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Den, drop all your skillcape hoods. I'm pretty sure you can get them back for free later. The lvl 3 clue I had banked has me running all over the wilderness, which fails on my little mini-netbook. Hoping for a decent reward, then I'll go abuse the MTK bug. Knowing my luck, I probably won't get either.

[/hide]He deserves a medal for having the balls to make a video of himself doing the caramelldansen. or a slap in the face for being dumb enough to. Slap him in the face with a medal. But have him put some clothes on first.

I must confess I agree with romy and aquariusman. Having been brought up Unitarian Universalist, I believe I was taught equally about different religions, and allowed to make my own decisions. To me, it seems religion no longer applies to our society, and the people who still insist on believing simply do so because they were taught that way from a young age. This may be a bit off topic, but seeing as the existence (or lack thereof) of Heaven, and therefore God, is extremely important in defining a soul, what evidence exactly is there for the existence of any God? I don't want to hear Bible stories or "how else could we have tacos". When one removes the opinions and teachings of childhood and considers the facts, what remains for a truly religious man? As for ghosts, I'm not entirely sure. It seems illogical, but there is a lot that science leaves to the imagination. Oh, and by the way, religious people can still deny the existence of free will. I think the argument is that our decisions are sculpted by our past experience and our mental wiring. If each decision has a reason, and each reason is formed based on a certain thought process and certain evidence, then were a person to know that evidence, he could predict the thought process, reason, and, eventually, decision. Religion is not a factor.

I think you mean "Nazis". "Nazi's" would make it possessive, which makes no sense.

No. Which is why I like it. Lots of people in my class thought it was hard for some reason. I got it pretty easily though. People think Chem is hard because if you stop paying attention you'll end up blinding yourself or burning holes in your skin. Whether it's hard or not depends on your teacher, textbook, and curriculum. When I took it there was a decent bit of memorization. We memorized ions, properties of common compounds, bonding angles, and lots of rules. I actually found it rather enjoyable, although harder than my other classes that year, but my classmates liked to complain about it.

Some extra info for those people looking to see it tomorrow night: http://www.examiner.com/x-27474-Astronomy-Examiner~y2010m8d3-Aurora-borealis-activity-likely-August-34-2010-from-solar-Coronal-Mass-Ejection-CME

So you believe in Heaven, Hell, and ghosts? How does that work?

There wasn't really anything to take pics of, just some fast-moving lights. I'm hoping the next ones are better.

I don't see anything anymore. Might be over. Wasn't as awesome as the ones in the arctic, but oh well. There's supposed to be another, right?

Just kidding. I'm in MA, idk which way it's moving though. A friend of mine saw it, and now says it's blocked by clouds or something. Maybe for you there are just a lot of clouds. The orange light from the beginning is gone. I still see the freaky lights though.

quick where do you live Lol nice try. I've seen you in Forum Games.

I SAW IT look straight up, it looks like glowing bats flying around or something. It gave me chills, its like faint lights and then the sky is a bit oranger. This stuff is mad trippy, man.

Bah. Those happen all the time.

Saw this thread at 11:52. Heading out right now. I probably won't be able to see it, it was cloudy today. If I'm in the northeast, which direction is it in? E: The sky is lighter in the west, but there are trees. Rage.

What's the point of a subforum if it's full of threads with no replies? Anyways, I hope you don't mind if I sort of take this apart. I will begin by saying I truly enjoyed it. The concept is beautiful and haunting, and it's quite well written. That said, here are a few things I noticed. General- -You tend to use passive writing (had been, forms of to be, etc). Try to avoid this. -A couple of unnecessary sentence fragments which could be easily corrected -Overall grammar is decent. Vocab is excellent. -Choose your narrator. You narrate the story as an outside looker-on and then move into the thoughts of the old man, which I think is fine, but you occasionally mess it up. -When writing the old man's thoughts, use italics. Random Stuffs- "had been shattered recently"-Notice "had been". I don't like the "recently", I feel there would be no way of knowing at this point in the narration. "A broken down lawnmower, sitting derelict in the shade of the house. The blackened stump of a once majestic tree, whose branches had spread over the entire yard, long ago. An old mailbox, simply a wooden stake driven into the ground with a tin box attached."-Fragments - get rid of them, they're not doing you any good here, although it isn't awful. "one full"-I would use "occupied" or something, but that's just a preference' "He had been married in this suit"-Too early in the narration to give a detail from his mind. The reader is still an on-looker here. "An old photograph, a small glass of liquid, and a gun"-Fragment. No good. "The man in the chair cast his eyes over the drink, the pistol, finally coming to rest on the photo, longing in his look. "-Run on-ish. Perhaps try "...the drink and the pistol, then finally came to rest on the photo". "longing in his look"-I would say "in his eyes", but I supposed that's my preference. "The houses to either side of his were immaculate, almost as if they were part of some kind of museum exhibit." Fix'd "If you entered one, you would "-Don't use "you". If you must, use "one". "No children playing, or adults talking in the sitting room. No television, blaring advertisements throughout the house. Not even the quiet murmur of a refrigerator, creating a comforting susurrus of noise. Just the dead silence of a home deserted."-More fragments. "He had awaked "-"had". "awaked". "No more loneliness."-Effective fragment. It is his thought, which makes it grammatically alright, and it is emotionally powerful. "The gunshot rang out throughout the empty town, and then all fell silent. Except for the rhythmic creaking of two rocking chairs."-Gah. Ended on a fragment. Why not "all fell silent, except for the rhythmic creaking of two rocking chairs." Perhaps instead of "except" you could use "but". Overall, as I said, well done.

A gainer is a backflip where your feet land in front of where you were before. So the end result is a jump forward, but you did a backflip. A quick question about guitars: I've been learning to play my dad's acoustic guitar, and I really just don't know what I should be teaching myself. I have pretty strong fingers and a decent musical ear already from playing the piano. So far, I've printed out some chord charts off the interwebs, and memorized Em, E, G, D, and C. I can't read those guitar tabs they use for solos. How does one go from plucking a few different chords to playing real music?

It certainly adds a more personal touch. Those people could be any one of us, our friends, or our relations. Of course, nobody expects to get drafted in 21st Century USA (or wherever you are), but WWIII has to happen sometime.

Lol, really? I was planning on reading Dracula, but maybe I won't bother.

Wait...you're a closeted homosexual living in an anti-homosexual environment with a pair of extremist Christian parents....and you plan to stay in the closet until you're old enought to move out?

Lol, Mod Moltare looks like he's about 17 years old. And yes, his hair changes. The train puzzle looks interesting, as do the new "miss" things. I prefer the text blogs though; they seem to give a lot more information.

Tomorrow: "We've finally released the long-awaited graphics update! Features: -Optimized lighting effects for players when near two or more concurrently active light sources. Thank you and we'll see you for next week's update!" We won't see any immediate benefit of the Z buffering update. I thought the benefit of the Z buffering (besides not seeing armor through the back of capes) was that we would be able to have emote/equipment that extends outside of the square we're standing on. Is this something different?

I do believe there is an article in the KB showing the percentage increase in efficiency, in which it was shown that on normal logs it is barely better than rune, but becomes progressively better as the level of logs is higher. I may be remembering something else though. But the point is, yes, it's better. And I'm pretty sure that when it first came out it just wasn't significantly better, it wasn't the same.

Oh, ok, now it makes sense.

I don't get it.

I hate Minesweeper. And last time I looked, I'm a girl. Look again; one can never be too careful about these things. Runescape, and especially TIF, actually has many more women playing it than most games. Think about it, when's the last time you met a woman on a multiplayer FPS, or even saw a woman in a video game store? Women are less common in the gaming world because society says they should be, and developers make games that cater to the majority. The desire to play video games starts at an early age, and at this age one pays a lot of attention to peer pressure. Girls are less likely to be interested in games simply because they were never told to be interested in games.