Haha! That's a pretty funny video, but it is only traditional to put your hand to your heart for the Pledge of Allegiance... not the National Anthem. That's optional or something (unless you're a tryhard, copycat politician).

God damnit, your profile made me hungry.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
In honor of this occasion.

She's also a fucking copycat (that can't count).

Andy Kaufman
= genius

Joaquin Phoenix = Kaufman wannabe/ lame copycat

Where are all the copycats?

*promote *kids

COPYCAT! I was encouraging downvoting before it was popular. Hell, before I'd registered I carried out ddos attacks whenever I'd find a crappy sift on here.

>> ^Pprt:
Typical... Chinese people love to be copycats.
The pioneer here is Denny Dent
Dan Dunn really perfected the art, though.
Have a look: http://www.videosift.com/video/Dan-Dunns-Paintjam-performance-art
He has many videos on YouTube... well worth the watch.


That's some pretty sweet sweeping generalization there Pprt. Yeah, Denny did it first and Dunn did it better, but it's still quite the performance, and she also added the rotations and a bit of choreography to it and made it her own.

Mostly though, nice racism.

Typical... Chinese people love to be copycats.

The pioneer here is Denny Dent

Dan Dunn really perfected the art, though.

Have a look: http://www.videosift.com/video/Dan-Dunns-Paintjam-performance-art

He has many videos on YouTube... well worth the watch.

Uninspired copycat drivel. Man, these marketing companies DRIVE ME NUTS. What's next "Can you brain me, now, BRAIIIINNNNS!!!!"

>> ^legacy0100:
Copycats!
The leveling system was originally a concept from RTCW: Enemy Territory. (no! Team Fortress 2 wasn't the first!)
It's because Grey matter (developers of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, plus the Enemy Territory) was merged into Treyarch, who have developed CoD 5.
No, not Quake wars Enemy Territory, The Wolfenstein Enemy Territory.
Only if it had better graphics


Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory has leveling up, yes, but your experience points don't persist. At best, you might find a single server that saves them. AFAIK, the first FPS to have persistent XP was Battlefield 2.

bwahahaha. Been playing this game a lot lately. I'm nearing that magical 65! Then I can try out the M1A1 Carbine to see how well that does. Also gave the M1 Garand w/ the Sniper Scope a test drive last night. Sucker is nasty as an alternative to bolt-action rifles. Anyways...

>> ^legacy0100:
Copycats!
The leveling system was originally a concept from RTCW: Enemy Territory. (no! Team Fortress 2 wasn't the first!)
It's because Grey matter (developers of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, plus the Enemy Territory) was merged into Treyarch, who have developed CoD 5.
No, not Quake wars Enemy Territory, The Wolfenstein Enemy Territory.
Only if it had better graphics

But the "leveling" system was in CoD4, which was developed by Infinity Wards, not Treyarch. Treyarch took the same engine from CoD4 and improved upon it (if there is such a thing). So while leveling up isn't anything new (it's still like ranks, only done differently), it's still part of how the game plays on multi-player.

Copycats!

The leveling system was originally a concept from RTCW: Enemy Territory. (no! Team Fortress 2 wasn't the first!)

It's because Grey matter (developers of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, plus the Enemy Territory) was merged into Treyarch, who have developed CoD 5.

No, not Quake wars Enemy Territory, The Wolfenstein Enemy Territory.

Only if it had better graphics

>> ^gwiz665:
Bah, turns out that either karaidl is an immature dick or his account is compromised. Either way, the rest of us can sift the videos again. No biggie. We can even dupeof the votes to the new sifts.


I know this is off-topic, but I think a point needs to be made now so that it's perfectly clear:

The *dupeof invocations is only meant to transfer votes from a new video (the dupe) to the old video (the original). It is NOT meant to go the other way. That is, you're not allowed to go through someone's old discards or kills and transfer votes to your new, identical video.

I hope no one has done that yet, and I hope it never happens, because that is not what is was meant for. We only want to reward the original submitter with what rightfully belongs to them, not the copycat. The copycat is already copying. Don't let them steal votes too.

ah, I've always been curious about that too! But what i was really asking was what was the secret to that "a href" thing that allows you to make hyperlink embedded in text. I unintentionally typed in < before and > after and it turned into one and somehow assigned a link to my profile page. That's the danger of messing with force powers you don't understand.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Pull up a land speeder, son, and I'll tell you the short, boring story:

You already know I'm a Pink Floyd fan, correct? Well one of their earliest recorded songs has these lyrics:

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.

Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare Dan dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds
The icy waters under
Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds
The icy waters underground.

So way back in the mid '90s, back when this whole crazy World Wide Web thing was just getting off the ground, I chose neptunetitan as my handle everywhere I went. My very first internet email address was neptunetitan@aol.com. And Neptune saw that it was good.

But the internet, being itself, saw that even the faintest glimmer of originality had to punished, because within six months of neptunetitan's genesis, there were 800 gajillion copycat neptunetitans all over the damn place. I couldn't create a new account anywhere with it, because some halfwit had already stolen it from me. So I had to devise something new.

Enter kronosposeidon. Poseidon = Neptune, and Kronos = Ruler of the titans. Now I considered Poseidonkronos at first just to keep the order intact, but that didn't sound as good as kronosposeidon, IMHO. Also if you use it as a replacement in "Astronomy Domine's" lyrics:

Kronos, Poseidon, Stars can frighten

..it almost works, poetically speaking. Astronomically and mythologically speaking, it's a little more of a problem. Hey, I never said I was a genius. I just sell fucking boxes. But on the bright side, kronosposeidon has proven so clunky as a handle that no one but my dumb ass uses it. Believe me, I have accounts all over the intarwebs with kronosposeidon, and I have always had it approved on the first try. Thus my half-assed knowledge of a dead Greek religion has proven useful once in my life. God bless America.

Okay, you can wake up now.



In reply to this comment by schmawy:
You know what I've always wanted to ask you Okiwan Penobie? What's the secret recipe to that mumbojumbo?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
That's right, padawan. Come on son, join the winning team, or the registrar will be forced to pull your scholarship at the Jedi academy.

AND they'll take away your Photoshop.

[Your response]


In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hahahaaaa. Your Gimp powers grow stronger, master. I have no excuse. Such a freekin' freeloader, huh?


kronosposeidon:

Lazy.

Pull up a land speeder, son, and I'll tell you the short, boring story:

You already know I'm a Pink Floyd fan, correct? Well one of their earliest recorded songs has these lyrics:

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.

Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare Dan dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds
The icy waters under
Lime and limpid green, the sounds surronds
The icy waters underground.

So way back in the mid '90s, back when this whole crazy World Wide Web thing was just getting off the ground, I chose neptunetitan as my handle everywhere I went. My very first internet email address was neptunetitan@aol.com. And Neptune saw that it was good.

But the internet, being itself, saw that even the faintest glimmer of originality had to punished, because within six months of neptunetitan's genesis, there were 800 gajillion copycat neptunetitans all over the damn place. I couldn't create a new account anywhere with it, because some halfwit had already stolen it from me. So I had to devise something new.

Enter kronosposeidon. Poseidon = Neptune, and Kronos = Ruler of the titans. Now I considered Poseidonkronos at first just to keep the order intact, but that didn't sound as good as kronosposeidon, IMHO. Also if you use it as a replacement in "Astronomy Domine's" lyrics:

Kronos, Poseidon, Stars can frighten

..it almost works, poetically speaking. Astronomically and mythologically speaking, it's a little more of a problem. Hey, I never said I was a genius. I just sell fucking boxes. But on the bright side, kronosposeidon has proven so clunky as a handle that no one but my dumb ass uses it. Believe me, I have accounts all over the intarwebs with kronosposeidon, and I have always had it approved on the first try. Thus my half-assed knowledge of a dead Greek religion has proven useful once in my life. God bless America.

Okay, you can wake up now.



In reply to this comment by schmawy:
You know what I've always wanted to ask you Okiwan Penobie? What's the secret recipe to that mumbojumbo?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
That's right, padawan. Come on son, join the winning team, or the registrar will be forced to pull your scholarship at the Jedi academy.

AND they'll take away your Photoshop.

[Your response]


In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hahahaaaa. Your Gimp powers grow stronger, master. I have no excuse. Such a freekin' freeloader, huh?


kronosposeidon:

Lazy.

Ok I found this very very interesting and a bit dubious. So I went on a little mini mission - what I was most interested in was the birth day of Horus, which I could not find.

What I did find was this rebuttal (and a few others closely modelled after it)
http://www.kingdavid8.com/Copycat/JesusHorus.html

So what I became interested in was this statement:
"Horus’ mother was not a virgin. She was married to Osiris, and there is no reason to suppose she was abstinent after marriage. Horus was, per the story, miraculously conceived. Seth had killed and dismembered Osiris, then Isis put her husband's dead body back together and had intercourse with it. In some versions, she used a hand-made phallus since she wasn't able to find that part of her husband. So while it was a miraculous conception, it was not a virgin birth."

I went to what is probably only one of MANY versions of the Horus story, the famed "Book of the dead"

And of Horus' conception it reads:
"[Isis] sought him untiringly, she wandered round and round about this earth in sorrow, and she alighted not without finding him. She made light with her feathers, she created air with her wings, and she uttered the death wail for her brother. She raised up the inactive members of whose heart was still, she drew from him his essence, she made an heir, she reared the child in loneliness, and the place where he was not known, and he grew in strength and stature, and his hand was mighty in the House of Keb."
http://www.touregypt.net/bod1.htm
http://www.aldokkan.com/religion/dead1.htm

Which sounds like an immaculate birth to me.

What I haven't done - is look through the rest of the document to find out if it mentions Isis having sex. And if it does, then I need to find out if the Book of the Dead is an amalgam of older fables (which I suspect it is). And if it is, does one of these fables, in its discrete form, portray Isis as a virgin? thereby proving there was a view/tale which pronounced the Sun-god of a virgins birth.

And if it does, the same treatment should be given to the rest of the claimed parrallels.


It seems to me that allot of the rebuttals (though im sure they dont claim to do this) find one, or even multiple accounts that do NOT gel with the tale of Jesus.

I'd like to go through the sources on by one, I wouldn't be surprised if some/most are not legitimate. But the fact that the book of the Dead can be INTERPRETED as correlating with one keystone aspect of the birth of Jesus makes me mildly interested. Im sure its way less water tight than portrayed, the entire religion debate would be totally moot if it was that easy.

I've got more important things to do, so Im hoping someone has already done this for me