Blarghagh

It goes with the site. If you redesign the forums you have to redesign the site otherwise you look unprofessional. And the website says 'Obsidian', why make it anything other?

I can't tell how bad it was (I am too young I suppose, I was 1 year old when the Berlin Wall went down) but I dunno. : / I suppose the constant threat of chemical or biological warfare is pretty terrifying as well. Things that you might not even see but could be there anyway, maybe even right now.

On a somewhat related note to that, a couple of days ago I saw a photograph of a bunch of anti-gay demonstrators who were black. Does that seem a bit weird to anyone else? Generations have fought opression so that... what, these guys can opress other people?

Like I said before, some people just don't have it in them to seperate real from fantasy and anything could have made them snap. (Also, isn't this message board supposed to be fit for all ages? That seemed a bit graphic and disturbing to me.) P.S. Yes I have played Postal, even cheated and gone on a rampage. That allowed me to laugh at the cartoonishness of brutally killing some computer generated goombas. That's it.

I would have just written down what you said. Honesty often scores big points with teachers (it always did with mine). This morning I was in my morning commute and my mp3player played You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC, and I realized I could relate. It is now one of my favourite songs ever. ^^

Well, I've been trained to kill opponents since stomping on goombas. And while I recognize that game violence IS violence, it's violence against goombas and not people. That soldier in CoD 4 is just a goomba designed to look like a soldier to me.

Sorry, I actually didn't read the thread after mkreku's post (which I took as being at least partially targeted to me because I was one of those 'o blaargaag people would have snapped anyway' guys).

Flac or at least higher quality mp3s. Most of them are terrible! The CD itself only stores a collection of ones and zeroes. It's just about storage media. I prefer my storage media to be solid state memory or hard drives because it's much easier to propagate copies that way, thus significantly decreasing the risk of losing your product. Of course, online DRM tends to fly complete in the face of this. While I know this is true, it seems far more physical to me than the ones and zeroes on a computer. I blame this on harddrive crashes. Of course, I do rip all my CDs so I have copies.

Wow, this is so bad I'd almost think that if this actually happens murder would be the appropriate response. It isn't, of course. But it sure looks that way.

Desensitized to depictions of murder. A depiction of murder is FAR different than actual murder. Seeing an actual car crash with full knowledge that it's real makes a far bigger impression than seeing one in full detail in Carmageddon. It's a completely different experience. Like I said, these people may have been desensitized to actual violence but only if they just don't possess the mental faculty to seperate it from real in the first place. Hence, it's a pre-existing problem that's not caused by games, and they could have easily snapped due to anything else (if gaming even caused them to snap and it wasn't pressure such as bullying or stress).

Desiging a website at my internship. Apparently they hired me, an animator, to photoshop some website designs together and do some video editing. I don't particularely mind because I was thinking of doing a follow-up study on webdesign. I want to master the internet!

I actually agree with him, though. I much prefer to actually own something physical rather than what in my mind is still nothing more than a collection ones and zeroes. Plus, I'd rather hold a jewel case with album art than look at a picture of album art.

I've always figured that the people who do stuff because of video games are people who would have snapped anyway because of problems in their perception of the world, real or fake. I've no evidence to support this claim, but it seems logical enough to me. As soon as video games stop getting the blame, something else will. Oh no, it's the flashy lights in 2030's summer fashion that caused that quiet dude to pull out a railgun!

Of course, because the group who doesn't file share includes a large portion of people who don't give a poo about music anyway. I mean, duh. Of course they're going to bring down the average of money spent on music a great deal for the non sharing group.

Has anyone mentioned My Life Is Average? http://mylifeisaverage.com/ It's the more normal version of most of these websites, with just regular stories that are often cute, endearing, heartwarming or funny. Today was Halloween and I was passing out candy at my house. The old man (about 85) who lives down the street from me said trick or treat when he came to my door. He wasn't dressed in a costume so I asked him what he was. His reply, "I'm Benjamin Button. I'm 7, but I look a lot older." I gave him extra candy.

Plus the fact that the endearing Ms. Bullock wasn't endearing in this movie at all. Ryan Reynolds was pretty funny though. I don't know why he gets so much hate. Sure he picks a lot of terrible parts, but he's always the best thing in those films.

Well, to each it's own I guess. It had everything I wanted. Although Evil Dead II is still miles better. Just watched the international trailer for James Cameron's Avatar. The teaser didn't do much for me, but this was just goddamned awesomesauce. Except the line "This... is OUR LAND!" That just gave me 300 flashbacks.

Oh come on, all the scenes with the old gypsy lady are hilarious. Like when her dentures fly out and she tries to gum her to death! And when her eyes pop out in a wonderful display of Looney Tunes application in horror. This movie was cheese all over, and it had to have been intentional because Sam Raimi referred to this as a horror comedy over and over.

Woke up. Commute. Delays. Took two and a half hours. Commuting makes more tired than hard work.

Did we watch the same movie? Drag Me To Hell was positively DRIPPING with cheese! It was a horror/comedy, not straight up horror. D: Goat: You trihihihihihicked me!!!!!!!!

No offense guys, but there are enough personal attacks in this thread to call it a flame war and it's only a page long.

I too prefer the critic, but the nerd is pretty funny. Anyway, NSFW: http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/

I can hardly imagine how it is for other guys, because I have these problems with modern clothes and I'm almost underweight! Spent most of the day at work goofing off with rubber bands, which in hindsight wasn't a good idea because deadlines are coming up haha. Oh well. [sap]Can't concentrate on stuff at all because I can't stop thinking about my girlfriend of almost three years and how much I love her. It makes me happy to think that after almost three years I have only fallen more in love with her. >_ [/sap]

I'd switch those to around. I'm a complete procrastinator and I'm horribly aware of it. Coupled with an amazingly high level of indecision, I'll be surprised if I ever amount to anything. Motivating myself is like finding water in the desert. I rely completely on random bouts of inspiration. EDIT: Yes, working to help someone else is so easy. Sometimes I wonder if it's just a matter of me not wanting it to be my choice. I don't want to have to blame myself for my ****ty situation but if someone else tells me what to do it's their responsibility. EDIT EDIT: Well would you look at that. Did I just have something of a personal epiphany?

The jumping spider is not nearly as cute as the little Clione, also known as the Sea Angel. Well, until it goes Shoggoth on you anyway.