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The point is, though, that Voldemort is already so twisted and soulless that he really can't discern that a part of his soul is enveloped in another human being. Regardless, I'm not really trying to predict what J.K. Rowling is going to do. I'm just relating the theory I formulated after reading book 6. I'll be absolutely shocked if I'm anywhere close to right.

As soon as I finished reading Book 6, this was immediately the theory that sprung up in my mind. People are putting way too much stock in this prophesy. The only reason it even means anything is because Voldemort thinks it does. Harry is never mentioned by name in the prophesy, so I still think somehow Neville could be "the chosen one" because as was mentioned in the book, he and Harry share the same basic characteristics that were mentioned in the prophesy. I think that Harry is a horcrux, but Voldemort doesn't realize he is one. There's already been a lot made of the fact that Harry has certain aspects of Voldemort present in him because of the bond that was made when Voldemort gave him the scar, etc. So it wouldn't be a stretch to say that a part of Voldemort's soul is inside Harry. Harry, believing they have destroyed all of the horcruxes, goes after Voldemort. Since Harry himself is a horcrux, Voldemort is still immortal so Harry dies. Voldemort thinks he has won, but really he has just destroyed the last horcrux and thus made himself mortal once again. Then Neville, the real "chosen one," kills Voldemort. People are quick to discredit this theory because Voldemort "marked" Harry as the chosen one, but you could also look at Voldemort having "marked" Neville by having had his parents tortured into insanity, thus filling Neville with a lust for revenge. It's certainly not a watertight theory, but it makes a good amount of sense.

If you could pick one song to have a lapdance to, what would it be? Go.

That's not a worthwhile question at all though since they all fake it anyway.

Well this thread certainly took off more than I ever expected it to. My serious answer would have to be Naughty By Nature's "Feel Me Flow," I think.

Okay, so I've exhaustively traversed the behemoth that is Z3, and while I don't quite share Dean's level of exasperation, I really would like to find the secret exit at some point. I've found 8/11 of the secrets so far, and I'm guessing at least one of the last three has to do with the secret exit. One thing I'm confused about is the lift where you find the Duke in the burning barrel, it says "Lift malfunction, report to engineering..." Is this consequential at all or am I just reading too much into it? And if so, where exactly is "engineering?" I don't have the time or energy to do this all by myself, and I've been over an hour on this map already so any hints would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Was that the thing in the outdoor area that was a pain in the ass to jump up to because of the ridiculous slopes? If so then yes, I got that.

That would explain it.

Okay, yeah, got the silver key and then the secret exit. I still only finished with 10/11 secrets and it occurred to me that I never got to hear Dean's acca pella version of the E1M9 music...just out of curiosity, where exactly was that hidden in Z3?

I haven't actually tried this yet, but earlier I IDBEHOLDA'd out of frustration and saw that there was something behind that green tekwall. Of course, I did everything but check the other room after using, shooting, punching, spitting on, and taking a dump on that panel. I also know where the silver key is but I haven't figured out how to get to it yet. I'll mess around some more though and see what happens. Thanks for the tips in the mean time.

I want Steve to know I, for one, appreciated the Malcolm Sailor name-drop.

This happened at my high school about ten years ago, when the brand-new pre-engineering department basically commissioned this kid to create a "3d walkthrough" of the school to show off to prospective students who might want to apply to the program and their parents. He started the project using Build (for Duke3d) and was working on code to edit out Duke's weapons entirely, but he only got through the first floor before the administration lost interest and the project fell by the wayside. He put what he had done so far on the internet on his own personal website, calling the map "Allderdeath," a play on the name of the school (Allderdice). Although he never finished the weapons code, so Duke still ran around with just a pistol, he didn't put any monsters in the map, so it was basically Duke traipsing across the ultra-realistic first floor of my high school, which included almost every detail down to the awards banners and metal detectors in the foyer. When I was in 11th grade, which was four years ago, someone discovered his long-dormant website and the unfinished map, and reported it to the local CBS outlet, which ran a full investigative story in which some hack named Andy Sheehan came up with absolutely no concrete facts about the project, so they just spent 10 minutes during the 6 o'clock news showing clips of Duke firing his gun in the Allderdice cafeteria and interviews with freshman girls going "omg this is scary, I never thought Allderdice was a target for school violence." The administration sent letters home with every student the following day stating that they had been completely unaware of such a project and that they are doing everything they can to cooperate with the authorities and get to the bottom of it. I was on the school paper at the time, and I managed to track down the kid who created the level, who by this point was doing post-graduate work in China or something. He had heard about the furor the defunct project had caused via his mother, who had been contacted by local law enforcement officials who had been struggling to get a hold of her son. Meanwhile, I had been able to contact him using an AIM screen name that I found after playing with Google for about half an hour. So I interviewed him and the teacher who had been his "mentor" for the project who was still teaching chemistry at Allderdice. I found out all of this stuff, wrote an enormous story on it that basically called out the school administration for lying about having no knowledge of the project when it was them who had told the kid to do it in the first place. I nearly got in a ton of trouble for this story because I used both the kid and the teacher as "two anonymous sources with corroborating stories." This was a huge no-no for a high school paper but since this was a pretty big deal at the time both I and the editor-in-chief and the teacher in charge of the paper thought it'd be alright. Both Sheehan and the administration were pretty pissed off at me, but I refused to name the sources and they couldn't punish me for the story because they knew it was accurate. So yeah, that's my story about the ridiculous post-Columbine backlash towards computer games.

See, that's the best kind of summer. Unless, of course, it'll be boring because you don't have money to do shit. But if it's not that, I've personally never understood the point of having a job just for the sake of "doing" something.

Student, but for the summer I'm working at the local amusement park. Should be pretty easy.

Yeah same shit different day for me really. It was a Friday so I did smoke a little bit, then wen out and drank. Nothing unusual. There was a span of like 2 years in high school when 4/20 was a big deal but it's a pretty dumb holiday really, "lol do the same stuff you probably do every day how extraordinary." Although I did go to a debate between the editor of the High Times and like the most badass DEA agent ever which was mildly entertaining.

Well he was like 82 after all. It's hardly surprising at that age.

Whoa, I just re-read Breakfast of Champions last weekend. Peace out, Kurt.

I did, for all intents and purposes. Well, not so much the yoking and the ghost riding, but the same crowd pretty much.

I really want to try ghost riding some time but the problem is I spend like 98% of my life in cities of some sort.

As noble as your intentions are, I don't think they'd listen. If Louis Theroux couldn't do it, good luck convincing them.

Yeah Louis Theroux has done a bunch of documentaries on strange subcultures in America, among other things. He had a show called "Weird Weekends With..." where he followed around commonly stereotyped groups like gangsta rappers, neo-nazis, etc. And I also noticed the sexual tension between Louis and the oldest of the girls.

I got a chuckle out of the cacodemon picture, but that was about it.

I bought this waaaay back when it first came out, must have been 1994/1995 or so. The levels are obviously nothing special by today's standards, but I remember them being fun to play. Actually, I might even still have the wad on my computer somewhere, cause usually when I get a new computer I just zip up my entire Doom/Doom2 directories and transport them to the new computer.

Am I the only person who makes sure each room is as bug-free as possible before moving on to creating the next room? That's how I usually end up taking care of most glitches, it's a lot easier when you're only concentrating on one small portion of the map at a time.