AThousandLies

I bought Renegade a little while ago and played it for a short amount of time, same with Red Alert 2. To me it was one of those things where you buy it cheaply, maybe play it, and then leave it to the dust. A bit like a Korn album.

Koch is annoying as it is. But him, plus the rest of that weak group of TV 'personalities' trying to make the election fun? I'll take Star Wars, thanks.

These arguments are never really thought out particularly well. It's a case of a few people being pissed off by a change to the game mechanics immediately after said change? So what? Chances are the complaining will die out in the next couple of months. The fact is, it's one simple change to gameplay. Okay, this month there have been (or will be) three, and some are quite significant. But it's naive and ignorant to think that these alterations are going to destroy the game. Yeah, they might alienate some people - some of the self-righteouss "THEY DON'T DESERVE MY MONEY FOR CHANGING THE GAME AND FORCING ME TO SEEK ALTERNATE METHODS OF SUCCESS" might up and quit altogether. But ultimately, the game must always be constantly evolving. Regular stakers comprise of, what ... %1 of the RS population? That's just a guess, but in the big scheme of things they are obviously a minority. The fact is, people will move on - people will change their gaming habits and move on, because it has to be a two-way relationship; the game adapts to its players and the players adapt to the game. You seem to forget that Runescape has over million paying members. Add this to the number of F2Pers, and you've got a pretty large player base. The game will continue developing, continue improving, both technically, aesthetically and conceptually, and chances are, the membership base will grow. Unless MechScape turns out to take over Runescape in the next couple of years (which I don't see happening), Runescape will continue to thrive. Hell, even when (if) it's released, Runescape will soldier on. You just have to deal with the change.

I watched The Big Lebowski the other day. Awesome movie. The Dude is simply legendary. "DO YOU SEE NOW, SHANE? DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU **** STRANGERS IN THE [wagon]? DO YOU SEE?"

I was thinking of checking it out earlier in the month. I might still.

He just returned on Monday, and it was a killer comeback.

You could just stick to Mario and Tetris ... ?

Who's going? Thoughts on the lineup? I just saw the second announcement about an hour ago (some are appearing at select shows): silverchair Spoon Augie March Brand New Regurgitator Anti-Flag Karnivool Carl Cox Pnau Kate Nash Josh Pyke beXta Shy Child Gyroscope Enter Shikari Operator Please Unkle (live) Goodwill Krafty Kuts & MC Dynamite Die! Die! Die! The Nigh[bleep]chman (Tom Morello acoustic) Blue King Brown Dr Octagon with Kutmaster Kurt British India Aceyalone Krill With the exception of Nigh[bleep]chman and (to a lesser extent) Karnivool, I can't say I'm a great deal pleased. I guess I'll try and get into some of these other acts beforehand and attempt not to pass judgement so much, but it looks to me like they blew their budget on the headliners and decided to fill the lineup with a bunch of Australian acts and unknowns. These bands join: Rage Against the Machine Bjork, Grinspoon Arcade Fire Hilltop Hoods Billy Bragg Paul Kelly LCD Soundsystem Sarah Blasko Faker Midnight Juggernauts Dizzee Rascal Something With Numbers Battles Cut Off Your Hands I was expecting/hoping for Serj, and Amen had previously posted in a Myspace bulletin that they were playing, but I guess not. Bummer. Ah well, seeing Rage is still gonna be killer, and Morello's solo stuff is pretty awesome too.

I think it could be based on these votes. I really hope not.

Well I'm not surprised they don't know what you want, you haven't given us much to work with! What are your interests? Sports? Which sports? What games? What music? What movies? What books? Do you play any instruments? Could you use some sort of hardware other than this speaker system? Maybe an iPod, new TV, DVD/HD-DVD player, new computer etc?

Had 1 and 2, though not sure about three. Maybe it's a blood pressure thing. Do you get it when you move suddenly, or stand up from a sitting/layind down position?

Was just playing Quake Wars last night, joined a 5-5 game as Strogg. It was the third map of the campaign in which the Strogg were attacking. Three objectives: destroy something, repair mining laser, destroy something else. I managed to complete all three objectives myself within less than 10 minutes. Also managed to get something ridiculous like 28 kills in that time. Pardon my arrogance, but it was indeed awesome.

Anyone seen them live? They're coming here in February but it's an 18+ show and I'm only 17. I'd love to see them at All Tomorrow's Parties.

I don't know about bringing a camera. I know that in Europe you are not allowed to photograph (atleast not any digital cameras), i think system-cameras are ok. Maybe it's different in Australia? I'd check that before going. I think here in Australia, it varies from venue-to-venue, or sometimes from act-to-act at the same venue. But yeah, it would probably best to investigate before buying a camera for the event. Well if you are allowed its wrong anyway. You have people there to photograph the event who spend a heck of allot of money to be able to. How is it wrong? If I want to capture memories for myself of a concert, and the promoters allow me to do that, then what's 'wrong' with that? Why should I sacrifice the ability to photograph something great myself and instead be content with one photograph (if you're lucky) un a newspaper? And since when do other people spend a lot of money to be able to? If you're talking about music journalists and photographers, they get paid to - it's their job. Against the point. They are payed to but who pays for them for the rights to do that? What the hell are you trying to argue? I swear you're just trolling now. If I'm allowed by the venue and promoter to bring a camera, why shouldn't I?

Damn, only got 1:08.

I haven't heard all the albums released this year that I want to, but standouts are: Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! Type O Negative - Dead Again Machine Head - The Blackening NiggyTardust probably takes the gold.

STFU. They're not wana-be mods like you think they are they're following the actual rules of the actual game. Given that referring someone to tip.it does NO harm to Jagex and has NO real reason to be against the rules, I think a lot of people to just do it out of spite or to try and get recognised.

I don't know about bringing a camera. I know that in Europe you are not allowed to photograph (atleast not any digital cameras), i think system-cameras are ok. Maybe it's different in Australia? I'd check that before going. I think here in Australia, it varies from venue-to-venue, or sometimes from act-to-act at the same venue. But yeah, it would probably best to investigate before buying a camera for the event. Well if you are allowed its wrong anyway. You have people there to photograph the event who spend a heck of allot of money to be able to. How is it wrong? If I want to capture memories for myself of a concert, and the promoters allow me to do that, then what's 'wrong' with that? Why should I sacrifice the ability to photograph something great myself and instead be content with one photograph (if you're lucky) un a newspaper? And since when do other people spend a lot of money to be able to? If you're talking about music journalists and photographers, they get paid to - it's their job.

I don't know about bringing a camera. I know that in Europe you are not allowed to photograph (atleast not any digital cameras), i think system-cameras are ok. Maybe it's different in Australia? I'd check that before going. I think here in Australia, it varies from venue-to-venue, or sometimes from act-to-act at the same venue. But yeah, it would probably best to investigate before buying a camera for the event.

We're forced to vote here, but if it was in America, depends on the candidates. Giant douche, turd sandwich or iPod? Easy.

I generally don't agree with or extract revenge, but I think sometimes it is more viable in some cases than in others. In the case of parents abusing children, this is something that is considered a violation if innocence, and arguably one of the worst and most unacceptable things that someone can do in today's society. By extracting revenge through similar means on this person, the idea is that they are being served their sentence, and that others are being discouraged from it in the future. With such a horrible crime, it is felt that justice cannot be served with conventional methods (i.e. imprisonment). But then again with that argument, you have the punishers doing the same horrible thing, but it is not considered to be to the same extent, as it is 1) a response, 2) the person is seen as deserving (or less undeserving) and 3) doing something like that to an adult is seen as less brutal than doing the same thing to a child. Now, I know that may seem extreme, and I don't say I condone abusing the abuser, but I'm saying the thought process behind it is not always so uncivilized and 'immoral'.

Airports really bring out the best in people, huh?

Yes because everyones offended by a band name... :roll: Missing the point entirely - I was pointing out the horror that is (was?) Limp Bizkit.

Nope, it's the Monday on Raw afterwards. Proof? From what I have been told, J.R. and/or King said themselves last Raw that "whatever that's referring to, it's going to be happening next Monday", or somethin gto that effect. Furthermore, take a look at the Save_Us222 promos. The one on ECW said "5 days, 23 hours, x minutes" or something to that effect. With ECW being shown on a Tuesday and a reference to 5 days 23 hours (almost 6 days), that's a pretty strong indication it's gonna happen Monday. Unless, of course, they're just throwing us off, and Jericho will actually appear on Sunday. But I'm expecting Monday. Oh, and just for laughs: http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/4383/8abfw9zch2.jpg

Yeah, I read about this. It's yet another example of political correctness gone wrong. [bleep] the P.C. police.