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Eh...i dunno. I dont think the well's run dry, but yeah the man has his particular genres he wants to stick with: war, western, religious etc. For every fuckface, there's some original, great shit in Punisher's plot that makes me wish the book was like that year-round, or the twist on Fury's S.H.I.E.L.D. as this altruistic black-ops group. I dont think he's near done, but im dyin to see him back on a regular series - Hitman, Preacher, Hellblazer etc were fuckin badass. The man obviously prefers minis, which makes sense, and god knows there's been some really great ones like War Story, Pride & Joy, etc, but still, the books he works on - Fury, Punisher etc - he leaves his mark, and they usually suck after he leaves (see the current Punisher). But hey, even m'boy has his bad days (see his Batman books..:ill:). Wasnt a fan of his Spidey: Tangled Web stuff either, writin was ok and art really blew (not his fault but didnt help), so ya didnt miss much KOS. I think the guy just knows what he wants to right about and likes to fuck around with older ideas is all. Preacher's still the best shit ive read, and i honestly think ive read more comics than anyone here, for what its worth. PS Artistic, way to contribute to the new forum....folks, never listen to the opinoin of a guy who likes Prime.

Ok, here's my go at it, lemme apologize in advance to the modem folks out there... Another classic. This one's just too cool.... Fuckin great album, too. Ha, before Jumbie 'could use it... Great historical image, worked great for the album too. Too damn famous not to mention... one of my favoirtes, not sure if its a cover but fuck it. And all the girlys say...:cowboy:'s pretty fly... part of the inside booklet to VAST's first album.

damn, that shit was long. Anyone still readin this? :embarrassed:

*Phew*. So what does everyone think? Here go the changes: -New catergories: I need a name for the entertainment section, lemme know people, yours might be it, tho prolly not (dont hurt to try tho, eh?). Now, each catergory has 4 relevant forums. Bascially, you can pick an area ya feel like hangin in: Pantheon if youre feelin intellectual/wanky/nowhere at all, Colloseum for entertainment, and the Dork Side for misc madness. I did this in hopes that the addition of a 12th forum (!) wouldnt overwhelm folks, especially those new here, by one giant run-on forum list. Lemme know if ya think its effective or simply more confusin; i really hope it helps tho, i personally think its cool - hats off to Yahven for the idea. -New forum: Culture has enough to handle with novels, music (again, mostly music), and anythin else; comics deserve their own corner, dammit! I need moderators with much experience in traditional super-hero as well as vertigo-type shit; if youve never read Frank Miller, Alan Moore etc ya need not apply. Its a new pet project tho people, help me out (artistic, bacchus, KOS etc). Im thinkin of a new name that doenst sound lame and drawin blanks, might just leave it as it is, but also takin suggestions. -Spring Cleaning: Moderators might notice a change in their topic content/ total number of posts. I tried my best to put things in their relevant forums, completely regardless of which corners are popular (Vagabond King/admin Yahve sided with pimpin out weaker forums; i prefer quality over quantity). Just so we're clear here, here's my quick interpretatinos of the various forums: General: Misc shit with no place elsewhere, various announcements such as this one & birthdays, an intro to the forum. Current Events:News, largely politics. New moderator makes it a bacchus family affair, lets hope she posts more now. Aristotle's Lyceum: Philosophy & various abstract thought (such as love vs sex, etc). Culture: Yet again, mostly music, but some novels and anythin else that applies. Movies: That, and TV. Standard stuff, now featurin 75% more Junkerseed. Anime: Japanese anime & any other type of animation that's not comic-related, includin American stuff like Disney, Pixar etc. Comic Books/Graphic Novels: Reviews of comics, polls of what works better (ie, Marvel's new line of Ultimate books vs regular continuity). Comic fights still stay in Fight Club. I wanted this largely to let folks know what's worth readin/what theyre missin out on. Nintendorks: You folks seem to like this name...? Hope so, lemme know. Chiefy's here to balance out PC gamers as well. Check out City of Heroes! Letters to the Editor: This one needed the most clarification: Yahven's corner, yes, but here is where rants go, not General. Sure, if theyre philosophical, theyre Lyceum stuff, etc but general rants nonetheless. Hey Yahven, how bout puttin Dork Party announcements here? I think itd be cool to make this spot the DP (heh ) HQ. Monty Python & Web Crusaders: Youll notice this one got huge alla sudden; ive included this one to be good forwarded internet jokes, cool links, and PC talk, so MP3 disucssion an such goes here from now on, givin it more purpose. Fight Club: Still the largest place around, it is not necessarily troll central, so newbies feel free to mosey on in, but be sure to read the rules: if youre sensitive, good ol' madman may very well hurt your feelings. Oh yeah, fights happen here, vote for who you think is better/cooler/doesnt fuckin matter. Earn your college degree online: still one of my favorite forum names; this is the Crap Shack, the last resort of posts. When shit gets outta hand or too much sheep-fuckin is involved, it goes here. Moderators should put completely irrelevant shit here, or in Fight Club (like anybody'd notice, eh?). Hope that mess helps. One of my largest goals is to clarify the gray area between the forums & give them all more definition so we all know what goes where, exactly. If its a political piece about a philosophical fight, just uh use your best judgement. An example of what got moved: MP3 discussion is in Monty Python, Devil's Advocate brawl made the Lyceum, "Hello!" posts are in General now, etc. Moderators: Dont like where i took/put threads? Lemme know, PM me, we'll find a way. Anyway, as your current admin, i want more postin & to really get the moderators goin, and help out where i can. This doesnt work if ya'll dont speak up; its just as much your forum as the next guy's. Dont be afraid to ask any questions either; if anythin, theyll go on the Drunken FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), created sometime this week. I'm here to help people, dont be shy with the questions/complaints/ observations on sheep. Gouge away.

I dunno man, i dont recall Tekken 2 bein impossible...it was more like, whoever the computer wanted to fight you before the last guy was impossible no matter how sucky a character they were. I actually recall the last 2 or 3 characters before the Devil fight bein tougher than Devil himself, unless i was usin a slow character who let his ass get show with the eye beam moves. Eternal Champions was tough as well, but then i usually just get whupped up by any fightin game im not good at when i get too far - Marvel Capcom, when the button mashin dont work no more, etc. Tekken 4 didnt stike you as kinda hard, later on? Well, you played it a lot more, too. Id say 2 was the hardest of that series, anyway. Didnt play Guilty Gear X on 1 player so i cant say, but Alex isnt the only one who said its hard as balls later on.

"For a few Dollars More" was a great follow-up to Fistfull. Uh...Superman II, Rambo First Blood, part II...Do shows count? Cause Sopranos season 2 was fuckin great as well. Lotta sequels on the horizon - X-Men, Blade, Matrix, even episode II of Star Wars, so I'm sure ill have more to say in the comin months. Oh, and definitely Mortal Kombat: Ahhnialation. Sure, MK 1 was fun, but part 2 proved to me that, if ya really want to, damn near anyone can make a movie.

Christ, if ya wanna hear bout directors who make folks cry, John Ford was known to yell at the top of his lungs and sometimes even charge at & take down actors who angered him, includin the Duke. Then, from what Johnny Marr (fella on the Preacher board) tells me, the Duke once pissed right on the set of another director's movie. Cant argue, Ford treated him like shit but was a master director; some of the others he worked with were really fuckin awful - Dick Powell's "The Conquerer" had him cast as Ghengis Kahn, perhaps one of hollywood's worst casting calls ever. This, on top of the fact that ol' Dicky decided to shoot down by a nuclear testin facility in Arizona. Not coincidentally, much of the cast has since died of cancer, includin the Duke himself. Point was, there's worse directors: some'll get ya killed for a shit movie.

And now, more random images... :wasabi: everybody disco dancing :wasabi:

No hair cuts! at least, not shorter than in those pictures anyway...cmon really short hair on a chick its too...uh...political. *to quote Kee..."damn, check out superdike over there!"*

Yeah Nintendo fucked up a wee bit with the cartridge system, i admit, but N64 was still fun for a handfull of games - 007, Super Mario 64, Zelda 64 (1&2), Mario Party, etc. As for cube, i said it was gonna be good, more folks shoulda listened... oh, KOS - dont worry, Square isnt Nintendo-exclusive, meanin PS2 will still get Square games as well. It just means theyre back with Nintendo, which hasnt happend in about 7 years or so....good ol' Sqaure

Taken from The GIA special report Basically, this means Nintendo finally finished ranglin up all the big companies. The X-box, havin blown their damn near exclusive deal with Square, are now very far behind, and the competition with PS2 is about to get really fuckin lively - with Nintendo already havin had Konami, Capcom, Namco, etc (all the other big boys) under their belt, this was the last piece o' the puzzle for em, and now its finally done. Thank god - for one, this means when FF XI goes online here in the states, there'll be just that many more folks to go huntin with. 'Tis a great day for nintendo, the cube finally got squared.

Of the new guys, ive taken a likin to (in addition to Junker's mentions): Guy Ritchie: For bringin back the caper movie; yeah, the guy used to direct car commercials, but fuck, even his openin credits are just cool. He's done Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch thus far. David Fincher: Ill let Junker describe him, so far I've seen his Se7en, The Game, and of course Fight Club....the man can do no wrong (outside of Alien 3...???). Here's to hopin that movie about a room that's comin out soon is good, too. Side note: its rumored he was lookin at a script called "The Sky is Falling", a controversial piece about an assasian dispatched to the vatican itself to deal with certain clergy who've dug up the church's dirty lil secret: jesus never came back from the dead. Shit, toss Fincher's boy Pitt into that one and i cant see it as anythin but great. Mel Gibson: Yeah, for Braveheart alone, but The Patriot wasnt bad either. I cant recall the other flick he did, i just got kinda excited when i heard he was thinkin bout a remake of "Fahrenheit 451). Ive taken a likin to Randall Wallace as a screenwriter, as well. Need to look more into people like Bryan Singer, but i did think it was cool as shit to find out that David Hayter wrote X-Men and its forcomin sequel (Hayter's the voice-over for Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid series).

Oh, if its the lamers fatalities were talkin bout... its a tie. 1) The SNES censored MK 1, where Johnny Cage opts for kickin his foot into the enemies' chest, wigglin it around a bit, and they drop dead, assumably from foot odor or somethin. Vs 2)MK 1 again, but for Genesis: the sound & graphics were awful. Kano's classic rip-your-heart-out fatality in pixelated 16-bit ended up lookin like he pulled a bright red fishy outta your chest, looked even funnier as it wiggled its tail (?) back n' forth till the screen went black. Man, those sucked. On a side note...anyone ever play MK2 in the arcades when it was still on version 1.1 (first release)? It was quickly recalled & replaced with newer versions when it was discovered that skilled players could actually perform a bablity (turnin thier enemy into a wee baby), then fatality em, which was really nasty...:ill:

I think Yahven has some of it...as i recall its not terribly long, ill look into it for ya.

Ha..i remember that 'n from back on the Preacher board. Jesus, is that a fruedian slip.... ...40 cunts...? :p

Good idea. 1)I forget which one (help me out here, Junker) but one of the older Green Day albums - think it was Dookie? - had a hiden track way at the end, great lil ditty called "I was all by myslef", i believe. 2)NIN - Broken (the classic follow-up to Pretty Hate Machine, an album everyone should own) has 2 "easter eggs" as i recall - tracks 98 & 99, lil while after the 6th track ends, have "Physical (You're So)" and "Suck". Ill see if i can recall/dig up s'more.

Hey not necessarily sluts ya know...I like your pick of Cameron Diaz, tho. I got one better 'n her tho... Yeah, thats pretty much it. Im secretly a bigger fan of eyes, then boobies. Mmm...boobies. :D :kitty:

Mmm...sluts. Just for me & Spiffy...

A crusty old man walks into a bank and says to the woman at the teller window "I want to open a damn checking account," The astonished woman replies, "I beg your pardon, sir. I must have misunderstood you. What did you say?" "Listen up, damnit. I said I want to open a damn checking account now!" "I'm very sorry sir, but that kind of language is not tolerated in this bank." The teller leaves the window and goes over to the bank manager to inform him of her situation. The manager agrees that the teller does not have to listen to that foul language. They both return to the window and the manager asks the old geezer, "Sir, what seems to be the problem here?" "There is no damn problem," the man says. "I just won 50 million bucks in the damn lottery and I want to open a damn checking account in this damn bank." "I see," says the manager, "and is this bitch giving you a hard time?"

So, wait, its the Rock & Ultimate Warrior Vs The Bad Guy & who? Miko?

Argh without havin seen it, that series kinda offends me, its not Jubei... Ninja Scroll, Ninja Scroll Ressurection: those are Jubei. Its a bloody action series, not cute chan girls...anger. Anyway, Mulan (:kitty:) says she likes it too so it can be bad, just bastardized...

No...theyre just fictional characters in movies. :p PS Wolvy looks cool in that pic, eh?

Silly :kitty:. 'Cause, especially a few years down the road, ya dont really want the nice guy, that's why.

May not always agree with ya, machine, but here's one for ya anyway.

I couldnt agree more...you seen much on Xenosaga? Ive got the trailer(s) for download under another post here in this forum with a much better bandwith...ive gotten them all now; you should at least check out the 1st 1 if not 2 if ya can; part 3 is all in Japanese with no subs (where's Chihiro? Need translator!). Batlte system looks cool too...if ya have a hard time, lemme know. Also check The GIA's Xenosaga preview (careful for spoilers)