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    Lets remember the genius of Freddie Mercury

    I personally found the lyrics and structure to be pretty simplistic. People call it genius because they assume Mercury was using the lyrics as a metaphor for something, but since they don't know what it was, its genius. Like, yeah, it would have been awesome lyrics if he was using them as a metaphor for AIDS, but I don't remember him being able to see the future.
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    Sean Taylor Dead

    To be fair, it isn't a shortage of people getting shot in Miami. I mean, thats like if i played at Iraq U. People that played for the team getting shot wouldn't exactly be shocking.
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    PlayStation 3

    I guess so, but I would be shocked if EA isnt' charging(if they aren't).
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    Sean Taylor Dead

    Yeah, i am in the camp of there was no way this was just a robbery. I also think its obvious that noone tried to shoot him and kill him. Probably looking for a leg shot. I mean, I guess we will find out eventually, but either way, just really really sad. And I know spitting on people isn't accepted anywhere, especially in sports, but what I meant by that was if you hear about a player spitting on someone and then they get shot and killed a few years later I wouldn't say "Well, the mutha fucka did spit on people." I don't think that counts as "troubled past".
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    Heroes

    Dialogue has been cringe worthy this year. And why the hell does Hiro keep going back to Ando to tell him shit then just flash away again. Leave Ando the fuck alone.
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    Lets remember the genius of Freddie Mercury

    Didn't he just write the lyrics? not so much with the composing? Maybe I am wrong...*shrugs* ANd honestly, and don't get me wrong, i love the song, its kinda just 2 songs shoved together to make one with mock opera in the middle to bridge the two. And that part of it he was just following a theme. I don't know if that is as much genius or just doing mock opera because of the name of the album. If that song was randomly in the middle of Sheer Heart Attack then I would have found it one of the greatest things ever(although I still consider it one of the greatest things ever...not really sure what I was going for there....just wanted to be argumentative I guess).
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    Sean Taylor Dead

    What about his life was he turning around though. He had only been in trouble once, and that was when he was trying to get some stolen property back. He should have called the cops about it, and it was pretty stupid for him to try and get the stuff back himself, but still, thats pretty much all of his "troubled past". No I don't count late hits or spitting at another football player as things that make ones past troubled. And, only in Atlanta, minutes after talking about how this guy in Texas, Joe Horn, is a hero for shooting and killing two burgulars in Texas, the EXACT same radio guy talks about how this will probably have something to do with Taylors "oft-troubled" past....when the only trouble in his past is pulling a gun on thieves. Well...maybe not only in Atlanta.
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    PlayStation 3

    Anya owns it, I do believe, and personally vouches that it's great, and the PS3 version is better than 360. It just suffers from short campaign length (6 hours). How so? more players online. Thats more like it. Plus, online is free. So yeah...PS3 is the better option.
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    Jay-Z - "American Gangster"

    this post almost made me dislike the album if that is possible.
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    Lets remember the genius of Freddie Mercury

    He could sing. Thats...yeah...thats him in a nutshell.
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    Sean Taylor Dead

    He wasn't allowed to have a gun I believe. Sad story though.
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    Heroes

    No, it was supposed to be 22 episodes. They just redid the next episode to be the end of the year, leading to the rushness of it all. And just to be a broken record, fuck you guys, Maya's heel turn is coming along nicely.
  13. Its the day after thanksgiving because most non retail workers are off work that day so you are open to a larger crowd and more customers. I went to Best Buy at 1 am on friday to get this laptop that wasn't supposed to be a door buster but was on sale. I figured that once all the laptops were gone, the line would thin, and I would be able to get the laptop. Well, at 3 they started giving out "tickets" for the doorbuster items. Limit one per customer. Remember that. So they had out this store map and alist of the door busters on the back. They added the fucking laptop i wanted and two alternatives I was eyeing to the doorbuster list and were going to hand out tickets for them. So they start handing out tickets, first for some cheap POS laptop and the first 20 people in line all get one(BTW, the first 20 customers consisted of 2 families and their 4 kids each....all of which was apparently a customer because 8 year old suzy was going to buy a fucking laptop). So he moves to the next item...and the same fucking people raise their hands and he hands them the tickets again. So of course there was protest, but dumbass best buy guy says "No, it means one of EACH item for customer...not one doorbuster." So basically I watch as the first 20-30 people in line have tickets to 5 different laptops. Each. So I said, fuck this I am going home. And I fucked it and went home. My girlfriend had to go to work at 8 and woke me up as she was leaving. I decided to go back to bestbuy to see what they had left. Plus, the tickets expired at 9 so anything not picked up by then was free for all. So I get there right at 9, I am 4th in line, and I swear, every person in front of me that was checking out asked about that last laptop that was behind the counter. It was the doorbuster I wanted. So I finally get to the front of the line and buy it, and then this lady behind me starts bitching because she has a ticket for the laptop and according to her "That is legally mines". I said that her ticket expired at nines, which I don't think she got, but the lady behind the counter kinda laughed and said that she missed her chance. So...HA! So all in all, I got my laptop, but waited in the fucking cold for 4 pointless hours. If I was single though, it would have been a great experience because there were great looking women all around me and we all bonded over cold and the want to beat up this kid for his Chips Ahoy cookies.
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    Electric can openers

    I totally want a one of those. Because fuck those lights.
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    Electric can openers

    My portable 7 Inch DVD player has a remote. What the fuck is that all about? Its a goddamn 7 inch screen, so you aren't going to sit it across the room. Its a portable DVD player! Almost everything else can be explained as "Old people need it".
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    NFL week twelve: Turkey Day Cliches

    I'll post the one that I was talking about: Now that is where the story should have ended(and most of this has been added since I first read it. It originally ended after "femoral artery was severed.") This is the rest of it: That shit is longer than the part about him getting shot and was pretty pointless.
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    NFL week twelve: Turkey Day Cliches

    Yeah, but they know full well that pointing out certain things i the guys past will make the story come across a certain way. The pointed out everything negative they could find about the guy who just got shot. That builds the perception that he was in the wrong, and the ESPN comments section is a good showing of how the story was taken without facts(although, they did call Antoine Walker and Eddy Curry "thugs" for getting robbed in their home...so maybe those idiots are the best examples...) So basically, because they didn't know the facts of the case, they decided the best thing to do was to point out a criminal case he had at one point and how many fines he has had in the NFL all of which had nothing to do with the story at hand. If this story was "Sean Taylor arrested" then okay, bring it up. "Sean Taylor clinging to life" isn't time to bring out the negatives. Once again. Classless.
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    NFL week twelve: Turkey Day Cliches

    Damn. Thats messed up.
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    NFL week twelve: Turkey Day Cliches

    And in every instance it is classless. And Sean isn't a dumbass for getting shot. He is a dumbass that got shot. Still, one paragraph about him being in critical condition and 4 about him getting fined for late hits is just pointless. And not to be outdone, ESPN put his address and how much he paid for his house in the story. Its okay to not have a long story if you don't know much.
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    FOX Sunday Night - 2007/2008 Season

    I laughed hard about 4 times last night. Laughed a little about 4 times. Good enough for me. I didn't get the joke about the midget though. I can't even remember it. Something about Migits being people just like you and me and something about toilet paper.
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    NFL week twelve: Turkey Day Cliches

    Yeah. i mean the guy is still fighting for his life. Take shots at his dumbassery when his life isn't in danger or you know the circumstances behind his current state.
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    Endgame:

    Its right about here where I checked out of this bullshit. It was so stupid it was funny at first and then it just got too boring and too ridiculous.
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    NFL week twelve: Turkey Day Cliches

    I would like to add that the AP reports of him being shot are pretty classless.
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    HDTV

    Because your TV doesn't support 720p. Same way there are TVs that support 720p and don't support 1080i. But Simply put, 1080i is 1080 lines of resolution at 60 frames per second with every two frames being needed to form a complete image. But since television broadcast at 30 frames per second, you are never getting the 60 frames, only the combination of the two frames. 720p is 720 lines of resolution at 30 frames per second with each frame being a complete image. But in a interlaced frame, there is no missing data on any of the frames. There is info on every line of resoultion, it just doesn't create a clean image. But there are still 1080 lines of resolution there.
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    modern day Oregon Trail game

    And i thought no one else would remember Oregon Trail. Hunting was always fun.
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