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Must. Buy.
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You gotta love em'.
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Those who know me know I think censorship is a load of *censored*, sort of like that. What ticks me off is the "non-partisan" organizations and the extremes they have. The thing that is really ticking me of to the point of blogging this though is this "lovely" thought from the Childcare Action Project; They freaking marked down Star Wars because "Darth Vader and The Empire have a 'bad attitude'.", because clearly, a terrifying cyborg with a hobby of strangling people and the murderous dictatorship he serves were intended as role models. Normally I'm silent about this stuff, but seeing that really broke the bloody limit for me, even if it's outdated. So yeah, normally I don't blog this kind of stuff, but when you mark off an incredibly awesome movie for having actual non-"bwahaha protagonist, here's my plan I should really keep secret from you!" "Thank you, now prepare to lose!" "Oh drat, vengeance swear!" villain and having him win occasionally, I just lose faith in your mental stability. Just to clear, the only one this is directed at Tom Carder, founder of the Childcare Protection Act, and I guarantee you he is offended by my previous entries. Not intended in any ways to offend, refer to or trash anyone here on BZP.
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I've found that, after flipping three coins three times, reflipping when the coin hits something other than the floor, seven out of nine times it landed tails. Moral of the story; don't bet on the head of the national person-of-note's head, and the majourity of times it'll land in your favour. (Note; These tests were done with US quarters, no guarantees on non-US coins or US coins other than a quarter)
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Bow to the new Bill Gates/your new financial overlord. >=3
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Managed to catch the ending fight. Was I the only one rooting for Mr. T and who was disappointed that Stallone won?
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If your doing it for fun or to play the devil's advocate, carry on. If your doing it because you think you'll change someone's views, stop, and turn off your computer. It doesn't matter how well you word an argument; very few people are dumb enough to change their views based on some text on a website.
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Deep Purple, Purple Haze, purple hearts, there's plenty of good stuff in purple. So spend tomorrow posting in purple, as per Dr. Laka's orders.
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Epic win Mr. Astley, epic win. (Note to the staff; apologies if linking to Google video is against the rules; I figured it would be fine since the video is clean, but if not just send me a PM, or if your Kohaku and you'd prefer it, IM, and tell me otherwise and I'll delete the entry)
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Enjoy the usual Turkey BZP; Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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Entry for Wracks story-contest-thingy. Insanity is A four-Syllable, eight-Letter word, ADD is A three-Letter abbreviation With no Syllables, love Is a Four-letter Word with One syllable That has The same Meaning as Insanity It started off rather well. She and I clicked very well after the first dinner. We started getting into talking quickly, we loved the same food, we had the same tastes in movies and things, we even agreed on Mac Vs. PC. Then she found out I was legally insane. I don't get it. Just because I forgot to tell her a piece of paper from the government says I'm mentally unstable, she stopped seeing me. So I began making soap carvings of her and mailing them to her, detailing the crafting process in a letter I included. For some reason now she hates me even more. Love's strange, eh? I'll never understand it myself. Maybe today I'll try following her to the theatre. I don't care for the movie, it was something starring the governator or something like that, but otherwise I didn't pay attention. I don't intend to pay that much. It's something called ADD, but people say it makes me fun or something, so I'm fine with it. Getting back to my point though, I didn't care to see the governator go into improbable situations, kill stuff and get the girl who inexplicably dies. ...Alright, I was. But I was mainly there for her. And for the cost of those soap carvings. Those things are expensive... Anyway, I followed her into the theatre. About halfway through the movie, she got up, and I figured I'd follow, which I did. I walked up behind her while she was in line for food and asked her for the money for the soap carvings. In retrospect I should've asked for love. But what happens happens I guess. I got free popcorn out of it though, albeit it was really hot, and on my face...still, that stuff's $8 for a small bag, worth it. Anyway, after that, I returned to my seat where I could see her. Wonder if she knew I could see her...anyway, long story short, Mr. Schwarzenegger's girl dies like I knew she would, and she's crying. A lot. I figure it may be a good time, so I went down there and put an arm around her shoulders. Then I got more popcorn to the face. I really should pay her back for that... Moving on, the movie ends and the friend she was with and her leave. I followed her again, this time keeping some distance. And hiding behind the cake in the restaurant they went to. For a moment I thought she was on a date, which annoyed me since she never let me down formally. Then I remembered I knew she wasn't bisexual and shrugged it off. I really need to remember that stuff...anyway, about halfway through I sat down across from them. When she looked up from her meal I waved, then got kicked out of the restaurant by the wait staff. Who knew the scrawny waiters could punch so hard...I really should find out how they get that strong while looking weak...where was I? Right, getting kicked out. Anyway, I waited for them to come out, then offered a ride home. More free food. I really do need to pay her back...or I could claim it balances out the soap carvings... I got home later that night, and after some calling around, figured out what she changed her number to. "I get a feeling you don't love me anymore. Is that right?" "Well, your insane, that made it hard..." "Tis' the spice in life." "True." "Plus, plenty of insane people were good people. Thomas Edison..." "Nobody else?" "Me?" "I guess. Still, the soap carvings were kinda creepy..." "Hey, legally insane." "True. Alright, I guess we can try again tomorrow night. ...Wait, how'd you get my new number?" "...See you tomorrow then." I hung up the phone, impressed it worked. It seems love is as insane if not moreso than I am. Word count; 655 Apologies if the ending or the whole thing's sense of humour was bad, I wrote it on a creative semiblock. ><
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My usual apologies to Wrack. I was a couple words short, so I'm reworking the last paragraph. >< Anyway, cookie points to anyone who can tell me what anime/manga this is/was from(Note to the staff; before you get on my case for having it point a gun at the viewer, they only ever shot at robots, and it was PG back when only Dragonball Z could fit in blood and/or light swearing into PG or Y-7);
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Making Monday nights epic. And bringing back Haro. =D
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But I spent tonight playing for a friends band since their lead guitarist was sick tonight, so I was busy making sure everything worked and sounded good. Also, readers, turn on your TV, switch to the sci-fi channel and start paying attention after the LOST marathon.
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Ballmer does use a mac!
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Entry removed, locked. You still haven't learned your lesson. DO NOT BYPASS THE FILTER. - Kohaku
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Let's see what we can work up. This blog mentions the law. The law is upheld by the courts. In the courts are lawyers. Lawyers wear suits. Suits are made by tailors. Tailor is also a common name as Taylor. Taylor is a brand of guitar. I play guitar. I am also Jewish. Jiospink is as well, unless he lied on AIM two nights ago. He is also magic. Harry Potter is magic. Dumbledore was the headmaster of the school Harry went to until he died. Another word for headmaster is dean. Dean is also a name. Names are a way of identifying people. People inhabit the cities of this planet. Cities have buildings. Buildings are tall. Brad Garett is tall. Brad Garett was on Everybody Loves Raymond. Ray Romano was as well. Ray Romano is a comedian. Yakov Smirnoff is a Russian comedian. Yakov Smirnoff left the Soviet Union for America. The Soviet Union was communist. Therefore, through the transitive property of The DaColbert Code, this blog is communist. ...So should I put up the hammer-and-sickle or something?
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Barry Manilow covered Never Gonna Give You Up, better known as the Rickroll song. And it's actually good. As in "you-won't-mind-getting-Barryrolled" good. If you want the URL, PM or IM me.
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I'll be using identifiable examples here, and I may offend you. Please note the disclaimer before complaining, any and all comment complaints will be deleted. Alright, due to my last entry I've gotten a couple IM's likely meant just to annoy me for fun, claiming I "mislead" people into thinking I was doing a how-to thing on making an RPG character. I figured I'd do one now since it wouldn't hurt to do more than just bfa-style randomness and an occasional rant with this thing. Alright, let's take a generic RPG entry sheet; Name; Age; Gender; Species; Weapons; Faction/group/whatever it's called in our generic example RPG; Description/artwork; Bio/history; Most RPG's add or take a few categories based on the plot/theme of the RPG. Anyway, from here, this can go one of three ways. Overdone, well-done or poorly done. Below is an example of each. From highest to lowest, here is an overdone example(Profile; A specific profile from Oceans Gone.) Overdone profile's aren't all bad; they give a ton of detail. They tend to wear on ones attention span though, to the point where they just shrug it off and tend to forget it exists. We get you like your character; everyone likes their character(s), but there's a certain point where it feels like you put so much effort into them you'll cry if their not a protagonist. Next is an underdone profile; (Profile; One I got for my now-abandoned RPG S W A R M) Not only does it seem this guy was trying to skate by on the bare minimum, but half his grammar was incorrect; I don't trust you to make a good IC if you can't spell "bargained", "Atheist" or "fragment" properly. Even when there are rules on the size of stuff(ie, the "at least one paragraph" rule I always have on appearance and backstory), people always manage to just skip past all that stuff and go right to the profile without knowing what else they need to know. Word of advice to you guys; READ THE WHOLE FIRST POST. If you can't bother to read my rules and story your going to being adhering to, I don't need to bother reading your RPG profile. If you can't put effort into your character, I don't need to put the effort into typing up a "No, your not approved". Then there are the good length profiles. Everyone has different preferences, so I'm listing none in particular that are the "proper length", but there's a good point in length, say a paragraph and a half for more detailed stuff, where it's long enough to be detailed, without being so long it gets annoying. On that note, I'd like to comment on character art. It's preferred over a description in my opinion; With a description there's still much guesswork. With a picture you just need colour. I don't care if it's a slightly detailed stick figure or a detailed professional artwork. Albeit I prefer the latter, it's better than a lone description, though both are appreciated, especially together. In part II I'll detail what good RPing should be like.
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Lately I've been noticing a bit more arguing than usual on BZP. If it were debating I wouldn't mind as I enjoy a good debate, but it's just pointless words that get topics closed. Just a note beforehand, I'm not including the CoT debate topic; it seems to be doing rather well, and I barely ever check it to be honest, so I don't know how well or bad it's going. Seeing as the wind threw a tree branch into the side of the house outside my room and I'm awake before everyone else and therefore have to either be quiet or get three people shouting and generally being obnoxious to me for being annoying to them for the rest of the day, I figured I'd get a rant in. Before people say I don't like arguing in all forms, I'd just like to clear that, as I said before, I enjoy a debate as long as it remains civil. I'm actually a regular in debates via AIM of issues too controversial for BZP. More and more often though I see the exact same things in debates around here, and in the AIM debates. People who have various, for lack of a better term, beliefs, that end up ruining the debate for everyone else and often times offend others. I guess I'll start with some of the basic ground rules of the AIM debates and why they stand how they do, not only to give an example of some good debate rules, but also because generally they work. These are sed rules as lifted from the first AIM debate of BZPers via chatlog; Rule 1 - No shouting out randomly. Whoever has the floor is the one raising a point in the argument. After that anyone who wants to counter can say so, or the person with the floor can give the floor to someone else in particular. - This isn't really important to list in a rant here since it's just set in place on AIM to prevent a bunch of arguments at once, but I figured to keep it authentic I'd list it too. Rule 2 - No insults. no "**** you", "shut up, I don't care" or anything like that. Respect the others in the debate, and if they have the floor let them talk. - I'm not much for this rule either way for personal one-on-one debates between myself and someone else, as I'm a believer that a word is a word, and if it offends you just because of it's spelling and pronunciation, then you need to do a bit of thinking. Anyway, this is one of the ones I see happening on BZP occasionally. People, when either getting into it or when faced with an argument they can't think of a comeback to, resort to insulting their opponent, which is sad. If you can't think of a counter, do the honourable thing and concede, and if you get like this in the hear of the moment, don't get into the heat of the moment to begin with, stay calm. Rule 3 - Raise relevant points. Don't join into a debate about the presidential candidates and try and switch the subject to something else. Subjects are agreed upon for a reason. - This was put up because I've seen people somehow manage to go from a debate of various things regarding the 43rd President of the United States Of America, to a debate of which religion is "better". I haven't seen much of this on BZP, but again, like rule 1, just here to keep it authentic. Rule 4 - If you have the floor don't just sit around and wait until you 'feel' like saying something. If you do this you lose your turn. - Same as 1 and 3. Meant to keep an IM debate efficient, not applicable very well to BZP. Rule 5 - No using religion in your arguments. Not everyone here has the same beliefs as you, and as such if your basing your argument on religion it's not going to bear much weight with them, odds are. Please try and keep your argument in the realm of what can be verified and agreed on by all. - I don't exactly see this on BZP, but I do see hinting of it. Not actually saying "this is true because *insert religious book here* says so", but more of using a belief that really only applies to that religion in their argument. I could go deeper in, but then I'd offend some people. If it's fine with the folks from the debates actually, I'd like to introduce two new rules. Neither is that long, just something I recall happening once that killed a debate. Rule 6 - Don't make a redundant argument. Don't say the same thing over and over again, come up with new stuff, because arguing the exact same thing with the exact same words isn't getting much of anywhere. - I think this one's self-explanatory. Rule 7 - Your rule is not absolute. Just because you think something doesn't mean everyone else does. Just because you think one person should be, say, Prime Minister Of England, doesn't mean the rest of the world does and will agree, you are the fool yourself if you think everyone who disagrees is "An immature fool who doesn't get the real world". - Again, self-explanatory. This may also become a replacement for rule 5 as it's basically a broader version, but we'll see on that I suppose. Besides, these, there's an "unwritten rule" that is basically to respect others with the same respect you want. That old line "Do to others what you want done to you", to put it in short. Getting out of listing the rules of semi-BZP related debates and back to the rant, people have various beliefs in certain ways that break one or more of these in BZP arguments I've seen besides the debate topic. I'll use some examples rather than just saying "what if" and "then what"; First, I'm guilty of using this argument myself once, though I now realize it's arrogance and apologize to who I used it against. Anyway, I wouldn't care if the person were the President of the US, Prime Minister of the UK or something along those lines; you don't tell someone how to live their life as long as their not harming anyone by their actions. Even if you think they should be doing something else, if they like the site, they should be allowed to stay, which they are. There's no rule against being the target age group. Next example; I've also seen people claiming this of their debate opponents, similar to this; The part after the comma wouldn't be said by the person, but was put there to give context. Basically you just need to read that last half of it to get this one. Also, try and look at things from both angles. Example three; Though this applies for a bit of someones life, after a certain point, age doesn't matter in terms of maturity and/or intelligence. I've seen nine-year olds more mature and/or intelligent than some adults, had conversations more intelligent with a twelve-year old than a middle-aged man, and 10-year olds more mature and/or intelligent than I am. Granted in some cases it's incredible their that mature and/or intelligent at that age, but still, age is not another word for maturity and/or intelligence, or at least with the definitions I'm using. The examples were mainly to give a spine to this rant. One other thing I want to address is people calling arguments and debates the same thing. I do a little of that just to get a point across or to fit the mentality some people have, but their not the same thing. Here's some reading on arguments. Here's some on debates. I'll leave it to you guys to figure out the difference. So yeah, take what you will, but frankly except for some members, much of BZP could use some revamping in terms of it's philosophy on debates and arguments.
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It's hard enough on it's own, but it gets more confusing when you design and share the character with another player. o_O I still got to do the character art and backstory though, so I'm fine with how it turned out.
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It's like a darker, harder-edged Gilligan's Island; A group of castaways on an island that nobody knows the location of are led by a bald guy in attempts to get off the island, and there's absolutely no plot continuity between episodes whatsoever.
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If this is Omi's picture on BS01; If I set my picture on BS01 to; Can I control Omi's account via Wiimote?
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Why did nobody tell me this was out, especially those who know I've been rather well enjoying the first Tales Of Symphonia game?
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We apologize for the pointlessness and poor quality of the last entry. It's writer has been fired, cloned with slight alterations, and replaced by sed clone. As for the request, I know some of the readers of this are artists. Any artist readers, I need art tips. ;_; If you have any, please leave them in the comments section. Big thanks to any who do. =)
