Hawks

Article 3 was full of win. Looking forward very much to the continuation. Article one (Racheya's) was great, especially due to the TET screenie. But some good articles this week!

There's a lot of epic lego wallpaper/stocks at http://www.legouniverse.com in the Press/Downloads section. EDIT: here: http://universe.lego.com/en-us/GameInfo/Press.aspx?category=73273

Cool. LEGO it is!

Dang LEGO would be epic... Will change theme to LEGO if no one minds...

I don't think recently. Not sure though, I'll check. EDIT: SOTW 5 was tech, but SOTW 9 was also halo, so whatever.

Theme: LEGO Deadline: EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 6TH 18:00 GMT Prize: Winner's userbar to use in your signature You must include the following code with your image: [b]USER NAME HERE[/b] [img=URL HERE] Entries not submitted in this format will be disqualified! [spoiler=Entries] 1. Racheya 2. Stevepole 3. LowFatMilk 4. No Funs Inspiration: http://universe.lego.com/en-us/GameInfo/Press.aspx?category=73273 - Lots of hi-res game dev pics in various Lego themes. http://www.lego.com

Du Hast - Rammstein

I finished it on bass yesterday, no shoes unlocked, so I think that's a no on the Chucks. Have to get me a drum set.

When I reached the Inn, lunch had been served. I headed upstairs hurriedly to get the paperwork and return to the town hall. As I ran up the stairs I noticed a poster, in German of course, mentioning a tourney the following day. I wasn't sure on the details though. Entering the room I found Tyler examining a small copper coin. "I helped with lunch today, he gave me three of these. They've got an interesting mint mark on them." I asked if he had noticed the poster, and he proclaimed yes, and he thought we should enter it. I said I wasn't sure of the details, if there was a cost or what sorts of competitions there would be, but I was going to the hall and they'd probably know. Tyler agreed that we should discuss it when Mr. Kay came back. I left again to the town hall. I headed up to the third room on the second floor, and knocked, then entered. "Hallo, was kann ich mit Sie hilfen?" "I have some paperwork to apply for certs and a school permit." I said as I handed him the stack of papers. "It looks in order. I shall review this tonight, would you like to come back tomorrow and hopefully pick up the permit and certs?" "Yes, that would be good. I was wondering if you knew anything about a tournament tomorrow?" "There should be leaflets in both English and German downstairs, ask Herr Kaen, at the front desk." "Thank you." I said and left. In the entry hall a middle-aged man sat at a desk next to some shelves of leaflets with large posters on the wall. I located the poster for the tourney and picked up the English version. I noticed that in addition to German there appeared to be what I thought was Russian. I hurried back to the Inn while reading it. I learned you had to have your own equipment, and that there was no cost to sign up but you did have to register prior to the event starting. It would begin at 9:00 AM sharp on the 14th, at the 'old parade grounds on Roek Street'. As I came up the street I did notice the parade grounds, they were just down the road from the Inn, and a few people were milling about and putting up carts and stands and tents. I spoke to one man, he said that I could probably register tomorrow morning as long as I got there early enough. I turned around and went to our room in the Inn, it was around 4 and Tyler was copying a spell. Mr. Kay was yet to be seen, so I set the flyer on the table and took the sword from its sheath with a flourish. The sword was suitable for a hand-and-a-half sword for a man of my height, and was in decent condition. It ought to be oiled though, so I asked Tyler for a copper. He gestured to take them, and I took one, hoping to find a bottle of oil that was also suitable for use on the bow in the corner. Next door was a small general store. I went in and quickly found a bottle of linseed oil, it seemed like six or so ounces, and a couple of smallish cotton rags. The shopkeep gladly took the copper, his store didn't look like it was doing the best. I went back to the room and oiled the sword to a perfect sheen, removing the small spots of rust that had begun to gather on the sword. I left it out of the sheath on the dresser and set the oil and the rags on the table for later use. I heard a bustle downstairs, so I headed to see if he could use my help. For the evening, I kept the bar and was apparently pretty entertaining as people tipped me quite well. By the end, I had seen Mr. Kay come in, and I had made a fair number of coppers and a couple silver coins. I wasn't yet sure on the exchange rate, the patrons assured me it was ten though. The barkeep offered me a few more coppers, I refused them, but took the leftovers and some ale up to the room. I placed the coins on the table with the others and we went over the details of the tourney. I said that I would definitely compete in the swordsmanship competition, and that I felt Mr. Kay ought to do the same in the archery one. There was a combative magic and a 'ingenuity' magic competition as well. The first prize for the fighting competitions was 100 gold pieces, which I felt was a great amount considering the ease with which the coppers changed hands, and the fact that the silver pieces were less common in the bar. The ingenuity magic competition offered 250 gold if you could come up with a truly useful spell. There was a hand to hand combat tourney as well, which I hoped to compete in also.

Insanity, if you want to pick the next theme, that'd be great. I'll be hosting next week.

Star in the Sky gmv.

I woke up early, Mr. Kay and Tyler were still in bed. I grabbed the sword from where it had laid for the past day, on the table. I checked my face in the mirror, I could use a shave, sadly the inn had not provided a razor so I couldn't do anything about it. I belted the sword around my chest, my preferred way of carrying them unless there was a need otherwise. I headed down the road (for reference, the Inn was at Six Roek Street) to pass the assessor's office and the town hall. Turning left onto the aptly named Blok Street, I was faced with many square buildings made of stone, somewhat unusual in this time period. The building at 'Seven' was adorned with a largish mural displaying a fighter in various poses. The sign on the door said Alix Scheafer, Knight of the Realm, Master of Swordsmanship. I entered the door to find a well-made, almost perfectly styled Japanese dojo, down to the mats on the floor. Finding a set of cubbyholes along the entryway, I took off my shoes and removed the sword, setting it along the top of the cubbyholes and placing my shoes in one. A muscular man of average height approached me. He wore loose pants belted with a striped sort of martial arts belt, no shoes or socks, and no shirt. "Hallo, ich heisse Alix, oder Master Scheafer, oder Master Alix." "Ich heisse Hawk Uluthar. Koennen wir in Englisch sprechen?" "Ja, of course. Why have you come to my humble school of swordsmanship and other such things?" "I am looking into getting an instructor's certificate, but I have come from far away and my trainer is unknown here. Thusly I have come to you for the obligatory signature on this form." I vaguely gestured with the form, and he took it from my hand. "So in both swordsmanship and the martial defense arts? Were you trained in a specific school of either?" "You could say that. In the sword I followed for the most part a man named Musashi's teachings, learning other bits along the way. In martial arts I learned tae kwon do, judo, and kendo with a bit of karate thrown in." "This man, Musashi, you say, is he well known in your area of the world?" "Yes, he is more of a historical figure though. He died over a hundred years ago. I followed the ideas he taught his students which where passed on in writings and so on." "Enough. Shall we dance, to quote an English idiom?" "Surely. I have a rather old, albeit steel sword in the entry, would you like me to get it?" "Nein. Here, take this," he took a wooden sword from a rack and roughly tossed it to me. I caught it by the hilt, assuming a ready stance. He came at me fast, I blocked it. In return I tried to strike his legs, he spun to kick at me, I caught it with the sword. Seeing he was going to go all out, I prepared to do the same. He lunged at my head, I ducked and kicked out at his torso. In what I might call a Matrix move, he slid backwards to avoid my kick. I leaped forward to strike at his shoulder and slid right at the same time to avoid his left hand at my face. I slashed out with the sword again, this time at his knees. I hit with a clack, but he didn't move at all except to strike back at my shoulder, which he hit. And it stung. My left arm hanging loosely at my side, I worked to regain feeling, and lashed out in a roundhouse kick aimed at his sword arm. My socked foot struck the hilt squarely, I managed to loosen his grasp then I hit with my sword, knocking it from his grip. The sword hit the tatami-coated floor with a clatter. It had been but a few minutes, but we were both breathing hard. I had not actually fought in a while. It had been a good battle, in the end I'm fairly sure he let go to end it, he had seen enough. I came out of my thoughts to notice that he had gone to the only table in the place and was signing my paper with an old-fashioned quill pen. I picked up the other sword and placed both back in the rack. "Here. You have certainly shown you are knowledgeable enough in my area of expertise to teach others. I notice you have English on this as well. I have a valid Cert in that, shall I sign it for you?" "That would be wonderful, yes." "There here you are." He finished the statement with a flourish. "Danke schoen." "Bitte. If you ever are at a need of a place to teach, I would accept you here." "Thank you, I might take you up on that." I turned and left to return to the Inn. I had to pick up the rest of the paperwork and preferably leave the sword there.

[url=http://forum.tip.it/viewforum.php?f=245][img=http://i34.tinypic.com/nz0mj6.jpg][/url] If you could post your Rusco character description ( http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/heromachine2/heroMachine2.asp and screenshot would be ohsohelpful) and any other character you think is worth including (Zeplo, Desiral) here I can begin a group picture with some luck.

Realized also that we need a front-page forum login box. Would be the best feature possible, since these forums do not have it. Also a logout button at the bottom of pages/the forum navigation bar again at the bottom would be very useful as well.

We've got the potential for some new blood in Falador, you'll like it when it comes, I'm looking forward to it. For some reason at the moment I really suck at Guitar Hero, my fingers aren't bending the right way at the moment. I'm going to miss a Pre-Calc test on Monday because I have a doctor's appointment I wasn't told about until today which sucks. I really love the bari sax. Yeah not much going on. I need to make a Chucks sig. I need to find a proper picture first.

Recently finished The Da Vinci Code. Was a pretty good and satisfying book. Going to read Angels and Demons whenever it gets in at the library. Currently reading Nostradamus for Dummies, then planning on delving into a translation of his prophecies.... Also have Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, haven't started it though. Yeah you'll kill me for this but I'm planning on re-reading the Twilight series again. I start to hate them because of everyone's thoughts on how badly they're written then I read them again and realize it might be sad of me but I really don't care. :twisted: She got a whole bunch of people who normally wouldn't read books to read and I guess that's a good thing. Also being forced to read To Kill a Mockingbird in English. It's not that it's horrible but the reading study guides are stupid. I think it is an admirable book and I finished it and enjoyed it, probably due to the point of view.

Haven't bothered to post in this thread in a while (if at all). Got the Wii copy of VH about a week ago, have done roughly 50% on both bass and guitar, mostly on expert (I think one bass song and about 3 guitar songs weren't on expert). I like GH5 much better for the reasons stated above. The loading screens take forever, the game as a whole has a bad structure to it. Also there's no Converse Chuck Taylors in the game as far as I know (which makes me the most angry, there's a pile of rip-offs, only decent shoe a rockstar creator [or whatever] character can wear) how hard is it to get the license agreement again if you already did?), although the guys in Van Halen are wearing them. Has anybody finished the game and unlocked them?... Plus most of the songs aren't that great. Not a huge fan of Van Halen to begin with. But I did enjoy Stacy's Mom, I Want it All, and Space Truckin' (so dumb but so fun to play since it's so repetitive) Are the World Tour drums compatible with the current version of Rock Band? LEGO Rock Band comes out at some point soon, but I need a set of drums first (and a mic) and the Band kit is only $100 at Wal-Mart... game, mic, drums, guitar (which we have 2 already)... Then get the rock band game for Christmas.

I'm planning on writing a legit letter to my school superintendent about a couple of things I deem important (and apparently so does my mother). I would obviously like him to read it and respond to it so I'm going to do my best to appear educated upon the subject. Once I get the draft done I'll post it here for you guys to look over, if you would. But I'd first like general tips on the whole thing. I know you're supposed to put your address in the corner (but which, where) and such but exactly how and things to avoid and stuff like that. If you ought to double-space it or change the font or font size, that sort of thing. I'll write up a topic paper/structure thingummywat soon and post it for you. Thanks muchly.

I hate this. I help out in a kindergarten class and generally hang about the elementary school. I've seen kids with 'normal' names but with 47 different spellings of the name. Seriously. One class has a Makayla, a Mikayla (kind of get those two spellings), a Miniya (wth?), and a Maya (okay...). Seriously. Why make life any harder for your kid. Their teachers are going to constantly butcher his/her name and it's worse if you've already got a weird last name. Don't spell it insanely just to make your kid's name 'unique'. They can carve out their 'uniqueness' themselves, they don't need you to 'help' by naming them something unpronounceable by half the population. Me? I'm going to name my kid Melissa, Marissa, or Katherine. Plenty of room if she wants to go by a nickname, and those names aren't that easy to butcher. Haven't thought about boy names, equally unique but normal.

WAFFLES! A bit different, yes. I tend to be more reserved (in my opinions [besides the topics discussing those opinions] and what I do) here because I tend to offend people more on the internet; when I'm within a group that I know I generally won't offend (IRC, Fally), I'm more my normal self. It's more of a knowing people's personalities thing than anything else. When I feel I know them better I act more like my irl self because I tend to say really odd things that (random) people don't get irl.

Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Most of these songs are good. Some totally suck though. Sabotage has no thought to it at all. Significant lack of the Beatles. And 'Land of Confusion' is originally by GENESIS, Disturbed covered it, their cover is good but Genesis' music video is better (In Flames also covered it; their version is very death-metal-y)

Most certainly a deserved promotion. I know you three will do a great job! :-D

Gonna install that asap. Hopefully it works, thanks a ton. :grin:

7/10 text kind of detracts from the sig. Bubbles are kind of weird too.