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I don't take great, vocal pleasure in it, but you guys are pussies if you can't use public restrooms, and can't handle a little crappin'. Do you baby powder your ass, too?

And? Air America sucks.

Soundwave's definitely a top. Starscream's a bottom.

Just bought Growlanser Generations. It's two PS2 games in one, Growlanser II & III I'm playing II now. fairly interesting, lots to do. It has a fun and unique combat system. While it's billed as a strat RPG, it's almost more like Grandia's system than anything else. Things move in real time, with pauses to select your characters actions from a menu. It has one of the most versatile yet simple magic systems I've ever seen. Let's say you cast generic attack spell, you can pick from different levels of the spell, then split it any way you want. Cast a level 7 fire spell and pump five into the boss while giving two to a near-death minion. It has a very nice learning curve, and an excellent level of difficulty (hard, but you'll eventually be able to pull any difficult missions off with a little planning and patience) Having read reviews, it seems that Growlanser III has an excellent story, but not quite as good gameplay. Either way, I may end up spending 40 hours or more on number 2, it has a ton of different endings, and a major plot branch halfway through. Very user-friendly to cinematics haters as well,You can skip spell effects at the press of a button, turn off the annoying dialogue, and battles aren't too terribly long at all.

I like their albums, but their Elephant stuff is crap live. If you're going to have effects and overdubbing, you might as well just nut up and hire a second guitarist to tour with. Their refusal to do so sort of highlights the bands gimmickiness.

But check your lease, man, 'cause you're livin' in FUCK CITY! (looks for high five) Oh-oh-oh that's me judge, I fucked my wife!

(badly) At first I read this as 'Piper had his back replaced'

I want this show to survive more than any other show I've ever seen. Hopefully even if FOX let's it drop SOMEONE will pick it up. I've never heard of SUCH a well-regarded show being dropped after so little time.

Oh, yeah, good call on Lufia 2, which is VERY fun. Good puzzles, good combat, decent story. Legend of Dragoon is poopy.

You wouldn't be saying that if you had some in your pantry, that's for damn sure. Speaking of 40s, anyone ever try the Brass Monkey? It's fucking horrific.

No one else spoke in that weird, ultra-affected 50's noir dame kind of voice though. And she didn't speak that way in her other appearances in the movie.

Hot damn, Axe is about 800 years older than ain't, itself aprox 200 years old. That makes it 4 times better! PWNED~! pwned pooned or PUH-nowned: nonstandard word, Meanings 1: Owned What about y'all, or ending sentences in prespositions? My pet peeves are using adjectives in place of adverbs and idear (idea). Oh, and Supposably instead of supposedly, admittably instead of admittedly you get the idea. I never have taken someone using these words or phrases as a sign of lack of intelligence. It's just how people around them talked when they grew up. P.S. Ain't ain't a word.

I've played almost every console RPG up until the playstation explosion, and then an awful lot of those. My standards for more recent RPGs are a little higher nowadays, because I'm a little burnt out on the genre. I'd say Xenogears is the most frustrating game I've ever played, because the first disc is the first half, 3/5ths of the greatest RPG ever. The second disc is ALL exposition that doesn't even live up to the first disc. It is DEFINITELY worth playing. The text goes WAY too slowly though. The problem with FFVII is that while a great game (in my eyes) and wildly successful (indisputably) it started some bad trends. while it had long cutscenes, they directly related to plot and character, and instead of the BIG inside Cloud's head cutscene, moved at a good clip. And I LIKED the one inside Cloud's head, since it felt unique, being as it was a big chunk of the story, with most of the rest of the plot revealed. Now RPGs (notably Xenosaga, Star Ocean TtEoT, FFX-2) have these long MUNDANE cutscenes. Look assholes, I have better things to do than watch a half-hour straight of lame pseudo-science exposition, when I could page through it in 4 minutes. RPG writers need to understand that they're not going to write the next great sci-fi novel. A certain amount of explanation is needed, but keep it pithy, and more abrupt than a novel. The reason novels are enjoyable is we can read quickly. If I had to literally read aloud a novel, or listen to books on tape, I'd lose my mind. It took FFVI and Suikoden II about 3 minutes each to convince me that Kefka and Luca Blight, respectively were the most evil fuckers ever.

Oh, Ok. So when enough people start saying axe it'll be ok. Just like ain't and nucular.

Let me attempt to forestall the quoting of the entire stupid Alanis Morissette song: Please do not respond with lyrics from 'Ironic' by Alanis Morissette. Yes, yes I know. It's a dumb song.

What if they say ain't? That's more egregious a bastardization than axe.

Ta Da! MAKE THE PIE HIGHER by George W. Bush I think we all agree, the past is over. This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses. Rarely is the question asked Is our children learning? Will the highways of the Internet become more few? How many hands have I shaked? They misunderestimate me. I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity. I know that the human being and the fish can coexist. Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream. Put food on your family! Knock down the tollbooth! Vulcanize society! Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

Cheer up Ripper. No one likes a sad face.

Guys, schooling isn't really a good indicator of intelligence. And it's so haughty and jeuvenile.

We're just sniping at this point, and I'm fairly certain that Bush quote was taken out of context. So, for the record you REALLY think Gore ACTUALLY either A). Thought he invented the internet B). THought he could fool people into believing he invented the internet and not C). Misspoke (especially when you take his whole quote into context, in which he's talking about congressional initiatives.)

The Pope actually DOES claim to be an infallible direct conduit with God, duh. And saying 'God speaks through me' is WAYYYY different than saying your actions are guided by your religious beliefs. However, if we're going to go back to saying that Gore claimed he really did invent the internet, how are we allowing a president who thinks he's the first lady and blatantly states he never stops looking for ways to harm our country to govern? Outrageous!

Well, southern pronunciation gets a lot of flak as well. So do numerous dialects in other countries, Cockney in England, Osakan dialect in Japan. Not saying it's right, just saying.

"God speaks through me."—Smoketown, Pennsylvania, July 16, 2004 Pretty much the definition of being a conduit for God.

This thread reminded me of this little nugget of gold.

I mean, if you want to talk egomaniacal, Bush has essentially said he's a conduit for God.