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Ah, see I noticed another vid on youtube that said 1 mil+, but I never watched it until now. It was just a bunch of his clips spliced together and the score faked. So yeah.

First FC of TTFAF right? No. He did it again and got over 1 mil, I believe.

Head to an out-of-state college, find a part-time job that doesn't bore me to tears, and begin to establish a writing career if I haven't already by that time.

Man, even I've never let my hair get past my shoulders (it curls at about that length and just sort of sits there.) I got it cut a few weeks ago and it's at an ideal length, for me anyway. You know what, I just took a pic last week for an art project, so what the heck. [hide=Forgive me, it got JPEG'd][/hide]

Just a thought I had on the time travel aspect. Sure, if future Peter came back and changed the past then he wouldn't exist, providing he actually changed the course of history significantly. But, he still has the scar that he had in the season one future, so evidently some things are going to happen that he just can't change, and perhaps they contributed to the person Peter becomes in a way that can't erase him. [hide=Put a spoiler warning in the title, will ya?]I thought that the whole "villains" aspect would continue for the whole season, or however long the chapter is, not just three episodes. Of the four that escaped level 5, two are dead and one is back in custody, leaving only the ringleader dude free. Just seemed a bit abrupt to me.[/hide]

Whoever the old singer chick was, she can't possibly be any worse than the new one.

Looks like you have the most trouble with the short trills that are stuck in between the slides. The easiest thing for me is to remember that they're usually just one or two taps of a finger before moving on the the next triplet/slide/whatever. If you break it down like that it becomes easier to do. Can't help you with the very beginning of Start Soloing! because I suck at that part too. I can pass the rest in the green without SP, though.

Heard somewhere that there will be 13 of these movies. Can't see it happening, myself. Never seen 1-4 either, so meh.

FINALLY. [hide=TTFAF][/hide] Not my best run score-wise, but I beat it at last. Good God that took forever.

Open notes on Bass: awesome Random weird -- up sustains: awesome [garden tool]/Po chords: awesome (yes, RB has this too) Slides: awesome Y'know, if this gameplay turns out to be as good as it looks, I might forgive GH for getting owned by RB in its song selection. Even more so if it pops out some really good DLC.

Because video games' EBUL level is higher than movies'.

It's not that difficult to comprehend. Some full stops and caps would be nice, but it's completely readable. Zelda as an RPG would never work. It's like that Castlevania fighting game, it might be good in its own right but the name won't fit.

If you have a DS cart I suppose you could get a ROM and find a translator patch. That's what I did for FE6. Translations might be hard to come by though.

[bleep]. Now I have to get Rock Band and a 360.

Current Games: Metroid Prime 3 Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn No More Heroes Mario Kart Wii WarioWare: Smooth Moves (might not be your thing) Wario Land: Shake It Upcoming Games: The Conduit MadWorld Guitar Hero IV (Don't bother with GH3 at this point, wait for IV or get RB2)

We interrupt this program to bring you . . . [hide=Holy. Crap.][/hide] \ Totally unexpected. Only 3 tiers left to get an FC on, 5, 7 and 8 . . . When I tried going to guitarhero.com, I got a language selection and then a random screen that said "infinite%." Dunno if that's your problem, but I googled it and went straight to the community page. Here's the link to the tour group: http://community.guitarhero.com/tour_groups/219573?game=gh3

I like my balls to have some room inside my pants. Besides, you're probably killing your own sperm wearing those skinny jeans.

LOL PWNED

Here's my Miss Murder score: [hide=Miss Murder re-FC 310802][/hide] Also two new FCs: [hide=Sunshine of Your Love FC][/hide] [hide=School's Out FC][/hide] Yay.

He's just that super-smart badass kind of guy that always has like 33 plans each involving the heroes at his disposal using their powers as a team. He is more important than most people with powers in the show. And he shares my name, which makes him even more awesome.

Every single line of that summary is dead-on correct. It summarizes the first two books of Eragon and the first two movies in the Star Wars Original Trilogy, both of which were out at the time it was written. What is incorrect or yet to be proven? Yet to be proven? Eldest was released in 2005, The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. Nothing in there is speculation, it is fact taken directly from the books and movies. This argument becomes tiring. Paolini did little more than transfer names from other works into his own world, which is conicidentally spliced together from many other fantasy worlds. Add that to the Star Wars plot, and you have more than the expected name or two or one plot point that shares similarities. You have a fantasy shake with a forgetable, if not disgusting, flavor. This statement: Christopher Paolini is not a good writer. is a fact. Sorry, but it is. When I can tot up that much criticism (and believe me, I have craploads more) and hear similar things from other readers, some of them writers themselves, some professional reviewers, some the average Joe with a good taste in fantasy, the author is doing something wrong. The sheer amount of awful prose is indicative enough of Paolini's incompetence with sentences. Take, for example, the prologue to Eragon. Six times a character says something. Five times the character does not say it. Instead he shouts, barks, hisses, etc. The one time he does say something, the modifier "icily" is tacked on. Clearly, Paolini does not understand that the word "said" is a GOOD word. It does not make you a better writer to come up with a colorful replacement, because that just draws the reader's attention, which is not wanted. "Said" is invisible. Invisible is good, as it helps the flow of the story. This is a fact, no, a rule of the literary world. I would go on, but I have other things to go on about . . . Funny you should say that he doesn't understand his own story . . . Anyway, might I entreat you to a quote from Eldest? "If I were an elf or you a human, you would not be able to match my blade." (Page 394, American hardcover.) Paolini makes it pretty darn clear that the only reason the elves beat Eragon is because of their UBER SPESHUL STRENGTH. Accordingly, during deus ex machina prime [also known as the Blood-Oath Ceremony] Eragon is granted all of the elves' UBER SPESHULNESS, and therefore can beat them. Incorrect. See The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin for the exact same magic system, years earlier. See Dragonriders of Pern (yes, dragonriders) by Anne McCaffrey for the telepathic bond between man and dragon. Also years earlier.

I don't want to go bat-[cabbage] crazy on this, but I will say a few things. I wasn't planning on touching the plagiarism point, but since you brought it up . . . [hide=Plot Summary]A boy of foggy origins lives with his uncle in a remote place of a vast empire headed by an evil Emperor and his right hand man, who was once prominent in an ancient order of guardians with mystical powers. Through fate or luck, depending on your point of view, this boy comes into the possession of an object vital to a rebellion against the Empire; this object was inadvertently sent to him by a princess in the rebellion, who had attempted to send said object to an old man who once belonged to the same order of guardians as the Emperors right-hand man. This boy seeks the old man to learn of the ways of this ancient order, but eventually has to return to his uncles farm, which, the boy finds, has been destroyed by fire, and his uncle killed. The boy then sets off with the old hermit, who also gives him a sword which belonged to his father. As they travel, they train. The boy meets up with a rogue who is full of surprises, but turns out to be fiercely loyal, for all his proclaimed selfishness. The boy also begins "seeing" a beautiful woman imprisoned and in need of help. The boy decides that he needs to rescue her, even though he doesn't know her; further, he thinks of her only as beautiful (Luke's first words are, "Who is she? She's beautiful?" Eragon can't stop thinking about her beauty). Long story short, the old hermit dies to protect the boy, the boy and the rogue help the beautiful damsel escape. They then set off to the rebellion to give important information and return the object which the princess had sent the boy. They were followed by the Empire, and prepare for a giant battle that will either save the rebellion or annihilate them. The boy proves his worth with heroics during the battle, but his crowning achievement is his destruction of a noun of much power that has the ability to destroy lots of things. The boy is aided in this by one of his friends, who arrives at precisely the right moment. The boy is lauded a hero. The boy has a hallucination of a powerful master who can teach him more of the ancient order. The boy travels to the powerful master to learn the ways of the ancient order's mystical power. While there, he grows very powerful. While he is away, the Rebellion regroups in a new area. Just when the boy is on a roll with his training, and has grown very powerful, he has a vision of his friends in great danger. He decides he must go to help them. His master warns him not to go. The boy promises that he will return. He leaves. He finds his friends just in time and is able to distract the enemy so that his friends will remain safe. He finds out that his father was the right-hand man of the Emperor--his father was the one who betrayed the ancient order and helped kill them. The boy is shocked and ultimately defeated, but not killed. He finds out that someone dear to him has been taken by evil people, and promises to find this person.[/hide] Note: I did not write this, and some may have seen it before. Now, that should pretty much speak for itself. Fits Inheritance and Star Wars perfectly. With Brisingr it has branched off a bit, but that means little in the face of everything else . . . Other plagiarisms: Names: Since we are currently reading Beowulf in class, I'll bring out two names directly lifted from it: Hrothgar, the leader of the Danes, and Unferth, one of Hrothgar's Danes. In Inheritance, the dwarf king and one of the Varden council people. There are also tons of names taken from other places, such as LotR (HUGE one) and Dune (Bid'daum = Muad'dib spelled backwards, the main character of Dune.) One can argue whether Paolini has technically plagiarized, but the fact remains that he has taken these names from so many other sources that his credibility blows up in his face. On to what I really don't like about this series . . . Prose: Horrendous. Jerky, unflowing, awkward, and worst of all PURPLE. He swallowed a thesarus and regurgitated the contents like an owl pellet. The result is, like an owl pellet, rather revolting and full of dead things. And then we have the accompanying baseness, such as preachy elves, infodumps, and long pointless chapters that serve no purpose (most of Eldest.) Characters: Who is your favorite? Murtagh? He's mine. Wait, he gets less than ten pages of screen time in Eldest (and seemingly Brisingr as well.) No POV from him as of yet. Why do I like him more than any other characters? Because he is not: Eragon: the Gary Stu, the sociopathic [puncture] Arya: the designated love interest [ice Queen] Orik: Gimli rip-off and comic relief Oromis: speaks not like this, for reason some Saphira: flying, fire-breathing horse . . . etc. Murtagh is the only character in the whole series who actually has some human substance to him. Too bad he got shrifted by Eragon when he went TOTALLY EVIL. The World: Best category to put my general complaints of Paolini's utter lack of research under. There are so many things in these books that make no sense, my forehead has permanent bruises. Horsemanship: FAIL. Battle strategy: FAIL. Swordsmanship: FAIL. A special point on the swordsmanship. It takes Eragon a matter of weeks to reach the level of Brom, an extremely old, trained Dragon Rider. What? WHY HAS ERAGON "MASTERED" (lol) THE SWORD IN A MATTER OF WEEKS? Not. Possible. Period. Especially not with Brom's training methods, and using five-foot-long swords. I'm going to stop here, since I've spent way too long on this post already. Feel free to respond or not.

This is almost as intense as the time I forgot how to sit down!

Without time travel, though, Heroes would have no plot. Central to all three seasons so far. Premiere was amazing. [hide=spoilersbwahaha]I wonder how Peter got his scar, as he still has it even though the future from season one was changed. And how it managed to stay there even with his regenerative abilities.[/hide]

I'm sick of people flipping out over this subject in general. Maybe because I'm not a metalhead, unlike nearly everyone that comes to this forum, but I just don't get it. Who care what genre it is, you enjoy it or you don't.