Imponderables: Laughing It Up by nvghostrider

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Originally posted by MsA: morning all...

Ok resting at home ..I hate being sick

So what has everyone got planned for Thanksgiving??

aaaaaaaaaaaaaw ur sick? that's not allowed so close to thanksgiving :'( *gets MsA some tea*

goin to the bf's uncle's house, cuz thats where his family's thanksgiving's bein hosted this year ^_^ been goin to my family's for a while, decided to switch it up.

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Monday, November 17, 2008 9:50 AM

ok EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!! Dog must have dug out or wriggled out at some point in the fence and got in the yard. Found him luckily, but his whole head and neck were crusted with dog doo... so I put him in the tub and start to wash him and he shakes and sprays doo filled water all over me and the bathroom so I end up scrubbing a stinky dog, scrubbing the whole bathroom, scrubbing me, and doing laundry all while I'm trying to rest 'cause I'm sick... gotta love dogs:)

NV well there's food, movies, board games, and so much talking your ears might ring for days...but other than that

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, November 17, 2008 11:36 AM

/returns from WoW-imposed vacation

Ewww, MsA, icky icky. Hubby and I have just been talking about getting a puppy again (though we're back to the "can I handle the stairs several times a day, every day, indefiniately, by myself?" discussion, sigh), and that's not the sort of reality check you want when you're thinking about all the good things about having a dog, lol. Of course, ours would be primarily inside only (hence the stairs debate), but still...

As far as Thanksgiving, we're staying home and cooking everything ourselves, so I can have a meal-based holiday without worrying about what is in the food that's going to make me sick(er). I need to make myself some yummy food to make up for Halloween, and get me past Christmas, sigh.

Yeah ok, now I'm in self-pity mode.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Monday, November 17, 2008 12:29 PM

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Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:
/returns from WoW-imposed vacation

So what level is your Death Knight?

And what's with people and being social? Darn annoying people making me turn down their Thanksgiving invites.

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Monday, November 17, 2008 12:35 PM

I actually haven't started a DK, not sure that I will. My mage is 73 and my warrior is 72. I really should just pick one to play, but they're both so fun. And I should really stop playing on a PvP server. :P

I have a friend who has a 76 DK all ready, not sure how he did it. I was a bit of a slacker on leveling, honestly, but I went to the midnight signing event at Fry's, and didn't get home until almost 4am. I was paying for that the rest of the weekend, which really cut into my play time. I have to stop doing stupid shit like tht.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Monday, November 17, 2008 1:00 PM

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Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:
I actually haven't started a DK, not sure that I will.

It sounds like he has an interesting rune system that is sorta carrying over to D3. My darn friend got me back onto D2 btw. Just a little over a week before my characters would have expired. I was off for 80 days!!! Oh well.

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Monday, November 17, 2008 3:10 PM

uh slacker?? I'm not a gamer but even I know just how much time and effort goes into a 72nd anything

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, November 17, 2008 3:45 PM

((Hugs)) MsA!

Well this was an expansion pack that came out Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Previous to that, the level cap was 70, so both my high level characters had been capped for awhile, and it took me a long time to get them that high (I started the warrior on the day WoW launched four years ago). The expansion has new areas, new quests, and new gameplay, but lets you keep your old characters and take them from 70 to 80 if you want, which is the new cap.

There's stuff you can't do with your friends until you get to the cap, so there's a lot of pressure to get there fast. And also just bragging rights. We play with a bunch of hubby's coworkers, and he was saying they were going to make fun of him for not getting further this weekend, hehe.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Monday, November 17, 2008 6:37 PM

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Originally posted by MsA: ok EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!! Dog must have dug out or wriggled out at some point in the fence and got in the yard. Found him luckily, but his whole head and neck were crusted with dog doo... so I put him in the tub and start to wash him and he shakes and sprays doo filled water all over me and the bathroom so I end up scrubbing a stinky dog, scrubbing the whole bathroom, scrubbing me, and doing laundry all while I'm trying to rest 'cause I'm sick... gotta love dogs:)

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!! next time u gotta do a Turner and Hooch on him XD wash him outside with a scrub brush attached to the garden hose lolz

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:22 AM

The devil may have a hold upon me.

I am strongly considering getting a PS3 around Christmas. With the BDS/BDM on Blu-ray, a strong want to have my giganto surround system hooked up in the house, and my bud John down the street looking to double team fools online it is almost impossible to resist. Gotta get other necessary work done a few weeks before Christmas though. Headed back to Oroville for Reindeer Games IV, a benefit tourney and drive for Toys For Tots. We already have near a dozen people from Fallon heading up for this event. Such a busy time of year.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:26 AM

Bah is it retirement time yet? I'm tired of doing work all the time :-P

Come on magically lottery ticket from the sky. What's keeping you?

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:02 AM

lolz, i hear ya NV. my brother fell in love with the PS3 when he played SOCOM 3 for the first time XD

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:14 AM

Psssh PS3...giant paperweight. :-P

I really think they got too full of themselves this generation. They added way too much into that box. Though I guess it is smart for people who want a bluray player and some gaming potential. Still I'm an old school gamer. If I buy a console I want it for gaming not for home theater systems.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:27 AM

lol, im guessing you're an...xbox 360 kinda guy?

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:53 AM

Nope. I like the Wii! It's a game system and that's all it is. The games are fun and isn't that the point? I could care less about cutting edge graphics most of the time. The rant is really pointless though. MS and Sony are going to keep fighting the hardware war trying to have the best of the best until one of them crushes the other.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:27 AM

ew i hate the wii ><

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:36 AM

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Originally posted by freelancertex:
ew i hate the wii ><

Not possible. Everyone loves the wii. You can't fool yourself! Give in to the wii love.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:38 AM

I actually love the Wii long time.

Gaming potential is awesome with this little system. Not just another sit and push like the PS3 and 360. I just know more people with PS3's, have more familiarity with the Sony controller, and really want some awesome Blu-ray titles to go with the surround and flat screen. Just a bit afraid of the gamer backlash and late night sessions. I guess there is a limit to how much I can game. Might just need an afternoon nap before planned sessions at night.

Here I go justifying the purchase...

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:16 AM

Hey we already justified it.. see if you pay $200 and just get a blue ray that's sad, but if you pay $300 and get blue ray and awesoem game with wifi then it's cool:) No way you'll get addicted though...

HUGS Ck.. yeah that's everyone's excuse for leveling.. if I don't level then I can't go on this quest...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:19 AM

Yeah, no way I can possibly get addicted to that...

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:46 AM

lolz *sarcasm radar spikes*

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Originally posted by Zeek: Not possible. Everyone loves the wii. You can't fool yourself! Give in to the wii love.

no srsly, cant stand that system ><

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:10 AM

I have to admit, it definately isn't for everyone. I just got to liking it after learning to control it. Now it's all manner of fun.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:13 AM

I still have a hard time but I love it:)

Ok sick of power points right now

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:33 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Quote:
Originally posted by freelancertex:
ew i hate the wii ><

Not possible. Everyone loves the wii. You can't fool yourself! Give in to the wii love.

I'm going to have to come down on the "hate" side as well, or at least the "meh" side (it's a word now!! http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/17/Dictionary_to_define_meh/UPI-54
581226953236/ ). I bought one about a year and a half ago, played extensively for about a month, and then it sat unused for a long time. Hubby was given a copy of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith for the Wii for free, so we tried that out, and it sucked big time.

I feel like the Wii is a good idea that hasn't been executed well yet. The Wii-mote needs a couple more iterations before its really good, and the games for the Wii have all been very disappointing to me, with the exception of maybe Wario Ware, which is crazy fun with friends when you're drunk. The rest of it is shallow and/or poorly executed and/or trying too hard. Hopefully the tech will get better in a few years, but for now we're actually thinking about selling our Wii and all the games we have.

We also bought a 360 about a month ago, which I swore I would never do. We're both primarily PC gamers, and anything worth playing on the Xbox will eventually come out on the PC right? Well, except for Rock Band. We looked at the PS3 Rock Band as well, and ignored the Wii Rock Band because Guitar Hero sucked so badly, and decided the 360 was the way to go. We've slowed down a bit with the Rock Band since the WoW expansion came out, but I'm hoping that there'll be other games we want to play on the 360 eventually too.

Anyhow, mark me down as another one not so impressed by the Wii. Great idea, but it needs more polish IMO.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:25 AM

DDR last night whooooooo!!!

Ok so NV is at training and I will be at a schol site ( where I get evaluated by someone who dislikes me while I am doing stuff that is atypical to my job) yay me

HUGS all

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:26 AM

et tu CK? Surely you've heard about the motion plus coming out to make the wiimote really 1 to 1 movement. I guess I don't worry about the games that are trying to hard to work motion into the mix. I'm happy with 3 or 4 games a year. I'd probably be happy with the system if all I ever got out of it was twilight princess and mario galaxy.

Just wait for motion plus and see if that solves your complaints.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:25 AM

play DDR

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:29 AM

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Originally posted by MsA:
play DDR

I got DDR for my mom for Christmas. I'll see if I like it when she opens it. Though I have thought multiple times about schemes to try to play it before giving it to her.

I don't think my plastic wrap skills are good enough to make it look new though.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:48 AM

ddr rocks XD i could play that for hours. that and guitar hero :P though guitar hero tends to make me dizzy tryna keep up with all the notes >< *im used to the real thing*

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:30 AM

Imponderers is quiet today. Wake up people!

Ponder: what makes a slow day in the imponderables thread?

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 6:18 AM

lol, work, or ppl disabling the reply notification so ppl dont know when someone's posted XD thats my answer. ^_^

morning ponderers

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 6:35 AM

OK how about a ponder about charity work.

The austin browncoats were contacted about being extras for a filming of Friday Night Lights in a stadium here last weekend. They'd give our "pay" to the charity of our choice. I was all for it until I heard it was supposed to be 8 hours of filming. That's 8 hours of my weekend to stand around watching a fake football game? I wouldn't go to a regular football game for 8 hours.

Where do you guys draw the line on volunteering?

(btw one guy went and it turned out to be much longer. 8am to 11pm

)

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 6:42 AM

That is a whole lotta charity there.

After lunch yesterday I was taking MsA back to work and suddenly we lost power steering, the battery light came on, and poor Mavis began to heat up quite quickly. After stopping at her work I checked to see what was up. My assumption was that the belt broke. After looking the belt seemed to be in one piece, but loose. The Tensioner pully's internal spring had broke. Cutting this one short, we made it to the dealer right down the street to get it fixed. Long day, but that's not all. We also found out there were three recall items on the Jeep that we never recieved notice for. Hopefully it is all well now.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:00 AM

*whistles* wow, >< exciting day, NV.

zeek: standing in the dirt at 2 in the morning in december directing traffic for a car show, and staying there until noon. did it once, never again, not unless i'm bein paid for having frostbite XD

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:31 PM

Another quiet day. You people work too much. I am very disappointed in all of you.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:40 PM

i hardly work at all XD course..i *am* a college student :P

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:54 PM

Sorry it was major nuts today..

yeah that was a wonderful day, Jeep broke and needed expensive repairs, I got evaluated nastily, and the frustration was fun. iw as just so glad NV was there and handled it all.. I know jack about cars:)

NV for being a superhero

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:57 PM

yeah heard about the jeep >< is jeep ok now?

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:05 PM

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Originally posted by MsA:
I got evaluated nastily

What's that about? You've always been good at what you do. Bad work relationship?

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:42 PM

Ok, so here's a question for you guys. This is something that's sparked a lot of debate in a (predominately female) gamer community I'm in. CliffyB, the figurehead behind Gears of War and the upcoming Gears of War 2 said this in an official interview about GoW2:

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"A beta is like hooking up with a girl just to say, "yeah, I fucked her." I know that sounds crude, but it's the honest-to-God truth. Once you play a beta, you can check it off your list--you can say, "yeah, I played it." Then you might not feel motivated to get that initial cherry popping from the proper, final game."

Myself and many others found this to be offensive and inappropriate for an official interview, but the line from Cliffy's camp is that he was targeting a specific audience when he said that, and those of us who are offended are not his target audience. Myself and others have been accused of being "sticks in the mud" and giving girl gamers a bad name, because we object to the idea of a professional comparing his game to using a woman for sex.

So what do you guys think? Is it appropirate for a professional who was giving an official interview, representing himself, his company, and his game, to make that sort of statement? Or are myself and others who have decided we won't be buying GoW2 now overreacting?

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:33 PM

Zeek yup it's my bosses boss ( we're still not sure why she was the one to eval me..) She dislikes me and she was looking for a way to show it. She didn't tank me, but she wasn't complimentary...bitch

HUGS CK I'd say it was tacky and speaks to his view of women. It's not a smart move on his part

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, November 21, 2008 1:02 AM

DANCINGNEKO

CK: *blinks at the comments about beta games* I think that the comments this "professional" made was extremely inappropriate and tasteless. I don't think your (and the others who feel this way) reaction was inappropriate.

MsA: Yuck. [ sarcasm ]Don't you just love educational politics? [ /sarcasm ] "Let's evaluate someone doing something that isn't their specialty and point out how poor they are at it." Yep...

...am feeling lost and stuck...wish I could get myself un-stuck, but I'm not sure if it's burn out or fear...help.

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Friday, November 21, 2008 6:22 AM

What's up 'Neko?

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Friday, November 21, 2008 7:22 AM

Kinda depressing.

Board is dead. Tired. And a member on another board just bought a new cell phone for less than what a hundred rounds of .45 ACP costs. Sign of the times I guess.

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Friday, November 21, 2008 7:27 AM

KELKHIL

hey NVG...

Yeah Board has been dead for the last couple days.

As far as I am concerned the phones should be free with as much as the cell companies charge!

(desperatly needs a new phone)

Some men just wanna watch the world burn

Zombie Killing, Ninja in Training Kelkhil
The Shirtless Forsaken

Member of the Coalition for HK - Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow.

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Friday, November 21, 2008 7:40 AM

A replacement for mine is 300 rounds of 45 ACP (about 90 bucks).

Sucks that I think in terms of ammo price instead of currency.

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Friday, November 21, 2008 8:13 AM