Necromagus

Picked up the Epica - Road to Paradiso book with audio companion today, as well as Pearls in Dirt by Asrai. On my way out I saw some sort of discount bin that had, amongst other things, several Iron Maiden live albums for ÃÆââââ¬Ã¡Ãâì4,99 each. I'm listening to Live after Death now.

The whole Spears family is proof that you can take a girl out of the trailer park, but that you can't take the trailer park out of the girl.

From personal experience, I'd say adult Brits on vacation really aren't setting the example for the young folk back home. Drunken (or generally intoxicated) behaviour here has gotten so bad that certain Amsterdam hotels have had to bar groups of British tourists.

For those who don't know, speed runs are attempts to play a certain video game as fast as possible. There are several kinds: playing through a game in a single sitting, tool assisted (using an emulator for slowdown, key macros, save states), 100% (getting every item, killing every boss, etc.) and pacifist (only defeating enemies that need to be defeated to progress through the game). When you do a quick search on Youtube you can find speedruns for a lot of games, probably most commonly Super Mario Brothers for the NES but also games like Fallout (played in just 9 minutes) and Morrowind. Whatever way they are produced, they require immense skill and knowledge of the game and are usually highly entertaining to watch. A good place to get started: http://youtube.com/profile?user=webnations

Our main gift-giving holiday isn't christmas, but we still did a secret santa. I drew my little brother. He asked for some sort of 1.5l bottle of Heineken, so I bought him that along with a 75cl bottle of Duvel and a 75cl bottle of Westmalle Triple so that he'd have something decent to wash the bad beer down with :P

An 8-ball = cocaine. Sounds like a really messed up thing for a cop to do... If he really wanted to steal your stuff, he could have just taken you in on theft charges and pinched it from the evidence locker... would make it a lot easier :?

So in the three years that this topic has been going on... has anything new been added?

Interestingly enough, in Holland, where they're moving towards privatising the health care system, the majority of insurance fraud is performed by doctors rather than patients.

Ok, since it has started freezing here, time for some winter food... 1) Cut up some potatoes, carrots and onions in cubes and boil them in a pot, potatoes at the bottom, for about 30 minutes. 2) Fry up some bacon cubes in a skillet. Pour the water from the pot and add in the bacon and bacon grease. Mash the whole thing up with a potato masher. Can be eaten warm from the pot, cold, or refried in a skillet.

OK, with Runners, which are basically nutball humans, an island is a pretty good idea. So long as you could avoid hordes of uninfected humans swarming aboard with you and killing you for your resources. And let's not forget that at least one of those people is going to have some sort of slow burn infection or be dragging along an infected and restrained family member. In which case, you're stranded on an island with zombies. With Shamblers, you have the problem of perpetual movement without a need for respiration. I.E.: They don't have to swim. Eventually, enough of them are going to simply fall into the ocean to form an enormous underwater swarm that just wanders around for all eternity on the sea bottom. Until they randomly happen upon your island redoubt, at which point they climb up onto the beach and the ensuing panicked massacre either restarts the infection or attracts the rest of the horde. No, I'd go for a position that can be reinforced quickly, secured easily, has access to both consumable resources and reusable materiel and offers mobility in the event of a perimeter failure. A casino is the only way to fly. Generally speaking, casinos don't have windows. It wouldn't do to have the patrons watching the rise and fall of the sun, understanding that they should get the [bleep] out after three days of constant gambling and leave the establishment while they still have a single penny in their bank accounts. True, casinos usually have large glass front entrances, but those could be initially secured with just about anything. Like card tables or banks of slot machines. The other doors are usually heavy steel fire doors and can only be opened from the inside. This not only gives you initial security, but offers easy cleaning in the event of a breach. Eventually, the little bastards would just wander out and not be able to get back in. The only drawback is that when you lose power, the inside of a casino is pitch black and not exactly the place where you'd want to be fighting zombies. That's why I'd go for the parking garage. The garage is usually only accessed from the ground by drive-up ramps which could be initially secured with cars and other improvised barriers. You could salvage water from the enormous sprinkler system, fuel from the hundreds of cars parked there at any given time and, provided you could raid the valet shack or had hotwiring skills, would have your pick of vehicle. Also, as most casinos have their garages in close proximity to their gaming buildings, you could access the roof of the casino from the second or third level of the garage. This means you could raid dry storage for food and engineering areas for materiel. And there would be more booze available than you could consume in a dozen lifetimes. Of course, you'd eventually want to get out. Any redoubt is going to collect a moat of undead. Draining that moat, or at least punching a hole through it, is vital to any excursion. Once you're out, you can simply draw the horde away from the ramp before outmanuevering them and running back in. But getting out requires something with a very large kill capacity and an ability to operate in a sustained fashion. Also, being able to disperse the resultant bodies is a must. Otherwise, the reallydead are going to just pile up around the redoubt until their undead buddies simply walk up over them and breach your defences. So you take some structural steel salvaged from the garage, a welder and cutter from Engineering and the powertrains and axles from a few cars. You build an armature with the steel that can extend from your redbout down to ground level. At one end, you put a car engine and fuel tank. At the other, you place a rear axle with the tires removed and replaced with four-foot chains looped through holes in the wheels. Between these points, you rig up a drivetrain. Lower the business end down to zombie-level, crank her up and just slew the Zombiewhacker through the crowd. If it works, the zombies below will be pulverized, their atomized chunks spread safely across the landscape and their buddies drawn in by the sound to meet similar fates. Once the herd has thinned, you and your merry band can comb the landscape at will, return home, whack a few more zombies and enjoy a nice, alcohol-augmented sunset.

I'd be lvl 55 combat if all my combat-related stats were considered...

With lots of smaller bands circumventing the record labels and publishing their own albums online, I thought I'd create a topic for people to post links to them and help spread the music. This thread is for full albums that can be downloaded legally, so please, no samples, no single songs, no FTP/torrent/etc. sites that offer copyrighted material. Anyway, here we go: T3chnophob1a - Albedo Level: 0% http://www.t3chnophob1a.com/dloads.php (scroll down to the bottom of the page) Some industrial dance music that I first heard in a local club. It's really not for everybody, but if you're into the whole cybergoth thing you should definitely check this one out. Evilion - Vanity http://www.evilion.net/vanity.html A Finnish metal band with two female vocalists, featuring both classical and rock vocals that create a very unique combination backed up with the occasional harsh male vocals.

Rammstein - Engel Wer zu Lebzeit gut auf Erden Wird nach dem Tod ein Engel werden Den Blick gegen Himmel fragst du dann Warum man sie nicht sehen kann Erst wenn die Wolken schlafengehn Kann man uns am Himmel sehn Wir haben Angst und sind allein Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein Sie leben hinterm Horizont Getrennt von uns unendlich weit Sie mussen sich an Sterne krallen (ganz fest) Damit sie nicht vom Himmel fallen Erst wenn die Wolken schlafengehn Kann man uns am Himmel sehn Wir haben Angst und sind allein Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein

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Yay keffiyeh!

I produced more brutal vocals when I was fixing a flat tire yesterday and my fingers got caught between the spokes.

I might actually try to find the books now. We sell the board game at the toy store I work in. I really don't see how this movie or the books are bad just for having a message that you don't agree with. There's dozens of of gospel movies made each year, and now there's one that could be considered atheist. If you don't like it, just don't take your kids to see it.

Was playing around with my camera for someone else this morning, so I decided to take a proper frontal shot...

I'd say putting religious symbols in federal and state government building is pretty damn close to establishing a state religion, or at the very least promoting one. The We The People Act is based on a misguided constructionistic view of the American Constitution that leaves very little room for important civil rights issues to be properly addressed and only serves an outdated form of religious conservatism.

But at the end of the day he's still a pro-life republican coot who tried to block the Supreme Court from adressing important human rights issues such as women's reproductive rights, equal rights for same-sex couples and the separation of church and state.

Aw, no love for Jefferson Airplane?

One of my sweeter summer jobs (running the bar/playing the music) I'm in there somewhere... Just being a general hippy :P Only sort-of frontal shot I could find :?

I was digging through the study at my parents' house the other day, when I found a treasure trove. It was the old floppy disk case that we got for free with our very first computer. Inside it was about two years of my allowance. About 14 years ago a company called Linsoft was selling old Shareware DOS games on floppy disks that cost fl. 6.50 a piece (about 3 euros not counting for inflation), which was three weeks of allowance back then. Every third week I'd scurry off to the bookstore that sold these disks, and I ended up building up quite the catalogue of DOS games. My first game was called Ninja Rabbit, a game about a rabbit that was also a ninja (go figure). As time went on I focused my purchase mostly on games produced either by Apogee (Commander Keen, Biohazard, Crystal Caverns, Secret Agent) or Epic Megagames (Jill of the Jungle, Jazz Jackrabbit, Epic Pinball, One Must Fall: 2097), although I bought plenty of other stuff too. It took me about 30 minutes to work open the lock with a paperclip (I wasn't about to crack open such a precious artifact from my youth through brute force), but now I have about 200 disks ready to be copied to my DOS gaming computer for further use. So yeah, I guess you can tell I'm a PC gamer born and raised. I didn't get a console until I bought a Gamecube 4 years ago. I guess for some people here the story would be finding the an old NES or Megadrive in the attic... feel free to share your stories :D

The main reason weed is so heavily persecuted is because in the past, the cotton farmer lobby considered hemp to be dangerous competition to their crop, and lobbied heavily against it. They were afraid of it for good reason - in 1941, Henry Ford introduced a car that was not only built out of resin-enforced hemp fibres, but could run on ethanol produced from hemp, as an alternative to metal cars running on gasoline, since both were in short supply because of World War 2.