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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I just saw this a couple hours ago and I am still picking up the pieces. I cried a whole bunch. It has the most bittersweet ending ahgkhfgklhlkhglkhfklhgl. The rest of it is either funny or stunning. The sum of the parts is AWESOME. So go see it. Right now, if you can. You can't afford to waste any time not seeing it. What if you die before you get around to it? You don't deserve that. This may be the most perfect movie ever made.

I just wish they were remaking OOT for the Wii and not the 3DS. I am really not interested in the new DS console.

[quote name='eleanor' date='15 June 2010 - 10:40 PM' timestamp='1276656012' post='695368']OOT REMAKE [/quote] OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!! I just found out about this and OH MY GOD

[quote name='Allamorph' date='17 June 2010 - 11:24 AM' timestamp='1276788263' post='695470'] [FONT=Calibri]It's on my To-Buy listâ??if only just to see what he has to say.[/FONT] [/quote] I really liked it. I had to read it for my AP English Language class a few years ago, but I read it a second time a while later just for fun. I'm not sure if I really got much out of it as a writer. I remember that King really hates adverbs, but I can't recall much else from the "craft" part of the memoir.

[quote name='Stephanie' date='14 June 2010 - 11:50 AM' timestamp='1276530652' post='695269'] And see, I almost got to work there. But I was all lame and "I don't want to go that far away from my friends and the boyfriend!" And then he dumped me. But for true, I coulda been a Hogwarts student. Old friend of the family works with the Universal Studio's theme parks. [/quote] DANG If I had that opportunity I would snatch it up without thinking twice! ...hint hint.

[quote name='Allamorph' date='15 June 2010 - 12:43 AM' timestamp='1276577033' post='695312'] [font="Calibri"]Concerning [b]The Dead Zone[/b]: This being the third book by him which I have read, I have come to believe firmly that Stephen King is a man unsatisfied with merely creating characters that live and breathe, but who insists on making them as real as your best friend. I came to this thought after reading only [b]Duma Key[/b], but after [b]The Green Mile[/b] and now this book I am certain of it. I have not once come across a spoke line or internal thought or action which felt to me deliberately placed to move the story in the 'proper' directionâ??at which point I usually mutter irritable phrases like "oh come on" or "are you serious" or "okay okay enough already". And in addition to that, of the three that I've read only [b]Duma Key[/b] came the closest to what might be called a happy ending, and oddly enough I count it the weakest of the three, although that's somewhat like saying Beethoven's 2nd Symphony is his weakest; it's still fracking Beethoven.[/font][/quote] If you haven't already, you should read his book [b]On Writing[/b]. It's a "memoir of the craft," which means its a memoir of his life plus a lot of great writing tips.

[quote name='Shinje' date='15 June 2010 - 05:42 PM' timestamp='1276638160' post='695351'] You call [i]that[/i] fixed? We're on a slippery slope towards musical armageddon my friend, and Lady Gaga was the point of no return. Prepare for the apocalypse! [/quote] I think you're actually thinking of the Black Eyed Peas. But anyway. I couldn't even listen to a minute of "The Most Wanted Music." It's so awful. AWFUL.

[quote name='Shinje' date='15 June 2010 - 06:22 AM' timestamp='1276597369' post='695328']as opposed to my "so awful, it's awful" pile (leave that to the likes of everyone who isn't Lady Gaga.)[/quote] Fixed!

I was reading the descriptions of the shops in Hogsmeade with some friends the other day and we ended up just screaming mindlessly out of excitement. You can choose a wand at Ollivander's (or have the wand "choose you"); Hogwarts uniforms, robes, and scarves, as well as EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO PLAY QUIDDITCH at Dervish and Banges; Fred and George's Skiving Snackboxes and Extendable Ears at Zonko's; Acid Pops, Fizzing Whizbees, and Chocolate Frogs at Honeyduke's. Plus several cast members are going to be there opening day! It's silly how excited I am.

I think this has been floating around on the internet for a while. I discovered it a couple years ago and fell in love with it immediately. "An online poll conducted in the â??90s set Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and David Soldier on a quest to create the most annoying song ever. After gathering data about peopleâ??s least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum percentage of listeners." The song is 25 minutes of disjointed, random, bizarre musical segments featuring a rapping soprano, a gaggle of children, tubas, harmonicas, banjos, organs, accordions, and themes such as western life, Walmart, holidays, and politics. I think it's the best thing ever made. The first time I listened all the way through I was almost crying from laughter. Give it a listen: http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/ These people also made a "Most Wanted Song," but it's nowhere near as awesome. It's like the titles got switched during exporting or something.

Can anyone help me trade my HG team from my Platinum game back into Heart Gold? I sent them over for additional training and now none of my friends can help me put them back. Here are my friend codes; HG - 5928 3106 5487 Platinum- 1290 4212 2011 I neeeeeeeed to finally beat the Elite Four.

[quote name='Citric' date='12 June 2010 - 02:46 PM' timestamp='1276368397' post='695129']* Black and white, good versus evil, and yin and yang are going to play a major part in the plot. However, unlike previous Pokemon games, the decisions and choices you make will "influence" the plot of the game. If you make "good" choices, you might get certain help or items, whereas "bad" choices could have negative effects. The point is that the plot will not be as cut-and-dry as previous games, changing depending on the player's actions.[/quote] OMG I gasped in real life! THIS IS GOING TO BE INCREDIBLE

I just uploaded two instrumental demos to my band's Tumblr page. You should go follow us if you have a Tumblr! I promise we won't flood your feed with boring junk, we update scarcely and only post new music or important info. [url="http://www.ghostshirtsociety.tumblr.com"][u]Ghost Shirt Society on Tumblr[/u][/url]

I can relate to this thread better than Worst Teachers Ever because I can't really remember having any truly awful educators. When I try, all I can think of is the multitude of supremely fantastic teachers I've experienced. For starters, most of my English teachers have been pretty damn awesome. In ninth grade I had one that played guitar and ended up being my only lasting friend from that particular school. Tenth grade gave me a teacher with incredible taste in music and an interesting personality, and I had her again for AP Lit in 12th grade. My junior year's AP Lang teacher was a hilarious and down-to-earth hippie who basically taught me everything I needed to know for both that exam and the AP Lit exam. I keep in touch with all three of these wonderful people and I can't really imagine anyone else being as awesome. My AP US History teacher was pretty much a grouchy grandpa and the class itself could be ridiculously boring, but I have nothing but fond memories of him. His crotchetiness was really funny. One day someone asked him how he knew some random historical fact, and with a very exasperated tone he said "Because I was there!" My physics teacher from junior year was a sarcastic wizard genius who looked a lot like Jim Henson. Finally, the woman who taught me AP World History and AP European History is probably my favorite teacher of all time when it comes to both likeability and academic value. She was a sweet grandma type with a great sense of humor, and every single one of her students just adored her. After our AP exams she threw us a party, complete with cake and fruit punch. When I was a senior, she wrote my class a letter that made everyone cry. She's just a great person and the best teacher I've ever known, and I don't know how anyone else in the world can handle not even knowing her.

[quote name='eleanor' date='08 June 2010 - 10:27 PM' timestamp='1276050472' post='694922'] Not the worst story ever, but in high school our AP Physics teacher was pregnant. She had to leave halfway through the year due to complications, and for some reason the long-term sub was, like... not familiar with physics at all. He searched random PPTs on our textbook chapters and showed them to us. By the time the AP exams were coming up my entire physics class were terrified and I'm pretty sure most of the physics kids failed the exam [/quote] I had kind of the opposite of this. I took trigonometry in eleventh grade, instead of pre-calculus, because I'm awful at math. Halfway through the year, my teacher had to take a leave of absence because he was retiring, and I was horrified at the prospect of trying to struggle through the class with a substitute. Then the sub ended up being a lot more helpful than my original teacher and I found I could better understand the material. When the real teacher came back, everything got difficult again. Makes no sense. I wish this was a thread for awesome teachers, because I need two hands to count the ones I've had. (IN FACT...) EDIT: I just remembered my 8th grade language arts teacher. She was a nice person, but her class was kind of a joke. I think all we did was grade assignments from her other classes or read super condensed Shakespeare plays out loud. 8th grade is when you focus on the Holocaust here, but some of the people in my class were so immature and unintelligent that they actually laughed during sad/serious parts of the movies we watched, and the teacher didn't do anything to stop them. It infuriated me so much.

[quote name='Lady Shy' date='02 June 2010 - 05:15 PM' timestamp='1275513309' post='694299'] I've been trying to read Joyce's [i]Ulysses[/i] for ages now, but it just won't work. [/quote] [size="1"][font="Verdana"]This is how I am with most books. Most of my reading is done for school, but even if my grade depends on it I won't read a book if I just don't want to. The following are books I was supposed to read for a class but abandoned well before finishing: [list] [*]A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest T. Gaines [*]Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer [*]Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin [*]Macbeth by Shakespeare [*]Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [*]Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov [*]Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison [*]Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald[/list] Remarkably I still passed every class with a pretty good grade. Maybe I'm skilled at BSing. I just don't like reading, I guess. Too often there are other things I would rather be doing, and if the story doesn't absolutely enthrall me I will constantly zone out while reading and eventually just give it up in favor of those other things. I don't know how to fix this because I can't just force myself to read something...that never works.[/font][/size]

[quote name='Allamorph' date='03 June 2010 - 08:28 PM' timestamp='1275611299' post='694485'] [FONT=Calibri]I don't have a birthday anymore. I have been seventeen since Columbus ran into the continent by accident.[/FONT] [/quote] [size="1"][font="Verdana"]...Edward? Is that you? :| Anyway. My favorite birthday was my 17th. My closest friends and I played board games and that was about it, but it was probably the most hysterical night of my life. Loaded Questions is the best board game for creating countless ridiculous, highly inappropriate inside jokes. I can't even remember what material crap I got that year, just that the night was a good one. Worst birthday was probably 18th. I tried to do the same thing as the previous year, but only three people decided to come and I was just really depressed at the time. I didn't ask for anything, either, so the part of me that thinks birthdays are for big gains was pretty disappointed. Right now I'm thinking my 19th, which is in a month (July 20), won't be any better. I don't know if I will have any kind of event or even ask for anything. Best gift, materially speaking, was probably my Nintendo 64 at age 8. It remarkably still works after an entire decade of use and abuse, and it has a lot more sentimental value than my PS2 (age 12). Best sentimental gift was an edited version of the Clue board game that my friend made for me when I turned 17. It features me and some of my friends as the characters and locations dear to me as the rooms in the mansion (such as my favorite classroom in high school). I also count my two summer camp experiences as birthday gifts, and those were filled with incredible memories. I realized that I'll be turning TWENTY next year, and that scares me really bad. I mean, I'm not even 19 yet, but the idea that I'll soon be losing the -teen from my age is pretty jarring.[/font][/size]

[size="1"][font="Verdana"]It's so gross here. Florida is notorious for being both very hot and very humid, which is an awful combination. Walking outside for only five minutes makes me need an immediate shower. I spent a few hours outdoors the other night, and even though the sun had been down for a while I was just drenched. Mostly because of the moisture in the air, though. The thermometer in my mom's van has been reading between 95-101 F lately, though. I don't have very good clothing options to combat heat. Most of my shirts are black because I am super self-conscious about sweat showing (which it will, if I wear lighter colors). But of course, I've heard that black absorbs/traps heat more than any other color, so I'm probably even more hot that way. I need to invest in white clothes, I guess. Florida doesn't really have seasons, though. Winter can get a little chilly if a cold front comes through, but last Christmas I had to wear shorts to bed. Pretty much as soon as it's March, it gets hot again. Then summer is unbearable, even when it rains, and autumn is barely distinguishable. The leaves don't change colors and the weather stays the same. I just spend as much time as possible inside a building.[/font][/size]

[quote name='Piano Parade' date='05 June 2010 - 02:53 AM' timestamp='1275720791' post='694641'] [b]And two questions for anyone. I finally have a DS Lite, so if I had to choose between LeafGreen or FireRed, what made you guys choose one over the other, if you played them?[/b][/quote] For me, it would depend on what Pokemon you can or can't find in each game. I picked Heart Gold over Soul Silver partially because you get Growlithe in HG (and partially because I still have the original Silver and felt I should give the other side of the spectrum a whirl). If you need to know what games have what exclusive Pokemon, go [u][url="http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_FireRed_and_LeafGreen_Versions#Version_exclusives"]here[/url][/u].

[IMG]http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd177/nilsnectar/desktop0610.jpg[/IMG] Wallpaper by Kevin/Goodbye, Face.

[size="1"]I've been playing Pokemon Silver on my original Gameboy Color for the past few days. I just randomly turned it on and started a new game and I've been fairly addicted to it. It's strange, considering I still haven't beaten Heart Gold.[/size]

[SIZE="1"]A few weeks ago I decided to re-read the entire Harry Potter series to get myself ready to finally read Deathly Hallows, which I finished for the first time today. I've basically become obsessed with the series. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. So, this brings me to one of the only good things Florida has to offer. In less than a month, Universal's theme park Islands of Adventure is going to open its brand new addition to the public: the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. As far as I know, there isn't actually too much to do within this park. There are three rides - a tour of Hogwarts and a few roller-coasters - and shopping and dining in Hogsmeade. I haven't done extensive research into it, but as far as I know everything has been crafted to really put visitors into Harry Potter's world, from the architecture to the food (they even have strawberry peanut butter ice cream, which comes from a single sentence in Chamber of Secrets, and I've read that JK Rowling herself had to approve the taste of the butterbeer). I am incredibly excited. I'm definitely not going to be there anywhere near opening day, since everyone and their entire family tree, living and dead, are going to be there. Still, I can't wait to get over there and try the food (which I am admittedly the most excited about, especially butterbeer) and spend more money than I'm worth in Hogsmeade. I live only two hours away from this place, how awesome is that? So, who else is planning on visiting this theme park? I realize I'm probably closest to it on this message board, but people visit Florida from distant lands just for Disney World, right? I can't imagine Harry Potter world being too much different. Besides, the main theme park is pretty fun itself, with it's focus on comic book super heroes and even Dr. Seuss.[/SIZE]

[quote name='Ace'][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]The same way there was never an animated series based on [B]The Emperor's New Groove[/B] or a second, third or fourth [B]Karate Kid[/B] movie.[/FONT][/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]A fifth Karate Kid movie is coming to theatres in June, but you could argue that it's not a Karate Kid movie either since the martial arts in question is actually KUNG FU.[/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"]I have a lot of pent up rage. It's mostly about pretty insignificant things, but it's no fun having anger of any sort stuck inside. - My sisters can be so infuriating. They often poke fun at me for random reasons and I try to brush it off, but it can actually sting. They also constantly think that they know more about the world than I do, despite my eldest child status, and will never even consider that they could possibly be wrong about something. Example: A while ago we somehow got on the topic of pierced ears, and I mentioned how piercing guns are bad. Both of my sisters jumped on me, claiming that I was wrong, the knowledgeable friends I have were wrong, and professionals on the internet were wrong as well. Their proof was that they'd had their ears pierced with a gun at the mall. OBVIOUSLY THEY KNOW SO MUCH MORE ABOUT THINGS THAN I DO. And one more thing that pisses me off often is that, because I'm the only one with a vehicle and a driver's license, I'm expected to taxi my siblings around wherever they need to be. I don't outwardly fuss about picking them up from the bus stop or taking them to church, because my parents do pay for my gas, but when my sisters bombard me with demands that I escort them to Taco Bell, I get very angry. - I feel like some of my friends kind of expect me to be a driver, too. I don't mind it nearly as much because they're my friends and it would be so I could spend time with them, but using an entire tank of gas in a single weekend is not fun in the least. - Almost none of my friends ever talk to me anymore. I never get to see them because we are all at different schools now, but when I try to converse with them via text messaging or Skype, the discussion never lasts very long. I mostly get one word responses or replies devoid of any interest in what I am saying. Some people say nothing but "lol," some people just plain stop talking at all. It makes me feel like I'm the most boring person in the world and that I really don't have any friends. I have a lot more to rant about but I'd better not make this too long. Anyway, go ahead and get some of your anger out. Discuss similar experiences. Sympathize with each other. You will feel like there is more air inside your lungs. [IMG]http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb164/XopekQD/fuuuuu.jpg[/IMG] EDIT: - This new Facebook fad of liking pages with ridiculously long and unfunny titles. What the hell. My entire news feed is being clogged with them and I do not appreciate it at all. I even hid one person entirely, then because I have nothing better to do I changed my status to "THANK GOODNESS FOR THE HIDE BUTTON." Someone liked that, then proceeded to like one of those stupid long name pages. I found an IRONY page and liked it as well.[/size] [size=5][B]ಠ_ಠ[/B][/size]