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Arena is probably the most fun when you're just playing it carefree. I have to say that once you try and actually get somewhere in it it will piss you off unless you have an awesome comp. The most frustrating thing in the world is getting beat by some terrible player (who makes obvious mistakes) just because he out comps you. Seeing a warrior or a death knight roll up to my Shaman partner who had 900+ resil and, quite honestly, kill him in 5 seconds flat is a little disapointing. And since I played a warrior there was nothing I could do about it. It does get frustrating though, because if you look at WoW from a balanced classes point of view it's pretty interesting. Of course the only way that ever happens really is just RMP vs RMP all the time, and that may as well be the only classes taking part in it =P.

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How is it any different? I'm only allowed to say certain words now because i'm white? You can't exactly be racist against your own race, now can you? If they say it you're going to assume it's being said ironically.

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Good question probably. I've had web courses before (one in high school and one in college) but, I will be honest, I didn't learn too much from them. Coding wise I learned probably the most from my internship a couple of years ago. Design wise? Just time really. I've gotten a lot of inspiration from various websites, and some of mine probably have some influences from that. But yeah really though a lot of what I learned is just from C/C from everyone and practice. :P Of course having 8+ years of experience in Photoshop and digital art probably helped a bit (which is kind of fun because I've been doing web design for a really short period of time, comparatively).

Ok, sure, but it also isn't going to change on a whim either nor should it. It makes no matter if the word is offensive or not now, you have no reason to say it. People can't exactly pick and choose what they are and are not offended by. Sure, they can turn the other way (like the Protestants did) but that doesn't mean that it wasn't offensive at all. You could say that by having black people calling themselves the N word they, too, are taking the sting out of the word by adapting it to something more friendly. However that takes time, and there are still a lot of people alive even today (or people who's parents were alive at the time) who endured through the 40's and 50's and had to endure all of the hate. Give it time. You can't just change the meaning of a word overnight. And, again I reiterate, why are you so adamant against changing the meaning of this word?

Thanks. As far as the banner goes I'm not going to change it now, and I don't like the original one I had (not to mention it's a completely incorrect size). v3

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Yeah, "would". I've seen no example of that. But I see you've run out of arguments since you're starting to get personal. You probably see it as not a nice thing to do. Well I don't care, since I've grown up in a place were I've been taught to see people with other skin colours as my peers, and therefore don't see why I can't use certain words while people from other races can. It's been a few hundred years ago. Nobody has witnessed it, nobody experienced.. we all just know because it's in the books. Get over yourself and stop playing the victim. Or, if you still blame whites for the enslavery of the blacks.. well, congratulations, you are now free to take the boat back to Africa. I don't need examples of it. If something offends a person and you continually keep doing it, you are probably not a nice person to be around. That is really the end of the line and that is all I am trying to say. I'm not getting personal, I really have no idea how you can't comprehend such a simple concept such as that. I mean, children in preschool are taught this! As far as the last part of your post, if you're trying to push racial inequalities aside why do you insist on calling someone a N***er? Doesn't that seem completely [wagon] backwards to you? I mean, one can argue that, yes, a word is just a word. And in all honesty that holds some semblance of truth. However just like any other swear word there is a time and a place for it. I don't know about you but I'm not going to walk up to someone on the street and just start swearing up a storm. I mean, unless I know the person I'm going to be a bit respectful (which it seems like some people have just completely forgotten about). Do you guys really think this makes any sense at all? Words grow up with certain contexts and meanings. The N word has historically been this way. "banding together" and deciding on a word that offends you is just completely stupid, because you're the one coming up with it. The word "bed" and "soap" have no negative conentations and you can't just all of the sudden switch that. Sure, some words over history have changed (such as the word "gay") but even then it takes time. Exactly what I am thinking. I don't know why someone is so deeply fighting for their "right" to say it. It's like fighting for your right to call your mother a [bleep] without her getting offended. Sure, the word "[bleep]" may just be a word, and she may very well not be a [bleep] or even have any roots to [bleep]. However it's still an offensive thing to say. Sigh. Again, freckles has not historically been a demeaning word. The difference between that and the N word is that there really is no other reason to use the N word for other than literature, insulting or "humor". Freckles is a word set to describe something, it is not inherently a demeaning word.

Yeah I heard that in the thread about the banner. If I feel the need to change it I will. :D

No. Oh, so I'm excluded because I'm white? Once again, that's racism. I'm not going to honor something like that. :wall: I thought it was obvious that it would go both ways. If someone is deeply offended by something and you keep pushing it it's sort of a [bleep] thing to do. Stop being [developmentally delayed]ed and trying to read my post in a way to go against me.

Do I really have to spell it out for you that I find that relying on that part of history is pretty much pathetic? All those black people have nothing in common with the black person that was enslaved. All white people existing today have nothing to do with the crimes that were commited in the past. Your comparison with aids doesn't work here. In comparison, their ancestors might have had aids, but the ones of today surely don't. It does make sense. If their ancestors had something terrible happen to them and you're just cracking jokes about it of course you would be offended. I think the bottom line though is if you aren't black you really just don't know. (I'm not black either). You shouldn't question why something is offensive, you should just try and honor it and not be a [bleep]. Like I said it has relevance here because of the original context of the word.

:wall: I really hoped that it wouldn't end with me having to spell it out for you. The way the word was used back in the day was a white man talking down to a black man because he was an inferior race. These days if a black person calls another black person the N-word it is assumed they are doing it ironically. Afterall they are the SAME RACE and hence the word has no point. However if a white person (or someone of another race, whatever) calls a black person an N-Word it can have a number of meanings. The obvious one that is picked out is that, yes, it is offensive. It sounds like they are talking down to the person and it is just kind of insensitive. Even if you are making a joke of it it would be like cracking an AIDs joke in front of someone who had AIDs, or even someone whos loved one or family member died of AIDs. It hits home for them and it certainly isn't funny. Thats not to say it always is offensive. If you were black and knew a guy for a longtime as a friend you probably wouldn't care if he jokingly used the N-word. This is common sense and I don't know why I have to spell it out to the rest of you.

How do you not understand? They're both black and they're calling themselves a term that white people used to (and still do) use to try to hurt them. Of course if a white person called a black person a [bleep] it'd be offensive. If them saying it takes away the meaning, it shouldn't be restricted to just them being allowed to say it. You do know you can say it if you want, right? It's not illegal to do so. However be prepared to face the consequences if you end up offending someone. Really, how [bleep]ing difficult is this concept to understand?

I agree. It offends people so of course it is an offensive word. Really seems like an obvious thing to me. That being said I will jokingly say it now and then but it's pretty rare, and it's not around anyone who would get offended by it. Of course, even then, it's not the "hard er" sound =P. Seriously though, I wouldn't actually say that around anyone I didn't actually know. Feel free to say it other times, who really cares, but just be careful with what you say. Afterall you (hopefully) wouldn't swear up a storm to your grandparents.

Phew, ok. After giving it a bunch of thought and consideration I have a (hopefully much better) WIP2 up. This is on my list "to-do" To do: . Clean up the main content box. I don't like the gradients there currently, but I'm trying to think of a suitable way to handle it. this is a big area of concern right now. . Flavor. I want to make sure that the site isn't just a bunch of text, so I'll be trying to implement stuff like what you currently see next to the names on the side (which are an online/offline indicator and a "pm" function, respectively) . suitable background. I know, it's lolhexagons right now. I kind of actually like how it looks, but I'll probably improve on it. . Typography. Right now I really dislike the typography I have done, I'll have to switch it up a bunch. Any suggestions for fonts is welcome (I'm using Arial and Raavi currently) Those are my 3 main concerns right now. (and, yes, the width is not larger than 960 for the layout. I just added in some extra room to see what a background would look like)

I posted it like 60 pages back too or so, haha. :P

I just think because its tough to make a really good anime with a ton of episodes. The only really good one with a large number of episodes that I know of is Monster, which has 74ep. Otherwise I usually like the 13-24ep animes or so.

Someone in the guild issued me a friendly challenge to make the guild a new banner, so I accepted. I actually kind of like the result although it is pretty chaotic. And the sig I am using currently (text little screwy in the sig, don't feel like fixing atm). It was actually pretty fun to do, I always forget how relaxing making something like this can be. :P (Aion stocks from the fansite kit and stuff).

Speaking of tools for Aion, thought you guys might be interested in this: Terhix' Stigma Calculator Really useful stigma calculator with the 1.5 stigmas. :thumbup:

Haha. :thumbup: Nice though. At least 32GB is a decent size.

Where is the router/laptop located? You're getting a terrible signal strength.

The first parts good, but the second should be "Do not reproduce". Actually, that would be more fitting. Kudos. I don't think we have to worry about them reproducing. :lol:

Thanks. As far as width though I always heard you wanted to design for a 1024x768 monitor minimum, but I'll lower width to 960px. You've got a point about them looking the same, and I think I'll work on re-working this current one a lot. You have been looking at them after they have been finished though, right? I usually start with a really rough and plain WIP before getting to the final thing. (this is still a bit of a WIP, just one I got bored of). As far as the font goes, yeah, it's a bad habit so I'll stop doing that. Yeah :/ I'm just going to re-do this design probably.

I have to listen to the real song now to make me forget that video ever happened. Ozzy Ossbourne's Crazy Train