Cantousent

This is one of the reasons that I don't trust any of you. Epiphany is abrasive, and so it's fair game to attack everything he says? There is an obvious difference between the two screen shots in the original picture. The second picture he posted in this thread is truly remarkable. No, I'm not a graphics whore, but, all things being equal, better graphics increase the quality of a game. xbox 360 clearly has some advantage. Now, while we can as a matter of course that Hades will generally claim indifference to everything, at least some of you should concede the difference in the screen shot. ...But NO! Console fans are truly a breed apart. You people deserve each other. The first time someone show a picture of some great graphics on a revolution or PS3, I'm refering them to this thread. Just plain stupid.

I haven't been able to find the damned game anywhere. It's irritating. When I find it, I can access my group's headquarters. Hell, I'm the only one who's actually earned any prestige for my team and they're the ones who can enter our headquarters.

I had a friend over and he installed Civ IV on my wife's computer. It ran just fine on her ATI card. In fact, I think they've done a great job with this one and I intend on buying it when I get the chance.

Your DM is a moron.

It would be stupid for meta to create an alt account for his non fiction here. Hell, I would buy his book because he wrote it. After all, it's going to be... what... 7 bucks for the book? I like to read. I like science fiction. I'm willing to risk that much for the regulars here. So, why not just use his own damned name. If I ever write a science fiction novel, I'm going to pimp it here, you can believe it.

Whole Lotta Trouble --- Stevie Nicks

hahaha very good.

I'd like to purchase these spell components... and throw in that nutsack... no, no, the hairy one.... that's it. I need it for my spell components.

Then post some you don't love, dammit.

Road to Berlin ---- Al Stewart Great stuff. A pretty long song, though.

Here's what I don't get... folks complain that Oblivion won't be out on the day the 360 hits the shelves. Who cares? We know it's coming out soon afterwards. It's not like it's going to turn into vaporware. So it's not out the exact same day? So what? Furthermore, if there are titles for the Revolution and PS3 that aren't out the exact same day, but we know they're coming soon, why would it matter much. I guess this is just me showing my consoling noobishness, but it just seems silly to anyone except folks who were going to buy the system on day one anyhow. ...And I suspect that some of the folks complaining about the line-up in this thread weren't going to buy a 360 no matter what the line-up.

The battle royal at the beach is just plain stupid. Now, for my part, I did a mission to give the good guys an edge. No appreciation, though, as teams hunting solo players come out of the woodworks to attack me. Hell, I was fighting a large group of baddies when another scrapper comes along and I'm suddenly fighting four folks at once. Finally, after some time, he managed to kill me. Afterwards, he pms me telling me what a great battle it was. I didn't realize that other heroes could attack the player. I thought he was a villain, so I responded in character by saying, "We'll meet again, evildoer." I don't think he was being a jerk or anything. It's apparently good form to treat the whole place as a free for all without regard to anything. It really didn't make me angry, but I do think it's lame for other heroes to attack you while you're caught in a huge battle with some real bad guys. I think villains should be fair game all the time, but good guys should generally stick together, at the very least when they're fighting the bad guys. All that said, however, I did have a lot of fun in PvP. If the PvP area weren't so geared towards teams, some of whom chased me pretty relentlessly across the map, then I'd like it even more. I was on one team for a short time, but they were imbeciles, which explains why I managed to get some PvP kills against some of these guys. The good team, though, they're... well... good. They have a plan, a varied composition, and stay focused on one enemy at a time. Player hunter teams are going to be a real mess in Warburg. Finally, I'm not enamored of the battle royal business. The good news on that is that you can easily avoid the mayhem. One team or another will undoubtedly punish folks coming onto the beach, but if you don't try to stay on the beach, you shouldn't have a problem.

I thought about buying it. I decided against it at the last minute, however. I'm going to wait until a friend comes over so I can test drive it for a couple of hours. If they didn't fall into the same stupid traps of Civ 3, then I'll buy it. Otherwise, I'll just wait until it's in the bargain bin. Last time, Civ managed to take advantage of its reputation. Let's see if they can live up to Civ 1 and 2 in this installment.

Big Blue Note --- Toby Keith

Big Blue Note --- Toby Kieth See that big blue note, Over there on the counter? You don't wanna read that thing, man, It's a real get-you-downer. But don't you dare say nothin' else, Bad about her: she's gone. No, no, no, no, don't, don't throw it away, 'Cause tonight, I might need it. It gets real lonely around here at night some times, An' I have to read read it. Besides, you can show it to the boys down town, They won't believe that she's gone. There used to be a time I was all she ever wanted. All the man that she'll ever need. I come home to find, just like that, she's up an' vanished. An' the only thing she left behind for me: Is this big blue note, Folded up in my pocket. Yeah, don't laugh: it's been two months; I still got it. Sometimes I have to read the sucker twice, Just to make sure I ain't forgot that she's gone. You know, my psychiatrist said: "Tell me, what do you see, "When you look at these ink spots, "Of, er, reds, yellows an' greens?" You know, I looked at 'em all, But they all looked to me like big blue notes. There used to be a time I was all she ever wanted. All the man that she'll ever need. I come home to find, just like that, she's up an' vanished. An' the only thing that's left to do for me: Is stand high on this cliff, Overlooking the sea. With my big blue notepaper aeroplane, That I just set free. An' I'm gonna wait here a few more minutes, An' if it don't come back to me: You guessed it: she's gone. Crash landing. Bye bye, baby.

Jackanapeses, be kind to shadowstrider. If not, I'll grab my scrapper, he'll grab his defender, and we'll start tossing folks around like rag dolls! GRRRR

I've always been fond of the guy. He's a cutie, too.

Authority is a hippie. He needs a shave. Now, Kaftan tells us what goes down at his supar secrat design school. Kaftan is much cooler. What does Authority have to share?

My favorite is PC.

A deserved response to Commissar: Can I explain tomorrow? You're much more likely to get the sort of genuine and contrite response you probably have coming tomorrow. Right now, I've actually gone fully cowboy mode. *A few deep breaths* Okay, this probably deserves to go in the thread in question. It just sticks in my craw to eat crow privately for a public offense. I should not have attacked you. First of all, I was simply attacking you without carefully reading your post. Second of all, it's stupid to attack someone online. Usually, almost always, I am unwilling to attack folks online. Every now and then, my more childish nature takes over and I flame indiscriminately. For both reasons, I sincerely beg forgiveness. That is probably a sign of weakness, which I accept as a personal sin.

I'd rather regret it tomorrow than explain it tonight. I just let my temper get the best of me. Probably, I should head off to bed before this thread turns into a massive flame fest. Contrary to what others might think, I hate flaming.

If I'm to endure the charge of being a "sissy and a coward," then I feel no qualms about stating the truths about other members in question. Furthermore, my alt account is Cantousent. It's not as if I create all sorts of mayhem with Cantousent anyhow. Until one account or the other is banned, I fully intend to post with both accounts. I assure you, I did not create an alternate account out of cowardice. I'm willing to discuss the issue at length with anyone who is simple or short-minded enough to believe so.

More or less, julian. My alt account does as well. Perhaps more gently, but my core values and beliefs remain the same for both. My aim isn't to make you cry, Commie. I'd be with your silence. Since I'm not likely to receive that, I'll simply settle for the opportunity to heap your richly deserved scorn upon you.

Just the sort of shallow, single track thinking I've come to expect from you, Gromnir. Of course, the only reason someone would create an alt account is to lie about his identity. Come now, you ridiculous old wind-bag, do you really think I'm Eldar in real life? I can see it now, your parents looked down and said, "yep, he just looks like a Gromnir, doesn't he?" Don't be stupid. We're all creations in the first place. If I'm a liar, then so are you. ...And you're protests to the contrary are just as hollow. You post in character online. That is, unless you go into meetings saying things like, "We gots to see this case as one where Gromnir is going to win. Ha! Good Fun!" I've stated my actual name on these boards, Gromnir. Have you. As for you, Commissar, it must be difficult to see the light whilst standing the shadow of Gromnir's immense head.

who won?