Port Saiid General Discussion Forum

Sporcle

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:11:50 GMT

www.sporcle.com

It's a site that has games that test your ability to recall things.

I can by now name 93 elements in the periodic table (and mostly where they go), all of the President's last names, all of the countries of Europe (Kosovo just became independent, so that threw me at first -- in fact, if you look at the stats page for that one, it lists 46 right as the highest possible...

Final Fantasy IV weird observation

feeds@yuku.com (ACC KAIN) — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:50:28 GMT

Has anyone else but me ever noticed that in the cutscenes when it switches between scenes and fades to black to go back to the current scene with your characters, you can see them moving into place while the screen is still dark?

Why did they do it like that?

"The Rose" - I hate this story

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:24 GMT

In the early days of the internet, you could not search "the rose lyrics" without this dumbass story coming up:

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.

I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, 'Hi handsome. My...

Kitsunexus!

feeds@yuku.com (TWEETER911) — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:11:32 GMT

Die in a fire or something. ;D

Professor is Crazy (Her subject probably is, too)

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:53:21 GMT

Story

Choice quote:

After a winter of discontent, the snapping point came while Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on "ecofeminism," which holds, in part, that scientific advancements benefit the patriarchy but leave women out.

The only thing is, I don't know how seriously to take this story, since it's actually an editorial, not a...

Airport

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:02:00 GMT

FO, when I come back, do you think you'd be able to pick up me and one of my co-workers from the airport? It'll be sort of late Friday night (maybe around 10 PM), so it shouldn't interfere with your work.

Myths and realities

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:51:56 GMT

Myth: You shouldn't try to become a ______ because you'll get upset when you're met with rejection.

Reality: The implication of this myth is that if you just get a normal job, you'll be magically surrounded by people who will always be nice to you and you'll live happily ever after.

Myth: You can't go to college because you...

The internet sucks

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:25:24 GMT

If you need advice for something, there really isn't anyplace you can go.

I was telling Crawl that I really need help with the swordfight scene AT6, but there's really no place I could go to ask for advice on it, because (1) I don't trust that anyone else really knows any more than I do and that their suggestions would be an actual improvement and (2) if I asked for a source of inspiration I'd probably just get directed to some bullshit anime where swords and people...

LOL moments

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:55:12 GMT

So this morning I went to the Post Office to mail some NES carts to NESreproductions. When it's time to leave, I walk over to my car in the parking lot...and notice a handicapped card on the corner of the windshield. At first, I couldn't figure out why someone put that there, and I even briefly thought it might've been a ticket for parking in a handicapped spot...but the spot was not handicapped and it appeared to be a genuine handicapped parking permit, like the one Crawl's...

Game Pond just got Yuku steamrolled

feeds@yuku.com (Nucleo McRaven) — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:47:29 GMT

Considering another ezboard I used to go to years ago, but had completely forgotten about just had it happen, too, ShnooWorld's probably next...

The Video Thread: Volume 3

feeds@yuku.com (Cesium) — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:48:35 GMT

The old one is over 500 posts long, there needed to be a new one.

Trailer for the new Mortal Kombat game. (dunno if it's been posted yet)

My frigin' computer is acting up again.

feeds@yuku.com (Akhiloth) — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:12:26 GMT

I don't think it's a virus, because I just scanned through my computer, but my mouse's left button only works 50/1 of the time! It randomly cuts off. And there's an another problem: everything I try to view on my flash player stops for every other second. If these aren't viruses, what are they?

Game Progress Topic Mu

feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:20:12 GMT

I'm up to chapter 8 (of 22) in Uncharted. The endless combat was starting to get a little boring and Drake has been by himself so there's not been much dialogue. Fortunately, I just joined up with someone again and there was a fun vehicle segment to break up the monotony. Now there's another vehicle (Jet Ski) but instead of doing the shooting while someone drives, this time you're doing both. There was one battle earlier that took me forever to figure out. There's almost...

Federal Gas Tax

feeds@yuku.com (CRAWLand1000) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:52:19 GMT

McCain, Clinton support suspending it, Obama does not

One question is, how much IS the Federal Gas Tax, anyway? It turns out it's only $0.184 / gallon. It does seem like getting rid of it would be putting a tiny...

Adults are hypocrites

feeds@yuku.com (Forum Jackass) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:31:58 GMT

Adults don't like it when kids make slurping noises through a straw, yet I hear adults slurping coffee all the time.

Here's an idea: How about waiting a few moments for your coffee to cool down before drinking it? Or maybe don't make it so hot to begin with? I'm assuming it's because it's hot that people have to slurp it because I never hear anyone slurping water, or iced tea, or soda, or any other beverage.

Here's another one that me and another...

RAU Gallery AT6

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:09:26 GMT

I have a question about this.

This is one of the longest sketches I've ever done and has much more artwork than any previous sketch.

I'm wondering if I should release it piecemeal rather than wait for the whole thing to be done first. What I would do is finish drawing one scene, then put it up with a "To Be Continued" at the bottom, then when I finish the next scene, add it to the page and change the "To Be Continued" to an anchor to that scene...

Real Ghostbusters On DVD In the Fall?

feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:36:52 GMT

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Real-Ghostbusters-Ghostbusters-Rumor/9505

The Atari Landfill

feeds@yuku.com (Facilitypro) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:07:53 GMT

I'm surprised it took me 8 months to realize this, but I live about an hour away from Alamogordo NM, the location of the "ET Burial Grounds" landfill.

Although it might be cool to take a road trip out there this summer, what would I do? Even assuming I found the place, I could take a picture and post it. I'm not sure that would be worth the trouble.

game non-progress/ procrastination topic

feeds@yuku.com (da dick) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:20:28 GMT

yeah. they're a bunch of ROMs i have, that i haven't been putting much time on. either out of boredom, or they just quite suck. and i'm gonna talk about them here instead of doing something about it. well, not right now.

here's a list of games/roms i'm interested in but i haven't even got about acquiring them:

roms...

-flashback: quest for identity
-metal max returns/ii (rpg , dunno if translated)
-front mission (war strategy.)...

The Langoliers is terrible

feeds@yuku.com (CRAWLand1000) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:33:16 GMT

I vaguely remember not thinking this story was so good when I originally read it, but that was so long ago I doubt I could say anything specific as to why. I started reading it again to see what I'd think of it now.

It's the story of a group of people on airplane flight that goes through a rift in time. Only those asleep at the time survive, and they wake to find everyone else missing. It turns out they've arrived in a world of the past that is dead and abandoned, and...