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I don't get Jim Carrey. If I act like that, or anyone else I know, we're looked down upon in some fashion. People think we're immature. For the most part anyway, there are exceptions. He does it, and the audience cheers and he gets millions of dollars. I want my million dollars.

You can catch a few pigs on Outset Island, so yeah... you can. And I don't see how the N64 Link is THE Link. Perhaps only for people who played the recent games, but there were many games before that as well. Why does this bother people so much? Has everyone forgotten how cartoony OoT was in the first place? Hell, the game basically plays [i]exactly[/i] the same even, so there's no difference in that. Much of the music is the same. The character development is probably the best so far, especially in terms of Ganon... and they finally did something new with the plot. I don't get how anyone could complain.

Little kids. There was some toddler at the Filipino store I was at the the other day, and he waved at me at smiled. So I did the same. I don't smile back at most anyone, but it's hard not to at kids. I also randomly remember funny events in my life or lines from the Simpsons on the train to school, and wind up almost laughing at those.

Zelda was released in Japan in 1984. I think the Famicom Disk System version was in 1986, which allowed for save (the original used passwords I think). Everywhere else, it was 1986, like was said. Hell, the Famicom wasn't even released until 1983, so 1981 isn't even possible. In the past, I think you can mostly look at Shirgeru as basically an Art Director. He doesn't necessarily make the end product, but he is heavily involved in the design process and where it is headed to. That role is lessened now, as he mostly acts as producer at this point from what I remember. As for mistakes, there are many. They've obviously made many right decisions though. I think it's important to differentiate between what [i]we[/i] think are mistakes and what [i]they[/i] do. For all the complaining people do about certain practices, Nintendo gets more money thanks to those very same practices. To them, it's the money, and really I think that's all it was ever going to be about. Thankfully they seemed to generally be more about getting sales thanks to quality games than just pumping out licensed garbage. It seems as though they're headed into a new direction with Iwata... He seems to know the source of many of their problems... problems I don't think Yamauchi even wanted to notice. So we'll see. Cartridges for N64 was probably their biggestthough, along with the poor development kits early on. Especially in terms of Square, who alone isn't a HUGE deal... but they convinced Enix to jump ship with them. Until that point, Dragon Quest 7 was still planned for the N64's 64DD. It's pretty much a given that most every other 3rd party will follow Enix and Square because the systems are guaranteed a huge base just because of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. I don't consider Virtual Boy that much of a mistake. It was horribly priced, and few games really took advantage of it... But it could have been a very cool idea if it was pulled off properly. Wario Land VB and Mario Clash still kick ***.

Other than Halo 2, the only games that matter in any "recent" time frame to me are Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Psychonauts and possibly Fable. Don't care otherwise, to be honest.

I find The Fragile to be pretty uplifting in the end... so you might enjoy it. It kind of flops around emotionally the entire time, but manages to stay pretty solid. Maybe I just find lots of crazy beats and such nice though. Who knows. It has We're in This Together Now, which is one of the few somewhat hopeful songs NIN ever had. Either way, I recommend it... but don't get ripped off. CD stores try to sell it for nearly $30. You can find it for $20 or so if you look around.

It's dumb, dumber and dumbest. So, yeah, it's a word. I just generally dye all my hair, sometimes I split it into two or more colors. I'm not into half-assed dyes where only some is put in. I see a lot of girls do that... where it just looks dirty and faded. Tips and bangs and such are nice generally.

I am curious to what the performance was. Was it an original thing or based on something that has been in existance for a while?

I used to really, really hate climbing up the ladder to our roof. At one point, I had to put a 30 foot ladder up all the way and go to the second to last rung. It's not that I afraid of heights... but I'm afraid that the ladder will just fall over or something else. I actually got over this the other day though. My other one is basically being in our basement in the pitch black dark. No, I'm not afraid of the dark. I just do not like our basement at all. I don't even like being in there when it is lit. I don't feel right down there. So that's it heh.

You'd probably have no idea how bad he'd be in bed though heh. Usually if someone is good at everything else, you'd have to assume they are good with that too... but you really never know.

Ah okay, I see what you mean. I misunderstood. This is my suggestion. I know it won't even fly, but I want to get it out there. I think we do not need 4 gaming sections. I do, however, think consoles and PC should be kept seperate because of the tech stuff that is included. So basically what I am suggesting is a console forum and a PC forum and that's it. The console forums have been so slow that I just don't see a reason to justify them being seperate. I also think combining them all would lead to far greater discussion between all groups... because it leads Nintendo only fans to read Xbox threads and vice versa. There would be confusion at first... but I think if things are labelled well, that will all be taken care of after some adjusting. The same with any other problems that may arise.

Music/Movies/TV is the only forum I really spend any amount of time in, followed by Otaku Lounge. The Gaming areas have just been slow overall lately, MS in particular, so I don't spend as much time in there as I used to. Other than that, I don't really care where I am.

There is an option for that. You must just not have all the right things selected. I've been here over a year and have yet to get any emails.

Almost all of NIN's CDs are still in print and easy to find. Even most of the singles, although I'm not sure about a couple of the imports. In fact, Pretty Hate Machine just recently went triple platinum. You should be able to find a good deal of their stuff nearly everywhere. The only NIN disc I've yet to get is the import Head Like a Hole single. I've seen it once, but I passed. All it has is an extra remix that was never released in the US, but I want it anyway heh. Anyway, I'm glad some people read what I wrote. Took me quiet awhile to type out heh.

Meh. I wish Shy would post in here so everyone can read more opinions from people that actually SAW it. Harry seems to be the only one.

I don't have a secret place. If anything, I camp out in my room... which is open to random people bursting into it all the time. The pool thing is something I do as well. Our pool goes to 6 feet at the end, which is nice.

Bleaching simply damages your hair. Particularly if you are not responsible. Most people wind up frying their hair eventually, and it has to be cut. I think bleaching just to bleach is stupid. Bleach blondes [b]do not look blonde[/b], so it pretty much defeats the purpose if you ask me. It looks alright if they bleach the top and leave the roots dark, but now so many people do that. Personally, I do dye my hair very often simply because I cannot stand my hair. I can't do anything with it, and dying lets me make up for it some heh. I've done it with many different types and styles. There's lots you can do... especially if you get into mulitple colors or creating your own mixtures. Stuff like silver, green, teal, pink, violet, etc. I have yet to actually bleach it though, simply because I'm already blonde. It would make my hair incredibly vivid, but I've not bothered at this point. Probably once I'm secure in my next job I'll do ultraviolet after a bleach. That or pink again. It can be pretty enjoyable.

It's funny that so many people waited for this book for hours. I went to a few book stores today trying to find an Ultimates paperback. Every store had at least 10 copies in heh.

All I can really say is that you might want to make more use of the selection tools and magic wands. The only problem you seem to be having so far is staying inside the lines, which that would take care of. Nice job so far, considering you just started.

"I love my Power Glove. It's so bad." - Lucas Barton Lucas Barton should be everyone's hero. We'd all be better off. The movie was so stupid that I can't help but like most of it in some strange way. The funny thing was that none of the kids in the top 3 seemed to be all that good at the games. I still have no idea how any of those kids knew anything about SMB3, especially considering that the movie makes it clear that no one else had played it before. I never understood why the girl they're with is the one screaming at him to use the whistle to warp. How the hell would she know? From what I remember, she didn't even care about games. Whatever though heh.

I thought I posted in here. I guess not heh. I saw it the day it came out. There were tons of little kids talking to the movie. Normally I'd probably be annoyed, but what could I expect? I thought it was kind of funny though. At one point, some little girl came over and touched my hat lol. Anyway, I thought the movie was great. Sometimes it felt like it was holding your hand through it too much, but it didn't bother me much. Even the surfer turtle wasn't as annoying as I expected. I still think this is a second to Monsters, Inc. though.

I am deeply disturbed by the lack of posts. I'm just going to write and write and see what happens. NIN deserves it. I'm going to assume that most people at OB don't know tons about NIN, so I'm going to write this in a way that addresses that. This will be LONG. There's your warning. ....................................... I noticed the people that posted in here seemed to mostly be familiar with The Downward Spiral. I really recommend you get all their main releases (Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, TDS and The Fragile), mostly because they are all so different. I think the thing that really makes NIN so important stems really from their debut. Although Trent doesn't refer to NIN as "industrial", I'll refer to them as an industrial band because that's what they're closest to in general. Back in 1989 when Pretty Hate Machine came out... Industrial was already a growing force, but still mostly underground. Mainly because the bigger groups at the time had a very harsh sound. Skinny Puppy and Ministry come to mind (although interestingly, Down In it - PHM's first single - was directly influenced by a Skinny Puppy song called Dig It). The whole disc basically has a dance sound to it. NIN more or less brought this sound to the masses by making it accessible... but unlike most groups that to this, the sound wasn't watered down to the point that it sounded like something else that was trying too hard to fit in. I think this was important, mostly because it gave Trent (who at the time WAS NIN, for all intents and purposes) a level of integrity that many other musicians/bands lack. At the time, NIN was with TVT, who published all his stuff. There were a few singles released with various versions... Down In It (which was before PHM), Head Like a Hole and Sin (which has an amazing cover of Queen's Get Down Make Love on it). All of the CDs were referred to as "Halos", which has stuck to this day. We're at Halo Seventeen right now, now that And All That Could Have Been is released. There was a falling out with TVT for various reasons though, and Halo Five was recorded largely in secret. It was eventually published by Interscope, and was named Broken. I don't remember all the details, but Trent's nothing records was established at this time as well (1992, that is). Strangely they didn't publish anything but NIN records until Manson's singles in 1994... although there are about a dozen groups on the label now. Most improtantly Squarepusher, Autchre, The The, 12 Rounds and Prick... at least in my opinion. I forget if Einstein Neubauten was on nothing or not. Broken is my favorite NIN disc for many reasons. I don't really know if I can put most of them into words... I think the main reason is that it really is nothing but pure emotion. I can't think of many other releases (let alone EPs, like this is... it wasn't an LP) that really feel as genuine as this disc does. There are a couple instrumentals on it that I don't listen to often (especially Pinion, as it's mostly just an intro)... but overall the disc is awesome. Not to mention the excellent songs at the end: Suck and a wonderful cover of Adam Ant's Physical, which is probably the closest a song has ever gotten to pure digital sex (other than Get Down Make Love heh). It even has a jab at the start against some guy at TVT heh. Around this time, I think NIN really discovered how important music videos could be in terms of art. Pretty Hate Machine's videos were basically standard fair. Broken's were on another plane of existance altogether. I think anyone that has seen the video for "Happiness in Slavery" could agree with that. There was also a promo tape known as the "Broken Video" that came out around that time. It was done on a cheap camera, which gave it an almost snuff appearance. The whole concept of the video was basically a man being tortured to death while he watched NIN videos. It's probably among the most realistic violence I've EVER seen on tape... so if you're into that stuff, check it out heh. Fixed was released soon after, which was basically a Broken remix album. Let's just say that calling this disc horrible is a compliment. I cannot stand it, and most of the remixes on it are simply awful. I don't know why this was released to be honest, but Trent himself had very little to do with the remixes for the most part... just like on all the remix CDs. I don't know when things started to change... if it was after Broken or after the next LP, The Downward Spiral... But I notice a lot of people started getting the opinion that NIN, and Trent specifically, had started getting full of themsevles and catering to the masses. I've never quite understood that, as Broken itself was probably years ahead a good deal of the industrial/metal scene at the time... and The Downward Spiral kind of ushered in that whole era of sound, rather than just clinging to it and emulating, but whatever. I think the main reason people think this is because of how angry and forceful the disc is... but so was Broken. So, cut to 1996. Halo Eight, The Downward Spiral came out... which is when most people discovered NIN for obvious reasons. This was around the time when groups such as themselves and Manson and other hard rock groups were finally tearing down the stagnating grunge scene, which really hadn't been evolving for a while by that time. Most people know NIN for Closer or Hurt, which are of this release. March of the Pigs and Piggy were also two pretty successful singles. Again, the videos kept going. I think Closer was probably the highlight. The sexual innuendo on it was pretty risky at the time, and just really well done.... but still so random. There were a few more singles that had some remixes on them. March of the Pigs was Halo Seven, and thus already released. Closer to God was Halo Nine. So then we get another remix album, which thankfully wasn't so bad. It was Halo Ten, and called Further Down the Spiral. There was some nice stuff on it... specifically Eraser (Polite). I wound up having to buy the US release AND the import, because they were two diferent versions that had different tracks on them. NIN has done this a few times, sadly. Too much money. The other thing of importance was probably NIN's tour with David Bowie. Mostly because Bowie is one of my heroes in a sense. I respect him and idolize him basically. They wound up doing a few songs together and remixing other things. Trent helped with Bowie's I'm Afraid of Americans, as well as appearing in the video for it. Next is probably the biggest annoyance I've ever had with NIN: Halo Eleven - The Perfect Drug Versions. I am still not impressed with this CD. It's nothing but four remixes by random people and one by NIN. The part that really pisses me off is the complete lack of the original version of the song. At the time, you could only get it on the Lost Highway soundtrack. This wasn't a first... as you could only get Dead Souls on The Crow soundtrack and Burn off the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. However, it was annoying to get these remixes and not the original. The Perfect Drug didn't even wind up on a Halo until years later on a Fragile single. Next was Closure, Halo Twelve. It was just a two tape set of all NIN's videos up until that point and live footage. Worth checking out. It needs to be on DVD. The next LP was The Fragile, a double disc release. I think in many ways, The Fragile is NIN's masterpiece. I can really think of very few flaws with the whole thing, especially considering the scope of it. This was Halo 14; 13 being the single for The Day the World Went Away. The Fragile is something that I think everyone should own. It's probably the best double disc album ever created. Halo 15 was the single for We're In This Together, which had an amazingly cool video. I think the annoying aspect of this was the fact that Halo 15 was more or less import only and was spread across three different discs that generally costed $10 to $15 each. This was the set that contained The Perfect Drug, finally. Sixteen was another remix CD, Things Falling Apart, which was excellent. The highlight for me being a cover of Gary Numan's Metal. Gary Numan was a huge influence for bands like NIN and Manson, and I'm sure hundreds more. He's famousmostly for the song Cars, which Fear Factory eventually covered. Seventeen was And All That Could Have Been. A live album, which came in a few parts. The first was a live DVD concert. The second was the CD itself, which came in two versions: one disc and two disc. The two disc set was worth it mostly because it had a few new songs as well as "deconstructed" versions of older classic songs. The Becoming was a standout. I think the most interesting thing about this time period was the tour. You really need to see the DVD to understand what a huge live presence NIN is... in terms of sound and visuals. The Fragile didn't do as well as Interscope wanted apparently (although it did go well over platinum, so go figure)... so they pulled most of the funding for the Fragility tour from what I understand. Trent supposedly wound up gathering the money himself to pay for the tour. I'd imagine it did well enough to recoup the losses. Now we're sitting here hoping for somethinf new soon. Trent was doing the soundtrack for Doom III (like he did for Quake years earlier), but recently dropped it because it was taking up to much time. Hopefully this means the album is a priority. There is also the Tapeworm project... mostly something between Trent and Maynard James Keenan of Tool. Phil Anselmo of Pantera was also involved. Who knows when this will be coming out, but pretty much any fan of these bands has been anticipating it for years. Maynard wound up playing a Tapeworm song live at some concert (you can find it on Kazaa and such), which apparently greatly annoyed Trent. So at least there is progress lol. Previous and current members of NIN have also gone on to be rather successful. Most have very prominant remixing careers, such as Vrenna, Clouser and Lohner. I'd say doing Smashing Pumpkins, U2 and Rob Zombie mixes is pretty good personally heh. Vrenna himself now is a group known as tweaker. He basically does all the music, and has guests to the singing. He was NIN's drummer. He also produces... most noticably Cold's first disc, Jack Off Jill's final disc and anything Scarling is putting out in any recent time period. Lohner is now supposedly part of A Perfect Circle. He also played bass with NIN on tours. And lastly we have Richard Patrick who wound up forming Filter... whose first release, Short Bus, was pretty damn good in my opinion. Most of these guys have been part or around NIN for quite some time. ----------- So yeah, there you go. Pretty much everything you'd want to know about the band in a somewhat short biography heh. At least compared to how long I [i]could[/i] have been. Skips over tons of stuff, but whatever. It's 5 AM. I'm out.

There was plans to do that with their last releases... I remember reading that they chose against it, partly because of the problems it would cause... mostly sales wise. They cited NIN's The Fragile as an example for why they decided not to. The Fragile sold rather well though, so who knows.

No, he means Goldeneye 2. All I know is that EA got the rights to it. I'd have to assume they are using the same team and engine as in Nightfire, which is quite good. I haven't heard anything about it, outside of the announcement. They're also making some 3rd person Bond game called Everything or Nothing, which looks surprisingly good.

I actually like the idea you have here, but I think it needs some tweaking. I think it could wind up being really nice. First of all, the image in the background... the sunset, or rise, or whatever it is. I can't tell if it was just really low quality, or if you stretched it out to fit. Either way, I think you could find a much better image for the background if you look. Their are plenty of sites with high quality photos that would work. I'd look for one the same size as the image you're making. I'd actually suggest some sort of background that goes more with the colors of the guy on the cliff though. His teal color really offsets what's in the background on the other side. I don't know if you should play with his colors, or just find a better image for the background. I like the guy you picked though. The other thing is the font. The font choice itself isn't [i]that[/i] bad, but it doesn't really fit... And just making it plain kind of makes it stick out too much. Like you just gave up and stuffed it there lol. Again, the color offsets the background. So I think if you take those things in mind and spend a bit more time on it... you could probably make something really cool with this idea.