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Definitely a haunting movie. Lovely and full of thought provoking themes.

A couple things really bothered me and I'm usually one to suspend disbelief first, drive trucks through gaping plotholes second but:

Spoiler for Hiden:

Two things really bothered me. 1) Why did Trey make the STUPID mistake of not correcting the shield angle and how did this slip past Icarus? Why wasn't this double-checked by anyone - like Kaneda for example, or even Cassie? I'm assuming they're both qualified navigators. 2) WTF did Icarus NOT warn the crew about an additional UNKNOWN crewmember being on board? I just had the feeling Icarus was omnipotent. Also she fought to take control of the ship during the shield repair sequence and had to be overridden. Wouldn't she have realized the error in the course alteration? I did read that Trey was hyper-conscientious and competent and that he felt he had to do the work himself and not trust the work to the computer, but that still doesn't wash with me.

I still enjoyed the movie and I look forward to checking out the commentaries by the director and science adviser.

I dunno, he played a pretty good miserable son of a bitch in Deadwood 

Hate to see how many helicopters wound up as plastic confetti so he could get to that level - amazing stuff. 

Personally?  I'll be buying this on Day 1 and playing it until Diablo III is released.  Then my proper loot-whoring can continue. 

You, sir, have said it!

I'm on a contract with Ford... that should say it all. It's very scary around my cube farm. Supposedly, my team is "mission critical" and I'm a "franchise player" but I know the reality is we're a box on an org chart somewhere that could go <blip> at the whim of some high level doofus. I'm constantly exploring my options...

In Detroit, I think it means "Fuck the Lions," but I might be wrong...

Just finished Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill, who just happens to be Stephen King's son. Good book and a quick read. Decent characters and dialogue, and a good story.

I want to pick up The Road next, I think. I read an excerpt, and I did read Blood Meridian a few years back - great book that one.

I had a hell of time getting things working on my new computer. Vista didn't seem to want to play nice with it.

I found this link: http://forum.deepsilver.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-23818.html  to be very helpful. I followed the procedure and VOILA, I'm able to play. Now to spend some time with the damn game actually playing, instead of configuring. I was starting to have DOS 6.2 flashbacks for a while there...

That'd be so cool if it were a bass amp 

Just kidding - that's pretty friggin' awesome, actually. Good luck and do post some clips when you're done!

Dunno if it's related, but the symptoms sound similar. There was a news story here - local - about a massive pet food recall. Mostly wet (cans) and pouches. A couple "major" brands were listed like Iams and Eukanuba. None of the dry foods were affected though.

Loved it. Wife thoroughly enjoyed it - plenty of eye candy for both of us

Yeah, it wasn't the "deepest" movie ever, but damned if I was not entertained. It was a spectacle to see.

http://www.solidworkspilot.com/

Now if we could just kill Junebugs, Spiders, Mosquitos, Ticks, and Fleas.

and Yellowjackets.

These guys and wasps are the dickheads of the stinger set, but save the honeybees!

Make sure you follow up with Green Mars and Blue Mars - it's a wonderful trilogy!

"Is this gonna be a stand up fight or just another bug hunt?"

2 TVs
5 PCs

My brother tried out eMedia a few years ago.  I have no idea if he even installed it, but I certainly never saw him use it.

Also, I don't believe it (at the time) let you hook up your guitar to the PC.  That may have changed with current versions, which is a moot point if you are using an acoustic guitar, I guess.

AFAIK, eMedia has no way of letting you hook your guitar to the computer. I'm not sure I've heard of anything that does that. I know it's no big deal for a keyboard through a MIDI interface, but not sure about guitars. The eMedia thing's more like an instructional video.

This is a good tool to learn the fretboard - has some very good drills on it, actually. Having knowledge of the fretboard will help you out tremendously down the road. Being able to find the notes is half the battle

http://www.absolutefretboard.com/

Also the eMedia stuff was interesting - I tried out the bass version. It was actually fun and I did learn a few things.

http://www.emediamusic.com/products.html

 

It's funny. In EQ, I played only in first person, but now with WoW and DAoC, etc, it's only 3rd person.

I cannot recommend the program at www.burnthefat.com enough.  It isn't a temporary diet, but rather a lifestyle.  It just teaches you proper health via nutrition and diet selection, excercise, etc.  It teaches you why water is important, why some foods are worse than others, why eating certain items at certain times of the day can destroy a days worth of work, etc.  Basically, I was killing myself with my diet - and I thought I was eating right! I learned an awful lot from the book, and even more important, went from being 40 lbs overweight to being in the best shape of my life within months, and have maintained it for several years now.  Really, that book was a godsend for me and you cannot go wrong with it.  Just remember, there are no easy ways out - if you want long lasting fitness, it will take a lifestyle change and work.

Amen and amen - I can't agree more with this. I've been following the program for about 3 months now. I've shaved a ton of body fat off, dropped 40 pounds of scale weight, have GREAT cholesterol/triglyceride levels for the first time in my life. The book was well worth the fee. I have a long way to go, but I feel I've finally found a way to get my house in order, so to speak.

Can't Explain
My Generation
Won't Get Fooled Again
and the others already mentioned - good stuff.

I see your fantastic stop motion movie (AWESOME! Love the music!) and raise you a fantastic stop motion movie featuring video games!!

2:33 FTW!

Nice!

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/10344760/detail.html

RIP, Bo  :icon_sad:

I ordered it, based on a couple of my WOW guildies with older systems saying it played fine on their boxes. I meet the suggested reqs in all but video card (it's a mobile Radeon 9700 w/ 256 MB of RAM), so I'm hoping it will at least be "playable" on my machine (playable to me - enough eye candy on so it doesn't look like crap and a decent frame rate).

I was so proud of myself when I learned to simply take off and land.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=219791354625794697&q=airplane

Unreal and so cool!

That was amazing - guy's a good RC pilot too - stuff he was doing in the video seemed a tad "risky" to me When I learned to fly, I was taught by a guy who was actually a pilot and he told me he felt flying RC was harder because you can't "feel" what the plane is doing. Man, how cool to have a setup like that... /drool

http://titanquestvault.ign.com/View.php?view=ToolsandEditors.Detail&id=6

I haven't had a chance to try this out yet, but it sounds great. Basically, it provides a way to transfer items between characters and to store things in a shared vault. Can't wait to give it a go. The Titan Quest community is cheering this one.

Put a fork in it...

Allowed or not, I have to say BG II - never had a game suck me in the way it did. I got BG 1 the day it was released. Loaded it and tried my best to get into it. I had to start it and walk away from it 3 times before I finally got hooked. Then I immediately started BG II and played it obsessively.

Thanks! Makes sense to me now.

I'm doing Warfare/Defense.  Actually, I wanted to have a dual weild guy, but for some reason my DPS tanks when I equip a second weapon.  I'm starting to have my doubts over whether dual weild is a viable build...

I started a battlemage yesterday (earth/warfare). I saw this too! Why would my dps and attack speed drop if I equip an offhand weapon? I don't get it. Anyone have an insight into this?

Got it and loaded it without out issue. Played for hours tonight (thanks to Blizzard's FUBAR patch on WoW) and it was a BLAST! Game's a lot of fun and for me it worked fine without nary a hitch.

My only gripe is that my otherwise powerful system is gimped now because I have no upgrade path for a better video card (I've got a gaming notebook). At the game's defaults, it ran pretty well and it is a lot of fun so far. Really scratches that old Diablo itch (in someways better than D2 did - don't crucify me for saying that <G>).

I love the group aspects, but there were times when I a) couldn't find a decent group or b) commit to the time required. Not being able to solo effectively killed DDO for me. I might have to give it another shot now.

They almost fault it for being a Diablo clone - I revel in it

So funny... When Diablo first came out, I was a flight sim/Doom kinda guy. I had a gift certificate to CompUSA and I kept picking Diablo up and putting it back down. Finally, just pulled the trigger (I know... I know...), installed and gaming changed for me that day. Diablo was just amazing. I couldn't understand why I waited/hesitated. It was the perfect gateway drug for Everquest and WoW...

Thanks for posting that, Siege - buyer's remorse greatly diminished and looking forward to the game again!

I pre-ordered immediately after my first session with the demo. I thought: "Look at all those class possibilities! Look at the replay." I guess I took some stuff for granted (e.g. monster/loot randomization). Dang...

It's the strangest damn thing...

I managed a haunted house for a couple of years for a friend. I took care of making sure all the actors were doing their thing. I'm 6'4" and have been told I can be physically imposing. I had the makeup artist really do a number on me so I was scarred up and freaked out looking - to top it off, I put white contact lenses in (doctor's prescription only!), and I was scary - my trick was to be in the place on the other side of where people thought the scare was, and to startle 'em, give 'em a quick look, and fade away.

I thought I did a good job scaring people until I heard the howls of terror coming from OUTSIDE the damn house.

We had a guy dressed in a clown outfit - big honkin' red nose, big Bozo hair, whiteface, all that good stuff. He told me he could scare the crap out of people more if I let him walk around outside and mingle. On a slow night, I let him do his thing. It was CHAOS!

People crying, wetting their pants, running away like all the devils of hell, etc etc - I do not exagerate here.

For the next year, I set up a room that a couple of clowns working tandem as the final scene on the way out the door - people were laughing and goofing a lot until they got to the end and the crying and screaming started.

It's got to have some deep-seated psychological roots. I'm not scared of clowns per se, but they're creepy to me. Interesting subject.

The one that transfixed me was Johnny Cash's version of Hurt (the Nine Inch Nails song). Powerful stuff.

Oh, man - thank you! I've been thinking about playing some of the older D&D games - how cool would it be to play BG1 as a monk! It took me a couple of tries before BG "took" but once it did, I couldn't wait to play it, and then BG II was just amazing to me. Good excuse to go back to 'em again.