At 5/5/08 03:51 AM, DaveMan-CI wrote: Anyone got any tips for getting past the mission "The Snow Storm"

Getting into the church is fine, getting the cocaine is fine, but how do you get out and escape??? The walkthroughs I read say just try and run, but then I die and have to keep restarting the mission! ARGH

Do more police keep turning up? so it's not worth taking it slow and shooting your way out, or can you actually kill them all to escape then more will start chasing?

cheers for any help.

I did a combination of both, I shot the cops that came running towards me then advanced a little, more cops came towards me, shot them, advanced a little more, then when I got back to the hospital entrance I bolted for the pickup truck that was parked out front.

At 4/30/08 01:19 PM, NEVR wrote: Bit slow in here today, so I thought I'd take a quick screenshot of the BBS easter egg, just so we have a record of it lest it be removed in future. For those who aren't aware of this, just hover your cursor for a few seconds over an angry faic from an angry faic themed thread, and you get a little shock.

And here he is:

Ow my fucking chest. That was sweet.

I would use mine to open a can of whupass.

http://www.oikologos.gr/images/reportage /Agent%20Orange.jpg

The Agent Orange ones were good, but that one is Photoshopped.

Okay, cool. Thanks dudes.

Hi, I've been inactive for a while and come back to find the site all redesigned and cooler. I'm just curious about one thing, when I go to my account page to change all my favourites, the section for "other favourites" is greyed out. How come I can't change these?

At 4/20/05 02:12 AM, Lotus wrote: I spoke to someone about this, and I'm starting to think it's a bad idea as well. All adobe seem to do is buy places out, make no changes and then double maybe triple the price.

Well they shouldn't make any changes, because of the reasons Afro_Ninja gave. The pricing is still worrying though, but I guess how good/bad that is will depend somewhat on how often a new version of Flash is produced.

So far this discussion has been centered around 'corporate' treatment of animals; farming, scientific research, etc. I'd like to hear opinions about individuals that mistreat animals, such as people who keep ridiculous amounts of animals (birds, dogs, etc.) in cramped cages, living in their own filth, and dogfighting, and perhaps worst of all the plain old sickos who torture animals just for the thrill of it or something.

Kittens seem to be a favourite for this, recently there have been a couple of news stories about people (teenagers, naturally) stomping on kittens, throwing rocks at them, riding over them with bikes, throwing them on railways. In fact all that stuff I just mentioned was done in one session with one kitten and was caught on the security camera of the railway station. You might've seen the footage on the news if you're in Australia, it was pretty fucking sickening.

But it happens all over the world, what do you think of it? Harsher punishments, psychiatric treatment, or what? Apparently, people who torture animals usually turn out to be abused themselves, going on to be serial killers or something. The punishment for the kid who did the above was community service, which is basically slacking off on construction sites. His younger accomplice got 'counselling', which I gather means he was the tormented one. So they maimed a defenseless animal and basically got off scot-free.

All the major animal rights associations are concentrating on large-scale animal cruelty, the local SPCAs are struggling to cope with the sheer amount of abuse they have to face every day.

Okay, I might watch an episode each day, starting tomorrow. But with all these backgrounds done in Photoshop you see these days (not just in Ninjai), the authors really need to do higher-res images if they're going to do close-ups, because the images become blurred, not out-of-focus blurred but all pixellated. If you follow me.

Elvis, because:

· He's The King, and he's just one man
· He didn't need to get stoned to write good music
· He didn't date Yoko Ono

I watched the first Ninjai movie after reading this, I thought it'd be artistic or something, but it turned out to be some kind of anime fight-while-hovering-in-mid-air-with-sword-slicing-through-black-screen gore fest. I don't know if I should watch any more of it, does it get any better?

At 4/2/05 03:45 AM, Monkey_Lazer wrote: That either it's funny

Yeah, I remember at my high school when we asked a few girls whether they watched porn, they said 'yeah, for a laugh'. This kinda made me think, because they're either bullshitting about the 'for a laugh' part, which means they watch it to masturbate, or they actually do watch it for a laugh, which brings this up:

No one watches porn for a laugh on their own. You don't sit down at your computer late at night and think, I'll open up some porn for chuckles. No, because if you were going to all the trouble of opening up your porn then you might as well masturbate to it.

Which means that if these girls actually did watch it for laughs then they'd do it in a group. Two or more girls watching porn together? Steamy.

I like consoles and play my PS2 and N64 plenty, but I prefer to play games on computers, because they're better in every single way.

Coolest: The other night I had a dream I was playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Weirdest: Hmm, can't rightly say.

Scariest: When I was little I always had nightmares about mannequins. They'd come after me, etc.

What browser do you use? I'm on Firefox and your signature background matches the BBS one perfectly.

At 3/13/05 09:45 PM, vibes wrote: I know this ad is on TV in the US, UK and Australia - so pointless.

I haven't seen it in Australia yet. All the shitty mobile phone ringtones, whore pictures, and text-to-flirt commercials are on late in the night, I usually watch TV till about 2am and I haven't seen it yet. Not that I'm complaining. I've seen it on the net though. The guy who made it should take his laptop and his poofy mobile phone overstuffed with useless features like a 1 megapixel camera and his folding chair and set up business in front of a road train.

White guys get it a lot where I am. We're always outnumbered at the unemployment line.

But seriously though, there are always racist jokes going around, but the only few people who take them seriously here probably deserve some good slander to bring them back into the real world. No white people dare to be seriously racist against against black people because A: we mostly all get along and B: they gang up on whitey.

Lee Mack is a great British comedian, he's probably my favourite.

Eifersucht was the first Rammstein song I heard, and it's my favourite. Apart from that, Los is a really cool song.

I can't comment on SOAD though, because I've only ever heard two of their songs, one was about a pogo stick and the other about prisons.

I think tubgirl is kinda funny, how they blur out her vagina like it's the most offensive thing in the picture.

Sickest thing I've seen is the rotten.com picture of 'the weightlifter'.

At 1/7/05 12:59 AM, loserville_addict wrote: i got news for ya mate your just a bloody BUNGARRA and i bet you don't even know what that is do you??!?

I'm Australian and I don't even know what it means. One of the great (that means 'shit') things about this country is white people that learn one or two aboriginal words and then throw them around like confetti.

JewBear -
Steve Irwin has given a bad name to Australia.

No he hasn't, he's a great conservationist and devotes the majority of his profits to saving the Earth's endangered species. Lots of Australians think that Steve Irwin is making us all look like idiots but it's only the people on the receiving end of his stuff who aren't familiar with other Australians who might get the wrong idea.

Non-Australians always make a thing of 'g'day' and 'mate' and 'kangaroo' when they run into an Australian because it's national ribbing, like America's infatuation with Canadians saying 'Eh' and so on.

The people who overreact to things like this, and say stuff like 'Our country is great, we're better than you because (reason). Your country is all (stereotype)' aren't helping much, but hey.

Matt-G -
I'd say Australia and America are really closly alike

That's true. I made a diagram:

At 12/28/04 03:08 AM, NLowrider wrote:

At 12/28/04 03:04 AM, NLowrider wrote: One's the name they put for their real name and the other is their alias name.

You can choose in your personal what you want displayed on your portal submission.

Hey thanks man! I can breathe a sigh of relief now because someday I want to submit decent Flash, and I didn't want my old alias to appear on it. Thanks for clearing that up.

Before I begin, I did search for this but didn't find anything besides 'how do I change my alias' and 'rate this alias' topics. I also checked the NG FAQ.

Well, with certain artists, on the page for their Flash entry, their alias appears as their original one, rather than their current one. For example, in this submission, one of the authors is listed as Matt Morandi, whereas in his profile his alias is Yoshi-1up.

Also, another example, the famous Adam Phillips' alias is his name on the pages of his submissions, but if you look at his profile, and also if he is in your favourite artists list, his alias is his current one, chluaid.

This alternation/mix-up/whatever also occurs in the little boxes on the Flash Portal main page when you hover over a submission; the authors original alias appears instead of their current one.

I was just wondering why it happens, whether it's supposed to or not, because I'm curious.

At 12/27/04 08:47 PM, fli wrote: Okay... "cheque" and "pence".
Australian, are you?

No he's from the UK, Australia uses dollars. I'm not really worried about converting Australian dollars to American because I have no reason to, and our dollar isn't that bad anyway. The bigger problem for me is the postage and handling which is pretty extreme considering the poor service you and your package receives... Unless you get Express, which will probably cost more than the actual product you're ordering in.

I hope it has the Jeff Wayne soundtrack.

It's probably going to be nothing like it should be. It's going to be set in America rather than England, it will be present day, the heat ray (which is supposed to be invisible) is going to be a laser or something similar that allows for exciting SFX, and the aliens will probably die in some man-made way because the original ending won't be suited to modern Hollywood.

The first WotW movie was a butchery (no walkers), so I hope Spielberg can learn from it. Any movie based on any media should follow the exact same storyline, that's the whole point of making a movie of it. That's my opinion.

At 12/15/04 01:22 AM, Emperor_Bubba wrote: mario... theres one of him, and hes a fat italian aging plumber

I'd forgotten about the Italian part. He might have connections, so he probably wouldn't come to a fight without some goons, who might have guns. But that's not too bad because you rarely see a gun actually kill someone in a cartoon.

of course, Sonic the mother fucking hedgehog would totaly kick the shit out of anything that stood before him, he is the god of video games.

But luckily he'll be allied with the Ninja Turtles because they had a game on the Sega as well.

At 12/15/04 12:59 AM, Jen_the_Great wrote: Metal Gear Solid has the potential to be a good movie, but I don't know how it would be done. I think it would be better in computer animation than live action, but that also depends on who is cast.

I think that it should be done in live action, because you don't see many CG films in cinemas that are serious and not made by Disney/Pixar. However, it could be done for exclusive release on DVD, because CG/animation always does well in that format.

The thing with doing it with live actors and movies is that lately Hollywood has been full of crappy directors that only know how to use hyperbolic cinematic devices. You'd probably end up with a 90 minute action sequence with the faintest smell of the game's storyline and stealth nature, with the name 'Metal Gear Solid' stapled onto it. My references are 'Doom' and 'Resident Evil'.

I say the Ninja Turtles, because after all these years they're still teenagers and kicking arse and driving the turtlevan and after all these years Mario is still a balding old labourer who stands on things and gets around via the sewage system. Mario's still pretty cool, though, sorta.

But turtles would win because not only are they ninjas, they're teenagers too, and everyone knows that teenagers are invincible.

So it's basically some completely unrelated storyline (which is also a rip-off of every zombie movie ever created) with the name DOOM attached to it.

When you consider all the other recent films, it comes as no surpise - most films based of novels, games, etc. usually end up nothing like the story in its original form.

If I ever had something that Hollywood wanted to make into a movie (like my diary, if I kept one), I'd have to have 99% control over it, I couldn't just sign the idea over like that.

Right now I'm reading two books: The Two Towers, which is great by nature, and one called Goshawk Squadron.

Goshawk Squadron is about a squadron of British WWI fighter pilots. It's a very serious book, but there are some insanely funny parts. The pilots have to constantly drink alcohol because the fumes the plane engines give off make them incontinent, and booze helps stop this. There are also some great drunk scenes, like when the squadron goes into a French town, gets hammered at a bar, crack funnies, and then do drunken British stuff until they inadvertantly kill the French owner and end up burning the place to the ground.