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I love thanksgiving, as it involves two of my passions: Food and Football. Plus it means that its time to get ready for the Christmas season. As soon as the clock hits midnight tonight I'm blasting the TSO Christmas albums from my speakers at full blast.

I have tornado dreams/nightmares all the time. Tornadoes seem to be my phobia. D: And I had the worst dream ever a few days ago. I'm due at work at 11, so I set my alarm for 10 before I go to bed. So I fall asleep, dream that I'm sleeping, oversleep and wake up at like two in the afternoon. I reach up and get my phone and it says like 2:30, and I freak out. ....so I wake up at 9AM going OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT.

MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em Needless to say, one of the best Hip-Hop albums of all time. Can't touch this.

Artur, because leveling up Natasha and Moulder is a chore. I'm lazy.

I've actually never used the control enemies glitch to get the spear. I should do that sometime.

I've done a Lute only solo, that was kinda tricky in Ephriam HM, specially on the ships. And especially since I didn't get the guiding ring in Ch5. And I don't use healers on my solos.

Ok, I've played SS a few too many times and its getting kind of old. I want to spice it up a bit by letting other people choose my team. Anyone who's interested can post the six characters they want me to use, in order of prefrence. After two or three days I'll take the top 6 characters and use them in a playthrough and let you know how it goes. Lords are an available option. I'm just getting kind of tired of using the same characters over and over. Or, in a twist, I could do a greatknight only playthrough. Franz, Forde, Kyle, Gilliam, Amelia, Duessel. Your choice.

Nergal's hair is green and Zephiel's is blond. Also, put Nergal in my sig just to make you right. :|

Later on, if this becomes a real issue, I see two ways to fix this. One is restructure the groups so that there's more intermediary groups in there, and Royals are boosted to a higher postcount. (I can't really think of a way to get a higher usergroup than royals, so it seems like the best option would be to replace royal with something else and create a higher group with the royal name) The other one would be to raise the postcount requirements for every group. so instead of X number of posts to reach a group, it could be X plus 500 or 1000 or something along those lines. Thats my two cents (a penny for each thought), but tbh i don't think it will be an issue in the near future.

TBH I couldn't wait until I got to fuck up Lyon's world. He wasn't a badass villan like Zephiel, or a fucking nuts villan like Nergal, he was just plain girly. I was ecstatic when I finished him off because it meant I didn't have to hear him bitch and moan anymore. Carlyle, on the other hand, was a much more engaging villain IMO, and he only appeared briefly. Like the Reed brothers, he was a boss I didn't want to kill. Also, INCEST IS THE BEST PUT YOUR SISTER TO THE TEST

Pretty much anything said by any character. If I wanted your advice I'd ask for it.

For my two cents, I would say mod it like you do with other minor offenses. If someone makes a bad habit out of minimodding, then simply give them a verbal warning. That should cool them off, and if it doesn't there's always more serious action that can be taken such as adding to their warn or a suspension. 90% (Random number used for example) of people don't minimod, and 90% of the people who do will knock it off if told to do so. I don't think that any real serious action will ever have to be taken against minimodders as long as the real moderators give them a headsup that their behavior is not acceptable.

Which is why the internet needs sarcasm tags. Anyone typing something can voice what they're writing in their head in a sarcastic tone, but that does not necessarily mean that the person reading it will use that same sarcastic tone in their head while doing so. Misunderstandings can lead to hostility over a failure of communication that just would not happen in vocal communication. I also think that two well-intentioned people will work out the conflict quickly and reasonably, with no lingering hard feelings. Just because they have anonymity doesn't mean someone will automatically commit a crime. Each person has a different sense of Civic Duty, for lack of a better term, and if they feel like committing a crime they may not commit it because they feel it is too risky whereas someone else with a lesser sense of Civic Duty would go ahead and commit it anyways. For instance, spitting on a sidewalk. I do it every now and then, but I am less likely to do it with a lot of people around and would never do it in front of a police officer without a good reason. (Bug flew in my mouth or something) The same applies to the internet. The more people know you the less likely you are to do something 'wrong' because you are worried about their perception of you.

Speaking of insomnia, it looks like I'm gonna be here awhile with you guys. Got about 6 hours of sleep last night and I don't feel tired at all. Tried to trick myself into going to bed but it didn't work, so here I am. :(

The PDF file won't load for me, is there another link you could offer? :(

Love TSO. Unfortunately I can't listen to the Christmas albums until after Thanksgiving (Moral obligation), but I still love Beethovens Last Night. I just recently downloaded the Best Of album of George Thorogood and The Destroyers, and I'm most of the way done with downloading the Best Of Marilyn Manson. Right now I'm obsessed with 80s and 90s rock, and 00s rap/hip-hop. I've recently downloaded everything from Orgy to Outkast to Flogging Molly.

Raven: Do you feel tired/groggy and unable to function after your minmal rest? Some people only need a handful of hours of sleep, unlike the majority of us. I know someone whose brother lived on 3-4 hours of sleep a night until he was about 40, and there are others out there as well. Basically, it boils down to the question of whether you are getting enough sleep or not. How you feel after you wake up and throughout the day will tell you that. As for me, I would say that I'm half insomniac. I have a hard time falling asleep, but once I'm there I sleep like a log. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for me to spend anywhere from 1-3 hours lying in bed waiting to fall asleep. The worst part is that I'm very sensitive to what sleep I've gotten, so if I wake up at noon, for instance, there's no way in hell I'll be able to go to sleep until 3AM or so at the earliest. Plus I routinely sleep 10 hours at a stretch. Its not uncommon for me to sleep 10 hours one night, then force myself to wake up after 6 hour of sleep the next night just to try and stay on a 24 hour clock. I used to kinda do what Death did, and 'cycle' my body clock around, but with the amount I'm working nowadays thats just not feasable for me.

This is roughly along the lines of what I was planning to say. Anonymity lowers inhibitions. I remember a study correlating graffiti to the population density of an area that basically showed that the more people there are in an area (and, correspondingly, the less likely one person is to be recognized) the more graffiti there is per capita. The same applies to the internet. You know that you can just assume a false name and trash some random forum, and no one has to know its you. There are no consequences.

I love using Nino. She levels up quickly, and once you get her going she's pretty self-sufficient. I'm regularly able to get her to about level 7/20 by the time I get around to killing the second Reed Brother. She's a great unit to abuse for your ranking stat as said above, and IMO she's the best anima user in the end. Plus you can support her with Jaffar. >

I just avoid Vaidia alltogether that chapter, and kill the rest of the enemies on the map without going into her range. ((Sometimes I go to the shops if I'm feeling like a challenge)) I always recruit her later so I can get the Spear she's carrying. I usually end up just selling it, but its worth a bundle all the same.

Flogging Molly - The Likes of You Again

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Now you've lost it too. >

I think every gamer has a tale of this sort. Reminds me of when my Pokemon Blue cartridge lost its data. Several dozen hand-trained lv 100 pkmns as well has hundreds of hours of work gone. I was looking forward to a few rounds through the elite four after a little while away from it, and maybe taking a few more monsters to level 100 as well, and instead i turn it on and find out the data is gone. I was pretty PO'd.

I've played both Lego Island (original) and Lego Rock Raiders. I freaking LOVED Lego Island. It was glitchy at times, but a ton of fun. I played rockraiders a lot less, but IIRC it was very glitchy. Also, the missions were far too restricted in what you could do. By the time you finally started having fun the mission would be over and it'd be the next mission. And you pretty much had to set up the whole base from scratch every time. It became tedious rather than fun, and I gave up midway into it. I also had lego creator, but didn't tool around with it much other than blowing shit up with the dynamite sticks. :D