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Unless you happen to get type 2 diabetes (which can be favored genetically, but can also be caused by obesity), in which case you're pretty much fucked without professional help. You may talk about discipline or laziness all you like, but an unbuffered insulin level isn't simply dealt with by self-control.

I'm not talking from experience there, but I do have at least one acquaintance with this problem. He's a medical doctor who knows how his disease works, but he still has trouble managing his weight.

While education and discipline may help you avoid obesity, curing it is a lot harder than it seems.

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The problem is mainly in health education and stuff like this being widely available. People just don't know - all they know is that it's easier to buy some frozen balls of cholesterol at Walmart than to cook some real food (if they ever learned to cook at all).

Even from TFS I can see that the patent in question relates to cards redeemable against a specific item, rather than against credit which can be used to purchase various items.

When I was a kid, I would get McDonald's gift certificate books fairly regularly for my birthday (yeah, yeah, I'm still burning off that fat). Sold at the McDonald's register, rather than being valued at a particular dollar amount and good for anything, each page was good for, say, a free ice cream cone. http://www.x-entertainment.com/halloween/2005/september13/ (scroll down to the vibrating bunny girl, I'm not the only person with this particular delusion)

This patent is made of fail and "on the Internet!"

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0804/3.jpg

Shredder! Get those turtles.

In this context "meaning", ironically, has no meaning whatsoever.

Also I'd like to submit this into evidence: A kid becomes attached to a chatbot. Its hilarious and kind of touching. If he's lying, frankly, I think he deserves some kind of award for the fiction.

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This page explains the "it's a trap" inside joke well enough, although I don't know what the deal is behind tagging comments with itsatrap today in particular.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

It's so bad.

I have this on laserdisc and didn't realize it had never made it to DVD after all these years.

Now where's my Max Headroom and Reboot season 1+2 DVDs, dammit!

Its amazing that nintendo was cool enough to release a commericial as a film and kids would flock to see it?
Best review of this film I've ever seen is here: http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0795/

I smell another Monopoly Playmaster.

It's already been done.

Ask and you shall receive.

It's a board game, not a tabletop game, but d20 is pretty much a board game anyway.

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0795/wiz-p g.wmv

Maybe you should ask Strongbad how he types with boxing gloves on.

And besides, the Power Glove is so bad.

Strange Brew - after being exposed and nearly killed by toxic waste, Chris and Gus awaken with new talents. Gus is an origami master, able to fold napkins into the most delicate of forms, while Chris gains super-intelligence. They decide to employ Chris' new smarts to win every spelling bee in the world. While the 'bee groupies' eventually start to annoy Chris, they make it all the way to the championships. Unfortunately, the effects of the toxic waste wear off, and Chris forgets how to spell 'pants'. The masses turn on him, sickened that he'd cheat the spelling bee organization by way of toxic waste.

We've already eaten aliens!!

No, it was the Power Glove that was "so bad".

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0795/

Scroll about halfway down the page to see the source of that quote :)

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0795/

Scroll about halfway down the page to see the source of that quote :)

...I've done a little research into this and think I may just have stumbled upon some prior art that would invalidate their patent.

No, no...

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/262.html

Am I the only one who misses the days when only the GOOD movies managed to get such honors? Nowadays, for every flavor of the month movie, there's also a video game version, cereals, comic books, action figures et al. released simultaneously even before the movie is "proven".

"Nowadays?" I think you need to peruse the archives at http://x-entertainment.com./

As someone in TFA said, no power glove? But "It's so bad!"

Meanwhile, PA is TU.

don't get caught up in the... crossfire!

I'm sorry folks but it's no longer high art when you get a slurpee named for it. I'll recant on this if they launch the new Van Gogh flavored slurpee.

Yeah. Like Star Wars was ever high art and not a vehicle for selling merchandise.

Mmmm Slurpee

All I can say is:

I love the power glove, it's so BAD.

Uh that and "He touched my breast!"

I believe Swanson has hack out for those with laps too narrow to handle this bad boy.

You've never read X-E have you?

You act like merchandising and product promotion are something new. Need I remind you that Star Wars even had its own Breakfast Cereal? And let's not even talk about the toys, the TV specials, the books, the games, the crisps, and so-on.

Flower my ass, it's a honeycomb dammit!

'Honeycomb's big, yeah yeah yeah! It's not small, no no no!'

I love the Power Glove... it's so bad.

wow. nostalgic potato couch technology.

Fireball Island is the only game you'll ever want to play once you play it once. You move your little men up and down a volcanic island. Every once in a while the island will kick out a volcanic fireball which will literally roll across the board and burn unsuspecting players who will have to recover in a lava pit. Occasially the fireballs will knock out a bridge you're walking across and you'll be literally knocked into a river or ocean. Oh man what a game.

Ok, maybe it's not hat great, and maybe I haven't played it in ten years, but I sure remember it being great.

Reminds me of Kerplunk!, Hungry Hungry Hippo, Dizzy (Dizzy) Dinosaur, Chutes and Ladders, and Mouse Trap.

Does anyone know the game where you make architecture with curved interlocking pieces and watch the marbles fall through them?

You should also check out X-Entertainment's media section which features a bunch of 80's ads also (some are video games). Amatuerish site content at best, but some damn fine memories.

Well, if that's what happened, then it's too late for this guy.

All of a sudden, I come to think of The Wizard.

Just think about Hulk Hogan playing Mario... disasterous.

Would you rather have Captain Lou Albano playing Mario?

This game entertained me well into High School for no apparent reason. There's really no skill to it, but trash talk and rematches kept it going for hours on end.

Parent wasn't referring to the SW Xmas Special, but this fellow, from the animated puppet TV movie "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

Umm, hello There have been TWO Star Wars franchise TV shows already! Droids that covered the further adventures of of C2PO and r2D2 (I think these ar eplaced between ep3 and ep4, but I dunno. and The Ewoks Cartoon Is this a "Sharked already jumped" point, or do those cartoons not count? For the record, I loved them both, but then I am addicted to cartoons. so, you know, meh.

The game won't be out until 2005, but the first review is already up here

Look, the Special Edition+ version coming out on DVD is all well and good (well, except for Greedo, Jabba and some other assorted changes I hate), but where the FCUK ARE THE DELETED SCENES!?! You know. Those ones that appeared on 'Behind The Magic' double CD set from ANH, some random scenes from Hoth removed from ESB and the infamous ROTJ sandstorm (some pictures of which are scenes here: http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/416.html (X-Entertainment.com)). He has no reason for not including them on the DVD release.

Now to rekindle your childhood nightmares, the Nintendo Cereal commercial

Taken from here.

Bart: When I'm feeling low, you know what cheers me up?
Rod: Kindness?
Bart: Oooh, tough room. Video games! Whaddyagot?
(He reaches to the bookshelf and picks up a copy of "Billy Graham's Bible Blasters," and they begin to play.)
Rod: Keep firing! Convert the heathens!
(A series of "heathens" crosses the video screen as a "Bible gun" fires Bibles at them. When a "heathen" is hit, he turns into a conservatively dressed man with a halo.)
Bart: Got him!
Rod: No, you just winged him and made him a Unitarian.
Todd: Look out, Bart! A gentle Baha'i!
(Bart zaps the Baha'i, turning him into another suit with a halo).
Bart: All right! Full conversion!

yeah... uh, how about
Pac-Man!!!
wow.... that's just freakin cool

Agreed. Once you are getting a bit better it is great fun. For me, it has ceased to be a chore, and feels more like a time to relax, be a bit creative.

Also, this topic is a great opportunity to copy and paste some fun links.

The worst breakfast ever: "Swanson, producers of some of the world's fattiest TV dinners, is seeking to take over the breakfast market with a new line of microwaveable morning meals. It's called the 'Hungry Man All Day Breakfast,' and it's threatening to turn people into manatees."

For those who like Mystery Science Theatre 3000, here is a similar take on edibles; The Gallery of Regrettable Food

another site worth looking at for nostalgia is X-Entertainment.com. When I first discovered this site I spent hours reading the articles about all the crap i had/watched when I was a kid.

You mean this guy?

I always thought that computers and Encyclopedia were a good mix. Heck it gave the kid a B on his report on Space.