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Here's a rather simple concept, don't go to them/ignore them. It should be common knowledge that anything to with hipster or has hipster in it's name is going to be complete shit to begin with. Facebook has plenty of tools to block out any pages that you don't like, if you know how to use them.

At 8/7/12 06:51 PM, ClearlyConfused wrote: All of the real nerds attend colleges that will actually accommodate their attributes and will eventually end up making shit loads of money.

Well, I can tell you right off the bat that you are wrong, or at least mostly inaccurate, considering that some of the richest people in the world either dropped out of college, {albeit I would assume it wasn't for academic reasons} or didn't even go to college at all. You would also be plenty surprised that college graduates, even the "nerds" doesn't make as much money as people want to think, especially if they can't find jobs. I think you've been watching "Revenge of the Nerds" too much, because your statement is off the mark.

As for the athletes getting a lot of the scholarships, well last time I checked, there were plenty of scholarships available them, and even more so for academic or other such reasons, it's just that the 'ships for sports are the most notable and they are primarily responsible for much of the school's income, especially in the big state schools. Plus, not all of the jocks are that dumb contrary to popular opinion, {probable exception for the ones at Ohio State} and even have very high graduation rates in many schools. Granted, they may have taken more easier classes than most others, but more times than not, graduating college means you have to be at least somewhat smart.

Bitching about it will do you no one any good, because no one really cares, especially once you get your foot in the door in a college already.

Dead Island was one of those games where it had the potential to be good game, but the rather spastic AI and hit-or miss hit detection pretty much range from mediocre to awful, especially against the Infected enemies who can't seem to understand that if you get hit by something big or sharp, you go down. Plus, if you don't have the right stuff in a given mission {whether it's a bomb, med-kits or whatever.} then you will die/fail a lot, and will punish you for that.

As for Left 4 Dead, it's one of those games where you must have at least 1 human player, {preferably 4 Human players, duh} because the survivor's AI is not that much better than the zombies from DI. Although, it's a much more of a fast-paced, arcade style shooter than DI, which makes it somewhat more interesting to pick up and play, but the story is about as generic as it can get once you get down to brass tacks. {4 survivors shooting zombies, find weapons, shoot more zombies, find a safehouse, shoot more zombies, escape, and repeat that again.}

If I had to pick 1, I would go with Dead Island slightly over L4D. Although it would be best to avoid these games, unless you intend to play with 3 others, and/or don't mind the cheap shots from zombies and dying a lot.

At 8/6/12 08:41 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Hope they win the gold medal although it will be tough being that it is a rematch of the 2011 World Cup. With that said, Solo will have to have one of her best games in her life.

I don't pay that much attention to women's soccer, but from what I do know, the U.S. team better win their gold medal game against Japan. No disrespect to the Japanese Women's team, but on paper, the U.S team is supposed to be far superior in terms of talent, they should literately run circles around this team, so to speak.

If they do go home with anything other than gold, well then I guess the apt comparison would be to the Minnesota Vikings of women's soccer would come into play, all that talent, and nothing to show for it, championship wise. {at least in recent years}

At least it can't be as bad as Lolo Jones however, she still can't seem to get to that medal podium at all, again.

From Pokemon Silver:
Typhlosion
Tyranitar
Jolteon
Nidoking
Lapras
Dragonite

All of them above level 80, without the excessive use of Rare Candies.

I'm not particularly fond of either subculture group, particularly with the Western definition of otaku compared to the Japanese definition, but if I had to pick the worst of the 2, I guess it would have to be the bronies. Probably due to the fact that I still can't understand why a show aimed for girls is attracting a large teen to adult male fanbase, but to be fair, you could say the same thing about anime like Clannad being a "girly" show, which I personally enjoyed.

But I might just say all that because FIM is vastly overrated as a show, and I prefer low-key substance over misguided style aimed for the wrong demographic.

I have a bad feeling that Mississippi would probably be the next place for a mass shooting, either that or Ohio. Both states tend to have a rather nasty reputation for drug problems, poverty and guns just about everywhere, not to mention the population of lunatics that run around on the streets now.

Usually mess around with my phone or play with my PSP, because a lot of my stuff runs on electricity and in a blackout, well obviously, they aren't going to work at all, I'm not one of those people who can sleep well in a storm, so I always try to stay occupied with something to bide my time.

For a single game, it would have to be Xenogears. I'm not going to spoil anything, but it just might be the best story for an RPG, because everyone is involved in the story and plays a big part in the story.

As for a series, it would have to be Mass Effect. I know that's a typical answer, but with a fully interactive story in where every decision can change the ending, probably more so than any other game.

At 8/5/12 03:51 AM, T3XT wrote: I know that you opened this thread thinking that it was going to be some kind of rant on atheism or something, and you were going to go on and on about how I'm ignorant and blah blah blah......

I've kind of expected something like that, especially since certain places on the Internet is a cesspit of angry atheists who bitch and moan just as much, if not more so than some Christians or Muslims.

Fact is, the majority of my friends are atheist/agnostic/deciding/without religion, and I'm quite tolerant of their beliefs. Actually, given the time for an intelligent conversation, I like to hear them.

Well, it would be non-beliefs in the case for an atheist, but other then that, an intelligent conversation wouldn't be half-bad at all. Good luck trying to do that over the Internet, much less on these forums.

I have nothing against atheists. I have nothing against not believing in a higher power. I don't blame you if you get pissed off at the church fanatics who knock at your door late at night. But shoving your beliefs down other peoples' throats isn't going to pacify them doing the same thing to you. Worse yet, I feel that a lot of the aforementioned atheists not only shun religion, they write off everyone who has a god as 'stupid.' Yeah, yeah I know. "I only do it because they do it to me!" "People hate me because I'm an atheist!" Sure, that might be true, if you lived a couple hundred years ago in a small colonial Catholic town. But in this day and age, we have atheists in the government, atheists running big businesses, atheists getting fine respect. Admittedly there are some exceptions, which give the religious a bad rap. But you aren't doing your side any favors by running through the streets making graffiti about it, or getting you jimmies rustled because the president put in a few good words.

To be fair, it seems like a good amount of people {particularly the hardcore religious folk} tend to be turned off by atheists, so I guess that the atheists do have some reason for being blackballed or at the very least disrespected for a long time, although it certainly isn't as much as it would've been say 50 years ago. That said, however, when they go after Christians, Muslims and so on about their religious beliefs, it makes a whole mockery of their belief system {or lack thereof} and really doesn't make them any better than if said Christian ranting about how the Bible is the undisputed truth.

Just stop shoving them down other peoples' throats first and keep them to yourself, and maybe we can sit down and be somewhat tolerant of each other someday.

In a perfect world, that would apply. Alas, somewhere along the way, we kind of forgot about that, and thought it was better to have arguments akin to a 5 year old's tantrum. Oh well.

Unless they make tablets where they have the processing power, speed and efficiency of a top-of the line, or even a decent laptop in a small device, then there is no way that the computer, specifically a laptop or desktop will be replaced anytime soon. As of now, tablets are purely on the go devices with some bugs they have to deal with before they could even come close to the level of a laptop computer.

There nifty to have when you're on the go, when you're not in a Wi-fi spot or in a dead zone, but they simply lack the size and processing power to replace the laptop.

Dead or Alive Xtreme 2, really. I wouldn't say that it was a bad game in a techinical sense, but there was really only so much you could do without getting bored, and yes, I am well aware of the jiggling boobs that is everywhere in this game. Obviously, this game would be awesome for the metaphorical pervert in me, but as a regular gamer speaking, it was a notch above average at best in terms of uniqueness and gameplay.

No, not really. Could those hours I spent playing video games be used for a better purpose?, Probably, but I would guarantee that it wouldn't be as fun or even as rewarding. Plus a lot of other hobbies out there are either boring, pointless or what I do already anyways to begin with, so all in all, playing video games turned out pretty well for me.

Potatoes, especially when mashed, fried or have butter in them, and I also like certain types of jalapenos, if you consider those a vegetable.

Apart from the idiots who wanted to bash Chick-fil-a solely for it's anti-gay views, and do nothing about it but sit on their ass and whine, {hm, what does that remind me of?} this is really much ado about nothing. Even if I happen to disagree with the position of the CEO when it comes to gay marriage, that doesn't mean I won't eat at a Chick-fil-a given the opportunity, I mean, if you get your panties in a knot over what a CEO says about that is different from your political opinion, then you need to get a hold of your life.

Hell, all of this free advertising that Chick-fil-a has been getting from the idiots who piss and moan about their gay marriage stance is making me hungry for one of their chicken sandwich and shakes, talk about protests that backfire.

At 7/31/12 02:06 PM, HikarutheHedgehog wrote:

At 7/31/12 01:21 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: It was okay when it came out

You mean motherfucking groundbreaking.

No, I'm in agreement with Strongbad here, when it came out it was a good game, but it really wasn't as groundbreaking or legendary as a lot of people want to think. My guess is that the reason why Half-life 2 is so insanely popular is because Valve made it, {who are only a decent development team at best.} and it's been milked with all of the pointless episodes instead of a proper sequel.

At 8/2/12 09:36 PM, Raiespio wrote: GTA: San Andreas and Just Cause 2 are two of the best I've played.

What a coincindence, those happen to be my favorites as well. I would also include Borderlands and Fallout 3 as well, although they may be more of an RPG than a sandbox game, but they do have a sandbox element to them, so IMO that counts.

At 8/1/12 11:00 PM, reverend wrote:

At 8/1/12 03:43 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote:

Is that really any worse than Suck for Luck when you think about it.

That's generally the problem with a round-robin format is that it opens itself to match tanking to get an easier opponent in the knockout rounds. Really, it's not much different than the NBA where bad teams tank games {intentional or not is up for debate.} to get a better chance at the number 1 pick, or get a certain playoff spot to get a favorable matchup, a la Memphis Grizzles 2 years ago against the Spurs. The logical solution is to go to a single-elimination format like they do with the NFL playoffs and March Madness.

While it may not be illegal, I don't think it makes any sense at all tanking a game in the Olympics, not while the whole world is watching.

I can't wait for all the track events to start up (100m 200m, etc.) . I not much a fan for all the swimming and gymnastics that's been going on.

I might take a gander at the track events, because I don't think that anyone can challenge the U.S. Basketball team with the probable gold-medal game against Spain. {if they get that far, that is.}

A hikkimori like him would be happy to spend the next 20 years in solitary confinment, where the state will provide everything he needs, although it certainly won't be similar to what he got from his sister, crazy bastard.

Just be glad that he didn't do this in say, Texas, where he would've gotten the death penalty at the drop of the hat.

Good luck with that, because there are too many things can go wrong with this, especially when they get bored on Mars, {and it will happen.} then you never know what'll happen if/when someone snaps. It's not like they can call 911 or go back to Earth for help, so I just know that this will not end well.

Plus, how can there be a fully-functioning colony when all we have sent to Mars is a couple of rovers looking for water that may or may not be there? The Moon, I might understand, but definitely not the red planet.

Well, going by k-maniac's TTGL-related icon and sig, he has definitely won some cool points.

I really don't pay much attention to tiers, because if you have enough skill, you could beat anyone using a lower-tier character, even if someone else uses a higher tier character. Of course, it can be obvious who are lower-tier characters and who are higher level characters, which often depend on how powerful they are, how fast they move, and so on.

I couldn't read this story with a straight face over how stupid this story is. Is it just me, or is almost every Sonic fanfiction/fanart has to involve sex or something? I think it's getting to the point where it's wrong on so many levels it's not funny anymore, but rather disturbing.

Really, I don't care. I don't really care for Chick-fil-a that much, {partly due to the fact that the closest one from where I live is about roughly 40 miles away.} but even with that, I personally don't give a shit about what a CEO of a Southern fast food company says about gay marriage, all I care about is getting my order right.

I have no problem with what he said, he has the right to believe what he wants, and to run his company the way he wants to.

At 7/23/12 11:29 PM, Head-Full-Of-Acid wrote: In Other News: NCAA Euthanizes the Nittany Lions Beyond Death, Paterno Family Had No Transportation to Kenel

Lol. I can tell that they wanted to make an example out of Penn State by making them suffer for these transgressions, instead of the simple "mercy kill" with SMU in the late 80's. {if you can call it that.} Now the bigger question is how long will it take for Penn State to get back on their feet, if at all? I guess for the foreseeable future, Penn State is now going to replace Northwestern and Minnesota as the Big Ten's bitch, in which they can get an easy win off of.

Happy Valley might as well be college football's version of Chernobyl, and that's what happens when someone like Paterno has a cult of personality rivaling that of Chairman Mao over central Pennsylvania and borderline worshiped as a football god there, the fall to Earth is pretty hard, and it leaves a huge crater once it hits.

The problem with anything being called best of all time is that the opinions are obviously going to be subjective, and the fact that something will usually take that over eventually usually makes these types of discussions moot. But for the sake of this thread, I'll bite and say that the original Super Mario Bros. has to be the best of all time.

Think about it, it was the killer app for it's time, and it spawned a gaming franchise so memorable, that even non-gamers know who Mario is, and recognize the trademark theme song. The game itself was great in it's own right, but it's one of the few games ever that more or less, came out at the right time and had everything to gain from there.

At 7/22/12 08:45 AM, MrPercie wrote:

At 7/22/12 06:43 AM, BumFodder wrote: Why are you complaining about it? If its taken this long, it must be a fucking masterpiece.

they said that about duke nukem forever.

To be fair, DNF was in limbo for a very long time, due to the fact that it changed hands so much and no one couldn't do anything with it until Gearbox studios got it. Gearbox didn't want to be dragged down with this game for too long, due to DNF's history of teasers that never came to be from others, so they decided to not to waste any more time than what was necessary for this game, and we all know what happen from there.

although, I dont doubt valve, Im sure this long wait is in good reason.

No, I don't see any justification in waiting this long. The only series that I know of that took a very long to have a great game was the Fallout series by Bethesda, {2 being released in '98 and then 3 a decade later.} and as I said before in a previous thread, Valve is no Bethesda, and if they do release HL3, it may be a good game, but it certainly won't be worth the wait IMO.

The only countries that I've visited is Canada and the Bahamas, {and a couple of Caribbean islands that are still owned by European countries.} so I really haven't explored very much of this world, and really have no interest of going abroad anytime soon, except maybe for Brazil and/or Japan.

Well from what I heard, the new Batman movie was supposed to be killer.

Regardless of the tragedy in Colorado, I am still going to the movie theater to watch this movie, even though I despise the fact that concessions are generally too high priced, but I digress. This is an isolated incident of violence that doesn't happen that often, {although it does feel like it's geting more frequent} so I'm not going to get scared away from watching this movie.

At 7/21/12 05:21 PM, tsukikomi wrote: What if there is a mario kart mod that makes it act like initial d/turismo?

I might actually like that, it would be a nice change of pace to reward good driving skills instead of dealing with the ever-present red shell spamming just when you think you've won the race.