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What do Elvis Presley, Al Gore, Billy Barty, Hulk Hogan, Abbot, Costello, Genghis Kahn, Gandalf the Grey, Adolf Hitler, Timothy McVeigh, William Shakespear, and Marlon Brando have in common?

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They were all involved in a massive orgy shortly before being murdered by OJ Simpson.

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(I prefer anti-humor, as you can see)

MAN 1: It's a good thing pencils can't talk.
MAN 2: Why is that, good sir?
MAN 1: Because I couldn't bear to hear them scream as I drag their little pencil genitalia across a peice of paper.
MAN 2: Gasp!

These are all very wonderful catchphrases...




FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!

Once upon a time, TV's Bob Barker was taking a walk down the street.
He passed by the mail man. "Morning, Bob!" said the mail man.
"Good morning. How are things?" said Bob Barker.
"Oh, just--" suddenly, the mail man was staring at Bob Barker's face.
"What is it?" said Bob Barker.
"I, um.... I have to go," said the mail man, quickly walking away.
Bob Barker shrugged and continued down the street. He passed near the 7-11, and decided to go in and buy some bread.
Inside, he grabbed a loaf of bread and walked up to the counter. The cashier was away from the counter, so Bob Barker rang the bell. A few seconds later, the cashier showed up at the counter and took Bob Barker's bread.
"How's the store doing, sir?" said Bob Barker.
"Very--" suddenly, the cashier stared at Bob Barker's face. "Um," he said, and quickly rang up the loaf of bread and took Bob Barker's payment. "Thank you," he said.
Bob Barker left, puzzled. He decided to head back to his home. When he got there, he took off his shoes and went up to his room.
"Hmm. I wonder why people keep staring at my face?" he wondered to himself, standing in front of the dresser. Just then, he noticed something in the mirror:

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His face was completely missing, leaving his muscles, veins and bone exposed to the world.

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Because graphics matter.

Hmm... I just think this isn't a very graceful way of saying goodbye to him. He never said he wasn't going to come back soon. In all honesty, saying you won't miss him is just picking a fight and is more likely to drag him back to argue with you. But so far he's been mature enough NOT to. I just don't see a problem. Regardless of how he may act on IRC, Mitar's been around long enough to warrent a goodbye thread now that he's leaving. I'm sure if for some reason you had to leave, you'd want to make a final farewell. If you don't like Mitar, and you want to remove all chances of a graceful goodbye and drag this thread out, then by all means flip him off behind his back. Or...

Mitar, see you around. Best wishes. Sorry to hear about your loss.

Is that so hard? If you wish Mitar had better etiquette, then exhibit a little to him when it matters.


EDIT: Yeah, Dark. Lock the thread...

No, I just think it's not very polite, especially since Mitar is going through a family loss. Don't you think it's hypocritical for M0ds to rail on Mitar for acting inappropriately when it would be MUCH more appropriate for M0ds to either try to keep Mitar's departure peaceful, or say nothing at all?

Don't you think the way we anticipate the game will affect our final opinions when it finally comes out? If we get it into our minds that the game "sucks" before it comes out, it might be hard to shake that idea, even as we play it.

Give him a break. I never found anything too juvenile about Mitar's posts. Especially after the whole Hosamov ordeal.
M0ds, if you don't like Mitar and don't wish to bid him a polite farewell, I think any other moderator would agree that you should never have posted in this thread at all.

Yeah... The way I see it is... we got over the bubonic plague, and since then our medical technology has doubled many times over. In this light, I just don't feel very worried.

Is a sequel not allowed to have its own legacy? No one complained when DOTT went in a completely different direction from Maniac Mansion...

Come to think of it, FT2 isn't looking any more action-oriented than Psychonauts...

If they had for example, stopped the Simpsons after the 9th series, and then made all the new episodes under a different name, I'd be able to respect it a lot more.

Well, what's the problem? The name doesn't matter to me. I like the Simpsons for what it is. It rarely fails to achieve what it's aiming for. The problem is that it aims in a different direction now, and this is upsetting for people who are still facing in the original direction.

But when the Simpsons was originally created, the rule laid down was that the family should only get involed in things that *could* happen to a normal everyday family - and this was largely stuck to.
Lately though, it's just become silly and outrageous.

I disagree, they've always gotten into weird situations. The situations may be weirder now, but there's no reason why this is a bad thing. It's certainly not boring.

Where on earth did you just pull out "geeky internet types" from? Nobody likes change, everybody looks back with rose-tinted spectacles - that's the human condition.

Definately. I just note that it happens a lot more on the internet, or at least it vocalized more. I myself am a geeky internet type, but the "jumping the shark" trend made me want to have a different viewpoint from the rest. Mainly I think "jumping the shark" is commonly just an illusion-- maybe the writing for Happy Days took a turn for the worse, but The Simpsons is a lot more complex and I don't feel it deserves to be compared with Happy Days.

In the oldern days, they would most likely have used this to have him say something funny, but instead he just vomits for about a minute. Is that funny? No, it's stupid.

I feel this isn't a very fair method of critisism. I could pick out a gag from an earlier episode that is equally unfunny, and neither of us would prove anything except that sometimes a particular joke isn't funny to a particular person.

EDIT: By the way, this is more interesting than the Debate competitions so far...

http://www.scummbar.com/resources/downloads/fonts.php to be exact.

See what I mean? It's all about expectations. You can't be totally sure that you'd be happy if the show still had the same sense of continuity and level of humor. I'm not saying you SHOULD like the new episodes, I'm just saying that I think it has more to do with the mindframe of the people who don't like it, than the quality of the show.

Well, I say that they didn't "give up" being a clever satirical show-- the clever satire is still very much there. They didn't give up anything. The show has evolved, so what? The jokes are cheaper, yeah, but they're never anything as obvious as fart jokes. Even the Simpsons' cheap humor is clever. What they've done is phased out the "heartwarming" aspect of the earlier seasons, because it was never that funny-- or heartwarming-- to begin with. If the series were exactly the way you wish it were, a large amount of people would still not like it.
Also, I think it's hypocritical that so many of the same people who complain about the Simpsons' humor laugh at similar jokes in South Park and Family Guy. The difference is they EXPECT the Simpsons to be the same as it proved to be a frigging decade ago, and expectation spoils anything you love as soon as it starts moving out of your expectation.
The internet community is obsessed with "jumping the shark", and even before the term was coined, have been desperately applying it to things, because they expect things to have gone bad after a while. Do you think it's any coincidence that some of the things with the biggest geeky cultish fanbase-- Simpsons and Star Wars, for example, are constantly accused/assumed to have Jumped the Shark? People, especially geeky internet types, tend to latch on to things they liked when they were younger, and when they're old and bitter they can't seem to accept anything that challenges the rules layed down by their still-retained childhood adorations. I still think that if someone who's never seen the Simpsons watched the entire series backwards, they'd love the episodes you hate. And, if the process spanned over more than a decade, they'd probably be pretty pissed off by how the earlier seasons just aren't the same as the later seasons. They'd complain about it going soft, and sappy. And that's crazy, right?

It might be so. But even if it does turn out to be an action-adventure, I still think it could be a pretty cool game in its own right. The concept art and character models look quite promising (the screenshots look very incomplete, though.)

...what?

I dunno, that line always amused me. It came out of left field. It's not something you'd hear in an earlier season, and it wasn't supposed to. If you were writing for the Simpsons, you sure as hell wouldn't want to be constricted to only making the sort of jokes made in the earlier seasons. It's a change of style, don't assume it's bad.
If you're really upset by that sort of joke, maybe you shouldn't have made South Park popular.

WOWOWOWOWOW.
I may have to enlist you for Suspico some day...