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At 8/12/04 12:12 AM, Paladin_X wrote: I will not worship anyone but God. However, I do hope that you use your "sarcastic powers" for good and not evil. Or at the very least use them for 'awesome'.

How dare you infer that I'm just some kinda robot. I'm much more than that, ph33r m3!1

If you're a kid growing up these days, sooner or later, someone's going to offer you drugs. "Go ahead, try some of these," they'll say. "They'll make you feel great. Come on, everybody's doing it. Don't you want to be cool?" People have told me all these things and plenty more, but I just tell them to buzz off. I tell them I don't need drugs to get high or be cool: I can do it with alcohol, my anti-drug.

The pushers who hang around the playground behind my school are always going on about the amazing high you get from drugs. But I don't see how it can compare to the pure, natural, 100 percent legal high I get from drinking alcohol. Who needs the artificial escape drugs provide when a good, stiff belt of Jim Beam or José Cuervo can put your head in the clouds while keeping your feet firmly planted on the ground?

Sure, at first, drugs may make you feel pretty good. But it's not real. Before long, you're using more and more, even as you're feeling worse and worse. Then, other things will start going wrong for you, too: Your friends won't seem to hang around you anymore, and you'll have new friends who only care about the drugs. Your grades will start to slip. Your memory will go. And your health will fade. All because of drugs.

Don't take that risk: Find something healthy, like alcohol, to take the place of drugs in your life. So, the next time you feel the urge to smoke some marijuana, try reaching for a big bottle of Bacardi instead.

The sneaky thing about drugs is how they make you feel like everything's okay when it's not. Drugs alter the way you perceive things. They change the way you behave and cause you to lose control of yourself. Who wants that? I don't know about you, but I like being in control of my actions. That's why, whenever I feel tempted to wander down the wrong road, I pour myself a nice, stiff drink, thanking my lucky stars that I've got alcohol, my personal anti-drug.

Why would anyone in their right mind want to get "stoned" or "fried"? I'd rather spend my time engaged in more constructive activities, like "wetting my whistle," "liquoring up," or "filling myself with liquid courage." You know, positive things. With alcohol, the glass is always half full. (When it isn't completely full, that is.)

Now, maybe you don't care for alcohol. That's okay. What's not okay, though, is getting hooked on an addictive, controlled substance like pot, cocaine, or heroin. Find a healthy substitute, something you can get really into, something that can be your anti-drug. It could be anything: Learn to play blackjack or the ponies. Explore kleptomania. Have sex with an endless parade of random strangers. Anything that makes you feel good, as long as it isn't drugs.

It's your life, and you have to learn to make your own choices. But choosing drugs? That's no choice at all.

Nothing beats the adrenaline rush that comes from knowing you're drug-free. And, if you're drug-free, you're free, period. I like that feeling, and I like myself. I'm high on life, because I'm high on alcohol, my anti-drug.

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I just figured I'd give the reason why alcohol is my anti-drug, as well as everyone elses. I can't remember the source.... sue me.

Well, conservatives want things to stay the same, and liberals want changes. People move more towards conservatism when they get older because the liberal issues of their day are now issues being challenged by the young liberals, which makes the issues they supported all their life conservative issues.

At 8/10/04 02:17 PM, PretzelLogic88 wrote:
WTF are you talking about? How in the hell can morals ever not be involved in government? What do you think our laws are based on?

Our laws are not based on morality. They are based on rights and protection of those rights.

...... the president doesn't control the economy ...... it's as simple as that ............ if you don't want a capitalist economy that always has natural ups and downs, then you can move to somewhere like China

No, of course the president doesn't control the economy, what a foolish assumption. The president does affect the economy, however, with what he screws up or with what he does right. Bush had obviously done more screwing up than right, as the economy has suffered huge blows since he got into office.

At 8/10/04 12:16 PM, Celly07 wrote: Everything Moore does is to advance his career.

Uh, no shit. Thats what everybody does... welcome to capitalism. The reason why it is so bad in Bush's case is because he has been voted into office to represent America and he represents the best interests of only a select few instead.

The movie is not a documentary, its propaganda, and people who dont like bush just feed off of his misintepretations.

The movie is a documentary, albeit a very biased documentary, but what isn't. People who don't like Bush are usually people who have been lied to by Bush and enjoy hearing a more truthful depiction of events.

He downplays 9-11, so his movie shouldnt even have that in it.

No, he makes it pretty prominent. In fact, I'm pretty sure the first 45 minutes of the movie are all about 9/11.

Everything he does, in all of his movie, is take htings out of context to make america look all bad.

Everyone says he is making America look bad, but nobody says anything about how Bush is making America look bad. Senselessly attacking other countries for the first time in America's history is not a favorable action if you want your country to look good. Moore takes very few things out of context, he simply interprets things how he sees them, he shows the facts, and then gives his opinion on why they are relevent and how they have been used to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.

Every single one, which i think i have seen all of them, he takes things, takes them out of context, makes america seem evil, then turns and gets rich off of it.

No, he takes the facts, presents them to the viewer, and then offers his interpretation of events. I think the real anger here is that many of them hit really close to home in terms of the truth.

Sad society we live in.

That is what he's trying to point out and hopefully correct, except half of the people won't give him the time of day with which to do it.

At 8/11/04 11:08 PM, FatBitch507 wrote: ALL IS FUCKING REVEALED!

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=159917

Wow, its so obvious, I can't believe I didn't see it before!

At 8/11/04 10:34 PM, NintendoClock wrote: Yeah that was pretty lame. How long did it take you to figure that up?

How ironic. A member of the Clock crew calling me lame.

liljim, my little cousin has cancer. He was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 13, and died a month ago. But his last words have troubled me for these long weeks. The last thing word out of his mouth was "up."

But since that doesn't make any sense, I'll give you his last sentence as well: "I wish... that Newgrounds had gotten the text search back up." So please liljim, in the name of my poor cousin, (and whatever British people hold dear... perhaps crumpets) get the text search up and working.

At 8/8/04 01:36 AM, Paladin_X wrote: Well I still think that Evark's sarcastic reply is much funnier than yours.

Yes, worship me instead, I'm not corrupt and if you're lucky I'll endow you with all of my sarcastic powers!

At 8/11/04 12:50 PM, Eskimo_Joe wrote:

At 8/11/04 12:48 PM, Zephyr2 wrote: TheMafiaZEPHYR: how you totally PWNED STAMPER
DtotheP88: ya hahah

I think the kid really thinks everyone loves him. . . .

Evark29: Did you really think you could hold your own against Stamper?
DtotheP88: No, it was a silly prank taken too far. :-)
Evark29: Aha
Evark29: well, good luck with that
DtotheP88: :-(
DtotheP88: Do you love me/
Evark29: no
DtotheP88: But I love you
DtotheP88: Please tell me youll love me back :-(
DtotheP88: PLEEASEEE?? IM IN NEED OF LOVING!11
DtotheP88: kfine screw you i dont need you
Evark29: I know, you have those three other gay guys to hold you over
DtotheP88: >:o
DtotheP88: gahywtf
DtotheP88: whattehfuck
DtotheP88: FOK JOO

BWA HA HA HA. I hate when people who are younger think they are equal. Its hilarious.

Kid: your comebacks were lame at best, you need to learn how to Shaft properly (instead of just taking other shafts...)

Whoever invented Service Gas Stations was an asshole. Equal assholes are those who use them and request that everything be checked every time they get gas. Honestly, your transmission fluid level WILL NOT FUCKING CHANGE OVERNIGHT. These things take time, and if you have a leak that causes a problem that big, then you probably would know because you'd be broken down somewhere else before you got to the station.

At 8/11/04 03:20 PM, Dobio wrote: Quite a sad way to die, but nevertheless, you did bring it upon yourself. You win a Darwin Award.

BWA HA HA HA, absolutely hilarious. Hopefully mine will be equally as good. (yet still be original)

well, you were overwhelmingly supportive of my phsyciatrist thread, so I guess I can return the favor and play along with your predictions thread.

I'm 17, a sagittarius who was born in the Year of the Tiger, I helped start a fire of hot coals in the middle of a hole in the middle of my driveway today so that we can smash to pieces the rock on top of our broken water pipe so we can fix the pipe, and my favorite song is Big Machine by the Goo Goo Dolls. (I highly recommend you download and listen to it)

Maybe they hate you because you picture spam? Just a thought.

Anyway, I've had my girlfriend for a long time, since before I actually signed up to Newgrounds. Of course, it took me a long time to actually want to bother signing up, but yea, I've been steady with her since the beginning of April 2003.

Good times.

At 8/10/04 01:17 PM, Morextremist wrote: madness (over and over again)

Wow, that was really constructive, thanks for adding to this discussion...

Anyway, I think the new layout is Uber-schweet. I kinda like not having Text sigs anyway, it makes everything look tons more clean (but thats just my opinion)

At 8/10/04 03:28 AM, Gregosan wrote: oic...that means in a text box with words in it, i hv to highlight it and then ungroup it..that will make the words into individual letters, right?

then if it's in a mc, i hv to make new symbol then choose movie clip, then i double click the mc? and do the animation in there/?

Sounds about right, so yes to all

At 8/10/04 03:15 AM, Gregosan wrote: what does "BREAK ALL FONTS" mean?...why the movie must be in a mc and not in the main timeline, what's the diff?

Break all fonts means if you use a text box you need to highlight it and break the group apart. It essentially turns highlightable text into graphics.

The movie needs to be in a clip so Luis can put it together for the final cut of the actual time trials. Otherwise it won't work, your movie won't be able to be loaded into the final product

I'm trying to do my idea, but I've crashed flash twice so far and lost all my work...

If I don't get this the third time without everything gone then I'm not in as well

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Alien Hominid,
Happy Birthday to you.

How old are you now?
how... oh, wait.. nevermind.

For a present I'll tell a story about how I convinced a stupid kid in my class that Mr. Saturns were real (from Earthbound). I had him believing me completely, until about a day later when he accused me of lying to him. It was pretty funny. Oh yea, you also get a Naked picture of me, just 29,998 years to go and I'll give the little Alien that for a present.

At 8/7/04 11:55 AM, TheLord04 wrote: I must admit that I hate the legal system as well, I find it so stupid how people can commit crimes and get away with it.

It evens itself out with people who can not commit crimes and get convicted of it.

Earlier this year a former NBA star named Jason Williams was in court for killing his limosuine driver, and he admitted to doing it but was found innocent of attempted man slaughter because he "accidentally pulled out a gun and accidentally pulled the trigger".

Yes, that is ridiculous, but some cases involve people who are convicted on one testimony, no evidence, just one person who says they did it.

The family of the limousine driver was trying to get the case re-tried but I haven't heard anything about it for a couple of months so it's my guess that the guy was only convicted of lesser chargers which means he will serve a maximum of 8 years, and will probably get way less then that. It is quite sad.

So is the opposite situation, a man who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time is slapped with a death sentence and put on death row and murdered. 5 years later the case is reopened due to new DNA evidence and the man is cleared... guess what? TOO LATE.

Here is what I think should be done, prisons should become prisons again.

Prisons have stayed by and large the same throughout the years. Ever wonder why people don't like prison, and still don't? I guarentee you will never find a person who actively wants to go to jail.

There should be nothing except cells, they should cram as many criminals as they want in the cells. No TV's, no beds, oh and only one meal a day which would be a TV dinner without being heated.

Hey! They did that before! Yea... it was somewhere in Nazi Germany, and I think something a little different in China. Yea, and we could round them all up and kill them at random too. Sounds like a good plan. I can't remember the name of the short story, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about remind me of the name. The story is about prisoners of war who were put in a single room, maybe 35 of them in one single room about 25 feet by 25 feet and locked them in there with no food or water for about 2 weeks. Nobody deserves that kind of suffering.

Anyway, with that said I think that people who are covicted committing murder should be killed instantly and the family of the victum should be involved.

What happens if a person is guilty and then later found innocent? Then everyone who was involved in that person's brutal murder would have to stand trial and would be killed in the same way. That is the worst system I have ever heard, it wouldn't work at all, not to mention is completely against the Constitution and due process.

But a few good points were brought up about how criminals may suffer more if they go to prison. The terrorists who crashed into the twin towers on 9/11 obviously didn't care about dying. What if there are criminals like that? So i'm kind of split on the issue.

Why does it always have to be the maximum punishment that people don't think the criminals want? punishment is punishment, jail is jail, it sucks either way.

However, murderers should never be able to leave prison again.

Well, if it were your way they would barely get out of the courtroom before they were brutally murdered themselves.

Parole should be done away with, no getting out for good behavior.

So if the problem that was wrong with you that caused you to snap in the first place was finally fixed you should still have no chance of getting out on the streets again to lead a normal life.

If you murder someone your never getting out on the streets again!

I'm sure you are willing to make exceptions to this rule, the most obvious ones being military, police, and executioners.

Rapists should be forced to serve 50 years in prison, and should be raped themselves by a professional who rapes guys for a living (there has to be some sicko out there).

You keep having this eye for an eye thing going on in your argument that just doesn't make any sense. You have conveniently left out the parts where a mistake is made and a person has suffered under these new laws for no reason.

As for theft, I believe in 20 years in prison for all theft. As for those of you who say "what if a 10 year old takes candy". So what? 20 years, no ifs ands or buts. If a kid could serve 20 years in prison for stealing candy, then how many kids will steal candy?

When you were 3 did you know what money was? When you were 4 did you know that taking a small package of balloons with you out the of the store was illegal? Did you know that there were certain things you couldn't do? Did you even know that there were people who make laws for a living? You don't know what's happening when you're a kid, that is why you aren't allowed to vote, and also why you aren't allowed to be put away for something with a full sentence that an adult could get.

Oh, and speaking of kids i'm sick of gets getting off whenever they commit crimes. They get to go to juvenille detention centers instead where they get TV, video games, meals, education, and a bed to sleep in. Sure, I know kids who went there and still felt tortured because they could "only use the computer for one hour", but that only works with the ultra spoiled ones.

So a kid who plays with his daddy's toy gun, only to realize after he's pointed it at his best friend and killed him that it isn't a toy should be put to death?

Kids should have to serve the same penalties as adults, and serve in the same prisons as adults.

I would agree with that if Kids had the exact same rights adults have in the world. But they do not. So they should under no circumstances be punished as an adult would in their situation.

In conclusion, the eye for an eye system never works, because it leads to people hunting down people back and forth.

Everyone remembers what their mommy told them when they were 5: Two wrongs don't make a right. That statement always applies.

That is a bad question to ask. If you can take away someone's rights just because of something they did before, than why should anybody have rights?

Why should people be punished at all? Are you against health care for people who willingly exposed themselves to a disease? Would you prefer that people only have one chance at anything ever?

A man who stabbed a girl 99 times would hardly ever get freedom after 20 years. The point of the Constitution is to protect everybody. You are whining about how it is unjust to the victims to have a criminal put back on the streets with what you claim as a minimal punishment yet you don't see the injustice in subtracting every right from a person who has committed a crime.

In America I think some people do lose their right to vote upon incrimination. People are pretty upset about it because it is abused and used to put Black voters behind bars as a result of the prejeduce against blacks. The solution isn't quite as easy as taking away every right of a criminal.

Sure, crime goes down when you lose every right as a result, but then it is left open for abuse, how would you feel being convicted, and then being unable to appeal because you didn't have the right to anymore when you were actually innocent and somebody framed you in the crime?

May I have your attention please. I may have just figured out something that could very well be the most important breakthrough of our lives.

Using small bits of trees, and a certain type of rock, I am actually able to make warmth. I've decided to call this: fire. I think its pretty catchy.

However, people have started to abuse this power, and things have actually burned down as a result! We need to stop this threat immediately.

On a more serious note, are you going to tell us next that the government is corrupt and needs to be fixed?

At 8/7/04 12:03 AM, ChaosFoot wrote: ya really, anyone fucked up enough to not handle life, goin through it sayin "o the world is so horrible now i gotta cut myself" is a complete pussy

I'd like to see how well you respond to growing up every day being told how much the dirt you walk on is worth more than you will ever be. Better yet, I'd like to see how you handle everyday having something you hate shown or done to you over and over again. Basically picture your most miserable day ever complete with at least 3 of your worst fears happening every single day.

one of my friends does that but he has a much better excuse, hes bored

Yep, thats a much better excuse, not because your life is hell every single day, but because you couldn't think of anything better to do... Your friend is possibly the most idiotic fool I've ever hear of, and you share that title for thinking his reason is better than anyone else's.

and although thats a shitty argument into itself

Not so much shitty as completely moronic.

its a helluva lot better than claiming depression, im talkin to you dumbass goth fucks

People who cut themselves actually are depressed. There is no claim involved.

At 8/6/04 09:30 PM, D34M0N wrote:
If you know you can't swim and you go into deep water on purpose, then you are an attention whore.

Or somebody trying to learn how to swim or overcome a fear of swimming. Not everybody who tries something they can't do is an attention whore, in fact, very few are. I know I try things I can't do all the time, its all part of figuring out how to do it.

But many ppl who cut themselves are failures and don't have friends.

Thats not really true either, people do it because they are sad, more sad than you could ever understand. They cut themselves because even though it hurts like nothing else, it actually feels better than the ache they go through every day at the hands of other people who feel that they just aren't cool enough to be treated like a person. Cutting themselves is a quick way for them to take their mind off the pain of living, by offering a glimpse at the pain of death. People who cut themselves aren't failures, they just aren't what everyone else wants them to be, and everyone else tells them that more often than anyone should ever hear.

When they are injured ppl feel sorry for them and they get attention.

Nope, when they are injured nobody feels sorry for them. Nobody generally knows that they do that to themselves, because they are ashamed and afraid of what the reaction will be. They hide that they do this, unless it is confirmed that somebody else does this as well, and then they will share with them their experiences.

Then they keep cutting themselves, to keep getting attention.

No, you have it all wrong. The reason people keep cutting themselves after being discovered is because nobody gives them attention.

I was in ROTC class Freshman year. It was about halfway through the class and we were doing a competition of somesort between the two tables that involved running around. Then the director came in with a serious face on and told us that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. This was about 5 minutes before the second plane hit. We turned the TV on after it was confirmed he wasn't joking, and watched as the second plane hit the second tower.

The entire day was spent moving from class to class watching the exact same thing happen over and over again. The day after every class was spent talking about it in some form or another. English classes were all about how it made us feel, Math was all about what we thought about it, History all about watching the news and talking about it, ROTC was all about "Who did it?"

All in all, it was a pretty stupid couple of days. I remember being completely annoyed at how NY firefighters were instantly portrayed as heroes. In my mind the real heroes were the ones on the flight that didn't make it to its destination, not a large group of people just doing their job who only were labeled heroes because of their actions being during an attack on American soil.

At 8/6/04 09:19 PM, TripN wrote: So what are your plans for tonight?

What a stupid question... anybody who actually has plans won't be around to answer that. Its quite obvious from the question that the response will be from everyone "staying home and being on Newgrounds." Anyone who says anything else is obviously lying.

At 8/4/04 11:45 PM, -Wraith- wrote: Hey, dude...

And as far as I know, only one of two copies in the area. =)

Damn that game was good. My only regret is never finding the legendary bat. I got a special edition copy with a guide in it. I might even still have the guide. I'll have to leaf through that someday.

Oh, and to directly respond, you are automatically awesome for posting a picture of the game.

At 8/4/04 09:50 PM, GTP_2002 wrote: Battletoads. Quite possibly the most difficult game ever.

I remember Battletoads and double dragons. That game was awesome. Except just regular old double dragon kicked ass even more. My brother and I would rent it and then play it right down to the deadline. We actually had to chase my dad down the street after having him wait in the car for an hour to return it in time.

At 8/4/04 08:31 PM, TripN wrote: What video games give you nostalgia? Games that you may have played as a kid that if you play now you get that tingly feeling and a tear rolls down your cheek.

Well, I used to have this really awesome ninja turtles game for my ol' Mac. Back when Macs were actually better than PCs. (like 13 years ago). That game was so awesome... but I couldn't get past the fuckin' third level.

Unfortuneately after a small while I couldn't play it anymore. In order to play you had to type in a password from a book of passwords in the instruction manual, to protect from piracy or something. Needless to say I lost the manual and couldn't play it anymore.

My second choice is Super Metroid. I'm dying to play that game again and I regret selling my SNES like nothing else. If anyone has heard of Earthbound that game kicked ass too. sigh... those were THE days...