Jingus

Dammit unleashedfury, you took my answer, grumble grumble grumble.

Man, even though I love the matches, I do get tired of listening to the commentary in a DAMN hurry. You can only hear a guy say "And that's why we've got the greatest action and the greatest athletes in the world right here in Ring of Honor! Screw sports entertainment!" about a hundred times before it gets real old, real fast. It's a commentator's job to shill the product and get it over to the viewer, but these guys are just trying way too hard and they come off like a used car salesman trying to convince you that having a '78 Oldsmobile painted five different colors is actually a cutting-edge fashion statement.

Fuck, the one week here recently they put on a card good enough that I really want to be there, and I'm out of town. Figures.

Ah, but if you're a WRITER, you're magically exempt from the "This person has NO right to talk about this!" clause that applies to actors, singers, and so on.

I disagree. The best thing to do would be to shove a very large knife right between Kelis' milkshakes and then pretend this song never happened. (Oh, and burn all copies of the shitacular video.)

You could win with that party, easily. Mog has good magic stats, Umaro isn't the greatest character, but he's got strong defensive stats and he's always useful to keep chipping away at the enemies' HP, Gau has a few Rages which aren't completely useless (the White Dragon and a couple others come to mind), and Gogo is THE BEST IN-BATTLE CHARACTER IN THE GAME. The guy can do anything you want him to, whether it's Blitzes, Swordtechs, use Tools, mimic whatever someone else just did, or whatever you can imagine him to do. Hell, with Gogo, you can summon the same Esper twice in a row in a battle. If I were inventing the world's crappiest FFVI party, I'd say Strago, Shadow, Locke, and Gau. Maybe replace Locke with Relm, if their levels were below 60 or so.

Shelob didn't really look, real though, did it? In the previews, it had a very obvious SFX look to it, kinda like the spiders in 8-Legged Freaks.

My only problem with this thread lies with the author himself. Crichton has always been The Man when it came to interpreting modern technology and philosophical trends and figuring out what was really important and what wasn't. Thing is, though, Crichton is REALLY bad at forecasting the future. Go back and take a look at The Terminal Man, Congo, or any of the various other books he wrote a while back in which he writes long, drawn-out passages about what The Future Of Mankind Will Be Like. It's laughably incorrect. Check it out for yourself, where he predicts all kinds of trends, problems, and solutions that simply never happen. His talent for being wrong at that kind of thing damages his credibility in my eyes.

Tracy's infamous for not bothering to stop at a gas station when nature calls on the road.

Heh. Probably 749 of those bags were from Tracy Smothers alone, too.

He had an inner ear injury from a match where the Ultimate Warrior dumped him on his head.

Dammit, I had this EXACT same idea for a "technical wrestling championship" MONTHS ago. Crap. Hey, I don't keep up with ROH much, but aren't they known as the company that tends to provide great action with mostly clean finishes, anyway? What the hell would they need with a title like this? Give the idea to someone like the WWE, who actually needs it. And the whole "rope break" system is too complicated. Just make the rules like they are in Pride: if the competitors get in the ropes, the ref simply pulls them back to the middle of the ring. And have an instant DQ rule on punches and the like.

Sorry guys, but she just didn't do ANYTHING interesting in the World of Ruin. She whines that she can't fight, gets her ass kicked to prove that she's right, sulks for a while, happens to be CONVENIENTLY PLACED in a situation where she gets to kick some ass, and then decides that she's "found herself". That's it. I mean, how important can she be if you can kill Kefka and beat the game without bothering to ever pick her back up again? I'd argue that Celes was the real main character of FFVI.

Yeah, what Spree said. Also, is there a single concrete example of the Genesis' faster processing speed actually making a game any better than the SNES could? (And don't say Sonic, when the game got going too fast it turned god-damned unplayable because you couldn't tell what the hell you were doing.)

Uh. Whoops. Never heard that one before. What was this source on this again?

Huh? In game, Terra is a middling character at best; the real powerhouses like Sabin blow right past her in terms of usefullness. Also, in character? Sure, she eventually helps you kick Phunbaba's ass, but aside from that she just sits around moping and whining about her lack of a love life, as per usual.

Meh. Spike's collection is perfect, and Angel's is decent, but the others could use some work. The "Very Best of Buffy" one contains way too many episodes that are one half of a two-parter, which will play like crap for anyone who doesn't know the storyline. Faith's collection is the same way. And Willows? Christ, why not just call it the Oz collection? It's almost all episodes featuring him in the lead, not her.

If you think that we would actually give any country deadly chemical gas weapons, then you're wrong. Does anyone here have a full report on what exactly was given to Iraq by America, so we can end this argument?

I've worked with James Storm, and been around Chris Harris quite a bit. They're a good team... but not the best in the world. The Guerreros would've been my pick. Or even the New Church, if it had to be a TNA choice.

It's been a long, long time since I've even seen anyone wearing a tailcoat, much less known anybody who owns one. Ah, the wonders of our nation's capital, I guess.

God, my head hurts when I read this folder sometimes. A few salient points: 1. Bush won the election. He won it fair and square by the rules of the Electoral College system. Now, the College itself may be ridiculously antiquated and obsolete, and more people nationwide did vote for Gore than Bush. But by the rules of the contest, Bush won, fair and square. (And this is coming from a guy who thinks Bush seems like one of the dumbest guys we've had in the Oval Office in quite a while.) 2. Yes, the U.S. did supply Saddam Hussein's Iraq with some weapons... almost twenty years ago. To combat the terrorist state of Iran, which had participated in many terrorist attacks around the world which had claimed quite a few American lives. At the time, Iraq had done nothing like that. There was no possible way they could've known that Hussein would've turned out like he did. (And other countries have sold many, MANY times the weapons to Iraq than the US did, much more recently.) 3. Of course Saddam will be tried by an Iraqi court. With the entire Middle East being so obsessive about Iraqis ruling Iraq and America getting out as soon as possible, can you imagine the backlash if we didn't let the locals do with Saddam whatever they pleased? 4. How is filming a guy a violation of his rights? Here in America, that's done all the time, by various paparrazzi to various celebrities on a daily basis. (And America is one of the most rights-protecting countries in the world.) Simply showing pictures of what a captured criminal looks like, or where he was hiding from an entire world looking for him, is hardly a violation. If they show the "small, dirty hole" that Saddam was hiding in, it's his fault for being in the damn thing to begin with. 5. Um... are we EVER going to find any WMDs? The more time goes on, the more I worry about that. What happened to all the intelligence we supposedly had about them, like their exact quantities and locations, that was being used for justification for the invasion?

Yeah, I've been to quite a few symphonies. KKK is pretty much correct on the dess code, slacks and dress shirt are a must, though personally I think the tie is optional. My favorite performances I've attended live were Orff's Carmina Burana and Mozart's Requiem.

I'd actually vote for Terra, for the sole reason that it was HER that started this whole god-damned trend of Square heroes being whiny incompetent non-humans who have to be babysat by the rest of the party. Fucking bitch. If you hated Squall or Tidus, the one to blame is standing RIGHT THERE.

Add another vote for Aladdin here. Also, the Genesis versions of Shadowrun and Robocop vs. Terminator were far superior to the SNES ones. Other than those, pretty much any game that was made for both systems tended to be better on the SNES.

She might've meant that they were fooling around behind the scenes, not on-camera. Any such fooling around would most likely be in Season 2, in which both Spike and Harmony are around all the time, which would put McNab's age right at her stated 17. Oh, that's very easily answered. You see... ::While Jingus distracts him, robed and hooded figures suddenly grab ParkaMarka and force him into a chair, whereupon he's promptly given ye olde Clockwork Orange treatment.:: LPM afterward: "Joss is God... don't doubt Joss... Joss is God... don't doubt Joss..."