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Redmotion
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Oh yes! Which is better? I get a kick from both but I just can't decide...

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It is too late now..BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYING ATTENTION.
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Kangaroo2
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I like arguing. You poo-poo head

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes, They got them hoppy legs & twitchy little noses,
And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
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Dazzag
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For me it's the arguments on the forum. Mainly 'cos I haven't touched DB for a while, since doing some of the IDE plugins, because of one reason or another.

Sigh.. pretty weak... but.... your avatar isn't as good as mine....

Cheers

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
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Shadow Robert
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i always find that moving past the arguments and going onto the fall blow flamewars...

however this epic with Simple, i'm sure that shouldn't be called a Flamewar, but something bigger

its like the whole WW1 & 2 stuff, theres the good people (me) and the evil people (simple) hehee ... just look at his signature picture, look how he tortures his prisoners of war... how barbaric

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Quote: "i always find that moving past the arguments and going onto the fall blow flamewars... "


Yes arguments are too easy to lose, flamewars on the other hand never have a clear winner and by the time they are over nobody cares or remebers what the original argument was about.
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Well I don't know about you, but coding for a good 5 hours only to spend the next 3 try to find that one error is far from fun to me.

My avitar is the coolest, look, it ripples, ooooooooooo!

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Quote: "My avitar is the coolest, look, it ripples, ooooooooooo!"


Perhaps it is when lycos isn't down and people can actually see it.
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Mattman
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ya :-s lol!!!

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Redmotion
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Dazzag, sorry, but I think your avatar sucks bigtime! Mines nicked from another site (radioheads), so yep, I think I should make my own, but then if I did that everyone elses would look rubbish. Especially Mattmans!!!

Hmmm, I guess I like arguing....

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Martyn Pittuck
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ARGUMENTS

GRRR

lol

You remember when i was a culturally devloped penguin?

waddle waddle plop

lol

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Dazzag
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Rubbish. Mine is better.

Cheers

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Pincho Paxton
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BB is better! What was the question again?
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adr
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I find arguments can be closed with 4 words usually:

"I rule. You suck."

Always a handy phrase to have around the office...
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Simple
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Martyn Pittuck
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my avatar is far superior

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Van B
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Pah, Flat Eric is so last year ....

My avatar is full of retro goodness .

I'd have to say coding is more fun than reading Ravens half-meg posts - but it's fun when the BB boys pop over for a fight


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cYanide
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"but it's fun when the BB boys pop over for a fight"

always funny watching the "db" boys post about us wanting to fight, seriously if you think posting on a forum is a fight get out and get a life man laterz "boy"

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Johnny Dark Afterlife
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You called?

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Van B
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Some people would have taken the ninja smilie as a joke; we have those here quite a lot (jokes, not ninjas).

Perhaps sitting waiting for BB to be mentioned on DB forum is considered a full and happy life over at blitzcoder?

Maybe this would be better:
"It's fun when blitzers appear talking crap and trying to flame us for no good reason. It only gets better when one proclaims his love for Mark Sibly then proceeds to disapear up their own arse." x-d (Smilie, common indication of joke)


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Johnny Dark Afterlife
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Funny looking smile there. XP

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Van B
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Hehe, yeah - the forums pretty sensitive with some smilies, trying again. x-d - that's the one, if it does'nt work, then I'm allowed to blame Rich.


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Van B
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Damn you Ditsy - why must you mock me!!!




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Johnny Dark Afterlife
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There we go. hehe. Anyway I have nothing against DBers we all have one thing in common, making games and stuff. Though it is fun to stur everyone up every once and a while.

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Shadow Robert
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Quote: "we have those here quite a lot (jokes, not ninjas)."


i'm sure we have a few 's here
but then again nothing can compare to the the ultimate ... GIR Smilie!


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Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo
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Gir lives on...

Also whats with the pikachu. No matter what it is holdeing it is still a pikachu. (Sorry Im sick of the thing there is another movie comming out in Japan soon)
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Shadow Robert
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well pikachu is holding the latest in killing technology
2x FN-Seven9's ... not to mention his snazzy nose-clip Oakley Shades.

i've been thinking of asking Sep if he'll do a little artwork and perhaps make some short films with him, ... typical 2000AD stuff, dunno but i've kinda wanted to do some flash films for a while - taking pikachuu from that Pokémon atmosphere, givin' him a kinda evil voice (moi's) and then also making him a right b**tard

i think thats be pretty cool, have him into being a criminal or something hehee

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Dazzag
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Nah. My avatar is best.

Cheers

Ps. This is fun. Raven, see your avatar? Thats your favourite woman that is. That's the best you can draw that is. All you can afford is like 4 crayons.

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
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Shadow Robert
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lmao ... :: slaps Dazzag :: snap outta it man!

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*Dazzag's head become like his avatar after Raven slaps him! lmao!

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Pretty much the same for me. They both require basic english, sooo..they are the exact same thing for me, except one generates, er, shall I say, more random output?

~Morph/Kanzure
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Eh? Oh, the original post...

BTW you should get an avatar of that plasticine blokey, as your avatar is also worse than mine.

Cheers

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I prefer to argue with DB, shout at my computer and hit the mouse on the desk, like it really will make a difference.

Damn keyboards, throwing out typos left, right and centre, causing my code to do the unexpected.

And you lot...well...you just make me recode everytime I ask a question. Can't you just blame it on DB and not me? No? Oh well, I'll forgive you all....eventually.

Thanks in advance.
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Shadow Robert
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my bro does that with VC++ ... needless to say his keyboard & mice never last more than a month

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I tend to launch the mouse at the wall, and mash the keyboard with my fist, it can hurt to mash it with your palm . I got wise though, nowadays I nab mice from work and buy second hand Dell keyboards (chunky clicky keys and they last - for £2.50!). I'd love to loose it on a PC, just go nuts and mash it up.

First thing, that nice smooth cd tray, CRUNCH!
Second thing, drop it out of a 3rd floor window, to get it open, CLANG!
Third thing, reverse over it with a bin lorry.

After shutting it down properly of course .


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Of course Van because automatic scanning of your hard-drive/files after an improper shutdown (NO YOU FUCKING CRASHED YOU IDIOT YOU DON'T DESERVE TO SCAN, ESC!!!!!!!... Sorry....calm down...) is annoying.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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my avatar is best!!!! its piglet(from winnie the pooh) being pushed over... by me!!!! hahahahahahahhaha
do you guys in the USA have winnie the pooh??? it's probably more an english thing.

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No we got it, Disney (EVIL, VILE, CORUPT, ect...) goes overboard marketing 'thier' movies.

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but winnie the pooh is an all time english classic, or at least it was when i was a kid
Quote: "I like honey, (winnie the pooh)"


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i just found nirvana!


from future review of next game....
'..while the programmer of this game may not be God-like he certainly represents the next step in human evolution. (10/10).'
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Nope, that doesn't work for me jimbo1913, the error I get was along the lines of "Bull$hit!! MWHAAHAHAHA".

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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@ReD_eYe: Note the Quotations around "Thier". Disney tries to grab everything their greedy little hands on. Hell have you noticed how such stories as Snow White, Cinderella, or Sleeping Beuity have not been retold since Disney made thier moves on them. These stories are public domain, no one can own them, but I's sure you try to make a movie or something about them and Disney will be pounding on the door with copyright bullsh*t.

@jimbo1913: Nirvana is a place reached by lifelong meditation, it holds all the answers to the universe, it is zen. If I didn't somewhat follow Budist thought, I would be highly offended at that statement.

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hey Van you've never just gone nuts on a PC before?
i've had so many computers die from unnatural causes its not funny.

i had this old 286 which i'd bought from the scrapheap for a few bob, got it home and it was all good for a while then the screen started to mess up - i'd go to open it up and it'd stop, so i'd leave it... eventually it pee'd me off so bad i took a golf club and just put it right through the screen centre

another time i'd just got this state of the art Penitum3 i was so happy, had a 15" TFT - 256Mb Ram (the most i'd ever been able to afford) and a huge 10gb hdd i was so happy... so i was off to work came home to see a keyboard on the pavement outside all smashed up - though "hmm thats odd" ... next thing i saw was my montior chucked out landing at my feet in like a badgillion peices.
Closely followed by the PSU.

later i came to find out that a mate (female) had called for me to make sure we were all still going out friday for a drink ... my girl at the time kinda took it the wrong way and decided to make PC Pizza.
still it was nice to look at for the 10hrs i'd had it for

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How many stories was it chucked from Raven?

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only 2... but still was enough to make it totally unfixable (kinda looked like Strong Bads did )

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Hehe...
I'm far too much of a hoarder to break anything these days - I'm more likely to fix it and stick it in someones PC!. When I was a kid though, whoah I was a violent little git!

People throwing out TV's would hide them from me and my brothers, because we loved smashing them up! - we'd drag them somewhere secluded then borrow some tools - Half a house-brick for the screen, a 12lb mash (mallet) and a couple of claw hammers, we'd have it shredded in no time!. I still laugh at that Limp Bizkit song 'Break Stuff' - Fred shouting ''Give me something to break'', ''How 'bout your f****** face!''. Just reminds me of my childhood. The best things to break though are strip lights, you know those real long lights they use in offices etc, well we found a lot of used strip lights so invented a game. We'd sorta underhand lob them 'caber' style and see who could get the whole thing to smash in 1 throw - if they land right, they totally desintigrate into a little pile of powdered glass .


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Your avatar doesn't seem so misplaced now Van. (It's usually ok, but there is a darker side to it (the lowered brow).). Lol.

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