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Pretty much, this is the first time she's done it too.

was playing a game and this happened: yes, that's the back of my chair.

a metal that makes the world move apparently... literally called unobtainium

of course there is. that doesn't make it "right wing" or any other wing unless you're trying to compare to something hard on the left (even centrists are "right" of "left"). ^meshugger: anthrax spores live decades, if not centuries, according to wiki. the chemical stuff degrades, however, so any sarin gas won't be around after only a few months. taks But when their commentators say something like "Obama took to long to come out and talk to the american people about the panty bomber" after he came out after three days, when they'd praised Bush when he came out after 6 days from the shoe bomber guy.

They spent to much time on the "good" guys and their society to actually allow any of the "bad" guys other than the "It's just a job" **** blackhearted merc of death to have a real personality. Honestly, it felt less like they were making a demon of the character and more demonizing the entire apparatus that allowed this mining complex to go up in the first place.

Grand Crusader I believe is completing all the hard modes in ToC25

You can't cherry pick your porn though by comparing consensual porn to all video games. 120 Days of Sodom has a scene where a monk has a seven-year-old girl urinate in his mouth and then he ejaculates on her face

warcraft... and apparently they updated the armory to include a 3d model viewer... allowing you to see your character in all their equipped glory weapon wise. with everything from casting, ranged attacks, to whirlwinds and dancing. http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.x...legiance+Reborn (my main)

Saw it, hadn't looked in this thread until I saw it so pardon if I repeat things said. Good movie, actually pretty damn fantastic movie. Admittedly it's more of one of those movies that will be memorable for the visuals and the world, rather than the actual story. As it is the story seems like your standard "good guys are really bad guys" plot, just with the good guys having artillery and the bad guys having flowers. There were obvious messages through the movie, environmentalism is good, big business sucks because they care more about their bottom line than the real world implications of their actions. The biggest thing that bugged me was that the marines seemed to... happy, to be getting into a fight with these folks who obviously don't want them on the planet. I mean if this was an honest to god merc outfit full of true adrenalin junkies who just lived for that rush of survival, sure, I can dig it, but it felt like they were trying to say that the guys out there were juts soldiers assigned to the resource operation to prevent it from going belly up (and cutting off vital supplies to Earth). And yet these guys are only to happy to toss themselves in harms way, and slaughter innocents. I mean One or two guys (the commanders) I can understand, but at a certain point most of the soldiers would look at themselves like that one pilot did during the death of the tree. Also the col. musta had the biggest bloody lungs on a human being to be able to go for such long periods WITH ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF EXERTION on ONE breath. Still the visuals were amazing, smurf sex was odd, characters were at least deeper than neo, and overall a good film. I'm just waiting for the obvious sequel "Avatar 2: Return of Gaia" where earths' super spirit gets all pissed and starts ripping apart human society and the Na'vi have to come to earth and soothe it while cussing out the humans for being such heartless jerks.

so wait... family matters meets Battlestar? I'm confused. *planet blows up* "Did I doo that!?"

I like accurate and thoughtful. Someone who insults games just to please his boss (and you know the Escapist's biggest draw right now is Yatzee) is no more useful to me than reviewers who praise games just to please their boss. I think he needs to do more reviews of games he actually likes. Those tend to turn out the best because he actually got into them enough to make the review actually seem like more than just random bile thrown at obvious flaws found within 5 minutes of play.

Except it seems like they dont' want us there volo... and usually people don't have good memories of the fat guy who came over, and then ate your food and destroyed your house after he kicked the naughty dog in the teeth.

wasn't google the only group that didn't turn over search info to the feds when bush demanded it too? That probably wouldn't be in their best interest financially either.

I read the first three books (I believe). The first one had some good moments, but everything was so over the top cliche (the villian was effectively the devil in mortal form, the main character was so awesome he could defeat the most powerful magics etc) Overall it became the book version of a tv series. Where every story was self contained and thus the next had to be bigger, stronger, faster, more powerful etc. The main character (richard) is pretty much the hero you think of when you hear the words "fantasy" and "hero" tied together, strong, goodlooking, never wrong, able to cast magics (of the two major types) and is the chosen one who must choose. Literally the guys the first of his "kind" three ways in a long time, First "war-mage" (using both additive and negative magics) first guy to use the sword of truth, and the first guy to love a woman who's from the "confessors" so powerfully their magics don't work on him. And if Tvtropes is to be believed, things become heavily objectivist, and show anyone who isn't pushing their own life as a sniveling brat unable to do anything. ... so basically a more cliche fantastic version of orson scott-cards work.

My concern is that unfortunately this will just empower Baidu, which is controlled by China's government. Any semblance of freedom in the Chinese search market is now forfeit, just like their news media sector (try reading Xinhua one day - uhg). Of course, strategically and economically it's a smart business decision for Google, and there's no questioning the human rights aspect of it. But it won't improve the freedom situation in China any except perhaps through the coverage and pressure the issue generates. Except that if this keeps up they'll end up with companies withdrawing support or jacking up prices on their products to the point where they themselves go bankrupt trying to do what they do. I mean if more stuff like the minerals problem happens they'll end up loosing a bunch of contracts because they can no longer afford to be the lowest bidder.

Just wanna say, Google rocks. Also if china doesn't start playing ball with companies it's gonna watch that famous economy collapse under the weight of angry companies

got my car smogged and probably put to much air in the tires (I feel literally every bump and wiggle in the road) then I couldn't sleep last night because a cat down the street was stuck in the garage of the house to the point of yelling at the top of it's lungs sending me out to find it every 20 seconds.

How long will a toon stay on their servers after you cancel your account before its deleted? Do you start from scratch every time you start playing again? it's basically until the servers go down. If they deleted characters beyond a certain age there would be a LOT of crying and loss of members. heck, even City of heroes (which has a tiny user base) keeps EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER MADE until the death of the game in the future. they did have to do a renaming policy because there were so many names that were "reserved" by lvl 1 alts that it wasn't funny.

Darksiders. HOLY CRAP! This is... amazing! It's like god of war had a child with Legend of Zelda! The story is fairly thin, but the combat and sheer brutality of it (kill a guy by cutting off his legs, then cutting him in half) makes up for it. Basically you're war, a horseman of the apocolypse accused of starting that little war between heaven and hell (the four horsemen are controlled by another entity all together) that polishes off the human race early. Thus you're finally sent back to earth to figure out what exactly went wrong. Along the way you maim, kill, burn, demolish, destroy, and evicerate all sorts of denizens of heaven and hell. The distinction between the two is very easy as the agents of heaven are all orderly, gold, and fly around usually on some weird cyber-wing things. Hell's pets are totally organic. I only had intended to play about an hour to get a feel for it... but it dragged me along for two hours because it's one of those games where you keep going "just one more!"

I know, How many movies show the terrible things that can happen to you? How many TV shows are based around plots by bad guys and show government incompetance? How many magazines tell you "you're not good enough and should fear being an old spinster, unwed and alone"? And music is either about love, loss of love, or killing or something depending on which genre.

Canada doesn't have the same social problems US has. Compare yourself to Minnesota. US does not have a culture of fear. There should be fear of going to certain areas, but that's based on fact, not culture. if we don't have a culture of fear why is every message we get "Don't do this because X Y or Z happens!" Like our "don't have sex because you'll get an STD" or "don't talk to strangers because they'll kidnap you, do horrible things then kill you" or "If we don't act now we'll all die in the fires of a nuclear explosion/horribly of weaponized influenza" etc etc. When your motivations for your people and the way you teach them lessons is based around fear, you're culture is based on fear. There's a difference between living in fear and using common sense. And yes, that's totally every message we get, we don't get a message "You should have sex every minute of the day" from just about every kind of media, talk about selective observation. I don't think the media tells us that we should have sex 24/7. They tell us sex is ok, but for every "sex is ok" message they send us a "If you don't do what we tell you you'll loose money/be a fool/bankrupt your family" or whatever. And media outlets like Fox News are BUILT upon partisan fear mongering.

Canada doesn't have the same social problems US has. Compare yourself to Minnesota. US does not have a culture of fear. There should be fear of going to certain areas, but that's based on fact, not culture. if we don't have a culture of fear why is every message we get "Don't do this because X Y or Z happens!" Like our "don't have sex because you'll get an STD" or "don't talk to strangers because they'll kidnap you, do horrible things then kill you" or "If we don't act now we'll all die in the fires of a nuclear explosion/horribly of weaponized influenza" etc etc. When your motivations for your people and the way you teach them lessons is based around fear, you're culture is based on fear.

And then he'd be dead. Instead of both of you being alive. Good thing you didn't have a gun, otherwise you'd be a murderer. technically there are self defense clauses in the murder statute, but I don't think fighting back when you've got a gun in your face is going to do any good unless you're well trained because often you'll end up getting yourself shot. As to the attitude thing, You're right. Everyone is so worried about saving themselves from each other that they get to be of the mindest shoot first as questions later.

it is interesting on that wiki how many alt timelines are horribly racist.

"Can only be summoned in Outland or Northrend." Really? Still? This so screamed of horrible forward planning two years ago and it's still in the same ****ty state? Amazing. in order to allow flying in the old world they have to basically rebuild the zones from the ground up (a lot of visual shortcuts were taken with tall things, trees don't have tops, nor do the undercity towers for example) Yes, I know. And this is exactly what screams of horrible forward planning: it's so evident that they didn't plan for flying all along and their solution to this problem is by restricting the usage of flying mounts to certain zones (expansions). I just think it's weak, but I do hope they solve it with the Cataclysm expansion. Well, they've confirmed that flying mounts are going to be allowed in Cata in the old world