BlueLancer

Not sure what you imply by that, but if you're talking about building mass, high reps is a guaranteed recipe for failure. On the contrary you should increase weights every few weeks/months and keep the reps low. For 'toning' excercises that's a totally different story though.

I have a good friend who is 24 and has a kid, and a wife. He's also served in the Marines (and had serious back pains for more than a year), pays his mortage and car payments... But the government would have balls to tell him he can't go and see "Saw 5" (hypothetical future film) because he's underage? :lol: :lol: (I just can't express how stupid the idea is) Way to encourage the thais to online movie piracy...

If this enables both companies to develop good quality games at a faster pace.. What's not to like? Uhh.. Not very original though.. :lol: They didn't even bother with Actibliz or Blizzivision which may not be a bad thing after all...

Ok, then your plan seems like a good idea. 8-) Sorry for not seeing that before.

Maybe not in the past, but now? They can definitely swim in $100's and use them as toilet paper without regrets. :lol: Paul and Andrew's net worth was some $60 million US dollars when combined in 2006, it's some $100M+ this year. I was watching BBC and they had a featuring program with the youngest rich people in the UK, it listed the Jagex creators Andrew and Paul Gower (sadly no pictures or interviews were included) as some 700th richest in Britain. To think.. These guys were in 2001 average Cambridge uni students launching a leisure game from their campus bedroom.. :P

Continue this in questionnaires. 8-)

Not that I imply you're bodybuilding/trying to gain muscle mass (correct me if I'm wrong), just thought to point out: Extended cardiovascular activity like running, jogging, etc... Decreases your muscle mass, but adds to your endurance capability. Trust me, you wont find many 'ripped' marathon runners with tons of muscle mass. :)

But having paid, say 1 year of a quality gym in advance, motivates you go to there. Otherwise, every day you 'lazy-around' will just remind you the money you spent was totally wasted when all you have is a card you don't even use.. :P That, and I got plenty of friends training at the gym... I trained for some 8 years seriously now, but those guys are ripped, big time. It's always humbling to see you aren't perfect, and got a lot of work to do if you really want to get in shape. Something I couldn't remind myself of back when I tried training at home.

Fortunately for anyone who visited the link, it's clean with no scripts or keyloggers... However, when you try to "log in", it has a pathetic attempt at trying to get you to use your Runescape username and password to log in "their" servers. I hope nobody was foolish enough to do that. :)

They're supposed to look like runestones, which, if you didn't know, were used by scandinavian people and vikings in Britain. If they want realism, the letters shouldn't look clean-cut, as in the MechScape one (which is set in the future).

Yeah, I played just about every MMORPG there is, just can't be bothered to repeat the grinding all over again and be pestered by immature kids and scammers... MMORPG's are usually not for the 'average' person. You just can't become good, or one of the best, by playing 1 hour or less daily. Just about all of the good level 70+'s in WoW have played 5 to 15 hours daily, raiding dungeons for weeks just to get a certain item, etc.. I find FPS games requiring much more skill, and they can be played casually for more fun value. Dark fantasy games like Diablo are excellent though, require strategy, and also have a fun element in it.. Wouldn't mind if Blizzard came up with a D3

Not sure about the Xbox thing since he could've just been using a voice converter (like some females use while gaming, to appear male in team radio... To avoid hormone driven idiotic 14 year old males from pestering them) BTW: That site doesn't require downloading of anything, but it does limit to 30 words at once. Try this one as well: http://www.cepstral.com/ I typed random article exerpts into that, it sounded pretty normal

Hi, Try this. http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/ If you select 'German' with the voice subtybe 'Reiner', and write something in English.. You'll get what you're looking for. You can also produce some pretty funny stuff with it. :lol: Edit- I typed a part of your post in it, it actually sounds very professional:

(Belongs to gallery)

It's not a static value, as you probably saw some PSP owners post here, they said they could get "a good 3 hours on it. The tested 6 hours could be on a blank PSP which is turned on without a game inside for all you know. The only thing that should matter is how long it can stay turned on when you are playing a game on it. :) (Or, well, alternatively on the PSP: How long you could surf the internet with it)

I just don't understand... This feels like a kindergarden discussion five-year olds have. I wont be even bothered to extensively prove why the planet Pluto exists even though I have never seen or touched it. This is no longer an intellectual debate, you're just finding the worst arguments and trying to justify God's existence with them. "You haven't seen pluto and it exists, thus God must also exist because you haven't seen him!" Warrior/insane/etc, have fun posting real arguments... :) I'll check this article back in a week or so (hopefully to find a bit more mature and scientific debate about the existence, or possible existence of a God)

So how can you tell a child Santa claus or toothfairy actually does not exist (just because they 'can't be seen'), but a God does? You twist his words, that's not at all what he was talking about! He meant the atoms and particles that can't be seen but are still there... and such subatomic particles, and even smaller things such as quarks.. as well as the tiny strings in String Theory.. You can't see those, yet you believe in them without question. Maybe you misunderstood me on purpose. I can see atoms and particles using a strong enough microscope, which is the highest form of proof a person can attain (personal witnessing of the truthfulness of a thing's existence), which is why I believe in them without question. How exactly can I see a God? How did all those thousands of people in history "speak" to a God? (Which is up to your faith to believe, heck, mormons believe a guy just 200 years ago recieved golden plates from an angel in the U.S.. People can be apparently made to believe anything, no offense to any mormons here) The teachings and values of Jesus and Muhammad are one of the purest in the world, which I give more value over just about any other philosopher. I just find it ridiculous you'd blindly believe they had some sort of "paranormal experiences" (such as Muhammad ascending in the sky while being alive and talking to angels, or Jesus walking on water and healing the blind with a wave of his hand). Believing in hallucinations is a totally normal symptom of schitzophrenia. There is absolutely nothing to suggest this is possible, other than the thesis "God did it". It's a shame humans probably wont be able to build a time machine to see what really happened 2000 years ago, why exactly then did a crack appear in laws of nature, allowing certain humans to walk on water and transform substances? Just because "God" did it? I don't dismiss teachings by any major person of a known religion. I have read the Bible and Qur'an multiple times. What I dismiss is their supposed "supernatural powers" which could've been 1. Tricks 2. Hallucinations 3. Totally made up All the proof you have of 'supernaturality' is a human-written text which simply says "it happened". What authority does such a book have? But hey, if you can prove any kind of supernaturality exists, James Randi still has his fund of $1 million open to anyone who can give proof they have, for example, the ability to communicate with God or perform supernatural acts.

So how can you tell a child Santa claus or toothfairy actually does not exist (just because they 'can't be seen'), but a God does? Says, or proves who? The Bible? Do you really believe the humans who have written every single letter of the Bible were somehow in direct contact with God? Why, all of a sudden, is this "direct contact" impossible in the year 2007? Let's take, as an alternative, the islamic faith (on which for example my father's faith is loosely based on). The entire religion is based on Muhammad's hallucinatory experiences with God and believing he directly spoke with God himself. However, hallucinatory experiences especially related to religion, are in modern medicine treated as psychosis or schitzophrenia. What is to say Muhammad or Jesus were not affected by that disease? What proof, archaeological or factual, is there to support any of the people in history (thousands of people) who claimed to speak with God were not under the influence of a disease?

I have some russian heritage and family, and have also spent a part of my childhood there, and know the language. My bad, I never saw any of my cousins, (or myself sold) off as slaves or denied rights because they didn't have russian citizenship. Then again, by that logic, maybe I should call the US a poor country because it has 15 million homeless people and thousands of people starving to death every year... I'm not sure if I want to continue arguing with people who genuinely think the Bible, Qur'an or the christmas book of Bobby and Tom are factual and scientific proof of a God's existence. I find it ridiculous that a person who claims "This is the reason why I don't argue with people about religion unless they are philosophy majors" thinks a text based on hearsay and stories influenced by greek/hebrew mythology is irrefutable proof that "God exists". But while you're at it, after torturing animals or killing infidels, tell the judge your holy book told you it's ok. I'm sure he will have a lot of sympathy. I thought I'm in for an intellectual debate with people like Warrior45, I just don't have time for ridiculously pointless nitpicking and bickering about what is philosophically "possible to exist" which has no scientific basis Sorry... I didn't force you to post on this thread. The thread title challenges the readers, "Is God real"? By posting here, I'd assume you try to explain logically why God exists. Just as a buddhist would rationalize why he believes in multiple gods, why a nigerian believes in natural gods, why a muslim believes in God. If all the evidence is going to be faith based and quoting of meaningless verses from the Bible (which is a human work of literature and fiction, not something written by God), I don't have any place here because I'm not into theology discussions, not being religious myself... I don't rule out the possibility of a God existing. I believe that's called "agnosticism". I just thought people who firmly believe a God exists would have some other proof than blind faith.

The servers would literally die if they tried fetching stats queries for 200,000 players real-time every second. :) It's very likely the hiscores update every 1 minute or so even without being 'laggy', or in alphabetic order, etc.

I don't have handhelds other than an age-old GB pocket and don't know that much about them, but thought to reply to this comment.. Couldn't agree more. If I had nothing to do on an airplane trip/etc, I'd expect the battery life to last way longer than 2 to 3 hours which is a joke. Not sure about you, but I don't find the prospect of having to recharge an appliance after only a few hours of use very appealing. :) The 15 or so hours of the DS sounds much better. (Not saying I'd play the DS for 15 hours straight, most people probably wouldn't, but it's nice to know it has a lot of hours 'stored' if you want to continue the game tomorrow)

I thought runescape was their only multiplayer game? (correct me if i am wrong(Not including RSC)) Could this mean that mechscape could 'Soon' be on its way too? Nah, that's the "mini games" like four-in-a-row, battleships, checkers, chess etc. :lol: I remember playing those when RSC servers were down. They were actually very fun and had hundreds of players to challenge online at any given time

With the current game angles the sky wouldn't be too visible anyways; They'd need to introduce zelda-like 3rd person view or just a first-person view camera (wouldn't mind either). Yeah, that would make sense and make the game more appealing.. :) I, too, found it a bit strange they just abandoned this idea all of a sudden. A 'sky' with features such as day & night was promised when RS2 was being developed. Apparently this was either too time-consuming to code in Java, or too big of a strain on the servers.. Who knows.

It's an acquired taste. you'll get used to it when you're older. Not necessarily comrade, not necessarily.. :lol: Anyways, the cheap wine they have for communions isn't probably the best thing to judge it by. You could try some 'better ones' as you grow up.

So I have a question. Can you 100% prove that there is absolutely no scientific evidence even hinting at the existence of supernatural elements? According to what you told Sly earlier if you can't then you need to take that comment back. I kindly introduce you to the last part of my above post, the burden of proof. If I allege that a thing (which has no proof in support of it's existence, for example a God or a blue apple) does not exist, it is your duty to 100% prove it exists before you can assume my denial of it's existence is incorrect.