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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

JustJeff88 posted:

Years ago, but well after this game came out, someone gifted me an MMO character named Porphyrys - that exact spelling, even. Can't be a coincidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyry_(geology) ?

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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

You can lead a lper to the thread but you can't make them post.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

achtungnight posted:

I've never gotten the reasons behind Owlbears either.

http://maze.icomix.com/comicpage/b.php?i=791

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Chokes McGee posted:

Fritz! You killed Fritz! You stinkin' seelie faeries!

:mad:

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Chokes McGee posted:

I can't believe I have to fix these things. "Sure, let's put in clay sewer pipes a century ago!" Who the hell would even do that?

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Sure, let's put in clay sewer pipes right now! I would do that!

So now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever seen a broken pipe in a Mario game, and now I'm wondering what they're made of.

It's lead, right?

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Anias posted:

FF1 still has speed runs on the original cart. The Bard's Tale is not run on any platform that I can find a leaderboard for, it has a youtube but noone cares to contest it.

That should tell you all you need to know.

I think the speedrunning community is just way larger for NES games than it is for other 8bit machines of the 80s and the difference in fortunes between the franchises is making a big difference.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Anias posted:

The nes version of bad tale isn’t being run either. I laughed at that autocorrect so it stays, way to throw shade iOS.

How many other NES ports of PC rpgs are getting speedran? There's a tiny little bit of Ultima III & Ultima IV NES out there but nothing on other platforms, Ultima V has NES and PC. Wizardry I is NES and Apple, Wizardry II NES only, nothing for Wizardry III, Pool of Radiance has NES and PC, Hillsfar is NES only. (All as per speedrun.com and going by https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_role-playing_games#Developed_in_USA_or_UK)

On the TAS side, I see Ultima III, IV (all NES), V (NES + SNES), Wizardry I/II/III (NES) and V (SNES) nothing for Bard's Tale, PoR, or Hillsfar.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Anias posted:

https://www.speedrun.com/the_bards_tale/run/yv911roz

They’re doing chapters. So I suppose a retraction is in order. Lord_Rigor is crazy enough to play The Bard’s Tale

That's the 2004 "Bard's Tale" which looks very different.

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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Kith posted:

I don't know how true that is, given that Dragonlance introduced kender.

Yeah but: Elminster.

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