I like how they coopt the GH3 challenge structure where you can mess with your opponent.  Golden Rule indeed.

The realty industry likes to pretend that they are trustworthy and in it for the buyers' best interests.  Same for the investment professionals.  I learned through personal experience not to trust anything that's on a variable rate.  Too many people took realtors at their word and believed that ARMs were a good thing.  I don't have any credit cards that run on adjustable rates after getting burned on those.  Everybody thinks about what benefits them now rather than what will happen in the future. 

I made sure that I got the highest HDDs available.  It's actually why I bought the 360 first (which turned out well for me) because they had discontinued the 80GB SKU of the PS3 at the start of the year and I refused to purchase a 40GB that was not backwards compatible with my PS2 games.  But then, I got Rock Band at the same time and knew that I would need space for all the DLC. 

I have "finished" the GTA IV story line.  I will gradually be going back to complete the races and attempt some of the achievements.  I will not even attempt pigeon hunting without a walkthrough, if ever.  To date I have killed *two*.

Add the SP campaign for Call of Duty: World at War.

The BFG - I believe I just saw that.  If I recall, that's a 20mm anti-tank weapon used by Finland in WWII against the Soviets, the Lahti L-39.

Wharrgarbl is the name of my new Night Elf Druid on Shandris. 

EpicBoobs was taken?

If that's the case, I may have to reinstall it and get coop to come over and beat the place I'm stuck at on the driver career.   

WHARRGARBL is my new work desktop.

I've seen it before, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.

I play on a 30 inch screen so I'm usually within 4-6 feet of the tv.  The noise is there but it doesn't bother me.  It definitely doesn't bother me enough to get a bigger HD.

Because, yeah, that's the only reason to get a bigger HD...   

I like mine better...

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I find the irony of this delicious.  But I'd still like to see the deleted ones.  Recoverable?

The bird one made it very hard to not laugh loudly in my quiet cubeville.

That's probably because even highlighting your text doesn't work.  Also, I'm not going to use a different web site to de-spoil the other nonsense here, that's way too much effort.

I appreciate that it is a pain in the butt but since it is a bug with the software it isn't like there is a choice.

We can either

1. ignore it and just post spoilers.
2. have a ban on posting any spoilers
3. find some other solution which allows people to post spoilers and still not spoil things for other people.

Option 3 while annoying does seem the most fair. 

I'm considering option 4 - lock forum, reinstall forum software, roll back to previous version.  :/

Ah the nuclear option!

Because it must be said:

 

It's the only way to be sure.

We had a nice conversation about TKs last night during a match when Hark kindly suggested that I start paying attention to uni colors.  My response that I was color blind was met with a quick rejoinder that surely I wasn't light/dark blind.  I was left with no recourse but to state that my color blind excuse sounded better than the excuse that I was effing incompetent.   

The Fool has a lot of good information about investing, even stuff on fees and the like.  They've been around since before AOL had an all-you-can-eat internet plan. 

This didn't set off anyone else's BS warning?

Same source

But Martin Territt, director of the European Commission representation in Ireland, said EU rules covered only food businesses, so agricultural shows were free to go on having traditional cake competitions.
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"There are no EU rules banning the eating of cakes at agricultural shows.  Any rules are only there to cover businesses. In fact, they specifically protect agricultural cake fairs and other traditional events," he said.  People producing food occasionally and on a small scale are not covered by the rules.  The 'new' EU food hygiene legislation was written into Irish law in 2006 (SI369/2006).

IMO, the last really good NFS game was Porsche Unleashed. I loved the early days of the series

I never was able to finish the driver stuff because of the 180-reverse drive-180 trick.  I NEVER could get that one down.

I wish the team would move so I could sever all ties 

If that happens, I'm done with them.  I'll go root for the Colts.  Yes, I'm aware of the irony.

Seems like you die faster, even on normal mode.  If you get shot, that's it.  There's basically no chance you can duck out of the way and recover. 

Since the GT crew is all hardcore, that's what I've been playing.  Now and then I'll play a normal match and the caliber of players is much worse there.

I'd love to play hardcore, but for that #$%! Lvl 18 requirement.  Seriously, WTF?

If someone is hosting hardcore, you can join at any level.  I've played less than half a dozen non-HC matches since I started playing because all the others were hosting were above that level by the time I got there.

Love it.

I hate it when I see stuff this funny at work.  Stifling hurts.

My xbox died this morning.

In honor of Harkonis' 360 becoming a casualty of war(games), I suggest that when we can get 7 of us together, we mourn its passing with a 21-gun salute.

i'm on the PS3 so i probably won't see anyone here online    

You chose ... poorly.   

Coming in paperback June 2, 2009.  Hopefully it doesn't come too late....

saturday night.  PST, so i may have missed the east-coasters.  either that or i don't have a large list of people who were playing it.  i played a few hours of sp instead, so no biggie. 

Harkonis seems to be the current ringleader.

Make sure you bone up on your skills first... (same author, before the WWZ book)

I know a dude who never got his stuff and USPS claimed they tried to deliver it three times and no one was home to sign for it but he knew for a fact that someone was ALWAYS there 'cause his sister and her girlfriend were staying there and they would've signed for any package. True story.

In y mind, they were otherwise engaged so that they couldn't hear the doorbell....   

I mailed a bill payment in them mail in late June but the financial institution didn't get it.  They wanted me to pay a late fee but I got them to refund it and I have paid online ever since.  About two weeks ago I looked at my statement and it had two payments on it.  I figured out that the check I had mailed got cashed.  I don't think I've had something take four months to get to its destination.

A recommendation on that...  Create a folder and take screenshots of all the confirmation numbers.  That way you don't have to "print this out and keep it in a safe location."  I have a separate folder for each bill and the file names are the paid dates, so I can easily tell what has been paid and what hasn't.  In January, I zip the previous year together to leave me a clean slate.

I had a cable bill that I swore I paid, but I didn't have a confirmation number and it never cleared the account.  So even if it wasn't my fault (not likely), there was no way to prove it and I got to pay the cable reconnect fee.   

After getting schooled by Hark and company every night since release, I am gradually getting better.  Last night, I actually had a couple of matches where my ratio was in the 50% range.  Given that this is my first concerted foray into console shooter MP, I feel confident that the majority of my kills will not always come from Martyrdom...

Good luck, Ron, and I wish you and yours the best.  There's nothing I can add besides that.

Can I donate by check? Would I make it out to "Gaming Trend"? Or I'll do a money order, I was going to donate by mail. I've hung out here so much in the last year and a half, it's about time I cough up some cash. 

Good question. I'll add it to the top.  If you wanted to donate by check, just make it out to me personally.  I'll update this thread and get it under my name instead of Loren's.

And it goes without say, but thank you.

And you, too, can help fund Ron's next trip to Nogales.  

It's on my list when my budget frees up...

As far as space-faring aliens - that have visited earth? Maybe. Why not? If there's a close-by alien, and we're the closest planet, I'd say we'd be interesting to observe.

The laws of physics, as we currently understand them, make it nearly impossible to bridge interstellar space in anything close to a tolerable travel time and energy expenditure.

Of course, sf writers have been getting around that for decades, so maybe physics will catch up someday. I agree that watching an infant civilization like ours emerge from its homeworld would be worth the effort, if it were feasible at all. It's not entirely impossible that aliens have visited earth...just extremely unlikely, based on what we know about mass and energy.   

Yes, but compare that with what we "knew" about mass and energy 100 years ago. 

Helium was first liquefied in 1908.  The Geiger counter was invented that year.  The nucleus of the atom wasn't discovered until a year later.

Got $3000 to spend?  There's the Sony HES-V1000, a 200-disc Blu-Ray changer.

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Ah, the irony...  Pete, you're soaking in it. 



And then there's the Sony HES-V1000, a 200-disc Blu-Ray changer.

The alternative is to take em to a cobbler and have them stretched slightly.

Damn "cobbler" sounds archaic.

Only when it's not a baked dessert.

Get in a game with me.  It quickly become a game of recon by Hadron Smasher death.

Hearing Hark respond to random internet f***tards without even pausing to think is comedy gold.

My ex fancied herself a witch, a system which I was happy to let her pursue on her own.  After being around her long enough, it became clear that her spells were no different than others' prayers.  They were ritualized actions to request supernatural influence that may or not work.  She believed in ghosts and fancied herself a medium.  I was more inclined to think her as possessing mild multiple personality disorder.  She certainly had enough other mental health issues that this one was not a stretch.

I leave these things to others.  My belief in something does not influence its existence.  If there are ghosts, I will certainly listen to evidence from credible sources.  If there are aliens, the same.  And, yes, that even extends to organized religion.  I guess at this point in my life, I believe in God, but do not have the egocentric nature to think that me asking really nicely will get me what I want or that He has the time or inclination to simultaneously control the spin state of every electron (election?) in the universe.  The rules that we have discovered are there for a reason.  Everything does not happen for a reason (other than causality).

In order to save the church tower, it was necessary to destroy the church tower.

We used to have people give money to baggers at the base commissary to circumvent the purchase limits.

You know, the Nazis were anti-smoking... (Wikipedia's featured article today...  )

damn though.  i hope that feature comes back soon.

a reminder to us all... just how dependant we have become on the machines keeping our secrets...

;-)

perhaps we could post spoilers in 128 bit hashes instead? 

Screw that, ig-pay atin-lay.

Pete, I had to Alt-Tab away from the forum twice because I would have otherwise been guffawing at my desk.  Not recommended in a quiet software dev environment.  I have tears in my eyes from stifling.   

Watch out for Hark.  I wound up on the opposite team in the first round across from him.  I believe he dropped me a dozen times in the first round before someone had another engagement and they took pity on me and let me be the anchor around their necks for the rest of the night.