DarthTofu

I always considered those grids to be targeting brackets- "Inbound fighters at ten-thirteen" would refer to the coordinates on those brackets. Granted, one would think we'd have a "Z" coordinate as well when referring to the inbounding coordinates, space being 3D and all...

That's why I still have my 486DX66 with Windows 3.11 and my Pentium II 200 MHz with Win95b in storage Hehe- I use mine to do homework, still. Screwed me over rather royally when it told me it was Daylight Saving Time the other day, and I forgot that Congress had passed Legislation well after the program was released to change when Daylight Saving Time came into effect. I thought I was only up until 12:00, I was up until 1:00, and I haven't been able to fix my biological clock since. Ugh!

Haha! I found pictures from the Haunted Island project! Well, okay, all of two pictures, but still... This one is the entrance to our "Hospital." The sheets say "Intensive Care," but due to a combination of people trying to "fix" them and me having bad handwriting in the first place, that's somewhat difficult to see. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/intensivecare.jpg This one is of me, back at my house, after the second day of fun. I haven't got quite so much fake blood on, but I still look rather good, I think: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/homecoming07.jpg

Is there a big difference betwenn the hungarian and the romanian language? Oh, my goodness, yes. Romanian is probably the closest living language to Latin, but with curious Slavic influences. Hungarian developed from an entirely different language group from other Indo-European languages, and isn't spoken anywhere else except Hungarian communities. I find them both fascinating, but Romanian stays with me better. --Jonah Ah, jeez, I can never understand how people can speak inflictive languages; maybe it's because I'm so used to inflictive English, but it takes me a good minute or two to process anything someone says in Latin and to rearrange the words in my head to make sense.

Nice, though the title on your hosting site reads, "Smuggle's Tales." Also, the plural of Jedi is simply Jedi, not Jedis, unless, of course, you happen to be the Chiss bartender from JK II. Other than some minor spelling errors, rather impressive!

Thankfully no. The thing cost $5.00, and there were actual people doling out tickets, plus a large line. The closest thing we got to stoners were, as I've said, the people who have the IQ of a stone or two.

That was an excellent movie! I saw the end coming from almost the beginning, and only thought the parts with Will Ferrel(sp?) were any good; the rest of it was just predictable and the humor wasn't all that funny to me. Oddly enough my sister thought it was the best thing ever, so different stuff for everyone, I guess...

*Applies CPR to this thread* Come on, guys, it's the 27th- All Hallow's Eve is less than a week away! I just got back from some fun at a local park where the Beta Club chapter of my school was doing a haunted house. We had the racketball courts- two closed in, three open air. We left one closed-in court un-touched and didn't use it; not enough people and supplies. The second was a "psycho" room- people in random costumes yelling creepy stuff and running around in a strobe light. Next were the open-air rooms: First was the Vampire Room- sheets and stuff over furniture and black lights for illumination. Then the "Creepy Little Girl's Room" as we called it- lot's of small children's stuff on the walls and floors and girls skipping around screaming at people to be their friends. Finally: My room; Intensive Care. A bloody set of sheets kept it curtained off, and inside were about five tables with sheets stuffed to look like bodies and the odd real person thrown in. Fake blood galore, and for a couple of hours we had a drill. I was the "greeter," which meant that I stepped out in a pair of bloody scrubs and shouted, "WELCOME to Intensive Care! The Patients are mad" (Wait for a scream from behind the curtains) "And we make them madder! Please, too many strangers at once will excite them, so enter only in groups of five and six- now, right this way!" I would then my arm and wave them forward (The last trick I do). People in the room ranged from rocking along the walls to jumping out from under beds. I've decided that I'm never going to be a dick to the scarers at Halloween houses- the people who yell "You can't touch me!" or "You're fake!" are a pain in the neck and need to die- we're on a budget, and we're in High School; what do you expect? The worst by far was some woman who walked through insulting everyone in the houses, calling us idiots and fak-o dummies. I had to resist the urge to throw a plastic skeleton hand at her or, better yet, jam it down her ****ing throat. We scared some people who were willing to be scared, though, so it was fun for both us and for them overall. A lot of folks got rather annoyed when it ran over by about an hour (Stupid people moving through the atractions slowly), but I'd expected to stay until eleven tonight like I did last night, so it worked out alright for me when I left at around 11:20 after tear-down. If anyone is ever down in Florida around Halloween let me know and I'll tell them where the Haunted Island is.

Because it looks like the ship in the link. Hey Mad- your icon isn't your own? I always assumed you made it, especially after the Christmas version of it you concocted!

I read the wikipedia plot summary of Hostel partway through and swore off horror movies once I was done vomiting...

Man- the only ones in that list that I've even played are X-wing, Supremacy, and Arena, I'm pretty sure...

What movie is the center one from, and what poem is the last one from?

DAMN! Wow, Mad, that thing is impressive as hell! Post more pics of this thing as it comes along, it looks frigging awesome! Obsidian has nothing on you, mate!

I don't play online very often, but if I ever do it will likely be on Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II: Rise of the Witch King expansion (I love that game) and I'll most likely use my usual screen name- DarthTofu, though if that one happens to be taken, I'll be forced to use my alternative: DarthTofu2. Creative, ain't it?

Tolkien made the full-out language of Elvish, I recall. It's in the appendix to The Return of the King, and I meant to teach myself some... Then I realized that I really didn't care for the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a whole enough to try to learn the language- I just translated the bits of elvish throughout the trilogy and in The Hobbit.

I only speak English fluently. I know a small handfull of words in Spanish and Russian (Not even close to a passing fluency, or even a working knowledge in either) and I'm taking Latin in school right now. I'm a second year student, thus I can translate relatively simple sentances at a fair rate, but if we're talking actual Latin from "back in the day" I'm pretty much useless- too many bloody abreviations, plus I keep wanting to treat the letter "V" as a consonant in Latin. As you might imagine, I voted for one. @Rob: Congrats: You have inflated my ego by another fifteen PSI.

I've heard that joke before- I laughed rather hard when first I heard it... Hmm, perhaps I ought to resurrect the Jokes thread again... *Strokes his stubby goatee* Yes, perhaps I shall resume my dastardly habits...

Very nice, Mad. A fillet is a curved edge, like if you placed a ninety degree section of cylinder (90 degrees of the circle at the end) and stuck it on the straight edge such that the edges of the cylinder were flush with the object. I'll have to find you a picture, this description probably isn't helping...

Aw, man. sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt Ero, eris, erit, erimis, eritis, erunt Eram, eras, erat, eramus, eratus, erant Okay, there's "to be" in present, imperfect, and future... Does that count as three, or only one?

I'd suggest sending your minimal fleet over Coruscant away for a little while- like "to another galaxy" away. The Rebels are usually prompted to attack me if I do that... I just got attacked by the Rebels in a game I'm playing, but it's just the usual crappy attack fleet- eight Blockade Runners, five or six medium transports, two Bulk Transports. I'm actually decked out with some descent defenses, though, so it's an almost even battle... Almost. Any idea why the AI would ever go into battle without fifty brajillion (Brajillion is a word, by the way) fighters backing it up?

'ello, then, Peregrinus; feel free to stop wandering and to stay here a while! (Jeeze, I'm a second year Latin student- I should have realized that your name was in the language of awesome from the start rather than having to Google it first) We're always happy to see fresh new faces, and I'll tell you in advance: You're distinct lack of rank means exactly as much as my garishly colorful rank, means exactly as much as Paul's tremendously military rank: Absolutely nothing. It's a measure of post counts. Nobody's about to be a jerk and tell you that you can't post somewhere, or call you a "stupid cadet" or anything like it unless you actually say something stupid.

I don't know if this was posted back when it was more relevant or not, but if you read XKCD, this will officially be one of the most awesome things ever: http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid48208.aspx

It gets its own article? My, my, my- you are popular, Mr. Colbert!

I may or may not have lost on hard three times before finally getting the hang of it... I lost Coruscant and most of my character went traitor on me, so I kind of figured that it was pointless to continue when my enemy had twenty-plus Blockade Runners in Sesswenna (Okay, so that's an exaggeration, but it was still in the double digits!) That and my third game ever was hard, huge galaxy. I did not yet understand the advantages of the sabotage mission...

Mad: Most everyone who's seen 300 loved it.