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This wallpaper captures the urban essence that proliferated the art of Ghost in the Shell in every incarnation of the series. Phill does an amazing job of capturing a moment of surrealism.
While there are a few, stray building angles and shadows, you find that your eye forgives the minor details and instead focuses on the overall scene that is larger than life, with lights trailing off into infinity.
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Soul Calibur
1 year 7 months ago
"Well, I love the complexity in moves that I can get from Ivy, but unless I've taken some time to refresh myself on her combos I have trouble just jumping back into the game and beating people with her. Calamity Symphony is, without a doubt, my favorite move in the game. Not only is it really cool looking, but it'll drain half your enemies life while Ivy laughs at them.I probably do the best with Talim, Taki and Cervantes. I love Cervantes' counters and "Storm Generate" is probably my #2 fav move in the game. For the other two, I like to move around a lot. I like Taki because she has all those evasive manuvers and ninja moves, and I like Talim because she has several fun moves that let me either throw peoples faces in the dirt or sit on them and pound on their face. Also, it's hilarious to watch Talim dominate Astaroth in a fight. ^_^
Fighting aside, I like Cervantes and Nightmare the best. Two vicious, brutal, brutal monsters out to find "the precious." Although Nightmare is usually slow, he has a a bunch of fast combos. I just thought I'd point that out to everyone who keeps calling him slow. He's only slow when he's making big swings with his sword, unlike Astaroth who's slow all the time."
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In the elevator...
1 year 7 months ago
"Someone I didn't know wanted to ask me a bunch of personal questions. Thank god the elivator stopped after just a few floors so I could excuse myself and pretend to walk down the hall until the elivator went up. Then, I came back and got a different elivator up ^_^'"View
what type of personalities do you hate?
1 year 7 months ago
"Arrogant ignorance is what I find most irritating. People who are absolutly sure that they're right for their ignorant reasons. It's cool if you're just ignorant because you don't know, but you're willing to learn if someone would just tell you. That's totally cool with me. It's just the ones who are convinced by their stupidity and won't even entertain a logical argument that piss me off. (President Bush, for example)Any other arrogance comes in second. Anyone without an ounce of humility, really. Trust me on this; no matter how great you think you are, you're still not so much better then everyone else that you can treat them like the shit on the bottom of your shoe. "
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Swords vs Guns! The Ultimate Showdown in AP!! (I got a location!)
1 year 7 months ago
"As much as I like swords, I can't deny that IRL guns are far more efficient killing tools. A killing blow from a sword requiores a lot of energy from the swordsmen, while our gunner needs only deal with the recoil of his gun and the energy requiored to hold a firing position. However, a sword needs no ammo, no reloading, never jams, and cannot be rendered useless by causing the swordsman to swing at enough decoys (though the blade can be dulled a little). However, most of those gun problems can be solved/ minimized by enough training and careful ammo conservation. IRL, I really like the M-16 A/6 assault rifle with N203 grenade launcher or the Barret M-107 .50 cal anti-armor sniper rifle. Those are my guns of choice.In a fantasy world, swords are the weapon of choice for those who have the skill and power to use advanced, magical techniques, while a gun better serves a normal human who has no access to magic. In this world I would probably take the Thundar Pike from the series Inuyasha's "Thundar Brothers" It's not a sword, but it's a bladed weapon and I'm better with pole weapons then with swords. That, and I like lightning/ thundar a lot.
In either case (IRL or fantasy), I would would also like a gunblade. It's the perfect short-range/ CQC combination and a fusion of both swords and guns. Too bad they don't exist. If they did, I would already have one or two or 'em. They aren't perfect as either weapon, but it's the versitility that I like about them."
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Are your pets destructive?
1 year 7 months ago
"HeHeHe, My dog steals my socks and tries to chew on anything with a velcro strip on it. But aside from that he's not very destructive. He used to try and chew on all sorts of things when he was a puppy (like any puppy will), but he's pretty much stopped all that now. He still takes off with things he wants to play with, but he doesn't sit down and chew them up. Instead, he just runs away so he can force me to try and catch him.
I don't consider it destructive when a dog chews on a chew toy. They're supposed to chew on them, that's why they are called chew toys.
Ditto, I keep putting holes in my walls by crashing into them etc. ^_^'"
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2142 Battlefield
1 year 7 months ago
"Great news for me! There's a medal for vehicular manslaughter! I got it on a knives/ pistols only server where I opted to use a bumper instead of a knife. I'm an ass, but I'm an ass with medals. :P"View
2142 Battlefield
1 year 7 months ago
"What's your longest kill streak? The first day I played BF2142 I got a 46 kill streak as the top gunner for the X-81 Groundhog, and a 30-something kill streak as the gunner of an L5- Reisig (blew up 4 buggies, 1 walker (with AA missiles), 4 Doragon flying thingys, and several people on foot while the driver was killing other things. That was my first streak and I remember because I was amazed). Both times I finally died when my vehicle was simultaniously EMP'd and moarterd by the enemy commander. I'm a good gunner ^_^"
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Imagined experiences
1 year 7 months ago
"Thanks for the replies so far. Keep 'em coming!It just seems to me that there is a trend of larger and larger portions of our time being devoted to things like TV (TV in particular since it requiores the least thought on the viewers part) and less time on other activities that involve the use of more then your forearm muscles.
I suppose the feeling of psudo-fulfillment achieved while we are imagining ourselves as part of what is happening on screen (or solely in our minds) may be part of what keeps us coming back for more. Is it an emotional addiction for some people you think? Getting the thrill of battle, or being part of a tragic romance every weekend.
To have hopes and dreams is one thing, but to replace them entirely with a simulated experience seems tragic to me.
(back to the snowboarding example) I understand why someone would spend a lot of time with snowboarding games/ books/ movies in that situation, but does that mean that person no longer has any reason to take that expensive trip to the mountains? The ease of doing things digitally really seems to deter us from taking/ saving the time and money to go and physically do things like this. "
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Your First Best Friend
1 year 7 months ago
"I'm actually a little fuzzy on my first best friend. She was a girl named Emily who used to tackle and hang on me a lot. I can still remember what she looked like and how her voice sounded, but I don't know how we became friends. One year she apparently moved away during the summer because she just didn't come back to school the next year. She finnaly did come back, but not for about 10 years. By then, I don't think she even remembered or recognised me because I never got any spark of recogntion when I talked to her again.Oh well, that's just how things go."
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has anyone ever herd of nightwish? did u like it?
1 year 7 months ago
"I've already made this thread with almost the exact title of this one in the music section. Unfortunatly for you, I don't know of an online source for any of it. Sorry (and search for existing threads before posting new ones)."View
which one came first? chicken or the egg?
1 year 7 months ago
"Try actually arguing your point instead of just copy-and-pasting some loosly relavent information.
In order:
Wrong, mutations are also commonly created during the formation of haploid cells (eggs and sperm).
The eggs in your refrigerator don't hatch because they are unfertalized, not because they are cold. (though eggs do need heat to hatch) Anyway, If the first chicken came from an egg, then that chickens mother would have still incubated it because there would have been only a very small difference between her and her chick. Entire populations evolve together, don't think that a dinosaur laid an egg and then suddenly out popped a chicken.
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In all liklyhood, the chicken probably evolved around the same time as man (if you believe in that sort of thing) "
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2142 Battlefield
1 year 7 months ago
"Any monkey with a hatchet could defend the titan, so I refuse to play that one. All you have to do is fill the the one and only hallway into the titan with mines and automated guns and BAM, you've successfully defended the titan because the mines won't explode unless they are set off by a person running by (so you can't shoot them to get rid of them), so your only choice is to send wave after wave of cannon fodder so fast that they can't re-stock the mines or to have to take a guy to sit and slowly defuse each mine while he gets shot at. It doesn't work (I knew the kill-bots had a pre-set kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them untill they reached their limit and shut down. Kiff, show them the metal I won!).Aside from that, great game. I'm always dangerous, but I'm the most lethal when I get hold of the right machines and can get a decent gunner. There isn't anything I can't defeat (from long to medium-close range) in the hover tank. I just dodge 80% of the stuff shot at me and protect myself from the really big hits that I can't dodge, all while consistantly and accurately 9even at long-range) hammering my either puny or sluggish opponents as fast as the cannon will re-load. I'm a little shocked at how many people run right past my tank and assume it's abandoned, so I make sure to wake them up with a shell to the back of the head :P
I'm usually a medic (even though I'm in a machine whenever possible) because It gets me lots of points and the guns set up very well for me.
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Fire or Ice?
1 year 7 months ago
"... wind only feeds a strong fire, but it can wear away mountains and it causes vast destruction when it is a tornado or hurricane/ typhoon.
You're wrong there. The light in a light bulb comes from electric resistance on a piece of wire that gets white-hot. A light bulb is basically a sustained ember in a vaccume tube. One of the few heatless forms of light is the glo-stick.
While fire cannot exactly break down, it must constantly consume a fuel source or it will simply cease to burn. Also, water can also be formed with other forms of heat. Try this: put ice under intense pressure (press an ice cube in a cold vice and you'll still get water).
Trust me, if the sun got 12 million degrees hotter, the planet would be scorched and all surface life would die.
I refuse to comply with the fire or ice options. I'll be like that wierd guy who goes to McDonalds and orders stuff that's not on the menu (just a large strawberry soda and a small bowl of the curry please).
I'm more like wind: passive to others most of the time, but very active in my own right. I'm normally unseen/ unnoticed but I'm capable of an incredibly destructive rampage when pissed off. I'm not very defensive, but I am evasive. It can't block an attack very well, but wind can send an attacker flying in the opposite direction with a powerful gust, or kick up a dust storm to keep someone with a gun blinded while screwing up the trajectory of bullets.
Tornados leave destruction and carnage in their wake, sandstorms can reduce animals to nothing but bone in minutes, typhoons flood entire cities and create havoc for miles, but a nice breeze is relaxing and helps spread good things like flowers, it is the air we breathe, and it creates the beauty of the aurora borilas (solar wind). Wind is what makes it a blizzard, and wind is what feeds/ spreads a forest fire. Wind also carries the rain that extinguishes a fire, and the warm air that melts the snows."
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Imagined experiences
1 year 7 months ago
"No, you aren't quite catching on to what I'm asking. I'm not implying that imagination is a bad thing, but more and more often we spend so much time simply imagining that we are experiencing things and don't go out and actually do them.Are we losing something that can only be gained from the real experience? Killing people aside, would it not be better for us if we went out and tried to actually do the things we want to do, rather then watching lots of movies about people doing it and imagining that we are. "
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Can you figure it out?
1 year 7 months ago
"You where driving with your friend in your car when you saw the girl of your dreams at the bus stop. While staring at her, you slamed into the old lady's car. The old lady now needs to get to the hospital, but your car is totaled so you won't be picking anyone up.
I decided not to try the coin one. I don't like numbers :P"
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Imagined experiences
1 year 7 months ago
" For eons humans have been living out fantasies in their minds. Once printing was easy enough, books became a way to let someone elses imagination influence your own. When the radio became widespread, we invented yet another method of doing this by hiring voice actors to tell stories. Then, we invented movies where we could actually see the imagined world. Television steps in and allows us to watch movies and programs at any time we wish. Computers come, and with them come videogames. Now we can see the world of imagination and even interact with it!All of these things can give us the thrill of a set of life experiences, without ever actuallyexperiencing them.
Now, most of our free time is taken up by these forms of entertainment, and more and more people choose these "experiences" over real-life activities. Why go out in the cold to try snowboarding and crash many times, when you can sit in your warm house and control a digital person who can already snowboard?
Granted, most of us have no chance of getting a sponsor to let us go racing Gran Turismo style on the weekends. We can't very well fall in love and have an epic tragedy ensue wenever we please either. So, for many things, these psudo-experiences are our only choice if we wish to experience them at all.
What are your thoughts on our trend toward vicarious experience? I'm particularly interested in speculation as to why we developed the ability to suspend reality and imagine ourselves "in the action." Is this a positive/ negative trend, or is it, like many things, both?"
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Can you figure it out?
1 year 7 months ago
"Crap. I came up with that, then scrolled down and the first one had it already. Guess I was too slow (heh, 12 hrs slow it seems) to get any credit T-T
Ah well, I'll jump in the boat with you there aaron.
How about I keep it going though?
Two fathers and two sons went fishing. At the end of the day everyone had caught one fish. They caught three fish in all. How could this happen?"
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ZOMBIES!
1 year 7 months ago
"Yeah, if the $hit hits the fan I'm tracking theironwarrion down too. I'll probably find him partying in his zombie-bunker. I'm assuming the party is BYOB? ^_^See you then :P"
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ZOMBIES!
1 year 7 months ago
"People are dead before they become zombies, so there is no way to return them to humans once they have become a zombie. However it would still be a good idea to find a way to kill whatever is causing the "zombification" so you can use the cure as an antidote to someone who's been bitten, or blead on or whatever other way the zombies are multiplying."
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Fire or Ice?
1 year 7 months ago
"Well, by your descriptions I fit better into the ice column, but I still like the fire better. I actually consider myself Passive>Destructive. Maybe I'm steam then? Or am I Freezer-Burn? Wind maybe?Anyway, I'm a total pyro so I would rather have the fire, though I could find some uses for ice if I had the power."
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HARDEST GAMES EVER
1 year 7 months ago
"Heh, and I started to think that I was a bad gamer when I couldn't get past that part. I may have to go back and try that game again sometime soon.
If you could please PM me those tips for DMD in DMC3 I would be eternally grateful. I'm running out of ideas besides gathering items and pissing them away for each level. (I can't barely beat normal on the origional DMC either :\ Still love the game though :D)"
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Greatest Hero In Final Fantasy
1 year 7 months ago
"I'm a big fan of fallen and faulted heroes, so I'll cast a vote for Vossler (FFXII).He did everything in his power to bring Dalmasca out of it's occupation. Maybe he was wrong, but how could he have known? He struggled with everything he had to restore his kingdom and it's people to their former glory in the only way he could think of. He was a loyal servent of his people and deserves to be labled a hero. "
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which one came first? chicken or the egg?
1 year 7 months ago
"...Ok, wow. You don't really understand the question do you?
I like aaronvp's answer. I always looked at as the egg would have come first because the first chiken would be a mutation of something else that layed the egg, but you're absolutly correct aaron. Untill the chicken hatched that egg would not have been considered a chicken egg.
That's not quite what causes mutation. When different species breed there usually isn't any chance of creating a baby, and even when they are close enough to actually concieve, a cross-breed like that is almost always sterile. "
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what is your main factor when choosing a new anime DVD series to collect?
1 year 7 months ago
"Well, I usually stick to the movies instead of series because it's a complete story at a price I can afford. There are several series that I would like to get, but untill I have the money it's not really an option. Other then price, it just has to be a series that I like and am in the mood to watch as soon as I get it home. No point in buying it now when I won't want to watch it for another two weeks (unless it's on sale, that is)."View
Long or Short term memory?
1 year 7 months ago
"I would rather lose my short-term memory (I barely have one anyway). Without long-term memory you also forget your language skills and how to do the basics of taking care of yourself like knowing what a bathroom is. That's just a sad existance to have to be taken care of like that and I would never want it.That is, If you mean a perminant loss. If I where able to gain a new long-term memory I would rather keep my short-term so that I can begin to built a new long-term."
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