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I know it's sadistic and it probably reveals more of my inherent misanthropy than I should care to admit, but I love hearing stories or seeing videos of people getting into trouble with animals due to their own stupidity. Those TV programs titled "World's Worst Animal Attacks!" ought to be renamed "World's Least Deserving Recipients Of The Gift Of Life".

True, but ten year old me never thought of that... ;p

Is this going to be uploaded to Youtube like the others? Or did the crash you've all mentioned scupper the videochat entirely?

This thread is for anything amazing you've come across. This could relates to anything from natural wonders, space exploration, scientific and historical discoveries, artistic and cultural endeavour, etc that you've learned that can't fail to rouse your spirits, humble you or otherwise simply astound you. Basically, if you have any awesome stories or facts (preferably with pictures) feel free to unload them here. I won't pretend to understand all the terminology, but being the starry-eyed exobiology/exoplanetary nerd I am I can't wondering what on earth life would be like in a so called GRB ("gamma ray burst") galaxy would be like, if it were at all possible.

You've certainly done your research Seattleite! Good job on this thread. I wish I could contribute more to it. Going off subject slightly, I recently watched a playthrough of an excellent quest mod revamp of the DLC Honest Hearts entitled Honest Hearts Reborn, which in my opinion rather improves the original narrative. I enjoyed the extrapolation on the origins of the Legion and the surprisingly sympathetic light cast on the New Caananites. If you are interested in a more detailed account of mormon beliefs, this is a worthwhile mod to check out.

The Black Mages: A black gospel choir formed of wizards, sorcerers, witches and warlocks perform a stirring evangelical interpretation of The Whizzpopper song from the animated film The BFG. The audience weep and give rapturous applause, immediately converting to the worship of the DnD god of magic Boccob. Next band: ΛDRIΛNWΛVE

Attach a bog brush to it and hey presto! You've got yourself a heavy duty toothbrush! I suffer from half-lycanthropy. Every full moon, the left side of my body transforms into a nightmarish lupine beast whilst the right side remains exactly the same. Any advice on how to cope with this affliction?

Listening to Vaporwave/Future Funk music.

It's an extremely depressing (though perhaps inevitable) symptom of a world increasingly connected by social media. I'm not faulting the technology by any means, but a side effect of its prevalence is the evolution of a new breed of culturally adrift fools that will go to terrifying lengths to draw unwarranted attention to themselves. In lieu of endeavouring to do anything meaningful with their lives or even just trying to be decent individuals, they are willing to put their dignity on the backburner and even endanger themselves and others to leap on some idiotic bandwagon on "oneupmanship".

That's the difference between you and the internets mouth breather populace. You post a complaint in a thread specifically created for the purpose of voicing complaints, then presumably do whatever it is you do to enjoy yourself and/or keep yourself alive. For the aforementioned Subreddit ab-humans however, pouring scorn on something largely inconsequential is a lifestyle choice - their raison d'être. One can only speculate what experiences or formative events drove them into becoming the the truly horrid individuals they are, but I suspect it's a sign that those people struggle to identify with anything more profound than their own basal interests. I'm reminded of all the "I Hate [insert genre/band]" groups on last.fm, and thinking how utterly futile such a social activity is. I realize some people make or join internet groups more as a badge of honour rather than to actually discuss things with like-minded individuals, but I could never help asking those people why they felt the need. It seemed like a rather unproductive use of one's time, fixated on something they so avowedly dislike when they could be concentrating on the things they do enjoy. Also, I think it immediately and negatively labels a person (who might otherwise be a perfectly nice person) as a potentially unfriendly member of a community, thus encouraging other users to avoid them.

^ The blurred image quality makes it look like they had to run as far and fast as possible, after filming it DUNILD TORP Available for appearances at bedroom windows late at night, across 'murica.

Life in the palaeolithic must of been easier for budding musicians - give or take the ever present dangers of death, disease and giant flightless birds. Essentially all contemporary music is derivative of that first early hominid who discovered that banging a stick against a stone sounded pretty rad... I think true originality in any musical or artistic medium is an impossibility, we are too culturally and socially hardwired to influence one another. We are the only species on Earth with the capacity and imagination to elevate noise into something fundamental to our identity, and we are abundantly aware of our history of transcending mundane distraction into lifelong endeavor.

Funnily enough, I only watched one of his videos for the first time last week after somebody here (I don't recall who or where) posted a bizarre Youtube video entitled . I couldn't help digging a little deeper and consequently came across the channel and the related "Damn Daniel!" meme he complained about. My mistake... ;p How embarrassing. Please accept my apologies.

Do It! (w_ unibe@t) by AESTHETICS PLEASE

Why would you boast about that? Do you have a personal reason you hate that store and the customers? If you have that much general contempt for other humans, fine, but we're other humans too... I'm sort of with Presence here. Not everyone is going to be aware of EA's practices or even that Darkspore is for intents and purposes a discontinued game, especially young and inexperienced gamers or just more casual audience. Speaking as an avowed casual gamer (I'm the kind of person who finds the idea of playing Dark Souls untenable ;p) I wasn't aware of this aspect of current gaming business modus operandi until Ross made me aware of it via Gaming Dungeon. It would be all too easy for someone like me to pick up a copy of a game like Darkspore (especially it was going cheap) based on the bio blurbs and marketing, and not even be aware of it's imminent status as a deceased and unsupported game. I think it's safe to say that this forums typical userbase is more wise to this nonsense and cynical enough not to be duped, but imagine being a kid and having to face up to the disappointment of having bought an inherently and purposefully extinct game. It would be like that feeling of naively buying a PC game only to realize your system can't handle the specifics.

You've gone all out in pitching this game for the series I hadn't even heard of it, but your description makes me hope Ross will consider covering it in a future episode.

You mentioned Shadow of Mordor. I love seeing early games from companies that are now "the hot shit", to not put too fine a term on it. This also seems like the kind of game I could lose plenty of hours in, like I always did with the Worms series or more recently Hand of Fate.

One of the reasons I enjoy switching my avatar around so often is because of the mild confusion it causes. People get used to visualizing me as a skull-headed scorpion and then BOOM! A wild William Blake Jesus appears! ;p

Sub-beta males are in vogue right now. I was sub-omega before it was cool.

10/10, "REVEREND USHANKA CAT COMMENCE TEN HOUR MEWLING SESSION!"

I tried the "stiff upper lip" approach but clearly failed in that endeavour. You know I wasn't levelling actual criticism at you, right?

Looking at it, I can't help thinking "REVEREND USHANKA CAT COMMENCE FACE SCRATCHING!"

Awww... Otto. This decision comes from a few things. Truth is I got nervous about appearing in front of thousands of viewers - eventually, but that's just one element of it. Please be understanding. I'll show up on the next chat, most probably. Meanwhile, I also have other plan for more direct contact with people. BTW, you can follow me on Twitter @AmazingMagda I think it goes without saying, but I hope you don't feel compelled to appear on one of the videos just because of a demand for it whatever. I reckon the majority of us would understand entirely. The internet is weird.

Man, I should make more of an effort to update my own thread! ;p Species: Stortooq Planet: Anvobaaw, a planet largely composed of rapidly generating electrically charged minerals and home to numerous and rapacious boneless animals. Classification: Electrolapivore Mollusc Personality: Extremely busy and energetic, practical and unimaginative, stubbornly refuse to take breaks or cease working unless something scares them. Almost universally afraid of (to the point of superstition) Anvobaaw's smallest and most rapidly orbiting moon Anvobaaw VI, a relatively miniscule orange gas planet that streaks across Anvobaaw's opalescent sky in a matter of minutes. Feeding habits: Stortooq are like most electrolapivorous lifeforms on the planet, in that they busily graze the surface of near constant growth of electrically imbued fragmentary minerals that generate within and around the edges of great fissures in the planet's surface. Being sentient however, the Stortooq have a strong communal mentality and carefully hedge prime fissures away from overtly rapacious species and even cultivate the growth of differing varieties of charged substances. ~ Species: Planet: Classification: Personality: Who (or what) rules this species?:

Graciously grants titles on behalf of our most beneficent majesty, King Ross.