DarthTofu

/me attacks Mad with a bronze schmiter! What is Runescape?!?! WHAT IS RUNESCAPE?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!? It's an MMORPG. If you've ever played Morrowind or WOW its kind of like them except with considerably worse graphics... and no N00bs like me... I think I play in world 35 if anyone wants to meet my character and give him nice stuff...

/me murders Aenivae_Ikeda for being a choir geek I'm going to guess that you guys all marched in off-step even though someone was whacking a snare drum or base drum in time that your left foot was supposed to come down when it hit? Sorry, band geeks have to make fun of any and all who can't march in step- it's in our blood and nature! Supposedly there was one band that did duel of the fates in coordination with their choir- that I would very much like to see!

Huh? COnversion machine? What is Wal-Mart converting? And good pics, Dino Chick- I don't have the arts and crafts ability to make anything that good- I specify more in either building large things that do mundanely simple tasks or just blowing up stuff that's cute and fluffy.

Yeah, "MIcrosoft Works" Always seemed a little bit oxymoronic to me...

Just to be an ass I figured I'd post this and get the old geezers angry at me for posting something which is before my time and yet still funny! So here it is: Abott and Costello reguarding computers in 2005 as per the E-mail that my father sent me: You (sort of!) have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on... for those who don't, you are too young anyway. If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, "Who's on first?" might have turned out something like this: COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you? COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer. ABBOTT: Mac? COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou. ABBOTT: Your computer? COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one ABBOTT: Mac? COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou. ABBOTT: What about Windows? COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here? ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows? COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look at the windows? ABBOTT: Wallpaper. COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software. ABBOTT: Software for Windows? COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have? ABBOTT: Office. COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office can you recommend anything? ABBOTT: I just did. COSTELLO: You just did what? ABBOTT: Recommend something. COSTELLO: You recommended something? ABBOTT: Yes. COSTELLO: For my office? ABBOTT: Yes. COSTELYLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office? ABBOTT: Office. COSTELLO: Yes, for my office! ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows. COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, let's just say I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need? ABBOTT: Word. COSTELLO: What word? ABBOTT: Word in Office. COSTELLO: The only word in office is office. ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows. COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows? ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W". COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "w" if you don't start with some straight answers. OK, forget that. Can I watch movies on the Internet? ABBOTT: Yes, you want Real One. COSTELLO: Maybe a real one, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of your business. Just tell me what I need! ABBOTT: Real One. COSTELLO: If it's a long movie, I also want to watch reels 2, 3 and 4. Can I watch them? ABBOTT: Of course. COSTELLO: Great! With what? ABBOTT: Real One. COSTELLO: OK, I'm at my computer and I want to watch a movie. What do I do? ABBOTT: You click the blue "1". COSTELLO: I click the blue one what? ABBOTT: The blue "1". COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue w? ABBOTT: The blue "1" is Real One and the blue "W" is Word. COSTELLO: What word? ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows. COSTELLO: But there are three words in "office for windows"! ABBOTT: No, just one But it's the most popular Word in the world. COSTELLO: It is? ABBOTT: Yes, but to be fair, there aren't many other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all the other Words out there. COSTELLO: And that word is real one? ABBOTT: Real One has nothing to do with Word. Real One isn't even part of Office. COSTELLO: STOP! Don't start that again. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with? ABBOTT: Money. COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have? ABBOTT: Money. COSTELLO: I need money to track my money? ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer. COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer? ABBOTT: Money COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer? ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge. COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much? ABBOTT: One copy. COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money? ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money. COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money? ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT! (A few days later) ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you? COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off? ABBOTT: Click on "START".... W/ Appologies to whatever empolyee at the Orlando International Airport came up with that

Nice... I think I'll go with changing star wars history forever- IE, the Rebels won't even get to Yavin- they shall die at square one, or possibly square two if they're lucky. However I have no intention of letting them get to square five or higher!

'Salright- I was just joshin' ya- being an ass is fun, else I wouldn't be one all the time! Oh, man, now I have to change that to my new sig, its official...

Well, now that Marching band is finally over (Does a funky dance) I have the free time to test it... I have no life and few friends save for the forums where people (Cough, Dath Tex, Cough) pick on me and poke fun at me... I'd be happy to try it out for ya guys!

I just found the game Runescape online recently (Level one n00b) and I'm wondering if anyone else is on there, and if so wat their s/n is. I'm Darth_Tofu, same as on the forums. Anyone on there that's, like, level 5,000 with thousands of pounds of gold that wants to donate it to the "Make Tofu less n00by" cause... yeah.

lol, that was awesome! Full props to this guy- the complete Star Wars trilogy viewable in under five minutes!

Umm, just saying, I think that the game automatically orients ships so that their most powerful weaponry side is pointed at the enemy. SO that could just be the original Rebellion programming preventing you from doing this by being too effective.

... probably because "sniping" in stoormtrooper talk counts as hitting the target at a distance that isn't point blanck range I gotta agree, droidekas were way underused- if the Trade Federation just scrapped all of their stupid skinny skeletal ones to make destroyers they could have won the entire campaign with ease. Why are they called Droidekas anyhow?

I guess I can see your point there, but then that wasa kind of the point of the command ship wasn't it? And wouldn't the droids have threat indicators or something through AI? Some of this stuff just doesn't really add up- with technology as it was in those episodes the droids should have had better planning and intelligence- after all, IG-88 made a rather awesome bounty hunter, did he not?

"Now all those star wars toys we have can be used again! ...I'm not the only one with star wars toys, am I?" Hell no! I have about five old tupperware containers (As in, industrial size containers) full of the things from when i was eight! Haven't touched 'em in over four years!

So basically just one third of them suck... Thing is, droids might be slightly more accurate than their sure-shooting stormtrooper counterparts. While the battle droids from Phantom Menace are pretty lame they are proabably cheap to produce. Where superior tactics can't win sheer number can. Also, I don't think that it would be too hard to outfit droids with different weapons- some of them have fingers, and building hands wouldn't be too hard.

POWER TO THE BAND GEEKS!!! Just tell me, do you live in Georgia, and did is your sister's uniform black, white, and gold, with a "CC" on the left breast?

nice new words, there, Rob. Though still, stoormtroopers bleed, battledroids are produced, stormtroopers eat, battle droids shoot, you see the logic here?

w00t, good job, guys! I give you a saltue: /me salutes.

OH my gosh- Everyone, look, George W. Bush is on the forums!!!!!! Sorry, i just had to do that to you. i believe you meant inferior. Also, the stoormtroopers aren't must brighter in ANH. Stoormtrooper: "I need to see your identification" Obi: "He doesn't need to show you any identification." Stoormtrooper: "He doesn't need to show me any identification." Obi: "Move along." Stoormtrooper: "Move along."

Umm, do you mean how you determine where you go in relationship to the music? Well, our band doesn't actually come up with the show- we just play it and go to our spots. Some guy in Texas I think actually concieves it- he get's a sample of the music to play and then writes sets based on that. As far as sets go, each member of the band has a set book, which is a book full of locations on the field. You have side one and side two which are respectively to the left and right of you audience. Sets are then based out on an eight-to-five step size (IE the step size that you would take if you were gong to walk a straight distance from yard line to yard line that would take exactly eight steps). For instance, you might have a set that says "Side one, five past front hash, two inside 35". That means that you would be on side one, five eight-to-five steps past the front hash, and 2 steps to the left of the 35 yeard line. Each set has its own number of counts to get there, also. For instance, based on the music, if you have a melody piece that takes place over twelve counts, you will move to that location in twelve counts, whereas if it is a sixteen count melody the same is also true. In some cases, such as where song will repeat the melody or slightly alter it, the melody line is broken into two equal-length sets so that you march one form for one piece of the song and another that is similar for the slightly altered version of that song. Sometimes you will have holds if you come to areas that are meant to be excessively loud (Fortissimo, AKA tripple forte), excessively powerful, excessively quiet (Piano), or in which ou have a ritard or accelerando (Speeding up or slowing down). Its actually considerably harder than it sounds when you consider staying in step, watching the drum major, getting to the right spot, trying not to look at the ground to find your spot, trying to somehow miraculously back step from 12 steps from the front yard line to 7 past the front hash, to two past the front hash (Effing impossible coordinates!!!! ). Anyway, yeah, that's the low and sknny on marching band as I know it for my freshmen year... If there are any other more experianced marchers, feel free to correct me.

Last year is was a $50 gift card for our store (Zellers), which I suppose is pretty good. If I win I can buy Revenge of the Sith. There is a $25 gift card for second place, but unless I trade in some HBC points for a Trande-and-Save, it will cost me more money to get it. Ah the joys of being the over-piced competitor of Wal-Mart! Dude, Wal-Mart is, like, the crappiest store in existance... I want to strangle the stupid smiley faces that they hang up... Albeit, were it not for Wal-Mart, many more people would have died from hurricane Katrina (Very sad pictures of some six year old giving a thumbs up for back to school sales while people walk in the flooded floors taking what they need to survive)

Hold on, so would these be like Elderscrolls campaigns, in that you can get quests from random people and influence other quests through them? For instance, you could join one guild of smugglers to get good heavy weaponry, but in doing so you cause a different group to send assassins after you that would have given you good stealth weapons or something?

If we're going for realism here we might want Stackpole instead- That guy researches just about everything before writing it to make it scientifically acurrate. THe only thing I can really say that might hurt you is if you went with the "One shot kills" approach. I personally liked that in Rainbow Six and such, but I think tha taspect hurt the game somewhat with a lot of the people out there. I don't know for sure, but I think the expansion packs gave you a better survival rating...

A note that I'll mkae here" Don't be afraid to just garrison a planet and leave it- when I was new at the game I always used diplomacy to make every planet 100% loyal, and had one uber fleet with all diplomats on it. Even in a small galaxy that took forever.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Please make this game, somebody!!!!