Ironik
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Quote:Classics are classic and never go out of style.Originally Posted by Westley
You know, I have to say, that is one that I have NOT heard before in all my life...
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Quote:Eastley's brother.Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf
Who are you again?
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Quote:Yeah, the heads are pretty bad in the clipping department. You can only really use it when wearing spandex or skin/fur, which makes it really limiting. Even then, bending and moving causes massive clipping, too. Every flying animal I made had terrible clipping on the back.Originally Posted by SpaceNut
I was excited about giving my Hepcat a real cat head, but I decided to check it out on the test server before buying it:
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Quote:Nevermind this -- I misunderstood Terwilliger's post and thought he was implying the addition of ape parts to the animal pack.Originally Posted by Ironik
Show me the monkey. -- Jerry Maguire
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Quote:That's what I said, man. Putting something in quotation marks when it's not direct speech means it's sarcastic or ironic or the opposite of what you mean. That's why people do air quotes with their fingers: they're emulating that.Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence
A lot of these "guys" get paid a few dollars a day to work 12 hour shifts and do it using lowest common denominators (how fast can you do 5 alignment missions at -1, 0 using a blinkie find utility?) Then give all the inf to central account run by someone who makes a ton of money because he has like 20-30 people doing this for him all day every day. This is how they can sell it so cheaply. He is usually the only English speaker in case a GM questions a player.
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Quote:Oh.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
They haven't
I thought the "going ape" and "bananas" comments meant they'd done a last-minute add like they did with the Mutant Pack.
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Show me the monkey. -- Jerry Maguire
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Quote:That one's a groaner, but I applaud your product placement.Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Some examples of mine:[INDENT]This red bull gives you wings!
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Quote:You guys added apes to the pack?! Sweeet! Can't wait to get it when I get back to town.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Everyone's going bananas over the new Animal Pack which is winging it's way to the NC Soft Store today!
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Quote:What the deuce is up with her legs?! Does she have one? Three? One clear one? Agh! Crazy Legs Camille!Originally Posted by Camille Thompson
still need to color but do you remember this CR?
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Quote:This is an inaccurate analogy and incorrect information.Originally Posted by sleestack
For decades it was believed that bumblebees "defied" the laws of aerodynamics. Then after much study, it was found that bumblebees are just fine, it was our understanding of aerodynamics that needed updating.
The whole "bumblebess can't fly" thing was based on a lay-person misunderstanding the point an engineer made in the early 1930s that an airplane the size of a bee wouldn't be able to fly. Also, the aerodynamics used to understand a bee's flight were detailed about 50 years before that bumblebee thing. Scientists and engineers already knew how bees flew, but some dumb people lacking in education didn't get it. I guess they were only using 10% of their brain.
I can clear up any misunderstandings of the McDonald's coffee burn case, too.
That could very well be. I hope so, because as the introduction to Drexler's book (I think it was that one) said way back when, "Forget about turning asteroids into Volkswagens; the first thing we get with working nanotechnology is immortality." That's an exciting prospect. Problem is, every nanotech thingy we've tried to build has run into exactly the quantum mechanical problems the theory has predicted they would, a pretty good indicator the physicists are right on this one. That's why they've switched tacks and started looking at things like genetically engineered viruses to stand in for the crew of the Proteus.Quote:I think a better way to put it is "our current understanding of physics indicates that nanomachines can't work." Now, our future understanding of physics may also say that nanomachines can't work, but then again the field may get it's "Einstein" who in effect says "just add 12 and it works!"
Seems that the properties of physics are the nano scale (the true nano scale, where the edge of a sheet of paper looks as huge as the surface of the Sun does from Mercury) are fundamentally different from what we know on the macro scale. A lot of the "nanotechnology" stuff that's come out in the past few years is really more like "microtechnology." Genuine nano on the atomic scale is orders of magnitude smaller than that molecular scale and currently beyond our understanding.
When the cure has the same result as the disease, I'm going to pass, tank you veddy mooch.Quote:The thing about telomeres is...there already are cells that have "fixed" that "problem." They are called cancer cells. -
49 is too young. R.I.P. Wayne.
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Quote:Worse.Originally Posted by Jophiel
No longer can you just hit 50 and casually work on your build or say "Time to start over!". Now you need to unlock that alpha, get your shards, work your way up to level shift, worry about whether you need your ultra-rare for the next tier of slots, and whatever comes after that. It seems to discourage some of the casual alting you'd see before, for better or for worse.
Loot. Gear. Raids.
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I rather doubt that nanotechnology as it's been envisioned in sci-fi for the past 20+ years is an actual possibility. There are too many physicists looking at it and saying that the laws of physics don't allow for machines that small to actually work. Some sort of genetically engineered critter, on the other hand.... Although I must admit, the idea of billions of eensy-weensy spiders inside my blood freaks me right the hell out. (Although I suppose technically they'd be crabs... still, yuck.)
Being old like synthozoic, I am truly ready for my self-repairing android body. Annny day now. I'll totally take fixing the telomere problem, too. -
The Big Finish full cast recordings of Dark Shadows sound exactly like what I'm looking for. Not that property, but definitely in that style.
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::: zombie Neko voice :::
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Quote:I was actually going to say exactly that. The target audience for these pieces is almost always potential new customers, not existing ones. That's what internal communication on these boards is for.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Something to keep in mind when reading articles such as this. Yea though we link to it in the forums and on Facebook, the target audience for "gaming media articles" isn't always the active Community.
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Quote:Could also free up space by eliminating repeated words and symbols:Originally Posted by Johnstone
If you want to include all of them in your signature, you could fake it by making a .png that just has text on a transparent background and type as much as you want and use the image as your sig by uploading it to photobucket/imageshack/whateveryouwant. Me, I just include a link to my paragonwiki user page since there's way too many characters in my roster.
Tank: Palrah, Ty'ree; Scrap: Ashirion, Ke'khali, Quicksilver Falcon, Li'nai; PB: Mist in Moonlight, Shade in Shadow ... -
Quote:I know, what is up with that? I can barely play half the time. It's like someone was channeling a coked-up MTV editor from 1992 with combination of rubberbanding and lag spikes affecting each character diferently. It's entertaining for about a minute and then you feel like throwing up.Originally Posted by Ultra_Violence
All I can say is live servers have to perform better than they currently do during MSRs. They weren't bad before but last 2 weeks or so they have become exercises in frustration. Lag so bad you can't do anything and mobs appearing so slowly they are hard to find and often dead by the time they finish "porting" in.
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Quote:Which was annoying, because I was traveling during both of those times. I'm not all hopped-up about moving characters around -- there are maybe three I'd want to -- but it is a drag missing out on something like that. Would've been nice to get a bunch of free transfers just for buying GR rather than tying it to a specific window of time, because I couldn't play the first couple weeks it was out despite pre-ordering the expansion.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
And the players who didn't have their accounts active during Jan 2010, and the first week GR went live all missed out on the free transfers.
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I have a couple that use torn costumes.
Some years ago in one of the costume suggestion threads I asked for a torn shirt similar to Doc Savage's usual stage of undress after a dust-up. That seemed like a fairly popular request. Combine that with a fisticuffs/streetfighter/bar brawler powerset and you get manly-man win.
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Rian, I'm sorry, but in the 900+ photos I took I didn't get a single good one of a Boxer. They either turned their heads at the wrong time or someone stepped in front of me.
The inside of Madison Square Garden resembles the mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
One of the coolest things about the show is that you can go back to the benching area and talk to the handlers and owners and meet the dogs. The worst thing I heard was someone asking me not to use a flash.
Newman the Pug. Newman as in Paul, not Seinfeld's mailman.
Plum tuckered.
The Jack Russell winner reminded me of Frank Gorshin from Star Trek.
One of my favorite shots. Parson Jack Russell Terrier.
Mental Maden, Old English Sheepdogs in the house.
Jake the Rhodesian Ridgeback, a very friendly guy despite being bred to hunt lions.
Redbone Coonhound.
Yes, they come that way. Chinese Crested.
The resemblance to Paris Hilton *is* amazing. Notice the Aqua Net.
Cresteds also come in a hairy version, called a Powderpuff.
Poodling it up.
The newest look in Poodles is dreadlocks. I actually liked this look quite a lot.
Don' worry, mon, t'ings be well.
Puli.
Yorkies chillaxin'.
When he's not destroying our childhood memories, George Lucas moonlights as dog show videographer. He also gets ideas for aliens there, too.
The stylish way to keep your Basset Hound's ears off the floor. Or maybe a tribute to Little Edie from Grey Gardens. Tough call.
Irish Wolfhounds are, in a word, freakin' huge.
Of course, Mastiffs aren't exactly teeny-tiny.
"...and you don't mess around with Jim."
A Viszla who has a dose of the enthusiasm.
Dogue de Bordeaux. Just looking at her it's hard to believe, but she's just out of puppyhood.
"Affenpinscher" literally means "monkeydog" in German. That's because the term "Wookieeface" hadn't been invented yet.
ACD, aka Red Heeler.
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
Clean, close shave. Pharaoh Hound.
Doberman Pinschers.
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Quote:That's the sort of thing I'm looking for, although I've read this book. Thanks for the rec.Originally Posted by Hazmatter
World War Z might just float your boat, if you're interested in zombies. The book itself is told through accounts of different people's experiences related to a worldwide zombie outbreak compiled by the author, so the audio book has a number of actors playing the people being interviewed as they tell their stories.
Ooh, that's a good one. My library doesn't have them but maybe I can buy a set.Quote:Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
I haven't listened to them, but I saw at my local library that they had Twilight Zone episodes as a radio play if you can find them.
Cool, thanks!Quote:Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
Theres a free oldtime radio archive here, which has some great stuff.
If you like lovecraft, the hp lovecraft historical society have some nice radioplay style audio books here
I generally get my ausdio drama fix from BBC Radio 7 (which might not be available to you) but generally just search for any full cast recordings by the BBC and you'll find some descent stuff (I reccomend the Sherlock Holmes ones) -
Quote:Yeah, I have all the RadioLab podcasts. But as good as they are they're science, which is like mental vegetables to my fellow sputniks.Originally Posted by Mandu
You do know that NPR has podcasts so you can listen to shows you might have missed. Hours and hours of material.
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Quote:Pre-thanks, AA!Originally Posted by Ad Astra
Pre-grats, Ironik!
