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I'm not very picky when it comes to food...if its cooked and I'm hungry, I'll eat it...but here's the top:Pasta [ANY KIND AT ALL....from spaghetti to pesto tortellini]Salad [Yep..just generic salad...with italian/sesame seed dressing and croutons...]Chicken [Grilled, Fried, Baked, whatever]Noodles [From instant to Japanese Udon]Mexican Food [Virtually anything]Basically, anything spicy and/or salty...Tabasco's the best condiment ever

Counter-Strike: Source is very addicting Everytime I sit down on the computer, I usually end up er....accidently....playing CS:S when I should be doing something else...like studying for my upcoming finals

Looks good. It has a very clean interface, so navigation looks pretty simple and straight forward. That's pretty rare these days. Simple, but effective. Only suggestion I have is try to add a bit more color.

As Freaker said, you have some good brushing techniques. What I'm amazed by is the text. In my opinion, the text looks excellent! Text is one of my weak points...no matter what I do or try, my text always ends up being crappy...

It's also fairly easy to create your own renders...though it does take a bit of time. Just find a high resolution picture, use the extract tool, and touch up with the polygonal lasso tool and a soft eraser.

Filters are usually something you want to stay away from when creating sigs. There's many people out there that just go crazy with filters and make a sig out of that, but it doesn't look half as good as a sig that was brushed. Don't get me wrong, filters are handy and are extremely helpful, but they are mainly used for the likes of photo editing and texturing. The only filter I use with most of my grunge sigs are clouds.Johnny: How is it possible to make a sig without even touching the brush tool? o_O

Oi.....that second one that's blinking like crazy is indeed annoying....I would suggest you using more subtle animations...

I say the first one the best...It matches with Samus' suit....seeing a purple Samus is just kind of weird...I think it's a bit too bright/glowy [i'm fairly sure that's not a word..but it seems to fit with what I'm trying to say...] Try knocking the brightness down a few notches. Of course, it could just be me...I like the darker end of the spectrum...Off-topic Question:: Whats that font you're using in your current sig?

I prefer Quintessential CD Player [QCD Player]. It's not as well known as winamp, but it's been around for a long time. I like it because it uses less resources then WinAmp or WMP

That site seems to be down... "GMail" Drives have been around for quite a while....I'm using one that serves as a Shell Extension, so it pops up under My Computer as a drive. You can get it here: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm Too bad gmail has a 10mb limit =/

The sig itself is simplistic, but nice. The text is the only problem I see. In addition to Cool Freaker's suggestion of an outer glow, I would add a white 'Satin'. Play around with the different contours and blending modes. I reccomend using 'Lighten' for the blending mode, and select one of the more squigglier[is that even a word?] contours.

Sure speakers are louder and have bass. But I can never fully enjoy my music with speakers loudly blaring and subwoofers thumping. The sound seems to get all distorted. With headphones, I always stumble on new parts or lyrics that I've never even noticed or heard before with speakers. I can focus on the music a lot better then if it was playing on speakers. Everyone has their opinion, so there's no wrong or right fffanatics. I happen to use headphones with everything, whether its gaming, audio/video editing, or just listening to music.

Another thing that would be nice to have is an 'Edit' button. I know I've made quite a few mistakes myself and found myself getting irritated by the fact that there's no way to edit your post....

There's no need to request it...just click on the "Terminate your Hosting" link under the "Free Web Hosting Requests" forum... here's the link: https://support.xisto.com/ Many members seem to be leaving because they can't keep up their hosting credits....

That same thing nearly always happens to me as well elvenmil. It gets kind of annoying. As for chatrooms, there are some Flash-powered chatrooms out there that you can implement on a site. I can't name any off the top of my head, but I know for a fact that they do have them somewhere out there on the net...

I say give the Zentri Portal System a shot. It's one of the newer ones out there. That's what I'm currently using right now. To me, it's a lot more organized then Post-Nuke and PhpNuke.

Many die-hard SW fans would still go watch it in theaters, even if they had the pirated copy. And as boyCradle said, all that merchandise isn't cheap...he probably wouldn't lose MILLIONS, but just a couple hundred I would think. I have seen 2 BitTorrent sites having some Star Wars Episode III .torrent files on their trackers a few days before it was released in theaters. Of course, those sites were immediately shut down by the RIAA and MPAA. I believe they were the preview videos that Buffalo was talking about.

Wouldn't that be a tad harsh though? I believe many people here are not fluent English speakers... While we think they are being careless, they could be trying their best. I know that there are a few people who deliberately type in a strange form, and are careless, but that doesn't exactly mean all of them are...

Yeah, that kid's probably going to grow up being paranoid and messed up... geez....raping a 10-year old girl is disturbing...and wrong on so many different levels...

Looks pretty good, but could be improved. Try addinga border and some more brushing/detail to the picture.

Forget the speakers. Just get me a pair of quality headphones. The music sounds better with headphones. And I'm nearly the same as you twentyinches. It helps me relax, and blocks out all the background noise. I have a pair of Koss "The Plug" ear buds, that are like headphones and ear plugs rolled into one package and have a noise-cancellation factor, and I use them all the time. I always bring my headphones with me when I go on a jog or go to practice...though my noise-cancellation ones aren't very good of a choice. I nearly got ran over the last time I had them on during a run..I couldn't hear the traffic...

Is there a Xisto IRC channel? That may be useful for help and suppot and such...

I pretty much learned how to use PS myself. The first thing's i created were just abstract images that I learned to do from tutorials from various sites. Just a bunch of filters thrown together. I've only starting creating my own stuff recently. Trial and error as well as experimentation helped me greatly

I've never seen that technique before, and it looks pretty good. The technique that I use is to just use Filter > Render > Clouds/Difference clouds on the various color balances. Mind sharing what grunge brushes you use?

Do you mean hexadecimal codes [such as #6699CC and such] ? You can just google "hexadecimal codes" in Google to get a huge list of sites. I usually use the hex chart from Webmonkey: https://www.wired.com/