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#310255
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Cop Attacks Skateboarder, For Calling Him "Dude"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310255/action/topic#310255
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Originally posted by: ferris209


Oh, the English kind of biscuit, I was thinking about KFC.


I am pretty sure the great Lord Total Biscuit, King of the Orc Peoples in the land of WoW Radio was from the other side of the pond. His name is from what our local term "total biscuit" has derived from, so naturally, I think he had a cookie in mind when he chose the name. However, since we are mostly yanks around here, I think a good ol' bready American style biscuit is acceptable. Either way, the meaning stays the same.
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#310178
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310178/action/topic#310178
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Man, it seems like everyday there is something different reported. Today I heard that they are going to end the current run at episode 7 rather than 8 as originally planned, then air episodes 8 - 13 in April. Not really a big deal, less than a month's wait, which is pretty good considering that for a long time we were worried there would be no more episodes beyond these eight until 2009. Kind of stinks though now that we have to wait longer to see episode 8. I am really looking forward to that one. Wish it was a two hour episode though, don't see how they'll adaquately tell the story that is to be told in that episode in just 42 minutes. Oh well, we will see.

Looking forward to tomorrows episode, I think the show is really making a come back. Season three was pretty rough, but I am not expecting too many dull episodes for this season, but that is yet to be seen. The show is kind of frustraiting to watch only one episode per week. Kind of like reading a page turner and being forced to only read a chapter at a time when you really want to knock out at least two or three chapters before turning off the light and calling it a night. It is truely a show that was meant for DVD.
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#310175
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Cop Attacks Skateboarder, For Calling Him "Dude"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310175/action/topic#310175
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I don't want to give you my pity. If I were to pity you I would be looking down on you, and I don't want to do that.

Look, why don't we accept the fact that we each have different political views, and not let it run out onto the rest of the board? I really don't enjoy picking on you, nor do I appreciate being insulted all the time, or pigeon holed into a category you assume I fit in even though I do not.

I have had debates and arguments with Tiptup, lordjedi, ADM, Zombie, and plenty of others, yet I have a ton of respect for each of them and we all still get along fine. Just because we don't agree on something politically doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to get along else where. I respect your political views, you are free to think what you like, I have no wish to change you. I made a futile attempt to explain to you that I wasn't what you think I am, I repent of that. You are free to think I am whatever you want, I suppose I couldn't care less if you are bent on considering me a complete fascist just because I am not a Democrat. So, let's let it go shall we?

I am not going to pick on you anymore. But if you continue to call me a moron everytime I say something you don't agree with 100%, then you may very well end up iritating me which may sway me from my current feelings on the matter. There are nice ways to disagree with somebody. So, you have my respect pal, do with it what you will.
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#310167
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Cop Attacks Skateboarder, For Calling Him "Dude"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310167/action/topic#310167
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Sure. But the more of his posts I read, the more guilty I feel for possibly picking on a pretty young kid. He has never admited his age, though he did say he began a career in programing that didn't work out and now works in an office. Not too many kids or young teenagers work in offices, so I assumed he is older. Not to mentioned he has accused many of us of not knowing anything about the real world. But I am really starting to think he is pretty young and might have been lying about the career in programming thing. And if he is telling the truth about the office job, that doesn't mean he isn't really young, for all we know he could a fourteen year old being paid for taking out the trash and vacuming the floors. So yeah, thinking about this possibility I am starting to feel kind of bad. With the internet you never know who you are really talking to you. Another reason just to let his posts slide by.
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#310164
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Cop Attacks Skateboarder, For Calling Him "Dude"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310164/action/topic#310164
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Ferris, I'd suggest standing down on any arguments against Sweeney. I feel rather foolish for having wasted time arguing with him over the weekend. I started off giving him the benefit of the doubt and trying to reason with him on things, but as long as you disagree with him in anyway whatsoever he is just going to insult you. The problem is that when you argue with a fool, no one can tell the difference and you become a fool by association. Anyone who stumbles into the politics thread can see my posts arguing with Sweeney, if they go take the time to read the entire conversations they could see what is really going on, but if they don't they are just going to think "Look at these to idiots fighting! This forum sucks."

I really think we are dealing with some attention starved teenager here, you're a cop, is it really worth wasting your time off duty on a forum arguing with some silly kid? If it is attention he is seeking, we are giving it to him in droves.

I suggest just skipping over his posts. I know the current subject at hand is a pretty personal one, and he is making personal attacks on you, but I don't think anyone around here is really taking what he says seriously. The fact that he is making so many personal attacks is all the more reason to just ignore his posts anyway. It is getting to the point where we can't even have a discussion without it being deluted by his constant infantile remarks.

Just some thoughts.
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#310091
Topic
Political compass: interesting test
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310091/action/topic#310091
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Originally posted by: lordjedi
Originally posted by: Sweeney599
shove it up your ass.


Whoa! He's forming sentences now! Maybe capitalization will come later.


The doctors said given his condition that it would never happen! They said he would never be able to develope that far! They said it would be impossible! But he did it! He did it! I do believe in miracles! I do believe in miracles!
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#310029
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310029/action/topic#310029
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Carlton Cuse has said that there will be a maximum of five more episodes, making a total of thirteen for the season. He said the remaining season 4 story arc would be compressed into four or five episodes, and the three missing episodes and flashback would be carried over to season five. So at least we will get a season finale and the story arc wrapped up. I kind of like the three season of sixteen episodes, now it looks like it'll be 13, 19, 16 for seasons four, five, and six. Oh well. This could change though, just a couple of days before Cuse announced only four to five more episodes, Lindeloff had said that they might be able to finish all eight. So it seems to change everyday, but as far as I know, a maximum of five was the latest count. Sounds like they are going to try to have episode nine ready to air the week after episode eight. That'll be nice, but I hope they don't hurt the episodes quality by rushing the filming.
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#309913
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Political compass: interesting test
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309913/action/topic#309913
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
You are a

Social Liberal
(70% permissive)

and an...

Economic Liberal
(18% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Socialist (18e/70s)


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (74, -119)
modscore: (11, 42)


I'M NOT A SOCIALIST!!!!!!


"You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness." The is the exact same description it gave me. But at the part where it said "you are best described as a" there was nothing there, it was blank! It only had the numbers. It but me as a libritarian boarderlining on Democrat but extremely close the the center, if you look at the comparison of famous people, my mark actually fell right ontop of Adam Sandler. It put down that my care for the environment was extremely high, I am not sure how that happened. So yeah, the thing is not the most accurate.
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#309854
Topic
Political compass: interesting test
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309854/action/topic#309854
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Originally posted by: Sweeney599
Originally posted by: C3PX
Corporations have to be "greedy" the whole point is to make money.

and not serve humanity. thanks for making my point, moron. Wasn't it your Saviour said you can't serve two masters at the same?

Sweeney, I don't give a damn what my "Saviour" said. Would you please stop using scriptures of which you know nothing about and have no respect for in order to "prove" your points. It is really getting retarded. I am not going around pushing my religious beliefs on you, stop pushing what you "think" my religious beliefs are on me.


Originally posted by: C3PX
I find it ironic companies like Wal-Mart are evil greedy corporate empires that are making the world a horrible place, while at the same time the poor single mothers who Hilary claims to be supporting probably all shop at Wal-Mart because they can afford it. You know that the even greedy Wal-Mart even gives out scholarships and supports charities. How dare they!.


Wasn't Wal-Mart the company that put mom and pop stores on main street out of business? Also those scholarships and charities are chump change to Wal-Mart. They only do that stuff to look good.


Yes, Wal-Mart does put mom and pop stores out of business. It is called economics. If you really understood it you could see that you are free to shop where ever you want. The only thing Wal-Mart is guilty of is providing better prices and services. It is the consumers choice of whether or not to shop there. The market (essentially the consumer) decides who will live and who will die. The mom and pop store can't provide prices as low as Wal-Mart, sure, that is sad. But they have the option to adapt and attempt to compete, if they can't then they have to close shop. If they go out of business it is not because Wal-Mart put them out of business, it is because the market chose Wal-Mart over the mom and pop store.

If we really felt this was a great injustice upon mom and pop stores, as you seem to, then rather than having the government tax them to death (which = prices go up, and we the consumers make up for it), or having the government regulate them in ways that somehow restricts them from putting small businesses out of business, why not just go out and practice your freedom of speech by telling people not to shop at Wal-Mart and letting them know how they are destroying small businesses. If your news media outlets would start pumping that into people's brains and informing them how the power to turn the tides on Wal-Mart is in their hands, and that if they would shop at mom and pop's instead of Wal-Mart, mom and pop wouldn't be out of business. Ironically many small businesses use Sam's Club as a means for aquiring inexpensive supplies and merchandise... not quite sure how that adds up but... whatever.

"Also those scholarships and charities are chump change to Wal-Mart. They only do that stuff to look good."

Yup, no doubt. But chump change or not, it is still money that is going to help people. A good deed done for an arguably selfish purpose is still a good deed is it not? If Ebeneser Scrooge offered you five hundred bucks, and somebody else offered you five cents, which one would you rather have? Sure, appreciate them both, but the five hundred bucks is going to stretch a lot further than the five cents.

Hmm, if you added up all the mom and pop stores and all their donations and scholarships they provide, I wonder how it would add up to Wal-Mart's chump change?
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#309842
Topic
Political compass: interesting test
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309842/action/topic#309842
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I am pretty sure if the candidates took the test themselves, it would be nothing like the way they have been positioned on the chart. I am pretty sure Ron Paul is more extreme on libritarianism than I am, yet I ended up way down in the middle of that section, while he is way up at the bottom of the authoritarian section. As I mentioned before, the whole thing is European, so American politics really don't seem to fit on it that well, which is the reason why just about every one of the US candidates comes up as a conservative.


Originally posted by: Sweeney599
What's good for trans-national corporations is good for humanity in general


that just shows how much of an idiot you are.


Bold words amigo. So seriously, they really don't teach economics in schools anymore? Please Sweeney tell me you were a big fan of playing hookie and you simply couldn't stand economic and so never showed up. Surely it is still deemed as important. If not then I am convinced they are training us to be sheep.

I find it ironic companies like Wal-Mart are evil greedy corporate empires that are making the world a horrible place, while at the same time the poor single mothers who Hilary claims to be supporting probably all shop at Wal-Mart because they can afford it. You know that the even greedy Wal-Mart even gives out scholarships and supports charities. How dare they!

Corporations have to be "greedy" the whole point is to make money. If they are not making money then they are failing, if they are making money then they succeed. When they succeed they provide jobs for you and me, thus improving our lifestyles. Big business is your friend, it is a economic fact. Yes, there should be checks put on them, and laws they have to abide to, not because corporations are evil, but because the people running them are human. Because I am disagreeing with Sweeney the all knowing future Jeopardy champion, I am very likely to be called an idiot for posting this.

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#309776
Topic
How much longer will the format war last?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309776/action/topic#309776
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Of course it isn't suppose to be an insult Johnboy, Tiptup was just making a joke about the word war. At first glace the title seems kind of dramatic.

The reason laserdisc didn't take off better is that it was an unnecessary change for the average viewer. For most people the cheap and practical VHS that fit into their VCR, which could record things off of TV, seemed to be perfectly good quality. If you play a laserdisc on a small screen TV with your TV's speakers, there isn't a whole lot of difference. Laserdisc was more of a niche market. DVD was the first practical replacement that appealed to the average consumer. A lot of people have never even heard of laserdisc, and many who have don't have any clue what it is. I hope it is a long time before Blu-Ray gets replaced, DVD certianly seemed to become obsolete a lot sooner than I would have expected. Don't want to upgrade my movie collection every ten years. I bought my first DVD player in 2001, by 2007 I had already stopped buying DVDs altogether. Of course it is only because of the rising of HD that made us need a new format. Hopefully this time it will stick.
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#309772
Topic
Political compass: interesting test
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309772/action/topic#309772
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Did anybody bother reading the analysis ro the FAQ? It freely admits to not being perfect, and it explains the reason for using ambiguous questions. Again, it is based on European politics, so it is quite a bit off when it comes to US politics. That is why they placed Hilary deep within the conservative section, because to them she is a conservative. I bet if she took this thing on her own, she would be much more on the left side. Hmm, I missed the part where the site claimed to be able to tell you who you should vote for. Also it is kind of funny most people were surprised with their results, I was fully expecting to be somewhere in the middle of the Libritarian section and I ended up almost in the dead center of it. It would be interesting to take the text again and see it you end up in a completely different spot. It would be impossible to have something like this gage you political standing accurately.
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#309741
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Old Star Wars Games on New Computer Systems (was: Tie Fighter Collectors' CD-ROM Works in DOSBox)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309741/action/topic#309741
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Originally posted by: RRS-1980
I have major problems getting "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine" to work stable (even after the patch and compatibility settings).


Seriously, Virtual PC is great. And now that it is free there isn't a better solution around for running old games. Infernal Machine and anything else you throw at it'll work just as well as on the machine it was designed for... as long as you have access to an old copy of windows.


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#309649
Topic
Political compass: interesting test
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309649/action/topic#309649
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http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/9757/pcgraphpngkl0.png
Dead center of the right economic scale, and just above the center on the libertarian social scale.

That is not a half bad site. I didn't have much of a chance to look it over, but I read a few things and it seems very straight forward and unbiased (something way to hard to find these days). It gives some very good basics of what it means to hold certian social and economic viewspoints. It has a pretty heavty European slant to it, which lollygags it a bit for US politics, but also has the advantage of putting it all into a more universal perspective.
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#309555
Topic
Old Star Wars Games on New Computer Systems (was: Tie Fighter Collectors' CD-ROM Works in DOSBox)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309555/action/topic#309555
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Originally posted by: SKot

Now that most DOS games can be run successfully under XP with DOSBox, the hardest games to get working at this point are certain ones that were actually written for Windows (95/98)... some of them just won't even install under XP without bombing out. And I'm at a loss for how to fix that


SKot, do you have any old versions of Windows lying around? There is this program called Virtual PC that was once made by a company called Connectix and was quite an expensive program. It was a PC emulator for the PC. You can use it to creat and run emulated PC of various specs. For example, a while back I wanted to play a Windows 95 game that absolutely could not work under WinXP, I searched all over for cracks and patches but came up with nothing. With Virtual PC I was able to emulate a computer running under the perfect specs for this game to run, then I popped in my old Windows 95 CD and installed it onto the emulated computer I had made, and a short while later was playing my game under the exact conditions it was intended to be played under. Wouldn't ya know it, good ol' Microsoft bought the rights to Virtual PC from the company that had originally made it, now it is called, Microsoft Virtual PC and is a free addon for WindowsXP. For once MS did something right, wish they had done it before I spent full price on the original version. As long as you have a legit copy of WindowsXP you can get it for free from Microsoft.com. Just go to their site and type Virtual PC in the search box, or you can google "Microsoft Virtual PC" and probably find a direct link to Microsoft's Virtual PC page.

Between DOSBox and Virtual PC, there should not be an old game that you can't play.
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#309539
Topic
Old Star Wars Games on New Computer Systems (was: Tie Fighter Collectors' CD-ROM Works in DOSBox)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309539/action/topic#309539
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Man, LucasGames/LucasArts use to suck away a ton of my money, and I always felt every single penny spent was worth it. Those old games were great. I could never get as much fun out of a modern space/flight simulator as I did from the X-Wing and Tie Fighter games. I wish they would quite making crappy games like The Force Unleashed and prequel tie in games, and make a modern sequel to their old SW flight sims. In this day and age they could make the thing span from prequel era to post-ROTJ, load it up with tons of ships and missions. If they could pull it off and keep the feel of the old ones, it could really be something. But then they would have to break their impressive current record of consecutive crappy Star Wars games, and that just wouldn't do.
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#309457
Topic
The Angry Video Game Nerd…
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309457/action/topic#309457
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I am with you Johnboy, I usually don't like humor like that, but I really enjoy the Angry Video Game Nerd videos because I played a lot of those same games as a kid. Sometimes his stuff gets pretty stupid, especially when he goes into dumb sketches, but when it is just watching him play the game and talking about how crappy it is I find it hilarious, expecially since those are the same things I wanted to say to those games when I was a kid, only I didn't have a big enough foul mouthed vocabulary to do so. The Ninja Turtles one was was a classic. Ghostbusters one was great too.