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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 25, 2007 23:14:26 GMT -5
What's incredible about the human mind is you could have looked at it five minutes later and gotten the idea the first time. It's all a matter of perception.
*has been reading psychology texts for fun again*
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 26, 2007 17:36:57 GMT -5
Stuff in that area facinates me as much as it scares me. I could endlessly read about stuff that has always baffled scientists and things about the brain/mind/nature/desire to buy soda. Too bad I don't have any books though about this stuff, but at least there's the entire Internet at disposal. My parents have like... an entire library of science fiction and fantasy books, most of them are like a zillion years old. One I brought out from their library was called "The Space Viking". Man I can't wait to get into that one.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 26, 2007 21:47:22 GMT -5
Oooh! That sounds intriguing! An acquaintance of mine has this awesome t-shirt. "It takes a Viking to raze a village." I love it! Vikings are about the only thing cooler than pirates, and that's because they were pirates who also plundered on land!
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 27, 2007 14:24:43 GMT -5
Zombies aren't cooler than pirates? ....What about zombie pirates?
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 27, 2007 16:39:59 GMT -5
Well, pirates have a soft spot in my heart. I am a pirate. I can truthfully and honestly call myself a pirate, unlike all these wanna-be's one sees because of PotC. I have actually gone out in a boat with a crew and attacked and boarded another vessel. I removed goods and hostages from said vessel, before throwing the opposing captain overboard and commandeering his speedboat to be my new flagship. So, I am one of the few people who can honestly say "I am a REAL pirate with a recognized history of nautical acts of crime."
Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about being a zombie. Zombie pirates would totally rock! They'd never die! Just like Barbossa's crew!
P.S.: Sorry for the rant, I get sick of seeing all the Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom fangirls calling themselves pirates. THEY HAVE NO IDEA!!! *looks about, realizes that people are staring at the weirdo with a sword and sits down, still brandishing the sword*
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 27, 2007 16:44:00 GMT -5
I am definitely confused beyond anything. However I would be a human, I have no idea why though. That or a Legoman, because then... I don't know, but it'd be cool.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 28, 2007 14:49:29 GMT -5
You've actually commandeered a vessel? DUDE, you ROCK!
Unlike those fangirls, I acknowledge myself as only a digital psuedo-pirate. And it wouldn't even be piracy if the companies weren't copyright nazis.
A Legoman pirate? Hm, that would be pretty awesome. Then you could have the benefits of not being mortal just like the undead, but without the craving for brains.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 28, 2007 16:48:38 GMT -5
Oh Poofie, I wish you could've been there. We would have made a real pirate out of ya. As for software pirating, I am all about ripping off software nazis. I'm a believer of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense."
Music and movie piracy is a bit different. Megamillion nazi studios I don't care about, I'll rip the bastards off. But I respect the rights of artists and musicians who are living off their royalties but can't afford the Tuscan-style villas for each of their eighteen girlfriends.
I'm liking the idea of Lego pirates. Venom, did you have any Lego pirates when you were younger? I've got a couple random ones somewhere.
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 29, 2007 14:16:12 GMT -5
*doesn't have any opinons on pirating*
Did you REALLY do that? That is like the coolest thing ever. I applaud you with my Lego hands.... what's this? WHAT? MY HANDS ONLY MOVE VERTICALLY.
I did have those sets a long time ago, when I lived in Phoenix, I got those "island pirate" sets, which were small forts or boats on islands, usually with a few cannons. I also have a giant Lego pirate boat, I don't know where it came from but it's huge, it takes 6 different parts to put it together, it also has masts and stuff. Ugh... I am going into the trailor and getting out my Lego box now, thanks guys I think.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 29, 2007 16:50:32 GMT -5
I think we had one or two island sets and a galley-type ship. All our legos are in my parents' basement. One of these days I want to go get them. Maybe when I've gotten caught up with housecleaning and life. I wish they made little mini bilge pumps for Lego Pirates. Swords rule, but for taking hostages unharmed, there's nothing like a bilge pump! It's like a super soaker with a gallon per squirt output! I've knocked people off their feet with one! ;D
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 29, 2007 18:23:35 GMT -5
Is the gallery one the same one I'm talking about? Alot of brown parts and you need to put them together? I don't know. I just know that someone stole my little red rowing boat when I was in phoenix, I still have a brown one though.
Jeese, that sounds like a destructive force, I would be scared of that, and even more scared if you were using it.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 30, 2007 2:17:49 GMT -5
Dude, that bilge pump sounds like something I need for keeping the dog from barking. Right now we have this squirt bottle, but it doesn't do squat.
*bark bark* "Pippen! No barking!" *BLAST*
Yeah, now THAT might actually do something. >: D
I didn't really play with legos much as a kid. Instead I had those big plastic things that vaguely resembled waffles. Two sides had three prongs, two had two prongs, and you interlocked them using the prongs. There were solid ones, ones with four holes, and ones with a single big "window" hole, and they came in different colors, usually three to a set. Gaah, if only I could at least remember the name of the company that made them...It's usually accociated with younger children's toys, I remember that much.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 30, 2007 8:02:58 GMT -5
Fischer-Price? That's the only children's toy manufacturer I can think of. Legos and action figures were the staple of my youth. Barbies were boring as hell, but they didn;t have Barbie movies and video games when I was little. It's kind of sad. They can't sell toys based solely on the toys anymore. There has to be some media tie-in for it to work. We're really becoming slaves to the TV, aren't we?
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 30, 2007 17:08:39 GMT -5
That's the one! Fischer-Price. Maybe I can track down those "waffles" again. That was a pretty major brain fart, wasn't it?
Barbies the way Mattel intended them were boring, but when you characterized them as spoiled, violent idiots, they could actually be pretty entertaining.
We are becoming slaves to TV. It's really quite sad. And if you don't watch TV like me, then you're slave to the internet.
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 30, 2007 19:22:33 GMT -5
I remember something kind of like those "waffles". They were little squares with about a hundred stabby thingies all put together, and you could force the squares into eachother and sort of make nothing with them.
I totally agree, no TV here either, but then I'm a slave myself to the Internet. I CAN'T STOP MYSELF. Though lately I can ignore it for hours at a time now to work on stuff.
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