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Re: Caydr: A chronicle of drunkenness

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Oh, you should try some sauna and see how long you can last :-)

Just dont do it now when you are already in the near-death state.
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Um, you do know that if you stay up for so long, you will start to develop psychotic symptoms don't you? :| Go to sleep already. Sleep is a good thing and I don't think you'll be doing anything as nice a dreaming of something like oranges and jasmine tea or anything like that while you're awake watching those shows.
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That differs from person to person, I've been awake for ~3 days
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I generally (well, it happened once) start singing incoherently about VGA.
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Peet wrote:I generally (well, it happened once) start singing incoherently about VGA.
VGA asin video graphics array? :p
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Yes...I'm an audiovisual techinician, I was coiling up a BNC RGBHV coaxial cable with vga breakouts on either end.
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Peet wrote:Yes...I'm an audiovisual techinician, I was coiling up a BNC RGBHV coaxial cable with vga breakouts on either end.
I cant even pretend i understood half of that... coaxial and vga im fine with, but im lost with hte rest :P
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rattle wrote:That differs from person to person, I've been awake for ~3 days
Yep, I've heard that it takes about a week for some people, but still that's what's likely to happen.
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Panda wrote:
rattle wrote:That differs from person to person, I've been awake for ~3 days
Yep, I've heard that it takes about a week for some people, but still that's what's likely to happen.
I've been awake for 3 months.
Beat that Cyder.
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Cabbage wrote:
Peet wrote:Yes...I'm an audiovisual techinician, I was coiling up a BNC RGBHV coaxial cable with vga breakouts on either end.
I cant even pretend i understood half of that... coaxial and vga im fine with, but im lost with hte rest :P
BNC refers to the type of connectors
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RGBHV refers to the signal, Red Blue Green Horizontal sync Vertical sync component video.
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Beat that Cyder
...in the groin
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So some more on Gantz.

I think what ultimately ruined the show for me were the things that just don't make sense. I mean, moreso than one is used to when watching this kind of thing. For instance, the most glowing golden example I can think of would be in a certain episode, a certain female character and her boyfriend are fighting a certain enemy who fights by throwing acid.

The male character in question is standing around thinking about sports or laundry or something, as usual. The female character is on the far side of the room. The acid-death-bearing enemy is about 5 feet away from the male character.

Here's a diagram, you'll understand in a minute why it's needed.

E
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M
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F

E= enemy, M = Male character, F = female character. They're all in this room and that's their relative position to one another.

The acid is thrown at Male Character's midsection. It is now about half-way to the male character, who is paralyzed with either fear or terminal dumbness, just stands there. They've already seen an example of what it does, and it sure as hell isn't pretty, in fact it's depicted so graphically it's probably one of the main things that got this show rated R.

Female character - wearing a supersuit I should add, which enhances speed, strength, gives invisibility, and provides protection... (*realizes where the idea for Crysis came from*) ...RUNS across the room. Fast. Really freaking fast. The acid was already in midair remember.

She suddenly changes course, heading towards Male Character. Yay they'll be saved.

No, instead of doing what any person with DnD intellect of 8 or higher would do, pushing Male Character out of the way, she actually runs further than she has to and intercepts the acid with her own body in mid air. Horrible death ensues. What the hell was that?

OH! OH and there's the parts where the characters just don't shoot at the enemy standing right in front of them for no reason other than to die and be dramatic.

Damn I hate that show. I hate it mainly for the wasted potential. You can tell they were on to a good idea right from the start of the series and they screwed it up.
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