It all depends on his family background as well. I come from a family of fat arses so weight has been a constant problem for me. Balance and moderation is key in all things, even gaming.
Minor swearing such as "You lil' b**ch!" after getting fragged is typical and I don't see anything wrong with it. Using personal racist remarks is definitely a bad bad thing but you know ignorance and idiocy has been one human constant throughout hisory.
I have no probelm with a democracy in Iraq or even the whole Middle East, but trying to force democracy on a region not ready for it when we ourselves, as a society, cannot fulfill every need of our own citizens is just plain stupid.
I don't know if he was banned or not but I do know he was on some sort of probation with the moderators. In any case if he does have the new x box I hope its working for him.
Maybe he got an X Box 360 and it died on him in 50 seconds after turning it on, which he then had an epiphany that the X Box 360 truly does suck and is now hiding inshame. Just a theory, ya know.
I started doi ng software piracy back when I was 8 when I got my first Commodore 64. By the time I was 10 I had over $250,000 adjusted dollars in stolen software and hardware upgrades. I was heavy in it and probably had the most pirated software in the midwest. If I didn't have it it didn't exist. I also had quite a number of legit pieces of software too which I shared liberally.
Man, I was so glad I didn't caught.
Sorry to here that Commish. Personallly I tend to stay away from family events or when I am forced to go I just sit in the back and keep to myself, often looking at the clock.
As for gaming, I was gaming 1st edition since I was 7 years old and was running my own campaigns at 11. An eight year old should be able to grasp the d20 rules quickly if I could master the more convoluted 1st rules at the same age.
It is how it was originally used by early Christians to convert pagans by taking over their holiday and then turned into a capitalistic greed for all by today's society.
The birth of some half divine git is irrelevant in this matter.