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Just think about the compressive forces on the body when the super legs make you jump a tall building in a single bound, nevermind the landing.

You can only be so kind to people when that is exactly the case and you are in the role of the teacher.

3-HIT COMBO Avs have signed Forsberg. 3-year resurrection super. I wonder what powers Dark Forsberg will have.

ffffffffffffffffff ghost riding UP THE MOUNTAIN?! sick nasty did they bring the helmet cam with them for all we know, DLC POV bangbros footage is part of the package

I have to wonder if they aren't ending up with competing against themselves in the animu arcade fightan gaems department. Or maybe their plan is to bury MB in a head-to-head. Sometimes I have to wonder how does AH keep getting sequels and things. It seems like people don't care much for it even inside Japan.

hahahaha boy, the story in Bionic Commando sure was something, wasn't it

On the topic of outsourced to foreign country tech support: " Rogers is a great example of that. Sometimes I press the French option because then at least I'll get someone in Canada. Although, they're probably in Quebec, so that's not much better..." Maybe next up somebody will outsource to the French West Indies for just this reason. "What do you mean they aren't Indians?!"

I can't tell if the post is sarcastic or not

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wth Have any of you heard of the upcoming move DRIVE ANGRY? Like, that's actually its title: "DRIVE ANGRY". It features Nicholas Cage as Milton, escaped from Hell, on the run from an accountant who is a servant of Satan. I'm going to guess that the "Milton" name is just meant for a cheap Paradise Lost reference, and not because he's actually meant to portray, say, the writer of Paradise Lost. That would be astounding, though... like, arguably worse than the story of EA's Dante's Inferno.

Vancouver Street Battle -> VSB -> Vancouver School Board -> VSB -> Vancouver Snow Boarding

Actually, now that I've gotten the complete quote, it makes more sense. What I had read was: "So the "twist" comes first, basically." Which is actually prefaced by: "I first start by creating a rough draft of the characters' personalities. Then I make a sort of rough draft of the setting. Next, I figure out the "twist" for the story, and work toward that by coming up with a plot that fits that particular twist perfectly." Because "twist" in a vacuum is kind of odd.

To get back on topic of SHYAMALAN, the most interesting quote was recently gotten from the writer of the DS game 999. He basically said that he comes up with the twist BEFORE he writes the story. Now it somewhat makes sense in that he's probably got some super clever idea/point to make, and he really wants to build the plot around that. Still, you can't help but laugh at the thought of it. Cart before the horse! EDIT: GRAMMAR TIME

MISSION COMPRETE

Exercise pattern is 0 for the past few weeks due to various illness. Never broken any bones or had any significant injury beyond bumps/scrapes prior to this school year. Well, I have jammed every finger and both thumbs on both hands at various points playing basketball in elementary school, but that's it. I have twisted my ankles before, but I've never had any of those super-nasty joint dislocations or swell-o-rama sprains. I started getting more sedentary towards the end of high school because PE was no longer required, and I'd say in undergraduate I was in consistently the worst shape of my life because I didn't have any motivation to do much of anything. That probably contributes to a lack of injuries, though.

This reminds me of the Wolf Shirt.

Hanz and Franz hurry up with your post Tell me how to get PUMPED UP

I heard that Shymalan has cast himself in an Unbreakable sequel as the villain. I'm not sure if he has reached the nadir of self-delusion, or the pinnacle of hubris.

What's more, I'm in Philadelphia, the same place where Unbreakable was filmed. Super hero origin story: computer programmer finds himself incapable of becoming physically stronger, with successive attempts only resulting in him growing weaker. Becomes obsessed with not only images of strength and weakness, but the development of either. Uses computer simulation techniques and the biological research labs to project optimal ways in development, but the findings are so radical that they might well just be the result of lousy assumptions/wrong model/faulty implementation. The findings are considered unpresentable and the project is scrapped, and so the programmer decides to take them on himself. The results of the human experiment are initially disastrous; he gets further injured, likely due to his existing condition combined with the extremeness of the regimen. But the struggle has taken on a meaning and vitality all its own; he simply can't stop because doing so would require acknowledging his genetic incapacity for it, and that all his research really is a failure; failing to go through all of it would mean accepting that he is a failure. So with a lunatic fanatacism he goes through it all and gains superhuman physical capabilities. But the entire process has required such personal costs, injury, isolation, and abandonment of his original goals in school that he is left with nothing but his rebuilt self and a bunch of research that nobody is willing to publish. In spite of his newfound strength, he is no uberman. In the face of overwhelming nihilism, where does he go from here? To become a hero? To become a villain? To become a nobody? TO BE CONTINUED

Can't tell if trolling or not: "Daigo: That’s what it comes down to. When I think about if a character is good or not, I look to see if they have a Shoryuken-style move. Not an invincible attack per se, but rather if the SRK motion will produce an invincible attack or not. The SRK command…? Daigo: Yeah, mashing is too good. (laughs) (ed. note: Daigo refers to ガチャガチャ, or literally spinning the joystick around and pressing buttons at the same time)"

Question for ye who are medically/training inclined (so Peter and Long): Short version: - is there a fast way to determine your literal physical breaking point without actually breaking anything? - what is the optimal way to increase the threshold on that without actually breaking anything? Long version: I have a simple problem when it comes to physical training. I have the will to do it, I can control my diet, and I don't mind sucking at it to begin with. The problem is that I am quite literally brittle. Last term I got a stress fracture in my left foot, and it basically nixed me for two months. This term, I got a soft tissue injury in my root foot, and an x-ray on it revealed that a few weeks earlier, I had already gotten a minor stress fracture in my right foot as well! I'm not exactly going Van Damme and trying to kick down trees; all I've been doing is jogging (1 mile), sprints (total distance of 1 mile), and a few sets of jumps/crunches/etc. No lifting of heavy weights, no jumping off 20ft ladders, or anything crazy like that. So aside from becoming Samuel L Jackson in UNBREAKABLE, what can I do?

Yeah, that's the feeling I got from it what with the Commander role it will have in team matches. It always amazes me, though, how From Software keeps releasing AC games that not even all the AC fans like... there is so much whining with every AC release that as far as I can tell the only good AC game that was ever made, by consensus, is Master of Arena. Or maybe the vocal internet AC fanbase is just like NMA or sth.

In any case, don't sell yourselves short unnecessarily. Armored Core 5 screenshots show entire squads of mechs parachuting in and a police line of riot-squad-looking mechs. I totally want this game now.

Well, you mention that you're doing some ubicomp stuff, but that's about it. Nobody has any idea what you're actually doing, and more importantly, what kind of people are there. Sure you say that you've got UBC alums, but what do they know about? What expertise/experience do they have? Who are they? Keeping the seekrit projekt under wraps isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it wouldn't hurt to say something about why the people behind this startup are awesome, and therefore why anybody would be excited to work with them.