These places get destroyed awful fast by you rowdy people...

Sorry. I swear, I did not pull the trigger! At least not that one!

Ha...it was my absence that started the slight anarchy.....at least that is what I´ve heard through the grapevine!

I must confess I havent´t the slightest urge to go to work tomorrow, I just sorta got used to have vacation, these last two weeks have been great, lots of sun, swimming, good food, and relaxation. I want more!

Maybe I should just make a short visit to the Plant in the morning to see that everything is alright...then I could ...sort of decide to get back home....or couldn´t I?

We´ll see....

I'm dying here, literally. Heat, humidity and lack of quallity sleep are kicking my butt.
Also, what anarchy?

Hehe, Ibis, I was going to point out that Keenu Reeves is actually Canadian, and since Canada is currently neutral in this situation, he must return back to his native land and withdraw from your current plans.

You can still use your Johnny Depp navy though.

Cool, That's one major element out of the way in our plans to defeat Ibis' armed forces!

Awww, phew, that is not good Mil! It´s better up here...the weather I mean! Oh about anarchy...well read the last part of the previous coffeshop.....pretty funny stuff...hehe...

Ohh don't put on that innocent face now, Milanius. You were part of the rebellion, as I recall. Wasn't he? I think it was the heat rash that had you acting up. Gee Mil, I feel so bad for you about the heat ... especially for your parents.

Let me give you some small comfort in things that we do here in Florida when the heat is inevitable and you've gotta just bear up under it. Especially now, in August - this is our most humid and also hottest time of the year.

One thing to do, no matter where you are - inside or outside - if you have access to ice cubes ... is to apply ice cubes to your wrist vein. Either do it directly by holding it there, or make a little tie-on paper towel or real cloth thingy. Putting the ice directly to your vein can cool down your entire bodily system - although it should be done in increments so your wrist doesn't freeze up.

Sleep/lounge in the hot afternoon ... live your life at night. This is just what ancient Floridians did before air conditioning, like Hemmingway, etc. and many Floridians including ourselves live totally topsy-turvey time schedules in the summer months. Cain and I are usually awake from anywhere from noon to 3pm until around 2-3am in the morining. Then we go to sleep, he often goes to sleep at sunrise but me earlier. We play video games all night basically and wind up having teammates from Germany, Eastern Europe, etc. It's fun.

Also, get the thinnest sheet count or ply of sheets & pillow case that you can find. If you are using an air conditioner .. keep it at a constant setting. But if your bill gets too high, like ours does in August - make it cooler by day and warmer by night, but make the temperature adjustments an hour or two ahead of the actual change in the air ... so you will not tax your air conditioner with this process. Also, use electric fans to help the air conditioning circulate evenly around the room; this can help the bill be cheaper alot. Totally close off any rooms that you do not need from the cooling process. We have a clear plastic drop cloth sealing off our bathroom because it doesn't need to be air conditioned.

Just move and do everything slower and anything that is not of top priority ... don't do at all. Yes, we Floridians look lazy to the outside eye, particularly to tourists ... but we are actually conserving energy for the things in life that matter. End of sentence ...

Only wear cotton and loose clothing and cover up from the sun. Sun is the worst enemy here and real Floridians are pale and youthful looking .... not all tanned like wrinkly leather, those are the tourists who forgot to go home.

Drink lots of liquids of a non=alcoholic type ... our standard drink here is iced tea. We probably have more brands and flavors of iced tea that anywhere in the world, even Texas. Go to the bathroom alot because of it and you are flushing bad stuff out of your system too. Alcoholic beverages inflate your blood vessels and can actually make you feel the heat more .. so don't get drunk in the hottest part of the day.

That's all I can think of now. You probably knew all of this already cause it's mostly common sense .. but it doesn't hurt to be reminded.

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I apologize for the exceptionally long post, but while I was commiserating with Milanius about the heat, forces were gathering against me behind my back.

Let me just make the proclamation .... KEANU REEVES WILL LEAVE MY ARMED FORCES OVER MY DEAD, FEATHER BEDRAGGLED, LIMP, WET BODY ... which is never going to happen because I am a BIRD GODDESS. I will keep my KEANUs forever!!!!!!!

ps-Jack Cloudy, I will buy the first option -Buster Machine number 3: Egg-shaped weapon bigger than a smal planet .. I have your septims waiting.

Dang, why don't defenders ever surrender to avoid the inevitable damage to what they're trying to protect in a long, costly campiegn? They have to make everything an absolute: win or die trying..... but then when they win everything is blown to tiny bits and smoking rubble.

Now there are exceptions to that general outcome, but this is the modern era, where a single ICBM can ravage a small country/state/province. I guess people can just be stubborn, hyper-competitive, steel-for-brains fanatics....... I'm occassionally on of the middle, but I can blame Dantrag for getting me into this war..... He's a fine example, sometimes.

It flooded out here a little bit. Not as much as Watunga and Kingfisher. Everytime something happens weatherwise in this state, they get raped. ice storms, floods, tornados, you name it. I really hope it doesn't rain any more, because I want to go to school tomorrow (especially at the community college, which is pretty close to the river).

My internet connection is crap. Booo 56k. 28.8K right now. XD

I bought new speakers today so I can start playing Alien versus Predator 2 online. I found two people to play with, and I'm hoping to hear from a friend in my CIS community college class. I can't remember if he said he had the first or second one. That is, if I can yank him away from the current online game that has him addicted.

Everyone and their mom was at Walmart. Gaaaaah. And I couldn't find a pencil holder to put in my binder for Spanish II.

Ibis, Pisces, you both realise, of course, that once your forces have exhausted themselves against each other the Irish will sweep in and conquer you both, right?

I only act naughty in, er, other forums. Yes. I behave in here, since I love you all so much. And also, huge thanks for the quality advice for heat reduction, Ibis. <3

Boo at the bad weather [SEND ME YER RAINS!], lack of pencil holders and 56k, yay @ the AvP2.


I hear thunders outside, but no rain still. Meh, just our luck.

It's weird to hear about all the heat problems elsewhere because for the last little while, things have been starting to cool down around here nicely, though it does make campfires a little less enjoyable. Which I like because the sun isn't a huge fan of me. He tends to burn me so I just try to avoid him as much as possible.

I would pass this weather to you milanius if I could but I don't think it'll make the trip across the Atlantic. Sorry buddy.

Yeah, the sun likes doing that to me, too. I've gotten second degree burns from the sun. Took forever to heal. Curse you, mideval fair!

Luckily, last time I went I brought sunscreen. Yeah, I smartened up.

I just got the Irish genes for my skin.

crap, can't have nice milky white skin AND sun resistance all at once.

I tend to burn a bit, it's no biggy though. After several days, redishness blends into tan, but I still prefer to lurk in shadows. Right now, only things tanned on me are my neck and arms up to elbows [since I worked few months ago during another epic village saga].

I've got Pacific Islander genes: natural tan and I've never had a sunburn in my life (at least not a borderline uncomfortable one). I love my genetics,

Oooh lala Wolfie ... the Irish can conquer me anytime!!

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I didn't think I should place this in the FanFic section, but thought some of you writers might be interested in this. I came acrost it in my migratory wind patterns acrost the internet ... actually blew in on a storm to a website that is re-making the province of Skyrim for Morrowind and met this hale chap = Septim.

Here is his contest news thread:
HERE

And here is the URL to his website .. The Hermetic Synod

Hey, I like my pallid skin, I just don't like the way the sun wants to burn it at every chance it gets.

Pale complexion = <3

I'm somewhere beneath Mediterranean bronze average; unless I tan, I'm quite pale by this country's standards. They said it was anemia when I was young bah...

In any case, good night to all, especially the pale skinned demi-Irish

Seeing as how I spent the summer working and living in the outdoors, I'm pretty tan right now. Which is fine by me.

I've got some Scottish heritage, so my skin is naturally a bit pale, but I'm really active so it usually has some color.

It's my Scottish background that gave me my complexion. The German aspect probably doesn't help either....

You're acting like being pale is necessarily a bad thing...

Haha, no, that wasn't what I was insinuating. I enjoy my paleness. I like having "whose more white" competitions with my friends. Rarely do I lose

See, I look better when I'm tanned. The freckles don't stand out in such relief.

I am quite pale even by native Floridian standards and Cain is even paler. He did have anemia and pneumonia as a child and his skin is also almost translucent. He won't go barechested even swimming publicly because on his chest and arms you can see ALL the blue veins right under his skin .. the big ones and even the small spider-webby ones ... and frankly, it freaks some people out pretty bad. His friends were telling some girls he was an alien once at the guy's backyard pool and I think the girls were half believing it. Outer space alien, not different country ... but young florida ladies will believe most anything, they've kind of seen it all by age fourteen or so around here.

But Cain also has dark brown eyes and brown hair, I think the contrast makes his skin look even paler. I am not as pale as him but I have dark-blondish hair and bue eyes .. so I am expected to have lighter skin. We both are taken to be much younger than we actually are, so I think it wise to stay out of the sun if you don't want to age too fast in appearance.

Now ... the reason we act so childish - that is a whole different story.

I'm pale. Yup, as if I'm a vampire who spent just a tad too many nights in his coffin.


Alright Ibis, one giant black-hole bomb to be delivered to your doorstep. Enjoy your awesome universe-destruction capabilities. (Actually, you're not destroying anything, just sucking it all up inside a black hole that grows to be the size of the galaxy.)

And I think I might join that contest, just for kicks. Edit: Nevermind, apparently it has been cancelled. Oh well.

What the fudge.



Oh well.

(Weeps over the dead LotR discussion)

Oh well.

(Jumps into the current discussion about being pale)

Hah, I'm pale all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, etc. It's not that I attempt to not be pale... Trying to would consume my dear comp time.

[Golum Voice]Precioussss.... Comp time... Golum, golum![/Golum Voice]

Um... I, of course, am kidding... Dang the extensive vacation that makes me go crazy by the end!

*deep breath*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :'(((

What have I do... wait a second, I didn't do anything. Mr. R, if you start writing poetry I am invading Finland with sole purpose of whipping yer butt into shape & making you once again a lovable dark antihero hellbent on slaughtering NPC's in various games. With WUB, of course. <3

Now back to being pale. It's not really too palish skin that I have so much as it's way whiter than everyone else in my wider family, with the noble exception of my sister [you're not getting photos, bastards, if you're not a bachelor and have yearly income that's at least 6 figures in some hard currency]. I recall the time I went for my checkup before shipping off to military and one female doctor in ORL said that I had 'aristocratic pale complexion'.

Awww I was hoping to see an epic duel between Rane and Wolfie. This is a quest for honour! Especially when one's will is defied!

*vocally urges for bloodshed*

No epic duel for you! Unless you want to be the one duelling me
But that, that won't really be epic so much as you running about screaming from my mighty warmech

Oh, a warmech. What kind?

Yeah, I'm a self-proclaimed robonut. If I could, I would buy just about every japanese mecha anime I could get my hands on. Too bad I can't.

Probably something resembling this.

Anyhow, I have watched clouds cover sky all damn day and now they're moving out... not a single raindrop in the meantime and it's still humid as hell... well, really damp, wet parts of it, at least.

I like the Gundam series (Gundam Wing and Gundam Seed being my favorites). The inspiration from those TV shows, Lost Planet, and Armored Core4 (Xbox-360 video games with giant robot gameplay) gave me a base for the 885th Legion in my Fan-Fiction....... Hunter-Seekers and Specters were inspired by CAC 3.

I've seen a bit of Gundam Seed and Wing. Wing I frankly found a bit boring. There was this cool dude who survived a no-parachute drop from the 50th floor (and a cliff!). He was awesome but the rest I found disappointing. And the story didn't quite have it for me. My other favourite character there was the guy with the braided hair and the scythe using gundam. Least favourite. The girl.

Seed wasn't quite my thing either. Kira and Asran annoyed the heck out of me. Like gosh, can't they ever bring up different arguments after their half a dozen duels? And the battleship was too damn invincible. I did like the blond pilot fella though.

I've seen quite a bit of Super Robot wars (both Divine wars and the OVA. I preferred Divine wars, the OVA was too much 'watch Kyosuke kick behind in his invulnerable Alt-Eisen Riese). I hope I come across the last five episodes someday. I want to see SRX!

Other than that, I've been following Gundam Seed Destiny for a while. I absolutely hate Shinn (red-eyed Asran, only ten times as annoying.)
I also hate (in no order of preference)
The military girl with the pink skirt. Geez, what's with the constant Asran chasing?
The fake Lacus with the awfull dress that looks like it should fall down her legs whenever she breathes. She's like, another Asran nut and just plain annoying. By the way, is Asran a girl magnet or something?
Cagalli. Ok, you run onto a battlefield and think that everyone will just drop their guns and have a picnic together just because you order them? Geez, if Kira wasn't around to shoot down a missile swarm you would be swiss cheese by now.
The first officer. You look nice, but you should try to say something else than: ,,What?!" Talk about a limited vocabulary.

That said, I do happen to like Kira more now. Sure, he takes out all the tension but it is just cool to see some guy go uber and take out like 30+ grunts in less than a minute without killing anyone, just chopping and shooting off limbs everywhere. Also, Freedom has way too many guns.

So let's go with another list. Cool dudes this time. Sorry, but I haven't come across a cool female yet. Though Lacus is nice. Probably the only one who doesn't shout and scream and chase guys all the time. If everyone was so calm, the world would be a better place. Ok, the list.

Masked dude: Dang man, that's a cool mask. Too bad you exchanged your badass fighter for a repainted grunt mech. You rocked in that thing.
The scarred fella with one eye. He's got a prostethic arm with a gun mounted inside!

Wow, short list. Ok, another one. Cool mecha!

Freedom: I dig those guns man.

Zakus: They're cool, but their pilots suck.

The grunt mechs that constantly attack the Minerva: They look like a cheap gundam. But their pilots should really learn that flying in formation in a straight line is not how you should fly on a battlefield. Even Shinn can take them down like flies.

Saviour: Pretty cool, but Asran can't bring out the best of it. Also, it got chopped up by Freedom. The lesson? Don't mess with Freedom.

Gaia: Out of the stolen ones, this is the coolest. Too bad it can't fly and is piloted by a split personality lunatic.

The fighter the masked dude uses in the first few episodes: Detachable gunpods, yeah baby!

Impulse: You're quite cool but you're piloted by the most annoying dude ever (Shinn). Also, can Shinn pull of a single launch without his stupid barrel roll? Even when he was ferrying a dying person (Gaia's lunatic), he had to do a few barrel rolls first! Idiot!

Archangel: A sub, a spaceship and Freedom's carrier? Nice.

Minerva: Cool guns, but I don't like the launch deck for Impulse and the stupid 'bridge on an elevator'. I mean, I know that you want to be able to move your bridge away from those huge windows and into a more secured position, but you shouldn't have windows in the first place. Also, how secured is your secured position if even there you have windows? I mean, do you like it to have an enemy hover and point a gun at the ship, effectively taking your whole warship hostage? (Which reminds me, why do those cool guns stop firing all of a sudden when the hostage situation occurs?)

Gack, the unknown-thing-ness! The mech-discussion-ness! The... oh, you get it.

But anyway, if talking about mechs, then there was this whole cool happening in Warhammer 40k: Fire Warrior that involved not quite mechs, but half-mech people.

I was playing as a Fire Warrior (No, duh!) La'Kais, and had to rescue some general guy of our army (The Tau Empire). Well, nothing easier, run through a huge open space while being shot at from a huge aircraft, dive down into a passage, get shot at, then free this guy.

So ok, I run out into a massive area where a cutscene shows my guy attempting to free the general guy (I was looking somewhat like these guys, only lots cooler, since it was in-game and these are collectibles), only to be cut off by two Ultramarines, my first face-off against the dreaded guys. For comparison, take their head guy. They all look pretty much like that, sized like one Fire Warrior and half, only they wear those helmets that look 10 times better than mine (Come to think, my helmet looks like a... well, you know what I mean.). Pretty equal fight, huh? Plus, they were carrying like the friggin' best weapons I've yet seen. Was pretty good for them, until I didn't blast their whole suits offline along with them.

And then I thought they were scary. But yet to come were Chaos Marines, these guys make no sense, popping out of nowhere with their fancy-pants grenade launchers...

Sounds like you had some fun. I assume that the game is some sort of first/third person shooter?

I've got tons of favourite mechs.
Vampire: General soldier machine. Only limited flight, but comes with a wide variety of guns, grenades and perhaps a chainsaw.
Vampire MK-II: Basically the same thing, only better.
Zephyr: Full flight, twin gravity compression swords (swinging miniature black holes for melee? Yup), several guns and transformable into a fighter.
Silberfeder: Actually a civilian showmodel. Designed for a dancing contest (yes, dancing giant robots.), but it can also fly real fast.
Silberschwert: Same propulsion system as the Silberfeder and that's where similarities end. This is a close-combat model, complete with huge blade on head.
Soldares Infini: Over a hundred metres tall, and just as uber as its height suggests.
Eve: Ok, this is actually an alien but it looks like a mech.

Now don't bother looking on the net. They're all my creations and I have yet to model them. Except for the Soldares Infini, I haven't even begun on them yet.

For the Sol Infini, go here: Yes, here. Click it or leave it.

Yeah, I'm mean. Ok, for existing ones, I'd say Cybuster is hot. Or Freedom.

Hey, Jack, could you ever try and make a model/render for somr of my mechs. Just asking, it would be cool to see them in 3D (I can't even draw them in 2D if I wanted to).

I would love to. I do need tons of information though. Thruster placement, thruster style, guns, things like that. Pm me anytime you like.

Yep, it's a 1st person shooter (it's equally fun with Halo, due to both being good games where enemies have an actual AI) with my armor suit being shown in several cutscenes. It's taking place in Warhammer Universe, at the Tau invasion of Earth (Tau being the most advanced ranged fighters, I love their rifles) which was in response to whatever Imperium of Man did to Tau. I think it was capture of one of the spaceships, or leaders.

By the end, the Tau and Imperium got allied, and I've heard rumors my char will get to fight a Chaos Prince aided by the commander of Ultramarines (Oh, that'd be AWESOME!), but for now, I'm pretty much stuck: the Chaos Marines (Couldn't pick up a screenshot of them in-game, but they look pretty much like that, minus the helmet with horns - they've got a deeper-reddish armor, and a helmet that's as spiky as the rest of their armor) are blocking my way, and the only thing they carry are the stupid grenade launchers that take down half my health, but aren't of much use due to the teleporting abbility of Chaos Marines. Dang their powers... I can't get past the destroying of the main engine of the Human Spaceship, due to the fact that they keep spawning behind my back when I try to make haste.

EDIT: Okay, all this Warhammer 40k discussion made me want to write a fanfic about it. Knowing me, I'll probably do it... which forum would be the most suitable for it? The Fan Fiction one, I guess?

I wonder when the next person will drop AP Calculus. XD

I had six problems to do in AP Calc. Easy stuff. Rational functions are sorta fun, with the aymptotes and all...

The only homework I really had was stuff for AP Studio Art so I could get it finished ahead of time.

There's this guy in my CIS class. He's shorter than me. I just want to go up to him and snuggle him. XD

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Okay, well, I'll open the contest back up. It was cancelled, a few days ago, but I'll open it back up. We'll still need some other entries, so if you know anybody else who would be willing to participate, please direct them here. Thanks Ibis!


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Hear ye all you writers of Chorrol. Septim has reopened the writing contest I announced earlier in this coffeeshop thread - because of you'alls interest and some other people over at his site who do want to particitpate.

So here again iis the website url = http://z6.invisionfree.com/Septim741/index.php?showtopic=272

~~ And the two original url links:

Here is his contest news thread:
HERE

And here is the URL to his website .. The Hermetic Synod

I'll try and PM you tomorow, but it will be basic stuff. I've been trying to find screenshots of the various things that are similar to the Legionnaires, but it's proving harder than I first thought.

I'm having mah coffee right now, and remixed PRODIGY is blasting away at me. Everything is neat at this moment, even the air is breathable... why the hell am I so depressed emotastic then?

*seriously considers chopping off his legs so he could be 5 feet tall *

God, quit taunting me with hot redheaded goth twins.

They're a little tall for my liking though, but damn. You're just mean, God.

Seems you and the big man upstairs need to have a heart to heart Z.

So you are taking AP Calc, my my, free money for you! Remember, go to college and use your skills, you are smart....cure cancer or something.

Yeah, I figure. It's also long overdue too.

I'm going to college for Computer Science and Psychology. If I don't want to do psychology, I can always go into programming/"computer engineering."

Excuse me future engineers, but that name is just retarded. It's programming and design, not computer engineering. Computer engineering sounds a lot different than it actually is.

Well, at least you know which direction the future is going, I had a teacher tell me senior year to take a semester of Literature Developement which was basically, writing a bunch of stuff down, filing it, and learning about how to better your own writing and boring stuff, seriously, we sat in a small room and wrote. Nothing else. Suicide was my next choice but luckily, they had Coed Sports, so I took that.

Z, so you are taking Psycology, What is my "mental condition" if I kill people that annoy me and feel no regret lol?

I am no psychologist but you sound like Morag Tong to me.

Zarr, Computer Design is very hot now. We have Full Sail Media School in our area and it is ranked among the top 5 media schools in the world and believe me, those grads are getting the jobs to kill for!

Nawwh, that's the Dark Brotherhood.

I have four chapters left in my A+ Certification book, so it won't be long before I'm taking my A+ Certification test. Then off to the Network book... blerghy. Man, won't I look smart with those two certifications with my high school diploma.