Random Thoughts

[shredingskin]

Since I got pretty shitfaced on new years I've lowered my alcohol intake quite a bit.

[St. Elmo's Fire]

People have been dicks to each other since time began, the internet just makes it SO much easier (since they won't get a punch in the mouth) and the fact they have a bigger audience just eggs the attention seeking ones on that bit further!

[Ziming]

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[shredingskin]

Nightmare fuel.

But practic as fuck.

[Riku Rose]

[ShenGCH]

Wow, just noticed I've been a member of the forums for ten years and two days (I signed up shortly after turning fourteen years old).

My first few posts make me cringe

Hey, i'm new 2 these forums so I thought that i'd better get started ASAP, which I did.

By now everybody has seen the picture of the four Chi You Men leaders, most of which are blanked out but you can make three of them out easily:

I can't seem to add the picture of the leaders so could somebody post in their post ? It would help.

The one in the middle is obviously Lan Di, the one next to him who is blacked out is Ziming Hong, the one who has her legs showing is Niao Sun, but the one on the left of Lan Di is unknown, so lets give suggestions and get the ball rolling.

Why doesn't Miles Prower's Shenmue II profile site work anymore?

I really want 2 go onto it again!

I noticed this a while back on the Shenmue Passport disc but never mentioned it to anyone, but when you go to the 'Information' section and go to Shenhua, select her and wait until she starts to talk and then zoom in on her by pressing R and move to either her left or right eye and you should see a reflection of something.

Now comes the interesting part. I remember that someone on this forum posted a post about her eye reflection and didn't know what it was. Most people probably thought that it was the Pheonix mirror or the Dragon mirror or any other related object to Shenmue. But, I found out by close observation that it is just a rock that is in front of her, I found this out by looking at the image in her eye and then looking in front of her and looking at the eye vision line of Shenhua to anything in front of her, and I found that it was a rock that is sticking out.

Sorry if this got anybody's hopes up, but you need to know the true answer.

[Riku Rose]

My friend with benefits started seeing a guy.

[Peter]

First Bowie passes away, and now Alan Rickman. Fuck!!! This is not a good month.

[Sonikku]

^ And Riku Rose might be about to lose his benefits. Shit is fucked up.

[Kenny]

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Not an Adele fan, but I really enjoyed this.

[OL]

I wasn't much of an Adele fan either, but I dunno, maybe I am now after watching that.
She seems delightful.

[shredingskin]

Before a man, a family and a job meant a middle class family.

Today families have to work mother, father and even kids to reach an acual "middle class".

What is getting so expensive ?? We live pretty better today, is it entertainment, fuel, tech, what the fuck is that makes it this expensive ??

Today, if you don't have a computer, internet access and a cellphone, you are functionally poor.

I think the global inflation is getting weirder.

I guess that the average is pretty much better, and we just "want to have more" (and I don't mean it in only a consummerist way).

[shredingskin]

No one want to pauyu debt...

jejjeje

[St. Elmo's Fire]

^bankers and capitalism in general is pretty ruthless now, everyone wants to think of ways to encourage you to spend every last penny you have these days. And yes, some countries have huge national debts now too, so we pay more in various obvious and less-obvious taxes now too, to go to the treasury.

Though that said, the e-cig I now use is a lot cheaper than smoking (which is heavily taxed here) was...

[Sonikku]

Before a man, a family and a job meant a middle class family.

Today families have to work mother, father and even kids to reach an acual "middle class".

What is getting so expensive ?? We live pretty better today, is it entertainment, fuel, tech, what the fuck is that makes it this expensive ??

Today, if you don't have a computer, internet access and a cellphone, you are functionally poor.

I think the global inflation is getting weirder.

I guess that the average is pretty much better, and we just "want to have more" (and I don't mean it in only a consummerist way).

The cost of college tuition is like 700% of what it was three decades ago in a time frame when wages for everyone but the elite either stayed the same or went down. Housing/rent/utilities also continue to grow when most wages stay the same = net loss. This is why I dispute the claim from the GoP that minimum wage can stay the same forever "because they don't deserve more money for the same work". In actuality a dollar doesn't buy today what a dollar bought five years ago. And if the minimum is 7.25 today as surely as it was half a decade ago then you've actually gotten a back door pay cut. Gone are the days when you could buy a semester of college from some minimum wage part time summer job. People in greater debt today are in debt more so for depressed wages and higher costs than they are for simply being more "spendy".