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  1. lermanet.com xenu.net enturbulation.org whyaretheydead.net
  2. This is way beyond anonymous now. I'll be at the Edinburgh protest on the 10th with some friends. At orlando yesterday there were 50 people protesting, at other larger scale protests 100 have signed up and there's still a week to go.
  3. Seconding the "film paid off" argument. I felt pretty satisfied, we have to assume that the nuke went off and that did the job, although it does beg the question of how the camera footage was recovered, considering the area would be radioactive and I doubt that it would have survived. At the end of the film there was a short round of applause.
  4. I loved the film and would give it a 8 or a 9. I went in knowing the following: It was in new york Set in a party to start Basic idea of what the monster looked like That it had minions(forgot this) The camera etc. The movie was extremely intense, you couldn't relax at all watching it. Which was fine by me but i could see why it might not be great for any occasion, it didn't help that I was pretty close to the front. Cinema was packed btw, not many people left. I thought the acting was top notch as well actually, the whole thing was pretty realistic (apart from the whole monster thing). But this is definitely what it would have been like to experience it if you were there, a sudden attack like this you wouldn't just get all the facts immediately. I liked how the story was drip fed to us, there was the right amount of details for the watcher to make his own opinion of what was going on. By the way, most of my friends missed this but at the very end where you see the scene on the ferris wheel, at the very last second you can see something crashing into the sea. (So we can assume it came from space). So yeah, I liked it. I went with 8 friends, and all but one liked it. (the one who didn't came in expecting to hate it because of the scotsman review, he's stubborn like that).
  5. Sounds like you may need to buy a new hard drive soon.
  6. Yeah i'd agree with that. I think I had an ergo proxy avatar and signature for a while. It has a cool universe but I don't think the proxy's were ever explained very well. Liru, Lil(many variations to this name) is a bitch, Vincent is some useless emo fag who doesn't know anything but the rest of the universe is cool.
  7. EDIT: Here's my updated story, please read this before reading my replies to your comments at the bottom. The next stop is Croy” “We can’t stop here, this is bat country” I joke to myself and continue to read Fear and Loathing. “This is Croy” Well at least it’s only a few stops now, civilization, that is. The train jerks and continues on its journey. “The next stop is Croy” Fucking trains, what are we spending on them these days? “This is Croy” I throw my book onto the table and watch the doors open for nobody. The sign outside says Croy. I guess the last stop was Brookbriggs. God what a shithole. Croy can just be seen in the final stages of dusk, I can faintly make out council houses and some bare trees. An old park with rusted swings centers the city, with no kids in sight. Smog clouds over the faintly lit pubs. The doors close and the train accelerates again. I lean on my elbow and stare out into the city, uninviting lights begin to flicker on in the streets mixing grimly with the deteriorating houses and toppled bins. “The next stop is Croy” I roll my eyes and laugh. Mountains roll by now, the peaks do at least, highlighted by whatever light dares to venture over. The train grinds to a stop. Outside a sign reads Croy. The doors roll open. “This is Croy” Well fuck me. I must be half asleep. I turn over in my seat and lean my head back, I move my rucksack down onto the floor. The train gets on its way. A faint chuckle escapes my lips; At this rate I’ll never get home. A woman enters the cabin and sits by the doors. I estimate she’s 30 years old, good figure. Clearly returning from work; she’s dressed formally. I shout out to her, if your stop is Croy I think you just missed it. I smile but she doesn’t turn round. Fine then. “The next stop is Croy” I freeze, god, she must think I’m and idiot. The woman gets ready to leave. “This is Croy” The doors slide open and she steps out, her suitcase smacks the ground and she pulls it down the platform, she walks elegantly. I watch dumbly as the doors seal shut and the train advances. I lose sight of the platform and still staring in her direction I hear sudden piercing screams. I slam my face against the window and flinch at the pain, pointless, the station is already out of sight. I rub my cheek. “The next stop is Croy” I already know this from the screams increasing in volume. “This is Croy” The doors open and amplify the noise. I scramble over my seat and to help and trip over my rucksack. My forehead meets the opposite table with a satisfying thump. As I re-align for the floor I thought about how comical this must be for God. The thin, coarse carpet provided a moment of rest. Blood rippled down my face, creating a nice imprint on the carpet. My legacy would go down on for decades in this ridiculous route because of this stupid city. The screams overwhelmed my head again. My legs shook violently as I got up, I forced them into my submission again. I limped up to the doors again, pitilessly closing in front of me. Palms resting against the door and breathing heavily, I watch the woman violated by three men roll by. I surrender to my seat. Looking in my bag I pull out a damp towel which cleans off most of my face. The towel was white, now it can be used in bull fights. I throw it against the window, it bounces and lumps on the table. Not my problem now. “The next stop is Larbert” Fuck this. Larbert isn’t the be all and end all of places to live but I’ll take it. Blood trickles into my eyes again, so I grab a shirt from my rucksack and wrap it round my head like some sort of martial art master. I wish. The rucksack weighs me down. The wall stops me from falling. No screaming. Good sign. The station rolls into view. The coast is clear. I’m out of the train before the doors finish opening. “This is Croy” The doors shut. Yeah, that's definitely a problem. I'm probably going to flesh this out now and post an updated version. I'll give him a story. The whole reason I wrote this story was because on the train back from the EITS gig the voice said "The next stop is Croy" twice, and then I joked with my friend about being stuck in a loop where the only destination is croy. I've never been to Croy or know anything about it but the name gives me connotations of a pretty low class, gritty place. A theme that I started to develop was that Croy was a haunted place (like room 1408) and that it had him trapped but in the end it turns out that it was the train that was torturing him (by tricking him at the end). That's the main reason I didn't want to involve hallucinations or anything, I wanted this to be a real event for him. Which by the way, it isn't. The woman doesn't exist and the ending is actually positive because he gets out of the train but he doesn't really know it yet. FAKE EDIT: That's not very well set out, let's try again. The character thinks that croy is the evil place (which I show by his hate for it) but it turns out the train is actually the one holding him hostage (revealed by tricking him at the end) so the ending is positive because he ends up in troy and outside of the spooky train. I don't know if it shows at all but Palahniuk is a big influence for me and I tried to use his style in this story. I think in the end what I did was mix it with a more traditional style of story telling that didn't work so well. Yeah, I think this is a good plan. At the start of the story the pace moves pretty quickly due to the repetition and starting the train pretty quickly. I think i'll insert some description of croy which seem to make it more eerie and villain like. Good idea, i'll do this. I agree and I thought about talking to her but his problem was that he doesn't know how to approach her about this haunted station and in reality if he had tried speaking to her she would have ignored him (see above), which now that i think about it would have a pretty good effect. Not at all, I really appreciate it infact. I'm not a man who writes frequently, it's nice that someone is criticizing my work when I finally do. Usually i just think about it in my head until I forget.
  8. I already owned their other album and the rescue ep. :p
  9. Hey guys lets write more essays trying to justify the stupidity in shounen series. I personally don't think ergo proxy is worth watching unless you're willing to take notes and write your own thesis on the metaphors and themes of the series, and this is from a person who usually has a pretty good grasp of storylines.
  10. Yesterday I saw Explosions in the Sky live and then I bought 3 of their albums and a shirt so now I have a complete collection. And it was really good, blew me away.
  11. This is a short story I wrote on the train today. It really isn't very long and rough in a couple of parts so please critique. Thanks.
  12. The line between a right sided political view and picketing funerals as a form of protest with vulgar hate speech is not fine.
  13. I accept your challenge!
  14. Wow, What a monumentally stupid thing for a teacher to do, not something I would complain about unless it happened regularly. Let me tell you about myself, I have no friends except for on WoW and my facebook is full of WoW avatars I plan to move out of my...
  15. I'm not going to run small drives in a fileserver, the extra cost alone would probably be equivilent to 20 years of powering the fileserver! Not to mention the much smaller capacities, besides, I already have the drives I'll be using. I have 6 500GB's sitting in my case now and another 2 lying around. :-/ These celerons have an idles power draw of 25W (compared to 80 for a P4) so that shouldn't really be an issue.
  16. Talk to the head of department. My school had a terrible english teacher, they talked to the head of department and made a little petition and he left at the end of the semester. I felt bad for him but if you're a bad teacher than you deserve it.
  17. No, it's the prequel and in the same universe, This game in all likelyhood will have different gameplay from the others, but as it's the third in the same universe, it has the codename "ICO 3". SOTC is better than any zelda in my opinion.
  18. (ripped from neogaf) Super hyped, even at this unexciting shot. SOTC is my second or third favorite game of all time so yeah, hoping this comes out in 2009(or sooner!).
  19. Yeah, fair enough. Is 1GB going to be enough RAM wise?
  20. This celeron is appartantly equivalent to a 3Ghz Pentium 4, so I thought it would be dece.
  21. Ah, perfect! At the moment I had this Lian Li thing which did 4 5.25 to 3 3.5" but this is better and vastly cheaper. This is what I have now then: Case: NZXT Alpha £45 nep HD Mount: 4x 5.25 converters £2.50 span PSU: Seasonic 500W Modular M12 £80 ebuyer Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P £74 ebuyer CPU: Intel Celeron 440 2Ghz £20 ocuk RAM: 1GB A-Data £15 nep Total: £236 nep= local store The other things I already own, and can swap in briefly. http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=3G12 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/108604
  22. Well I installed my 6th hard drive today and even with this SATA raid extension i'm all out of space so I think it would be a good time to outsource this to a server, make it easier to share too. So I'm going to build a fileserver but I haven't really been keeping up lately and I need some advice on the best components and to do this cheaply. So, any suggestions? Also I hate RAID and want to avoid it wherever possible. OK after doing some searching of my own I believe this case will serve me well: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-071-AN&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=160 6 Hard drive spaces, and I can probably put an adapter for more, no need to buy a seperate PSU either. Good for now. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-085-GI http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-187-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=554 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-030-GL&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=144 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-090-SA&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=185 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-123-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=257 Ok so those are the components I picked out. A couple of questions. Any problems? Is a celeron going to be too slow for full speed transfers (I also want to stream 1080p content, huge 8GB files)? Any benefit of Windows Home Server than just stuffing maybe a light version of XP?
  23. Western Digitals and Samsungs are quieter than Seagates if that's an issue for you.
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