C3PX

Saw Inception today with two totally hot guys... um... my girl was busy... ah... anyway...

I was very impressed. Loved it. Fairly complex, but I liked that everything had a solid explanation to it. Grown too used to complicated sci-fi choking on itself and relying on stupid explanations (Matrix trilogy, here's looking at you). Easily one of the best new films I have seen for very long time.

Yes, try contrasting it with what you hear or see when other people say stuff like it.

TV's Frink said:

Pffft...you think that's hard, try saying "xhonzi."

Go ahead, I'll wait...

Joansie!

Warbler said:

And I truly don't know any girl to ask out.   Just about all of the women in my church that are around my age are already married.

Hmm, as for money, date money is the single most important thing a single man can have. Food, we can do without. Internet, chuck it. Gas money, stay home or walk. Clothes, wear 'em till they disintergrate. Booze, definitely can do without. When you get your hands on some precious money, you tuck enough away and save it for dates. This is bachelorhood 101!

Go out and offer to mow the neighbor's lawn for $10 - $20 bucks. I hear the kids in my neighborhood are pulling in $25 a lawn, few hours of work and you have a nice little date budget. Get it as a weekly gig, and your set.

As for no girls your age at church... TIME TO START ROBBING THE CRADLE!!! WOOOHOOO!!!... Okay, but seriously, I don't know what to tell you man. There are girls (your age) out there, but the catch is you have to actively seek them out.

And this isn't just to Warb, but to all the guys out there who mope about not having a girl to take to a movie or money to take them. Hell, if you are desperate enough, just post on craig's list that you are bored and looking for a girl to take to see Inception. That will definately pull in some takers, and even if it doesn't result in meeting a really cool person at least the results are sure to be interesting.

TV's Frink said:

C3PX said:

Appropriate? Considerable? Whatever. Some punk tries to steal from me, I will hurt him. Obviously the situation varies with the size of the guy and what kinds of weapons he has, but if I have the opportunity to protect my property (even some lousy greenbacks) against some idiot who has decided to take it from me, I am going to take action. 

I know you mean this in a general sense, and I won't argue.  Just a reminder that in this specific case, the punk was a woman and the "weapon" she was holding was her child.

Now I know how Gaffer felt when he blew up several post back. I don't need to be fucking reminded. I know that was what this topic began as, but notice what I was quoting and responding to. Had nothing to do with Gibson.

I would agree, if he did in fact hit her, regardless of her holding a child or not, he was quite wrong.

Okay, taking a few steps back and going back on topic (this seems to be the one thread in existence that can't seem to go off topic anyway, despite many of us trying to go in different directions we are either met with "reminders" that: Mel Gibson is indeed an asshole, thereby nullifying our arguments about regarding other topics OR certain thread starters refusing to change the title of the thread to properly reflect what it should be about. Jeez!)

Okay, so back to Mr. Gibson, Gaff and I are of very like mind on the whole judgment thing. I am not trying to say the guy is not wrong or justify him, it is just that there is usually a lot more to the story. She remains remarkably and impressively calm in every one of these clips (yes, I have listened to them). At first you think, wow, what an impressive woman to put up with such a jerk yelling at her and insulting her in such a calm manner. Poor woman, she really needs to get away from this man. Poor baby, I hope she gets custody.

You have to remember, that SHE is the one doing the recordings, so of course she remains impressively calm. She recorded them with the intend of releasing them, so it is stands to reason she would be extra careful to paint herself as nicely as possible. She is very clever, and very sly.I had already picked that out before Compmovieguy piped up and told us she had a history of this stuff.

Every story has two sides, but we very rarely get both sides of any story. Again, yes, Mel Gibson is clearly a bigot and a jerk, he shouldn't be using racial slurs, etc. That is off to the side of the point though, that is a different matter, and he looses on that matter 100%. Mel Gibson's antisemitism has been known for a long time, you'd have to question why this woman was with such a hate filled bigoted man, but she was, and seemingly loved him enough to have a baby with him. 

If she really loved him, and really is the victim of the man she loved gone crazy, as she is trying to portray herself, then why release these tapes to the public? Why not just go to the police for domestic violence? That being on record would be just about all she needs to win a custody battle for the child. If she really loved him, then she would want to help him and get him to get treatment for his problems.

In the end, we really don't know the whole situation here. I agree he is very wrong in using racial slurs and being antisemitic, but we have known that for a long time. Everyone is going to take her side, but for all you know she could use those very same racial slurs and feel the same way about Hispanics and Jews as he does. As far as the whole cusody battle goes, all I can say is I think the poor kid loses either way. Looks like both of his parents are pretty worthless people.

Warbler said:

I don't know a girl to ask. 

I don't have money.

Even if those things weren't true,  I'd be afraid to.   I'd fear they'd laugh at me or slap me.   

: (

 

Get off your ass and do it anyway man! You've got to know some girls out there that you wouldn't mind taking out, even if it is more just in the context of friends.

Why so afraid of this stuff? Most girls are too nice to laugh at a guy or slap him when he asks her out, and they usually feel bad saying no to a guy and try to do so in the nicest way possible.

If you want to swim, you have to get your feet wet first. Worst case scenario is she laughs at you (or slaps you) and you realize she is kind of a jerk (or really a violent person), and you wouldn't want to go out with someone like that anyway.

So come on, go ask that girl at church or that girl at the coffee shop or where ever she is (there has to be some girl somewhere) out to Inception. If she is smart, she isn't going to turn down a free ticket to a movie. ;)

Bingowings said:

It was strange to read that a William Peter Blatty (an author and director I greatly admire) is a big fan of The Passion Of The Christ.

Why was it strange to read? Was The Passion that awful? I never saw it.

Bingowings said:

The instances when using violence to repel the loss of greenbacks alone is in anyway appropriate are mercifully beyond the comprehension of most (if not all) the people known to us.

It's only remotely considerable in places of absolute poverty where the loss of a small piece of metal or a small green piece of paper could result in homelessness and starvation.

Appropriate? Considerable? Whatever. Some punk tries to steal from me, I will hurt him. Obviously the situation varies with the size of the guy and what kinds of weapons he has, but if I have the opportunity to protect my property (even some lousy greenbacks) against some idiot who has decided to take it from me, I am going to take action. 

I see no reason why I should stand back and watch someone rob me when I could do something about it? Sadly, from the looks of things, most people would think I am wrong for doing so. Looks like the only way to be considered a decent person in this world is to amputate your own balls, bend over, and hold your cheeks open as wide as possible and hope those who will screw you will be kind enough to use lube when they do so.

Warb mentioned taking the law into your own hands? The law has nothing to do with it, it is my property being taken, I have a right to defend it. I am not attacking the guy because he is breaking the law, I am attacking him because he is taking something that belongs to me.

Gaffer Tape said:

C3PX said:

It's my estimation that every man who ever got famous (or any man at all, for that matter) is one kind of son-of-a-bitch or another.

Thanks there, Captain Tightpants.

Nice catch.

I played the demo. As a long time Ron Gilbert fan, I was really looking forward to it since it was first announced. I've kept up with Ron's blog since the very beginning, so it was cool having already been familiar with the orgins of DS. Definitely has a lot of that old Monkey Island style humor, only, I realized, I was really young when I played the first two Monkey Island games and still appreciate them on a nostaligic level, but I find the humor of Deathspank to be very unappealing and rather juvenile; the intentionally bad voice acting was kind of a tired old cliche to use too. I guess nostlgia for the MI games and other Gilbert projects isn't enough to make me want to play it.

Moth3r said:

C3PX said:

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However, I maintain that an even greater honor is being ignored by the likes of Vbangle. I feel this is a distinction you must own if you want to achieve true greatness within the OT community.

Why, thank you!

I'd have a hard time believeing that Vbangle is your sock.

It's my estimation that every man who ever got famous (or any man at all, for that matter) is one kind of son-of-a-bitch or another.

Aren't too many Mel Gibson movies I like, but I will continue to watch the ones I do like. If I decided not to watch films based on the actors that are in them being ass holes, then I'd never watch a movie again, or my selection would be extremely thin. Dig deep enough, and most of us have skeletons in our closets and have done so pretty dumb shit. If we haven't yet we most likely will. It is not hard for someone to let success go to their head, happens all the time. Sad to see it happen and for someone to be such an asshole, but it is hardly surprising.

Wow, there has been some interesting stuff posted in here over the last week that I completely missed.

I am pretty sure Erica's nipples are showing...

Also, I have been feeling slightly concerned about something lately... we do know that we are not actually Erica? Don't we? Just thought I would check.

Does that Scotsmen have a machine gun for a leg? Weird.

xhonzi said:

Can I interpret your BioShock comment to mean that you are actually playing it again?

Funny story... through some strange turn of events I... uh... Ah! To make a long story short I lost all the contents of my 360 hard drive... including my BS2 game sames...

With that, I decided it wasn't worth my time to start from the beginning and try to beat it again (already half way through the game on hard with vita-chambers off and all the audio-diaries collected. Blah. Don't have the heart to do it all over again. So, I decided to screw it and not even bother. Like I said before, I just can't get into single player games anymore, I enjoy playing with other people, but when I have time to kill alone there are other things I'd rather be doing. So, I had given up on BioShock 2... forever!

...

And now with that said, oddly enough, through another strange turn of events, I discovered that my USB drive that I use to transport my profile from console to console had, by some random chance or divine intervention, my BioShock 2 game saves on it! I never remember copying them there, or see why I would have had any reason to have copied them there, but yet, there they are. No other saves on the drive, except for my BS2 saves, the only saves I really mourned the loss of. Pretty weird, right? Miraculous even! Very exciting stuff. Well, I go to copy them back on my hard drive and notice that they are associated with "unknown profile" rather than my profile. They are my saves, they are right were I left off, so I am not sure what is wrong with them. When I try to copy them to my hard drive, it tells me that if I copy them they will become associated with my profile but achievements will not be available, since the file is from another profile... wow... I went through a lot of work beating that far on hard with the vita-chambers off and collecting all the diaries, and now it is all for nothing... So, with that, I once again gave on BioShock 2... forever!

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Then through another strange turn of events, I discovered that you could actually hack game saves and change the owner. Turns out a lot of losers do this in order to get lots of achievements. They simple download a save game file from the internet, edit it so that it has their profile name associated with it, load it and every single achievement in the game pops. Ridiculous! The whole fun of getting achievements, to me, is actually having gone through the challenge of having done it. Beating Bioshock on hard or getting all the achievements on Fallout 3 were a thrill and now I have the achievements to prove I did it. Getting achievements in this manner is extremely lame. It is like going to your local thrift store, buying all the old used trophies you can find, and going home and putting them in a trophy case in your living room. You didn't earn any of those trophies, so they are just dumb chunks of rock and plastic that you tell people you won yourself in order to feel good about yourself (because in reality, you suck and could achieve anything on your own). Very sad...

So... Where was I? Oh yeah, so, deciding to use these evil powers to recover my game saves allowing me to beat BioShock 2 once and for all and ease a tremendous weight from my shoulders-- I went online, figured out how to do all this crap, edited them so they once again belonged to me... plugged them back into my console and sure enough, they worked! Phew! After becoming really excited at recoverying those lost hours of my life, I decided to sit down and play it for a bit... about two minutes later I got really bored, turned off the console and read a book. Yeah, I don't know if I will ever beat that game. Just not feeling it. Maybe something really bad will happen to me in the following months and I will need to turn to the xbox as a coping device and will finally finish the thing. You never know. ;)

Phew! It is hard work derailing threads this badly... hope it stays off track for a bit.

A B C said:

Ric Olie said:

Uh, perhaps you can help me? I'm looking for a love-potion aerosol, that I can spray on a certain Penthouse Pet, to obtain her total submission.

 Yeah, I read about that. You have to catch the slimy blue piece of brain of a devil ewok:

 

Easy with your equipement !

We'll enjoy watching.

ABC, when I divulged to you the secret power of my slimy blue brain via PM, I thought it was understood that that information was intended to remain private! Dammit! Now everyone is going to want a piece of my demonic Endorian blue matter.

Hey, there was no apple involved!

TV's Frink said:

*speechless*

Uh oh, I think we broke Fink...

Gaffer Tape said:

That image depresses me...

It is depressing. I think you and I have a similar background there, Gaff. 

I could probably use this opportunity to give Fink a hard time for sticking something in my craw, but as my craw is pretty non-adhesive and I find the image somewhat amusing, I won't. ;)

Whoa! And I thought I was having a bad day on account of flesh colored brassieres!

That sucks. :(  Hopefully you'll find some way to keep your job.

Whoa! You've got one sticky craw! ;)

(sorry, couldn't resist)

Actually, I am not a fan of it being used lightly either. I was merely referencing Eyeshotfirst's comment.

Okay, so honestly! What are with pets and underwear? I just don't get it (okay, so I do get it, I'd just rather not).

And moving on... what is with places like Victoria Secrets making skin tone underwear? I am not sure if they were ever at one point considered sexy, but in this day and age they just scream out "grandma" (went to a mall for the first time in what must have been over a year... and I was reminded why I stay away from places like that (the reason for which actually has nothing to do with the granny intimates), and as a direct consequence of being in a mall, I happened to pass a VS, which, in part, spawned this train of thought).

Hmmm, it seem to be being taken quite seriously, so I am just going to give a "no" as my final answer and hope for the best.

ChainsawAsh said:

I'm being ignored by... cutnshut...

Whoa, I wonder what you did to cutnshut. As he has only recently wandered into the Off Topic section, I have only recently become familiar with him.

I like how being ignored by Ghost Alpha has become sort of a badge of honor. However, I maintain that an even greater honor is being ignored by the likes of Vbangle. I feel this is a distinction you must own if you want to achieve true greatness within the OT community.

Err... uh... no? :\