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  Can a few people give me their advice,(Share the knowledge, damnit) on "Blogcritics.org" in reference to how that fit into the MMO scene?.  They have a gaming area, just wanted to know if any of you associate that website with MMO insight?

Never heard of it and after a quick look I'm not impressed.  If I want links to other websites I'll use www.newsnow.co.uk

Why are you asking, have they hired you?

Reccomendations :  Prayer, Mr Saavik.  The Klingons don't take prisoners.

Ah, thinly disguised market research, digging for a lack of brand recognition. Looking to prove to them they need your MMOG blog?

Anyway, no. It's an aggregator with no content of its own, like Yahoo News. I don't use that either - I go to individual news sources and like-minded bloggers. That said, I admire the thinking behind the site: take a specific subject (reviews), set up your site to aggregate reviews from blogs for free, surround it with ads, wallow in gratitude from the bloggers whose work is getting exposure, laugh quietly because the truth is you are the one benefiting from the traffic, sit back, count the uniques, count the page impressions, raise the CPM, profit.

I never understand why she was called "Mr." in ST2. Was it some military thing? I don't remember women officers being called "Mr" in the shows, but then, I don't remember what I had for breakfast (did I even eat?)

Aren't they all Misters in the Navy ?  Or titled by Rank ?

I always thought so...

She should have got her tits out!  That would have teached them never to call her Mister again!

Kirstie Alley was Fine in that film.

I would have endorsed Mr Saavik getting her norks out.  Even wearing her hair down was good enough for me.

"You lied".

"No, I exaggerated".

Xilren

Hours instead of days, now we have minutes instead of hours.


No, seriously, like Predator, I can, in fact, quote the entire film word for word and, since my deafness arrived, take great pleasure at throwing things at the screen when the subtitle people get it wrong.

Don't start me.

What? I cant hear you!

You really are just a googlebot trying to increase site rankings for these sites you mention in passing in your posts, aren't you?

Children, let this be a cautionary tale about the dangers of masturbation.

So the hair on his palms somehow migrated to his ears? Nasty!

Looks like a cheap knock-off site.  The formatting and general lack of organization had me leaving almost as soon as I had arrived.  As for the title of the site, having a blog does not make one a writer or better yet, a critic.  If you're looking for opinions, I've never heard of the site until this morning.  I can honestly say that not knowing about it was no great loss.

Not trying to be negative, just honest.

No, seriously, that's some funny shit.  Never heard that one before.

I would rather have my disability than yours. 

For me it's ST2, Die Hard and Ghostbusters.

I'm not proud. .

Spock, it's two hours. Are you ready?

Princess Bride and Bull Durham.

I believe in the church of baseball.

Yeah, the Game where Princess Buttercup hit a homer was poignant and touching.

Ironwood's deaf? That's the 3rd new thing I learned today, so it must be time to go home.

Star Wars, & Empire.  After that it's just a random mish-mash.  I don't internalize movies, it would seem.

Just when I think you have completely lost your damn mind, you post God's Own Truth.

My movie is, or maybe was, The Blues Brothers.  I might not be able to recite the whole movie just anywhere, however I can be quite annoying during a screening.

Raising Arizona
The Princess Bride
The Blues Brothers
The Big Lebowski
Rounders
Big Trouble In Little China
Mallrats
BlackAdder I-IV


I am sure there are dozens of others (inlcuding the rest of Kevin Smith's work, save Jersey Girl). I have a nasty habit of memorizing lines, or full scenes, or full movies. The good news is I usually get the lines right- nothing bugs me more than someone who constantly quotes lines incorrectly (and then refuses to believe they are wrong).

Mallrats, Office Space and Way of the Gun here, shit for the life of me I can't remember what the original topic was.

Signe's breasts?

Pee-hole in the air, do it while you can.

"I'm not quite dead yet"

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ftw!

Xilren

Mole.


Blatant attempt to create some topicality.  Sorry I'm also drunk.

Which is a lot nicer than what his avatar would have said. "Why do you talk to me this way? When you know that I will kill you for this?"

Maybe you didnt realize these were 2 different movies?? I guess they all sound the same to you.

Posting is better drunk.

Ok, clearing this one up because it's obviously going to be a joke that'll run and run.  3 Years ago, starting losing hearing.  Last year was diagnosed with High Frequency hearing loss, which means sitting in a room together, we can have a great conversation (Unless you're Broughden, in which case I'm probably stabbing you).  However, once background noise of any kind gets introduced, it gets hazy.  Think of Grissom in the 4th season.  Got it ?

So, I go to the hearing clinic (a private one because the NHS are like shit and would have you wear something akin to a Cyberman) and drop 3.5k on total in channel digital hearing aids.  Yeah, that's right, because as I may already have mentioned, I'm rich as fuck.  Now I hear perfectly fine and no-one can tell unless they're actively looking down my fucking lughole.  However, when I'm in the house relaxing or, drumroll, watching Star Trek 2, I will sit with the words on and rest my fucking ears which, due to old age, are failing me at the ripe and tender of 31.

Meantime, I make one offhand comment about this on a random thread and ALLLLL the little fuckholes come out to play, each bearing their own little nugget of humour.  Which they found in their butt.

You know, buttnuggets of humour.

In conclusion, fuck all y'all.

:)

You sound pretty.

You really are posting drunk, aren't you ?

Nah, just at work. How could you even hear that? I was whispering. And there are pigeons in the background.

Ironwood, I'm so touched - I've finally seen your sensitive side.

  Hired? No.

  I spent 4 years in the RA as a 19Kilo.  Female enlisted and commisioned are reffered to by rank, Warrant officers are reffered to as "Miss".

  Not at all, I had sent them the article as well, and recieved a positive response as to maybe doing some articles in the future, as I have never heard of the website before, I thought I would look into it a little before sending a reply.

Thinning hair?  :-P

Heh.

Ironwood,

I didnt realize you were actually sensitive about the topic so I apologize at my attempt at humor at your expense.
However if it makes you feel better:
a) Im older than you.
b) I have significant (75%+) high frequency hearing loss with in certain frequency ranges due to my time in the military and lots of gunshots.
c) I really do have thinning hair.  :cry:
d) My jump shot sucks.
e) I suck at golf

...having typed this list, excuse me while I go search for a bottle of pills or a razor blade.

Ironwood,

When you mentioned "stabbing me" you meant....

plunging your meat dagger into me before we ran off to Massachusetts together and looked into adopting as a couple...

right?

Errrr.

 :-o

 :roll:


 :-)

 :-D

Holy shit! Poor poor Ironwood! Now not only is he deaf but he's mute as well!

In the Broughden spirit of 1-upping (or 1-downing as the case may be), I too will make a list:

1) I am older than some people.  Strangely, I am also younger than more than a few.  It means absolutely fuckall and nobody cares.  This is the Internet, and I can pretend to be whatever I want.  Judging by the relative life experience you claim to have and your (Google) knowledge on all subjects under the sun, I am guessing that you are 482 years old.
2) I pretend to have 76% high and low frequency hearing loss when my wife is speaking.  At other times, I can hear a pin drop from 100 paces.  She hasn't noticed the inconsistency.  I was in the military too, and it had no impact whatsoever on my fake hearing loss.  They gave me FUCKING EARPLUGS and made me wear them in a little case as part of my uniform.  Were you too stupid to use them?  Or too hardcore?
3) I have thinning hair too.  In other places, it is thickening, a fact that I am quite proud of.  I think I have a net hair gain.
4) My jump shot is wicked good.  Occasionally, I can even get it to fall through the hoop with a definitive clang sound.  If you and I were playing one on one, I might accidentally elbow you in the teeth on my way to the hole.
5) I am good enough at golf to be dangerous.   If you and I were out golfing, I might accidentally beat you across the head and shoulders with my sand wedge.

Don't change, Broughden.  I would miss the entertainment.

You know, elbowing in the teeth is solid physical comedy.

I like my comedy physical too. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLy5cC54510)

and now, kittens

(http://wuog.org/programming/uploaded_images/arthur%20the%20cute-ass%20kitten-783685.jpg)

You know everyone was in here, laughing, getting along, and making some light hearted jokes at Ironwood's expense. Then some jack ass with a chip on his shoulder has to come along and fuck it all up. Waving his e-peen around about how in "real life" he would supposedly kick my ass. :roll: Anonymous threats on the intarweb FTW!

In answer to your question...
When you go to actual combat, you dont get spiffy little hearing protection ear plugs to wear. Especially when one ear has an ear phone for your commo gear in it, with the other one you are listening to orders being yelled, and doing this all while trying to keep from getting your ass shot off. 

I mean do you think you do actual combat patrols through a jungle or urban environment with fucking hearing protection in?  "Gee Bob Im sorry you got shot. I guess I would have heard the enemy stomping around ahead of us if I hadnt had these hearing plugs in."

Ah, Yes, Good Times.

Shame someone came in and spoiled that by joking at your expense.

 :roll:

I think the jokes we were having with you Ironwood were a tad different (and funnier...again in a light hearted way) than some Neanderthal posting, "Dude I'd so beat your ass with a golf club IRL!!!11! I r teh leet!!1"

And once again if you were REALLY offended I did offer an apology to you and even commiserated with your hearing loss since I suffer from it as well.

How did you fit into the little case? 

Just askin'....

See ?  She's Funny.

My point, ironically is :  Sauce for the Goose, Mr Saavik, the odds will be even.

Yep. I  :heart: her.


as for your second post I will openly admit my stupidity and lack of understanding into its meaning.  :-D

Yes, yes, Ironwood thinks you're a hoot.  I think he has made that perfectly clear.

I will not outright lie and say that I was anywhere near a combat situation.  I have been in simulated situations exactly like you described (with the radio on one ear and the order yeller standing beside me).  Sometimes, I was wearing earplugs.  I could not hear great with them in, but well enough to get by - their purpose is not to cut off all sound, but to muffle the high frequency shit that damages your ears.  There were also times when I didn't wear them, but somehow managed to avoid the tragic hearing loss.  Then again, it is entirely possible that you have just been in an absolute fuckton of live combat situations.

You see, there are so many thinly veiled boasts coming from you, that I tend to think that perhaps a few of them have been just ever-so-slightly exaggerated.  I am just going with the odds and picking on your non-earplug, actual combat, high frequency hearing loss thingy.  For no reason whatsoever, I just don't believe it.

Also, I just wanted to make a list.

On an absolute entertainment basis, I thought Cyrrex's post was hysterical and it actually made me laugh out loud... not the internet pretend-y LOL (or lol) kinda laugh, but a real, verbal, heard over the cube wall kinda laugh out loud.

So, I thought it was funny... funny in a exaggerated stereotypical Hollywood fashion that makes Adam Sandler movies a hoot. But then again, I don't have the personal investment some people do to this subject matter.

I need kittens.

The first image for a google of 'sex kittens'? See here:

(http://www.shawnwall.com/images/etc/olson_twins.jpg)

My dad spent a full tour in Vietnam, saw enough combat to earn 2 silvers with cluster and 2 bronze with cluster as well as a few purple hearts, and about a year of training prior to that. (his logic being, do all the training classes you could so you didn't get sent over and maybe it'll go away by then; this was '67)  He suffered no hearing loss from the exposure to small arms and large caliber tank rounds. (Tank commander)

  All I can divine from this is Broug has genetically inferior ears.

I could go to jail for what I was just thinking, so I sanitized the graphic for those with corporate firewalls.


PEEPS!!

Since they are of legal age, I *really* don't what to know what you are thinking! Unless you were thinking sex with two of-age women at the same time was illegal!?

I suffered hearing loss during Iraqi freedom as well.  Headshot during Medal of Honor + headphones turned all the way up = bad idea.

I also was put in for a purple heart when I received a papercut during the campaign...

I see your old age tale of woe and raise you...

It's kind of embarassing, but at the tender age of 32 I have a partial upper denture.  It's a combination of bad/non-existent dental care in childhood and early-20's fights.  Partial dentures aren't so bad, but eventually I'd like to get permanent denture implants up there.

And thus I've revealed my secret shame.

You should just say you played some AHL hockey for a season or two.

  Although I do have hearing loss, this has nothing to do with my time in the Army.  Since being a gunner on an M1, we had CVC's, so we never needed ear plugs.  My hearing loss came at a later date, due basically to my stupidity.

Shock. Awe.

So what did you do, then?

I'm going to assume he jammed pencils in his ears when people were trying to give him constructive feedback.

Why someone would do that when they're reading text on the internet, I don't know. But stupider things have happened.

You're a fucking mind reader. Signe is laughing (and a little bit creeped out) because I had just told her that's why he was deaf.

  Don't laugh...  I was an OTR driver for many years, and I was told this was common when there is only large hearing loss in the left ear.  Basically I always had the window down :(  When driving for years in this way at highway speeds, it causes hearing loss, due to the sound of the wind. 

HAHAHAHAHAHA [/witty comeback]

You've been even more morbid than usual, Cheddar.   :|

Good.

Based on what you have said I imagine you probably did 4 years and got out? I was in for 15+ starting back in 1989 with Operation Just Cause. I'd been in 2nd Ranger Bat for all of 1 week when we got deployed that December to Panama.

Well within your rights to do so. However integrity is still something I live by to this day due to it being drilled into me for all those years.

Lists are fun!

Ha ha comedy gold.

I'd love to add to this secret-problems pity fest, but I'm in ok shape overall. I have a couple cavities that I need to do something about and I've been putting off getting one of my wisdom teeth pulled for about 10 years - not a huge deal.

Other than that I'm good - I strut around with the body of an underwear model. I have abs! (I mean...visible ones)

Yes, I turned this thread into an excuse to brag about my abs.

I'd just like to say that this wasn't my intention AT ALL, and I'm hoping like fuck it didn't come out that way.

If I wanted Self-Pity to come across, I'd post more in the WoW boards.

It didn't.  It was even somewhat interesting.  Not nearly as intersting as gunfire related hearing loss, but there you go.

I got Crohn's disease. If it makes you feel better, you can make fun of my butthole.

Wow.  The best I can come up with is "man, that sounds really shitty".   Or perhaps "dang, that stinks".

You definitely win the thread.

Um.  Thanks.

 :|

Protip: Don't look that up on Wikipedia.

1 Gunshot wound, left forearm, cracked skull, two shoulders I can now dislocate at will, a total of three knee surgeries, one of them replacing my anterior curciate ligament with that of a caadver (so I'm part zombie, actually...) Three broken ribs, eight broken teeth, a broken thumb, A broken toe, a slightly askew breastbone and tendonitis in most of my fingers.

And I can quote every John Hughes teen movie to come out of the 80s, Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, The Princess Bride, both Bill & Ted movies. I can also sing the theme song to almost any television show that aired in the US or Japan between the years 1975 and 1996.

braaaaiiiiinnnnnsssss

Ah, you play Rugby.

Could this be why you get beat up so much?

No, that explains the translucent skin and the propensity to squint like a mole whenever the big bad evil sun comes up.

I'd like '80's Pop Culture for $1000 Alex.

I am continually amazed that mentally challenged people enjoy videotaping their own intentional injury.

I hear there is a boxing contest involving Uwe Boll...

God that was painful to watch.  Darwin in action.

Quiet, feet.

And not Rugby, Ironwood... ice hockey with a smattering of big wall climbing.

Heh. I just hope it sterilized both of them.

Most of the guys I played football with in college would call you a newbie.... and that includes the gsw.  Only 3 knee surgeries?  You hockey guys need to toughen up!