Here's an interesting one: Our human DNA is a virus. Humanity was evolved as a host for this virus. We exist only because we are the best, most efficient and most dominant means of replication and distribution for this virus.
How's that for an outlook?
Life is. Make of it what you will.
Call me a hippie but I use health food store toothpaste (always the peppermint flavor):
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I've never had a cavity in my twenty five years. I brush very hard, like I mean it. I brush at night and sometimes in the morning. I don't floss. The last time I saw a dentist was two or three years ago to have a wisdom tooth pulled; the remaining three have pretty much come in straight.
Quote from mike-0the new topic/reply buttons kick ass
mucho mejor
that's not a quiz, that is a statement 
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What a boy!!
grats dude!
I'm liking the new profile/pm/etc buttons~
Yeah the forum hasn't been keeping me logged in 
I'm sure it'll pass after the construction.
Let me clarify my last statement: I liked the old color scheme much more. The new buttons don't fit the old color scheme. The old buttons were generic and ugly and sorely needed updating (and I like the iconic approach you're taking) but the general colors, look and feel, were very good IMO.
I take it the style sheets are going to change to match the new buttons; personally I'm not real fond of the darker direction the new stuff is taking. I like brighter happier forums, if I'm going to be spending a lot of time looking at something I don't want it to be gloomy 
The font is a bit too... edgy... for my taste as well.
I quite liked the old scheme. oh well, so be it.
send your stuff over to Factor 5 
seriously.
The problem with only having people do it manually is that people manage it for awhile and then nobody keeps up with it and it stops happening. Spotlight didn't get anything new for ages because nobody bothered.
I would not make it rating based (0-5 cubes/stars/whatever). If it were rating based one or two disgruntled members could vote every thread a zero and fuck up the curve for everyone.
A vote system should not supercede an admin's ability to immediately move a thread to spotlight. It is a supplementary system to keep things moving.
we nearly the same Dell monitors at work, they're big and bright, sharp and clear. good image.
Quote from JynxDaddyThe demo was fun. I liked the story, the gameplay just seemed like it would get boring.Not buying.
same here. i only played the last demo from like a year ago though and it wasn't very well explained.
suicide is such a fucking cop out
Looking cool although it's pretty wide open and often feels empty. Really glad to see some spanish/southwest style architecture, it's something I've felt lacking in maps for a long time. The genuine landforms are really cool, are you using USGS data?
heh heh.
looks like they used HL to build the screenshot map.
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*crosses fingers that img works*
If you want to build a specific system for the spotlight stuff I'd suggest a link that any (logged in) user can click in order to "vote" the thread into spotlight. Similar to the digg.com system I guess.
It could be automated to move the thread after a certain number of votes are cast, or it could be flagged for admins to move manually. Names of voters should be exposed to admins. Only users with a modest (20?) number of posts outside of EOT should be permitted to vote.
If the spotlight system is automated, users should be able to flag inappropriate spotlight threads to be dealt with by an admin as he sees fit.
which one? there was one with two wood crosspieces and a semicircular concrete bit that's intended to mount to the wall. I made that one, fine by me if you want to use it. There was another one in there for awhile that looks like a regular park bench that was by TDK as i recall.
