I have come here to chew bubblegum and kickass...and I am all out of bubblegum
Rowdy Roddy Piper (of WWF fame, pro wrestler) said this line in the 80's "B" sci-fi flick: They Live.
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by Cassiline in" i have come here to chew bubblegum and kickass...and i am all out of bubblegum".
saw this on a commercial last night and it struck me as funny.. anyone have anymore quotes from movies?.
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D8TA's Latest Game Playin Reviews
by D8TA inhere's what i've been playin lately.
thought i give an opinion, if there is anyone out there looking for good games to play.. 1) jedi knight 2: outcast.
this game (made by raven-using quake 3 engine) i have to split in 2 categories.. a) single player.. once again you play kyle katarn (dark forces, dark forces: jedi knight) roaming around in first person shooter style, with an option of going in to a 3rd person perspective.
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Here's what I've been playin lately. Thought I give an opinion, if there is anyone out there looking for good games to play.
1) Jedi Knight 2: Outcast
This game (made by Raven-using Quake 3 engine) I have to split in 2 categories.
A) Single Player.
Once again you play Kyle Katarn (Dark Forces, Dark Forces: Jedi Knight) roaming around in first person shooter style, with an option of going in to a 3rd person perspective. Booth views work well, except 3rd person is a necessity in lightsaber fights. Reason being, you can do some really neat acrobatic moves in 3rd person as opposed to not doing them in 1st.The Single player game is tolerable, story/plot line is accetable and all around entertaining. Same ol' enemies from the previous titles reappear, and a few new ones emerge as well. As playing Kyle, you still get access to both "light" and "darkside" force powers, which come in handy at times.
All in all (to keep it short) Single player play is "fun".
B) Multiplayer
O...M....G. I've played about every 1st person shooter there is in multiplayer. From System Shock, Doom, Unreal, All the Quakes etc. etc. You name it, I've played it.JK:Outcast multiplayer will suck your life away. This is where this title SHINES. And in IMO, is the better half of this game. I really can't put a finger on what makes this Multiplayer experience one of the best I've played. The weapons are run of the mill, the core Raven level designs are passable. But, I think what really gets people addicted is the addition of Lightsaber and Forcepowers variety.
The Lightsaber is no longer a stick to just go around wacking people with. It's now an "art" to master. Again, playing in 3rd person view, you have access to a variety of styles. You can now actually hotkey your moves alla-Obi-Wan-Phantom menace style. The only thing you have missing is the Ray Park/Darth Maul martial art kicks. But anything else is possible. Get in a saber lock? No problem...Force Push your opponent away. Or heck, if yer quick....Force Pull your opponent unto thy blade....shishikabob style. These are just a few examples. But this element, combined with various force powers, in multiplay is addicting. It's something to experience, and I can't do justice in explaining in print in what you can do. Just get this game, you'll see.
Single Player C+ / Multiplayer A+
Freedom Force
ZAM! POW! ZOINK! Remember those good old days where Good was Good, and Evil was just Evil in comic books? (ack...sorry they are called "graphic novels" now, lol). When superheroes got their superpowers in corny yet entertaining ways? When the bad guys just wanted to rule the world, just for the sake of...well...ruling the world?
Welcome to the world of Freedom Force. A title based on the 60's-early 70's element of the superhero comic book world. Where you control a variety of "generic" brand superheroes in Real Time or Turn Based action style. Much like in the style of Jagged Alliance or X-Com...yet you can do battles at YOUR pace. You can just go with the flow, issuing commands on the fly...or you can pause the game and issue commands to your superhero team with tactical finesse. Or do both!
The story/plot is cheesy...not CLUMSY AND BAD cheesy, mind you-but...Entertaining, comical, enjoyable cheesy. Like Austin Powers cheesy. Each campaign story has that typical over dramatic sense to it, even the narrator who aids each storyline, is enjoyable in this way. Had my sides splitting in laughter continaully. It really "captures" the flavor of that comic book genre. The voice acting is superb as well, for each comic of the book heros.
The main hero, Minute Man, starts of the first few missions in a solo-tutorial. This get's you aquianted with the game play, which is necessary. Since the environment is totally interactive! See a lamp post? Pull that sucker outta the ground and weild it like a baseball bat! Bonking that group of bad guys with it! Cars, trucks, garbage cans, boulders, trailers from semi-trucks, trees...jeeeeez you name it it's "interactiable"! Here's one example: Had a group of thugs on top of a skyscrapper shooting at my hero, I picked up this huge vat of volitile material and threw at the building! And the whole skyscrapper came down, taking the the thugs with it! It was amazing. There's just so much you can do to manipulate the environment to your advantage...you just need to be cautious of "innocent" bystanders and citizens of the city. Hurting them is a big "no-no".
As the game progresses, you begin to recruit various allies. Each having different strengths and vulnerabilities. You develope teams of good guys, to go thwart the various plots of various bad guys. Pretty simple, yet implimented masterfully. This adds to the replayability of the game. Since there is a huge list of Heroes to choose from to recruit...you won't be able to recruit them all. So playing thru the game again with different heroes, provides different ways to solve problems.
One of the BEST attributes of this game...CREATING CUSTOMIZED Heroes. Oh MAN! What ever hero you can think of...you can create! Ever wanted to have Superman fighting alongside with Spiderman...no problemo...create them yourself! Although...you will need to download their "skins" from the already various websites devoted to this game. The coice of attributes, powers, strengths and weaknesses are complete. Of course, there isn't any "Kryptonite" in the game...but there are "similar" elements you can attribute to your character to match there portfolio, in order to make that custom character behave in the way they do in their hero universe.
There is a multiplayer element to the game as well, although-since Jedi Knight has been sucking my life away in this area-I haven't been able to fiddle around with it.
All in all, this game is not good...but..it's DAMN GOOD! I'm pretty sure if you give it a try, you will enjoy it.
I give it an: A
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Accountability? Ha! Blame the Garden Tool
by D8TA inthe spectacular!.
the item of many uses!.
it's the garden tool's fault.
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The one and only!
The spectacular!
The item of many uses!I present to you all...
The Amazing! . . .Garden Tool!
I like the Garden Tool. I admit it. I'm a big fan of this product.
It's a most useful tool. It aids me when I'm planting vegetables,
helps me with the apple tree. The variety of uses it has around my,
yard are unbelievable! Turns the place in to a virtual paradise, I tell you.
Owning one for myself, I can tell you, has made me a happier man.Now, there are some people who don't like the Garden Tool.
For some reason, and it's their right mind you-no dispute
here, they really don't find what all the hoopla is about on this
Garden Tool. I'm sure they have their reasons, some may not have
a yard. Others, maybe gardening and/or landscaping is not what
catches their fancy. But they don't like it, it's their right. I can
respect that. So, they debate and criticize the Garden Tool.
No biggie.Now I've found that there are actually two uses for the Garden Tool.
A) To beautify life, to help the world be a happier place. For myself,
family, and nieghbors.or
B) Bury this Garden Tool in to my nieghbor's skull. Though it was not
intended for this type of use, I can utilize this tool in this way.In fact, let me ask you: Which is the more exciting and profitable way to use
the Garden Tool?Let's ask the the popular media shall we?
1) "Ms. Fields plants new rose bush with Garden Tool in her backyard"! . . .not catchy, is it.
No flair! I mean come on! Where's the action!?! Where's the suspense??? Doesn't MOST
EVERYONE use the Garden Tool in this way? What's the big deal in Ms. Field's daily
gardening habits, using a tool the way it's suppose to be used? No big deal at all.Now...let's try:
2) "MS. FIELDS HACKS FAMILY OF 6 WITH GARDEN TOOL!"....now that's more like it!!! That
grabs everyone's attention! That will get them Newspapers to sell. Not everyday you see someone
take the common household item and hack a family of 6 with it, now do you?? And we'll get sponsers
for our television media outlets too! With all those viewers and readers waiting to see what happens
next to Ms. Fields, I'm sure there are many corporations willing to capatalize on this situation. They'll
sponser 20/20 or Dateline with thier name brand detergeants, motoroil, tampons, you name it! For that
"exclusive" presentation on Ms. Fields' story.And here come the critics of the Garden Tool! Filling all the cable news networks shows, giving their
"expert" opinions. Writing their editorails of woe the Garden Tool has caused.
Proudly proclaiming a sense of victory, that a situation has occured in the name
of the Garden Tool. Somehow gives credance to their THEORIES and OPINIONS, grants evidence
and facts to postulate that the Garden Tool is truly useless and evil to humanity.Let's stick with subjects (B) and (2) shall we? After all, it's the more interesting point of this article.
See after Ms. Fields utilizes the Garden Tool in this way. Somehow, in U.S. society, it really isn't
Ms. Fields fault. It's the Garden Tool's fault. Really, it is. Ms. Fields is not accountable to her actions
for maybe a variety of reasons. Some may include a:Abusive childhood
Strict upbringing
Didn't get to go to the prom
Was bullied at school
Daddy was overbearing
Mommy was overbearing
She was the black sheep of her classroom
etc.
etc.Please, by all means, add to this list.
I mean, forget that Ms. Fields had something wrong in her head
when she used the Garden Tool. By all means, please, forget that Ms. Fields decided to use this Garden
Tool for her own purposes. That Ms. Fields weilded the Garden Tool, decided to go to her nieghbor's house,
and hack up the family of 6. I mean, after all...just the mere presence of the Garden Tool instigates this
behavior in most people, now doesn't it? .....doesn't it?Or perhaps it was Ms. Fields utilizing the Garden Tool in the wrong way. To fufill a desire of the darker side she
held within herself. You know, that darker side? We all have one, though some won't like to admit it. Most of us
contain those darker feelings: Hate, Revenge,....Murderous impulses. Most of us on this planet know how to
contain these non helpfull behaviors. Ms. Field succumbed to it. And utilized a tool to achieve the end means.
So really, it wasn't the Garden Tools fault at all. In fact, sad to say, it was Ms. Fields.The point here, there are many Garden Tools in our lives. Education, Religion, Science, Tradition...etc. etc.
And these, in turn have many tools borne from them. The everyday John & Jan Doe utilizes these tools
in healthy positive way. Yet there are some in this world, that utilize these tools for there own darker
needs. It's not the Garden Tool that causes the problem, it's the People who use it in the wrong way...
THEY are the problem.D8TA
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Another reason NOT to live behind the Baptists...
by Princess ini hate the baptist church behind our house.
they are loud and obnoxious in the summer.
their youth group meets on tuesday evenings and more than once my husband has had to go over and ask them to be quiet.
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You and your husband could...well, keep them "away" from the backyard portion of your house.
1) Get one of those cheap plastic pools.
2) Fill it with warm water.
3) Invite some "liberal" friends over.
4) On the churches loudest summer day, go to the backyard with pool.
5) All of you strip BUCK-NEKKID
6) Start your own baptism ceremony
7) When the church goers gawk in disbelief, invite them over.
8) If any come over, state they need to strip BUCK-NEKKID
9) Baptise them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.D8TA
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Coke or Pepsi???
by Xena inlol sorry i am feeling fluffy tonight .
mulan started it!!!!!!!.
coke for me....the real thing or nothing!
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Okay I'm going to do a Online Computer BLIND TASTE test right now.
:: D8TA puts on blind fold::
:: wife puts X product on left::
:: wife puts X product on right::::D8TA tastes X product on left:: "Hmmm, glassy tasting".
::D8TA tastes X product on right:: "Errr, eew, tastes like Windex".:: D8TA Lifts blind fold::
Yep, 9 outta 10 D8TA's agree...never do a taste test with pictures of Coke or Pepsi on your screen. Both will taste like a monitor.
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Why We Blow Ourselves Up
by teejay inby eyad sarraj.
a palestinian doctor explains why so many of his people want to be martyrs.
a few weeks ago, my sister, a professional and a mother of four, was visibly shaken as she watched, on television, israeli tanks torturing the streets of a refugee camp and soldiers raping its homes.
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Man, I tell ya with my major (cultural anthropology) I've been studying this whole mess for quite some number of years. To this day, I can't form an objective opinion upon a conflict that has been going on for over a few 1000 years.
I just wish all that killing would stop. Period. Both sides, just stop. But with the historical events, I just can't fathom an ending to the problem.
Sometimes I sway left, then to the midddle, and then to the right.
Sometimes I'm compassionate to one or the other.
Sometimes I'm sick of it.Just split the country in two.
Each side with it's sovriegn state.
Each side gets what it wants.
Then the fighting will happen, for another reason all over, again.
Have the world build a big wall around their new country.
Let them duke it out to the last person standing.
When that last person leaves the wall enclosure and proclaims victory...
Shoot the bastard.WHoooops, sorry, I drifted there for a second.
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Whats the worst 'get-together' game you endured?
by Latte indear all,.
as a young teenager, we were always having get-togethers.... you know the spiritually upbuilding' kind ie.
bible quizzies, really boring stuff.
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Ha! You all at least HAD get togethers. I came from a congregation where some teenz had a get together when I was around 7 years old, and they screwed up royally for the rest of us. Oh, the typical 70's free sex n drugs teen JW get together that is. So as I got older, anytime any kid from 10 to 18 years of age even whispered "GET TOGETHER"...they dragged out that ONE freakin incident and nothing happened. That SUCKED royally, because I really wanted to know what all the sex n drugs were all about. :)~
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Are we religiously intolerant?
by Sirona inwe are always pointing out the flaws of the jw religion.
does this make us intolerant of the religious beliefs of others?
where do you draw the line?.
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I dont really see people here roasting rank and file JW (slaves), but rather the Leadership (masters).
As an X-JW, I would say I was a slave in bondage. I found my freedom. I'm not going to roast on others who are and were in the same position, when I was a JW.
As far as roasting the Governing Body and WTBTS leadership? Fair game, to me. The architects of a the "Lie". Proven over and over and over with facts and evidence of numerous issues, that the leadership are nothing more then power hungry, self righteous, egotistical, men in search of self glory and gratification. And that they prey upon the ignorant and weak, with their vile poison. That the masters of this organization play with the lives of children. That play with the lives of famalies. Both physically and mentally.
You think that these leaders should not be accountable? That they should not hear the cry against their deeds, because *gasp* they are being persecuted? Don't persecute the persecutors?
I wouldn't go outta my way to persecute a rank-in-file slave of the WTS, but it's open season on the leaders and masters.
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JW email poetry....<gag>
by Pathofthorns in> > subject: "he doesn't serve god" .
> > even though this is just a poem, we know from experiences that we read .
>in> > > the publications that this has indeed been the sad outcome for .
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OMG! I'm so convinced now. Really! I thought it could never happen, but this poem really touched me. It's changed my view on the whole situation....that crumy Rap music lyrics in JW poems should never be written. Wheeew. I'm sure glad to run across this piece of..err..work.
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How would a WTS 'operative' behave?
by Simon ini'm sure several here have posted and tried to be a thorn in the flesh of some of the jw-loyal forums on the net.. what was most effective?
if someone announced "i am an apostate and i think you jws are all wrong and i will prove why" do you think they would last very long?
to be able to do any damage so to speak, a careful masquarade would need to be maintained of being a loyal jw while stying to stir things up.. now, think of how anyone opposed to us 'opposers' would behave here .... would they announce that they are jws and they they were going to "set us all straight" ... or would they pretend to be an apostate ... pretend to 'help with the cause' but try and do more harm than good?.
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Can someone come tuck me in bed and turn the night light on? There's a WTS operative in my closet, and under my bed. :(
**giggle giggle**Seriously: I dont think you can ever really tell **cough mav-man cough** that there is a ***cough mav-man cough*** WTS operative working **cough mav-man cough** on any of the boards. YouKnow what? They can be awfully tricky, YouKnow? And as YouKnow, they wouldn't come out and say it either.
They just Farkel around with their Plowbitch all day long, so you shouldn't really be concerned. With all the D8TA they have on apostates, they be just as happy as playing Simon says. I know this post is long, just don't get Sleepy just yet. I know I am still anewperson, but bare with me. Or I will post Elsewhere.
With all the silentlambs that lurk here, they may have had an idea inspired by a DakotaRed sunset. See, four operatives may be at work. They decide that a good way to date is to go double Dutchie, and post on various MadApostate sites. Then of course, you cant rule out that this may just be a collegegirl, who thinks she's the QUEENIE of all, and getting her kicks. Just trying to get some some RR. But dont shoot me, I'm just the Messenger.
Amazing, something caught my attention while noticing a desertflower behind those beautiful sunscapes. TheStar light can reveal the operative, even after extinguising their smolderingwick. We just need to be like Scully from the X-files, and Marchon with an objective view. Listening to Roy orbinson can relax us, as we score a TD on exposing this Apostateman. Where is Wonderwoman77 when you need her!?!
Of course only a heathen would resort to ThiChi to resolve this problem. Thus, never knowing Adam from a conspirator. Especially when these operatives are Invisible. I may be a badboy for saying this, but I think it's dmouse. Really! Think about it! He acts like a bittermango all the time! Just look where he roams, near the the candy machine that's Outaservice all the time! And the resembelance to Bendrr of Futurerama is amazing! Roaming around like a freakin Zombie!
But as in the immortal words of TheApostleAK chp 3 v.6 I must be humble and reside in a dogpatch if I'm mistaken. And unto the example of Josephus, watch ninjaturtle cartoons and mind my own biz.
My advice, remember Puffsrule: A Pathofthorns under the radar, leads to MrMoe..a happyman. And dont let conspiracies rule your life Mindchild. It's like having a butalbee in a deddaisey, in your hand. Gopher the real truth in life. Avengers will allways rectify the situation.
Just remember, a mole has LyinEyes, and smells musky. Which most likely is an Englishman in Rags with an Islandwoman in Lilacs, talking about his Aunty. The Availablelight on this situation will reveal this slipnslidemaster of his deeds. I heard he likes meatpie with Pepper too.
Anyway, I've lostmyself in this post, I'm going to play Defender on my computer now. By the way, I'm a Lefty...any suggestions where I can by a mouse for my PC? And my ISP is acting weird as well.
Sorry to end this post, my eyes are getting Misty as I leave. Forgetmenot. :)
D8TA
P.S. If I've been rekless, just say I'm full of Beans. I was trying to be Fairminded about this situation.