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[quote name='James' timestamp='1294719960' post='703788'] [font=palatino linotype]You need someone to stand on your back. One of my friends did that to another friend once...just watching it made my back ache, but apparently it helped. Haha. :P[/font] [/quote] [color=deeppink]I've never had anyone walk on my back before, but I do have a friend who will pop it for me. Hurts like a sumbitch when he does it (and I HATE it when my bones pop), but that tends to fix it after a day or two. [/color]

[color=deeppink]My back is so messed up that I am desperately trying to turn everything into my room into some sort of back massager. Nothing is working. Even now I'm eyeing my bed considering how I might put it on top of me.[/color]

[color=deeppink]I'm extremely resentful of the laughter at the mention of Kei being a Pokemod. *glare*[/color]

[color=deeppink]I love drinking songs.[/color]

[color=deeppink]So I was browsing the interwebs, and I found this article about Mark Ruffalo being put on a terror advisory list, and I'm curious so I read it. The article mentions that he was put on this list because of screenings of a movie where he criticized natural gas drilling. However, instead of explaining [i]what exactly[/i] in the movie got him put on the list, or any explanation at all besides "Movie got him put on a terrist list!" it then goes on to describe... ... how him filming sex scenes is awkward for his wife. I hate internet journalism.[/color]

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[quote name='Boo' date='22 November 2010 - 11:12 AM' timestamp='1290445933' post='702040'] Ohhh, you're one of [i]those[/i] people. [/quote] [color=deeppink]Yes, because **** casserole and lukewarm turkey. Seriously.[/color]

[color=deeppink]Holidays usually mean I have to eat a lot food that I don't like. I would kill for a family that eats out on a holiday.[/color]

[color=deeppink]My insomnia is getting stupid. For some reason last night, the time I usually fall asleep at night shifted by about 3 hours, and not in the good way. Then, maybe about an hour, hour and a half later, I woke up. It took me a while to even realise I had fallen asleep. Then, after another hour and a half or two hours later, I fall asleep again, only to wake up after a half hour. This kept happening, and that's how I was able to get out of bed at twelve-thirty and still only get four hours of sleep.[/color]

[color=deeppink]I'm almost definitely not going to get Kinect; the theory behind it is fine, but I've played games like this before. There's a first person arcade shooter that does something similar to this; I don't know if it detects you're there or uses a pressure plate or what, but to duck you had to actually crouch. And let me tell you, I played it for about 5 minutes and it [i]destroyed[/i] my knees. And I'm not really a guy with knee problems. In fact, I'm typically a goddamn monkey, always crouching everywhere. There was just something about the way the game made me move. I imagine there's going to be something like that going on for Kinect. Plus I'm not plopping down that much money for shovelware again.[/color]

[quote name='Lady Shy' date='29 October 2010 - 01:54 PM' timestamp='1288378472' post='701380'] Huh. I can explore quite a bunch still of the ship. Couldn't bother to see if it was everything, but it's more than just cockpit. [/quote] [color=deeppink]I was exaggerating mildly, but I only recall two rooms. That might be because of the glitch, though; it tends to make teleporters useless.[/color]

[quote name='James' date='24 October 2010 - 10:24 PM' timestamp='1287977099' post='701286'] [font="Palatino Linotype"] I'm playing it on PS3 and I'm now wondering how worthwhile the expansions are. Does anyone here have any of the Fallout 3 expansions and, if so, are they any good? Do you have a favourite? [/font] [/quote] [color=deeppink][b]Operation Anchorage[/b]: I hated this one. It essentially strips out the NPC interaction and becomes a run and gun. It's almost all action, and if you like the Fallout system, you'll probably like it, but I think VATS gets really boring after a while. You get a couple cool items from it, though one you can only get one if you find all the briefcases, which there are a lot of. You [i]cannot[/i] re-access the area with the same character after you complete it, unless of course you load an earlier save. [b]Point Lookout[/b]: This one was probably my favorite, because I like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe. The atmosphere and story are done well, and there's a really awesome hallucination sequence. No new interesting weapons though, and fighting those damn swamp people can get irritating. [b]The Pitt[/b]: Blech, no. It's... fun enough, and I like it better than Anchorage, but it's just so ugly. I really didn't like the design, and a lot of the time I had no idea where I was going. Good enough story and there's even a collisium (though marred by the fact that you're constantly being irradiated in it), but meh. [b]Mothership Zeta[/b]: Well... I like the idea, the characters introduced, and the story, but again I don't like the design. It does introduce an extremely awesome item called alien apoxy, that you can used to just flat out repair all of you equipped items at once, and some really powerful weapons. I enjoyed it a lot, but I felt it dragged on a bit near the end. Again, you can't explore the ship after you finish the missions. You [i]can[/i] go to this cockpit thing, and get a good supply of items, but I had a serious glitch where it wouldn't let me leave. [b]Broken Steel[/b]: Good. The missions in this were awesome and fun, and there are a couple of side missions that were really cool. However! I think it was at this point the game's difficulty goes out of control. Before Broken Steel I thought it was too easy, and I guess the developers tried to fix that, but they went in the wrong direction. The difficulty comes from variants of existing enemies that have had their defense skyrocket. I seemed like most powerful ghoul and mutant variants have as much health as a behemeth. They tend to get an appropriate increase in power, but with the exception of the ghouls (which can throw ******* radiation bombs at you **** them), this doesn't make them more [i]difficult[/i]... because you really don't need to change your strategy to fight them. It just takes longer. A lot longer. Most of the perks aren't really interesting either. I found myself picking mostly perks that were for level 20 and below. Hrm.[/color]

[color=deeppink]Brains don't taste very good. And the texture is awful.[/color]

[quote name='The Professor' date='06 October 2010 - 05:11 AM' timestamp='1286359886' post='700927'] [font="Comic Sans MS"]There needs to be a way to specify what method you're working with in those cases. I'm never going to bother with that level, how do I know Professor Layton's never gonna spring that trap on me? All the other maths tell you how to solve them. It's simply unfair.[/font] [/quote] [color=deeppink]There's a really simple way to specify, and that's just to say what you're doing. Like, I would say "We say a*b=a+b," making a[sup]2[/sup]=a+a. And if Layton were to try redefining the default binary operation without telling me, I would hunt down Akihiro Hino and stab him.[/color]

[quote name='Zombie_Nosh' date='05 October 2010 - 12:39 PM' timestamp='1286300355' post='700915'] Backstory, please. [/quote] [color=deeppink]Basically, a[sup]n[/sup] can be anything we want it to be based on how we define the operation; if we say "we're working under addition!," it becomes a added n times. It just happens that multiplication is the default for people who don't have to do higher math. I don't know why.[/color]

[color=deeppink]This week I learned that, under certain circumstances, 1[sup]3[/sup]=3. : ([/color]

[quote name='James' date='20 September 2010 - 07:58 PM' timestamp='1285030701' post='700655'] [font="Palatino Linotype"]It's bizarre. Do Americans also find it bizarre as well, or is this just a culture difference?[/font] [/quote] [color=deeppink]Some find it bizarre. Others eat it up. Much of my immidiate family thinks the guy is a saint, that's been sent down from on high to do the Lord's work. But they also instantly disbelieve anything I say if I tell them I learned it at college, so think of that what you will. Personally, I think he's little more than a clown. A clown that knows how to work an audience.[/color]

[quote name='James' date='22 August 2010 - 11:45 PM' timestamp='1282538749' post='699750'] [font="Palatino Linotype"]And secondly, the walk/run mechanic is kind of annoying. It's not a huge deal, but basically to "run", you need to flick the stick twice quickly in the direction you want to run. That sounds fine in principle, until you realise that the walking speed generally feels too slow. I found it necessary to run quite a lot, but because of the double-tap mechanic, it's easy to break in and out of a run without trying. I found that most frustrating of all. [/font] [/quote] [color=deeppink]You can change that to a single quick flick in the options. It's not perfect either; the game sometimes has trouble differentiating between a quick flick and a slow one. Question for those with the 360 version: I'm having trouble getting the Power of Love code to work. Supposedly it's XXXABAYY on the title screen, but for the life of my I can't seem to pull it off. What am I doing wrong?[/color]

[quote name='chibi-master' date='25 July 2010 - 03:09 PM' timestamp='1280088578' post='697886'] Keep the glasses. [/quote] [color=deeppink]Yeah, no. The less I wear glasses the better.[/color]

[color=deeppink]I know I've been told I look better with glasses than without. The explanation was that my glasses caused my eyes to "pop," although I'll be damned if I know what that means. Although I have my suspicions that it's more because of a resistance to change.[/color]

[color=deeppink]The term "cougar" still throws me off, especially when articles using it have a picture of an actual cougar next to the title. "Ten hottest cougars on wall street!"[/color]

[color=deeppink]I don't like the way they're phrasing things in this Alpaca commercial. I mean, "[i]when[/i]" I decide to raise Alpacas? At best it's presumptuous, at worst it's ominous.[/color]

[quote name='Tonks' date='05 July 2010 - 06:37 PM' timestamp='1278373025' post='696608'] The thought of changing majors is pretty terrifying. [/quote] [color=deeppink]I used to be a math/English major because those were things I was good at and because I really wanted to piss people off. I mean, I was never officially doing this because I never actually [i]declared[/i] these majors, but I was still taking the classes. After a semseter I realized that, of the focuses for English major at my college, the only one I would have liked I was terrible at. I was kind of hoping I'd be able to study the language in and of itself, something I would have enjoyed and been good at, but alas. Also, all the other English majors were such [i]major asshats.[/i] Seriously. So I dropped the English and tacked on an actuarial focus to the math. Of course, me being me, I just recently started wishing I had gone Psychology instead.[/color]