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BTGBullseye

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    Huge thumb-sized bug that showed up and crawled into my shirt, making one of the rides EXTREEEEME. Its mandibles were so big I could actually feel them separate from its legs as it checked my skin for delicious salt.

    Okay, thanks for THAT nightmare fuel.

     

    It's just a big, green bug :) Cuteee ^^ It's not a spider! (BLAH!)

     

    Yesterday I saved a caterpillar! :mrgreen:

    Yay for iridescent insects, and caterpillars!

  2. 1529 - Occultist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa publishes Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus ("Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex"), a book pronouncing the theological and moral superiority of women.

  3. Lord Sinister found a copy of my post... Yay!

     

    A thundering roar resounds throughout the land, saying... "THE GREAT AND POWERFUL BTGBULLSEYE WISHES TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE CHARACTER NAME OF 'SPECTRE' AS A 'DWARF ROGUE'."

     

    After a slight pause so everyone could absorb the meaning of the otherworldly words, it continues... "PLEASE PM THE REQUESTER WITH ANY PERTINENT INFORMATION IF YOU WILL."

     

    The land grows eerily quiet for a few moments as everyone wonders what a "PM" is, or why anyone would ever actually want to pretend to be someone else, but then all realize that it really has no bearing on them, so they forget that it happened, and continue as if the voice had never existed.

  4. Is this it? I dug it up from a Google Cache of the "D&D Campaign Thread" thread, page 7, through googling: Accursedfarms D&D thread "BTGBullseye"

     

    A thundering roar resounds throughout the land, saying... "THE GREAT AND POWERFUL BTGBULLSEYE WISHES TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE CHARACTER NAME OF 'SPECTRE' AS A 'DWARF ROGUE'."

     

    After a slight pause so everyone could absorb the meaning of the otherworldly words, it continues... "PLEASE PM THE REQUESTER WITH ANY PERTINENT INFORMATION IF YOU WILL."

     

    The land grows eerily quiet for a few moments as everyone wonders what a "PM" is, or why anyone would ever actually want to pretend to be someone else, but then all realize that it really has no bearing on them, so they forget that it happened, and continue as if the voice had never existed.

     

    Source: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3fVakpgrZ2cJ:www.accursedfarms.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Fp%3D172284%26sid%3D3d966d38d69d8df2bc979fd975b3b88f+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

    YAY!

  5. The appendix is not, as common knowledge would try to have you believe, a useless organ. It is useful in maintaining much of your digestive tract's beneficial bacteria.

     

    So without it, try not to get diarrhea... (and if you do for more than 1 day, see a doctor, or you might not be able to digest the nutrition you need)

  6. I have to say that the original with Ahnuld is still king, but the remake is pretty good in its own right. I think the biggest problem I had with the movie was in the spoilers:

     

     

    "The Fall". The stupid-ass "The Fall". I understand the need for it and how it works, but the physics involved just make my brain explode. Or rather, the LACK of physics. If you had a tunnel that went through the Earth and the core and out the other side, first, the car would have to enter free fall. Almost immediately, the riders inside would experience weightlessness. You couldn't walk around inside the car as it's falling like Quaid/Hauser did. And you wouldn't SUDDENLY experience weightlessness at the core's perimeter. The usage of weightlessness during the climax just had me facepalming. And, once you're on the other side of the core, gravity just doesn't RETURN all at once to have a poor officer falling to his death. Then they open the door at the climax and decide to just climb up the ladder outside. WHAT. In order for the trip to take only 17 minutes, the car would have to be traveling around 28,000 miles per hour, creating a fireball on the outside of the car from the air friction and compression. And a human body couldn't survive unprotected at those speeds. At freefall, it would take over 40 minutes to reach the other side of the Earth, assuming it would even make it considering terminal velocity speeds and such...but they could have booster rockets (though they didn't show that in the movie) to assist getting the car the rest of the way to the surface.

     

    Just...argh! But, then again, the near-vacuum eye bugging-out sequence in the original didn't make any sense either...even if that did happen, you just can't recover from something like that by simply adding air to remove the near vacuum...

     

     

    Ah well, I liked them both. The original edging out over the remake.

     

    I have a response to the spoilers...

     

     

    I agree with your assessment of "The Fall".

     

    In the original however, it wasn't a "near vacuum" scene, it was a "lack of nitrogen". (see The Bends, this is what I heard right from someone who helped write the script) But yes, it isn't something that can be recovered from by simply applying pressure & the right gasses.

     

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