DarthTofu

OOC: Ooo, you want to know about Micus? I'll tell you this much: His name is derived from Latin (Just because I like to think that I'm intellectual on occassion) and comes from the words amicus and innimicus. The former means friend and the latter means enemy, part of his dual nature which shall arrise if this ever gets going! I have some fun plans for this...

I think that's the point... It's tremendously random, just like Jahled.

Both right and wrong, actually. English gets some of its stuff out of German, as well as out of French, Latin, and, I believe, a small amount of Russian (I could be totally off on that one, though.) Anyway, English recieves Latin in two dilluted forms, and roughly twenty percent of the words in English are of Latin origins. Of these words, roughly 87% of them are SAT words by virtue of containing more than seven syllables. So far as new comics go: I have an AP class and crunch time for my Robotics club... I'll make a new comic when I have time and don't have to fill out three typed pages worth of chapter outlines for Government for a week or so straight. (If you're in college, shut up about the work load. I don't want to look at the big picture right now.) I have a half-drawn character mold for Rob, so I might pick up the story line where I left off...

Dali has always struck me as being rather strange. A model on Late Night with Connan O'Brian was talking about how he tried to recruit her to pose for a nude sketch by sending her a sketch he'd drawn of an erect (Close your eyes if they are still virgin) penis. (You can open them again.) Dali is flippin' mental.

Hehe- I would, but I won't, Psych. Wow, this thread got off-topic quickly... And moved ramarcably fast once SOCL and Mitth showed up. So, did you all hear: Iran has a cure for AIDS, apparently. They announced it in a memo released by the government with absolutely nothing to back it up.

... But you still managed to break the game, and any copies available online for free would not, in fact, be legal. If you can just claim that your copy broke and get a new one, what stops other people from doing the exact same thing and getting the full game for free? Buy a new copy, surf E-bay, bum it off a friend- whatever. We can't help you.

Right about... now. One might be a repeat, but I'm too lazy to go back and check... http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/school%20appropriate%20comics/Indignified.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/school%20appropriate%20comics/Indignified2.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/school%20appropriate%20comics/Indignified3.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/school%20appropriate%20comics/Indignified4.jpg Highlight this next bit if you don't get it: Indignus -a -um is a Latin adjective meaning "Unworthy." Thus the Hotel Indignus is the unworthy hotel. It would be funnier if I'd put it in genetive case, but I don't know how to do that with "hotel" and "indignus" is, as I've already said, an adjective, not a noun. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/school%20appropriate%20comics/dirty.jpg Pine tree translates into a word that sounds very similar to "Penis." My class is highly immature, and as a result it's a sort of inside joke amongst us. Now homework calls! High-ho-Silver!

Can you not read the sticky? We can not and will not help you people get the game for free in any way, shape, or form, regardless of the circumstances!!!

Firefox... It doesn't get in the way at all, it's just odd. Edit: See?

Is anybody else having the page load a large expanse of blue to the right of everything ever now-and-again when they open a thread or try to post a reply to something? Or is it just me? It only happens some of the time...

As I've said before: Regardless of why we start looking more closely at alternative energy programs, isn't it still a good thing? I don't agree with Muslems on why they give to charities (One of the five pillars of Islam) but I do not by any means oppose this charity. I'm really hoping we can get hydrogen powered cars going sometime soon. Too bad hydrogen presently costs more than gas, and biodiesal (sp?) gives you the munchies right away, making America that much fatter.

I have some more-in-depth Latin jokes ("What's the comparative of 'little?' Is it 'more little' or 'littler?" "Niether! It's littlior!") but being a first-year Latin student the majority of my comics are not... I suppose I can post a couple of the funnier comics on here...

@Evlis: During the '40s we did indeed try. Then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and everything went straight down the crapper. Granted, we were granting military aid to our European allies, but we weren't, strictly speaking, involved in foreign affairs. I've gotta agree with J's logic on having to accept Communist countries: China, Russia (to a certain extent. They have a fascade Democracy IMHO)... Without them in the fold it's a rather sad world...

You're agreeing with me. In these parts of the web that's considered blasphemy of the first order. Just thought you should know. Tex will probably show up to shoot you for it relatively soon, assuming that nobody makes any particularly Stupid Jokes along the way. (For an explanation of that panel click here )

"Damn." I'd been beaten to my ship. Literally. A small Vong party had caught up with me on the way. It was composed entirely of human slaves with coral implants, and as a result they carried no weapons. Not wanting to waste my precious power packs, them being limited as it was, I engaged in hand-to-hand combat, an art I was more than proficient in. Sheer numbers had nearly overwhelmed me, though, and in the end I'd had to run rather than continue the engagement. Now I'd arrived at my ship. It wasn't one of the stereotypical Skipspray Blastboats most had attributed to the Mandalorians thanks to Boba Fett. We were a migratory people, and as a result shared little by way of physical culture beyond our armor and justice systems. The rest- our military strategies, our ideologies, and our damned pride- that was a given in any of us. My ship, unique though it had been, had been hit by refugees before I could make it. It was a small miracle in and of itself that it hadn't been completely destroyed with the rest of the elevated docking it had rested on, but I wasn't particularly in the mood for small miracles. The small, modified blastboat I used for my travels had been relieved of several components- three of which were critical if I were to escape. One was the hyperdrive, another the navicomputer, and the third the inertial compensator. It was still good for atmospheric flight, fortunately, but I had no true desire to utilize that ability when coralskippers were still roaring overhead, chasing individual targets up and down the streets, smashing skyscrapers into dust. I chose to leave it resting in a twisted pile of support beams and chunks of duracrete, re-sealed in the hope that any smugglers with the skills needed to penetrate the ship's security measures again would be off the planet by now. I was going to have to lie low and find the necessary parts for my ship if I wanted to ever get off of this rock. In addition to that I’d need to find some other refugees to leave with so that they could soak up plasma fire while I left, increasing my chances of survival. That ultimately meant an organized resistance more than anything else. But where to find one? With the number of Vong sympathizers steadily increasing they weren’t exactly about to put up signs and stand on street corners soliciting their help. So what? The most obvious course of action would be to simply form my own terrorist society on this world. I’d had plenty of experiences being ambushed, primarily by Micus, and as a result could plan them rather well. But that just created another problem which was the same I’d faced before: How, exactly, would I be recruiting for this new resistance cell? There the answer would appear to be to merely lie low, hide out where I could see the Vong, but the Vong could not see me, and wait for another group to attack them. Depending on if the attack was successful or not I could join with the group, or bring the survivors back together under my command. Problem number one out of the way, but two still remained: I needed to find those parts appropriate for my ship, and I also needed to find a place to stay while this was all going on. The latter two issues could likely be tied to the first, but the second issue would need to be resolved before any of the others could. I ruled out my ship as a place of refuge- both myself and the ship were mandatory for my plan, but I could survive if the ship was destroyed. As it stood, it was a higher-profile target for the Vong, and they would likely hit it if it weren’t hidden properly. If they did and I was inside I was dead. Thus I needed to be somewhere the Vong weren’t about to look- somewhere they’d consider too sacred to invade, maybe. Or perhaps even something they’d fear entering? No, this race had almost no fear. They would no worry over entering some place, be it Nal Hutta’s or their own. The sewers were also out. Overrun as they were with refugees they would be a prime target. Besides, I’d already seen the ability of the hunting parties present there. So where? I needed to be somewhere that either featured no machinery, was alive, or was so well-hidden that no one could possibly find it, save for myself. “Your in Nar Shadda, for pity’s sake, Krassus, think!â€

Erm, right- I'll type up some more of that filler I was working on now that I have a bit of free time, stick that in here... *Psst: My other thread could use RPers... Join it!*

Not to go giving the dessenting opinions, here, but we watched An Inconvenient Truth in my Chem class today, and as a result I got some of the data Gore is dishing out. While the movie is full of propoganda (Look, my son got hit by a car! And I cared! Therfor I'm right!) it did make some points. Apparently the samples of air taken from Antarctica in the form of frozen ice core samples can allow scientists to determine the age of that air, the composition of the air (obviously), and (I'm not sure that I believe this) the temperature at the time that air was frozen, based on some rather complex stuff that my really-wanting-to-go-to-sleep-now-because-of-Gore's-voice mind didn't bother to remember. He showed a graph stretching back something in the order of six billion years that showed CO2 levels and temperature levels. Each spike in CO2 coincided just about perfectly with a spike in temperature. The two were almost like puzzle pieces fitting together. Granted, the data is coming from a highly biased source. All sources were, as stated by Gore, friends of his. On the matter, though, all I can say is this: What is the end result? If we take steps to combat what we think are the causes of global warming, what happens? We reduce CO2 emmissions and do considerably more research into alternative energy. Is this really such a bad thing, regardless of what you may think of its existance?

According to my sister who worked retail for a short time, customers will occassionally take the price tag from a less-expensive item and tape it over a more expensive item's price tag in order to try to con the store out of money. It typically doesn't work when "Squirt guns" comes up for a PS2, but I assume it must work sometimes if the cashier is distracted enough, else people really wouldn't do it as much. Another popular thieving idea has been to stick smaller items in bigger boxes, primarily ala prepaid gaming cards for WoW and the like. Apparently a friend of some kid in my drafting class walked out of the store with three years worth of play time for the price of three months or something. Left a trail of empty boxes in his wake...

Ditto what Mad said. I'm a greedy bastard- mind tricks don't work on me. Only money. [/worst Star Wars movie Lucas ever made] I don't see the big deal. Some freaky anime chick snagged my DarthTofu name before I even came up with the concept.

*Note to self: Get Jahled's job when he runs off to work for eitherNational Geographic or Big Tobacco, making them gifs of cute creatures smoking away*

I refuse to become a vegan. I refuse.

That's "wild West"; but other than "President's Day" there are no other official holidays in February. There's Valentine's Day... I believe he meant Mid-West, though I must admit, Mad-West does have a certain ring to it...

Nah, just about Zoot Wars. @Rob: Oddly enough my sister told me the same thing about Labrynith. I haven't seen it yet, though she claims that it's excellent. I still love Cube and Nothing- highly advise everyone to watch them!

Huh... Rudy actually looks like a good candidate. Pro choice, pro-gay-rights... Heck, I'd vote for him. Obama is still my second choice, but he really does need some more time in the Senate before I'll be quite as staunch a supporter of him. In all honesty I hope that he loses the nomination to Hillary, now, just so that his political career isn't lost if he wants to try for it come the next election, or the election after that. I can see it now: The SWRebellion telephone calls. "Hello, Ma'am, my name is DarthTex, and I'm with the Star Wars Rebellion 'Get out and vote for Giuliani' committee. Can I convince you to vote for Guiliani? Remember, Hillary is the anti-Christ. Voting for her will bring doom upon our great nation. Also, she's not bald. You can't trust people with hair. If history has taught us anything, it's clearly and uniquivically that." "What about Lincon and Washington?" "Wigs. It's a little known fact." The only downside is that he's going to be hammered for his past. Three divorses? As a Republican who's pro-gay-rights and pro-choice he's going to lose a large chunk of the Southern vote, methinks, and that could really hurt him. He might be better off doing as John Edwards did on Meet the Press. "I'm for gay civil unions, but I haven't decided on gay marriage." Pretend that you haven't made a decision to avoid losing the vote.

The sad part is that it almost looks like it belongs there... How much free time do you have, J? @Rob: Worry not about the use of Gimp and such! Just use Paint! I'll take a pic of you off of facebook and make you up all cartoon-like in a Vader suit on paint. You'll look little to nothing like your real self when I'm through, but I'll still do it.