Necromagus

I recently helped host a Pokémon tournament in the toy store I used to work in. At my suggestion they split it up in two age classes (eleven and under, twelve and over), which turned out to be a great decision. The younger kids had loads of fun and spent the entire afternoon playing with each other, trading, socializing, etc.; the older kids were, to a man, for lack of a better word, [puncture]s. First of all there were no girls there, and everybody was constantly bragging and boasting. I had to disqualify three kids for using hacked Pokémon. The most blatant one was a shiny Infernape caught in a masterball with 255 EVs in every stat. In the end I had an exhibition match with both winners. I beat the older kid with my rain dance team, but let the younger one beat me.

Yeah, apparently the ball having left play already was the only thing preventing the game from becoming even more insane.

Ok, can somebody explain how the Czechs didn't get a penalty when their keeper got sent off?

Locked. While Salvia is still legal in most western countries, I'm afraid I'm going to have to lock this under rule 1.8, which specifically lists topics about drugs. -Necromagus

I think that what really did France in was the sheer sadism of the timing of the first three goals. Every time they were looking to get into the match their defense was suddenly caught with their collective pants down. The 3-1 especially was a beautiful example of this. You can't underestimate what that kind of goal does to a team's morale, on both sides. Angryjoe: If Holland wins and France and Italy draw, there will have to be an extension and penalty shootout, as they both have the exact same amount of goals for and against. If both matches end in a draw Romania goes through, and if Romania wins there's no way for France and Italy to go on. There's a very real chance that the #2 in group C will go through without having won a single match, which would be a first in the tournament's history. Also, I love how the Dutch press always takes plenty of time to summarize the lamentations of the press in the home country they just beat. Always a great read : In the end, I think one statistic best illustrates the Dutch chances to beat teams like Spain and Portugal: Seven goals scored by six different players. The sheer versatility of their offensive line will be the key to victory in the long run. If they had someone like Jaap Stam to hold together the defense, I'd bet my life savings on them winning it.

I can manage my hair just fine by washing it every other day and brushing it out every now and then. If I had to spend too much time taking care of it I'd probably cut it off in a heartbeat though.

Off-Topic is for all discussion (within the rules) that falls outside Runescape. Therefor, this has no place here. -Necromagus

Does anyone else here have a pool bet (Don't really know the proper English term for that one) going? Basically you pay a certain amount of money (10 in my case) to try to predict all the matches, plus a few extra things (number of goals, number of cards, top scorer, etc.). Everything is worth a certain amount of points, and at the end of the tournament the one with the most points wins.

I guess I can try and point back to the link I posted on the second page that points out that the Dutch teens who usually get at least several weeks of sexual education are actually less sexually active than American teens and the Dutch teen pregnancy rate is less than an eighth of the American one. Americans also seem to have five to six times as many STD infections. So yeah, education seems to work pretty well when it comes to preventing teen pregnancy and STD infection. http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/PUBLIC ... /fsest.htm

Something that could draw more attention... how about some sort of monthly featured story posted as an announcement on the website? (Maybe a Runescape and a non-Runescape one).

If you don't mind playing games that are a bit older, I'd say Deus Ex 1 and 2 and System Shock 1 and 2 match your descriptions pretty closely.

I'll keep editing in more as I go along...

Look, I'm perfectly aware that the republicans don't hold the copyright on sleazy and sordid behaviour, but at the same time you have to admit that there's a certain amount of irony to the fact that in the past few years, some of the best examples of that behaviour have come form the party that claims to be crusading against it. Just from recent memory I can sum up Tom Delay, Mark Foley, Bob Ney and Duke Cunningham. Say what you will about the Democrats, but they seem to be having trouble matching up to that particular track record.

*throws* "Got him, Dad." You score an extra man point for the quick Simpsons reference. I'm really not going to bother with either side of the argument here. The Westboro Baptist Church is a lunatic fringe group at best, with very little influence on the larger picture. At the same time, I'm amused by the persecution complex some people here seem to have.

I'm with mrpez on this oneSorry if I allowed myself a bit of schadenfreude after eight years of W, but I just can't help it when the party that claims to be hard on traditional morals and national security produces all sorts of major and minor scandals relating to anything from prostitution to seducing underage boys to, in this case, funding international terrorism.

With all the Republican scandals, at least they don't send money to Al-Qaida. Oh, wait. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wire ... -indicted/

Continuing on the adventure game note that this thread started with: Sam and Max Episode 4: Abe Lincoln Must Die!

I was alone as the machines that kept track of my heartbeat suddenly stopped beeping, and I knew that I was dead. The walnut-sized lump of wild growth buried deep inside my brain had won. The room was completely dark, completely silent. I guess it was supposed to be that wayÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâæ I kept my eyes closed, waiting for whatever would happen next. It took me a few minutes to realize that nothing did happen. I opened my eyes, but the room was too dark to see anything. Then something tickled my nose. The familiar smell of tobacco brought an unconscious smile to my lips. I slowly turned my head to the side and I saw a pin[puncture] of crimson light. Now I knew where the smoke came from, but I still needed to see the face behind it. With a trembling hand I flicked on the reading light over my bed to create just enough light to see a young woman sitting in the chair by the window, watching me quietly while continuing to smoke her cigarette. ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅBuenos dÃÆÃâÃâíasÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬ÃâæÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬ÃâÃ

Probably the last great adventure game, worth playing for the dialogue alone: Glottis: Well, actually, it's mostly stock, with a few mods here and there... Velasco: So would those be glass packs I'm hearing, or turbos? Glottis: There was this one high-pitched whine it was making--really grating noise, you know? And I searched and searched, but I couldn't find the source of the noise, until we pulled in here. Velasco: Was it the blower? Glottis: No, it was Manny screaming in the back like a cat tied to a cruise missile.

Bump to bring you a nice bit of nostalgia: http://63.236.94.185/classics/ Grand Theft Auto 1 and 2, as offered by Rockstar. For some reason they seem to be a lot harder than I remember them #-o

T3chn0ph0b1a - Aliena Ferox [format race *.*]

Grim Fandango:[hide]The main storyline deals with corruption in the Department of the Dead, an afterlife bureau that exists to make sure that those who die get the four year trip to heaven they deserve. The best souls get a ticket on the Number Nine train, which takes them there in comfort. Less fortunate souls end up in a boat, or, in the worst cases, have to walk. There are a few corrupt agents within the Department who make money by cheating people out of their train tickets and selling them to people who were so bad in life that they'd end up going straight to hell. At the end of the year you reach the train station at the gates to heaven, just in time to see a train full of stolen tickets arrive. At the very last moment the tracks bend and the train plunges straight into hell, with the station attendant calmly explaining that you can't buy your way into heaven.[/hide]

It's Latin. Illum does mean place, tagendo seems to be a gerund but I can't tell from which verb.

http://www.plato.nl/plato/view.php?catalogue_id=183871 Ayreon - 01011001 - Pal Limited Edition 2 Cd + Dvd.

My main problem with Carlin is that pretty much everything he wrote and produced since 1995 seems to be rehashes of old material... He's great and all, but he's done very little that's really relevant in the past ten years or so.