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Someone should make one of these for it.

PayPal has a long history of closing accounts, dipping into bank accounts that are associated with accounts, freezing assets without recourse and generally being really shitty corporate citizens. Their status as an effective middleman is middling at best.

How about gasoline & bees! :-)

this is what you probably look like in your tireless crusade against "M$"

this is what I always think about when I read your posts.

this is how I feel after reading your posts.

Something Awful called and it wants its tagline back.

Until the game gets quietly invaded by the SA Forum Goons or Anonymous.

Then, JUST at a critical junction in the plot, a massive chunk of the player base will suddenly start spamming the chat channels, or running dance emotes, or attacking the wrong side, or suiciding their spaceships into the wrong thing, or finding some way to take advantage of a game mechanic to introduce flying Dongs into the scene.

Basically, there isn't any reliable way to allow this to function in the stated manner and NOT get PWNED by even loosely organized griefers. Let alone a seriously organized group that wants to make a name for themselves as "Those guys that ruined a multi-million dollar Sci-Fi channel show."

I agree. "Google has a health product! That must mean THEY'RE A WITCH!"

Calm yourself, woman!

What if Google had a Google Crime product where you can track not the history of crimes, but the PATTERNS that they occur. For instance, most thefts occur within a mile of where a suspect lives.

What this product (Google Health) could do is CONFIDENTIALLY (Yes, CONFIDENTIALLY) track patterns for aliements or for statistical values. No one is going to know about your problems unless you share them PUBLICLY, and as we have seen in many medical dramas what happens when patients do not tell their doctor TRUTHFULLY what is wrong with them!

Personally, I would be more concerned about my ISP intercepting that information than Google having it.

Yeah, we already know Neanderthals sound like Yahoo Answers users.

http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf

I can't help but be reminded of the various legal threats towards Lowtax at Something Awful and his hilarious responses.

Poor kid. The Wesley Crusher similarities are horrifying. "Wesley, go to your room!"

Whenever I hear of vaporware tech, I can't help but think of this.

Oh good. Then please tell me how you did it. Every Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and iMac I have installed with Leopard (5+ so far) has had crappy font display. With sub-pixel hinting enabled it's always horribly blurry, on any monitor.

And it's apparently not just Ou and me who have noticed.

I know somethingawful.com does not count as scientific research, but this is exactly what Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka (founder of somethingawful.com) said in his speech at UIUC back in 05. The talk was meant to be humorous, but there's a lot of truth in it as well. A video of the speech is here:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/lowtax-speaks-at.php

There is no transcript that I'm aware of, and I don't know the timestamp where he makes that point, but it's in there.

After speaking with Markus Zahn just a few minutes ago, he indeed confirms that the device is NOT a perpetual motion machine and that it simply uses magnets to accelerate to a certain speed, not permanent acceleration. He also was rather snide and rude to me, saying that I shouldn't buy into everything the papers and literature say just because it has the three magical words "perpetual motion machine" in them. So the inventor is just a giant crock of shit.

I highly suggest games by this now defunct developer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troika_Games

And about the Vampire : Bloodlines game I'd also suggest to see this thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2429153&pagenumber=1 ... first part is mainly about play through advices, second part derailed in "World of Darkness" lore and is very interesting.

I'm not Christian nor are any of my friends/family, but this Internet Atheist BS is really tiresome - you're more interested in anti-Church propaganda than the truth.

Good old Let's see you do better argument!

And a very short counter to this particular one: Because any startup biotech companies are snatched by big pharma the second the new molecule they've been working on seems to be viable. Big pharma on the other hand got started by cheerfully ripping off their competition back in the day when IP protection was just a pipe dream.

reference is to http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=7e9902fd1c7bfb7a8bb916ddac7222e8&threadid=1816759&perpage=40&pagenumber=14 :D

Then we'd miss out on a valuable source of entertainment. By the way, just How is babby formed?

Then we'd miss out on a valuable source of entertainment. By the way, just How is babby formed?

Then we'd miss out on a valuable source of entertainment. By the way, just How is babby formed?

They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back?
it was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three
kids. they are taking the three babby back to new york to lady to rest
my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots

Wal-Mart sells physical items. When you steal a physical item from Wal-Mart, someone looses money. When you copy information from someone, they still have everything they did before and suffer no loss. It's your pencil, your blank piece of paper. You should certainly be allowed to write whatever you want on it. You should certainly be allowed to hand out copies of that piece of paper without worrying about a $10,000 lawsuit. Intellectual Property law does nothing but hinder the growth of the publics' intellect.

The original purpose of copyright was to motivate people to produce creative works. It was not intended for these creative works to be restricted from public use until 70 years after the death of the author of the work. We also notice all over the internet that people are creating all sorts of creative works with no compensation. Look to sites such as jamendo, YTMND, or Something Awful. Look at all of the hundreds of thousands of blogs. Look at the Free Software movement. All of these communities are built upon sharing information and media with the community. There is no form of compensation to the users of these communities, yet they still produce works. There is no need for copyright.

Jesus is returning, Resistance is futile.

[...] then ceasing production or changing niche films that long-time pro customers were used to [...]

See that? American style democracy is popular overseas.

Is there any other kind?

http://i.somethingawful.com/goldmine/02-04-2003/torsoboy.jpg

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/gulf-war-ii.php

See that? American style democracy is popular overseas.

Is there any other kind?

http://i.somethingawful.com/goldmine/02-04-2003/torsoboy.jpg

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/gulf-war-ii.php

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/chachacom-get-people.php?page=10

        HatfulOfHollow posted:

        Status: Looking for a guide ...
        Status: Connected to guide: BarbaraB
        BarbaraB: Hi there. I will be helping with your search.
        You: hello brabarab!
        BarbaraB: HI! What can I find you today?
        You: i need information about bank robberies
        BarbaraB: general info?
        You: yes
        You: but also some more specific stuff
        BarbaraB: Like what?
        You: like great bank robberies or robberies in general
        You: where the criminals got away
        You: oh thats a good link
        You: but is there any more speciic information about any of those particular robberies?
        You: yes! bank robberies unsolved!
        You: that's amazing
        BarbaraB: Can I find anything else for you?
        You: how about robberies of bank robberies gone wrong?
        You: err links for robberies gone wrong
        BarbaraB: sure, one moment
        You: like remember that one in california a few years ago where the guys had body armor on and got killed?
        You: i need more info about things like that.
        You: oh wow, that last link is awesome
        You: it even goes into the details of what the peeople did when they robbed the banks
        BarbaraB: Interesting....
        You: this is all great info
        You: oh man!
        You: i like that last one. philly's greatest bank robbery
        BarbaraB: Can I find anything else for you?
        You: yeah, actually
        BarbaraB: Let me have it......
        You: can you find me the addresses of banks in philadelphia.
        BarbaraB: LOL
        You: no, really.
        BarbaraB: No really, LOL.
        You: i'm just trying to learn through other peoples mistakes
        BarbaraB: Can I find anything else for you?
        You: nope that's it!
        BarbaraB: Thanks for searching ChaCha!

I love this classic argument. Anyone who's never made a successful movie can never say Uwe Boll movies are crap. Anyone who's never been Miss Missouri can never say that chick gave an air-headed response. Anyone who's never written a #1 best-selling book can never say the Wheel of Time series is tedious.

It's more about Dangerous Vaults level crap or most of those "christian" videogames.

Laugh all you want, but the terrorists are making video's. Someone captured this off SecondLife, and somethingaweful picked it up. Is is a really interesting look into the mind of a terrorist though. Scary.

Please note it is a little disturbing though (nsfw). Video is at the end of the page: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari /second-life-sucks.php

Then there are the ones who spend more time bitching about what game is better or how all the new games suck, then they actually spend enjoying the games they hold so highly.

You'll enjoy this recent SomethingAwful article where they look at postings from a forum where everybody is convinced that Fallout and Fallout 2 are the best games ever, to the extent that they actually threaten to kill Bethesda developers for "ruining" the franchise. (Bethesda's version is not even released yet!)

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/fallou t-scarleteen-armenianclub.php

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?th readid=2551167

NWS http://ft.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/e1/e165187 4770c2c2a42433b4636f3c9621942c7c3.png

No-one seems to have noticed it yet, but this all leads from this post on Something Awful two days ago. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?th readid=2565728&userid=0&perpage=40

When they said - "Rock Band: announced by the people who brought you Guitar Hero. Now look like a faggot not by yourself, but with three other people.".

Whenever I think of a game so bad that it's funny, I think of Life's Battle. Since I can't do justice in saying how horribly funny this game is, I'll just provide a link to SomethingAwful's stellar game review.. Enjoy!

I'm gonna go with Last Battle for the Genesis on this one. Beefy guys with huge bodies and puny, puny heads standing at the end of monotonous levels whining about "I want to be a hero" and other such comedy gems. It's almost worth playing just to see what stupid thing the characters will say next.

See also the review at Something Awful.

Sadly, this is the first thing that came to mind. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari /my-lovely-horse.php (Sort of NSFW)

Why should I pay $540 for the course when I can learn the same skills from certain not-so-friendly groups and actually also get paid for it! Saudi Ozzie, here I come.

Terrorist training isn't what it once was. Modern terrorists have difficulty even making bombs that can actually explode.

Also I heard that terrorist summer camps are actually a front for some sort of fundamentalist church. So not only do you not learn how to be an effective bomber, you also get brainwashed with a load of crazy nonsense about Jeebus and vegetarian T-Rexes. All considered, I'd rather pay up and learn about explosives from some proper experts.

GASP! Those fine upstanding gentlemen at Something Awful? I can't imagine that those fine, upstanding gentlemen, the people who have defined the very word "Internet Troll", would ever, EVER do something as illegal as libel and fraud.

I mean, not to someone who would actually be big enough to fight back, that is.

Granted, these are the same fine upstanding gentlemen who constantly find things online that they don't like then encourage their horde of twits and retards at their forums to harrass people for shits and giggles.

But hey, it's funny when they're finding some kid's Guile fansite or bringing bomb threats to a furry con (and then bitching when the police have something to say about bomb threats right next to an airport), right? So it has to be fun when they're trying the same form of character assassination and harassment on as large a scale as to attack a multi-million dollar international company... right?

Right? Ha ha? So funny? Right?

So obviously, if EVE gets upset enough to actually sue them for this, they're just being bad sports. Ha. Haha. Right? Uh, guys?

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/nardo-design- empire.php

Subject E-11 Blaster Rifle Calibration Still Off
From Stormtrooper Commander 09731
Date A Long Time Ago 3:51 PM
To Nardo Pace

As you know, the E-11 has come a long way since its initial prototype. Thanks to your hard work over the past three years the rifle no longer fires completely sideways, and with your latest revision, the number of casualties resulting from blaster fire being directed completely backwards has been drastically reduced.

That said, the E-11 still has some accuracy issues. We recently bolted one of the rifles to a testing mechanism so that it couldn't move even a millimeter, then set up a human-sized target six feet in front of the blaster's barrel. Shooting in two second intervals, we let the E-11 fire at the target continuously for three days.

The result? Not one shot hit the target. I realize you're busy, but perhaps we can go over the design one more time and iron this out.

The man to ask is Arnie Lerma. He runs one of the anti-scientology sites - http://www.lermanet.com

His writing is a bit haggard some time to time, but I guess that's a side-effect of eating nothing but rice and beans on the SeaOrg. I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up in this discussion. You can say his name 3 times in-front of a mirror and he'll appear. Just like Biggie Smalls.

He was recently summoned here: Scientology thread on SomethignAwful

it seems possible that in some point in the future we will have no moon walkers among us.

I heard they release a song with each version of OpenBSD but I've never actually listened to it.
Now that I did, I think it's terrible. Other people think the same of old releases...

Anyway, if they like it, they can go on writing bad songs along with great software.

Personally I'd be a lot more excited if it was about DDR Ram
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