And Now For Something Completely Diffrent... Part 2!

[Chaosengine]

I don't normally get involved with protests or protestors or any of that "activist" mentality that's so popular these days. That didn't stop me from coming up with a great idea. A very simple and effective protest that people will actually remember.

Any time a social group or government agency or ANYONE for that matter goes overboard and takes themselves too seriously, a large group of people should gather, go to the the primary spot for this nonsense and... this is the important part... give them a MASS middle finger.

No rioting, no shouting, no songs, no rocks, no vandalism, none of that anarchist crap, just a mass of middle fingers. Then, after about... I don't know... twenty minutes, the mob disperses and we all go home.

Isn't that simple? Think of the kind of statement that makes. No drama or activist nonsense, just a cold, harsh "Fuck You" to the intended. I know it would never work, cause there's always a douchebag or two in the group who would turn it into a chance to loot crap, but it's an idea, after all.

Ideas ARE still safe in this country, right?
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[BioRust]

This would be extremly great in Austraila. 5000 people at Micheal Atkinson's front door giving him the middle finger. But this would also save a lot of time. "You wanna protest?" "Sure why not." *goes to white house and flips them off*
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[Chaosengine]

Let's take a moment to consider one of the United State's "Most Special People". I'm talking, of course, about Pat Robertson. A Jesus-loving Tele-evangelist who somehow manages to spout the most idiotic statements since Gomer Pyle was popular.

His latest "Durp-De-Durp" moment came after the Haitian earthquake, where this special, "special" man actually said... "The Haitian's are being punished by God because they signed a deal with the Devil during their revolution".

Uh huh...

Yeah...

I can't even gather up enough energy to be angry. Hearing him say something like that only illicits a kind of, "Now now grandpa, let's put you back in the shed..." feeling that EVERYONE should have when this twat is around.

Seriously, what kind of nincompoop would send this guy money? Just the idea of someone sitting there, hearing him say this stupid shit and actually thinking, "Wow, this guy is right! I'll write out a check this instant!" fills me with sadness and embarassment. It's like showing up at a reunion wearing a "Bush is Douche" T-Shirt and seeing everyone else wearing a "Bush is God" shirt, ya just want to hit them all in the face with a power saw!

So, if you ever find yourself bored, just go to Youtube and look up ol' Pat, and see for yourself why this guy needs to be medicated.

I reccomend arsenic, but Jesus wouldn't approve.

I think...
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[Evan_Himmel]

I agree with you ther Chaos.

[Wolf Stride]

Chaos, remember that people these days think of God as the almighty holy being.
They will listen to any douschbag come up and say "God is the great creator! We must follow and worship him to escape the great calamity!!"
and people are stupid enough to listen, worship and even pay such a dousche.
Religious beliefs have been degraded to the lowest extent these days as either a hobby or a full blown style of life.
I an sure that an incredible number of people that read this post shall agree with you Chaos and so do it, because any idiot can praise any religion and those who are truly desperate, begin with the most idiotic of beings and revere them as the orator that brings the truth in times of despair.

....I ranted on enough.
I agree with you as well Chaos.
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[Chaosengine]

Something to think about...

The game "DOOM" by Id software was brought into the court of public rage after the shootings at Columbine. It was accused of being a "murder training simulator" by angry parents and educators. I took notice, however, that they had no qualms about the "demonic" aspects of the game in any way.

When the major motion picture based on "DOOM" was released to theatres, the film makers opted to exclude ALL demonic references and went with some weird genetic thing. They chose to keep all the "first person gun-play intact".

The same parents didn't give a shit...

What I take from this...

Demons+Real Life= Acceptable
Demons+Movies= Too Risky

Guns+Real Life= Horrible!
Guns+Movies= Acceptable!

Uh... I know this is grotesquely simplified, but... HUH?
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[Chaosengine]

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a property from the nineties that persists even through today. Did you know that the turtles you got on the cartoon show were NOTHING like the real ones in the original comic?

It's true.

Originally created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, TMNT went through a lot of changes to make it appropriate for television and toydom. First, April O'Neal and Baxter Stockman were actually black. Yeah, and April wasn't a news reporter. The first live action movie got it right by making her run and live atop an antique store, but the races of these two characters was dead wrong.

The turtles all wore red. The different colors on the cartoon were introduced as a marketing decision to help toy sales. The foot clan were all humans, not dorky lookin' robots and the turtles (especially Raphael) KILLED them. Frequently. Oroko Saki (Shredder) was a terrorist. Seriously. His beef wasn't with the turtles, but the U.S. itself.

The first movie showcased Raphael as a foul mouthed berserker. This was correct, that was the way he was portrayed in the original comic. Not surprising the cartoon didn't include it. There was no Krang or Technodrome. "Krang" was actually an entire race of beings called the T.C.R.I. aliens who weren't really evil, just manipulative. They didn't ride around in retarded man-suits that looked like "Sloth" from the Goonies. Instead, the robot chassis' they used were cool sci-fi lookin things with plasma rifles and shit. The popular Krang depiction was also a marketing decision.

The character Kasey Jones, was a sociopath. He was based roughly off of Robert Deniro's character in the movie "Taxi Driver". A highly disturbed man who watched three T.V.s at once and ran around beating up crooks with assorted clubs in a golf bag. He and April never had a thing going.

They were a lot of other subtle differences I won't go into, but this gives you an idea of the kind of changes executives will make when presenting a show to the general populace.

I still think the original comic was better.
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[DesertWolf]

Allow me to correct a few things here Chaos.

1)TMNT were created in 1984 in comic form.3 years later the first cartoon was aired.

2)Krang is actually the disembodied brain of warlord from Dimension X.He was modeled after the alien race called the Utrom who created the company known as T.C.R.I.(Techno Cosmic Research Institute).There's an Utrom named Krang who appears(possibly as an homage) in the 2k3 show.


3)Casey Jones and April did indeed have a relationship in the comics but they split up twice(once because of Casey the other because of April.)
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[mackwell]

i wanna protest to. something really gets to me when people are so stubborn, that they will actually believe some of the things they say are not true. the other day i was watching tv, and i saw someone say that these graphic cartoons are immoral and damage the minds of our children........................

well then turn off your fucking tv!! not that difficult. in fact, thats exactly what i did after i heard her say that.

if you let your kid watch those shows, then you are saying that you are fine with the outcome. the shows even have a warning on them. 99% of them say what age group should be allowed to watch it. so if you worry for your kids mind, then dont let your 10 year old watch a pg-13 movie!! i think it's pretty simple to do. but parents get so worried that their child will cry and complain, that they will do everything for that kid.


i am tired of hearing parents bitch and complain that these shows and movies are "evil". they arent evil, it's just a movie, it's just a show.

these parents are letting the kid run the family by getting what he wants, and then the parents want to blame tv and movies, instead of taking responsibility that they are a failure as a mother/father

a little discipline goes a long way people
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i have a time machine in my apartment. it's essentially a cardboard box and on the side i wrote "time machine" in sharpie.

[Chaosengine]

Ubisoft, makers of Assassin's Creed recently made an announcement that all of their PC games from now on will require a constant, uninteruppted internet connection to play. Any break in connection whatsoever will kick the user back to the main menu, erasing any unsaved data.

This decision is one of many that software developers are implementing to fight back against piracy. The sad truth, however, is that pirates will uncover cracks and hacks to bypass this and will release them as torrents not long after.

One can understand Ubisoft's intentions, but in the end, who is really being affected?

People who bought the game, or the pirates?
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[Wolf Stride]

The people who bought the games, obviously.
Sometimes, companies are willing to go to extremely stupid meassures to hold back piracy by only short ammounts of time.
When they DO implement something that works, it will be too late and people would have lost quite some interest in their product.
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[Chaosengine]

Recently, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Republicans have switched gears in an attempt to lure in supporters and voters from a different demographic. From the minds of both Stephen Baldwin and Kevin McCullough comes XPAC, Xtreme Politically Active Conservatives.

It's a lounge that features... videogames?? Call me crazy, but don't these folks HATE videogames? McCullough himself is responsible for raising a big stink over the sex scenes in Bioware's breakout Mass Effect 2, where he described them as 'realistic interactive sex romps'

Well it seems the tune has changed, as the lounge will feature Guitar Hero, DDR and Call of Duty.

There will be active Conservative spokesman floating around the lounge to 'educate' gamers about conservative views and agendas, of course.

Does this qualify as trickery, or a new trend?

I find it a little hypocritical myself, but what do I know?
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[Evan_Himmel]

Most of the people that bitch about video games and tv shows being inaproperate for kids are just doing it for the attention and to earn browny points with the moral gaurdian groups. And lets face it, if the moral gaurdians had ther way the top rated show on tv would be a test screen and they would still complain. That is why some show makers love and make a liveing off of sneaking things past both the cencers and the moral guardians.

As for the Conservative game loung goes, its a hair brained idea in my oppinion. But then agean concervatives that act like the sterio type are ok with violence ageanst terrist, nazis, and Russains, but they realy hate eny thing to do with the magic word "sex." And internet help us if they uncover man on man or woman on woman then they go off in a frenzy. Also they only target what they think is the most populare title in the market at the time aside from the usual RockStare made game.

(yeah i know that some one out ther is reading this and is foaming in the mouth, but personaly to that one or more persons, blow me.)

[DesertWolf]

Allow me to make another correction in your statement Chaos as well as play devil's advocate.

The correction:Kevin McCullough made the remarks against Mass Effect(the 1st game).And now to play the advocate:After the remarks and a news story ran on the sex scenes aired,not only did the gaming community post fallacies in his story but EA went on Fox News and showed the world that there was less sex in the game than on prime time t.v..After all that McCullough apologized to the community but stuck to his feelings on keeping said material away from minors.The people showing up to the lounge are 18 or older so they can play games such as Call of Duty.
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[Chaosengine]

Question: When the F.B.I. busts a sex offender, they invariably take his harddrive. They usually find pictures of the guy's package stored there in, which he sends to his victims over the net. What do they do with thses pictures?

Is there a secret F.B.I. archive out there full of cock pictures?

Let's picture a scene...

*two agents addressing a third*

Agent 1: Morning recruit, I'm agent Jones, this is agent Sims. Welcome to the sex offender division of the Bureau.

Sims: Hello.

New Guy: Great to be here? What now?

Jones: I'd like to introduce you to the most important tool in our position, the Phallic 2000.

New Guy: Uh..

Sims: This mainframe contains over a MILLION genital pictures from sex offenders all over the country!

Jones: Study them, learn them... KNOW them! You WILL be tested.

*they walk away*

New Guy: Man... Dental school sounds really good right now...
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[Wolf Stride]

Chaos, i don't know wether to laugh or agree with you here........
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[DesertWolf]

Captain Buzzkill again.

The FBI print the pictures and e-mails and other items pertaining to the offender's case.These items are used for the trial and once they're used,they are placed in boxes along with other evidence and stored in a warehouse.The hard drive itself is run through a degaussing machine and wiped clean.
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[Chaosengine]

My first real exposure to miniature games came in 1990 by a board game called "HeroQuest". Made by Milton Bradley in conjunction with Games Workshop (makers of Warhammer), it was a dungeon crawl game with detailed figures of heroes and monsters. My brother and I were hooked on it, hell, we went through two of them due to wear and tear!

Fast forward til recently. I discovered a game that borrows heavily on that concept, but shoots it up with steroids! Descent: Journeys in the Dark is a dungeon crawl, hack-and-slash of epic proportions. The base set alone features hundreds of pieces and quite a few expansions are already available.

My housemates and I recently bought the Road to Legend campaign expansion, allowing you to play an extended game featuring overland travel, a HUGE number of dungeons, city sieges and a bad-ass final boss!

Made by Fantasy Flight Games, the base set is typically $80 to $100 bucks, but I got mine for $55! For dungeon runners and turbo-nerds, this game is tons of fun and I reccomend it exuberantly!

With my photo-jet printer and a fancy template I got from the Home site, I can make and print my own characters! I simply go through my piles of old miniatures from other games and match them up. Sweet!

Go forth, uber dorks! For the Kingdom!
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[Hoshiginiro]

[Chaosengine]

Ghost Talker Rant # ??

If John Edward can talk to ghosts, why no celebrity ghosts?

No Elvis, No J.F.K., no nuthin'.

It's because a whole ass load of people would watch and catch 'em when they screw up! There's a reason for that Non-Disclosure agreement he makes people sign in his studio audience.

Vaudeville performers use to do stuff like this, back before television AND radio. It comes down to charisma and trickery, not magic.

The guy is a con man, nuthin' more.
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[dragonfly]

ya know i fully agree i hate those shit ghost programs they do like.

most haunted it makes me wanna scream at the losers who are acting like babys SERIOUSLY PEOPLE GROM THE F*** UP.
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[DesertWolf]

You gotta love me at this point.

I hate doing this to ya Chaos but I gotta put up corrections:

Edward's has a show(now his second)aired on t.v. which means millions of people watch it.The possible reasons why people don't pass him off as a fraud stem from editing and belief.Editing allows John to appear near flawless(as the voice over proclaims with his accuracy) but they sometimes include a minor amount of miss reads to show that he is human and humans make mistakes but the studio audience gets the the majority of blunders and that leads me to--belief.The majority of the world's population has a belief in some form of afterlife and Edward preys upon this because he knows that any reasonable person who has a sliver of belief will succumb to his "impressive ability". I fully endorse critics of his work and those like him,but the sad truth remains is that peoples belief overrides common sense all the time.
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[Caroline]

((DesertWolf,

Okay, at this point I have to ask... why are you insisting on playing devil's advocate on a thread devoted to ranting about things that annoy people? One-time would be poking fun at the ranter... but three times, to me, seems like you have an ulterior motive.

You're comments really aren't funny, elucidating, enlightening, or even productive. They're condescending and self-righteous. They have the feel that you're coming down from your ivory tower to educate the philistines on the sidewalk.

These are rants. Rants, by definition, aren't going to be 100% correct, or even balanced in their presentation. They're going to be partisan. They're opinion blurbs. Letter's to the Editor, if you will.

So... why have you been counter-posting. Or, better focused, why only counter-posting against Chaosengine?))

[The Adept]

[Chaosengine]

Things I can do without:

Guys who call me 'Brah'...

Cargo Shorts...

Lectures from 10 year olds...

Designer Crutches...

People who refer to Jesus as "The Big Guy"...

Alien abductees...

Golf Shoes...

People who replace "O's" with zeros in a sentence...

L33t speak in general...

Gummy vitamins marketed for adults...

The color pink...

The band, "Sugar Ray"... yech...
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[Chaosengine]

Let's talk about movies. We all love movies and everybody has their favorite genres and actors and such. Today, I wanna talk about one of my favorite movies from the 80's, The Goonies.

Kid adventure films were big in those days and this movie stands as my favorite of them all. All the kids would be the nerds and rejects of any generation, so I was able to identify with them better. Avoiding traps, running from the Fratelli's, finding pirate treasure... it was a lot of fun to watch. It's one of those few movies I can watch over and over again.

When I was little, my favorite character was Data, the asian kid who wanted to be 007. As I grew up, my fav changed to Chunk. He had the most personality and was so damn obnoxious. I always thought it was a ripoff that he didn't get to follow everybody else into the tunnels. I would have loved to see his reactions to all that shit.

I had heard for awhile that they planned a sequel. Rumor has it, Feldman wanted no part of it. I think that's for the best. It doesn't need a sequel and if it got one, they'd fuck it up for sure. It stands as one of those rare movies that does exactly what a movie should do. It entertains. No hidden motives, no message, no subtle agenda. Just a damn fun movie to watch.

After all, where else are you gonna see a big, disfigured guy wearing a superman shirt and a pirate hat, smack two Ilalian crooks together and knock them out?
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[AlainDaishar]

Too True Chaos. It seems that a lot of sequels tend to just ruin the magic and glory of the first movie. That's one of the reasons I love the Nightmare Before Christmas. Disney wanted to make a sequel to that wonderful movie, and Tim Burton said no. So it got to keep its magic.
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[henkcobra]

is there a new swat cats?
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[dragonfly]

as posted in the other tread no there is no new swat cats going to be made
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[Chaosengine]

Next up, is one of my favorite movies of all time! Big Trouble in Little China was directed by John Carpenter and Starred Kurt Russell before he made it big.

Talk about crack for a kid like me! This movie had everything! Kung Fu, sword fights, shoot outs, monsters, magic, gang wars, it had everything that kids love! Russell played truck driver, Jack Burton, the first anti-hero I was ever introduced to. He was a wise cracking smart ass without fighting skills and spat out one-liners long before I knew who Bruce Campbell was.

I've watched this movie SO many times I've lost count. A true classic, check it out.
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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
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