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Do you really think any state would outlaw interracial marriages?

They would if interracial marriages had the disapproval gay marriage does in some states.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

If the current gen game is out of print and you can only find it used, I doubt anyone cares. If you can't actually buy the game new you're not hurting anyone by buying it used.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/did_herman_cain_know_he_was_qu.html

"One of the weirdest moments of last night's Republican debate probably slipped completely under the radar for most viewers. This moment occurred in Herman Cain's closing statement, when the former pizza-chain CEO recited a favorite inspirational quote:

"A poet once said, 'life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it's never easy when there's so much on the line.'"

Nothing strange about that on the surface, until you Google the quote and you realize that these words of wisdom were uttered not by a poet, but by disco queen Donna Summer in her song "The Power of One." Even more bizarre, this isn't even one of Summer's classic hits — she recorded it just over a decade ago as the theme song for Pokémon: The Movie 2000.

Is it possible that Cain knew the origins of the quote and was just utilizing some extremely dry humor when he referred to its author, Donna Summer, as "a poet"? Probably not!"

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

I messed up my tape for the show last night (although who cares about watching it now), but I read that Julie or someone said that Brendan got over half the votes, which means if him and Dominic were close, that Cassi had to have gotten less than 5% of the votes.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

They are almost always better, especially the latter.

While it's stupid that trailers give away the whole plot sometimes, I can at least get why they do that, instead of going with something simpler, but for example, does anyone honestly think that the main poster used for Episode I (not that it was bad or anything) was better than this:

http://www.impawards.com/1999/star_wars_episode_one_the_phantom_menace_ver1.html

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

12 hour matches were the best. They definitely should stay. Night/Day trends make matches more exciting.

Then why would you like 12 hour matches? There are no trends.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

There's still hope! It still hasn't been as long as the gap between 2007/2008 yet.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

In all fairness to Porsche, it was cocktail onions that she put in the mix, so that's probably what she meant.

I'm not sure what the difference between cocktail onions and regular onions even is!

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Meet_the_Browns_episodes

...wut?

Like, what?!

I don't know what aspect of this is most ridiculous.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Remember that girl like 10 years who made a web site asking for donations just to help out her life or something (she wasn't even that poor) and she got a s*** ton of money over a year or something? Anyone know who I'm talking about? This was relevant in the earlier part of the 00's, IIRC.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

GWTW's numbers are messed up as well since it doesn't take into account all the times it was re-released, which happened all the time prior to the advent of home video. I'm sure that the numbers for GWTW's initial run would be near the top of an all time adjusted list, but I don't know if it's possible to tell, at least not with the numbers that are widely quoted, where exactly it would lie.

Not to mention that there's plenty of other factors to take into account, like population (a movie making 100 million in adjusted 1939 numbers obviously reached a greater percentage of the population than a movie of comparable numbers did today), and ticket prices (both the average ones for the time, and for "spectacles" such as GWTW. I'm not familiar with what tickets for GWTW cost, but in the 1950's it was common for spectacle films to run in roadshows for a year prior to general release and in these formats ticket prices could cost between 20-35 dollars in today's prices.)

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

The alternative to apathy isn't rioting, you know.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

International numbers are going to be really biased towards recent movies (even if you take inflation into account), since the international market has grown a lot in recent years

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

101 Dalmatians/The Sword in the Stone/Mary Poppins/The Jungle Book/Bedknobs and Broomsticks/The Aristocats/Robin Hood. All their major movies were set there or in British controlled territories. I'm sure there's probably some that I'm missing as well.

Edit: Aristocats takes place in France apparently, but I'm pretty sure all of the characters seemed British.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

*SPOILER ALERT*

It didn't work for Mewt! He was just as miserable as he had been before! Because he just got what he wanted without having to go through anything personal to find acceptance.

And Ritz never dealt with the issues with her mother either. She got to be a leader for a little bit, but they would have come up again at some point. The problem was never her hair, so it changing wouldn't have accomplished anything. Really, other than Marche's brother, whose issue was entirely different, I'm not sure anyone actually solved their problems by going to Ivalice.

Edit: Not to mention all of the random characters the main characters didn't know/like who got turned into zombies/monsters/and the like.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

*SPOILER ALERT*

The point was that none of the characters (aside from Marche's brother which was a stupid plot point) had addressed the issues that made their lives bad to begin with, and running away to a fantasy world would only help for so long. What are they to do next time a personal problem comes up? Run away again?

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Gone by now possibly?

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Disagree

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

I mean, it doesn't seem like that black of a comedy, which you think it would be considering it was based on a pretty serious incident that actually happened.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

What a great season for womyn everywhere!

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/04/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?hpt=hp_c1

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

You ever see Piranhas? Same thing.

But Piranhas is played up to be like a B-movie, or at least the advertising was. This is just being played straight.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Cowboys & Aliens is a fantastic title.

Yeah, if you're five. Or if there's some sense of irony with it.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Yes

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

While on one hand, part of this should encourage the studios to not spend so much money on franchises when it come to allegedly adult/all ages fare, I can't imagine this many people saw ads for The Smurfs and excitedly bought tickets to go see it.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/07/first-box-office-cowboys-aliens-40m-smurfs-29m-crazy-stupid-love-18m/

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

The problem with the Wii was that multiplatform games took off, and the Wii didn't have the specs to take advantage.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

OK, well then post this info later or something.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Well then black out the moderator's name or whatever and post it on b8chat or something. Awfully convenient that you can't show proof of any of this.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

I will take Ulti leaving as tacit confirmation he has no proof of any of the allegations he is making against me.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

It's called the Golden Rule. You are treated as you deserve.

The Golden Rule is you treat everyone the way you would like to be treated yourself. How can you not know that?

And I never post private conversations with mods. I'm glad that was only an NKL though, which means the mod agrees you probably deserved to read everything I said.

I did not mark that post in this topic. Go ahead and IM TRE if you don't believe me. Either you are lying about a mod telling you this, or the mod that told you I marked that post is lying.

SephG: Assuming this is true, you have nothing to be ashamed of.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

What message are you accusing me of marking? Is this recent? Because if so I haven't marked anything. That's the truth. Do you have any sort of evidence that I marked this message you are accusing me of?

And if you only give respect to people that "deserve" it, then that is not really having respect.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

To Ulti:

I never said that what cyclo said was right, and I'm not defending it and you are one of the least respectful people on the board so I don't see how you have any basis to judge respect on.

This has got to be the fifth or so time that you have accused me of some constant marking vendetta, which is not true. I don't know what you're talking about (unless it was one of those jp trolling topics from years ago), so unless you can present some sort of evidence here, there is no reason that anyone on this board should consider you anything but a liar. I can't remember the last time I marked a post, and I certainly never did it in an attempt to target specific people, and I never marked hundreds of posts at a time, as if that's even possible. That is the truth, and if you have anything to show which contradicts that go right ahead. You are just a big liar and a big bully and what you are saying is not the truth.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

One of my new goals is to learn to talk like the "chav" chick from Misfits.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

While I don't agree with the harshness of what cyclo is saying, SephG has said pretty nasty things to cyclo, and I've never seen anyone speak up and call out SephG (or maybe it was sess) for what they are saying. Either you guys are hypocrites or homophobes.


Not that I can ever believe anything that SephG says is true anyway since he trolls so much. "The Boy who Cried Wolf" so to speak.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Sometimes there will be a comment, sometimes not. I submitted a favorite Harry Potter character one, and that was rejected with no reason given.

http://imgur.com/rm1dr

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

for being too narrow. :(

There was a poll about M&M types one time!

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

If Sprite/7 Up/Sierra Mist is called lemonade in the U.K., what do they call actual lemonade? I've always wondered this.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

I read the article!

"You guys don't understand. Your money's not here. It's in Steve's house and Bill's house."

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

But then it will still do s*** like this cause people are greedy f***s

Then Congress/the President need to appoint better leadership to the Fed, and put in place standards about conflicts of interest.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

While the Fed needs to have better standards to avoid conflict of interests, making it more controlled by Congress or the President is not the answer. The whole point of the Fed is that it is supposed to be independent of politics.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

This map should be useful when the nation descends into feuding nation states:



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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Do psychologists buy all their books on Amazon or something?

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Wow @ this topic.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

We couldn't well have a Summer Contest stealing Gamespot's thunder could we?

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

The Democrats seem to be more split on more issues, when they did control the house they didn't do much.

In all fairness, a big part of the problem was the fact that you need 60/100 votes to effectively pass anything in the Senate. A lot more would have gotten done had a simple majority been needed in the Senate/the Democrats had even once tried to call the Republican's bluff. A fair bit got passed as it was.

-Fairer pay for women.
-Stimulus package
-Health care
-Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell
-Troop increases in Afghanistan
-Two Supreme Court Justice confirmations
-Attempts at Financial Reform (which the Republicans are now in the middle of attempting to gut)

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!

Obama did better than Kerry or Clinton in the overall vote too! Plus, Obama is (or at least was in 2008) personally very popular, but in many cases it doesn't extend to Democrats or liberal ideas in general. IIRC, during the Bush presidency, much was made of the younger generation (those born since the Reagan presidency) being more conservative than earlier ones (especially the Baby Boomers).

Obama did much better than Kerry in regards to those numbers. He only outdid Kerry 53%/49% in the overall vote, but the youth numbers were something akin to 66%/55%. I don't exactly remember the Clinton numbers, although the numbers in comparison to the Republican were still better.

The under 25 voters now weren't even voting during the Bush presidency, and they're the liberal ones I'm talking about. And there were plenty of conservative Baby Boomers. Look at all the young people who supported Goldwater, like YAF, and the college groups associated with Buckley.

As long as conservatives maintain majorities in these states, additional liberal residents of these states only increase conservative power in the federal government. And considering Hispanics voted for Bush, I wouldn't count on them voting solidly for Democrats in the future.

It won't increase conservative power in the House, unless Hispanics disperse more than they are now. And if Texas gets a Hispanic population close to 40% or something, that will be enough to win statewide office for Democrats. Hispanics voted for Bush, but there's no way they would vote for Republicans now with those same numbers, based on immigration policies alone.

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Black Turtle beat me, Yesmar in the Fall 2010 Guru Contest!