it was an great game though.

i wish i was born in your generation.

 

[TANK64]

Watching Captain Jack in crews just about brought tears to my eyes, and the biggest smile on my face.

xDDDDDD

djfkl;sajlf

 

[Pachinkosam]

djfkI:sajIf

 

[M!nt]

That guy calling smash 64 outdated made me really angry considering its only 2~ years older than melee.
lol at Isai vs CJ, they really wanted him to play.

 

[Sempiternity]

...and he clearly didn't!

It was pretty **** of CJ to just needle him the whole time.

 

[Vinylic.]

Isai did some major trolling, lmfao.

 

[Peek~]

That was one of the only 3 games I had for n64

Ouch, wtf mang

 

[Pachinkosam]

People never see trolling as part of life.

 

[M!nt]

Ouch, wtf mang

Yep, even worse I never owned smash 64 as a kid.

 

[ballin4life]

I'd like to briefly apologize for the fact that I log in once every few days and then my OCD compels me to respond to a bunch of social thread posts a while ago.

OK

I ask what one learns in philosophy

Ciaza only says logic stuff

I say that's just logic, and there should be more for it to be philosophy

All I'm saying is that it's totally possible to have a philosophy class that is ONLY logic - in fact I am taking one next quarter. You don't need "more for it to be philosophy". Apologies for misstating your original position in my 2 line response to the conversation about philosophy.

Probably gonna be a CS major because both my parents are so why not

good call. CS is fun and cool and CS majors make it RAIN

what type of engineering do you do? and you too clubba. im leaning towards civil atm

AFAIK civil is considered the "easiest". Just FYI if you are a prestige *****.

@Blink, yea engineers can't write essays well in general. That's cuz our attitude towards formal essays is they're stupid and useless and not part of real life. Also we no good at da engrish.

oh come on. ability to write well is extremely important for just about everyone. engineers have to write up reports and stuff right? and even if the only writing you ever do is sending emails to coworkers i'm still gonna be pissed when your emails look like they come from someone who is ****ing illiterate. no matter what role you're in you gotta communicate well to be effective.

I am partially under this attitude, but not entirely seriously. You can't blame me. It is very painful to go through college doing absolutely insane schoolwork when your buddy business and English majors are futzing around with accounting and poem-interpretation classes.

my friend is a business major and he works harder than anyone I know. he is top of the class and all that though. i guess business is an easier major at many schools though.

I'm Mechanical and that's about as broad as it gets. It's not terrible, either, compared to some harder engineering majors, but that's all relative. It's still a massive ***** and you will have your work cut out for you. I once heard somebody say they switched from CSE to ME to play college on "easy mode". I aint' even mad. I gotta tip my hat to CSEs; that **** is otherworldly.

apparently at my school there is a big divide between the ME majors who do like simulations of fluid mechanics and **** vs the ME majors that actually design and build stuff. When I met some of the design school people I was like "holy **** you actually have to weld stuff together? that's ****ing nuts"

Meh, I disagree. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "formal essay writing", but I know from personal experience that I write damn good essays with very little effort (all those As in English and my electives gotta mean something, right?) when people who should be predispositioned toward good essay-writing struggle with it. I'm under the impression they're just a little dumber, haha.

Spoiler

And that's why they're majoring in English!

i guess you're really smart. i know that i do worse in essay classes than i do in problem set classes. i always blame it on the fact that i am competing with a bunch of people that are INSANELY good at writing. i always think my arguments are good and well-supported but I don't put the words together as well as others do.

I feel like engineering sort of conditions the mind to think more analytically and with reason, which translates over to pretty much anything else you would want to do, including English stuff.

i feel like this is especially true for Math and CS - when you have to program a computer or do a proof you REALLY have to make sure each step logically follows from the previous one.

LOOK AT THIS: http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/l...choice-of-college-major-sways-lsat-score.html
LOOK AT IT

It's gotta mean something that physicists and engineers do better on the LSAT than pre-law? For chrissake, they don't even stucy that ****, and ins't the LSAT all logic and reasoning?

LSAT is a general intelligence test, not a law-related test AFAIK. It makes sense then that people with good math and logic skills would do well.

Apparently they're not making new lawyers and they won't be in the near future, leaving a ****load of smart people with law school debts in between the good ol' rock and hard place, but I figure I can just be that good and get a clerkship or whatever by being in the top whatever percent.

good luck I guess - as you said lots of law school students wind up with few options - if you don't get that big firm job you're kinda screwed if you later decide you want a non-law job (they'll be like WTF did you get a law degree?)

I'd recommend this blog about law school:
http://barelylegalblog.blogspot.com/

also there's the whole fact that you're taking a smart person who could actually do some good for society and turning that person into a lawyer.

@CS- I don't know **** about computers, lol. Plus the one Computer lit class I took in high school was my least favorite class of all time.

FYI I really doubt that your high school computer class is that related to real CS/programming.

To be brief, there is no pre-law program and thus there is no burden for anyone doing a program other than the sciences/maths to succeed on the LSAT.

some schools have a pre law major. presumably though you learn about actual law stuff, NOT about how to take the LSAT.



Is it just me or does it seem like the smash 64 forum has a very high concentration of smart people? way more than melee and brawl forums it seems. Coincidence?

 

[SSBPete]

solid response as per usual ballin

i kind of skimmed over what you've been saying so i may of missed it, but what exactly are you studying?

yeah civil is supposed to be easy compared to say, electrical or areospace engineering but in australia civil is usually the highest paid (not that it makes much difference) because of the coal mines and other developing civil structures

 

[MarioReincarnate]

i double majored in physics and math, nearly got a cs minor... i work as a web developer now after hating my research job on wall street... there are so many ssb64ers that are physics/math/cs people... we'd probably be running the world if smash wasn't like crack

 

[kys]

Soooo does anyone know how the 64 singles are going right now?

 

[Sempiternity]

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5190/tioprossb64singles.png

 

[Peek~]

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5190/tioprossb64singles.png

Where is this being updated?

Cant find brackets on the apex site

Stupidpeek

 

[ballin4life]

i kind of skimmed over what you've been saying so i may of missed it, but what exactly are you studying?

math but will be working as a software engineer

 

[tyhiggz]

Is there going to be any live stream of 64? (I assume not)

 

[Sangoku]

No, I don't think so. Especially since the tourney is finished it would be surprising they stream friendlies.

 

[tyhiggz]

Ahh... Yeah, I didn't realize that it was yesterday. Thanks

 

[Tambor]

math but will be working as a software engineer

I hope it will be a bit more specialized than that. Otherwise you'd be wasting the math skills acquired. Personally, I hope programming remains as a tool for my job and not my job.

 

[ballin4life]

I picked the particular group because it seemed more mathy (based on 1 hour interview though). The group uses statistics stuff apparently.

 

[KoRoBeNiKi]

got back from Apex
most fun I have had in a long time.
64 was a lot of fun. I got used to a controller quickly!

 

[KeroKeroppi]

^^^ was that the first time youve used one? because you really did..

 

[KoRoBeNiKi]

First time competitively.

Last time was let's see...whenever Smashtality III was (when I found out and got into the game by being 5 stocked repeatedly by Isai/Sensei/someone else)

So smashtality III was June 2nd/3rd 2007.

So 4 and a half years give or take.

 

[Tambor]

I picked the particular group because it seemed more mathy (based on 1 hour interview though). The group uses statistics stuff apparently.

I worked for a month as a software engineer and I hope I don't have to do that again. Programming all day gets very tedious. It made me notice I'm actually way more sociable than I thought since I really started missing human interaction at the end of the working period.

 

[KeroKeroppi]

what do you guys think is more important?
Teching (including tech rolling) or Z-cancelling?

Obviously character matchups play a huge role in this. Forexample, when playing against a ness your going to deffinitely want teching over z cancelling. And when using fox, Z cancelling is more of a need than teching. However these are simply my opinion, and one is completely defensive and the other is completely offensive, so who knows. Basically, just try looking at the game as a whole.
i just wanted to see what you guys think. becuase i cant come up with a conclusian.

im kinda leaning towards teching>Z cancelling

 

[Peek~]

Why does one have to be more important than the other?

You should always Z-Cancel and you dont always need to tech.

 

[asianaussie]

you can beat noobs without either

z-cancelling is not completely offensive at all, in fact half of the reason you use it is to avoid punishment to begin with

i think at a higher level z-cancelling is more important, opens up a lot of space control options

 

[KeroKeroppi]

true true about offense thing.

i feel like with out teching though, if you get hit once your going to be punished badly.
imagine playing a ness at sector z. if you get dash attacked once, our going to be pushed like 15 times befor you finally get spiked at the other side of the map.

 

[KoRoBeNiKi]

If you can't z-cancel, you can't properly punish which means that you can't set up opportunities to punish other people's techs.

Teching and rolling is impotrtant but people tend to punish techs (play Boom or anyone near his skill level or a level below..you'll see what I mean)

Unless you main Ness/Yoshi or Kirby's Up tilt is 70 percent of what you use, Z-cancel is more important.

 

[KeroKeroppi]

just ness, yoshi, and kirby? try every character in the game.
yeah, without z cancelling the game is really slow and less punishable. but whats the alternative?
without teching if you get hit at more than 25 damage, you will be severely beat and loose your stock.
Both these situations are extremes and it really only comes down to whether or not smash would be better with a significant decrease in combos or a significant increase in combos.

 

[asianaussie]

talking about what happens when one element is removed =/= talking about how important that element is to the game

purposely not teching is quite useful at times, whereas there is no reason whatsoever not to Z-cancel, unless you're playing jiggs, and even then it's not a big deal at all

note: if anything im arguing that z-cancelling is *slightly* more important, not that you can go without teching

 

[Sempiternity]

He's saying that once you hit the ground (and can't tech), you can be strung along to your death by being repeatedly dash attacked (or something).

EVERY TIME

 

[KeroKeroppi]

i know that the argument regarding the importance of said elements shouldent solely be based on the outcome of the absence of one of those elements, but its certainly an argument that needs to be looked into.

He's saying that once you hit the ground (and can't tech), you can be strung along to your death by being repeatedly dash attacked (or something).

EVERY TIME

exactly. any attack would result in being combo'd to death.
i get that z canceling is HUGE. but teching prevents one from getting the same move spammed against him all game. (ie. nearly ANY dash attack and ness dair spam-> Headbut horror)

 

[asianaussie]

removal of teching will up punishment and make knockdown moves a more pivotal part of the game

removal of z-cancelling kills a lot of combos, makes shielding a lot safer and will probably make ness top tier

still not a strong argument for the importance of anything in the game as is

 

[SheerMadness]

Z-Canceling for sure.

Same with melee (l-canceling)

 

[clubbadubba]

you don't need teching. Hasn't anyone seen Jaime's 'do nothing' method? It's BEST