DarthTofu

I just finished with Ender's Game. The list of books in the series doesn't stick Ender's Shadow in there until about five lines down- considerably more than I thought (I always assumed it was the sequal). However, since Shadow is all I have on hand, I will likely read it next. According to Wikipedia it's part of the other "Bean Quartet," and the first of them. Ender's Game was the first in the "Ender Quartet." Hopefully it'll be as good.

I'm about 3/4 of the way through [iEnder's Game[/i]. Bloody amazing book! I'm glad I asked folks whether or not I should read Ender's Shadow since that would have ruined the best part so far in the book for me... Ah! Such a great read- I recommend it to any and all!

Wow... 100 pages of randomness... That's amazing! I personally didn't care for the Rogue Squadron games. Too many bugs in the system for Rogue Squadron: 3D, and ultimately the plot was so painfully weak I wanted to cry at points. Add to that my joystick not wanting to let me turn right, and... well, you get the picture.

gradation parties are way 2 muc fun......

jees, that is relly nice, def.

I always send 'em to Coruscant. Less reason for me to split up my fleet.

You never stop amazing me with your works, Jahled...

I dunno, Rob. Morbius strikes me as an interesting character, with quite a bit of potential for a full-out plot in his attempt to find a cure, through any means necessary. I always liked movies with gray bits to 'em, and in this case I'd say that they have the potential to do what I think they wanted to do with the Sandman. That's just my opinion, though.

Ineducated fool!!! Starcraft is the best RTS that was ever made. I played it a bit when I was younger. My sister's boyfriend-at-the-time downloaded it from some source that probably wasn't legal (It's been deleted from my computer, now) and I screwed around with it for a while. I really didn't get too into it, but that could have been that I was too young to fully understand the game. It was alright, but not really anything to get too excited about in my opinion. BTW: The word is uneducated, Mad. (I really hope someone else notices the irony there...)

Okay, you have a couple of classic problems that people new to the game have. The first ate at me forever before I finally gave up and read the manual: The building facilities thing. Look beneath each planet that has been explored. It should have a bar ranging from red to green, and above that should be a series of small squares. Most of them will be white on your planet. That means that a facility occupies a facility "slot." When those bars are blue, it indicates that you can build a facility for each blue bar. Once all of the bars are white, no more facilities can be built. Now look around and find some red-and-yellow bars. These indicate available mining locations. These will also be aparent if you click on the facilities icon in the upper left hand corner of the picture of the planet and select the image of the mine. You can only build mines (Effective mines, at any rate) where there are resources to mine (IE The large piles of rocks) As far as diplomizing Woostri: There I don't know what the deal is. Is there a bar to indicate whose side Woostri is on, or is it in an "unexplored" zone, with no data (E.G. blue bars, association with faction bars, etc.)? If you haven't explored the planet in some way, shape, or form, you won't be able to conduct diplomacy missions on that planet. I hope that all helped. The game takes a while to get the hang of, but trust me; it's worth it.

I decided that, seeing as my friends and I have claimed to be unofficial holders of rather dumb records, my internet friends should as well. What stupid task do you think you hold the record for? I personally am pretty sure I hold the record for high school sophmores with attendance to other people's graduation ceremonies- I presently have seen four, with tonight being the fourth. I know a lot of juniors, so I'll likely go into the graduation next year (Amazingly enough you can actually tell them that you're with the band and they'll let you in without a ticket (Which, by the way, you can't buy for any price)) That's my personal record- I will have attended six by the time I'm a senior, likely the most out of everyone there.

According to a friend who read the book his charred skeleton falls to the ground after the explosion, and that's all that's left of Brock.

Interesting concept, though it would still follow along the painfully disturbing use of science and magic interchangably in movies that I've been seeing since Episode IV of Star Wars came out... My take on why Brok died with the symbiote: The symbiote was flammable. This would also explain its vulnerability to flame- think of it as having a hot blaze of fire go over your face. Sure, it'll hurt like hell and burn you if it goes off near enough, but it won't quite kill you. However, if you've just jumped into, say, semi-solid gasoline (Or highly flammable symbiote material) and that flame will seriously scorch you. Granted, this is all speculation, pretty much... Plus I'm making up some of the science I'm using.

I didn't know you were one too, Mad! I kind of want to create a Heretic's club...

I gave up on that the questions were so predictable and crap.. sorry! Anyway, i've more than likely got a luxury sweet pre-booked on the Dante's ninth level to suffer an eternity's pain; oh well! Such is life! I'll just sing along with the vikings and the huns.. Meanwhile: Yay! Actually, knowing you, you're likely either in limbo or in the sixth circle of hell. Sixth circle is for heretics, nineth is for betrayers. Bad betrayers especially- IE Judas, Brutas, and Cocytus according to Dante, where Satan chews on 'em for all eternity with three mouths. But you have to have been a betrayer for that circle, and usually it has to have killed somebody. I sincerely doubt that you've ever killed anybody (though I could be wrong) Edit: Here's the full system: Purgatory You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility. Through contrition, confession, and satisfaction by works of righteousness, you must make your way up the mountain. As the sins are cleansed from your soul, you will be illuminated by the Sun of Divine Grace, and you will join other souls, smiling and happy, upon the summit of this mountain. Before long you will know the joys of Paradise as you ascend to the ethereal realm of Heaven. Level 1 - Limbo Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad. Level 2 You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate. Level 3 In the third circle, you find yourself amidst eternal rain, maledict, cold, and heavy. The gluttons are punished here, lying in the filthy mixture of shadows and of putrid water. Because you consumed in excess, you meet your fate beneath the cold, dirty rain, amidst the other souls that there lay unhappily in the stinking mud. Cerebus, a canine monster cruel and uncouth with his three heads and red eyes, dwells in this level. He growls and tears at the damned with his teeth and claws. Level 4 Just before the river Styx is the Fourth Level of Hell. Here, the prodigal and the avaricious suffer their punishment, as they roll weights back and forth against one another. You will share eternal damnation with others who either wasted and lived greedily and insatiably, or who stockpiled their fortunes, hoarding everything and sharing nothing. Plutus, the wolf-like demon of wealth, dwells here. Level 5 The river Styx runs through this level of Hell, and in it are punished the wrathful and the gloomy. The former are forever lashing out at each other in anger, furious and naked, tearing each other piecemeal with their teeth. The latter are gurgling in the black mud, slothful and sullen, withdrawn from the world. Their lamentations bubble to the surface as they try to repeat a doleful hymn, though with unbroken words they cannot say it. Because you lived a cruel, vindictive and hateful life, you meet your fate in the Styx. Level 6 - The City of Dis You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell. Level 7 Guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled with boiling blood, is the Seventh Level of Hell. The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers lament their pitiless mischiefs in the river, while centaurs armed with bows and arrows shoot those who try to escape their punishment. The stench here is overpowering. This level is also home to the wood of the suicides- stunted and gnarled trees with twisting branches and poisoned fruit. At the time of final judgement, their bodies will hang from their branches. In those branches the Harpies, foul birdlike creatures with human faces, make their nests. Beyond the wood is scorching sand where those who committed violence against God and nature are showered with flakes of fire that rain down against their naked bodies. Blasphemers and sodomites writhe in pain, their tongues more loosed to lamentation, and out of their eyes gushes forth their woe. Usurers, who followed neither nature nor art, also share company in the Seventh Level. Level 8- the Malebolge Many and varied sinners suffer eternally in the multi-leveled Malebolge, an ampitheatre-shapped pit of despair Wholly of stone and of an iron colour: Those guilty of fraudulence and malice; the seducers and pimps, who are whipped by horned demons; the hypocrites, who struggle to walk in lead-lined cloaks; the barraters, who are ducked in boiling pitch by demons known as the Malebranche. The simonists, wedged into stone holes, and whose feet are licked by flames, kick and writhe desperately. The magicians, diviners, fortune tellers, and panderers are all here, as are the thieves. Some wallow in human excrement. Serpents writhe and wrap around men, sometimes fusing into each other. Bodies are torn apart. When you arrive, you will want to put your hands over your ears because of the lamentations of the sinners here, who are afflicted with scabs like leprosy, and lay sick on the ground, furiously scratching their skin off with their nails. Indeed, justice divine doth smite them with its hammer. Level 9 - Cocytus This is the deepest level of hell, where the fallen angel Satan himself resides. His wings flap eternally, producing chilling cold winds that freeze the thick ice found in Cocytus. The three faces of Satan, black, red, and yellow, can be seen with mouths gushing bloody foam and eyes forever weeping, as they chew on the three traitors, Judas, Brutus, and Cassius. This place is furthest removed from the source of all light and warmth. Sinners here are frozen deep in the ice, faces out, eyes and mouths frozen shut. Traitors against God, country, family, and benefactors lament their sins in this frigid pit of despair.

Where in the hell are you? Me: Sixth circle, heretic. I apparently scored fairly high for limbo. Yippee.

Hehe- pretty soon Eagle might be ready to challenge Jahled to a gif-off! We all appreciate everyone's work, just for the record- keep up the good stuff, there.

http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tofuanimated3hv5.gif Been waiting to use that ever since Eagle sent it to me...

I-i-it's being released? IT'S BEING RELEASE?!? WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Where's Jahled? I need a "Woo" with a bit more kick to it for something like this... Edit: Who needs animated gifs when you've got Youtube? Warning: My cause small children and Rob to cry.

I always hated that level! Hehe- I played it with cheats. When I got to that level I put invincibility on, then got all of the weapons for the game in my inventors. I shot at it like mad, but it totally failed to kill the thing. I selected fists- it died after about ten hits.

I don't want to go to Texas... There are way too many people there who apparently are incapable of distinguishing between singular and plural linking verbs when using the singular in the form of a contraction. *Points to a certain someone's signature*[/grammatarian] @JH: Hah! Granted, that is my job to make fun of Tex for being old, but I can always use a partner in crime! @Rob: *Waves hand subtly* You will give me a large discount on your second Wii... Is it working? No? Damn.

I heard that the plot of the fourth one revolved around the bit of symbiode left behind- most likely Carnage.

Call Bigfoot. Tell him to give the fellow his limbs back. Amazing... There's good in the world! I thought the only good that was left was in my pocket! *Checks pocket* Damn! Some bastard stole the good in my pocket! I'll bet it was the Californian fellow who sent you your Wii. That bastard- stealing my goodness! Seriously, though, that's great. And don't worry- there are always idiots on E-bay who'll buy your stuff at huge fees. Always. You're living proof of that.

Random stupidity... The sad part is that I've proven I could probably work for these people...