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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within                 Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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I really haven't played much Mega Man. I rented 1 and got hosed in the ice world, owned and beat 2 and 3, borrowed 4 and didn't get very far. I've beaten X, and I think I played X2, but I really can't remember. Bah. But I do know that 3 is my favorite. I loved the level design, music, bosses, and gizmos and the slide move and random assclownery that was possible (getting the Rush Jet early, bouncing out of bottomless pits). It was just fun to beat my favorite levels over and over and over again. Top Man was an especially amusing pushover.  |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within  Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| I got to a point with a poopyheaded gargoyle boss (at the end of some sort of forest area, I think), and I had to level up my guys a buttload more to have a better chance, and I got busy with costuming stuff and then pretty much forgot about it. It doesn't help that I have game ADD. No offense meant to people with actual deficit disorders, but whenever something new that I want to play comes along, I'm all ZOMG SHINY and I have to start up a game. I don't necessarily even care about beating games any more. I just like to play for a while until I either finish or don't feel like expending the effort necessary to get past some really difficult part. This really is not as much of a waste as it may seem at first glance. We like to maintain a nifty library of games (we don't ever sell them back), and we also tend to keep saved data around for ages, so sometimes I get back to something I put aside long ago, and I never complain about having a nice selection of cool games around. Even if we don't get a lot of use out of certain games, friends will occasionally want to play them, and we can trust our friends not to be idiots with our stuff, so we don't mind at all.
Anyway...I did enjoy La Pucelle up to that point, but I forgot what I was doing and I wasn't TOO far into it, so I think I should just start a new game. And this time, I know to level like mad and kill that giant whale creature thingy to get the rare item that you can't obtain otherwise.  |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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Wow...now that's a high-powered item. 
And I wish I would have seen Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire earlier while people were still paying attention to its thread in the entertainment forum. Bah. I post a detailed opinion and nobody's around to read it.  And I also need to find and watch Saw. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| Yay...it's another winter storm. We just had one come through last week. At least I got to go home from work early before the roads went from bleh to sux. And at least I'm going to make Rando help me shovel. Last time, it took me forty minutes to clear the driveway myself. It's good exercise, but my back was tired for a day afterward.
How do you shovel snow efficiently, anyway? I'm pretty strong, but I just can't haul snow as fast as other people seem to be able to. And my back was tired for a day afterward. (I know to use my leg power to shovel, but the lower back muscles still have to act as stabilizers, and all that shoveling just fried them.) I know the obvious answer is "buy a snow blower", but I'm not really interested in spending all that money on something we'd only use a handful of times every year. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| I went to a testosterone-soaked university with about 40,000 students in an area of the country that reliably gets a healthy amount of snow every winter, so snow peeners are nothing new to me.
When I lived in the East Halls housing area, during the first snowstorm of the year, somebody erected a snow dick outside of Tener Hall. Evidently it was somewhat traditional for that dorm. I found some guy's website with a picture of the schlong sculpture from the year before. This obelisk sits in the center of campus. I didn't see this personally, but evidently it wound up with a pair of giant snow balls one year. My friend Sharon and I wanted to build a snow dick outside the computer science and engineering building (we were both comp sci majors, and we could count the other women in that field on one hand), but sadly, we never got around to it. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| The only flavor I know is chocolate, and that's because one of my friends bought a box and shared it. Those were pretty good. I didn't bother toasting them because they tasted fine uncooked. They're nothing I'm really interested in eating on a regular basis, though. When it comes to sweet sweet baked goods, I prefer cookies. | |||
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within  Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| Yes, unless it's burnt or otherwise gross. Whenever we get pizza, it's usually from Papa John's or a spiffy local restaurant, and I've never had a problem with the crust on the pizza from either of those places. When I was younger, I used to hate crust unless it was Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust arrgghhbllrgggh *drool* | |||
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within  Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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Originally posted by AnyaSo where exactly are people actually protesting the "Merry Christmas" greetings of others? The links you provided said nothing about this at all. It sounds like this is being spun as the ZOMG Secular Liberal Left(tm) getting their panties in a twist, but from what I have seen (and from what I read in those links), it's the exact opposite. I have not seen any manner of organized outcry over a business' policy of putting up a Christmas tree, but I have seen Christians getting upset and threatening boycotts because various businesses and individuals have chosen to use the all-inclusive "Happy Holidays" greeting. I agree with those of you who said this is a bullshit nonissue. Private businesses can use whatever greetings and decorations they want - religious or nonreligious - and if businesses choose to use all-inclusive, non-religious greetings and decorations, it hardly constitutes an attack on the Christmas holiday, let alone a "war". In response to a few posts on the thread - this is not comparable to the Pledge of Allegiance issue at all. The words "under God" were inserted into the pledge by a 1954 law. When President Eisenhower signed the bill into law, he stated that "From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty." (link) This is a case of making a federal law which respects an establishment of religion. Whether or not you feel that it is an issue worth worrying about, it is a clear violation of the First Amendment. It has nothing to do with any sort of trend toward using nonspecific winter holiday greetings instead of "Merry Christmas". |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within  Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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Originally posted by ApofisuA few years ago, some local convenience store sold Pop Tarts that had expired sometime in the '80s. Nobody quite had the cojones to try them, though. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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Originally posted by The SomerZSorry, I can't help you out with that one. I've never understood anti-bread crust disgust myself. I distinctly remember being little and reading some book in which a character had to have the crusts cut off their bread, and it made no sense to me. I'm guessing that people don't like the crust because it is not identical in texture and flavor to the rest of the bread.
What's even funnier is that there exists a market for Uncrustables - premade crustless sandwiches. Come on now...I'm amazingly lazy about assembling food, but when it's peanut butter jelly time, I don't mind putting my own sandwich together, and I still don't understand what's wrong with the crust in the first place. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| Negative attitude; I'm female.
Even if I did want to have biological children, I would have no interest whatsoever in providing milk for my husband as well. The idea is a giant turnoff to me. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| It's interesting how we basically came out of the movie with the same opinion. I think part of the not-right feeling has to do with the choppiness, but there's more to it than that. It seems to me that they didn't have a good sense of knowing where to start and stop scenes. For instance, the Quidditch World Cup sequence could have taken a couple of minutes to show snippets of the game as it progressed, condensing it from start to Ireland's win, but it went right from "kickoff" into merriment. I knew from the book that the game was over, but it seemed like it would be confusing to people without that prior knowledge.
I also have strangely mixed feelings on seeing scenes from the book brought to life. On one hand, I very much enjoyed various portrayals of well-liked characters (Mad-Eye Moody, Fred and George, what little we saw of Snape), but on some level, it felt like the movie ruined what the book was like in my mind. Because of the heavy dose of slapstick sprinkled throughout the books, I tend to get manga-like mental images when reading them, and though the movie did contain lots of fun humor, there was none of the visual exaggeration that I tend to create in my mind (example: at one point, Hermione is described as having tears streaming down her front, which made me think of typical anime character waterworks). Then again, Ron's facial exp I'm actually rereading books 4 through 6 right now. I can't remember enough about 4 to really compare it with the movie (I especially wanted to refresh my memory of characters' personalities - I didn't remember Krum being a brainless jock in the book), and 5 and 6 (especially 5) are a blur. As I recall, a rock band called the Weird Sisters did perform at the Yule Ball in the book, but I remember reading that scene and thinking it seemed out of place. The ball came across as some sort of formal big deal, so letting loose with a rock band didn't make sense to me. And in the movie, the band seemed like yet another random detail thrown in for the sake of being true to the book. I agree with you that it should have been axed. When you're trying to adapt a LONG book into a feature-length movie, methinks it's best to go for cohesiveness and overall effect. The Lord of the Rings movies managed this well. I didn't have much trouble following the movies despite having never read the books. Granted, I didn't understand some character motivations in Fellowship of the Ring because it glossed over how the fellowship formed - it was just there - but the movie had a flow to it and generally made sense. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| I got a 24" wide flatscreen monitor from Rando. It runs at 1900x1200 resolution, and it is SCHWEEEET. I still have not tapped into the power of this dual G5 tower, but at least I can see much more of the internets at once now. Now if only I could figure out how to get MIDI hooked up properly...I have an adapter that sort of does something, but I've basically given up and put the digital outputs of my synth into the line in dealy and downloaded a free utility (aptly named LineIn) to let me listen over my speakers, so at least I can practice and record crappo quality audio if I wish. (I mean, it would work, but there's a certain amount of unwanted noise associated with using the audio inputs directly.) I really need a USB input dealy for audio signals. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| Lately I've been on a guys' Levi's kick. Women's pants sizes have irritated me for a while because they're ridiculously arbitrary (depending on the brand and cut, I'm anywhere from 6 to 13) and because my lower body contours have become unusual enough to make it annoying to find a silhouette that works well for me. Pants will commonly gap in the back because they're meant for a butt curve that I don't have, or they'll fit my hips and low waist but be too small for my ogre thighs. And then there's the issue of finding a rise that is neither stupidly high or almost indecently low. So I thought I would go try on some carpenter pants in the guys' department, and they actually worked well. They sit a couple of inches below my navel, which is just about perfect, and they don't gap or get annoyingly tight anywhere. They have nice basic styling and a crapload of nifty pockets. The ease in the pants is more than enough to accommodate my non-manly hip curve.
And next time I wanted to buy pants, I just had to go look for two magic numbers. Granted, there are some manufacturers whose pants for females do not suck (I love my charcoal gray Dockers), but I think I'll be sticking with men's jeans from now on. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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Originally posted by Colin YA RLY. I base my diet on nutritious foods, and then the rest is just gravy. As long as I'm getting the nutrition I need and not going overboard on the calories, sweets don't mess me up at all. I just don't eat a crapload of them on a regular basis. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| No, he didn't. I was agreeing with him. I was saying that yes, I do eat junk, but I don't eat a lot of it and I always have something healthy first.
Does Chocolate Underground yogurt count as making chocolate healthy? It is sugary, but it does have some protein and a good amount of calcium, and I love the taste. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| I'm running OS X here. My dock is at the bottom center of the screen.
On my XP machine at work, the taskbar is in the default bottom position. It seems to work fine for me there, and I've never felt like trying to move it around to see what difference it might make. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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Originally posted by Ran-chanStuffed crust pizza is like regular pizza, only it has something inside the crust, like mozzarella cheese. It's a tasty treat. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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Originally posted by Santa-lastor the StylishAccording to Wikipedia, they came out in the '60s.Originally posted by RydainI had no idea pop tarts were that old. I thought they came out with them in like '94. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| I voted "generic tiled background". I use a Propaganda tile called Flooded Hotel. It's blue and interesting yet unobtrusive, and its swirls look like a lion's head. |
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