>> ^deathcow:

Try using HCG... OMG does that work.... I mean, its positively surreal. My parents, overweight for 20 years, just deflated to normal size. You lose a pound a day I think.
Personally, I like the eat right and exercise idea. However... I have seen enough HCG results to know that after I do another round of eating right and exercising, and my abs STILL dont show... I am going to do a round of HCG to shrinkwrap myself.


Yes. Everyone should consume the urine of pregnant women.

No really, Google it.

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Side effects? Do you shit bacon grease like that other stuff?>> ^deathcow:

Try using HCG... OMG does that work.... I mean, its positively surreal. My parents, overweight for 20 years, just deflated to normal size. You lose a pound a day I think.
Personally, I like the eat right and exercise idea. However... I have seen enough HCG results to know that after I do another round of eating right and exercising, and my abs STILL dont show... I am going to do a round of HCG to shrinkwrap myself.

>> ^deathcow:

Try using HCG... OMG does that work.... I mean, its positively surreal. My parents, overweight for 20 years, just deflated to normal size. You lose a pound a day I think.
Personally, I like the eat right and exercise idea. However... I have seen enough HCG results to know that after I do another round of eating right and exercising, and my abs STILL dont show... I am going to do a round of HCG to shrinkwrap myself.


Hasn't HGH been shown to increase the growth rate of preexisting tumors?

Nevermind, I misread.

Try using HCG... OMG does that work.... I mean, its positively surreal. My parents, overweight for 20 years, just deflated to normal size. You lose a pound a day I think.

Personally, I like the eat right and exercise idea. However... I have seen enough HCG results to know that after I do another round of eating right and exercising, and my abs STILL dont show... I am going to do a round of HCG to shrinkwrap myself.

been sailin' thru these seas of surreality since I was 13 [september 11].

Hopin' to come down from this bad trip some time soon.. = /

>> ^AnimalsForCrackers:

>> ^deathcow:
How have shooters not evolved? if they haven't... can they?? I don't feel like I am playing the same game at all. I am in a giant open terrain in vehicles armed to the tooth, or I dive out and go on foot sniping from the bushes, or I plant C4 bombs and hide in the bushes waiting... or I dive off a wall and stab someone below. Quake-1 was an utterly different experience. It is evolving into very real situations from the surreal cartoon world.

The multiplayer FPS has certainly evolved since Quake. No dispute there. My contention is that they STOPPED evolving and have hit what I call an "innovation plateau" circa 1999. No major strides have been made since then, just the refinement/streamlining (which much of the time amounts to down-sizing) of already existing mechanics/capabilities (which isn't necessarily a bad thing in of itself, as games like TF2 prove).
Starsiege: Tribes was doing futuristic class-based gameplay with 128-256 player matches in huge, wide-open expanses with a full suite of vehicles and commander/command station/team bases and defense structures (which all rely on an energy source that must be defended to function) and a variety of player role customization options in 1999! Where are the successors who would take the core of this legacy and expand upon it? I don't doubt it'll happen eventually but damn, I'd have never guessed it'd have taken this long if asked at the turn of the century.
Had Tribes set the world on fire sales-wise I'm guessing the landscape of the MP FPS would look very different today. Instead it serves as another example to publishers that innovation on that scale, as incredible a game it may produce, simply isn't worth the risk.


would have a hard time arguing against that

maybe that upcoming star wars whatever the hell it is will innovate

>> ^deathcow:

How have shooters not evolved? if they haven't... can they?? I don't feel like I am playing the same game at all. I am in a giant open terrain in vehicles armed to the tooth, or I dive out and go on foot sniping from the bushes, or I plant C4 bombs and hide in the bushes waiting... or I dive off a wall and stab someone below. Quake-1 was an utterly different experience. It is evolving into very real situations from the surreal cartoon world.


The multiplayer FPS has certainly evolved since Quake. No dispute there. My contention is that they STOPPED evolving and have hit what I call an "innovation plateau" circa 1999. No major strides have been made since then, just the refinement/streamlining (which much of the time amounts to down-sizing) of already existing mechanics/capabilities (which isn't necessarily a bad thing in of itself, as games like TF2 prove).

Starsiege: Tribes was doing futuristic class-based gameplay with 128-256 player matches in huge, wide-open expanses with a full suite of vehicles and commander/command station/team bases/sensor arrays and defense structures (which all rely on an energy source that must be defended to function) and a variety of player role customization options in 1999! Where are the successors who would take the core of this legacy and expand upon it? I don't doubt it'll happen eventually but damn, I'd have never guessed it'd have taken this long if asked at the turn of the century.

Had Tribes set the world on fire sales-wise I'm guessing the landscape of the MP FPS would look very different today. Instead it serves as another example to publishers that innovation on that scale, as incredible a game it may produce, simply isn't worth the risk.

Thanks man!.... out of curiosity what is your profile pic? I've been looking at it as a surreal guy in the rain.
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Thank you very much!

Allow me to take this opportunity to add how much I like your profile pic! ;

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*promote

>> ^deathcow:

How have shooters not evolved? if they haven't... can they?? I don't feel like I am playing the same game at all. I am in a giant open terrain in vehicles armed to the tooth, or I dive out and go on foot sniping from the bushes, or I plant C4 bombs and hide in the bushes waiting... or I dive off a wall and stab someone below. Quake-1 was an utterly different experience. It is evolving into very real situations from the surreal cartoon world.

Correct! Battlefield 3 is the answer.

How have shooters not evolved? if they haven't... can they?? I don't feel like I am playing the same game at all. I am in a giant open terrain in vehicles armed to the tooth, or I dive out and go on foot sniping from the bushes, or I plant C4 bombs and hide in the bushes waiting... or I dive off a wall and stab someone below. Quake-1 was an utterly different experience. It is evolving into very real situations from the surreal cartoon world.

Surreal. Melting clock sh1t.

Or in this case, melting cuffs.

If you cook them in oil, then remove them from the pan before putting in your onion and other ingredients, they should give a bit of a kick to a dish without making it completely inedibly hot (with normal dried chillies you need to put two or three, and cook them for a few minutes to get a really mild chilli effect, so start with a smallish one and a shorter duration).
>> ^Fletch:

This video got kinda surreal.
I've got a bag of these (www.myspicesage.com). I don't really care for spicy (hot) food and certainly don't understand the whole hot pepper pain machismo thing. I ordered them on a goof and tried just one small flake (they're dried) on my tongue. That was plenty to sate my curiosity forever, and now they've been sitting in a cupboard in their ziplock bag for over a year. I've given some to friends who wanted to try them in food, but other than that, it's not exactly an item you (read:I) could go through a lot of quickly.

This video got kinda surreal.

I've got a bag of these (www.myspicesage.com). I don't really care for spicy (hot) food and certainly don't understand the whole hot pepper pain machismo thing. I ordered them on a goof and tried just one small flake (they're dried) on my tongue. That was plenty to sate my curiosity forever, and now they've been sitting in a cupboard in their ziplock bag for over a year. I've given some to friends who wanted to try them in food, but other than that, it's not exactly an item you (read:I) could go through a lot of quickly.

@NetRunner "In other words, life isn't fair."

Right, that's what I'm arguing. But if Herman Cain was trained to think along the lines of your comment, he'd still be like all the kids he played with growing up: poor, uneducated, and blaming other people and refusing to adopt basic success strategies. Give poor disadvantaged people a break... encourage them to become success-oriented. The first step would be sincerely reading many business books.


On genes, I'm confused... is liberalism arguing that genetics substantially influence diversity in economic outcomes even to the point of diversity in the evolutionary history of ethnic groups, or is liberalism arguing what most liberal academics argue: we don't care if it's true and we'll break your faith in academia and liberal intellectualism by calling you the worst names in the language.

Anyway, hyper-sensitivity around the study of genetics is misplaced... genes make people's default temperament dislike reading and instead like time spent on dumb stuff. However, our mind/personality can be changed, and if we want to become a high human potential person, we can expect to have to develop and fine-tune our mind/personality in many areas, rather than relying on the arbitrary identity and habits we were born with.


One of the steps along that path is to look at people who defy the odds, and praise the personal innovations that made that possible. I personally took notes on descriptions of Cain's methods that produced his career successes. Liberal disdain for Herman Cain is surreal.

1:20 "Don't mind me, just a local coming through." Surreal.