Native Jovian

I understand almost nothing in this thread but for some reason it makes me want to play this game anyway. Maybe I'll give the free trial a whirl once I'm off work for the summer and don't have anything better to do.

So what you're saying is that you aren't man enough for this movie.

He made a movie about it? I didn't even know that. I just know that he's a crazy bible-beating "science is evil" uber-fundamental literalist. But at least he's good at hiding in in venues where it's not relevant.

STOP PISSIN' DAWG cappity cap-caps

I can't tell if he's being serious or trolling. But it's hilarious either way.

SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE! caps

Wait, you spelled that wrong? I honestly didn't even notice, I was just calling Shiggy a n00b.

! and such

Metal Gear?!

Who's that? Sum n00b?

There is no game. Kojima is just messing with people. The "S" stands for "sucker". I need scissors! Sixty-one!

For some reason, my Wii runs really hot. Like, I ejected a disc this morning after it had been turned off all night, and the disc was still noticeably warm. It's on a wooden shelf, so it's not like the vents are being blocked by a carpet or anything. Anyone else run into that before?

I rarely recall my dreams, but of those that I do remember, they're almost never nightmares. They almost never have anything to do with real life, either -- it almost always involves something I was watching/reading/playing/etc. Quite possibly the nerdiest dream ever: I recall fighting Vegeta inside Sealab (of Sealab 2021 fame) for some reason. I can't remember why (or even if there was a reason, really), but I do remember that I kicked his lily ass. And then Sealab exploded, because Sealab always explodes. I've had a handful of zombie dreams too, but oddly enough they've never been nightmares. One I remember was me sitting in a big skyscraper of some kind (I think it was a hotel?) on a second-floor walkway above a huge lobby. There were zombies swarming all over the ground floor, but we'd destroyed the staircases between the first and second floors (good zombie survival strategy, that) so we were safe. I was sitting next to someone on this balcony-walkway with a rifle in my lap, looking out the lobby windows (which took up the whole front wall, naturally) at muzzle flashes and explosions going on at the other end of the city. I had a brief conversation with the guy next to me, along the lines of "I guess the army's retaking the city." "Yep." "Should be here by tomorrow, you think?" "Yeah, probably." "I hope they don't shoot us because they mistake us for zombies." "Yeah, that would suck." And that was the end of the dream. Another I recall involved me boarding up a house because zombies were on the way. It wasn't my house (it wasn't any place I recognized) but I was trying to board up all the doors and windows to make it zombie-proof while at the same time watching people outside run around in a panic. I was trying to board up a window and look out of it at the same time (which even in a dream didn't work very well) when I saw the first zombie come walking down the street. A guy stepped up to it with a shotgun and was about to blow it away when he stumbled, so he shoot it in the foot instead of the face. That slowed the zombie down, but it kept coming. I guess the guy with the shotgun must've been out of ammo, because instead of shooting again, he cocked his arm back and hurled the shotgun like a javelin, straight through the zombie's chest. It lodged there, sticking straight through out of its back, and then the zombie fell over dead. Even in the dream I remember going "Holy shit, that was awesome!" That's about when I woke up. So yeah. I tend to have dreams that are weird, but cool. Or at least, the ones I remember are.

Also Alzheimer's.

You should try watching Gundam. They've got a half-dozen different alternate universes (in addition to stuff set in the "real world").

So it's not one of the better Star Trek movies. It's still a decent movie. The fact that other Star Trek movies are better don't make this one bad. Except that you know it wasn't going to be "classic" Trek going in. That's the whole bloody point of the movie. So it's less like asking for a CT remix and getting Zelda and more like someone making a CT remix and you saying "hey why'd you change the CT main theme I liked the original better". Well, congratulations, your opinion differs from other people's. It happens from time to time, especially on the internet.

This attitude is retarded. I've seen it applied to any popular franchise, from Final Fantasy to Star Wars to Resident Evil. "It's a good movie/game/whatever, but it's not a good Star Wars/Resident Evil/Final Fantasy/whatever." What a thing is called doesn't change its quality. If it's a mildly entertaining action-y sci-fi flick, then it's a mildly entertaining action-y sci-fi flick regardless of whether it's called "Star Trek" or not. Maybe it's not the movie you wanted to see when you heard there was a new Star Trek movie coming out, but it's still amusing, isn't it? Edit -- also, agreeing with the "Transformers didn't have enough giant robot fighting" sentiment. The last few minutes with all-out fighting on the city streets were awesome, but the whole damn movie should've been like that. (I imagine that the reason it wasn't was because it was horrifically expensive to film action shots. Oh well...)

That's because strikers are awesome. I had one in an old campaign who was great fun. He started out as a rogue intended to hit people with sneak-attack throwing knives, but kept ending up in melee (for the first five or so levels, he never entered melee without going into negative HP. Not ONCE in level 1-5). I eventually multiclassed him into swordsage, which paired him quite nicely with a warblade in the party. He could use Finishing Blow to deal ridiculous damage to anyone under half their total HP, and I could use a combination of sneak attack, dual-wielding, stances, boosts, and strikes to do a ridiculous amount of damage during the first round. We could one-two punch damn near ANYTHING even remotely level-appropriate to death. That campaign was also awesome for effectively being an evil campaign (though it wasn't started with the intention of being one). We had my LE rogue who was basically a mafia enforcer, an NE warforged who hated meatbags, a CN (borderline CE) wizard who focused on summons (whose backstory involved him being epic-level before he went senile and slowly relearning all his uber powers, Tellah-from-FFIV style), and a CE bard who had absolutely devastating debuffs and save-or-dies built into his bardic music thanks to the DM allowing an absolutely broken PrC called Siren that was meant to enhance monsters, not to be used by PCs.

what the hell they're seriously up to 400 now? I remember where there were only a hundred and fifty(-one), and by God that was more than enough for us.

ten character limit is useless

That's what she said. ....wait, that ain't right...

Done and done!

Poems, huh? How about a haiku: Hand me my shotgun. There are zombies everywhere. But I'll deal with them.

I'm sorry too. The opportunity presented itself, I couldn't resist. I'm a bad person. (But at least my grammar is good?)

I actually said this, but I was mocking Lotd at the time, so I think it's appropriate to attribute the quote to him.