To take a bit of a philosophical turn, a console, functionally, is analogous to a human brain. I am not claiming that a computer can think, but that just as a person is born devoid of a complex mental life and it takes years to learn to map all the possibilities inherent in the structure of the mind and the world it is in, so to do our machines contain an inherent potential complexity that initially exceeds the grasp of its creators. Hence, we learn to utilize machines in increasingly better ways till we reach their natural limits, and this is because our creations in some way reflect their creators, us, and so they mirror our image, as it were. It may be said that all human artifacts, including game consoles, are extensions of our own process of self-discovery, and so it is not surprising that their lifetime should in some way resemble our own. It's ultimately love, really. As we love ourselves, so do we transform the world around us into models of the self, not narcissistically, but in accordance with appropriate self-respect, and also so that we can come to love others. This is why, in this context, successful consoles ultimately exist as they do, travelling along no other course but to increase in inner complexity and thereby improve in their purpose over time. It's philopaichnídisophy. This is also why Nintendo calls their consoles the Wii and the Wii U.

I believe you, and that image will be with me forever. Hahahahaha!

^^ I think Dennis Miller's rapidfire-wildly-all-over-the-spectrum-of-human-thought-stream-of-consciousness humor is quite funny. I also like both beards and Bordello of Blood.

As for the debate, I don't have a TV, and don't care that much, really. I'm not apolitical, but I don't think the debates reveal much more than what we all already know. Besides, I long for escape; I am not one of those people who believe paradise is to be found in this world.

The tax issue seems like a trick. If I were running for president, I'd say very clearly that I think the problem with government today is not too much force, or too little, but the improper application thereof. Either they apply too much force where it's not needed, or too little where it desperately is. Ergo, I would abolish most taxes, but use almost the entire amount of the revenue collected to help the poor and the sick, and then use what's left over for reasonable defense. Everything else should be left up to the states. The federal government ought not be the endless moneybag of a continent-sized federation; that is nothing else but institutional bribery on a massive scale, hence our pitiful condition today.

1. To play devils advocate you do have a nack for liking games with not so stellar reviews.

2. Not harping on you or anything and not disagreeing or agreeing with the reviews as I can't judge for not playing a single entry since 4.

3. Just saying you often gravitate towards games with mixed reviews or bad ones. Not always but quite a bit and

4. not saying it's a bad thing.

5. Just making a neutral point.

:lol: Bluecast qualifiers. In this case, no less than 5 were required to avoid Dojo fighting. Which is funny, if you think about it, because this is a Dojo after all. Maybe that's why we've got a history of text violence. Maybe we're the mirror universe. Maybe in the universe that's actually got a United Federation of Planets and Shenmue III, this website is called the Shenmue Abode of Peace and Love.

This was a neat show way back when.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVvx0FVcnp8[/youtube]

Bluecast wrote: Turducken?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIOCaOpBGpE[/youtube]

& "Sufferin' succotash!"

Done.

Always liked this little skit. So simple, and probably everyone's thought about it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ECWDhh3Q9E[/youtube]

Question about animated shows/films.

Watching the Batman animated series and at one point Batman goes to a filing cabinet and the drawer is a different tone to the rest. Seems every time somethings going to be picked up/used its made to stand out.

Question is why do they do this?


It's not on purpose. In old traditionally animated shows like B:TAS, all the animated elements are separate layers, and they can never really match the color perfectly with the static backgrounds, so that's why the tint is always more or less off. The consistency depends on the studio. Thus, quick jobs didn't strive to match colors as much as movie-quality productions. You get the idea.

http://i.imgur.com/cjrwD.gif

What the...? :lol:

Oh, that summer. Bruce lost control of Wayne Enterprises, Clark lost his job at the Daily Planet, and Dick got them all jobs as part-time landscapers.

http://i.imgur.com/sDy9e.gif

Awww... Where'd you get a hold of one of my baby pictures?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/383523_535561983124780_1514817610_n.jpg

This is TOTALLY DORIAN OR BLUECAST!

:rotflmao:

Honest to God, I thought it was a picture of Dorian, and Yokosuka Martian added the text.

Your copy and paste skills are strong blud. Seriously though, quit with the black/white text gimmick. It makes me completely skim over your posts because it's A) an effort to read and B) it's up on the top of the massive gay scale with all the other "Technicolour Nob-ends".

Don't tell me what to do, you goddamn faggot ewok.

Also, copy and paste means that you copy and paste something, not that you don't.

Outrage on behalf of homosexuals is the new Christianity. Every few thousand years or so, people need to attach themselves to a morality so they might enjoy the feeling of righteous outrage and feel better than other people. It's very obvious. A century ago, it was the other way around, so the elites enjoyed the feeling of outrage over the concept of homosexuality. But then homosexuals got rich, so now the paradigm has shifted to the opposite end of the arbitrary spectrum, and I imagine it could even go back to the other side one day. But do not ever mistake this outrage as genuine. It's just the popular thing to be at the moment. These epochal moral paradigms exist so that people can do whatever they want as long as they firmly and publicly support popular moral principle A, B, or C. In other words, the idea is that you can cheat, murder, steal, lead your country to war, allow banks to ruin millions, utilize foreign sweatshops rather than more expense humane labor at high standards, etc. But as long as you publicly show outrage for the sake of popular moral principle A, B, or C, and so on, you're good. At this moment in time, caring about homosexuals is a big one. It may be the only universal maxim in the globalization process. It's so important, Piers Morgan asked the President of Iran about it... not because he thought an Iranian gave a damn, but because he was attempting to score moral outrage cred among the elites. Hence, in globalized elite society (all the rich and those who desperately want a piece of their pie), outrage on behalf of homsexuals has become the prime pragma of the age. All morality has been distilled to the love and public defense of homosexuals. Every major channel on TV, every major website, every school, every court, acts in concert at all times to enshrine this one last dogma beyond which there is no higher truth. You dig? Humanity 101. We're not rubik's cubes.

Yes. Over the course of ten years, I've posted well over 4000 twattish things. I've trolled, posted in colors, and hijacked literally thousands of threads because I was addicted to being a spectacular FAGGOT. We're talking on average 1.49 such posts every single day for nearly a decade. That's a lifestyle. Even typing this post, I almost colored it white out of instinct, and had to consciously stop myself. That's... messed... up! It took our trademarked friend to wake me up, by pointing out that I was straddling the nob end of the gay scale in assless chaps.

Did Sega not check the numbers on these jacket sales? Im super curious now lol.. shit just got stupid.

Just got stupid? They are the sole owners of a hugely popular legendary franchise, and they just sit on it. Whenever they (or usually other people) drum up interest in Shenmue (like announcing an HD release), they do nothing because they don't want to make money. They'e wholly inept as economic human beings. They've all got to be on drugs or something. Business is one area where Darwinism can provide a complete explanation. Do you know why Sega doesn't have a console right now? Because they're $ special needs.

^

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdJAt0ej0c[/youtube]

Bluecast wrote: Kiba is a unich

...orn.

Hard to please, Spokes. Hard to please. If a women doesn't look good naturally, no amount of paint or surgery is going to make me not notice or forget.

No sir, your genes are defective. We've evolved to desire Photoshopped females, porn stars, and - if deprived of sex - anything with a pulse.

http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/09/7/6/3/576125210358181.jpg

"Let's be honest: You sleep with anything that walks on two legs. Sometimes, you're not even that discriminating." Ah, good old Fallout 2.

I'd like a mirror/mirror movie too, Blue. It's something they've never done before. Also, it would be funny if Cumberbatch is Khan, but that as it is the mirror/mirror universe, he's one of the good guys.

wude wrote:

KiBa wrote:
Your genes are defective. We evolved to desire fertile mates.

fuck fertility, old women are hot

You mean, "fuck infertility, old women are hot."

Download and enjoy, Blue. When this game is finished, there will finally be a proper Star Trek sim. You can fly around in the alpha viewer. It's fun.

http://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-ex ... /downloads

That's just how a pedo would deny it. I say we drown him. If he survives, we'll know he's innocent.

^ Dear god, the hypocrisy. :mrgreen:

Just so everyone knows, and considering I am pretty fucked up in the head because of various event and aspects of my past, People irl have told me I look like a serial killer, rapist, pedo, in general disturbed looking kind of guy. Luckily none of them think that way of my personality, and most find me enjoyable to be around. Apparently I looked pissed off alot, and im hardly ever pissed off. You cant judge this book by its cover, I will say that much, I naturally, by default scare many people away. I have to come on strong with my charming personality to over take the "disturbed" look I often have on my face which I just cant control, yet I seem to be "handsome" to all the ladies. It basically comes down to my blank/emotionless face looks disturbing and angry I guess, and I know I have that look on my face alot.

People say I'm like a Vulcan. I never smile or laugh, rarely speak, and do not visibly react in any way to any situation. I feel nothing inside.

Back.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5yMOTJrsY[/youtube]

Laughing at the fact that this movie exists in the first place, let alone the concept of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgFFMmAwYfY

Oh, why is Keith David in that movie. I think studios must be allergic to money. Sega does not want to sell Shenmue under any circumstances, and Disney refuses to profit from Gargoyles. It's completely bonkers.

Technically, you won't increase the population of Japan unless you have at least three kids. Synergy, you know. After all, you and your lair mate are only mortal, so unless you leave behind one more person than two, the population will stay the same. So, I'd have one more child. Moreover, more children both increases survivability and the chance of passing on the best of yourselves, physically as well as memetically speaking. It just doesn't make any sense on any level to arbitrarily limit your generation of life. More life means more production of goods and more chance of intellectual achievement. Then competition results in the best possible human beings getting to the top, and better people make the world a better place. Ergo, you and your mate ought to aim for glory, not temporary convenience, as if you had the foresight to plan perfection. No one does. No one can. Nature is what it is. You can only have natural pride and try to make your bloodline better and more extensive than everyone else's. Anything less is subhuman and degenerate. Priorities, man! We are not here for sentiment, but for power. Don't you want your flesh and blood to see the end of time?

Anyhow, welcome back.

*Kenshin Himura* wrote: Kiba; what a deep message, the usual you I agree but we'll see how these two knuckleheads workout for me first.

Congratulations, Kenshin. What a wonderful life.

Shame you don't have thrift stores to pick them up for about 10$
This is a real issue for Polish gamers. Retro stuff can't be found in such stores as they simply don't exist.

It goes to auction sites where hustlers want an arm and a leg for it. Of course, there are exceptions, but that's the general situation.

Blue , stop being so moral and become a Polish retro game hustler. :lol:

You ought to take advantage of poor foreigners like a Casinopolis ring pincer.

Has this been done before? Post them here. Spoilers abound.

Indisputably, by far the greatest ever:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu2ArBfwZcA[/youtube]

Yes. Much. Thank you. Nearly recovered, in fact. I wish I could afford a Bat Brace for my knee.

Of course, you may be getting a trainer soon, right? Then you'll probably end up in much shape than most of us.