When you look at how lossy audio CDs are, it is a wonder they were accepted as the standard. You'd think modern technology could come out with a new format that has full range audio.
I am not sure how much weight my friend lost, but I am sure 40 days had to have made him drop quite a few pounds.
As for me not eating for a week, it has been a few years back, but I actually don't remember it effecting me a whole lot. I think I remember dropping a few pounds, but putting it back on really quickly.
Yeah, I need to get my hands on DSOTM sometime. Such a popular album, eveytime I see it at used record shops it is way over priced for the condition it is in.
Oh man, just got my hands on the 5 LP Bob Dylan collection Biograph and Pink Floyd's The Wall. My inner hippie is in a state of euphoria at the moment. Listening to good ol' Bobby D right now, and man, that stuff was mean to be played on vinyl. Listen to him all the time on digital, and it just isn't the same.
Reservoir Dogs
Nanner Split said:
The Office is probably my all-time favorite TV show
Mine too! I love that show! Steve Currell is sooo hilarious! I love how that show can continue on for so many years, use the same gags over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, and still manage to have as mediocre humor as it had back in the beginning. Such an awesome show! So, who is this Rick Gervalis guy?
Oh, I heard a rumor that the Brits liked The Office so much that they are going to make their own version of it. What losers, can't even come up with their own ideas! Absolutely ridiculous! Of course, whatever BS they come up with can't possibly be near as good as the original Steve Currell version.
Heheh, this is the part where I get pummeled...
Maybe I am jumping to conclusion. It is really hard to tell anything from a short little trailer. Just from what I have seen, it doesn't appeal to me at all. Hasn't done anything to make me excited about the game. If I wasn't a Halo fan or had no idea what Halo was, I would watch this trailer and think it looks kind of lame. I am not trying to be harsh on it, or brush it off without giving it a chance, I'll definitely give it a chance, and it will probably be quite good. I liked the other four Halo FPSs, so no doubt I'll like this one in the end.
Wow, way to steal Bingo's thunder goddess007.
Wouldn't want to meet these fellows in the bad part of town.
Ah, 2-XL, the sarcastic toy robot that would teach you things and call you names. These kinds of cool toys don't exist anymore...
Woooohooooo! The 3PX is faster!
Donkeys are my favorite, because they have so much character.
But camels have the attitude.
YAY!!! This thread is now about... beasts of burden!
He was more or less an artist, so no, he didn't work a typical 9 - 5 or anything like that. I went for a week without eating while working full time at a fairly active job, and I actually felt surprisingly energetic after the first few days had passed, but even a week was no small challenge. I personally couldn't imagine going for a full forty days.
I'm definitely not saying a forty day fast would be a good idea. It is actually extremely unhealthy. Upon not eating for such a long period of time your body not only begins to eat away at your fat, but also at your muscles. But it is possible to do.
There is nothing wrong with making tough guy characters, when they have some depth too them. But too often, especially with video games, characters are made out to be "badass" to a level where it is almost impossible to suspend disbelief, and they have very little else going for them. There is nothing wrong with a heartfelt tough guy. I mean, we have loved Superman for all these years, and he is pretty much invicible, but his character has always had a lot of emotion to him and was relatable, he never went around flaunting his toughness like a damn 2D WWF character (i.e. Oh yeah! I am so tough and awesome!). Wrestling (the fake Soap Opera-esque televised kind) is, IMHO, the ultimate redneck sport. You always see guys with freakin' mullets running around in WWF shirts with holes all in them.
Usually I use the term badass with a negative shallow connotation*. I don't see Master Chief and Arbiter, which are actually both relatively heartfelt characters, or what I have seen of the Mass Effect characters, being anything like 2D WWF like characters, but that is exactly how I see the guys from Gears of War and the new Spartans from Reach. Hopefully I will be wrong, because I'd really want to like Reach, it has just failed to impress me so far. I loved ODST, and would love to see Reach be just as impressive.
*growing up I had always been taller and broader shouldered than most of the other guys my age. I'd never really felt the need to prove myself, and had spent a lot of my adolescence shrugging off idiots who wanted to get in my face because they felt they had something to prove, and frankly I never cared who could take who. "No, I don't want to fight you. Yes, I am sure you'd win. You're right, yeah, I'm a total coward." usually became the best way out of those ridiculous situations. So when characters in fiction remind me of these brainless badass machismo types, I just can't relate in the slightest.
That ass painting didn't bother me the first time you posted it. That second time you posted it I happened to be eating. I had to deal with a small amount of ass wiping throughout the week, I am fairly used to it, but it is not normally something I have to deal with. So, while I was eating and stumbled upon that picture a lot of imagery from the past week that is not compatible with eating flooded back into my head, which is why it irritated me so much this time. It is honestly nothing more offensive than what you'd see in one of the cartoon sequences on Monty Python's Flying Circus.
But that is still the type of thing that could get you in trouble at work, or put you in a situation that would be awkward to explain your way out of. When I used to browse this forum during working hours, I'd always turn off images in firefox (more to hide the nerdy imagery than any NASFW content). That might not be a bad idea for those worried about this sort of thing, but not willing to give up the forum.
Oh, and I'd just like to take this moment to say, mooses rule! But seriously, we need a new topic, you can only go on about meese for so long.
I guess I consider badass characters and lots of explosians to be fairly redneck-esque. Style over substance and all that. Just doesn't do it for me. Maybe I am on the wrong track here, but the Spartans in the trailer were just a bit too over the top for me, reminded me of the ridiculously over the top masculinity of the Gears of War characters. I just can't take that sort of bullshit seriously.
Octorox said:
Also, CE was the best, end of story.
Oh, sorry. I didn't realize that. My mistake.
Warbler said:
If a person goes without food for long enough, he/she will die. That is a fact.
LOL, not saying someone can go indefinitely without food. Not sure what is being debated here, if anything at all. Yeah, of course they'll die if they go long enough without it, but forty days isn't always it (at least not in every case). The amount of time someone can go without food depends on the person and their body weight (my friend who did this forty day thing once a year was a big guy) and other health conditions and factors.
For an unfollowable plot, I followed the plot of Halo 3 just fine. Sure, I'd definitely call it the Return of the Jedi of the Halo trilogy, wasn't as good or as original as the first two, but also had some of the best moments in the series. And I'd definitely label Halo 2 as my favorite of the trilogy (second favorite Halo game next to the amazingly brilliant ODST), though there seems to be a lot of hate out there for it. The whole alternating Master Chief and Arbiter thing was a big surprise and really mixed things up a lot, and allowed the story to cover a lot more ground.
Halo Reach seemed really cool before the trailer was released... now I think it just looks kind of lame. The whole "Oh yeah, we're total bad asses!" vibe it has going on just doesn't do it for me. This new game seems like it is really catering to the stereotypical Bud Light swilling redneck Halo fan.
That stereotype really annoys me, because I think Halo has a lot more to it than most people see. I usually defend the series from that stereotype, but I think Bungie left me no choice with the upcoming installment, I don't think I'll be able to defend this one, it has just gone too far.
Oh, ha, all this time I thought it did say, "Cultist Wacko".
Warbler said:
how can you give up all food ? If you did that for the entire season of lent, you'd die.
Actually, probably not. Lent is based off of Jesus' temptation in the desert, which lasted forty days, during this time he did not eat. While many would be quick to say "Aw, come on! The Bible is clearly a work of fiction/Jesus was the son of God, he could do things a normal man couldn't!" I actually had a friend who felt the same way, he was talking with one of his Christian friends about how ridiculous the whole thing was and that he was sure it was impossible, his friend's response was, "I guess the only way to know for sure would be to try." To this he responded, "I think I will." And he did. He found it so fullfilling that after the first time he made it an annual thing. He said the first four days are the most difficult part (which, having gone a few more days than that myself, I can confirm), and that after a bit it gets to the point you don't even feel hungry anymore, with an occasional exception. So yeah, you could do the entire period of lent without eating and live to tell about it, if you're in fairly good health. It isn't really very good for you though, as somewhere in that period of time your body will start to harvest itself for nutrition...
Currently sitting here and drinking a beer out of a plastic bottle... it feels wrong. My brother-in-law has no class. But I guess you can't complain about free beer, right?
Okay, seriously, no one wants to see that shit, Frenchy.
Darth Solo said:
It might be easyier to spell if i said no.
Darth Sexy? I can go with that...Hope your getting (edited out for smut talk. If you wont to know then PM me..laydez)
CPZ, (edited out for the sake of editing out). I was brought up here. Stop analyzin me. But the title fits like a glove for you. Drop the "The" part for more menace old timer.
Oy! I wasn't analyzing you, pal. I was more or less defending you from allegations of being a dirty uneducated foreigner*. I've no doubt you were brought up "here", but that doesn't change the fact that neither I nor Bingowings knows where "here" is referring too. But I don't really care where you are from, or think your posting style is a problem, I am actually rather fond of your posts (though they are perhaps, subjected to a bit too much editing. Anyway, I took your advice and dropped the "The". Yes, I think you are right, it ads some more menace... and since I am the opposite of menacing, I can use all the help I can get in that department.
*I don't really feel that way about foreigners, I love foriengers, spent many years being one myself.
P.S. I like meese.
So, I am dog sitting for my sister while she is away for the weekend. She has this massive '' TV in her basement (yeah, so massive I can't even count that high). It is so big, it always makes me think of the wallscreens in Fahrenheit 451. Ahywho, they have their regular 4:3 TV stations stretched out to the cinema setting, it really hurts to discover than someone related to me could do something like this. I am really not sure what to say to her about it. My first reaction is to lecture her, but I am not sure how well she will take that. Perhaps I should just let it slide for the sake of our relationship. Man, I wish I had someone as reliable as hot.like.C3PX to write to and ask for an opinion on this. Sometimes it sucks being me...
Cigarettes, alchohol, certain or all foods (I've gone a week before, if you decide to do something like that, just make sure you drink plenty of water), internet, some or all electronic devices, electricity (I've done this for a few weeks), running water (14 days straight is my record), hot water, and refrigeration (apperantly), are some good examples.
If you really want to give up something meaningful, throughout the day just consider all your actions and decide what things you are most dependant on.
Warb, Davnes007 is a goddess, and therefore we must just concede to his ideas. Ultimately, he is right. This is none of your business, and by stating so we have made it our business moreso than those fine folks who are demanding his blood and an apology.
;)