I'm not a homophobe, really. I work with several gays. I have one good friend that is gay, and several 'acquaintances' that are gay.
Will and Grace is Mainstream. Six Feet Under is mainstream. Simpsons is mainstream. (Smithers, anyone?)
Here is just a short list (read:hundreds) of gay characters that are on TV. Yes, I can change the channel. But I have to change the channel a lot. If my preference was to have sex with donkeys, and I made a group of people that thought likewise, and we wanted to have programming on TV reflect out lifestyle CHOICE, you may be a little more upset.
(I now await to be modded flamebait again because I'm a straight white male and my opinion in this world no longer matters)
And allow me to capture them, imprison them, torture them, and kill them.
I'd buy it.:)
I'm joking, you bastards, don't mod me as flamebait. I'm just sick of Queer Eye this and Will and Grace that and everything gay is being shoved down the mainsteam into my home. I'm sick of it. That's why there is the WB and BET, for african american shows. Put these 'gay' shows on the 'gay' channel (Pick one, I don't care which) so I can just not watch that channel. But don't start piece-mealing gay themes into my video games cuz I won't buy it. Design and market the games to the people that will buy them.
At my house, I do not have long distance. You should be able to call your telephone provider and say you do not want to be able to make long distance calls from your house.
I use my cellphone (free long distance) for all non-local calls, I have no long distance provider, and I think all the long distance companies think I'm too poor to afford long distance, I never get calls from MCI/Sprint/AT&T to sign up for long distance.
If BlackBerry loses this case, does that mean I can give back my BlackBerry that my job makes me carry around with me 24/7?
FreeEEEDOM!!!
Or better yet, maybe my Blackberry will have to meet a certain 'accidental' demise, and they will be unable to give me a new one due to this patent hearing.
iTunes was great, when it was free (I drink soda all the time, so got about 50 free songs from iTunes).
I haven't bought a single song since then. I'm debating signing up with Rhapsody and Real, start drinking Heineken, and get some more free songs from them...
(might be a problem replacing my Pepsi with Heineken while at work however)
Yeah, I know (that's why I liked it!).. but they could easily balance that government type by adding more civil disobedience, corruption, etc.. (as fundamentalist countries are wont to do)
I want to buy Civilization 4. Or Civilization IV. Whatever they want to call it. I'm hooked on that game, and would love to see what they come up with next.
I heard they actually dropped terrorism from CIV3, I think it would be an interesting addition to add to the game, especially for smaller/weaker countries to attempt to at least slow down bigger countries' growth.
More technology would be fun as well. And add Fundamentalism back to the choices of government.
I noticed everyone replied to me saying that Xbox has Vice City, I forgot they got it, but what, 6 months to a year after it was no longer a 'hot game' and it was played out?
The PSX rocks.. DVD burning, 250MB HDD, and PS2 all built into one. I need one, and am accepting donations.
Captain: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. spoken in the Flash animation as Someone set up us the bomb Operator: We get signal. Captain: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It's you !! Cats: How are you gentlemen !! Cats: All your base are belong to us. Cats: You are on the way to destruction. Captain: What you say !! Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time. Cats: Ha Ha Ha Ha.... Operator: Captain !!* Captain: Take off every 'Zig'!! Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: Move 'Zig'. Captain: For great justice.
True story.. a friend of mine used to sell robotic bomb-finding machines. They had a 85% success rate of defusing bombs. They cost about 10 million US to purchase.
A Russian military person was interested in the machines, until he found out that if the robot failed to defuse the bomb, they usually were broken beyond repair.
He said "We'll just stick to using soldiers. They're much cheaper"
Uh, one of the reasons I like USB is that it's a POWERED connection. Are we going to be sending energy through wireless connections with this WUSB somehow? And how much lead suit protection do I need to wear to not grow a third eye or extra thumbs when using it?
Accept the fact that Microsoft will take over the world, they will build SkyNet, the machines will take over, there WILL be a revolution, we will all live in the Matrix, and we will all be happy there.
It's not like you'll know that you're batteries in a liquid goo harvested by machines... Just accept the facts, people and move on...
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-- Douglas Adams
I agree with the time passing part. If you notice however, starting at year 1900 I believe each turn lasts only 1 year. I'm not so much interested in year-to-year handling of their nation, but HOW they handle it. And who cares about building Spearmen and stuff, let them start off with today's technology, and see where they take it.
Declaration of war doesn't cause MY civilization to grind to a halt. But staying at war for 20 years does. Look at Vietnam, and the effect that had on the US in dragging that one out.
And, I may point out, Modern Tanks (humvees?) in Iraq are being blown away by RPG grenades fired off the shoulder of insurgents. It CAN and DOES happen.
I'm way over the age of 18, and I handle mortgage, job, kids, wife, time, just fine. I still get my butt kicked in Civilization at a medium-to-hard setting.:)
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Well in European languages cars have masculine/feminine meanings (La voiture, etc). They could mix it up a bit. :)
Will and Grace is Mainstream. Six Feet Under is mainstream. Simpsons is mainstream. (Smithers, anyone?)
Here is just a short list (read:hundreds) of gay characters that are on TV. Yes, I can change the channel. But I have to change the channel a lot. If my preference was to have sex with donkeys, and I made a group of people that thought likewise, and we wanted to have programming on TV reflect out lifestyle CHOICE, you may be a little more upset. (I now await to be modded flamebait again because I'm a straight white male and my opinion in this world no longer matters)
And allow me to capture them, imprison them, torture them, and kill them.
:)
I'd buy it.
I'm joking, you bastards, don't mod me as flamebait. I'm just sick of Queer Eye this and Will and Grace that and everything gay is being shoved down the mainsteam into my home. I'm sick of it. That's why there is the WB and BET, for african american shows. Put these 'gay' shows on the 'gay' channel (Pick one, I don't care which) so I can just not watch that channel. But don't start piece-mealing gay themes into my video games cuz I won't buy it. Design and market the games to the people that will buy them.
end rant
No way on God's green earth I could have finished Contra or Life Force without Up Up Down down etc... 3 lives vs. 40 (or was it 99?).
..
And Ikari Warriors, that one was easy. A B B A
Up up down down left right left right B A Select Start.
At my house, I do not have long distance. You should be able to call your telephone provider and say you do not want to be able to make long distance calls from your house.
I use my cellphone (free long distance) for all non-local calls, I have no long distance provider, and I think all the long distance companies think I'm too poor to afford long distance, I never get calls from MCI/Sprint/AT&T to sign up for long distance.
Just got conquests, managed to finish a scenario in under 12 hours (by myself). Yay. :)
If BlackBerry loses this case, does that mean I can give back my BlackBerry that my job makes me carry around with me 24/7?
FreeEEEDOM!!!
Or better yet, maybe my Blackberry will have to meet a certain 'accidental' demise, and they will be unable to give me a new one due to this patent hearing.
iTunes was great, when it was free (I drink soda all the time, so got about 50 free songs from iTunes).
I haven't bought a single song since then. I'm debating signing up with Rhapsody and Real, start drinking Heineken, and get some more free songs from them...
(might be a problem replacing my Pepsi with Heineken while at work however)
I just took out a patent on running articles that suggest that the FTC is looking into the ways that patents are reviewed and issued.
1. Make a Patent.
2. Enforce the Patent.
3. Profit!!
And Beagle is the insane robot leader planning on killing the arriving astronauts...
Beagle's not lost, it just went Johnny 5 and realized it's alive...
Yeah, I know (that's why I liked it!).. but they could easily balance that government type by adding more civil disobedience, corruption, etc.. (as fundamentalist countries are wont to do)
I want to buy Civilization 4. Or Civilization IV. Whatever they want to call it. I'm hooked on that game, and would love to see what they come up with next.
I heard they actually dropped terrorism from CIV3, I think it would be an interesting addition to add to the game, especially for smaller/weaker countries to attempt to at least slow down bigger countries' growth.
More technology would be fun as well. And add Fundamentalism back to the choices of government.
Thanks for that. :P
I noticed everyone replied to me saying that Xbox has Vice City, I forgot they got it, but what, 6 months to a year after it was no longer a 'hot game' and it was played out?
The PSX rocks.. DVD burning, 250MB HDD, and PS2 all built into one. I need one, and am accepting donations.
Xbox doesn't have Gran Turismo, GTA:VC, nor will it have the new one.
PSX is pretty bad ass, I must say.
We had ads on TV, Radio, in movies, on buses, billboards, written in the sky.. but *NOT* in dreams. /Futurama hack
In A.D. 2101
....
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
spoken in the Flash animation as Someone set up us the bomb
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Operator: Captain !!*
Captain: Take off every 'Zig'!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'Zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
What is that?
Popcorn.
Get rid of it. I hate popcorn.
Oh. Now I know what to get you for your birthday.
-- Real Genius, best movie ever?
LAZLO!
Oh no! Global warming has caused their server to break!
Farked. And I don't mean 'Farscaped'.
True story.. a friend of mine used to sell robotic bomb-finding machines. They had a 85% success rate of defusing bombs. They cost about 10 million US to purchase.
:)
A Russian military person was interested in the machines, until he found out that if the robot failed to defuse the bomb, they usually were broken beyond repair.
He said "We'll just stick to using soldiers. They're much cheaper"
Nice.
I'll just set my DVR to record all my TV shows for the week, and watch them all the week after..
Uh, one of the reasons I like USB is that it's a POWERED connection. Are we going to be sending energy through wireless connections with this WUSB somehow? And how much lead suit protection do I need to wear to not grow a third eye or extra thumbs when using it?
Mod +1, same comment on the tip of my tongue.
Accept the fact that Microsoft will take over the world, they will build SkyNet, the machines will take over, there WILL be a revolution, we will all live in the Matrix, and we will all be happy there.
It's not like you'll know that you're batteries in a liquid goo harvested by machines... Just accept the facts, people and move on...
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams
I agree with the time passing part. If you notice however, starting at year 1900 I believe each turn lasts only 1 year. I'm not so much interested in year-to-year handling of their nation, but HOW they handle it. And who cares about building Spearmen and stuff, let them start off with today's technology, and see where they take it.
:)
Declaration of war doesn't cause MY civilization to grind to a halt. But staying at war for 20 years does. Look at Vietnam, and the effect that had on the US in dragging that one out.
And, I may point out, Modern Tanks (humvees?) in Iraq are being blown away by RPG grenades fired off the shoulder of insurgents. It CAN and DOES happen.
I'm way over the age of 18, and I handle mortgage, job, kids, wife, time, just fine. I still get my butt kicked in Civilization at a medium-to-hard setting.