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I hate hold outs If there's one thing I can't stand it's when people try to weasel out of their contracts. I have no problem with contract renegotiations, but holding out is really lame IMO, especially seeing as financial security is not high on an athlete's list of concerns (unless you're Mike Tyson). Same with musicians (Linkin Park). I never thought it remarkable at the time, but I'm impressed that Michael Jordan didn't demand extra money when he returned to the Chicago Bulls. In 1995/1996, he was still on the last year of his original contact signed back in like 1989 or maybe even 1988. He wasn't even the highest paid player on his own team. Of course he made $25 million the next season and $30 after that

:ph34r: (:alanschu:)...oh wait, I'm doh! And yes, you buy the good ones

It was 9am in the mornign when I finally went to sleep Definately daylight I'm a night owl. :ph34r: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ****ALANSCHU INFLUENCE: INCREASE**** I can respect that. Too many times bed time has come when the sky isn't so dark anymore I can practice my prowling and more easily pursue my dream of being a superhero when it's dark out....less people laugh.

I have no recollection. Anyone can have some good games when he gets on a roll. I still think he never really fully recovered, which is too bad. He was a talented goalie IMO, and was a joy to watch for the most part. Jussi Markanen and Ty Conklin were a good "Goalie-by-Committee" combo. I have always had the impression that Edmonton had really good goalies. We also bring out the best in Igor Ulanov

Wierd Al is very talented IMO. He makes excellent songs to the sounds of different artists, and he's never really derogatory in his parodies, and just has fun. If I was a musician, I'd be honoured if Wierd Al wanted to parody one of my songs. He has a lot of "false" credit out there, if you do a search for Wierd Al on any of those non-existing Peer2Peer networks that don't share music.

I remember carrying around a lot of rocks. They were heavy...had to sacrifice them for my Daikatana

Doesn't really surprise me that multicore support is coming in. Eventually, Moore's Law is going to fail (you could argue that it already has). You can't have transistors made out of a single atom (can you?). So the logical step is to put them in parallel. In fact, give the decreasing costs of chips, it's probably becoming more economical to just do what super computer designers have been doing for a long time. I'm curious what Cell (come on Epiphany...where are you??) is going to bring to the general purpose CPUs (the Pentiums and the Athlons). Also, speaking with my Dad (the Mac fan), he suspects a special version of the Pentium IV will come out that has 64-bit support, and this is likely why they are saying 2 years before a complete transition to Intel chips is going to be made. I was curious what they were going to do there, since the G5 has a 64-bit processor in it. And even if the P4 is faster than the 32-bit processors (or even the G5 in some cases), there are still advantages that 64-bit processing can provide that I'm sure people would be angry about if they suddenly disappeared. I'm also curious about software support. Are those running on older platforms screwed for newer software?

Hehe, I never reached that point. I got a "The Demo is over, please buy the game" screen first

Too bad Tommy Salo never fully recovered after his gaffe in the Olympics.

When little kids in the mall that I don't know go "Mommy! Mommy! Spiderman!" I can no longer deny that I look like Tobey Maguire.

Some of the stuff I really enjoyed in Calculus courses though, was deriving the algebraic expressions for virtually everything! And the little obvious things that weren't so obvious prior to the course :D I'm likely taking a Linear Algebra course, and possibly an Intermediate Calculus course next year sometime (the Linear Alg is confirmed....not sure about the Calculus though).

Meh, I don't even mind the math. Although once it gets calculus based, then it becomes a bit more burden-some. Fortunately watching a CT slide down the stairs and roll off the railing into the water doesn't require any math calculations on my part

SPECIAL is what drew me into the Lionheart Demo. And while I didn't mind the demo, I found it too combat-oriented. I was considering getting it, but then I heard that after Barcelona, I should be prepared to do lots of fighting. I consider it a poor design choice when the character creation screen strongly recommends a combat skill. I mean, I'd probably pick one anyways, but it certainly gives you an idea of what the game will be like.

I wasn't either, but it was fun playing with a steady team of guys (which I usually was). But doing anything with the same people is usually fun, since it becomes more of a social thing.

Meh, chokes is one thing. But if I recall, from what I saw I got the impression that Toronto was being horribly outplayed, especially in the early parts of the series, when it goes 1-0 for Toronto in OT, with shots being like 50-20 for Ottawa.

Hehehe. I guess I'm just a Fallout fanboi :">

The PvP is fun... But I'll admit, it didn't catch me the same way it did when I played the beta a while back.

If I recall, wasn't Belfour stellar in the last playoffs against Ottawa?

"I'm attacking the darkness!" Although I've said it before and I'll say it again: "Gooooooooooooo skill-based approach"

So does Guild Wars :D

Everytime something cool physics related happens in a game, I can't help but think "Who says Physics isn't fun??"

Never played Vampire: The Masquerade. I heard it was pretty weak though :\

He's also the same guy that said lets strike, this deal sucks. Only to later sign a crappy deal, when the players he represents are going "WTF? Why did we hold out to begin with???"

I never really did like that. It encourages and reinforces fighting above almost everything else. Or metagaming where you sneak around and get mad xp for sneaking, and then go back and kill everyone anyways since there's more xp to be had.