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Mwahahahaha! SO wrong!

So far, I've only seen one game out of it I would like to play. And agreed on the Sony PS. I see no need to upgrade my PS3 to be honest. The game selection just isn't what I want to play. Sadly, I think all the outside the box thinking is going into the mobile field.

Hehehe.... I can't wait for the main story to begin. Not to say the Short Stories aren't awesome.... just that the main story is what it all leads up to.

Heh... no worries. Feel free to check them out whenever. As for my age, I think I fall in-between your age and Zel's. As for the avatar, yes, but Zel and I both have custom ones

Heh.... that was actually a pretty fun image to work on. jmsepe: Sorry so long to reply to you! Nice to see another fellow Zel fan on here (I'm a good friend of his...). We gay writers are everywhere! Just some of us can't seem to get free time to write.... like ever... Anyways, I look forward to getting to see what you're writing some time. Zel: Sorry it's taken so long to comment here (you know me... work work work). I swear to god, that little mouse plush one cracks me up every time I see it. I swear cats make that same exact face when they have something like that. Looking forward to the further rewrites!

Well, it's rare when I pop in here, but here it goes. Each and every one of my cities are plateau-ing at approximately 50,000-55,000... I've checked every single mod (which is no fun feat with as large of a plugins folder as I have collected in the years). It seems to be the new NAM download that is causing this. No NAM, sudden and full population growth. With NAM, R$ and CO$$$ growth plummets to 0, with R$$ and R$$$ and all other C skyrocketing with no growth whatsoever. Any thoughts?

Most recent version of NAM (31.2... directly from SC4D). I have removed almost all plugins to test this (a 4 hour ordeal) and the only folder causing an issue is the NAM one. Even tried just adding NAM back in by itself, issue arises. I have let it run for 50 years in game with no changes. Using medium simulation level for traffic simulator with no congestion. No other plugins that seem to be effecting this, since I have removed all recent plugins first (up to 6 months prior). As for running Rivit's DateNode... it's not compatible with my .NET framework at this point, so no go on there. Finally able to get .Net 2.0 working. testing now.

Cannot find this one for the life of me! Any suggestions on where to find the dam? -Porter

Well, time to comment I suppose.   Noticed several typos in the dialogue that after a while made it hard to read. Some of the pictures have some good photoshopping... but others are past over done, or not done enough.   For example, the snow storm... It looked like two different rain layers to me... and was way past too bright for being a night scene. The background layers looked like they had too much motion blur, and due to the amount of snow layers above it, I honestly wouldn't have been able to tell you what I was looking at unless you told me.   Then with the stone pictures. It feels too dark around the edges, and the alien lettering feels like it was an afterthought and just thrown in there for effect. Also, the lighting effect doesn't match the shadows in many instances.   I'm not saying that you have a bad CJ. I like it, its quite good, and its rather original compared to what is currently out on ST. But I think it needs more work. :)

There are actually several very important reasons why you should NEVER EVER EVER EVER NEVER EVER carry your luggage with you off a plane that has crashed, this even includes things like purses and man-bags. First, for luggage. This adds a delay for you getting off the plane. Sometimes that extra second is the difference between getting off a not yet burning plane and being trapped with a wall of flames between you and the exit. Also, some people cram those with as much stuff as they can. I don't know about you, but a 50lbs item on my chest down a slide sounds like perfect potential for broken ribs. And thats saying you COULD hold on to it one you suddenly stop at the bottom of the slide. How are you going to grab on to the people at the bottom of the slide meant to catch you? You can't. Your hands are full. And have you ever tried to go from lying down to standing with a giant piece of luggage on top of you? Go try it... I'll wait.... See, not as easy as it sounds. Time is of the essence in these situations and you've now potentially bottlenecked the exit even further. Don't be the guy that sacrifices a few fellow passengers for some laptop. Just don't. Purses and man-bags. Yes, I know, you need money, identification. But do you think its wise to have something strapped around your neck or arm that you can potentially either get caught on, or even hang yourself on? I don't. I'll live without an ID until I can get a new one thanks. Or even better, put your wallet in your pocket and keep it in there on takeoff and landing. Problem solved. And lastly... Robot planes... sorry, but this is one of the key reason I don't like stepping on an Airbus. And it all comes down to design mentality. Airbus likes to design their planes to take as much of the pilot out as possible. The pilots new role is to sit and watch dials to make sure the computer is working right. Ever sit and watch a bunch of numbers for hours on end? Humans are not made for this. We get bored and tired with monotony. In fact, I believe the Air France A330 crash a few years back named this as part of the cause... essentially the automation paradox: link. Pilots were too focus on the computer correcting what was wrong, and lost valuable training to fix the problem. As we say in medicine, you don't use your knowledge, you lose it. Boeing, on the other hand, takes the philosophy of the computer automating only the most mundane things and providing the pilot as much information as possible so the he/she can focus on quick second decisions, something humans are very well wired to do.

:facepalm: No... last I checked, Zel has a Twinkie instead of a Choco-Taco down there. After all, last I checked, its legal in many places for a guy to marry another guy.

Sulfonamides (Sulfa drugs/common antibiotic) and onions (yes.... ONIONS). I actually have a rare enough reaction to sulfa that my joints swell up, I spike a fever of about 105F, my skin starts peeling like I have a really awful sunburn, and my blood pressure severely drops (thats what happened last time I took it... happens to be some of the same symptoms of SJS/TEN). Also, if come in contact with it again, there is good chance that my heart could just suddenly stop. As for onions, the second i touch them, insta-hives. Same with eating them.... you can actually watch the hives spread down my chin and along my throat if I eat any.

That crackling sound isn't Rice Crispies....

Exit 333 Threeville: Home of the Threes Next Rest Stop: 33.33333mi

This continual time loop is so freaking funny!

really missed the number there.... Exit 330 Bypass for Threeville Expressway

One of those awkward moments where the mole on your face becomes self aware, jumps off your face, and chooses to be a girl.

If we did that, would that mean I'd have to do any work?

Ok, seriously? The US refuses to use the metric system... because terrorism? Really... I'm just going to pretend you didn't know what you were saying there Alejandro... because if I don't, I think I might get really mean and nasty fast. In reality, the US uses a lot of metric daily. In fact, nearly everywhere I go (and I live in the midwest) we display many things in both metric and imperial. The only thing I don't really see in metric is distances. Everything else, be it volume, temperature, even weight is generally displayed in both values here in a multitude of different areas (retail, medicine, banking even [see temperature signs on most banks]). We also teach our students both systems. I was taught metric, as well as imperial. I tend to only rely on metric for certain things, and prefer imperial for most of my day to day. It works better for me, simple as that. Snick25, I think you put it best there...

Well, please explain your position then Agreed... Kind of unfair nasty_goofy, to attack my position without explaining why you disagree with it. Not only that, I don't see where I have contradicted myself. Instead of just posting a snide and mocking comment (frankly... that was clearly what you intended to come across as), it would be a lot better to actually add to the conversation.

Each reiteration of the meter has used a different method, as well as become more and more arbitrary and esoteric with the new method. The first one used a pendulum for a half second swing, then it was a fraction of the earth's meridian, then based off a platinum bar, then the measurement of over a million krypton light wavelengths... now its a fraction of light over a extremely minute fraction. Sorry, but each reiteration makes it harder and harder for the average person to understand a meter. Something that is defined purposefully in a way so that people could understand it easily is the very antithesis of arbitrary. And guess what, the average person is going to relate much better to looking at their own foot than they would conceptualizing 1/299792458 of a second of light traveling in a vacuum. And before I get it posted again, there are way too many differences in a stride. and having measured out a meter and trying to put it in my own stride... yeah, that's not exactly easy for anyone under 6 ft. Sorry.... A bed, really? That only works for metric countries. Using one's leg? Again, last I checked humans comes in a massive amount of heights... so.... no... can't really use that. Feet tend to be about the same size across gender and race for adults. Are their outliers? Sure, but guess what, those are a lot less common than height, stride, and beds. Is looking at one's foot exact? No. Nor is it meant to. If I want exact, precise, scientific measurements, I will use the SI unit. But to convey distance to someone who has no point of reference on distance, or to find a basic distance on the fly? I'm using Imperial. Also important to note, one form of travel nearly the exact same across the world is air travel.... guess what? They still use the foot for altitude. Why? Because when it matters, the foot gives a small enough measurement without being too small to become hard to comprehend, or too large as to increase the amount of error. Sometimes a specialized form of measurement works better than a common format.

Erm... the meter has stayed the same since 1799? Really? Uh... someone better contact science, history, and Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#Timeline_of_definition

1cm is roughly the pinkie at the tip. The other fingers are wider, and all fingers are wider as you approach the palm - about 2cm wide at the proximal phalanges for me. Measuring across the palm and thumb with all fingers pressed together gives 10cm. Which I have just checked with a ruler I happened to have lying around. Erm... didn't you just restate what I said? I was pointing out that the fingers of the average adult is NOT 1cm. And thus one number or the other is wrong. Granted, what I said is a tiny bit confusing depending how you read it... but... yeah.

Ehem... ok Duke..... so let's say that our understanding is off by only 0.5% for the speed of light. Not very much really, in the grand scheme of things. That makes the planet Earth either 64km smaller or larger. May not seem like much, but it can be the difference between a successful space landing, and certain doom. And what is half a percent (0.5%) of 1 billion? 5,000,000. (million) Granted, yes, at this point we have a uncertainty of 10^-10 of the speed of light, but then again, we're human and prone to mistakes. We change our ideas on impossibility and possibility on a daily basis. So, remember: just because its a small change, doesn't mean it doesn't add up fast in larger numbers. This is the problem with having something standardized that everyone can relate to. I don't know about you, but I have no idea how to visualize the current definition of the meter. Yes, I have heard the "rules of thumb" but keep in mind that just like it's Imperial counterpart, the meter has changed in the past, and will change in the future. Also, the rules of thumb I've seen from our European/global users has varied greatly, and often had way too much leeway in the way of being even approximate, if at all correct. As for the American's think its weird and wrong, or that we're special or popularity.... Well, explain to me why other nations also still use imperial values? I don't think my nation is special... and popularity? What?! Each style of measurement has pros and cons. Temperatures for example... Celsius works great for dealing with heavy scientific use... Kelvin works great for atomic physics... Fahrenheit works great when dealing with the human body in minute numbers. Each one is used for different things. Shall I even mention the Rankine Scale, or Rømer, or Newton, or Delisle, or even the Réaumur? Same with distances, if I want to deal with distances quickly, I use imperial. If i'm making precise, exact sizes, I use metric. And guess what, I can use both on the fly, and so can my coworkers.... and we live in the middle of nowhere, center of the United States. And we aren't the only ones who don't seem to generally have a problem with both systems. I went to Canada, and guess what, I had no problem working in both. So to say that we're stuck in our ways, and only ever use Imperial, thats overgeneralizing and wrong. Not only that, but everyone who says that our unit of measurement is wrong (with a base 12 system) guess what, we all have the same unit of time... and thats flat out confusing, archaic, and guess what, its constantly changing. The official definition of a second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom. Heh... with something as arbitrary as that, why not make a second the answer to life, the universe, and everything else? Base 42 time y'all!!!