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That's pretty much what I would say. It doesn't matter how long you "keep" the torrented game, illegal is illegal. If you go through the trouble of downloading you might as well keep it.

Had to take SH back today . . . so here's a catalog of my achievements. First, an amusing GH3 pic: Three gold stars :D I wondered if that would happen. Lol. Now for GH:SH FCs. No pic: Rock and Roll All Nite [hide=I Love Rock and Roll][/hide] [hide=Smoke On the Water][/hide] [hide=Hit Me With Your Best Shot (SH version)][/hide] [hide=Heart-Shaped Box][/hide] [hide=Killer Queen][/hide] [hide=Take Me Out][/hide] [hide=Woman][/hide] [hide=Cherry Pie][/hide] [hide=Hey You][/hide] [hide=Lay Down (SH Version)][/hide] [hide=Them Bones][/hide]

One of my recent ones was based around me discovering I could fly. Basically I jumped really high and then tried to stay up, but I was just learning so I kept falling (slo-mo) and had some rather amusing wipeouts. I was pretty much just jumping along this Las Vegas-style boulevard, trying to learn how to fly. Saw a few of my friends at a pavilion thing. Then there was this university place that sort of reminds me now of the movie version of Hogwarts. The faculty there was really uptight or something and I ended up in a standoff with them. The students cheered me on. Then I flew away.

Self-publishing, in any form, takes money. Lots of it. Publishing in a large house takes solicitation by an agent, who you pay. The proportion of published authors to produced TV shows is also reflected in the exponentially greater number of people who don't get picked up by a publisher. Either you are willing to invest large sums out of your pocket to do everything yourself through a venue far less lucrative, or you struggle to find a competent agent who will solicit for you. Your odds with an agent, and then a publishing house, improve the more marketable your book is, which has the unfortunate effect of reducing the quality considerably. And that is the point: literature has fallen far, and placing it above television because "books have more merit" is a silly thing to do. Books have been around for thousands of years, motion picture for about a hundred. Less for the television we know today. So qualifying an argument for books by saying there are more books, therefore more good books, is pointless and self-evident. Television hasn't had the time to even come close to comparing its catalog to literature's. That does not discredit it as an art form. It was born into a world that has already applied the desire for profit above all else to long-standing liberal arts. Which basically leads into your "entertainment over creativity." I think you're just being narrow-minded here. In what other form of art is expression de-prioritized? Every single one. Shinjula put it very well: pulp in a medium doesn't take away from its potential, and it's present in all forms of art. Not just TV.

All these car threads are making me think about my own misfortunes. Mercy! Anyway, stone wall, deer. Nothing involving another car. Yet. Oh God.

I don't think it's a bad game at all. The only charts I really dislike are for songs like Psychobilly, Caught In A Mosh, Stop!, RaBl, Play With Me. And those really aren't great songs anyway. Most people are just whining that Beenox changed the charts. I never played the old ones so I don't care anyway, but looking at them there's not a whole lot to hold on to. Some of the GH 1 and 2 charts were pretty bad, plus they were covers. Reading Youtube comments for Woman to the effect of "OMG where's the solo this sucks!" actually made me angry.

You just couldn't wait, could you? :roll: I wanted to get a jump on it. It's not due back till noon on Sunday. I figured you'd be back by then. If you're not there's still Metallica :P New version of TTFAF sucks. My score was embarrassing. Taking out all the hammer-ons in the Grinding Scales, what were they thinking? Also, Psychobilly Freakout has to be one of the worst songs ever.

My first car was technically a '77 Volkwagen Beetle, convertible. Unfortunately I've never driven it on the road because it needs fixing and my far more mechanically inclined dad is too busy/lazy to do it. So now I have a '93 Mercury Tracer that's put me through hell. Transmission seal busted, hit a deer (not the car's fault but not mine either), slid on ice turning into my driveway and busted out the right headlight on a stone wall (again pretty much just bad luck.) My most recent adventure involved blowing a gasket, once again as I turned into my driveway, causing the steering and breaks to lock and me to roll into a ditch. Car still hasn't recovered from that last one. Currently I have no vehicle.

Rented GH:SH. Played through the first four sets. Sightread FC'ed Smoke On the Water and Woman (I got bored on RaRAN and stopped paying attention, shut up >_>. Also, didn't play I Love Rock and Roll.) Could have had more FC's but made a lot of dumb mistakes. I FC'ed the solo of the Motley Crue song only to screw up on one of the riffs later. FML.

I think you'll have a very hard time defending that statement. If you're not already established as a successful author, it's nearly impossible to be published unless you have connections or a work designed to cater to a target audience--and even then it depends on whether that target audience will bring suitable revenue. Big publishing houses suck. Of course you can always self-publish, but that takes a helluva lot of money. And rich dudes are just as likely to publish crap as they are legitimate fiction. Christopher Paolini >_> I don't disagree that it's a bigger problem with television. But sometimes you have to think beyond the "lowest common denominator" and give TV viewers a bit more credit. Something that is insanely popular can still be excellent. (Lost, Season 1 of Heroes, BSG, etc.) The thread is titled "Detrimental Effects of Television," so one would assume that the thesis is "TV is bad" and here we are citing evidence to support it. But OK. Like Indy, book elitists annoy me, so I had to say something.

I never said it wasn't said it wasn't a valid source of entertainment, because it sure as hell can be. But are you arguing that books are just as detrimental/beneficial as TV? I would argue that TV--good TV--is as beneficial as books. I think people tend to overlook the genuinely good creative efforts out there, because they sure can be drowned out in the stuff that isn't so great. Television can be as much of an art form as literature; the stories are simply conveyed through a different medium. And anyone who condemns television for an abundance of crap and holds up books like they are sacred is deluding himself. There is just as much blatant crap out there in the literary world. The difference is that we know where to look to find the good stuff. Having school courses dedicated to studying them and their place in a very long history helps. People don't have to filter through the crap, which makes it seem like it doesn't exist. It's a shame that no such opportunity exists for television. I'm not defending a lifestyle of sitting in front of the TV, because that's pretty obviously detrimental and there's no way to avoid the "bad stuff" that scheduled programming places in front of you. I'm just saying that there's more merit to TV than people give it credit for.

I don't mind that Seether cover at all. The original is cool too but a bit too cheesy. RHCP's cover of Havana Affair by the Ramones is awesome: [yt]Fd3zNZMnBfc[/yt] I like the live version better, but here's the studio:

Heh, must have some pretty high standards if you can call her "hideous." :P She's half the movie for me anyway. Giant robots duking it out and Megan Fox. Not much more to it than that.

I don't get the hate on the new charts. It's like people are just stuck on the old ones and balk at every little change. Stuff like Psychobilly Freakout just looks idiotic (a lot like Hot For Teacher TBH) but I don't have a problem with most of the things I've seen. The 5-note SP chord in RaBl is probably a joke. With the thunder and all. I lol'd.

Every single song bar like 3 on By the Way and Stadium Arcadium is worthy of being a single. But no one pays attention to those much because of the more mellow and "poppy" sound. Slow Cheetah I'll have to wait and see how their burgeoning career goes, but as of right now Cage the Elephant are pretty unheard of.

A Perfect Circle (Tool spin-off band I believe but not bad), Beastie Boys, Beck, Deep Purple, Eagles of Death Metal, Gorillaz, Grand Funk Railroad, Jeff Beck, King Crimson, Muse, Public Enemy (with Zakk Wylde wtf lol), Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Rush, Santana, Smashing Pumpkins, Sublime, The Killers, The Raconteurs, The White Stripes, Thin Lizzy, Tom Petty (Heartbreakers listed differently?), Vampire Weekend, Weezer, Wolfmother. Those are the bands I'm really excited about. Hell of a lot more than WT. Supposedly TV on the Radio is good, have to look into them. But once again no RHCP :(

Took AP US History and Biology Exams a few weeks ago. Tomorrow end-of-year exams begin but I'm exempt from all subjects except math. Which is Friday.

Eagles of Death Metal, King Crimson, Wolfmother, Vampire Weekend, Tom Petty, Jeff Beck are :thumbup: And I suppose Megadeth :thumbup: At least Sex On Fire isn't as ridiculously bad as their other songs. Lol.

Hm. I wonder how you manage to find them "weak and drivel-like" if you never read them. One of our authors (Zonorhc) is an English major. I plan on majoring in English/literature/related myself. Believe me when I say that we would not publish anything that was mere idle fan fiction. That is not to say you should expect something life-changing, but drivel? I take offense at that. At least read it first. I would happily engage in a discussion over an honest opinion formed from reading the material. To hawkxs, this week's is 1166 words. So your average of 1000 is about right. We can definitely try to extend the length a bit. No guarantees though.

Due to my own mistake I missed a week's installment (the Obama interview was published instead) and therefore I was crunching this week's a bit since it's the last day of the month and a new author will take over for June. The rebellion has a bit of a backstory in that Jarrah was spreading his suspicions around to others--many more than those who escaped from the raid, and that attack basically set things off. I probably should have spent more time on that aspect, but I sort dropped the ball with the missed week. The general consensus of the fictional seems to be either "LOL didn't read it" or that it should be longer. As a general question to those who do read it, what sort of length do you prefer?

at least this has some curves unlike the DS The lite has some pretty sharp edges. I'm a fan of my original phat. It might be square but it's somewhat soft. This thing is just ugly as sin.

That is the absolute most un-ergonomic thing I have ever seen save for the N64 controller.

Hmm, that sounds interesting. Once I start a series though I like to finish it. Also I have rewatched the first season probably 4 times, second season 3 times, and the third season 2. Before each season I used to watch all the way up to it again. So season 1 is getting a little old for me. I'll rewatch the entire series when season 6 comes out on DVD. Heh, seasons 1 and 2 are the ones I've seen the least as I never had the DVDs until last Christmas versus having the season 3 DVD basically since it was released. Although I think I've only been through season 4 again once. Anyway, you can follow the rewatch at Lostpedia for discussion of older seasons, which will be interesting I think.

I've been doing nothing but watching movies in two of my classes for the last few weeks of school. We've watched Blood Diamond, Thirteen Days (worst of them), We Were Soldiers, and now Band of Brothers (which we won't finish.) The war movies are for AP US History, Blood Diamond was for a religion class. In that class we're now watching some other movie about Africa that I don't know the name of since I missed the beginning. Not a fan of war movies in general but I rather like Band of Brothers. It's a rather well done miniseries. I'm also participating in the Lost Rewatch :D Supposed to start June 1st but I had already started season 1 when they announced it.

Lol I heard Jump on the radio today. Uh, Come Together might be fun on drums for the rolls. Unless it's the Aerosmith version I'm thinking of.