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I really need to get around to playing Deus Ex once I get my new computer built. Newegg needs to hurry up and have better shell shockers! What is this 430 watt power supply?! I don't think that could even run a toaster these days.
Uhh, right, comics. Have some more Madmax to go with your Madmax.
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oh lol, the feeling's similar, but the melody thingy is definitely different.
ReplyDeleteBtw, this isn't pony-related but it's too hilarious not to share.
Are we doing TF2 tonight? As of this post, it will start in six hours and twenty minutes.
ReplyDeleteDo a survey for Enterplay, get a free Fluttershy promo card.
ReplyDeleteMillenial Dan, this is for you!
I have a football game tonight, so I won't be able to make it.
ReplyDeleteWhile driving this morning I witnessed something. I stopped at a very busy intersection (Sports Arena and Rosecrans, very busy place), and the light had just turned red for my side. The crosstraffic was about to turn green, when I noticed something that had just been placed in the middle of the road: a kitten. That's right, a kitten was just abandoned in the middle of one of the busiest intersection of Southern California. And a big, black truck was just starting to drive in from the side. It stopped. The driver got out and chased the kitten, leaving his car blocking all traffic. The kitten ran under the car behind it, and several people were watching. Nobody honked, despite it holding up about seventy cars at once. A couple people also opened their doors, telling the man where the kitten, now terrified and shaking, went. Eventually, the man picked him up from under the car behind him. Carrying the kitten in one arm, he got back into his truck and changed the direction he was going. Since I was at the front, I was able to drive up next to him. He was smiling, and trying to comfort the shaking kitten. He was going to go give it a home.
If you see the license plate STALE 1, then it's a good fellow.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteI'm on it!
And now for something completely different.
ReplyDeleteMakes me laugh every time.
I might be around, but it's always too late for real fun.
ReplyDeleteServer going up. If we can wrangle enough players for MVM, I might switch to that, if it's agreeable.
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ReplyDeleteGG. Thanks. I should probably change my name to "Target Practice". lol. I haven't played a multi-player FPS since "Return to Castle Wolfenstein".
ReplyDelete@ClosetBrony
ReplyDelete"Target Practice" is the name of one of the bots who...well, has inhumanly fast reflexes that put all of us to shame. You did better than you thought. Speaking of, did you get a new computer or something? I seem to remember you saying that you couldn't run TF2.
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ReplyDeleteHaha, I was wondering what you were talking about. Hell yeah, it's depressing as fuck, but I don't know how to delete it. I think it kinda stays or something. I'll try.
ReplyDelete@DeRockProject
ReplyDeleteClick the trashcan next to the time it was posted.
@ThunderIce
ReplyDeleteSo, your collection is comprised of Rarity, Fluttershy, and Lily Blossom?
I have a spare Twilight I'd be willing to give you, if I could.
Millennial Dan, I still have that spare Fluttershy. Hmm, now I have this crazy idea that I should have stashed it somewhere in the Denver airport for you. I don't think you would have ended up getting it, though; "suspicious unattended packages" and all.
Imagine someone finding a suspicious box at an airport and they call in the bomb squad only to discover that there's a harmless pony toy inside.
Man, now I want to go back to the Schlotzky's in the Denver airport. That sandwich was amazing. Or maybe I was just starving. Either way, it was great.
Time for bed. Have a TV theme song from a show I don't particularly like. Mainly because it isn't really that funny, but also because it mocks highly intelligent people with scientific jobs. Also, Shledon totally has Aspergers (even if they don't explicitly say it) and his "personality quirks" are the subject of virtually every joke involving him. In fact, one episode has a joke where his mother comes to town because Sheldon is behaving strangely, and another character asks if he was ever tested for mental disorders. His mother says that he was when he was young, but the doctors couldn't find anything wrong. The punchline is his mother saying "I knew I should have taken him to that specialist."
ReplyDeleteHa ha! Mental disorders are SOOO funny!!!1!one!
And they complain about the way Derpy talks.
Big Bang
I had a discussion about the origins of the universe with my security team while I was at Everfree. We talked about the relatively new theory about the universe expanding and collapsing on a cycle spanning trillions of years and the universe we're living in now might not be (and probably isn't) the "first" iteration. This universe might be hundreds of iterations down the line from the effective "start" of time, if there is one, and all the energy in the universe has been recycled into anew universe whenever the old one collapses into a singularity and then expands again.
Interesting stuff.
Goodnight.
Hey, wait a sec... *looks at the last few posts I missed on the first page*
ReplyDeleteWell if it isn't MissGoldenDragon! You haven't commented in forever! You should do more a' that.
Fun games tonight guys, sorry if CoarseHawk was getting on anyone's nerves. He kinda lives up to the "Coarse" part, doesn't he?
@ClosetBrony
All you really have to know about playing TF2 is how dangerous it is to stand still for too long. Master moving and shooting and you'll do just fine!
I wish I don't forget that cat, though. The streets back there seemed to have overpopulated with cats, they probably have corpses of them all the time. So the problem is, it's hard to distinguish if that cat that died was the one I saw the day before. I saw a lot of cats on the streets so one of them could be it. And that's just... crazy. Can't explain very well.
ReplyDeleteAnd TF2, I love it but I can never get used to a few things. It's all up to me to break out of habits and explore the expansive and dangerous land of TF2. Today, I got used to being the spy, and vaguely understood how the medic works. Sniper is still my favorite class.
I heard someone say TF2 is easy, if you just choose Heavy, and you'll never die. There seems to be some merit to that... I don't know. XD It's not enough to make him some god-tier, broken, unbalanced class, though. That was probably just a troll comment from a TF2 hater.
I have 3 GBs and 40 minutes worth of Everfree footage! You don't need to subscribe to my youtube channel. I'll notify ya guys here once I upload them! Most of the time, my channel is for Minecraft LPs anyway.
ReplyDeleteOh and speaking of Soundcloud, ya guys reminded me that I have a ton of music stuff I just left around in my computer. I gathered them all up and chunked them into my Soundcloud thingy.
ReplyDeleteThey're all shitty. XD They just are!
Except "SupaPowaPoni". That one's intentionally bad.
ReplyDelete@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteYeah, could we maybe not have Coarsehawk play with us anymore? He takes it way too seriously and seems to be a bad sport; what with getting unreasonably angry at anyone who beat him and cursing them out.
I agree. Some people just can't seem to understand the phrase, "It's only a game".
ReplyDeleteSO "I Suck at this Game" and "CoarseHawk" are... who's friend from KYM? Sorry, it was a blur.
ReplyDeleteAny way to give them a second chance? Maybe he wasn't actually mad, but joking around.
@DeRockProject
ReplyDeleteThey're Millennial Dan's friends, and I really don't think he was joking. It was pretty much nonstop. He said "that faggot is using hacks" when you were a scout and he was an engineer and you killed him. "Fuck you and your piss" when I killed him repeatedly with jarate and a bushwacka as a sniper. He said "let me give you some advice. Don't rush in there when they're ubered" when I was a heavy and he was a medic and we were up against another heavy and medic team. He deployed his uber at the exact same time as the other team (M Dan and you, I believe) and then he blamed it on me. He also yelled "stupid heavy! You need to look behind you" at me when I suck at this game was a pyro and killed him. He has eyes. He can look behind him. I couldn't have saved him anyway, because I suck at this game came out of the resupply room right next to him and burned him in about one second.
I am not Rainbow Dash. I am not faster than the speed of sound. I cannot outrun fire.
I really don't like people blaming me for things that aren't my fault. I get enough of that in real life.
@DeRockProject
ReplyDeleteLike MyBoyJ said, I'm the one who hangs out on KYM, though mostly I just lurk there. Anyway, he might have been joking around, but it's a little... I dunno, I guess I would say it's presumptuous of him to act that way when he's been invited to a private server and all. He even gave I Suck At This Game a hard time just for using the Backburner, for goodness' sake!
In other news, what's up with this? People sure are stubborn about their headcanon someties... and the funny thing is, those of us who initially spelled it LOS Pegasus were often the target of people saying the same thing based on nothing more than a tweet. Sheesh!
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteClingers gonna cling.
Look at all the people who said "Derpy is just a cruel nickname given to her by that bully Rainbow Dash. Her real name is Ditzy Doo" after The Last Roundup canonically established that her name is Derpy.
No officially licensed merchandise has ever used the name Ditzy Doo, while I personally own a T-shirt and a messenger bag, officially licensed by WeLoveFine, that have a picture of the character and prominently feature the name "Derpy." Hasbro knows what her name is. Most of the fandom knows what her name is. Only those who cling to their headcanon incorrectly call her Ditzy Doo.
It's pretty much the same here. The city of Los Pegasus is mentioned in an episode, in context it makes more geographical sense for it to be an LA counterpart, and the number of syllables make more sense if it were an LA counterpart. Then a tweet from the writer mentions that he meant it as a Vegas counterpart, but admits that the name pun was bad. It absolutely was bad, considering that the fanon came up with a much better Vegas name months beforehand Las Haygas, anypony? Then an official map is released with the city on the coast, like LA, the spelling "Los Pegasus," and an Applewood sign right next to it, cementing that it is, in fact, an LA counterpart.
I think people just want a Vegas inspired city to be canon because of the possibilities that would open up. Sure. I'm all in favor of a Vegas type city. Just call it Las Haygas. That sounds so much better. I'm honestly surprised that the writer couldn't come up with Las Haygas or Las Neighgas on his own.
Exactly. I had forgotten that argument about the name "Derpy", and honestly, that just sounds silly. Dash may be a little abrasive at times, but even I'll readily admit that she'd probably never invent some "cruel nickname" for another pony, especially one that she seems to know well.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Egghead. (On the other hand, maybe somewhere out there, someone believes "Derpy" is an affectionate nickname made by Rainbow, and Ditzy Doo is her nickname.)
ReplyDeleteAlso, Neighas sounds like niggas.
***Ditzy Doo is her REALname. Wow, I fucking suck.
ReplyDelete@DeRockProject
ReplyDeleteI think someone like RD would see "Egghead" as more or less a descriptive term rather than an insult, though she certainly equates it to inferior "coolness".
I'm terribly sorry for asking this, but I must ask that we refrain from yet another Derpy vs. Ditzy Doo discussion. Will all due respect (and I mean that), I think that we are taking this a bit too far.
ReplyDeleteDerpy is the official name, named by Hasbro and Lauren Faust herself. The name "Ditzy" was written becore Lauren or the Hub knew about the fandom and it's love for Derpy. That is why the names are such. Rainbow Dash said the word Derpy because that is her name, not because it is either a compliment or an insult.
Yes, there are people who do not accept this fact. Continuing to argue with them is unwise. All we are really doing is trying to force the ignorant to see what is correct. They are ignorant, which means that they will continue to be ignorant and stubborn. Let's just leave it at that and move on!
I don't care if she's Derpy or Ditzy.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if Las Pegasus is Las Vegas or Los Angeles.
It doesn't offend me. I swear. I really don't care what people think. We usually argue about nuclear energy, not pony stuff. (Or do we?)
I thought we were talking about Rainbow Dash's personality. There's no need to can a conversation that is naturally progressing to different topics, is there?
ReplyDeleteBut thinking in that sense, that makes Derpy vs. Ditzy discussion (ooh, catchy) completely pointless.
ReplyDeleteSo, yep! Let's forget about it. RAINBOW DASH! DASH RAINBOW DASH RAIN DASH RAINBOW RAIN DASH DASH!!!
So, hey guys. Whaddya think of my songs? Oh yeah, those were the songs I was trying to send through skype, but it failed. XD
I'm sorry, i've just been having a not-good day, but it's not something that I should dwell on. Not here, at least....
ReplyDeleteSorry for the pre-emptive strike on that. I just want to steer clear on it before it gets serious.
One Mooaar thing- if I ever start complaining about my music again, do not hesitate to stop me. Looking back, I've complained far too much about that.
Let's get happy now; bring in the fun, and let's make this place enjoyable again.
Bombe! Whaddya think of my happy, happy songs! They are happy and only $50!!! Buy some apples!
ReplyDeleteWe've strayed too far into the "depression" and "serious" stuffs. We almost never have fun here anymore, and I'd like to give credit to Dublio for his attempts at making it more fun. Same with Dan and J for putting up with this for so long. LET'S GET BACK BEFORE WE GO TOO FAR.
ReplyDeleteHmm? What's that? I'm being unreasonable? Well, let's-a start again. Hello, I'm Bombedrumbum, nice to meet ya! Welcome to a place where we can all be happy in a nice little corner of the internet!
hmm
HMM
Whelp, I got nothing. Let me take some time to go get something to give to ya guys.
DeRock, you have muzeschick. Okay den.
^my attempts at trying to, if not get us back on track, create a new track. Yeah, because stuff that works well. If change is inevitable, then oh well, at least I tried my best! Let's go!
If you want me to make a new track, I got Adobe Premiere on the ready!
ReplyDelete...
HOHOHOHO, oohhh, I'm so witty!
XD man that was bad.
Also, lol at the people carrying the car. The car should just reverse, but, from what I heard, most of the time, it can't even do that because there's probably cars right behind it when it does that. or somethign like that
Sorry to hear that about your day Bombe, I hope tomorrow things go a little better for ya. And by the way, I may have neglected to say it, but I'm really glad for you and the fact that you've been pursuing your musical goals lately. Allz I can say is keep it up!
ReplyDelete@DeRock, I think the vocal audio is a teensy bit loud on your "Beyond Her Garden" cover. What's the NanoStudio Thing? Sounds interesting, but it's quite short!
And now for another bit of complete randomness, I've been obsessing all day over resolution quality. I downloaded the very first MLP:FIM episode from iTunes in 1080p and 720p, got a YouTube rip of the Hub's 1080p, downloaded someone's "color corrected" version of the iTunes 1080 one, and I've got a similar one to that which I think I torrented from someplace. And you know what? THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT SHADES!!! WHICH ONE IS THE BEST?! WHICH ONE IS CORRECT?!!! I DON'T KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!
Oh, the nanostudio thing song was made in nanostudio which is an... ipod app? I worked on it then stopped after 5 minutes because I was out of ideas. XD
ReplyDeleteAlso, how ok are you guys if I link our discussion thread somewhere in public? Not asking anyone to join or anything, but... yeah, I dunno.
Speaking of which, how many blog posts did we run over? XD
Also, I actually thought the vocal part for Beyond Her Garden was too quiet and increased it more. Carp.
ReplyDeletespeaking of music......
ReplyDeleteDeRock, please don't link to these places.
Aaaaaaaaaaand I'm off to go finish making something for you guys, or at least progress as much as I can.
If you say so, I definitely won't. Even I thought it was a bad idea. XD
ReplyDeleteAnd that gif, holy carp, that's hilarious.
@DeRockProject
ReplyDeleteYeah, definitely DO NOT link this discussion anywhere.
I won't, I won't, don't worry. XD Sorry.
ReplyDeleteI'm of to bed. Here's a song for everyone in school.
ReplyDeletePizza Day
Goodnight.
*annoying ring*
ReplyDelete*annoying tone*
We're sorry, the person you have reached is unavailable please chose one of the following:
1: For important news or message
2: For death threat
3: For free pie
4: For voicemail
5: For Theme song to "Moon Base Alpha*
6: For funny joke
7: For dirty joke
8: For Celestia
9: To hang up and try again
@Travis Smith the Last Shadowbolt
ReplyDelete*Presses #5*
Okay, virtually nothing happened around here today, so I've decided to start something to encourage conversation. I'll do this on a regularly when posts are few and far between here.
ReplyDeleteThe inaugural topic is as follows.
Before I became a Brony, or even knew what Bronies were, I had seen a few comics about Derpy and Carrot Top in the sub-genre lovingly known as "I emptied your fridge." There have been a lot of comics about this topic, and I almost always enjoy them. There was even another one posted on EqD just yesterday.
The question is, do you like these particular comics?
Why or why not?
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDelete"Do this on a regularly."
And I tried so hard.
Heeheheheh—*ahem*
ReplyDeleteYeah, I find them kinda funny I guess. They're a bit random though, because how on earth does someone like Derpy have such a big appetite anyway? Now PINKIE on the other hoof, she could empty your fridge just like that if she wanted. Straight up.
I actually have an idea of an animation of Derpy and Carrot Top going at it like Tom & Jerry over the food in the fridge. Mainly the muffin.
ReplyDeleteThis and a few other ideas merged together into some epic movie about the Twelve Pantheons, a group of self-proclaimed Protectors of Time and Space of Equestria, and a secret agent's effort to thwart their disastrous plans.
Some random ideas I had...
Unfinished list of Members and Code Names:
Vinyl Scratch: Jupiter
Bonbon: Juno
Octavia: Minerva
Lyra: Apollo
Derpy Hooves: Mercury
Carrot Top: Ceres
Dr. Hooves: Vulcan
Berry Punch: Bacchus
'Some epic movie' I meant some kind of in-universe movie. That was a crossover of in-universe TV shows.
ReplyDelete@Bombe
ReplyDeleteHiya :) Indeed? Well, that gives me a chance to catch up. ;)
@MyBoyJimmy
Thanks! I've been good, mostly. Trying to get school organized and all that. Senior year (in high school) this year, about which I'm undecided to be happy or not. heh heh.
When does season 3 start..? Yeah, I've kinda been out of the loop for a while.
@Bombe
That's.. quite the story o_o
@Millennial Daniel
Hahaha! XD yes, it's me :P I know, I know, i get lazy in my commenting, I'm terrible. haha
@Millennial Dan
I got a good sport award in badminton! :O that counts, right? X)
@MyBoyJimmy
Wow, that song is awesome, and yet depressing. I like the Jonathan Coultan songs that I've heard.
@MyBoyJimmy
Haha! That's cute.
Derpy is magical Millennial Dan, the muffins are her power source! They need to be refrigerated. X)
Recap of the day:
ReplyDeleteI wore a Blue Man Group T-Shirt today. People were telling me how much they loved the movie Avatar. Sigh.....
In case you didn't know, the Blue Man Group is a band that works with percussion instruments. They are by far the kings of creativity when it comes to percussion. I listened to their song "Rods and Cones" many times when I was younger.
The shirt is just a big blue face of one of the three.
Have ya noticed that banner? Well, it was made by PixelKitties. A guy in Tetra's skype group pointed it out, at which point I expressed my delight at it and said "thank you Pixelkitties". Guess what? Tetra copied that set of messages and forwarded it to PixelKitties herself. She said that she was glad at having people appreciate and love her work, and said thank you. Aww....I made PixelKitties happy :3
Also, I got Thorinair as a contact now. He said that he'll give me direct advice on making music if I wanted to ask him anything. I don't want to spam the poor guy (he's on hiatus from music because college), but this is just a Godsend. He also told me that I don't need a MIDI keyboard either. Phew.
The piano playing today at the hospital went well. For some reason, nobody ever clapped (not that I like being in that awkward situation, but I appreciate the gesture), but people told me that I did well as I.left. One guy, I'm assuming Pakistani, asked for a request. As luck would have it, I actually had the song in one of my books and was able to fulfill it. I later found out that his daughter went to Juliard as a musician. Heh.
So, MissGoldenDragon....... Badmitton, eh?
Sounds good :) ... who's Thorinair..?
ReplyDeleteYou played piano at a hospital? :) Awesome! ^_^
Yep, badminton :} I played it for a few weeks in PE, and then we had a small tournament. It was fun
"Millennial Daniel"
ReplyDeleteLOL! :b
No one knows when season 3 is going to start. It should have been announced by now, but sadly it has not.
Thorinair- accomplished brony musician and artist who I just found out is crazy for Twilight.
ReplyDeleteI play piano at a hospital every other Sunday.
Yep. XP
ReplyDeleteLaaaame. Xc
@Bombe
Ah, cool. Haha, Twilight IS pretty awesome. X)
That's so cool!
@DeRockProject
ReplyDeleteI like it. Berry Punch's code name being Bacchus, that's kinda clever actually.
I might just have to suggest your animation idea to an animator I know on dA.
Hell, thanks ya, Millenial! That really made my originally-shitty day. I don't expect anything will happen from sending my idea to whoever you're sending it to, but I don't mind. XD
ReplyDeleteWhaddya think the other Pantheons will be? How about Braeburn as Mars/Ares? (I dunno whether to use the greek or roman names.)
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteI bumped into PixelKitties in the vendor hall at Everfree. She was just wandering around, checking out all the other booths. I introduced myself and told her how much I loved all of her work and she was kind of bashful about it. She thanked me for my appreciation and said she was glad that I got some enjoyment out of it.
@MissGoldenDragon
Glad to hear that you're well. What are you going to do after high school? College?
Like Dan said, season 3 doesn't have a release date yet, but there's a "Crystal Empire" DVD coming out on December 4th. It's going to have five episodes, like the others, and two of them are "The Crystal Empire, parts 1 and 2" which are presumably the two part season premiere episodes. That would put the absolute latest date for the season premiere at November 17th if they air on Saturday and there's one episode a week. That's a whole two months from now, and I can't imagine that they would wait to air the episodes until a week before they're available on DVD. After all, The Last Roundup aired about a month before The Friendship Express DVD was released and A Canterlot Wedding aired over three months before the Royal Pony Wedding DVD was released.
I doubt anyone follows my videos, but I feel like my videos are going down in quality. Yet, on the other hand, a friend said my videos are actually getting BETTER. I don't get enough feedback, so I'm presuming it's just him saying that.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, if season 3 still doesn't air after the dvd is out. I'm buying that dvd. Everyone's gonna buy that dvd. I'm not saying that Hasbro wants that or anything. I'm just saying I'll definitely do that.
Would anyone care if I LP the EqD server? It doesn't seem too interesting, but...
ReplyDeleteThen again, almost none of my subscribers are bronies. Convert them? XD Probably not, I guess.
I have no idea what you mean by "LP the EqD server", but I say do it anyway.
ReplyDeleteEqD now has a MineCraft server. I don't play it, so ignored the Steam invitation to it (all thousands of people who joined the EqD group on Steam).
ReplyDeleteCereal posted a video of it on Youtube. His.channel name is Nanocamero, I think.
Oh, if you mean what LP means, it means Let's Play.
ReplyDeleteSo I just record footage of hanging around the Equestria Daily Minecraft Server! Yay!
I guess I might as well do somewhat of a server review, I guess?
Check out the commission of Shkle I had done at Everfree
ReplyDeleteI can't quite make out the signature, who drew that?
ReplyDelete@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteThe guy who runs this Tumblr drew it. Here's his DA.
You don't say! Naturally, I follow that tumblr. He needs to update more.
ReplyDelete@Millennial Dan
ReplyDelete...
I'm off to bed. I leave you with this and this, as well as a song.
Rods and Cones
Goodnight.
Huh, I must have had the instrumental.
ReplyDeleteThe voice is clever at times.
@MyBoyJ, et al
ReplyDeleteWhat!? No "Scootaloo can dance." responses to that second image yet?
Oh yeah, huh, We slippin'!
ReplyDeleteSo...
ReplyDeleteborderlands 2 is coming out in under 12 hours, and if any of you have seen or played with me on the first one you will know one thing.
Dr.Discord kills everything the end
Borderlands? More like BOREderlands. Ha ha.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I played the original Borderlands all the way through and didn't get what was so great about it. I've mentioned this before.
It's kind of a hybrid between an FPS and a dungeon crawler and those are not my two favorite genres genres, especially dungeon crawlers.
To each their own, I guess.
Speaking of games, I started playing the Black Mesa mod yesterday. For those that don't know, it's a fanmade (I think) recreation of the original Half Life using the Half Life 2 engine, so it has better graphics and physics. It seems to be staying pretty true to the original game with a few changes here and there for better flow or continuity. It's pretty good, and it definitely feels better than the original Half Life, which I've also played.
ReplyDeleteMy only real problem with it is jumping. A lot of the puzzles in the game are focused on jumping, and it seems buggy sometimes. I try to jump off of a ladder onto a platform and it simply doesn't register that I've jumped and I end up just climbing back down the ladder. The absolute biggest problem with jumping, however, is the fact that seemingly 90% of the jumps in the game are "crouch jumps" rather than normal jumps. With a normal jump, you just hit spacebar, but with a crouch jump, you need to hit spacebar and then control while you're in the air to tuck your legs under you. I remember having to crouch jump occasionally in the original game to get into air vents and the like, but in Black Mesa, nearly every single jump you need to make is a crouch jump.
Jump from one box to another? You can't make it without crouch jump. Jump up from one pipe onto a slightly higher pipe that looks like you can easily make it with a regular jump? Not without crouch jump. Frankly, it's annoying. The annoyance is compounded when a jump looks low enough to not require crouching, but it nearly always does. It gets even worse when you need to sprint to get enough speed to make a jump, then you jump, then you need to crouch in midair to ensure that you don't wang your legs on the edge of the platform you're trying to land on.
At the same time, jumping while in the water near a platform's edge will magically lift you out of the water and plop you safely on the platform. So I guess Gordon can automatically climb out of the water but he can't automatically tuck his legs when he jumps. Maybe he has some kind of motor disorder.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteJust realized that I said "genres genres" whatever that means.
That's not unlike a pie-flavored pie.
ReplyDeleteHaha, I didn't know "Target Practice" was the name of a bot. (I had not played TF2 before.) I managed to get my hands on an old video card (ATI 2400HD) that is better than what the family desktop has. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it worked. The desktop itself is slow by today's standards. I really felt it when I accidentally hit the windows key instead of the control key. I sat looking at a white mouse pointer against a black background for a few minutes before I could get back to the point where I could re-join the server.
ReplyDeleteyes, MD you taught me very well not to sit still for too long. thank you very much! :P lol
SOMEBODY'S GETTING FIRED FOR THIS XD
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteUm, what?
>Color: TJ Water
ReplyDelete>Color looks like piss
>TJ are the initials for Tijuana
>...
I just got it.
ReplyDeleteTijuana is this city in Mexico.
Tijuana Water. Looks like...that color.
Okaaayyyy.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteEh, I don't buy it. Seems like too much of a stretch.
The thing is, I went to one of those paint shops on Saturday, and it was one of the employees who showed it to me. (Let's just say I have a knack for getting close with employees of low-paying jobs) The guy started showing me all of the puns in the paint names, such as "Teal Me No Lies". Then, he got out a paint swatch from the 80's that had that color. He said that it has since been removed. He successfly tried to convinve me that that was what it meant.
ReplyDeleteI mean, come on, TJ water? What ELSE could it mean? Water- it's water. TJ water=piss color. COME ON, WHAT ELSE COULD IT EVEN MEAN?
Also, Borderlands 2. The gunzerker is a midget. Let's have some fun.
You weren't kidding Bombe... KyoKusagani1999 is all over the place these days.
ReplyDeleteI'm off to bed. Have a song I'm fairly certain I haven't linked before.
ReplyDeleteDrinking With You
Goodnight.
Wow, I've grown careless. That was the first time in a long while that I got the Blogger Conflicting Edits notification.
ReplyDeleteSeems like I've finally been replaced; it only took about a year.....
Should I ever go back to commenting like that again, I might add the guy to our group. It's how we got started, yadda yadda. I really want to start commenti.g again and show the guy up, but two things are preventing me from that: one, not enough time, and two, IntenseDebate kinda hinders that.
In other news, EqD has stated that they are in the process of creating official forumns. Well.
MyBoyJ, how appropraite that song is. Last night, there was a huge discussion (between me, Discord, and some other guy) about drinking. Beer, beer, beer.
chug chug chug glug glug glug zzz zzz zzz
Ah yes, the official EqD forums, that piqued my interest as well. I wonder what the rules will be? Would it be work to create our own thread in such a place? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
ReplyDeleteBefore I go, I'd like to say that Chromosome isn't good at moderating the comments on EqD. If you look at his IntenseDebate profile, you will see that at least half of all of his comments are basically just saying either "why are you saying this in the comments/making comment threads I don't like" or basically throwing up his arms and saying "wtf." While he basically whines about what people do in the comments, there was a girl who posted about 90% of the comments in one post all by herself. Spamming over and over with completely irrelevant stuff like "I love ponies" and those huge text blocks like Dr. Discord's whale saying "My Little Pony" over and over again. She probably posted over 100 comments in about 30 minutes, and they stayed there for hours, at the very least. I just went looking for it to link it, but I think that entire post eventually got deleted and reposted to get rid of the spam as one person suggested to the mods.
ReplyDeleteSo Chromosome says little passive-aggressive one liners like "wtf" or "are you for real" but doesn't notice huge walls of spam flooding the comments.
Not professional at all. He could at least cite some kind of guideline or rule established by the management of EqD if he's displeased with a commenter instead of it just being subject to his whims and frankly insincere tone.
As for forums, I don't know if I like the idea. I can imagine a lot of ways it could go wrong.
Who knows? This little corner of the internet is always going to be special to me.
ReplyDeleteLike MyBoyJ said, I can see a lot of ways that the forumn could go wrong.
Chromosome....where to start with him. Obviously, I indirectly know him through SALT, not as a mod. I was actually suprised that he was a mod. He has his ups and downs, let's say. That reminds me, I haven't spoken with Ravens for a week or even more. I don't want to give off the impression that I'm content with the extremely small amount that I did, so I need to get back to that.
I just had a major nostalgia attack. I just heard music from one of my favorite online games, Mabinogi. My brother and I have been playing it since it came out, and for some reason we stopped (since he started, my brother got the name Saruman. One of the best players in the whole effin' game at the start, and every one of the top players now is on his personal friends list.) The music, though. I do not exaggerate when I say that I have listened to these songs for hours on end. I'm just going to leave you with songs that make me nostalgic, remembering countless upon countless hours of playing. This game has made me happy.
Mabinogi Soundtracks:
The opening theme, now outdated. This song.... This is by far one of the most nostalgic songs of my teenage years. Needless to say, it is amazing.
Soft Sunshine- the character selection screen. Oh man, I don't even know where to start with this one. Most often, the music would start before the screen was fully loaded, thus having a bunch of blank spaces all over the place. And the fountain in the middle. The landscape, OH GOD THE LANDSCAPE. So pretty...
Tir Chonaill This is the very first town you see in the game. Every single beginner or noob, for their first experience of this game, had this. I can almost hear the sound effect for killing a mob in this. So many foxes...
Gairech Hills This is the song of crossroads, the song of walking. The largest non-continental map of Erinn, this is the map that every player in the game has crossed at least once or twice. It is the map between Bangor (the mine town/entrance to the soul world) and Tir Chonaill. Also the map to Dunbarton, which is the main hub town of the game. What I'm getting at is that you're gonna be on this map for a long time if you wanna go anywhere. The song itself makes it all worth it.
Tracy's Theme. Ha! You thought I was a woman? Yes, everybody did. Then we saw your facial hair and facial expression. -This guy is badass. He's a lumberjack named Tracy, and you can't really see that he's a MANLY MAN unless you talk to him. Then his theme song comes up. This is my favorite theme for anybody ever.
Sorry, I just HAD to.
That sure is...a wall of text and links, Bombe. No need to apologize. If you want to link something you like, link something you like. Celestia knows I do. It sounds cool, but I'm way too tired to check out the links now.
ReplyDeleteGoodnight all.
Oh man, Mabinogi! That game was popular in Korea when I was younger, too! I didn't play much of it, though. I didn't know enough friends who play it, too. And the one guy who introduced it to me went off to play more Starcraft. Typical Koreans!!!
ReplyDeleteOH YEAH, I FORGOT TO SEND THIS LINK!!!
It's my footage of Everfree. Seems, no one else would really need this. EqD probably won't really give a crap. I dunno.
Oh, I left that part where I play a song on guitar. It's shitty, ignore it!
ReplyDeleteI ran into RavensDagger in the main comments earlier. Good to see him again.
ReplyDeleteDrop in here once in a while, will ya, Raven? We miss ya.
Anyway, it's been dark and rainy all day today and there's supposedly a tornado warning in effect until midnight. We momentarily lost power a few hours ago and there have been reports of blackouts around the area.
I just wanted to let you guys know what's going on here. It'll be fine, though. Don't worry.
I also got an anti-glare screen protector for my phone and managed to apply it almost perfectly, but it makes the screen look grainy. I thought it was a manufacturing defect and looked it up online but apparently that's just what happens when you apply an anti-glare one. I'm a little disappointed, but it is also fingerprint resistant and more responsive than my old one, so I guess it's a tradeoff.
Yep, every time I poke my head in fimfiction, RD appears to be staying pretty active over there. Unfortunately, all I ever do is lurk.
ReplyDeleteKinda dark and stormy? Have a little sunlight to brighten things up. This guy is by far my most ambitious pony to date. I'm still tweaking some things (I'm going to try a little shading... maybe) but I think it's coming together nicely.
Dan, that is one of your best ponies yet. It looks really epic....
ReplyDeleteOh, RavensDagger..... I'm sorry that I stopped; I promise that I'll resume as soon as I possibly can!
I've spent most of my day so far either in school or in a conference regarding builing a shed, of which I am the project manager. Avoiding the obvious hey hey hey joke about sheds, I really like how this is turning out.
Also, it happened. It finally frikkin' happened. Remember how I used to work at a café? Sell, the lease expired about a year ago, and since then, there's been a "Coming Soon" for the new restaurant/cafe/lounge. It just recently started having notable changes, and just today it opened. Let me just say this- it is, in several ways, like the food version of the apple store. The color scheme is bright, every piece of furniture is sharp, and it gives off the appearance of modern and professional. The prices are high, and while the employees are (hired to be) friendly, with such an atmosphere, I can't help but feel distant. It's like the polar opposite of the previous cafe. The one I worked at had a nice, warm, inviting feel to it. Fall colors with wooden chairs and furniture. Dark Red/Maroon tile flooring, and everything felt inviting amd friendly, like family. The staff was actually like a family, partially in the literal sense. Now, everything is either white or a sharp green, and the lighting is very bright white flooding, with high-gloss white, rectangular tiles.
I do not really like "modern". It feels unwelcoming.
I liked the traditional Italian restaurant that I had worked at beforehand. It served meals all day long, ranging from Mexican to American to Italian.
The new place specializes in drinks. Even the cups themselves look...expensive. What-the-frack-they-charge-one-fifty-for-a-donut, a friggin' donut. I could just cross the street and get one with the spare change in my pocket!
On top of all of that, they merged building suites with the bookstore. The very same bookstore that undermined our cafe in every way shape or form that they could. That just cemented my disliking for them.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess people need to drink overpriced high tech iCoffee while sitting in steel reinforced concrete chairs reading pretentious books about the death of the family as we know it and/or financial news about Apple's stock prices before they go home to their three wives and husband who are busily preparing a goat for sacrifice to Lord Xenu.
Did I forget anything?
I paid $12 for six doughnuts at Top Pot Doughnuts in Seattle. The King Tut Bar alone was worth it.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteThat is a fantastic looking pony. Great job! I left a comment to that effect on the page for it.
Eloquently put Bombe, I concur with your taste in aesthetics. I've appreciated the efforts of some stores, even Safeway for example, who have been trying to get away from that overly-bleached "modern" look you refer to. There's something to be said for a cozy rustic atmosphere, to be sure.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words, guys. These vectors are somewhat difficult to make, so it's always nice to get a little encouragement along the way. :]
Borderlands 2 is.pretty much the only thing on Tetra's Skype group now. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84847426/FAGSGDHHS.png
ReplyDeleteBorderlands 2 is AWESOME.
Remember how, a couple months ago, I volunteered to traumati- cheer up kiddos at a history museum by going around in a green dinosaur suit? Well, I just got an email from the same person (owner of the museum) entitled "THE DINOSAUR SUIT IS CALLING YOUR NAME" with the volunteer sheets attached. I replied saying "sure, I'll do it, but I think that finding volunteers is the least of your worries if a dinosaur suit is possessed, and by a ginger no-less". Okay, I didn't actually say that, but I wanted to. Ima do it, Ima gonna suit up with my bud Yoshi!
This is me during work hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPjzb_UIWuo&feature=player_embedded#!
ReplyDeleteI'm even a fan of the Chicago BlackHawks. I'm not just saying that, I have four shirts of their hockey team logo.
Have you played Borderlands 2, Bombe? If so, could you enlighten me as to what the storyline is?
ReplyDeleteI played the whole first game and the storyline was "let's find the vault! It's probably full of treasure!" Then they find the vault. I've seen trailers for the sequel saying "vault hunters wanted" and it's confusing because they FOUND AND OPENED the vault at the end of the first game. Did they lose it again or something?
I mean, the planet Pandora (clever and original name, there) has an interesting backstory all its own, what with all the marauding mutants, formerly booming economy and fascist military organization that's trying to take over the planet, but they barely scratched the surface on any of that in the first game to just focus on the MacGuffin du jour, the vault. Now the sequel pops up, bringing us more annoying Claptrap, and just seems to go back to the whole vault thing, which was already resolved.
Who here has played the first/and or second one and what's your take on it?
I'm of to bed. I'm fairly certain I haven't linked this song before.
ReplyDeleteWhen You Go
Goodnight.
I text Bejoty and Skype chat with Purple Tinker... Now that I think about it, I really should just leave this fandom drama to rest. I can't even go to CG anyway. Just started college today. Don't have any time.
ReplyDeleteI mean, the drama influences me in absolutely no way.
ReplyDeleteAsking this question feels sort of odd in light of your statement, but what drama? You mean Purple Tinker's crusade against the different conventions?
ReplyDeleteYeah... I stuck my foot DEEEEEP into this shit. I thought it'd be fun, yknow? But it's just... depressing.
ReplyDeleteLet me tell you something I need to say. PT just posted a DA journal saying she's not going to involve herself in the drama anymore. I call bullshit.
I mean, she posted a photo of her NWFL motherfucking transvestite crotch on 4chan with her fucking tripcode. Does that look like a guy who's gonna just up and stop giving a shit?! What do I need to do?!
And that's it! Nothing. I don't need to do anything. He/she can go fuck his/her life up, and it won't affect me at all. CG can go to hell, and it won't affect me at all.
Damn...
Wow... well, that's really... gross and weird. I'd agree with the notion of putting some space between yourself and all that stuff. No point in letting someone else's craziness get on ya.
ReplyDeleteI just wish I could've helped...
ReplyDeleteMaybe so, but there was really nothing to be helped as near as I can tell. PT was trying to force an apology by basically smearing people on the web. Is that likely to bring about reconciliation? Hardly. So all that happens is a lot of meaningless drama that ends up depressing people and accomplishing little else. What CAN you do but simply ignore it?
ReplyDeleteMake her see himself. She's a spergin idiot like me who doesn't know what she LOOKS LIKE to other people with what she does.
ReplyDeleteAnd no, I can't do that. What the hell.
I want to make a post about music, but it keeps getting removed/not posted.
ReplyDelete@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeletelet me enlighten you on the basics of this grand story
You "a new vault hunter" are to stop a man "handsome jack" from mining the planet to oblivion trying to find another vault so he can awaken the thing within and destroy all the "bad people" from the planet You will be helped by the previous games Vault hunters and to put this guy and Butt stallion DOWN!
BUT WAIT!!! the vault can only be open every 200 years how are they doing it now?
well that's Simple.....
OMG LOOK AT THIS >https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84847426/WAKADUUURP.png
<3 duuurp gun
Hey all! I am now typing from my new laptop. Tis much better than my desktop, so I can now do stuff! Like play games, actually talk on here and it's much faster!
ReplyDeleteThere's a minecraft game in two minutes at 209.222.123.254:25615! Wanna play? And yeah, Im posting this a bit late. XD
ReplyDeleteOh god I shouldve posted that 30 minutes ago or not at all...
ReplyDelete.....SALT?...
ReplyDelete@Derock
ReplyDeleteI'm here!!!
.....................and i'm gone
playing LoL
:p
XD when the match starts everyone gathers resource and pvps, so people can't join late.
ReplyDelete@derock
ReplyDeletepvp minecraft? count me out :p
And glhf dusk wisp!
ReplyDeleteI can't join right now. I'm still getting all the things I want on this laptop so far. Haven't gotten to download all the games yet.
ReplyDeleteAlso, does anyone have a link to the EqD helper app thing? I can't seem to locate it.
@Cloudy Haste
ReplyDeleteKinda useless for the Intense Debate comment system, that.
Ahh, activity is increasing. Very good!!
ReplyDeleteDom/duskwisp! Good to see ya!
You too, Cloudy! Glad to hear you got your labtop at last. Also, sorry I haven't been talking. Your profile for Blogger is blocked, but is that Ike from Fire Emblem? :D I'm subscribed to the pony emblem blog updates, waiting for the release.
Quite a few of you have blocked profiles, wow...
You know, I think that I could use the EqD greasemonkey script as well. Wait untill I get home, I'll try to find it in the archives.
Well, as some of you may be aware, my school is like a bomb shelter in terms of layout and contruction. Well, in school today, a seagull managed to get onto floor 2 somehow. Where did a seagull even come from?! The security cameras caught it chasing a teacher doen the hallway. Lol...
The football team that my school is going against this week also has something to note. We have found out that their plays are actually directly from the newest Madden football game; like, the very first plays that you see.
Homecoming for my school has just been announced as "Sadie Hawkins", which is the term used for when girls ask guys out. ALL HAIL BOMBEDRUMBUM, KING OF DA FRIENDZONE!
Okay, enough about my personal life. I feel like I'm spouting off too much :V
@Cloudy Haste
ReplyDeleteHey! It's great that you got your new computer. Allow me to grant you the link for the Greasemonkey EqD helper.
Millennial Dan is right for the most part, though. The only real function it still has (I think) is showing you what time posts go up local to you. I.E. if a post goes up at 2PM EqD server time and you're in a different time zone, it still shows you what time it went up in your time zone.
I only wanted it for this group chat. I don't really bother with eqd at all. I don't care at all for the comment sections either. The only reason I go onto EqD for this chat.
ReplyDelete@Bombe
Yes, it is Ike! Fire emblem is one of my favorite game series ever!
not gonna be on tonight though. Being at friends house.
As it turns out, Tabitha St. Germain actually did provide the voice for this and apparently this.
ReplyDeleteApparently, BlackGryph0n was hesitant to actually say that it was her until he found a loophole in her contract or something, but now he's flat out saying it's her.
@Cloudy Haste
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of laptops mine died yesterday after I had completed a three-page essay on the Castor oil plant, a four page study guide+ essay. About six hours worth of work
Worst part?
My Biology teacher told me it was a shame and it would count late as of that day.
@Travis Smith the Last Shadowbolt
ReplyDeleteDid the teacher think it was one of those "my dog ate it" excuses?
How did your laptop die? Is it possible to recover the hard drive with your work on it?
NERDGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
ReplyDeleteThey didn't leave out Tom Bombadil. I F***ING LOVE TOM BOMBADIL.
Bombadil, Bombedrumbum, Bombadil, Bombedrumbum, Bombadil, Bombedrumbum. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I feel like I'm gonna collapse..... http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maf9ydri9A1qdlh1io1_250.gif
Also, this video loops. I am attentively watching it, as it has just taken the spot of my favorite Gangnam Style insert.
ReplyDeleteThe Hobbit is the only Tolkien book I've read so far. I keep meaning to read The Lord of the Rings series, but I never get around to it. As for your second comment, this video, minus the sound, looped for about two hours on and off in the background of the dance party I watched over on the second night of Everfree. This one also looped for a while, but for nowhere near as long.
ReplyDeleteThat first one makes me think that heterochromia is the only thing that would make Shkle an even worse OC, at least in terms of Mary Sueism.
The Raven (Genus corvus stultus scriptor) is a rare and exceptionally idiotic creature.
ReplyDeleteWithin its normal habitat of thick prose and thin schedules it creates works of literary fiction of cringe-worthy nature.
The Raven, is a fanidor, it feeds by creating works that inspire fear in its prey. To do so, the Raven creates lovable worlds and characters then proceeds to kill them with glee as its prey watches in horror. It also consumes a diet of ‘D’awws’ and the adoration of foolish fans.
Some remarkable feats of rush-writing, sucking up to pre-readers and pretending to be intelligent can be witnessed with careful observation of the Raven in its natural habitat. The creature has been known to violate its ability to post blogs and write dreadful ditties.
When not turning out works of world-destruction, it writes sappy romances in the darkness of its room and self-inspects heavily to the detriment of its symbiotic editors (without which it mumbles incoherently).
Has been observed working with Saiyans, military ponies, cacti and, on occasions, antagonists.
Steam: RavensDagger501
Email: [email protected]
Ha, yeah, Steam, SURE. Last online: 83 days ago...
Oh, yeah, it's well-written too....
Since I downloaded the game Mabinogi, I have access to all mp3 files of the game. I put them all in Windows Media Player, and was about to hit start when i noticed a certain track. It's name? deus ex machina. I kid you not.
ReplyDeleteI'm off to bed. I remember the following song to have been a very big deal when it first came out. Maybe that had something to do with me being both seven and in Catholic school at the time. Either way, it makes me yearn for the 90's. Music that sounded like this was everywhere, and it was awesome.
ReplyDeleteOne Of Us
Fun Fact: my sixth grade teacher in Catholic school supported the idea that God was female, in direct opposition to established doctrine. She also said that the big bang was just rocks smashing together to create the Earth, instead of the entire universe expanding outwards from a singularity, so take that as you will.
Goodnight.
Hmm, should I? Probably not. I probably should not follow up on your comment there, J.
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteDo eet.
Okay, I'm a Christian, as you know.
ReplyDeleteThat "God is a female" thing is complete bull (with all due reverence), not just by my book, but by the book, the Bible.
All (every one that I've seen or hear a of) of the people who think that are ALL women themselves, and I think that it's just a little way to feel dominance or something, like woman's rights.
Universe expanding infinitely? Yeah, sure, why not.
Big Bang from a bunch of rocks? You sure she was Catholic? My mom was Catholic-raised (not anymore a Catholic), and I'm pretty sure that such a theory was frowned-upon...
Speaking of the big bang theory, I remember you saying that Sheldon, the main character, had Aspergers. I'd just like to say something: Jelfes has aspergers. It's not necessarily like that, per say. I mean, Jelfes arbitrarily chose grammar and punctuation as his area of expertise due to it, but I'm pretty sure that he doesn't act like Sheldon.
Out of curiosity, what was it that got you out of religion?
The school I went to had some teachers who were nuns, some who were ex-nuns, and some who were just regular women who worked at the school. I'm pretty sure they required all the teachers to be practicing Catholics, though.
ReplyDeleteAs for what I got out of religion, I'd have to say curiosity. Being that my first educational experience was religious, I was exposed to a particular way of thinking that taught me that certain things simply WERE a certain way because those were the rules. (God created the Earth and all the life on it, you need to follow the teachings of the Bible, etc.) I was taught a set of "truths" and taught to espouse them and spread them. For a time, I did; thought not wholeheartedly. Niggling doubt and questions were ever present in my mind. How did it all work? How did God make all of these things? How did we know it was true? What if it wasn't true?
Over time, I was exposed to different schools of thought by my peers. I learned of the teachings of other religions. My earliest exposure to another religion was a single Greek Orthodox student in my class. The first Thursday of every month, the entire school would walk over to the church on school grounds and attend a morning service. After virtually the entire school had made Communion, we would all go up to receive the Eucharist. All of us but him. He seemed so despondent when he couldn't get the Eucharist for himself. He was a perfectly nice guy, but his religious beliefs were ever so slightly different from everyone else's. I wondered to myself, "why did I need to participate in this ritual and he didn't? Was the Eucharist really necessary for salvation or whatever? Surely these could both be valid philosophies, right?" It made me want to learn about the inner workings of religion, all religion.
The more I learned, the more I discovered that religion was essentially subjective. The absolute truths that religion taught were actually relative from one religion to another. Religion A teaches that X is wrong while religion B teaches that Y is wrong while X is right and Religion C teaches that X and Y are wrong and only Z is right. Each of them was just as assured that they were right and the others were wrong. From an external perspective, none of them seemed to have any real advantage over another and each of them (some more than others) had at least some pieces of doctrine and tradition that were either provably wrong or violated human rights in some way.
This curiosity drew me to study philosophy in college. I took classes about comparative religious studies, some aspects of which sought to explain the differences between religions while claiming that they could all be right. Effectively, each religion was correct about a different aspect of God and religious truth. These theories collapsed into the age-old "interpretation and translation" arguments when examples of direct contradictions were brought up, rendering them virtually useless.
As it stands, I am skeptical of religion. It promises absolute truth and stability but it doesn't stand up to analysis.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (essentially an existentialist philosophical romp through space and time)
Now I really need to go to bed. We can continue this discussion tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteGoodnight.
One last thing.
ReplyDeleteGoodnight.
I have just about a mountain of things to say on all matters of religion, but I'm always somewhat cautious to share them unless I know I have a willing ear. I suppose one might say that although my views are fairly evangelical, I've never been accused of being an overt proselyte. Basically, I just try to be pragmatic about the subject.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I'll comment on at least one thing you mentioned. Doesn't anyone beside myself, Christian or Atheist, find the argument of God's "gender" to be fairly absurd? We're talking about a spiritual being who transcends all of reality—including time itself—who, I might add, invented the sexes. To classify God as "male" or "female" is downright absurd. We use "He" and "Him" because we sure as heck aren't going to call God "It". Aren't we always telling female fans of MLP that "Brony" is more gender-neutral than "Pegasister"? This is not entirely unlike that issue.
Pagan religions, (such as the ancient Greeks'), were fully capable of being male or female because they tended to model their "deities" after human beings, when the correct approach is exactly opposite of this. When it comes to examining the potential legitimacy of religions, it's worth asking if the deity in question is "Creator" or "Created". When you think of it on these grounds, you can instantly eliminate a large number of religions from the running.
Well, in a very brief nutshell those are (part) of my views on the matter. I guess I'll leave it at that for now.
I tend to avoid proselytizing strangers too, but mostly because it tends to be ineffective when you're trying to change the lives of people you've never met. I can think of a lot of tenants of Christianity that I believe, but plenty of people, even other Christians would deny. Creation, Predestination, Depravity, things like that.
ReplyDeleteI'm never worried when two religions contradict because when someone has the Holy Spirit dwelling in them, they are willing to accept certain principles, and the rationale behind them. If you don't have the Holy Spirit, most principles of Christianity won't make much sense.
I believe that there is a word for that- faith.
ReplyDeleteIt's like trust, only stronger.
Oh god, guys? We're talking about religion! Are you sure this won't turn into some argument? I hope not.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, I just assumed god existed out of apathy and just because my parents said so. Later, around middle school, I thought what you believe shouldn't be based on what thousands of other people think. It could be based on them, but tons of people believing the exact same thing felt wrong.
Ii had two beliefs. I thought, like Schrodinger, that the Schrodinger's Cat thing is nonsense. Time can only have one result. Separate dimensions can only exist if someone/something traveled to the past, affects it and changes the future. There must be an Alpha timeline, or any timeline, where the Grey Goo effect has happened. The Grey Goo effect is when a nanomachine is programmed to create exact replicas out of ANY material around itself. But the Grey Goo won't be a catastrophe. The Grey Goo will be the ultimate being of omnipotence and omniscience. And that's where time travel comes in. God goes to the past and our universe Is created. Bam.
Of course, I've grown to think that is absolutely absurd and none of it can possibly be true. That'd be ridiculous. I went to a christian high school, and after learning more about the belief, I solidified myself as an atheist.
But I still have that other belief. The one I told Jelfes. The one about euthanization.
@Trotsky and Bombe
ReplyDeleteHm, indeed.
@DeRock
Nah, we're not arguing, all we've done so far is share. You can blame Jimmy for it though, haha!
There's always someone hanging around in the comments being negative, isn't there? It seems like David Ker isn't satisfied unless he's telling everyone his complaints against the Canterlot Wedding episodes. Most of us loved that finale, but some people resent it even more than than the MDW episode. Personally, I think they're blowing things way out of proportion.
ReplyDeleteYou can blame it all on me.
ReplyDelete"The content owner has not made this video available on mobile"
ReplyDeleteConfound it, why not? To the downloader!
Well, if you're sure there'll be no argument, then alrightya!
ReplyDeleteOk, I want to comment on the gender thing. I think what she was saying was that God needs to be called either he, she, they, or it. Most people call him, well... him. AND THAT'S SEXIST, man, cmon! Let's be honest here. It's not like he's definitely male or anything, right? I would personally prefer "they".
But now that I think about it, god is god. Omnipotent and all. He could HAVE a gender and sex and all that if he wants to!
Oh god, now that I think about it, he can just CHANGE facts, can't he? We're going with omnipotence here!
He can change the universe so that a religion is completely right! Every single word of it! Then make it all wrong! And we'll be powerless! One second, and everything about science is wrong, and god doesn't exist, and greek gods rule over the world, and all of history states clear evidence that these guys always existed. And then he changes everything and now it's like those Shinto thing is the right way to live your life! And then history says WW1 never happened and WW2 is called WW1! Then WW1 is back to having happened. And we'll never notice, if he just doesn't want us to notice.
Woah, woah wait... Have I been calling god 'he' this whole time? Crap... So sexist... Fuck me.
Again, saying "she" is inherently gender specific, so it doesn't really make sense to use that.
ReplyDeleteAbout everything else you said, that sounds a lot like Q, actually.
He is gender specific too, though!
ReplyDeleteQ?
Well, the latest post says that they're announcing when season 3 starts 30 days from now. We're looking at a November premiere. My earlier post saying that the latest they could premiere the season being November 17 may have been right.
ReplyDeleteNo new ponies for another two months.
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
@DeRock
ReplyDeleteYeah, Q, from Star Trek you youngun.
@MyBoyJ
Wait... an announcement for an announcement? Really? REALLY?
Oh, I thought there was a book or tv show or movie called Q. Can't google one letter, can I? XD
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, I really should watch Star Trek. Yes!
ReplyDeleteWell, finally home again. Downloaded TF2 as well. Time to play it! Probably gonna play with bots til I get used to controls.
ReplyDeleteI went to Toys R Us today and checked out their pony stock, as I am wont to do. I had heard that they had a "buy two, get one free" deal going on, but this particular store hadn't had anything good in the past so I didn't get my hopes up. I sauntered into the pony aisle exhausted and struck with intermittent stomach pain, when what to my wandering eyes should appear, but a Cloudsdale, Royal Wedding, and Apple Family set, right here! I figured that I could get them all with one of them costing nothing when my eyes were drawn to a lower shelf holding a box I had never seen before.
ReplyDeleteIt was a glow in the dark Zecora. They had not just one, but five of them, and the pricetag read "$9.99" instead of the $15 I heard they had increased to. I grabbed a Zecora, Clousdale, and Royal Wedding set and started to leave as I noticed another package on the bottom shelf. A "favorites collection" with Nightmare Moon stared back at me. The price read $45, far beyond my current purchasing power. I vowed that one day, one day she would be mine. I gathered my items and went to the register.
After I checked out, I looked at my receipt and noticed that the price for Zecora was listed at $16.99. I knew for a fact that the price on the shelf had said $9.99 so I got on the customer service line. While in line, I noticed that two of the Galaxy Girls dolls that Lauren Faust created were sitying on the shelf nearby. When I got to the front of the line, I explained the price discrepancy and the guy asked me to show him the shelf that said $9.99, so I did. Then we went back to the counter and he refunded me the difference.
$10 Zecora=win.
Also, the lady at the register where I bought them said "do you need more than one gift receipt?" to which I replied in the negative. I wad tempted to say "they're for me" but she was kind of old and I probably would have sent her into spasms or something. I had my Derpy My Bad shirt on at the time, so it's not like I was hiding it or anything.
I can't recall, is Scratch in one of the sets you just mentioned?
ReplyDelete@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteScratch is in the Nightmare Moon "favorites set" with the name DJ Pon3. Trixie is in there too. I'm of the opinion that Vinyl Scratch is her actual name and DJ P0n3 is her stage name, so I don't have any issues with the name, but she's really just a repainted and rehaired Rarity. You can see a review of the set by Sethisto here.
I want to get that set for Nightmare Moon, Scratch, Trixie, and Pinkie, since I don't have one of her yet. Of course, I'll end up with a duplicate Dash and a couple of no name toy only characters, or at the very best, they're extremely minor background ponies. I'm also not thrilled about the glittery cutie marks on EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
Set marketed specifically towards older than average male fans who self identify as Bronies.
Cutie marks covered in glitter.
Seems legit.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteScratch at least one of the "extremely minor background ponies." One of them is Daisy (officially called Flower Wishes) from the flower girls, so I guess that makes her a bit more major.
@Bombe
ReplyDeleteI see you saw the new hobbit trailer....
@myboy
ReplyDeleteMane six is now a grizzled mercenary team
cue awesome episode
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteTo say that people in the corporate world can at times be out of touch would be a criminal understatement.
@duskwisp
I am so not watching that spoilerific trailer. But what's this about Tom Bombadil? He wasn't in The Hobbit. What the hay?!
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeletethey totally cut him out of the fellowship of the ring -.-
I let you guys be, and THIS is what happens?!?! I say ONE thing about religion, and next thing I know, Dan out and says something offensive, for no reason!! Dan, how could you have read The Hobbit and NOT known about Tom Bombadil?!?! You must have skipped the entire part about the barrows!! Granted, the trailer shows him as some sort of woodsy guy with tree parts in his hair and beard, wheras in the book I think he had yellow boots and a blue jacket. His wife was awesome, too.
ReplyDeleteOh, right, religion. Well, like I said, the only thing that can get this group heated up us nuclear energy XD
I'm glad to finally see a day with a lot of activity.
@bombe
ReplyDeletePun intended?
And I rreally gotta read the hobbit again...
@Bombe
ReplyDeleteWhaaaaa???
Oh, I remember Bombadil just fine, but he was in LoTR, not the Hobbit.
@duskwisp
That they did... so they're trying to make up for that now, are they? How peculiar. I find it funny that they condensed each book from LoTR into one movie, and now they've gone and blown up one book into three films. Hollywood, you're such a card.
@Millenial Dan
ReplyDeleteEh, I don't think anyone here is complaining. All those jobs....
I haven't read The Hobbit or any of The LotR books yet. Is The Hobbit a prequel to the LotR, or just a separate book set in the same world?
ReplyDelete@thunderice
ReplyDeleteprequel
So I should read The Hobbit first before starting The LotR right?
ReplyDelete@ThunderIce
ReplyDeleteyou can read LOTR without the hobbit, but for maximum satisfaction read the hobbit first
I've been meaning to read The LotR for quite a while. I guess I'll see if my bookstore has The Hobbit tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteWell, it already is tomorrow but you know what I mean
I must say, I only read The Hobbit and I don't remember Tom Bombadil, though I remember hearing about his absence in The Fellowship of the Ring movie.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wikipedia, Peter Jackson and Christopher Lee thought he didn't advance the story and would have made the movie too long.
HA! That's a riot. Isn't the super extended deluxe edition director's cut Blu Ray of the trilogy something like ten or twelve hours long?
No Dan, i'm pretty sure that Bombadil is only.in the Hobbit. I read LoTR first, and I first read the name "Bombadil" when reading The Hobbit.
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way, the trailer isn't all that spoiler-y.
The bit with Rivendell was pushing it....
WillShire be in it? (I'm looking at you, duskwisp ;D)
@Bombe
ReplyDeleteIseewhatyoudidthere :D
I can say with complete certainty that Bombadil featured in Fellowship of The Ring, barrow wights and all. He could very well have been mentioned in The Hobbit, but I don't remember that.
ReplyDeleteAnyone up for TF2 in...Now?
ReplyDeleteSure! Warning: I'm terrible at this! haha
ReplyDeleteI'd love too.... buuuuuut I have an exam in an hour
ReplyDeleteso study it is :/
Aw, go ahead and study my little dusky-wusky.
ReplyDeleteAnd then duskwisp was Spike and the server was up.
@myboyj
ReplyDeletewait
I'm spike?
in that case:
I've always wanted to use this
Oh, I am such an idiot.
ReplyDeleteTom Bombadil was in The Fellowship Of The Ring. I remember the company, after the chapter "a conspiracy unmasked", left Frodo's new house and into the old forest, after the black rider scare. They kept going down and right instead of up and left (or something like that), where they meet Old Man Willow, who Tom then speaks and tells him to go back to his natural state. He then invites them to his home, while it's raining outside.
Then the go into VERY foggy barrows, and get captured. Frodo wakes up, sees the barrow-wight hand creeping up on him to kill him, then calls for Tom Bombadil, who saves him
THAT is what happens.
Now that I think about it, Tom's domain is probably one of the only safe places from Sauron.
I'm sorry for thinking that it was Bilbo.
No big deal. I forgot about that part with the willow tree. Things like that made the books a little more whimsical than the films, I'd say.
ReplyDeleteServer is down. Good game, guys.
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
Don't worry, Leonard Nimoy forgives you.
Update on my laptop
ReplyDeleteIt started as just my Nortan scan popping up, then suddenly a bunch of my applications opened/closed then it just shut down.
I sent it to office depot as part of the two year warranty, they said the hard drive was fried, graphics card as well and the internal fan had burned.
I thought I had it bad when my Xbox died and was told the inside was scorched
I can't win ...
.~.
New page
ReplyDeleteBEEEEEEEYAAAAAAAATCH
>Server goes down right as I get home
ReplyDeleteWell then.
Bombe, I was telepathically contacted by Tom Bombadil. He told me to not let you play today because you forgot which book he was in.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why he's magically talking to me. I've never even met the man.
The server will be up again tomorrow at the regular time. I'm just extremely tired tonight.
NOOOOOOOOOO
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Tom Bombadil!!! I remember everything about him!! I just switched out the Hobbit company with Bilbo.
Bilbo met that animal "skin-shifter" (or whatever it's called) guy right before the large forest. You know, the guy with all the animals. I just simply switched the hobbit's positions somehow.
And then Discord beat borderlands 2
ReplyDeleteI say! Good show!
@Jaco Discord
ReplyDeleteI'd ask if you found the vault, you know, the other one, and if you punched that Jack guy in the face, but I'll just assume that you did.
@MyBoyJ Yes I beat borderlands 1 and I also literally punched Jack in the face
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'm going to bed. Have a song named after a year, for...nostalgia reasons, I guess.
ReplyDelete1979
Goodnight.
The latest post is about the official FiM comics #1 having a Derpy variant cover.
ReplyDeleteYou can't keep a good mare down.