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Wow, the Homestuck "Hero of Time" god tier shirt came in the mail. Expected at least a week, but it came after 3-4 days. Epic. May take a pic later, but it's weird the logo looks off-center when not worn. :blink:

Yes, that is what it means to be manipulated by me. Sure, you're an unwitting pawn, but at least you'll feel good most of the time.

Only if I can completely relate to the character, which is very rare. A large majority of them have some personality change or something before their fate comes, making it rarer for me to feel for them. What causes you to rarely post here (in the forum)? Not many people, lack of creativity from most people, and the overall boredom creeping in as time passes.

How about "Monster Hunter Extraordinaire"? You shouldn't give him delusions of grandeur... It's bad for his ego! And also your mother should have taught you better than to fib ;) What? Increasing delusions of people as cruel manipulation ploys?

I'll believe it when I see it :twss: This should give good results.

In my High School's case on the definition of 'spirit', 'shut out all sorts of cynicism, pessimism or any sort of introverted behavior that obstructs our unrealistic campaigns'. The more I think about it, 'spirit' can have more harmful and bad uses than good when it gets into the those dreaded territories of over-invested optimism. It's more evasive than that. It's usually phrased as 'to support our cause'. If you even make a reference to the possibility that their vision is distorted, then you'd probably be penalized. In essence, they oppress you like the church does. Because of their oppressive nature, they are a considerable annoyance to me. I can't disagree with that. I even like the better wording you gave as it describes the nature and way my High School acted. You even got it right about the penalization since I've seen them punishing people doing something else aside from pointlessly raising their vocal chords up to eleven and bombarding the ears of their neighbors.

Perhaps appropriate, but sometimes people don't know their audience and use completely redundant words since the majority of people would have to look up a word before understanding it. If that were a talk to a big group, then many simply wouldn't understand it. At least on the internet people can look up words, but it's still an inconvenience. I wouldn't use archaic/unused words frequently on TIF for example, since users would end up skipping my posts or find themselves googling a lot of them. Today? Being rung up and asked to do prisoner watch for 10 hours as opposed to my normal public order duty. How about no. :blink: I would personally go for it, but that is because of my fickle nature to cure my boredom with any given opportunity, good or bad. From your perspective, I think it's either the 'prisoner' bit or the 10 hours that turns you off from it. It's the sitting down and doing nothing for 10 hours that turns me off. :mrgreen: I'd much rather be involved in the dealing with the drunken fools than just one annoyance. Then I understand it even more. Sitting down and doing the same thing for ten hours straight without the possibility of anything interesting happen (well, the kind of interesting that is safe) would be murder to someone like me. How much are you getting paid anyway?

Perhaps appropriate, but sometimes people don't know their audience and use completely redundant words since the majority of people would have to look up a word before understanding it. If that were a talk to a big group, then many simply wouldn't understand it. At least on the internet people can look up words, but it's still an inconvenience. I wouldn't use archaic/unused words frequently on TIF for example, since users would end up skipping my posts or find themselves googling a lot of them. Today? Being rung up and asked to do prisoner watch for 10 hours as opposed to my normal public order duty. How about no. :blink: I would personally go for it, but that is because of my fickle nature to cure my boredom with any given opportunity, good or bad. From your perspective, I think it's either the 'prisoner' bit or the 10 hours that turns you off from it.

Will H, Gentleman ninja. He made ninjas sound cool again.

In my High School's case on the definition of 'spirit', 'shut out all sorts of cynicism, pessimism or any sort of introverted behavior that obstructs our unrealistic campaigns'. The more I think about it, 'spirit' can have more harmful and bad uses than good when it gets into the those dreaded territories of over-invested optimism.

Or when you're trying to do research on a topic in school and half of the links get censored, forcing you to either rely on questionable sources like some off-hand site or Wikipedia. It was downright dreadful when I had to do my final project in High School last year and didn't get the desired score because their asinine censors made it difficult to find what I desired. Speaking of Schools, nothing irked me more than how their focus on "school spirit" sometimes border-lined on being inefficient and harmful with poorly-timed pep rallies, which came on days when I needed to do a certain classes. Add insult to injury with enduring the combination of loud noises, sub-par performances, and many negatives of crowd psychology for an hour (or worse, more) as someone who prefers quiet and level energy. I despise how the events took the time to search out people who weren't "on board" and forcibly got them involved. I could make a few paragraphs when the rants and strife concerns school life.

How about "Monster Hunter Extraordinaire"?

This, oh so much. It's more irksome when the news itself airs those opinions and waste my time, not to mention how much it reminds and refreshes how much I loathe discussing certain news topics for that reason. It irritates me more there are news anchors (and I don't have to mention the national ones) that make use of that behavior. OT: Along with highly abused words like "irony", "karma" has been creeping its way up on the ladder too whenever I hear it misinterpreted by certain people I know (mainly with templar-like personalities) as it was solely defined as just punishment or revenge rather than its more neutral meaning.

I've never seen the Back to the Future films myself, but I am more of an "eccentric" than "nerd".

Spiders are not insects, but arachnids. Arachnids have 8 legs, insects have 6 - to mention the most visible difference from the insect class. I always found the former being interesting because the Scorpion is technically in that same animal class as any spider, but I don't think that necessarily make them related to the spider itself (or perhaps I am wrong on that assumption since I am rusty in my knowledge of how biology works). Also, I think the better term would be "limbs" more than simply putting "legs".

That feeling of accomplishment when you're fully caught up to one of your regularly read webcomics (finally). Oh crap, that means I need something else to dabble in while I scape. :-(

I recently did a bit of research on spiders and learned that my house may or may not have giant house spiders and/or hobo spiders. The house spiders are big for something you'd see in a North American home, the hobo spiders are smaller but have an... unpleasant bite. I also may or may not have developed a minor case of arachnophobia from that research. Does not fit well with a pre-existing fear of bees and wasps. Will avoid visiting Australia. Arachnophobia is one of those primal fears on par with snakes, and very common too, so I wouldn't blame you if you got it from all that research. Thanks for reminding me of the Hobo spider considering it's one of those diabolical nasty ones that is rarely mentioned. The only reason I said the spider pictured above was a Brown Recluse was because that's the only venomous spider I know with that color and can do that kind of harm. Might have even forgot what a hobo spider even looks like now.

Then it'd be best to avoid Australia and Brazil because of the Sydney Funnel Web and Wandering Spider respectively, the latter actually rated to have the world's most potent venom for a spider. At least most spiders you encounter are non-venomous. Of course, they're hideous freaks (maybe that is wording it too strongly) that I wan't to eradicate off the face of my shoe now and admire it later when it is an image on a screen or in a documentary rather than in my room or face.

It looks to be Brown Recluse considering the color of the spider displayed. and how damaging its bites are. It ranks next to Black Widow on one of the spiders I never want to encounter.

You my good sir, should never get a motor cycle. Apparently spiders, along with other insects like wasps, just love motor cycles. Read the first entry of this article for a good laugh. After reading halfway in the spider bit, it was enough for me to not want to ride a motorcycle. Once it got into the wasps, there is no way I am sleeping tonight. Thank you for another tacking another sleepless night as a result of the internet with that link, Randox. :sad: Humph. I hold that as one of their best articles ever (right after my favorite, which also starts with a spider). I laughed pretty much the whole way through that one when I re-read it tonight (been a while). I also hold you slightly responsible for seeing an entry named spiders and not turning back if they bother you :razz: You should not read my favorite article (though I feel like you already have), or that one about insects that I can't remember the name of. In recompense, I offer you a link to this, about zombie survival tactics that will get you killed. No spiders, but there is a great picture of an angry squirrel with the best caption ever (in context). This article shall be my bedtime story tonight. And I hate how long clothes take to dry. I never said I disliked the article (in fact, I can agree with you on how good it was). It was the bit with the wasps what disturbed me the most since I was stung by them often when I was a little child, which sort of justifies how I cringed hard at the imagery of going down the interstate and fighting off a horde of those abominations. Have you also read this article by chance? It's one of my top five favorites, even though I cannot get certain zombie fanatics I know to agree their logic about zombies is faulty. As for the article you linked, I've seen it before. Clothing, oh boy. I find it worse how it's always my favorite pieces that get ruined within in the first two washes done on them no matter what. It makes it more concerning how I have ordered a $25 shirt (including ship costs) being shipped to me, so it would be leave me miffed if it gets ruined within the wash.

You my good sir, should never get a motor cycle. Apparently spiders, along with other insects like wasps, just love motor cycles. Read the first entry of this article for a good laugh. After reading halfway in the spider bit, it was enough for me to not want to ride a motorcycle. Once it got into the wasps, there is no way I am sleeping tonight. Thank you for another tacking another sleepless night as a result of the internet with that link, Randox. :sad:

I usually tell them my list is full, but I have added random people in the past and removed them a week later because they got boring. In a rare case when they into a full-fledged and great friend, they're usually the best-quality ones on my list. I also cleanse my list every four or so months and end up getting rid of 1/10th-1/8th of my list as a result.

The grammar gods die from your posts and trigger full-scale Armageddon; you get the worst of it.

Banned because I feel my self-prophecy has turned out to be horribly correct.

Banned because 'sufficient' is hardly a big word by any means.