Uncle Phil

It doesn't "ruin" your body anywhere near to the degree that tobacco, alcohol, or fucking fast food does. There are way too many self-important dickfaces exaggerating the negative side effects of something they know nothing about, because they've been told all their lives by mommy and daddy that it's fucking death in a bag. There's no point in repeating the same arguments over and over, the brainwashed haters are just going to keep their hands over their ears, screaming nonsense. Marijuana is not dangerous, and has plenty of beneficial effects. But fuck, if nobody listened to that from a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry from Harvard Medical School, they're not going to listen to it from me. If you're at all interested in stopping being an ignorant, hypocritical douchebag, watch this half-hour video. It's from an HBO series, and debunks the common myths and bullshit scare tactics surrounding drugs. If you aren't willing to watch it and learn something, then seriously shut your uneducated mouth and get the fuck out of this thread. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3025396475247394113

Holy christ, there's a lot of ignorance and exaggerating going on in this thread. Everyone understands that your lungs don't enjoy processing burnt plant matter. We know damn well that marijuana smoking isn't a healthy habit, but then, neither is eating at McDonald's. This is an internet gaming forum, so if you're reading this and you have a big-ass gut hanging down over your cock right now, you're almost certainly in worse health than your average stoner. Weed is one of a long list of things that aren't really good for you, but some people enjoy these things enough that they are willing to accept the negative side effects. Ever broken a finger playing football? It fucking sucks, but it's a risk you take when you play. In reference to the rhetoric-laden, deliberately inflammatory article that keeps getting flogged: granting, overdoing the hell out of something is bad for you. Big fucking surprise. Yeah, you're going to have serious side effects if you're stoned twenty four hours a day, but you're also going to have serious side effects if you play online poker all day and night. People can get hooked on ANY habitual behaviour that gives them a feeling of pleasure or thrill. World of Warcraft addictions fuck up a hell of a lot of lives. Overdoing weed is as bad as overdoing anything else, but there are plenty of legal things that do a hell of a lot more damage to society, including both alcohol and tobacco. Sure, a lot of people still believe that "marijuana is the DEVIL!" but that's mostly because every president since Nixon has used widely publicized (and largely ineffectual) drug crackdowns as a way of trying to appear tough on crime.

CT trumps crocodile.

Prescience of mind is no substitute for courage.

It's a tough question; on the one hand it's infuriating how expensive the tickets and the garbage "food" is at theaters. You pay $5 for a big cup of pop, and $5 for a bag of popcorn. Well, the paper cup cost about five cents, the fountain pop they filled it with cost them another twenty cents, and the popcorn bag and popcorn only cost another few cents. So you're paying $10 for food that cost them less than a dollar to provide, which is a THOUSAND PERCENT MARKUP. That being said, the food is the only place the theater makes any money. They get gouged so badly on the right to show the movie that they're lucky to break even on ticket sales. So we end up in a situation where food and tickets for 2 people costs $30+. That blows. Sure, I'll bite the bullet once in a while for a movie I really want to see on the big screen, like summer blockbusters, but I do pirate movies occasionally and I don't feel morally hung up about it. Yeah, we see that stupid "DON'T STEAL MOVIES KTHX" ad with the stunt guy bitching about how you're stealing food from his plate. Not to put too fine a point on it, but fuck him. The problem is not that the movies aren't generating enough revenue; the problem is the same as it is in every other industry: certain people involved in the production make absolutely retarded quantities of money, and that means that all the little people get shafted. So the stuntman is only making $40,000 a year, but not because I didn't pay my $10; he's making shit money because the production company budgeted $20 million dollars to pay the lead three actors. It's woefully inconsistent across the board, and completely arbitrary. Who the hell decided that costume designers should get paid three times as much as sound people? Piracy is not a real threat to the movie industry as a whole, only a perceived threat to the profits of the people raking in the biggest bottom lines. Putting low-paid special effects operators in commercials complaining about piracy is deceptive, misleading bullshit: the people screwing him are his own bosses, not the public. I mean come on, seriously, fuck these people. Who else would get on a fifty-foot screen and tell all their customers to their face that they're thieves?

I'm not into anime generally but somebody sent me an .mp3 called "Pet Food" that apparently is from "Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex O.S.T. 2 (2004)". It's pretty awesome.

Hey all, I'm a longtime SC player but I've never really been active in the community... I found this site while googling for information about how not to get drophacked... it seems like every douchebag on b.net has a drophack these days and you can pretty much expect to be crashed/frozen/disconnected every time you start to win a game. But anyway, I hope to learn a thing or two from the more experienced folks around. Much bigger lurker than poster though. Take it easy!