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[FONT=Calibri]I randomly browse this thread for a few pages, and the only conclusion that sticks in my mind is that Kishimoto is into Scientology. Has to be.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]In light of the recent posting, I'd like to shift the focus [I]off[/I] of the President, if I might. To me, whether or not President Obama deserves the Peace Prize is a relative non-issue. On some level, he has to deserve to get it. Pol Pot sure isn't getting this award. That would make the Nobel Foundation look bad. But looks are actually what this award has been about for quite some time. The Peace Prize may be prestigious—let's face it, the award would look absolutely smashing on your resume—but the focus of the prize hasn't been the recipient for years. It's been the Foundation itself. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Barack Obama [I]this[/I] year so that the Foundation could say "Look at us, we've awarded our most prestigious accolade to Your Celebrity, aren't we amazing for recognising him and his achievements." Same limelight-monkeying that's happened for several past years' awards. Same that's went on with TIME's Man Of The Year award. It hasn't been about the recipient before then and it won't be for some time to come; this year it's about (and it's been about) the bandwagon and who can jump on it, in order to be able to brag that they were on it. The major point is that if we didn't have these institutions groveling politically for attention, this discussion wouldn't even be occurring. And it doesn't bother me all that much that Obama received it. What bothers me is when an accolade becomes more about the people giving it than it is about the person getting it. Then it no longer has meaning; it's merely a device to puff up the giver's image.[/FONT]

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[quote name='Gavin][SIZE="1"]Stubbing a toe [is] far more painful [than'] one would logically assume it to be.[/SIZE][/quote] [FONT=Calibri]Fix'd[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri]I am waiting for my hair to dry and set.[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri]Only thing I want to touch on here. [QUOTE=sbsp13668][SIZE="2"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Also, I see nothing wrong with raising the issues in a World instead of through e-mail, PM, or MyOtaku. [/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE] Considering Adam not only has to run the site, but make sure it's maintained, fix issues that arise, conceptualise/invent/get code written for site improvements, work on his game for the iPod Touch, and generally have a working life, it's a bit much to expect him to browse the upwards of ten [I]thousand[/I] worlds looking for people who have ideas about the site. And that's saying nothing about the number of MyOtaku blogs that still exist, which really is the same as raising the issue through a World. What e-mails and PMs do for Adam is alert him to the mere [I]existence[/I] of someone else who has an idea. That then allows him to see: what he can understand about the situation; whether or not it's already being discussed/planned on/formulated/etc.; if the person has an idea of their own;if that idea has already been suggested by his team, and if not whether the suggester has a plan for the idea's implementation. Basically, asking Adam to come to you on the matter of a site of which he is in full control is rather presumptuous, and assumes he has nothing better to do with his time than to endlessly browse a plethora of Worlds which most likely will hold little value to him. As for discussing it between other people, doing so on Worlds is all well and good. However, again, the important facet is that Adam is made aware of it, so in that light discussion does nothing until it reaches his knowledge.[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri]Actually, it isn't really that caffeine keeps me awake. I can endure sleep-deprivation so long as I'm actually doing something, whether it be physically or mentally. So what Mountain Dew does for me is speed my brain up to, like, twice again its normal fuction-level, and that allows me to ward off the urge to crash. It doesn't keep me awake, just better allows me to do so myself. Of course, sitting in classes and taking notes afterwards is usually terrible. Not much you [I]can[/I] think about then. So I have to fight insanely hard, and haven't always won.[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri]I am in the campus Engineering computer lab right now (which is schwank), and a guy across the way from me just started fist-pumping the air to the exact beat of this trance I'm listening to. I smirked. Also I've gotten so used to tagging my posts manually that sometimes I forget what those buttons up top even do. Does anyone ever use the Undo/Redo stuff?[/FONT]

[quote name='Nerdsy][color=deeppink']I generally works out for me.[/color][/quote] [FONT=Calibri]I see. I am currently attempting to train myself out of said habit. What it stems from is being used to having assignments due every day for AP Cal back in high school, so I'd always do them the night before. I just got used to doing things the night before. But I like time to goof off, and I like time to sleep, so I'm working on shifting doing assignments to the afternoon I get them, or at least (in the case of projects, which I haven't gotten yet) to build them gradually instead of, say, writing Music History papers from ten at night until six in the morning and turning them in five hours later while trying not to collapse. On that note, Mountain Dew is a wonderful thing. Red Bull can go drown itself in Monster.[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri]This post can stay. (Emphasis on this.) However. [COLOR="DarkRed"]Gymo[/COLOR], do you now see why I look upon that style with such disfavor? Even with as few as four expletives, it feels overdone. It's clunky and awkward, and not good characterisation. It comes off as a character who is common and ignorant. Which I think was your intent. And that brings me to another point. Even though we are able to classify the League right now as an "evil" organisation, its Leaders believe what they are doing is right. (We'll set aside the Elite Four at present, since their actions and motives are complex and blahblahblah.) Not everyone in the League is ignorant, and not everyone is confrontational. There are sane people on all sides of the court. For example, Bugsy, the guy marching on Ecruteak right now, is really softspoken and intense, and wouldn't be attacking at all if he didn't solidly believe it was the right course of action. So in the future, take it easy on playing the League quite so much WE ARE EVIL AND HATEFUL RAWWR, neh? Part of your role as playing a League character is to give contrasting perspective, not paint the entire section with sweeping gestures.[/FONT]

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[FONT=Calibri]Whatever you say, hun. Boy, lunch today was sure depressing. I need some gum to get the flavor out of my mouth.[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri]I've heard of foot fetishes before–read about one in [I][U]The Pelican Brief[/U][/I], actually–so I'm sure a finger fetish is perfectly reasonable.[/FONT]

[quote name='Darren']Or, a better question, does he even realize he's been kicked out?[/quote] [FONT=Calibri]I hadn't realised it, if that means anything. After all, there's probably more than one Haru in the world.... :p[/FONT]

[quote name='taperson][SIZE="1"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"][URL="http://www.whoisthecutest.com/"]Who is the Cutest?[/URL][/COLOR'][/SIZE][/quote] [FONT=Calibri][I]*kills it with fire*[/I][/FONT] [CENTER][IMG]http://www.firestormvideos.com/images/firestorm-2003.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER]

[quote name='Rachmaninoff']If so, we could let it slide... this time.[/quote] [FONT=Calibri]No excuse. :nono:[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri]...I was unaware of this. Dammit, [COLOR="DarkRed"]Nerdsy[/COLOR] you wombat, get on the freaking ball. I try and take your back and this is what I get? Hurts, dude. Hurts right [I]here[/I].[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri]Right. Because obviously if [COLOR="DarkRed"]Nerdsy[/COLOR] suggests anything it doesn't matter. [CENTER][IMG]http://img1.gametrailers.com/community/images/userimages/1466648-1244575394-13597781222487148lolface.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER][/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri][CENTER][IMG]http://fitnessgurunyc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/why-so-serious-300x300.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] I dunno, guys, I kinda prefer to be glib about stuff I can't actually vote on yet. Haven't heard much about anything of this sort in my state, yet, so.[/FONT]

[quote name='Sangome][FONT="Microsoft Sans Serif"][SIZE="1"][COLOR="#862A51"]On a different note, am I to assume that "Metagaming" is an ascended version of Godmodding? I've never heard the term before, so I'll probably have to have it told to me twice before I understand it...[/COLOR][/SIZE'][/FONT][/quote] [FONT=Arial]Godmodding is a form of metagaming; the basic difference is that metagamers still attempt to retain some facade of reality to their stuff, while godmode is basically "this happens, there is no explanation, don't question me". In either case the player is using their knowledge of the game to warp it to their ends.[/FONT]

[quote name='CaNz;']i am sorry... this is the last time i am using the girl as the main battler, really the original idea had me using my charicter but i was encouraged to avoid that senario.[/quote] [FONT=Calibri]When I spoke to you earlier I was under the impression that you were going to post more from Silver's perspective; I was also unaware that you intended to give a play-by-play of trainer-battles, which can be glossed over and still implied if you think about how to do it. No, [I]my[/I] main concern, and I think [COLOR="DarkRed"]Kei[/COLOR]'s as well, is not the girl so much as the Silver you're posting about doesn't seem to be the same Silver you signed up with.[/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']*foams at the mouth* Why do you do this to my head~?! (And still posting out of nowhere...creeper.)[/quote] [FONT=Calibri]Even though this is getting really off-topic.... No, the fun part is trying to visualise time from both a past and future perspective. The closest I've come was a sphere of infinite surface area but finite volume. Try [I]that[/I] for a head-trip.[/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']But I thought the creator of this thread said that there would be no such risk... Did I misread?:confused:[/quote] [FONT=Calibri]Nah. I'm not talking about if you touched yourself and the resulting paradox imploded existence. I'm talking about the information transferral itself. Like, take the Terminator series. The reason it works with the time travel stuff is because the future isn't actually changing at all, merely ensuring John Connor's survival; John sent his friend through to meet his mother, and then John was concieved as a result. If Connor hadn't sent his friend through, he wouldn't have been born, so in that respect the time travel was necessary. But five years ago no one showed up and told you what to do with your life, so if you went back and said something to yourself, left yourself a note, or even if you sent someone else in your place to avoid the whole destroy-all-life stuff that might happen, the information itself would alter your behavior patterns, which would then affect your decisions, which would then alter the chain of events that led to you travelling backwards and telling yourself stuff since it would no longer be guaranteed that you sent yourself the identical information, which would then reset the chain, and so the infinite loop is born. Fun to visualise.[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri]How about this one: [LIST][*]Not sure. Maybe they shouldn't have "sex-offended" in the first place, and any consequences are their own danged fault.[/LIST] I mean, who doesn't like to go camping?[/FONT]