I'll make you proud to be a Canadian again:

Rush
BNL
Kids in the Hall
Bill Shatner
Rick Moranis

There, feel better?

Actually what i was thinking about today, while I was steaming, was more in the mortal realm. It would be some sort of unmistakeable signal to idiot drivers that tell all other drivers that there is an idiot among them. Some sort of distintive horn/light combination.

In other words, AUTO PWNAGE!!1!!1!

Having fun with this as well just finished Mission 5. Just put down RTW after beating the long campaign.

I really wish the SP allowed you to play other races. It is amazing that each race has so much potential, but its only used in MP.

She's the kind of girl you would love to get drunk at a party have your way with then never talk to again.... Wait did I say all that out loud...Umm yeah carry on carry on....

And you know what to do after getting her drunk, don't you....?

You can also tell Trump is really annoyed that the little gimmick of being able to bring 3 people into the boardroom as opposed to 2 has been an utter failure. I don't think ANYBODY has brought three people in yet so far - am I wrong?

If you think abou it, why would anybody ever bring in 3 people? That's just one more person you have to defend against. In almost every case, the person brough in turns against the PM, so why expand that, unless there is a very good reason.

All this territory marking, what a mess, no wonder the mods have so much work to do.

Nothing pisses me off more than a driver on a cell phone, going UNDER the speed limit, in the left lane and not being able to pass. I had the pleasure of being behind THREE of these aholes this morning on the wonderful Florida highways. I was able to cut two of them off and slam my brakes in front of them to show them what I thought of their cell phone habits.

It infuriates me so much, I feel like i could actually take a human life.  :evil:

Green- I had that Microcruiser, but i totally forget about it for probably something like 15-20 years!!! Wow, i can't believe how that memory came back to me in a rush. The wings were guns that shot those rubber darts and the remote made it move around.

Thanks for bringing that childhood memory back. Next thing you know, teh wife will find me curled up in a fetal ball on the floor.

Oh wait, I had this guy as well.

Those MicroMan figures look very similar to the MICRONAUT's of the late 1970's.

I know there was a GG'er who was a big collector of Micronaut toys...he has a website with the pic's...pretty cool old school toys.

That would be me. And yes I have those figures above as well. They even have a MicroMan scalled batman which is cool.

Here is pics of my collection from about 4 years ago.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rcmerritt/micronaut/micronauts.htm

Rob, those pics are awsome!! I remember that huge biotron, you could put other figures into his chest.  My favorite was Force Commander with the flying pack and Baron Karza! I haven't thought about Micronauts in....many years. Thanks.

I was a huge micronauts fan. I had every comic from #1 until the series finished. I remember thinking that I only had 10 cents to spend and i had to decide between the brand new star wars comic and micronauts. Guess i made the wrong call  :rolleyes:

As far as kid bdays, my son just had his 4th, he got a remote control batmobile (that sucker is fast), an electric driving jeep, a swingset, a ton of smaller crap (spider man shooters, dolls, games, etc).  Plus we returned a ton of crap for a $250 gift card at Toysrus!! I ended up buying him 2 lightsabers so we can duel in the dark. (Hint to parents to be: little kids hit VERY LOW!!!)

Jenna Bush?

Mom!!??

The SW DVD has a great feature called Vader Under the Mask with some shots of EpIII.  

They also had the making of the lightsaber. It was interesting to hear Lucas explain why swordfighting gets progressively better. The first obi-wan/Vader fight was between an old man, who gave up his jedi ways and  vader, who was part machine. The second fight with Luke was better b/c Luke started to learn some skills, by the final fight b/t luke and vader, Luke was a full jedi, able to use all his skills.

The prequel swordfights were the apparently the best because these were Jedi at their prime with 1000s of years of techniques behind them which were all lost during the clone wars. Interesting way to explain how their budget got better with each movie.  :lol:

Brilliant

Yeah, they were in NYC for awhile. They showed up at a toy store, posed for a picture and then disbursed.

Jag,  Thanks for the Elisha pics link.  Ive got some new pics for my screensaver now.

No problem, best Elisha collection i've seen.

Same. Awesome place. Bali Hai!! (BTW, if you look at the motu (ring) in the bottom right corner is the airport that was built by the SeeBees in WWII.)

Going to Disney mid November. My buddy works at the AK hotel, so we pay half price on the hotels and get free park admission. Since the kids are so young (4 and 8mos), we're only doing 3 days at Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom, doesn't seem like much more we can do with the really little ones.  Its only a 3 hour drive, so we figured we'd give it a shot.

If you're really into desktops and want to see some very cool ones, i highly recommend this thread over at ars. It's 138 pages and goes from 2002 to the present. It's also full of very useful information on pimping yo desktop.
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?q=Y&a=tpc&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=9220901045&p=137


Oh and tons of funky desktops here:

http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/desktops.php?page=5&cat=all

and here:

http://bizarresk.deviantart.com/

I wouldn't say i hate 'em, they're just not for me. I did briefly toy with the idea of getting an xbox or ps2 to hook to my widescreen when the price came down, but that quickly passed since i dont have enough time to play the pc games i have.

BTW, JP this board has as much to do with consoles as the 'off topic' board at GG had to do with games. In all the time i've been here, this is actually the first thread i read about consoles  

I actually try not to play the more bizarre games in front of her. Since our second baby was born 8mos ago, we've moved my 'office' into our massive bedroom, so its very hard to hide my gaming (when i actually should be doing other things).  She's a big Star Trek and Sci Fi fan, but i haven't been able to get her to even look at a game.

We've been together 13 years+2 kids, but we've never once discussed my gaming hobby/obsession. Is that weird??

Here's what I think the problem is-

Gone Gold was pretty much just a message board for so long that people forgot/ never knew that it was once an awesome site about GAMING.  If anything, we here at CG want to carry on the spirit of that era of the site.  Those of you who went to the site JUST so you could post in R&P are missing the point of what we are trying to do here at Console Gold.

Gone Gold's staff consisted primarily of forum moderators, and that's all they had to do.  We, on the other hand, write reviews, previews, post news, create custom graphics, go out to the game publishers for special events, generally keep our finger on the pulse of console gaming (and soon PC gaming)- that's what this site is really about.  The forums have always been and always will be secondary.

That's not to say that our COMMUNITY will be secondary.  On the contrary, Eldon, our staff programmer, has some shit cookin' that will give the community more tools at their disposal for the sharing of gaming love than either site ever had.  There are some truly awesome things in the works, and we've only just started.

(my fave emoticon -> )

I'm sure i'll hang around anyway (since i'm having some real work stopping fun), but if these things happen, it would be great to have a great forum AND great game content. I know you guys held off on doing many things while GG was around (still can't believe its really gone), but if this site becomes more pc oriented, i would gladly stay around.

I think R&P was created more to 'lance the boil' that was affecting EBG and not everyone was happy. I'll miss R&P, but i joined GG for gaming, not political discourse.

Damm you for making me laugh out loud at work. "Japanese tentacle porn"??? "circumcision reversals???" Damm you  :lol:

Sooo much Elisha here: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/search.php?q=ecuthbert_&p=1

     

This is quickly becoming a CG classic!  

I removed the links yesterday after reading what Stephan had to say. A sad day for me.

Same here.  

I deleted the link on my work pc just before i opened this thread. Weird.

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Picked up 24, never saw it.

I flipped on the Sat night version with the extended boardroom. It was EXTREMEMLY different than the Thursday version. First, Trump asked Pamela why she didn't bring Sandy since QVC specifically told HIM that they "hated her". He basically accused her of picking people she didn't like, rather than someone who didn't perform.

Also, Pamela said something about lawyers not having good business sense and George got very angry and said on behalf of lawyers, he was personally offended. He also said that Pamela didn't know what kind of business training lawyers had before law school. Stacy piped in to say that she worked at an auction house before law school.

BTW, both Stacy and George both went to my alum, Brooklyn Law, so i thought it was great :lol:

BTW, many Season 1 box sets are $14 at amazon right now. Season 1 of Simpsons, futurama, alias, 24. I just bought 24 since i never saw it.

Yes, I had a question asked just before Gone Gold went down.

What is the culture penalty in the settlement details screen? Where does that come from and how can I combat it?

-Cota

Three ways to combat culture:

1. Exterminate everyone in the city; or
2. Tear down the pagan temples and put up your own.
3. Disband troops in the city. Mercenaries dont count toward pop increases.

Oh, this would have fallen under the cool moments in RTW thread.

I was doing a quick battle siege of Rome and was having fun hurling fierly bolders into the city and watching Rome burn. :twisted:

I noticed that the only building the i couldn't burn was the aqueduct full of water. Just an observation of the cool attention to details by the devs.

Anyone think about sending a note to Blues News or the other gaming sites saying this 'may' be the new home of GG? It may be premature and i don't want to attract unwanted traffic, but it may be a way of bringing home the lost boys.

Haven't seen Edan. Tomorrows Tuesday and i don't know what new releases are coming out..  :question:

A few things have come to my attention since I washed up on the CG shore. First, this website, forums included, seems to be well thought out and thoughtfully maintained by some dedicated people. Second, those dedicated people seem to all be on the same page and Knightshade Dragon definately appears to have his proverbial shit together.
Third, everyone is just so dang nice!

So true, it reminds me of when i moved outta NYC to FL and around 10pm we get a knock on our door. I yelled for the wife to bolt the doors and get the gun, turns out it was just our neighbors welcoming us to the street  :roll:

Thanks for the warm welcome. I will be clicking away on whatever ads you put up (if it grabs my interest of course, right Zaxxon?)  :wink:

A big thank thank you to KSD and the CG staff for putting up with the GG refugees.

Considering the incredible amount of bandwidth we are probably sucking up, is there anyway we can support the site? I see one ad on the home page and clicked through a few time, but let us know if you feel increased pressure of maintaining the site, you'll find this group to be very helpful.

If you need content, web work or even legal advice, you'll find some good talent among the refugees.

Please let us know what we can do to help.

(BTW, being able to see who is online is a great feature!)

My favorite GG moments were the daily 'Roll Call's by Rich - a great writer/blogger

I second that. Whether talking about games, raising kids, his life or life as a cop, he always had a poignant way about stating things that was very 'real' and usually moved me more than anything else i was reading on the net at the time.

It wasn't until his posts started to slow down that i discovered the underworld that is the GG forum. It felt like home.

Dell home is offering 15% off LCDs and a $40 off $400 coupon. I just ordered the new 1905FP (DVI, 20ms) for $532 tx+ship.

Life will not complete without Kasey's 'hunh? picture.

That's my picture  :evil:
Actually not... but I was certainly flinging it around. I don't know how I'm going to do it with no political talk though.

My bad, sorry.  :wink:

Game of the Year material.

Nice to see that the CGFE works here as well.

Me too, I was worried it would be lost forever.

I found this page with detailed unit stats that is also helpful:

http://www.onlinedesert.com/rtw/

I don't think you can retrain your pre marius troops into the new ones.  I would either use the old troops as cannon fodder or disband them in cities that need some growth.

My economy was so strong by endgame that i just bribed a bunch of large armies and used them with some elite troops (for the coolness factor) for the final push against Rome.