aquariusman

Any firefighter. There, really is no other group of persons who have the amount of respect I do for firefighters.

Three books: A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin Crossroads of Twilight - Robert Jordan A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking A very appreciated pair of Bose in-ear headphones. These things are amazing, ridiculously comfortable, and the change of quality was quite noticeable. Also, they don't look too shabby either. Probably been using them for half of the time that has passed since I got them :) That is the things I care about most, aside from some clothes, which you could say were needed.

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Goddess, for being a stay-at-home mom and actually committing yourself to your son, thank you. I honestly can't think of an absolute solution to your problem, but because you put yourself in that situation, you have my respect. However, I do think that maybe a break is warranted every couple of weeks/every week. Just tell your fiancé that you two are going out one night, and go out. Leave your son with your parents, both will benefit from it, and you benefit from the break.

The ability to give myself any superpower I wanted :twss: Wait you're confusing me now. Is the power controlling kinetic energy or potential energy? I think he's just talking about telekinesis.

1. Throw rocks at the construction workers, they would notice that. On the other hand, they are working on the track. Does that not mean that the track is unfit to be used by the train? Switch the tracks, save the train, then throw rocks at the other construction worker; he is alone, which means he is probably just inspecting the tracks. 2. If I was a brave idiot, run out of hiding, yelling, to get them to chase me. If I wasn't an idiot, killing the baby isn't the only way to shut it up. Smother it for only a few seconds, so that the baby is forced to gasp for air, then smother again. This lets the baby go back to a normal breathing pattern.

I was going to write up a long post saying how I would choose either 4, 30, or 60. Then I realized, it isn't the age, it is about making yourself happy, not saying that it's your age. So I wouldn't care when time would be 'frozen'; give me any time you choose, I will enjoy it just as much.

They're just another batch of pop artists. I'm sure people made fun of it when we listened to Nsync and the Backstreet Boys (I better not be the only one :? ).

That's disgusting, I wanted to hear about stories of that nearly happening, not actually happening.

How did you accept the invite. Did you press 'A', did you press the Xbox guide button and then press 'A', or did you think and hope the Xbox would pick up on your brain waves and realize you want to accept that invite. Yeah, I think I watched a bit too much House today, the sarcasm's rubbing off a bit. I'm not all that familiar with NXE (The newly-updated dashboard and interface for the Xbox), but your friend could have invited you, then as you were joining his game, left, so that you still got connected to the game, but he had left without telling you. Or you could have seen the invite notification pop up, and just press 'A', which would start a new game, depending on what lobby you were in, and what option you had highlighted when the notification popped up. For an explanation of the Xbox Live guide: The Xbox Live guide is an in-game interface that lets you do a lot of things. You press the Xbox Guide button (That big glowing button inbetween Start and Select/Back) and the interface will pop up. From this are more menus, such as private messages, chat, a friends list, your Gamercard, and other options. The friends list gives you a list of your friends, sorted by online/offline status, and gives you access to friends' gamercards, form which you can invite them to a party, private chat, or send them a private message (Among other options of course). The private messages menu is just that, and in box of your private messages. You can delete them, read&reply, and create new messages. Going to your Gamercard lets you mess around with some settings, view your games played and achievements earned, and just look at your pretty gamercard (Or avatar, since it probably changed). Chat gives you options involving MSN messenger and private/party/game chat. Since this is based off the original Xbox Live Dashboard, I decided to throw in information about NXE in relevent areas. This is not guaranteed to be accurate at all, so take it with a grain or salt.

So let me get this straight. You and your buddy were at your house, playing on Xbox Live, and you are on a mic, talking to people. Then suddenly, maybe when he connected his controller and signed on as a guest/his account/a spare account, the voice gets re-directed to the speakers, and your mic won't output or input sound. I was just fishing with your buddy signing on. If this happened while you were playing/in a lobby, and you know you weren't messing around with any settings, then your mic probably just got discnnected. If it did and you just didn't notice, then there's your problem. If it didn't get disconnected, you weren't messing with settings, and it still doesn't work, you are now the proud owner of a broken mic. If it didn't get disconnected, no settings were changed, and it still does work, then you have a half-broken mic that will break in the next week or two, caused by a loose connection somewhere along the line between controller and where wire connects to headset. I'm assuming this is a wired headset. The continuous loop of sound should really only happen with wireless headsets.

What, no stories of nearly drop kicking your sibling across the room, through the sliding glass door and onto the [bleep]ed fence outside because they deleted your perfect game save? That's what I was hoping for. For me it's GBA. I tended to use those powerpacks because I would go through batteries too much and ordinary rechargables would get lost too easily. Anyways, those things broke very easily, or at least in my hands they did, so after a month or so the plastic hooks holding them in place always snapped, signalling for you to break out the ducktape. The point of the story is that after nearly beating a Megaman game during a long car ride down to Florida, starting from halfway, I go to get out of the car, with GBA on and in hand, when my hand accidentily hits the door frame. I hear the dreaded *pop* of the game losing and then regaining power, only to think of how far I had gotten. Half of me died that day, then grew back when I re-did what I had just done, only better, in less time, and gets more secrets and such. But then again, I could have done all that on my second playthrough, which would've gotten me much, much more.

Wow, you really paid $120 for your Halo 3? No wonder you're pissed. Okay, so tell me the first console FPS online mutliplayer you heard about. For me it's Halo 2. First game that lets you do one hell of a lot of things (almost all online) - such as watch a film of that game you just played, mess around with the items on maps, use emergent gameplay to do more than just shoot eachother, play through campaign together, find the dozens of hidden Easter eggs in the game, and even shoot eachother - that I can think of is Halo 3. However, that is not to say that Halo 3 or Halo 2 are innovative. No, someone at Bungie just thought "Hey, I can do all this on my PC with a mouse and keyboard, but there's an untapped market for online console FPS, why not tap that by migrating the systems in place in a computer over to *gasp* this other, different-looking computer?". So to add to what Nadril just said, the Halo series was inventive in that it used the ideas of someone else in a different, but still similar way, whereas Half-Life was innovative by... (Okay, I must admit that I have never played Half-Life outside of a few minute-long attempts, I'm not big on single-player) Halo 3 can be enjoyable if it's right for you, it fills a certain niche, that roudy to slightly annoying to wishing-someone-invented-a-device-that-lets-you-punch-someone-else-through-the-internet annoying teenager kind of niche, but it still fills it, and that sells the product. In the defense of shifting the blame to 9-year olds, they have really high-pitched voices.

You can use a thumb drive, but it will need to stay plugged into your Xbox the whole time. For some reason or another, you can't transfer songs from anything connected via USB. Alternatively, you could just plug in your iPod, you can't transfer, but it is likely all the songs you want will already be on there.

There is a difference between an enjoyable book and a good book. I think I've already explained it. Twilight was enjoyable to read, but if you actually try to break it down critically, you can be disappointed. Doesn't take away from enjoying it, but it makes it harder to take the book seriously.

Operation Ivy - The Crowd Ended right when I typed that, so now it's Operation Ivy - Bombshell. Gotta love punk.

So you think the books are "pretty good," but they still "fail?" *senses a love/hate relationship* Don't point out the hypocrisy of my posts. that's mean. I just really don't like how popular it is. and the stupid little fangirls at my school really make me mad. So you think the books are good, but you don't like them just of the fan girls? That's just pathetic in my view. I don't like the fan girls either, but that's because they're idiots and think the book was the best book ever, when it really isn't good at all. It is a good read, but not a good book.

I love the N64, hell I'm still playing it. Just bought 1080 Snowboarding since people said it is awesome. Now I just need to find Ocarina and Mario Kart 64, plus buy DK 64 again (Bought from friend, but he wanted to buy back). Also maybe THPS 1. Turok any good? I can't remember playing it.

LOTR: Return of The King, Banjo Tooie, I think Me and my brother got Pokemon Red and Blue 100%, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

I don't really think there is anything purely punk that was made in the last decade or so. Also, to me most of the good modern punk is really ska-punk, so that's what I'll reccomend: Catch 22 (Keasbey Nights is their best album for someone who likes ska) Streetlight Manifesto The Flatliners Operation Ivy Arrogant Sons of [Female Dogs] Rx Bandits Less Than Jake Now for just any kind of punk: Bad Religion The Descendents Hostage Life Black Flag NOFX <---Best example of punk I could ever show someone Rancid The Offspring Tiger Army Also, just use Google/Wikipedia and search Rock Against Bush both Volume 1 and 2, you'll get a good list of artists.

They know who they are. If they don't, it's Aaron, Lyra, Ben, Suzi, Will, Matt, Derek(/Ben?), and Emma, if she even uses the forum still. The TIF convo lives on.

Your point? If someone doesn't live their life the way they wanted to, do you think they'd care what happens to the rest of humanity? I personally don't care much about what happens after I die.

Procrastination, nail biting. Procrastination spawns a lot of further habits though.

Since you might as well be saying that smart people are usually cynics, I oppose that statement. I am consider quite smart, but I am quite optimistic. Despite the fact that there are many things wrong with the world, I'd still say that the world as a whole is very well off. Just think of all the opportunities you have each day to do harm: being rude, tripping someone, punching someone, losing your anger, dismissing empathy. Now compare that to how many times you actually do that, and the opportunities very likely dwarf the acts. So the way I see it, things could be much worse, but they probably won't be. Of and I might point you in the direction of a certain John Lajoie video. I think it is a great way of looking at life. Name something you love.

I am agnostic. I don't think we will ever know. However, I certainly hope that He or She exists, for it means that for billions of people, their trust and faith is well met. I think I also said a while back that Creation is the most logical way we came to be. Most people would argue that a Creator would ahve had to create himself, and that is impossible because of logic, but you need to think about it under the assumption that if this Creator does exist, does that not forfeit logic? So I think that we were created, and basically my theory essentially comes to be that a God created the world, and set the laws of physics, etc. When something doesn't go the way the God likes, this God intervenes. I feel that this accomodates science and everything unexplainable by science. As for Christianity, or more specifically the concept of sin combined with creation, I think that the whole thing is the biggest contradiction or idiocy possible. If we are supposed to stay "pure" why would we be given the ability to commit sin? Surely a Creator would not give it's Creations the ability to do wrong if he does not want them to. Saying it is a 'test' is even worse, because that means the Creator must not be powerful enough to shape the minds of it's Creations.