I just finished marathoning the alpha of '7 days to die'. It's a zombie survival crafting game, and it's actually pretty fun! The unpredictable monsters seems to fit the zombie theme a little better than is fair given the lack of refinement, but I'd like it if the monsters were less inclined to glitch jump and glide their way to my throat.

The feel of the game is great; they really capture the necessary fear enabling factors both graphically and sound wise to produce that much loved survival game environment. The grindiness is real, and the randomness of loot is also top notch; Not oft lauded factors, but it's what keeps you playing so if you're going to do it, do it well right? Gas stations have gas, book stores have books and... book store stuff, and toilets have human turds- Not an exaggeration by the way. Be prepared to get your hands dirty.

My biggest qualm is the massive fail in way of trying to produce a story like element. Maybe I just haven't seen enough of it, but there were a few continuity fails, and that has been leaving me a little non-plused. Let's be honest though- do we really need one? You don't play a zombie craft/survival game because you want to follow strings of npc's to laden you with frivolous tasks and add heartfelt meaning to the 0's and 1's you're mercilessly manipulating.

Overall a pretty fun game (and currently half off due to a summer sale or summit).

SentimentalValue :
While attending college I took a class that focused on the teachings of a Greek philosopher named Epictetus. When we started delving into his views about attachment and identity, I found myself becoming more and more distant from everything I'd really cared about. I'd begun analyzing how I looked at things, and finding perspectives that eliminated any emotional attachment to them. I started getting pretty good at it, but as I did, I also started becoming a real jerk. I was loosing my ability to empathize with people.

My roommate and best friend through high school noticed and he took me aside one day and told me that the path I was going down was not one that I would be happy with. It wasn't until I had someone whom I really respect and care about take the time and effort to communicate their concern for me that I was able to see the damage it was causing.

I went into the bathroom and had a good cry when I realized that I was becoming the very monster that I had decided not to become as young boy. I've always had an uncanny ability to detach myself from whatever situation I was in and elicit an emotional response through immersing my perspective in any chosen context I deemed logically plausible. What I didn't realize growing up was that by consistently immersing myself in a pattern of approach, I could actually train myself to respond and think a certain way.

That's my advice- it may or may not work for you, but if you can, I would practice choosing to believe things, choosing to focus on things, and doing things that you believe should elicit what you've decided is a desired emotional response. If it does work, it may take time, and the change may be so subtle that you don't notice it's happening. As long as you maintain a degree of fidelity to the actual goal of achieving balanced emotional health without getting too lost in that endeavor, I've reason to believe it'll help you get to a place where you're not only feeling things more, you're more comfortable feelings things.

I'm comfortable, more then comfortable with my belief in God. In fact, I'm more certain of my belief in God then I am of anything else I know, and profess the faith I have in His existence on a regular basis. I'm confident I've found a lifestyle which will perpetuate the circumstances which allow me to preserve that confidence.

My faith in Him plays a major role in the continued zeal with which I testify of the truths I've discovered, observances which most deeply resonate with what I've come to understand about life, the universe and everything. I will be perfectly okay if I find that God was proven to me as being 100% percent undeniably real because that is how I try and live everyday- I believe that there is a way to gain access to the immutable, and that this unassailable, spiritual knowing is something everyone can strive to have accompany them throughout their daily life, and that it testifies in it's own very personal way that God lives, that he is a God of love, perfect in power, in wisdom, and in intelligence, a God of truth who cannot lie, the creator of this entire existence including everything in it.

I can say I know this, because the way I've come to know is by definition an extension of His being, and is purposed with the responsibility of answering those who exercise faith in Him and ask to know believing He will answer them.

Like wise, to answer your second question, I would have done just as the author of this thread has deemed would be his response to what is 100% irrefutable evidence to the non existence of God if I'd never discovered the power of living as I do now. I used to live my life out rather gloomily. I would put on a happy face for those who sought it, but I would be rather depressed, and simply waiting to die, confident that life's only constant was death.

I know this because for years that's what I did. I was a nihilist who was in denial about his nihilism. They call that non dualism these days, but what it comes down to is you don't think anything is because if it was how could you tell? Thus nothing is and everything is everything else, unless yous think otherwise, something everyone can do, and does. That's what I used to think anyway- I'd probably just keep living as if I had irrefutable evidence that He does live, because that's what I want to believe and I can with my knowledge of just how wrong I can be sometimes, especially in the face of thinking I'm 100% right.

Was wondering if my using linux would cause problems running the emulators with the plugin. Anyone know if there's a chance for complications?

First Gen- Gengar, cause he's fast and puts people to sleep.
Second Gen- Crobat, cause he's fast and puts people to sleep and he flies.
Third Gen- Reyquaza, cause he could fly from the start.
Fourth Gen- Infernape, cause he has powerful, flexible move options and he can take advantage of them stat wise.
Fifith Gen- Carracosta, cause I like the way he's designed, aesthetically and functionally.

Overall- Shuckle, cause he reminds me of myself.

My answer: Depends who's cooking. This roughly translates into usually pizza.

I don't wish to provide a basis for false interpretation so I'm providing some clarification. I am not anti social by dictionary definition: I'm simply prone to a sever loathing of interacting with individuals whom more or less fit a general stereotypical genre which I feel embodies a serious lack of panache(i.e. most everybody). It provokes a feeling of discontent at everyone not being as awesome as they could be, and not knowing how to help them realize it.

I would use a friends computer to rock some goldeneye. My computer is dead and I am posting this via a mobile device, so it doesn't leave me much choice...

There is a small chance the state my compy is in could be reversed... maybe even with out sacrificing any chickens! But I digress; If I am to participate my one concern is when the matches would be anounced. I need some time throw down some fail-safe contingency plans, and be able to confirm being able to participate.

I found that when using a magic memory stick and a pandoras battery to instal custom firmware, it required specific firmware in correlation to the 'downgader'(for lack a better term) to instal properly. essentially all your doing is bricking it and then going to the recovery menu with some tools that allow the installation of a custom operating system.

My keyboard is completely incapable of typing the last letter of the alphabet... sorta puts the fun on lockdown.... Little help? Please?

Here's two poems by poe that are good, but don't seem to be publici2ed much:

A DREAM

In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.
Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?
That holy dream- that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.
What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?
-THE END-



And here number 2:


ALONE

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
-THE END-


Pretty short in comparison to the raven, which is a personal faveorite of mine.

I really like Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

Also, every time I listen to to Cra2y Sunshine by the Pillows I start cry my eyes out. It Reminds me of a someone special. She moved to Boston for school... I didn't go with her. She... Was an angel. The song has this feel to it that could not be said better if I could understand the words (its in japanese, and i don't speak japanese)

Its like the feeling I get from the song is exactly how I felt when she moved, and I stayed. Its not a sad feeling... more of a it was fun.. more then that, it was heaven... but It couldn't really last. It might have but it was better this way in the long run. And If we go separate ways now, we could look back and know it was ended because we choose to mutually, and not feel bad knowing we left the other hurt, unable to look back on the good times because it ended bad. Anyway, the song is just good because it syncs so well with my and myself; and when you can share an experience like that, that well, without using words... that's skill.

Also, soothsayer has always been one of my favorite songs ever. Both times buckethead came to town, I was there to see him live (I have 3 gigs of him on my comy lol)

I type on this forum, Play video games on my compy, Read. Draw on occasion; I like to eat, but it costs money, so i keep that to a minimum. Sleeping is always a fun... I heard its pretty good for you too, but I think sleeps for slackers, which is why I'm so good at it probably :p.

Drugs are bad; the cons out way the pros way too much, and then your hooked with the cons, and the pros slowly make themselves sparse. Then you wake up in an alley smellin' like death, and with about the same fat content because you haven't eaten for three days, and everyone you know is suddenly looking for your head because all the s*** they can't find is no longer lost; its stolen, and since you do drugs, they assume you've taken it. So you decide to say "f***'em, I'll show them what being robbed is like." But something goes wrong, and your stuck with a freakin' dead body instead of money for drugs, and when you get sent to prison your no longer really worried about killing 'time'; Your more worried about stopping 'time' from killing you.

Yeah so drugs suck.

Mediation's nice too. O do that a bit. Just learn how to breath, and have something you can focus on. Cold-no Free2ing hands work really well. When ever you find yourself thinking, focus on your free2ing hands. The hands are good because there's a 'position' that you put them in so you can tell how well your focusing.

One last thing I do when I'm feeling discontent or really unhappy, I try and write all my thoughts down- everything I'm thinking. even when I'm thinking "I don't know what the hell to write!". You won't be able to get everything out(thoughts are faster then your ability to write, I can guarantee it. If they're not, then your not listening to your thoughts.), but I always feel better after I'm done writing.

Its really dependent on your definition of art. I'd say yeah, just because the majority of games I've played I could be seen as being artistic in some aspect or another.

Of course I'm pretty lenient in my judgment of what is art and what is not. I could find anything done in a skillful manner artistic, just as i could see anything on some extreme end of a scale as being a work of art, especially when its an attempt to bring forth/create something such as a video game.

Any product of ones mind brought to light by any means seems me good enough to be considered a work of art. You just have to look at it in the right light (which can sometimes mean a dim room while wearing beer goggles).

ESET smart security, because its small, efficient and highly recommended.

I think it might be considered nod32 but not sure... It says its the next generation of nod32 technology, but I don't know as much about anti virus as I probably should; the person who recommended it knows a lot about compys, and he uses this one. That right there is good enough for me.

I am definitely an rpg fan. As to what I enjoy reading... That's a hard question as I've read so many books. :p

I don't usually read mystery novels. That's about as far as my limitations go.
I've read
The Dark Tower series,
The Ender's Game series,
a lot by David Eddings,
The Sandman Comic series
The Han Solo Series
The Dan Brown Books
Some Neil Gaimen
a lot of Terry Pratchet
The Things They Carried



those are a few of he more modern pieces I've read. There's also the more classical stuff I read;
I have a hardbound/leather cased complete works of Shakespeare
I read a English rendering of the Inferno by Dante
I've read alot of Poe, and Lovecraft.
I've Read Some Dickens Novels.
Sir Gaiwain nd The green Knight
I've Read Some Chaucer

Oh Lord.... I knew I was forgetting something... Tolkien. I've Been A Tolkien Fan since before the movie. I read the books when I was 10-11; Couldn't stop reading them =P

Watched the Movies all in theaters at their first showing.

I've read the series at least 6 times, and read multiple 'supporting' books by the author. (this does not include the Hobbit and Silmarrilion- those are more then just supporting books.) I'm talking all the books that his son has published after he died from his random hand written papers.

I'm sorta hardcore about my Tolkien...

This reminds me though, I've read T. H. White's Once and Future King.
The C.S. Lewis Narnia Series, and some of his other stuff.

Some Micheal Chrichton

On a different note, I read the Hellsing Manga Which I really enjoyed.
There's also some very good nonfiction I've read...
This doesn't Even Cover Everything I've read, but this post is getting way too long, and seeing as I just woke up, I need some freakin food

FF7, but I think FF6 should be gettin more love then it is...

Uhhhh.... this seems freakin' scary as hell.

Trying to pass a law such as what is suggested by this, is not only heinous in concept, but wholly unconstitutional! What happened to freedom of speech?! Making something that could give a government that much power defeats anything we could possible refer to as a democracy. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution... ludicrous.