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Different strokes for different folks I guess lol. I HATE Angry Beavers personally (and while I'm at it, CatDog), but oh well :).

Well I must say I am very happy about Ren and Stimpy returning. I wouldn't mind Rocco's Modern Life either. What other show had an episode about a dog trying to have sex with a mop? I think just Rocco lol. I've heard of Stripperella... but it sounded so forced that I never bothered checking it out. Pam should just stick to crap like VIP, which has new episodes stuck into Saturday afternoons when no one watches TV. They should really try to pursue some of the primetime cartoons FOX cancelled too... I know they would do well if advertised properly.

We have problems with e. coli around the beaches on Lake Michigan here in the summer. They have to close down some of them every so often. I don't like swimming in that dirty lake anyway, so I don't mind lol. Last time I went swimming there I came out with a 6 pack holder and some newspaper on me. Quite sad heh.

There is always Animerica Extra... which really is just a manga compilation with some Japanese culture stories mixed in. I think the manga in it right now is Utena, Chicago, Video Girl AI, Fushugi Yugi and some others I can't remember. Animerica is seperate of course, but doesn't really interest me. There is a magazine called Play here. It's a video game, movie and anime entertainment magazine. I've never bothered to check it out, but I've heard good things. Wizard puts out something called Anime Invasion... But I've never bought this either. If it's anything like Wizard I'm not interested lol. Then of course there are always the online e-zines such as [url]www.atanime.com[/url]

If you are desperate... [url]www.jlist.com[/url] has tons of snacks and candies you can order. They have a lot of other hard to find Japanese items there as well. Prices aren't too bad, although I'm sure the shipping isn't cheap if it is sent from Japan (some are mailed from California).

The amount of backtracking in this game is reaching Resident Evil levels... This Deep Jungle area quite simply is pissing me off. You have to go back and forth between the same two areas a million times. I don't know how hard this game is in Normal mode, but I'm playing Expert and the difficulty really picked up rather suddenly. It takes Sabor 2 hits to kill me, and the monkey heartless in this level can kill you in 3 depending. Sabor thankfully was really easy each time, and still easy the final time. The last boss in the area is rather annoying though lol.

These are bizarre... I'm kind of glad I had my own room when I was away for college, and didn't have to deal with it lol.

I don't get to go to Chinatown anymore... In Chicago we have a HUGE Chinatown; lots of great stores and restaurants. The only candy we ever bought there was Chinese rice paper candy. Those pink candies that come with a free sticker heh. I've seen other candies around... Our supermarkets here suddenly have a Japanese section. Lots of Sushi stuff, snacks and whatever else. I'm not a fan of candy either way, so I mostly buy these roasted peas covered in wasabi. Those kick *** :).

All their CDs are quite different. Tangents is good (I think that's their Greatest Hits, can't remember lol), but personally I prefer Tranmission as it has more of a "industrial" type sound to it.

Those links in my sig are to band sites, most of which it seems no one knows lol (obviously NIN and to an extent Cibo Matto are the exceptions). I love all of them to varying degrees. They are all pretty different from eachother in terms of genre/style. I also like this band called Dog Fashion Disco which no one knows, but it's probably because their CDs are near impossible to find. Same with Orbit... I never see their stuff at stores anywhere around here. I can hardly find their stuff online either. I'm always surprised by how few people know Pixies, Cure or The Tea Party... I think they are all worth checking out.

I started the game on Expert, just for the hell of it... so far the game hasn't been any challege, but I'm barely anywhere into it. I've been playing just over 2 hours and finally got to another Disneyfied world. Overall, I'm pretty impressed so far. At first, I wasn't really that amazed by the graphics... the human characters and the first area look good, but were nothing mind blowing. The Disney characters look incredibly good though. When I first saw them, they looked so clean and animated so well that I thought it was video. Took me a bit to realize it was in game. Considering I've never had that happened before, that's saying a lot. Music is good, the voices are excellent (although I can tell which Disney voices are different from their very originals which gets kind of annoying, but the actors are probably dead by now anyway). I haven't been too annoyed by the camera, although it does seem to get behind when there are several guys on screen. So far I'm loving it. Some of the Disney parts are actually funny... and I really enjoy seeing what Disney characters are in the game (ESPECIALLY Nightmare Before Christmas, which is one of my favorite things ever haha). Only thing kind of disappointing was the Gummi Ship. I'd rather skip that mini-game altogether. So yeah, sorry to go on and on. Hopefully I'll catch up to some of you soon lol.

I remember them from back when they had this one single... I heard it once or twice in passing, but have never bothered to listen since. Tell me some good songs, and I'll check them out :).

I dunno if I ever considered Chocobo raising a mini game, but I liked trying to get new chocobo types. The fact that there was an actual reason to get the gold chocobo (new summons, travel anywhere, etc.) instead of you simply just getting the chocobo for show was nice. The Golden Saucer games were cool for the most part, other than the strange moogle mating arcade machine... FF8 and 9 both had lacluster games in my opinion. I hated the card game in FF8, but at least it was never really forced on you. The FF9 card game was leagues better, but I still didn't find it fun. I also didn't really like that the game made you play it in that one tournament. FFX takes the cake for worst minigame though. I can't say I totally understand Blitzball, but making something like that turn based makes no sense. It is the most monotonous and downright boring thing in a FF game ever. It basically just comes off as turn based dodgeball.

I'm getting the game tonight along with Star Fox Adventures. Which dificulty level is everyone playing at? I think I'm just going to choose the harder of the two heh :). Sounds like everyone is enjoying it, so I'm looking forward to playing it some tonight.

Isn't cheating always dangerous?

I play tenor and alto saxophone... Was in some school bands as well as various side bands kids would make outside of that (jazz groups and such). I play some keyboard and guitar when I get a chance, but I'm not very good at either (I mostly rely on tabs for guitar playing).

There was a list on some boards of NES games included in the Japanese version of this game... I'll list the ones I can remember. I'm not sure if all of these made it into the US verison, if some were replaced, removed, added, etc. Here's what I can remember off hand: Common games (found in the grabbag at the start of the game, or otherwise easy to get): Donkey Kong Pinball Donkey Kong Jr. Math Balloon Fight Cluclu Land Tennis Excitebike Donkey Kong Jr. Uncommon Games: The Legend of Zelda (Given away via promotion in Japan) Super Mario Bros. (Given away via promotion in Japan) Wario's Woods (Found on the GBA Island) Cluclu Land D (The Famicom Disk System verison of the same game) Mahjong Punchout!! There were 5 or so others that I can't remember, for a total of 19 games. Dunno about the US version's total as of yet.

[url]http://www.xbox.com/news/0209/rarepressrelease.htm?det=1[/url] Well this should prove it to everyone. I'm sure whatever is being shown of Kameo or PD on Xbox was originally up and running on GC, which is pretty weird to think about lol. I figured MS would make Rare make sequels to most of it's Nintendo games, and judging from that page they are doing just that.

It doesn't even seem to have anything do to with FF8, or any FF for that matter, in the first place lol. His last name is Leonheart, that might be why :).

Back in your day? lol Anyway, Good songs that are worth getting are The Days of the Phoenix, Fall Children, Totalimmortal, Two of a Kind, Brownie Bottom Sundae, Malleus Maleficarum, Clove Smoke Catharsis, The Last Kiss, Ever and a Day, 6 to 8, Morningstar... I named too many already, but those are all songs I personally feel are worth downloading at the least.

I'm not looking forward to playing EO on Xbox either... I can't stand the placement of the Black and White buttons (especially on the S controller, which is the one I like to use). The triggers are just too stiff to use as buttons as well. Just get one of these: [img]http://www.ebgames.com/ebx_assets/product_images/217294.jpg[/img] A few different companies make them. Then you can get the best version of the game available and play with with a PS2 controller. They make these for Xbox too, if that's what you prefer. Of course, there is the older PS2 version that was mentioned here... which gameplay wise is the same other than the new ISMs the EO version has. It's like only 30 to 40 bucks at a lot of stores right now too.

Simply sounds like she isn't ready for any relationship. I'm not so sure you are either, considering you seem so attached to something that apparently wasn't working (no offense to you at all). I think you are best moving on and seeing what happens next. I wouldn't obsess over something that didn't last long and doesn't seem like it was meant to be. There are lots of other girls out there.

Doesn't sound like you played much past the first area to me, but hey if you don't like it... that's fine by me lol. As for what was being said aboce the last post --- I personally don't find Mario to be any more repetitious than other platformers. I have quite a few (small for the most part) problems with SMS, but it's strange that it still manages to be the best 3D platformer I've ever played.

I don't think a good band is suddenly crappy because it's "mainstream." It's not like MxPx has changed their sound in order to fit in, they've always sounded like they do. I like MxPx depending, at least they do what they do well. I could so without some of the "I love Jesus" songs, but that's a personal matter lol. I personally think their studio CDs are horrbile, as they are just not mixed well and the singing seems off. MxPx is awesome live, and I'd recommend their live CD "At the Show" to just about anyone. That's the only CD of theirs I can really get into.

[url]http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s682222.htm[/url] [quote]Mel Gibson is set to direct a movie about Christ's last 12 hours played out entirely in two ancient tongues - Latin and Aramaic - with no subtitles. The formula hardly sounds like the recipe for a hit movie but Gibson thinks language should be no barrier for the film, titled Passion. "For me that's more real and hopefully I'll be able to transcend language barriers with filmic storytelling," Gibson said. "It's very visual and it's about something that has ... affected civilisation in every possible way you can imagine," the 46-year-old actor, a devout Catholic, added. But Gibson, a perennial Hollywood favourite with lead roles in the hit Lethal Weapon series, Braveheart and more recently Signs, acknowledged his choice of languages for the new film was causing headaches as far as US distributors were concerned. "No-one wants to touch something in two dead languages. They think I'm insane, maybe I am," joked Gibson, who was born in New York but grew up in Australia. Gibson is very much of the old school and a Latin service is still held at the private chapel of his California home. He also had some sharp words for the modern-day Catholic Church, rocked this year by allegations of child abuse. "It's very easy to be shaken these days faith-wise. All this kind of paedophilia stuff in the United States, it's hard to hang on to a foundation with this stuff going on," he said. Shooting will switch between the famous Cinecitta studios just outside Rome and cave-riddled Matera in southern Italy. Gibson acknowledged he was filming "in the shadow of the dome" but brushed aside questions on whether the Vatican would approve of the film. "I don't know what they like these days," he said, adding his priority was to make a credible film. "Many people have told the story but ... it's like looking at it from the wrong end of the telescope, I mean Jesus either suffers from bad hair or it's inaccurate or you don't believe it," he said. But Gibson, who turned down Martin Scorsese's offer of playing Jesus, has once again shied away from the role, giving it to Jim Caviezel, star of The Count of Monte Cristo and High Crimes. "There's two things I wouldn't do on film and I said this when I was in my 20s - I will never play myself if it ever comes to that and I will never play Jesus."[/quote] At first I thought this was pretty strange, but the more I thought about it the cooler it seemed. It kind of reminds me of picture books, where you can see what's going on... but you kind of have to make it up yourself at the same time. Of course, a movie has the added benefit of sound, so I'm sure emotions would be put to better use. I took Latin for 4 years in High School, finally I have a use for it other than figuring out the roman numberal copyright dates for movies lol. ---- I also just realized how poorly written this article is. How do these people get these jobs anyway?