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Usage of Quotes 3 By: Brian Webber on 10/22/2001; 1:24 PM "Put a ribbon around your neck and be naked." - Meredith Vieira on what Lisa Ling should get her new boyfriend for Christmas, The View I've got a better idea my sweet sexy Meredith. Show up at MY house naked. *starts drooling* Or even better. That leather mini skirt, with the gloves and the handcuffs and the... "I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music." - Billy Joel That is so true. I'm beginning to wonder why Christie Brinkley left you. "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." - E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy I've always said that friendships were very important. I wonder, who amongst here has ever been so cowardice as to betray a dear friend? *points finger accusingly* Cartman: "Don't call me fat, you fucking jew!" Mr. Garrison: "Eric, did you just say the F-word?" Cartman: "Jew?" Kyle: "No, he's talking about "fuck". You can't say "fuck" in school, you fucking fat-ass!" Mr. Garrison: "Kyle!" Cartman: "Why the fuck not?" Mr. Garrison: "Eric!" Stan: "Dude, you just said "fuck" again!" Mr. Garrison: "Stanley!" Kenny: *muffled noise* Mr. Garrison: "Kenny!" Cartman: "What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody. Fuck-fuckety-fuck-fuck-fuck." Mr. Garrison: "How would you like to go see the school councelor?" Cartman: "How would you like to suck my balls?" Mr. Garrison: "What did you say?" Cartman: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Actually, what I said was... [picks up a megaphone] HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUCK MY BALLS, MR. GARRISON." Stan: "Holy shit, dude." - Cartman, Mr. Garrison, Kyle, Stan, and Kenny, South Park: Biggger, Longer, and Uncut *LOL* I just wanted to see if I win the award for "Gratuitous Use of The Word 'Fuck' On An On-line Dicussion Forum." Did I win? "Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind." - Brent Spiner, Star Trek First Contact Oh c'mon! Don't tell me you didn't see this one coming! You had to know that eventually I'd quote Star Trek! "I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string." - Scott Adams Me neither Scott. In fact I think that even string might be too dangerous from some of these wackos. "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." - Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy You know who really makes me laugh? Those guys that think gravity is a myth! Some times I read and hear these nutters, and I just fall out of my chair laughing! "I have a theory that someone accidentally replaced the Star Trek: New Worlds design docs with a list of things you're not supposed to implement in a real-time strategy game. This would explain a lot. It would explain why you can't save a game in progress, so you'll have to play through an entire hour-long scenario in one sitting; if you lose, you get to start over from the very beginning. It would explain why there is no way to change the game speed, or to pause and give orders. It would explain why you can't change any sound or graphics options from within the game. It would explain how Star Trek: New Worlds turned out to be one of the worst real-time strategy games you could inflict on yourself. It would also explain how some basic features you expect in any RTS managed to be left out: A skirmish mode, waypoints for units, patrolling orders, configurable hot keys, designated gathering points for newly-built units, options to move your armies together, and Internet multiplayer support are nowhere to be found in New Worlds. It would explain the hideous interface and the lack of useful information available to the player. It would explain how Klingon, Federation, and Romulan units and buildings are functionally identical with almost nothing to distinguish the three races, aside from a single vehicle at the top of each race's "tech tree." It would explain a convoluted resource model that's completely antithetical to the pace of a real-time strategy game five raw resources are converted into five processed resources with silly science fiction names, with no discernable pattern for why you need them, what they're used for, or where you can get them. It would explain unnecessarily tedious and vague building upgrades, and poorly-used rules for crewmembers and unique trainable officers who can be assigned to different tasks. It would explain why New Worlds is a textbook example of an entirely useless 3D engine making a game harder to play the limited camera control makes it a chore to look where you want to look, not to mention the insufferable difficulty of giving units specific orders for movement and combat. It would explain why drag- selecting a bunch of units and ordering them to attack a target results in a strung-out column of units fumbling their way across the map and arriving at different times so that they can be conveniently destroyed one by one. It would explain the limited group-control options, the way you can only build bases on pre-set tiles, the sluggish graphics, the twitchy mouse support, and the absence of feedback at the end of a scenario. However, what's not explained by my theory is how this wretched excuse for a game was actually packaged into a box and put on shelves. If you were feeling charitable, you might enjoy the atmospheric graphics, the gratuitous lens flare given off by photon artillery, and the detailed bustle of a developed base's cargo ships and construction bees buzzing to and fro. You might even appreciate the unfolding storyline about a new alien race, and some interesting alien ships and structures. And if you were desperate to find some redeeming value, there's always this: After playing New Worlds, suddenly Star Trek Armada and Force Commander don't look so bad." - The review for the PC game Star Trek New Worlds, Computer Gaming World magazine. And the winner for Worst Computer Game Since Daikatana is... "We have a lot of cars." - Texas Governor George W. Bush, on his state's air pollution record. I'm not sure anyone ever told you this Mr. Bush, but you're supposed to stop the Q-Tip when there's RESISTANCE! "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it: and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." ~ Declaration of Independence
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