Randomness

[Xap]

That sounds fun!

[Loofiloo]

Everything's better when you're wearing a Santa hat!

[Everlast]

Hey check out a video I made and posted on YouTube, I'm not very proud of it because its blury but it was an ausome battle against a AI lvl 10. The AI did the lob-o-matic glitch!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AOKzwqWpC7Y

You might think its boring but watch the whole fight!

[Zwaken]

That ended up as a strange ending with the tanks so close...but why did you miss so terribly with the Cannon Ball at the begining? You could of used less power so it would roll down the hill, then hit him...but you won! Good job. Now what program did you use to record that?

[Everlast]

Camtasia Studio 4 (the trial version)

Yeah and the cannon ball............let me just say Whoops!

[Zwaken]

You've inspired me, Everlast. I'm gunna start recording some of my battles occasionally...I just recorded one and I lost by 2 points!!! That recording didn't really work though so I'll post a different one later...

[Santris15]

My first post couldn't really go anywhere better.

Whooo!

[Zwaken]

I was reading the old "Scorched Reality" Website and it says that Micheal and Sarah Welch are working on a new pack for DX-Ball 2...MIKE HAS A SISTER

[Was It Me?]

Or a wife...

[Zwaken]

True......

[Everlast]

Wow. Am shocked! :shocked: (not really)

[Zantetzuken]

switched files again to lazy to do password recovery

[???revived]

Hey check out a video I made and posted on YouTube, I'm not very proud of it because its blury but it was an ausome battle against a AI lvl 10. The AI did the lob-o-matic glitch!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AOKzwqWpC7Y

You might think its boring but watch the whole fight!

Lol at when the computer hit himself with the Golden Bullet...

[Zantetzuken]

done with the forums for now going to play ragnarok for awhile

[Everlast]

Guess what, I was so bored one day I entered 4 contest for a Wii and one contest for a PS3........and what's more sad is that I entered the one for Comedy Central and I collected 36 out of the 48 codes.......had to use my dads e-mail though because I'm not 18 yet :( I'm bored :shocked:

[Xap]

I think you need something to do. Try out some new games or something. :rolleyes:

[Everlast]

Indeed, I played Galactic Battlegrounds with 4 players and it lasted about 4 hours..........................:shocked: <--- I like that smiley

[Everlast]

I uploaded another Pocket Tanks vid to YouTube, its me doing the "shoot the same weapon 4 times in one turn glitch/cheat" with the Chaos Grenade. I know I shouldn't show people how to cheat on it, but I figured its probably gonna be fixed in the update so.........yeah, but if you want me to take it off I will. :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GtooHU8lgG0

[Skix]

Holy Crap!!!! Xap Used one of my Statments iin his sig!!!!!
Horray!!!!:) :D :)

Happy:) Happy:)
Joy:D Joy:D !!!!!

an even one of these!!!!:cool:
WOOOT!!!!!!

:) :D :) :D :) :D :cool:

File:///D:/joy.gif We Need This Smiley, It Expresses my utter joy.

[Zwaken]

First of all...his signature was like that for a while and I was just about to post something about it. 2nd of all, the image file thingy didn't work.

[Everlast]

Hey this is mostly for people looking for a Wii or PS3 (PS3 sux :) ) but I found this little website that you can go to to find Wii's or PS3's in your area. Just type in your Zip Code and presto! Shows all stores and Ebay sellers in your area!

http://www.ps3seeker.com/ - For PS3

http://www.ps3seeker.com/wii/ - For Wii

[Zwaken]

The PS3 will be better than the Wii.

[Xap]

The PS3 will attract more hard-core gamers, and the Wii will attract the younger generations more...

[Zwaken]

Well, I think the Wii won't be that good because it has that weird control-moving thing that whenever you move the controller, something moves...I don't like that.

[Xap]

Yeah... I personally think that there should be an option to plug in a different controller.

Anyway, I think the Wii and PS3 are both bettter than the 360.:p

[???revived]

I personally think the 360 pwns everything, if not only for Halo 3...

[Xap]

I personally never understood what all the fuss is about Halo. Of course, I've only played the 2-player mode for 1 and 2 and the 1-player demo for Halo 1...
I'm not really a big fan of shooting games anyway, although I do like the classics like Doom, Marathon, and Quake.;)

[???revived]

Well Halo 2 Xbox Live is awesome, and Halo 1 co-op campaign is awesome too. Simple Halo 1 splitscreen on Blood Gulch can be the funnest thing ever.

And LAN parties are great fun as well...

The multiplayer is what makes it awesome...

EDIT: In my region, Xboxes and Halo are really popular, so that also contributed to the fact...

[Everlast]

Well, I think the Wii won't be that good because it has that weird control-moving thing that whenever you move the controller, something moves...I don't like that.

On the contrary they have a regular controller if you don't like all the moving around.

Oh and two of my friends were playing Halo 2 on Xbox live against two other people and the 2 other people were hacking the game so much. They spawned an aimbot and they were able to drive an exploded Warthog around...but my friends still won! Lol

Oh and my favorites go as follows

-Microsoft Xbox 360-
-Nintendo Wii-
-Sony Playstation 3-

[Grif392]

Wii has backwards compatibability to the FRIGGIN NES! Plus 3 different controller types, not counting the Gamecube ports.

[Xap]

Yeah, you can buy ports of games from their werbsites that come on CD for your Wii.;)

[Everlast]

Who here has a Wii or is getting a Wii? Oh and another thing, has the smileys order been re-aranged in the list? Because I have noticed they are out of order or something.

[Xap]

Sometimes the smilies change on their own, but right now they look normal to me.
I'm probably not going to get a Wii anytime soon. Too expensive.

[Everlast]

I got two Nintendo Wii's! TWO! I'm gonna sell one though. I stood in line for 50 minutes while my mom was sitting in the car. Then I called her and then she was like what the heck I can get one too. So YAY!

:D Happy! :D Happy! :D
:) Joy! :) Joy! :)

[Zwaken]

Nice...be sure to tell me how the new Zelda game is like if you happen to get it.

[Grif392]

I got two Nintendo Wii's! TWO! I'm gonna sell one though. I stood in line for 50 minutes while my mom was sitting in the car. Then I called her and then she was like what the heck I can get one too. So YAY!

:D Happy! :D Happy! :D
:) Joy! :) Joy! :)

I'll buy one. Seriously, if you're selling it, I'll buy it.

[Loofiloo]

Heck, I would too. It's impossible to find one anywhere, online or off. The stores are hardly getting any, and when they actually do, it's usually less than 5. The only way to order one online is to buy an EXTREMELY overpriced one on eBay, and the only way to get one from a store is to wait outside for three days to ensure that you're the first person in line.

[Everlast]

I'll buy one. Seriously, if you're selling it, I'll buy it.

I would but my parents said I can only sell it to someone I know from school or something. So I would but I can't. :(

the only way to get one from a store is to wait outside for three days to ensure that you're the first person in line.

I only waited 50 min.....and I was the 9th person in line and they had 46 Wii's.

[Zwaken]

But seriously, tell me how that Zelda game is.

[Everlast]

But seriously, tell me how that Zelda game is.

Pretty ausome. Graphics are sweet. Right now I'm a wolf trying to recover tears of light from the twilight relm to revive the first Light Spirit. Oh ya there are chickens again! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! And of course you have your horse :) Epona. One weird thing is, like in Orcorina of Time you use a instroment to call your horse, this time you pick up some kind of plant and blow into it to make the song. You can also find another plant to summon an owl that you can use to attack people. And you can fish again of course, and........well thats all I can think of so far. Yes, you have to move and swing your arm to attack! Yay!

[Xap]

Oh ya there are chickens again! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
Can you still hurt them and make them swarm at you?:rolleyes:
One time I did that in the Ocarina of Time, and I jumped down a well to escape, and then they swarmed down and I couldn't get out.:scared:

[Grif392]

In the new Zelda, you get to control cuccoos if you hit them enough. :P

[Xap]

Really? Really!?:shocked:

[Everlast]

One time I did that in the Ocarina of Time, and I jumped down a well to escape, and then they swarmed down and I couldn't get out.:scared:

That well! I remember that, I did the same thing. The well is it that little town.

In the new Zelda, you get to control cuccoos if you hit them enough. :P

Really? The brown or white ones? Because I haven't attacked either yet, because they swarm.

[Grif392]

Really? The brown or white ones? Because I haven't attacked either yet, because they swarm.

I dunno, my source is GameFAQs.com, but I don't remember entirely what it said.

[Everlast]

Hey you can't pretend to be a computer on Pocket Tanks because you can't use the - sign. :(

[Was It Me?]

Oh well... :anirolleyes:

[Xap]

Hey you can't pretend to be a computer on Pocket Tanks because you can't use the - sign. :(
Umm... what?:confused:

[Was It Me?]

You can't make your name "CPU - 11" or anything because you can't use "-" in your name. ;)

[Xap]

Oh, ok, thanks for clearing that up.;)

[Loofiloo]

Woo, 300th reply... Well, technically the last one said 300, but now in the thread list, it says 300 replies!

On a more topical note, I really like Gamefaqs.com. I'm an Icon on thar.:)

[???revived]

I don't like the GameFAQs forums, but the walkthroughs and stuff I do use...

[Xap]

Never been to the gamefaqs forum, but I use the walkthroughs all the time, and sometimes the cheats part.;)

[Everlast]

In my spanish class today, 2 guys were playing Pocket Tanks and I said if they knew how to cheat on it. Intitial reaction was, "How do you cheat on a game like this?!" I should them and they didn't get it lol. We got in trouble because we were playing it on the teachers computer. :anirolleyes: We had a sub...

[Skix]

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we so need this smiley...

[???revived]

Cool, I inherited my dad's 17-inch flatscreen monitor... :D

[Xap]

Cool! Did he upgrade to something better and give that one to you?
It's not Christmas yet... he should have waited.;)

[Loofiloo]

I camped out to get a Wii last night... Went to Wal-mart at 10 P.M. and waited until 8 A.M. today. I was the 6th person in line. I say it was TOTALLY worth it. I need to get going on TP now.

[Grif392]

I camped out to get a Wii last night... Went to Wal-mart at 10 P.M. and waited until 8 A.M. today. I was the 6th person in line. I say it was TOTALLY worth it. I need to get going on TP now.

I hate you. I can't go camping. Darn school.

[Everlast]

I camped out to get a Wii last night... Went to Wal-mart at 10 P.M. and waited until 8 A.M. today. I was the 6th person in line. I say it was TOTALLY worth it. I need to get going on TP now.

Wow, I only waited 50 min and was 9th in line, and I got it Sunday......and my mom (who was waiting in the car and then got out when she realized she could buy one and sell it) only waited about 10 minutes in line, and she is going selling it on Ebay. So I have one Wii in my basement and the other in my room still in the box. Yet I don't get the sensation when I look at it now, like I did when I bought mine.

[???revived]

Cool! Did he upgrade to something better and give that one to you?
It's not Christmas yet... he should have waited.;)

Yeah, that's exactly what happened...

He has this cool widescreen one now...

[Everlast]

I was thinking he died or something because you used the word inherited...

[???revived]

I was thinking he died or something because you used the word inherited...

Lol I like to use words like "inherited" rather than "gotten".

[Loofiloo]

I hate you. I can't go camping. Darn school.

Hey, I also had school. I missed all but five minutes of my first period, and didn't even open the Wii box until I got home. Honestly, I was anticipating a shower more than playing the Wii... And that's really saying something.

[Everlast]

I wish I was you Loofiloo, I mean I already have a Wii, but I mean you got to wait in line for like several several hours. I know that seems boring but I only waited in line for 50 minutes and for some reason I wish I had waited in line longer because..........it was ausome! I should wait outside for thre PS3, not because I would want one, but just so I could wait outside!

[Loofiloo]

It actually was pretty enjoyable, despite the cold. Most of the people there were my age, give or take, but a few parents actually camped out for their kids. If you ask me, they are totally spoiling their kids to do that. I'd say, "If you really want it, YOU can sit out in the cold for it."

But yeah, I brought a deck of cards and we played Rummy for a little while, and we bought some burgers from a nearby fast food place at one point. Oh, and we also got really bored and used shopping carts to spell out "Wii" on the sidewalk. Lemme tell you, the hour between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M. felt like the longest time I've ever waited. All things considered, it was a good experience. I'd do it again.

[Everlast]

But yeah, I brought a deck of cards and we played Rummy for a little while, and we bought some burgers from a nearby fast food place at one point. Oh, and we also got really bored and used shopping carts to spell out "Wii" on the sidewalk. Lemme tell you, the hour between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M. felt like the longest time I've ever waited. All things considered, it was a good experience. I'd do it again.

So how many people were there? I was guessing since you got out of line and stuff that there weren't many people there, and if there were you all got out of line. OR they already gave out the tickets and you knew you were gonna get one. Speaking of tickets, when I got my ticket to buy the Wii, I was so happy, and I wanted to keep it, but the guy ripped it up when I payed for the Wii. :( Yeah and as soon as I get a credit card, a car, and a tent I'm camping out for 3 days for whatever big system comes next!

[Loofiloo]

<_< Well... People weren't really competitive enough to take someone's place in line as soon as they step away. As soon as I arrived, everyone told me to sign a sheet of paper on the door to mark my place in line. I was number 6 out of 12, and before the end of the night, the rest of the slots filled up. It was really a relaxed, friendly environment though. We had an agreement that the only way your name gets taken off the list is if you leave the store and don't come right back. Somebody had slot #4 or 5, but they were planning to leave and just show up the next day at their leisure, so they were taken off the list.

Like I said, since the perfect number of us showed up, we were in more of a team setting than an every-man-for-himself one. Around 3 A.M. or so, everyone tried to get some sleep. I got in my car (which was in literally the closest parking spot) and slept for a couple hours with the heat on. When I got back out at 5 o'clock, the guys informed me that some guy came along and said that since I'd left the spot, they should bump me off and give him the last slot. They didn't give it to him though.

I thought it was really amusing how things turned out. All 12 of us were there the night before, and save for the "cutthroat" guy around 3, all the rest of the people who wanted one didn't show up until later than 5 o'clock. They apparently didn't realize that the sheet of paper on the door said "12 units" and kept signing anyway, adding additional numbers. One sneaky person even tried to add a second #12, as if the employees wouldn't know which one was the real number. Once the originals saw the new number added, we all knew it wouldn't go through, since we'd been there all night and new the real #12. Anyway, we all got our 12 vouchers at 8 A.M. and even bought our systems in order, after which we all just went our separate ways, some back home, some back to school.

So..... That's the whole adventure.

[Everlast]

Wow.....I just showed up and waited and started talking about how the PS3 wasn't coming out for a while to the man behind me. But a funny thing was, that Friday me and another guy in my last period were talking about the Wii and we both said we were getting one over the weekend and he ended up being in front of me in the line. He had gotten there about 4 min. before me, so we talked about the whole time. My story isn't exciting but hey they both turned out the same! Well, except my mom also bought a TMX Elmo....

[Loofiloo]

Anybody up for a game of RPS101?

http://www.umop.com/rps101/rps101chart.html

[Everlast]

Are you kidding me how do you remember all that? And how do you play? If you tell me how to play I'll play. :)

[Everlast]

Hey here is my very first pixel art! Yeah its kinda stupid. Its small and the dude has one really big arm. Lol.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l161/jflake/First_Pixel_Art.jpg

[Loofiloo]

Here's my first post of 2007. ENJOY!

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/3261/grapefruitmr6.png (http://imageshack.us)

Might've posted that before, but hey, it's a nice random comic doohickey!

[Loofiloo]

I really felt like I had to say this, but I couldn't think of an appropriate place, especially at this hour when nobody's awake. So I thought "Why not Blitwise's randomness thread? EVERYTHING's appropriate there!" Here goes...

Last night... I decided what heaven is for me. Heaven is a room roughly 8 feet by 8 feet. This room is lit only by a fireplace to my left. It's a real wood fireplace, none of that gas stuff, but there isn't an excessive smoky scent in the air. Just an adequate piny aroma. As logs burn, more appear to immediately replace them and keep the fire constantly blazing on.

To my right is a single little four-pane window. Outside there is nothing to be seen but many, many trees and snow around 4 feet deep. No way to leave. No reason to. The world is in constant twilight, with the sun giving the snow on the ground an orange, sometimes red, sometimes pink glow. A crescent moon is up in the sky ready to greet the night, though it will never arrive.

I will be sitting in the center of the room. I'm in the cushiest, comfiest recliner ever known to man. On top of me is a thick, warm blanket which drapes over my legs all the way to the floor.

On either side of me, there are objects floating in the air just above the arms of my recliner. There are bags of chips, all my favorite kinds, with absolutely none of them broken. As I eat them, none of the cheese or any other flavoring gets stuck to my fingers or under my fingernails. No crumbs fall to my lap. Each chip is as perfect as the last, and not once do I bite my tongue or have a chip break at an odd angle and poke the inside of my mouth.

Accompanying the chips are all my favorite beverages. Milkshakes of all flavors, root beers, cream sodas, tea with honey and lemon, hot chocolate, slushies, and anything else I could possibly want. The milkshakes are not too thick to drink, nor are they too runny to lack consistency. No matter how much I drink, I'll never get one of those brain-freezes. The sodas never lose their fizz. Each sip (which I take through a straw) is as refreshing and bubbly as the first. The tea and hot chocolate are perfectly warm, but they will never burn my mouth, and the slushies keep their slushiness for all time. The bags of chips, as well as all these beverages, never empty.

In front of me, there's a television. A thin one, but very large, capable of displaying any program with the most detailed imagery possible, with the utmost clarity. On this television I don't watch anything you would see today. Only one program airs; The Littl' Bits. It airs all evening, all 26 episodes back-to-back. No commercials. I'll watch every episode until I have them memorized word-for-word. When I've watched all 26 episodes, there will be new ones, episodes that were never seen by man. The series would continue as if its ratings propelled it through 20 successful seasons or more. The episodes would never get stale. They'd never feel like watered-down versions of the originals. Each one would be just as excellent as the last, as if they were all contained within the original two seasons.

All the inconveniences of the real world would be gone. Despite constant eating and drinking, my teeth would never decay, I would neither grow full nor fat, and I would never require a trip to the restroom. My hair and nails would stay the same length, my muscles would never grow stressed, I would neither shiver nor sweat, and I would never have the need to blink or breathe. I would only breathe once during this whole time. I would just breathe a sigh of relief as my every worldly worry melts away in the pure coziness of this tiny room fit for one person.

So I'd sit there in my recliner, more comfortable than I'd ever been, enjoying my roaring fire, occasionally gazing out the window as the evening sunlight makes the snow twinkle a great, broad spectrum of colors, wrapped up snug as could be in my warmest of blankets, enjoying my endless supply of snacks and drinks, and be alone to see the majesty of The Littl' Bits dancing on my magnificent television screen for all eternity... And I would be in heaven. :)

[Zwaken]

Heaven for me is "What I want, when I want to and how I want it!" That is a qoute from Master Shake (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)

[Everlast]

That's nice except in mine I would have a Wii and an X-box 360 in the room with every game for them also, and be able to watch anything I wanted on the TV, well except bad stuff. Oh and Zwaken123 I found your signature! Yay! I'm a winner! :D :) :D :)

[???revived]

It isn't very difficult to spot using the grey skin...

[theguy0000]

wow...a free post thread...i never thought I would see the day... :P

[???revived]

If you like seeing a little pointless number go up by one each time you post, then take a calculator and press 1 + 1 and then press the = button each time you make a post...

[Everlast]

what goes up but never comes down???

HINT: the answer is in your head (not litterally)

[???revived]

Helium? I'm sure I'm wrong...

[Everlast]

Yes, your wrong :p

[Kalphite]

This place is so pointless....

[Everlast]

You mean BlitWise forums is pointless? Or this thread? Because I would agree that this thread (which I started) is pointless.

[Saint Wacko]

I'm pretty sure I read that yellow was the most noticable color to the human eye. I could be wrong, except that I'm never wrong. :)

ha thats what i said, but no one listened to me. I cant seem to find my posts about that though...

[Was It Me?]

... Because I would agree that this thread (which I started) is pointless.

As was its point... :rolleyes:

[Everlast]

As was its point... :rolleyes:

Indeed......

[Everlast]

Hey I noticed when I was browsing the "General Talk" board that there was a check mark besides this thread. When I put my mouse over it, it said I was suscribed to this thread. How did I get suscribed to a thread? :confused:

[Loofiloo]

Dudes, I'm making a new pixel art drawing... And it's AWESOME so far... Also working on axes to accompany my collection of swords, but I'm more excited about this big picture I recently started. I just want to keep working on it, but it's 4:20 A.M. right now and I need sleep! D= Stupid school requiring me to get an adequate amount of rest!

[Everlast]

Cool. What is it of? :shocked:

[Kalphite]

This thread has no meaning, resolves nothing, has nothing to offer, and has a low socialty level. Pointless!

However i ever said pointless things weren't fun!

[???revived]

This thread fulfills the purpose of a spam board, which a lot of forums lack nowadays...

I think forums need spam boards so that stupid people can vent their stupidity there and not anywhere else on the forum (I'm not aiming this at any particular person)...

[Loofiloo]

Oh, we all have stupidity. I'm sure everybody lets it out somewhere.

As for me... Well, I have stupidity, but I'm about to release something that I'd say is more on the other side of the spectrum.

It's been five days... A grand total of 17 hours, 10 minutes of real, solid work. Though an hour and 45 were completely wasted because my computer froze and I forgot to save. :mad:

Anyway, it's more detailed than anything I've made. Quite colorful. Shading employed. Not one pixel left blank. All made with MS Paint.

*drumroll*

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/9486/childrensfestival2mu2.png

[Everlast]

Wow! Thats ausome I could never have the patience to do something like that. And if you don't mind me asking......where are they in the picture? Is that a window behind them? Really doesn't matter because its very good piece of work.

[Loofiloo]

On the left is an archway, and on the right is a window. This is on the balcony of the Mystical Monument, at the finale of the children's festival, right after Willibit has lit a giant torch with a flaming arrow. You see, the king and queen of the festival do this every year, I'd assume. <___< Not sure if that makes a whole lot of sense, but it's basically the best part of the first episode.

And yes, that show was what made me think festivals would improve the world so much.

[Grif392]

17 hours, ten minutes?

Man, my fake GUI for a sandgame took ~3 hours, and I thought THAT was long.

*bow*

[zetablack]

:D :o :) :( :confused: :mad: :p ;) :rolleyes: :cool: :eek: :scared: :shocked: :anirolleyes: -.-.... Happy Faces!

[Imposter]

Are you sure the frowny face is happy?

[???revived]

Just wondering - what on earth is that little bits stuff? I'm too lazy to google it, but it looks like a silly kids' show to me...

[zetablack]

Are you sure the frowny face is happy?
He may have a frowny face but deep down hes full of happiness...YAY!

[Zwaken]

He may have a frowny face but deep down hes full of happiness...YAY!

Sounds like the Teletubies have gotten to your head :rolleyes:

[zetablack]

Yay look at all the colors! No im just really kinda scary happy.... I don't know why...

[Loofiloo]

Just wondering - what on earth is that little bits stuff? I'm too lazy to google it, but it looks like a silly kids' show to me...

It's the most immensely nostalgic thing in the world for me. I watched it 15 years ago (so I was three years old at the time) on Nick Jr., and I almost COMPLETELY forgot that it existed. The only thing I held on to was about two seconds of the theme song (We're the Littl' Bits! We're the Littl' Bits!) which would just randomly pop into my head, then be gone as suddenly as it began. So one day, I was sitting at the computer, when it popped into my head again, and I said "I'll look that show up on Wikipedia." So basically, after looking it up there, seeing pictures of it, and reading about it, there was a HUGE flow of memories just RUSHING right back into my head. It was like I'd been reunited with a friend I hadn't seen since I was practically a baby.

Once I acquired a DVD of it (from some random guy who just happened to record the show when it was on TV so many years ago) I realized that a lot of my very vague childhood memories came from that show, as if they'd been lodged in my subconscious and I couldn't get them to surface before.

Now, if it weren't for the extreme obscurity of the show, I might not like it so much. It's sort of like a memory that only I have. However... I think that many people actually watched it as kids, but they just forgot it existed, like I had for a while. 99% of the time when I show somebody a picture of the show, or play the theme song, (if the person was alive back then) they say "Y'know... That show is really familiar." I find it odd that the show was so unsuccessful (only lasting one or two seasons) because it aired all over the world, so you'd think that it would have gained more popularity elsewhere. From what I can gather, it seems to have been most popular in French. But in English, as well as Polish, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, German, Persian, and even Hebrew, it's just a subconscious childhood memory that slipped into utter obscurity, probably never to surface again.

I try not to ramble, but it looks like this is going to end up that way. <_< I've sorta made it my life's goal to find a way to acquire copies of all 26 of the English episodes. My current plan is to eventually travel to Los Angeles and find the Saban corporation, as they published the translated English version. If they can't help me, then I would have to try Nickelodeon studios. If nobody still has old copies of the show lying around, then I'd just have to sit down and admit that all is lost, resigning myself to day after day of searching eBay for those ever-so-rare English VHS tapes, which probably only contain a handful of episodes.

I'm a really nostalgic person as it is, and this show pretty much epitomizes my childhood, and it's probably my oldest memory, making it the ultimate nostalgia. If I can get myself reunited with my childhood, then I can be happy in my old age. Plus, I think it would be fun to journey all over the country in search of this über-rare show. :) My only constriction now is a lack of money, so this might not be possible until I'm actually done with college and can get a real job and raise the money for gas and hotels in various cities. I might be able to write a book about the whole trek if and when I finally finish it. I mean, a trip to Japan might even be necessary. If not, I might just go there for the thrill of it to meet the creator. In my life's story, my acquisition of those videos would be the climax.

Of course... At this point, all these paragraphs of my ramblings and my extremely difficult goals might just be hypothetical. I don't really have any idea if I'll get to make this journey at all, but I say it would be fun. Most people would think I'm crazy to go through so much to acquire so littl' (ha ha, puns) but hey, I camped out for a Wii. It was the same deal there, only to a smaller degree. People thought I was crazy, I thought it would be fun, it really WAS fun, and it was worth every minute of effort and waiting. I'm hoping that this is the same deal.

I thought this was going to be two paragraphs, but when I get going, I get going.

[zetablack]

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiii!

[Loofiloo]

.............-.-;;

[Xap]

Great story! I have something similar, but to a much smaller extent. Different pieces of memories from playing the Amiga platformer "Top Hat Willy" were stuck in my head, and once in a while I would remember a certain screen and think "I wish I could play the again." Then the creator made a pc version, and it all flooded back to me. :) The game is so low-tech compared to today's games it's almost funny. ;)

[zetablack]

oo e oo ah ah ting tang wala wala bing bang.

[???revived]

Interesting... I'm not really nostalgic towards old TV shows I used to watch, but I would really like to one get an old amiga (or whatever that thing that my cousin had was) and play some of the old platformers...

[Xap]

???Revived - Here is a link to a page with Top Hat Willy downloads, if you're interested. The game is very difficult (especially to complete).;)
http://www.kolumbus.fi/petehei/pagethw.html

[???revived]

WOW that is difficult... I can hardly get through the Underwater Treasures thing!

Oh, and I also really like the Commander Keen series. Anyone heard of those?

[Loofiloo]

I played them. I think I used to have 1-4 on my computer, and the fourth was always my favorite. I wonder if they can be found and downloaded online?

Ah-ha... Just found a few.

http://www.commander-keen.com/game-downloads.php

[Everlast]

I remember that game now! I thought it sounded familiar. I hardly remember any of it though.

[Brian]

Interesting... I'm not really nostalgic towards old TV shows I used to watch, but I would really like to one get an old amiga (or whatever that thing that my cousin had was) and play some of the old platformers...

Revived, clearly you are a man after Mike's own heart. Last month, when he probably should have been working on the update, Mike took some time to participate in a little one player game that I privately call "Pimp my Amiga!"

[John Brooks]

boo! this thread is clutter! lock it!

[Loofiloo]

boo! this thread is clutter! lock it!

Yes, let's lock the one with more posts than any other, because CLEARLY nobody wants it around.

[Brian]

How is it clutter if it is one thread which contains random conversation? In my opinion, it is focusing conversation and general chat, preventing it from cluttering the board. Brian dixit, causa finita est!

[Xap]

I also really like the Commander Keen series. Anyone heard of those?
Yep! I like # 4 the best, as does Loofiloo.;)

[???revived]

Anybody tried #3.5? That's the Keen's dreams one, I think, and it has somewhat different gameplay mechanics...

Yes, #4 was the best, as it had many memorable little things in it (like the dopefish) although I have the same complaint about it as with all the others: they are awfully difficult. I've never been able to beat even one...

[Leon]

4 was my favorite, with 5 coming in second.

Keen 6 and especially 3.5 were pretty poorly thought out and made in a very mediocre manner.

Gotta love the retro-ness of the original trilogy, though.

[Everlast]

I think I still have that game on a floppy from 9 or 10 years ago. When we had are ancient computer that still took those huge 10kb floppies. (I think they are only 10kb)

[Was It Me?]

I remember the first Windows computer I had. It had 1 GB of hard drive space, so I was sure that there was no way that I'd ever run out. I was used to an MS-DOS system. :)

[Everlast]

I think the first computer my family had was even less than that. I think the only game I had was Worm. Which is still ausome because the computer people have uberfied it. :D

[Was It Me?]

The first computer (non Windows) I had was just MS-DOS and a version of Word Perfect I think... :rolleyes:

[Chaz_Fox]

Hmm, I dunno about the first computer i ever had. All I know is that it was a windows 95. I didn't know any more than that, cause I was pretty young at the time =3

[Everlast]

Hey everyone, this is kinda off topic..............if there was a topic. Lol. But I'm competing in the VB.NET (Visual Basics.NET) for BPA (Business Professionals of America). There are 16 people competing in the school compitition in VB.NET to go to state in my city, and 7 come from my school. We took the test yesturday, and the teacher said that everyone got the program we had to make done perfectly, but the Multiple Choice didn't go so well, but I think I still have a good chance of going to state! Yay! The awards for the school competition is this Saturday. I hope I did well. :D

[Was It Me?]

Congrats and good luck. ;)

[The Yateslander]

Having a 'fear of memories' is called Mnemophobia.

[The Yateslander]

So everytime someone asked you what your phobias were, you have to try and remember what they were, which would in turn make you afraid.....

wow, THAT would suck

[The Yateslander]

and o jeez.... I kid you not, look at this next one...

[The Yateslander]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

no joke

[???revived]

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Look it up :P...

[Was It Me?]

and o jeez.... I kid you not, look at this next one...

You made a post to say "look at my next post"...? Spammer. :P

[???revived]

That's what you get when a forum has a free post thread... :P

[Was It Me?]

That's exactly what I was just about to edit my post to say. :P

[The Yateslander]

spam... spam.. spam.. spamity spam!

[Everlast]

This thread has almost 400 posts!!! Thats one more than 399! and two more than 398!

[Loofiloo]

Hmm, I dunno about the first computer i ever had. All I know is that it was a windows 95. I didn't know any more than that, cause I was pretty young at the time =3

Oh, jeez... I was SOOOO mad when my family made the switch to Windows 95. Most of my games weren't compatible with it, and I was really ticked off for a good while. :mad:

It might be fun to get an old computer with Windows 3.1, but before I can do anything like that, I gotta focus on saving for my trip to Los Angeles. :D

[blue_moon]

Anyone got change for an 11?

[Loofiloo]

Fix your grammar, you!

[Everlast]

Hey guess what!

[blue_moon]

How about $12? Anyone got change for $12? Come on, its lemony!!! Zetablack, prepare to be de-throned! Maybe not, but I packed extra ham just in case. I could throw in salami, but thats not all that healthy...

[The Yateslander]

The Krispy Kreme Diet works!!!!

[Zwaken]

This is getting outta hand...what am I gunna do about it? Nothing.

[Was It Me?]

I thought we decided that this wasn't going to be a spamming thread. It is more of a general conversation thread.

[Loofiloo]

I hope so. It irks me to no end when children just throw unrelated words into a sentence to be "random."

[???revived]

Well if you want a general conversation thread, then somebody not lazy would have to start a topic about which people can talk about...

[Everlast]

Yes, I agree this thread is.........getting.............crazy.

[blue_moon]

Well, guess what? This thread was designed for randomness. Deal. So therefore, randomness is not spamming here. Deal. So therefore if you want a conversation thread, START ONE! Also, this thread was probably designed to be crazy.

And to add to the randomness:
Ya know how I was asking for change for a $12? Well, I don't need it any more. I bought this cool brown shirt that reminds me of watermelon.

[Was It Me?]

Well, guess what? This thread was designed for randomness. Deal. So therefore, randomness is not spamming here. Deal. So therefore if you want a conversation thread, START ONE! Also, this thread was probably designed to be crazy.

Ah, but I believe that we "decided" to "change" it.

[Everlast]

Indeed :) It should be for random conversations, not random posting necesarly.

[Was It Me?]

Exactly. ;)

[The Yateslander]

Touché

what to converse about then?

[Grif392]

My recently gaining modship on a forum of 4500 users?

YAYMEYAYMEYAYME

[Everlast]

Wow, that a lot of users. BlitWise has 731 members and 209 of them are active. Wow, a lot are not active. :scared:

[Grif392]

Our users have posted a total of 55509 articles
We have 4518 registered users
Most users ever online was 130 on Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:47 pm

Fair number if users, though not many are active.

Only 7 mods, counting me.

Go me!

[Xap]

The song "Sandstorm" was on Saturday Night Live today, in a skit about "the first human that ever danced", in which a caveman hears it and starts dancing. It was very amusing.;)

[Zwaken]

does anyone know what 1001001 means in binary? It's in a Rush song, so naturally, I'm very curious.

[Grif392]

does anyone know what 1001001 means in binary? It's in a Rush song, so naturally, I'm very curious.

Absolutely nothing-
http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp

[Loofiloo]

Yeah, it's short one number. If it had another 0 or 1, it would be a single character. :)

[Everlast]

BPA Update:

Hey remember I told you all I was competing in the city competition for VB.NET (Visual Basics.NET). Well we had the awards on Saturday, and in the awards I got 9th, BUT on Monday, when we got our test back in class, turned out they made a mistake on my test. They didn't see my fourth form I printed out, and I got deducted 50 points. So if they hadn't made that mistake I would have gotten 2nd. So in reallity I got 2nd place in the city competion for VB.NET, and now I get to go to the state level! Yippi! :)

[Was It Me?]

Nice. Congratulations! :)

[Everlast]

Thanks! The state competition is March 4, 5, and 6. Up in Indianapolis. It's going to be fun, plus as an added bonus I get to miss 2 days of school. :)

[Zwaken]

Just for the sake of saying it, does anyone know about Windows Vista that will be out soon? It's the new version of windows and it looks pretty cool.

[blue_moon]

Just for the sake of saying it, does anyone know about Windows Vista that will be out soon? It's the new version of windows and it looks pretty cool.

I thought that already came out.

[Was It Me?]

The 30th I think... Either that or tomorrow.

[Loofiloo]

Does anybody here happen to be fluent in an exotic language? Perhaps Greek or Hebrew? <_< I'm working on a piece of art that I want to incorporate something like this. Anything that doesn't use the same letters as English.

Now that I think about it, Latin would probably be best. Anybody who can write Latin?

[Grif392]

My sister is fluent in Japanese...

[Everlast]

Two of my friends at school can speak a foreign language fluently, one is Russian and can speak......russian, the other is Muslim and he can speak Arbic. :shocked:

[Loofiloo]

"Something's... different... That air... That wonderful smell! Could it be? Could it be... YEAH!"
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7968/coulditbegu3.gif

[Everlast]

I don't get it, is the guy in the picture acting out what you said? Or is he thinking what you said?

[Loofiloo]

Yeah, that's what he's thinking when he first comes to the startling realization that they've all just reached the sea after a very long journey. Of course, plain text doesn't do it justice. You'd have to hear the actual line. n__n

http://media.putfile.com/Could-it-be-11

I basically made that gif because it sums up the warmest, fuzziest feeling of the whole show, from what I've seen. I'm not sure there's a happier moment in the entire show. It's one of those parts that makes you laugh... Not because something funny happened, or because you just heard a joke... But because it's purely, undeniably, insurmountably happy. At least, that's how it is to me. It practically brings a tear to the eye. =')

[Everlast]

Wow, if you hadn't typed out what it said, I would have never been able to understand him.

[Loofiloo]

Wow, really? :confused: Maybe you had it turned down too low?

[???revived]

Does anybody here happen to be fluent in an exotic language? Perhaps Greek or Hebrew? <_< I'm working on a piece of art that I want to incorporate something like this. Anything that doesn't use the same letters as English.

Now that I think about it, Latin would probably be best. Anybody who can write Latin?

As Everlast said, Russian is a good idea (if you count slavic languages as exotic), as it has the Cyrillic alphabet...

And finally, exams are over, so now I can be super-active...

[Everlast]

For those who think Paint is stupid, I want you to look at this picture I found on the net. This was completely done in Paint by 400 artists, that's right 400 people helped make this. Please allow at least 5 min. for the picture to load. And at least 30 min to look at it.


CLICK HERE TO BE AMAZED! (http://www.lovepixel.idv.tw/)

[Loofiloo]

Man, where was I when that got started? That would've been fun.

I was just going to make a related post anyway. I've been working on a new picture recently, and while looking around at www.pixeljoint.com, I basically just got incredibly depressed. People make more realistic, more detailed, bigger pictures than I've ever made in a tiny fraction of the time it takes me to make one thing. I don't see how it's possible at all. The one just posted doesn't get to me really, because I could make something that looks just like it given enough time. I just can't get details right. It takes me several hours just to make an outline, and even when I think I've got a great-looking character, somebody else has something that looks almost photorealistic. It makes me feel kinda pitiful when my most time-consuming works don't even look really proportionate or properly positioned. As of this moment, I don't think I have any real pixel art skill at all.

[Everlast]

I wouldn't get down about it, I mean, these people probably spend all day doing these, and have probably been doing it a long time. Plus most of those were small, but, yes, some of them were outstanding. The picture that I posted a link to wasn't really about detail, it was more about the size of the picture. But don't worry you will get better, if I were you I would try to make a really detailed picture that is 100x100. Sounds like a good place to start. :)

[Grif392]

Ah.

See, I dislike working in isometric. I'm just not good at it.

I can't draw well IRL, so I don't bother blaming the program.

My art is getting better, gradually. I love this Cortex Command game, spriting for it is just PERFECT for practicing 2d shading, and detail.

[???revived]

I'd be kind of depressed living in that city, knowing that the military is right next door...

But otherwise, WOW, that's simply incredible.

[Xap]

I came across that picture before when looking for isometric art. It is amazing! The drawing style of the humans reminds me of a game caled Habbo Hotel (which doesn't have to do with anything, really).

[Loofiloo]

I came across that picture before when looking for isometric art. It is amazing! The drawing style of the humans reminds me of a game caled Habbo Hotel (which doesn't have to do with anything, really).

I hear they get invaded a lot.

[Loofiloo]

Brilliant!

http://sieni.us/?id=17

[blue_moon]

Brilliant!

http://sieni.us/?id=17

I can't believe that site didn't have spyware. Some where funny.

[Xap]

That's a funny site. :)
I commented on it before Kalphite's weird thread was locked.

[Loofiloo]

Did you hear about the new movie called Constipated?

It hasn't come out yet.

BA-ZING!

Didja hear about the dyslexic agnostic?

He questioned the existence of dog.

ZING'D!

You hear the one about the dyslexic devil-worshipper?

Sold his soul to Santa!

ZINGO!

"I'm afraid you've got Tom Jones disease."
"Is that common?"
"It's not unusual.

ZINGAGE!

What's the difference between Congress and the Library of Congress?

In the Library of Congress, you can't mess with the pages!

BA-DUM-PSH!

If H2O is on the inside of a fire hydrant, what's on the outside?

K9P!

*Crickets*

BAH, nobody appreciates real humor anymore!

Anyway, I was lying in my bed last night, having a nice peaceful rest... And as I stared up at the stars, I couldn't help but think... Where did my ceiling go?

All humor of this post provided by A Prairie Home Companion. Be sure to tune in every Saturday, 5-7 P.M., Central of course.

[Was It Me?]

All humor of this post provided by A Prairie Home Companion. Be sure to turn in every Saturday, 5-7 P.M., Central of course.

Hehe, some of those were pretty funny, but why would I want to turn in every Saturday, 5-7 P.M.? :P

Edit:
1,000th post. Woah. ;)

[???revived]

Brilliant!

http://sieni.us/?id=17

That was... awfully weird.

What is that, Finnish?

[Xap]

Look through the other animations there!

[???revived]

I did. Most of them are eye-burning simple animations with very repetitive music...

[Xap]

I like the one with the man falling down the hill.:)

[Everlast]

That site is funny. I hope no one with Epilepsy watches it, for obvious reasons if you watched the whole thing. :anirolleyes:

[Zwaken]

That site is funny. I hope no one with Epilepsy watches it, for obvious reasons if you watched the whole thing. :anirolleyes:

It is a funny site, the most random one I know. I wish there were more little animations :)

[Everlast]

Here is a list of a bunch of game sights that............have games. :D

Big Fish Games (http://www.bigfishgames.com/index.html)

Heavy Games (http://www.heavygames.com/)

Game House (http://gamehouse.com/)

Addicting Games (http://addictinggames.com/)

Crazy Monkey Games (http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/)

Game Sloth (http://www.gamesloth.com/)

Candy Stand (http://www.candystand.com/index.do)

Tea Games (http://www.teagames.com/)

Arcade Street (http://arcadestreet.com/)

Albino Black Sheep (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/)

Have fun! This should keep you busy if you bored at school! I know it did for me. :anirolleyes:

[Pyrobellum]

Randomness eh? Welcome to The Flood. Go kitchen # 8! If anyone knows the context of that...muahaha.

[John Brooks]

In my opinion, this thread is the funniest I've ever seen. I literally LOL.

[blue_moon]

Some funny videos I decided to share, no bad language.
Don't Play With Electricity! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epj-ogPqdyQ)
The Channel 9 Guy! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJBqLMD-6xI)
Soda Analises (not too funny) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z1QLPXWDrw)
Weird Al Interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9_LWJja3Sg)
Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKuPe-tuKgY)
I like finding random videos...

[Everlast]

Wow, those were funny and random......and stupid, in a way.

[Was It Me?]

Sorry, I just HAD to get forum post number 11,111! :D

I've been waiting for this day since... well... yesterday at least. :P

[Slade]

So this is a randomness thread? Interesting...
How about some random words:
Chainsaw, broccoli (is that how it is spelled?), stapler, juice box, chameleon, snowplow, water wheel, saltshaker, suntan lotion, paper mache, sputnik, doorknob, lamp post, toadstool, fruit loops, ratio, Mr. Lucky, lavender oranges... and the list goes on and on and on and on aod no don dona odo a do ad i doa s do ooad oo dadoa odaodo aodaoodoa o doa odo ao od aod oa d...

[Xap]

Weird Al is funny...:) Have any of you seen his music videos?

[Slade]

I don't think that I've ever heard of himm...maybe...maybe apple crisp...

[blue_moon]

Weird Al is funny...:) Have any of you seen his music videos?

Yeah, he's funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYokLWfqbaU

[Slade]

Random word of the day: taxi

[Loofiloo]

I seem to be semi-banned. >_> I made an alternate account on my own computer (with which I never even posted anything) and now for some reason, I am completely banned from even VIEWING the forums. It's a permanent ban, and no reason was specified for it. So... Unless there's any kind of way to sort this out, it's going to be a lot more difficult to update my CYOA and stuff. I can still do it, but it'll take longer having to transfer it from computer to computer every time.

[blue_moon]

Wait, your banned so how can you post? Just delete the new account. Say something. Stand up ofr your rights! *stands up and outstretches arms accidently knocking Loofiloo out.

[Loofiloo]

I was going to delete the new account, but it got banned for some indeterminate reason before I had the opportunity to do so much as log out. So because of the unknown reason that caused my alternate account to be banned, I can not use my own computer to visit the Blitwise forums anymore. I'm only able to log in and post here because I'm on a different computer.

This is my parents' Mac, and it lacks Paint, so I can't use it to update my CYOA. v.v I'll have to make an image on my computer, then email it to myself, then host it on Imageshack on this other computer. It's going to be a real pain.

[Everlast]

Hey everyone check out this cool thing I found. It's a button that you can't click on. So when you run it, a button pops up on your screen that says "click me", and when ever you put your mouse pointer over it, it moves to a random spot on your screen. It's fun if your bored.Click Here To Download! (http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/clickme/)

Don't worry the program is not even a megabyte. And to get it off the screen just hit Ctr+Alt+Delete, and then click on the program in the menu and click "End Task".

[Loofiloo]

So... Is the issue of my bannination ever going to be resolved? I'd rather not be inconvenienced by the requirement of using school computers and my parents' Mac every time I come to this site.

[Zwaken]

So... Is the issue of my bannination ever going to be resolved? I'd rather not be inconvenienced by the requirement of using school computers and my parents' Mac every time I come to this site.

Make a thread...

[Xap]

yeah... you probably got accidentally IP banned somehow. Let Brian know and he will probably be able to sort it out.

[Loofiloo]

Hey, I'm back online at my own computer! Huzzah! =D Now to get back to work!

[Loofiloo]

Oh, another bit of even-more-awesome news: I received a littl' bit of love in the mail today.:D

[Zwaken]

I just got another Rage Against The Machine album...THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELOS!

And in here in MI, WE HAVE NO SCHOOL!

[blue_moon]

And I got a freezing road/ice day! GO NEW ENGLAND! The ground is so icy that they had to call off school. I had nightmares they'd have school.

[Zwaken]

SWEET! You live in England! I wish I lived there, because that's where Camel (one of my favorite artists) came from. Is Camel a popular band in England?

[Was It Me?]

Er... he said NEW England. (East coast states.) ;)

Anyway, schools are closed here too.

[blue_moon]

SWEET! You live in England! I wish I lived there, because that's where Camel (one of my favorite artists) came from. Is Camel a popular band in England?
It's new england, the place that gets a lot of snow.
Er... he said NEW England. (East coast states.) ;)

Anyway, schools are closed here too.
cool. weird.

[Was It Me?]

What's weird?

[blue_moon]

The fact that we both have school cancellations, it weird.

[Loofiloo]

I, for one, had to go to school today. I can still get on here though, because I'm ahead of everyone in the Fireworks lesson. =D Easy stuff... Fun too. We had icy roads and snow today, but I guess they just didn't feel like giving us a day off. Maybe it'll snow some more and there'll be no school tomorrow. (b'.')b We can only hope.

[Everlast]

I didn't have any school today either! We got a bunch of rain, then we got a cold front that came in, and all the rain that had fallen froze. And on top of that we got about 1 inch of snow!

[Xap]

Same here! I just went sledding and I'm now drying off at home.

[Slade]

I just noticed how huge this thread is!!! 48 pages! Random word of the day: recipe

[Was It Me?]

Same here! I just went sledding and I'm now drying off at home.
I went snowboarding...

[blue_moon]

I have a strange feeling Everlast is in southern Massachusetts, Kansas City (missouri) or some place in Rhode Island. Just stupid guesses. I got about 5" of inches of ice and a 2" snow.

[???revived]

Gah, it's raining here like crazy, and that's it. >_> *is envious*

[Loofiloo]

I just realized today that I am in the top 10 for highest number of posts on this site. :D Well... I'm #10, but I guess that's still something to be proud of, considering I only post if I really have something to say... Not somebody who posts a series of random words to increase their post count. I also might soon claim the position of #9.

[John Brooks]

put me on the frog!

[Black Magic]

Why is the number two pencil number two?
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and why must I always include "..." in a post?

[???revived]

Because #1 pencils sucked (not really, I don't really know).

Who says you have to include ... in a post? It's just a dumb thing that some people and I like to do...

[Imposter]

Because they are just the right hardness. #1 is too soft and any higher than #2 is too hard. (not kidding)

And by hardness I mean the leads hardness.

[blue_moon]

Yeah, leave it to me to make a #5023 pencil. "Its so hard, you can't even sharpen it! With diamond!"

[Zwaken]

I have an important announcement to make. If you have a history of heart attacks, then you may want to stop reading here...
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Rush is coming out with a new album called snakes and ladders (may 1st is the release date) And they will be on tour this summer!

It's not how fast you can go...

[Loofiloo]

My mom uses a #1 pencil for the crossword puzzle. For one thing, it's easier to use on newspaper, and it's also easier to erase (requires less effort, and smudges less).

[blue_moon]

What would a #0 pencil be like? It may smudge even less.

[???revived]

...And would be so soft that the graphite's impact with paper would cause it to immediately crumble...

[Loofiloo]

Or more likely, be nonexistant.

[blue_moon]

How many different kind of numbered pencils are there?

[Everlast]

Who knows? But there is also lead for mechanical pencils. 7 and 5 lead are the ones I know of. :shocked:

[Slade]

Random word of the day: cream pie.

[Was It Me?]

Who knows? But there is also lead for mechanical pencils. 7 and 5 lead are the ones I know of. :shocked:

I prefer .7mm mechanical pencil lead as opposed to .5mm, as 7 feels more like a classic #2 pencil to me.

[Xap]

5mm breaks too easily.:rolleyes:

[Loofiloo]

I prefer pens. :D

With pens, you never have the lead break at some awkward angle causing a HORRIBLE, AGONIZING GRINDING FEELING whenever you try to write with it. They're just smooth sailing.

[???revived]

Yeah, me too. I never really use pencils, except for math class where they force you to...

[blue_moon]

Yeah, but I think mechanical pencils are better. You can refill them once they lose all of their lead and don't dry out.

[Was It Me?]

Not to mention the fact that if you get a good one, it erases very nicely.

[Xap]

I like the good, old fashioned pencil better than the mechanical. Mechanical ones you have to refill all the time, and I hate that agonizing sound that Loofiloo described. Pens are great too, except that you can't erase with them. That's why erasable pens are the best.;)

[???revived]

I dislike mechanical pencils because I usually press pretty hard when writing, so the lead in them commonly breaks off...

And I absolutely love to just cross things out. A single paper of mine can be a confusing mass of crossed-out stuff. I laugh at this guy in my former science class who everytime he made a mistake or something, he walked across the classroom to borrow some whiteout. It's pretty pathetic, IMO.

[Imposter]

I use .9mm so it doesn't break as easy.

[Was It Me?]

Ooh .9mm; I don't think I've ever tried it. I'm going to look for it next time I'm on a lead purchasing run. ;)