Polly Wolly Goku, Concert Series Finale

Trunks/Vegeta/Liger/Zechs

Frieza

Ace

Sub

SolarSonic

Galactic Magi

Nemo

Magnus X Zero/GamefreakForeverX

[Polly Wolly Goku, Concert Series Finale]

5/29/2006 4:03:11 PM

Frieza: The sun continues its redundant passage, crossing again over the dimensional nexus known as Metro City, bringing with it another bar and another chance at enlightenment. Another day to chug our way through the flower we call consciousness and to randomly slaughter our time to the ticking of the clock we call mortality. A new day to renew the reasons that have brought us here, and a new opportunity to grow in understanding of our selves and of each other. A day-

(A flying bottle explodes on Frieza's head, followed by profanities and demands for silence)

Frieza: Or maybe just another hangover.

(BTW, NEG's last post was going to be "Forever!" before I disrupted it. And I'm moving again tomorrow. Still Massachusetts, but another town)

(Big the Cat500) I have my doubts that this will actually make it to 500!

(Funier) And I have doubts about doubting my santity, what else is new?

*Smashes a bottle of cheep wine on a wall*

*Wall turns into a perfect replica of the titanic and just sits there like a beached whale.*

I wonder if this means to take a vacation.... Nah.....

Waste of good wine though....

It's so hot... I'm gonna die if I go outside today.

Hey, Big. The last one made it to five hundred and every other bar has as well. It may take a month or two, but it'll get there.

Month or two Never! It will make it to 500 in record time. The return of Sub is the return of posting madness!!! Behold the posting goodliness.

Oh by the way guys. Looking at the last bar I'm sort of mad. I am at a disadvantage of not having my own computer. I got beat up/killed/ and maimed. Maybe you all forget. Do you know who the **** I am? I'm the Subbernaught! *****!!!!

*Pulls out one god awfully large shotgun and aims it straight at the ceiling. Cocks it and fires. Suddenly a large walrus erupts from the barrel of the gun.*

Do it for a bud light my walrus slave!

*The walrus flies through the air only to realize it's magical wing juice has failed. The walrus then proceeds to fall to the floor where he just sort of rolls around*

Behold I have won again!

*I leap into the air and just sort of stay there while the Top Gun theme begins to play in a never ending loop.*

(Im Not NEG) ...Forever!!

(Funier) Nice ref there sub. But there wasn't any of this...

*Slides a pokercard in Sub's pocket.*
*Card explodes and obliterates all buildings outside the bar but everyone inside is untouched.*

Eh close enough.

(Looks at the devastation and lack of loss of life.)

I don't know... it feels empty somehow.

(Tabcef) AHGHAHGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

*catches tank shell in midair and spins a bunch while falling from the force of the shell*

That movie needs more fight scenes, dammit.

(Funier) ...I'm guessing that a movie that was ONLY fight scenes would need more fight scenes for you, Tab.

Hey, remember last year, when my school was out for the summer a week ago, and then this year I don't get out till next thursday?

Good times.

(Funier) Wow Nemo. You must be the luckiest person here.

And I would like to thank the person who created the 'bittorrent' concept. Cause now I can download Outlaw Star.

Well Nemo, there is one good point to this whole thing. Good: The schedule is changing back the year after we graduate, so the summer we're missing is cut short two weeks. So we got an extra two weeks off from school.

Bad: ........... I'm sure you know.

Suckiness outweighs everything good though. That's two weeks I would have had before college that I won't get now, and I'd like it a hell of a lot more if I could start earlier.

Er. High school year earlier, not college. Wanted more space between there. I'm scared to death of moving out of state, I barely ever go out of state on vacation.

Aw, it looks like I missed the 500 post when I was in California. Oh well.

I feel old. Are all of ya'll in high school except Friez, me, and Trunks?

(Im Not NEG) I'm not in school.

(Funier) I'll be finishing school next year, yay.
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X smackes the jukebox and it somehow starts playing random rock music. He then pulles out a base guitar from wherever and begins singing 'Satan gave me a taco'. (Warning, large block of text)

"Satan gave me a taco and it made me really sick.
The chicken was all raw and the grease was mighty thick.
The rice was all rancid and the beans were so hard.
I was gettin' kinda dizzy eatin' all the lard.
There was aphids on the lettuce and I ate every one.
And after I was done, the salsa melted off my tongue.
Pieces of tortilla got stuck in my throat
And the stains on my clothes burned a hole through my coat.
My stomach was a-trembling. I broke out in a rash.
I was so dry and thirsty and I didn't have no cash,
So I went and found a hose, tore off all my clothes,
Turned on the water and it shot right up my nose.
Some old lady came along and she thought I was a freak,
So she beat me with a handbag 'til I could hardly speak.
I was lying there naked, my body badly bruised,
In a pool of my own blood, unconscious and confused.
Well, the cops came and got me and threw me in their van.
I woke up on the ceiling and I couldn't find my hand.
They took me to the judge, his eyes a-glowing red.
The courtroom was filled with witches and the dead.
Well, the sheriff was a hellhound with fangs and claws.
The prisoners were tied up and chained to the walls.
The air was gettin' thick. The smoke was gettin' thicker.
The judge read the verdict, said, "Cut off his head!"
Well, they placed me on the altar and he raised up the axe.
My head was about to explode, when I noticed the Marshall stacks.
I noticed all the smoke machines, the cameras, and the lights,
Some guy with a microphone running around, dancing in tights.
And I noticed the crew and the band playing down below,
And I realised I was in a rock video.
So I went and joined the band and went out on tour
And I smoked a lot of heroin and I passed out in manure.
I made out with the groupies, started fires back stage,
Made a lot of money and I gave it all away.
Well, the band got killed, so I started a solo career
And I won all the awards and I drank all the beer.
I opened up a taco stand just to smell the smell,
Cooking with the devil, frying down in hell."

Taking a deep breath, he then proceded to whack Sub from his hanging position with the guitar.

(Frieza bursts in)

Frieza: Alright everyone, places!

GM: Which places? The ones for the health inspector?

Frieza: No, for-

Ace: For the FBI?

Sub: UN troops?

Trunks: Child services?

Vegeta: The wife?

Nemo: Mailman?

Frieza: No, no, the beer company that's shooting their commercial here!

Vegeta: You never told us we were having a commercial.

Frieza: What do you mean? I wrote it in glowing green blood in huge letters on that wal-

(Notices wall has been replaced with walrus)

Frieza: ...yes. Anyway, they're outside unloading. Hide little Trunks and cover the corpses or something.

Ace: Why would a beer company want to do a commercial here? This place is enough to scare anyone sober, MAN!

Frieza: Because apparently they've never heard of us. I guess the world governments have been suppressing news of our grander exploits.

Vegeta: Eh, I'm not in the mood.

Frieza: Hmph! I go out of my way to listen to these people instead of blowing them up so that we can all make a profit for a change and you won't even clean up some corpses?

Vegeta: Fine, fine, don't nag me. What do we have to do?

Frieza: Well first of all...

(Shoots beans around room. Bodies explode, blood evaporates, basement and torture room doors melt shut, Nemo dies)

Frieza: Now just drink like you normally do, except don't kill anybody or destroy anything. (Looks at Nemo, already undead) Or talk.

Undead Nemo: Brains!

(Goku walks in)

Goku: Hey guys, what was that camera crew doing outside?

Vegeta: Get lost clown, we're making money.

Frieza: Wait, was?

Goku: Yeah, I asked them if they were here to film a documentary about that time you guys started a war with the fire department and they packed up and left suddenly.

(Silence)

Goku: Uh...is that bad?

Frieza: No, not at all Goku. You see, we were throwing you a surprise party and they didn't want you to see what we'd prepared for you.

Goku: A party? What for?

Frieza: Your induction into the food chain, monkey.

Goku: Huh?

(Impales Goku on walrus's tusk, both implode into walrus's stomach and vanish into the dimension of eaten things)

GM: Oh well, it's not like we need money anyway.

Vegeta: Speak for yourself. Our bribe bill is getting bigger every day.

Sub: Then just add some of it to our blackmail list.

Ace: And don't forget the extortion fund!

Frieza: Is it me, or it it getting harder to drink around here without being disturbed?

Nemo: Septaloofaversiday!

(Septuplets of loofas begin parading through the streets outside declaring their inherent superiority to sponges, have a 3 second war/holocaust, and detonate an atomic bomb)

Ace: You're just not drinking enough.

(Swigs 3 Ace drinks at once, passes out in spasmodic frenzy spouting gibberish only Epyon can understand)

(Funier) X: So I guess this is how it looks when the maid comes. Kinda nice place. Wait... whatever happened to that titanic replica?
________

So I was able to get an Elite banned today... I feel strangely happy that there is one less jerk on GFAQS now.

In other news.... I love my summer so far. How about you guys?

How?

(Funier) Well, It was someone bashing people who bashed the "Prep" style clothes brands like A&F and AE. what they did is alienate pretty much everyone by saying that people who didn't buy from such places had no right to judge those who did. SO, what I did is point out a few errors in their logical reasoning and then they began ranting on about how I was some idiot who wore rags. Long story short, banned for trolling.

It was also because of this that I used up most of my posts so I wasn't able to reply earlier.

But yes, MGRaiden will never see the RI board again.

They need to just IP axe you after X amount of accounts. Even ten is generous, you'll never need that many unless you get banned.

(Tabcef) "Let's see what we good here, this better be something good or-[opens box] oh... Uh, sir.."

"Yeah?"

"You need to come take a look at this."

"Alright, what do we got here?[opens box] What?! You've got to be kidding me! Hey 23, come take a look at this!"

[Scout trooper 23 walks over]

[The other two open up the box]

"Oh geez... We almost got killed for THIS?"

"We all did."

[Stormtrooper walks over]

"So what kind of spice or-"

Scouttroopers: "No, you don't wanna-" "Don't look in there!"

Stormtrooper: "Get outta my tree dodger."

Scouttrooper: "I'm not doing you a favor or anything."
[Scout troopers leave]

[Stormtrooper opens box]

Stormtrooper:"Hey guys, get over here."
"Check this stuff out. It's great!"

[another Stormtrooper walks over]

[Stormtrooper 2 pulls out teddy bear from box]
Stormtrooper 2:Awwww, it's so cute!
[walks off]

Stormtrooper: "Hey, hey, check this out."

[another Stormtrooper walks over]

Stormtrooper 3:"A new action figure line?!"

[Another 2 stormtroopers walk in]

Stormtrooper 4:" My turn!"

[Stormtrooper 3 pulls out toy dinosaur from box]

Stormtrooper 3: "Yes! Roooar! Rwoaarr!!" [shakes dinosaur]

Hm. I've run into a few old members. Sonic THP, Paper Ace Chase.... I'm positive I've found others and just don't remember.

(Im Not NEG) From a different forum:

Dng:Tell me about the infinite, NEG, and its effect on the human mind

NEG:I'm too busy, I'll leave Cameraman to answer it for you.

Cameraman:But what would I know abou..

NEG:Do it!

Cameraman:Ahem. Infinity is a type of chedder cheese. Made by the guys at Wank Industries, like most things on the planet. Infinity was critisized to be a type of drug, of which when taken, you'd hallucinate to seeing NEG everywhere. Any person, tree or bee will suddenly appear to you as NEG. Of course, the ratio of people liking this fact was mixed, and those who didn't quickly killed themselves, oddly all in the same manner of hitting themselves over the head with Batman comics. Infinity was banned due to this, though NEG liberelists are campaining that those who died was merely due to their own life problems, because everyone loves NEG.

NEG:Well said.

(Tabcef) Had constant contact with Kutan until a few weeks ago.
Saw T2 in a private RO server a few weeks ago.
Saw with Sonic the Rabbit a LONG time ago in Graal.

roar or or ororrrrr.

YES! I'm done with school! And about an hour and a half earlier than Nemo. Hah!

And the final in math that I thought I did TERRIBLE in, I got a 76%. I was working up until the teacher kicked me out and I had to just guess without any comprehension of the problems. Woot! I have not used that word in many, many, many months but I'm very happy.

(Tabcef) *PEWWWWW*
HELL!
AND HEAVEN!

GEMU GIRU GAN GO GUFOU!

HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

GAOOOOO GAAIIIIII GAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!!

SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM, OH YEAH!

(Im Not NEG) I'm about to lose a load of active messages when the old bar vanishes. Hold onto your hats!

(Funier) But I don't have any hats..... Just a hood....

The following is an excerpt from one of Nemo and my chats. This particular section is in regards to the topic of Two Not Hot Things = One Hot Thing. I (SSJ Cloud) have taken the position against this concept, while Nemo (microwavebagel) is in support of it.

SSJ Cloud: Okay, then how bout this:
Wang monster + a leper = Sexy?
microwaveabagel: hell yes
SSJ Cloud: Damn Marty, you're a lot kinkier than I would have expected. How can girls look at you?
microwaveabagel: usually i blindfold them
microwaveabagel: and gag them
microwaveabagel: i'd rather not go into detail
SSJ Cloud: Ya know what? I'm contacting your chloroform dealer and putting a stop to your misuse of their fine product!
SSJ Cloud: It's the only way you'll learn...
microwaveabagel: ha...good luck with that
microwaveabagel: i paid for his vacation to maui last year
SSJ Cloud: Corporations have no honor left!
SSJ Cloud: Whatever happened to Mom and Pop stores that were fun for the whole family? Oh wait, YOU happened with your chloroform and your disrespect for their rights as people!
microwaveabagel: i would hardly call them people
SSJ Cloud: Don't have your way with Mom and Pops anymore!

Discuss.

(Funier) I would but.... Well I went to Maui last summer on vacation.....

Oh and hey Frieza, what was that player you told me about a while back? Apparently I can't find a patch that handles .ogm's for any of the media players I have. I need my Outlaw Star man!

(Tabcef) Videolan player.

VLC.

I -SUCK- at Resident Evil: Dead Aim.
Not having infinite ammo causes me to run out of bullets in about 10 minutes.

Because I shoot the crap out of every zombie I see.

And I mean every.

Stupid ammo conservation.

It might be a little late for this, but this is what MUGEN looks like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogZHOad14Mg

Stuff like that exists and Capcom can't get off their butts and make something new that's worthwhile. I liked it.

(Im Not NEG) We're having a heatwave over here in the UK at the moment, I'm burning....BURNING...

What's the temperature high?

That's not all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzXPbb0XycE

That intro animation for Broly is unreasonably long. Understandable for nothing but a boss fight, which it isn't.

Mugen's a cool program though. Don't have it but there's plenty of character's I'd put in if I did.

(Im Not NEG) Uh...except it does say its a boss fight.

Also:the UK is freezing cold now. VERY COLD. I'M FREEZING.

I see far too many of those Mugen battles with people fighting or using Broly pretty quickly. So I still think it's too long.

If he's after 5+ battles, okay that's acceptable, but not every time.

Man, that conversation between GM and Nemo brought me back. It's been almost a year since I've had a random insanity conversation with anyone but my brother (whom I babble mindlessly with constantly, usually about things dying/exploding/deathholing).

The mugen game looked ok. Pretty much the same as every other fighting game I've played. Ours is going to be much different, primarily because it'll have free-flight.

And check out Ace's new comic. Nemo's look is pretty cool.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/34571154/

I'm so pretty.

(Funier) That just made my day.

And because I need to:
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X: "I combined the concepts of a door, a staple gun, and a toilet plunger and came up with a plunger that shoots out doors to nail things down.

I call it... the SPLATTERMUFFIN

Now you may put up double hinged doors inside your plumbing as to greet yon fat plumber (or half saya-jin little kid) with even more grief than was thinkable for an ordinary pipe.

Remember..... SPLATTERMUFFIN"

*Tosses in the general directon of the bathroom*

X: "Have fun kid"

Can't we just use the "living clog"? It's nasty and made from filth and hair. It leaps right outta the bowl and goes for the face.

o_o Scary.

I just read this somewhere and it WORKS. Go open Notepad. Type in, without quotation marks, "Bush hid the facts"

Save it. Now open it again.

Close it before reopening. Forgot to mention.

I thought that was awesome for a sec, but then I looked it up and found out it's not an easter egg (or if it is, it's a very creative one). It's actually just a bug and a big coincidence:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/24/95235.aspx
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=398369&whichpage=1&#2641818

Typing "z " also garbles it, and there are other combinations I'm sure. It's still pretty insane though.

(Tabcef) FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHH!!!!

'The Thing' is awesome, scary, and has the best goddamn special effects in a horror movie.

Only seen it twice, but started playing the game again.
That howl that people make when they turn is really creepy, but it's okay, since I usually just light them up and then load about 30 shotgun rounds into them, before lighting them up like a firework again.

(Im Not NEG) Argh, crap. Its hot again. Too hot. Burning. BURNING.

You still haven't told me what the temperature high is there.

(Funier) On the 'Bush hid the facts' thing... I'm not sure if what I got was so special. Just a bunch of boxes.

And just think about it. The SPLATTERMUFFIN looks like a plunger but causes extra grief. Come on, can you say 'sneak attack?'

It's Spiderman! Only in a show that makes him use a car and a giant robot thereby putting most of his powers to no use....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i-m0jwdmnxA&search=spider%20riders

Japanese programming is weird.

Anyway, I'm off for a week. Be back Saturday.

(Tabcef) I used to have the theme song to that show.

SPUUIDAAAAMAAAAAN!

(Funier) See Lindsay Lohan run from a tank squad.

Wait... wrong ad.....

I would pay a crapload to see that though.

Me: That's my teammate!

Blue Team member: No, that's not your teammate. That's your teammate IN A TANK!!!

I was scrolling through MGComics to ask KingFire about the game and I happened on the news that Trinity is getting married. The lucky man is another spritist from that board (Maikeru, a grey Tails recolor). A toast to them! May their lives be filled with sunny days and the liquor at their wedding be of expensive taste!

Here, here!

I be back. With a set of $100 copic markers and Unreal Tournament 2004 SE that I got for free. o_o I don't play FPS, but I guess it's cool that I got it. Got some other free stuff of less importance, so I think I averaged out at $250 of free stuff. Kickass! That and loads of 3DSMax education.

(Tabcef) Namco X Capcom has Gilgamesh, who is officially dubbed 'Sir Pimpage the First', as he has freakin' golden armor all the time, unlike Arthur who goes from boxers to golden armor back to boxers super quick.

Yes, Gil is cool.

I'm so happy, they're remaking Tales of Destiny! It looks amazing now!

It does indeed.

FALCON PUNCH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw&search=Falcon%20Punch

Summer is boring.

Also, I'm working at Marble Slab Creamery in the food court of one of the malls here. I'm on my second week, and they've already promoted me to "shift leader."

Which is kind of like assistant manager.

And I get lots of free ice cream. Woo butter pecan!

Summer is boring.

I need a new job or at least another job.

(Tabcef) Why oh why did they pair Guy up with some lame ass ninja in NxC?

And make his theme not awesome....

They should of freakin' had him be solo, with his A3 theme.
Because he's freakin' Bushin Ryuu!

Which means he's the only one. Or should be.

And Captain Commando sucks.

Hey, Captain Commando runs a cool operation. How many ninjas hang out with a crew like that?

Captain Commando OWNS. Cabuando!

(Tabcef) I have experienced the greatest shooter game to ever grace this planet.

Ghost Squad.

Oh dear LORD it is sexy, awesome and most importantly, kicks the crap out of every single other shooter game, including House of the Dead 4 and Time Crisis 4.

Too bad the arcade only has the non-IC card version, not allowing me to unlock the 50-something guns and 30-something costumes- but instead giving us the crap 'preset' version.

...

There's a Time Crisis 4?!

(Tabcef) Yep, released pretty recently.
But screw it.

Because Ghost Squad knocks it on the floor and proceeds to kick it over and over and over again, until it's beaten into a bloody pulp.

Weirdest song to ever exist: Waka Laka

Funny. REALLY weird though. I'm curious about the background of the person who wrote the lyrics. o_o

Behold! The world's first SSJ4 Trunks sheet!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y160/Frieza2000/ssj4trunks.gif

The hair is bugging me. I wanted to give him the purple hair like those few at the bottom, but I'd end up having to hand draw all of it and there's no way it'd come out looking as natural as what's already there. Maybe I'll try it later. What do you guys think?

SSJ4 is just a bad design...... Did the GT crew have Toriyama actually make that one?

I like the ones with the purple hair better.

Pretty sexy.

Wow. Wasn't expecting that at all. Nice.

Got a call from my brother yesterday. Calling because his friends were drunk and got lost (Like I was supposed to do anything about that...). I think he was a little drunk himself... Asked him where he was, I was first told London, then somewhere else, then Rome.

That's the second time one of them got lost. First time was at the colloseum, they just walked back to their hostile without him.

How to make an Ace the echidna

Ingredients:
1 part competetiveness
5 parts arrogance
3 parts beauty

Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Top it off with a sprinkle of lustfulness and enjoy!

...

They got it completely right.

(Im Not NEG) THE CITY....OF TOWNSVILLE!

Well apparently he wasn't drunk. Talked to him today.

On a related note to the post above me, on a COMPLETELY unrelated search I discovered that they made a Powerpuff Girls in Japan.... o_o Odd way to find out too, saw a piece of promo art for a game I'd never seen before, couldn't find the full version so clicked on this poster's links to look for it. One was the person's youtube account, and that's where it was uploaded. Looks very weird.

Oh, you mean Powerpuff Girls Z. I was a bit sceptical at first, but it might be alright.

At first I thought it was this in animated form:

http://ppg.snafu-comics.com/?strip_id=93

GAH! I hate it when I can't remember certain things! I don't know if its a real person or a ficticious one, but today I heard something about a person turning 60, and while I don't care about that detail there was SOMETHING related to it that I want to remember but can't!!! If I could just remember WHO it was I'm sure I'd remember the rest. ;_; It makes me sad!

(Im Not NEG) Both I and Frieza knew about the PPG anime months ago.

MONTHS.

POSSIBLY LATE LAST YEAR WHILST HUNTING FOR HENTAI.

Ahem.

I'm sorry I haven't kept my eye out for it? o_o

Not a show I follow, only made the comment because of your message.

(Im Not NEG) AHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHA

AAHAHAHAHAHA

What?

(Takes away NEG's maniacal laughter MKA)

Frieza: Ok, I think you've had enough.

Since when has anyone ever had enough, Friez?

(Drinks gasoline and belches fire)

So, how about that Pirates movie?

Haven't seen it yet. After Spiderman 2 I'm dead set against seeing big movies within a couple days of release. I'll probably see it soon.

People like this make me sad...

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=928790&topic=29173630

(Tabcef) YOU DIG GIANT ROBOTS!
I DIG GIANT ROBOTS!
WE DIG GIANT ROBOTS!
CHICKS DIG GIANT ROBOTS!

Hell yeah!

That's not a person GM, that's a kid. The opinions of kids are not to be taken seriously. Unless you know people like that who are your age. Then we'll have no choice but to exterminate the youth of the world. With giant robots.

Nice, Tab. Nice...

And as far as this summer's contest goes, which is good because they stopped with the single character entries,(Sephiroth has too many fans to fight against) I say that today's was the most unfair match so far.

Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Devil May Cry

...

Sorry Dante, Sonic was my first love.

Yeah, poor Dante really will cry now.

Odd. This is your ranking when you reach 3000 karma:

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/user.php?user=2794&board=929240&topic=28632302

Which series do you think will win the contest? My money's on Super Smash Bros.

I'm going to say Super Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda.

XD

http://www.contemporaryinsanity.org/audio/realmen/Bud%20Light%20-%20Real%20Men%20of%20Genius%20-%20Mr.%20Gasoline%20BBQ%20Starter.mp3

Here's the most of them. There's some great ones:
http://www.contemporaryinsanity.org/content/view/173/2/

Ahh, my birthday is but moments away.

Oooooh. How old will you be?

I am now 21, MAN!!!

Happy birthday!

Legal drinking age. It seemed so far away when we first came here. I wasn't sure we'd be here this long, but somehow I just couldn't imagine leaving.

(Hands Ace a mug of thick yellow-orange liquid with chunks of fruit floating it in and multi-colored bubbles floating out of it)

Frieza: A new import from another galaxy. I have no idea what's in it, but it looks festive enough for the occasion. Happy Birthday Ace!

Is it safe to be consuming things not made from this planet's resources?

Frieza: No. (swigs a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, bursts into purple flames)

Purple flames are warm for miles away.....

Cyan-green flames are like the coolest. Throw some type of element in a fire and they change colors. Bright red fire is weird. One of the more interesting things I saw in chemistry last year.

Happy birthday!

Thank you.

(Swigs the mug of fruity(?) yellow liquid(?) and then smiles when he's done)

Wow. That was --

{the results of Ace drinking this new alien beverage have been censored for your sanity. Think happy thoughts, folks. Bunnies and kitties. yes...}

o_o

http://objection.4camp.net/go.php?n=34469

(Tabcef) The world has been shattered by angels of death but we still live on like this. This is not the end for us! I'm a 'Battler', a warrior! I'll fight, fight, fight on to the end, unto death do me part!

(POLLY_01) Butterfree: *teleports in*

Frieza: Holy Hell, an actual custom?! We haven't had one of those the whole year...so, what was it that we were supposed to do with customers again?

(POLLY_01) Butterfree: I'm here because you've been watched by a girl. Now she is going to change this place forever.

Goku: (Finally.)

*the whole place goes black*

LOADING.....

SonGoku

Race: Saiyan
Board Type: High level
Immortal: Yes
Height: You should know.
Personality: A genius, easily angered, a coward
Appearance: He wears a white shirt and blue jeans. He also wears a brown coat with an attachment that makes it look as if he has wings on his arms.

Goku a.k.a. G.J.L.

Race: Same as Zidane(FF9)
Board Type: n00b
Immortal: Yes
Height: Shorter than SonGoku
Personality: Stupid, perverted, whiny, and is a complete coward.
Appearance: Is like SonGoku, but is skinny and has a tail. He wears an orange shirt and blue jeans. He also sports a yellow backpack.

LOADING COMPLETE

*the place returns to normal*

SonGoku: I'm finally back to my true and immortal self. Looks like I won't be abused anymore.

Goku: *sees Frieza* Dude you're nude.

Frieza: What's this? How dare you storm in here and empower our abuse monkey! Or split him in two, or whatever you did. If we don't have him around to vent our murderous rage it could erupt into a violent killing spree!

Ace: Uh, Friez...

(Ace indicates the pile of bodies on the street corner)

Frieza: ...it could erupt into MORE violent killing sprees! And besides-

(Lights original Goku's hair on fire)

Frieza: He was always immortal. At least he was as far as I was concerned. It really just presents us with the opportunity to abuse him more. Just ask Santa.

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: *puts it out* You can still abuse someone. The one with the tail is my Alt. Twin. He's not a Saiyan.

Goku: I'm a Genome. You can call me G.J.L. if you want.

SonGoku: You can abuse him. But not without my permission!

Frieza: If this girl didn't want you to be hurt then she definitely spawned you in the wrong place.

(POLLY_01) Butterfree: Both of them are cowards.

SonGoku: I have a Gundam.

"And I have a boomstick..."

Blows most of Goku's head off with a full barrel of buckshot. Blood and pieces of the Saiyan's mostly unused brain spill out onto the floor.

Ace holds the gun up to the newcomer's face. "Now... Who's a weakling, MAN!!!?"

"No man is a coward, a weakling, or less than God when he's holding a wep, son. No one. Remember that."

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: Let me show you how. *punches his twin in the face*

Goku: Pain.

Frieza: Yes, yes, saiya-jin abuse. Delightful. Are you people going to order anything or not?

(POLLY_01) Goku: I'm not a Saiyan. I'm a Genome.

SonGoku: G.J.L., I have a present for you.

Goku: You do?

SonGoku: Here you go. *takes out a baseball bat and beats him with it*

Goku: *is being beaten* Ow! Ow! Ow!

Ace: Heh, heh. That's how it's done.

(Tabcef) Saikano.

She, The Ultimate Weapon.

Is the saddest thing I have ever seen.

Ever.

It's freaking heart rending.

You've never watched Elfen Lied? That's gut-wrenching and tear-jerking with some cute-factor.

(Tabcef) Elfen Lied was retarded.

I hated it.

Oh, well. Someone's gotta hate it.

(strums guitar)

Folks, I'd like to sing a song about the American Dream.

It's about me, it's about you, it's about every lamer on this site and many others who post stupid crap for no reason.

About the way our American hearts beat way down in the bottom of our chests(if you're American). About that special feeling we get down in the cockles of our hearts. Or maybe below the cockles.

...maybe in the sub-cockle area.

Maybe in the liver... maybe in the kidneys... maybe even in the colon...

We don't know.

I'm just a regular Joe, with a regular job. I'm you're average white suburbanite slob.

I like football, and porno, and books about war.

I've got an average house with a nice hardwood floor.

My wife and my job, my kids and my car.

My feet on my table and a Cuban cigar...

But sometimes that just ain't enough to a keep a man like me interested.

(Oh, no. no way, uh-uh!)

No, I've gotta go out and have fun at someone else's expense.

(Oh yeah. Yeah yeah! YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!)

I drive really slow in the super-fast lane, while people behind me are goin' insane!!

I'm an *******! le oh le oh le oh! I'm an *******!

(he's an *******! such an *******!)

I use public toilets and I whizz on the seat, I walk around in summertime saying," How about this heat?"

I'm an *******! le oh le oh le oh le oh!! I'm an *******!!

(he's the world's biggest *******!!)

Sometimes I park in handicap spaces, while handicap people make handicap faces!

I'm an *******! le oh le oh le oh le oh le oh!! I'm an *******!!

(he's an *******!! such an *******!! he's a real ******* *******!)

Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song, ranting and raving and carrying on. Maybe their right when they tell me I'm wrong...

....

...

...

NAH!!!

I'm an *******!! le oh le oh le oh!! I'm an *******!!

(he's an *******!! he's the worlds biggest *******!!)

/\ Z Z |-| 0 EL W

/\ Z Z |-| 0 EL W

Oooohh...

I'm an ******* and I'm proud of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=384mD-hOLa8

check it out

note: some language and FPS style killing mayhem.

(Tabcef) The Chappelle Show Tupac Skit is possibly the greatest Chappelle Show skit to ever exist.

(Master Espeon) *Walks in*

Well, here's my occasional "I should come here more" post.

*Drinks.*

Why don't you call more often?! *shakes cane*

Hm. Apparently ConsumerofBeer deleted his Quirk topic.

(ConsumerOfBeer) Boo deleted topics!

Horray beer!

(Tabcef) I would like to state that the first person scene in Doom may be the best directed game-movie scene to EVER EXIST.

Seriously.

That Chainsaw part was probably the most kick-ass thing I've ever seen.

Three plus times now.

What possessed you to post that anyway Consumer? >_>

(ConsumerOfBeer) I'm not sure. I think because I just realized it right before I posted it. Then I decided it probably wasn't a very good idea to post.

Big duh there! XD

Sorry. Just seemed like that should've occured to you immediately.

(ConsumerOfBeer) Probably should have. Doesn't make it any less true, though.

I'm assuming we don't want to know what this topic was about.

I'll assume right.

(ConsumerOfBeer) Right.

It's nothing gross, he just posted a... well, not politically correct personality trait of his. I think it only would have gotten one or two members offended, which is likely why it was deleted.

(ConsumerOfBeer) Yar, that were be th' reason.

"Yar" is pirate lingo.... have you been hiding something from us?

(ConsumerOfBeer) I'm a half-breed.

Pirate? Better get a ninja to counteract!

*Dresses up in ninja garb*

Then I'll take up the profession rivaling both of them:

Space Cowboy

The Rival Triangle is now complete! Pirate-Ninja-Space Cowboy. Who will survive?

(ConsumerOfBeer) Well, at least no one calls me Maurice.

Some of these comments you find here....

Thelastsheikah | Posted 7/28/2006 1:47:10 PM | message detail
I bought it for just over ten pounds.

rabidcheesehead | Posted 7/28/2006 4:02:34 PM | message detail
Is that a lot? Sorry, I don't speak British.

(Tabcef) Ten pounds?

That's overpriced!

I bet it only costs 8 meijing at most.

(POLLY_01) Nominate Butterfree for the Character Battle!

Nominate Link and he'll get owned royally.

That was the best point prover I've ever seen. There is no Zelda-killer. Zelda will never die.

Where's the nomination link? I can't seem to find this year's. Usually there's a link under the contests section or the main page....

I believe the series contest kinda replaced the character contest this year. I guess they got sick of the Sephiroth fanboys boosting him over everyone and God.

And yes, I'm sick of him. He's a confused, emo-laced, girly-looking germ. That's all Seph ever was and ever will be. He's dead, FF7 is over and I'm done.

::sigh::

I feel so much better after saying that.

I don't like how FF7 fans are still complaining for cameos in every title it's possible in. It has so much representation already, if they get their FFVII remake then I only hope they'll all stop begging for more.

It's a great RPG, but there's many ones that are as great or much better and it's CERTAINLY not as good as it's made out to be. I'd prefer another Legend of Dragoon or Skies of Arcadia.

I assumed there was a character battle this year because I keep seeing "Nominate _____" comments everywhere.

(ConsumerOfBeer) Dude, everyone nominated the pong paddle.

*nominate

Anyone know if it's possible to make a completed hexagram in a single sequence of lines (as in don't lift the tool from whatever you're writing on)? Pentagrams are easy, after you make the border just go from the edge you finished and to the star shape.

Should have 15 lines total. The most I can get is 13 consecutive lines, but I am doing it anchor point to anchor point, so I haven't tried with more then one side of the polygon missing..

(Tabcef) I'm pretty sure it's possible, I've seen it done before somewhere.

Also.

Barney is from DA HOOD.

G.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyNfXGXzQQY

(and yes this is old, man!)

It's almost done. I can feel it. When it's done I'll overflow, MAN!!!

Wow. I almost made a grave mistake. Before drawing Sub in the next comic, I didn't check his sprites. In essence, I was flying blind. I thought he was one of those underground dwellin' things from the Legend of Zelda, but I was dead wrong. Sorry.

I'll just redraw the frame the right way. I'll put the wrong frame with the outtake scaps.

(mixmaster163) I'm too young to be here ^_^!

...dude. How could you remember that Nemo isn't a hedgehog and forget what Sub is?

I'm un-observant, I know. I suck. I'm rectifying the mistake.

(Master Espeon) The mystery of the Beer Sphere will be revealed!

I (finally) made and sent my third Bar comic.

And now it's up. Fun fun. I also split the bar archive into seperate pages and gave it its own section instead of leaving it hidden on the What is SPA page.

Ugh, my mother was trying to fly to Reno from Seattle today and my dad was trying to get there from Phoenix. >_> Well those plans were shot. Sort of. My mother's flying back to Phoenix tommorow instead of Reno today. Dad's still going.

To Magi -

No hassles at security, even after that mess in London with the explosives?

All else -

Okay, I posted up the panel I screwed up and the right one, in pencil form, in my deviantart account.

acecs.deviantart.com

it's in the scraps, the newest one.

I'll be digitally inking a couple of pictures over the next couple of days and the comic should be done by at least next Wednesday and then I can move onto the next one and then maybe post the first part of the Fabled Alias 2 rewrite.

I must be the Emperor of Procrastinators.

You also either forgot what a Subrosian looks like or the face mask was just a creative add on. It reminds me of the sand people from Star Wars.

To be fair, though, I didn't remember what one looked like either.

The mask was an add-on. I figured that since they lived in an area filled with lava then the heat would be greater down there than up on the surface, so I figured that someone like that would have worn heavy clothes and boots and junk. The mask was a way to cover my backside in case I screwed up... which I almost did.

With some artistic liscense, I think I came pretty close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Exsubrosian.gif

To Magi -

No hassles at security, even after that mess in London with the explosives?

Yes hassles, she was trying to go back today instead of Lake Tahoe today. 3 hour waits through security and then there was some ridiculously long standby if you wanted to get on a plane to Phoenix, but no guarantees. So she's on a regular flight tommorow, though I assume the security will still be dreadful.

My father got to Tahoe okay (he's doing some medical talk, had to go), apparently there's not any huge waits on the Phoenix end. Dad said that there were huge waits in the Reno airport when he was passing the lines. So I guess certain states are in much worse condition.

I hate new Deviantart. Is there an option for the Version 4 layout? You shouldn't DRASTICALLY change the placement of features and look of something between one version change. That just makes navigating bothersome.

(Master Espeon) Managed to find out how to get to scraps. You draw pretty well. And yeah, major mistake on Sub. Actually, back in the day, I thought sub was a subrosian... Though I can never forget what a subrosian looks like. Robe with a black face and yellow eyes. It's that simple.

Also, in relation to the comic, I'm not stealing Frieza's scientists anymore. Also, I think the first use of that is where the best comic lies.

*Pokes a straw into a Beer Sphere*
Life is good.
*sip*

Oh noes, teh school on Monday.

Man. That was the fastest summer of my life and I wasn't even on break. Oh well. At least that means Sub'll be back. Maybe Trunks too.

This summer was not as long and drawn out for me either. I prefer it that way. *sigh*

One week left before I have to deal with stress again. And eventual sickness, I hate getting sick and I only get sick when I'm at that damn place. Granted, however, I am only there zero hour 2 days a week, till 4th period every day, and a college course one day a week. But still.

Ooh, but on a bright note I do get to go to Ruth's Chris in 15 days. (18th birthday) That'll be..... 4th time I've ever been to a steakhouse. 2 times because of certificates my father got and one time for I forget. Think a family friend's birthday.

(mixmaster163) I thirsty. Drink plz?

(Tosses Mixmaster a Duff)

Frieza:Congratulations! You're the first actual customer of this particular incarnation of the bar. That means you get a special discount. And by special I mean you pay double to make up for the lack of other customers. That'll be $10,000.

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: Lol.

Goku: X3

SonGoku: *punches his twin in the face*

Goku: Ow.

So, how about that Rocky 6?

Ugh. Gag me. He's too OLD for boxing. Jeez...

Awww, but the movie actually looks good.

Just... no. Just no! Say no to drugs, pedophiles, and BAD movies.

Am I the only one who's noticed the severe lack of Nemo?

I did, actually. I wouldn't call it severe yet though; it's only been a month and he did say he would be coming less often because of real life things. You guys are Seniors now, right? So you'll see him at school?

From Zen_Skyring | Posted 8/15/2006 10:27:32 PM
Just... no. Just no! Say no to drugs, pedophiles, and BAD movies.

Meh, I still say the trailer looks good. And besides, light heavyweight champion Archie Moore boxed well into his 50s, so why shouldn't Rocky? ;)

Unfortunately I might not. I don't have a lunch this year, so I won't see him there. We have the same teacher for Government in the same period, but if his schedule on AIM is laid out by semester, I won't see him. I have government first semester, then economics. He might be the opposite.

As far as I know I only have one class with a good friend in it. Find out everything else monday I guess.

(Master Espeon) No lunch!?! BLASPHEMY!

Seriously, wouldn't the people think food helps to keep you from being exhausted and keeping your focus and junk?

No, I don't have a full schedule. I go from Zero Hour to 4th period. 5th period would be where my lunch is this year, but instead I go home. So I can eat there, it's like a 10 minute drive from my house to school.

Schools are legally obligated to give you a lunch period. I'm just not there for mine.

Actually 3 days a week it's just 1st period to 4th period (2 days is service learning in class, 3 is doing the service, easy but boring in my case). But I do have english IV/College English twice a week also so it's all going to even out.

Stallone's sixty, I think.

Oh, and...

200, MAN!!!

(Tabcef) JOSE CONSECO TIME!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYitGCU_JUc

Frieza: We've never celebrated the anniversary of the S.P.A.

Vegega: That would involve remembering it.

Frieza: I suppose, but in any case...

(Grabs several kegs, takes outside, tosses into sky. Kegs explode, forming a flaming message of alcoholic mist in the sky)

S.P.A. RIDES WITH
THE SASB FOR LIFE
'Cause we need beer money

Frieza: Happy belated anniversary, everyone.

Happy belated anniversary.

Read up on some of the past bars. Apparently my first bar was among the unrecorded ones. I did find Nemo's first post here.

So close to my birthday. 5 more days.

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: I just found out that Pluto isn't a planet anymore.

Goku: :(

I worked an 8 hour shift and slept until 3 AM when I got back.

Happy Anniversary, MAN!!!

Now let's get drunk!!!

After all the recent drama on the boards, I say we have a LOT to drink.

I also heard about Pluto last night. Kind of odd... I don't know if I'll ever remember to leave that one out when asked what the planets in our solar system are.... (if I'm asked ever again that is, haven't in years because it's common knowledge). I don't think people will count dwarf planets since there's others in that classification now.

(Pulls out list of reasons to drink)

Frieza: Our anniversary, local drama, and the reclassification of an orbital body. Yep. That calls for a level of drunkenness no less than New Year's Eve but not necessarily exceeding Mardi Gras.

As far as I'm concerned, there are still 9 damn planets. You still count the midget even if you can't see him in back of the tall guy.

8/29/2006 2:26:46 PM

Oh, and today is GM's birthday and the anniversary of a major natural disaster. And next week is my 1 year anniversary with my first real job. We may have to get so drunk that our physical bodies phase partially out of reality.

Christ, that'll be fun.

I'm 21 and I haven't gotten drunk in real life yet(this year).

Frieza: Next week is also Nemo's birthday. Man. I think we'll just have to drink until we wake up in October. Better get started.

(Chugs keg of extra-dimensional snake venom, writhes on floor)

And I, despite five years at a fictional bar, have never had a drink in my life.

I've had wine twice, but that's it. I don't ever intend to start drinking on a regular basis at any point in my life.

Yay! Frieza remembered! My stupid friends didn't and none of them called. I know their birthdays, what the hell.... Didn't make me very happy. Family and one adult friend remembered and that was all.

It was a great birthday though. Nice and quiet, which is what I like. I had yummy food and got something better than a standard cake or cookie cake this year. LOTS of money and my brother gave me an EXTREMELY generous gift: A PSP with Tekken Dark Resurrection and Blade Dancer. o_o And a kickass card.

Yeah, I actually dislike the taste of alcohol. I've had wine and stuff before, vodka, possibly some others I don't remember. Vile tasting stuff.

(mixmaster163) Here. (tosses a 10,000 dollar bill.) I've been out of my mind so sorry for long money wait. ^_^;

(Master Espeon) Bah. I missed Magi's birthday AND the notice. Well... drink for a late birthday present?

Wow. I haven't had a real drink in a LONG time. I guess I just don't feel the urge or even care much about alcohol in my real life.

Here's the next part of the FvsA comic

http://www.deviantart.com/download/39392667/

Hope ya'll like it.

(Tabcef) He's got purple on his head.

And a tail.

That's like aerodynamics 101, man.

He's gonna beat you into next week with a rock made out of Krypton(Kr).

But he's got dreads man, DREADS.

I give as good as I get... and I get a lot. Of pain. A lot of pain.

I see drawing blood in my future.

DUDE! That's the best thing you've ever drawn! Seeing us all done in your style...it's really become defined. And everything's very clean and defined; there have been times when I have to stare at your pictures to distingish what I'm looking at because of the low detail you use but this came out fine. I absolutely love it. My opinion is bias of course, since I've always wanted to see some SPA art and this battle in particular, but I've read this about 8 times today. I can't wait for the next one.

The complaints:
-It took a while to realize that was Chibi Trunks with the broom. The look on his face it classic, and come to think of it that actually looks more like what I'd picture as a younger version of Trunks than the DBZ version, but nobody but us will recognize him.
-The label on Sub's drink is too small to read
-I can't tell what Trunks is holding

Now, this one you have to go back an fix.

-FRIEZA'S EYES ARE RED MAN, DEMONIC RED! And they stay that way when he transforms, when you get to that part.

Good stuff.

The label read: Seizure **** - Toxicity = Lethal

And Trunks is counting some money.

I'll fix the eye color, man. I messed up because my reference pics look like his eyes are violet or some other darker color.

It's still early, and I've got a lot to work on. Even Toriyama was a little stiff in the beginning.

I have decided to finally make my character write up.

Appearance: Unkempt black hair (think Spike Spiegel), brown eyes. Wears a black three-piece suit accompanied with an overcoat and a fedora. Wears a black glove on the right hand.
Weaponry: Black katana, two concealed Beretta 92 pistols.

I have only this to say, Mag:

THANK YOU!!!!

Kekekekeke.

A three-piece suit and one black glove? Classy. Any super powers? Did you ever come up with a backstory (doesn't need to be anything big if you don't want. Basically just your occupation and why you're in Metro City and the bar)?

Powers: Super-speed, advanced healing factor. Strength is just below superhuman level. In other words, a human at the peak of physical perfection.
Occupation: Bounty hunter.

Lots of jobs in Metro City and is as much of a home as anywhere else. I suppose the bar is something of a second home.

(Tabcef) http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/6451/picture002bx1.jpg

WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN!?

I dunno.
I doodled my character from Def Jam:Fight for NY.

That's actually pretty damn cool.

(Tabcef) I notice a bunch of stupid mistakes I made...
Biggest one are the spectacles...

Geez, one of his eyes must be tiny compared to the other.

(Chugs a Duff, chucks the empty can into the broken TV, can is teleported to the dimension of orbital space lasers and camo tarps)

(Tabcef) I have made the seventh post on three topics.

Now.

Let's bounce, DAWG.

DEY SEE ME ROLLIN'!

Hahahahahahahaha!!!

(Starts setting dynamite)

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!

(Lights a cigar)

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!

(Blows off his own arm with the dynamite and then points at the stump)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!

(Frieza points at Ace)

Frieza: Yeah, that guy... Nucking Futs.

There are 3 sons of Sparda?

Nah.

(Tabcef) Why is everyone coming back again now?

The only answer is because I am emitting Gamma rays, which are destroying planets.

BY THE THOUSANDS.

Oh yeah.
Whatever happened to that game you were making with..
Uh, something.

Freiza.

Just peeking in again, and I have only one thing to say.

Funny comic

It was going to be a java game, but now my brother wants to make it a GBA game. Either way, it'll get done sometime within the next decade.

(HaRRy_TiPPeR_) BUMP

Well, my homecoming was last night. It was pretty sweet.

"Take that Vembridge Scholars!"

I love this movie.

My Google senses tell me that you're talking about The Mummy Returns (and that it's Bembridge). I know I saw the original, but don't think I ever saw the sequel.

You should see it, it's nice.

(SuperSonic2002) I never saw the original, but I saw the sequel...

(Tabcef) http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?j6g9mm1mvcok

The sequel to 'The Mummy' was okay, but it's not as good as the original..

Dunno why.

It must be the kid.

PSU ON 10/24

MK ARMAGEDDON ON 10/9

(Master Espeon) Well, it's halfway to the end of this topic.

(Tabcef) Dude, Jim Carrey had a TV SHOW.

Skit based, and oh god, it is hilarious.

Search for 'Fire Marshall Bill' on Youtube for an example.

I almost whizzed myself watching him do that bit the last time I caught In Living Color.

(HaRRy_TiPPeR_) Best part is Jim Carrey is Canadian :)

I should invest in headphones so I can listen to this stuff at work...

(Forces wood sprites into blender)

0.0

Jim Carrey... is CANADIAN?!!!!

Whoa. A man should be told these things. Jeez.

Oh, well.

Random late night post.

(HaRRy_TiPPeR_) lol did i change ur opinion on Jim Carrey, kinda wierd :P just cuz hes canadian

No. I just had no idea.

I still like him.

(87 heavily armed men storm the bar and demand popsicles)

(Ace tosses vats of liquid nitrogen at them)

There! Cold enough for ya?!

Frieza: Hey! That nitrogen isn't cheap!

Ace: And?

Frieza: ...you know, you're right.

(Stokes grill with rare Cuban cigars)

Yes. When ya take everything from someone else, money is no object.

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: DIE! *throws a lighted match at the liquid nitrogen covered men*

*BOOM*

SonGoku: BOOM!

(Crystallized men fail to explode)

SonGoku: ...boom?

Frieza: Nitroglycerin is the volatile one, monkey. Liquid nitrogen is the cold one. Like this.

(Spills some Frosty Frieza on SonGoku. Entire bar and surrounding buildings are encased in ice)

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: *breaks out of ice and throws a grenade at the men*

*BOOM*

Yo, what is generally considered to be a good score on the new SAT's? I got a 1900 on the practice one on their website, but that's still 500 off from the total possible.

(Breaks off the monkey kid's tail)

Ace: Chill fool. And enjoy the nitro.

(tosses a 40 ounce jug of nitro at his frozen victim.)

KA-BLAM!!!

And yes. You can be frosty and still move. Frostbite victims will attest to this.

So much to buy, so little cash.

Weren't we just saying something about stealing?

I meant in real life. I have a huge pile of anime and movies I wanna buy, but I don't have the cash.

(I know, I'm kidding)

Have you thought about renting some of it? I rarely have time to watch stuff twice, and I know you're busy too.

I rarely watch stuff twice, but I still like to have it for my archives. In other words, I'm a pack rat.

(Im Not NEG) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtpyeLxVkI

IT'S OVER NINE...

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: SHUT THE HELL UP!

(Tabcef) PHANTASY STAR UNIVERSE TOMORROW

3 PERSON GROUP PROJECT DUE TOMORROW

i am the only person in the group of 3 mans

thus i am the 3 mans

woo

I'LL AID YOU IN YOUR QUEST!!

Too bad I'll probably never play PSU.

(Im Not NEG) No comments about the vid.

IT WAS FUNNY YOU HUMORLESS TWITS!

::blasts bar to shreds::

I've seen it to death...

AND I STILL LAUGH EVERYTIME.

(Tabcef) i did not laugh at all

instead i switched over to watching guyver

because AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

GUYVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

also i hate asher lev, he's an ass.

and bending it like beckham is dumb.

back to work i go

So, there is an early review of Rocky Balboa. And it's very positive.

I am glad.

(Tabcef) Rocky Balboa..

Is that the new Rocky?

Because, the new Rambo sounds like it's gonna suck ass.

But that's okay, because new Indiana Jones.

Alas, there is no "The Thing 2".

With the plot from the game.

A "The Thing" action movie?

Action/horror?

Hell yeah!

Sonic seems to have a chance of winning the character battle this year. So long as all of the Final Fantasy characters get bumped off, I think it'll be a close contest this year.

So. Zelda. Mirror mode. I've decided that I don't want to play the game backwards, even if it means getting the gamecube version and sacrificing the Wii's slashing controller (which I was looking forward to). I'm a left handed swordsman anyway, so I'm really hoping there's a normal mode. What about you guys?

I'll have no Wii 'til next year, so I'm just gonna wait until December to get it.

I'm not going to have anything for a year at the least I think.

(Im Not NEG) Get the Wii. GET THE Wii.

Or get the Wii, and play the GC version...ON THE Wii!!

Nintendo never mess up with controls, so I have no doubts about that. Why on earth should we care if the game is mirrored or not?

My only doubts are already posted on my journ.

Its either Wii and Zelda or everything else. Hell of a time to be a gamer.

People care if its mirrored because obviously some, like Frieza, are left-handed and don't want to feel awkward playing the game. And as for Nintendo never messing up controls, it appears Wii Sports may not be as cracked up as we thought it would be. (http://blogs.ign.com/matt-ign)

Make no mistake, I'm a big Nintendo fanboy and have always supported them through every generation. However, one shouldn't allow themselves to be blinded into thinking that only Nintendo is flawless.

(Im Not NEG) Nintendo is flawless.

It isn't so much about comfort for me (I write with my right hand but throw and use melee weapons with my left), it's about art. I want to see the original vision of the designers, not the original vision of the designers backwards. I get the feeling the visual art is going to be richer even than Metroid Prime, and I want to see in as the creators intended. I'd never know the difference if I played the mirrored game, it's just a matter of artistic principal.

(Im Not NEG) Hello?! HELLO? Frieza? Read my Zelda topic? HELLO?

It doesn't address my complaint. Nothing can address it unless there's a normal mode. We'll see though. If the Wii turns out to me much better I might have to stop being a jaded art nut and settle for the better game.

Why did they even flip it in the first place? If they needed Link to be right handed to get the Remote to function correctly, couldn't they just have flipped his model? o_o

I don't really care about the mirrored image, I don't think there'll be any magnificient art that loses quality by facing the other way. The only thing that would bother me would be writing, but that's probably been fixed.

I don't see why they couldn't just make the Wii version with both control schemes. Just set it in the options menu. Worst case scenario it'd need a small amount of time to process the switch.

Also, I believe that the administrators at GameFAQs are trying to get out of a very miniscule, but still additional amount of work by silencing me. I posted in the suggestions board for them to fix the Platforms: bar at the top of the page on one of the links. (when you click your name, then click My Posts, that page is missing Wii and PS3 section links in the Platforms: bar.) Did this yesterday. I go on today, it's no longer on the board, or recorded as existing in My Posts (which is still unfixed). It's also not recorded in my deleted messages. o_o

That, or they're considering it and just haven't done it yet, but don't want anyone to know they overlooked something. I know I posted it because I got a response and then responded to that myself. Might have been more later in the day too. Very minor thing so it's not important if they don't fix it, I just thought it was funny that they erased all records of this oversight being found.

There are some sections of the game where they planned on Link having his sword on his left. I'm picturing something like him riding on Epona and cutting things as he goes by. Having his reach over himself would look awkward, and I guess they were too lazy to go back through everything and switch the sword hand for that particular part. Also, I think the Nunchaku controller is molded to fit your left hand.

And I've backed up the post you just made, just in case...

Damn conspiracies on GameFaqs.

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: I'm bored.

You know, if we continue at a rate of one post a day or less this bar will last over a year. That's never happened before...and now I'm curious.

Bar 1 - Less than 12 hours (August 2001)
Bar 2 - Less than 12 hours (August 2001)
Bar 3 - Less than 1 month (August 2001)
Bar 4 - 8 months (Don't know when exactly it started, but it ended 4/28/2002).
Bar 5 - 6 months (4/28/2002 - 10/3/2002)
Bar 6(SGSB one that died) - 10 months (8/28/2002 - 6/30/2003)
Bar 7 - 6 months (10/3/2002 - 4/14/2003)
Bar 8 - 8 months (4/14/2003 - 12/10/2003)
Bar 9 - 7 months (12/10/2003 - 7/17/2004)
Bar 10 - 8 months (7/17/2004 - 3/6/2005)
Bar 11- 7 months (3/6/2005 - 10/11/2005)
Bar 12 - 7 months (10/11/2005 - 5/29/2006)

So not counting the first ones, we average about 7 months per bar.

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: It's boring.

There's gotta be a first for everything right?

(Tabcef) NAGunz

NA GUNZ

NAGUNZZ

Alright, ya'll! The next part of the comic has been posted. I'm only coloring certain parts and this one made the cut.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/43016981/

The Dream Field looks sharp. The shape and shading of the crystals feel natural, and that first shot of the ground with the brushed look is stylish.

One thing, and I hesitate to say it because I'm trying to stop being so picky about dialogue but, Frieza only resorts to name calling when he's really pissed. When he's annoyed, as he is at this part, he just speaks sternly and plainly. Once the battle gets started though, his mood usually picks up since a good fighter is so rare for him and he starts acting like he does in the anime; he's polite and courteous (sometime sincerely, sometimes mockingly), makes witty and sarcastic jokes, and acts arrogant. Acts is a key word there, because unlike the cartoons this Frieza isn't actually arrogant (usually). He just pretends to be to amuse himself. After being humiliated a few times he's come to accept that he's not the strongest and knows that even weak looking foes can hide dangerous secrets. It's kind of important to keep in mind because toward the end, after Shard is dead, it starts becoming more and more real until he loses control and goes into that blind rage that leads up to the final move.

I know. Frieza's mostly light hearted throughout the fight. I just wanted to do the whole "Destined" duel thing like in Capcom vs. SNK 2 for the beginning. Our first couple of moves didn't have much for me to take inner dialogue from, so I just typed what came to mind.

Just making sure, since I only mentioned the arrogance thing at the end.

Anyone get the Wii?

I wish. *sigh*

Getting it during the holidays or not in the forseeable future? My brother got it for his birthday as a late present (Nov. 5th). He didn't get much else though from us.

(Master Espeon) I don't know if I mentioned this here, but DON'T expect to play THREE RPGs and still expect to manage time.

(Im Not NEG) Get on AIM sometime Frieza for something nice.

I'd like a Wii, but I haven't got any Wii money(as people in my family would say).

I'll pick mine up sometime before March. I've got more than enough to keep myself occupied in the meantime.

NEG, I'll try to get on AIM this weekend, for you and anyone else I've neglected over the last 3 months.

(realradiohead) the world is round

but i can change that. just let me have a crack at i--BIG AS YOU? now that we know for sure that telling lies does things to that fing puppets noise. lets slice that bastard up! come on! LETS CUT SOME BACON OFF HIS BACK!

wanna treat him like a pig? me too! know your rights!!!!!!!!!!! true dat, true dat. lean on and trust me, masses. i'll be sane for who knows how long. no bullet is built with me in mind! SEE! i've never kissed any mothers on their cheek and not liked it. i'm the official debt king!

Ah, radiohead in the bar. A rare treat.

And as we near the final hours of November...

(Breaks out bottles of Grinch Nog, flaming pine tree unearths near newly installed chimney)

Frieza: The holidays draw near. Will our patrons of old return for a visit? Time will tell, but in any case we'll need a proper reception. That means beer, cigars, beer, a full buffet, beer, gold and gem encrusted decorations, beer, Sub's torture room going at full blast, beer, and non-beer related poisons.

(SonicTheRabbit) I've never posted in this topic....Oh.wait.

(Master Espeon) And beer. Don't forget beer.

I'll get Beer Sphere production working twofold. My scientists will work on it.

...no, I got new scientists.

I have the blueprints for Santa's workshop. Including the "hidden" panic room.

Hehehehehehe...

Hehehehehehehehehehe!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

I just noticed this new "Track Topic" button. o_o It's getting annoying, as I never realized that I just moved my mouse to the far right side and clicked to make a post. Now I keep clicking on the Track topic button...

Time for my increasingly annual scene!

Frieza strolls over to a window and looks into the rippling winter sky. The horrors of Christmas past revisit him; the blood, the booze, the battle, and the screams of a tortured old philanthropist of questionable saintliness drifted through his mind like the fragmented clouds in the icy sky. Ace saw the grin slowly bridge his facade reflected in the glass.

"Excellent work Ace. It's about time we got the celebration underway. We'll mobilize immediately. However," he rose one finger, his back still to the group, "do not attack. Don't lay a hand on any of them." The contrast of the pacifistic words and the sinister chuckle that followed reverberated like an omen of death through the bar. The old tyrant had something particularly foul in the bowels of his imagination.

"Bring your Redstreak. I have something far more...entertaining in mind."

A far warmer, more lively winter sky shimmered in the perpetual night that consumes the North Pole at this time of year. Heavenly auroras blessed the land with waves of majestic radiance. These divine clouds, the meeting of the sun’s gift with the Earth’s fertility, overshadowed the ancient dwelling of the powerful magic that had forgotten its origin. Industry bustled below, a well oiled mechanism of the most massive of mass production, fueled by arcane forces and the constant cheer of its workers. Beasts both wild and domesticated pranced about the complex, in love with life and oblivious to all but the tremendous spirit of peace and good will that saturated the land. Global warming and ozone deterioration had reshaped the once ferocious maul of cold into a tolerable bite, much to the delight of the non-magical beings. But beneath the veneer of this enchanted villa lay an anxiety growing by the day.

The assembly line elves merrily went about their tasks with a loving attention no human could long maintain. Genuine joy burst from their every movement. The smells of fresh cookies and peppermint sustained them, while the eternal sound of sweet music kept them focused. But though they were excited that the big day was approaching again at long last, they were also excited for a different reason.

4 of the last 5 Christmases had been belated or completely unsalvageable. This shattering of their formerly perfect record had shaken them all deeply. In each of their minds bubbled the nightmarish images of the otherworldly super beings, of the chaos as their home was demolished and their brethren torn apart around them, of their temporary enslavement as brewers, and of the repeated kidnapping and torture of their beloved master. The apprehension was noticeable, but the dedicated employees continued their work.

On the candy cane catwalk above, a red robed figure surveyed the project. His was a fierce and commanding aspect. Sharp, seasoned eyes watched the toys he would deliver to the virtuous children. His once jolly belly had been trimmed several sizes and the folds of his sleeves concealed new muscle definition. An aura of holiday magic wrapped his form and at his side hung a heavy sword, the Courier’s Oath. It was not the Santa the world had come to know, but fate had made necessary this dispensing with innocence. Oh, Christmas had been threatened before, but the scrooges and grinches of the past had been conquered with some love and a little Christmas magic. These beings, these monsters, could not be reasoned with, nor their black hearts spoken to. Only war could break their iron grip on the season. And even that, he knew, was not enough to stop the S.P.A.

The tranquil scene was broken as the music gave way to sirens and flashing red lights. The uneasy calm of the workers was broken and all ran screaming for escape hatches in the walls. An elf dressed in a red militaristic version of the standard suit, a new edition to the uniform, hurried in behind Santa.

“Sir, we’ve detected a breach in the perimeter!”

“How many?”

“Just one, sir.”

“Just one,” Santa questioned, more worried than relieved. “Are you sure?”

“We used the magic radar, sir – we checked it twice. Only one of those naughty things is out on the ice.”

“Hmm,” the patron pondered. “Could it be? They may be planning something, but this means we may yet have a chance.”

“Oh please Nicholas,” a smooth voice answered him from the dark hallway behind them. “How long have you known us? Do you really think it would take more than one of us to subdue you and eviscerate this entire continent?”

The elf-officer ran for cover as the figure of Frieza emerged from the shadows. Santa cursed and jumped up a pipe in the ceiling too small for him to possibly fit through. Frieza chuckled dryly and vanished into the realm of impossible speed.

Santa emerged somewhere underground in a small maze of pitch-black hallways he knew by heart. He traversed them as fast as his enchanted legs would carry him, but all the way he was chased by echoes of laughter coming from all directions.

“Hm hm hm. What’s the matter Nicholas – or was it ‘Kris’? Don’t you want to come spend the holy day with your old friends?”

The fat man ignored the taunts and continued racing to the panic room. He could see the light ahead, with Mrs. Clause and several elves cowering inside. The instant he dove through the portcullis a steel wall descended behind him. Safe, they hoped, but outside their monitoring systems picked the sound of footsteps casually approaching.

Frieza took a moment to mentally survey the door through the darkness. It was ordinary steel with a weak aura of magic around it. It would be like paper to him.

“Really Santa, what is this? Some kind of joke?”

Frieza shoved the door and prepared himself for whatever last line of defense they might have planned. But he was caught off guard when, instead of bending or breaking, the door evaporated at his touch, revealing an intensely glaring Father Christmas with arms outstretched in classic Kame-ha-me-ha position.

The lights came on revealing dozens of elves that had emerged from the walls, trembling in fear but resigned to hold their positions. Each firmly gripped a magical barrier device that projected a force field a foot in front of them, sealing the intruder in on all sides but forward.

“You should never have come here, wretch,” Santa scolded as his terrific aura filled the room. “Your friends may return for me, but I will bring down at least one of you! KRINGLE CANNON FIRE!!!”

Frieza fired a beam of his own to counter the attack, but the spiraling torrent of Christmas energy pushed it aside effortlessly. He was plastered against the barriers behind him, screaming in pain as it tore into his chest. He struggled to move his arms to guard, but Santa would not relent. More and more power poured out as sweat poured down his face. The elves were walking in place, desperately trying to keep Frieza pinned until finally, with a mighty roar from the man in red, all were blasted to the other side of the hallway.

Frieza stood up and calmly dusted himself off. “You call that an attack,” he mocked and held out his hand. “Let me show you what a…” He stopped, eyes wide with confusion.

“…what?”

Santa cackled as he marched forward. “That wasn’t an attack, it was an enchantment.” His eyes sang brightly with victory. “Now you can’t use your ki. And that means…”

Santa dug his fist into the alien’s chest, launching him through ceiling, up three floors, out the roof, and sprawling onto the ice. The prince rolled over, coughing from the internal injuries, and struggled to his feet only to find the blood-robed figure standing before him.

“I can beat you.”

Santa delivered another punch, but Frieza dodged and ran. He knew that even without his ki the former emperor’s body was powerful enough to wipe out an army of lesser warriors, but not, unfortunately, to deal with ancient Santa magic. Covering a mile with each bound, he ran until the saint was out of site and stopped to try to break the enchantment.

A powerful blow knocked him to the ground. He skidded to a stop, dizzy and moaning. The holiday spirit stood over him with disgust.

“Say you’re sorry, and promise never to do mischief again.”

“Never,” his victim coughed.

“Abomination. I have no choice. I will not allow you to continue your reign of terror.” He unsheathed the Courier’s Oath and hefted it with fearsome menace. “I will end your miserable existence!”

An explosion of sword slashes at the edge of what the human eye can perceive tore apart the ice, spraying blood in all directions. Viciously, mercilessly, Santa released all of the anger, hatred, and indignation he’d been scared with. The disappointment of the children, the killing of his reindeer, the enslavement of his elves, and all the inhuman horrors he endured under the savage confinement of the S.P.A. All of these things he took vengeance for and unleashed upon the helpless fiend. At last he sheathed his sword and finishing with a mighty energy blast, leaving nothing but flaming chunks of bloody meat. He turned away, gasping for breath, and began walking back. He threw one last glance at the remains of his tormentor. He turned completely, eyes wide with disbelief.

Two flaming black eyes were the first thing he saw. He stared at them for a while, shaken. He fell to his knees, tears in his eyes. The body had changed.

His gaze moved on to the blackening steel ring, a hat brim, then to the burning corncob pipe and the quickly disappearing strands of a broom, all floating in a steaming puddle. He threw his head back and let out a great, “NOOOOO-HO-HO!”

Santa had murdered the spirit of every child’s hope and imagination. He had murdered Frosty the Snowman.

“Nice work with the illusion, Ace,” Frieza commended just a few yards from the weeping man. "It’s a good thing you knew about that Kringle Cannon. That could’ve been annoying. If he had used better barriers I wouldn’t have been able to switch out.”

“This should be #1 on YouTube by the end of the day,” the echidna mused. “Then we’ll see what the world thinks of the great ‘saint’ Nick, MAN!”

“And it will serve as a good lesson to all those would-be-Santas out there.”

“What’s that,” the spellsinger asked. Frieza turned, a sober look on his face.

“That even saints are sinners.”

(Master Espeon) *Sips a Beer Sphere and eats popcorn*

Nice flick.

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: I could have done better. Maybe I should start planning next year's sooner.

So I take it you like RPing, since you haven't said anything out of character since you got here. Where did you first get started? ...I just don't want you to feel like we're ignoring you.

And on that note, does anyone here go by the name Iron Maiden? I just did a search for "saiyan protection agency" and came up with this. Only person I can think of would be Reyn, which would surprise me, unless someone we know is a cross dresser.

http://gwing.net/grand/viewtopic.php?p=1599&sid=888c9b0efe5e0ba168dbe8179fe8bd7b

Why do people need to take credit for others' work? This person edited a drawing and is pretty much alluding to the idea that he did it from scratch, is taking praise for his "skills", and isn't correcting anyone when they make comments thinking he did.

Edit:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/44956463/

Original (from Groove Adventure Rave):
http://www.animegalleries.net/show.php?img=albums/userpics/19033/Elie18.jpg

Someone else say something please..... I hate people like this.

Done. I hate people like that.

Shoot, it prevents Hotlinking.

Here, uploaded it to my photobucket

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Shin_Magi/ELIE.jpg?t=1166566712

Well, I reported him for a policy violation. Maybe he'll get pwnz0rd by the admin lolz.

Double posting, but man I just had the best nap ever. I left my music playing randomly on the computer and the scenes in my dream incorporated that in. Wow.

Hm. What were you listening to and what did you dream about?

One person I know told me she left her rap(?) music on by accident when she went to sleep and she woke up wanting to hit someone in the face. o_o The effects of music on the subconscious are powerful indeed.

It was everything from Frank Sinatra to Saosin. Like near the end of the dream, I was running down this street in the neighborhood to a Daft Punk song, which segued into Saosin PERFECTLY.

It was really trippy. I remember feeling euphoric and depressed and pretty much every emotion possible.

That was the best nap ever? o_o

I tend to not mix "depressed" and "best" in any sense.

Well I dunno, I felt really refreshed when I woke up. My mind was cleared up and I felt good overall.

12/25/2006 9:08:49 AM

Merry Christmas to all (whether you like it or not) and to all an exorbitant amount of alcohol!

Cheers, and Merry Christmas!

*is Jewish*

o_o

I FEEL ALONE! *cries*

(POLLY_01) SonGoku: I'm not saying it.

Goku: Come on! :)

SonGoku: No, G.J.L..

Goku: Dude! :(

(Tabcef) I'm going to kill an entire gang with a hammer someday.
By myself.

What, no co-op?

I want all Christmas shoppers, every ignorant one of those mall trolling pieces of ****, to burn in hell eating their own ****. I'm sick of them. SICK, MAN!!!

Nobody does any of their own thinking or even tries to ask anyone what they want for the stupid buy-a-thon holiday, they just go and take their stupid cash and buy what they think is nice. I could have told them that a "That's so Raven" DS game was a dumb idea for a gift. OR that no one in their right mind would ever want a half-ass thought out gift.

I HATE Christmas.

I'm GLAD it's over.

**** Christmas.

**** the shoppers.

**** Santa... hehehehehe...

---_---

Ahh... I feel better now. How did ya'll holidays go?

I did my shopping online, spent a few days with the family back in New York. That's about it.

(Im Not NEG) Its a bit late, but happy good season of goodwill to you all involving eating lots and drinking yourself to death whilst attempting to fly.

And a merry new year of the same old tosh. Thats without even being cynical.

I don't need gifts so I just tell my family that it's Amazon.com gift certificates (since anything I buy can be found there), straight cash, or don't bother. Only 1 related family refuses to comply, and I never use their gifts. Works out damn fine for me.

I too hate Christmas shoppers. Mainly because they just make everything crowded when I'm trying to go places. I notice an awful lot of not nice drivers during the last half of this month as well.

I did have an exceptionally good dinner on Monday. I don't know why though. o_o Not a special occasion for us.

I never really minded the holiday season, until I began work at my mom's store in the mall. Talk about hell.

On an unrelated note, tonight was the night I went on my first date. Har har.

1/2/2007 4:20:16 PM

Frieza: New year, new beer.

(Gallons of stale beer that had not been drunken over the course of the year are carted out by tiny robotic hedgehogs and replaced with freshly brewed goodness)

*One of the freshly brewed kegs bursts open revealing a passed out and alcohol poisoned Sub.*

Frieza: Well look who the hedgehog bots dragged in...in a completely sealed keg...huh. I wonder if any of these other kegs have stuff sealed in them.

(Several kegs burst, revealing Chibi Trunks, lemon-meringue pie, 4 dead Gokues, a collection of 80s rock albums, all the king's horses and all the kings men, and a computer-in-a-box)

Frieza: Hmph. Well that's that last time I get beer from tiny robots. Except maybe those fireman robots. They're pretty honest about what they do.

So Sub, all of your screen names have had 2007 in them. What happens this year? Graduation?

(Im Not NEG) Frrrieza!

Did you get to play Sonic 2006 over christmas? Yes? Do detail your experence (and pain).
And what did you think of the 360? Go online/connect it? Like the concept of achievements? (although Sonic doesnt have the most...varied of them, they're all obtained late in the experence).

Do tell, do tell.

My brother came home on a plane this time and there wasn't enough room in carry-on luggage for the 360 (and he wasn't about to entrust it to airport luggage) so I didn't get it. I'll probably have to wait until his summer break when he brings everything home.

YAY! Today was an excellent day of nostalgic bliss for me! :D

I found The Pirates of Darkwater on Youtube today, which was a show I never got to see much of when I was a kid but got to see on those occasions I woke up around 6:00. More importantly though, I found all of Invasion America in downloadable episode format today! /\ _ /\ I have been looking for that for YEARS.

A sick twist of fate however, is that it is the original version I saw, uncut, and of EXCELLENT video quality (surprising considering VHS recording was all that was around at the time), and a rarity in itself that one of the very few people alive who've heard of it uploaded it. However, the instances that the alien people speak in their own language, subtitled in English when I saw it, has SPANISH subtitles...... It's entirely English Audio, WHY would the subtitles in those few parts be in SPANISH?! It should have been in Spanish if they were going to use Spanish subtitles... o_o I don't even know what STATION this was on that would cater to Spanish-speaking audiences who are fluent enough in English to enjoy 96% of the whole series in English.

Oh well..... I'm writing down all the spanish text (there's not all that much, 5 lines of dialogue in two episodes thus far), having my aunt translate it (spanish teacher), and then I'm gonna try to sub it back in.

Oh, if anyone would like to watch it, here:

http://www.geocities.com/ia_invasion_america/index.htm

So, how about them Golden Globes?

I would not know. I do not follow hollywood to any degree and as such do not care about actor awards.

ZzZzZzZzZ

Well.... one to three movies annually might be considered a degree or two. But I don't know at least 95% of the featured actors' names, if not more.

Whoa. Thanks to that poll, I have discovered another limitation of the human body. I never knew that drinking too much water was that bad for you.

I just read up on it. It'll only kill you if you don't get enough salt with it. You need to maintain a balance between water and sodium or the cells will swell up. Good to know.

And I'm like GM when it comes to Hollywood.

Funny, since my older brother is a film buff. So many movies in his collection. I would never go see a movie at midnight, I don't know how he does it when new ones come out.

We're all very different in my family.

School's closed tomorrow because of snow. Which is amazing, considering I'm in El Paso.

Congrats! Not a joy I've ever been able to experience. And probably won't since college is just around the corner and they don't stop. Ah well, I get off for plenty of stuff.

My Video Production class was flooded a few days ago! Pipes broke right above the computers apparently. Room was soaked. We're now housed in a section of the auditorium for a month. o_o They have to demolish the entire class and the room next to it and rebuild.

Apparently if you get a same-time post on the 500th post, it creates a 51st page. o_o

And apparently if a gamespot user posts the last post, the topic won't close.

I think the world is coming to an end. It snowed AGAIN in El Paso.

Congratulations, you just realized that humanity has ****** the planet. Better start investing in salt and shovels.

Yes, it's a horrid problem. In Scottsdale a few days ago we had a sheet of ice over our grass, at least in my area. I hope the worst of the planetary problems doesn't occur in my lifetime. I don't want to be here for it.

You an' me both.

I think it'd be kind of cool to watch civilization fall apart. After it's done collapsing though, then you're either dead or trying to survive the harsh changes. I wouldn't mind that much, though. Struggling to survive sounds invigorating. I bet I'd feel more alive like that than at this desk.

I think you're in the vast minority.... Go rock climbing without a harness if you want some experience like that.

It's not just that, it's a liberation from social restraints since society is gone. There's also this sense of global unity that arises when we come face to face with our total demise. Lots of people would binge and riot, but I think the majority would actually put aside their differences, realize how trivial all of their problems have been, and have a wonderful moment of brotherhood right before we all die. That's assuming it happens all at once, though. If it's a gradual process there'll probably just be a slowly rising panic. Either way, the kind of freedom that the collapse of civilization brings, along with the unity of everyone working together to rebuild, is something I'd enjoy.

(Tabcef) You'd probably be shot to death for your food.
Or stabbed to death.

People won't work together to create a new society after everything goes to all hell- instead, they will begin to scavenge off each other, forming large groups of raiders. Most likely, any group who tries to start a new 'town' or whatnot will be raided immidiately by nomads, and killed.

Hopefully we'll have built giant vaults containing the world's smartest men and women, most fit men and women, and all it's technology.
Except Vault 1.
Seriously, screw vault 1.
Everyone there is mentally challenged.

Damn robots.

Also personal struggle, while great in theory, is not fun to go through.
That's why it's called struggle.

Mad Max, anyone?

Women and children couldn't be raiders though, and men with families have too look out for them. There'd have to be towns of some kind. There'd be raiders, but since they can't be bothered with raising children their numbers would fall as they got killed in raids. They'd just be the usual criminal element, until one side gets their hands on some military surplus and kills the other.

Anyway, the important part is that we're doomed. Keep drinking.

Why couldn't I have found this during Christmas?

http://www.wizards.com/global/images/mtgcom_arcana_1240_pic1_en.jpg

Is that real?

That's a pretty cool one. You can only use it for one turn and then you're forced to pay to get rid of it or take a big hit. It creates a giving and receiving dynamic much like actually Christmas exchanges.

I just realized something, he works as a bomb. You use something like Pacifism to keep it out of combat and just shuffle it back and forth. Or better yet, seal it with the same enchantment and then use Voidmage Husher to make your opponent keep the stinkin' fruitcake.

Aren't you able to sacrifice your monsters whenever you want though? Or is that only monsters that actually give you something for sacrificing them?

In Magic you can only sacrifice a creature by the effect of another card. You can only sacrifice something as cause or effect of something. Cause Example: Sacrifice creature A using an enchantment that gives it +2/+1 to creature B's power and toughness(Fallen Ideal). Or Effect: Discard a card, Lose 1 life, Sacrifice a Land, Sacrifice a Creature; all by the effect of a Sorcery(Smallpox).

The same is true of Yugi-oh!. Tributes and sacrifices are only made when you have something to use them for.

Equivilent Exchange in its truest form.

Man, I was kicking all sorts of ass in track right now and then I let an underclass beat me in my race (400 m) today. I'm a sad panda.

Had an interesting 3rd period yesterday. I'm trying to study for my trig quiz the following period, when one of the girls in a group over on the side of the room starts reading a lesbian love note that some other girl sent her out loud to her friends (apparently she's straight). o_o Rather lengthy and unnecessarily wordy. Not something typically heard in the middle of class when trying to study.

(Tabcef) IT IS OUR DESTINY

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/820/tailswtfad9.jpg

Seriously, what the hell is this and why does it exist.

i think this is why i don't play sonic games anymore

instead i played yazuka, with bad voice acting.

That actually looks vaguely familiar...

(Jams legs of stool through ceiling, sits on upside-down stool)

(Im Not NEG) Lucky there, Frieza. A few more days and the BAR would have been deleted.

Heh heh.

If the bar is ever deleted from here, the universe shall end.

God, I'm having so many problems in the 400 m dash right now.

It's sad when you train for a year with one event in mind, but get better in everything else. Jeez.

(Im Not NEG) Anyone intrested in Vista then?

VVViiiiisssssta.

Ah!

Never get new versions of windows until they're at least a year old. That way most of the big bugs are worked out.

Like a new console that has no games I'm interested in, I won't be upgrading to Vista unless there's a significantly attractive program that's Vista-only, and I can't even picture what that would be. I'm not a PC gamer so it probably won't be a game, and the only other thing I do with my comp is writing, anime, and music and those all work fine. The Internet is probably all that could force me to upgrade. Microsoft might eventually stop supporting the automatic updates for XP and leave it vulnerable to viruses.

(Im Not NEG) Well, judging from reports the upgrade from XP to Vista is alot less scary then previous changes. As in it doesn't magically delete everything and want to kill you etc.
There have been reports that some older software doesnt work on Vista yet, most things gaming-wise seems to be working. Norton has also said that Vista in its current state is much less secure then XP, for now. Oh and stuff like iTunes doesnt seem to be working properly.

But yeah, I'll try to get it at christmas time, and even then I'm not bothered if I wait longer. I love Office so I drool at how Word 2007 might make my life easier. Or having a billion windows open at once and the fancy new interface in general does have a certain appeal. Even though I'm not a avid PC gamer (as long as Worms works, I'm happy) DivX10 does look amazing. And its only a matter of a year or two before games start to become Vistafied. Or Microsoft basicly saying "screw you" to previous owners as you say.

Mind you, you might be in luck. MS only stopped supporting W98 last year. So I think XP is safe for another 5 years at least. I mean, when you have an OS that has lasted this long, it would be madness to do otherwise.

From Im Not NEG
Even though I'm not a avid PC gamer (as long as Worms works, I'm happy) DivX10 does look amazing.

Ahem, you mean DirectX 10 right?

(Tabcef) Word 2007 sucks.

Vista sucks.

Well, actually, I dunno..

It seems like they alienated folks who aren't complete idiots with computers, and folks who know a ton about computers.

Basically, the 'average user' somehow got shafted.
I don't really get it.

Oh, and for some odd reason, it's really, REALLY slow.

(Im Not NEG) That might be because you need zillions of raaaaaaaaaammm.

Ahem, you mean DirectX 10 right?

Well yes, but it could be called anything, really.

Lets call it NEGX10. Its even shorter, and you don't have to switch off the CAP key. Excellent.

It annoys me that in this day and age we still can't quote other people with a click of a button ala normal forums.
Silly CjayC

(Tabcef) late goodbye acoustic guitar

is kind of hard

my fingers hurt

also i think my guitar is out of tune

Free pancakes at IHOP today!

2/21/2007 4:08:09 PM

Expect something nice to be posted here tomorrow night. Frieza, your nagging has worked. Magnus... I didn't forget you, man.

Intriguing...

My plan has succeeded! Mwahahahahahaha!!!

Awesome. I'm revving up my torrent program in anticipation, to download the ones I don't have. Looking forward to it.

(Master Espeon) Well, again, I forget to come. I got Diddy Kong Racing DS though. Balloon challenges are a pain, and it's too easy with the air upgrade.

"Long live the king," huh Ace?

I'm still waiting for the surprise present. :(

3/1/2007 3:00:33 PM

Hail to the King, Friez. Hail to the King...

The whole of Metro city was in a bit of an uproar. Much time had gone by since the last extra weird event. It seemed to have been initiated some time before April of the previous year and then stopped. Strange, considering that the next 'performance' was supposed to be the finale to the concert series. From destroying a bar, to then affecting the psychological and physical state of an entire city, then bending the very laws of probability, and savagely beating an aspect of evil. All of it was daily occurance, yet odd in the way that the entire city remained unharmed for the first time in a while. A feeling of dread hung on the minds of the people of the city that went about their not so normal lives. For they knew that something would once again come out of that bar in the middle of the bad part of town (if one can call lawyer and monster infested streets 'the bad part of town').

Someone walked the wasteland however. A short hooded individual carrying a lamp. In broad daylight this seemed silly. But for some reason the beacon shined brightly in the midday sun. It even went so far as to shine through the one carrying it as if they were completely transparent. He shuffled along saying something. It sometimes would fade in and out as if his voice couldn't carry across the veil that separated normal people from bodyless spirits. Passersby could hear his mantra just the same as if he were standing right next to him, and it scared the living piss out of them.

"We are falling, the light is calling. Tears inside me, calm me down..."

The day wore on and the sun set as it always does. An event that could mean oncoming peril unseen or a time of rest that the world mercifully brings you. Or perhaps, a dawn of the PM sort that brings with it another kind of day. One kind not so easily forgotten.

The strumming began and the people of Metro recoiled. It signalled the start of something awful. People looked out of their windows while more and more of the masses crowded the busy intersections and city streets of the modern metropolis. The sound echoed, bouncing from peak to peak of the great cement and glass towers the humans had built for themselves. Uncaring of other concerns normally, they gave in to their fear and apprehension. Something was coming that struck awe into the hearts of these people. This sound, the sound of a simple electric guitar being played, was just the beginning.

The sound was finally pinpointed at the top of the tallest building in the city. Those with binoculars and telescopes were able to watch him sit down and relax on the edge of the skyscraper's roof. Almost obscurred by the satellite dishes and other devices that sat near him, one humanoid sat lounging with his red ax in hand. His body was covered in purple fur yet he toted long black hair that flapped about him in the frigid wind. He sat shirtless in only a pair of jeans and sneakers bobbing his head to the beat.

Helicopters of both the media and the police flew upward and shined their lights onto him. The being on the skyscraper regarded them like someone would a cloud of gnats, shaking his head, sighing in exhasperation. He blotted that all out and thought of what he had to do. With that focusing in place, he began the song...

"The stars will cry," he began," the blackest tears tonight. This is the moment that I've lived for. I can smell the ocean air."

He hopped off of the roof, eliciting cries of "don't jump". He paid them no mind and continued to sing while flying through the air high above them. The cops and reporters kept their lights and cameras focused completely on him.

"Here I am, pouring my heart onto these rooftops, just a ghost to the world..."

His right hand seemed to suddenly burst into flames and then stop just as suddenly as it began, only now the hand was partially see-through.

"That's exactly what I need!"

The strumming actually gave way to real playing of a song that everyone for miles around could hear as clearly as if he were right in front of them. Even though he probably should have been using an amp the whole time, Spades played on shaking the ground every time he played a note on his precious Redstreak.

"From up here the city lights burn like a thousand miles of fire. And I'm here to sing this anthem... of our dying day!"

Fire began to eat once again at his body, but he expelled it by blowing it away with bass hits of sound. They radiated from him, blowing them out as quickly as the flame could appear to consume him.

"For a second I wish the tide would swallow every inch of this city, as you gasp for air tonight!"

A second voice seemed to join his own in the song, but only for a second. His body gained more definition and detail when it was heard instead of being partially faded in the light of the choppers.

"I'd scream this song right in your face if you were here!!"

The voice came back and blended into his own as his body changed in a blaze of light and electricity. When he was done, he floated in the sky transformed. His tail was longer, his muscles larger, and his gaze had become feral and mean. His singing still carried its anguished tone as he continued.

"I swear I won't miss a beat. 'Cause I never, never have before!"

He flew up higher than before. Spades twirled on air with closed eyes, reveling in what freedom he had left to whip through the air with only his own will to hold him aloft.

"From up here the city lights burn like a thousand miles of fire. And I'm hear to sing this anthem... of our dying day!"

He repeated the chorus' end, trying to maintain flight. Each time he rose it seemed to get harder and harder to stay up. Fire burst from within him again and his right arm was now transparant. His wild eyes registered shock and... was that fear?

"Of our dying!!" Spades screamed, falling down a hundred stories to the crowds gathered below.

The people screamed as he fell. Some tried to get out of the way while still more sat there watching the Argonian plummet to what would surely be his demise. At just the last second, the air around Spades shimmered and glowed green. He slowed and bounced upward as if in slow motion ten feet from the ground. He floated along on his back as if in a pool and continued to play.

"For a second I wish the tide," he sang with a more hollow look in his eyes," would swallow every inch of this city. As you gasp for air tonight!!"

He shot off again to the top of the building from the reaching hands of the people below to rest on the edge of the skyscraper he had abandoned moments past. The demonic-looking hero was surrounded by an aura of lightning and flames that continued to eat away his phantom shell. As he set down, he strummed the song as steadily as he could even though the rest of him was shaking.

"From up here these city lights burn like a thousand miles of fire. And I'm hear to sing this anthem... of our dying day!"

He stood defiant of the flame eating away at the stuff of his soul and swung Redtreak around himself, getting back into the song at full blast.

"From up here the city lights burn, like a thousand miles of fire. And I'm here to sing this anthem of our dying day."

Spades began to tear up a bit as the last of him was being eaten up by a massive conflagration of ghostly fire. "From up here these city lights burn!! Like a thousand miles of fire!! And I'm here to sing this anthem!! Of our dying day!! Our dying day!!!"

He spun around, whipping off lightning bolts that struck the choppers around him, flinging them off and into the city in all directions.

"Of our DYING!!!"

Finally, Spades was nothing more than a ghost. The few lights that were left shining went through him and the flames that flicker from him finally subsiding into embers. He strummed the last parts of the song and promptly faded away.

Further down below, someone flexed their new clawed hand and quietly chuckled. He strolled out onto the city streets and sucked in a lungful of the fetid air. This new arrival smiled widely at his new discovery and began to spout off lyrics as he walked by through the crowds almost unnoticed.

"You've got nothing and nothing's got you... I can see your fear surrounds you... Built with strife and insight, but it's not enough... I'll defeat and discreet your every move."

The people ambiantly discussed what they had just witnessed and let him easily pass between them. It was almost as if they didn't care just what it was that was bringing the temperature down with his very pressence. One important being looked on in interest, but did not act. He would bring the fight to them... or he would simply bide his time. It didn't matter which since victory was already assured.

"Step twice, you invite and welcome death... Pay your life to me with your last breath... Say goodbye to the life you once knew, along with every being you once knew."

Lines of blue began to stream almost invisibly from the puffs of smoke that came from the breath of the people crowding the streets of Metro. Not all of them were targeted for this bizarre effect, just maybe two out of every ten spectators. He rocked his head back and forth muttering something once again that sounded almost like a song. It reached an end as he became visible to the world around him and his victims simply fell.

"Something stupid," he said, stepping off the train.

The station that was below ground wasn't supposed to be there. The misshapen train he had arrived on wasn't supposed to exist. He was supposed to be dead. That didn't make anything there any less real or alive.

"Something stupid," he repeated again, boarding the open elevator.

He got in and the doors closed behind him. The echidna clenched his fist tight until he head his knuckles cracking. His body lurched forward a bit as the elevator started to rapidly ascend. He smoothed back his dreads behind his head, trying to come to grips with what had just happened to him.

"Looks like we gave the goggles to the right guy, Liew."

The elevator finally stopped. The doors opened and Ace was greeted by a scream. A man ran by, turning around to shoot at something not in the echidna's line of sight. He heard the snarl of a dog and a mass of yellow bones lunged past the door at the man with the gun. Ace heard the victim scream and yell once or twice before he started to cough up blood.

Ace walked out of the door and grabbed the skeletal beast before it could tear his throat out. He grasped it with one arm while it scrabbled, writhed, and scratched at him futilely. With one jerk, Ace separated the head from the body, then crushed it into shards and yellowish powder.

"I guess I can't go anywhere without there being a problem, can I?"

He walked out of the building, which curiously enough did not have a basement floor of any kind, and looked at the scene around him. People ran and screamed as more living skeletons ran after them. Some were caught and torn to shreds while others were snatched from the streets into the sewers by more horrifying monsters. Nowhere was safe.

"Hail to my father to fight," Ace said. "Til the light of the sun will shine."

Ace walked up to another of the living dead and kicked it in the naked shin. It crumpled to the sidewalk and the echidna grabbed him by the ankle.

"From the angst of lost memories. A just revenge to pure misery..."

He took the skeleton up like a weapon and started to bash anything that got close to him with it. When it was too damaged to be used, he smashed another skeleton into submission and used it to start killing the others.

"It paints a picture until it crumbles, the existence of loveless black souls..."

Ace gripped one of the livelier ones up by its skull and started to bash it against a wall repeatedly.

"Onward to my sacred battlefield. A justice rage for all to feel..."

He tossed away his latest catch when insectoid shapes began to flow out of the sewer grates and storm drains all over the block. The Zerg slowly emerged from their smelly pits still gnawing on their human victims. Many of them tossed their meals aside and began to move on Ace.

"With innocent cries and hatred squeals. The gore of evil seems to satisfy..."

Redstreak appeared in Ace's grasp. The echidna lifted it over his head in a defensive stance. A twinkle of murderous glee was in his eye as his looked upon the crowd of zerglings and hydralisks that came to greet him.

"...when slain an' maimed and pacified!"

Ace rushed forward, cutting one of them in half each time he swung his ax. Each of the zerg came apart in a spray of greenish ichor and sprays of red blood. With each swing of his weapon, riffs of a guitar could be heard. Ten less hydralisks were there when Ace finally jumped up above them onto the side of a taller building. He shunted the Redstreak into the wall and leaned on it.

He strummed it erratically ten more times. With each motion of his hands, lines of insubstantial light began to cross between the zerg on the ground. Wherever the lines crossed, zerg began to be sliced apart.

"Stepping forth, a cure for soul's demise! With the tears of the victim’s cries!"

A trio of zerglings jumped up on the wall and rushed toward the echidna. He pulled his Redstreak out of the wall and continued to play. He kept the beat slow, continuing to sing. He stayed up there on the building as if gravity didn't matter, dancing along the wall while the zerglings attacked.

"Yearning more to hear the suffer of a..."

He ducked under one of the dog-like aliens' mandible swings and gripped his ax tightly with both hands.

"...demon as I put it under!"

He sliced upward with his instrument and hacked through its armor like it was nothing. The screeching monster fell off the building to the ground below. Ace rushed over to the next closest one and played a series of notes that sliced it to ribbons.

"Killed before the time to kill them all!"

Ace jumped down from his perch and commenced slashing his way through the remainder of creatures below.

"Passed down the righteous law."

Ace increased the beat of the song and more lines of light ripped through the ranks of zerg around him. The lines began to slide through the buildings as well, making puffs of dust shoot out where they disappeared into the bricks.

"Serving justice that dwells in me..."

The buildings around him began to slide to the side and then collapse in on themselves. Ace danced on as everything around him fell apart. One second a hydralisk would attack with its scythe arms and pull back nothing but spurting stumps. Soon enough the monster would fall, reduced to nothing more than chunks of butchered alien meat.

"Lifeless corpse as far as the eye can see!!" Ace screamed.

The buildings collapsed and fell off their foundations, leaving an almost level plain of debris and lifeless bodies for almost mile around. The lines began to advance from Ace again and more of the creatures caught in their wake were torn to shreds.

"The eye can see!! Oh, the eye can see..."

Far below the ground in a dank place where only one lightbulb was working, an almost pitiful sound could be heard. Mounds of pulsing pink flesh with armored growths protruding from them were wrapped around the warm machinery and pipes. A den with fungus crusted earth was nearby.

The light went out for a moment.

"We are falling... the light is calling...tears inside me...calm me down..."

The light came flickering back on and the growths became sickly and black. One cut across each of their slimy skins was putrefied and green. The larger mound they were connected to shivered constantly. Growls and hisses began to come from the den.

The light flickered out again.

"Bless me...with the...leaf off of the tree...on it...I see the freedom reign..."

The bodies of slashed up zerglings were strewn about the chamber when the light came back on. The mound of flesh was suffering from a gastly wound that sprayed the massive life form's blood out in gushes. The veins around the injury began to go black.

The light went out again.

"Praise to my father...blessed by the water...black night, dark sky..."

The light came back on and a small robed creature with a butcher knife in its hand was amid the carnage. Bodies of aliens were strewn all about. Each of them was in rapid stages of decay that began in their knife wounds. The robbed creature flinched at something and a hydralisk jumped out from behind him.

It clipped the light in its blind lunge.

"...the devil's cry..."

Above, Ace continued to fight, dipping under the attacks of more monsters, only for them to be sliced in half by his very music. He played on with that sadistic smile on his face, jabbing his ax into the belly of whoever got even a slight touch of his dreads.

"The power's proven to end the madness! Upon I take it to end the savage..."

He jumped up in the air over the hordes of unholy creatures before coming down with his weapon outstretched. Ace slammed into the ground with enough force to send shockwaves out in every direction. The concrete split under his immense strength and sent up showers of stone and metal to shred anyone nearby into pulp.

"The rays of light a truth to meaning... To my father my blood is pleading!"

The creatures that were left surged down into the pit he'd made for himself. Ace faced them boastfully, swinging around his ax to cut something in front of him while kicking out at the zergling he knew was behind him. The beasts fell back to the ground, bleeding out on the smashed pavement. Their fellows felt no remorse, trampling them to red and green paste to get to Ace.

"A justice rage for all to feel! With innocent cries and hatred squeals!"

An Ultralisk barreled down the block, kicking up dust behind its charging, elephant-sized body. Ace ran right at it, his ax held high. He jumped up into the air and played a few more riffs, sending lines of sound through the air to cut through the massive alien's legs. The beast fell down to the ground in a helpless heap.

"The gore of evil seems to satisfy..."

Ace shunted his ax through one of the creature's stumps and then stepped up to its face. Without any mercy, Ace began to pummel its face with lightning blows that shook the debris all around him. Within moments, it was an indiscernible mess of blood and chitinous bits. Ace looked away from his handiwork and blasted the thing with a huge burst of purple energy.

"...when slain an' maimed and pacified."

Farther away, some other being watched the slaughter with great interest. He put a clawed hand to his chin in thought.

"My chosen torture makes me stronger," he sang along to Ace's beat. "In a life that craves the hunger."

The echidna seemed to hear him, though he didn't know where from.

"A freedom and a quest for life," Ace sang with more of a whisper of a voice. "Until the end of the judgement night."

"Praise to my father, blessed by the water, black night, dark sky..."

"Watch the footsteps but never follow..."

Ace reclaimed his Redstreak and began to walk into Metro's heart.

"If you want to live tomorrow..."

Both of their voices could be heard on the wind blending into one. "Steel a soul for a second chance.
But you will never become a man..."

"...the devil's cry..."

On another plane of existence, far away from Metro city and its myriad problems, someone walked. He walked through a stormy landscape of wind and salty dust that stung his eyes and bit his skin. Sharp crystalline growths were everywhere around him. They each glowed a deep blue that gave this bleak place its light.

Suddenly the earth began to quake and the young man who walked along knew he really had done something stupid. He slipped on his goggles and ran forward.

"I still recall every summer night, like it was yesterday..."

The ground behind him shot upward into the sky, way past the dirty clouds above. He continued to move, unabated by the pillars of stone that shot up around him. The shards of crystal he ran past sliced into his skin as he brushed past, leaving bloody wounds to burn in the salt winds. He didn't care.

"The time could never end, and my friends were family..."

A pillar erupted from the ground in front of him and he slammed his shoulder into it while running by. The pain was unreal. He still didn't give two *****.

"Nothing mattered more than the loyalty we had. Now I'm a world away from everything we shared..."

He whipped out a ball from the belt behind him and pressed a button on the front. A weapon shaped like a billy club appeared in his hand. He ran forward again, breaking all of the odd hillocks and crystals around him. Another pillar shot up out of the ground in front of him and he reared back with his weapon. He slammed the club forward and demolished the thick pillar in a shower of rock and crystal.

"I had something better, waiting ahead... I try to take control of my heart!"

He jumped forward onto the top of a pillar as it rapidly rose into the sky. More of them flew past him as he kept climbing. He leapt off of his own pillar and tossed another ball from his belt. It became a blue beam of light that slammed through four pillars in succession, ricocheting off of each one, before coming back to his hand. The pillars started to fall and he leaned toward the first. In free fall, he ran along one before jumping to the next and the next.

"I had something better, but I'll tear it down, then I'll tape it up by my own design and fall..."

He rode down to the ground with the falling pillar. It fell for a while before slamming onto a pillar that was rising on a slant. The massive pole of stone slid down along the rising pillar before hitting the ground below. As soon as he was on bare earth again, the teen ran as fast as his legs would take him in the same direction as before.

"Bring back the days, three story parking lot. The air is never dry. As the city falls asleep, days bleed into the night."

As he ran along, the earth began to be disturbed further. More and more pillars began to shoot into the the sky, like some reversed rain of earth. The lines of stone lifted from the soil to sail up into the heavens to who knows where beyond that.

The teen noticed that the ground around him was crumbled and melted in some places. Some of the crystals nearby were darkened with what looked like dried blood. Others were scorched and melted.

"The table sets the stage for a life of memories, but I'm a world away from everything..."

Soon enough, he could see that the pattern on the horizon around him was crisscrossed with enough pillars to make it look like some sort of colossal cage. On the ground below the ledge he stood upon, there was a wide pit in the ground with wide half melted sides. In the center of the pit was a mound of melted black chains.

"I had something better, waiting ahead! I try to take control of my heart! I had something better! But I'll tear it down, then I'll tape it up by my own design..."

Back in Metro in the downtown area, Ace continued his battle. A creature about his own size with a reptilian nature viciously fought with him. They hopped from building to building, trading blows at incalculable speeds. Both red fighters kept step with one another as pillars of stone and glowing blue crystal started to grow up all over Metro.

"I'll fall apart as time passes by!"

Ace finally feinted after using the same tired string of five hit punch and ax slice combos. The lizard-thing fell for it and left himself wide open. Ace quickly spin around and slammed the flat side of his ax into his opponent's side. He went flying into the air, spinning end over end. The reptile caught a glimpse of Ace's reflection in the skyscraper nearby as he rushed in to attack again.

"I'll fall apart, but the memories never die."

Ace hovered in the air beneath his adversary on top of his ax while he pummeled him again and again. Ace reeled back and spun lower in the air to start drinking in power from his ring. With a hoarse cry, Ace rose upward with a Comet Punch straight into his opponent's mid-section. The little beast caught the echidna's fist in his claws though.

The lizard-thing gripped Ace's arm and lifted him up off of his instrument. He slashed his claws across Ace's face and threw him down into the blacktop below. Ace slammed into the pavement, but he didn't register the broken bones he'd have to regenerate or the bloody splatter that had been made of his organs upon landing one his face. He was massively aware of the fact that Redstreak was gone.

Where there was supposed to be that electric feeling of some other consciousness whenever he touched the weapon or had it active, there was nothing. That little scaly **** had stolen it from him.

Down below, in the other plane, the teen was fingering his final ball. He held it in the palm of his hand, deciding whether of not to use it as more and more of the pillars rose into the sky. Soon enough there would barely be room to move unless you wanted to climb through a jungle of stone.

"I still recall, every summer night! It seems like yesterday, but I'm still a world away..."

His words echoed across the strange world's landscape as he finally made up his mind.

What was he going to do?

...

Something stupid.

He slammed the ball into the ground at his feet. A pop was heard and a red glow began to spread across the land all around him. It infected everything it touched, blanketing the world in an eerie crimson glow. When it spread around for just about a mile or two, it began to recede into the spot just below the teen's open hand. He began to lower further and further as the mass of red light contracted back in upon itself, right along with more than a thousand tons of stone and crystal. The red glow finally subsided until it was almost nothing beneath the teen's feet.

The pop was heard again and the teen pointed his hand upward toward the clouds. The ball in his palm exploded into two halves with a beam of dusty blue with red lines of electricity all along it lancing up into the air. The backlash sent the young man skidding backward along the ground, but he held himself up standing.

"I had something better waiting ahead, I try to take control of my heart! I had something better!"

He fell down to his knees just as the beam fizzled out of existence. He continued to sing, even though he was almost physically spent.

"But I'll tear it down and I'll tape it up by my own design and fall..."

He looked up at the clouds and saw something blotting out all light in one place. It started to spread across the sky all at once until it blotted out all light aside from that illumination provided by the crystals.

"I had something better....I had something better..."

Something began to march over the horizon, outlined in shadow by the crystal's light. A jagged shape that had a shifty slide to its stride.

"And I'll fall apart, as time passes."

The teen slumped down on himself and smiled.

'Come get some Del. I'll be waiting right here for you...'

Back in Metro, the city was crumbling. People were dying or dead. The SPA was way too drunk to care at the moment. (Besides, no one had paid them to help.) The monsters that served as a distraction to lure Ace there were gone. In their place, an even worse menace was there.

He stood over Ace, the Redstreak in his hands in its sword form. He was as red as the echidna was and just as tall. His eyes were a solid glittering gold and he had a blue crystal embedded in his forehead between his eyes. He wore the torn remnants of an orange environmental suit that was at least a size too big for him.

Ace had been sapped. His hamstrings had been cut and his arms were both cut nearly off. They were hanging on by a thread of flesh at the elbow, a job that his regeneration was barely able to do anything with. He swore that the very moment that he could move again, Ace would make the little bastard pay for this.

"Let him go," the reptile rasped at the fallen echidna. "Let him go and I'll go away. This will all be nothing but a bad dream."

Ace struggled for a moment, but was able to finally lift his head up to look at his adversary. "The nightmare will really start if you don't get out of my face."

The lizard stuck Ace in the gut with Redstreak. "Give him up!"

"Aaaauughh!!" Ace writhed around in agony. "You son of a --ugh! That's not my freakin' choice!"

"Bull!"

Ace prepared for the reptile to stab him again, but the pain never came. He felt that sensation of strength again. Everything inside of him was back in order. He could finally put an end to all of this. But before any of that could be done, he'd need a power source to pull it off.

He glanced above him to the high standing towers of rock and Khaydarin crystals that had risen out of the ground.

"Sweet..."

Ace concentrated even though the reptilian creature above him was stabbing him over and over again with his own sword. The thrusts kept coming, but it didn't matter. He was here and he was pissed.

Klang!

A dark blur rushed forward from the reptile creature's blind spot. He was barely able to parry the slash that was aimed for his scaly neck.

"I was wondering when you'd put in an appearance, Spades"

Indeed, Spades had seemed to make a comeback. He was still himself and not a ghost as he had been when Ace took back all of his powers at just the wrong moment. It had allowed that little halfwit monster in front of him to exist in this world.

"Someone needed to put you in your place, Lisk," Spades retorted, pressing his twin knives against Redstreak's cutlass form.

The two of them separated and then seemed to disappear.

"I just wanted you back," Lisk yelled out from his hiding place high up on a bank building. "The guy you left behind sucks. He's no fun!"

Wha-krak!

A whole chunk of the building was cut away when Spades flew up and cut through it with another Redstreak cutlass. "I know that. But that doesn't make what you did right. You killed a lot of people and disrupted my "life" here just so you could drag me across the veil to be some idiot's id." He hefted his sword up closer to his face. "I'm never going back! Rob's better off without me!"

Spades snapped his fingers. The echo reached across the whole downtown area, reverberating off of all of the buildings left standing. Lisk threw away his copy of the sword just as it exploded into pure energy.

The lizard-thing looked up at the Argonian who was supposed to be his friend and sighed. "Oh, crap..."

Spades gripped his sword by its razor edge, letting the blood from his hand slowly spill all over the weapon. The sword elongated to twice its normal length. The lines of blood along its surface raised and became long translucent strings that seemed to fade in and out of sight. Spades hefted his new weapon into position in front of him and ran his hand over the strings of his ax.

At first he seemed to be casually strumming on the strings with no real purpose. Lisk felt a lurch in his gut when Spades broke out in song. Rob couldn't sing or play, but this guy could more than carry a tune. The beat stayed fairly steady and heavy, making the Argonian play with both hands as he floated high above.

"I've been so long in waiting, putting my life on hold for this chance to live out my dream."

"Haah!!"

Lisk deftly jumped aside as Ace, fully regenerated from his injuries, came rushing at him. His arms were encased in armored guantlets and he wore silver greaves to protect his legs. He weilded two Redstreak cutlasses with much more skill than him. The echidna lunged forward again and the chase was on.

"You think you know what I should do with the choices I now have..."

Ace and Lisk burst through walls into buildings, smashing through floors and offices in their mad dash. Lisk clawed his way easily through the bricks and tables as he tried to escape. The lizard ducked into an elevator shaft and waited for his noisy pursuer to come after him. The echidna continued raging for a moment before he seemed to quiet down and then vanish. Lisk looked into the office and saw nothing. His confusion didn't last long when he heard Ace snap the elevator's cables, sending the car and the counterweight plummeting toward him.

Lisk dove out of the shaft just in the nick of time. Ace was right on his heels, cutting millimeters off of his tail.

"Make them better than you!"

Lisk scrabbled and galloped on all fours, trying to get away from the bloodthristy echidna on his tail. The two of them got into a long hallway when the lizard heard Ace stop coming again. He looked back and saw that he had sheathed the Redstreak blades and was pointing a glowing finger in his prey's direction. Outside the building, Spades smiled when purple death beams started to come shooting out of the office building Ace had herded Lisk into.

"What if I don't wanna hear the things you say? Where were you when I was needy yesterday? You want in with me now that it's good? But it's too little, too late!!"

Quite a few of the beams caught Lisk right in the chest, Miraculaously, they didn't just punch through like bullets, simply rocketing him along through the walls behind him into the night air. The lizard creature spun end over end until he fell to the ground below. He dug himself out of the rubble he'd landed in just in time to see Ace touch down.

"Time and again I've asked you, just for some light to show the way. I was in doomed darkness."

Lisk unsheathed his claws and grew them to be longer than his forearms. Ace blocked the first swipe and hopped backward with his heels skidding on the concrete. Lisk jumped up above him and pouned on top of the echidna. Ace smirked and jumped right up at him. He leaned his body backward while his legs swept upward in a crescent. Lisk was caught right under his jaw and began to sail backwards end over end. Ace appeared right beneath him when he fell.

"You act like I owe you something, but I don't owe anything to anyone but me! Have you no dignity?"

Ace gripped Lisk up by his throat as he fell down. The lizard-thing struggled for a moment before he felt the echidna's iron grip tighten around his throat. The world became darker and pressure began to crush Lisk from all angles. Ace laughed maniacllay as he absorbed strength from the ring again and then just let it explode. Ace's aura blazed into existence around his body, pushing away all of the debris around him and kicking up a vortex of dust and trash. Lisk was caught in the middle of the storm that Ace produced with his inner strength alone. The red-furred fighter held him tight while his power surged, crushing him without even trying.

"What if I don't wanna hear the things you say? Where were you when I was needy yesterday? You want in with me now that it's good? Where were you yesterday?

"What if I don't wanna hear the things you say? Where were you when I was needy yesterday? You want in with me now that it's good? But it's too little, too late!!"

Ace let his aura die away within a few moments and then looked up. Lisk's neck popped when the echidna ran off with his hand still around his throat. Ace dragged his victim along as he ran in a straight line as fast as his legs would take him. He smashed his way through the deserted downtown stores and apartment complexes toward the towering pillar of stone and Khaydarin crystals. He got to the base and began to run up the huge structure with no regard to gravity at all.

"You're too late!"

Ace finally arrived at the top with his bloodied little prize in tow. Without warning, he pulled back and tossed Lisk forward, right toward the ground. The lizard creature tried to hold onto Ace, but his claws couldn't even get a grip on him, let alone cut into his flesh.

"I know exactly what I'll do with the advice you gave. Watch me throw it all away!"

Spades continued the song, playing away on his ax. He saw the glint of red that was falling toward him and started to grip his instrument tighter. When Lisk was just a few feet away, Spades spun around and smacked his former ally in the face with the broad side of his weapon.

"What if I don't wanna hear the things you say? Where were you when I was needy yesterday? You want in with me now that it's good? Where were you yesterday?

"What if I don't wanna hear the things you say? Where were you when I was needy..."

Lisk, knocked totally senseless, arched up into the air like a fly ball at a baseball game and began to fall back down. Spades stood right where he knew the little scaly idiot would land. He thought back to all of the things he could remember about Lisk from before he was expunged from the real Spades and spat on the ground. He took his ax in hand by the neck and held it like a baseball bat.

'I never liked you anyway.'

"Yesterday!"

Spades slammed him with the Ax so hard that the world around him quaked from the strike. Lisk drifted away from the hit slowly this time. Stings of immaterial light began to pull at Lisk from all sides at once. Within moments he was being pulled apart on every level. His skin, bones, and muscles all began to fade out until there was nothing left but one twisting line of red light in the air where he had been. The line was cut and frayed before inverting in upon itself.

"You want in with me now that it's good... but it's too little, too late. But it's too little, too late. But it's too little, too late."

The madness was over. Lisk had been sent back to his own world, now knowing that this part of Spades was content to be where he was as he was. Liew had somehow overcome the Dark Force and saved the universe. A pretty big accomplishment for some digidestined kid. Everything was as it should be. The SPA had even been credited with the destruction of the zerg that had been infesting the downtown sewer systems. So they had been given beer money for it. Beer money that was long gone now that everyone was plastered.

Everyone but Ace.

There was an itch he hadn't scratched yet. It was a feeling that he couldn't get rid of. He knew that there was only one way to stop it and satisfy himself. There was one more song to sing. One more performance before he'd be finished.

Ace got up from his stool and walked up to the stage with the stripper poles. He summoned Spades from within the ring and handed him his Redstreak ax. Spades shrugged his shoulders. Ace walked over and whispered something in his ear.

"That song?"

"Yeah, man. That song."

Ace materialized a microphone for himself and Spades began to strum on his guitar. It was an even, folksy little tune. An odd choice for someone whose songs were normally so hard and fast. When the beat had gone on for a while, Ace sighed and began to speak into the mic.

"Folks, I'd like to sing a song about the American Dream," Ace said. "About me. About you. About the way our American hearts beat way down in the bottom of our chests... if you're not an alien... or you have a heart..." He waved away his digressions and continued. "About that special feeling we get down in the cockles of our hearts. Maybe below the cockles... maybe in the sub-cockle area. Maybe in the liver. Maybe in the kidneys. Or maybe even in the colon... we don't know."

With this admission of idiocy, Ace began to sing. "I'm just a regular Joe, with a regular job. I'm your average red suburbanite slob."

Behind him, phantom images began to appear on the wall as he sung. "I like football." Goku being crushed beneath legions of football players. "And porno." Bulma and Vegeta drunk off their behinds and passed out on top of the bar(halfway clothed, folks. I'm goin' for embarrassment, not full perversion). "And books about war." Ace in a leather chair reading a Halo novel.

"I got an average house with a nice hardwood floor." A wooden shack with roaches and a collapsing roof. "My wife, an' my job, my kids and my car." Every single picture belongs to Vegeta, only Ace's head is taped over the saiyan's. "My feet on my table and a cuban cigar."

"But sometimes that just ain't enough to keep a man like me interested!"

"Oh, no..." Spades sang.

"No way!!"

Spades shook his head. "Uh-uh!!"

"No, I've gotta go out and have fun at someone else's expense. Oh, yeah! Yeah, yeah!! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, MAN!!!"

"I drive really slow, in the ultra-fast lane." Ace on the expressway during rush hour in a superwide mechhauler truck(Front Mission style trucks), doing 15 MPH. "While people behind me are going insane!"

"I'm an ******* ee-oh-lee-oh-lee-ho! I'm an *******!!"

"He's the world's biggest *******!!" Spades chimed in. "He's an *******! Such an *******!!"

"I use public toilets and I whiz on the seats." Ace walking out of the SPA's bathroom while Chibi-Trunks weeps on his knees. "I walk around in the summertime saying,' How about this heat?'" Ace walking around a desert. He looks up at a dying man nailed to a cross in the desert sun while drinking a canteen of water(which he's spilling into the sand) and asks the question.

"I'm an ******* ee-oh-lee-oh-lee-ho! I'm an *******!!"

"He's an *******!" Spades sang along with a painful grimace on his face. "He's the world's biggest *******!"

"Sometimes I park in Handicap spaces, while Handicapped people make Handicapped faces!" Ace pulls into a handicap space and walks away. The timelapse begins with dozens of handicapped people in cars having to park halfway across the lot. At last, Ace comes out of the hospital, seemingly threatening someone. He looks at the three people in crutches and with other medical problems and then laughs as he gets in his car and drives away.

"I'm an ******* ee-oh-lee-oh-lee-ho! I'm an *******!!"

Spades blanches at this heinous act. "He's a real ****ing *******!!"

Ace suddenly falls to his knees on the stage with a sorrowful look in his eyes. "Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song, rantin' and ravin' an' carrying on. Maybe they're right when they tell me I'm wrong."

Ace contemplates this deeply. Perhaps he's ready to changes his ways.

He thinks deeply about it all... for three seconds.

"NAH!!!"

He whips out a magnum and shoots Goku between the eyes. "I'm an ******* ee-oh-lee-oh-lee-ho! I'm an *******!!"

"He's the world's biggest *******!" Frieza sings drunkenly.

"You know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac El Dorado Convertable. Hot Pink, MAN!!!" Ace in his new car, speeding along the road recklessly. "With whaleskin hubcaps, and all leather cow interior with big brown baby seal eyes for headlights, yeah!!" Ace is shown slaughtering each of the afformentioned creatures with his bare hands. "And I'm gonna drive around in that baby at 115 MPH, gettin' one miles per gallon, suckin' down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds in the old-fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers. And when I'm done suckin' down those greaseball burgers, I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag. And then I'm gonna toss those styrofoam containers right out the side, MAN!!!" Ace speeding along eating the burgers before tossing the trash out of the passenger side along with a dead body of a McDonalds employee. (I told him," No mayo." What is so hard to understand?)

"And there ain't a goddamn thing anyone can do about, MAN!!! You know why? Because we got the bombs, that's why!! Two words: Nuclear. ****ing. Weapons. Okay?!" As he says this, a line of light warps through the air toward Magnus. A moment later, the air around him explodes into a nuclear conflagration of fire and shockwaves. The mushroom cloud billows away and Magnus falls over onto his side.

"That's three, ya *******," Vegeta yells.

Ace ignores him and continues to rant. "Russia, Germany, Romania... they can have all the democracy they want. They can have a big democracy cakewalk right through the middle of Tieneman Square, and it won't make a lick of difference--" Magnus is walking through Tieneman Square in his irradiated nightmare and looks up to see what is going on with all of the planes that are flying overhead. "--because we still have the bombs, MAN!!!" The bottom of each of the stealth bombers open and drop a nuke. Magnus' pupils get very small as the world is engulfed in nuclear explosions.

"John Wayne's not dead, he's frozen. And as soon as we find the cure for cancer, we're gonna thaw out the duke and he's gonna be pretty pissed off. You know why?"

Spades looks out at the audience while he plays on his ax and shrugs. It has become official that Ace has lost his freakin' mind.

"Have you ever taken a cold shower. Well multiply that by fifteen million times. That's how pissed off the Duke's gonna be. I'm gonna get the Duke and--"

"He just keeps going," Frieza remarks.

Vegeta starts to bang his head on the table.

Magnus... just continues to smolder, screaming," You blew it up! You *******! You blew it up! Damn you!! Damn you to hell!!"

"Hey!"

Ace ignores him and keeps ranting.

"Hey! Hey!! Hey!!!"

Ace stops and looks down at Nemo who had been sleeping until Ace shot Goku in the head. "You know, you really are an *******."

Ace's eyes twitched. He clicked off the safety for his magnum and pointed it at Nemo's head. "Just shut up and sing the song, pal."

"I'm an ******* ee-oh-lee-oh-lee-ho! I'm an *******!!"

"He's an *******!!" sang most of the patrons in the bar right along with Spades. "What an *******!! He's the world's biggest *******!!"

"Come on, sing it! A! Es! Es! H! Oh! El! Ee!"

"Everybody!! A! Es! Es! H! Oh! El! Ee!"

The bar wound down slowly as the beat began to get quieter. Ace grabbed an Ace Drink from the counter near the stage.

"Oooohhh...Oooohhh!" Everyone sang.

"I'm an *******," Ace smiled. "And I'm proud of it."

With that done, Ace took a swig of his intoxicating brew and promptly fell onto his back. He didn't come back from Happydale Heights for a week.

Sorry to interrupt your text game but I kind of need some feedback on this.

How would you all go about contacting someone who you haven't had any contact with in years (almost 7 years in this example)? Traditional letters seem to be more socially acceptable as a way of reestablishing a connection after not seeing others for a long time, though traditional letters are at this point, at least in this generation, a very atypical way of communication between people your age. I looked the person up through the Whitepages (and she would be notified of that so as not to jump to conclusions), so I have her address and phone number, but I don't want to call her on the phone... That would seem creepy when you aren't expecting to hear from someone. If I got a letter that stated in it that my address was just found through public records, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow. That same excuse wouldn't quite work the same on the phone..... It's also a lot less confrontational, which is nice in a potentially awkward situation like that.

We got along amazingly well, so I hope she wouldn't feel uncomfortable. My main priority though is to not scare her by contacting her after all this time, and I'm not sure how I can do that effectively. I don't want her thinking that I'm some stalker person, because I'm not. I just want to catch up and see how she is.

What would you all do?

(Im Not NEG) I'd had similer thoughts as I've looked up old friends. But the past is the past, and old friends are old friends. Leave it in the past.

Who knows when you might actually bump into someone you knew.

But in general, unless you're going to contact your whole class for a big get-together, I'd avoid this sort of contact.

Well of course, you'd never know what they WOULD say/do if you did send a letter. But...yeah. Its tricky.

Surely some friends you have now would appeciate the attention more?

Eh.... They get enough attention.

My mother recently got a letter from an old friend she hadn't seen in over a decade. It was fine. I don't think I can just pretend she doesn't exist though.... that's the same thing as leaving her in the past. I don't know. I'd prefer her company to that of my best friends. We really got along great. I'm told that one time during some school field day thing, we were talking so loud that they stopped the some softball game that was being played. I didn't notice. I'm never unaware of my surroundings to that extent, nor have I ever been engrossed in conversation.... ever, really. I can't close the door on something like that.

I don't think looking someone up in the phone book is any more or less creepy than looking someone up in public records. In either case you've gone out of your way to track the person down, and that's the part that feels invasive. If you've had phone conversations with her before, I'd call. There are some inherent dangers in calling someone, like calling at a bad time, but if your relationship used to be verbal, I would definitely rekindle it verbally. People are different in writing. And a phone call would be more normal, like you said. She might not be interested in another person in her life right now, but if she turns you down I really don't think it's going to be because you called unexpectedly. You're still in high school; it's not like you're some lonely middle aged guy going through you yearbook calling girls. If you knew each other at all well, she won't think you're stalking her.

To NEG, I say it depends on what kind of relationship you had and what the circumstances of your separation were. My dad got a call from an old friend he hadn't heard from in over 20 years and he didn't think it was strange. They got together in another state with 2 or 3 others that they knew from back then.

Ace, I haven't had enough time to sit down with it yet, but I'm looking forward to it. 19 posts! 7 songs! I just wanted to answer GM quickly; next post I'll give you my usual ego boost.

I meant writing is less confrontational since you're not put on the spot and you have time to think about your response. Which could be a good or bad thing, I guess. Anyway, thanks for your input Frieza.

(Im Not NEG) As I said, anything could happen. Worth the risk depends on how lucky you feel. So I'm not rejecting the idea of catching up with old friends, moreso of the things that may happen due to that.

Just don't come back telling me it was a poo experence (thats Frieza's role)

I don't intend to. I wouldn't end up talking about it at all here if something went wrong. I'd be apprehensive about speaking about it with anyone in person.

(Im Not NEG) But...if you are to ask if you should do it, what stops you from telling us if it worked or not?

We'd like to know! We care!

(keeps the board alive, yano)

Hoho. Not answering eh. I deserve a beer! Frieza!

I didn't reply because there was no point, I just don't want to inform you and it's my right to do so. I wasn't asking if I should do it, I'm going to. I was trying to see how other people would go about doing it. I assumed that whatever was considered the best course of action by most people would be the most appropriate thing to do. As of this point, everyone I've talked to has given me a completely different response. So I'm still pretty much left to my own devices. You don't know any of the circumstances or past events surrounding this so the outcome won't mean anything to you anyway. It's a personal matter to me and I only discuss such things in my life with a select few people that I know IN PERSON. I come here because of the regular bar members, I have nothing to do with you at all NEG. Frieza's the one who gave me the feedback I was looking for, so I suppose he's the only one I owe anything to. There's no reason for me to inform you of how it turns out and I don't want to.

Acceptable response to your inquiry?

Anyway..... Did anyone else watch that Robin Hood show? I thought it was good.

(Im Not NEG) I come here because of the regular bar members, I have nothing to do with you at all NEG. Frieza's the one who gave me the feedback I was looking for, so I suppose he's the only one I owe anything to. There's no reason for me to inform you of how it turns out and I don't want to.

Wow dude, dude that stung.

My advice had no meaning to you because I'm not a bar member?, thus you only thanked Frieza (which I did notice btw but I didn't say anything).

And whys that. Because you heard what you "want" to hear out of his comment, and because mine is different, it means I'm not offering advice at all?

I don't mind you disliking me. I don't mind you not telling us what you ate this morning, because hey its your personal space. But God, advice is advice. And it was given in good will towards you without any intent of badness. Just because my sense of humor is beyond your realm gives you no right to say "you have nothing to do with me". No need to say crap just because I said "ohh tell us what happens!". Geez.

Its the same board/planet. We've all known each other for years. And I do respect you as much as every other (besides "you know who") Grow up, eh?

Lets just fight for Frieza's affection instead. I bid alcohol flavoured cheese.

Oh and someone pass me a registration form to be a reguler. Since visiting and posting on the board daily doesn't seem to be enough.

No, you're twisting my words. Your advice was not in response to what I asked. It didn't answer my question. You responded to the question, "is that something I should do?" You told me that it would be nice, but not to do it at all. That would be what I've been doing all this time. When any given person decides to write a letter, it's because prior to it they were at the point of liking the thought of speaking with the receiver, but not actually making an effort to do so. I asked how everyone would try to reestablish contact with someone, since everyone's methods seem to be pretty disparate. You told me to remain in the position I've been in instead of how you personally would try to change that state. "Do it or don't" are the two obvious courses of actions. My question alone meant that I'm unwilling to go with "don't", and "Do it" has multiple ways that it can be done it. There's only one way you can NOT do something, and when only one option exists, it's easily seen by everyone. I can't pull constructive advice out of that. That's why you weren't given a "Thank you". When it comes to advice, I'm grateful for the advice, not the intent. It wouldn't have been any different if you had replied with instructions for how to make an origami penguin. It didn't help me with what I was trying to discern.

As for your grievances against my use of the word "regular", I didn't mean "commonly visiting".
I wasn't saying that your comments have no merit because of some title, which was INTENDED to denote which members I come to see, nothing more. If it was an appropriate response to what I asked from anyone I would have been fine with it. The group of members I was referring to was people like Magnus (who I don't know whether to refer to as Magnus or Trunks, since that's what I knew him as before), and while not here anymore, Sub, Nemo, Solar, etc. Al too if he still visited, I liked talking with him. It's not just Frieza. The "pre-desolate SASB" bar group. You're post. Anyway, that was to note the main reason why I come here, not to invalidate your comments. The subject that string of text was referring to was a justification as to my minimal connection with you and why it's not something that you should be all that concerned about. Frieza ended up being the only one who gave me a response to my question. I'm not "fighting for his affection" as you put it, he was just the only one willing to tell me how he might reestablish connection with someone. As such, some degree of compensation is acceptable if he truly cares enough to pursue it, which I don't think is all that likely anyway.

As for not liking you, I only started being bothered by you after the unrelenting Amy topics. Prior to that, you were just existing, I didn't really think anything good or bad about you. I really never held conversations with you. I'm sure you've had some classes in school where you didn't speak with every one of the students in it, but you knew what they looked like. It's the same thing, not done for any bad reason. In my eyes, a relationship such as that between any two people means they have nothing to do with each other. It isn't inherently a negative thing, and didn't hold a severe, negative meaning in this case.

Celebratory gloats bother me, MUCH moreso when they shouldn't even be happening. I wasn't going to be nice when responding to one. In this sense, saying "I deserve" anything was tantamount to patting yourself on the back for my not bothering to respond. This is not an appropriate subject to associate with that demeanor, you don't know any of the circumstances surrounding it. I wouldn't have said much if you hadn't followed up on your question the way you did. I didn't have any problem with the comment before that. I feel I've explained myself now, so if you're fine with it, I'm done talking about this.

Wait. Is Trunks Magnus or Zen?

(Im Not NEG) Bloody hell. Do you miss the sarcasm of my comments or something? You also missed the point I was trying to make (some of it, anyway)

Sigh

Proper reply coming soon.

Coming up next: Alcohol cheese mutation

See, I think that's one of the problems NEG. Everything is always covered by "sarcasm" or by someone "missing the point". You never seem able to say sorry and admit some fault on your behalf.

Besides that, I don't think a phone call is a bad idea at all. Although writing is less confrontational, it does make you seem different as Frieza said. Anyway, I've called up on old friends in similar situations like yours and it wasn't very awkward at all. I think verbal contact is the best method in the end.

And finally, Magnus is Magnus. Or formerly GameFreakForever X. And before that, GameFreakForever. Ha ha.

NEG, don't. This isn't going anywhere. He could've said "thanks anyway," but your "no response" quip was a bit much even as a joke, especially since your jokes can be hard to pick out in the context of an argument for someone that doesn't know you well. Just let it go.

Zen is Ace the Echidna and Magnus is Magnus (formerly GamefreakForeverX. And I hit preview and see he's already explained this himself). Trunks hasn't been here since at least autumn. I think his most recent name is VandreadZero. I miss him. And Sub, and Nemo, and it's been years since Solar dropped by.

I've been waking up to a commercial for that new Robin Hood show for the last week. It sounds cool, but I've never been into prime time TV (and I'm never home in time anyway).

ACE, my MAN! I woke up this morning feeling better than I have in months. I'm not sure why, maybe reading something you're been waiting 3 years for is just therapeutic like that. Good story, good songs, and a perfect ending. While I was looking back at the old ones I remembered that this is actually, like, the third time you've written this, and I know what a pain it is to rewrite something, so many, many thanks for taking the request.

I was hoping to be left with more answers than questions, but where Spades is involved I've come to expect some confusion. I feel like I've already ask too much, but I know you don't mind. So if you would...

1) What did Spades do in the Dream Field? It looked like he sucked up a bunch of crystals and the beam took them to Metro, but why did Delmon show up and how did Spades get enough power to come back?

2) In part 3 you mentioned that the UEF we formed when I force-fused us was untouched by the Dark Force. Do you remember what that was about?

3) Goggles?

4) I would guess Liew is one of the kids Ace marked in part 3, but Ace seems to know him personally. Predestination? And didn't we kill the Dark Force, or was that just one aspect?

5) Where was Ace before that subway?

6) Why am I on fire? :(

(Tabcef) in megaman x 4

why would ANYONE choose X?

seriously

(Im Not NEG) NEG, don't. This isn't going anywhere. He could've said "thanks anyway," but your "no response" quip was a bit much even as a joke, especially since your jokes can be hard to pick out in the context of an argument for someone that doesn't know you well. Just let it go.

Hey! Excuse me if I offended him in any way (which I never intended mind), but God knows why he over-exaggerated my comments. He could have made a much politer answer then "long horrible rant - oh and you mean nothing" such as "I wouldn't really want to, NEG". So he offends me, then goes onto explain why he said that.

There's only one way you can NOT do something, and when only one option exists, it's easily seen by everyone. I can't pull constructive advice out of that. That's why you weren't given a "Thank you". When it comes to advice, I'm grateful for the advice, not the intent. It wouldn't have been any different if you had replied with instructions for how to make an origami penguin. It didn't help me with what I was trying to discern.

EXCEPT it wasn’t as useless an advice as origami penguin making. If someone asks you where the nearest McDonalds is, and you answer “somewhere near here”. You might not be giving the answer he needs, but your giving him another viewpoint anyway. My comments to your question were simply my views. Doesn’t make them useless (but of course, your free to feel that way – narf).

Frieza ended up being the only one who gave me a response to my question. I'm not "fighting for his affection" as you put it, he was just the only one willing to tell me how he might reestablish connection with someone. As such, some degree of compensation is acceptable if he truly cares enough to pursue it, which I don't think is all that likely anyway.

Hi! I’m NEG. I answered your question too, if you forgot already so quickly deary. See that last sentence in my last post about Frieza affection? Its called a joke/sarcasm/irony. Trying to change the mood for a quick laugh if you will, after I made my own viewpoints. Whatever your “friendship” good for you! Frieza is an awesome guy. But don’t assume I made suggestions without…well….reading my comments too well.

As for not liking you, I only started being bothered by you after the unrelenting Amy topics. Prior to that, you were just existing, I didn't really think anything good or bad about you. I really never held conversations with you. I'm sure you've had some classes in school where you didn't speak with every one of the students in it, but you knew what they looked like. It's the same thing, not done for any bad reason. In my eyes, a relationship such as that between any two people means they have nothing to do with each other. It isn't inherently a negative thing, and didn't hold a severe, negative meaning in this case.

Which is what I meant by we all knowing each other, even if we’re not all close. We’re “close” enough not to argue over a “reply” or “non-reply” to someones diddly-doodly question!! Amy not included in the group, of course. She shall be insulted to the ends of the earth.

Celebratory gloats bother me, MUCH moreso when they shouldn't even be happening. I wasn't going to be nice when responding to one. In this sense, saying "I deserve" anything was tantamount to patting yourself on the back for my not bothering to respond.

Read 2-3 comments above.

See, I think that's one of the problems NEG. Everything is always covered by "sarcasm" or by someone "missing the point". You never seem able to say sorry and admit some fault on your behalf.

The only problem I made was trying to help, it seems.

Besides that, I don't think a phone call is a bad idea at all. Although writing is less confrontational, it does make you seem different as Frieza said. Anyway, I've called up on old friends in similar situations like yours and it wasn't very awkward at all. I think verbal contact is the best method in the end.

If it works, CONGRATULATIONS! As I said, it might work, but keep in mind that hey, it might not either. If that’s against your logic then I can’t do anything for you.

(Tabcef) could you answer my question too

Seriously.

(HaRRy_TiPPeR_) whoa this is still up ..... i posted a comment back in october ......

Tabby, some people like the whole main character thing. You know, where you have to play as the main guy just because it's right.

I dunno, maybe it's just me.

(Im Not NEG) Never understood why people liked Zero better. Megaman Zero series on GBA was awesome, mind. But Megaman/X has some...blue charm about him?

(Tabcef) I guess I can see that.
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Still, it confuses me as much as using the regular X armor in X6.. especially when you have the falcon armor.

The only time that X seems to ever be better is in X6, due to pretty much everything in the final stages.

I missed 300 because of my track meet. HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO EXTEND A TRACK MEET TILL 10:30 AT NIGHT?!

I think X without the armor in 6 was for if you wanted to make the game harder.

And I just checked and Trunks hasn't been here since January of last year. I think that's a record.

What a terrible spring break.

(Im Not NEG) Its been an awesome 4 weeks on Live Arcade.

Alien Hominid
Worms
TMNT
Castlevania:SON (out this wednesday)

Love my 360. And Virtua Tennis 3 soonish, and Guitar Hero 2. Not that I don't already have ****loads to play. Crackdown is great.

God knows why Sega haven't released Sonic 1 yet though. It was announced last E3, and is pretty much the "only" title not to have come out since the annoucements back then.

Shame since I was looking forward to what sort of achievements and leaderboards they could put in.

Well, I won't be on the net until spring. My connection's dried up and my paperweight of a computer is gone. I'll have to start from the ground up again. Rome has been razed folks.

Oh, and Magnus. SEE THAT MOVIE, MAN!!! 300 RULZ!!!

Does that mean you won't be back for a few months or as in the official day when spring arrives?

And I still didn't get to see 300. That, and some other things are making me very frustrated.

(Im Not NEG) What are you frustrated about? Tell us!

Maybe its that girl....

Hur hur hur!

<_<;

It's funny NEG, because it is a girl problem.

(Im Not NEG) Castlevania is awesome.

"But what are humans?! ::throws glass:: Nothing but a box of secrets! Bit enough talk! What have you!"

It's cool that Rondo of Blood is being remade for US audiences on the PSP.

Granted, I've already played it via emulation, but that's still cool.

(Im Not NEG) I'm sure its being made for "western" audiences and not just US ;)

(Tabcef) BUY STALKER DO IT NOW

Protip: There is a MP5 chambered in 9x18 at the end of the train tunnel in Garbage near the area where the warehouse is (where the Bandits come from). I missed out on it, but I will say right now- by the time you get to that gun, you will have more 9x18 ammunition than you ever wished for, ever. (i hate having nearly no 9x19 for the regular MP5)

Second protip: You can break open boxes, and small containers- do it, it gives you really nice stuff sometimes.

Third protip: shoot every single military person you see, they're jerks who shoot on sight
but don't shooty duty people 'cause those guys are pretty hip and also are the first folks who won't shoot you that don't suck

From Im Not NEG
I'm sure its being made for "western" audiences and not just US ;)

Yes yes, my mistake.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/415/1174605667625tv5.jpg

I'm sorry for triple posting, but I don't want to run the risk of the bar dieing.

(Im Not NEG) Your stuck, all alone. WITH ME.

dying*

Hur hur hur hur

Christ, dying yeah. WTF is wrong with me now?

(Im Not NEG) Might be Radiohead syndrome.

I'm still here everyday. My soul has just gone void of things to express. I may descend into random insanity soon.

(Tabcef) http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7627/2007040103h44m59gn6.jpg

MISSION COMPLETE

Boogedy Boogedy HAH!!!

No one is alone!

Your hair has millions of nearly microscopic mites living in it!

Deal with it, MAN!!!

Oh, and...

"What use is it to a man to gain the world, but lose his soul?"

Dracula's dying words(well, after being killed by his son). One of the best scenes in any game I have ever played.

Frieza: Ok.

(Incinerates Ace's hair)

(Tabcef) http://youtube.com/watch?v=gFLKeK0J77k

what the heck?

i mean, i dunno, but..
AWESOME.

the village people rock.

(Im Not NEG) You learn something new everyday, know this, Frieza?:

RUMOR: Freeza has a son named Kuriza.

STATUS: Interestingly, quite true!

EXPLANATION: Believe it or not, Freeza does indeed have a son named Kuriza... only if you're going by recent Toriyama-parody-logic, though! Akira Toriyama has recently completed his new Neko Majin (and later Neko Majin Z) parody manga. In Neko Majin Z 2, Toriyama introduced his first true villain to the series... Kuriza! Looking very similar to Freeza's first form, but with a chestnut-shaped head (thus the "kuri" for a name beginning), Kuriza seems to be just a spoiled brat of a son, sporting the same ego as his father.

Kuriza ultimately transforms (into a form similar to Freeza's final form) in his battle against Neko Majin Z. To poke even more fun at the series, Vegeta is called (yes, new Vegeta material!) to pick up Kuriza and save him from Neko Majin Z's amazing strength.

Taking things even further was the Japanese release of Budokai 2 (simply titled DragonBall Z 2 in Japan) for the PlayStation 2. In the game, players are able to choose alternate costumes for characters by simpy pressing "up" or "down" while highlighting a character on the character select screen. Most characters have two outfits, with some (such as #18) having up to three. Surprisingly, Freeza's third "outfit" is none other than Kuriza! Complete with his trademark chestnut-shaped Death Ball for a final move, Kuriza is a fully playable character in the game (albeit only as an "alternate outfit" for Freeza). There is even an extra stage in the "Dragon World" mode that contains characters from the Neko Majin Z series.

http://www.daizex.com/guides/rumors/characters.shtml

Taken from there, btw. Great site.

I read about it recently on Wikipedia. Neko Majin Z sounds fun.

So I got these shoes today for free.

http://a712.g.akamai.net/7/712/225/v20061013eb/www.eastbay.com/images/products/zoom/14307112_z.jpg

Talk about lucky.

(Tabcef) They kind of look crappy.
But I dunno much about shoes, I'm wearing a pair from 2004 that are about to fall apart (there's even holes i can stick my toes through!).

They're pretty comfortable, I prefer my Adidas ClimaCool Cyclone shoes, but considering those are $100+ I don't really mind. The only issue is that the heel is a little high for some people, and consequently they experience overpronation.

I don't have those problems, so I'm good.

(Im Not NEG) Had mine for over a year now, the Nike 360. Probably the most comfortable trainers I've ever worn, and stylish too!

Of course, the bubbles have long burst, making squeeky noises everywhere I go. Don't care though.

That's what I don't like about the Air series that Nike puts out though. The air cushioning tends to burst really quickly.

(Tabcef) Mine is an old school style AIR!

the bubbles on mine have also burst.

they too, make squeaky noises.

but it also feels like there's gum on the shoe when there's not.

(Im Not NEG) Well it took 10 months or so before they burst, but yeah, too short for a high in price brand of trainers.

I hate Timerland, so uncomfortable compared to my current ones, but they make theres look so stylish. Just so heavy and weighted, sort of.

I've never worn a pair of Timberlands, not my style really.

So I bought a pair of Soap shoes recently. I tried grinding and nearly beefed it hard. Still, so worth it.

(Im Not NEG) Wish we had Soap. But I rather grind with a skateboard.

WOULD buy a pair of proper Sonic shoes though.

::6 hours of Guitar Hero 2 later....::

OH GOD MY HANDS! MY HANDS! MY ARMS!! AARRRGGHHH

Feel the pain. That pain is... MUSIC, son!

My callused thumbs from 3 hours straight of Street Fighter practice sympathize with your body.

I do not.

Neither do my mites, MAN!!!

I MADE REGIONALS FOR TRACK!! YES!!!!

Okay, I'm against Capcom whoring out the Street Fighter franchise more than it already has, but damn the HD Remix is looking very nice.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_mz7xru0XfkI/RiArLIs_Q7I/AAAAAAAAAJU/2lPz5pcMNgQ/s1600-h/ME0000818216_2.jpg

Congrats on track!

I've still never played a Street Fighter game. Does that make me a communist?

(Im Not NEG) ...A million versions of Street Fighter 2 and you never got any?

Even though Flionk is making a beat-em-up? (and word on that btw)

any*

When he went to college he ended up making friends and now he spends all his time either playing video games or card games or D&D with them. So, no progress on that. Maybe when he graduates.

(Im Not NEG) Curse social lives!

It's all about balance.

(Tabcef) RED WIZARD NEEDS MORE FOOD

INSERT COINS FOR FOOD

Food is for the weak.

(Inserts beer money, Red Wizard gets beer)

Red Wizard: BEER IS GOOD!

RED WIZARD HAS BECOME RED NOSED WIZARD!

Just a reminder, I'd like one of these to reach 500 without anybody double posting.

There goes my chance, har har.

I guess I'll have to start the next one since nobody else is around. I'll give it a few days to see if anyone shows up.

It's all up to the next poster. Can they resist?

(Im Not NEG) BADA BING

BADA BOOM