Chaos

"Henry Louis Gates Jr. is perhaps the most widely recognized African-American scholar in America. Mr. Gates is also a one-man intellectual and media conglomerate: a co-founder of the genealogy Web site AfricanDNA.com and the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard; editor in chief of the Web site Oxford African American Studies Center; editor in chief of The Root, a Web site on African-American news, culture and genealogy. He co-edited the eight-volume "African American Biography" (Oxford University Press, 2008); the five-volume "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience" (Oxford University Press, 2005); and "Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own" (Crown, 2007)." -New York Times' website. But apparently not smart enough to just pull out your goddamn state-issued ID when a cop asks for it. ...And for locking himself out of his own house. Is it bad that this is the first I'm hearing of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.? I mean, most of what he has become famous for isn't exactly a targetted study of mine, and he really doesn't strike me as someone I SHOULD know. This whole incident, at the miniscule glance that I have cast over it, seems to put him in a not-so-progressive light.

Having a particularly annoying issue. My internet connection works. It works with my computer.It works with my PS3. It works with my 360. But not with my Linksys router. I only have one internet connection open at the moment, and that's my 360 connection. It is constant and reliable. But all three DID work at once, and with no noticable lag. Then, randomly, as I'm surfing the web while waiting on my party to come back for another map on COD4, my connection dies. On my PC. 360 is still working. PS3 is off and has been off. New wires. New router. Same modem. Same PC, same PS3, just got the 360. Tried doing different cables for different systems, different combinations and slots on the router, did a soft reset, did a hard reset, and still, only one works at a time. Anybody offer any insight? ...Somewhat like Allamorph's problem. But with three things. Also, disabled all the firewalls I could find.

My God... I'd always heard the stories, but...I never really believed them. I just can't believe people actually [b]use[/b] the term "Rickrolled" in every day speech. I'd always just assumed anyone stupid enough to try would simply have an aneurism. *looks off into the distance* The horror...the horror. Satire aside, I didn't know people had stooped to the level of using Rickrolling as a SPOKEN verb or noun. I say "owned" every now and then, but never really got far past it. Yikes.

*raises hand* I still play...except that my router is kinda screwy and I can only be online with one system at a time. (PS3 vs 360 vs PC. A battle for all time.) I will...be on eventually. Demos Huragesh Amatros of the Pyre Demos Levia ...Maybe something else that I forgot about, lol.

The little things in the Fatal Frame series scare me. The hidden pictures and random things getting knocked over or off a shelf scare me more than the ghosts. The ghost sequences remind me of first-person shooters on the hardest difficulty. A can falling off a dresser makes me scream at the top of my lungs, as I previously, and embarrassingly, mentioned.

This should've been done a decade ago. I would have loved to written English compositions on words derived from CounterStrike.

[quote name='Drizzt Do'urden']The scarriest game I think I've ever played (I'm hoping when I go buy Dead Space today it'll blow this away) would have to be Metal Gear Solid 2. Does anyone remember what happens towards the end with the communicator? Yeah, if you don't know play it.[/QUOTE] Lol. Fission Mailed. [quote name='James'][font=franklin gothic medium]I think the scariest game for me is still the original Silent Hill. Silent Hill 2 had some brilliantly scary moments, but SH was such a new experience... I'd never come across anything like that before. [/font][/QUOTE] This was my first thought. This game scared the crap out of me when I first played it when I was...11? 10? I mean, let's take a stroll down a street armed with only a pipe, through blinding, lolling fog, with a light that illuminates two INCHES in front of you. An eerie howl rips through the area and your radio starts blaring static. You frantically turn around and look about only to see snow and fog. You keep walking forward and suddenly a [b]CAN ROLLING ON THE GROUND OMG WTF [/b] makes you scream like a little girl at two in the morning. Yay. [quote name='James'][font=franklin gothic medium]But I think RE4 had its scary moments... although those moments were more like heart-pounding cliffhanger moments. It's a different kind of fear when everything is moving fast and you have to keep your wits about you and react so quickly.[/font][/QUOTE] RE4 was more about adrenaline and "Oh ****" moments more than scares. Like the first time I came across a chainsaw wielding villager. I was mopping up the more placid folk and from behind my ****ING HEAD gets mauled. No hit animation. No impact vibration. No warning. I'm in the over-the-shoulder Weaver firing stance and all of a sudden I get "BRRRRRRRGGGGDDDD." Not many games these days truly [i]kill[/i] you, with multiple health packs and regenerating shields and whatnot. This was somewhat refreshing as it was old-school hard without being too obnoxious...but it still annoyed the piss out of me. To add my own, Fallout 3. Play with a high friend who also did some shrooms and go into the Metro, or worse, the Dunwich Ruins late at night with the lights off. The experience of ghouls flinging themselves at you with just the tiny radiance of your PipBoy for warning and the psychotic hallucinations and a few Glowing Ones while your mesmerized friend shrieks at the top of his lungs is friggin' awesome and disturbing at the same time. Especially when said friend manages to growl just like a ghoul and grabs your shoulders from behind [i]just[/i] when you get ambushed at the basement. -_- Or wander out of Megaton at the beginning at night and get mauled by a Deathclaw. Or go into the Yao Guai Caverns and have your rifle break on you. [spoiler]Or have the Mysterious Stranger perk. >: D[/spoiler] Edit: Oh. Almost forgot. Dino Crisis. Resident Evil with friggin' dinosaurs that are faster and more aggressive and take more bullets to kill than zombies. Especially the Tyrannosaurus Rex that runs through walls and wrecks a goddamn helicopter and you have to play keep-away with it while your buddies fix the elevator. Fun. *shudders*

[quote name='Gavin'][SIZE="1"]I've been giving [B]Drowning Pool[/B]'s [I]Sinner[/I] album a listen to recently after a recommendation from Al, and so far it's pretty good. I'd heard a couple of songs before from various movies but I might consider checking out the rest of their library if the style is the same.[/SIZE][/QUOTE] Eh. Ever since Dave Williams died the band just nosedived, in my opinion. His voice was a perfect match for their music style and tonality, and they...just aren't the same. I'd say try-before-you-buy, definitely.

[quote name='Zen'][color=royalblue][size=1] [b]The Lonely Island[/b]. Manage to be catchy, funny, and not annoying at all. The exact opposite of Weird Al. Favorite song by far, "I'm On A Boat" ft. T-Pain. I love you Adam Samberg.[/color][/size][/QUOTE] I'm ridin' on a dolphin and doin' flips, too. [spoiler]And yeah. Decently surprised by how good TLI is turning out.[/spoiler]

[quote name='DeathKnight'][color=crimson]The tax doesn't affect shisha as far as I know, so. . . . . . my red hookah and I are open for business if you are in the San Antonio area.[/color][/QUOTE] Hmm... ... Be there in seven hours with a full case of beers that will somehow magically only have three in it by the time I get there. [spoiler]I will bring assortments of chips as well.[/spoiler]

I went from a pack a day to about two cigarettes a day. Yay federal taxation!

[quote name='Pumpkin']You just became like my effin' hero!

[quote name='DeathKnight'][color=crimson]Neil, you still look large and frightening. [/color][/QUOTE] [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26829&stc=1&d=1239679078[/img]] Like nobody's effing business. [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26830&stc=1&d=1239679078[/img] [quote name='Shy'][size=1]Smoking is bad for the baby. -Shy[/size][/QUOTE] [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26831&stc=1&d=1239679078[/img]

No, dear, he's gay. *flips hand forward with a pop of the wrist* The majority of OB will not let me post the rest of what we discussed, but yes. He's playing for the other team.

[quote name='Allamorph'][FONT=Arial]Today's kids need to run around outside instead of being plopped in front of Mr. Babysitter Television and handed Mr. Pacifier GameBoy. On your other note, corporal punishment got a bad reputation because people who didn't know Jack Crap about raising kids abused it. Now we've got people who are too scared to use it because other people got the system to preach about how evil it is. "Only in moderation" don't apply to just alcohol.[/FONT][/QUOTE] Of course. I'm sure I had originally planned to mention that, but got caught up in the rant. It's with anything in life, you have to control it. It's not a feast-or-famine deal, there are grey areas to it. But none at all leads to situations like this.

[quote name='Lunox'][font=trebuchet ms] Each older generation always thinks the younger generation is degrading the moral fiber of our world. Something to think about. Sometimes I feel like while many teenagers have become lazier/brattier/more selfish/dumber than previous generations' teenagers, at the same time many teenagers have risen above and beyond what earlier kids did. It's just that these good things are not really reported or publicized as much.[/font][/QUOTE] A valid point. And of course, you cannot lump all kids into one generalized group as "worse than the generation before," but I believe that, as a whole, parents are getting worse and worse. Kids have WAY more freedom than ten or twenty years ago. More access to the world, and more media in which to get that access. Like a nine year old with his own Blackberry. And the proliferation of websurfing and texting through elementary and middle school is only going to make them bolder. The ability and availability of such things is a clear lose of control and focus on the parent's part, but that is merely a symptom, not the problem. The problem is the [b]lack[/b] of ability to correct the situation without harsh(er?) discipline. For the very first time in...history, parents are losing the ability to physically reprimand their children without fear of being arrested when the kid calls the cops for a spanking. You can only do so much with a "no cell phone" or "no internet" or "no going out on the weekend" threat. It isn't much good without REAL enforcement. The kids will, somehow, violate the parents' orders, simply because they do not fear and/or respect the rules laid out. I know. I broke my parents' rules many times. And got the punishment. But be damn sure I didn't repeat it too often. My point isn't that the kids are worse now than they were. My point is that they WILL act worse because they truly cannot be...contained. And THAT is where the 'breakdown of society' starts. Today's kids are too...squishy. They're too whiny, too soft. A good thump on the head is a great way to sober up a kid who is acting up in public. You don't have to suplex them. Just a light tap to remind them that you are the boss. And somewhere in all of this "Let them express themselves" crap, we lost that. And we're missing it now.

An explosion of epic magnitude sounds like it would totally and conceivably transport people between dimensions. Yep. Sure. [spoiler]This is so not a hack post in order to lure a certain someone into POSTING.[/spoiler]

[quote name='Zen'][color=royalblue][size=1] [i] Eleftheria I Thanatos[/I], which is Greek for "Freedom Or Death", the motto of the Greek rebellion against the Ottoman Turks during World War I.[/color][/size][/QUOTE] *raises hand* You don't look Greek. Where did the inspiration for such a quote come for? Of course, you don't have to be of a certain heritage to get a tattoo of that lineage (or else we'd have a whole lot less of these white broads with kanji on them, lolz), but that thought randomly popping in my head. So...yeah. >_> Odd, that. And just to keep it relevant... Random moment at work. [spoiler]Also, props for taking it on the collarbone/sternum. [/spoiler]

The father should file a compensatory suit for room, board, and foodstuffs. Just to round out this crazy circle. In all seriousness I suppose this was bound to come around. It's the world we live in. There is no control for parents these days. They have no power. You can't even spank kids anymore. They don't learn discipline or respect. Teachers can paddle them, so they get suspended or detention or whatever the Hell. Parents find out and can't beat the fear into them, and 'ground' them. These increasingly-rebellious teens and preteens see all the "Whateva, whateva, I do what I want!" shenanigans on TV and in movies, and it influences [read: suggests, not makes] them to act out. I can promise you, "NO INTARNETZ" would be far more effective if a brainduster was promptly applied the moment resistance reared its ugly head. On the other side, the mother needs to grow the eff up. Scorned over a divorce, burned in a custody case, she parades this lawsuit as a way to one-up her ex-husband. Dandy. One thing to trounce your ex or a coworker who steals your favorite parking spot. It is quite another issue to embattle [b]the father of your goddamn child[/b] over something as trivial as "But I said Suzie Q could go to the zoo with her friends." >:[ Why was this accepted into the court process? Was the judge magistrate bored? Did the judge have a rained-out golf game? Is this really what you want to stoop to in order to put another decision in your ballot promotion, or case resume? Is it worth destroying the moral fiber of a young citizen, and those around her? Is it worth it to fuel the argumentative flames of two divorcées and, in the process of using their shared daughter as a trench mortar, ruin their relationship with their child? Am I the only one who gets this at eleven at night and after a twelve-hour shift at work? Why did an ELECTED COURT ADMINISTRATOR allow this to deface the Canadian judicial system? WHY IS THIS NEWS?! ... Anyway. Seriously. Could someone [i]not[/i] have an idea of what this could reach into if allowed to continue? Is there some constitutional right here that I'm missing? The sixty-seventh amendment that lets kids sue their parents? Because, when I was growing up, it wasn't exactly a crime against nature to make your kid cut his own switch. I did it many times. And deserved it. So why, in less than ten years of development, did it come to this. You freakin' leftwing yuppies are responsible for this. You let this 'child abuse' crap turn "discipline" in to "assault and battery." I hope you all are happy. Now you are going to get sued by your sixteen year olds for making them eat peas that one time when they were nine, or else no dessert. Kiss my ***. [spoiler]This was fun. All joking and comedic ranting aside, I do feel this is a product of our times. Something needs to be done, because the moral fiber of our world is degrading quickly, and it's not Grand Theft Auto or MTV. It's the home life, and parents. Or lack thereof. Food for thought?... ... Chewing at least?[/spoiler]

[quote name='DeathKnight'][color=crimson][b]IF I AM NOT REMEMBERED IN NOSTALGIC OTAKUBOARDS THREADS I MUST RISE FROM THE DARKEST OCEANS AND ONCE AGAIN RING THE TORRID HELLFIRE BELL OF INTENSE SUFFERATION UPON THESE LANDS[/b] [/color][/QUOTE] Oh, shut up and go brood over something. [spoiler]Muffinsex, by the way, for old time's sake. *flings a nickle*[/spoiler]

*tilts head* The chances of you surviving the plane crash are less than the chances of the plane actually crashing. And falling from forty-thousand feet tends to be pretty fatal. The amount of inertia of slamming the ground would be like a bigrig running you over. Death would be nigh instant. *thumbs up*

[quote name='Raiha'][COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]A family whose combined weight is roughly half a ton is complaining that the 22,000 pounds they receive from the government in welfare is too little to support them. That comes out to like 44,000 dollars in the US btw, which is about enough to live on provided you don't eat cereal for breakfast, bacon buddies for lunch, microwaved pies, crisps, and chips for dinner, and weigh around 18 stone. They argue that the price of healthy food is too high for them to afford and thus they are fat. And thus they can't work and need welfare money. Their daughter, who is roughly 290 pounds complains that she's a student and thus has no time to work out. Which is strange because she somehow has time to waddle to class and fill her face at lunch and dinner time. I'm a full time student with a full time job and I still have figured out how to meet with a personal trainer and go for walks while listening to lectures. Do you think this is bollocks? Keeping in mind this isn't the US economy, this is England's economy.[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE] [url=http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html]A modest proposal.[/url] Huh. Fitting and applicable. Go me.

War by Sick Puppies. Heard it on the Street Fighter IV commercial. Checked it out, and some of their other stuff. Deeply disappointed. They remind me of an even more repetitive Lunatic Calm. So we're going to switch to Bayside's They're Not Horses, They're Unicorns. ...And then we turn that off and listen to some old school NWA. *thumbs up*

[quote name='Zen'][color=royalblue][size=1] Tattoos on the collar-bone/upper-chest sure are painful, but [i]god damn[/i] are they sexy.[/color][/size][/QUOTE] So are knife wounds. ...God. The pure horrid memories this thread brings up...

Sweet. My family rocks. How many other families go around blowing the shit out of peoples' houses and decapitating the survivors? This is so totally not a random hack post so that D'Ann can post again. >_> [spoiler]Hint of jalapanos.[/spoiler]