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shyness is in the eyes of the beholder. really. think about it. Only you think you're shy. noone else knows it until you impose your skyness on others. If you like someone, tell em about it. You don't have to ask them out, just let them know. You know, take an interest in them. You don't even have to blatantly say "I LIKE YOU!!!!", just listen to their stories, tell them some of your own. Etc etc.You'll also notice it's much easier to talk to someone you're not interested. Like a fugly girl, or someone's mom... well, some people have fetishes like that... but i'm ignoring the exceptions. *ahem* So what I do is just imagine the girl i'm interested in is either taken or ugly. Someone I can usually talk to without a problem atol. This negates that feeling you get when they take a simple interest in you(or your story) and you take it as them coming on to you. It creates a buffer, if you will. Try that if all else fails.I dunno. I'm shy but it rarely affects me. All the good ones are taken aldready so I get to practice my come-ons on the fugly ones anyways.

I never really had a problem with them. Really, it's just our own humilty. If they're close, I smack them upside the head. I don't care, fvck the parents. If they can't handle the kids, I'll do something about it for them. If the kids are rows away, I get up, get right next to them and tell them strongly 'shut the hell up' just loud enough for them to hear but not their parents. Kids get scared easily by big guys. It's something people have somehow forgotten... that and the fear some @sshat parent will sue you for 'hitting' thier child. But most of the time I get thanked by other patrons after the movie. Like this old guy who said he'd've done it if I didn't. Oh, FYI, I only do something if the kid's a real *BLEEP*. Not like I'm smacking a kid for simply munching on his popcorn too loud, lol

I wouldn't mind all the psuedo-cinematics but they added that stupid 'grad the enemy's gun' minigame. So instead of bashing someone to the face, they will catch it and you have to click the right and left trigger rapidly to throw them off. That's retarded, IMO!

I guess it fits under 'adventure'. For those not familiar, or too young to remember this game, it was the origional text-based adventure game where you actually have to imagine the game GUI (oooo, shudder at the thought). I absolutely loved it. It was a great code, easy to manipulate on your own for personalized expansions and you didn't have to worry about beind able to bring up your sights to get a headshot on that Imp as you do in Doom and the like. Basically, the one I remember was where you start in an ally. you can say 'look left' and 'look up' etc to see what, if anything, is around you. Eventually you can come to a door, plain metallic (all the adjectives are given to you) and you have to find a way in. By looking around again, you find a keycard swipe box. (ok, so in hindsight, I guess this is strategy, but who cares? There were no such thing as game genres back then). But yea, it went on and on like this. Some versions were more dungeon-based. The one I played was more like a secret agent or something (too young to remember the story line exactly). But it was great. I wish someone would make a text-based game (if only for a school project) so I can play it again. Did i forget to mention I origionally played this on the old comadore? LOL. Yup. no mouse. fun times

M- mitchApparently, i'm a raging hormone-driven sexaholic. lol. awesome

Alone it sat,both day and night,to suffer alone,for someone's delight.Then it became angry,evil this way did come,that gerbil fought back,in the gay man's bum.

Diablo IIFirst game I actually boughtCreated a profile, had some huge characters, awesome itemsThen someone managed to hack my password and mule my stuff onto his characterNever found out whoHad to start from sratchback then, I actually thought people were respectible and nice. Turns out there are douchers everywhere

I think he did too much planning and failed once something didn't go according to his plan, lol. c'est la vie, n'est pas?

that doesn't matter in this case. Apple advertises it as a laptop but then declares it a notebook once you begin having heat issues? I don't care for that at all. Good discussion: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Pic of thermal goop: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

man, we were never after bin laden. It was just bush wanting another damn texan war. bush had hsi panties in a bunch and went all over the middle east on his own stupid jihad. buck fush!

ixBot, go hack somewhere else. noone likes hacks, especially hacks who can't win without hacks. loser

LibyaSearch and DestroyAlliesName: (_8(|)Main Weapon: EnfieldSecondary: Pistol(forgive me, it's been a while since I played COD2 and longer yet since I memorized the names of various locations in this map)I get an early position against a wall directly across from our spawn location right next to the hip-height wall. With my basic headphones, I can hear footsteps everywhere. Eventually, I hear the footsteps of an overeager German running towards me on my right. Just as he turns the corner to set up a gay spawn-kill position, I round the corner in a squat position and melee him in the balls. I let a teammate grab his MP40 since I was going for some easy rooftop snipe kills. Unfortuantely, that was the first kill me team had... and we were already down three people who ran too far up the road to the right of the spawnpoint.--jumping ahead--My team's down to the last two people (me and another) while the germans still have at least 7. I hear a sniper rifle go off and find myself alone, prone on a rooftop. I later find my teammate's dead body in the middle of a road... apparently he though going rambo-style would work.... :S Soon after he died, I heard the bomb being planted on the tank to the right of our spawnpoint. I figured it would be planted there since that was where half my team died in the opening battles. So I jump down form my rooftop observation, wrunning along the building walls back to my spawnpoint and up the right road. I round the corner a second too late and miss an easy kill on the planter but do see two defenders at the opposite side of the road near the roadblocks. There's a hip-tall wall on the right of the road and I manage to headshot one as I strafe to cover behind the tiny wall. The other had an MP44 so I was able to easily take him out with my rifle. I run up to the tank as fast as possible and hear the planter running around the other side, tossing nades behind him, bouncing them off the wall to get them on my side. I croutch and begin to defuse the bomb as a trick. As soon as the defusing sound goes off, I let go and begin to move. Just then a sniper bullet finds itself embedded into the dirt at my previous position. I locate the position by the dust spray and position him at the end of the road towards the middle of the map. Before I can react to him, I hear the planter come running around the tank, sniper-side. I sit behind the tank waiting for him to run to me. As soon as I position him correctly with my headphones, I stand and strafe from the tank to the building cover to my left (putting him between me and the sniper). I melee him in mid-strafe and get behind the wall just as another bullet bounces off the building corner. I have nearly no time left on the bomb but I'll be damned if I lose to a single sniper half the map away. At this point, the reader familiar with the map will realize that looking down the road in the middle of the map is filled with dust... thus the prone sniper on the rooftop has a tremendous advantage. Reality be damned, I ran into the road blindly, zig-zagging to avoid the dreaded headshot. He was a very decent sniper since he never shot once while I was evading. As I passed the front of the tank, walking semi-directly at the position I assumed him to be, I began to sightswitch (where you bring up your sights on the rifle quickly to see if you can get get a lucky shot off, even if you see him for just a second, then dropping the sight again to continue zip-zagging). I must've walked 10 feet before he let off a shot through the dust. I immediately locked his muzzleflash, brought up my sights and shot strait through the dust in a blind luck shot. *HEADHSOT!* I had no time to teabag the empty ground in celebration. I rushed back to the bomb with so little time left, I figured it was over. Nevertheless, I began defusing. Sitting there in anxious anticipation for the bomb to go off... but it never did. I managed to defuse it not half a second before the hand hit noon. My headphones flooded with the sounds of cheering teammates and booing germans. woot woot

I don't know why, but Halo 1 just seemed more fun. At LANs, Halo 1 brought more fun and enjoyment whereas Halo 2 seems more competitive or soemthing. I can't put my finger on it, nor can my friends, but Halo 1 was just... classic... sure, 'classic' will be the term used to describe the difference between the two that I can't put my finger on. Sure you still have the few people who can pistol-snipe from half the level away in Blood Gulch, but I'd rather be fighting a pistol than those massic battle rifle matches on Burial Mounds. It's just not fun. Plus, Halo 2 seems to have many more glitches than Halo 1 ever did. Yea, yea.. you can get on top of the map in halo 1 pretty easily, but it's actually COMMON to see people camp-sniping from on top of the map in Halo 2. I suppose the online 'matchmaker' doesn't help... pitting your level 30 status with level 40s... probally rationalizing the 10-pt difference is nothing... while you get owned by some guy with battle rifle skills the likes of which should never be humanly possible! And all the cheatery online! It sickens me!!! Standby, Aimbots, Walhacks... ON A CONSOLE!!!! I know those are fairly prevelent on the PC, but on the consoles, this is a new developement... why? Because bungi decided to make online-downloadable packs thru XBox live.... wow.... good job bunji you bunch of flamers!Anyways, summation: Halo 1 was better. Period.

I agree. Oblivion is 'teh sex' (quoting current '1337' slang, lol)

The only beef I have with apple is on the new laptops runnign core Duos. Apparently apple put soe much thermal grease on their CPU HSF that it overheats to the point you can burn your hand on the exterior of the laptop! There are pictures online somewhere showing this huge glob of the white crap. Even the manual tells the installer to put at least 3cm of the crap on the CPU... pitiful.

A friend had this crush on a girl working at Hardee (still does actually... ignore the past-tense) so we drove him over there to talk to her. He's shy and a geek and is the kind you'd never see get a girl even with a pocket full of hundreds and a banana in his pants (setting the image). So when we walk in, there's just one guy behind the counter. Shoot, we missed her. So not wanting to look like an idiot, he goes up and orders something anyways. Just then his dream girl comes out from the backroom and he gets stuck in the classic 'gaga-look' and completely forgets to order. He just kind of looks at her all trance-like and walks away half-way thru his order.... (eugh) so me and the other guy we came with have to come to the rescue to save him from his current humilation. Needless to say, we come off suave and eventually take her back to our apartment... meanwhile our geeky friend lost his only chance just because he got awestruck. Poor guy

Apparently there's a new sequel to the acclaimed Call fo Duty franchize. From what I've read, it'll skip the PC ( ) and be solely developed as a next-gen console game. Apparently CoD2 was such a huge success on the 360, Activision wanted to continue their success. There are a few gameplay videos and a trailer or two out on various websites. My reaction seems more dismay than applause. For instance, I love how the new Call fo Duty sequels bring you into the war more. Like a movie or something, but CoD3 looks almost TOO much like a movie. They increased the explosion and destruction smoke mechanic quite a bit, but all in all, it's just putting makeup on a pig... the pig being CoD2 but not saying CoD2 is a pig, just a reference.. LAY OFF ME!CoD3 play is, again and for ever shall be (apparently), being allies against axis. You're still fighting in the early days of the American-European campaign set just after the landing at Normandy. Honestly, I'm kind of sick of playing as the Allies in the same time frame in each of these sequels. CoD2 was great in that is brought realism in the form of enviromental effects, vegetation and physics. But I really hoped to see CoD3 more than just more psuedo-cinematics effects. I want to see the pacific campaigns! Or at least let us play as Germans or even just keep us Allies but in the early days! Like... pre-American influence on the war. Something along the lines of being in Europe (as a european for a change) and learning of the German Blizkrieg. Be the Poles desperately trying to stop the onslaught. Being the French on the Migon (correct name?) Fortification Line. Or the Resistance in Italy, France, Poland, etc. I'm just tired of seeing the samae game (literally) being reamde over and over again just with more effects and 'next-gen' stuff. It's getting milked! I don't want to see my beloved CoD being milked!On a lighter note, it IS being released on the consoles only, and we all know how easy console gamers uprate games, so maybe it won't get the true reviews of being 'old, reused, etc.' Hopefully the next PC sequel will be more diverse. Forget the next-gen stuff Activision! If you make a kick-@ss game without all the little lights and effects, people will still love it. Heck, if we can't play it on our 1-year ofl video card because of all the effects you packed in cause it to lag to a mere 12FPS, noone will buy it... next gen or not. They need to find the balance. Kick-butt effects, and awesome gameplay. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather play a game... not partake in a pre-scripted movie.

I don't know if this is a problem for anyone else, anywhere else, but what really grinds my gears is when a university tries to 'teach' computer science using books and powerpoint slides. Bloody hell! Most programmers don't learn by reading a book of keywords and tiny "hello world" problems. And we certainly don't learn how the delicate interactions of code segments... uh.. interact... from powerpoint slides summerizing what we just read in the friggen book!I learn from example! I want to be in a classroom with a computer terminal in front of me so that I can work along with what the instructor is saying! I don't want to see HIM code, and then two hours later, download the finalized version from the web. NO! I want to code along with so that if I run into a problem I can see it here and now. not later when I try homework assignments and everything is turning into Russian on me. I also want to 'feel' how to code. I want to be coding while someone is explaining what the heck I'm doing. Not what the heck I did wrong after I turn in my half-completed homework assignment because I couldn't get past a stupid error message! So why do the 'universities' insist on teaching the course like we already know how to code and they're just there ot take your money and leave you at your lesiure? Or better yet, why are they teaching CODING like HISTORY! I don't know about you other coders, but I can't pick up how to code a binary search tree simply from reading a book with a few segmented examples and highlighted keywords + definitions. I LEARN BY EXAMPLES AND IN REALTIME! NOT FROM SOME GODDAMN BOOK AND LINKS TO OTHER UNIVERSITIES'S CS DEPARTMENTS WHO ACTUALLY TEACH THE SUBJECT WELL!!!!!!Oh, and why is it that I'm spending $5000 per CS class when 5/6 of my CS classes (span of two years) were taught by grad students?! I'm sure they don't get paid the percentage a professor does, so where the f*ck is my money going?! It definately isn't going towards putting a terminal in front of my face. Even though the empty room across the hall is MADE FOR THAT KIND OF LEARNING... no... I get dry erase board, overhead projector, and a powerpoint presentation. Lovely....And they wonder why people are dropping out of CS majors left and right here. pathetic

BLASPHEMY! Rammstein isn't the nastiest Heavy Metal! It's one of the best metal bands out there! >_< You make hulk angry! Ich Will Fuer Frie! lol

Last Minute Project:A C++ coding assignment that seems really easy at first but then gets so freakin complicated you're knifing your LCD and clawing your eyes out! AHHH!!! POINTERS!!!! NODE* node!!!! AHHHHHH!

Halo is not an RPG. You're not even close on that one. It's a FPS. RPGs are like Diablo, Morrowind, Oblivion, WoW, Guild Wars, etc. FPSs are like Call of Duty, Halo, Battlefield, FEAR

For some reason, I actually liked Halo 1 better then 2. I dunno. LAN parties seemed more fun. The second one is... I dunno. It just doesn't have the ame party feel to it. O, and I didn't like how Halo 2 added 'boss battles'. The origional ran through like a war. It's not like in war you'll find one general who's ten times more powerful that any of his commanders. Just my opinion

I have a binary search tree and I need to put a destructor on it. Ideally it would be called when I exit the program. How would a destructor look if it should delete all the nodes of a tree (recursively prefered). Also, how would I go about removing a node from my tree and then replacing it so the tree is still ordered inorder-wise? replacing specs: * If the node x is a leaf, then it can simply be clipped off. * If x has a single child then it can be replaced by its child. * Otherwise, if x has two children, find the leftmost child in x's right subtree. This node, which is x's in-order successor, will have either zero or one children and can be removed using the previous two cases. Then this node can be used to "replace" x in the tree, so that xcan safely be deleted. Here's what i have so far:

I have a binary search tree and I need to put a destructor on it. Ideally it would be called when I exit the program. How would a destructor look if it should delete all the nodes of a tree (recursively prefered). Also, how would I go about removing a node from my tree and then replacing it so the tree is still ordered inorder-wise? replacing specs: * If the node x is a leaf, then it can simply be clipped off. * If x has a single child then it can be replaced by its child. * Otherwise, if x has two children, find the leftmost child in x's right subtree. This node, which is x's in-order successor, will have either zero or one children and can be removed using the previous two cases. Then this node can be used to "replace" x in the tree, so that xcan safely be deleted. Here's what i have so far:

There is a fine line between what is in your own interest and what is socially acceptable. For example, you have the legal right to sacrifice a goat in the name of your god (some guy in New York City won his court battle because of freedom of religion like this), but it's not to do it in the middle of centrel park (he did it in his basement). Likewise, gays have the right to be queer but onyl in the privacy of their own home, not walking outside kissing and touching and crap like that. You can go naked... in your house. You can't go naked walking down the street. It makes people feel awkward and not only is it different but it's completely anti-evolutionary. two males should not be allowed to be together. It defeat the purpose of the evolutionary chain. So i say, no to gay rights. It's their right to choose to be gay, so consequently, they choose to give up other rights. And plus, think about the effect it'll have on children... to see two men walking down the street kissing... Kids are impressionable. They'll see this and think it's alright. Even if their parents say it's wrong, the kids SAW it, so they justify it has to be right. In a perfect world, being gay in public would be filed under "contirbuting to the deliquency of minors".