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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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| This is one of the most unintentionally hilarious news stories ever. What's next - we'll have to produce ID and sign a register to buy Lite Brites?
There's a van around here spray painted DANGER CART #1. With the crossed-out messed-up letter and everything. I wonder if it's going to get blown up under suspicion of terrorism. |
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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 don't have any eyeball picture to share...but when I saw the thread title, the first thought that came to mind was
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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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| Blood? Meh. Guts? Whatever. Eyeballs? GAAAAAAAH MAKE IT STOP. I've always been squeamish over eyes. I hated it when kids at school would pull down their eyelids and show the lining. Or flip the top eyelids inside out. I'm getting grossed out just thinking about it. I'm not sure why, but it literally makes my eyes feel weird.
I wore rigid contacts for a few years, but I didn't have to mess with my eyelids to get them in and out. They were small, so I just opened my eyes wide and poked them in. To remove them, I used a rubber plunger. None of this seemed gross at all. I suppose that the awesomeness of ditching my fugly plastic brown glasses outweighed the weirdness of messing with my eyes, and nothing I had to do was uncomfortable. I can't remember the last time I used eye drops, but I always hated getting them done at the doctor's because the doctor would pull my lid down to make more room. |
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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 XkeeperThanks.  After almost five years here, we're finally turning the place into something that feels like ours. And I have more to share.
This is the previous owners' idea of attractive living room curtains. Pink. Hung all the way to the ceiling and far beyond the window. BLAH YUCK PTOOEY. Guess what's on TV and win a prize. 
Thanks to a handy friend, we now have decorative metal curtain rods and tab top curtains. This is a cruddy picture, but believe me, it is a MAJOR MAJOR improvement. The window on the right is the same size as the window in the before picture, which gives some idea of just how ridiculously placed the old hardware was. The dining room table mess is indicative of the state of the rest of the room. Neither of us really care about getting it in order until our new furniture arrives. Plus, we have a couch, a TV, and our games, so it's all good.  |
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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 AlexARDINGDINGDINGDING It's the N64 version running on an emulator, but you got the game right, so you win anyway. Glad you like the new look of the room thus far, too. |
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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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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 EmptyeyeWhat part of the reaction are you referring to - the general investigation of suspicious blinky devices, or calling in the Pentagon and spending half a million dollars over Lite Brites of a cartoon character flipping the bird? I agree with the former. The latter strikes me as ridiculously amusing. Originally posted by EmptyeyeBombs may not have to look like anything, but they do have to obey the laws of physics. Their entire purpose is to contain a massive amount of pressure and then explode in a destructive manner. A plastic box about a foot square and less than half an inch thick can't contain enough material or pressure to do any significant amount of damage. Not even C4 plastic, one of the most powerful explosives, can do catastrophic damage in such a small quantity. According to this Army manual, it takes 6 pounds of C4 to demolish a 3 feet 9 inches thick concrete target. Even if the batteries behind the sign were filled with C4, they wouldn't add up to nearly that much. And C4 can't be set off without a blasting cap, which would have a wire trailing away from the sign towards some sort of trigger. Sure, you couldn't see how thin the sign was from far away, nor could you see whether something might be hiding behind it, but I'd think that the police would have scoped out the signs from afar before moving in to knock them down and investigate. I'd think they would have some idea that, even if the signs were explosive, they would be extremely ineffective munitions, and therefore they could check one out before going on red alert or bringing in the feds. Originally posted by EmptyeyeThere's a long continuum between "doing nothing" and "spending half a million dollars and calling in the Pentagon". I'm laughing at the degree of the response. Remember the Mario ? coin blocks that some people hung around their town? They were large and cubical, and if they were bombs, they could have actually done decent damage. The police investigated the boxes without calling Code Apeshit. I agree with your assessment of the media's reaction. Now that's something we can all poke a stick at.  |
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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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| Way back in sixth grade, I started some never-ending novel that I abandoned some time later in middle school and basically forgot about until I dreamed that somebody made a movie based on it. The story existed on a 5 1/4" floppy that, assuming it still exists, certainly bit rotted into uselessness years ago. Trust me, the world isn't missing much.
As a dorktacular eleven-year-old kid, I was enamored with the Phantasy Star II vision of the future. Minus the entire aspect of the monsters and the end of the world as we know it, of course. I just thought it would be super awesome to live on a place like Motavia, and I loved the aesthetics of the game art. I wound up imagining some of the characters as people from the game. The main character was basically a kid version of Rolf. The data center lady was his mom. The storehouse dude was his dad. The main character was sort of a badass metrosexual. His idea of fashion consisted of jumpsuits, knee high boots, and spiked hair. He could do all the things I wished I could - break dance, flips off the high dive. He had his bratty moments, but I never recognized them as bratty at the time. Later on he wound up with a girlfriend who ever so conveniently looked like me. I was a Mary Sue before the term even existed. The story was basically a young adult novel that never went anywhere, set in the year 2099 on some other planet that was being prepared for human inhabitation (and everyone lived under an enormous dome in the meantime). It was full of random ridiculous situations, some of which came about as a way to vent my anger at dumb kids at school. Yeah, I was a whiny emo nerdling. It wasn't all bad, though. As I recall, the story was intentionally amusing in many places, and I still like the planet I came up with. I'm fond of the main character, too. Way back when, he was some bizarre combination of someone I wanted to be and someone I wanted to date, and of course neither of those things are true today. I remember him sort of like Jason Herkimer in Space Station Seventh Grade - a funny, likable smart aleck who screws up sometimes like any other kid his age. I wonder if I remember enough of the good stuff and forget enough of the garbage to revisit the story and actually do a decent job. Anyone else want to share happy fun embarrassing memories of things they wrote a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away? |
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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 HyperHackerThere's an asshat chiropractor in the next town over. The sign outside his office advocates A++++ advice like getting spinal adjustments instead of vaccinations. He got in trouble for domestic violence a few years back. Shortly after that, some of my friends were out and about late at night, and they decided to play anagrams with the sign. CHIROPRACTIC CURES AIDS I BEAT MY WIFE Unfortunately, there is no photographic evidence, but the messages did stay up all weekend. |
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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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| Funnily enough, my Hi I Am In Sixth Grade And This Is The Future story reminds me of a bunch of back-to-back Ranma episodes...and if I consider it on that level, it actually works. I may have taken it more seriously as a kid, but if I were to read it now, I'd see it as loads of over the top zany fun. If I revive the story - and I'm getting more and more tempted to do so - it will definitely be on that level. Hooray for slapstick, silliness, umpty bazillion new characters that may stick around for more than one chapter if they're amusing enough.
I found some ancient history writing at my mom's house - random stories I hand wrote as a little kid. They had crayon illustrations and lines like "The people in their houses could loaf all they want." To counterbalance that was a paragraph I wrote in first grade about being an archaeologist in Egypt, and I remember the teacher being all impressed because I spelled the word correctly. Woo tangent. |
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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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| My cousin and I discovered the Freakytown glitch in Zelda II. I'm responsible for naming it and sending it into some video game cheat site about ten years ago. This glitch, which can be done in various contexts (some more useful than others), is performed by jumping offscreen and casting Fairy while you're up there. It does something funky to the level data pointer. You can amuse yourself with a bizarre composite town or change certain palace layouts to something simpler.
This page has a few blurbs about the Freakytown/Freakypalace glitch, including my original writeup. It would totally make my day if some patient person with a debugger felt like examining exactly what is going on with the level data. Mega Man III has a secret super jump activated by holding down left on the second controller. You can jump out of pits after you land in them, and if you wait until your life goes to zero before jumping out, you're invincible. Ogre and his brother found that trick by randomly messing around, and they sent it into Nintendo Power, which is where I originally read about it. It's a small, small world. |
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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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| Our local Best Buy had at least 3 PS3's when we were there on Saturday. Around here, getting a Wii still requires effort, and our friends already have one, so we've just been mooching off theirs. Wii Wario Ware is fun, but I'm not about to camp out for it just so I can have it at my own place. I have Twilight Princess for the GameCube, and that works for me. If I ever want to play the Wii version, our friends have 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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| We're getting a fuckload here. Driving home from work today was rather slow and annoying, but at least the roads were cleared off and packed down enough that it was safe to drive as long as you practiced basic cluefulness. I'll be working from home tomorrow, and I hope I can get out of shoveling. I'm not averse to physical exertion, but shoveling feels Sisyphean to me because it's boring and it takes forever. |
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