Jobber of the Week

Having spent around $300 on MMORPGs (and that's pretty low if you look at the extreme people), it's EverQuest with chocobos and the smell of a console port (though not a terribly bad one.)

So how was EverQuest, errrr, I mean....

You asked previously what you could do to look less like an anime fag. Not using pet words like "bishie" is a good start.

If you're under the impression they're not going to return favor in kind, then you're wrong. Half that article is just harping on what's going on in the left side, but if you squint you'll see the part where the right is hoping to use this news to spur on similar donations. Also, I stopped reading opinion books somewhere between The O'Reilly Factor (okay book, better than follow-up "The No-Spin Zone" which is way higher in the count of pointing fingers) and Stupid White Men (well, Moore has a sense of humor. But that's about it.)

Well, let's just sit and talk about "hearts and minds" and shining beacons of democracy and all of this will go away. Right? Right? Anyone who's looked at the history of the middle east knows that's bullshit, and this is just more proof.

Hey, maybe *I* should be appointed to the FDA board of reproduction! What? So what if I've made posts here that make me sound rampantly pro-life? That doesn't mean anything. So what if this is an important position and my track record makes me sound exceptionally biased in the matter? Why don't I get a chance? What does history have to do with anything anyway? Nice straw man. The guy perscribed scriptures for women with a medical condition.

Duo seems to be under the impression I'm attacking him only instead of the people he is being associated with. Also, saying this whole forum is a game forum is like saying this is a political forum or food forum or computer help forum. This is simply a video game subforum that exists because so many gaming topics appeared in General Chat. The vast majority of it's visitors come here for the wrestling, stay for the game chat assuming they're into that. Now, if you want a crowd where the subjects of cosplay, yaoi, anime, fan service, et al aren't going to make everyone look at you like you're crazy, then you'd want a board that specializes in that kind of thing first and foremost. To a crowd that's used to guys delivering usually-painful blows to the head and neck, locking in submissions, and doing bumps that may be felt for months, years, or even a life time..... Yeah, FFX-2 looks a little girly in comparison. There's no reason to act shocked when people here think it or other Square designs are a little too effeminate for comfort.

...But.. ....But but but but but it's gossip masquerading as a newspaper.

Can't help you unless you provide more information. And please, doublecheck your spelling and English. I can't even guess until I know what you meant above and what kind of computer you're running.

The hot springs scene had it's dialogue changed. They're still talking about boobs, but now they're just hinting about boobies instead of outright engaging in boob debate.

Welcome to CE. Oh wait, that one doesn't work here. I'm not exactly sure really, Angelslayer and Duo turned this into an anime arguement, though I'm happy to join in because the same slobbering fanboys who have the giant "Sephiroth walking through fire" poster on their wall generally have the Goku and Rei Ayanami posters close nearby.

So, I react negatively when people do something stupid. There's billions of us. Okay, but look. You know how Trekkies can be embarassing to someone who likes Star Trek but doesn't take it that seriously? Okay, now that's not a huge problem because most of them are only wearing their Vulcan ears and StarFleet outfits at the conventions. Anime elitests go on like this ALL THE TIME. Personally, because they go on about it incessantly. Well, not all of them. Again, it's not that there's bad seeds, because every "community" (using that word loosely) has them, it's just that there's SO MANY. But all of this is rather insignificant to: No, worship. You know when you put down the Xbox in the other thread and I asked what that was about? It was partially passing interest in why you didn't like it since it has a decent library and the best online plan going according to everyone but the dirt poor, but because I've seen blind Japan worshippers who hate the Xbox simply because the Japanese don't like the Xbox for whatever reason. Because it doesn't agree with them over there, it must be bad. Some of these guys go further and declare it "their" industry. Atari what? The idolism is pretentiousness and the sense of entitlement is amazing among those who consider themselves the elite. For every person who says they want to hear a show in English because they don't want to sit and read all the dialogue, there's several people who take this stuff WAY too seriously insulting that person's intillect, telling them that they don't understand art, etc. These people KEEP the others from getting interested. Now that's a minority and you know it. Okay, so pretend we have Duo, an occasional visitor and respected poster of TheSmartMarks boards. Then, in certain threads, we get Duo, fanboy (unless you're a girl, but fanboyism knowns no gender anyway) who declares quirky fanboy bait such as naked magical girl transformation sequences to be culture. Now, if Duo pushed that SUGOI #$*!!!~^____^~@*$$* personality off a metaphorical cliff and posted as regular Duo, a person that liked video games, there would be less backlash and consternation from the wrestling crowd at TSM, a crowd which really doesn't crossover into the anime crowd very well.

Look, I'm a fan of a number of games/animes/series/etc from Japan, both well known and not so well known. Anime did not begin and end with Dragonball Z or Neon Genesis Evangelion, and just because Cowboy Bebop appeared on Cartoon Network doesn't make it any less of a good show than it was before. However, the problem with these forms of entertainment were not originally the entertainment itself, but idiots who participate in them. Cosplay, the idiots who become so obsessed with fan service that we get animes and games that actually REVOLVE ENTIRELY AROUND fan service, the young girls who become pseudo fag hags because cartoon guys doing it are so appealing (which is like the female equivelant of guys thinking everything they know about sex they can learn by watching porn,) the Japan worship by people who would probably be looked at as the ignorant foreigner if they actually did visit that country. It's just all so STUPID. Being associated with that kind of behavior is what makes it embarassing to be into that kind of thing. Now, although I can't complain about their posting in other forums, Yuna and Duo tend to be the most vocal examples of this kind of fandom here on our board. And again, I'm not saying they're bad posters, I'm just saying this "OHAYO GOZAIMAS, NIPPON ICHI!!! ^_______^" attitude is predictible and embarassing.

UK tabloids are always truthful and never sensationalistic or downright lying, correct? I suppose Prince William really DID have sex with Elvis on board a UFO, then. And what's up with them giving the kid's name?

What's with this?

BitTorrent runs on the idea that one person sends a file, he sends it to (x) amount of people, while they get it they send it to (x) amount of people, etc. When someone's done, it's usually good etiquette to help send a little bit before you close the window and leave. However, downloading movies from public sites like suprnova that IBM mentioned above is risky as BitTorrent is suddently The Hip New Thing to download movies with, and those public repositories of movies are being spyed on by the MPAA. Which is not to say just downloading one movie will get you sued (particularly if it's an older movie that's been in theaters quite a while now), but don't cream your pants and start downloading everything in sight.

It suprises me too how much of a Republican I can be on state issues. I'm not sure if I'm always like that, or if it's more because I live in California. I'm sure my view of immigration would be different if I lived in another state. That's why I forgave Howard Dean for endorsing Gray Davis' licenses for illegals because "I wouldn't want a bunch of people running around not knowing how to drive, either." The people crossing HIS border over into Vermont are not exactly well below the poverty line and coming in huge droves. At the same time, I swear that I can't imagine any other state where a guy at a Gubernatorial debate will say: "We loosely use this word, I think totally inappropriately, illegal. No one is going to arrest them. If somebody is illegal, you arrest them. But nobody is going to arrest them because they are essential to California. Everybody knows they are here to stay. They are part of our family. We have to end this apartheid system that we have toward them. They are part of our community and are essential to our economy. I really object to this term illegal." Now, we're only calling them illegal because they, you know, BROKE THE LAW. I know I'm not the only one who's pissed off by this. Legally-immigrated Latinos have even mentioned how THEY can't get any work because employers find the illegals so much cheaper. It's shit like when the people of San Francsico wake up and decide that if they give more money to homeless, more homeless will come to the city for money, so they pass the "Care Not Cash" program and then some bleeding heart judge comes in and strikes it down, telling the people it's unconstitutional and they don't have a say in matters like that. Unlike the Democrats at my state level, I don't really hate business. Unlike the Republicans at our Federal level, I don't trust business enough to let it police itself. So yes, the more I think about it, the more likely it is that I should have registered non-party. But I keep hoping the rest of the nation's Democrats aren't as dim as the ones here. Universal Health Care is about as socialist as I get.

For those who forgot or haven't kept up, the Republicans here won't let the Democrats raise taxes. The Democrats don't want all the cuts into social programs the Republicans want. Davis' ineptitude and Bustamante's ties to Indian casino money causes a freakin' action movie star to lead the world's sixth largest economy running on a "won't raise taxes unless an emergency requires it" pledge. We now join our circus in progress: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGFE3809Q1.DTL Of course, he's already getting testy: http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/sto...p-8764251c.html Well, I say, I think we're about fucked.

Sting gets suprising few negative comments despite being such a mainstay of organizations never named WWF. I suspect he's going to be one of those guys who hangs around far longer than he should ala Scott Steiner and will get heat for that soon enough, though. If you discount what anyone may think about his post-wrestling career, Jesse Ventura was gold. He took the bullet trying to unionize the guys, which in a one-man landscape like this would have helped had it succeeded. It didn't, but it's not like anyone predicted it would.

This is not worth flying cross country. Urge to sell ticket, rising. And Choken, you mean: "Only WMXvII has been perfect from top to bottom (excluding a 3 minute Chyna squash)." Don't you..... DON'T YOU?

Well, Arnie's a huge supporter of schools, yet we throw an amazing, absolutely mind-boggling amount of money at schools and can't get out of the 40s in the top schools grading. Perhaps we could save some money if the kids of the families crossing the border were taught English, instead of having special education to learn everything in Spanish. But don't even consider saying that in anything more than a hushed tone...

Link to video is currently on this page. In case it goes away, a transcript. I don't pay attention to this station so I don't know the anchor's name or I'd type it in. Still, he caught them at their usual game. --Transcript-- ANCHOR: Well it's not easy to call a four-star general with a heroic battlefield record weak on defense, that's one reason Democrats were so pleased to see him make a run for the White House. And we're very pleased now that he could take time out to be with us. Democratic presidential candidate retired General Wesley Clark. General, thanks a lot for coming in, appreciate it. CLARK: Good to be with you. ANCHOR: Who talked you into this? CLARK: Well, it was a long process and essentially I looked in the direction the country was headed and I just wasn't pleased. I saw us going into a war we didn't need to be in, I saw tremendous problems at home, I saw tax cuts that didn't really make economics sense. I saw business problems, ethics problems in business, and I began to speak out about them and people came to me and many people asked me to run. ANCHOR: Did Bill Clinton have the deciding vote in you running? CLARK: No, he didn't. But I did talk to Bill Clinton, and I talked to Hillary, and I talked to a lot of leaders at the Democratic Party at various times over the last couple of years because like me they're very concerned about where things were, and where they're headed. ANCHOR: One thing that you must be sick of by now, but I got to play the game too is bringing up statements that you've made in the past. You're not a politician at heart, therefore you've made some more mistakes than other people have, so people throw them back at you. One of them though is just yesterday. Maybe it wasn't a mistake but it caught our attention. On Meet The Press, you said something about Iraq. You said, "President Bush has said the war in Iraq is the centerpiece for the war on terror. It isn't. It's a sideshow. It's simply their easiest means of access to attack American soliders. That's all it is." You really think Iraq is only a sideshow? CLARK: For the war on terror, it's a terrible distraction. And we should have gone directly after Osama Bin-Laden. Let's be clear about what happened. This administration decided to go to war against Saddam Hussein or at least to set all the plans in motion, while we were still bombing Afghanistan. And when Tommy Franks should have been challenged to come up with the plans to finish the job against Osama Bin-Laden, he was appearantly preparing plans to brief the President and the Seceretary of Defense on Iraq. We let Osama Bin-Laden get away, he's there in the mountains of western Pakistan, Newsweek magazine can find him, I don't know why we can't. And I propose that we have a joint US/Saudi force to go after Osama Bin-Laden. Let's finish this job on terrorism. ANCHOR: Well let me just ask you: Do you know that Newsweek knows where Osama Bin-Laden is and isn't telling the world? CLARK: Well I've seen the articles in Newsweek, I'm sure you have, and uh so you know I think we should start by talking to Newsweek. I think our US government should start. And I think we should be putting a full-court effort on Osama Bin-Laden. As for Iraq, we're in a mess. It was a war we didn't have to fight, we're there, now we got to have a success strategy. This administration hasn't had one, it called Jerry Bremmer back from Baghdad in an effort to cobble one together. It still doesn't go far enough. We need a success strategy for our foreign policy, we need a success strategy for Iraq. But don't ever make the mistake of believing that what we did in Iraq was related to the war on terrorism. It was related only tangentially and it distracted us from what we needed to do. ANCHOR: But to call it... Whi while while... CLARK: Unfortunately, now we have to finish it. ANCHOR: Yeah, but general, while our men and wo... CLARK: Now just wait a minute! You just wait a minute! ANCHOR: Excuse me just one second, I just want to add on to that... CLARK: No, I want to... ANCHOR: While our men and women are dying in Iraq, is it proper to call it a sideshow? CLARK: Our men and women in Iraq are doing a fabulous job! They're doing a great job, I love them, I respect them, and I honor them. My problem is with the President of the United States! He's the man who's responsible for this, as he told us, he was going to make the decision when to go to war, he did. Our men and women are doing everything their country are asking them to do, but for the war on terror it's not the right thing we should be asking them to do. Don't you DARE twist words into disrespect for the men and women in uniform! I love those men and women, I gave 34 years of my life to them, you better take my words the right way! This is about. the President of the United States and... ANCHOR: General, I'm just repeating your own words to you. CLARK: ...leadership. No sir, you are not! You are playing politics. ANCHOR: Didn't you say Iraq was a sideshow? CLARK: No, sir! No, sir. You are playing politics with the men and women in uniform. You are, sir! ANCHOR: I'm sorry, I just read back your own statements, General. CLARK: ...And I challenge you: take it straight. You take it straight. ANCHOR: And General let me just tell you, General, please, one thing that we have, we are, our military advisors have assured us is that there is nothing but respect they want you to have for your military career and for your respect for those now in the military. As the father of a marine, we both share that respect for men and women in the military. So don't get me wrong on that, I just wanted... CLARK: I think that you're distorting... ANCHOR: ...to make clear what you meant by that statement that you made. I just quoted you on that statement. CLARK: I think you're trying to distort my meaning, so I want to make it very clear, and I think you said I made it clear. The sideshow is not the men and women in uniform. It's the leadership of the President of the United States who would get us into this. And I think we need to be very straight in covering this. I'm not afraid to say what's right and wrong in this country, and I'm speaking out, David. And I'm telling you this: that war in Iraq was a war that did not have to be fought. ANCHOR: Okay. General, again, we're just reading back your statements. I'm sorry that you were so upset at our having done that, but that's all we did. We didn't have any implication beyond that. CLARK: You did have an implication. ANCHOR: No. And General... CLARK: And that's why... ANCHOR: We were just try to figure out what it was that you meant. CLARK: ...I think it's very unfair. ANCHOR: And I'd ask you again... CLARK: Well you know it now. ANCHOR: ...But I don't want to go through that territory once again. CLARK: Well, good. ANCHOR: But we do want to thank you for coming on, General. CLARK: Thank you, and thank you for clearing that up so there's absolutely no understand on the part of Fox or it's viewers. I love the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. But I think this administration has asked them to do the wrong thing in Iraq. We're in a mess, and I know how to get us out of it. And I will. ANCHOR: Well, General Wesley Clark, we do hope you come back to explain to us how to get out of the mess that you think we're in. We hope to have you back. CLARK: Thank you.

I've played it for seven hours now. Has anyone seen where my neurological workings have moved off to? It's fun, but Zelda is still my GOTY. It's just that the story is so, so stupid. *weeps*

I don't understand why people think HHH is pyshically incapable of climbing a ladder and falling off it. He can do other things that people can get excited for and won't put him in pain. Christian has proven he can do that, but he doesn't do it often because it hurts and he'd rather use midcard offense than pop the crowd a dozen times and end his career like Jeff Hardy. Furthermore, even if it is a political jab, I don't see what's wrong with the company trying to convince the guys away from a style that hurts them.

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