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Heh, I as soon as I heard this I knew this would be for the Texas State Fair. I was wondering what they would come up with this year. Every year they invent new over-the-top concoctions like deep-fried bacon, deep-fried butter, deep-fried latte, etc.
This year's entries:
· Deep Fried S'mores Pop-Tart
· Fried Chocolate
· Deep Fried Frozen Margarita
· Fried Lemonade
· Fernie's Fried Club Salad
· Texas Fried Caviar
· Fried Beer Texas
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The only animation I like is the fire sword. I'd like them see them replace the all the bare-handed animations with fire sword.
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I was just thinking this morning that I need an iPhone app to check whether a name is already taken in CoH. The game has been out so long every name I can think of has been taken.
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Glad you reminded me the new season of Caprica starts in 3 weeks.
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Quote:Hehe, I like this idea. Thanks! It sounds like a corruptor is the way to go for me.Originally Posted by Silverado
Fire/Rad Corruptor.
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Good suggestions, thanks! Sometimes I get overwhelmed with so many things to choose from.
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I'm trying to find a ranged class that's not too hard to play.
The things I'm looking for:
-can solo well
-Blaster, Corruptor, Defender, or Dominator
-thematic set, like: ice/ice, fire/fire, etc.
-something that could defeat an EB at most levels
-nothing real expensive
-something with a decent mix of single & aoe attacks -
I think his comment about crafting is someone disingenuous. Crafting may not bring in new customers, but it seems to me it adds to subscriber retention. Some players now continue to play their character after reaching the level cap to purple it out with IOs.
He's right about PvP. If you want to attract PvP gamers you build the game with PvP in mind at launch. Shoehorning PvP in later in limited venues like arenas and battleground will never attract a large PvP crowd. -
The fur pillbox hat is very 60's. But the high spool heels on her go-go boots seem out of place - they're something out of the late 90's.
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I had lots of fun classes like that when I was in college. I'm just surprised it's an English class rather than a film studies class. There's not much zombie literature.
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Quote:Reminds me of Ann Coulter's review of War of the Worlds. She interpreted it to be some kind of liberal political statement against the war in Iraq. I guess no one told her the story was written in 1898.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
The fanatical right reading into Machete is just like the fanatical left reading into Iron Man. The only lesson here are fanatics see and hear what they want to see and hear.
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Quote:The Last Airbender had an unusually large marketing campaign. They spent $130 million on advertising which is almost as much as it cost to make the movie.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Wow, $30 million on advertising. See that's also a bad sign. Wasn't there also an ad blitz for Airbender? Also they didn't focus on selling it, the 30 second spots simply all looked like live action DBZ. The longer theater trailer was better, giving you an idea of the movie but the TV ones were just flashing lights and sound. How do you get people to a movie without telling them what kind of movie it is?
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What they actually said was the 3rd Edition may not be printed. The version you currently see at the libraries is the 2nd Edition which has 23 volumes.
The 3rd Edition is expected to be twice as big. They've been working on it for 21 years and they're still a decade away from completing it. They're not going to make a final decision on it's format until it's close to completion. -
Quote:Hehe, it reminded me of that as well.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I think the description is borked. As it stands on live, Burst always reminds me of the Consular Jedi's entrance in the "Hope" cinematic trailer for SWTOR. Big ground strike.
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Did they change the animation for the PBAOE?
In early beta you made a strike at the ground, but in Mids the description of Burst says you launch into a "dizzying flurry of attacks". -
Quote:They're not "fluids coursing through your veins".Originally Posted by Manofmanychars
I was only referring to these people you speak of that are unable to resist the non-living fluids coursing through their veins! People I deny the existence of to begin with!
They're called neurotransmitters. They're chemicals contained in vesicles inside your nerve cells. Your nerve cells secrete them to transmit signals across your synapses to other nerve cells.
They're an essential biological component in what allows you to perceive and think and allows your brain to operate your body.
Some of the neurotransmitters that affect your mental health or lack thereof:
Dopamine - affects behavior and cognition, voluntary movement, motivation, punishment and reward, sexual stimulus, sleep, mood, attention, working memory, and learning.
Glutamate - involved in learning and memory.
Norepinephrine - affects heart rate and blood pressure in fight or flight responses.
Seratonin - regulates appetite, sleep, memory and learning, temperature, mood, behavior, muscle contraction, and function of the cardiovascular system and endocrine system.
The reason why caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, heroin, stimulants, sedatives, or anti-depressants affect you is because they affect the neurotransmitters in your brain. -
Quote:We're not talking about sugar. We're talking about your position that mentally ill people are weak and deserve to self-destruct so they don't spread their weakness to others.Originally Posted by Manofmanychars
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Quote:I've heard this before.Originally Posted by Manofmanychars
A person who can be controlled so easily that they require no outside influence is broken at such a fundamental level that there is no saving them, better to let them self-destruct so that they can't spread their weakness to others.
"When the courage to fight for one's own health is no longer in evidence, then the right to live in this world of struggle also ceases."
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Quote:Some people can not control their maladies. That's what mental illness is.Originally Posted by Manofmanychars
But that just means they need to improve themselves! They don't need pills for that. Becoming a better person is something you have to do yourself, nobody can help you with it. "Salvation comes from within" and all that stuff.
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Quote:The "resolute" person who is not controlled by phobias, anxieties, compulsions, and delusions is not mentally ill to begin with. The ones who can't and who need help, are.Originally Posted by Manofmanychars
Well, now we're back to arguing my base point. You say humans are nothing more than puppets under the influence of irresistible chemical urges, and I say humans are (or at least, can be) far stronger than that. A person is more than just the sum of his parts, and the mind is not so easily controlled, so long as one's will is resolute.
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The more complicated the machinery, the more things that can go wrong with it. The brain is just an extremely complex machine and innumerable things can go wrong with it.
Sometimes it can do its own course correction, sometimes it gets lost and needs outside help.
Not everyone is smart, wise, strong-willed or has good judgement - not everyone is sane or healthy. In fact, no one is perfect. Some people actually require assistance in varying degrees to get steered in the right direction. Some people can destroy themselves if just left to their own devices.
It's easy to just blame the individual, but that may not actually solve the problem. -
FYI, after reading this I've lost my will to work so I'm suing the OP for gross negligees and I'm suing everyone else who posted in this thread intentional inspection of emo distress for eleventy bajillion dollars.
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In the future, MMOs will come with warning labels:
WARNING - GET A LIFE! -
Quote:Some states have "make my day" laws that protect you from civil suits if you use deadly force against home invaders.Originally Posted by BlackArachnia
That still does not stop civil court from prosecuting you for the wroongful death. Look at OJ SImpson. He was found innocent in the federal case, yet a civil jury found him guilty of the same crime.
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Quote:In Texas, your home is your castle. If someone is skulking around your house in the dead of night, the presumption is that they're up to no good and they're pretty much open season.Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
Yeah, growing up around PA, the worst you could encounter while out tick-tacking houses was possibly someone shooting rocksalt at ya... and even that was excessive (and painful).
Doing the same thing in Texas... well... it's amazing anyone makes it through their rebellious teen years in one piece in that state.