Racial Minority? Oh please drop the race card, your entire post is laden with it.
On the subject of Marijuana being illegal:
The oil/textile industries knew the possibilities of the hemp plant, one being cheaper paper and clothing goods than they were currently manufacturing as well as a more efficient, costwise, fuel source (ethanol derived from the hemp/marijuana plant is the most efficient place to get it from, iirc 35x more cost effective than corn?). These were exacerbated by the fact that the plant is a weed and can grow in almost any temperate climate/zone.
The major reasoning they used was 'smoking pot is what niggers do, and do you want your fine upstanding white children doing that nigger thing?' The other was outright lies about marijuana causing people to go crazy and hurt others, make them moody, violent, etc. In fact, that's a perfect description of alcohol and so far from the truth about marijuana that it is sickening.
"Killing people in tibet"
I bet you're one of those people who is all 'reinstate the Dalai Lama and give the people back blahblahblah' For the record, the Dalai Lama, like a lot of other people heralded as amazing and do no evil (Mother Theresa stands out here for sure), is/was a scumbag. The Dalai Lama and his group have always kept the Tibetan people poor/in chains while they live a priveleged life.
Another classic that is near and dear to all our nerdy hearts is about to be butchered by Jackson. To be quite honest, he ruined the Lord of the Rings trilogy in my mind, every idea I had about mordor was torn asunder and beaten like baby seals.
I'm saying 3-4000 people who volunteered to do a job they knew would be dangerous dieing over the course of 3-4 years, much of which was wartime, is not a big number at all, and more people die every day to each of a large host of preventable and unpreventable reasons. Trying to use that paltry number when bashing the war in Iraq is pathetic and cries "I'm a worthless hippy who will say anything to support my viewpoint." Mod me flamebait for that if you wish, it's nothing more nor less than the truth.
Thousands? I'm against the war, but I'm against telling lies moreso. What's the bodycount up to now for Americans? 3-4000? Over how many years? If you wanna talk about our generation dieing and using it to support a viewpoint, it better be against cars and criminals before it is about the war in Iraq.
If you're living paycheck to paycheck you're doing something wrong and need to focus on either 1. Getting a better job, or 2. Learning how to manage money better.
The main character's face is modeled after a 14(right age?) year old japanese GIRL. He wears skimpier clothes than ANY of the female characters in any of the other Final Fantasy games.
Wouldn't need much force to have a needle in it and a small amount of ricin. Small ricin coated pellets were used atleast once, in the assassination of a journalist during the cold war iirc.
That bug was discovered shortly after beta was released in 1998(1997?) and was subsequently supported by the devs. It was an unintended feature afterwards, and was the basis of skill being a factor in AC PVP. Without it, PVP would have been standing in 1 place allowing your stats and the dice rolls determine if you won a fight or not. This 'bug' allowed for fluid and extremely fastpaced fights. The other thing was with spellcasting, you couldn't move very far away from where you started casting a spell, about 3 character widths in radius. If you finished the casting animation within that radius, the spell would cast, otherwise it would fizzle (not be cast). Anyone who played AC understood that while movement was a bug in the beginning, it was fully supported by the devs after they realized what a boon it was to gameplay.
I should of clarified. In Asheron's Call the PVP was made great by a bug in the physics engine that allowed movement while performing actions. Casting spells, firing arrows, using healing kits or potions, you could move while doing all of these. The game used hit detection for spells/missile attacks, and these could all be dodged by manipulating your characters movement to throw off the spell/missile targetting when being attacked. The best fights were mage vs mage, cause people developed casts that were insane and were truly works of skill.
I hope you're being sarcastic, cause PVP in WOW has no legitimate penalties, and is the biggest farce of MMORPG PVP ever created. You can't even call it PVP and be serious, cause it's nothing more than CvC, character vs character. Items/Class/Level vs Items/Class/Level.
In Asheron's Call and Ultima Online player skill meant more than levels/stats/equipment except in extreme instances. I was able to take out level 200+ players with a level 100 just cause my cast > theirs in AC. Sure, I had to be infinitely better than them, but it was still very possible. Games like WOW are all point and click with little to no skill involved at all.
w00t was around for YEARS before WoW ever came out. I know for a fact we were saying it in Asheron's Call in 2001, and I'm damned sure it was being used well before that as well.
Phantom Dust is where a lot of us from Asheron's Call: Darktide tried to go for a skillful game we could all play, and we weren't disappointed. Amazing game, sadly not popular enough to last:(
Last I checked they didn't even accomplish half of their goals on D-Day. The only thing that kept D-Day from being a complete disaster was the withholding(sp?) of the Panzer divisions by Hitler. Even without them, D-Day was just barely pulled off.
Providing a means to bypass security checkpoints in an airport after 9/11, yeah, he definately should be arrested. Sure some of you will cry free speech and whatnot, but this is a national security risk. I hope all those crying also understand that it's illegal to flick your highbeams after passing a speed trap to warn other motorists of it's presence. Just cause you don't think it should be illegal doesn't mean it isn't, and just cause something might not be explicitly illegal doesn't mean it shouldn't be or that it isn't utterly wrong.
Is if Blu Ray format takes off, I can play Spyro and MGS1 for free/dirt cheap prices, and it by the will of allah drops to under $400 by the time I get out of the army in 2-4 years.
Why is every other games article these days about WOW or something related to WOW? Just cause 7 million fools play a sub par game doesn't mean we need to be inundated with news about their horribly mind numbing game. I would think it wouldn't even be mentioned here as it brings down one's IQ so much by playing the game or even remembering having played it for no matter how short a time period.
MOS25b, Information Technology Specialist. That's what I'm going in for. I'm sorry if you don't want your tax dollars going towards the men and women who give you the right to free speech, who give you the right to live in a country where you aren't jailed for voicing any form of criticism against the government, who give their lives when it is asked of them for you. Sympathy for those in the military? They volunteered to serve their country, and to give aid to their brothers and sisters in the military when the time comes that they are needed.
If you don't love your country, then get the fuck out. If you talk about leaving the US cause you don't like things here, then you have no right claiming you love your country and want things to get better in it but on the other hand cry about how you're running away to another country. Too many people are claiming to be patriotic Americans who love their country yet run off to other countries while still spouting the same things in some vain attempt to save face to other Americans. I used to think like you guys, when I was 15. Then I grew up, and realized if you actually love your country, you don't run away like a little girl, you stay and do what you can to fix it. You put your heart into the things you believe in and do what you can to make things in your community or on a larger scale county, state, or even the nation itself better for those around you. I'm personally joining the US Army at the end of this semester, cause I love my country, not to mention the job training and benefits will be great. If you don't agree with the current administration, so be it, but don't try to claim you are an American who loves their country if you're running away.
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Sounds like you need a new keyboard/to clean your current one. Never good to spill your munchies on the keyboard.
Racial Minority? Oh please drop the race card, your entire post is laden with it.
On the subject of Marijuana being illegal:
The oil/textile industries knew the possibilities of the hemp plant, one being cheaper paper and clothing goods than they were currently manufacturing as well as a more efficient, costwise, fuel source (ethanol derived from the hemp/marijuana plant is the most efficient place to get it from, iirc 35x more cost effective than corn?). These were exacerbated by the fact that the plant is a weed and can grow in almost any temperate climate/zone.
The major reasoning they used was 'smoking pot is what niggers do, and do you want your fine upstanding white children doing that nigger thing?' The other was outright lies about marijuana causing people to go crazy and hurt others, make them moody, violent, etc. In fact, that's a perfect description of alcohol and so far from the truth about marijuana that it is sickening.
"Killing people in tibet" I bet you're one of those people who is all 'reinstate the Dalai Lama and give the people back blahblahblah' For the record, the Dalai Lama, like a lot of other people heralded as amazing and do no evil (Mother Theresa stands out here for sure), is/was a scumbag. The Dalai Lama and his group have always kept the Tibetan people poor/in chains while they live a priveleged life.
Another classic that is near and dear to all our nerdy hearts is about to be butchered by Jackson. To be quite honest, he ruined the Lord of the Rings trilogy in my mind, every idea I had about mordor was torn asunder and beaten like baby seals.
I'm saying 3-4000 people who volunteered to do a job they knew would be dangerous dieing over the course of 3-4 years, much of which was wartime, is not a big number at all, and more people die every day to each of a large host of preventable and unpreventable reasons. Trying to use that paltry number when bashing the war in Iraq is pathetic and cries "I'm a worthless hippy who will say anything to support my viewpoint." Mod me flamebait for that if you wish, it's nothing more nor less than the truth.
Thousands? I'm against the war, but I'm against telling lies moreso. What's the bodycount up to now for Americans? 3-4000? Over how many years? If you wanna talk about our generation dieing and using it to support a viewpoint, it better be against cars and criminals before it is about the war in Iraq.
Sounds fun and all but, as the great and wise maddox once said:
Civil Disobedience is STILL Disobedience.
If you're living paycheck to paycheck you're doing something wrong and need to focus on either 1. Getting a better job, or 2. Learning how to manage money better.
If you can 'barely' afford $15 a month to play an MMORPG, you shouldn't even be playing one in the first place.
The main character's face is modeled after a 14(right age?) year old japanese GIRL. He wears skimpier clothes than ANY of the female characters in any of the other Final Fantasy games.
Wouldn't need much force to have a needle in it and a small amount of ricin. Small ricin coated pellets were used atleast once, in the assassination of a journalist during the cold war iirc.
That bug was discovered shortly after beta was released in 1998(1997?) and was subsequently supported by the devs. It was an unintended feature afterwards, and was the basis of skill being a factor in AC PVP. Without it, PVP would have been standing in 1 place allowing your stats and the dice rolls determine if you won a fight or not. This 'bug' allowed for fluid and extremely fastpaced fights. The other thing was with spellcasting, you couldn't move very far away from where you started casting a spell, about 3 character widths in radius. If you finished the casting animation within that radius, the spell would cast, otherwise it would fizzle (not be cast). Anyone who played AC understood that while movement was a bug in the beginning, it was fully supported by the devs after they realized what a boon it was to gameplay.
I should of clarified. In Asheron's Call the PVP was made great by a bug in the physics engine that allowed movement while performing actions. Casting spells, firing arrows, using healing kits or potions, you could move while doing all of these. The game used hit detection for spells/missile attacks, and these could all be dodged by manipulating your characters movement to throw off the spell/missile targetting when being attacked. The best fights were mage vs mage, cause people developed casts that were insane and were truly works of skill.
I hope you're being sarcastic, cause PVP in WOW has no legitimate penalties, and is the biggest farce of MMORPG PVP ever created. You can't even call it PVP and be serious, cause it's nothing more than CvC, character vs character. Items/Class/Level vs Items/Class/Level.
In Asheron's Call and Ultima Online player skill meant more than levels/stats/equipment except in extreme instances. I was able to take out level 200+ players with a level 100 just cause my cast > theirs in AC. Sure, I had to be infinitely better than them, but it was still very possible. Games like WOW are all point and click with little to no skill involved at all.
w00t was around for YEARS before WoW ever came out. I know for a fact we were saying it in Asheron's Call in 2001, and I'm damned sure it was being used well before that as well.
Phantom Dust is where a lot of us from Asheron's Call: Darktide tried to go for a skillful game we could all play, and we weren't disappointed. Amazing game, sadly not popular enough to last :(
Last I checked they didn't even accomplish half of their goals on D-Day. The only thing that kept D-Day from being a complete disaster was the withholding(sp?) of the Panzer divisions by Hitler. Even without them, D-Day was just barely pulled off.
Providing a means to bypass security checkpoints in an airport after 9/11, yeah, he definately should be arrested. Sure some of you will cry free speech and whatnot, but this is a national security risk. I hope all those crying also understand that it's illegal to flick your highbeams after passing a speed trap to warn other motorists of it's presence. Just cause you don't think it should be illegal doesn't mean it isn't, and just cause something might not be explicitly illegal doesn't mean it shouldn't be or that it isn't utterly wrong.
Is if Blu Ray format takes off, I can play Spyro and MGS1 for free/dirt cheap prices, and it by the will of allah drops to under $400 by the time I get out of the army in 2-4 years.
to support free speech when you have fucking wackjobs like Jack Thompson and the psychos in the Westboro Baptist Church.
Why is every other games article these days about WOW or something related to WOW? Just cause 7 million fools play a sub par game doesn't mean we need to be inundated with news about their horribly mind numbing game. I would think it wouldn't even be mentioned here as it brings down one's IQ so much by playing the game or even remembering having played it for no matter how short a time period.
If I could use my moderator points in this discussion, they'd all go to my good man.
MOS25b, Information Technology Specialist. That's what I'm going in for. I'm sorry if you don't want your tax dollars going towards the men and women who give you the right to free speech, who give you the right to live in a country where you aren't jailed for voicing any form of criticism against the government, who give their lives when it is asked of them for you. Sympathy for those in the military? They volunteered to serve their country, and to give aid to their brothers and sisters in the military when the time comes that they are needed.
If you don't love your country, then get the fuck out. If you talk about leaving the US cause you don't like things here, then you have no right claiming you love your country and want things to get better in it but on the other hand cry about how you're running away to another country. Too many people are claiming to be patriotic Americans who love their country yet run off to other countries while still spouting the same things in some vain attempt to save face to other Americans. I used to think like you guys, when I was 15. Then I grew up, and realized if you actually love your country, you don't run away like a little girl, you stay and do what you can to fix it. You put your heart into the things you believe in and do what you can to make things in your community or on a larger scale county, state, or even the nation itself better for those around you. I'm personally joining the US Army at the end of this semester, cause I love my country, not to mention the job training and benefits will be great. If you don't agree with the current administration, so be it, but don't try to claim you are an American who loves their country if you're running away.