Maybe it has something more to do with communism, and not just people unwilling to pay. Your talking about a people raised with no concept of intellectual property. It's all shareware (state owned, for our benefit) anyway, right? Maybe they don't realize that stealing 1's and 0's is bad.
did you see that duck? he had no pants on! and that mouse...are those nipples i see!
Thank you for blocking my streets with cats and cones so you can upload pr0n 10mbps faster. Wow! BFD!
How fast do you REALLY need a relay? Jesus people, put it in perspective! I really don't need 100mgps access to my residential home. WTF is wrong with 2.5mgps? Can your 1.4 mhz(avg) computer even handle this? What's the issue? Americans are slow? Europe has something we don't? Who gives a FythgFck~!
It's like Barbossa said, "..they're more like guidelines than actual rules."
Anyway, my buddy was the old DM, and he's sick of it cause that's all he ever does, he wants to just play. And I've read all the core books cover to cover, and our campiagn settings too. So I'm like an encylopedia of D&D. So he handed over the reins to me. A bit prematurly I'd say, but patience is not his srtong point. I'm getting the hang of it, I got a 10lv module for us to play from. I'll take us through that for a little (just to get the hang of things) while before I bust out with my Lords of Darkness book and we can start fighting the major baddies in fae'run. Larlock (CR 34) is quite the badass, it'll be a long time before we can take him out, we're only 10th level party.
I'm 30 and I just started playing a couple years ago. I just started playing Pokemon 8 months ago too(my baby brother got me into it). Your as old as you feel. If you feel you're too old to play, you just cut 10 years off your life, it's called vitality! I get mistaken for 24 all the time, and I've even got some silver!
Never stop playing, and I don't mean just RPG's! It's as vital to health as eating and breathing. People never grow up, we just get responsabilities.
I'm atticted to the Forgotten Realms books. I have 4 of em and counting. I'm also Dyslexic, (i read fine, my writing skills suck) and I find that the more redundant resources I have to compile from , the better the game play is. I love redundancy because I don't have to create the atmosphere or setting, I just plug and play!
Not all geeks are created equal. For me it's a struggle just to plan out simple monster stats, but I need to do it. This book is a god-send for morons like me.
I've gone out with women who thought my hobbies were "cute", and others who thought it was embarrasing. The latter tended to be controlling bitches, and got the ejection seat after they tried to change me.
I still use the AD&D 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual (the white cover one), and Forgotten Realms Adventures (city layouts are missing in 3rd edition campaign setting for Fae'run) in my campaigns. I'm really excited about this new book. I'm going to run out and buy it right now!
I just DM'd for the first time last Sat night, and a the others players said I did a great job. This will only help new DM's like me, cause I've only played the game 10 times (9 player, 1 DM).
From a newbie perspective, the new system, it's much more fun. Sure, it's lacking the little details, but those pendantics can bog down gameplay. Then again, pendantics are kind of a hallmark of a geek,
This is the thing that makes me most angry when people talk about Eva, they always bring up this made up gay bullshit between Kaowaru and Shinji.
First, Kaowaru was an angel. And as such was neither man nor woman, but both. The tension you may feel in the bath scene is just pure honesty and love from Kaowaru, it had absolutly nothing to do with sex (sleep together not sex, its different). It wanted to understand the human condition, so it could make the choice of self sacrifice. It was created to love. Kaowaru is the angel of love. And Rei turned into Kaowaru cause Shinji freaked out. Then she saw in his heart that he was not gay, and reverted back.
Asuka was not dying when Shinji was in her hospital room. She was completely aware of his presence. Whatch her heart monitor, notice how it starts going up when Shinji starts puddin off? That's also why she said, "I know all about your little jerk off fantisies about me. Go ahead and do it. I'll even whatch this time." Because she was pretending to be asleep. That is the purpose off that scene. Done.
It amazes me what PBS can get away with. When I was 15 (15 years ago) I was flipping through the channels and I saw Susan Sarandon's face on the PBS channel, and I was like "dammit janet" what are you doing on PBS. So I decided to watch what was on. I was even more suprised to see a young Brooke Shields too. I was like, maybe this'll be an interesting movie. Then they bring out a naked 12 year old Brooke Shields on a platter (literally) and sold her to some dirty old man for the night. I was like, Oh My God! How can they show this on TV! It's considered art I guess. I beleive the movie was called "Baby". So, seeing moving drawings of a 14 year olds nipples doesn't bother me much after that.
Yes, exactly! It is a love story between Shinji and Asuka. I didn't realize that the first couple times I watched it, cause it had been years since I had a girlfriend. Then I went out with a girl who was a lot younger than me (i was 28, she 18, still in HS no less). After we stopped seeing eachother, I was bored and decided to watch End of Evangelion again, and, sure-as-shit, the light went off in my head. It's a love story (She acted just like Auska too, freaked me out, the whole "if I can't have all of you, then I don't want anything to do with you" "go ahead and do it like you always do, I'll even watch" That scene).
On a side note, I even know what it feels like to be Misato. I had a 17 year old female friend of mine living with me for awhile(couple months) because her mom was a mental case. I just had to show her Ep.2 "the Beast", there were so many parallels between our living arrangment and Shinji/Misato's, it was crazy. I even paused this scene were it just shows Shinji's backpack on the floor in front of the TV. Then I was like look, your backpack is sitting in front of my TV too, in almost the exact same position! Whew, creepy! She even paused in front of my door and was like "I don't wanna impose". I just had to bust out with the, "Ashley, this is your home now." She stepped through the door, and I said "Welcome home!" Cool shit man! I never gave her an "adult kiss" though, that's where the parallels stopped.
Being a 30 year old bachlor living with a hot 17 year old girl is no kinda fun let me tell you. Teen girls are insane! Stress, Drama, PMS...AHHHHHH. Stay away from them. However, women in their 40's make great lovers (her mental mom for instance).
My god, I can't believe I'm about to post this story. Oh well.
I doubt we'll see Rei's 20,000 foot diameter nipples on Cartoon Network. However, they are showing DBZ uncut now, so who knows. Plus, Eva isn't nearly as sexually suggestive as Drawn Together on Comedy Central.
Evangelion isn't actually that hard to figure out. It has nothing to do with the Bible or christianity. The christian symbology used in the series was used only because it is a foriegn concept to most japanese, and would further compound the dismay Gainax wanted the viewer to feel.
It is a love story between Shinji and Asuka. It's just that simple.
I realized after I posted I could just google the answer. I'm a moron. The first thing that popped up was the NCSA site.
While it seems like a nice trick to cluster 70 ps2's, it doesn't seem very usefull. Even the article I read said they were having problems firguring out what to do with the cluster, cause each node has only 32megs.
You had to actually GO to a movie theater to see Disney movies. This was before Disney put anything on tape (VCR's were evil in the early 80's). Disney used to re-release their movies in theaters. Oh and Super8! forgot about good ol celluloid (lol).
Actually, the memory is only 256 megs per node. I don't think you could do any 'real' science research with a memory limit like that. I would say IBM knows what they are doing.
Nobody probably remembers the arcade pods Virtuality put out in 1994. Well, I got to work on a desktop version of those pods, called "Elysium".
It was an IBM 486 DX100 w/16 megs of RAM. But what made it an Elysium, were the 2 graphics cards (2 motorola 601e processors on each card w/8 megs of tex ram on each card too), the HMD, and the 2/6DOF magnetic tracking devices from polhemus (i.e. Fastrack) one on the HMD the other on the "pointing device", a handheld input device with 4 grip sensors that would read in pressure from finger grips in values of 1-255. You could use it to simulate a hand opening or closing.
And now my point...The school I attended/worked at used to give tours and show off this new VR tech by showing them the Elysium. Remeber the stock city model that came with 3DS Studio for DOS? My buddy put that in VR and we would show that to the "tourists". It didn't happen often put I distictly remember a few of the people getting Vertigo when they "flew" to one of the top of the buildings and looked down. They would fall right on their asses in the middle of the room, while wearing the HMD. VR is kinda dangerous in that respect.
I always thought that was the most interesting part of donning an HMD, the disorientation you felt after wearing it made it intimidating for the average Joe. And it came with warnings telling you to not wear it for more than 15 mins at a time. I took me a few hours of use, to get over the initial disorientation an HMD causes to your senses.
That is what killed VR. HMD technology is not for average computer users. Plus you can get epileptic seizures. It's the same thing that killed the Captin Power TV show.
What Motive? Why would a bunch of 20 year old soldiers from mid-western america have motive to shoot an Italian agent or a reporter? Do you seriously think these solders knew who they were shooting at?
How about this. The solders saw a car driving at them eratically, there was something a little strange and different about this car. They, being in a war zone and scared young men, shoot at the car.
The rest is so much mud slinging to make american solders look bad. These poor kids were just trying to protect themselves. Car bombs are REALLY popular in that part of the world you know.
The Italians are the ones who fucked up thinking they could play "cowboy", and run into a war zone and sneak somebody out, like something out of a Bruckhiemer movie. Only Americans should be playing "cowboy", and possibly Australians.
The Golden Rule -- "He who has the gun, makes the rules."
Could I have a job? I deliver pizza, for 2 years now. I used to be a Senior Web Developer, and did CAD/3DS/C/Perl/JS/PHP/SQL/Flash/PS for 8 years. I get off on Application Engineering and User Interface Design. Did I mention I'm 29, have associates will travel.
I guess I'm one of the untouchables you/Bill is talking about. I just started using computers again after 2 years of being offline. Mostly because I got sick of startups and know-it-all lawyers. I know I will probably never work in IT again, becuase it's been too long.
I've been practicing my pencil on paper art skills and am getting quite good. Hopefully I can get a production design job somewhere.
So I guess you'll have to bring in the forgein aid. I got sick of my boss stealling all of my ideas and not paying enough for them. That is why I can deliver pizza now, and mop floors, do dishes, clean drains, clean bathrooms. It is better to do that then be taken advantage of.
The show won't be about the main characters. That's what the movies are for. You will see cameos from Obi-Wan, Yoda, Vader, and the Skywalker Twins though.
This TV show is about life after the fall of the Republic, not about Anakin and his family and friends, though they have a major impact on the Galaxy. You will see new people and planets and how the "Rise of the Empire" affects everyone.
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did you see that duck? he had no pants on! and that mouse...are those nipples i see!
How fast do you REALLY need a relay? Jesus people, put it in perspective! I really don't need 100mgps access to my residential home. WTF is wrong with 2.5mgps? Can your 1.4 mhz(avg) computer even handle this? What's the issue? Americans are slow? Europe has something we don't? Who gives a FythgFck~!
my drive is very hard right now!
It's like Barbossa said, "..they're more like guidelines than actual rules."
Anyway, my buddy was the old DM, and he's sick of it cause that's all he ever does, he wants to just play. And I've read all the core books cover to cover, and our campiagn settings too. So I'm like an encylopedia of D&D. So he handed over the reins to me. A bit prematurly I'd say, but patience is not his srtong point. I'm getting the hang of it, I got a 10lv module for us to play from. I'll take us through that for a little (just to get the hang of things) while before I bust out with my Lords of Darkness book and we can start fighting the major baddies in fae'run. Larlock (CR 34) is quite the badass, it'll be a long time before we can take him out, we're only 10th level party.
Never stop playing, and I don't mean just RPG's! It's as vital to health as eating and breathing. People never grow up, we just get responsabilities.
BE YOUNG HAVE FUN, DRINK PEPSI!
Not all geeks are created equal. For me it's a struggle just to plan out simple monster stats, but I need to do it. This book is a god-send for morons like me.
Give her a chocolate bar for each chapter she completes. She'll be playing in no time.
I've gone out with women who thought my hobbies were "cute", and others who thought it was embarrasing. The latter tended to be controlling bitches, and got the ejection seat after they tried to change me.
I just DM'd for the first time last Sat night, and a the others players said I did a great job. This will only help new DM's like me, cause I've only played the game 10 times (9 player, 1 DM).
From a newbie perspective, the new system, it's much more fun. Sure, it's lacking the little details, but those pendantics can bog down gameplay. Then again, pendantics are kind of a hallmark of a geek,
First, Kaowaru was an angel. And as such was neither man nor woman, but both. The tension you may feel in the bath scene is just pure honesty and love from Kaowaru, it had absolutly nothing to do with sex (sleep together not sex, its different). It wanted to understand the human condition, so it could make the choice of self sacrifice. It was created to love. Kaowaru is the angel of love. And Rei turned into Kaowaru cause Shinji freaked out. Then she saw in his heart that he was not gay, and reverted back.
Asuka was not dying when Shinji was in her hospital room. She was completely aware of his presence. Whatch her heart monitor, notice how it starts going up when Shinji starts puddin off? That's also why she said, "I know all about your little jerk off fantisies about me. Go ahead and do it. I'll even whatch this time." Because she was pretending to be asleep. That is the purpose off that scene. Done.
It amazes me what PBS can get away with. When I was 15 (15 years ago) I was flipping through the channels and I saw Susan Sarandon's face on the PBS channel, and I was like "dammit janet" what are you doing on PBS. So I decided to watch what was on. I was even more suprised to see a young Brooke Shields too. I was like, maybe this'll be an interesting movie. Then they bring out a naked 12 year old Brooke Shields on a platter (literally) and sold her to some dirty old man for the night. I was like, Oh My God! How can they show this on TV! It's considered art I guess. I beleive the movie was called "Baby". So, seeing moving drawings of a 14 year olds nipples doesn't bother me much after that.
On a side note, I even know what it feels like to be Misato. I had a 17 year old female friend of mine living with me for awhile(couple months) because her mom was a mental case. I just had to show her Ep.2 "the Beast", there were so many parallels between our living arrangment and Shinji/Misato's, it was crazy. I even paused this scene were it just shows Shinji's backpack on the floor in front of the TV. Then I was like look, your backpack is sitting in front of my TV too, in almost the exact same position! Whew, creepy! She even paused in front of my door and was like "I don't wanna impose". I just had to bust out with the, "Ashley, this is your home now." She stepped through the door, and I said "Welcome home!" Cool shit man! I never gave her an "adult kiss" though, that's where the parallels stopped.
Being a 30 year old bachlor living with a hot 17 year old girl is no kinda fun let me tell you. Teen girls are insane! Stress, Drama, PMS...AHHHHHH. Stay away from them. However, women in their 40's make great lovers (her mental mom for instance).
My god, I can't believe I'm about to post this story. Oh well.
I doubt we'll see Rei's 20,000 foot diameter nipples on Cartoon Network. However, they are showing DBZ uncut now, so who knows. Plus, Eva isn't nearly as sexually suggestive as Drawn Together on Comedy Central.
It is a love story between Shinji and Asuka. It's just that simple.
Here is a link to the Red Cross Book
I'm cracking up thinking about it.
That's why I loved the TV show, it was so over the top and campy. What about the penguin-sub with the flippers!? Pure genuis!
...and don't get me started on the tights buldge and Mary Ann's navel issue.
While it seems like a nice trick to cluster 70 ps2's, it doesn't seem very usefull. Even the article I read said they were having problems firguring out what to do with the cluster, cause each node has only 32megs.
You had to actually GO to a movie theater to see Disney movies. This was before Disney put anything on tape (VCR's were evil in the early 80's). Disney used to re-release their movies in theaters. Oh and Super8! forgot about good ol celluloid (lol).
Share with your girl (and vice-versa). You'll either get better sex or she'll leave. Either way you won't have to put up with her tight-ass anymore.
Actually, the memory is only 256 megs per node. I don't think you could do any 'real' science research with a memory limit like that. I would say IBM knows what they are doing.
Pizza is like a motherboard, hot and messy.
It was an IBM 486 DX100 w/16 megs of RAM. But what made it an Elysium, were the 2 graphics cards (2 motorola 601e processors on each card w/8 megs of tex ram on each card too), the HMD, and the 2/6DOF magnetic tracking devices from polhemus (i.e. Fastrack) one on the HMD the other on the "pointing device", a handheld input device with 4 grip sensors that would read in pressure from finger grips in values of 1-255. You could use it to simulate a hand opening or closing.
And now my point...The school I attended/worked at used to give tours and show off this new VR tech by showing them the Elysium. Remeber the stock city model that came with 3DS Studio for DOS? My buddy put that in VR and we would show that to the "tourists". It didn't happen often put I distictly remember a few of the people getting Vertigo when they "flew" to one of the top of the buildings and looked down. They would fall right on their asses in the middle of the room, while wearing the HMD. VR is kinda dangerous in that respect.
I always thought that was the most interesting part of donning an HMD, the disorientation you felt after wearing it made it intimidating for the average Joe. And it came with warnings telling you to not wear it for more than 15 mins at a time. I took me a few hours of use, to get over the initial disorientation an HMD causes to your senses.
That is what killed VR. HMD technology is not for average computer users. Plus you can get epileptic seizures. It's the same thing that killed the Captin Power TV show.
How about this. The solders saw a car driving at them eratically, there was something a little strange and different about this car. They, being in a war zone and scared young men, shoot at the car.
The rest is so much mud slinging to make american solders look bad. These poor kids were just trying to protect themselves. Car bombs are REALLY popular in that part of the world you know.
The Italians are the ones who fucked up thinking they could play "cowboy", and run into a war zone and sneak somebody out, like something out of a Bruckhiemer movie. Only Americans should be playing "cowboy", and possibly Australians.
The Golden Rule -- "He who has the gun, makes the rules."
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Could I have a job? I deliver pizza, for 2 years now. I used to be a Senior Web Developer, and did CAD/3DS/C/Perl/JS/PHP/SQL/Flash/PS for 8 years. I get off on Application Engineering and User Interface Design. Did I mention I'm 29, have associates will travel.
I guess I'm one of the untouchables you/Bill is talking about. I just started using computers again after 2 years of being offline. Mostly because I got sick of startups and know-it-all lawyers. I know I will probably never work in IT again, becuase it's been too long.
I've been practicing my pencil on paper art skills and am getting quite good. Hopefully I can get a production design job somewhere.
So I guess you'll have to bring in the forgein aid. I got sick of my boss stealling all of my ideas and not paying enough for them. That is why I can deliver pizza now, and mop floors, do dishes, clean drains, clean bathrooms. It is better to do that then be taken advantage of.
"Suspended disbelief" is another way to put it. You kinda have to do that to enjoy science fiction.
This TV show is about life after the fall of the Republic, not about Anakin and his family and friends, though they have a major impact on the Galaxy. You will see new people and planets and how the "Rise of the Empire" affects everyone.