10,501 Forum Posts by "Evark"
At 1/3/13 11:23 AM, Insanctuary wrote: And how do you find this amusing?
Asserting the unfairness of a judge's ability to judge by judging the judge as not accepting their own humanity as readily as yourself? How? I guess ultimately I just imagine you addressing the judge like that and the real-world response to your fantasy. The harsh juxtaposition between the two is amusing. Like the expectation/reality pictures littering my facebook feed every day.
At 1/3/13 11:00 AM, Insanctuary wrote: To be honest with myself. I would probably find myself ''thinking I'm better than the authority'' according to the judge's perception. I would question the authority and power in their position and ask the judge, ''I do not call anyone sir or ma'am, or your honor. I don't know you. You are a mere stranger to me. Here we are now, discussing rules, but underneath it all, we are both mere humans and I am the one who accepts this more than yourself. So you're position as a judge is fitting for how you look down on me in your set of clothes with that mallete of yours. My life shouldn't rest in yours hand; only that mallete and this precarious role you play in the unhearkened roles of our everyday lives.''
I promise you, (s)he'd only let you finish that question because it's hilarious. But yea, basically they'll love forcing you to refer to them as 'your honor' or hold you in contempt of court, which is a nice way to earn yourself jail time for being disrespectful.
To the OP: you need to gather a minimum of evidence to support your case. Ignorance of the law is typically not an excuse. You were doing 75? Check the laws for state speed limits where you live, gather photographs to support the assumption that you couldn't have seen the speed limit 55 sign when you were pulled over, challenge the officer's assessment of your speed (could he have radar'd another car nearby? Could he have estimated incorrectly because of another extenuating circumstance?), etc. Oh yea, and look respectable. If you've got a suit and tie: wear it.
I just avoided serious trouble with the charge of 'driving on a suspended license' (long story) because A: it was legit not my fault and B: I appeared before the magistrate looking arguably better than I did on prom night. The first thing she said was 'thanks for dressing up'.
Yea, and don't bank on the officer 'not showing up'. Showing up to court to prosecute offenders is 50% of their job description, not doing so without good reason would go over just as well as you not showing up. The reasons they don't: illness or having a traffic stop on their shift get out of hand that they aren't able to finish up with in time for the court appearance.
Anyway, since it seems like you've done nothing to prepare for this, you're probably not going to get the ticket dismissed. Good luck either way.
For AIM (so uncommon that now I have to specify: AOL Instant Messenger) I signed up as LoneIAIolf... that lasted until my buddy called me 'lone adolf'. That hotmail address was my first email... circa 1998 probably, as I was using it to sign into MSN.com's 'the zone' for playing Age of Empires Rise of Rome expansion on my 28.8k dial-up.
Holy oldness, Batman.
I think I use Chrome out of loyalty at this point. I was using it when firefox and IE still hadn't got their shit together to realize that having huge-ass URL bars with all sorts of shortcut buttons and crap wasn't what people want taking up screen real estate. Now they're almost all functionally the same, unless you're using specific sites that only work in a certain browser. For instance: accessing OWA (Outlook Web Access) is better in IE than in Chrome or Firefox because on Chrome or Firefox you're stuck with OWA light (which sucks and you can't do anything with it).
I will say this, though, Firefox fanboys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
I love how every response in this topic is 'yea I think' or 'no I wouldn't.
Yes, I DID date a girl that smokes. The smoking was another thing to like about her, but as the relationship wore on it was another thing to worry about for long-term health.
Oh yea, to the kid that thinks weed ruins your life: maybe. The truly ruinous result is not having the will to pursue what you care about. I've a friend who's the most high-functioning drug user there is, he makes enough money to support his habit, his lifestyle, pay all his bills (car, cell, tv, internet, heat, rent) in one of the nicest areas in Boston through legitimate means. It's all about drive, not what your vice is. Your argument is about why YOU don't smoke weed, not why everyone else shouldn't.
First of all: there's no way a 115 pound girl ate three 1-lb burgers and fries. Remember the BK stackers? A 1lb burger is a QUAD stack. Remember the video of the dude ordering the octuple stacker? And trying to eat it? That's 2lbs. Each burger patty is typically 1/4 pound of beef weighed before cooking. I am a 190 pound dude, and I'm pretty sure even I would have difficulty consuming 3 lbs of beef in burger form.
So, what she did was eat 3 quarter-pound burgers, plus fries and soda for a grand total of: approximately one pound of food. Hence the 115-116 weight change.
In sum: the answer is simple--your friend made a dumb mistake.
TheJoe324 should really be a moderator again.
At 12/3/12 06:16 PM, Demonbrunch wrote: You've heard or read comments about how a show has "bad writing" or how the writing suffers over the course of many seasons.
So what shows do you consider to have good, or at least consistently decent writing.
House always had great writing. The issue that the show ran in to was that the formula was getting stale, so they tried to make it feel fresh with constant drama/main character replacements... but it ended up making the drama itself stale. So even though it was excellently written, I was completely turned off by the final season.
If you're so inclined, the finest episode that the show ever produced was Three Stories.
Yes, of course Breaking Bad is excellent. Game of Thrones is excellent as well, but it's young. Homeland, a fantastic 24-esque successor on Showtime has some of the most compelling storyline I've ever been exposed to on television (though also young). It may not be popular, but I always enjoyed this old show from the early/mid '90's called 'the Outer Limits' which is basically a modern Twilight Zone. Seinfeld was seriously GOLD, one of the funniest sitcoms ever, in my opinion, but the last episode was an unfortunate weak point.
That last test was such bullshit, ha ha. I hate when tests have answers that just... don't apply, or you end up choosing an option that is something you wouldn't really do, it's just the closest possible out of the incredibly limited choices.
That said, I'm ENTJ, Neutral Good, Assertive Sub.
26.46, but yea BMI is pretty much bullshit. I work out and eat much healthier than most people, not to mention walking everywhere and only taking the stairs up and down my 10th floor residence. Muscle mass throws off the measurement pretty good, which automatically fucks whatever they suggest for my height.
I'm 6' and 195 lbs (88kg, 183cm), with a size 34 or smaller waist. I've got broad shoulders and fat really only accumulates on my lower chest and belly, there's none of my arms or legs. Ideally, by the new year I'll be wearing 32 size waist and down to 185-190. The only way I'll ever get below 180 is by starving/running away my muscle mass, neither of which are especially healthy.
Honestly? Individuals are attractive to me. I used to think there were women of whatever ethnicity that I would never go for, but then you meet a stunningly gorgeous woman from that ethnicity and you're just like "well... I guess I'm wrong." I've met all sorts of beautiful women from every ethnic background I can come up with. So at this point, I wouldn't claim that there is a race that attracts me the most.
Intelligence and a positive distance from the norm is probably the most attractive thing on a woman. Besides physical features, but those fade. It's pretty much a given that any woman can get the blood flowing to my genitals, but getting the blood flowing to my brain is much rarer and I'm proud to only cultivate relationships with beautiful and intelligent women.
I will say this, however: Latin culture tends to produce very attractive women. Love dancing, drinking, and they're passionate about speaking their mind? Hell yes.
At 10/1/12 03:25 PM, Kane-Farrell wrote: but my eyesight is fine
How is your depth-perception? If it's fine too then you simply aren't trying to perceive the autostereogram, which is not a condition of your eyesight, it's a condition of lacking will.
At 10/1/12 03:12 PM, Kane-Farrell wrote: still doesn't work
these things are scams
You may be stereoblind. The condition is permanent if you have a lazy eye, or do not have full facility of both of your eyes. Additionally, it may not be correctable if there are cognitive issues with stereo-vision (aka: depth perception).
At 10/1/12 03:05 PM, Yert wrote:At 10/1/12 02:58 PM, Evark wrote: To the people who can't do them:no one's going to read all that btw
^He says, as if MY comment was the useless one.
Magic eye images are autostereograms.
To the people who can't do them:
You're missing a key piece of how to focus properly. People aren't explaining to you what makes them work, so you're not understanding what you need to do in order to see the images. Magic eye pictures are basically a printed version of same trick that makes 3D movies or TVs work. It's also a similar idea at work when you see those holographic cards. The holographic cards have bumps on them so when you move them left right (if the bumps are vertical) you will see the different 'faces' of the bumps with the different strips of whatever image on it. It ultimately gives the impression that there is movement because there are 'frames' printed in each bump's face (frames like in animation). You'll notice when you bend a piece of paper with this stuff on it, all the images blend together and you see pieces of different points of the animation simultaneously.
Now, how it applies to Magic Eye... you need to 'see past the image' not in the figurative sense... you should literally have your eyes focused as if you're looking at something physically behind the image. It's easy on a computer screen, take your finger, focus on it, and then move it behind your computer monitor while maintaining the focus.
The effect will be such that the image on the monitor appears to 'double'. If you cross your eyes hard enough, you can see the entirety of the same image, twice, but through each eye. The trick is that in order to make the images appear, you only want to cross your eyes just enough (aka: look/focus only so far beyond the image) so that the two images overlap correctly to produce the 3D effect. Photoshop COULD produce the 3D image, but without the understanding of how they're made, you'd have a hard time reverse-engineering one to get the 3D image behind it.
It actually helps to have an idea of what you're looking for in the image, too. Your eyes don't always properly discern the illusion at first (this is why knowing that you have to look past the page to a specific point is helpful... sometimes you have to look more or less shallowly behind the image in order to focus correctly). When I'm first looking at an image, it can take a while because I can only discern pieces of it at a time, but eventually I figure out the entire thing.
magiceye.com has a bunch of sample images if you guys would care to check them out. They also have solutions attached for confirming if you saw the right thing.
I don't like the rounding off the tank treads, nor the cartoony proportions of the dude on top. Overall, it makes NG much 'cuter' instead of bolder, IMO. If the old tank logo were there, even reduced in size, I think I'd actually really like it. Though maybe up-sizing the "NEWGROUNDS" part to be as tall as the tank would solve it for me?
Looks like you'll need to cut back some hours at your job. I'm really hoping you're finding the time to do all the work that you need to do between classes/during work hours. In situations like this, it can actually help to invest time in organizing yourself. Even though it might feel like you're wasting time you could be spending doing work, it can make you more productive overall.
You should find at least one block of time each week to have to yourself though, for the things you enjoy. Try to treat class and work like the opportunities to socialize that they are: you can meet cool people and feel just as fulfilled "hanging out" with them (while getting paid and/or learning as the primary focus) as you would like you used to cut loose with your friends in High School when you had nothing else to do.
Pull it off this semester, maybe consider reducing your work hours, and then next semester DEFINITELY don't take the full 6 courses. You can always do a summer session or supplement credits by taking a class at a CC over the summer and transferring the credits. Good luck, dude.
At 9/19/12 11:03 PM, ZeldaFreak701 wrote: Let the nitpicking/insults begin!!!!
Hah! I like the idea, but, personally, I find the style too simplistic for my tastes. As long as you're happy with it, that's all that matters.
At 9/19/12 01:22 AM, Charoget wrote: TL;DR My roomates are disgusting, I'm tired of being their bitch and picking up after them, what do?
It's really hard to get people to clean up in a group setting like that. Sometimes it helps to divy up the chores, especially if there are some things some roommates don't mind doing. Like, maybe one of them doesn't mind sweeping or mopping, so they can do that every week. And then maybe there's the one who doesn't mind doing dishes, so they can do that each night and someone else can put them away. Really, you need to approach it from the mindset of "what do they want and how can that work together with what I want in order for everyone to be happy?" Saying to them "WHAT THE FUCK SOMEONE LEFT DIRTY DISHES IN THE SINK" is much less effective than saying "I know you guys really want to be able to use the dishes without having to wash someone else's first, the easiest way to ensure this is to wash your dirty dishes the same night you used them."
Admittedly, I'm not the best person to listen to. My solution when living with 6 people in the nastiest fucking place ever was just to exclusively order food out. When one of the bathrooms got too gross to tolerate I moved all my bathroom stuff to another one. At least my room was tolerably clean.
At 9/18/12 09:26 PM, TomFulp wrote: I just beat Mega Man X on the iPhone tonight. I missed out on the SNES version so I feel like a piece of my life is complete, but now I'm wondering if the SNES version is much different / harder.
There were a couple of interesting bugs that probably weren't retained. One in particular gave you a really awesome weapon. The SNES version of Mega Man X was my 3rd favorite video game ever (after Super Metroid and EarthBound).
At 9/15/12 01:04 PM, Dean wrote: It would be cool if more lurkers started participating in the discussions. It's always cool to have some new blood.
Most of the reason that I've been lurking is that the same discussions have been around forever. Really, I've already posted my opinion on earlier incarnations of the same subject.
Anyway, I've probably dropped 60 posts or less in the past two years, so here I am: lurkin'. This response mood is now my lurking face.
Another reason why: 12k posts... DO NOT WANT. Back to the abyss...
At 9/13/12 02:31 PM, Ragnarokia wrote: I was 19 I believe when I had the operation
Ah. It was still overkill.
Retracting it to clean is more effort than simply cleaning, like I said it is more of a pain to clean, I didn't say it was difficult to clean or it hurt to clean, pay more attention next time.
Ha ha ha, you're grasping at straws here if you think there's any extra expenditure of effort in retraction. You said "a pain," which can LITERALLY be taken as 'painful'. It's not on me to pay more attention with that one, it's on you to choose phrasing that more closely reflects what you apparently mean.
Again it seems as if you are taking everything out of context. I know of no people that would stop sexual relations due to things like whether they have foreskin or not, if anyone did they would be a shallow cunt. That doesn't change the fact women tend to prefer the penis either way, if it has been circumcised or not. I'm not claiming "Oh no you have the snip I won't have sex with you" I'm claiming it's simply a thing they enjoy, I have talked about it to several people and it is a well known fact regardless that some simply prefer circumcision or not.
I was putting things INTO context, actually. The point was to make you step back and apply what you're saying to an actual situation. I like that you agree that it's ridiculous that a woman is going to be disinterested at the revelation that a dude is circumcised or intact. However, those 'preferences' are overwhelmingly for intact penises. The foreskin provides vital functions in keeping vaginal secretions within the vagina, reducing overall friction, and otherwise facilitating the woman's enjoyment. Studies have shown (you may look them up [http://www.circumcision.org/harmswomen.htm] cites one such study) that women overall enjoy sex with the uncircumcised male more. That doesn't mean circumcised men are 'broken' or 'useless' or 'incapable of intimacy' or anything, it's not an attack against a circumcised dude as a person. It just means that all things being equal, both parties would likely enjoy sexual intercourse more if they had not been mutilated as a baby.
It's obvious you see circumcision as some sort of stupidly cruel act like the other imbeciles considering you are using phrases like mutilation, so I really don't see any reason to continue this. If you want to rant against people go ahead, if you actually want to have a proper discussion then loose the obviously hateful views you want to spurt out and post with some decency.
I do see it as a cruelty, born of ignorance. I've not yet once resorted to name-calling, and here you are calling me and others who are against the barbaric practice 'imbeciles'. I call a spade a spade. What else would you call chopping off 12 square inches of the most sensitive skin on the human male's body? Would you voluntarily let someone lop off the tip of your pinky finger, stick a blunt instrument in the chopped off part, and separate the skin from your bone? Why not? It's just an extra, almost nobody needs all 10 of their fingers and you can get along just fine with 9. Do you see how ridiculous the argument is when applied elsewhere?
I'm not ranting against "people," with the exception of those that perpetuate the practice of circumcision. Even then, the rant is not about THEM, it's about circumcision itself and how obviously useless and furthermore: hurtful it is to society and its people.
Consider this: the 10 countries with the largest incidences of violence against women are those with the highest circumcision rates. Domestic violence is known to be associated with childhood trauma. Circumcision is traumatic. Connection? Unknown... correlation does not imply causation. But it's interesting to note and should give pause for thought.
Look, I'm sorry you're offended by my frank discussion of this subject. I don't have any problem with your choice, just take issue with what was probably poor advice from your physician, and I definitely take issue with the practice being performed on defenseless infants. There is no 'hate' here, and the only reason you're perceiving a personal attack is because you feel that being circumcised identifies you as a person. So if I'm railing against it, I must be against YOU or something. False.
At 9/13/12 11:13 AM, Ragnarokia wrote: This goes the same for people regardless of if they had a circumcision or not, should always wash it anyway for your partner and use protection unless you are both clean / on the pill etc. It is just a bit more of a pain to clean beneath the foreskin than people who are circumcised for obvious reasons.
How would you know? You allegedly were unable to retract your foreskin when you had it (which, by the way, is completely natural in any pre-pubescent boy. Retraction should not be possible until at the earliest age 6 and at the latest age 18. If it's 'difficult', that can be remedied by stretching).
Oh yea, and that's bullshit. Did you know that women produce smegma naturally, just the same as dudes? It's a combination of skin cells and whatnot. Further, it is not 'more of a pain' to clean 'beneath' the foreskin, as when you have retracted the foreskin there is no 'beneath'.
And finally, http://io9.com/5942916/sexually-aroused-women-find-everythin g-less-disgusting . It doesn't even really matter that much if you're having sex with a woman, anyway. As long as your penis isn't absolutely vile, and if it were, the warning signs would be there long before you were naked enough for her to notice (aka: the rest of you would be absolutely vile as well, not to mention smelly).
People really seem to treat it like it makes a huge difference, sure it slightly lowers your pleasure without the added foreskin retracting over your head but many people find they prefer it anyway, makes masturbation worse as sort of a fact but sex with someone is still grand, some people however find they prefer sucking a guy off who is circumcised or vise versa as personal taste, and frankly when it comes to personal taste and not a needed operation it really does just depend on if you want it or not.
"Many people find they prefer it anyway." AKA: once the decision has been made it is irreversible so what alternative do you have? Nobody PREFERS mutilation, they just live with it and justify why they shouldn't feel bad that they've been irrevocably mutilated. Instead of learning about how unnecessary it was, they pass on the misinformation in the form of mutilating their children. Yes, you will still enjoy sex, however you will enjoy it with diminished sensation and the woman will enjoy it less with higher incidences of too much dryness. The circumcised will also face higher incidences of erectile dysfunction, and other negative effects.
It's funny how so many people seem to see male circumcision as some sort of destruction of their manhood etc. sure if I was uncircumcised and didn't have phismosis then I would likely not want to have the operation, but that would more than likely be due to the fact I just really don't want to have to deal with the pain for a few weeks. As adult circumcision did prove to be quite painful to go through for me, the worst part being when I got errect since the bandages really didn't give way for the expanding area.
Your phismosis was likely a consequence of misinformed doctors. I bet you were diagnosed with phismosis between the ages of 12-16, no? It's likely that as a result of forcible retraction at an earlier age your phismosis was actually the result of scarring caused by some idiot pediatric doctor or nurse. Furthermore... it's not even necessary that your foreskin fully retract. Think about it... how are you going to get disgusting stuff between the glans and your foreskin if you can't even pull it back enough to expose the glans?
In the absolute WORST CASE scenario, phismosis can be solved with a small incision on the foreskin to facilitate pulling it back with ease. It is not necessary to remove it entirely.
To those who are circumsized: read and learn, don't just accept what has happened to you and pass it on to your sons. It is a barbaric practice that should be ended.
At 9/12/12 08:38 PM, mightypotato wrote: Happy birthday, old internet friend. Many happy returns.
*raises glass*
Likewise on both accounts!
Hey, less stupid shit about this topic's status and more about how unrelentingly hilarious Archer is. Seriously, it's hysterical. I highly recommend anybody who hasn't seen it to watch all of it, post-haste.
At 9/11/12 03:40 PM, SKS wrote: Are there any known tricks to alter a persons thoughts?
http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/crazy-req uest.htm
Yes. There is a trick to increase the likelihood that one will grant you a favor, or agree to your want. The trick is to start out with a reasonable, but unusual request first. It needs to fit the situation, but it has to be odd.
The article above gives examples. But the point is that you're not only getting the foot in the door of having somebody else grant you a favor, but you're also lessening the shock of your actual request's forwardness.
I guess the best real-world application I can think of is picking up women. Or sales... buuuuut... boring.
I love that the only thing you can think to brag about your best friend is her possession of a vagina.
At 9/8/12 07:31 PM, liljim wrote: I might be missing something here, but I don't think that feature was ready to launch - so there will be problems with it. It's really encouraging to see that so many people have already donated and I'll speak on behalf of everyone on the staff and thank those of you who have already contributed!
Please be patient though - like I said, I think someone may have stumbled across the URL and it's gone public without any of us intending it to be, so expect whatever problems there are with it to be worked out over time.
It's definitely not. However, please take this under advisement for preparing it to launch: I'd like an option to continue to be served advertising. As cool as it is to support the site with monetary donations, I'd still prefer not to be removed from the pool of users you may claim as an audience to advertisers.
I'm also comforted to know that this wasn't announced because it isn't ready, rather than the alternative that the staff was too embarrassed to publicly declare Newgrounds needs more support. It makes me feel better about the whole situation, for whatever reason.
At 8/25/12 02:07 AM, Tremulos wrote:At 8/25/12 02:06 AM, Evark wrote: /me does not wear corrective lenses.But where are your glasses....
What are you, a wise guy?
