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Meh, the New York Ave./Tennessee Ave./St. James Place monopoly is a lot better than the Boardwalk/Park Place monopoly. Edit: partially sniped

Originally Posted By: Dantius Neither Monopoly nor WoW have been around since the Middle Ages. Well, yeah, I guess if you look at it that way, chess has a monopoly. We need new antitrust laws!

~700 million people have played Monopoly. That doesn't mean that all of those 700 million people own a Monopoly board, nor does it mean that all of them play it often. Sure, a lot of people know how to play chess, but that doesn't mean they play it on a regular basis (or even have a chess board). I'd imagine that a lot of people who have played World of Warcraft own the game, and play it on a regular basis, or at least much more so than chess.

Option ten is the only one that makes sense. Anyways, the polling for the new UBB is pretty bad...the old one was better. The old one let you edit the poll while you were making it, which greatly reduced the chance of making a mistake. (Yeah, still a graphical glitch) Edit: The topic title is too long.

One of the options somehow ended up being in the margin...and clicking the button somehow selected two buttons at once... Edit: I see you made another poll...

Wow, you must really love the games if you went to the extent of buying a new computer. And here I was thinking I was a big fan...

Originally Posted By: deprivation cannot end privation —Alorael, whose greatest objection is not to speed but to preoccupation. Luckily he sees much less application of cosmetics, eating, and other obvious idiotic multitasking on the road. Unfortunately it has all been replaced by cell phones, Blackberries, and other small gadgets. Those are also quite likely to get people killed. Generally, I'd frown upon texting while driving, but I do understand why some businesspeople and whatnot do it. It doesn't justify the high risk involved, but it's at least more excusable than doing it to flirt with someone. There's also bluetooth, but that costs money. Originally Posted By: Master1 Cutting through intersections bugs me. If no one is there, it's excusable, but it's still a bit dangerous in my opinion. Now, I don't have much experience with driving, but I think that one should avoid cutting stop lights whenever possible. This bugs me as well, though it's almost impossible to avoid at one of the intersections in town. Sometimes, it will become green for one second (no exaggeration), flash a yellow light, and then turn red. It causes quite a bit of confusion, and I'm surprised it hasn't caused any accidents.

Originally Posted By: Hypnotic I only used that computer to play simcity2000. I loved that game! Maxis had some pretty fun games back in the day (SimCity, SimCity2000, SimAnt, and SimLife), but I think it kind of declined after it was bought by EA. I was never interested in the Sims, and the new SimCity games don't look like they're worth the money. Spore looks like it might be fun, but my computer is too old to run it.

If I remember correctly, the nominations were made just two weeks after Obama took office, which again, is kind of odd. Originally Posted By: Alorael He's leading a country embroiled in two wars, and while he's trying to extricate the US from Iraq, he might be committing even more deeply to Afghanistan. This is what I have a problem with. I consider both to be unnecessary, and both a waste of money and life. I don't call that peaceful at all. Originally Posted By: Alex I also suspect that the "Black Man in the White House" part played a role, too. Giving someone an award because he's black is completely racist. Unfortunately, race plays a role, and I don't think Obama would have ever beat Clinton if he was a white man. *Goes and votes in a CNN poll*

If I'm driving in an urban area I'll go with the flow, but I'm not aggressive when it comes to lane changes and whatnot, so I'll typically end up being in one of the right lanes. I do punch through intersections if need be, but I don't do that often. If there's a stop sign, I always make a full and complete stop, never a California stop. If I'm not in an urban area, I'll almost always drive at or below the speed limit, unless I'm driving in Oregon. Nevada has a nice 75 mph speed limit on the highway, and I don't see a need to go any faster than that. Speeding usually doesn't save you much time, unless you're going a long distance.

Originally Posted By: Ephesos As I reflect on the years of my life I've frittered away on these boards and in this community, I can't help but feel let down. I look back at the 5,000 posts I've made, and I can't help but feel that at least 4,200 of them were total, utter drivel. I look at the community that exists in the present day, and I feel like I no longer belong. Aw, poor Ephesos. I hope you know that we appreciate your presence here: as a member, as a moderator, and as a designer. The opposite might seem to be true as of late, but I highly doubt that it is, and I would be surprised if any recent posts were made with the intent of bringing you down. I think there's just a lot of misunderstanding going on, and that's all. *huggles*

If you get a screen of death (whether it's blue or gray, or black) your computer has already been affected in a bad way, so I'm not sure what you mean.

Originally Posted By: Naughty Salmon I imagine that the greatest threat will be to those pretentious enough to think that a label will protect them from harm. W-dueck was talking about blue screens of death, which is how Windows responds to a major system error. A Mac's screen of death is grey, so yeah, it's "immune" to a blue screen of death because it uses a different color...which makes me wonder what Master1 meant.

Quote: This is a small object. While someone might pay you for it, it has no useful abilities on its own. Quality materials such as this can be worked into quality armor and weapons. Craftsmen in some of the towns may take metal, leather, and so on, and convert it into gear for you. This is the description of a focusing crystal, but it's also the description for fine leather, fine steel, etc (the first paragraph is used for a lot of different items in A5). Though it's an improvement upon the first trilogy, it's still more generic, and lacks the humor that E3 had in its item descriptions. The first trilogy (and BoA) is even worse, as its item descriptions are like this: Quote: This is a two-handed weapon. It weighs 20.0 pounds. It's worth 150 coins. This weapon does 2-14 points of damage plus 1-7 points per level of Strength and Pole Weapons skill. Abilities: None.

There are no E3-like item descriptions in the Avernum series, just a generic description of the item's stats.

I find it particularly annoying when the person tailgating me is an elderly person. Come on! I'm sixteen and I'm going the speed limit, why can't you?

You have to admit, it was quite funny.

Originally Posted By: w of the dueck clan Last year, I stuck a bunch of potassium into a beaker full of water. Thankfully, my nose wasn't an inch from the beaker like it usually was. Alkali metals ftw! Out of curiosity, what were you doing, other than making potassium hydroxide ( )? Every once in awhile, some people forget that you're not supposed to add water to an acid. Fortunately, no one has ever been burned because of that. Originally Posted By: Dantius Nononono, you've got it wrong. What you do is powder the lithium, and add it in small quantities to a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum. The result is thermite, a powder that, when lit, will reach over 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. Have fun melting through the engine of your car! Why would you want to put thermite into a car?

Originally Posted By: w of the dueck clan People using Internet Explorer. Better yet, the people who moan and whine because 'this site is broken'. Also on the list are people who refer to someone's portable music player as 'yer mp3', as well as the people who can't distinguish between 'your' and "you're". I don't like it when people with Windows computers don't bother to check for spyware (and they seem to almost always use Internet Explorer). So one day, they decide that it's broken, throw it away, and buy another one...*shudders* It's surprising how many people in our modern world are technologically challenged.

Originally Posted By: Master1 Today in Chemistry, our teacher couldn't get the Bunsen burner to light. He would crank up the gas, try to light it, and fail. He eventually got it going, and ended up with a flame fluctuating from 8 to 12 inches in height and 1 to 3 inches in width. Funn! What's more fun is when you accidentally drop lithium into the barrel of the Bunsen burner.

Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity There should also be bronze pants, steel pants, and blessed pants. Nah, mithril pants are all the rage these days. Originally Posted By: Khoth You people are making me wonder what Swamp Pants are made of. Peat! As an added bonus, the pants also work as a source of fuel. (Even though peat comes from bogs and not swamps, but whatever...)

Originally Posted By: Sarachim Timothy Leary escaped from prison through the garden. So that's what we need: zombies doped up on LSD. Follow them down to a bridge by a fountain...

Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith EDIT: The fact that nearly everyone on the internet is a cat person. I'm a fish person. There's no training and not much to clean up, and they're pretty and don't cost a lot to feed (It's just that it costs quite a bit of money to buy a decent sized tank). Originally Posted By: Rowen Self righteous Mormons who think that they are better then everyone else because they are Mormon. That is in conflict with our believes and being Mormon myself I can say that we are not in anyway better. Most people I look up to as role models are not Mormon because they know that everyone is equal and treat others as such. Elitism plagues everything, even religion. I guess that is was bugs me; elitism. I don't notice this as much as Mormons calling other Mormons "cultist Mormons." Is that supposed to be an insult or something?

Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba My housemate's cats are in the habit of occasionally puking on my bedspread. Needless to say, I kick them out of my room at night now. Unfortunately, one of them has figured how how to scratch my bedroom door in such a way that it rattles. He does it all night long unless I let him in and I can't block it out. Which means that now I can't sleep. Whee! My sister's cat decided it didn't like the new litterbox we got it. When I went to go take a shower the next morning I was greeted by a moist pile of...stuff I didn't like to clean up. (This happened at least five times, because someone kept leaving the door open) Yeah, it also doesn't let me pet it, even though it always wants to cuddle up with me when I'm trying to eat.

That's right, practically everyone has them. It might be something relatively minor such as knuckle cracking, or it could be a constant annoyance from something like a dog. For me, I usually hate it when people use the phrase "same difference," since more often then not, they just said something unintelligent, like saying Iraq and Afghanistan or Japanese and Chinese are the "same difference" (Yes, I've actually had people tell me that before). I also hate it when I see people buy water from a vending machine when there's a perfectly good drinking fountain just inches away from it. Then they tell me they're going to reuse the bottle by refilling it at the fountain, but then I see them at the vending machine the next day. Way to make use of our local landfill... Oh, and ending a sentence with three exclamation marks and four question marks is pretty annoying. What about you?