Gavin

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. Mike's beaten me to the punch, as would Jamie had Mike not also beaten her, anyway for me my guilty pleasure has to be DBZ. It was the first anime I ever saw, ever before Pokémon and since my little brother with the Midas-touch acquired all of DBZ on DVD I can now relish every battle that seems to go on for twenty episodes before ending rather unexpectedly. I think it was the fact that DBZ was so completely different to anything I had ever seen before, with the exception of Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, yes it was Hero as opposed to Ninja over here and I always loved TMHT and this featured guys who actually killed their enemies. Aside from DBZ, my other guilty anime pleasures are the first two series of Zoids, Guardian Force and New Century Zero, I'm counting Chaotic Century as part of GF as really it is one series. Though I suppose you could nearly call CC the Dragonball to GF's DBZ. Anyway back to the point, Zoids was my guilty pleasure because it like DBZ was so different to what was on television at the time, big guns and animal mechs reminded me of Transformers G1, and the story wasn't bad either, though like DBZ it took them ten eps to do anything of consequence.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. Been a while since I've posted in this section of OtakuBoards, anyway to get back on point, I'd end have ended the Dragonball franchise after DBZ, from what I've read and seen of Dragonball GT, the whole series is a complete let down and really does erode a lot of the quality that DBZ built up. I mean the who premise of the series is utter crap as there's no way Kami and Piccolo would simply have "forgot" they created the Black Star Dragonballs. Most of the Sagas are terrible as well, Super 17 because from what I recall by the Majin Buu Saga, 17 had turned good, thus there's little reason for him to turn evil just to suit Gero. And Bebi, well let's not even start there. Finally for the Evil Dragon Saga, or whatever the hell it was called, well the whole lame *** idea of Shenron spawning something even more powerful than two SSJ4 warriors is a complete load. It's a shame really, DBZ built up a great platform and GT knocked it down.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Crap I was just reading the Game Forum thread in the Suggestions forum when I thought about The Game and lost again. This is infuriating in it's vile simplicity. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. I second most of what Josh has said, there's no need for a separate forum for games threads because they tend to only stay popular for a short period of time before dying off and their being revived again. You'd end up with a forum that's active for maybe three months and inactive for the rest of the year.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. [b]Playschool:[/b] Living right next door to your playschool means you never have to get up early. [b]Junior Infants:[/b] If someone carries your bag for you after school, and ties your shoes, you've got a good friend. [b]Senior Infants:[/b] School religious plays done in a church in front of 2,000 people is a good way to conquer stage fright. Also school principals do not appreciate being called by their first name, even if you're only 5. [b]First Class:[/b] Standing up to a bully three years older than you, and beating him with a small army of your friends is probably going to be your greatest military victory. [b]Second Class:[/b] Moving schools to the redneck village your dad grew up in is not fun. You will be the outsider and will be picked on. [b]Third Class:[/b] Beating the living crap out of someone who bullies you is a good way to make them stop. Ignoring them simply makes them more determined to break you. [b]Fourth Class:[/b] Finally being acknowledged as having an above average intelligence does wonders for one's self confidence. Joining a local martial arts group is also a good way to keep fit. [b]Fifth Class:[/b] When everyone finally accepts you as being "from around here" you're going to get treated a hell of a lot better. [b]Sixth Class:[/b] Pre-High School preparation can make the following year a hell of a lot easier. [b]First Year - Third Year:[/b] Putting in the hours for study will pay off only if you're interested. No matter now long you stare at a maths book, it will not soak in if you hate maths. Conversely subjects you love are generally very easy to study for. [b]Transition Year:[/b] Cutting loose after three years of hard work is a good way for people to get in touch with you. Generally they prefer someone who is laid back and you will have more success with the ladies if you take an active interested in building your body. [b]Fifth Year:[/b] If through some freak accident you're injured badly in high school, for the love of God Almighty get back in as soon as you can. Failure to do so will result in depression and three years of doing **** all until you realise you can't go on like this. Pity I didn't have that list a few years ago. Still life is only the accumulated events and trails you've faced.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. Just OOC Mike, have you been playing Elder Scrolls Oblivion lately ? I'm just asking because the Dark Brotherhood's main HQ is called The Sanctuary. Anyway to get back on point, are the four main members of the Brotherhood going to be accompanying one another in future missions ? Or will we usually be separated ? [b][Edit][/b] BTW Phil, I have no problem with our characters knowing one another, their respective pasts are very similar and I can see Jakob being the loyal son to David's prodigal.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. I really have to admit Gavin that these are simply brilliant, as in brilliant in their relative simplicity. Each in their own was has been immensely amusing, but my favourite has to be the second one. I can just imagine that scene between a friend of mine and a girl he was interested in, spot on. Look forward to more.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting.[/SIZE] [QUOTE][SIZE=1][B]GAVIN[/B] [B]Gender:[/B] Masculine [B]Usage:[/B] English, Scottish, Welsh [B]Pronounced:[/B] GA-vin Late medieval form of GAWAIN. Gawain translates to mean "white hawk".[/SIZE][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1]Mum decided she liked the sound of this name because it wasn't common, hated it for years because of that very fact. Of course when you go through nineteen years and only ever meet four other people with the same first name it gets annoying. Made my peace and eventually grew to like it after I found out girls think it's a cute name. Actually, I know a little bit more about Gavin than's there, in fact the name can be traced back to the Celtic god Gobannus or Govanon, who was the smith god.[/SIZE] [QUOTE][SIZE=1][B]GERARD[/B] [B]Gender:[/B] Masculine [B]Usage:[/B] English, Dutch [B]Pronounced:[/B] je-RAHRD Derived from the Germanic element ger "spear" combined with hard "brave, hardy". The Normans introduced this name to Britain.[/SIZE][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1]Dad's first name, he wanted to call me Gerry after him and given how much I'm like him it may not have been a bad idea. [/SIZE] [quote][size=1][b]PATRICK[/b] [b]Gender:[/b] Masculine [b]Usage:[/b] Irish, English, French, German [b]Pronounced:[/b] PAT-rik (English), pat-REEK (French) From the Roman name Patricius, which meant "nobleman" in Latin. A 5th-century saint, the patron saint of Ireland, adopted this name (his birth name was Sucat). During his youth he was captured by Irish raiders and enslaved, but after six years of servitude he escaped to his home in Britain. Eventually he became a bishop and went back to Ireland as a missionary, where he succeeded in Christianising the entire country.[/size][/quote] [SIZE=1]Took this for my Confirmation simply because I couldn't think of anything else to take, that and I had four uncles each wondering whether I'd pick one of their names. I chickened out and went with Ireland's patron saint. As for my last name, Lee is actually the anglicised version of my family's original surname O'Laoidhigh, which has a couple of meanings but is generally accepted to be taken from the Irish for medicine because we were doctors. Anyway, that's me, the smithing god who was a nobleman doctor that carried a spear bravely.[/size]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. I vote that Des be impeached from his position for adding this cruel and unusual game to OB, being an administrator should be about abusing your powers in a way that affects only a few people, or in the case of Shin when he was Des' nad-btich a pair of things. Now those of us who were completely oblivious that such an evil existed in the universe are made aware that there is something other than the Kobayashi Maru that cannot be won without cheating. Wait, I?ve gone this whole time raging about Des rather than... [b]I lose[/b] ...****...[/SIZE]

[size=1]Interesting, most interesting. This has to be one of the most disturbing things I've heard about in a long time, and I can't help but be one of the thousands of dog owners who are outraged by this act of brutality by the Chinese. As has already been stated, having the dogs vaccinated would be, in the long run, a far better solution to China's problems with rabies, however it seems that the dark side's quicker, easier method will win out where money is concerned. I wonder how the Chinese would have felt, when the Bird Flu epidemic started over there, if other national governments authorised the slaying of any person from that area of the world to curb any chance of the disease spreading beyond where it had. While dogs are not higher animals like humans, because for all our intelligence and sentience we're still animals, that does not excuse this brutal and barbaric act.[/size]

[size=1][CENTER][img]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/taperson/costume_ent-lead__200x2850.jpg[/img] "[B]Maybe if I don't tell Camel-boy his fly is open some kid'll whack him one in the sack....[/B]"[/CENTER][/size]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. Most of what can be said has been said already, for a mother do to that to her own daughter is sickening, although I'm wondering where the father was when this was all going on. By the sound of the article, this had been going on for a time, and generally fathers seem to be good at sniffing out when something is wrong with their daughters. The boyfriend's sentence is far too long, while it seems she didn't resist, after all it happened several times, it still amounts to paedophilia, which should carry at least a 10 year sentence. The fact that the mother will still be allowed see the daughter is equally disturbing, what she has done should negate any chance she would ever have of seeing her child again.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Great chapter, my building a card pyramid while eating peanuts on an aeroplane is definitely not something I'm capable of in real life, but it's nice to know somewhere I can. As for Jamie's rifle, the Mark 12 SPR is a very nice weapon Phil, great choice can't wait to see how this continues to play out.[/SIZE]

[QUOTE=Shy][SIZE=1][B]#2[/b] [INDENT]The Arena's original metropolis.[/SIZE][/INDENT][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1]I'm going to take a guess at this one and say [b]Meteo City[/b], the RPG series that Hybrid Vigor is based off of.[/SIZE]

[quote name='ChibiHorsewoman][color=#9933ff][font=lucida calligraphy]Ok now I'm about to have a JS moment. I thought it was possible to have fourteen o'clock. Okay so technically it would be fourteen hundred hours or something, but give teh kid a break... Unless it wasn't even two there.[/color'][/font][/quote] [SIZE=1]Yeah it was 2 PM and he was wearing a digital watch, he realised the mistake right after saying it but I still joked with him about it. He's into the military, so I think he may have been trying for "Fourteen hundred hours" and made a balls of it.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. Wicked RPG Mike, I was wondering if you'd have any problem with my character being one of the priests that saved your's as a child ? I wanted to ask you before I wrote it in case you had a problem.[/SIZE]

[size=1]Interesting, most interesting. [b]Name:[/b] Fr. Sergei Geser [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Age:[/b] 84, looks roughly 52 [b]Race:[/b] Enhanced Human [b]Alliance:[/b] Lowendove Brotherhood [b]Physical Description:[/b] As seen [b][url=http://zeitgeistglee.250free.com/Kier.jpg]here[/url][/b]. Usually dresses in civilian clothes to avoid unwarranted attention during a hunt, stands roughly 6?2? with an athletic build. [b]Weapons:[/b] Sergei?s weapon of choice is a shotgun known as [b][url=http://www.gunshop.com/fanzoj/fanzoj_3br_4.jpg]the Purifier[/url][/b], though not standard by any means. A ?tri-bore? or triple barrelled-shotgun capable of firing three separate rounds on demand for dealing with various situations, though as is to be expected the payloads are intended for use against vampires rather than humans. His three most common rounds are as follows. [list][*][b][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Breath]Dragon?s Breath[/url]:[/b] Sergei?s signature round, DB is capable of char-grilling most vamps straight to death, or for the slightly more virulent ones until he can offload one of his next rounds. [*][b][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenneke_slug]Brenneke Silver Slugs[/url]:[/b] Just as it sounds, a silver slug designed to put vamps down permanently with a single shot, the increased accuracy has proven considerably more useful in situations of a moving target. [*][b]Armour-Piercing Frag-12 Round:[/b] The big daddy in Sergei?s arsenal, the Frag 12 is capable of penetrating 12mm into cold rolled steel and just perfect for blowing holes into night walkers. The explosive calibre of the round has been know to completely blow some vamps apart at close enough range.[/list] Given that Sergei does most of his hunting during the night, concealing the weapon has not proven too difficult, however during the rare day hunts, Sergei uses a specially filled leather guitar case to cover the gun. After all, how many cops are going to stop a priest carrying a guitar ? [b]Abilities:[/b] Being one of the first super soldiers created, Sergei's dose of the serum was slightly higher than the normal dosage. This has resulted in slightly more unusual enhancements that later generations of augments. Aside from the usual enhanced physical attributes and healing abilities, Sergei has developed very potent perceptual improvements, his eyesight, sense of smell, hearing, taste and tactile senses are all well above the norm for a human, some even surpassing that of lesser vampires. Added to this, and slightly disturbing for himself, Fr Geser has developed some uncontrollable telepathic tendencies, believed to be a side-affect from the serum, these tendencies are limited to mild telepathy and some psychokinesis and are not wilfully controllable, yet. [b]Personality:[/b] There is not much to say about Fr Sergei Geser, he is a quiet man by nature, an scholar as well as a warrior, and a man of great spiritual fortitude. Unfortunately incidents that have marred much of his life have left him decidedly cold, while once as a young man he was kind and talkative, now Geser is as hard as stone and as silent as the grave. His life revolves around the hunt, destroying those filthy abominations that have taken everything from him, his uncle, his self worth, and even his adoptive son David. He will never rest until he had killed them all, wiped their blight from the face of the Earth wherever they are to be found. When he does speak, his voice is emotionless, although if one gets to hear him regularly, a tiny tang of regret and sorrow may be noticed. [b]Biography:[/b] Sergei Geser was born in Krakow, Poland in 1922, and lead life that would be heavily shaped by world events. His parents were moderately successful citizens, his father being a cobbler by trade and his mother teaching in a local school. However, of all his relations, Sergei was most close to his uncle, also Sergei, who was Catholic priest in Krakow near the family home, after school, Sergei would go read in his uncle?s library, and though sparse it was greater than what he had access to at home. Although unknown to him at the time, his uncle Sergei was a member of the Lowendove Brotherhood and was guiding the young boy slowly into the Brotherhood at well. By 17, world events had left Sergei rather uncertain of his future, war was likely on the future, with Poland being a likely target by the renewed German threat. Having completed his education, Sergei had chosen to pursue a life in reverence of God, and joined the priesthood, it was not long after that, that his uncle and a fellow priest approached him to joined the ranks of the Brotherhood. The war with Germany was not all it seemed to be, the Nazis had formed an unholy alliance with several powerful European vampiric clans, and through the alliance, the Nazi were capable of striking out against holy threats across Europe, the Brotherhood in Poland being a particular threat. Sergei was integrated quickly into the ranks of the Brotherhood, in truth he had to be, by September open war would be declared by the Nazi?s, which gave him only months to complete his training and go underground. The training was harsh, even with his innate athleticism, Sergei often found himself going to bed at night covered in sweat and bruises, he knew of course that the training had to be harsh, because vampires were considerably more powerful than their human enemies. His studies in the religious lore of the priesthood also continued, and though his martial skills were more impressive, there was little denying he was an adept student of the Brotherhood. By July, his training had been completed as much as it could, and Sergei was presented with a handful of objects, silver rosary beads for his prayers, a bible to help guide his heart on the path, and the Purifier a prototype weapon developed for hunting. With these three items, Sergei was sent underground, he was not to openly identify himself as a priest, but he would continue his uncle?s work. The next eight years were the most painful and spiritually draining of Sergei?s entire life, the Germanic vampires scoured every Polish church they could find, murdering every priest, sister and brother unfortunate enough to fall within their grasp, in Krakow in 1942, Sergei found his uncle lying in a pool of his own blood, his neck torn to shreds by a recent feeding. The following moments are a blur of rage for Sergei, the vampires who had killed his uncle were still near the area, a pair of young females, barely out of their teens by appearance. He tracked them back to a Nazi base nearby, confronted them and killed them as savagely as an animal, by the time he was finished their bodily parts were barely identifiable, after this he systemically slaughtered every Nazi in the base one, by one, as silently as a ghost. The aftermath of that night took an immense toll on Sergei, both mentally and spiritually, in lowering himself to such savagery, he sought repentance in Italy, and the Vatican. In the half decade that followed, Sergei stayed almost exclusively within the Vatican spending days praying and fasting for his sins on that awful night, the other Lowendove Brotherhood members attempted to console him, stating that his reaction had been one of God's Fury rather than his own inner rage but nothing seemed to work. After five long years, the young Polish priest felt that he had finally mastered the rage within himself and overcome the shame of that night in his homeland, he resolved to return to the Brotherhood and once again take up the hunt. The years that followed were for a time uneventful, from Rome, he was dispatched to all corners of Europe to deal with the vampire threats that had survived WW2. In 1952, Sergei and a fellow Brother saved a young Greek boy from vampires in London, unfortunately the boys parents were beyond their aide, asking the child's name, he replied David. David was taken for Brotherhood training, like many non-clergy, his joining the Brotherhood was more to do with a desire for revenge than anything. Sergei left active fieldwork to train David, hoping to turn the young man from the path of simple vengeance to something more noble in the service of the Almighty, to do so, he presented David with the Chains of Heaven, an ancient weapon of the Order that would help him focus his determination. As the years past, Sergei was astounded by the boys achievements, his training accelerated faster than anyone had imagined. In the early 1970s when the enhancement serum was still untested, Sergei volunteered to become a test patient, it was better he felt for an old man like himself to be at risk than the young and promising like David. The serum was a success and with his new abilities, Sergei resolved to training David and the other supersoldiers even further than they had been, with their new powers, they would become the elite vampire hunting squad of the Vatican. Unfortunately however, barely two years into the groups foundation, David fled from the Brotherhood after a mission, trying to catch up with him to offer him held, Sergei spent the next eighteen months searching for him, only to find that he had joined GSD and become an operative for them. Hit by this betrayal, Sergei became the active leader of the Vatican?s hunters, dispatching only those who he felt would be able to handle kills by themselves. The next 30 years passed as though months for the now immortal priest, his methods retained their brutal efficiency, some within the Brotherhood even suggested that the hunters were becoming too brutal, targeting members of AVC as well as unaligned threats. By 2010 when the incident occurred, Sergei had killed an estimated 200 vampires, putting him as a priority target among his enemies.[/size]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. Thankful for me I don't have too many of these Jessica Simpson moments, mostly involving having no idea what day it is, which is pretty common and annoying if you want to watch something on TV. However the most recent of these JS moments for me has to belong to me younger brother Dave, I asked him what time it was about half an hour ago, he looked as his digital watch and told me fourteen o'clock. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Wow, this is getting pretty contentious, hard to believe that could happen with a topic as innocuously titled as Pirates or Ninjas. My vote however still lies with the pirate camp, a lot of people have brought up how pirates are smelly, unwashed and generally drunk. However you need to remember that these guys were sailing the seas back when it was still something that could quite easily kill you, they also trained to handle pistols, rifles and cutlass. Sure ninjas have the whole stealth thing, but a well trained pirate would nail him with a rifle before he ever got within range of being able to throw a shuriken. Pirates are also generally bigger and stronger than ninjas, making a sword confrontation rather more dicey, sure a ninja has skills, but brute strength as unrefined as it is still plays a major role. Taking away the combat segment, pirates also have better digs, better chicks and generally better lives, someone called a pirate dirty, I'll bet you ninjas didn't exactly have access to running hot showers everyday either. Plus after all the stuff they do, pirates can become privateers and everything becomes legal, a ninja can't exactly kill someone legally.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. Like most other people here, my life outside of OB is rather mundane made up of some pointless summer housework and a few hobbies. Mostly this is made up of addictions to several sci-fi shows, going to the movies, playing golf and generally abusing my digits by rigorous amounts of video gaming. Add to that the internet and listening to music and you've got my life for the moment, well that and 90 minutes in the gym every night, but that's training rather than fun.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. As much as I wanted to tell you to tell them to go to hell Sara for what they've put you through, I think you're right to send them back the $66.66. While everything they did was underhanded, and you were perfectly within your rights to tell them you'd have liked more notice, they obvious don't have any problem with going after you in principle for what they've seen as a wronging. At the end of the day, they get back their money, but you keep your self respect in knowing that you gave a pair of babies what they wanted, and most people can't put a price on self respect.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. I have to say Phil that I read every new fanfic that enters the Anthology, but few aside from DWs work ever leave me wanting more, however this is most certainly one of those few. From the entrance I'd have to say this is based on "The Prometheus Deception" by Robert Ludlum as it was instantly familiar to me. As for my being cast as the demolitions expert of the team, is that your coy way of saying that most Irish people have an intimate knowledge of explosives ? :P All jokes aside, I look forward eagerly to the next chapter.[/SIZE]

[QUOTE=Shy][size=1][b]#1[/b] [indent][i]Armed and ready for a break[/indent][/i][/size][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1]The member known as [B]RiflesatRecess[/B].[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting.[/SIZE] [quote name='Sara][color=#b0000b][size=1]But welcome to the boards, all the same. =][/size'][/color][/quote] [SIZE=1]Indeed, please don't allow we Oldies, who are usually in on some joke between all of us but not you, get you down. In only a few years you'll be able to do the same. Jokes aside, the Newbie Lounge's deletion was one of the better decisions on OB. Oh and Boo, I think that should be [B]strives[/B], not [B]strafes[/B]. Unless that we're talking about strafing away from the odd piece of spam that hits the Lounge ever now and then.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting.[/SIZE] [quote name='indifference][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue']I ran across this the other day and since I know there are members here who are big fans of the Star Wars series (I'm looking at you Gavin ;) ) I figured they would get as much of a kick out of them as I did. Though you've all probably already read this list. Anyway...[/COLOR][/quote] [SIZE=1]OK, and I am officially weird out because this is the first time I've decided to read this thread in ages. Anyway time to add a few bad jokes of my own. [B]What do you call a guy with a shovel ?[/B] - Doug [B]What do you call I guy without a shovel ?[/B] - Douglas [B]How do you confuse a [insert minority in your country often accused of being unintelligent] ?[/B] - Put three shovels up against a wall and tell him to take his pick.[/SIZE]