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[size=1][color=indigo][font=arial]Have you ever considered getting a blog?[/font][/color][/size]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][QUOTE=Sandy]Honestly? I'm highly annoyed by the fact that in American reality-shows, when somebody says they are from NY, they [I]always[/I] have to add "- the greatest city in the world!". And then everybody cheers. National pride is okay, but isn't that a little over the top?[/QUOTE] Plenty of people are proud of where they live, and say so vocally, New York doesn't have to be singled out man.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[QUOTE=ChibiHorsewoman][color=#9933ff][font=lucida calligraphy]Well, I've been to Canada enough times to figure out that you have to subtract 32 or something like that to get celsius. All I really need to know is hot is hot and cold is cold. And don't make me do the metric system... I hated learning about how King Henry wants my chocolate milk. Well I'm a glupi American... and I think I was going for screwed up phonetic spelling when I did that. [/color][/font][/QUOTE] [color=indigo][size=1][font=arial]Metric is the easiest system on Earth. 10millimetres in a centimetre -> 100 centimetres in a metre, and a thousand metres in kilometre. 1000 millilitres in a litres -> 10000 litres in a kilolitre. Boiling point 100°, freezing point 0°. I honestlly think most people who didn't grow up with it have trouble because there's no real way you cleanly convert inches to centimetres and what not.[/font][/size][/color]]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][QUOTE=ChibiHorsewoman][color=#9933ff][font=lucida calligraphy] It's probably a very nice place to visit. It would confuse the heck out of me because it'd be near one hundred in December and I'm from Upstate New York where we have -10 degrees and about five feet of snow at that time. But it would be nice to visit.[/color][/font][/QUOTE] You'd be even more confused, since we use celsius, not the flawed fahrenheit system. Ohnoes, your poor fragile brain!! Also, it's platypus. How the hell you managed platapoose is beyond me.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][quote name='MistressRoxie][color=#9933ff']Well, to be perfectly honest, it's that stupid phrase "G'day all" which I've been told most people don't do? Is that right?[/color][/quote] Not unless we're being ironic.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][QUOTE=inuyashaXDkiss]well i guess what first comes to mind are the vast deserts, kangaroos and thoose cute koala bears. and uh, hot weather. *note i have never been there and to top it all off i live in Wisconsin, US; here it rarely gets over 80 in the summer. [IMG]http://www.animevisions.net/Pictures/ceres/Ceres3.jpg[/IMG] i like this pic, dont you?[/QUOTE] Protip: They're koalas, not koala [i]bears[/i]. Also, thos vast deserts are avoided by pretty much 99% of Australians. It's so ideallic and wonderful in photos, but damn it's hot and horrible. Common tourist mistakes, don't sweat it. Australia is pretty awesome. Well, Queensland at least. Since I'm there. Queensland is awesome by virtue of it being my home, and NSW is crap because it isn't. Victoria too (burn Jeh, burn).[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial]So, I actually heard the album now, which means I can do more than tell Jake that he's street cred is blown like a cheap whore. Thus, without further ado... I hate it. Wait, no. I don't really [i]hate[/i] it. But when it shows no progression from the last album, and every track blurs into the next one like your average Linkin Park album, it's hard to get excited. I thought I heard some Black Metal influences at first, but then I realised it was just more chugga chugga guitar with Amy Lee doing the same Goddamn vocals for each track. It gets two big yawns from me.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][quote name='Adahn][size=2']I think other people getting cosmetic surgery does concern me. What if I don't want my kids growing up in a society where artificial beauty gained through pain is lauded? If there's anything I can (reasonably) do to turn our society away from cosmetic surgery, I will do it. It is my right and privelige to try to shape the world in such a way that it will allow my future children to grow up happy, with self-respect and confidence.[/size][/quote] Except your kids wouldn't. Cosmetic surgery isn't a sweeping epidemic, it's a decision undertaken by the vast minority who want it to feel better about themselves, or get ahead, or whatever. And besides, ever notice how the actresses most praised for their beauty have no cosmetic surgery whatsoever? Nicole Kidman springs to mind immediately, but when society still holds Audrey Hepburn up as the most beautiful woman of all time, I think it's indicative of how baseless your argument is. Society doesn't hold aloft beauty gained through pain, in fact if gossip tabloids have anything to say, it's that the average person is genuinely shocked when a celebrity gets cosmetic surgery, and decries it - even something as irrelevant as a boob job. Your argument that cosmetic surgery erodes society's perception of beauty is deeply flawed, bro.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial]I'm fine with cosmetic surgery. No, really - like drinking, smoking, and anal sex, it's one of those things consenting adults can get done that doesn't affect me in the slightest. I don't see why people are so up in arms about it in this thread, honestly - it's not like the government is funding the operations. These people pay for cosmetic surgery out of their own pockets, afterall, so it's not like it even has a bearing on your tax dollars. In fact, I daresay it doesn't concern you at all. Besides which, you're all assuming people only get cosmetic surgery for vanity reasons, which simply isn't true. A lot of people get cosmetic surgery to help their confidence - many women get breast enlargement surgery because they feel inadequate, for example. Sure, you could tell them to suck it up and accept they have small tits, but how does that help their confidence? They don't feel good even if they do accept their small breasts, and their confidence suffers as a result. Cosmetic surgery isn't evil, kids. It's just one more thing consenting adults have the freedom to do as they please, and no matter their reasoning, I don't think anyone has the right to judge them for it.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][quote name='Sandy]To cut the sarcasm, there can be no justification for slaughtering innocent civilians and destroying whole cities. It's barbaric, inhumane and against the laws of every nation in the world. It's insane that some of you people actually thought [I]your nation[/I] had/has the right to do that, and [I]your nation[/I'] alone. Talking about American arrogancy...[/quote] It was a war, and there was no laws or precedents surrounding nuclear missiles. Japan wasn't going to back down unless someone - anyone - conclusively made them [i]***** their pants[/i], and America, whose involvement in the Pacific War was one of the better things to occur, did what had to be done. Would Japan have responded to anything less? Who knows. But they responded to and backed down because of the A-Bombs, and their stranglehold on the Pacific, and by extension the war, ended as a result. Stop crucifying Americans for what was done in the past, and what was done in vastly different circumstances. America acted to stop a war and to stop a country that wasn't going to stop unless it controlled the entire Pacific. If North Korea struck with any nuclear missiles, it would be to start conflict, and that's all the difference.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[size=1][color=indigo][font=arial]Personally, I'm shocked that homework is being used as a scapegoat here. I mean, who [i]actually[/i] does their homework? Who?! [u]Noone[/u], that's who. Blame schoolwork all you want, but we all know it's just because you're a bunch of slackers.[/font][/color][/size]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial]They do. They get taken away from the family to juvenile detention and correctional centres, though their stays aren't nearly as severe as actual prison (and with good reason). They also receive a lot of psychiatric help and attention to find out why it happened, and make it so the kid doesn't want to go to that place again (because the child/teenage mind is still malleable, or to a point at least). Child murderers still get punished, but they get punished as children. As I said before, punishing a child the same way as an adult is just cruel and damaging.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][quote name='Papa Smurf']With Final Fantasy VII, you'd be lucky to get a few pages out of Sephiroth. It's basically "minor Oedipus complex" and you're done. You'd barely get a page on any of the other characters.[/quote] I don't see what you expect, really. You're holding FFVII up to standards that few games ever actually reach, and you're discounting the fact that FFVII [i]was[/i] a lot of people's original RPG and as such they love it anyway. Besides which, newsflash: It's a videogame, not Shakespeare. I don't see how you can honestly expect Shakespearean characters out of any but the most intricate of games (like MGS, as stated). The characters are cliche? Okay. MGS is so much better, OMG? Yes, we get it. All the rhetoric in the world isn't going to make people not love the characters, though, especially when the gameplay [i]was[/i] very solid and the plot was pretty interesting (even if it was cliche, it was still memorable). It's okay if you don't like FFVII and it doesn't reach your massive standards man (and really, those standards are gargantuan), but don't expect the world to follow suit because you can break down character motives. :p [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial]Your opinion is flawed for a few reasons, not the least because of your emphasis on military in North Korea. Firstly, Iraq may have been a tragic move, but the US is entrenched there now, and to rapidly pull out too fast just to face another threat wouldn't be good for the US [i]or[/i] Iraq. The military in Iraq right now are peace keepers, not warmongers (though even they seem to get this concept wrong), and if they were pulled out too fast the country would suffer for it. Secondly? [u][b]KIM JONG-****ING-IL[/b][/u]. Kim Jong-Il is a psycopath, and doesn't follow any (or not many, at least) of the protocols set down by the UN to preserve world peace. In fact, they stated that any attempts at just [i]sanctioning[/i] would be construed as an act of war. This isn't the kind of conflict the US or any nation should rush into, even without factoring in the countless chemical weapons Kim has and doesn't hesitate to use on top of the nukes they're building. The time for force is not now. That said, I don't know what we should do about the whole situation, and that's exactly why I'm not a world leader. Kim Jong-Il is frustrating and scary in his insanity and hate, and his actions are screaming a lot louder than his words, but I don't think I have any authority to map out a plan to take him and his corrupt regime down.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[size=1][color=indigo][font=arial][spoiler]Peter is a power absorber, like Rogue without the kick in the chest. Wikipedia tells all, with references, kids.[/spoiler][/font][/color][/size]

[size=1][color=indigo][font=arial]They're children. By definition their minds aren't fully formed, and holding them up to the same standards as adults is unfair and also very cruel - while they may have fully intended to hurt and (possibly) kill someone, their reasoning wouldn't be the same as an adults and probably not thought through in the slightest. It would also reveal underlying problems and disorders that could be remedied with proper attention and care, something they wouldn't receive if they were just thrown into jail like an adult and left to rot for twenty years (not to mention such a situation would be inhumane on a child). Children and teenagers shouldn't be tried as adults because they're not adults - they don't have the same ways of thinking and they don't have the same concept of the world as a mature adult who might do the same crime.[/font][/color][/size]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial]My dreams are topical and relevant to my lyf at large. The most recent one was where I dreamt I was awake in bed, and I could hear Beck's album Odelay playing - which would've had to be out of my computer, since I don't actually own Odelay. Thinking I'd turned my computer on and put it beside me I turned over to turn it down, promptly woke up, and the music stopped completely. That day I'd applied to work at the local music store, so I'm taking it as some kind of [i]omen[/i].[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][quote name='Charles']So, did anyone else get a Wii-order today?[/quote] I did. We have so much in common. Let's make out.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[size=1][color=indigo][font=arial]Being dumped by my ex-fiancee made me an alcoholic, and I've never been happier.[/font][/color][/size]

[size=1][color=indigo][font=arial]Bill Gates is married, cynic. Get your facts straight before you start shattering teenage idealism.[/font][/color][/size]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][QUOTE=F.O.Y.][COLOR=DarkOrange]-Del tha Funkee Homosapien (very fun rapper. I need more hip-hop) FUN FACT: [B]Del the Funkee Homosapien [/B] is [B]Russel [/B] on the first [B]Gorillaz [/B] album (you may know him by the song [B]Clint Eastwood [/B] - one of the few songs loved by fans of rock, rap, AND pop) He's also one of the members of[B] Handsome Boy Modeling School [/B] who have connections to all sorts of great bands such as [B]The Mars Volta[/B].[/COLOR][/QUOTE] He was just a guest artist on the first Handsome Boy Modeling School album, he's hardly a member. Handsome Boy Modeling School were just Dan the Automator and Prince Paul.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][quote name='Papa Smurf'] And remember! I would have been perfectly, perfectly content to have left my views on the matter at those one or two sentences a while ago.[/quote] ******** I'll be angling for a Wii at Christmas and TP is something I'm interested in, largely because I haven't played a new Zelda game in a long while and I'm getting a Wii anyway. Why wait man, even if it is a port? lol GCN is delayed a month, ideally I'll have a Wii already, and the control changes seem interesting enough to warrant a purchase. I won't have a problem with it. As for what I expect from the first true Wii Zelda, I can say without a doubt that I hope it's not as extensive as what Papa Smurf is suggesting. Swinging the controller in formations to cast spells? Realistic tension on bows? Man, I want to play a videogame, not workout. While the Nintendo has the potential to make a very interactive and different game with the Wiimote, I think there's a fine line between utilising the new tech in interesting ways and make playing games a chore (and even embarassing in front of company, especially if you do the spells thing) by overutilising it. Having the controller swing in the same way on screen as you're doing with the wiimote would be a nice subtle change - in both tactics and immersion. Having to simulate firing the bow right down to holding an arrow would just be irritating. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [color=red][b]Don't bypass the swear censor. -Charles[/b][/color]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial]It's not like Metroid's control scheme was especially innovative to begin with - not that it'd be a terribly bad thing if it was. It's a pretty solid control scheme for a first person adventure game.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[size=1][color=indigo][font=arial]They're releasing a PSP version as well, if anyone was interested. [url]http://www.errormacro.com/2006/10/first_screens_and_details_on_o.php[/url][/font][/color][/size]

[COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][COLOR=Indigo][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial][quote name='darkisMINE][COLOR=SeaGreen][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]Ew. No thanks. My eardrums imploded because of this.[/FONT'][/COLOR][/quote] Solution: Get new eardrums and try again.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]