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Mel Brooks was the master of the spoof, Blazing Saddles is really the crown jewel of the genre. But his weren't a bunch of inside jokes about other films, they were spoofs of specific genres. I thought the Wayans brothers did a decent job with the spoof genre for awhile, but Date Movie was atrocious and I've only caught brief unfunny glimpses of the other ones on that list. edit: Now that I think about it, are the Mel Brooks films really spoofs, or are they called something else?

It's a legal requirement. At least for the US. I don't understand why Steam, which has my age in my profile, still makes me verify it all the time.

Ive seen how they do this on tv. You approach the stairs backwards (so the larger rear wheels are first), bend at the waist so your chest is parallel with your legs, then ease down one stair at a time. This position will keep the majority of your weight to the rear and will keep you from tipping over.* *Do not try this and Im not responsible if you become a paraplegic. He will get more time to practice if he messes up though. It's a win-win.

If there was observable evidence, it wouldn't be called faith. As for explaining it, you might as well ask someone to explain love.

I got into those books when I was about 12 or so. The first few of the series (well, that would be about 9 or so), up to the battle of Waterloo are really quite good. The details of the napoleonic wars are certainly there. Unfortunately, it then turned into quite a popular thing what with the tv series they did based on them, and he wrote another handful that just got a bit messy. I've read every single one of them and I loved them all. There are like 20 or so. I highly recommend them. I read pretty much everything Cornwall writes, the Saxon and the Longbow series are probably my favorites, but the Sharpe series was my first Cornwall books and I thought they did a great job of bringing the conflict between Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington alive. It also gives a great perspective of musket line warfare. edit: If you decide to give it a go, try to read them in chronological order, even though the India prequel campaign was published later than the first books. It is best to see Sharpe work his way up from private.

Yeah, it's hard to understand why we assume you are just a silly troll account and not a legitimate member of this community. Does someone hold a gun to your head and force you to come back here? Why, does someone do that to you? I think you are missing the point. I enjoy being here, I have friends in this community. You seem to have a great disdain for everyone here.

I've been reading Harry Turtledove's "Conan of Venarium", it's pretty good pulp fiction. I like it a lot better than his alternate history stuff.

Awesome, already pre-ordered.

Yeah, it's hard to understand why we assume you are just a silly troll account and not a legitimate member of this community. Does someone hold a gun to your head and force you to come back here?

Hahahahahahahaha. Hah. The fact that people think "intelligent design" has any more validity than young earth creationism means that the fundamentalist nuts have truly run a great propaganda campaign. Intelligent design means exactly what it says. It is a theory that points to an intelligent being behind the creation and evolution of everything. I'm not sure why that is crazy, at least more than any other philosophy out there. Because it proposes an untestable explanation for observable phenomena, and thus is directly contradictory to observable fact. I'd say anyone willing to ignore proven science in favor of "faith" is hopelessly disconnected from reality, yes - this includes *any* fundamentalist faith. Did you miss the second paragraph of my post? I already stated Intelligent Design is not science, and a US District judge ruled the same. I suppose I would have been better off leaving it off my list. But your arguments seem to be aimed at religious belief in general. What is your definition of fundamentalist faith?

Hahahahahahahaha. Hah. The fact that people think "intelligent design" has any more validity than young earth creationism means that the fundamentalist nuts have truly run a great propaganda campaign. Intelligent design means exactly what it says. It is a theory that points to an intelligent being behind the creation and evolution of everything. I'm not sure why that is crazy, at least more than any other philosophy out there. I think you might be confused about this because fundamentalists have been trying to turn Intelligent Design into science. It is not, it's still a philosophy and relies more on faith than concrete evidence. But I hope you can respect that not everyone on this planet is going to share your beliefs, and that doesn't make them crazy.

So anyone who believes in God is "hopelessly disconnected from reality" ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism I was going to take offense as well, but I decided to assume he was talking about the young earth creationists, and not theistic evolution or intelligent design.

I tried to get into Darksiders, but I'm really struggling to find a good game to keep my attention. Deus Ex was fantastic, but I'm almost sorry I finished it, because now I'm pretty much waiting for November and the release of a bunch of games. I'm really hoping I'll get into the TOR test. I'm starting to get pretty excited about it coming out.

That Sam Adams Octoberfest is pretty dang delicious. I don't know why they don't brew it all year long, it's better than anything else they do.

Great find! What a shame, the only RIFT game we get is for the N-Gage

I actually don't think that would be a good fit. Martin's books are good because they have fantastic characters, which is really Bethesda's biggest weakness. Sure, they would recreate Westeros and let you run through it and explore, but it would be hard to capture the personalities that make it an interesting world.

Well with the popularity of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, they are all going to become celebrities and get paid just for existing. That should cut down on the crime rate.

You use Praxis kits to enable the Typhoon ability. Then all you need is ammo to make it work.

I'm a lot less upset about Syndicate than I am over XCOM. Syndicate was an action game at least. Sure, it would be better if they did something like Republic Commandos with a squad and different missions, but the 4 person coop might capture that. Xcom is an absolute travesty.

I find it relaxing to craft in some games, like a good break from killing and talking. None of these games compare to the hardcore crafting system in the MMO Vanguard. That was a crazy system. It took months to craft boats and houses in that thing, even if you were grinding heavily.

Uh, that seems pretty reasonable. I doubt that is their only evidence, but I don't think I know any woman that carries around a bunch of condoms. Of course maybe I'm just not meeting the right girls WHAT THE ****?! What kind of twisted logic is that? Oh god, I could go into all sorts of rants about sexism and individual freedoms and what happens when two people are really horny and want to have lots of sex multiple times during the day and thus need lots of condoms, but instead I'm just going to write that post off as an ignorant off-handed comment. In no way should carrying a bunch of condoms ever be reason to consider a girl or a guy a prostitute. It should be reason to consider them a healthy girl or guy who justifiably enjoys sex and wants to avoid pregnancy and disease. Moreover, in no way should prostitution ever be considered an illegal act (within certain bounds that respect the integrity of the individual and their right to choose). I already conceded the safe sex angle to Wals and admitted I was being naive about it, chill out. This makes it pretty clear they aren't targeting average folks, by the way. I'm happy to concede that actual sex workers shouldn't be targeted for carrying condoms because of public health, but you are being naive if you think they are just rounding up sexually active couples and charging whoever has condoms with prostitution.

You really want to be careful where you get your seafood too. There is a lot of bad stuff out there.

In case you missed the discussion between me and Hurlshot a couple of days ago: No, I didn't, and the reason is because I'm no longer a kid. Sorry but i'm not up to the latest news of Nepenthe land (did you get hair on funny places already?) and just to give you the heads up, the enemies are also more accurate and have faster reaction time. Ahhh, good times. Damn you Orogun, Get off my lawn!

Kids can only sit for so long before they start going crazy. I usually take them outside and wander around. Most of the crab places we go are located on piers, so it's a good place to explore. We only get to do this once or twice a year, really. Crab is one of the few things we don't cook at home.

Trust me, the type that i posted in my link is simply unbelievable. There simply no excuse to continue smoking when you have on of those. The "feel" is better, the amount of vapour is more thick, you can decide what taste you want ( or ) and how much nicotine you want. Personally, i use as low as possible to keep the addiction at bay. I know they are still pretty new, but how is it on the health front? Does it eliminate second-hand smoke concerns? It doesn't smell either, right?