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What if it was law that we had to walk backwards all the time?

Continuation of the species.

Get the paramedics on standby.

Do any of them have original art that wasn't traced off of a commercial hentai game?

If so then that one.

At 2/3/12 07:55 PM, Razz wrote: I'd probably be okay with it, less is better for your body. And it would be good for most people here on NG too, if they wanted to fill their urges then they would have to develop social skills.

Umm... excepting for certain risks associated with doing it wrong or in an unsafe way, masturbation has numerous health and psychological benefits, I would assume that more is certainly not a risk to ones body.

On the other hand sexual activity with a partner is less safe due to the risks of sexually transmitted diseases. Sooo... yeah. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

I'd say never.

It's okay to talk about, even bring up in conversation, your accomplishments to others, but boasting about them is not okay and makes you look like a douche.

At 2/3/12 12:42 PM, Ericho wrote: I think the hardest thing to do is probably walk to the edge of the Universe. Not only would it be impossible, but it would take trillions of years given how fast humans are and our knowledge of how big the Universe is. I'm sorry if this might sound lame, but I did come back from reviewing that awesome "Scale Of The Universe 2" submission, which I have now decided is the best submission of all time.

Current thinking is that, while limited in size, the universe has no defined edge, you would simply wind up where you started, if you were to, somehow travel in a straight line.

At 2/3/12 12:02 PM, PIED3 wrote:

At 2/3/12 11:55 AM, ScaryPicnic wrote: rhyming poems actually tend to [...] childish rhyming-couplet ordeal.

Hmm, fair point. Forced rhymes definitely can ruin a potentially good poem, and fixed rhyme schemes can sound a bit jingoistic. But then again, i feel a nicely placed rhyme can really add something emotionally toa poem.

On this point, and in the arts in general, I find that limitations, such as forcing yourself to produce a decent, poem with a rhyme scheme, can produce better results then just being able to write or do whatever you want without putting any limitations on yourself.

At 2/3/12 12:14 PM, ScaryPicnic wrote: Oh, and Bioshock was absolutely phenomenal.

I couldn't agree more, Bioshock is probably the most beautiful and engaging setting of any game I've ever played. Ever.

I try not to leave my house...

like ever.

At 2/3/12 12:14 PM, MikeyS9607 wrote: The guy who plays AVGN is married to someone he met on the Internet. Proof.

While I don't know the ins and outs of that story (nice link to irrelevancy, btw) there's a difference between casually meeting strangers on the internet and building a relationship from there and actively seeking out a partner on a dating site.

IMO, though, it's becoming the new normal.

At 2/3/12 12:10 PM, Asswipe3210 wrote:
Why were the gameplay demo "things" in place to begin with?

One of the reasons was, I believe, that some stores that carried them would have a game running on a display to entice customers to watch and, hopefully, buy the game. Now many stores have interactive demos where a customer can park themselves in front of a display and actually experience the game.

It feels good, really good, to take down a tough enemy with a weak weapon. Like when you kill a shambler with your single barrel shotgun (Quake) or a baron of hell with your pistol (DOOM).

At 2/3/12 08:48 AM, BumFodder wrote:

At 2/3/12 08:42 AM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: Some of the defining characteristics of Asperger syndrome are a lack of empathy

Do you even know what empathy means? Because if you did then you would know its something that people with aspergers usually have too much of. Atleast bother to do the research if youre going to claim something so stupid. I know quite a lot of people with aspergers and not one has lack of empathy and if anything they become too emotional. The non-verbal cue part is quite accurate though.

Yes, I both know what empathy is and have known people with aspergers syndrome, maybe you should take your own advice and learn about the diagnosis before you shoot your typing fingers off at someone. Sheesh. Being emotional and being empathetic are two very different things.

At 2/3/12 08:33 AM, BumFodder wrote:

At 2/3/12 08:28 AM, TiredPaperBoy wrote: I support the officers postition.

Asperger's Syndrome is such a mild case of Austism, he was in full control of what he was doing.

Like I said before, Aspergers is usually very mild but some cases can be really bad. You cant really fully judge the situation on just that unless you know how bad they are.

Some of the defining characteristics of Asperger syndrome are a lack of empathy and the inability to, for lack of a better word, "read" other people in a nonverbal way.

Who knows what the kid was thinking/feeling.

Basically, it's a tragedy all around; for the family and friends of the child and for the officers who are probably not trained or equipped to deal with such situations.

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."
-Oscar Wilde

You, sir, are wise beyond your years.

If you're really concerned about liver-spots, stay out of the sun.

Pfft, you youngsters with your hula-hoops and fax-machines and I don't know...

Give me "guy pounding on rock and howling," now that's a classic.

Am I the only one who I finds it odd that Police are REQUIRED to carry their handguns at all times but they have to CHOOSE when to bring along a non-lethal stun gun? Really?

At 2/2/12 07:09 PM, J-qb wrote:
The poeple that are now starting to make cartoons grew up with 80's and early 90's cartoons. Not that hard to understand.

O RLY?
I grew up on them and as I implied, I hated that time period of poorly conceived, poorly executed, mass produced, soulless, overtly-commercialized, colorful vomit. And the music... oh dear lord.

Create your own style, don't recycle stuff that was horseshit when it was fresh. People are wasting their talents reliving the past. Move the fuck on.

This upset me.

Why are people suddenly all nostalgic for late 80's early 90's style television cartoons? It seems that people like HappyHarry have a hard-on for this crap (I have a hard-on for alliteration) as well as some animation students and AdultSwim. Man, I wouldn't want to live through that era of television programming for all the rice in ricelandia.

Discuss.

You're sayin' the FBI's gonna pay me to learn to surf?

At 2/2/12 02:05 AM, ornery wrote: This upset me.

That's exactly the kind of thing that I was taking about earlier, people are so afraid of letting their children experience anything other than the most obscenely bland aspects of the arts that it's killing culture. Kids need to be exposed to things that frighten them and things that provoke their curiosity and interest in the world. I really hate it when things are censored or changed in order to appease the parents and NOT in the interest of the actual kids. Glame.

10k +1

You should never forget an important numerical milestone post on the BBS by accidentally posting in some lame, random topic...

I really enjoyed Madness Combat (the first one) and Marsh-Mellow-Madness, but the series seems to have lost it's humor and irreverence and has, thus, lost a fan.

At 2/1/12 07:32 PM, Masterlink23 wrote: Does anyone else have a Wacom tablet? Because I feel lonely when nobody I know has one.

A great many of Newgrounds artists and animators have tablets and Wacom is the most popular brand.

Maybe you should socialize with more people online.

At 2/1/12 03:33 PM, MiloBased wrote: oh look, more legal drugs that will come back to bite us in the ass...

Like I said, they're researching other options, such as riluzole and scopolamine, that won't have the same side effects (hallucinations, memory problems, out-of-body experiences) as ketamine.

Story on NPR Health Blog

I thought this was interesting, and might be a ray of hope for anyone who suffers from serious depression that is unresponsive to current treatments.

Scientists have been researching ketamine as a anti-depressant with promising results. They are now looking into creating or expanding the use of similar drugs to treat people with serious depression that has been unresponsive to traditional treatments and that won't have the side effects of ketamine.

Despite some peoples impressions of serious depression as something to "just get over" or as a person "just being emo," major depressive disorder is a horrible mental illness that afflicts many, many adults and adolescents worldwide and is often unresponsive to current treatment options.

I think that this is a great avenue of research to pursue and could potentially help a lot of people in the long term.

TES IV: Oblivion --
I don't remember it perfectly but I was at some important quest inside a crypt and I had to lead this ghost someplace deep inside the crypt, but my health was low and I was being attacked so I ran away out of the crypt so that I could get away from my enemy and heal, but the ghost followed me out and once I was able to reenter the crypt the ghost would not go back in, so basically I was screwed and couldn't finish the game (and had no backup saves [d'oh]). I gave up on Oblivion after that. =\

TOTALLY IRONIC!

What could be more ironic than that?
A black fly in your Chardonnay?
A death row pardon two minutes too late?
Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?