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The Serenes Forest Ball: Take 3
California Mountain Snake replied to Mufasa's topic in Far from the Forest...
slash former-mod joke. Oh burnnnn -
I had to double check to see if this was Far From the Forest before replying, which upon discovering it wasn't, both colored my opinion of the OP but caused me to temper my response. Yes, homeless people in the United States (and most other countries) often live in tents, and in many towns with high foreclosure rates, a phenomenon which is on the rise due to the nature of the most recent economic crisis and is more closely associated with losing one's home rather than just getting laid off, the creation of Hoovertown-esque tent villages is on the rise, although as I'm aware these incidents are still quite isolated. You blathering mouth-breather.
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hi guys what is going on in here
California Mountain Snake replied to sandmanccl's topic in Far from the Forest...
Puss puss. -
You some kind of chucklehead?
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You have no idea how afraid I have always been of vacuuming up the cord because of that movie...
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I wish.
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A tribute to Red fox of fire.
California Mountain Snake replied to Alacalibur's topic in Far from the Forest...
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Only for getting caught.
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My cat recounts his sexual exploits at the dinner table while smacking his lips as he gnaws his cob. Gauche cat.
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hi guys what is going on in here
California Mountain Snake replied to sandmanccl's topic in Far from the Forest...
Grow a dick. -
What major arcana are you?
California Mountain Snake replied to Metal Rabbit's topic in Far from the Forest...
Retarded quiz topics like this belong in spam forums, not general, especially since these quizzes seem to become more stupid with each iteration. imo yo -
Member Badges - Character Nominations
California Mountain Snake replied to Popo's topic in Member Feedback
The problem with having awesome characters like the Black Knight is that it doesn't balance with other badges. If you go for Black Knight for unset gender, you're basically going to have to have Ike for male and Elincia for female, otherwise they'll just be unbalanced and kind of random. Not to mention whoever the mods want for characters will be "outranked" by the awesomeness of the regular badges. Picking common characters makes a lot more sense intuitively. -
So what's happening?
California Mountain Snake replied to Pitbuller26's topic in Far from the Forest...
My advice: definitely have everyone you know read your essays. I can understand your fear that your parents criticism may enervate your essays, and if you really think that`s true then maybe don`t show it to them, but definitely get a few teachers to look at them, and possibly some of your good friends. It`s easy to get trapped in a bubble writing your essay so that you forget how other people are going to read it when they don`t know your thought process. I can tell you that my first essay was terrible. Just horrendous. I scraped that, got a new idea, and punched out a draft of that, but then used the next two months to iron it out and redraft it... over and over again. An essay is practically a poem, every word counts for something, and flow and keeping your reader interested are crucial. By the end I was just having friends pick a single sentence that flowed awkwardly and tried to iron it out (usually by breaking it up into more sentences of much simpler structure). That being said, this does not mean it`s time to whip out the thesaurus write your essay in an esoteric lexicon. My essay only had a few sentences that went over a line, and high-falootin` vocab was kept to a minimum. What they`re looking for is the focus of the essay, why it proves you would be a good student for their school, not an overripe, convoluted mess. Being direct and being clear are two major assets to a good college essay, and in my opinion, good essays in general. Sorry that was a lecture and half, but in my opinion the essay is the most important part of a college application (although many many people disagree with that statement.) If you have a rough draft hammered out I wouldn`t mind taking a look, if you wanted someone to take a gander (plus reading something in well thought out English at this point will be a joy after 2 months of nonsensical warning labels and jin-glish advertisements in Japan). -
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California Mountain Snake replied to Popo's topic in Member Feedback
Number one, you can hardly call the shades of quote unquote green on this website forest themed. They`re pastels, and they resemble the green frosting from my last birthday cake more than the rich greens and vibrant ocres of the woods. Number two, every forest has it`s splashes of color. Wildflowers, insects, the occasional fungi growing from the decaying moss covered stumps. It`s these splashes of brown, blue, yellow, etc, that remind us how beautiful the green really is. They accentuate it! They make it delicious. It`s white-faced bamboozlement to call the current layout of the website forest themed. It doesn`t stir images of a forest or any vibrant ecosystem for that matter. It`s meek, it`s pale, it`s sickly, and it`s where Easter eggs go to die. An infusion of variety, of vivaciousness, can only reinvigorate the current bland feel of the layout here. -
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California Mountain Snake replied to Popo's topic in Member Feedback
;3c Glad to see someone still appreciates the classics. -
I aplogize for tgose mass topics.
California Mountain Snake replied to Alacalibur's topic in Far from the Forest...
Is your internet also responsible for the titles changing from "Oneof of my drunken conversations." to "One of of my drunken conversations.", after the fourth topic, or was that you just getting bored of posting exactly the same thing over and over? -
any tips for a first time driver?
California Mountain Snake replied to Thunder Mage Ilyana's topic in General
If you're talking about Mass Holes, you must know I do not identify with those, uh, people. I only go so far as to take advantage of their university system. -
any tips for a first time driver?
California Mountain Snake replied to Thunder Mage Ilyana's topic in General
Did we not already establish that your words with respect to driving are worth less than fishmeal, Connecticunt? -
any tips for a first time driver?
California Mountain Snake replied to Thunder Mage Ilyana's topic in General
I think they're now actually stressing the four second rule, at least they were when I took drivers ed. uh.... 4 years ago? The exact amount of time is pretty hard to nail down, since hypothetically the time would have to increase as you go faster, because kinetic energy increases by the square of the relative change in velocity, so braking from 60mph compared to 30mph actually takes 4 times the energy/distance, braking from 90 compared to 30 actually takes 9 times the energy/distance etc. 4 seconds is probably a safer bet for highway driving, 2 for town driving.