walkingdork

I find this all very offensive!!

IGNORED!!

Leonardo said:

walkingdork said:

Sucks, man. As a former "chaser" I will say that it is a shitty gig that rarely ends well. Don't give up on love or sex. After a strange breakup  with my last girlfriend (who I dated for 3 years) I decided to take a year off from women (relationships at least). I fooled around with a chick a couple times but never pursued anything. A year later I feel a lot better about myself and have a lot more friends now that I my social life isn't impeded by a relationship. I'm open for business, now it's just a matter of finding a woman in my home town that isn't a ham. :P

And what do you mean about second base? did she go down on you and you didn't enjoy it???

For the record, I've never really been a skirt chaser, more like a hopeless romantic,

I know what you meant, we've had this conversation before.

Yes, she did go down on me, and no, I didn't enjoy it. She was drunk and kept repeating "give me your ****, I want it". I obviously wasn't ready, plus the fact that she still had a boyfriend was a big turnoff for me, despite the fact that we both wanted that abusive prick out of the picture. I wanted to hear the three magic words. Instead I got a toothy bj I didn't really enjoy.

Yeah that does not sound enjoyable.

zombie84 said:

That would have worked if it was set on the same planet as Alien (it's not), but then you'd have the implausibility of fossilization occuring in a few decades instead of hundreds of years.

Good point.

Of course, the premise of Prometheus is implausible in the first place so maybe people would let that slide, it's hard to pin down these sorts of technicalities when some are accepted and some seem hard to swallow, personally I feel that would violate the movie's logic somehow, although I probably would not be complaining too loudly if they did go that way.

What interests me more is the fact that the engineer in Alien is of different design and proportions than in Prometheus. It's at least 25% larger, and it's not an astronaut sitting in the chair, the astronaut is the chair. I think this is one of the most overlooked aspects of Giger's design in that he seems to be implying that the being is part of the ship, that the ship itself is alive, which explains all the bone shapes and organic parts to it, and the beings and the ship are basically one and grow into each other using some sort of technology we can't even really grasp. I guess this is similar to the BSG ships that appear to be craft but are actually organic beings. Because even though Dallas says it looks like it has grown on to the chair, it hasn't, the chair design actually overlaps into his body as one cohesive design. In fact, if you look at the proportions, it doesn't even look like his legs could "fit" in the chair, it's like this weird being growing out of some sort of pod on the ship.

I'm sure though that they were originally prepared to ignore that, and the original script certainly seems to have.

I've noticed though that in the scene where David finds the pod cargo hold near the end, the gate he passes through has two enormous guardian statues that hold an uncanny resemblance to that original Alien astronaut, as long as you accept that it wasn't part of the ship itself but a being sitting in the chair. They shrunk down the engineer for Prometheus, changed his design and changed the design of the chair as well as his space suit. But then there are those giant statues that look a bit different. Maybe there are more than one type of Engineer? Would that be related to the giant head in the pod room? It has religious overtones, and the "engineer" artifact in Alien realistically would have been thousands of years old. Lots of interesting questions raised. I think Prometheus 2 may have some additional clues....or maybe they just accepted a few design inconsistencies. Personally I think either possibility is equally likely to be true.

Very interesting. The last time I saw Alien was about 2-3 years ago. As a movie I thought Prometheus was decent (pretty good if you compare it to other recent scifi movies). As an Alien movie I would say it's alright. (god anything is better that Aliens 3 and 4). I like that it doesn't try to be just another movie in the Alien series as someone mentioned above.

Prometheus 2 is a for sure thing?

I wish I would have seen the movie in theaters so I could follow along in this thread. 26 pages is a lot to go back and read.

AntcuFaalb said:

 

walkingdork said:

Here's my biggest complaint lately:

I live in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. It's seems like it's the fattest city, in the fattest state, in the fattest country in the world. So all the single women in this town are...well...fat.

More cushion for the pushin'!

 

haha, true. I'm not crazy picky about women physically and I don't like women who are too skinny, but there are so many women here that are just huge.

Leonardo said:

walkingdork said:

You don't look like the Charlie Browniest. Still chasing?

No. I've been hurt real bad by someone I now refer to as scum.

I now regret meeting her in the first place, let alone getting involved sentimentally. I've suffered for almost a year. I was in love (unrequited, of course) with someone who didn't respect me from day one. She does not have respect for herself either. I knew about a heavy alcohol problem, the careless fucking and the just plain disrespect for anybody, but when I heard her talking about messing with the devil's dandruff, and being proud of it, I got the fuck away from her. No, I don't wanna be your friend, you piece of shit. I don't like the things you do, I don't like the things you say and I don't like the things you think. First you tease me endlessly, say you're attracted to me, you steal my first kiss, you say we could have something going on. One fatal night you wanna do me but I refuse, you're drunk and you still have a boyfriend, a really mean one. I halfheartedly agree to third base, but don't enjoy it. And once you leave that maniac boyfriend of yours your hole belongs to everybody but me!

Sorry, I got carried away. I haven't seen her since... April, May, I don't even remember anymore, and still, there are nights when the rage builds up so much inside me I cannot sleep.

And so it happened that I completely neglected uni, took up chain smoking and experienced a general nervous breakdown. I've almost constantly been in a bad mood in the last months, only work, music and things like this forum have kept me going.

I've now grown incredibly wary of people. I'm not interested in anything, or anyone, and I wasn't really interested in sex before, now it just plain disgusts me.
My friends, two people I love, respect and trust, the only people I have left, will probably try and arrange something for me, they talked to me about the opportunity. But I refused then and I will refuse when the time comes. I'm just not interested in being hurt anymore.

Sucks, man. As a former "chaser" I will say that it is a shitty gig that rarely ends well. Don't give up on love or sex. After a strange breakup  with my last girlfriend (who I dated for 3 years) I decided to take a year off from women (relationships at least). I fooled around with a chick a couple times but never pursued anything. A year later I feel a lot better about myself and have a lot more friends now that I my social life isn't impeded by a relationship. I'm open for business, now it's just a matter of finding a woman in my home town that isn't a ham. :P

And what do you mean about second base? did she go down on you and you didn't enjoy it???

Just saw this movie so maybe it has already been brought up on this thread but it seems wrong that the engineer got out of the chair that  controls the ship.

In Alien we see the engineer sitting in the chair and so in Prometheus when the engineer sits in the chair and puts the helmet on I thought, " oh so the chip crashed and the folks in Alien see him dead in the chair." But he got out of the chair and ended up dying outside of the ship...so who is in the chair in Alien? Seems like an obvious blunder that everyone creating the film should have noticed way before filming even began.

Here's my biggest complaint lately:

I live in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. It's seems like it's the fattest city, in the fattest state, in the fattest country in the world. So all the single women in this town are...well...fat.

Leonardo said:

AntcuFaalb said:

 

Leonardo said:

AntcuFaalb said:

 

Bingowings said:

Grow a beard, especially if you are a girl (girls with beards are hot).

I'm male, but a red beard wouldn't look right on me.

 

why not? you'd look like a viking! and vikings are kewl!! :)

Four words: Wife. Would. Hate. It.

:-(

 

aw, that's too bad...

 

...

 

I can do whatever the hell I want! :-P

You don't look like the Charlie Browniest. Still chasing?

Warbler said:

 

Monolithium said:

Pro-Choice does not mean Pro-Abortion.  It means I am for Choice.

but it must be more than that,  in order to be pro choice you either must believe that the fetus does not have the same right to live as you or I do, or  you must believe that people have the right to murder.

So you believe that it's murder....but murder that is suddenly okay if rape is involved? How in your mind does rape/incest trump the rights that unborn babies apparently have?

I think abortion is generally a bad idea and if you can avoid it you should. But no part of me thinks it's murder or that an incomplete zygote has any rights. That's how I can come to the conclusion that if you are raped or incest is involved you should be allowed to have an abortion.

If I believed that abortion was, without a doubt, murder then there would be no excuse for it. After all, I would never let my children be killed so that I could live. But if the pregnant mother of my potential child was in mortal danger I'd want to have an abortion...and I would not consider it murder.

TV's Frink said:

darth_ender said:

I'm sorry, but the "abortion should be legal in all cases" mentality is equally pervasive and annoying.  But neither you nor I completely hold to those arguments (as mentioned before, I personally allow for some, albeit few and limited, exceptions--and I doubt you feel that abortion should have no restrictions).  Still, I'd always rather err on the side of caution, even in my giving way to the other side.

I was referring more to Ferris' post, although you did complement it.

The "abortion should always be legal" side is much smaller, btw.  There are very few people who think it's fine to abort a fetus at 39-1/2 weeks just for the hell of it.

What Frink said

Neglify said:

Cook it, cut it, measure it, bag it.

Roll it up, light it up, smoke it up. Inhale, exhale

Oh and Demonoid is always getting sacked (this the 4th time I believe). They'll probably just move the host to another county (Romania perhaps?) and be back up within a year.

Demonoid is junk anyways (as are most other public trackers). Anything you can find there you can find on private trackers in abundance.

Monolithium said:

darth_ender said:

As Warbler says, you can swing your arm all you want as long as you don't hit someone else.  Abortion, to me, hits the unborn child in the face.  Your free will should not extend so far as to reduce that of someone else's.

Until it is separated from the Mother, it doesn't get individual rights.

word.

woodibly said:

ww12345 said:

woodibly said:

Does anyone have an invite to myspleen that I could have? =)

Check page one....

Sorry, I was just wondering if anyone had any, because I have a free day to download some of Harmy's goodness and the generous walkingdork hasn't been online in a few days.

I'm back. Send invite requests my way.

kitt1987 said:

Since this is spreading throughout the torrents as Harmy mentioned, is it best to try out TPB later this weekend instead of trying to get an MS account?  My internet at home won't be hooked up until tomorrow (I'm typing this at work) and I want 2.0 to be the first thing I go for when it's hooked up!  :)

Trying to get a myspleen account is not hard. Just ask, and you shall receive.

PM me!!

bilditup1 said:

walkingdork said:

I just made the torrent FREELEECH on MySpleen so you guys don't kill your ratios. ;)

Thanks Harmy!!!

LOL, walkingdork is a nicer admin than I'd be :)

I think this is worth some freeleech, don't you? :D

mario64 said:

First of all thank you Harmy for all your hard work!!!! Secondly, could anyone possibly hit me up with a myspleen invite? I was downloading the TPB torrent until it was discovered to be corrupt. Not sure where to get it now. Thanks in advance :-)

You guys are going to piss a lot of people off if you start asking for myspleen invites again.

JUST PM ME AND ASK!!

I just made the torrent FREELEECH on MySpleen so you guys don't kill your ratios. ;)

Thanks Harmy!!!

Ugh, please stop dragging X-men through the mud. The first movie was alright (even though it was not comic book accurate which I can accept on some levels) and everything after that has been garbage including the wolverine movie (adamantium bullet causes amnesia?? Are you fucking kidding me!?!).

I wish they would stop this madness or at least switch to animated movies. Probably the best thing for me to do is stop watching them ;)

haha, can we see the pic?

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<p>Well fuck me....come on team GB</p>
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<p>WELL DONE!!!!</p>
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TV's Frink said:

Honestly, as a faithful married man myself, I don't see what the big deal is. Just scroll past the pictures you don't think you should be looking at. Or even easier, just turn images off.

What he said ^

Also, there's such a thing as too much ass. Just saying.

what? I mean there certainly is, but THOSE aren't it. The assess at Walmart, that's too much, but these chicks? They're just fine.

Perhaps you're nervous you can't reach from the backside? :P

PSYCHO_DAYV said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I'm pissed off that indecent exposure isn't allowed in this ostensibly enlightened society. I should be allowed to make any lewd gesture to any damn woman I want with my two golf balls and driver without fear of being tossed in a dank pee-pee soaked heckhole to become the plaything of a giant greasy biker named Bubba.

SO, YOU WOULD RATHER HAVE YOUR OWN RIGHTS AND TAKE AWAY BUBBA'S RIGHTS TO SODOMY?  TSK... TSK...

hehe

zombie84 said:

walkingdork said:

I enjoy retro games as well. My  XBOX(original) is softmodded and has tons of NES, SNES, and arcade games including all the Metal Slug arcades.

I never had an XBox and have never really been too enthusiastic about the XBox line of system, but I'm seriously considering picking one up for this reason. They are dirt cheap and you can pretty much put every emulator ever made on the biggest HDD models. I have a lot of the consoles themselves but it would be nice to have them all in one compact package. I often play Genesis emulators on my dreamcast since that's the one system that is permanently hooked up, but it's disc based so it would be nice to just have them all on a hard-drive. Not sure what I would do about the controller though since I'm not the biggest fan of the X-Box controller.

There are so many NES games that I had never played (or even heard about) that I would have never played before. There are also so many old games that I could never beat (Maximum Carnage for SNES FTW) that I could finally play through using cheats.

CP3S said:

walkingdork said:

asterisk8 said:

Warbler said:

yeah, if someone did that to Mr. Aldrin,  they deserve to have their ass kicked. 

Seriously! If you haven't seen the video, it's absolute gold:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU

That is great!

Come on guys! Buzz Aldrin never punched that guy, the video is clearly faked. Funded by our government as a warning to those who go around saying the moon landing was faked. The Van Allen radiation belts in Aldrin's fists make it physically impossible that he could ever actually punch someone, it is therefore a staged lie.

Thanks, I can finally see through the bullshit.