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that seems really weird to me, since i normally don't think about gun barrels melting. could they make a heat resistant metal alloy to use in stead? or is it just not worth the expense, e.g. two normal melting barrels cost less than a heat resistant one would...

It's also worthless in the desert. Remember that if you get stuck with one. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> just wondering... why is it worthless in the desert?

really good job on both of them... well, i haven't read the second one yet, but i am guessing it'll be sveet too EDIT: okay, i got around to reading the second story, and as i guessed it was another good one. i almost like the Atris/Exile romance better than what the game actually has to offer. also enjoyable is your personification of the weapons, which adds another neat dynamic to the story. keep it up :cool:

are we saying who we like better? or who realistically would win? (that is, if any of it was real). because although Kenshin is really sveeet, he wouldn't be able to kill a half-demon or something like that... if you know what i mean... also, the LOTR guys aren't anime. and "who world win"... wait, are you an alt. that's pulling my leg?

... so many things i could say about your post... but since you gave a relatively decent excuse, i'll let it slide...

ha, you hotshots thinking you know everything. i know something that you don't know: [quote name='Copyright

Some quotes from that site: "We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself." "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters." "The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc." "AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals." "If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being." Disturbing, yet strangely hilarious. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> wow, very disturbing, and also stangely hilarious (i have a sense of humour too)... but it makes me ashamed to think they call themselves christians and so do i... here's another quote that is really stupid, "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different...More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." duh, christians aren't a minority in America and they aren't being killed either. what an idiotic statement. a lot of the stuff they said made me really frustrated because they supposedly represent the same God i do. i need to go pray now... bye

for K2 i only saw the character interactions on the ebon hawk... don't know if that helps...

okay... but that didn't really answer anything. at least it has been pointed out though...

but why would the gravity of the whole universe in one spot have any potential energy shooting away from it? Would it not just be pulling itself into itself into an infinitismal singularity that nothing would escape, similar to a black hole? the whole universe' mass i am talking about, in one spot. dang, that is sooooooo much gravity. potential energy? isn't it all being shot into the singularity? so this explosion of the universe would have to be strong enough to escape the whole universe' gravity. why would it do that? and if black holes exist, how did they get away from eachother to start with? if they were created later, what the heck could create that and get away from the other thing that could create another one of that? i don't know anything about this, but i am just trying to ask common sense questions that haven't been explained to me about this theory.

There is no absolute proof, given nobody was there to witness it, however Newtonian Physics deduces it through logic - ergo as science goes it's fairly a sturdy theory and for that reason worth being taught. There are very few serious scientists around that don't believe it to be correct. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> about the physics though, how did it all explode from a singularity that held the whole universe in it? would not the mass of the universe in that one point draw it all back to itself? that really doesn't make any sense.

The Bible is only "proof" if you have faith that it is, but since you don't think it is proof then you have no reason to degrade it as such, since it is not meant to be "proof" for you.

i really like the dark cityscape you did. a few parts of it are realistic looking (on the left side there is a circuit-breaker box or whatever, and the fallen wooden panel that covered a broken window or whatever). it looks like a broken down city but with surreal elements throughout, really cool style

exactly, a frequency that could be the remnant of the Big Bang. horribly pathetic proof. that is so unconvincing that i am tempted to vomit to show my disgust. And don't start comparing how much proof one has to how much the other has, they both have an insignificant amount of proof and the big bang supposedly happened so long ago that no proof could really survive that long. and leave evolution out of this too. the big bang is a separate idea from evolution. evolution doesn't explain how everything in the universe got here, and the big bang idea doesn't explain how rocks eventually turn into humans.

I believe that God created the heavens and the earth, but i don't want it being taught in schools as if it can be scientifically proven, because it can't be. same with the "big bang" though. the only proof of it is pathetic, just like the proofs for creationism. we have everything we can look at now, but that doesn't mean we have any idea of what caused it to be put into motion. you can't use the scientific method on either the big bang theory or creationism, both are screwed scientifically, so lets just work with the relavant science without forcing onto people unsupportable ideas about where everything came from, since it really has no bearings on current science, and i will argue that, so just try and say it does, i will be waiting.

yes, i guess our argument is over then, since we both hold different beliefs about how a nation comes to power and retains it and when a nation loses its power. i think the world sucks and will only get better technology, but continue to degrade morally, while you think that nations lose their power when they stop believing in progress (i am assuming you mean good progress, because like i said before, i certainly believe we will progress, but in a morally inept direction). like you said, no nation has ever held the reins of power for long, ever, so what makes you think that will change? it won't. nothing is new under the sun. but now i'll stop arguing to save both of our energy.

It doesn't matter whether there are limits to human achievement. What matters is whether you believe in change or stagnancy. Now, change is not always good, and stagnancy is not always bad, but the belief in change is what marks a society's vitality (or rebirth), while the loss of faith in progress is what marks a society's decay. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i am saying that it is a part of man's debase nature to lock others out of their own wealth, i.e. greed. so now that we have gotten to this point of no return with the money, government, and economy, i don't think it will easily change for the better, if at all. oh, i have faith that the progress will happen, just not in the direction you think. it will continue to progress in a bad way, just watch. i'll come back here in 60 years and we will pick up the discussion then No, it doesn't. i notice that you have misconceptions about reality stemmed from your avidly held ideals such as "power belongs to those who constantly seek to improve themselves" or "effort, not heritage, not nation, not legacy, should be the end determinant of wealth." open your eyes and see that this world sucks and the people in it suck and they aren't going to suddenly or even eventually choose to start bettering themselves into having an ideal world. they have not chosen to do that throughout recorded history, and they won't choose to do that now.

i share the joy, that was interesting and much better than nothing. as for JE i have never played it, but i have played K2, and i really enjoyed that, so i am confidently assuming NWN2 will be super sveeeeeet too. but as for the NWN2 forum moving, i guess it was bad, but not as bad as Hades thinks... i am guessing the hard feelings come from the fact that he got banned from it?

when i said i didn't care, i was mainly talking about intelligence people tapping in on phone lines. i definitely don't want them peeping in on innocent people. there is an extent to which i don't care about domestic spying. but beyond that i care, a lot. you could be right in saying that becoming slaves to safety starts with giving up things like parts of our privacy to our government. whatever the case, we should still consider carefully before we instill laws that claim to keep us safe, when they might not really help at all. like, how afraid of terrorism are people? some terrorism is just a part of life like natural disasters, and some of them you can't prevent unless you can read everyone's minds and have a judging software to stop them (like minority report). but then some terrorism can be stopped. we are dealing with lives here, so how much are we willing to risk? or how much freedom sacrificing is too much? these are the questions.

Not unless a GBA micro screen is PG-13. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... yeah, that's what you were talking about. right... <_<

Actually, they imposed conditions on loans such as privatization of public facilities and stuff like that. As a result, overnight people are suddenly without power and water. People also have their land taken from them, as countries are actively encouraged to create "cash crops" to repay the loans. Getting nothing at all is actually better, when you can self-sustain and self-regulate amongst yourselves and your neighbours by growing your own food and whatnot (kind of like the early days of frontierism in the United States). These people are displaced by the government as a condition to loans from the IMF, and to a lesser extent the WB. The end result is you get mass-migration to cities, severe overpopulation, and people that used to be self-sufficient (in "traditional" village settings) are now forced to place themselves in as the lowest bidder. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Alanschu, buisness, government, and money (including taxes) are now intertwined and here to stay. Whether it was the US's fault for that happening or not, the reality is like you said, that people can't really be in self-sufficient villages anymore without having taxes imposed on them from their own government, so they need money and need to get in on the world's economy. You can whine about the situation all you want, and blame the US for it all you want, but the current world won't change, and it certainly won't revert to what it was before. EDIT: yes, it should be. but its not. get over it. No, not like how Hitler justified the destruction of other races on the basis of evolution. The US is not destroying races and they are not doing it in the name of evolution. they are interfering with other countries in the name of self-preservation and some of what WITHTEETH said about its theistic ideals. i don't see other countries offering any alternatives... you make the US sound like some big fat bully to the world when it is not that way. they take advantage of situations for their own benefit, but they aren't sadistic race-destroyers like Hitler, please don't deal in such extremes.

read this V your idea just wouldn't work in reality. the US would suffer irrevocably from stopping all interference in that other countries would be reluctant to do buisness with a country that is, in their eyes, totally self-serving and doesn't use its resources for helping out when it can. like i have said before, we won't be able to escape criticism from other countries or our own country no matter what we do, so your solution is neither helpful to the US nor to other countries.

Agreed ... but i was quoting the rules at Mothman, not her. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But do you know what it refers too <{POST_SNAPBACK}> that was PG-13 rated. i don't think i can handle that...

yes! this is terribly off topic and our buddy tarna is here. (w00t)

"Users may also create a signature that appears at the end of every post. Such signatures should remain at six(6) lines or less of text without imagery, or at most two(2) lines of text with imagery. All images, regardless of text configuration, must fit within a perimeter of 125 pixels high by 600 pixels wide." i don't like CoF's sig. either because it has the disturbing strawberry lady and is really big. and mothy, sorry to break it to you, but you violate the code too... i think your alternative sig. works well though. as for pixies... where the heck is he?