A few weeks after I moved to the city, I had to do the dishes at the place where I lived. The plates were piled to the ceiling. Little did I know when I accepted the duty was that one of my roommates had left a "gift" for me underneath the mountain of bowls and cups: An off-brown resin that lined the sink. For 20 minutes, I cleaned that sink, subduing the gag reflex the whole while. I later found out that the off-brown resin had once been peanut butter.

It's either "Casper: the Not-So-Friendly Ghost" or "Casper the Not-So-Friendly Ghost: Revenge of Casper."

I just got my live hookup today, and was going to the "Hero's Tale" website to unlock the otherworldly content. The first scene plays, but the next one doesn't load. When I went here last year, the whole thing played fine, now it doesn't ...Is anyone else having this problem??

Someone at the call center I used to work at would begin every call with, "Hello caller, you're on the air..."

Even though he was supposed to be doing phone surveys, he would pretend to be a radio DJ.

If I'm honest, he was actually humorous to listen to. But when I thought of the people he was disturbing...and how he was giving the rest of us a bad name...I wanted to smack him in the head.

Of course I didn't say anything. It's not my nature to sabotage people. I reasoned that sooner or later he would slip up and do the routine when a supervisor was listening in on him.

The point I'm trying to make is...

...blow up on her.

You're asking these things at your young age...wait until you get to be my age (I'm 30). Yeah, being alone sucks, but at some point, you've got to change your attitude. Hold your head up high, try to at least appear confident (even if you don't feel confident at a given time) and you're sure to get some positive results.

Take me. Years ago, I used to go out into the world with a cloud over my head. I was unhappy, and it showed. Then one day, I told myself I was going to hold my head up, smile and not slouch no matter what happened. On the very first day I did, women definitely took notice...I had a really hot one approach me that same day, and I could tell she was noticing my new approach.

If no one is approaching you, then you're probably sending out vibes that make younger women uncomfortable. Women just don't like the "sad, pity me" look because it implies you have baggage.

The world is not out to get you. Women don't all belong to some exclusive underground group that gets together at a secret nightclub every Friday night to discuss who won't be getting any. It's you.

If you're referring to the freedom of blowing smoke in people's faces, well, count me out of your idea of freedom.

It's always struck me as strange how smokers are so quick to cite their freedom, generally with a complete disregard for the freedom of a non smoker to breathe reasonably clean air and to envision a future without an iron lung, but that's just my opinion.

You just need to toggle your expectations.

I originally joined up thinking this site would help me go from "single" to "not single." I haven't had much luck at all, and so dismissed the notion of meeting single women through here long ago. Nonetheless, I still come here regularly to navigate the forums. But it is rare that I click on the search option.

Ah, the plight of the gamer. I know it well.

Meh, I remember when I was all hyped up about Star Trek Legacy. The initial release for that game was to be September '06. Then they pushed it back to mid-October. Then late-October. Then three more delays in November, followed by another delay in early-December. In between, there was one or two sudden TBA postings...At one point, every site I went to had a different prospective release date. By the time Legacy was finally released in mid-December, I had bitten my nails to the bone.

It doesn't matter if the economy is good or bad...It might have an impact, but basically the state of the economy has very little to do with the million and one things that go into the production of a game. Games were being delayed long before the drought, and I suspect will continue to be delayed long after.

I bow to the superior geekdom displayed in this thread.

What about those non smokers who are sick and tired (literally) of being trapped in a cloud of smoke in non-drinking restaurants...What about those of us who don't drink?

It's a moot point for me...the public smoking ban has been in effect through most of Canada for about a decade. And I for one am glad that my days of coming home from a public place feeling like I swallowed battery acid are in the past.

But anyway, who said non-smoking drinkers are hypocrites? They choose to drink, just as they choose not to smoke. It's not about hypocrisy, it's about personal choice.

Someone want to tell me what the hell is wrong? I was at the site, then logged out and went to yahoo.com (my homepage) but instead of the site, I got this pop-up that said "Would you like to save this program or find something to download it with" or some crap like that...well I tried opening a new window three times, and each time I get the same message. Now it's fine, or obviously I wouldn't be typing this.

Did I just dodge a virus?

It better not be anything remotely resembling T3.

OH MY GOD, THAT IS REALLY BAD!!!!!!!!















There's a new Terminator movie................And I didn't even hear about it???

Someone who is reasonably attractive and isn't a "proud of being a b*tch" girl isn't asking for too much I hope.

We all have to have some standards, after all, otherwise how can we ever hope to be satisfied?

U smack 'er in da head wit' yo' hot guitar, dat's wat u do!

The one where she does that thing... ...you know...THAT THING...

Buy disc, open disc, put disc in cd tray, close cd tray, play game. Simple gaming. If a game has enough issues and flaws that I would seriously like it to be modded, then it's not worth buying.

And that is exactly why I am not a PC gamer. I don't have the inclination or the patience to learn to modify and change it, and if I did know, I still wouldn't deem it worth the effort. Maybe that makes me a lazy gamer. So be it then.

But it's not nature. If the polar bears go extinct because of the shrinking ice caps it will not be the result of any random cataclysm. It will be a direct consequence of what humans consciously brought about, and is yet another confirmation of the destructive power of man.

We all deny the evidence that the world is changing because we think it has no affect on how we live. But just wait. Eventually, it will affect us all.

To everyone who says, who cares about the polar bears, who cares about the whales and the birds and the trees and all those things because none of that has any negative reflection on my life, think about the cumulative impact on the world, and on your life when those things and others are gone.

Think about potential cures for serious diseases that are gone forever when people thoughtlessly level our rain forests for paper products and the like.

We're all arrogantly destroying the world around us, while convincing ourselves, "As long as it does not impact me in the here and now, who the hell cares?"

Instead of condemning environmentalists because they're concerned about saving something vital and important, concern yourselves of where the world will be in a few hundred years if nothing is done.

This is exactly why I'm not a PC gamer.