The Blackangel

Stuart Little and Shrek weren't Disney films. Shrek was a Dreamworks movie, and Stuart Little was made by Columbia Pictures.

I see this mostly in adult themed cartoons. Family Guy, American Dad, South Park, The Simpsons, etc. They depict the father as a bumbling idiot, and often a drunk, and the wife is the hottest woman in town. I have wondered about this for decades, and can't find a satisfactory answer. With it portraying women as sex bombs, I personally find it a bit misogynistic. We're not all wanted by all men. And even if we were, there's a lot of us who have no interest in sex at all. It's a bullshit scenario.

The definition of "genius" is a person with superior intelligence or ability. An IQ score of 140 or higher is defined as genius. Very few people will score that as the normal range of human intelligence is 90-109. A person can be absolutely stupid in almost every area of life, but a genius in one. For example, my sperm donor was an idiot and a fall down drunk. But if you were to give him some tools and wood, he was a genius. He could do things that most could only dream about. And he loved doing it. If he had chosen that as a career, I would have grown up privileged. There would have been a waiting list for his work. He was that much a genius with wood. Then you also have to consider autistic people. They are not stupid, but sensitive to things. Many can do and remember things that simply amaze people who are not autistic. They are often genius, even though they may not have that 140 IQ score. The autistic range is far and wide. But it in no way means stupid. As for me, I'm schizophrenic, bi-polar, BPD, and diagnosed as a sociopath. I'm semi-intelligent in some areas, yet ignorant in most. The muscular dystrophy has severely affected my cognitive faculties. I'm much less articulate than I used to be. I'm also much less intelligent than I used to be. When I was in 5th grade my IQ was 130. I took an IQ test a couple years ago and it was 108. I'm sure it's somewhere in the 90's at best now. Genius to some. Idiot to others.

I know I said I didn't know when to expect me, but I decided that I need a distraction this morning. So I'm going to start posting again. Slowly but surely I'll be getting back to my usual activity. Just don't expect too much.

This is just a quick note to let everyone who even gives a shit know that my absence will be longer than expected. I found one of my rats and one of my dragons dead today. So I honestly don’t know when to reasonably expect me back.

I will be absent from the forum for an extended period. My baby Gypsy died tonight. My mind has mostly shut off and I can barely think. I can barely even breathe. I don’t know when I’ll be back, but I will eventually return at some point.

It becomes a pain in the ass, not to mention expensive, to constantly have to pay off your bounties. Even a $5 bounty will get them up your ass like a tapeworm. Dead or alive bounties present the real problem, however. Typically you can’t pay them off, like in Blackwater. Granted, with a relatively low bounty you have the option of turning yourself in and serving a short time in jail. I’ve never gone that route, but I may the next time I get a bounty.

Evolution is proven, it’s no longer a theory. The earth evolved from a molten rock, to a small mass that can support several different kinds of life. There is no possibility that life ends here. Only the stupid and arrogant think otherwise.

@mont86 I considered the Kennedy assassination, but decided to leave it off. @m76 I completely forgot about flat earth. I knew there was a big one that I was missing, but even with a google search I couldn’t remember which it was. Are you referring to herd animals or animals that live in colonies? Like zebras live in herds and rats live in colonies. Some insects have rather advanced societies as well like ants.

As an extension to the topic about conspiracy theorists, which of the ones listed do you guys find the most entertaining? Like as a joke or as something you believe? I have most of my interest in the moon landing being faked. 9/11 being an inside job interests me as well. And it doesn't matter what it is, someone somewhere can connect the fucking illuminati to it. So what's your pick and why?

I haven't seen a true cheat code since N64. The good old Konami code is something that brings back fond memories. But the 83 character combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and random characters are something I definitely DO NOT miss. Half the time you got the code wrong because an uppercase I (eye) looked exactly like a lowercase l (lilly). Il. That's "eye" "lilly". How the hell am I supposed to know which one it is 44 characters in when they're identical? Fuck. You.

There are some intriguing game designs out there. Some where the protagonist is also an antagonist. GTA and RDR2 come to mind. I can't comment too much on GTA as I don't follow the series due to it not being my style of gaming. But in RDR2, you play as Arthur. He is the main protagonist of the story. But he's also an outlaw. A murderer and thief. You have an honor rating in the game, as shown in the pic below. Now this YouTuber doesn't have a good honor rating, but that's another discussion for another time. But if you look at it, it goes from red to white. Red being low, and white being high. For reference, in the pic below, the arrow pointing down shows roughly where my current honor rating is in the game I'm currently running. But the point of this thread is not to brag. It's to ask a very simple question. In these kind of games, who decides the honor? The gamer or the game? For some of you out there, the most honorable thing may be to rob and kill every last person you come across. To others it may be to help every last person you can. If it's the game, then it's a kind of irrelevant point, as an honor rating wouldn't mean much. Arthur is a wanted man. If he goes to Blackwater he is killed on the spot as he is wanted dead or alive. And you can get bounties on your head in the open world your roaming in the game. The Pinkertons are always after you. you have enemy gangs that you can kill as many as you want, and it doesn't hurt your in game honor rating. But is any of that honorable? When there is no threat, is killing to survive honorable? I don't have to kill anyone, including enemy gangs. I didn't have to steal that horse. I didn't have to loot and rob that house. Did I enjoy it? Yeah, I did. It helps support my gang of outlaws. but was it honorable, to steal from someone else, to feed the mouths of the people I run with. Dutch, Arthur, Hosea, Lenny, Bill, Pearson, John, Jack, Abigail, Karen, Tilly, Grimshaw, Mary-Beth, Strauss, Molly, Kieran, Javier, Charles, Uncle, Reverend, Sean, Sadie, occasionally Trelawny, and even that piece of shit Micah. 24 people. Sure I can go hunting instead, but hunting doesn't buy the ammo to hunt, or the tools needed to cook. Hunting doesn't buy the horses food. It doesn't buy the medecine needed in camp, or the items needed to repair things when they break. That all takes money. And unless deer start shitting quarters, it also means that robbing and stealing are necessary, as no one in the gang can get a legitimate job due to the bounties on their heads and them all being wanted. So is that honor? And who decided if it was or was not honorable? The game, or the gamer?

In RDR2 I have seen people sit down in midair (and other forms of levitation), get hay bales stuck to the outside of their hands, walk through closed doors, play air-banjo, ride their horse upside down, go flying across the screen, and even hold their gun backwards to fire it. Surprisingly, the gun thing actually works and they kill their intended target. I love these kind of glitches. Feast your eyes upon the amazing Uncle, playing his all new air-banjo! Uncle 2.mp4

What breed of pig? Because this sure as hell isn't a farm pig. Those things are so god damn stupid they can't see an open 16' gate, or remember where they get fed. I grew up on a stock farm and have raised a lot of animals. The only animal I ever worked with that was any dumber than a pig was sheep. I'm not counting birds in this. And we raised just about everything. Horses, cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, chickens, geese, and even some wild animals as I had pet raccoons. And while they're not exclusively a farm animal, we raised brittany spaniel bird dogs. We had a neighbor who raised pigeons. A couple towns over there were white tail deer, moose, and elk breeders. All bred in captivity.

Fifteen years is “all the way back” in your eyes? How young are you? Fifteen years ago, I was living in my first home after spending 3 years in a warehouse. I had my first meal that wasn’t cold pizza dug out of a dumpster. The term “All the way back” should have 30 years attached to it, or at the absolute bare minimum, 20. You and I are obviously from different times that had very different ways of thinking. Either way, you damn millennial kids are weird.

Where, exactly, did you pick up the delusion that PS3/Xbox 360 era is “classic”? I just need to know, so I don’t have to read more faerie tales.

The candy cigarettes are real. I remember them from my childhood. They packed enough powdered sugar in the wrapper of them that you could blow out through it once before you unwrapped the cigarette and it looked like you were blowing smoke.

Roar

The Libertine is my absolute favorite movie.

I broke several bones when I was a snowboarder. Luckily it was in the offseason so I didn’t miss any competitions. Competition season here is relatively short, so the majority of winter is offseason.

And their fucking game would be...........................? This constant refusal to identify any of this shit tells me it’s not anything that actually exists.

Ave Nobility is in the eye of the beholder. To some we may be noble, to others, wicked. It will become clear relatively soon who belongs where.

Ave

My girl does that all the time. I tried it, and it's not too bad, but not something I can see myself doing. People think this is strange, but candy to me is jalapeños, dried chili's, and habañeros. I love spicy stuff. I've recently been "training" myself, if you will to be able to withstand ghost peppers. Those things are dangerous to go straight at, but if you work your way up there slowly, then you can handle them eventually. I know another hybrid has been made that makes the Carolina Reaper look like an antacid, but I can't remember its name or how hot it is.

I am on a gaming PC, so I would end up with both. Assuming the PS5 has anything to offer that actually interests me. Specs don't really mean shit because it's an alien language to me. So everything that @FiremanDan listed, is nothing to help me, and I don't even know if he's talking about his PC being better or worse than a PS5. Simple stuff, dumbed down would be the way to talk to me in this area. Reverse compatible Improved graphics Faster processor And so on, in that manner. Not I have no fucking clue what I'm reading. I also have no clue if that stuff there is bad, ok, good, amazing, phenominal, or pure shit.