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[font=Trebuchet MS][quote name='Sara][/font][color=#b0000b][size=1]...it would be really nice if you would add Biblical references to back up your earlier statements, as that is the point of this thread.[/size][/color'][font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] Seconded. As shinji made abundantly clear in his opening post, this is [b]not [/b]a discussion of your personal faith or a place to rail against Christianity. I'm looking at [b]Ziggy [/b]and [b]KatanaViolet [/b]here - sorry to point fingers. The point of the thread is to discuss 'technical difficulties' such as apparent contradictions or inconsistencies in the Bible, so let's stay on topic and not let it degenerate the same way as every other O. Lounge religion thread, mmkay? [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote=1nOnlyCloud][/font]yea...chuck something...cant figure it out =\ yea...no idea :animeswea[font=Trebuchet MS] [/font]march of the penguins ^^ edit- -__-' slow again lol :animesigh[font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] [b]1nOnlyCloud, [/b]if you don't know the answer then it's better not to post; the "yea...no idea" you posted was especially spammy. And if you do post with the answer like in the third post I quoted, then don't forget to follow the game's rules and post your own scramble for others to solve. zcietni neka = Citizen Kane. Yet another of those supposedly classic films I've never seen. My uni library has them all, but they're on VHS so I can't play them on my laptop! Shame, I have so much free time this term that I could probably catch up on the classics if they had them on DVD. [b]New Scramble [/b]lawilmi oisngb [b]Clue [/b]Influential sci-fi author, godfather of cyberpunk. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]Play It has a specific rule that says there should only be one thread per game. It's to stop the forum getting clogged up with seven billion Final Fantasy topics, essentially. You can find the detail of the rule in the Rules page (left sidebar) or in the Play It sticky rules thread, at the top of the Play It forum. Basically, before starting a thread about a game, search the forum to see if one already exists. The usual rules about gravedigging don't apply here, you can bring back threads that have been dead for weeks.[/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]If you mean member titles (like, you're currently a [b]New Member[/b]) then there's only one other level, [b]Member, [/b]which appears when you have fifty posts. But we don't have any others - that's what your [b]Custom Title [/b]is for, so you can decide yourself what your title should be and don't have to spam to get enough posts for your favourite one. We don't have 'ranks' - we're a friendly, equal-opportunities messageboard, heh. Anyway, this is a [b]Suggestions & Feedback [/b]topic, so I'm moving it there. I'm sure this question's been asked before, too - take a quick search through S&F. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]I would shout "cut" and offer my services as script-doctor to the director of the B-movie, who obviously can't write dialogue, has no concept of continuity and relies overly on [i]deus ex machina. [/i]But that's just the writer in me talking. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote name='The_Mix_Breed][/font']Okay, so a man lives on the 32nd level of his apartment complex. Everymorning at 8 he rides the elevator downstairs and goes to work. At six that night, he rides the elevator back up to the 12th floor then takes the stairs the rest of the way up. Except of rainy days, when he rides the elevator all the way up. Why?[font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] He's a little shorty. He can reach the ground floor button in the elevator, so he's fine going down, but on the way back up he can only reach as far as the 12th floor button, and has to take the stairs for twenty floors, poor fella. But if it's raining he has an umbrella with him, which he can use to press the 32nd floor button right from the off. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]I'm starting to feel like this thread is worthless without some kind of explanation or reasoning. I'm leaving it open, but in future replies I'd like to see some expansion; don't just write a list of titles you've given yourself, tell us why you think said titles are appropriate to you. I know Ganju from Bleach just proclaims himself things with no basis, because that's comedy, but it's no basis for a thread on a [b]discussion forum[/b]. You can't just proclaim yourself Master of All Things Pink and Fluffy unless you own some pink fluffy things, heh. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote name='Satoru][/font']HAhahaha, this thread is done![font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] Seconded. The OP's original quandary seems to be solved, so there's no more discussion to be had out of this thread. [b]Locked.[/b] [/font]

[color=DarkGreen][font=Verdana]"Mirror to Kaida, over." The commlink hissed static. Ash frowned. "Mirror to Green Team. Green Team, respond, over." Still the wash of static. [i]Interference ... deliberate jamming? Or something else? [/i]Ash shifted, becoming Zone, the MS13 leader. He couldn't replicate the surgical splint in the man's face, but he reckoned he could explain that away as another helpful gift from "our benefactors". Throwing on the unconscious terrorist's black flak jacket to cover up his stretch-fabric Legionnaire fatigues, he threw open the control room door and stormed down the stairs. "What's going on?" he demanded of the masked MS13s guarding the schoolkids. "Arachnid delivered our cash yet? Or are we gonna have to start popping kiddies?" All the goons looked puzzled, as far as he could make out under the balaclavas. He hoped it was just because his face wasn't full of pins, but started running excuses and back-up plans through his head just in case. A guy hefting a rifle-like weapon, seemingly made of glass shards and with some sort of blue liquid slopping about inside, was the first to snap out of torpor and respond. "New plan, boss," he explained slowly. "The, uh ... weapons dealers said to start setting up their heavy equipment." "I know that!" snapped Ash, feigning fury to push the goons onto the back foot while he processed this information. "Just don't forget we're in this for Arachnid and the money, whatever it is the ... dealers are after. And why the hell aren't you setting up the heavy equipment like they said?!" "MacKenzie's team's setting up across the way," replied the goon, cowering and indicating the storage area on the other side of the soundproof screen. "We're just guarding the kids till then, boss..." "Good," Ash interrupted curtly. "Don't nap. Our benefactors haven't caught all the Legionnaires yet." He strode off briskly towards the warehouse's dividing wall before anyone could question his false authority. [i]What are they setting up through here? Some kind of weapon, is my best guess. And they're only guarding the kids "till then"? What do the kids have to do with anything? What could a bunch of extra-dimensional arms dealers want with a hundred kindergarteners? [/i]The clang of metal on metal and the roar of welding equipment rushed through the soundproofed door as Ash let himself through. All the stacked crates had been opened, and twisted, alien technology was visible protruding from some of them - a sure sign this whole operation had been planned well in advance, to have the warehouse pre-stocked with the creatures' 'heavy equipment'. Ash hoped briefly that Z was still all right, having had the crates he'd been using as cover moved around and inspected, but had no way of finding out without a working commlink. Three of the extra-dimensionals were gliding gracefully about, fusing together pieces of metal and glass with compact, wrist-mounted welders. Thus far the 'heavy equipment' was taking the shape of a half-circle; from the shape of some of the parts left, Ash guessed the finished article would be a massive ring, the height of the warehouse roof. Already fat orange sparks were crackling along its length, filling the immediate area with a smoky haze; Ash guessed the alien power source was probably the cause of the Legionnaires' comms interference. Acutely aware that the three hovering figures would be able to see through his disguise, he zipped up Zone's flak jacket, drew Tech's stun pistol and shifted into his default form - now smaller and fleeter of foot, she could more easily escape detection. Ash hunkered down in a gap between two now-empty crates, hoping they wouldn't be disturbed again. From here she could observe both the construction and the large group of children huddled along the warehouse wall. She set her commlink to scan mode in case the jamming let up, and waited for reinforcements. [/font][/color]

[font=Trebuchet MS]Meggido was hoping (in vain) that the [b]filler episodes[/b] were finishing, not the whole series. The fillers are original episodes not based on Kubo Tite's manga, and are disappointing compared to the rest of the series. Bleach as a whole will continue for a long time yet, methinks.[/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]The last time I attempted a handstand (about four years ago now), I overbalanced, landed on my behind and my head snapped forward, bashing my nose on my knee. Clumsy [b]and [/b]painful, not to mention messy by the time my nose stopped bleeding. I can do cartwheels now thanks to the ninjutsu club, but I still have a thing about attempting handstands... [/font]

[b][color=Purple][font=Trebuchet MS]"Space Invaders for me next!" [/font][/color][/b][color=Purple][font=Trebuchet MS]Xiaoyu called out hurriedly. She'd seen Lara and Krystal both exit the Donkey Kong portal bruised and smelling of burnt petrol, and felt like avoiding that particular game until she'd completed all the others. The Space Invaders portal set her down on a featureless black expanse. Something felt different on her head, and when she raised a hand to it she discovered a headset with earpiece and microphone. [b]"H - hello?" [/b]she said tentatively. [b]"Incoming, kupo!" [/b]squeaked a diminutive voice on the other end. It didn't quite sound like Mog - maybe another moogle working on the show, or a relative? Xiaoyu nearly came over shivery thinking of Mog's adorable little furball cousins, before starting to worry that they might all share his bossy personality. All those thoughts flew from her head as blocky white things began materialising. Four solid slabs shimmered into existence lined up above her head, and something built itself up, pixel by pixel, around her. Before she could even react to being lifted off her feet as the thing assembled under her, a seemingly limitless number of small white ... squid? ... started popping into existence, lined up in neat ranks in the black sky. [b]"What's going on?" [/b]Xiaoyu asked the moogle operator frantically. [b]"It's easy really, kupo," [/b]replied the crackly voice. [b]"They're invading. Blow them to kupo!" "Ooooh, I see," [/b]sighed Xiaoyu resignedly. [b]"It's a [i]boy's [/i]game..." [/b]Controls appeared under her hands as the seat she was now sat in reclined, lying her down to look straight up at the invasion force. A joystick in her left hand for movement, and a great big red button under her right hand for ... [i]FzzzzZAP! [b]Yup, for shooting, [/b][/i]she nodded to herself, manoeuvring the blocky gun emplacement along the black plain as her shot vapourised the first enemy craft. The first rank of little ships was easy enough to zap, and soon enough the whole invasion force was flowing down to replace the casualties. Xiaoyu reckoned she was getting the hang of motoring her cannon-kart around, though the whole concept of using a vehicle and a weapon was still unfamiliar. Even in the GTA challenge, she'd fought hand-to-hand from the back of their car rather than try and co-ordinate driving, aiming and shooting all at the same time. It started raining little white rulers. Xiaoyu ignored it, methodically [i]fzzZAP[/i]ping the never-ending aliens until a drop hit her vessel, which exploded with unexpected violence, dissipating into flying white pixels and dumping the girl on her behind. [b]"Oww!" [/b]she complained, running for shelter under one of her shields as a second gun-carriage constructed around her. [b]"Two lives left, kupo," [/b]warned her operator. [b]"Why didn't you tell me about that?" [/b]she demanded crossly, keeping an eye on the gap between shields for a let-up in the deadly rain. [b]"I have to let you learn some kupo yourself," [/b]he replied cheekily. Grumbling petulantly to herself, Xiaoyu trundled her new vehicle out from under protection and blew away another couple of ships, before ducking back under cover to avoid return fire. Popping out from the other side, she shot down another four, but was forced to hide away again. [b]"I'll never get the whole line at this rate! Shooting at me's just rude," [/b]she decided. [b]"That's the challenge, kupo," [/b]came the mischevious voice in her ear. Sure enough, there were still some ships left in the lowermost rank when the entire fleet shifted closer to the ground. Sensing an advantage, the aliens doubled their rate of fire, effectively pinning Xiaoyu under her shield and allowing her to only make pot shots. [b]"How does anyone do this game?!" [/b]she despaired. [b]"You can blow up their missiles," [/b]commented the unknown moogle lazily. [b]"You could have told me that before!" [/b] Xiaoyu motored out from under her (now heavily pockmarked) shield and hammered at her big red "FIRE" button, projectiles meeting in mid-black and cancelling each other out with a brief white flare. Her energy zaps started hitting ships again, but it was too late; pressing home their advantage, the invasion fleet speeded up their descent. She looked on in satisfaction as several ships slammed into her remaining shields, only to have her excitement turn to dismay as the ships annihilated her shelters without suffering so much as a scratch. There was one ship left in the bottom rank, and it was one downward shift away from the ground. [b]"Nonono, no you don't!" [/b]Xiaoyu cried, slamming her joystick left and powering her carriage right underneath the descending ship. It was so close now that its armoured underbelly sheared off the end of her cannon, but she fired anyway, the shot exploding awkwardly out of the damaged barrel and scattering flaming energy across the approaching ship, which winked out of existence. [b]"Ha!" [/b]Xiaoyu exulted, feeling that with that one kill the coming inevitable defeat wouldn't be so bad. She carried on hammering her button, belching uncontrollable projectiles that ricocheted crazily around the enemy fleet, but there was no way she could take out the whole rank before it touched down. A ship made contact with her black Earth right up the other end of the arena and she heard a moogle's voice say, [b]"Game over, kupo!" "Wait!" [/b]she called as the black-and-white world exploded into pixels. [b]"Just tell me one thing!" "What's that, kupo?" "Why did I have to defend Earth [i]on my own?"[/i] [/b][/font][/color]

[font=Trebuchet MS]I'm white, and the only serious relationship I've had was with a Chinese girl, so you'll hear nothing against interracial pairings from me. I never got as far as meeting her parents, so I don't know whether they suffered from the whole 'Asian pride' thing that seems to be coming up.[/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]Don't think of it as [i]slow. [/i]Think of it as [i]epic. [/i](I'll post after Deathknight, and hopefully galvanise Green Team into finishing.) [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]PWNED, did you read the first post in this thread? Because the idea is to grant the previous poster's wish [b]in a way that goes wrong. [/b]Just read a few of the earlier responses to see what I mean.[/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote name='Zhara][/font][size=1][font=Lucida Sans Unicode] Personally, I think MySpace should be taken off the web, since it's painfully obvious that we as a whole cannot protect or censor ourselves.[/font][/size'][font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] Hey, freedom of speech, yo. Let's not start screaming censorship because a few people post naked photos - kick them off the site maybe, but pull the whole thing off the Infraweb and you lose loads of amateur bands' websites, not to mention the millions of people who use the site properly. Reactionary behaviour like this spoils everything for the majority, just because of the few who are abusing the services. For the record, I was peer-pressured into starting an account, which I now never go on. So I'm not defending the place because I'm addicted, just because I think "it should be taken off the web" is a massive overreaction. .:EDIT:. I'm merging this thread with the existing (recently resurrected, grr) MySpace thread to make a thread in which any and all discussion of MySpace is green for go. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote name='Meggido][/font']I must say that it appears the fillers may be coming close to a finish.[font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] The new opening sequence suggests otherwise. It has the three Mod Souls prominently featured (and if they end up carrying over when it returns to canon material I shall be VERY ANGRY!) along with a raft of other villains that I don't think have been introduced yet, and which definitely aren't from the manga. No sign of any of the baddies from the next manga arc in the new OP, so the fillers are in for the long haul, I reckon. I like the new song, though. It's harking back to *Asterisk, the first OP theme, which I really liked. D-Tecnolife and Ichirin no Hana had a very dark, moody edge to them, and one of the things I like about Bleach is that it doesn't get overly bogged down in moodiness. I think *Asterisk and the new theme reflect the light-heartedness the series is capable of. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]Congratulation, silver_blade, on being the first person ever to ace every test put before them. You're in the Guiness Book of Records. You waltz into the best university in the country, sail through a master's degree and come out the other end [b]horribly overqualified [/b]for all but the most brain-wringingly intellectual jobs. To top it all off, you discover the amusing punchline at the end of the education system, where you land your first office job, announce proudly "I have a double first from Oxford", at which point the manager replies "well done, the coffee machine's over there, hop to". [i]I wish that, through some crazy chance, I would get chosen to replace the singer of my favourite band (The Cooper Temple Clause) when he unexpectedly came down with bronchitis on tour.[/i] [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]I'm back from my jaunt to the Big Apple! If Sakura's on DK I'll get a Space Invaders post up by [b]Saturday evening, [/b]I reckon.[/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]Someone needs to PM Prick Wizard and Tyler Koregaten and get them involved in this discussion. That'll stop it being so darn one-sided! Everyone has a bit of fantasist in them. Who here can say they haven't wondered what the world would be like if dragons / magic / etc really existed? Who hasn't wished, even just a little bit, that they did exist? Going on to try and prove (with fairly flawed logic) that such things actually do exist is taking harmless, necessary escapism that bit too far. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS]I think the logic is that an empty hub is just as useless as no hub at all. If you'd found the Gunslinger Girl hub, clicked onto it and found no content, you'd still have had to navigate away from the site, and you'd probably be left thinking "What's the point of having a hub if you're not going to put anything in it?". Any member of theOtaku can submit reviews. [u][url="http://reviews.theotaku.com/"]Click here[/url][/u] for the Reviews homepage; on the left, just under the login box, is a bolded link saying [b]Submit Review. [/b]There's a drop-down menu of series and films that have yet to be reviewed, space for the main body of the review, and a couple of other options like rating, number of episodes and trivia to fill in. About screenshots, I don't really know. When a review is accepted, Adam usually tacks three or four screenshots on the bottom (take a look at some reviews to see what I mean), but we don't have a dedicated screenshot section for the site. .:EDIT:. Reading another thread in this forum, I've just noticed that review submissions are currently suspended while Adam upgrades the process and interface. [/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote name='Music_Lover1986][/font']Everybody loves dragons so sure why wouldn't they be real?[font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] Everybody loves Hypno-Toad. He isn't real. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon"][u]Here be dragons[/u][/url]

[font=Trebuchet MS]D, you can't say that CHOKE is the wrong answer to your riddle just because it isn't the answer you've got. Write down CHOKE and stick a mirror above it. It reads the same. Unless you meant actual upside-down, not mirrored? Because then it would have to be a palindrome, and the only letters it could have in it are H I O and X, and I'm darned if I can make a palindromic word out of those.[/font]

[font=Trebuchet MS][quote name='Derald][/font][font=Tahoma][size=1][color=Sienna]Did it ever occur to you that [b]you[/b] may be the one who is insane, and the accused is perfectly normal?[/color][/size][/font'][font=Trebuchet MS][/quote] Take me and a person with paranoid schizophrenia (extreme and probably cliched example, but I'm not a clinical psychologist...). I am the normal one, because 'normal' connotes with the prevailing state of the majority, and the majority of people do not have paranoid schizophrenia. It may not be a happy state of affairs, but what is 'normal' is always going to be defined by the majority. You could rephrase your question and ask about whose point of view is closer to the truth, and then it might be harder to answer. You see films where the protagonist is considered 'insane' and locked up, but in reality they are the only one that knows the real truth - think [i]Twelve Monkeys, [/i]where Bruce Willis is thought of as mad because he claims to be from the future, which, in the context of the film, he actually is. The people labelling him as mad are still 'normal' and he is still 'abnormal', but in this (fictional) case, the minority is in the right. It's no good questioning whether those we consider 'insane' are actually 'normal' and vice versa, because it isn't the case; in terms of mental state, I am normal and the paranoid schizophrenic is not. Questioning whether maybe those we consider 'insane', through their altered (but not necessarily 'incorrect') point of view, may have a handle on things we with our 'normal' (but not necessarily 'correct') point of view cannot fathom - that's an idea with some discussion value. [/font]

[b][font=Trebuchet MS]kingN, [/font][/b][font=Trebuchet MS]in future can you expand on your answers? Look back at other responses to this thread and you'll see most people give some kind of reason for their answer, and that's what'll make this thread interesting, instead of a seething mass of one-line spam responses.[/font]