Mega Man Unlimited Review

Good Afternoon!

  The following is a brief explanation of my thoughts on this game.  

PROS

-Great design.  I really liked the levels in terms of their visual look and some of the enemies.

-Robot Masters:  Pretty cool designs, but sadly I was only able to actually get to one Robot Master Battle so I cannot say much about that.

-Music was fun.

-It was clear they were trying to replicate the NES experience which I think they did a good job with.

CONS

-No charge blaster (always a negative if its taking place after MM4 in the series).  That is all.

-Level design:  I felt the levels had a continuous pattern of having a 'hickup' right before the mid point of the levels which makes it very discouraging to continue playing.  I would have fun playing them all the sudden some random gimmick of the level would throw off the flow of the level and cause me to die immediately.  A great example of this is either in Trinitro Man's stage where you have the platforms which fly up when in the liquid into the spikes making it very hard to get across (I never could).  Another good example is Tank Man's stage with the treadmills on the ceiling (I didn't even notice them until it happened and I died).  It was too many times where I would be telling my girlfriend "This level is great, I think it runs smoothly" then all the sudden something just changes completely and I die quite quickly.

-Suffers from MMX6 syndrome:  Too many spikes.  Putting spikes everywhere shouldn't be an excuse for making cleverly difficult levels.

-Suffers from Mega Man 2 like gameplay:  This is related to the first point.  It feels like the levels throw cheap shots at you that you could never prepare for.  A great example is Rainbow Man's stage.  In the first room you fall into it gives you the indication that these channel flippers can be moved to change their directions, but then the very next room uses it in a way that doesn't allow you to take your time like in the previous room, forcing you to die "Quick Man"--like.  Now, some may enjoy this, but I do not.

-Robot Master Battles:  Now like I said I cannot say much as I tried my hardest but the level design was too cheap to get further.  I fought Tank Man and he really has this one attack that makes it seem like he will ride across the chamber, but he doesn't sometimes which throws your expectations off.  Now it seemed they were trying to go for a more predictive RM fight, but then it is not.  Its kind of like getting a chocolate cake then getting it shoved in your face for no reason.  I did enjoy the work that went into what I have seen whether it be the mid boss fights or the robot masters from what I saw.

OVERALL:  I think it is a great addition to the fan games in the community.  It's too "cheap" (in terms of deaths) for my tastes but some may say that about my work so it may be just a matter of taste of "how" it is done.  I would highly recommend it to everybody to try it!  It's not my kind of fan game as it is like MM2 and MM9 (which I do not like) but it definitely shows the hard work put in.

Wrestling

I thought I would share some of the older event "music videos" from the past few years (2009-2011).  It saddens me I likely won't do another event (it would be great if I could (mainly need more wrestlers)).  If you have not lingered around my YouTube channel enough to check these out, I encourage you to!  I started doing this kind of stuff back in 2004, and there are more events that do exist by me.

EWF Clash (2009):  [link]  
EWF Breakout 2010 (2010): [link]
EWF Rite of the Ring 2011 (2011):  [link]

Enjoy!


Daniel

One postulated problem with the future of CS research these days

Good Afternoon Everybody!

  Today I thought I would share one of my urks of amateur researchers that don't grasp the purpose of science.  Some people just don't grasp that science isn't about if there is an application for a result.  Today I was giving a pretty solid presentation on a new result in the area of Graph Drawing and somebody insisted on asking me:

"Are there any applications for this?"

Now I don't blame the person if this wasn't A THEORY course.  Do you know what that means?  We do real Computer Science, none of this programming mumbo-jumbo.  Real computer scientists don't solve problems just for applications in my honest opinion.  A great scientist doesn't consider applications in their research.  They consider solving the problem, and verifying the claims being made.  Applications are best set by engineers, or people who work on applications (say industry).  I humbly believe this is one of the major problems with the direction CS research is going.  People think application, applications and more applications instead of what we could show 20-30 years down the road to continue the path set by the foundations of CS.  In science we shouldn't be thinking "we solve problems for NOW".  We should be developing and solving problems for NOW and the future.

Everybody have a beautiful day!

D R Page

A challenge to http://juicyjacqulyn.tumblr.com, a lecture for you

Hello

All I need to say is you need to grow a spine, and read what you write a little more carefully.  As a former fan of yours, you are nothing more than an immature illogical bantering pig now.  Beauty dies with your insecurity, and lack of intelligence to distinguish common language from offense.  You have shown you do not using basic reasoning in your points.  You flip out on people giving you very reasonable things, and demand sympathy from people who don't even read the entirety of your posts.  Also, may I add you cherry pick your own words to insult others.  This is a trivial informal fallacy to commit.  For instance, I recently read your post about confessionsofafeedee and they truly disgust me as you are entirely playing your audience like idiots.  You didn't even address the very fact she was addressing the sexist points you made about the fellow who actually complimented you!

  Now, when I say this I do not have a problem with you thoughts of what words insult you, you just need to grow a basic backbone.  You conduct business on the internet, and post publicly.  You need a backbone when you do this or you can take a serious toll on your psyche.  I know this because I am a YouTube partner and a public figure who deals with all walks of fans and dismisses from people.   What that person did to you was a complete natural reaction for some psychopath flipping out on him.  The fact you have shown your sexist side is something I sympathize for you about as you can really segregate your entire audience if you continue your delusional escapades.  As a person who conducts himself as a mentor, educator of science, and businessman, I have been evaluating your posts as such, and offer this as a reply to you as a whole.

Grow a backbone, you live in a country where females and males have equal rights.  This is coming from a fellow Canadian who has been oppressed by women who have abused him.  I love how feminists deny the existence of people like me.  I'm the counter-example to everything modern feminists claim don't happen to men.  I've been raped, abused, and treated unequally in the work place for being a man.  Don't commit misandry or people who are obviously brighter than you will call you on such.  To throw such labels at people who cared to even compliment you even.  All I know as a person with a sane brain, the guy who you attacked on your blog was complimenting you and maybe wanted to get to know you a little (hard to say how much).

If you do employ any feminist type of argument (i.e., all of them from rape apologist, to sexist, , all such have the consequence of committing the slippery slope fallacy.  Those are not valid arguments.  And I do not accept such as well formed valid sentences even the most basic form of logic.  Now, these are not to be confused with egalitarian arguments, which are positive arguments for the equal rights of people within the specific scopes of ones' culture.

With that out of the way.  I have a simple challenge for you JuicyJackie, or to any feminist.  Prove mathematically with second-order predicate calculus or a Turing Machine-complete language that your claims are valid and no such invalid statement exists in your dogmatic thinking or feelings.  I conjecture such is impossible to do (I will tell you ahead of time that this is trivial to prove) as it would immediately infer that women are more important than men, which is immediately invalid as it would contradict the premise that both sexes are equally as important.  So you know that axiom is out of your arsenal, which almost all feminist or sexist points (on either side) always use.  Any rational person would want some justification for their beliefs.  If not, you must be delusional.  This goes to any feminist (i.e., people who think exclusively feminism is the way to go, instead of egalitarianism (as logically these are not the same (trivial to show using set theory))).

Now if you dismiss this point as nothing, then you must not care much about science.  Rational people use rational reasons to justify their beliefs or what they say.  To deny something scientific is to just simply flat out deny the whole process as they were all demonstrated or even mathematically proven in the same manner.  One cannot simply cherry pick around such a trivial logical result.  To do so is anti-scientific.  As a scientist, I find this is not genuine to do, and that person should stop using anything validated by the same process if they dismiss something because it conflicts with their beliefs (yet being true).  Seeing as my heroes, predecessors and contemporaries even made it possible to say such things and have access to the Internet, or even construct the mathematical marvel of computation.

My simple lesson:  Treat people as people, not by their sex.  Don't make assumptions unless you know they have been demonstrated to be true in the first place.  For instance, I know you do not have the scientific training I do, so I have a high suspicion on first instinct of reading this you will just dismiss me as something I am not at all.  I'm a non-judgmental person whom would not even harm a single person and even I had to stand up and say this.  Educate yourself about the universe, and you may find yourself more enlightened about even your own culture or location on the planet.

Have a beautiful day!

D R Page
Scientist

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