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#611 Re: The Garden » Not a trip...a journey » 870 weeks ago
TheMole wrote:James Lofton wrote:Know who you've landed up with this time, pal?
The fucking condom dickhead killers!Disturbing movie that, shame 'bout the weak ending though.
While it may have been a tad anticlimactic, how else could it have ended? In my opinion it was the only logical conclusion. Could they have approached it a bit differently? Sure, but it was going in that direction no matter what.
I kinda had the feeling it started disintegrating into a roughed-up amateurish version of Thelma and Louise near the end. I don't have a problem with the way the story wrapped up but the imaging and direction was overly bitter sweet and too drawn out for my taste. I know it was Virginie Despentes' first (and only) film as a director, but she started out fairly strong and I just had bigger hopes for the rest of the flick.
#612 Re: The Garden » Not a trip...a journey » 870 weeks ago
Know who you've landed up with this time, pal?
The fucking condom dickhead killers!
Disturbing movie that, shame 'bout the weak ending though.
#613 Re: GNRevolution Madness » GnREvolution Arcade Madness - Nominations Mark II » 870 weeks ago
Someone really needs to nominate Resident Evil 4!
#614 Re: GNRevolution Madness » GnREvolution Arcade Madness - Nominations Mark II » 870 weeks ago
Ghostbusters (the old one, although I'm playing the new one now and it's damn good)
Little Big Adventure (seriously, kick ass game!)
Unreal Tournament
Silent Hill 2
#615 Re: The Garden » The Rant Thread » 870 weeks ago
We then turn around and immediately connect "your a good friend" with "lube up, here it comes".
Amazingly excellent wording. I actually laughed out loud with that one 
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#616 Re: The Garden » The Rant Thread » 870 weeks ago
yeah...concern is that 90% of the time though, the guy will be unable to have a normal balanced friendship with a girl he's attracted to that heavily.
Especially cos appart from the heartache of that, you basicly shut out all the other options out there.
Oooh, that sounds like a self-esteem problem mate. I used to have that, big-time. Chased one girl for months on end thinking she was the one (got to be friends with her first), got fucking close to winning her over too, but eventually I fucked-up, spoiled the opportunity and she moved on. Not 'cause we were friends, but 'cause someone with more guts than me came along and swept her away.
I obsessed about the missed opportunity for over 6 months and actually missed two other _great_ opportunities while at it. In the end, I realized she wasn't the one for me anyway. No matter how good we clicked on an emotional level, we wouldn't have gotten along (bloody-rare-steak-loving-materialistic-capitalist-pig (me) versus vegetarian-floaty-painting-artist-neo-hippie-type (her); image that living together). I was too far gone, fussing about the missed opportunity to notice that:
1. It wouldn't have worked out anyway.
2. Two other girls (one extremely pretty) were all over me.
3. I was fucking up a perfectly good friendship, not by having tried, but by obsessing over it afterward.
In the end, everything worked out fine for me and her. She actually looked me back up after a long time about 3 months ago. But like Axlin says, you need to be open minded enough to realize the opportunities around you and learn to be critical of your feelings. You might be able to avoid learning those lessons by not having any female friends you really like at all and shunning those that you start to get deeper feelings for, but that's just avoiding the underlying problem.
Hell, you make it sound like it's a bigger problem to have tried and failed than it is to have never tried at all (and keep on fussing about the missed opportunities as an inevitable result of that). You never had that "what if only I tried a little harder" moment?
#617 Re: GNRevolution Madness » GnREvolution Arcade Madness Prelim Round » 870 weeks ago
NBA jam was amazing. Pippen had a "sweet spot" on that court, and I could hit 3 pointers all night with him. Didn't even need Horace Grant. He was a decoy.
Aaaah, "He's heating up", followed by "He's on Fire!". Sweet sweet 16-bit sound effects 
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#618 Re: Guns N' Roses » The 'Lost' GNR Album from '96 » 870 weeks ago
I really have thought for years that GN'R & Metallica go hand and hand. Metallica IS what GN'R would've been had they stayed together. A band that spit and sputtered basically since the early 90's at their zenith of popularity, and only now have seemingly on the train back on the tracks, understanding that they are now a nostaglia act for the most part, and their days of cultural relevance and ruling the world, are long over.
Yeah, same here, I still remember those hard rock and metal magazines pitting the two against each other in head-to-head reviews of the bands, scoring them on individual items, etc... Amazing how many GNR vs Metallica articles I've read during those few years they ruled the musical roost.
Although I must say that reasoned for years that had GNR not dropped the ball both them and Metallica would've been a lot more relevant at least for a much larger part of the decade. They really didn't put up much of a fight against the Grunge movement.
#619 Re: The Garden » The Rant Thread » 870 weeks ago
Why do you guys think trying to cultivate something more with a friend is risking the relationship? I dunno about you guys, but I usually don't have to _ask_ a girl how she feels about me, so if you get the feeling it's all building up to nothing then don't bother pushing beyond what you can actually get from this girl. She probably isn't that into you anyway and never will be.
Most girls will feel what you're trying to do and ignore it without having any hard feelings towards you, she'll give you ever so subtle hints that she's not interested. If she doesn't want to be your friend anymore 'cause you have feelings for her, she wasn't that good of a friend to begin with.
Listen, I'm not trying to say you can make something happen with every friend of the opposite sex you have, all I'm saying is that becoming friends first should not be perceived a problem. If you get the feeling you're actually stuck in the friends zone, she probably wouldn't have been interested either way.
The problem isn't the friend zone, the problem is disinterest. This also ties in with Axlin's remark about girls knowing if you're boyfriend material from the moment they meet you. Most of the time they do, but being a potential partner is a big step from actually being one. Becoming friends first along the way is no hindrance.
The friend zone is not the land of wasted opportunities it's made out to be. If you're stuck there you didn't have a chance to begin with.
#620 Re: The Garden » The Rant Thread » 871 weeks ago
I have never seen Mole's theory work... ever.
Might have something to do with the girls I tend to like, or maybe it's just me, but I've never had it happen any other way .
I guess my latest is probably the most obvious example. I had known her for almost 5 years before things really started happening between us. I wasn't actually trying during those 5 years (was dating someone else), so that might explain it a bit, but she was one of my best friends during that time.
Although rumor has it that she wanted to hook up from the moment we met, but since I was already seeing someone she settled for one of my friends... scary shit.
