Giordano

Ah Paperclips, a TIF legend but I have no idea what he was about. I was very new (and very young) when he was around so I just tl;dr his posts. :razz: I started on the RS2 forums, not sure when I switched over to Off-topic.

Well it worked. Your post reinforced what I was thinking about and yeah, I would say sound to be fundamentally more important than video. What made me come to this conclusion was old machinima I used to watch. What machinima is is creating story-driven films using elements from video games: it saves a lot of time not having to learn 3D modeling or animation. So a lot of these machinimas are, obviously fan-made and not professional. And what really made certain machinimas good, was the sound: good recording of voice acting and actual good voice acting. Consider this: would you ever watch a RuneScape movie? Pretty hard to take it seriously, right? Well with good voice acting it was watchable and enjoyable. Evening using my own experience in filmmaking, my earlier works had static-y voice reels that really distracted the viewer from the film. With good sound that's one LESS thing to be distract your viewer. Then you got to worry about visuals and story. :wink:

This is a pretty vague question, both are damn important. Only certain examples could an answer be made (sound for music video, image for tutorials/demostrations). But for general story-telling films I cannot say one or the other.

I'm not sure what I read here.

I got kicked out I'm 16 atm and looking for a job as my girlfreinds pregnant my perents kicked me out I was homeless for 1 week sleeping on roofs benches shed (etc) school aint for me especialy if I need to make a living. Have you ever thought of an abortion? I understand if you're in a place where it's illegal, but damn I've seen so many put on a lot of unnecessary hardship for a few moral standards. Anyway, my first "job" was helping my dad with dispatcher work for his owner-operating trucking company. I never had an "official" job.

The feeling of discovering a game you've liked but never seen in years is wonderful. I found Ski Free a year ago, last time I played it was when I was in elementary school.

Sumpta, I remember that name! Today I got lucky: lots of douches were parallel parking wrong: excessive space between cars but not enough to park in. If the spaces were filled you could of parked 10 more cars in there I swear. At the end of the line I saw a good spot: I parked in the closest possible spot to my class, tightly between the red curb (start of the parking) and the car in front of me. :thumbup: Ha, I found this little guy again. :uhh: I should click 'show all' emotes more often.

Never fund your significant others' life. You should make your own money, they should make their own money. Come together to help each other out once in a while, but never fund their life and lifestyles if they got any. Oh, also...don't fund them for sex. I've seen too many of this happening, blows a huge hole in everybody's wallet. :wall: The only time it would be acceptable to fund each other would be being married with kids. One works, the other takes care of the kids and does housework to still earn their share.

Those suggestions seem pretty...unrealistically basic. Solar panels? Those cost like 50k to install around here, getting water from rivers? Might as well work for the time you'll be dragging water and earn a profit. Some are good advice though, like owning property and the clothes/furniture. In my experiences and observations, the real key to saving money is to not to spend money. If you have a job that pays decent hours, there's no reason whatsoever that you can't pay for the utilities (water, garbage, gas, and electricity). You should be paying for yourself, not for a roommate or for a girlfriend. Don't spend money on things you can miss out. My sister and her boyfriend blow through their money buying $50 games, $10 snacks, $65 Disneyland tickets, and small $30 collectables like there's no tomorrow, then they wonder why they don't have money by the end of the semester. Don't buy things you don't need. Avoid dependencies. Don't buy weed or beer. I have seen way too many people going through tough times but always hear them talking about smoking joints or drinking alot in their parties. Instead of getting water from a well or taking your garbage to the dump, you could buy half the amount of six packs you'd usually buy. If you don't do drugs or drink often, don't start. Yes, it is your 'entertainment expenses' but those should never hinder basic expenses like utilities, rent, or gas for work. If you don't have a job, then I'm sorry but you're NOT living by yourself unless you rent in a broken down apartment in the broken end of town. A part-time job can cover most of your non-rental needs and a job that does 40 hours evenly you can even have enough to rent. The hardest part of the financial game is if you get kicked out with no savings or are unemployed. In those aspects you really have no choice but to look for a job, ignoring all your luxury needs until you can find a job. There's no much 'savings' you can do here but eating ramen noodles. Just a few pointers from my personal observations from people. It really bugs me when people dwell on saving so little when they have no objections buying new games for $60, $40 worth of booze, or every day eating out. ps. Oh thank God Tip.It got the auto-save for posts! Got a blue screen of death during my last paragraph...thanks TIF staff for including this feature!

I'm guessing you read some of your earlier posts? Looking at those and other things I did in the past makes me want to shoot myself sometimes. Luckily, such things aren't publicly well-known.

I think the Panda excuse is really just a huge simplicifcation. Instead of listing the problems WoW has, they summarize it with the core of the new expansion: pandas. I know I have. The reason why I don't play WoW anymore is because gear plays way too much of a part of it. In PvP I'd always get steamrolled because everybody had Wrath pieces or full Wrathful honor gear (last time I played was the end of WotLK). With Cata it just got even worse and I can't see it being better in MoP. Plus, lets face it, the story and atmosphere has gone quite downhill since Wrath - some even say the end of WC3. But this is why I'm more of a single-player RPG gamer, rather than an MMO: more concrete story and less annoying players: there's lots of no-life kids who'll own you because they have the time to grind. It's not just in WoW, it's in every MMO unfortunately. So instead of saying all that, plus more reasons, I simplify it into "I don't like the panda concept" and get on with my day.

The problem with you guys is that you go for slots...those are loser machines. Poker is where it's at. I've never actually played, since you have to be 21 for the Indian casinos around here and Vegas. But I'd love to go to Vegas and play some Poker. I kinda want to be a card counter for the insane amount of money you can make.

It could be. I get a TON of scam e-mails about my RS account. Lol, like I care about my account getting 'banned'.

100k was like on a slow day, in the middle of the school year, first day of spring. I remember that. :smile: I can't log on my RS account, since I cant find the bloody log-in page. Why do they have to change the homepage so much? Can't find anything on there.

The vast majority of OT doesn't play RuneScape anymore, so I can't say I agree with this theory. I honestly think we're all just getting older and less interested in Tip.It. The natural process of forum aging. :sad:

I always thought I'd be decent for competitive as Heavy, but I don't really want to join one. I just play for fun and obtain hats!

I overreacted, I will admit. I was learning what's the issue as I was making posts. But I've come to this conclusion: -47% of Americans don't pay income taxes. To change this, there will have to be tax reform or increases - something Republicans would rather not do. -So what other "solution" is there? Get these "leechers" off their lazy asses and have them start paying taxes! -But to change that, there will have to be tax reform or increases - something the Republicans would rather not do. So I really don't [bleep]ing know what the problem now. 47% of Americans don't pay taxes. Someone enlighten me how Romney plans to change this (if he even wants to)? Are the Republicans proposing tax reform and increases? I am seriously confused now.

Either way it's still revenue, revenue that's hoarded together and sorted out later. Either way, the 47% of people *still* pay taxes. Calling them taxless workers implies a sense of back-dealing, trashy, unclassy folk. Creating a sense of justification for a "us versus them" concept politicans love to employ. But regardless, a lot of Americans do not pay income tax, I've realized that. However that is the fault of the different types of Exceptions. I do agree that there should be reform and limits to certain exceptions (like the classic welfare babies tactic) - but it still doesn't avoid the fact that the majority of Americans pay taxes in one way or another.

It makes up the majority of federal tax income, so it's pretty important to discuss - since it involves Social Security and Medicare. Most other taxes (like property, sales, and luxury) taxes go to the state and local level anyway.

How in the hell can anybody believe 50% of Americans not pay income tax? Weren't the IRS notorious for being total [wagon] in collecting taxes? The growing number of tax companies (HR's Blocks and whatnot) popping across the country means nothing? Believe what you want, but you cannot honestly say with a straight face the majority of Americans (legal or not) don't pay taxes. When illegals are given Tax ID numbers to pay taxes, how can citizens with Social Security numbers, birth certificates, and citizenship papers completely avoid paying taxes? Pure bullshit.

Visually represent your affiliation with a gang, thus rival gangs may shoot you up and create another Virgina Tech massacre. Least that was my school's logic.

Lol, the page's second comment expresses my point. Good guy. See, governments have this thing called order needing to be upheld. Since this is under the executive branch, the agency has no political leanings towards a particular party - they only worry about the stability of the federal government as a whole. So you can still talk about politics, why Obama is a good or bad president, medicare's flaws, and hatred of the American breuacracy. Only thing you can't talk about is overthrowing the government, on a regular basis, with the same set of people...But needless to say you can't do this in ANY country past, future, and present.

I would suppose they have some DNA of one of his relatives and they're going to compare them. I guess. This is a remarkable find for archeologists though! Shows you can find history anywhere.

Pretty much: buy often and pay on time. But to avoid further confusion what I'm talking about let me tell you guys a story: Years ago my parents took equity from the house, making the cost go from 280k to 450k. They used that money to pay off debt and buy my dad's 18 wheeler where he created his business. Unfortunately 2008 come around and dropped the value of our house down to like 300k, close to the original. Scumbag Bank of America refused to adjust our mortgage payments to the new price, even with us leaving (this is what I don't get, they were going to sell it at 300k price to us or another buyer, so whats the difference I don't [bleep]ing know). So they short-sold it and lost their high credit rating. So now we're renting at $1400 a month were all the houses around here pay their mortgage $700-900 monthly. That's a $500 savings. In about 2-3 years their credit will be good to buy again but that's quite a stretch when you think you can be saving 500 bucks monthly if Bank of America weren't such [wagon]. Word of advice: never take equity from your home, don't trust banks, and never vote for eco-friendly laws in the state of California. :wink:

Well I did say home ownership, Steve. :wink: But yeah, it is easy to get good credit it just takes time. It just sucks that you could be saving like 500 bucks monthly by buying instead of renting around these parts.