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I can't deal with Steam anymore. So I just go the route of playing on a LAN-- it's the only way I'll ever be able to play a map that isn't de_dust again. That map needs to be permanently deleted.

Well, with all the children gone, what will the priests do on Saturday nights? OK, that was tasteless, but it rings true. Why is a man with a family not allowed to become a priest? Because he's having sexual relations. However, someone who is already a priest is premitted to remain one after admitting to a history of sexually abusing children? One hand washes the other.

Here's mine, I don't think it's been listed yet: Post-Fragile You just made a crapload of money off of your last album, in spite of the fact that you recalled it on the day of its original release because "you weren't happy with it". You are now stinking rich, without a care in the world aside from dealing with stupid fans who think they understand you. What they don't seem to realize is that at one time you were a model preppie until you took one too many pills of E and some raver chick broke your heart. Now you have to crawl back into a hole and get all depressed again before you start writing folk music and alienate your income. EDIT: "Get Down Make Love" and "Sin" are my favorite songs.

Underrated how? Underrated when it was being referenced to all across popular culture? Underrated when it was the focal point of controversy regarding video game violence? Underrated when 2000 people were downloading it per hour? Yes, as we speak Carmack is crying over his underrated masterpiece while he's polishing his seventh Ferrari.

Well, the first news I heard on DOOM3(aside from tech stuff) had to do with it being SP-only. Then I looked up some pretty vague news on a multiplayer aspect of it. Something along the lines of Carmack adding in network code(almost as an afterthought) for basic DM capability. My question is: is Co-op in the works at all? If I remember correctly, co-op was supposed to be the selling point of the original DOOM, or at least the feature the team hoped would be most popular. So, have they completely abandoned the idea of co-op? I've always found DM and the like to be fun and all, but working as a team is so much more fun for me. Since it doesn't look like this is going to be happening, I hear teams are popping up left and right, ready to go to work with the editing tools to make the multiplayer aspect a bit more expansive. If there are any teams together who have a co-op expansion planned, I'd be glad to help out. As soon as the game's released, I'll be going to work on the scripting and mapping tools.

Wait, has anyone ever hacked these forums? I remember about two years ago getting my old account here banned inexplicably(no Helled posts or disruptions)... But then, when I registered recently, I saw the explicit message "no Hotmail accounts". I guess that had something to do with it, but it'd have been nice to have some warning... EDIT: In hindsight, it was probably a bad idea to admit to having been banned.

Heh. I can account for that, the big mystery. I once fell into that big slime pit and started running around looking for a way up. Then when I ran across the far wall, that big tunnel opened up, and I said "What the fuck?" out loud so my parents could hear. I spent an entire week scouring that one level looking for a way in. Fortunately, I found the secret of the timed lowering steps about seven minutes before I went insane.

Agree their tips? Sounds erotic.

Let's see... I found Doom 1.2 on a floppy disk at a computer show. My dad was a computer nerd, thankfully, and always had to get the latest computer. IIRC, We had to shell out $160 for a 4-meg memory card for our 386. Or for the 486. Something like that. Anyway, that was probably 1994... soon after that, I was picking up everything Doom-related(PWADS and such) as soon as I heard about it. I wanted to buy Doom2 for a while, but I only first tried it a few years ago. My brother-in-law, also a computer geek, had it. It was good, but I've always preferred UDoom over it. And as for FinalDoom... never tried it. Never really had a reason to. On a side note, I'm amazed that no one's claimed to have been one of those guys signed on to the BBS at launch.

That's nothing. I have a recording of the 9-11 incident, which clearly shows Building 7(I think) collapsing BEFORE either tower fell. Nothing from the initial crashes could've caused this. It had to have been imploded(i.e. strapped with explosives), otherwise there is no explanation. Oh, and it'd behoove you to look up the extraordinary amount of evidence and first-hand accounts of knowledge of an attack resembling the 9-11 massacre, even up to 9-10.

Or something much more likely: God: "Well, it says here that you were a devout Christian, loved Jesus, read the Bible on a daily basis..." "Correct, oh Highest of The High." "But you seem to have shunned all those who opposed your views, opting to judge them on belief rather than their actions." "Well, yeah, but..." "In fact, one of those whom you called a 'Pagan Cavedwelling Moron' once saved a man's family from a burning warehouse." "Oh, did he? Well, I guess then..." "Listen, boy. I don't care who believes in me. I don't care what they call me, or even if they refuse to acknowledge my existence. I didn't send you to Earth to be smug and elitist in your special knowledge of my being. I sent you there to help people." "Oh. But I did help people." "Other than badgering folks with your proclamation of faith, I don't see any evidence of helping those in need on your record. Well, anyway, stand there whilst I press this here button..."

Well, YOU obviously didn't take a philosophy class. Or you claim to be able to see through boxes.

No thanks, I already live in a place where I have to be careful about which color I paint my mailbox, or how many Christmas lights I can have up. I don't want to go online and experience the same thing.

My Documents: 43 files. Guess I never caught on to that MP3 craze. Or maybe I'm lucky that most of my favorite music can be found in the discount bin. And as for porn, well... hentai does it well enough for me.

The closest thing I can compare is Chaos Theory. While not a religious institution, many researchers get so wrapped up in it that it conducts their daily lives. Basically, it's centered around the fact that any pattern emerges from chaos, only by an extreme statistical improbability resulting from such chaos. Let's say you keep a cat locked inside a box for a month. When you open the box, what will be the likelihood of it being alive? Pure statistics dicatate that it's a 50-50 chance. Regardless of what variables you can apply to any situation, you will only get (in this case)two outcomes: alive or dead. Why? Because of the "unknown". Scientists can apply as many outcomes and possible happenings in any experiment they execute. But the likelihood of anything happening that they predicted is, in a philospohical sense, infinitely small. With infinite possibility, there is an infinite percent chance of "none of the above" happening. So, in Chaos Theory, anything will potentially cause anything else. A butterfly will flap its wings on an African plain, causing it to rain in Buffalo, NY. There is no pattern, because there is no origin nor result to ANYTHING.

Phase R describes my life.

I don't know if you guys all remember the Al Franken Story... He's the actor/political satirist who wrote a book call "Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look at The Right". FOX News sued him over use of the phrase "Fair And Balanced". How did he respond? With a countersuit. FOX is a subsidiary of NBC, on which he worked as a cast member of Saturday Night Live. He sued for "defamation of character", explaining that his popular character on the show, Stuart Smalley depicted him in a negative light. He said "Stuart was portrayed as a helpful, understanding counselor, while in real life I'm an asshole." FOX News dropped the suit. So I guess now it's plausible to sue over copyrighted phrases and words, even though they may appear in day-to-day conversation. I just hope the porn business doesn't get into this habit, or I may never be able to swear in public again.

Bush family connections to the Holocaust... American disinterest of Middle-Eastern humane affairs... The US's late response to the Nazi's... the PNAC's Jewish population... I think we're uncovering something here! Better tread lightly. [/sarcasm]

I'm offering up an article that I read in a magazine called "Adbusters" that's been getting me thinking over the past year. For all of those liberals out there, this transcript should motivate you in an "Out the door in 2004" fashion. For all others, I recommend picking up this mag, or better yet-- getting a subscription. PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY (edited by Anonymous, it seems)adbusters.org They, too, had their summer of love. It was 1969, and two grad students met in Washington, DC. Paul Wolfowitz was a young mathematician turned political scientist, a gawky kid from Ithica, Ney York, who was shielded from the Vietnam draft while studying for his PhD. He joined Richard Perle on the staff of Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson. There was a chemical spark, and history set a course for the politics of perpetual war. Scoop Jackson was a hawkish Democrat who wanted a more aggressive American foreign policy than the one overseen by Henry Kissinger, whom he saw as cynically pragmatic if not amoral. A major of President Richard Nixon's foreign policy in the early 70's was the improvement of relations with the Soviets, referred to as "detente". Jackson, Perle, and Wolfowitz saw detente as a strategic error-- a sign of weakness-- and they advocated a more confrontational approach. Perle would later explain that their goal was "to re-establish a set of objectives that was aimed at victory in the Cold War, rather than ending it by accomodation." As Jackson's chief assistant from 1969 to 1980, Perle became one of Washington's most powerful Cold War warriors. He also established himself as doyen of a swelling network of Washington insiders who favored an unprecedented projection of US military might, not only to protect national security, but because of a moral obligation to export American values. The would come to be known as the "Neo-Conservatives". While Perle was the political operator, Paul Wolfowitz spent the 70's as a policy wonk, climbing the bureaucratic ladders in the State Department and the Department of Defense. In 1976 he was tapped by George Bush Sr., then director of the CIA, to join the influential "Team B". The group was formed in response to criticism that the intelligence agency was underestimating Soviet military capacity. The Team B findings greatly overestimated the Soviet's nuclear strike capabilities, but their conclusions would go on to help stimulate the massive, trillion-dollar arms race of President Ronald Reagan. (COMMENT: History repeats itself.) It was during those years that the Neo-Cons began to shine. They had a well-defined enemy, and a president who was inclined to see foreign policy through a similar lens. Perle became assiant defense secretary and, as Reagan's point man on arms control, earned the moniker "Prince of Darkness". He and Wolfowitz were particularly pleased with Reagan's characterization of the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" in 1983. Perle thought it was a historical turning point: "I don't believe the Cold War could've been won without that moral idealogical offensive. That's the single most important thing Ronald Reagan did." By the end of the 1980's the Neo-Cons were well-represented in the Pentagon. With the election of Bush Sr., however, they found themselves under a president operating with less gusto and more attention to world sentiment.The critical piece of evidence came at the end of Gulf War I. Despite recommendations by Wolfowitz, who was then an undersecretary of defense, the tanks that rolled into Iraq fell far short of toppling Baghdad. In Bush's final year in office, Wolfowitz produced a forward-looking memo called "Defense Policy Guidance 1992-1994". He advocated preemptive attacks, a beefed-up military budget to ensure American domination, and the "pre-eminent responsibility for addressing selectively those wrongs which threaten not only our interests, but those of our allies or friends." Included in the paper was an illustrative, hypothetical war against Iraq. The leaked mome caused a minor scandal, however, and the language was softened before its official release. (To Be Continued...)

From THAT site: He doesn't make reference to whether or not Atheists have a faith or belief system, hence this does not prove your assertion. However, he does go on to explain general behavior of an Atheist and makes generalizations-- making Atheism an organization of sorts. He does, as I explained, note the difference between Atheism and Agnosticism. Agnostics are defined by their indifferent or non-committal view of religion or God existence. Therefore, they don't practice. Atheists, on the other hand, DO practice in that they challenge Theists to break down their arguments. Just because you don't believe in a God doesn't mean you don't have faith. And to Danarchy: yes, you could call it that. I'm not sure if you're inferring that the label would lessen the religion in some way...

1. God does not take charge of our daily lives. WE are in control of everything: our personalities, our prospective spouses/relations, the fact that we'll get into a car accident when we're 38, and the way in which we leave this planet. Of course, we are unaware of this, since we "wrote our stories" before we came to this planet. That's my specific belief, anyway. So, if God could step in and make everything perfect and happy and free, what's our point in being here? And why would there be a Heaven? 2. God does have a sense of humour, if anything. Putting human traits like Vengefulness to God is an insult, but this I think is the exception. If you don't believe me, explain why the guy at the Pizza Shop is so damn ugly. 3. The first law of Physics: there is no gravity. The world just sucks.

Firstly, Atheism IS a religion. Atheist sects have groups with different beliefs, just like any other religion. Jews For Jesus, anyone? Atheism is not centered around nonbelief or non-faith. That would be Agnosticism. Atheism is the nonbelief of a central god/s or divine power. Some Atheists believe that we ourselves are each a God, walking this earth to learn from our own experiences-- and when we leave this existence, we will simply move to a higher plane to learn more. Some go so far as to say that there is no shared reality: our experiences in life are merely the product of our imaginations, if you will. These people might see death as a "waking up" of sorts. Agnostics, in general, claim that the creation of the universe is a product of variables os unlikly that our being here is a statistical impossibility. Our existence(and the spectrum of effects that are seen as emotion, sadness and the like) can be explained full through chemical changes and electrical impulses in the body. These "realists" tend to think that when we die, we simply cease to exist. Sounds a bit drastic, but if it were true, we wouldn't care much(because we wouldn't exist anymore). So anyway, you don't have to believe the Jesus is the Messiah. But there is factual evidence(somewhere) supporting his existence at one time. And he was, in fact, a teacher. At any rate, each prophet that claimed to have the answer pretty much said the same thing: respect yourself, help each other, then shut up and go Home. As Jesus himself(reportedly) said: "If you were a child, you would understand." But too many religions exist that make the "true path" complicated. The Eightfold path? The Ten Commandments? Really superfluous. You need, like, maybe three to get the basic idea. And I've had enough of people who claim to know the True Way and regular people are unworthy of this revelation unless they call the 1-800 number, buy the book, put money in the offering plate, or whatever. It makes me sick. Eh... I've got something to go do, so I'll rant more later.

Then America itself went soft. Bill Clinton was elected to office, and the Neo-Cons retreated to their think tanks and private postings, releasing occasional dispatches into the real world. Wolfowitz wrote a spirited defense of his 1992 memo, arguing that US leadership entailed "demonstrating that your friends will be protected and taken care of, that your enemies will be punished and that those who refuse to support you will live to regret doing so. Perle, who had moved into the private sector, pushed forward a document called "A Clean Break", in which he counselled the Israeli government to scrap the peace process and ratchet up aggression toward Palestinians. A new millenium was approaching, and America was booming. In 1997, political pundit Robert Kagan and William Kristol(editor of the "Weekly Standard" and former chief-of-staff for Vice President Dan Quayle) brought together the Project for the New American Century. PNAC attacked the "incoherent policies" of the Clinton Administration, as well as the jelly-kneed conservatives who "have not confidently advanced a strategic vision of America's role in the world." The PNAC statement of principles called for military build-up, preemptive attacks when necessary and the recognition of the American responsibility to lead the globe: "Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next."(COMMENT: Think back to when you used to play King Of The Hill.) Signatories of the PNAC statement are now familiar faces in the upper echelons of the Pentagon, the White House, and the major media-- they include Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In 1998, many of the same names appeared on a PNAC letter addressed to Bill Clinton that urged a different strategy for dealing with Iraq, one that "should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power." The following year a new face appeared in the Neo-Con crowd. Some might say that George W. Bush(COMMENT: I'll bet you were wondering when the article would drop his name), with the fervor that characterizes the born-again Christian, gravitated toward a foreign policy that projected America's moral authority. Or perhaps the Neo-Cons had looked around for a vessel into which they might pour their ambitions, and found an amiable Texan with a folksy drawl and a platinum-card name. Whatever the genesis, by the lead-up to his presidential election, Bush was spending weekly sessions with "the Vulcans"-- a team of Neo-Con advisors with Wolfowitz and Condoleeza Rice at its core. On December 12th, 2000, the US Supreme Court preempted the Florida recount, and George W. Bush and friends swept themselves into power. Into power, but not into their moment in history. That would take a blue-sky morning in September 2001, when a president best known for spending time on his ranch would step forward and put his name to a doctrine of preemptive war. The strategy bore an unmistakable resemblance to the 1992 Wolfowitz memo, and it was only a matter of time before the bombs fell on Baghdad. What now? What lost, leaked memo can reveal the future of the next American century? Perhaps it's simpler to explain what is not on the agenda" multilateral treaties on land mines of greenhouse gases; the enforcement of international law; concern for the environment; protection of cultures and languanges; global inequalities that see the average American making 100 times as much as citizens of poorer nations; the disease and starvation that wrack the developing world. It would be wrong to say that the Neo-Cons don't care. It would be better to say that priorities have changed. (COMMENT: all comments and mistakes are mine.)

Did you know: Every presidential election since his conception, Mickey Mouse has gotten at least 1% of the vote.

By the way, no one from Philadelphia says that. If you take a vacation here(or by some extreme fuckup the airline sends you here), saying this in public WILL get you shit. Did I say shit? I meant SHOT. On the other hand, commercials like this one are cool: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/honda-ad.html