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I have a Wii, and I can tell you that it does not Rox, nor does it Rolz, but it is merely amusing.

I'll probably refer to him as "Soul Brother #1".

I don't know. Kids these days are more acquainted with his mug shot (there it is on the first page) than his music, even as ubiquitous as "I Feel Good" is.

Twilight Princess on my new Wii. Christ, I'm being bored to tears. Time to move back to BG2.

According to some whiners, they do. Here, too. That's only if you equate FGM with circumcision, which is tough to do within reason. But what are we supposed to say? That we don't like it and don't think it should be practiced? Great example to use against cultural relativists, though. Just watch them squirm when they venture to justify why this should even be allowed. Which I guess is the point of this thread. But it feels kind of bad to take something so gravely serious and use it as a blunt instrument. There's a case pending here in the US, down in Georgia. African immigrants, sad stuff. They're trying to pin it on the father, but from the looks of it both parents were complicit, or at least had no problem with it until they broke up.

Mononoke is better.

Heh, ham. I gots some top-notch Yorkshire pudding with some standing rib roast. mmm mmm Memphis.

I'll be 21 this year. I'm learning the rules I should have learned in high school.

Let's take a spin through the old Ipod, shall we? *btw, this is partially ported from another forum. Android Lust - The Body Aphex Twin - Tree Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy Autechre - Clipper Autechre - Windwind Beck - The Golden Age Beck - Fume Black Dog - Someone at the Office Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited Boards of Canada - Roygbiv Boyd Rice - Black Light District Buck 65 - Corrugated Tin Facade Buck 65 - Out of Focus Buck 65 - Wicked and Weird Coil - Where Are You? Coil - At the Heart of it All Coil - The First Five Minutes After Violent Death Coil - The Slave Gets Back His Freedom Coil - Triple Suns The Constantines - Young Lions David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall Editors - Open Your Arms Electric Six - Rock and Roll Evacuation Golden Earring - Radar Love Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind Iggy Pop - Niteclubbing Iggy Pop - Fall in Love With Me Ink Spots - Maybe Jimmy Gnecco - Our Final Hymn John Williams - The Raiders March Lustmord - Open Towers Emerge Mew - Special Memphis - I'll Do Whatever You Want Ministry - All Day Ministry - So What Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod Ministry - Golden Dawn Nine Inch Nails - Leaving Hope Nine Inch Nails - Ripe (With Decay) Nine Inch Nails - That's What I Get Peaches - Rock Show Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer Pigface - **** it up Plaid - Stills Plaid - ZN Zero Plaid - Twin Home Radiohead - Pyramid Song REM - Everybody Hurts REM - Nightswimming Revolting **** - Beers, Steers & Queers Skinny Puppy - Dig it Squarepusher - My Sound The Streets - Turn the Page The Streets - Don't Mug Yourself Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady Throbbing Gristle - I.B.M. Tweaker - 2 AM U2 - Where the Streets Have no Name U2 - Mothers of the Disappeared Van Halen - Jump Venetian Snares - Befriend a Childkiller (Fallout 2 ya!) Wagon Christ - Bend Over Zero 7 - Red Dust *whew*

You're not going to proposition me, are you? Keep in mind that this is the Christmas thread.

So was the Passion of the Christ. If we consider flogging to be a sport, which is the better sports movie? Tough one. I swear to G-d, I'm going to see Children of Men here soon.

Hooray Wii! Hooray 5.1 Soundsystem! Weeeeee material possessions! I did get to see my new cousin (the daughter of a cousin is a cousin, right?) so that was nice. If you conclude that Christmas sucks beforehand, you might preclude yourself from enjoying that which might not suck. I say "might" because flying from Denver to Memphis was pretty terrible.

"Pneumonia" can be caused by any number of things: acute organ failure, for example, brought on by chronic drug abuse. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So some coke he couldn't handle, then? I always thought he was a psychotropic fiend. PCP can mess you up bad. But it's sad (telling?) that he'll probably be known more for his vices than the occasional amazing song he'd make, or the dancing that made him a legend. I'd be all cynical and say he won't be remembered fondly ala Ray Charles because he didn't "white up" his music so much, but he made just as many clunkers towards the end as Ray did. Shame.

Being out on the road with just my laptop and me, I'm playing some Fallout 2 and BGtutu. Mmmm sorcerers are useful.

The thing is, if you're a big believer in free choice and freedom and such and so forth, you can't really tell anyone who wants to kill themselves that they shouldn't. Not even if they're depressed over some **** like the break-up of a relationship that was bad for them in the first place, not even if they harm others in so doing (take a depressed single mother with 4 kids who will permanently scar and impoversh her children if she kills herself). Their bodies, their choice. The problem is that line of thinking cheapens life, it becomes a commodity of less importance than the choice that ends it. so we have to decide if life is really valuable, or whether or not the choice to end one's life is reasonable. I'm not sure why anybody brought up the East in relation to this, as choice is never a factor, it's all about imperatives and obligations (and before we go off on some tangent on the nobility of the East, we have to recognize that communal worldviews can also foster perverse and cruel conclusions about the way things are, the "roles" of the lower classes and women among them.) And it should be pointed out that one our favourite bogieman, the Church, is far from alone in its condemnation of suicide. Kant, the father of humanist ethics, reasonably deduced that killing oneself is a violation of reason, because in his calculus all people have desires, and to desire a state in which one cannot have desire is a contradiction, and therefore to be discouraged. Personally, I've thought about it a time or two, like everybody else, and I've concluded that strength means living through ****, and that a true desire to murder oneself is indicative of such an overwhelming cowardice and ignorance, that they refuse to deal with their own problems, and run from them in a terminal way. Thus I see no reason to fetishize the practice.

Since you can't have freedom without peace, and since the Christmas thread is no more, I'll say that I hope you all came together for world peace yesterday. I know I did... twice. I love peace that much. Anywho, off to Memphis for a week. I expect things to go to **** in my absence.

Check the Alien thread.

Can we gets an Alien forum pleeaze :'( :'( :'( ?

Does anyone know if there's a tangible difference between mastery of any of the elements (Air, Earth, Fire, Water) that you can get if you're a monk and you build the monastery? Or are they just titles?

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Looks pretty cool. But I'd be interested in seeing what the game dynamic is, because there's supposedly some difference between older-school MMOs like Everquest or Anarchy Online and things like WoW and Guild Wars. Too bad I don't have the time to figure it out personally. How popular is this? What kind of membership tally does it boast? It certainly looks to be popular with bots Maybe that amount of banning is normal, or sub-normal, but it looks like a lot.

If one plays well, chances are the other probably will, yes. I don't know how much more strain the more advanced physics engine puts on. Might require more RAM to play well. But visually, you're set.

Well, seeing how as I'm an American and all, I cannot resist any movie about how truly, truly precious freedom is. And it's going to have big ****in' robots duking it out! For liberty! I can't wait! I bet the Decepticons are working for Al Qaeda.

Wait, the movie's about freedom? There goes all pretense of quality.