"All this rhyming is giving me a headache!", I interject.

I hereby object.

c-c-combo breaker

Wow, Killer Instinct, that's old school arcade. You're over 24, I suspect.

Xapi, I'm confused, as are others, i'm sure.

If my memory serves, the c-c-combo breaker line came from the Killer Instinct arcade games.

I played them (not too much though) around age 13-15, that's 10 years ago.

That puts Akroma in a given age bracket, around 24-30 years old.

That would explain my confusion. I haven't regularly played arcade games since the days of Asteroids and Centipede (very late 70 s and early 80s) when I was 13-15 myself. Yes, I'm 43 as has been pointed out in other threads.

Nah, lately "combo breaker" has become popular on the bazillions of forums around the 'net... it's being used by folks who don't have the slightest idea where it came from. Ya can't read too much into stuff like that these days...

Yeah, c-c-c-ombo breaker is a common meme on the internet. It may have originally come from Killer Instinct, but it's spread far enough that I didn't know where it came from until you just mentioned it now.

Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't received my copy of Memes Monthly yet.

lol

Sorry to ask a silly question, what exactly is c-c-c-ombo breaker?

Sent from: Xapi (197 ) Sent: 03:35 PM
If my memory serves, the c-c-combo breaker line came from the Killer Instinct arcade games.

I played them (not too much though) around age 13-15, that's 10 years ago.

That puts Akroma in a given age bracket, around 24-30 years old.

figlesquidge thanks, but I did read that post. I still didn' t get it though. So its a saying from a computer game... like a combo move in Tekken?

Killer Instinct is an arcade fighting game, like Street fighter or many others.

It had the possibility to do a 'combo', during wich, by combining different types of hits on your opponent, you could kkep on hitting for quite a long time uninterrupted.

There was, however, a certain set of moves that allowed you to break a combo when used properly. The phrase "c-c-c-combo breaker!" was heard when this happened.

I am not that old

I hate memes.

It would not be difficult to make a youtube-like functionality on a site like this to replace the text chatting. As mentioned before (with timezones, web dip basically being a feature filled version of email dip), it would be more tape/view than face-to-face video conferencing.

The biggest hurdle? Bandwidth costs. Video and audio are big files to stream, and more data == higher hosting costs. It is definitely worth investigating, IMHO, as it would bring email dip and ftf dip so incredibly close.

I'm a Java architect by trade and learning adobe flex/air in my free time. That could be the best technology stack to get something like this going, but I only have so much free time (I have 3 kids).

of course, adding video means adding abuse.
Game chats would have to be monitored. You could have people trying to trade copywritten videos, or even worse (adult pay sites enticing players by having scantily clad women willing to show you X if you let them invade trieste).

Besides... the last thing I need to see is Edi's smiling face when he stabs the crap outta me ;)

Oh, men, djbent and Biddis would make a killing in this site if something like that happened.

Not just bandwidth costs, but storage costs would soar, too. Very gimmicky in my opinion. Plus I can read much, much faster than any video is likely to convey the same information. Also, having played F2F for many years I'm finding the online format makes it a lot easier to think of Player X as "Turkey" instead of "my buddy Dave"...