Sheikah

I bought FFVI advance as soon as it came out in the US, got it for something like 11 quid on http://www.videogamesplus.ca. Brilliant site, even if the delivery is a little slow. Edit: appears to be 22 quid or so now but still should be in stock: link

Nintendo have basically manufactured this system to **** the customer over. They are just hoping that a combination of "limited amounts" of digital points, expiry dates and the fact that expiring stars get used up last means that they have to give away less games so people have to buy them theirself, since they most probably won't get all the Wii points this way.

The one you bought last month? You're not some evil eBayer are you?

I just bought 2 lots of 100 points cards. But what the hell can you do with 200 points? Silly Nintendo.

I remember when I was in the Vault areas and Montblanc got killed permanently...I was gutted. Forced me to turn off that did.

The Sainsbury's ad is like the song with all the life sucked out of it. No lyrics and basically just the initial slow repeating part that immediately errupts into the good part only at the very end and feels very forced. The real song is much better.

Home Alone 1/2 plus the Snowman for me.

Circumcision when you're older really isn't a good idea...when you're a baby apparently it doesn't pose any implications but adult circumcision is more complicated and needs more healing. Besides that, why on Earth would anyone want make the concious decision for someone to cut away at their cock??

I urge anyone to listen to "Light and Day/Reach for the Sun" by the Polyphonic spree. I love this song, really cheery. Plus it's in Scrubs.

OK everyone stop with this grammar facism, as lng as no1 is tlkin lyk dis den dats k!

For a grammar policeman, you suck.

How the hell do the circumcised wank? Does it not feel strange directly grabbing or rubbing along the head?

Yeh I bought the boxset on Amazon for something like 12 quid a few months back and Serenity for maybe £3...both new. Bargain!

Apart from it telling you the world is here because of a floating head.

With that one example, I doubt much today if you go to Japan you'd find people willing to do that, and it would surprise me if back in WWII that Japan had already become secular ahead of pretty much the rest of the world. Also the number of people doing this for the sake of a god is far higher than people doing it for anyone else, so I definitely wouldn't say his point 'shines through'. I'm not saying there wouldn't be war without religion, but there would be less pointless war (people fighting because they think some mythical being disapproves of something). Moreover, many wars don't really actually affect me, but it seems extremists acting in the name of 'god' will actually bring their argument to people who have nothing to do with any war which is particularly disgusting. Put it like this, it would take something very special for Muslim extremists to blow up the twin towers had they been brought up in a secular household and had no influence/little to sway them in the way of God. They may be radicals and not reflective of Islam, but Islam is still the building block and without it they couldn't have become extremists. Humans would still fight? Let them. At least with religion gone it would be one less thing to fight about, and any future fights probably wouldn't be randomly directed against innocent people doing nothing more than working in their job or travelling on the tube, rather directed at whatever country they have a problem with, like the good old days.

Unfortunately with such things like the Bible, probably the Koran too...the fact that it cannot be taken too literally means you get people taking home 'their own message' from the texts, which is no doubt what extremists have done. That, and adding their own spin to it. I'm not saying the creator's of religions intended for such views to be held, but at the heart of extremists views is the very thought that they are acting under the name of 'god'. My point? I just think that atheist extremist bombers would be hard to come by since it really does appear that the only way someone would do something so absolutely mental as explode themselves is if they truly believed this would guarantee them a place in 'paradise'. But really most of my dislike for religion is just that it's believed even though most of it is nonsenscial, and would you find anything else in life so contrived you'd deem it to be merely a 'story' or a work of fiction. Something to think about. : peace:

One of those people whose name most people have heard, but frankly most people don't really know/couldn't care less about. :p

What is there to understand other than it is a collection of, mostly, stories? You read through so much of it and it's full of things that could not happen, ever. An old man building an arc and putting 2 of every animal in? Just no. I don't for the life of me understand how anyone can believe in a religion when common sense and the fact that most things in there cannot be reproduced, nor are any of the 'supernatural' or magical happenings ever proven. Religion is a very dangerous thing. Religions are pretty much cults and really are an excellent 'controlling device'. In the past they served their purpose; the king/queen was divine (conveniant for keeping people under control), and really there wasn't any other explanation for the way things were. Ignorance was rife, so too was religion. It just happens that religions were conjured thousands of years ago, instead of the cults invented more recently, and they're more popular. This somehow makes them untouchable and allows people to go absolutely nuts under the name of these cults. Sorry if this offends anyone. But if people can declare so strongly their beliefs of god (not just in the teddy bear situation in general, but in all wakes of life) then I feel I am equally allowed to declare so storngly how I think it's all bollocks. One big (and perhaps over-optimistic) wish for the future I have is that religion has dwindled massively, as it really does seem to be the root of many arguments. I know people say this is human nature, but I myself go throughout life day in day out in a society where people do not declare war on each other. It would be lovely if that's all people did to each other throughout the world in the future.

I tend to prefer anime. One Piece for example - the anime is so much better. The voice and mannerisms of Luffy are sorely missed in the manga, as well as the music and generally just the voice acting of everyone. Fillerish recaps did do my head in somewhat, but overall I tend to enjoy anime a lot more. Like someone said though, Berserk manga is more graphic and covers 10 times the amount of the anime (well, just a guess) and really feels so much different, mostly due to the anime not focusing so much on demons as that's the only period in the story when they're not that common. It's more about the character development in that chunk of the story.

Mohammed Ali Hamadei- A terrorist implicated in taking many people's lives. No outrage over him being called Mohammed and doing such deeds. Teddy bear named Muhammed - woman only slightly involved is requested to be killed. All religions are absolute nonsense.

Yes but the question is why is it so important that humans are cured at the expense of animals dying? Bear in mind that as a scientist I know, far far more animals are killed than humans saved each year through direct action of drugs that were tested on animals for humans (this year). The payoff doesn't cut it. Mikey sounds like an arrogant ****, the kind that you'd sock in real life if you saw him. He has gone one step further than simply stating his agreement of testing for human benefits, by actually ripping into animals and acting superior. Those kind of people are scum and deserve no right to live. Animals being tested on is completely wrong. Micro-organisms for the most part can be used for a wide varitety of stuff, and honestly it just isn't right to claim that you can allow one life to live at the expense of 200 mice. I mean, I hear in experiments how they do things such as experimentally ablate mice Bone Marrow and re-engraft with human stem cells - many mice don't live and simply are starved to death of blood. Then let's not get started on mice that have tumours actually injected into them to determine signalling pathways. Original Poster in this topic was shown a load of BS on that video; in actual fact animal testing is far worse. In truth, there is no justification for saving humans while killing animals. People quite honestly couldn't care about saving each other as they don't know each other, yet suddenly everyone expects someone else to cure them. Sad state of affairs.

Award for most ridiculous thing to do with it? I'd use it for very, very bad things. Things I wouldn't be proud of.

Backfired in sales, but in games it definitely won it for me.

Actually you could use it to commit crimes. There was an episode where another kid had a watch too and was pausing time, putting someone outside a high storey building, unpausing time and watching them scream until they nearly hit the floor then pausing again and putting them back indoors. Made no sense regarding physics, but the kid could do what he wanted because apparently the excuse was "once you get given a watch it is yours".

Stopping time doesn't seem to affect Peter though. Peter has a lot more at his disposal really. He could just go invisible and Hiro wouldn't really know what to do. I thought the ending was ridiculous, seeing as Hiro even admitted his intention was to go stop them getting the virus, yet gives the excuse 'he killed my father'. Also given he knew Peter was a good guy really, you'd think he'd explain to him the situation rather than gutlessly charge at him. I think the delivery of the fake ashes scene to claire was frankly ridiculous. Would you allow the guy who hired someone who killed your father to walk out? And would you barely even question the fact they cremated him due to some wishes they said he had (this coming from someone you can't trust a word of). Sometimes the plot is absolute bollocks.