This post is the funniest thing I've seen in a while.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=407951&postcount=54

ALL POLITICTS ARE STUPID!
HI I LIEK TO WATCH INTRENET MOIEVS, OK? TEH NUMANAUMA KID WAS HULARIUS!!!11

:p

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?p=408206

ban-avoiding aside, that fanart just freaks me out. it does!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/250062

Splapp's been holding out on us!

Frontpage, too. Awesome.already gave him my vote, which is apparently worth 2.65 votes. cool :)

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/250062

Splapp's been holding out on us!

Frontpage, too. Awesome.
I'm almost sure I've seen that before.

Maybe Fwd Adm showed me claiming it was his. Or maybe I was talking to Splapp. either way is possible.

I'm almost sure I've seen that before.

Maybe Fwd Adm showed me claiming it was his. Or maybe I was talking to Splapp. either way is possible.
Slapp posted it on this forum... might've been an unfinished version at that time.

My vote is worth 5.50 votes :cool:

Indeed, I remember seeing an unfinished version quite some time ago that he linked to on ImageShack or something similar. If I recall, he was asking about what would be the best way to tween the background past.

He did! HE DID!! THAT HACK!!


Oh, and he showed me on MSN, yes.

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/7036/13535542hz.jpg
That is among the most disturbing things I have ever seen in my life.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/250062

Splapp's been holding out on us!

Frontpage, too. Awesome.

Yeah. He did finnish it. Awesome work Splapp!

www.benpaddon.com

See the funny convo me and Ben had earlier today! :D

www.benpaddon.com

See the funny convo me and Ben had earlier today! :D
BEZ GOEN!!11111

sadf

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From the people who brought you Max Payne: www.alanwake.com (I recommend browsing gametrailers.com for the trailer, as it tends to be faster and more reliable than any of the links on the official site).

Those graphics make it look like a Half-Life 2 killer. I'm scared just to THINK of what the required specs must be.
Oh. My. God.

****ing incredible.

http://www.fried-comic.com/benpaddon/

PROPAR SITE.

I went to see The Fantastic 4 yesterday... quite dissapointed at it. The story was way too cheesy. And I noticed a ton of defects in the special effects. The only thing that made it worth looking was, well, the Thing or however you call it (here it's La Mole). And a couple of funny scenes.

Also, I can't see why people think the War of the Worlds was not a good movie. I found it quite awesome, specially for the effects. It's a very realistic approach of how powerless humans would be against an advanced alien race that decided to take over our planet.
I've heard people say it's absurd how the aliens are defeated, but almost all movies are absurd so why complain in this one? And what other ending would they want anyway? Tom Cruise taking the aliens down with a crowbar? The human race anihilated?

On another note, I'll have to go back to my old work at the market because two of my aunts are going to hawaii. Just for 10 days. And after that me and my brother are planning to go on vacation to a ranch that my grandfather has on Arramberri, NL. For just a week. But we are planning on taking an Snes and an N64 with us. I'll also have to buy all my favorite games again since they have misteriously dissapeard (AKA, my dad threw them away...). So any recomendations are well taken :p

Fantastic 4 was awful. Horrible story, cheesy dialogues, and the characters were retarded. As for War of the Worlds. I liked it. It was very enjoyable, and the special effects were no doubt amazing.

But we are planning on taking an Snes and an N64 with us. I'll also have to buy all my favorite games again since they have misteriously dissapeard (AKA, my dad threw them away...). So any recomendations are well taken :pSuper Mario 64, Goldeneye, maybe Pilotwings 64, Star Fox 64, Zelda: OOT... all the classics. Those are the best. Ever. :p

Plug It In Baby

I Am Batman

Ben, your site is very funny.

Thank you for making me laugh.

http://www.fried-comic.com/benpaddon/

PROPAR SITE.
Ben, your site is very funny.

Thank you for making me laugh.
Cheers. It's still not finished, but I'm working on it. I have a whole section on my ICQ Antics to get up, and I've got to go through my Photos.

See Ben? Your my friend. Therefore I shamelessly advertise. :)

Also. Im registered at a Harry Potter forum (mwahahah) and I was using the sig you made for me. I was advertising fried.tk in my sig :)

Nice avatar Blinx.:)

Cheers. It's still not finished, but I'm working on it. I have a whole section on my ICQ Antics to get up, and I've got to go through my Photos.
Good site, but I am going to have to point out that I have on of THESE! (http://members.aol.com/felixme/linkgamepro.jpg) and you don't. :p

General photos. Yes. Descriptions can be displayed by hovering the mouse over the thumbnail.Except if you're using Opera (yes, i know i can just disable images to read them, but that kinda defeats the point) :-/
I really wish webmasters would use title instead of alt. I mean, alt was intended as an alternate display when the image isn't there, not for image descriptions.

And now a late entry for Least Interesting Thread... it's...

Spacebar Or Enter?: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=24549

Come in number 24549, your time is up.

Hmm is it some kind of trend to write 'Senior' in your avatar and write how ever many post counts you feel like? WormGod (http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=19281), farazparsa (http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=18430)

...That gives me an idea. We need to get somebody popular to fake suicide.

:p

And now a late entry for Least Interesting Thread... it's...

Spacebar Or Enter?: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=24549

Come in number 24549, your time is up.I personally like this option:

I use a number/letter/symbol key.

he could've just put "I use some other key" but no, these days we must be original! :rolleyes:

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lol nice one s2k :D

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=24553

too bad you beat me to counterattacking. i was planning on making a Draw Me compo where the only rule was that the image size couldn't be any bigger than 1x1 :p

it's funny how first everybody complained about compos and compos and then all the "not crappy" artists decided to make Draw Me compos and nobody complained.

...That gives me an idea. We need to get somebody popular to fake suicide.

:p I will! If you want! :)

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Nice avatar Blinx.:)
Thanks mate :)

Blinx, do you change your avatar quite often? Everytime I see a reply of yours, there be a new avatar. :p

Blinx, do you change your avatar quite often? Everytime I see a reply of yours, there be a new avatar. :p Yeah I do a lot these days. I see a picture and use it as my avatar most of the time.

...That gives me an idea. We need to get somebody popular to fake suicide.

:p
IT'S COMMENTS LIKE THESE THAT MAKE ME JUST WANT TO END IT ALL. THAT'S IT!!

*dies*

Ok, now to copy and paste that in a public forum. The Fan Art crowd should halve overnight.

http://winterson.com.nyud.net:8090/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html

remember kids, translating a translation is funny

Sup, you have a PM which you haven't responded to.

Some of you might find this quite interesting: http://www.ocremix.org/

Some of you might find this quite interesting: http://www.ocremix.org/
Liam could submit his Ultimate Body Blows remix :D

Sup, you have a PM which you haven't responded to.i read it, wasn't that enough?

oh, and i want this keyboard:
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

i read it, wasn't that enough?
Didn't see your response e-mail, sorry. :)

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oh, and i want this keyboard:
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/
Holy ****. I had an idea for a keyboard exactly like that one when I was in sixth grade. :eek:

I want this mouse:
http://www.dvforge.com/themouse.shtml

This website makes me angry.

http://www.chick.com/default.asp

http://winterson.com.nyud.net:8090/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html

remember kids, translating a translation is funnyBest thing I've seen in ages:)

This website makes me angry.

http://www.chick.com/default.asp
Why? I just find it Corny.

http://www.randomimage.us

the name says it all

http://winterson.com.nyud.net:8090/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html

remember kids, translating a translation is funny

the wish power are together with you :eek:

the wish power are together with you :eek:
Well, screw you. I was just made by the Presbyterian Church.

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This website makes me angry.

http://www.chick.com/default.asp
Oh, now I see why.

http://www.chick.com/catalog/books/1252.asp

This is the most infuriating thing I've seen since the Da Vinci Code (which was equally or more corny, mind you).

This is the most infuriating thing I've seen since the Da Vinci Code (which was equally or more corny, mind you).
That book looks rather pathetic but there is no question that the bible was manipulated. (At least in my opinion)

How about this one?

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0054/0054_01.asp

I never really thought about the fact that the Vatican supported Hitler before. But to me, just because the Roman Catholics murdered millions of people, doesn't mean they are any less Christian than any other Christian church. Because humans are not perfect so you can't expect any of their religions to be perfect.

Now I can see why people would want to deny the holocaust, if they're Catholic that is.

I don't really know what to say about religion... it's kind of a compromise between being ethical and murdering everyone that disagrees. I have no idea what it's like to want to be religious, I'd rather stick to my own individual beliefs and opinions.

But to me, just because the Roman Catholics murdered millions of people, doesn't mean they are any less Christian than any other Christian church.
In today's lesson, we learn about the sixth commandment.

I never really thought about the fact that the Vatican supported Hitler before. But to me, just because the Roman Catholics murdered millions of people, doesn't mean they are any less Christian than any other Christian church.
I don't believe that is true. I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but I have a very hard time believing the validity of that idiot's claims.

ROFL that comic made me laugh :p
"OMG I now believe in jesus because all that crap you've thrown at me, even tough I've been Jewish my entire life!"
ROFL

Anyway, I want this:http://www.randomimage.us/files/41ab49d499d23.jpg :eek:

Sorry but this image may not be displayed here!

It's a huge Nintendo collection.
Works fine for me.

I don't believe that is true. I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but I have a very hard time believing the validity of that idiot's claims.
Maybe I overstated it, but the Vatican and Third Reich were definitely supporting each other, at the very least because the Vatican wanted to hold their position in Germany (ie. not be wiped out).

Sorry but this image may not be displayed here!
Copy-n-paste.

http://www.randomimage.us/25971.html

The main thing that made me angry about this site is that the guy who made it is actualy making money out of his hateful cartoons.

A little exploring of the site led me to a comic in which a gay man realizes that he is in fact evil in the eyes of god and is going to hell and promptly stops being gay. He has this fantastic revalation because a vicar/cameraman tells him a story from the old testament.

The author encourages his readers to by his comic books and leave them lying around, so that non-christians will read them and be converted.

AND PEOPLE ACTUALY DO IT.

Yeah, I've seen a lot of those given away in churches and stuff. Well, similar to those at least, not sure if they were from the same guy.
But they are indeed incredibly stupid.
On other news, I finished my first painting, used acrilic for the background and oil paintings for the character, it's an original painting by Brom (http://www.bromart.com/), a really kickass artist.
It's called Stringer, I took it from this book (http://www.therionweb.de/books/darkwerk.htm)
I can't show it off right now cause I can't scan it, I already had a photo taken from it by my aunt but her pc isn't working so she can't upload it until she gets the computer to work.

*has been living on a curious diet of golf and Columbo over the last few days*

I bought the entire first season of Columbo on DVD :p.

Columbo is out on DVD? Excellent.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4682801.stm

finally, someone who's on our side!

Yay, and burp.

"It is ridiculous claiming that video games influence children. For instance, if pac-man affected kids born in the eighties, we should by now have a bunch of teenagers who run around in darkened rooms and eat pills while listening to monotonous electronic music."
- Marcus Brigstocke.

Come to think of it... that might explain raves...

Took a photo of it with a ****ty cellphone camera :p
Anyway, here it is. It looks a lot better in person.
And yes it was all done by me. Pretty good for a first painting isn't it?

SNAP. Very good.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050713_161241.html
Electronic paper that doesn't require a continuos powed supply.
I NEED! :eek:

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050713_161241.html
Electronic paper that doesn't require a continuos powed supply.
I NEED! :eek:
Holy effing sweet.

Some SomethingAwful.com reviews:

A game called "Thundra": http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=207
Daikatana: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=205
Deus Ex: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=208
KOTOR: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1604

Interestingly, they hated the first game more than Daikatana, and DE and KOTOR got their highest scores. In fact, only four games had positive scores: KISS: Psycho Circus, Soldier of Fortune (Demo) and the last two I listed above.

And here's some other stuff:
http://www.randomimage.us/files/405b4addafcec.jpg
http://www.randomimage.us/files/420f00a541ec0.jpg
http://www.randomimage.us/files/416bc39e704f6.jpg

That site has something about Britney(gag) and kittens. And idiots who post s**t in the comments area. Though the people do in general keep very good pics, like those up there. They have almost no dump votes.

Yay! The trees get to live after all!

Until we run out of oil to make electroplastiper

Just saw this ad. Does anyone else think it's entirely idiotic?

Just saw this ad. Does anyone else think it's entirely idiotic?Napster has been entirely idiotic ever since it's been "legalized".

Napster has been entirely idiotic ever since it's been "legalized".
Well, of course. Everyone knows that.

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http://www.randomimage.us/25971.html

The main thing that made me angry about this site is that the guy who made it is actualy making money out of his hateful cartoons.

A little exploring of the site led me to a comic in which a gay man realizes that he is in fact evil in the eyes of god and is going to hell and promptly stops being gay. He has this fantastic revalation because a vicar/cameraman tells him a story from the old testament.

The author encourages his readers to by his comic books and leave them lying around, so that non-christians will read them and be converted.

AND PEOPLE ACTUALY DO IT.
I like how it says this one was "carefully written for children": http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1052/1052_01.asp

I also like how self-praising his biography is. http://www.chick.com/information/authors/chick.asp

:p :p :p

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:) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad: :) :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :-/ :D :confused: :o :eek: :( :mad:

Waaaaa!!! Emotional issues!:p

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20759928/ Discuss.

ROFL.
They used to check our backpacks in school every now and then searching for cigarrettes/drugs/alcohol. But that's as far as it got here really.

Am I being incredibly naive here?

What's the nail clipper for?

Am I being incredibly naive here?

What's the nail clipper for?
Read through the deviation description.

Ah...

Oh, I never read those. I usually forget they exist altogether.

Ah...

Oh, I never read those. I usually forget they exist altogether.
Funnily enough, I always tend to read the description first.

I AM A JERK!

(refers to AndrewTaylor)

Don't break the tables, please.

Bad FutureWorm!

I AM A JERK!

Sorry about that. Please set me on fire.

congratulations, you broke the forum tables! now are you happy? :mad:

anyways, Google Moon: http://moon.google.com/

congratulations, you broke the forum tables! now are you happy?
I did? :confused:

*checks it in IE*

IE (and apparently Opera) breaks the tables. Firefox doesn't.

Congrats! AT just made this page reasonably sane again, and you break it! WHOOP!

Congrats! AT just made this page reasonably sane again, and you break it! WHOOP!
It's easily fixed.


Seriously. Doing that makes the page appear to the vast majority of users as a huge white void with a slight hint of thread in the middle. It's impossible to read and annoying, and I will delete anything that does it. There's a special hack to stop you doing it installed on the forum -- well done, you've found a way around it, but kindly knock it off now.

anyways, Google Moon: http://moon.google.com/
Lol when you zoom all in it shows cheese :P

New avatar, because I spent the better part of an hour manually assembling it from its sprites, which I captured myself through screenshots in an emulator. Tiring stuff.

anyways, Google Moon: http://moon.google.com/
I zoomed in all the way and google made me laugh. :p

I zoomed in all the way and google made me laugh. :p
Google can be funny, but that was just dumb.

Funny! !

Ahaha! That is indeed funny. Mmm... Cheddar.

Speaking of cheese, did you all know that Edam is made backwards? It's remarkable. :p

Ah, Google, where would we be without them? Let's hope they never get bought out.

http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6268155-1.html?tag=cnetfd.ld

they missed out a lot.

My DS skin is now officially on my DS, meaning I have the only DS in the Country with Worms 4 on it :p

Two small kids come up on stage about to perform a stand up comedy routine.

Mike: "Hey Jeff, I just flew in from Cleveland"
Jeff: "Your arms must be very tired"

Two small kids come up on stage about to perform a stand up comedy routine.
What an unusual setup for a joke.

Doing that makes the page appear to the vast majority of users as a huge white void with a slight hint of thread in the middle. It's impossible to read and annoying, and I will delete anything that does it. There's a special hack to stop you doing it installed on the forum -- well done, you've found a way around it, but kindly knock it off now.
I apologise. It didn't display that way to me, so I didn't understand what you were talking about. I assure you I meant nothing malicious by it.

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http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6268155-1.html?tag=cnetfd.ld

they missed out a lot.
Like what?

By the way, I still love [Ellen Feiss (http://ellenfeiss.net/)].

Well, then, I'll just delete a few pages of posts and then accuse you of ressurecting the thread.

Hmmm I hadn't seen Ellen Feiss or Star Wars Kid or JibJab until now.

The Harry Potter book 6 spoiler the other week made a rather big dent in the Internet. :cool:

AAAAAH! Is it just me or has this forum suddenly went all devoid of stuff?!?!?!?
It's all white, and messy... and odd... It happened just over a minute ago, was browsing normally, click then FHOOOM! :eek:

AAAAAH! Is it just me or has this forum suddenly went all devoid of stuff?!?!?!?
It's all white, and messy... and odd... It happened just over a minute ago, was browsing normally, click then FHOOOM! :eek:
Sometimes if a server is running slow (or if something goes wrong) CSS files won't load and all websites look roughly the same. Could be that.

This goes way over that...
Restarted Opera, everything looks fine now. But I tell you, it was just way too scary...

I'm having trouble with Maya. When I put in an image plane in the front or side view the frame rate drops down drastically to the point where I can't do anything efficiently. I tried restarting my computer, but the problem still persists. I have 1 GB of RAM, 256 MB radeon 9800xt, and 3.00ghz so I don't know why it would do that. Anyone have any ideas?

Balls, there goes the first Test :(

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I Understand How Email Works :: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=413897&postcount=33

The Harry Potter book 6 spoiler the other week made a rather big dent in the Internet. :cool:
What, that spoiler Dumbledore dies?

What, that spoiler Dumbledore dies?
That is just not funny anymore (nor was it ever). And I can't fricking get AWAY from it. At least 3 people in my contact list have that AS THEIR SCREENNAME. I'd rather read these things for myself. Unless it's one of those anti-spoiler spoilers that isn't really true. Either way, very annoying. :mad:

Has Frodo been eaten by the Giant Spider yet?

...Wait, which book are we talking about?

I'm having trouble with Maya. When I put in an image plane in the front or side view the frame rate drops down drastically to the point where I can't do anything efficiently. I tried restarting my computer, but the problem still persists. I have 1 GB of RAM, 256 MB radeon 9800xt, and 3.00ghz so I don't know why it would do that. Anyone have any ideas?
Hmm that's quite odd. It slows things down a bit with me too, but not that much. How big are this images?

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Why is there a big green ***** growing out the side of the worm in his avatar's head? :eek:

It's a bullet going throught his head.

Why's it green?

Camouflage?

Hmm that's quite odd. It slows things down a bit with me too, but not that much. How big are this images?

It's only about 130KB and about 500x600.

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I Understand How Email Works :: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=413897&postcount=33
Tee hee hee hee.

It's only about 130KB and about 500x600.
That's quite odd... Does the same thing happen when you texture objects and watch them textured in realtime?

That's quite odd... Does the same thing happen when you texture objects and watch them textured in realtime?

Nope, it runs perfectly when I do that.

Then, use the image as a texture for a plane and use that instead :P
Altough that wouldn't work in shaded and wireframe look :o

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I Understand How Email Works :: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=413897&postcount=33

All this time I've been downloading at ordinary speeds when I could've used email!!

What, that spoiler Dumbledore dies?

I was shocked to discover they were putting spoilers on TV here every night, so I YTMND'd it: http://spoiled.ytmnd.com/

The Family Guy movie has leaked! :eek:

Whatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhat?!

o_o!!!

FAMILY.
GUY.
MOVIE!
*orgasm and explode*

Hello.

1234

Hi. Nice avatar.

Space Shuttle Discovery launched without a hitch this time.

FatWhitey the name is no more, I'll be using ColgateLad from now on.

Whatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhat?!
Yep. Downloaded it. Probably'll watch it tomorrow with my mates.

:D

That is just not funny anymore (nor was it ever). And I can't fricking get AWAY from it. At least 3 people in my contact list have that AS THEIR SCREENNAME. I'd rather read these things for myself. Unless it's one of those anti-spoiler spoilers that isn't really true. Either way, very annoying. :mad:

Yeah, I know what you mean.

FatWhitey the name is no more, I'll be using ColgateLad from now on.

Does this include on the forum to? Because that would be mean no more OD?:-/

Does this include on the forum to? Because that would be mean no more OD?:-/

Yes, I've decided as my final anwser to go with GeekWorm, I'll be in the OD eventually soon...

Quite frankly FatWhitey is more original than GeekWorm... and so is ColgateLad.

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You know what we need to do? We need to create a sticky thread in the Fan-Art subforum with a link to The Gimp. Maybe that'll reduce the volume of MS Paint comics. But if this actually happens, I get the credit. Me. I want to be known as the one who brought about the Fan-Art Renaissance. Is that even the right concept? I don't know my history very well. :p

You know what we need to do? We need to create a sticky thread in the Fan-Art subforum with a link to The Gimp. Maybe that'll reduce the volume of MS Paint comics. But if this actually happens, I get the credit. Me. I want to be known as the one who brought about the Fan-Art Renaissance. Is that even the right concept? I don't know my history very well. :p
Ah, tha naivety of youth.

Well, I'm off tomorrow morning for a one week holiday, I managed to get Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Donkey Kong Country, and Zelda a Link to the past for the Snes(Mind you, I already had some of these, but lost them some years ago D: *), plus I had Pilotwings, some mickey mouse game and a tiny toons game (which were the only games I ddin't loose). I also got a N64, two controlers, Mario Kart 64, Super Mario 64, like 3 Star Wars games, Starfox 64, 2 racing games, an NFL game, Zelda Ocarina of time, and Donkey Kong 64.
I wish I had gotten some other games, but that's all I could find** :(
But I supose that'll suffice.


* What I lost: Super Mario RPG; Donkey Kong 1, 2, and 3; Street Fighter 2 Turbo; and finally Top Gear... *cries a lot*

** What I couldn't get: Chrono Trigger, Zombies ate my Neighbours, All games I lost, and for N64: Smash Bros, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Harvest Moon 64

Sorry for the incredibly messy post but I'm feeling quite tired.

Well, friday is my last day of work for this summer, and sometime around 22-23'rd august school starts again (third and final year of Gymnasium, it's what's after normal school 1-9'th grade and before university)
And in September I will be 18, yay.

But more importantly. Tomorrow I am getting a Wacom! A Intous 3 (size A5).
So I will be punnishing you all with fanart soon, since I am gonna be glued to photoshop for a week!
(then we are going on vecation, nooooooooo, luckily I got me DS and Ipod with me, + advance wars GBA that I borrowed.)

Well, I'm off tomorrow morning for a one week holiday, I managed to get Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Donkey Kong Country, and Zelda a Link to the past for the Snes(Mind you, I already had some of these, but lost them some years ago D: *), plus I had Pilotwings, some mickey mouse game and a tiny toons game (which were the only games I ddin't loose). I also got a N64, two controlers, Mario Kart 64, Super Mario 64, like 3 Star Wars games, Starfox 64, 2 racing games, an NFL game, Zelda Ocarina of time, and Donkey Kong 64.
I wish I had gotten some other games, but that's all I could find** :(
But I supose that'll suffice.


* What I lost: Super Mario RPG; Donkey Kong 1, 2, and 3; Street Fighter 2 Turbo; and finally Top Gear... *cries a lot*

** What I couldn't get: Chrono Trigger, Zombies ate my Neighbours, All games I lost, and for N64: Smash Bros, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Harvest Moon 64

Sorry for the incredibly messy post but I'm feeling quite tired.
You have very good taste.

Space Shuttle Discovery launched without a hitch this time.
Not really - it hit a bird on the way up and some foam fell off, and they're checking the shuttle for damage.
AAAAAH! Is it just me or has this forum suddenly went all devoid of stuff?!?!?!?
It's all white, and messy... and odd... It happened just over a minute ago, was browsing normally, click then FHOOOM! That happens when you select user mode from the button next to the URL (which also happens if you just click the button).

I just bought a computer for 15 pounds.

Pentium II
4 gig hardisc
64 Meg of memory

The scary thing is that it's actualy beter than my own computer. :p

Chu Chu Rocket: http://www2.sega.co.jp/sw/chu2/main_3.html

finally, something to kill my boredom!

So Iguana started up a chat earlier and mentioned how he seems to be the member of the forum most made fun of lately. Chatted for a while about that. Seemed to be going well. Then I started discovering just how desensitized to everything he is (probably to a level similar to that of Splapp [no offense]). I should've sensed something bad coming about 20 miles away, but I guess I can blame my lack of sleep for that. Anywho, right in the middle of that chat he managed to say something that actually eclipses everything else I have seen and/or heard of as the most disturbing thing on the 'net. After a few straight lines of screaming in mental agony, I blocked him. Then I spent the next 5 minutes or so twitching slightly and clutching a pillow.

Before long, Iguana popped up in a conversation he'd obviously asked SuperBlob to start so he could bypass the block. It went a little something like this.

Iguana: Munkee, I was only kidding you know.
Munkee: ****...... you......
Iguana: :p
Iguana: Come on, it wasn't THAT bad.
Munkee: I disagree.
Iguana: It's really not that big a deal, now unblock me please

And he wonders why some people don't like him. Suffice to say, both he and SuperBlob are on my block list now, and so help me, I'll block anyone else whom he uses to bypass his own block.

With any luck, I'm so sleep-deprived that I'll have forgotten what it was he said by the next time I wake up.

*chats to Iguana to see his side of the story*

Hmm. Well:

can't you just tell Mfah that I'm sorry? I mean, I didn't know that he'd be that offended by my post. Maybe i'm just too insensitive.

Anywho, right in the middle of that chat he managed to say something that actually eclipses everything else I have seen and/or heard of as the most disturbing thing on the 'net.
More than... you know... that one thing that one time?

Are you of cheese or post-it notes, FW?

Are you of cheese or post-it notes, FW?
What does that mean?

For some reason I thought he said "Tired of" when I first read it.

...

BetongÅsna - you feeling OK? Any lightheadedness? Dizziness? Would you like to lie down?


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Wow - it's been a while. I got a "happy birthday" thing, and now I'm reciving notifications again...

I'm 14!! W00T!!


...

Well, in T17's time zone anyways.... :o

What does that mean?

Your avatar, I'd guess.

Oh. That makes sense, but it's still undeniably mind-numbingly random.

EDIT:

Post-its:

"Location: ^ Paddy the Paper ^"

finally, something to kill my boredom!

Bored? Click Here! (http://www.wow-europe.com)

Your avatar, I'd guess.
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/luann/archive/luann-20050629.html
Yeaaahhhh... O_o
Bored? Click Here! (http://www.wow-europe.com)
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.wow-europe.com/” because it could not connect to the server “www.wow-europe.com”.

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/luann/archive/luann-20050629.html
Yeaaahhhh... O_o

Safari can’t open the page “http://www.wow-europe.com/” because it could not connect to the server “www.wow-europe.com”.

Works fine for me (the latter).
The former 404s me.

Bored? Click Here! (http://www.wow-europe.com)i'm not even gonna bother commenting that.

Works fine for me (the latter).
The former 404s me.
Damn, I think it was taken offline because it's more than a month old.

So Iguana started up a chat earlier and mentioned how he seems to be the member of the forum most made fun of lately. Chatted for a while about that. Seemed to be going well. Then I started discovering just how desensitized to everything he is (probably to a level similar to that of Splapp [no offense]). I should've sensed something bad coming about 20 miles away, but I guess I can blame my lack of sleep for that. Anywho, right in the middle of that chat he managed to say something that actually eclipses everything else I have seen and/or heard of as the most disturbing thing on the 'net. After a few straight lines of screaming in mental agony, I blocked him. Then I spent the next 5 minutes or so twitching slightly and clutching a pillow.

Before long, Iguana popped up in a conversation he'd obviously asked SuperBlob to start so he could bypass the block. It went a little something like this.

Iguana: Munkee, I was only kidding you know.
Munkee: ****...... you......
Iguana: :p
Iguana: Come on, it wasn't THAT bad.
Munkee: I disagree.
Iguana: It's really not that big a deal, now unblock me please

And he wonders why some people don't like him. Suffice to say, both he and SuperBlob are on my block list now, and so help me, I'll block anyone else whom he uses to bypass his own block.

With any luck, I'm so sleep-deprived that I'll have forgotten what it was he said by the next time I wake up.


He wont be unblocked anytime soon. Im still blocked :(

Could you just explain then, FW, if you can't show us?

http://bash.org/?522860

http://bash.org/?522860

I see incorrect Maths!

Could you just explain then, FW, if you can't show us?
It was just an incredibly weird thing in a nationally syndicated comic; that's Paddy the brilliant pad of paper. There's also Penrod the Pen, but I didn't include him. Anyway, I thought, "Huh. That's an incredibly weird thing in a nationally syndicated comic," and thus it was put in my signature.

http://bash.org/?522860In the case a != b, we have a cancellation error:<prepared>Theorem: All numbers are equal.
<prepared>Proof: Choose arbitrary a and b, and let t = a + b. Then
<prepared>a + b = t
<prepared>(a + b)(a - b) = t(a - b)
<prepared>a^2 - b^2 = ta - tb
<prepared>a^2 - ta = b^2 - tb
<prepared>a^2 - ta + (t^2)/4 = b^2 - tb + (t^2)/4
<prepared>(a - t/2)^2 = (b - t/2)^2
<prepared>a - t/2 = b - t/2
<prepared>a = b
<prepared>So all numbers are the same, and math is pointless.a - t/2 is being cancelled from one side
b - t/2 is being cancelled from the other side.

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In the case a == b, we then have that 2a = t, and 2b = t.

Therefore in the highlighted step, you are dividing by zero, a grave error.

And thus, maths is saved!

There are loads of these. They're usually divide-by-zeroes somewhere along the line, but it's a good exercise to spot them sometimes.

Yeah, I'm familiar with a few of them. That one wasn't one I'd spotted before (and it didn't rely on a simple divide-by-zero error, but something a little trickier to spot), so I had to work a bit to solve it.

http://www.murphyakron.com/mmedia/ Just discovered this. Whether you're pro- or anti-Bush, or somewhere in between, most of the songs are rather amusing plain Osama-bashing humor. My personal favourites are Horse With Hussein (even funnier if you're familiar with A Horse With No Name), Osama Got Run Over By a Reindeer, and the Banana Man Song (the one used in that old Cards-n-Toons Flash animation). I haven't listened to them all though, so don't blame me if, say, Tub Thumping With Saddam turns out to be offensive. :p

[Bolton Presents Credentials at UN (AP) (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_BOLTON?SITE=AZTUC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)]

This is a diplomatic disaster. On behalf of the American people, I wish to apologise.

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I also wish to extend props to Andrew Taylor for the line in his sig: "OH NO! You just lost a point! Don't read this again!!!"

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I have no idea what this picture is, but it just appeared on my desktop O_o

Well, I am back. The place is not as uninteresting as I tough, there are several caves around hidden in the mountains, and some appear to have stuff. Like paintings and arrows and stuff.
We talked to a man who found some small stones carved like skulls in a cave, and he said there were even more stuff there. Apparently, that one hasn't really been explored at all(mostly because the caves are hard to get to).
We got to another cave, and man that was one hell of a tour. It was like 2 hours walking to get there, and another 2 hours to go back, going up and down some mounts... And we only took 2 bottles of water with us, which only lasted half the way :p. The cave itself was quite uninteresting. It had some paintings, but it was only some red lines and circles. And it was filled with cow poop -.-
But the way to get there is quite nice, there's a spot where 2 rivers get togheter, and the general view there is quite pretty.

Also, when we just departed from here, around the middle of the way there, there was a donkey's head, intact, with only part of the spine and some ribs, in the middle of the road. It looked so awesome :p And just about a hundred feets away, there was a dead cow's body, which had been decapitated, and the head just a couple of feet away.
I would have taken a lot of photos If I had a camera, cause there were really a lot of cool stuff around there.

Also, I got hooked on Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time... but didn't got to finish it:p
I managed to get 9 hearths of life, 31 skulltulas(And got a stone to find secrets, a big wallet and a bigger wallet for that), I sold 4 masks (The fox, the skeleton, the spooky mask and the rabbit ears) and got the mask of truth or however it's called, I got all the spiritual stones and the ocarina of time. I got 3 bottles, ability to carry a lot of each thing(deku sticks, deku seeds, deku nuts, bombs...) and planted all macic beans but two(can't find the location for those two). I also won the archery game, the bowling like game(and got a pice of hearth), and the treasure chest game... I also fished an 8 oz. fish and beated the 6oz record on the fishing place. Is that all I can find before making Link a grownup?

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Oh, and there's satellite television over there, so I got to watch that. There seems to be a new channel called Animax there which shows nothing but anime. Saw an episode of Hellsing, which I quite liked. They were also showing Hack, which seemed interesting, but I never got to watch it.

I just got this e-mail. Gmail popped it right into my Spam box, but what on earth does this mean?

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Hmmm... It's like all broken in pieces

It's a top secret code of when and where Bush will drop a nuke. Can't be very hard to break since it's written under his supervision.

YA HA HA THAT'S FUNNY only not.

I just got this e-mail. Gmail popped it right into my Spam box, but what on earth does this mean?i doubt it means anything, since it's just multiple copy+pasting of:
t to wel wn bra % Nat No Si ects tras l-kno nds. Expe ce thr es lon gas rien ee tim ger or ms Wor de shi g wit hou ld Wi ppin hin 24 rs SP -M UR The we and Saf Wa Ph acy is Ne st The est y of arm Inc e Yo xual Des Spe ume by % reas ur Se ire and rm vol 500 100 ural and de Eff - in con
also, i should try this on some of my spam: http://www.spammimic.com/

in con t to wel wn bra % Nat!

England score 400 runs in a day against Australia, at over five an over, with exhilarating knocks from Trescothick (90 off 102), Pietersen (71 off 76), Flintoff (68 off 62 with five sixes) and Strauss (48 off 76), and ten sixes in the day's play.

On the other hand, they're all out. I guess there's a question mark over whether they'd've got more than 500 with a little more restraint, and Tres at least should probably have gone on to three figures, but at least it's put down a marker about positive intent.

With Kev and Freddy in, they certainly looked likely to make more. Still, highest first day score over Australia for 60 odd years. Nothing like bad.

How the heck do you score Cricket?

For that matter, how is it played? It seems the most confusing game I've ever seen.

How the heck do you score Cricket?

For that matter, how is it played? It seems the most confusing game I've ever seen.

Each run you make I think. Been a while since I've played it.

Each run you make I think. Been a while since I've played it.
That'd be Baseball.

Baseball is similar to cricket in quite a few ways. It basically ripped off cricket. And by run I don't mean around the diamond. If I remember correctly when you hit the ball you try to run as many times back in forth to score points before the other team gets the ball to the wicket you are running towards which is on each side of the straight line where you run (don't know the name). Paul, correct what I have said if there's something wrong, haven't played this for more than 4-5 years.

How the heck do you score Cricket?

For that matter, how is it played? It seems the most confusing game I've ever seen.Question 1. How is cricket scored?

The basic units of scoring in cricket is the run. A run is scored if the batsmen manage to reach the other end of the wicket without being dismissed somehow. There are at least three meanings of the word wicket (so pay attention), but in this instance I refer to the 22-yard long brown strip in the middle of the field. If the batsmen manage to achieve this twice (getting down the other end, then coming back), two runs are scored, and so on.

Around the edge of the pitch is the boundary rope. If a ball reaches the rope but bounces en route, four runs are scored. If the ball clears the rope without bouncing, six runs are scored.

The batting side are looking to score as many runs as possible (within the limit that they don't take so much time out of the game that it becomes a draw). The fielding side are looking to restrict the runs, and there are two ways of doing this: by fielding very well, or (more importantly) by taking all the batting side's wickets (And here is the second usage of the word "wicket": before it meant the pitch, now it means a dismissal or an "out" as a baseball fan would describe it). There are many ways of being out, the most common five being bowled, caught, the infamous LBW, stumped and run out. More on how these work later. Each innings requires ten wickets to fall (compared with three in baseball, but then there are typically only one or two innings per side in cricket compared with nine in baseball).

That's the scoring, now onto the mechanics of the game, which is essentially: The bowler ("pitcher", if you insist) bowls the ball to the batsman ("batter"), who looks to do two things, usually (though not always) in this order: stop himself getting out, and try and score some runs by steering, smashing or otherwise hitting the ball away from any of the fielders.

The first notable tactical difference between cricket and baseball is that in cricket, there is far more of a bias in favour of a batsman. The batsman is under no obligation to run if he hits the ball, and there is no limit to the number of balls he may leave alone should he wish to (although if he leaves the ball and it smashes into his stumps, then he has committed a rather gross error).

The second is that there is far more tactical freedom (and a corresponding rise in fascinating but confusing terminology) in cricket for both sides. In baseball, the pitcher is only allowed to pitch the ball within a small rectangle from (correct me if I'm wrong) the batter's shoulders to his waist. In cricket, the ball can bounce at the batsman's feet, rear up at his head, into his ribs, wherever, so long as he can play a "legitimate cricket stroke at it". Even then, that's not it. The ball can be fast or slow, it can do funny things off the pitch when it hits it (either "seam bowling" or "spin bowling", different methods that produce similar effects), in can do funny things in the air ("swing bowling").

To give you a clue, I will give a list of all the types of delivery I can think of off hand, and the type of bowler they are associated with, and show you the basic richness of terminology we have to deal with here.

Fast bowler: Length ball, bouncer, yorker.
Swing bowler: Outswinger, inswinger, reverse outswinger, reverse inswinger, straight ball.
Seam bowler: Off cutter, leg cutter, straight ball.
Off spin bowler: Off break, arm ball
Leg spin bowler: Leg break, googly, flipper, slider... go ask Shane Warne and I'm sure he'd reel them all off with pride.

The batter in baseball is similarly limited. If he doesn't hit the ball within a ninety degree arc, it's called a foul ball and he has to have another go. Cricket batsmen can hit the ball wherever they damn well like: straight back down the pitch, away from them at right angles, behind them over their shoulder, even over the top of their head if they feel supremely confident.

Again, a selection of terminology: cover drive, off drive, on drive, straight drive, square drive, square cut, late cut, upper cut, pull, hook, sweep, reverse sweep, slog-sweep, clip, slog.

With all these different shots, it's no surprise that the fielding is far more flexible, too. In baseball you've got your pitcher, your backstop (or whatever), four basemen and three outfielders. In cricket they're all over the place. The bowler and wicket keeper are fairly fixed, but the other nine can go wherever the captain wants them (with one restriction: no more than two fielders behind square on the leg side. This prevents the tactic of packing that area with fielders and bowling a succession of dangerous balls at the batsman's body, hoping he will fend the ball off there). Usually there are some slips, standing to one side of the keeper and assisting him to take catches if the ball is edged towards them. Then there are the gullys, slightly squarer. And then you get the likes of point, cover, extra cover, mid off, mid on, mid wicket, square leg...

Anyway, the dismissals. You can be bowled: the ball hits the wicket (the third type of wicket, this one being the thing that looks a bit like a toasting fork without a handle, standing behind the batsman) and breaks it. You can be caught: the fielder catches the ball from the batsman's bat (or gloves) without the ball bouncing in the interim. You can be LBW, leg before wicket, a complicated rule that can be summarised as "You're only supposed to use your bat to protect your wicket, not your legs". You can be stumped: you go outside your crease to get a better shot at the ball, and fail to get back in time before the keeper breaks your wicket. Similarly, you can be run out: the wicket at the other end is broken before you reach it safely.

I've probably missed a lot, but hopefully I've cleared up a few questions (although chances are I've left you with even more)

And if nobody's won by teatime you go inside and call it a draw.

And if nobody's won by teatime you go inside and call it a draw.Well, teatime five days down the track, but almost right.

Tell him the new rule in the... er... Twenty20, is it? I don't understand that at all.

Tell him the new rule in the... er... Twenty20, is it? I don't understand that at all.
There's a new rule in Twenty20? You mean the "if you don't bowl your overs within a certain time limit (before everyone gets bored and wants to go home) then you'll have 20 runs knocked off" or something?

I'm not sure, because I don't follow cricket, but I think it's something like: for five overs twice a game (whenever you feel) and ten at the beginning of the game you have to have all your feilders stood in an imaginary circle drawn on the pitch for some reason. It may not be Twenty20. It could be ODI. Could even be something else entirely, but I don't like to think there are more than three types of cricket.

I'm not sure, because I don't follow cricket, but I think it's something like: for five overs twice a game (whenever you feel) and ten at the beginning of the game you have to have all your feilders stood in an imaginary circle drawn on the pitch for some reason. It may not be Twenty20. It could be ODI. Could even be something else entirely, but I don't like to think there are more than three types of cricket.It's ODI, and you speak of what have been officially named Powerplays (much to Jonathan Agnew's chagrin, who keeps calling for someone to give them a "proper cricketing term").

Basically, the old rule was this: For the first fifteen overs of an ODI innings (which last 50 overs), there must be at least two of the nine "outfielders" (i.e. not bowler or wicket keeper) in catching positions and no more than two outside the said imaginary circle. The idea is to give batsmen the opportunity to play aggressively and hit boundaries more regularly rather than having spoilsport fielders out in the deep sweeping up balls that would otherwise be fours. For the other thirty overs, the only restriction was at least four inside the circle (or equivalently, no more than five outside it)

The change now is that there are twenty overs like this, the first ten and two other five over periods which the fielding captain nominates. The idea was to spice up the middle of the innings.

The trouble with ODIs is that they very much tend to be of the formula "start out aggressively to try and take advantage of the fielding restrictions, consolidate in the middle hitting singles and keeping wickets in hand, then have a mad kamikaze push at the end trying to make as many runs as possible". It's an effective strategy, but it makes the middle twenty overs rather unspectacular, even more so that a Test match (where at least there'll be a good number of attacking fielders and a few gaps to hit fours through)

So sticking a Powerplay in the middle should do a fair job, right? Wrong. In the recent England-Australia three match series, for example, most of the time the fielding sides decided to have all three powerplays on the trot, getting the fielding restrictions out of the way when the ball was still hard and shiny and the chance of a wicket higher. It might work better on the subcontinent, where the new ball is mainly there for the quicks to rough it up as fast as possible so the spinners can get to work, but in English conditions the new ball is your best chance of picking up wickets: it bounces, it swings, it seams.

To be frank, I would mind if, over the next couple of decades, one-day internationals were phased out in favour of Twenty20, and internationals from then on consisted of Tests and Twenty20s. ODI cricket is fast beginning to resemble a chimera of the two that isn't as good as either. If you want the excitement, watch Twenty20; if you want the strategy and intrigue, watch tests. ODIs have a bit of both, but bits-and-pieces won't get you to the highest standard.

I saw a sign once sayint "GET TEN TWENTY TWENTY TICKETS". Took me ages to work out what it meant.

I saw a sign once sayint "GET TEN TWENTY TWENTY TICKETS". Took me ages to work out what it meant.
Would have been better had it been "GET TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY TICKETS", now wouldn't it?

But not true.


And now I promote my new religion: http://sketchpad.freeownhost.com/religion

(Edit: Not that new, in fact. But it has a new page.)

From this point onwards, I'll be using cases in my internet writing. Scary, isn't it?

From this point onwards, I'll be using cases in my internet writing. Scary, isn't it?Another convert, excellent...

Another convert, excellent...
Thank God for that. People always tell me off for "being too formal".

From this point onwards, I'll be using cases in my internet writing. Scary, isn't it?
I think you were the last of the regular ODers to convert.

I've gotta get me one of this before they are extinct!!!!
Edit: It's a giant catfish and yes it is real.

Please remind me never to try a scary game again. I played the FEAR demo and practically ****ed my pants each time I saw that stupid demonic girl. As soon I saw her in front of me I decided, no more for me. I don't think I can bring myself to finishing it.

And...

THAT'S ONE BIG CATFISH!

Please remind me never to try a scary game again. I played the FEAR demo and practically ****ed my pants each time I saw that stupid demonic girl. As soon I saw her in front of me I decided, no more for me. I don't think I can bring myself to finishing it.
So besides the demon lady, what's the demo like, anyway? IGN seems to be worshipping it, but frankly it didn't look all that interesting to me.

And yes, that's a rather impressively-sized catfish.

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Never mind, Gametrailers.com has a good chunk of demo footage. Looks pretty gnarly. I don't have the specs to run it anyway. :p

Day 3, stumps

England 1st innings 407ao
Australia 1st innings 308ao
England 2nd innings 182ao
Australia 2nd innings 175-8

Australia need 107 to win with two wickets remaining.

It's just not letting up this match, is it?

Wickets tumbled for England early on on day three, but Andrew Flintoff thumped a potentially matchwinning 73 with four sixes, and shared a crucial tenth wicket stand of 51 with Simon Jones.

Australia lost wickets steadily and at the close are on the brink of defeat, with only Warne, Lee and Kasprowicz left to bat.

I've gotta get me one of this before they are extinct!!!!
Edit: It's a giant catfish and yes it is real.


i saw that in the paper the other day.

So besides the demon lady, what's the demo like, anyway? IGN seems to be worshipping it, but frankly it didn't look all that interesting to me.

And yes, that's a rather impressively-sized catfish.

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Never mind, Gametrailers.com has a good chunk of demo footage. Looks pretty gnarly. I don't have the specs to run it anyway. :p

I was on the edge the whole time. I might play it finish it if I can pull myself to it. The AI seems quite excellent and the slow time thingy is neat. Overall it's not bad. I don't think I'll get it though. It's just too damn scary for me.

Edit: Just finished it. Practically p***ed myself.

Day 3, stumps

England 1st innings 407ao
Australia 1st innings 308ao
England 2nd innings 182ao
Australia 2nd innings 175-8

Australia need 107 to win with two wickets remaining.

It's just not letting up this match, is it?

Wickets tumbled for England early on on day three, but Andrew Flintoff thumped a potentially matchwinning 73 with four sixes, and shared a crucial tenth wicket stand of 51 with Simon Jones.

Australia lost wickets steadily and at the close are on the brink of defeat, with only Warne, Lee and Kasprowicz left to bat.
Pff. They're down to tail enders, they need a hundred runs, and they're going to be starting the day, which isn't a good thing for tail enders becasue they need longer to get into the swing of it (if you'll excuse the pun). We should be able to finish them off nice and early, with any luck, so that Channel Four can show their alternative non-Cricket schedule, which I believe is a Frasier marathon.

I just got Tabasco sauce down my windpipe.

It hurts like the devil.

The AI seems quite excellent and the slow time thingy is neat. Overall it's not bad. I don't think I'll get it though. It's just too damn scary for me.
You should definitely give Max Payne 2 a look if you haven't already. :p

Have it. It's loads of fun. It's better then FEAR by far.

Windows has the crappiest progress bars ever.
Progress bars ARE NOT supposed to move backwards.

I'm not mean enough to post the result of the cricket before Paul can. But expect the phrase "cutting it a bit fine" to come up at least once.

Holy ****. I'm currently running my monitor at 200Hz. TWO HUNDRED.

To say moving images are smooth is an understatement. This plus the MX1000 mouse gives for insane mouse movement.

Mmmmmmmmmm...

England 1st Innings: 407ao
Australia 1st Innings: 308ao
England 2nd Innings: 182ao
Australia 2nd Innings: 279ao (Warne 42, Lee 43no, Kasprowicz 20)

England win by 2 runs.

I'm amazed I still have nails.

An astonishing fightback by the Australian tail almost saw an amazing victory, but England held their nerve and finished the job just in the nick of time.

Credit to Australia for never knowing when they're beaten. Credit to England for keeping calm and not crumbling as past sides have.

This match had everything. Runs, wickets, a phenomenal pace, and an extremely tight finish. It has to rank as the best Test Match I've ever seen.

This match had everything. Runs, wickets...
A test match without those would be spectacularly dull.

Edit: According to The Mighty Hawkeye, Kasprowicz was technically not out at all. Though I think he'd been out LBW hours ago.

I may never get bored of seeing Warne kicking over his own wickets.

A test match without those would be spectacularly dull.True. But there were a lot of them in a relatively short space of time.

Edit: According to The Mighty Hawkeye, Kasprowicz was technically not out at all. Though I think he'd been out LBW hours ago.Well, Hawkeye's the one that's for LBW decisions, it was slow-mo that Simon Hughes was using at the end there.

I don't think the Aussie team will complain that much, though (although maybe the fans will). They're pretty fair minded, and they admit England deserved this one.

I may never get bored of seeing Warne kicking over his own wickets.Well, it's one way to get them out. Reminds me of Graeme Smith back in 2003, where he'd scored a double century and we were all wondering how on Earth we were going to get him out, and eventually he trod on his stumps after going further and further back to a series of Flintoff short balls. Oddly enough, when we played South Africa last year, we had a lot less trouble with him, to the extent that he became Hoggard's bunny quite rapidly.

True. But there were a lot of them in a relatively short space of time.

Well, Hawkeye's the one that's for LBW decisions, it was slow-mo that Simon Hughes was using at the end there.

I don't think the Aussie team will complain that much, though (although maybe the fans will). They're pretty fair minded, and they admit England deserved this one.

Well, it's one way to get them out. Reminds me of Graeme Smith back in 2003, where he'd scored a double century and we were all wondering how on Earth we were going to get him out, and eventually he trod on his stumps after going further and further back to a series of Flintoff short balls. Oddly enough, when we played South Africa last year, we had a lot less trouble with him, to the extent that he became Hoggard's bunny quite rapidly.Warne was determined to give us a laugh. Remember, he took a stroll over to see Harmison after a ball yesterday, seemingly forgetting for a heart-stopping moment that he was in the middle of a game of cricket, and was about to narrowly avoid being stumped.

Also, dear glod that was exciting! But it should never had been so close.

Also, I reckon Kasprowicz got some handle on it. Looked that way, anyway.

Paul and/or Joseph, could you explain Cricket to me? I have no idea how the heck that game works.

Paul and/or Joseph, could you explain Cricket to me? I have no idea how the heck that game works.
It's long, it's complex.

I think I'll wait till Paul gets up tomorrow.

Paul and/or Joseph, could you explain Cricket to me? I have no idea how the heck that game works.I already gave a reasonably deep explanation on the previous page in this thread:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=418787&postcount=7428

I already gave a reasonably deep explanation on the previous page in this thread:

http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=418787&postcount=7428
Oh, thanks. I missed that.

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Is there any place I can watch Cricket games online to see what they are like?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4132550.stm

The human race disgusts me.

Is there any place I can watch Cricket games online to see what they are like?
I wouldn't imagine so. Have a look, but a five-day game isn't ideal internet fodder.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4132550.stm

The human race disgusts me.
That is sickening.

Poor Girl. :(

F***ing idiots.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4132550.stm

The human race disgusts me.

The human race has long disgusted me. I have no idea how anyone could harm anothe human like that or in any other way.

It's a damn good thing I don't run law enforcement.

Weird it was 2 against 4 and it doesn't mention that the 2 had any weapons.

I wouldn't imagine so. Have a look, but a five-day game isn't ideal internet fodder.If he has RealPlayer he could listen in on the next Test by going to the BBC website.

Not much of a substitute if you don't know enough about cricket to picture it in your mind's eye, but as Bill Bryson points out, "There is something incomparably soothing about cricket on the radio... It actually helps not to know quite what's going on. In such a rarified world of contentment and inactivity, comprehension would be a distraction."

And you will also find out a lot about the habits of pigeons, the colour of the local buses, how nice Mrs. Worthington's cream cake is, the infamous Primary Club and perhaps just a little bit about cricket.

And you will also find out a lot about the habits of pigeons, the colour of the local buses, how nice Mrs. Worthington's cream cake is, the infamous Primary Club and perhaps just a little bit about cricket.
Um, yay. :p

Random Links:

http://www.helpmegetag5.com/video.htm

http://peteredge.orcon.net.nz/casepics.htm

http://www.games.net/features/103221_1.shtml

http://www.civanon.org/movies/trailer.mov

HL2: Aftermath video out!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's official. Full Throttle is the second-best adventure game ever, only to Myst.

HL2: Aftermath video out!!!!!!!!!!!!
:eek:
Stalkers! Woot.

Old Trafford, Day 1

England 341-5 (Vaughan 166, Trescothick 63, Bell 59no)

The skipper's back in form again! His fourth century in eight Tests against the Aussies. I knew he couldn't face Australia for too long without it clicking again. Astonishingly, it's the first century of the series so far, and we're in the third match.

Although Australia dropped an astonishing number of catches today. I don't think Glenn McGrath will want to remember the over where he had Vaughan dropped by Gilchrist, then bowled him off a no-ball next delivery. Vaughan was in the forties at the time, and he went on to make another of those towering centuries we got so used to in 2002 and early 2003. It was slightly absurd the way he got out though, smashing the part-timer Katich to deep midwicket off a full toss.

Aus stole a bit of momentum back at the end of the day with a few wickets, but if England play well tomorrow a big score's in the offing.

:eek:
Stalkers! Woot.

Me and my friend said we wont kill them. We just can't do it, we feel too sorry for them.

Me and my friend said we wont kill them. We just can't do it, we feel too sorry for them.
They are animated polygons :p
I'll shoot whatever gets in my way as usual.

Old Trafford, Day 2.

England 444ao
Australia 210-7 (Warne 45no)

Australia trail by 234 with three wickets remaining, and need a further 35 to avoid the follow-on.

With dropped catches and batting collapses, Australia seem to be rapidly turning into the '90s England side. You should not have to rely on one of your premier strike bowlers to dig you out of trouble with the bat and top score as well (Although come to think of it, that's exactly what Flintoff did at Edgebaston :p).

Still, all to the good for England.

My £15 computer arrived.

It's a bit slow, but pentium II's where never meant to run windows XP.
I'm going to miss windows 95, but I'm not going to miss not being able to use USB devices. :p

Plus my extremely legal (honest guv!) copy of photoshop works on it. As does The tiny WACOM tablet that my dad bought (and never touched again after 10 minutes of scribling in paint).

Warioware also arived today, all the way from Hong kong. I realy was enjoying it until I found out that the save function doesn't work. DAMN YOU EBAY. Still, when you buy a game for £1.50 you can't realy complain when it isn't in mint condition. :p

Still a great game, even if I do have to play through the levels in order and watch the intro animations every bloody time. :p

Just discovered the YTMND archives today.

I think this (http://keepontruckin.ytmnd.com/) goes under my list of "favourite webpages of all time". (If you can't get the sound playing in Firefox, seriously, try it in IE. It's worth it.)

Edit: This (http://floor.ytmnd.com/) one's pretty funny too.

Edit: This (http://floor.ytmnd.com/) one's pretty funny too.BEST. PAGE. EVER.

YTMND is crap and all its pages are crap. The ones that are funny turn out to be stolen.

YTMND is the good kind of crap, it's hilarious. :p I've made a few pages on there myself.

The only page I found remotely funny was this one:

http://whatishl.ytmnd.com/

But this whole site is a rip of d**kcream.

I'm not generally a fan myself, but I do like that floor one.

http://prime-boobs.ytmnd.com/

And thats all I have to say on the subject.

The only page I found remotely funny was this one:

http://whatishl.ytmnd.com/

But this whole site is a rip of d**kcream.
NEW BEST PAGE EVER.

This is a gem:

http://kellari.org/hupi/sarjikset/ayb_calvin_and_hobbes.jpg

This is a gem:

http://kellari.org/hupi/sarjikset/ayb_calvin_and_hobbes.jpg
Lol .

Nice one, Andy Strauss.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/4150670.stm

(Look! I'm cutting down on the length of my reports!)

I really, really wish someone had told me YTMND is not moderated.

Owww, my eyes...

I think there might be a Mod only forum.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=42

I think there might be a Mod only forum.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=42
If there is then it doesn't work.

I think there might be a Mod only forum.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=42
I think that is a defunct, deleted forum. You get the same message when you try to look at forums [60 (http://forum.team17.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=60)] and [61 (http://forum.team17.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=61)].

I think 42 was the ol' XMAS compo forum.

Or maybe it contains the ultimate answer...

Ah yes. It was the Christmas Forum.

I think 42 was the ol' XMAS compo forum.

Or maybe it contains the ultimate answer...
More like the question :eek:

Owch. Australia forced a draw with one wicket to spare.

On the other hand, :D: http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2005/om20050815.html

Oh, that match was a farce. A farce, I say!

Oh, that match was a farce. A farce, I say!
Quite so. Rain? Phfah! Just because the MCC are to cheap to invest in giant gazeboes.

wow, Advance Wars paper models (along with some others):

http://members.home.nl/saarloos/index.htm