The Bard

Wooooah, it'll be like Aether and Dark Aether!! Awesome!

Always tell the truth, otherwise it will truly come and bite you in the ass...unfortunately, this would negate a load of the so called rules you guys have posted.

Hero more than deserves it. Good job dude! I don't know the other(s) at all, so no comment.

I always write in Dark Red. Does that make me special? Guess not. My specialty is getting rat arsed on the steps in picadilly gardens and pissing off my mates, so they have to carry me to the bus, even though they love me really. Don't they? I Suppose you can call my the Alcohol Nerd.

I actually like them, quite a lot, seeing as I got in on them before they released their second album and the hype machine kicked in, and that these days is a pretty suicidal thing to say on a metal forum, but yeah, It's kinda become the cool thing among metalheads to hate popular bands/ bands that get any kind of recognition in Kerrang/ Metal Hammer etc. Detonation was certainly a very odd song, I don't like the opening riff to be honest, but the rest was quite good. The solo was rippin, it's been a long time since I've heard an american band shred like that. The thing is though, Heafy is no Hetfield, his voice just lacks that undistorted aggression that you see in hetfield in sonds like Harvester, Blackened or Battery, but it's at least an interesting choice, and I suppose I like it better than the screaming. As for Corey, he is quite honestly one of the most talented young guitarists I've ever come across, and I hope it shows in this album. I wish them luck.

I am a Chrono Trigger nerd, as almost everyone already knows. I am also a huuuuge music nerd, music of any kind is enough to get me ranting and raving for hours on end.

Games have always been scarier than films. No film has ever scared me, but REmake (and most other GC RE's) scared the hell out of me, as did Silent Hill 2 etc.

MK has always sucked, and I expect this'll be no different. Bring on Street Fighter, Soul Calibur and Tekken!

This is fucking shit. If it comes out on PS3 then that'll give me a cast iron reason to get one. Damnit, damnit all to hell.

Doak...WTF? Wasn't there a Doak in Perfect Dark?

Yeah, I suppose that could be true, but if it is, I hope they build on what was there on gunz, like more customisation, more weapons, moves, levelling up etc. Yeah, that would be cool.

Holy shit. Which ones you?

That depends on how long or short you've cut the string, you should cut it about 6 inches past its tuning key so you have enough length. It would take abou 10-15 turns I suppose, depends. Also, you should buy a digital tuner so that you know exactly what to tune it to, but anyway, don't worry, even if you overtighten it, your strings will be able to take it. I always buy either Ernie Ball or Rotosound though, so I don't have any experience outside that. Also: I'll post pics tomoz!

^ That Sucks. Fact.

No, It won't be more difficult or anything, it'll just put a lot of strain on your wrist and is likely to give you tendonitis thats all. Also: I am over the moon, my new Dv8-r arrived today and it plays like a dream! I'll take photos later!

Whaaat? I't broke just after that? That's some pissweak strings you got there, which ones did you buy? I'd always go for the rotosounds. Anyway, check it again, are you sure it's broken or did it just come off the coil real hard?

I want to believe it, believe me I do, but I just can't. Firstly, the heart could not work on pressure alone, it is impossible. You realise that that the amount of cardiovascular muscle alone required to push the blood around the body would be insustainable due to the amound of oxygen it itself would require? So that is out of the question. You are dodging the question of fossils, (you really think I don't know that amoeba don't have a skeleton?) There are no fossils, which is the biggest flaw of them all, and you really can't dismiss it, because it alone is the biggest reason why this theory is not sound. The many millions of transition phases there must have been, the many that must have failed, where is the evidence? Especially seeing as we have uncovered many fossils of Dinosaurs. Does it not trouble you, that on current evidence, for evolution to have occured, species must have instantaneously spawned entire organ systems?? You speak of organs not having to evolve simultaneously, how is that so? The organ systems all depend on each other, for fucks sake, The liver removes toxins, the kidneys reabsorb water etc, it would be ineffective any other way. C'mon, you see people in hospital everyday because their liver is unable to store glycogen, or produce enough insulin etc, which are very small and intricate things, you're telling me that if we can't survive without these small functions, that we can do so without full organ systems?? I call bullshit. Also: "the current balance could have evolved after they were all present." Could it? Could it really? And what are the chances that that is the case? And why would (if that were, by some freak of nature, the case), they evolve to be in that condition in the first place? Seeing as natural selection dictates that the fittest specimen survives, well I find it hard to hee how an organism with incomplete, uncooperative organ systems would be in any better position to reproduce than the average asshole. Well, it seems now that by citing natural selection you voided your own argument. Aaaand that leads me to my next point, how the hell did the Reproductive system evolve? Seeing as Amoeba reproduce asexually, this seems a bit of an odd development. Oh wait a second, it seems that we need to reproduce to survive, and funnily enough, the brain releases endorphins when we do have sex, no how could that be a coincidence? To make a task that we need to do in order to survive, enjoyable?? Seems wierd to me. Then there is: "part of an organ is a lot better than no organ" no shit, but part of an organ is still unable to sustain a living creature of proportional size to the organs to fully function. Sure it could go ahead and not move, ever, and eat, breathe and relieve itself through a tube of some kind, but that kind of state hardly lends itself to reproduction now does it?...and for it to occur for so many species, well it's a ridiculous notion that it's possible, not to mention, scientifically unsound. I think millions of years of random change would be comparible to a few years of intense experimenting and analysing don't you, besides, Kevlar mimics exactly the structure of the keratin that makes up spider webs but it still isn't quite as proportionally stong? I don't know, but it just doesn't add up. I'm not saying that I believe in god, man even if he was there, I'd not believe in him just to spite the fucker, but you can't deny the evidence. Anyway, heres to you for being able to put up a cracking argument, can honestly say it's the first decent conversation I've had at R-E (I kid, I kid, Don't you point those pitchforks at me...)

Seeing as Snes = The Best console of all time, there really is far too much to choose from. Buuuuut, the obvious first place is without a shadow of a doubt: 1. Chrono Trigger (Undoubtedly mankinds greatest moment in history) 2. Street Fighter 2 Turbo 3. Super Metroid 4. Contra 3 5. Final Fantasy 6 6. Super Mario World 7. Castlevania IV 8. Super Mario Allstars 9. Final Fantasy 4 10. Speedball 2.

Yeah, MOHAA was great online. Shame they can't make something similar for Consoles

Glad I could help :wink: Yooo, how does the Esp play then? My mate has the M-50 which he found for £95 at a garage sale funnily enough. Maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, pretty nice combo, what pickups it got? My Esp Dv8-r's arriving tomoz, good thing I didn't buy it myself , costs a fortune.

I should have made myself more clear. I meant evolution on the scale on which Darwin thought it happened. I mean, fair enough, Horses adapt to different typed of land with different sorts of hooved etc, and there are fossils to prove this also...(Also, to Supergrunch, yeah, I read the origin of species about a year and a half ago, albeit not all at once, a bit fragmentedly, but I understood it all, and I know that there are gaping holes in the theory, so much so, that scientists are now starting to abandon it). There is absolutely no way that an amoeba can evolve into something with complex organ systems such as mammals, birds, reptiles etc. For example, we humans, have semilunar valves in our hearts, and valves in our veins that prevent the backwards flow of blood. If these weren't there then we wouldn't be able to survive, as our blood wouldn't circulate. Now you can't tell me that, the heart, the liver, intestines, kidneys, veins, arteries, the brain, all simultaneously managed to evolve instantaneously? Because none of those components can work on their own. How is that possible?? How do birds have such an intricate aerofoil structure to their wings so they can increase in altitude without having to flap their wings? How is it that spiderwebs are structually stronger than Kevlar (the strongest man made material there is, and is used in bullet proof vests). And the biggest hole in the theory of them all: If there were transitions in between species, such as winged mammals that eventually evolved into birds, or basic lifeforms from amoeba, then why the fuck aren't there any excavated skeletons and fossils to prove this? There should be thousands upon thousands of these, yet, not a single one has been found, surprising, considering the fact that such a huge amount of dinosaur fossils have been excavated, dinosaurs, which lived before the existance of animals that even neared human sentience. The only remotely plausible evidence of evolution is bacteria that change by sheer fluke so that they are invulnerable to antibiotics etc. But this doesn't even near the absurd scale on which that Darwin joker was thinking. But I don't care either way, If there is a sentient creator, it can go fuck itself, I don't give a shit, because, firstly, it would be responsible for all human suffering (of which there is a lot more than human joy) and secondly, If he IS powerful enough to create the universe and us, then why does the egotistical fucker need our worship? And, why should he ban us from doing certain things, like having sex (and even in some religions looking at a member of the opposite sex), or drinking, or so many other things? How is us not doing these things going to help him? How is it going to help us? It isn't. All it's going to do is make us more miserable. Religion to me was just something set up to control the masses, and it's gotten way out of hand. And here's my obligatory, angsty "FUCK THE WORLDQ!!!!!!11!!!THREE!!."

Happy bday big guy, I still haven't forgotten the time you absolutely whupped my ass on Mario Kart :heh;. Have a goodun.

No, I don't there's any way he was insane, I think he was just a man and his will to do whatever he wants, he didn't want to stay at the work farm and he refused to do what people said he should, so they had him declared insane. His character was just the traditional virile male, who loves booze, gambling women and baseball. He was there as a contrast to what Kesey was believing was happening to America, or what the "combine" was turning it into, they were making everyone conform, so that they were no different from each other, and the Nurse was just a cleric of this organisation (that's the chief's metaphor for it anyway). You see this in the chapter where the chief's talking about all the homes and how they're identical, and that if a child from somewhere else went to the wrong house, no one would notice (which I suppose is exaggerating it a bit ). Anyway, McMurphy also kind of struck me as a sort of Christ figure aswell, he came to the institute and helped all these loons find their manhood, helps them to realise these masculine values, but at the same time, it drains him, and because of his will to help them, he dies for it. Still, it may be me reading too much into it I suppose, but McMurphy never did strike me as a nutter. I saw a production of All My Sons by Arthur Miller, and I suppose it was challenging American values, but I found it a bit dull, it wasn't much fun at all. Also read the view from the bridge, which I think would have been better onstage.

Gruber, like as in Hans Gruber?? Eeenteresting. Also: I've sent off the cheque for Shenmue today, soz it took so damn long, it's just that I'm so very lazy.

If it's a normal electric without a floyd rose bridge then it's simple, there is a hole in the bridge right, where the string came through. Now take a look at the spare string you bought, theres is a ball connected to one end right? Well this is the part that's still stuck inside your bridge, so get something long and thin, like a piece of wire, or even the part of the string thats broken off, and push it down the hole, and the rest of the string should come out of the opening at the back of your guitar. You then thread the new string through the hole, the side without the ball first, and thread it over the nut and through the tuning keys. Then tighten it until it's kinda in tune. After this, give your string a good tug, pretty damn hard to stretch it (don't worry, it won't break) and tighten it until its in tune. Also, I'm going to go ahead and say this: Telecasters are the worst guitars on the planet, and may actually be the spawn of Satan himself, of course, seeing as it's a guitar, that may actually be a good thing, so you can feel free to ignore my second point.