Mithos

[COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1][FONT=Century Gothic][quote]Could Santa really do what it's claimed he does? There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get onto the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa?s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousands tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer can pull 10 times the normal amount, the job can?t be done with eight or even nine of them---Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance?this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth?s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would adsorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 g?s. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he?s dead now.[/quote] Discuss. I think if Santa really exist, he oculd be a pixie like character so he could survive the acceleration[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

FF 1&2: DoS is pretty good so far for me. THough I've devoted a lot of hours maxing out my hp in FF2 that i've already gotten 5000 HP before I even got minwu! In FF1, well, i've beaten SOul of Chaos effortlessly (Master + hasted + tempered * 30 = 60,000+ damage :) ) and I think Soul of Rebirth is going to be pretty hard (it's FF2's version of Soul of Chaos. Basically it takes all of the characters that were "temporarily" in your team in FF2 and put them in a dungeon. It get their stats by copying the last time you've sued them. If your [spoiler] Minwu [/spoiler] only had 3000 HP when you left it. It will have 3000 HP in SoR :). My team in FF1 Master lv 99 Ninja lv 99 White Wizard lv 99 Red Wizard lv 99

[COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1][FONT=Century Gothic]Emerald = Must buy for breeders and competitive battlers in the real world. In emerald if a pokemon has the ability "Magma armor" or.. I forgot the othre ability if on your team and you have an egg, the egg will hatch 2x as fast. Competitive Battlers, Typhlosion HAVE THUNDER PUNCH AGAIN!!!! Since there is pokemon move tutors for all the elemental punches. Also pikachu can finally learn volt tackle legally, [spoiler]Steven is no longer the elite 4 champ, it's wallace now :)[/spoiler], the elite 4 and gym leaders have new pokemon and 1 new gym leader :). And also, if you're caught in between 2 trainers, you don't fight them seperately, you fight them at the same time :). [url]http://www.serebii.net/emerald/[/url]

[COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1][FONT=Century Gothic]KH:CoM pretty much sucked for me. AFter palying it for a lot of hours (over 50), it got bland.it's like an old chewing gum, it lost it's flavor. I got really excited at first and I was all jumpy and stuff when I first got it. NOw it's collecting dust. Why? You repeat the same old thing over and over again. Just beat the heartless, open a door, lose a card, rinse and repeat. The Reverse/Rebirtrh Mode of CoM lets you play as Riku, fun eh? Not. You could easily build a plastic bird to play the battles for you. I doesnt matter who plays the mode. Your little sister, older brother, or your baby cousin. They automatically win if they mash that A button. The battles system needs improvement. You know premium cards? They are rechargable when they are used in sleights. Now my deck is filled with premium cloud cards ranked 7-9. I stock them all up and omnislash everyone on the screen. Even [spoiler]Marluxia[/spoiler] couldn't stand a chance. The battle system is severely broken this way. 3/10 Good graphics. But it needs more side quests (don't say it's a GBA game. Go play Golden Sun The lost age, it has PLENTY of side quests. Plus they enhacned the space inside the GBA pak so it should fit some side quests in along with he cinematics) , can't hurt to have shops instead of moogle cards, and remove the room synthesis system. (That totally caused me to almost throw my GBA SP into the river because I didn't have a stinken level 1 blue card -_-) Money = spent horribly. Me want money back now >_>[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1][FONT=Century Gothic]Haven't been back in Otakuboards since last month XD. Anyways about Kratos being 28 and Lloyd being 17. [spoiler] The manual is just covering up t3h spoilers. I think the manual is just including the age when Kratos ddn't get attached to the Cruxis Crystal. Since when you equipone, it stops aging. Proven from Presea, Mithos, and yeah.... [/spoiler] Time to present another awesome video!!!! http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/videos/ToS%20PS2%20(JP)%20167'921%20Damage%20Hi-Ougi%20vs.%20Sword%20Dancer%20(Mania%20Mode).wmv This is Presea using Hien Messhoujin (Or I think thats the HI-ougi name >_>) on Sword Dancer 3 on Mania mode.... Try and guess whats so special about the tape. .... Give up? [spoiler] Presea done 167,921 damage to it[/spoiler][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1][FONT=Century Gothic]First thing first, t3h newbie guide. ~~~>>>THE NEWBIE'S GUIDE TO BATEN KAITOSThe Gameplay

[COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1][FONT=Century Gothic][quote name='Desbreko][color=#4B0082']You know, if that video weren't really dang awesome, I would've deleted that post. In the future, if you have a link like that which you want to share, at least tell what it's to and a bit about whatever it is. When someone posts a link and says barely anything, I generally just delete the post unless the link is to a page with information that's highly relevant to the thread's discussion.[/color][/quote] ...I don't know what to feel... http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/pictures/ToS%20(JP)%20Godly%20Numbers.jpg This is a pic of a record that someone has. It's legendary. Someone played the game over 140 times, achieved combos over 3000, and other things... This is on the PS2 version of ToS (Japan exclusive!) so thats why it's so high (Presea Hi-Ougi rocks). [spoiler]http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/videos/ToS%20PS2%20(JP)%20Kratos'%20Shining%20Bind.wmv[/spoiler] This is a link to Kratos' Hi-Ougi (Secret Tech) called shining bind. Enjoy.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[url]http://student.dpg.devry.edu/~d00752586/videos/talesofsymphoniabacura.wmv[/url] Check this out....

[COLOR=SlateGray][FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=1]I just put this up in-case there's other pokemon trainers out there.. Team sign-up list (this is to help people out rating their teams) What version this team is: (Red/Blue/Yellow, Gold/Silver/Crystal, Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald) (And netbattle for people who have it) If you don't fill this out, this will automatically be a Ru/Sa/Em team. Team: Name Nature @ item (meaning the name of the pokemon, the nature of the pokemon. But put N/A if it's the versions before Ru/Sa/Em, @ means attached and put the item attached to the pokemon) Ability: (whats the ability of the pokemon? Put N/A if it's any versions before Ru/Sa/Em) EV: (Effort Value points if you don't know what that is put N/A. Also put N/A if it's before Ru/Sa/Em)[url=http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-rs/ev.shtml]Click here for a tutorial about Effort Value[/url] Attack #1 Attack #2 Attack #3 Attack #4 (self-explainable) Stratagy: (self-explainable) Let me start off with my test pokemon team What version this team is: Ru/Sa/Em/Netbattle Umbreon Jolly @Leftovers Ability: Synchronize (if UMbreon suffers a status effect, the opponent suffers it too) EV: 129 DEF 129 SP. DEF 252 SPD Baton Pass Double team Mean look Bite Stratagy: THis is the mean look/double team baton passer. Standard. Bite is there incase Umbreon is the last pokemon left. Ninjask Jolly @Brightpowder (decreases accuracy of the opponent) Ability: Speed boost (ups speed every turn) EV: 255 HP 255 SPD Swords Dance Aerial Ace Silver Wind Baton Pass Stratagy: Standard again. Attack/Speed baton passer. Aerial ace and Silver wind is there incase Ninjask is the last pokemon availible. Vaporeon Timid @Brightpowder (decreases accuracy of the opponent) Ability: Water Absorb (any water attacks aim at Vaporeon will heal vaporeon) EV: 255 HP 255 SPD Baton Pass Acid Armor Substitute Surf Stratagy: Standard. Substitute/Defense baton passer. Surf is there incase Vaporeon is the last pokemon. Heracross Adamant @Salac Berry(Ups speed 6 levels no matter what) Ability: Swarm (Ups BUg moves when HP is in red) EV: 252 ATT, 6 HP, 252 SPD Substitute Focus Punch Revearsal Megahorn Stratagy: Heracross will use substitute until it's red. If the substitute is gone, I will use Focus Punch. When Heracross's HP is at red, Salac berry activates and also swarm will activate. I just use Revearsal all the way. I use Megahorn when a psychic or a ghost pokemon appears. Snorlax Adamant @Chesto Berry (Wakes up pokemon when it's asleep) Ability: Immunity (the poison status effect will not effect snorlax) EV: 252 ATT 129 DEF 129 SP.DEF Curse Return Shadow Ball Rest Stratagy: Curselax. Snorlax will curse until it can't curse no more. Rest is there incase Snorlax gets to low HP. Then SNorlax will use return/Shadow ball until everyone is dead. Skarmory Jolly @Leftovers Ability: Keen Eye EV: 129 DEF 129 SP.DEF 252 SPD Spike Toxic Roar Drill Peck Stratagy: Toxishurffler and SPiker all in one. Skarmory will use spike 3x, toxic the pokemon, and roar, toxic, roar. Repeat until everyone is poisoned. Then I use Roar again and again until every dies. All pokemon with Levitate/is flying types will die to Drill peck or poison :D. Team stratagy: Umbreon starts out with Mean look. THen it double team to the max, Umbreon baton passes to Vaporeon. Vaporeon uses SUbstitute and then Acid armor to the max. Substitute when it gets desrtoyed. Vaporeon Baton passes to Ninjask when substitute is up and acid armor doesn't work anymore. Ninjask uses Swords dance and sweeps with aerial ace/silver wind until the speed boost stops working. NInjask baton passes back to Vaporeon when subtitute is gone. Other wise, Ninjask baton passes to Heracross and sweeps. Heracross uses the substitute + focus punch stratagy until the HP is red. Salac Berry activates as well as Swarm. Heracross uses Revearsal/Megahorn until it dies. SKarmory comes out and uses spike 3x. Toxic, roar repeat until every is poisoned. THen I keep roaring to make full use of Spike. If SKarmory dies, I bring out Snorlax and Curse sweep the remaining pokemon. >_>. Over did it didn't I?[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

Since when mangagod was an oldie? ANyways I've been here for 4 years.. My aniversary was at September 11*insert sobbing noise*. Anyways I remember my first thread [quote name='Blue Master']DID YOU KNOW THAT KILLER_PIKACHU AND DARK_GENGAR HAS NO LIFE ROFLMAO!!![/quote] .....Dark times. Anyways, I was referring to their titles. Since they had 1000 posts. I miss hypershadow and Ginnylyn :(.

[QUOTE=James][color=#707875]Basically, the reason we have announcements as they are currently is so that they can be viewed from within any forum. If we make an announcement forum, it might be easier to avoid reading critical announcements (especially if that area were to be minimized or something). Also, the Suggestions & Feedback forum is actually a place where people can discuss and respond to announcements if they like. Members are free to use this forum to discuss those issues, or any others that relate to the boards. ^_^[/color][/QUOTE] [COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=2][FONT=Century Gothic]Ah I see, thank you for clarifying that.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[SIZE=2][COLOR=SlateGray][FONT=Century Gothic]Well I've seen this in another messege board and I think this is not going to pass. But it doesn't hurt to give bad suggestions right? Well, maybe have an announcement board, and post the announcements seperately in topics. Members then post to express their feelings over the change/up-coming change. You could also add the rating system in it...[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

[FONT=Century Gothic]Faith is non-existance. Its mearly morale in different words.. Let me give you an example. Lets say Joe wanted to create the airplane. But people say it's impossible, it's defys all laws of physics. But Joe had "faith" and was motivated to accomplish his goals. THen he created the airplane. If he didnt have "faith" he would have no morale and motivation to achieve the goal. THus he becomes a homeless man in the street. Meh, thats how I see it.[/FONT]

[quote name='terra']I know this thread is old now. But how can you guys like Sheena?! She sucks! :p[/quote] Check her status cahracter picture. Look at her chest. How can ya not like her :P. But she's good in abttle. I alays use this combo when I play as her. Attack attack attack Serpant Seal Pinion attack attack Demon seal, then I would block if it's a boss, if not I would run up to it and do it again. [QUOTE=terra] Although my game did tend to slow down a lot during some of Genis' spells, like Cyclone.[/QUOTE] It's supposed to slow down, or else the game would freeze compeltely. If you wnat to see how it goes in normal tiem, kill off all of your characters except Genis and have genis to cast Cyclone( have the concentrate EX skil on! ) Which Compound EX skill do you have attached to your char? I have Glory on Presea and COncentrate on Genis and Rain. OH and whats teh highest combo you ever had? I had 255 combo since my enemy died before i could continue on :(. I was fighting a Bacura BTW. Each hit/spell is 1 damage each. and it has 255 HP.