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I used to think it would be awesome to have star wars legos as a kid. Then they started making them later on

Some of these come to mind immediately (not in any particular order):
Half-life
Half-life 2
Super Smash Brothers Melee
Super Mario Bros. 3
Mega Man 2
Max Payne
Command and Conquer
Warcraft III
Day of Defeat
Day of Defeat: Source
Contra
I would be lying if I didn't list one the game that probably sucked most out of my life (I don't play anymore):
World of Warcraft
Probably left out some key games :/

That's definately a question of personal taste, but a manufacturer that I've always trusted is Seymour Duncan, usually versatile and warm sounding, I don't like active pickups

My ballsweat kinda has a chicken aroma to it, I wonder if they taste good, but am not gonna try

There's really no reason for you to start smoking, I started because all my friends smoked, it feels sorta good to get the nicotine rush when you smoke occasionally like I do, but if I smoke any more than like 5 per day (unless I'm drinking as well) It'll just makes me feel crappy and weak.

Isn't there other threads about this already and to answer your question: No

That's actually sleep paralysis, it's quite common

That actually makes sense. If you think about it for a second, since the existence of humanity we've always been in constant evolution and learning more complex concepts, to the point of being able to explain and create the things we do today. However, if you look at the past, a person from the present could say ''If only people from back then knew what we do today!''. Who says the same thing won't happen to us?

My point is that a lot of important things that were ignored years ago were discovered, and now those from the past seem ignorant. I'd bet my lunch we will be just as ignorant compared to the future generation, so we can't expect to answer all our questions, but eventually we might do.

Exactly, there's only so much things about the nature of reality that we have discovered so far. It's quite okay to say "I don't know". There's no need to fill the gaps with a god

At 2/8/09 10:41 AM, Sentio wrote:

At 2/8/09 10:35 AM, Conspiracy3 wrote:

Yes, there has to be some sort of non-contingent body to start it all out. The question is whether or not that was a god/gods or whether or not that was the universe/highly condensed matter existing before the big bang. As an atheist the latter seems more plausible to me.

Agreed, there is clearly something that happened to start everything off (our logical minds insist that everything must have come from somewhere), and to me a force/process that we don't know about seems by far the most likely answer. We say energy/matter can't be created from nothing, but clearly it was once, so simply there is some process we don't know about. If some people want to call this process 'God' then so be it, it's as good a name as any.

What I can't comprehend is why so many people feel a need to worship this thing that we don't understand, given that as far as I can see it holds no influence over us directly and certainly doesn't talk to people/ help people/ answer or listen to prayers/ act as a force of good in the universe etc etc. Certainly it created energy/matter, but I don't see people worshiping gravity or atomic forces...

As much as our minds insist that "something has to come from somewhere" threre has to be something that always existed with the same reasoning, it doesn't have to be supernatural or beyond our universe although it could be. I don't understand why people have such a huge need to think back in time to "the beginning". Time is relative to the observer as Einstein figured out. It's an illusion of our minds. If you start thinking about the fact that there can't be a series of events that goes back in time infinitely, well who knows, there's still no reason to logically come up with a God character

The chicken and egg question is purely a matter of defining which transitional form predating the the current chicken we define as a chicken. If we choose to call the parent of the egg a chicken then the chicken came first, but if decide that the unhatched egg contains a chicken, then the egg came first.
As for the age old question about the universe and everything, why can't the universe just always exist if God always exists? All the energy that formed the universe was there before the big bang, it's not like it came into being as an explosion out of nothing. I'm not claiming to know all this 100%, there's indeed theories of a multiverse of universes etc. But anyway there's no reason to put God in the equation until we have some evidence for one.

The fact that they're usually hard also there's something fascinating about the way old games were made with the restrictions of hardware. Nowadays games can be all over the place and inconsistent and the art styles are not as unified. There were rarely bad glitches, performance and technical problems (at least inside the game itself, hardware issues aside)

I was expecting something stupid and unfunny, but that was fucking awesome!

I just played through the really short demo of the PC version F.E.A.R 2 Project Origin, seems pretty nice. You get to blast enemies to bits in a "power armor" that is more like a mech than a suit of armor, sounds a bit weird for F.E.A.R to go in this direction, but this was to my surprise my favourite part of the demo. Also Alma, the annoying girl and the horror elements are now everywhere, and at one point I was constantly being bombarded by ghosts, flying objects, people dying left and right and it kinda lost it's charm when everything is constantly happening. You are handed a shitload of weapons in the demo and there's constanly something happening, almost too much so, I ended up shooting almost everything that moves. All in all, pretty good demo, I liked the first F.E.A.R, and a lot of it is still there. I'm not too fond of the graphics engine and it demands a lot of horsepower from your rig, but I gotta admit that some of the effects, especially the blurs and smoke looked fantastic, but there's something in the engine that somehow makes it feel a bit unreal and the physics seem a bit odd to me, I don't know

What a dumb thing to argue about, but Half-Life is the better franchise, Halo is so overrated that it's not even funny.

Don't tell me what to do, I am superior! I'm kidding, but can't be arsed to shop you a sig, I'm not as good in handling PS as I used to be anyway

I am an atheist, I've been christian for most of my life, just because it's the normal thing to do, but I used to believe in god up to the age of about 14 or so and I was seriously questioning my belief at that time and even had a sortof existential breakdown one day at school when I realised just how material this world really is, I remained christian though I knew I had no idea whether god exists and my ideas of god became more abstract. Later I decided to resign from chuch and quit christianity altogether after first seeing a video on YouTube about some family being discriminated in the states (I'm Finnish, no one really cares here whether you believe or not and many non-believers and people with serious doubts on the existance of god are christian for the habit). Anyway that vid led me to some videos by the infamous Brett Keane who has since vanished from the tubes (this was in 2005 or so). And even though his ego got the better of him, he had some quite thought provoking videos in his early repertoire. Wow, this is turning into a solid wall of text, anyways then I picked up the YouTube atheist thing and realised that it made no sense to keep the god of the gaps in place. I'm actually feeling better and more at peace with myself without the god concept in my life. It's quite possible to be an intelligent believer, but I consider atheism a more rational position. I'm quite okay with belief itself as long as it's left in it's "rightful place" in the god box and kept out of decision making in reality. Many religions I do find dangerous such as Islam stepping on our freedom of speech and the extremists exploding themselves along with innocent people for Allah and christianity's "God Hates Fags" folks with their shit.

I like the middle one, closest to the original stormtrooper design and that is still the coolest imperial armor imo.

I left out a key part of the quote: This is too far away to have a sterilising effect. "It would probably have to be inside our own galaxy, or within about 30,000 light years, to be hazardous to life," says Prof David Burrows of Penn State University.

At 1/24/09 09:59 PM, Ragestorm wrote: I am about to go out of the way here and lay down some THEORIES:
1. The speed of light is relative to how fast you are traveling, therefore, it is NOT a constant.
2. The Universe has recently been proven to be expanding, so the universal "Constants" are changing infinitely and continuously.

and finally, did you know that there is a star a few light years away that WAS on the verge of becoming a supernova, and that stars such as this frequently release a gamma ray burst from their poles when they do explode? and did you know that said star's poles are facing toward and away from Earth's general direction? The thing is, gamma rays travel at the speed of light, and since we cannot see farther than the light currently hitting our retinas, the star could have already exploded and released a gamma ray burst, which, by the way would kill all life on the planet. The gamma rays would actually pass through the Earth and out the other side. We wouldn't even know it was coming till the instant it hit us. it could hit in two minutes for all we know, and the really scary part is that its all true.
LOOK IT UP.

Wait what? Just because the universe is expanding doesn't mean that constants such as gravity are changing all the time, does it? And as for the dying star, well how accurately can we measure how close to the verge of becoming a supernova a star is? Timescales are usually HUGE in astronomy and a star at the end of it's lifespan could take thousands of years to actually die. this is what I found from googling "dying star gamma ray" : Unparalleled data from satellites and observatories around the globe now show that the jet from one such powerful stellar explosion on 19th March was aimed almost directly at Earth. The event became bright enough for human eyes to see as a jet of material shot directly toward Earth at 99.99995 per cent the speed of light.

Fortunately, the extraordinary event, known as GRB 080319B took place 7.5 billion light years away, half way across the universe, concludes a study published today in the journal Nature. from Telegraph.co.uk

Boxxy must be in there. It needs to be sealed in concrete tomb 10 feet underground.

Pretentious Much

At 1/5/09 02:48 AM, Gagsy wrote:

At 1/5/09 02:37 AM, a22 wrote: Ahh Karri aka Catoblepas, he's not dumb enough to do that, he is brilliant. Btw that's crazy that Jeff guy, I remember seeing that flash ages ago, probably before he commited his violent deeds and thought it was just average.

Read the early reviews for 'Target Practice'. It's fucking eerie really. People commenting on how good the flash is and how he needs to keep up the good work.

This one from toocool002 for example;

"pretty good I guess that fucker killed the cops and a whole bunch of people rock on! lol then he killed himself the end!"

Imagine how that guy would feel like if he reread what he put.

Yeah it really is creepy. To me it seems like these school shooters always develop this violent agenda due to past abuse and pain. At some point they start to develop some ideas about how the world should be. It's kinda sad really that they think that their making a difference by killing random people. All they create is fear and a huge media circus. Maybe they feel empowered by inciting fear that they themselves once felt. They also always want publicity and leave notes as well as warnings the day before etc. so they're really trying to make a statement.

Ahh Karri aka Catoblepas, he's not dumb enough to do that, he is brilliant. Btw that's crazy that Jeff guy, I remember seeing that flash ages ago, probably before he commited his violent deeds and thought it was just average.

Becoming passionate about something has helped myself. People tend to think that they're not interested in anything and that nothing really seems like a good hobby to pick up, but you have to dig around and try things out to really know. It's all about occupying your mind and finding something that your body and more importantly mind reacts to positively and holding on to that.

At 1/5/09 01:29 AM, EvilerBowser1001 wrote: MS Paint Cocks all over her

HELL YEA

I just play guitar, try to learn jazz and just enjoy art really. Used to animate quite a bit and love cinema as well. Also love reading about all kinds of things, I'm a bit of a geek really, but not a bookworm.

This is actually an interesting question. Damn, ouch. I'd probably try and swing that axe with all my stength, but just imagine the axe getting stuck half way through the bone and trying to remove it while bleeding bad, ahh shit. maybe I'd actually go with the hacksaw like in Saw, I might pass out during the procedure though

Sin City was just on TV here in Finland and I watched since has been quite a while since I saw it. It's great so I decided to check The Spirit on imdb, I was a bit shocked at the really low score and read about it being over the top and unfunny. I'd have to see it to be sure, but maybe it has something to do with Robert Rodriguez missing from the director's seat with Miller himself taking the reins.

I like him too.

He is truly awesome