DarthTofu

I had the same musings. It kind of reminds me of the end of Ender's Game, where the "children" have all acted as adults and, indeed, better than most adults likely would have, yet in the end they suppose that they probably will be forced to return to school to recieve an education that they no longer really need.

Push, pull, speed, grip, and force cheat. With saberrealisticcombat cheats I don't need no stinkin' Force powers! Well, unless I run into a Reborn... I have to drain power, unfortunately, unless it's a multiplayer thing, and I've never been big on multiplayer...

Erm, actually you weren't wrong. According to Rowling in another interview he is an auror. I assume that he helps George out in his spare time...

Warning: One use of the F word. I think I love my friend's new girlfriend...

Whenever is good for you will probably be good for me, but we should do this sooner rather than later as I'm (finally) getting around to applying for a job, and school starts up for me in about three weeks.

OOC: Granted- but I'm not Aaron Allston. I've found that venerating someone too much and trying too much to write as they do limits one. Besides, there are several phrases that are only vaguely altered from English, such as "I get the holo." Also, we know that they speak English because A) We have the letter designations for the YVH droids and B) Nom Anor mentions a pun of the word "Drone" in Traitor while talking with Tsavong Lah. Primarily I'm only refusing to do it because I know it will tick you off, though.

Interview on what happened to who, why what worked, why what happened, etc. Long, but a great read!

Hahaha! That whole "Po-ta-toes!" thing seems to have sparked more online stuff than I thought I always assumed that it was just limited to the music videos... Great finds, both!

Haha! That's a great shop, Eagle! I can't even tell that it is a shop except by the fact that the picture is too nonsensical to be real. If it's your work, well done! If it's someone else's, they have my compliments.

*Cackles insanely* Oh, I had hoped someone would try this, just so that I could prove them wrong! Just because the word bull can refer to a male cow does not mean that it always shall! Bull is a term for the male of some species, or the particularly fiercesome, and I took it to mean the Bull Rancor! Hah! You have been anti-BEAKed! ... Now somebody post something. I have the whole second half of this planned out in my head and none of the first half written, nor even the rest of this mission figured out... I just know what needs to happen.

Poker? Why do you want me to poke her? Sorry, dumb joke, and only funny if English is your first language... Sure, why not, I'll go into a Poker tournemant with Mad. Or we could go head-to-head with our Star Wars knowledge. Everyone can PM one of the mods with a question for us to answer. The mods can put them all together, then send them to us each via PM to try to answer them. Granted, then we're on the honor system so far as Wookiepedia not being used to find the answers...

The cloth bag thing is something I'd not heard of before. I'll be sure to mention that to some friends, as well as to swing by a Goodwill store or something to pick up a couple of large tote bags to shove in the car...

That's so moving... It goes hand in hand with an epiphany I had one day in a creative writing class. I had a list of quotes, and was told to encourporate at least one of them into a piece of prose writing. One I'd never heard of was "After all, it can't rain all the time," by someone named "Crow" whom I had and still have not heard of. The quote initially sounds as though it should lift one up, reminding them that the rain must pass, but then I thought, what if it isn't? It got me thinking, why would someone want it to rain? That led to "What places and events do we associate with rain?" The first event to come to mind was a funeral, which I innitially dismissed. I kept brainstorming, but ultimately a funeral was the most prominant place for it to rain. Then I started to think of why you would want it to rain at a funeral; ultimately the rain is symbolic. As soon as it forms and starts to fall, it's going to smash to the ground and bleed off into rivers and streams and oceans and thirsty mouths. It has a very short amount of time before it's gone, but ultimately it's a beautiful thing. It's an enlongated sphere that catches the light that comes through it and leaves a rainbow behind in the air sometimes. Each drop is like a glittering diamond, as beautiful as the soul of the one who is gone. And even when the drop strikes the ground, it isn't really gone. It's still there, in the form of the flower it helps to bloom, the person it helps to quench the thirst of, the ocean it flows into to sparkle just as brightly, just as those who are gone. Their influence will live on in us, and so long as we can remember that person and how they helped, they will never truly be gone. It's probably the most profound piece I've ever written, and while others may say that Ive written better stuff since, I still say that it's the only good thing I've ever written. I think Rain is somewhere in the "Random Creative Writings" thread if anyone feels a need to read it, though I can't imagine why... Er, right, on to randomness again. Edit: Oh, my... What kind of wings does your sould have? Honestly, that is the weirdest thing ever! ... I have two for dragon wings, two for gargoyle wings, and two for fairy wings. The fairy wings are the prettiest!

We have a choice in Florida, but my family always gets paper or nothing. Plastic is essentially useless for us, but if we do wind up getting it through purchases at some place like Walmart that doesn't offer paper, we keep them in a larger bag in the closet, along with excess paper bags. We take the old paper grossery bags and put them in our trash cans with a plastic bag on the outside. We replace the plastic bag every few weeks/months depending on how much food gets slopped in, and simply remove the paper bag to the trash cans when it gets full, replacing it with another paper grocery bag. I feel better about myself and the environment, now. I don't know that it's better for the environment to use paper bags, seeing as they are generally doubled up (IE one bag inside of another to ensure that they don't tear if you're too foolish to hold them from beneath as opposed to from above) thus using more trees in their creation, but they certainly will degrade quicker in a landfill. I honestly don't know where paper grocery bags are made, what trees are used in production, etc. I just always assumed that they were a better choice as they are a renewable resource. Most of my friends get stuff in plastic, however.

My best wishes to you, mate- hopefully you'll be able to find a good one with a brighter landlord.

Double post, SOCL! Only because you specifically asked me not to yell at you for it am I doing so. I quite liked Betrayal, and you pretty much covered my reasons for it and for liking Del Ray; No longer is it so simple to distinguish good and evil. It's very much like the scene in Traitor during which Jacen and Vergere witness a predator eating its prey and discuss whether this is of the dark side, what "Killing as much as he needs" is, etc. drawing us into moral dilemmas. By and large this new series has managed to maintain some of that light heartedness from the original movies, yet still grip the reader into wondering whether some characters may yet die and where new ones will go. I especially like that it's Corellia which is rebelling, Han's home world, because that planet is one of the most-developed throughout the EU, home to a number of very well-endowed Corellians.

Sure. You can have a water on me. Oh, wait, it's summer in DC. It evaporated because it's 2,000 degrees of dry heat. But the arsenic is still in the glass if you'd like some of that.

I finally saw The Simpsons Movie today. It was certainly funny, but too many things that had you falling out of your seat laughing were given away in the previews and such, more a publicity issue than anything else. All in all, it was a "so-stupid-it's-funny" movie, one where I found myself saying "This is stupid, and only so stupid that I find it vaguely amusing." All in all, I'm not sure it deserved a full four stars. I'd give it three stars to three and a half stars. I'm not sure you can really see it again and still find it funny.

The best way to prevent this is with two or three gen cors and a KDY series II or I. A KDY battery will always prevent the AI from bombarding, and your opponent in multiplayer will probably have to devote some time and resources to sabtoging it before they try anything. Be warned, however, that if you only have one shield to prevent bombardment, the enemy can still assault the surface, so it's always a good idea to have troops stationed on the ground. At least if they all get killed, they might take a few assaulters with 'em!

What an @$$hole! Sheesh, no warning at all, and he's just booting you out like that?!? That's, to quote the name of this thread, retarded! Can you see about getting on-campus housing at all maybe?

I joined your army, Mad, but I've no clue how you play! I like those problems and solutions, though!

Make it rain in London? The only thing harder than that would be Seattle! Alright, I'll get to work! *Look of immense concentration*

Funerals are always hard to attend, but there's nothing quite more uplifting at one than to see more people than you ever expected to show up. My best wishes go out to her daughter, with my fervent hope that she can make a full recovery. Now for something funny: The Darwin Awards on DVD

@SOCL: I believe Solo Command settled that we shall not have a duel to the death in which we space the loser or the winner. Rather, you will buy us both a drink. @Mad: Damn. I don't even have Rebellion installed down here, and as I've stated before, I'm not that good at it. I've been playing Rome: Total War lately, and I'm not too wonderful with that one either... Howsabouts we just have two spam kings?

Only Rob goes to Myspace, and he's an Emo child-molester. I feel so non-savvy. I got five out of ten, but then, I rushed through it and was looking for obvious signs that they were scamming you, such as asking for you social security number, asking you to recheck your password, not having a foreign language button if they're global, etc. Good thing that I can't and don't make any monetary transactions with the Internet!