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Jan 1, 2019 23:09:10 GMT -5
Post by chibby on Jan 1, 2019 23:09:10 GMT -5
They aren't as angry as they used to be.
Happy 2019 everyone. Angry Birds is now retro.
Also, I'm back.
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Jan 2, 2019 0:07:14 GMT -5
Post by Sarge on Jan 2, 2019 0:07:14 GMT -5
Oy vey. Has it actually been that long? Seems like just yesterday I was throwing it on my iPhone 3G... wait a minute. Boy, cell phone tech has moved fast, too.
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Jan 2, 2019 1:04:53 GMT -5
Post by Ex on Jan 2, 2019 1:04:53 GMT -5
I have multiple bird feeders in my back yard, and feed wild birds regularly. My neighbor has chickens and I feed them scraps once or twice a week. They are rather friendly hens.
I've played a few bird-centric video games, but most of them were kinda meh. Kolibri on 32X and Bird Week on Famicom are both worth playing though.
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Jan 2, 2019 1:12:14 GMT -5
Post by Sarge on Jan 2, 2019 1:12:14 GMT -5
My parents still keep chickens, and we had them growing up. We also had ducks (I love mallards!), peacocks, and geese. One of the geese we had I basically trained. He was like a dog. He'd come up for rubs on the neck, and would try to even climb in my lap at times. He started cottoning to Mom instead of me when I had to get him out of the way when I was working; it's hard to use post hole diggers when a goose keeps standing in the way. This guy would also play basketball with me; I'd be dribbling the ball, and he'd move between me and the goal, head bobbing all the while. It was pretty nuts.
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Jan 2, 2019 1:41:35 GMT -5
Post by Ex on Jan 2, 2019 1:41:35 GMT -5
One of the geese we had I basically trained. He was like a dog. I believe it. When I was a teenager we had a gigantic chicken that lived in the yard. He was a white Jersey giant, very friendly, followed me all over the yard like a dog. One day I was in the front yard working on my bike, and suddenly said chicken came running by without a head. Then my dad came from around the back yard holding an axe. He said the decapitated zombie chicken would be dinner tonight. I felt betrayed and refused to eat my friend.
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Jan 2, 2019 2:32:38 GMT -5
Post by Sarge on Jan 2, 2019 2:32:38 GMT -5
Aw, man. I hate that. My Dad has prepped chickens for eating before, but not one that was basically a pet. He didn't do it again, either; plucking chickens is a lot of work.
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Jan 2, 2019 6:09:37 GMT -5
Post by chibby on Jan 2, 2019 6:09:37 GMT -5
Best game involving a bird?
For me this is easy: Flicky is awesome. It's fast paced, cute, genuinely tough after the first handful of levels, and all around a great time. Most interesting memory involving a bird?I am volunteering at a retirement community with an honor society in high school (this is not an elaborate set up for a joke about being homeschooled, we legitimately had an honor society, like 12 of us had moms that made us wear ties/dress suits and learn Robert's Rules of Order and everything). This day we are either picking up trash or doing some sort of mild landscaping out by their "lake" (it was small enough that calling it a lake felt pretty generous). There are maybe two geese that are handingg out by the water, and we were warned in earnest to avoid them. I, being bored and also a dumbass, make a fake little duck call halfway through our job and one of these dudes CHARGES at us, like we are prey. You'll read this and think I'm a scaredy-cat, but I promise you this bird is fearsome. Once it gets close to us, it starts prowling around me, and the other poor girl who has the misfortune of being my work buddy that day, like it is a cat and we are a mouse it that is toying with before it's going to disembowel us. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, this grizzled, frustrated maintenance man pulls up in a golf cart, and leaps out while the cart skitters to a stop. All this time he's carrying a shovel that he proceeds to use to ward off the goose like he is Gandalf in the mines of Moria. The two of them square off for an eternity (what is probably only a minute or two in reality), and the bird then sulks off back to the water. The maintenance man then turns to us and grimly utters "Me and the duck have an understanding." Me and work buddy are probably only outside for another 30 minutes tops, but I swear this duck glares at me from the water the entire time. I think at one point he comes back up to the waters edge but our guy is still there with there, steadfast with a shovel. I want to say he asks the goose "Do you feel lucky punk?" but I know that's an aggrandizement. Still, he was exactly the tired, squinty-eyed and under-payed hero that we needed.
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Jan 2, 2019 8:20:40 GMT -5
Post by Ex on Jan 2, 2019 8:20:40 GMT -5
I can also vouch for ducks and especially geese being ill tempered and belligerent. My dad used to raise ducks, and he had a goose at one point. If you get on a goose's bad side, they will come up and start pinching your knees with their big bill. Sometimes shredding skin with the tiny teeth embedded in it. Unfortunately the goose tried that on a fisherman one time who was visiting dad's with a friend, and he pulled out a pistol and blew the goose away. We weren't happy about that, but the goose was always a jerk to be honest.
I'm familiar with the game, but I'd never seen the cover to Flicky on Genesis. That art is great, and the WTF sunglasses on the chicks is so '90s.
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Jan 2, 2019 19:16:34 GMT -5
Post by anayo on Jan 2, 2019 19:16:34 GMT -5
I'm familiar with the game, but I'd never seen the cover to Flicky on Genesis. That art is great, and the WTF sunglasses on the chicks is so '90s. Also I love how the cover looks as though it was created by someone who had the game described to them over the phone. Box art doesn't look like that anymore.
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Jan 3, 2019 15:40:08 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2019 15:40:08 GMT -5
This right here is my favorite bird-themed video game: I played it a few years ago on some PC-Engine emulator. I remember it as a beautiful platformer with solid gameplay, fun and not overly difficult - because, you know, I've actually beaten it. Not to mention how cute the artstyle is, those Kiwi birds are just adorable. Your mission in each level is to rescue your Kiwi girlfriend, but if you take too long a Tasmanian Devil will appear and start chasing you. Good stuff.
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