Originally posted by Astropuyo

 

So guys, keep making female avatars because I've personally "trapped" myself in a long term because I didn't.

It's always nice to get a BJ while down time hits.

 

Speaking of which anyone know the longest rest timers in a game?

Haha. I play Shaiya right now, and depending on where you're levelling the downtime can be pretty bad.  Then again, the downtime on any MMO is pretty shitty.  I remember on old school SWG the downtime waiting in a hospital/cantina to get permanent wounds healed sucked.  That's why I became a doctor in the game. To be highly sought after in an MMO is my ultimate goal, which is why I always play a healer or tank.

Originally posted by //\\//\\oo

Originally posted by modjoe86

Well, Bladerunner being the best of the best is a given, though. Amirite?

 

   I'd still do Sean Young... no.. well.. I'd do her with a bag over her head with her in the 80's on it.

 

I dont' know man.  I might still do it.  But Sean Young in Bladerunner is the hotness fosho.

Another one of my old sci-fi movie crushes is Sigourney Weaver in Alien. Neither of the the women aged terribly, to be honest, and I'd probably hop on the good foot with them just to say I had.

Well, Bladerunner being the best of the best is a given, though. Amirite?

Wow, I just busted out laughing about 5 different times in 2 minutes.  And my co-workers probably think I'm crazy.

"I'm an older man.  You can trust what I say."

Originally posted by Wickersham

 

Switch the words "habitual" with "addicted" and "irritability" with "aggression".

And since we're digging up old interwebz shenanigans:

I did read the whole thread, Samuel.
 

Okay.  Let's switch the words. So, because some addicted marijuana users exhibit "aggression" for a few days after they stop smoking, then it is somehow relevant to shooting up the Pentagon?

I'm not really seeing the meaning of the sentence change very much.  I'd say addicted and habitual are synonymous for all intents and purposes.  Aggression is a slightly more extreme version of irritability, though it's still a huge jump to say someone who is aggressive is prone to shoot up federal gubment buildings.  "I'm really pissed off and violent because I quit smoking.  Grrr. I'm gonna go kill some m***** fu***** raaaaaaage."

Originally posted by Ihmotepp

What about men that like big women? Not everyone likes skinny girls you know.

What does the BBW stand for in all those .avi files I found on your computer?
 

I always play a female healer named Elizabethean in MMOs.  I let desperate losers believe what they want (I don't ever deny being a guy, I just act polite to people and use a lot of emoticons) and I get a bunch of free shit all the time. Win!

Originally posted by Bannne

Originally posted by Dekron

Honestly, should the federal government be start a new "War on..."?

In my opinion, the Obama's are 1) overstepping bounds in individual life choices, 2) wasting tax dollars (yet again), and 3) creating additional government reliance when a simple solution exists.

Does a "task force" really need to be created?

How do you fight childhood obesity? Simple.

Get your kids away from the T.V. and outside playing. Eat less. Eat right. It will take a task force for them to discover it is partially the federal government's fault for the child obesity rates today. How? The elimination of physical education and the FDA approved "lunches" and "snacks" allowed on school premises.

content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/02/the-obamas-battle-childhood-obesity/1

Perhaps if your people stop eating crap like this,Obama wouldn't have to declare war on the pigs that stuff their faces with nasty food like this.

www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/10/the-1500-calorie-donut-burger/

I'd eat the shit out of that burger.

Unfortunately I don't, but Avatard made me laugh.

Originally posted by Wickersham

 

I'm just trying to keep the thread on topic. 

What does making distintions between physical addiction and psychological addiction have to do with this dude shooting up the pentagon?  Alchohol Vs. Marijuana is not the topic of this thread.

The topic of this thread is about the media discussing the shooters drug abuse and whether that abuse is relevant to his actions and thus being relevant as news.

I've shown it to be relevant.

So, because some habitual marijuana users exhibit "irritability" for a few days after they stop smoking, then it is somehow relevant to shooting up the Pentagon? That's a bit of a Stretch Armstrong.
 

Originally posted by Draenor

can we start calling ourselves oldfags like the cool kids on the internet?

 

freaking hell

 

I love you all

I love you too, oldfag.

Originally posted by JJOneway

I can understand that viewpoint. I don't agree with it, but I can understand it. Like I said in a different thread a while back, humans don't like random, we're not wired to deal with it very well, so we like to assign pattern and meaning to things, both inside and outside of ourselves.

The more I study about how the human brain and subconscious works, the more I genuinely believe that it is all just randomness and chance out there (and the more I prefer dogs to people...)

Right, I'm calling it a night. Thanks for the debate modjoe86, i enjoyed it!

Fare thee well, sir.

Originally posted by JJOneway

We're a predatory species, as much as we like to pretend otherwise, so we're always going to find reasons to fight each other.

 

I know one possible solution for predatory species:
 

Ok, I'm done posting lame pictures and derailing threads.  I'm sorry, but this image popped into my head when I read that.  I'm really immature if you hadn't noticed.

On topic: I'm one of the aforementioned assholes that really couldn't care less about all this rigmarole as long as it doesn't affect me in my next few decades on this earth.  In the words of Stephen Tyler, "Hey, j-j-jaded." And I do have my mother's smile.

Originally posted by JJOneway

It's not a pathetic universe, but it's certainly an uncaring one. The rise and fall of humanity means exactly nothing to the universe at large. It's only our belief that we somehow matter in the scheme of things (if there was one)

While my attitude may come across as arrogant in certain areas, it's certainly not arrogant in respect to my importance to this world or the universe at large. Indeed, I would argue a strong case that it's the majority of religious people who see themselves as more important, due to being part of God's "grand plan" or whatever.

In regards to religion, I guess the bottom line is that none of us will really know until we die, and then it will be too late for any  "I told you so's" from either side of the argument.

Oh, I totally agree that we are insignifcant in the big scheme of things, which is why it seems to me that there must be at least something out there in that big ole universe that is more significant than me.  That being/species would be "God" to me, in some respect.

Originally posted by JJOneway

Agreed. No-one can be 100% certain that there isn't one, but looking at all the available evidence certainly points to there not being one, and the more popular religions (Islam, Christianity etc.) have been shown to be so full of holes and self condtradictory that it simply amazes me that anyone who has bothered to look into it properly could be taken into by it.

The whole thing just seems like a painfully obvious exercise is self deception and childish wish fulfillment to me. I'm sure I do come across as arrogant (and the big bang knows it's been said to me a few times!), but I've got no problem telling people how stupid i think their beliefs are, and I don't think anyone should do.

I understand where you're coming from, but just to play a little devil's advocate: the belief in God and the belief in the big bang theory are both large leaps of faith.
 

I'm an agnostic, but were a gun put to my head and I were forced to guess, I'd lean more towards the existence of God (the deist/hands off variety of God.) Once again, given our infantile knowledge of the universe, it seems ridiculously arrogant to assume I'm the most important and powerful being in the universe. It's a pretty pathetic universe if that's the case.

Edit: And to clarify, by having a gun to my head and guessing there is a God, I wouldn't do that for selfish motives (Paschal's Wager.) Although I have no idea if a "God" exists or not, I am fairly confident that there isn't an afterlife, so that wouldn't influence my decision.

Originally posted by JJOneway

Originally posted by modjoe86

Originally posted by JJOneway

This really isn't surprising. Anyone that closes their minds to new ideas because an ancient book supposedly already has everything covered is bound to be dumber than someone that is widely read and cares to continue educating themselves.

That's a pretty biased and blanketed statement.  You know, since no Christians make it to secondary education or anything, right? How's the view from up there on your high horse?
 

 

Very comfy thanks for asking. Of course it's biased, it's my opinion. An opinion that has been formed by years of listening to the retarded drivel that lots of the religious types are stupid or deluded enough to believe in.

Formal education certainly isn't the only mark of intelligence, so making it into secondary education means the square root of fuck all to me. Read all the books you want, if a person still clings to the belief that some mystical sky-father created us all and runs the universe, then the only way I can honestly describe them is an idiot.

While I don't particularly subscribe to the notion of the Christian definition of a "God," it would be equally idiotic to disregard the possibility of some form of a "God." Being that humans know about .0000000000001% of what the fuck is going on in this universe, I don't see how you can be so certain that there is absolutely no power higher than us.
 

Originally posted by JJOneway

This really isn't surprising. Anyone that closes their minds to new ideas because an ancient book supposedly already has everything covered is bound to be dumber than someone that is widely read and cares to continue educating themselves.

That's a pretty biased and blanketed statement.  You know, since no Christians make it to secondary education or anything, right? How's the view from up there on your high horse?
 

Haha to your watered down plot of a movie getting dominated.  How many times has that plot been used and reused?  I suspect as long as man has been writing screenplays.

A bunch of wise guys crackin jokes up in this thread.