yea not to mention damage control the next on video sift... Yea I thought I deleted all of those, I get the feeling everyone would just look at me as the resident drunk man, I seemed to be proud I finally got my hands on some pure stuff. not to mention its pretty easy to go over board on it.
In reply to this comment by choggie:
>> ^BoneRemake:
I drank grain alcohol last night. it does indeed have a bit more punch then regular percentages.



go easy on it...it'll make ya smarter but the roll-off has a bite if you have the stamina-

^Sagemind, don't let lazy stop you-you have had the stamina and dedication to flattening your ass in that chair that got you to where you are today on the site-editing software I have and never use it-will one day, but you do not have time to be dilly-dallying with it now.

Take your inspiration for creation, and enroll in the Roger Corman school of film. "Cut, excellent, beautiful, move on to scenes 14-91." You have 10 days to give the producers a can of fertilizer for the premiere in Hoboken. One take wonders hit every 5th-7th time....just look at the kids who produced the ultimately unwatchable and highly successful, Blair Witch Project. Amazing what pot and fake butter can do to an audience. Take out your camera, write the script onna cocktail napkin and roll camera.

Here are a few tips to remember, elements that win every time with gullible audiences of freaks, geeks, tweaks, and the uni-dimensional meek, the latter being the ones that Frank Zappa reminded, will inherit nothing.

Nudity: Tasteful snippets of T&A (no P, unless it's a passing flash that keeps the audience wanting more or wondering if that was what they think it was), will distract an audience from content or lack of inherent talent...use sparingly, or folks may become jaded, dysfunctional social rejects.

Profanity: No film that has ever placed in the last 40 years is without it...use sparingly, do not use any of my contributions as an example.

Set: Provide the viewer with enough to occupy their feeble minds in the BACKGROUND, to distract them from the script that looked great yesterday, but stinks like foreign cheese after the drugs have worn off the next....litter the scene with props, gadgetry and eye-candy...try dumping a garbage can on the floor and re-arranging it a few times, perhaps....(HINT:most props are made of cardboard, plaster, or Styrofoam.)

Fire: Cheap and ever present, combustibles make for good cinema....think of all the chick flicks you have had to suffer, without smoke, there can be no flames.

Actors/Actresses-Optional elements of any film, these are like friends...-dime-a-dozen clutter which distract from the task at hand-employ the services of the homeless, have animals do your bidding, stack Barbies or plastic army men to the ceiling, and roll camera....insects work well too, they are always in character.

Hope this helped.

I don't expect you to answer all of the questions that I asked. It is enough that you read them.

I will stop being a wind bag and try to focus for the sake of simplification. I will also try to stop assuming what you believe.

Do you believe that there is a God with a consciousness, separate from humans?
And it has the power to manipulate matter and energy at will?
And it cares about human morality?
And tries to communicate with humans?

Do you believe in the existence of heaven and hell as places that exist where souls go when you die?

"Everybody gets to interpret scripture how they want to," and then proceed to interpret The Bible as YOU want to, in order to make a point." - Do you believe in a literal reading of the Bible or do you believe it needs to be interpreted? If you believe the Bible can be interpreted, how do you know which interpretation is correct? How can you know which interpretation God would want?

“they obviously don't understand Jesus Christ AT ALL” – Explain Jesus to me.

Please read Matthew 15:1-28. What do the following verses from this passage tell us about Jesus?

Verse 16
Verse 24
Verse 26
Verse 28


In reply to this comment by thepinky:
I don't even know where to start replying to your many comments. Do you seriously want me to justify my claim that religion should promote tolerance and reason with scripture? I could do it, but it would take me hours to explain all of doctrine to you. I have indeed both read and studied The Bible on my own, in over five religious courses and one secular, and in two courses at the university level. I am traveling to Jerusalem in January to further study The Old and New Testaments. I am not one of those people who think that you can prove anything about The Bible by quoting a few scriptures. I have no desire to argue with a person who makes points that I have already made (as if I disagree with you about them), and who answers with essays that don't even seem to be a direct rebuttal for me, but for all of Christianity. It annoys me when people assume things about what I believe, and it further annoys me when you say things like, "That is the problem. Everybody gets to interpret scripture how they want to," and then proceed to interpret The Bible as you want, in order to make a point. You can't dismiss biblical interpretation as arbitrary and then make definitive statements about how it supports slavery, torture, forcing women to marry their brothers-in-law, etc. That's just ridiculous.

I hope that I don't sound too hostile. I have a very fiery temperament, but I assure you that it's all in good fun and that I do appreciate your comments and enjoy heated discussions. I think that you are an intelligent person and that you made good points, but what am I supposed to do with that quagmire that you gave me, honestly? I don't have that kind of time nor stamina.

I don't even know where to start replying to your many comments. Do you seriously want me to justify my claim that religion should promote tolerance and reason with scripture? I could do it, but it would take me hours to explain all of doctrine to you. I have indeed both read and studied The Bible on my own, in over five religious courses and one secular, and in two courses at the university level. I am traveling to Jerusalem in January to further study The Old and New Testaments. I am not one of those people who think that you can prove anything about The Bible by quoting a few scriptures. I have no desire to argue with a person who makes points that I have already made (as if I disagree with you about them), and who answers with essays that don't even seem to be a direct rebuttal for me, but for all of Christianity. It annoys me when people assume things about what I believe, and it further annoys me when you say things like, "That is the problem. Everybody gets to interpret scripture how they want to," and then proceed to interpret The Bible as you want, in order to make a point. You can't dismiss biblical interpretation as arbitrary and then make definitive statements about how it supports slavery, torture, forcing women to marry their brothers-in-law, etc. That's just ridiculous.

I hope that I don't sound too hostile. I have a very fiery temperament, but I assure you that it's all in good fun and that I do appreciate your comments and enjoy heated discussions. I think that you are an intelligent person and that you made good points, but what am I supposed to do with that quagmire that you gave me, honestly? I don't have that kind of time nor stamina.

The ever-persistent pang at the nape of your neck
Forever hiding within
The resolve in a thought, the shadow of a doubt
Forever emblazoned under your skin

Suckling at your soul and radiating glory
Forever engulfing your being
Encompassing your unbridled stamina
Forever waiting to be seen

Hiding within
Holding your sin
Letting you win
Let it begin

Unveiling a capacity for strengthening your resolve
Overshadowing the shadow with a blazing light
Trampling the darkness with a tumultuous stomp
Singing a song of resolve and might

Here is the power of the imploding mist
Fast forwarding us toward impending epoch
Holding us in strength with faith and resolve
The sundered heart as he rises before us – It’s Enoch!
-Len (AKA Sagemind)

Congrats buddy!
You’ve earned your metal , forged in gold, wear it well!

For the most part, yes, they're pretty stupid exercises. Isolation exercises in general are far, far overused. If you're just trying to maximize muscle size, then curls etc. are likely an easy route to that, but that's bodybuilding, and I'm frankly not likely to ever quite understand it. If you're a serious powerlifter, then isolation exercises can probably be of use as well, but most people you see in gyms at the smith machine or the leg curl machine or - sin of sins - doing their bicep curls with a barbell at the squat rack just do that stuff because they've seen others do it.

Heavy compound lifts and other exercises that force you to utilize and coordinate the whole body are where it's at for anyone interested in actual, broad fitness instead of just appearance. You don't get much neural adaptation from isolation exercises - having big muscles and having the ability to actually use them efficiently are two very different things. Basic powerlifting and olympic lifting exercises combined with basic gymnastics and what are usually referred to as "cardio" exercises - running, rowing etc. will not only make your muscles grow but strengthen the relevant neural pathways, leading to better coordination and increased power output, not to mention increase your endurance, stamina and speed.

Bicep curls... If someone's that interested in having bulging arms, I hear there's all kinds of oils and silicone implants they can put under their skin. Personally, I value performance.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
are bicep curls and barbell rows stupid exercises?

Ehh.. I find myself again disagreeing with the "Review" this week on some points.

Assassins Creed 2 looks pretty damn good to me, Supposed to be bigger then the first game, new executions, able to assassinate two people at once now and Leo Da Vinci inventing things for you.

Saboteur wasn't mentioned, but it wasn't exactly unveiled at this E3, GTA style game based in france during WWII, able to climb buildings, and the art style seems interesting to me.

Mass Effect 2 in production, using the data from your first game to bring the second game to life, if you killed certain characters off in the first they won't appear in the second, new weapons, ect.

I've been playing the Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta, and nobody talks..character wise anyway, and the gameplay is pretty good.

His Beatles rock band point is that it's just a stupid name..

Final Fantasy XIV has next to no info on it yet, except that it's going to be online, So I don't understand why he's critiquing it already, other then the fact that the generally hates Mmorpgs. (Side note, I'm excited to see what they're going to be doing, it's FF11's spiritual predecessor, and FF11 was fantastic until WoW came out and showed that the slow paced combat was outdated.)

Halo Reach seems like it could be very interesting, because it's potentially the first time that you DON'T play as a lone spartan if the game is going to be based off the books, and the planet itself is supposed to be mostly open fields and forest.. again if it's based off the books.

And ODST seems like it'll be great, you're not on a linear storyline and you're able to explore all of New Mombasa, they've pushed the halo 3 engine more then they knew they could and have fantastic looking results, not to mention new features since you're no longer a super-soldier, so you don't have a feeling of complete comfort when you're going through the game because they've essentially reverted back to the halo 1 system of minor "Shields" (Basically called Stamina in ODST) after which your health takes damage.

I dunno, to me this years E3 was actually pretty good, it's talking about titles that don't seem like they're bound to fail from the get-go (lookin at you, Destroy All Humans 3 & Damnation)

Here's the reply I so meticulously crafted before the site was taken down (in my opinion a little too fast). Take it for what it's worth:


I am principally on jonny's side here, as the possible double-votes irk me to no end. Please don't take any hastened conclusions here before all the negative sides have been explored.

Burdturgler, you ask why we have to assume there will be double votes. Jonny has just provided an example with dft and Issykitty. I'm not wagging any finger here, but it shows how doublevoting might very well become an issue. In this case it has much more effect on user rankings than video rankings, and I believe that will be the biggest effect if this is implemented. Now if you like me believe that the videos rankings are more important you might be willing to pay that prize. But don't pretend that it's not an issue.

How doublevoting might affect the videos themselves is a murky issue, as I doubt that many people will have kronosposeidon's stamina to trek through all the >3000 pages of videos. The old videos that had hundreds of votes will likely not be affected much, as any doublevotes they might receive will be like drops in the ocean, and not all the say 280 voters will bother to dig it up and vote again. But for videos in the 10-50 range it might have a big effect. There is a huge difference between 20 and 40 in terms of perceived quality, so if a video is bumped that high it will give a skewed view of its quality as defined by the community.

A more immediate effect that I foresee if the vote counts are restored is this: Practically all the pqueued videos with 9 votes will get a visit from a friend that already voted for it pre-3/11, and get bumped into the sifted area. This will skew BOTH video rankings and user rankings. If you are ok with that, fine, but please take it into consideration.


The best solution as I see it is dystopianfuturetoday's suggestion: Let the old vote tallies be set as a threshold for the old videos that all new votes count towards, and which must be met before new votes start to pile on top. The effects I see from this is as follows:


- Videos with an awful lot of votes will practically never meet their threshold, and will retain their pre-3/11 vote counts indefinitely, unless their is a huge increase in membership.

- Videos with only a lot of votes will be similar, but might have a chance of meeting their threshold and becoming ordinary again if promoted.

- Videos with few votes and pqueued videos will have a big chance of meeting their threshold, so for all purposes they will be almost unaffected by the siftsplosion.

Videos that have not yet met their threshold should have this clearly stated on them, so people don't get confused as to why their voting doesn't work. Maybe they should even a small meter that shows its progress towards the threshold. I know I'm dumping a lot of coding work on lucky here now, but this is as I see it the most thorough way of salvaging our loss. I'm not able to vote in the poll for some reason, but count this as my vote.


Lastly, let me add that video rankings will always be biased towards newer videos, since there is substantial vote inflation as the membership increases. Also, I don't bother so much about the internal ranking of the most popular videos. A lot of votes IS a lot of votes, and it has proven its worth to the community just by getting so high. Bothering about the total vote tallies for these is therefore very unimportant, IMHO.

And a boon to you, burdturgler: With this solution you can promote The Dramatic Chipmunk again and again, until it surpasses The Infamous Ukulele video which will never reach its threshold!

he's in a studio, smooman - probably multiple takes and as many songs as they can fit in the studio time.. it's fine to go mental when you're playing a small set but stamina must play a real part when you're drumming so fast and for so long (correct me if i'm wrong)

rediculous speeds

1) Season - dog season, it's always dog season
2) Place in the world - doghouses
3) Children's book - Dogbert goes to the store
4) TV Series - Dog Whisperer
5) Word - Doggles
6) Film - All Dogs Go To Heaven
7) Curse - Doggone it!
Creature - Dog
9) Past time - taking my dog for walks
10)Person - Rolph from the muppets

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Cat
12) Sweet or savoury - salty
13) Cereal or Toast - toasted cereal
14) Tan or pale - farmers tan
15) Shoes or barefoot - shoes with bare toes
16) Desktop or laptop - laptop on a desk
17) Drive or walk - ghostride = both
18) Drama or comedy - steven seagal does both
19) Sex or food - foodstamps
20) Futurama or Simpsons - hey dad, can i borrow the handgun?

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - see any of my fine 49
22) A great comment on one of your vids - "Oprah takes a dive" by gwizz
23) Most off the wall member - westy
24) Favourite user name - westy
25) Your most used channel - WTFFFFFFFF
26) Personal dumbass moment - hahahaha
27) Best avatar - John Goodman, clearly
28) Partner in crime - westy, though he doesn't know
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - no one still alive
30) Idea for the site - gimme 90's channel that I would care for like my own child

About you

31) Where do you live - in a big warehouse where dogs run loose, machines make noise and anything can happen
32) Smoker/non-smoker - plz see username
33) Left or right handed - I save the world with all 4 appendages
34) Hair colour - green, hello
35) Relationship status - I have 5 "close friends"
36) How tall - 6' 5" after I butchwax my 'do
37) Children - you are all my children
38) Ever had an operation - yes, i completed them all in 30 mintues too
39) Best feature - my voiceover
40) Use four words to describe yourself - By your powers combined...

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Princess Di
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - OJ is still innocent fund
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Princess Di
44) Relive a moment in your life - with my DVR, I relive them all
45) Have a superpower - mine are Superhuman strength, speed and stamina, Flight, Invulnerability, Super-breath, Telepathy, Psychokinesis, Shape-shifting, Control over the elements, Matter transmutation
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - who crashed the exxon-valdez
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - big oil
48) Be president for one hour - I'd consume the EPA
49) Delete a period in history - every time someone litters
50) Achieve one thing - make a television comeback

Clear Sky is good (i have both S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games), but pretty flawed, too. my litany of complaints:

-AI grenade accuracy is sick. Quick save often, because if the enemy has grenades, you are going to die a lot.

-No clipping on NPCs, and they love to block doorways. Why can't you nudge them? They sure as shit nudge you. This is most problematic when you are fighting alongside NPCs that PUSH YOU OUT INTO THE OPEN.

-Enemies can you see you at night, even if your flashlight is off. Using the cover of darkness to sneak up on the military outpost would be awesome, but they see you creeping in from 100 yards.

-The stamina system. You run out of energy too quickly for the amount of ground you must cover. You can pay to be escorted (i.e. teleported) but it can be very expensive and money is tight in this game.

-One of the major components to this game is the faction warfare. In some areas, you aid one faction in ridding the map of another faction, and your results are measurable. I.e., you don't see as many red dots on the map anymore. What I don't get is that you can't ever completely eradicate them. In some areas, you can destroy a little encampment over and over, but they always return. Maybe the game wouldn't be as fun with no enemy factions, but it could have been thought through more.

What I like about Clear Sky:
-the weapon upgrade system--gives you a huge range of weapon combos.
-the faction wars--working with the NPCs to push through enemy outposts is still great fun, even though you can't completely eradicate them in some areas.
-the slow pace--in the beginning of the game, you don't see much in the way of mutants. as the game goes on, you start to see them more and more, and it freaks you out more.
-the new anomaly system--makes anomaly hunting more fun, and more rewarding imo

>> ^quantumushroom:
Bush is a lot smarter than the left will ever give him credit for being. And if he's not, it just makes the left look even more incompetent.Trill, he's not a movie star/empty suit like the Obamessiah. He's done well considering the American media is 90% leftist and wants him to fail. At least have the temerity to admit he's never gotten a fair shake from the press, even to oneself.
"If Bush is "stupid", even with test scores higher than Frenchy Kerry's, then it's a very poor reflection on your taxocrats in Congress that they DANCE to his tune; most Bush legislation has passed handily and easily."
I don't see this as being an argument for anything but your own biases. Not that I'm overly concerned. You're entitled to your opinion of Bush. At present, our American Congress is overrun with wannabe-Euros (called Democrats, taxocrats, victicrats) and they've got lower approval ratings than even Bush. All the same, just as Bush is given credit for the stuff libs call bad, so it goes he gets the credit for the legislation he passes.
"Torture" of head-sawing terrorists is fine with me. If you're not an enemy soldier of a standing army, you have no rights under any code of law. It's embarrassing that anyone would try to invent rights for the very scum that seek to destroy civilization. Good riddance.
Phone tapping in wartime? Yawn. There's 300 million Americans, good luck sifting through the transcripts, feds.
Americans are stupid? Dumb is everywhere, but Europe's finished, has been for a long time. You're not a model for humanity, you're a warning. Socialist economies have high unemployment and are grossly inefficient. Without a fight, you've surrendered any economic edge you might have had, kow-towing to "global warming" charlatans. You've lost your individual national identities in that despicable EU. Nanny-state government cancels tobacco, seizes your guns--without resistance--leaving you defenseless sheep to be culled by criminals and your lefty propaganda media, the model which our American bastard media likes to imitate, covers up the resulting mess. With the death of religion, which the "intelligentsia" of Europe deem a triumph, the last remnant of your ability to transmit cultural values is gone. You might as well start bowing to Allah now.


Again and again you use sweeping and deflecting terms like "the left" "the liberal". Every piece of criticism is swatted by the same gaping maw. This lends you no credability whatsoever, especially when it's so blatant. Racists have better slur propaganda than you have - at least they've thought it out. In the same way you swat every criticism of bush as "left" and "liberal" bullshit, we should treat you with the same lack of intelligence you treat us, and refer to any compliment of bush as "right" or "conservative" or whatever the respective terms are.

You STILL fail to address the point. People have been filming, recording and watching bush for 8 years, and the worldwide opinion (not just lefties, liberals, whatever other buzz word you'll throw out) is that he is a moron. I'm NOT going to say that he has never gotten a fair shake from the media when i've seen the man stand in front of an audience and claim to know the name of a general, and sit there flaccidly saying "his name is........general!" When i've seen the man make an empty, ventriloquistic speech about terrorism, and then demand that we "watch this drive!"

Sifting through even more of your propaganda and buzz-words, i see you make yet another basic error:
"just as Bush is given credit for the stuff libs call bad, so it goes he gets the credit for the legislation he passes."
-- But i haven't done that, don't you see? Again your gaping swatting maw has landed you in the wrong. I'm not a lib, and i never said he gets all the credit for what passes through congress good or bad. I say he's as involved with the good as he is with the bad - ie. not that much.

Firstly the problem with torturing "head-sawing" terrorists is that you're assuming everyone to torture is guilty. Not necessarily true is it? That's why most suitably evolved countries/states have gotten rid of it. People......

you know what? half way through this i realised that i could spend days talking to you and you'd still not get it. you're an idiot, and unfortunately the world must survive with idiots. i tried to show you where you were wrong and instead of reading it you just said more stuff that was wrong. you don't even discuss it - you just throw words like "lib" and "left" around like it answers all questions in the same way people cling to arguments for religion.

i'd just like to finish by saying that i never said americans were stupid, and by assuming i did, it only lends weight to my opinion that you don't read things, you don't pay attention, you are incapable of discussion.

you've made this a very hollow victory perhaps thinker has the stamina to set the record straight

I think that you're right. Read this guy's account:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448717

Here's a guy who is marathon fit, and has trained in the past for free-diving, which is to say, diving as deeply as possible without SCUBA gear.

He waterboarded himself and got MUCH further than Hitchens, but once he got to the stage with the plastic wrap, it was game over, instantly. Unconditional, total surrender.

>> ^Trancecoach:
I wonder if Hitchens exercised regularly, if he'd be better able to manage the experience. That is, if a person is physically fit, would that increase their tolerance of the procedure? Regardless, this practice appears to be powerful enough to break anyone's will, regardless of their stamina or fitness.

I wonder if Hitchens exercised regularly, if he'd be better able to manage the experience. That is, if a person is physically fit, would that increase their tolerance of the procedure? Regardless, this practice appears to be powerful enough to break anyone's will, regardless of their stamina or fitness.

And I'm sure that the information that it produces is highly reliable and always leads the good guys to bring down evildoers.

I've got to say, Kids is a pretty fucked up movie. Something I recommend people to watch only if I know they have the stamina to do so, and at that I don't expect more than one viewing. That said, it's a dark reflection of current trends and has merits for taking the risk to say as much.