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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    wakkawa wrote: »
    girls is crazy
    boys is crazy

    It's gonna be one of those pages, isn't it.

    <braces for onslaught of words>



    If chat thread whinging about gender stereotypes/dating woes/etc. has taught me anything, it's that everyone would be a lot happier just dating hermaphrodites. I've never seen a bad word about them come up in one of these conversations, so that seems like the logical option.

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Can't we all just be losers and married to our careers??

    Kochikens on
  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    Can't we all just be losers and married to our careers??

    I am attempting to pretend this doesn't apply to me and failing. :(

    Look what you did, now I'm all bummed out and nothing even happened to me!

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm talking about myself!! GOSH BACON NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU GOD DAMN MAN

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    GOSH BACON NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU GOD DAMN MAN

    Sure it is!

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    NNNOPPE

    I am prettysure most of the things in the world are about me


    My LLAP shirt came today in the mail. I was pretty happy about it. me me me.

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    My LLAP shirt came today in the mail.

    What the heck kind of shirt do you wear on your lap?

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  • wakkawawakkawa Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    You are bummed out cus I dont have a lady.

    Simple.

    Everyone is.

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    My LLAP shirt came today in the mail.

    What the heck kind of shirt do you wear on your lap?

    oh bacon
    normally id huff over your not refusal to look up what LLAP means

    but I can't even throw a tantrum right now because I am just the coolest person ever wearing this memememe

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    My LLAP shirt came today in the mail.

    What the heck kind of shirt do you wear on your lap?

    oh bacon
    normally id huff over your not refusal to look up what LLAP means

    but I can't even throw a tantrum right now because I am just the coolest person ever wearing this memememe

    Ok, fine.


    <googles>



    I'm glad you like your Legionella-like Amoebal Pathogen shirt.

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Oh you

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  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Ah man, pretty sure I just heard gunfire. That is so annoying...do I call the police? I was just about to go to sleep. This neighborhood is so weird.

    rts on
    skype: rtschutter
  • m3nacem3nace Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Do call the police if you're sure.

    m3nace on
  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Huh. So the shot showing the death of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace is eerily similar to a shot showing the death of a redneck henchman at the end of Blind Fury.

    Blind Fury, for those who don't know, is a movie with Rutger Hauer as a blind swordsman/Vietnam vet fighting drug dealers in Reno- but because it's the 80's, there's also an obnoxious entitled 80's kid taking up a lot of screentime with terrible father-figure/son bonding horseshit. Also Sho Kosugi shows up for like 5 minutes in there as a nameless, characterless swordsman wearing black.

    I mention this, because it would explain a lot about the Star Wars prequels if it turned out George Lucas had been watching a lot of movies like Blind Fury prior to making them.

    I fucking love Blind Fury. It is a cinematic masterpiece.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I had two turkey pot pies for breakfast

    fatty fatty fatty

    Tam on
  • NibCromNibCrom Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Huh. So the shot showing the death of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace is eerily similar to a shot showing the death of a redneck henchman at the end of Blind Fury.

    Blind Fury, for those who don't know, is a movie with Rutger Hauer as a blind swordsman/Vietnam vet fighting drug dealers in Reno- but because it's the 80's, there's also an obnoxious entitled 80's kid taking up a lot of screentime with terrible father-figure/son bonding horseshit. Also Sho Kosugi shows up for like 5 minutes in there as a nameless, characterless swordsman wearing black.

    I mention this, because it would explain a lot about the Star Wars prequels if it turned out George Lucas had been watching a lot of movies like Blind Fury prior to making them.

    I think it's just a coincidence. Like the plane falling out of the tree in Time Chasers being similar to the car falling out of the tree in Jurassic Park.

    Or maybe Lucas and Spielberg were both inspired by crappy movies. :)

    Haha. Blind Fury. Haven't seen that in a couple of years.

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  • GrifterGrifter BermudaModerator mod
    edited December 2010
    Here's a video of the first time that we fed Gaius. He likes to chow down!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCnt2BZmZ00&feature=player_profilepage

    Grifter on
  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Wow that bowl looks really annoying for a dog to eat out of.

    rts on
    skype: rtschutter
  • earthwormadamearthwormadam ancient crust Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I think thats the point though, so they can't eat 5 pounds of food in 3 seconds, not that its really stopping the little beast.

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  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I seriously can not get used to drawing on my Bamboo. I just feel like I have so much more control and confidence when drawing on paper.

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  • earthwormadamearthwormadam ancient crust Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    there is no paper

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  • GrifterGrifter BermudaModerator mod
    edited December 2010
    I think thats the point though, so they can't eat 5 pounds of food in 3 seconds, not that its really stopping the little beast.

    Yeah, that's the point of the bowl. It's not good for them to gulp down their food and they will if you let them. If they eat too fast then they don't digest their food properly. Then you'll start finding whole kibble in their stool.

    I just took him out for a long walk around town so he's pretty tired. He's napping on the floor next to me now.

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  • Stupid Mr Whoopsie NameStupid Mr Whoopsie Name Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2010
    Has anyone ever used Kickstarter.com with any success before? I'm thinking about setting up an account to help me get a new computer for doing arts (one that won't overheat when doing two things at once), and I was curious what the best way to approach a project like that was.

    I should probably X post this in the Questions thread, huh.

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    NibCrom wrote: »
    Huh. So the shot showing the death of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace is eerily similar to a shot showing the death of a redneck henchman at the end of Blind Fury.

    Blind Fury, for those who don't know, is a movie with Rutger Hauer as a blind swordsman/Vietnam vet fighting drug dealers in Reno- but because it's the 80's, there's also an obnoxious entitled 80's kid taking up a lot of screentime with terrible father-figure/son bonding horseshit. Also Sho Kosugi shows up for like 5 minutes in there as a nameless, characterless swordsman wearing black.

    I mention this, because it would explain a lot about the Star Wars prequels if it turned out George Lucas had been watching a lot of movies like Blind Fury prior to making them.

    I think it's just a coincidence. Like the plane falling out of the tree in Time Chasers being similar to the car falling out of the tree in Jurassic Park.

    Or maybe Lucas and Spielberg were both inspired by crappy movies. :)

    Haha. Blind Fury. Haven't seen that in a couple of years.

    I'm willing to entertain the possibility that it wasn't entirely coincidence. I remember a podcast with the Pixar storyboard artists saying how they generally don't watch good movies for stuff to inspire/rip-off at work- they just do that on off hours and absorb goodness through osmosis, because if you specifically sit down to try and pick out useful bits in a good movie, all you wind up doing is just watching the movie, because a good movie is, if nothing else, engaging.

    So what they do instead is watch a lot of crappy movies at work, because when something is off or stupid or doesn't make any sense, your mind immediately goes, "oh man, this would be so much better if they'd just done X, Y, and Z!", which gives you good, new ideas that you've sorted out in your mind in an analytical way, which then can be put into your movie.

    Which, in the case of Jurassic Park, in the hypothetical scenario where Spielberg (or the screenwriter) saw that part of Time Chasers, you can see that at work- they took something that was an ok idea that was poorly put together in execution, said 'oh man, if only they'd done THIS, it would be 1000 times more exciting!' and then they did that, and it winds up being a classic cinematic moment.

    On the other hand, you've got the Blind Fury scenario, where Lucas saw Blind Fury and was like, "I'm going to take that shot, move the camera a bit to the right, and then go to A&W."

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  • Stupid Mr Whoopsie NameStupid Mr Whoopsie Name Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2010
    I really hate itunes.

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  • NibCromNibCrom Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Haha. I love that Lucas eats at A&W.

    Why do you hate iTunes, Mars?

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  • Stupid Mr Whoopsie NameStupid Mr Whoopsie Name Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2010
    I just don't like how bloated of a program it is, and how unnecessarily complicated it makes using an iPhone/iPod.

    I just want to back up my contacts list and put new music on my phone. Instead, it's got a list of 12 other things it wants to do first, making this process last until our sun burns out and the cold of space claims me.

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  • SonicSonic Absentee Landlord Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    NibCrom wrote: »
    Huh. So the shot showing the death of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace is eerily similar to a shot showing the death of a redneck henchman at the end of Blind Fury.

    Blind Fury, for those who don't know, is a movie with Rutger Hauer as a blind swordsman/Vietnam vet fighting drug dealers in Reno- but because it's the 80's, there's also an obnoxious entitled 80's kid taking up a lot of screentime with terrible father-figure/son bonding horseshit. Also Sho Kosugi shows up for like 5 minutes in there as a nameless, characterless swordsman wearing black.

    I mention this, because it would explain a lot about the Star Wars prequels if it turned out George Lucas had been watching a lot of movies like Blind Fury prior to making them.

    I think it's just a coincidence. Like the plane falling out of the tree in Time Chasers being similar to the car falling out of the tree in Jurassic Park.

    Or maybe Lucas and Spielberg were both inspired by crappy movies. :)

    Haha. Blind Fury. Haven't seen that in a couple of years.

    I'm willing to entertain the possibility that it wasn't entirely coincidence. I remember a podcast with the Pixar storyboard artists saying how they generally don't watch good movies for stuff to inspire/rip-off at work- they just do that on off hours and absorb goodness through osmosis, because if you specifically sit down to try and pick out useful bits in a good movie, all you wind up doing is just watching the movie, because a good movie is, if nothing else, engaging.

    So what they do instead is watch a lot of crappy movies at work, because when something is off or stupid or doesn't make any sense, your mind immediately goes, "oh man, this would be so much better if they'd just done X, Y, and Z!", which gives you good, new ideas that you've sorted out in your mind in an analytical way, which then can be put into your movie.

    Which, in the case of Jurassic Park, in the hypothetical scenario where Spielberg (or the screenwriter) saw that part of Time Chasers, you can see that at work- they took something that was an ok idea that was poorly put together in execution, said 'oh man, if only they'd done THIS, it would be 1000 times more exciting!' and then they did that, and it winds up being a classic cinematic moment.

    On the other hand, you've got the Blind Fury scenario, where Lucas saw Blind Fury and was like, "I'm going to take that shot, move the camera a bit to the right, and then go to A&W."
    for illustration:

    Youtube Doubler side-by-side.

    Sonic on
  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    Sonic wrote: »

    I am surprised and delighted that a site which serves to perfectly illustrate my point exists.

    I am less delighted that Lucas didn't think to throw Darth Maul through a plate glass window as well while he was at it.

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  • D-RobeD-Robe Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I guess that would have been too much.
    Gotta maintain the believability, you see.

    D-Robe on
    Cheese.
  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    there is no paper

    What is this, the Matrix?

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    there is no paper

    What is this, the Matrix?

    You just have to remember one thing.

    There is no Matrix *head asplode*

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    My new neighbor just moved in tonight. I can hear everything she does... that also means, she can hear everything I do. Unless she's deaf. God, I hope she's deaf.

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  • IrukaIruka Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    Worse, shes blind.

    Her hearing is superb.

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Great, I live next to Dare Devil.

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    Great, I live next to Dare Devil.

    You mean....The Woman Without Fear?

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  • IrukaIruka Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    Oddly, all reading that makes me wonder is how she hasn't jumped off of something very high. I think I would spontaneously climb shit if I wasnt afraid of anything.

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    Iruka wrote: »
    Oddly, all reading that makes me wonder is how she hasn't jumped off of something very high. I think I would spontaneously climb shit if I wasnt afraid of anything.

    I see a rock climbing training montage in your future.

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  • IrukaIruka Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited December 2010
    AoB everything cant be a montage! Stop watching those kung fu movies!

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  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Iruka wrote: »
    AoB everything cant be a montage! Stop watching those kung fu movies!

    You shut your mouth.

    rts on
    skype: rtschutter
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