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Egads, Orlando Bloom, 63%! I don't know if I should be happy or not about that one... Leo DiCaprio... 56%. This just keeps getting worse. Michael Moore, 50%. From sexy to slob. Eddie Murphy, 46% I think it's gotta be my goatee. I'm gonna try a different photo. EDIT: I tried with one of my wife's... 50% Lucy Liu, 40% Natalie Portman, and 38% Shigeru Miyamoto. Wrap your brains around that one!

Not the new toy. Just the mediocre discs that go in it. Seriously, NFS and PRG were both good, but you just kinda get tired of them. Call of Duty was excellent... but I beat it. And a man can't live on DoA alone...

Hardly ever, it seems. Maybe we should try to arrange a time? Because it seems like all I'm doing is waiting around for Burnout when it comes to 360.

But the Rolling Shield does more damage. Just jump over him when he rushes at you and drop a ball on him a few times, and the battle is over before you know it.

You drive those things in Megaman X. Face it, all futuristic replacements for motorcycles look the same.

You know you can use em for ebooks as well. Music videos and books all in one easy to carry space saving device. Travel light I say ( more room for Macross ) 366926[/snapback] Heh, actually, I read the first two or three books in the Hitchiker's series entirely on my PSP. I enjoy a good paper book, but I'll take what I can get.

Yeah. I don't really notice any differences. Yeah. I also liked that you only talked to your team mates.

The way I understood it, they'd done entirely new scripts with new English voice acting... and Infafune himself wouldn't allow them to use it, because he didn't want the X Collection interfering with sales of Maverick Hunter X. He admitted at that time that he intended to continue remaking the X games through X6 in the Maverick Hunter style (as well as the classics through 8 in the Powered Up style), so Capcom of America is keeping the work done for the X Collection for potential use in the Maverick Hunter games.

Pretty good. I haven't been using it much lately, though. No, I can't stand playing with strangers. It seems I either play people (usually in FPS) that are just way better than me, or I play people (usually at fighting games) that seem to enjoy cursing me out when I beat them stupid. I have about half a season done on Madden, maybe a quarter season done on NHL. I'm... somewhere along the PGA Tour in Tiger. I beat Call of Duty and Perfect Dark. I kinda lost interested in Project Gotham after I got the awards for Lamborghini club and Ferrari club. I just kinda stopped on NFS... meaning to get back to it, never have. As for DoA, I just have to unlock Tengu and get the rest of the costumes. Yes, as a matter of fact I have. And they're why I haven't been on Xbox . Megaman X Collection, Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition, and Ape Escape 3 are all very fun games I've been playing on PS2. And Maverick Hunter X is officially my favorite PSP game now. It'd be better if I could find a new job.

How many did you play, David? I do remember Kaiser Sigma being a total pain, but I don't remember X4 with Zero being anywhere near as difficult as Gate in X6.

And Chameleon Sting. Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure you want to use Rolling Shield on Vile, and Boomerange Cutter on the D-Rex.

You guys are talking about my favorite subject. I guess I should have stopped in yesterday to join you, but I was to busy beating the game. And not just the X mode, but Vile's mode too. I have save files, if you want. I have everything for X (X's buster, not Zero's, no Hadouken), and I'm missing one sub tank for Vile. PM me if you need it. My thoughts? I absolutely LOVED this game, and I'm glad that Inafune said they'd be going all the way to X6. Even though it was a game that I beat a ridiculous number of times already (I can kill Sigma's first form without being hit on the SNES version), the new art, anime, and boss patterns made everything feel fresh and new again. Of course, it's not actually new. Even as I'd heard people gripe that the power ups were all in different locations, I've found that they're really not. The hearts and sub tanks are all in the same spots. As for the armor, they just changed which armor part is at which level, and moved the one in Chill Penguin's out of the open to a place that you still really can't miss. The new patters threw me for a bit of a loop (especially Sigma's first form and Armored Armadillo), but for the most part skill and knowledge from the original still apply (and, if you must know, I think MHX is actually easier than the original anyway). Having the anime and Vile mode helped make it more worthwhile, even if I did just pick up the X Collection, but it was still over VERY quickly.

Oh yeah, I used to play around with video on the PSP. Not to thrilling. But I got a iPod with video, and I LOVE it. The screen has a good 4:3 ratio for TV shows, and the iPod is much smaller than the PSP. Ideally suited for curling up in bed with. And you can't beat the storage... I have over 700 songs (with album art), the Stewie Griffin movie, plus every episode of Family Guy ever broadcast, and I'm only half full. I haven't found anything I've liked yet for ripping a DVD to a video file (I'll check out Pocket DVD Studio, A1), but if you already have a video file on your computer, say some fansubbed anime you bittorrented, you can use Videora iPod Converter to convert it into a file that works on your iPod. It should work for PSP users as well, although the Videora people have a converter specifically for PSPs. The only real difference is that the PSP one automatically renames the files so the PSP can find them, while the iPod converter doesn't (since the you can call it whatever you want and the iPod can detect it).

No, freaky would be having your water cooling pipes exit the case, then run through a modified air conditioning unit that will lower the temperature to 33 degrees F before the water pipes run back through the case.... ..hmm. *Begins drawing blueprints*

Heh heh... next time, myk. Mmm... liquid nitrogen cooled...

Simply put, I want one.

Heh, sorry to dissapoint you, myk. I'm hardcore on console gaming, but I'm not really a PC gamer, so I'd never really thought about building a custom rig. Out of the last four computers I've owned (3 desktop, 1 laptop), in two cases I went to Best Buy, picked a brand, and bought the top of the line (HP desktop, VAIO desktop). In both cases, I wound up burned. The mother board fried on the HP after about a year, prompting me to buy the VAIO. And the VAIO's power supply fan has issues. As for the other two, I bought the absolute cheapest desktop they had at the time, because all my wife wanted was to go on the internet while I was tinkering with the VAIO. And I bought the cheapest VAIO laptop just so I wouldn't be without a computer when I vacation. If it makes you feel better, I plan on building a new computer after Vista is released. That one will be wholey custom. It's the power supply fan, not the CPU fan. I don't think any cables are in the way, and I can't figure out how to dissassemble the power supply anyway. I remember those days. Yeah, now when I hit it, it quiets for a moment, then goes back to buzzing. When I replace the power supply, it'll be with a new computer. Like I said, it's a propriety part. It's crappy. It's underpowered. It's the only one that'll fit, and it's $350. I can buy a better power supply and a new case for less than that.

I don't. If I'm awake, my main PC is probably on, and I find the comforting quiet hum of the fans sort of... soothing. I think, at least mine anyway... I think my Xbox is louder than my 360. Especially when you start it up... the bastard's fan sounds like a jet turbine spinning up. Some white-trash kid's four-banger Civic with a fart can on the end is better than the gentle purr of a well-tuned 3000GT? While we're on the subject, the fan in my computer's power supply has issues (and it's a proprietary deal, so I can't replace it without spending a small fortunte to get the exact same shitty under-powered piece of crap... damn VAIO, I'm definately custom-building my next computer). Sometimes, the fan in it buzzes like a lawn mower (this is usually corrected by shutting down the PC, then rebooting later). I definately prefer the quiet hum to the lawn mower buzz.

Well, even though I'm kinda psyched for Vista, in general I'm rather against dumbing down (although, from most of the people I talk to about computer stuff, I can see why Microsoft would think it necessary). Whatever security fixes they implemented me don't concern me too much, since I know how to keep my system clean. There was always that mysterious chance that something might not work right afterward. And I surely don't want my computer telling me what to do and how to do it. With all that in mind, I decided not to downgrade.

Except that wasn't the original statement. The original statement was that some women have claimed that passing a stone is worse than childbirth. If some women have claimed that, then it's true. JB0's bit about one being natural and one being not was speculation, as was Hurin's conjecture that there are more techniques to deal with the pain of childbirth than kidney stones. Telling us that you found a kidney stone to hurt less is useful first-hand testimony, but it doesn't disprove the statement that some women have found stones to be more painful. The size of the stone, the ease of birth, the physiological nature of the mother and of the infant are all variables that make the matter entirely subjective. Moreover, simply because childbirth is a pain that males can never know, or the fact that it's dissimilar to passing a stone, doesn't diminish curiousity about the subject or a need to try to put it in a frame of reference to something more familiar.

I couldn't get the demo download to finish. It'd start, then drop the 18mb/s, then just quit. I guess I'll wait awhile, and then try bittorrent. I'm not a big RTS fan, but the game looks kinda interesting.

Sorry to dissapoint you, guys, but for some stubborn reason, I adamantly refuse to chance Windows to Service Pack 2, and my edition is Home. So, my computer isn't compatible with XBMC (or Xbox 360, for that matter... no more streaming media for me, unless the "future proofing" Peter Moore was talking about includes streaming from Vista PCs).

Game? Hard to say. Series? Megaman. That was never really my genre, but if I had to pick one, I'd say Einhander.

Except that I did take it into account. So, the women who first compared them are retarded, then? Hurin didn't compare kidney stones and childbirth, he stated factually that some women compared them, and were of the opinion that one hurt more than the other (and even questions why they might come to that conclusion). In a topic about kidney stones, mentioning this fact isn't out of place, although what it actually brings to the discussion is debatable. I'll grant you that JB0's orgasm comment was over the line, and you had ever right to call him on it. But condemning the rest of us as "retarded" is uncalled for.

Hey, Jem's right. We have no idea how much it hurts to give birth. But while we're at it... Jem, have YOU given birth? Or passed a kidney stone, for that matter? If the answer to either is no, then you're no more qualified than Hurin, Sundown, or (inappropriate remarks about orgasms aside) even JB0 to make a comparison. In any case, everyone is different. Some women I know have found childbirth to be a truly grueling experience for them. Likewise, some women I know found it to be relatively easy. So what are we really comparing? If a woman has a difficult childbirth and a tiny stone, she's likely to claim childbirth to be more painful. If her childbirthing went fairly smoothly, but she passed a larger stone, then maybe she'd find the stone to be more painful. It's not like there's objective standards for definatively measuring what hurts worse.