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9559
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Non-MegaMan / Any Other Business? / Re: The "How Was Your Day?" Thread
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on: 1 March 2008, 05:48:18
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I my Wendy's experience, a manager is never going to help. Even if their standing there and see that kind of ##### happen. Also, girls always win at Wendy's. Especially if you don't say anything. The only two firings of women I can remember in 2+ years of working there are tramps who fooled around with coworkers.
Scratch that, only one got fired because the general manager knocked her up and then she had a miscarriage on the floor at the drive-thru station and another girl had to clean it up. Or something.
The other girl blew a guy in the washroom during her shift. The guy got fired but the girl was allowed to come back after a while (what the ##### is that anyway?) and even then she didn't last long. Oh, funny side story; That same girl later dated a ginger who worked in the fish department of my job after Wendy's. And during that time I also saw her picture on one of those Adult Friend Finder or whatever dating website pop-ups. Ew, right? She was a minger too.
Anyway I've been to hell, it's much worse, I'm still getting the photos developed. In a while, you won't remember or care how bad this day was. I had a million closes like that at Wendy's and quite a LOT worse at the grocery store. You'll come out better for it in the end.
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9562
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Non-MegaMan / Non-MegaMan Games / Re: harvestmoon
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on: 1 March 2008, 03:55:11
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They get boring if you don't progress fast enough, but to know how to do that efficiently you need to have played before so it's a bit self destructive.
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9571
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Non-MegaMan / Any Other Business? / Re: Matricians: Show Yourselves!
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on: 1 March 2008, 02:36:02
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I don't read gay comics or manga because I have no interest not because I have some "problem" with them, thanks. I read comics that have gay characters in them, but I'm interested in the characters not their sexuality and yaoi and all that crap just focuses on them being homosexual, which is incredibly boring to me as it's completely unrelateable to my life.
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9574
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MegaMan Series / X Series / Re: GENERAL X SERIES ENQUIRIES
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on: 1 March 2008, 02:08:11
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Hasta La Vista, baby!
... Right? RIGHT? IT'S ALL ANDROIDS, MAN! YOU THINK THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T OUT TO GET YOU? YOU THINK THEY AREN'T WATCHING?! THERE'S A STICKER ON EVERY APPLE, MAN! THINK ABOUT THAT #####! "THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS HYPOCRISY" SAYS THE RACIST WITH A SUN TAN!
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9575
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Non-MegaMan / Any Other Business? / Re: The MOVIE Thread
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on: 29 February 2008, 08:36:13
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So in my T-kick and through the magic of internet flash players I watched all three Terminator movies today. The Terminator, 1984 It was good to see The Terminator again, as it's not often on TV and I don't own any of the movies. For some reason I had it in my head that Kyle and Sarah were a few years younger, so I'm glad that got out of my system. Plus I felt like hearing Kyle explain some stuff again to see how it matched up with the rest of it all. And seeing the part they used for the cover of Metal Gear, the part where Sarah's photo burns (which was recently alluded to in the TV series along with that whole massacre), ans seeing Kyle drive a car that looks like the General Lee with a big plasma mini-gun mounted on top it while fighting some kind of massive Skynet assault robot (T-Tank?) during the opening were all pretty cool.
And Sarah Connor's boobies when that actress was still young and good looking.
If it was still 1984 (and I was born and sentient) the T-800 (Arnold) would have scared the ##### out of me. Not now, being that it's 24 years later and rubbery faces with metal and a red eye look like crap. But you know.
What we learned: "The future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be."
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1994 Well of course it's the best movie of all of them. AND it doesn't ##### up the timeline since at the end of this movie you can call it a day; The research that leads to Cyberdyne System's creation of Skynet from the hand and the chip of the T-800 from the first movie. Unlike that T-800 though, the villain of this movie still kind of irks me. It mostly has something to do with watching it when I was a kid, but still, that T-1000 is a creepy mother#####er. He has all the badassosity of Arnold in the first movie, but has that whole "I can charm my way into your house" crap since the T-800 in the first movie was a straight up big honking fiend. A monster. He "never stops", to haphazardly quote Kyle in the first movie. Okay. Wicked. A big ass lummox is coming for you.
But then T-1000 comes in and #####s that up all over the place, 'cause he's still the baddest of asses but then he's got all that sick charm. AND he can change shape, and that's never not creepy. Plus he constantly stabs people through with arm blading. Oh, and shooting him is worthless, running him over is worthless. Stabbing, freezing, teasing, none of it works. The only thing you can do is melt him. MELT HIM. Now, in my life melting stuff comes up all the time. But for you? Yeah I know, I'd ##### my pants too.
But holy #####, John Connor. This kid is 9 or 10? NINE OR TEN? I mean, I know he's messed up and all that, but uh... Whoo. That kid talks like a sailor. I figured he was about 13 just from watching. He couldn't be older but I did the math and he's 10. I'm not sure how long after conception the scene with preggers Sarah is in the first movie, so he could be 9. Either way, that's #####ed. He steals and swears like... Well at LEAST 13. Think about it. When I was ten, I was in grade five. I swore all the time and watched porn and ##### but that's 'cause where I used to live my best friend was like 4 years older than me...
... Maybe it's not that odd that he's ten. >_>
But, the third movie AND the TV series both change John's age at the time of T2 to 13, for whatever reason. Maybe because it feels right.
Anyway the movie ends with the heartfelt moment that still tearjerks a friend of mine to this day. It's all sad and triumphant at the same time like the first movie. And now the machines will never try to usurp the planet... Or so we're led to believe!
What we learned: "The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."... again.
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines, 2003 So yeah. It's Judgment Day finally. The movie was... Pretty throwaway. But I finally saw it so that's good. Hm. Not a lot happens in the movie. It was all in the commercial really. The guy who played John Connor, while looking nothing like the kid from T2, looks exactly like John Connor. He looks like a lot like the guy that played Kyle Reese in the first Terminator. And the guy playing John in the show looks like an inbetween version of the T2 and T3 Johns. So that's something.
T-X is crap though. Of all the Terminator series I've seen in action over the years (T-70, T-800/101, T-850, T-888, T-1000, T-1000000, and whatever the hell Cameron is), T-X is definitely the lamest. I mean, the T-70 was in the "Terminator 2: 3-D"/"Terminator 3-D" thing at Universal Studios and it was literally supposed to be the first humanoid shaped Terminator and the last one made directly by Cyberdyne, so it's supposed to be a piece of crap robot with a machine gun. The T-1 million is lame as can be, except I at least thought that was cool when I saw it ten years ago. Being 12 will do that.
The T-X is just... blah. A bunch of gimmicks fused into one Terminator. A girl was an interesting move I guess, they do it in the show and it works out OK. It definitely would make the bot creepier. Except there's a key difference between "Cameron" (such a clever name ) and the T-X; The T-X looks like total bitch. She slicks her hair up like a shallow man-eater in the first ten minutes of the movie just to prove it. Cameron is small and has that whole innocent young girl thing going. Her expressions (or lack there of) are creepy, but as it was said in the show she's just plain freaky 'cause on the outside she's as sweet as any young girl but inside she's just another one of THEM. Then, the T-X has similar abilities to T-1000. Which is crap. They just wanted to make the threat the same, but it didn't work. Her liquid stuff utterly fails to be useful to her or interesting to me until her face goes all liquid pissed off at the end. And the fact that she talks like three times makes her even more boring. The ability to control other machines? Eh. Ill-conceived. An OK idea I guess, but implemented badly. It was basically worthless until she got to the T-800.
And the T-800's explanation of John Connor's future death? Crap. Not only is it just gay because the John Connor of the future doesn't seem to type to fall for something as easy as that, but also it just doesn't make sense. In the first movie Kyle Reese says the whole reason Skynet sent a T-800 back in time to kill Sarah Connor is because killing John Connor in the future wouldn't accomplish anything since Skynet's already lost the war and sending Terminators back is a last attempt. So, the whole "a T-800 came and iced John in the future" is a trashy method of trying to make the girl seem important.
Also, this all happens in 2004 and the TV series #####s up by placing Judgment Day in the 2010's. Why? I don't know, but I like it better as I could never imagine Skynet being created by 2004.
That said. It was OK, I guess. But pretty flimsy. Not enough of actual Judgment Day and it screwed around too much. But I liked the almost Twilight Zone-esque ending with the narrative and a truck-out to nukes going off worldwide.
What wtf @ no explanation how Cyberdyne made Skynet without the arm and chip from the first T.
What we learned: There's no stopping the future....?Aaaannnnnnd that's it for unasked dorkliness on my part. Keep in mind I could only have noticed this stuff because I watched them all in a row, and I've accumulated knowledge over 21 years... Whatever, still dorky.
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9576
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Non-MegaMan / Any Other Business? / Re: The "How Was Your Day?" Thread
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on: 29 February 2008, 06:48:10
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Yeah same here. More for backwards than upside down. Not that it's anything to be proud of...
*cough* Moving on.
Today I stayed at home all day working on my pan background (which consisted of working on ONE building that's literally given two days work of trouble and I still haven't figured it out). Also, I took on the Terminator movies. Sound like a cool day? ##### no.
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9577
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Non-MegaMan / Any Other Business? / Re: Matricians: What are you watching?
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on: 29 February 2008, 04:52:29
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I wouldn't call the writing "poetic", because I've read poetry before, but it was certainly a very good episode and I was extremely glad they brought up an issue and then solved it by the end of the episode instead of stringing it along for three years until no one cares about it anymore.
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9578
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Non-MegaMan / Non-MegaMan Games / Re: Action Replay Help
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on: 29 February 2008, 04:48:19
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I never buy those things but my cousin gave me a DS AR as a gift. I will probably use it on AC, that's the only useful thing for it I think. Unless it lets me play as someone else like a hot babe in Pheonix Wright.
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9582
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Non-MegaMan / Any Other Business? / Re: The Comedy Thread
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on: 29 February 2008, 02:29:08
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Me too.
Anyway, follow-up;
To avoid gender bias charges, the store’s owner opens a New Wives store just across the street.
The 1st first floor has wives that love sex.
The 2nd floor has wives that love sex and have money.
[spoiler]The 3rd,4th, 5th and 6th floors have never been visited[/spoiler]
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9585
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Non-MegaMan / Any Other Business? / Re: The Comedy Thread
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on: 29 February 2008, 01:58:21
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It's probably better if you told it rather than read it.
Yeah. -- So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband.
The 1st floor sign on the door reads:
Floor 1: These men have jobs. The 2nd floor sign reads:
Floor 2: These men have Jobs and Love Kids.
The 3rd floor sign reads:
Floor 3: These men have Jobs, Love Kids and are extremely good looking. “Wow,” she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.
She goes to the 4th floor and the sign reads:
Floor 4: These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and help with Housework. “Oh, mercy me!” she exclaims, “I can hardly stand it!” Still, she goes to the 5th floor and sign reads:
Floor 5: These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, help with Housework and Have a Strong Romantic Streak. She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the 6th floor and the sign reads:[spoiler] Floor 6: You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.[/spoiler]
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9588
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MegaMan Series / Legends Series / Re: Cheap, Megaman Legends 2
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on: 28 February 2008, 05:08:54
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You know what's interesting? I'm not sure if I've gotten a raise or not. I think I might've since I've been there for like a year and half, but if I still make minimum I don't mind since I love the job.
But minimum wage in Ontario is 8$ and we've recently been pushing for 10$ because eight isn't a living wage. Why is that interesting? Well now that our dollar is up, our minimum wage totally outweighs the U.S.'s and the balance is all weird. It used to be like, minimum was 4$ in the States and 6.85$ here. Works out for me though.
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9590
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Non-MegaMan / Any Other Business? / Re: The MOVIE Thread
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on: 28 February 2008, 04:52:58
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Last night; Boondock Saints and Grandma's Boy for the first. Well actually I had seen the end of Boondock Saints, but yeah. Good stuff, even though Boondock Saints is just a bunch of cool scenes strung together.
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