As much as I appreciate the NES for setting the stage the SNES refined everything and is superior in pretty much every way. Almost every good game for the NES had a superior sequel on the SNES so I don't think there's much reason to go for an NES beyond nostalgia.

The games were far to easy to burn/copy/pirate. I had a friend in college with a Dreamcast and every single game he had was a burned copy and not the original. Sega didn't do enough to prevent piracy and that was the final nail in the coffin of an already floundering system.

Would love to actually see a rational argument against DLC, because this isn't it.

Final Fantasy VI did nothing to relieve my constipation!

If you want to live in a spoiler free world then get off the internet.

Cell phone and wallet.

Screw your new fangled systems, give me my SNES.

At 10/31/09 03:33 PM, gunner-564 wrote: i kindly listened to the man and he called the cops!

If you had kindly listened that means you would have left because thats part of what he was asking. If you were arrested that means you didn't leave, which means you didn't listen. Not saying that you should have been arrested, it sounds pretty stupid but your story doesn't add up.

Depends on the movie, some stories really lend themselves to character death whereas others it would just kill the feel of the film.

There's three levels of this.

There's "A true story" which indicates the closest to the recorded truth, usually reserved for biographical movies where the makers worked closely with the subject or the family and friends of the subject.

There's "Based on a true story" which is slightly more removed. This is one you'll find alot in sports movies which will keep the basics true but add in all sorts of romance or personal drama tht has no baring on reality.

Then there's "Inspired by true events" which is the one that horror movies like to use. This is the most removed and basically means "this guy said this happened to him once and we made a movie that was kind of like that."

Honestly he was never that great, he was an attempt to make a Sony mascot that didn't take.

Personally I take great heart in the fact that the GOP seems to be leaning somewhat more moderate. When a government becomes nothing more than two extremes battling it out that's what leads to civil wars and dictatorships. Meeting in the middle is what the democratic process is supposed to be about. Most of us lose sight of that and have turned it into a competition between two sides rather than a conversation.

No piece of clothing is inherently "punk." It's all about context, the total package and what you've got going for you besides clothes that makes you punk. If the only thing punk about you are clothes then you're a poser.

Pink Floyd, The Wall. If you only listen to one song out of this album then you are robbing yourself of the full experience.

At 10/22/09 11:33 AM, Sil3ntkill wrote: what game is this?

Look at the front page.

At 10/21/09 02:16 PM, Sweeper128 wrote: I don't believe in these trends. I mean they're all... OMG! Kayne's Dead!!!?!?!?

No such luck.

If it's a stray call the Humane society. If it belongs to somebody call the owner.

Pretty much never, nobody really cares what variety of white guy I am.

Depending on who you ask anything can be art. I don't know though, I think there are various aspects of games (story, design, etc) can be considered art but I don't think the game as a whole is. I think of it this way. A really beautifully carved chess piece can be art. But the game of Chess itself isn't art.

I was at first thinking French (the lack of hard consanants bugs me) but it has to be the slow southern accent. At regular pace I can take it but some of them just draw it out so damn slow that I want to strangle them.

Things can't keep getting smaller forever, if they keep shrinking things it won't be long before you accidently swallow your phone with a handful of tictacs.

When life gives you lemons shout "Fuck you life! I ordered Granny Smith Apples!" Then cut life on the chest and squeeze lemon juice into it. That'll teach 'em. Stupid life.

I'd hit that.

You think it sucks and you have movers? Oh boo friggiddy hoo. Try moving all your crap totally by yourself because you're broke and your friends are flakes!

I'm going to summon the pagan spirit of Samhein to bring eternal darkness to the world.

2011 seems a fair bet at this point. Starcraft 2 seems to be more of a priority for them right now.

It's annoying because Diablo is probably my favorite PC game series.

Simply put it's the same reason you can't arrest somebody who's part of a group to legalize pot or prostitution. Being an advocate for it doesn't mean that you actually do it. Yes logically you probably do but it's about what is legally provable. I'm sure most of those guys are being very closely monitored which is the best we can do as long as the group isn't caught running it's own underage boy exchange program or something.

At 10/6/09 07:19 PM, Victory wrote: It's liberal wackiness like this which is destroying the sacred act of marriage between one man, and one woman.

Liberal wackiness? Unless I totally missed something it was a reglion that was practicing it, not something the ACLU was pushing for.

At 10/7/09 09:15 AM, Sajberhippien wrote: I did read a study about different places where they HAD legalized prostitution, and rape, drug addiction, and assaults had increased greatly. I'll see if I can find it, it was kind of a shock for me to read since I've been on the "legalize it" side for quite some time now.

Quick statistical note (often ignored by the dumber bits of the media): correlation is not causation. Obviously I haven't read these studies but that sounds awfully shallow, do they offer any explanation as to how legalized sex work caused it or just go "Look at how things got worse?" Because if it's the latter that's statistical sleight of hand.

As for the issue I've thought that prositution should be legal for quite a while. If you actually look at the things that are bad about it beyond some biblical moral code (i.e. drugs, pimps, rape, disease, etc) all of those things are either caused by or made worse by the fact that it's illegal. Prostitutes get raped because they can't go to the police because what they do is illegal. They instead have to go to pimps for "protection" and the pimps abuse them, and hook them on drugs. If it was legal and regulated (this second part is kind of important too) with regular STD screenings and the workers able to go to the police for help pretty much all the things bad about the practice would be gone.

Started out with an electric razor so I didn't cut myself, just had skin irritation.