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Holy dole my niece has literally burned through all of my 198 stockpiled lives on Super Mario 3D World
Thursday, 01-May-14 16:44:37 UTC from web-
@flamingpandaomg I hope you had a backup
Thursday, 01-May-14 16:53:27 UTC from web-
@nerthos yeah.. no. I'm not particularly happy about it, but nothing can be done now
Thursday, 01-May-14 16:53:55 UTC from web-
@flamingpandaomg You could always use action replay cheats to get them back
Thursday, 01-May-14 16:55:37 UTC from web-
@nerthos I don't even know if there's an action replay for Wii U yet. Is there? Not that it matters because it'd go unused.
Thursday, 01-May-14 16:56:35 UTC from web-
@flamingpandaomg There probably is something out already. Cheats only take a couple days to be made.
Thursday, 01-May-14 16:57:08 UTC from web-
@nerthos I'm more thinking hardware than anything else. I know they made one for 3DS but I don't think they have AR for Wii U yet.
Thursday, 01-May-14 16:57:45 UTC from web
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@flamingpandaomg You don't need lives anyway unless you SUCK
Thursday, 01-May-14 16:54:49 UTC from web-
@redenchilada I liked having a lot of them.
Thursday, 01-May-14 16:56:48 UTC from web
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@flamingpandaomg That's one bad player
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:16:34 UTC from web-
@anima My niece is also 5 years old, but there's something with these kids that make them just give up on trying to figure things out and want everyone to do it for them instead. Makes me really mad.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:19:44 UTC from web-
@flamingpandaomg sounds like one of my coworkers.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:20:32 UTC from web -
@flamingpandaomg Tell me about it. I've got a 7 year old foster brother, and he either let's the game play itself (DK Country Returns, The not super Mario world game for Wii U) or uses the invincible items (That Wii U Cat game). And when he doesn't, he always gets angry, if I'm around he won't shut up with asking if I don't wanna play for him and I can't stop telling him that he has to learn it himself, or he'll never learn it.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:22:23 UTC from web-
@anima Literally the same thing with my niece. Also she doesn't grasp that there's a button to run / use your fire flower and flips out if there's a single enemy in her way.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:23:32 UTC from web-
@flamingpandaomg I think it's because the previous generation grew up as the first players, so to speak, and now the new ones see that there are people in the family that can play better without a whimp, and the way to learn to play good is harder than looking at it. We are actually growing a generation of PewDiePie Subscribers...
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:25:29 UTC from web-
@anima That's actually two generations away.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:26:20 UTC from web-
@nerthos Welp, was never good with numbers. I oughta look up the definition of generation again.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:29:03 UTC from web-
@anima The first gaming generation was that born in the late 70's and early 80's. The second one is the generation born in the '90s and the third the one born in the 00's.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:32:20 UTC from web-
@nerthos Hmm, that's a way of defining a generation, but then again a generation could also be considered... damn it, no way to describe it while sounding bright xD Like within a family, that's a biological generation.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:33:57 UTC from web-
@anima I'd consider "gaming generations" to be more related to technology stages and mainstream design concepts than to actual generations as defined by sociology. The three generations I listed are defined by the games they played. The first one played in the 80s in arcades, the atari systems and early pcs like the Amiga; the second one played with consoles like the NES/Famicom, SNES and Sega genesis, N64 and PS1 as well as computers, defined by challenging and complex games meant for one player or split screen multiplayer; and the third generation played in computers and modern consoles, with a trend focused on online multiplayer and forgiving and fluid game designs.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:41:49 UTC from web-
@nerthos Oh yeah, we here mostly skipped the arcade time, because I live in Germany, nuff said - no really. I can't think I have ever even heard of an arcade around here, nor did I get to hear any story from cross country friends about them. So Germany mostly got in at the NES stage - at least that's what I'm made to believe
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:44:14 UTC from web-
@anima Well Germany was split in two in the arcade era, so that explains why it skipped the first generation. People had more important things to deal with.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:46:21 UTC from web
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@nerthos @anima It could be argued that we're entering a fourth generation, a split branch of the third, defined by indie games and passive gaming interest, namely let's plays and gaming streams; even though the third generation hasn't ended yet. So that'd be gen3.5 or gen3'
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:45:14 UTC from web-
@nerthos Well, that could be true. But aren't the players mostly the viewers as well? Is there anything that proves that COD-Kiddie Tom(8) isn't xXxXxThomasTheapplesesKiller08xXxXx, the livestream viewer?
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:48:39 UTC from web-
@anima That's why I said it's a split generation.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:49:35 UTC from web-
@nerthos I thought you meant like a split in the society of gamers, like gamers and viewers are not the same people
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:51:10 UTC from web-
@anima No, I meant two separate trends, with the people in each sometimes overlaping.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:52:03 UTC from web-
@nerthos But I'm thrilled what happens now: Will gaming get less and less support until it's only entertainment as watching it? Or is it some sort of on and off switch, so the next next generation will play like hell again?
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:55:52 UTC from web-
@anima I'd say a portion of the gaming industry customers will split and focus on watching others play, whilst a big portion will remain playing.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:58:05 UTC from web-
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:58:34 UTC from web
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@anima Most of the dedicated watchers are 11-15, you still have pretty much everyone >15 actively playing, and a fair portion of the 11-15 group in the second category too.
Thursday, 01-May-14 18:00:30 UTC from web-
@nerthos Well I don't know enough about the ages of the viewers, so I can't argue with you there
Thursday, 01-May-14 18:03:38 UTC from web
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@nerthos not as forgiving if you don't stockpile 198 lives QQ
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:45:19 UTC from web -
@nerthos see? I should have been born early in the 2nd generation, instead of the very end.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:55:27 UTC from web
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@nerthos So, google told me a generation is about 30 years long. The NES came 1986 to Europe, and I'm only considering the NES, because I grew up with it and don't know any family that has Gamers, that didn't have one. So, we have just a bit about 30 years till today, so it's be just one generation away.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:32:25 UTC from web-
@anima Oh, right, they count a generation as 30 years instead of 20 today.
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:32:56 UTC from web
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@flamingpandaomg Let's remove all kids and start from scratch. That way the disease won't spread
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:24:12 UTC from web -
@flamingpandaomg Otherwise just lock them in a room with dark souls
Thursday, 01-May-14 17:24:40 UTC from web
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