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Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by Baraka_Guru, Aug 2, 2011.

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  1. b2653009 Slightly Tilted

    Hehe, I finished reading this, and all that stuck with me was elevatorjockey.
    JOCKEY!
    Zombles. :p We should play l4d2 tonight, get some jockey facehumping in.
     
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  2. roachboy

    roachboy Very Tilted

    there was one of those rickety metal summer carnivals in the next town over this weekend. i wandered around its perimeter, which happened to lay between several of the publick houses in which i found myself. this rickety metal carnival had the requisite population of junkie barkers and rides that seemed like they should fall over and probably would if i got on one so i didn't. as a public service, you understand.

    but i wandered through the arcade area. one of them had a very considerable number of stuffed bananas hanging from the cieling. each was quite large. each had a single eye that stared at you with this kind of stoned melancholy expression. each sported a long jet black beard, seemingly, at the bottom of its banana head.

    a very considerable number of banana cyclops things hung from the ceiling. a colony, i thought. i looked at them for a long time. a flock or a herd of them.

    there was something fundamental about the entire situation that i did not understand, and it bothered me. so i kept standing there, looking.

    why was there an entire colony of creepy bearded one-eyed stuff bananas hanging from the ceiling of this particular metal arcade? and why was no-one was playing any of the games this metal arcade offered? perhaps this resulted from the fact of a colony or herd of them hanging from the ceiling. or perhaps it was the prospect of winning one a creepy bearded one-eyed stuffed banana for your game-playing troubles.

    then it occurred to me that perhaps no-one was playing any of the games because i had been standing there for a long time looking at the colony of creepy bearded one-eyed stuffed bananas.

    so i left.

    o and happy birthday, snowy.
     
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  3. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    Just made this one.
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  4. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

    Location:
    Mars
    If you ever find your way to Toronto, the zoo here is definitely worth doing. Apart from being huge (as previously mentioned it's somewhere around 700 acres, which I think makes it the largest zoo by area on the continent) they've got some really interesting critters. They just got a family of white lions this year, and they'll be bringing in a pair of pandas in 2013.

    Re: Anderson Cooper, I understand his motive for making a statement about his sexuality (if it could be called a statement in the first place) but I fail to see it as being an issue. The man is serious about his work, and I can respect that; I don't particularly see how it matters whether he's gay, straight, both or neither. Then again, I know there are those to whom this matters a great deal. I hope it doesn't end up affecting his career.
     
  5. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    Had a really nice dinner out with the hubster at a place we like to frequent. I am super full.
     
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  6. b2653009 Slightly Tilted

    There's a lot of reasons people didn't like the original ending:
    I didn't like it because it felt like parts were missing. Like...why the fuck is the Normandy on a remote planet in the endgame? Why did Joker leave when he swore to stay by you? Why the fuck are the companions I brought along for the fight coming out of the Normandy crash landed on said remote planet, when they were running to the beacon along with me?! Why did the catalyst know everything, yet make no goddamn sense. And why is every ending exactly the same, just with a different coloured beam of death.

    The list goes on and on and on and on....
     
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  7. I wish my French bulldog wasn't so damn cute so I could give him to my mom and not feel bad. It's like having two babies but I love that little shit. Maybe tomorrow he'll listen better.
     
  8. Remixer

    Remixer Middle Eastern Doofus

    Location:
    Frankfurt, Germany
    Where can I get the DLC?

    Downloaded all three MEs last night and will start playing the storyline in a few days (waiting for my SO to get here), and really not looking forward to a crap ending.
     
  9. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    *yawn*
     
  10. 9er likes to burn couches. i like to burn effigies.
    --- merged: Jul 3, 2012 at 8:01 AM ---
    Great to hear you didnt get DU to hook up your internet. (not that you have a choice really. your geographical location dictates your service provider.)

    DU is by far the WORST telecom provider i have ever come across. their service is terrible. Id move to a different area next time if i had the choice.
     
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  11. Jove

    Jove Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Michigan
    I have no motivation or interest in studying for the ITILv3 Foundation certification so I think I need to find another IT cert that will catch my interest.
     
  12. Remixer

    Remixer Middle Eastern Doofus

    Location:
    Frankfurt, Germany
    Hah. Always hated Du.

    And always been very happy with Etisalat. Sure, they're on the expensive side (US$160/month for a 16 mbps connection) and have dumbass internet filters, but they're very fast, high quality, communicate frequently with the customer and really work to solve your issues, quickly. I honestly don't know any telecom provider anywhere that comes close to them.

    You can't make the switch to Etisalat?
     
  13. nah.. not unless they changed the laws in the last few months. If you live in jumeirah, then your ISP is Etisalat. If you live in a lot of the newer areas like Marina and JLT and TECOM, your ISP is DU.

    So much for competition right?

    the govt has shares in both companies so it figures.
     
  14. Remixer

    Remixer Middle Eastern Doofus

    Location:
    Frankfurt, Germany
    Ah, I see. You're screwed. :p Never knew Du also offers internet, though.

    For the past 6 years my Middle Eastern SIM cards and internet has been with Etisalat, and it doesn't look like imma change anytime soon.
     
  15. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    Lots of baking to do today. It's going to be fun! I'm just glad my kitty-baby has recovered from her mystery stomach bug so that I don't have to take her to the vet after all.
     
  16. Cayvmann

    Cayvmann Very Tilted

    Trust me, there's nothing interesting about ITIL v3. Been there, mostly slept through that...
     
  17. b2653009 Slightly Tilted

    Depends what you're playing on, Remixer. I'm a PC gamer, so if you bought it for PC, go to Origins, load up the DLC page, and download. If you got it for something else, well, I have no damn idea. :p

    For Jove:
    Also:
    Jove, the reason people hated the original ending is because we knew it was the conclusion to Shepard's story. Only the naive expected him/her to come out of it alive. Not with the hate Harbinger has for Shepard. But the ending was pushed, forced, and not very detailed. They had spent 2 previous games focusing on the minute details. And the ending was vague and kinda "interpret it your own way!" style. Not everyone in the team was going to die, unless you made it that way, because Shepard's story would be told to all. I mean, the entire third game is morbid and depressing, with Shepard talking about death every few cutscenes with people.

    Its the minute details that drove people nuts in the endgame. The war is the focal point, not your team members running away from the fight and crash landing somewhere with happy smiles.
    If you want to look into it further, Google up the Indoctrination Theory. There's some very good points people bring up, and well made videos that show it being a possibility. After I read up on it, I thought to myself: "If Bioware DID do this, they're fecking geniuses. If not, they're tools."

    I'm not sure if you had full war support, cause if you did, the endgame shows a body within some rubble, that gasps for breath. No one knows who it is. I kinda thought it was Ashley, cause the body looked decked out in blue armor, but its not specifically her armor. So now I think its just an N7 trooper/officer, and that its a "who knows!?" kinda ending on Bioware's part, if they decide to keep the Mass Effect franchise going by pulling a Halo and making it less about a character, and more about the war and the unknown soldier.

    My first ME3 playthrough was with my badass FemShep Soldier, who was with Liara. A part of me really really wished they could end up together, make adorable blue babies. But it was a pipe dream. The ending bothered me because I played the whole game with Liara and EDI by my side. We were the killer girl death squad! Haha. But, both of them were on that damn crashed ship in the endgame, smiling away. Which made me mad.
     
  18. SirLance

    SirLance Death Therapist

    Hot and sunny all week..... then storms today and tomorrow. I hope it holds off long enough for some pool time!
     
  19. Remixer

    Remixer Middle Eastern Doofus

    Location:
    Frankfurt, Germany
    Yeah, got it on PC as well. Clicked on the ME3 info page in Origin, then the "Shop for Add-Ons" and downloaded the Exended Cut just now. :)

    Is it just me, or does Origin crash a whole fucking lot? My PC is brandnew with lots of high-tech goodies so I presume the fault doesn't lie there.
     
  20. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    All the balls are in other people's courts.

    Fuck, I hate this.

    Return the fucking balls already!
     
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