haha thanks guys, and yeah afura i thought about that when i posted this, but when it was first posted i showed it to everyone i knew and then today me and a friend who i had shown it to where talking and he mentioned it, but i couldnt remember the name.

a long time ago someone posted a link of a sonic fansite but it was all insane sex fantasies and i was just wondering if anyone still new the url for that site?

i don't think he's really gotten good again. maybe people are saying that because of bad lieutenant but i didn't like that movie. he's good in the way that he is still clearly absolutely nuts but the movies he is in aren't worth watching. i might watch the wicker man though because it looks like he was let loose in that movie. vampire's kiss is a good early nic cage film.

i haven't seen the the nicholas cage one, but the original is great, and i have a hard time believing the remake could be even half as awesome. so what i am saying is watch the original one.

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=8je5Ot4HBnKOdT81

This is the one I got, for pretty much every reason you stated (especially the sturdy and long lasting, it is designed very much like a brick).  But  this is also under the assumption that in order to have discrete graphics that won't become completely outdated for more than a year, you pretty much have to get something with high-end graphics today, and let them adjust to a mediocre status as you own it over a longer period of time. If you want something sturdy inside and outside, you can go with almost any model ASUS and be all right on that end. (What I like about this specific model the most is how logical and effective the cooling system is.)

hahah, this is the exact model i have been looking at for like the last month. i just don't know if i can pull of the price, but i might just hold out and wait for enough to buy this, cause its pretty much exactly what i want.

no good food or alcohol? 

Calculator. Best class in any videogame ever.

Anyway, I think creative classes like that are the best. Either classes that either just blatantly have unique modes of attack, or characters that have a sort of unique "flavor" even if they aren't actually unique (I can't stop thinking about Mesmers from GuildWars, basically just mage/fighters but they were very entertaining). I think the biggest problem with making classes with unique battle mechanics, is that they usually end up just getting ignored. I'm thinking of FFT a lot here, cause they have some abnormally classes, but who really plays the mediator, oracle, those white-robed twins, dancer, bard, etc. when you could have Orlandu, Ninja Ramza and Agrias? Hell, even the Calculator was useless next to them, but the Calculator was powerful enough, and was fun to play.If you aren't giving your players the choice of who they play, than its not a problem if one character is a little underpowered. But if you do, people are only gonna choose the really strong classes, unless the other classes are really fun and interesting.

I think a lot of what options you have for making classes comes from the mechanics of your game though, so I couldn't really say anything for sure, but I think new, unique character classes should be the goal rather then dreary classes like "Fighter, Mage, Healer"   

So I am looking for a new laptop, and I was hoping you guys could give me some recommendations. Mostly what I am looking for is a sturdy, well built machine, inside and outside.

other pros:

• discrete graphics
• decent cooling system
• decent processor and ram for play some games (nothing too intense)
• webcam (think this is standard these days)
• two HD slots
• under $1000

but like I said, I could give up a couple of those things if i can get a machine that will last me more than a year.

also, don't say mac.

edit: hrm, not sure why i posted this in media...

raoul duke? really? that is the worst HST costume I've ever seen. You don't even have the right sunglasses. I think the glasses are actually more important than the visor/hat, but man, man...

sorry? im really kind of confused about how to respond to this. i wasn't trying to brag that i had the best costume ever. i was just posting a picture because i was under the impression that this is what this thread was about.

its just a waste of time. you could probably watch the entirety of several other much better series's in the time it took you to watch all over ER. or do something else even more productive. i once read something that said if the average american spent their tv time studying foreign languages they could learn several in their lifetime. but even if you want to watch something there are many series that are better in pretty much every way than er.

no. don't watch er.

i was raoul duke. i just wanted to show the (gaming) world my costume.

whoa super late but that was the first bradbury i ever read and i did indeed like it, and it's why i am willing to read other bradbury books.

i've been reading a lot of philosophy and stuff! I have some Camus, The Plague which I'll be starting soon, and The Fall which I read and LOVED. Such a fantastic book, there are just so many good lines in it. It's one of those that I will end up reading over and over again. I'm still looking for The Stranger (I can get it off amazon or w/e but seriously I haven't found it any bookstores, new or used, it's crazy) because it's like THE Camus book.

I've read a bunch of Kafka, I have a collection of his stories and I read them in between longer books. Kafka is fucking awesome, I think I like A Hunger Artist the best so far (Metamorphasis was good, really good, but A Hunger Artist just struck a chord with me).

I'm reading Sartre's The Wall right now (5 stories, I've finished The Wall, The Room, and Erostratus so far). Sartre is an excellent writer, and The Wall and Erostratus were both AMAZING. I'm still liking the other stories, and I can't wait to start the last one... Childhood of a Leader, sounds fucking intense. Intimacy is good but a little dry so far.

I also have Walden by Thoreau which im so psyched to start! I found it in a used bookstore after searching B&N and Borders, it was like 4 bucks.

I also have Meditations by Marcus Aurelius which is very nice but not really a novel.

If anybody has any good philosophy, especially existentialist philosophy novels, I'm all about it right now!

I'm also looking for some Anton Chekhov collections, haven't found any yet and I've heard he's like the master of short story writing.

OH! I read The Old Man and the Sea a month or so ago. Incredible book! I read it in one sitting, it was so gripping and intense. I was literally tired after reading it. Hemingway is the man!

I am masturbating furiously at the mention of Camus. You should read A Happy Death. It was pretty much Camus's prototype for The Stranger, but it is a lot more positive I think. I think The Stranger is probably better, but I also read it when I was seventeen or so. I don't really know, but it seems to me that most people don't know about A Happy Death. Also, I found The Plague pretty boring compared to his other stuff.

Also, I have been meaning to read Satre for the past couple years cause my girlfriend was all about him. I'm taking french now, and most of the reason I am, is so I can read Camus and other people in the native language. And also to listen to Jacques Brel because he kicks ass all over the place.

edit: also I am aware that Camus is pretty much a cliche among disenfranchised youths, so don't make fun of my giant boner for him.

as far as i can tell there is a pretty solid chunk of grammar which is DEFINITELY correct and no one can argue. then when you get on the fringes there is shit that is always debated, or flip flops with the times and is either subject to the author's personal style or, probably more importantly, the demands of whatever teacher you are writing papers for. i mean i guess i could be wrong, that there is some DEFINTE LAW OF GRAMMAR for everything, but it seems to me that both authors and teachers have different ideas of what that definite law is for abstract punctuation like commas and apostrophes.

I wouldn't worry about it. Most illness (mental or otherwise) manifest with more obvious symptoms, but I'm not a doctor so I dunno. If you are really worried about it just go see your doctor again, or maybe try and see a different doctor for a second opinion.

Oh man, Afrirampo! I've forgotten so many bands I used to like since my laptop died.

There's this old hippie that comes into the store I work at and chats with our boss, sometimes. He says he was married to the Campbell's (sp?) soup heiress, but divorced her cause she wasn't the right woman. Could very well be a lie. 

but on a related note, I always wanted to be a patron for some of my friends if I get a solid career. There is so much wasted wealth in the US. just thinking how much money every family would have if everyone worked but the whole family lived together like in some other countries. so much wealth is wasted on the masturbatory concept of "i made it on my own" in the US.

I think the genre of historical drama should be renamed historical fiction all around. History is never accurately represented in these movies, even shows on the history channel tend to make generalizations for the purpose of time and for accessibility. These type of movies tend to make a hyperbole of either how villainous or how heroic a particular figure was. That being said, my opinion of historical dramas is based totally on taste and not what so ever based on actually fact (since its my presumption is that that these things have little to no historical value).

Depending on how drunk I am, I think that Braveheart and The Patriot deserve a rank of anywhere from "decent" to "fucking great". I don't know if There Will Be Blood ranks as a historical drama, but it is my favorite movie that I've ever seen. I can't really think of any other historical dramas I've seen. Gladiator maybe, since it is probably about as historically accurate as Braveheart. With the exception of There Will Be Blood, all of those movies are just "neato, fun, entertaining" movies). Thinking about it, maybe Gangs of New York counts as historical drama (depending on how far we are willing to extending our sense of historical disbelief), and that movie is just awesome, and is also notable for being the only good movie Drew Barrymore has ever played in. I am looking through a list of historical dramas on wikipedia and A Knights Tale came up, which I really like, and is based on a Geoffrey Chaucer story, which is based it on one or two different knights lives, according to the wikipedia article, which is based in irrefutable fact. (witchfinder general was a film that came up, and i have never seen it, but witchfinder general is a a pretty decent premetal-psych-rock band, and if you look up the history of witchfinder general its kind of sadly funny). Titanic was also on there, which was just kind of whatever to me, but I didn't think it was terrible. Also Charlie Wilson's War, which I thought was great, but I don't know all of the TRUE history behind it so it might be a total let down. Other movies on the list that I like include: Frost/Nixon, Milk and Wonderland. Again I really enjoyed those movies, but we have to question their historical merit.
 

warped, would you recommend seeing it? ive heard good things about it but only from my friends who like to name drop shit, so i dont really take their suggestions. i do love phillip seymour hoffman though...hes in it right?

Q: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Trick question, feminists can't change anything!

Q: How many alcoholics does it take to screw in a light bulb.
A: two, one to hold the light bulb in place and one to drink till the room spins

this is one of my favorite jokes.

edit: for my more serious ideas: i think a lot of those joke are a juvenile way to flirt with girls and get their attention. i certainly know i did it. i think most people grow out of kitchen jokes after they realize how to actually interact with women. or they might genuinely might distrust women, but i find those people don't really tell jokes and more likely just blatantly insult women.