Dannyboy-the-Dane

I may have to donate again just to watch you play Mary-Kate and Ashley: Magic Mystery Mall.

My avatars and signatures for the past couple of years should tell you how much I love the Ace Attorney games. If you haven't played any of them, I highly recommend you play them from the beginning as they're highly, highly story-driven. But what a story; they easily qualify as some of the best-written games I have ever played, and I wouldn't hesitate to put their writing on level with some of my favourite books. By far the strongest aspect of the writing is the characters and their development - it's absolutely phenomenal; most of the characters, even the minor side-ones, have hidden depths to them. Anyway, I'm starting to ramble, which should tell you how much I recommend those games. Mystery solving and courtroom drama have never been so epic! (And the music is amazing as well.)

Maybe you simply haven't tried using a gun been convincing enough!

Be that as it may, I will still force you at gunpoint keep trying to convince you to play Ace Attorney.

Awesome. Now we just need to get you into Ace Attorney so you can download Dual Destinies.

Coffee dates without coffee are the way to go.

Aaaahhhh!!! I love it!

This has to be my favourite series of yours. I find the concept genuinely brilliant. The Für Elise ringtone was a nice touch, and the ending was great as always. Also, I actually disagree with flameboy, I like that the intro is just text, leaving the dad's voice as the centrepiece; also, I love the theme music.

You could say the male offspring of the guy in the blue polo would be a ... *puts on sunglasses* ... son of a gun.

To be honest I find this "build a rapport" thing rather vague; this whole dance around how to approach someone you don't know, walking some imaginary line of not coming on too strong yet not too weak either. I've had bad experiences with that myself in the past, and it seems to me Ike is having the same problem. Why not just be upfront? It doesn't have to be a coffee invitation, you could simply strike up a conversation one day - what matters is that you do something. Don't be pushy, of course - be polite; be forthcoming. Show that you're relaxed about the situation and that you're perfectly okay with a no. I just know that this being careful and hesitant keeps one in a mental state of doubt and uncertainty, often preventing one from ever actually acting. The more I think about it, the more I suspect this whole idea of flirting and sending subtle hints instead of simply being upfront makes dating far more awkward for all parties than it needs to be. Or maybe I'm just terrible at signals and implicit conversation and wish people would just talk to each other instead. Anyway, I claim no expertise on this field; this is simply what I would do. It might be golden advice, it might be bullhonkey - I'm still trying to figure that out myself. But aren't we all?

"Dammit, Paul, that is not the tool of a chimney sweep!"

A lot of technological epiphanies happening in here.

YES. I came in here to post exactly that. I didn't actually have the money for it, but I don't a flying fuck; I can starve EDIT: Whoa, Phoenix-ception going on in this post.

I think you should just try to take the plunge. Say hi to her and ask if she might want to get coffee or something someday (I know, asking girls out for coffee is becoming my modus operandi); it's basically the best way of saying: "Hey, we don't know each other very well, but we've noticed each other; how about we get to know each other a little better and see if anything might come of it?" If she says no, just smile and accept the rejection politely so that she knows there are no hard feelings. Trust me, it feels loads better than the eternal uncertainty; even if she does say no, it'll be so much easier to move on. (Yes, I know I'm still not exactly the right person to give advice on this stuff, but dammit, I think I have at least this part of it right!)

See, it's exactly this sexual morality I've never understood; why do we look down upon the sex trade? Why do we view it as something low and bad? I personally believe we all still suffer greatly under outdated ideas about sex being something morally wrong or at least very taboo; and I believe the problems we do face in the sex trade are a direct result of this sex-negative attitude. We view it as something low, and by treating it as such, we make the reality so. I am very much in agreement with Moogle's and Zech's views on the matter; I believe we can clean up the sex trade and make it safe, regulated and respected, I believe we can turn it into something positive - but in order to do so I believe we need to get rid of our outdated taboos and negative feelings about sex. tl;dr: We need the companion system from Firefly.

Brilliant. Absolutely brillianty. You couldn't make that stuff up.

3:44 got a genuine LOL out of me.

"I want those stoooooocks!" I would come up with a better entry if I had even the slightest grasp of business lingo.

All regenerations except the one between 8 and 9 have been shown on screen, but, as the article points out, under various circumstances. That's the beauty of the Doctor Who canon; it's very flexible. I still stick with the Time War Doctor theory ("8.5" - or maybe just an older 8th Doctor?) based on his clothes.

Ugh, still sick. I think I feel more sick tonight than I have all week, and I thought I was getting better. Christ, every time I blow my nose, it feels as if the pressure in my head is threatening to splode it.

I stumbled upon this and thought of this thread.

Why are modern Spider-Man costums so ridiculously ripped? Yes, he's muscular, but he's lean. He's not a friggin' bodybuilder.

I find that NotAlwaysRomantic often puts a goofy smile on my face and fuzzy feelings in my heart. (My romantic life is lived vicariously. #foreveralone)

Happy birthday, Daft!

The headaches and the drinking, do you think those those are the results of (some of) the other bad stuff?