LadyCrimson

Weapons themselves have never given me a buzz. I do, however, find it fascinating how much energy and...um...intelligent thought goes into the creation and escalation of weapons in order to maintain balances of "power" or defend populations, as well as the tactics of how to defend/attack against such flucuations as they occur. That leads to admiration of the technical building of the machines of war, so to speak. Perhaps in an ideal world I'd rather such energy was turned to other things instead, but...humans are interesting creatures and I think study of all it's aspects, behaviour patterns & inventions equally revealing/interesting, whether they're "good" or "bad".

Being into warfare strategies/tactics/history of development of all major periods, weapons have always fascinated me on an intellectual level. Occasionally I've even thought of buying some, from historical sword models to bows to handguns. But I'm too lazy to be skilled w/a bow, say, and have no use for weapons beyond mounting them on my wall, thus my interest remains intellectual. Machine wise, it's a nice piece of hardware, certainly. Ethics - eh...If there were no guns, there'd be no gun-related crimes/accidents and less actual fatal situations/accidents, sure, but it's not the guns...it's weapons in general, including sticks and rocks, combined with humans violent tendencies. ie, it all depends on the individuals. Unfortunately it's hard to regulate and control via individuals, thus we have laws. which in the US is admittedly rather lacking compared to some other areas. I have no problem with people wanting to own/target practice a handgun or a big nasty bow. People who have basements full of weaponry or want to possess aresenals of automatic weapons in the name of "home safety" could probably use a little...uh...help, imo.

It's a battlecry - it doesn't have to "fit." I'd use it to replace "charrrrrge." :D Make it so sounds too....polite.

I'm still partial to "Khaaaan" as a battlecry.

I understand the feeling tho...I often enjoy the company of animals more than people. I'm interested in trying to keep all life from undue mistreatment or extinction, even humans. Tho I might make an exception for fleas and the mosquito.

I thought Fio was a green dragon?... I'm also a Dragon....I choose to think I'm the blue one.

Assuming this vaccination has been tested long enough or otherwise decided to have low risk of possible negative short/long-term side effects, then I have nothing against such a policy for any vaccination against communicable and/or life threatening diseases. Would they object as much if they came up with a working vaccine for ebola, or alzheimers, or....? Perhaps illogically tho, I consider the seatbelt issue (for adults) irritating and still object to it... :bunny:

The enemy strength of a "new area" is set and based on your level when you first arrive somewhere, so I'd also say yes. Typically it seems people are 23-30 when they finish the first time, so I think you're doing just fine.

About to eat pizza and watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Then is that what you're sort of thinking of, LordKun? As to will it succeed - I couldn't guess. I suppose the shows willl get high ratings at first out of curiousity, but the rest is up to quality, as always.

Sure. Sent. I was lazy this time and they're a little fuzzy for light backgrounds, just fyi.

Wistrik - for SP? Going to make a mod or just items for your personal use? I've seen some rebalance mods but they usually focus more on skills and monster strengths. Ever since LOD the sets and rares have been largely useless (at least past Normal or Nightmare diff), making the game rather...dull, imo. Such an item rebalance would be nice. If you make a mod, let me know where to get it. :D I usually use the SP editor just when bored to do silly things for laughs like give my sorceror summon skeleton or my hireling the speed of the Flash... "

Yes, Fio. Readjusted versions.

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Wasn't there a SW series in the works or on the drawing board or something?...

jorian, the player is controlled by a code that you insert into your webpage document. If you don't demand streaming audio and have upload permissions to your webserver, you don't need a secondary website to achieve what you want. Just upload the file to your server and use the simple embed command to insert the WMplayer. Have the code point to your file location and use it to control the players size and auto-play functions etc. You can Google the embed command, there's all kinds of yakkity yak about it. Example: <embed type="application/x-mplayer2" src="http://your/file/address" name="MediaPlayer" height="42" width="300" ShowControls=1 ShowDisplay=0 ShowStatusBar=0 autostart=0 autorewind=0 ShowPositionControls=1></embed> Notice the height parameter is set small enough to only show the controls, not the whole video box of WMP, since you only want to play audio files. This generally works for IE and Firefox, but as always, maybe not 100% all users depending on what they're using etc. If you want a fancier more modern player, ala Flash or something, or streaming audio, that's something different, isn't always free or simple, and I can't help you there, as I'm cheap & lazy and haven't yet bothered to go beyond basic embedding beyond a little research. " A secondary-site's player code may be less user-flexible options wise than what you could do yourself - that's up to the website, what player they use, and how they've arranged things. If you have a choice, IMO it's always better to do it yourself/be in control. I don't know of any music sites ala Youtube...sorry.

Well, since you re-opened it... If you want music to play when people look at your webpage, the simplest way is to just upload a song (any file host will do) and use html coding in your webpages to embed a simple player and set it to repeat/loop the song. When people hit your page, the song will start to download - when it's finished, it'll play & repeat. Or if you know how, you can go the streaming route and it'll only download a buffer before playing, meaning less delay time. If you're asking whether people can listen to songs without having to spend the time waiting for a file to download at all, there's no way to do that.

It's been so long since I've hung out on b.net that I've forgtten why those amazons have red swirlies around them.

Like most of the others, Atton is influenced by a few situational actions if he's in your party at the time, plus dialogues.

Heh, yeah, it's a pretty nifty site. But I can't make ones like this. :bunny: <---sooo cute. I might...overuse it.

I completely agree. :D He's the only reason I decided to watch the movie. I barely remember the comics I read as a kid, but in terms of appearance only, I thought he didn't look that different as Doom-costume. Updated & shiney I'm sure, but not that bad - not like what they did with the Penguin in the Batman series, for example. Hah. The rest of the film was passable time-wasting if you're half-asleep. I saw the trailer a bit ago...just like the first movie, the some effects are kinda pretty, but I doubt I'll see it until it's a rental.

I'd be more interested if it was, say, William Shatner. Now that would be entertaining.

Which Tombraider is that? The newest one?

That was always my interpretation of it. I also figured it was a..uh...Force mind-clouding sort of hiding. At least, I used that to explain why she and Di had fought side by side before she 'reveals' herself to him in that cutscene.

Didn't want to clutter up the Bugz thread. If you have time to waste, you can make all kinds of smilies in the Invision "style," from simple to silly, using this generator. They're not perfectly blended, but work ok with dark backgrounds. I know it's not vital or anything, lol, but if we want some possible future replacements for the ones that have the white-edges, it's an option to keep in mind. Easier than photoshopping the originals...and kinda fun. I tried making a few. Heheh.