Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)

[Tyrion]

Originally Posted by TiE23

WHAT THE **** THAT WAS MY TITLE!!!

No, your title was "Obsessive Opossum."

See, since you have OCD and you smell.

[leXX]

Read nothing but good things about The Power of Five series, thought I'd check it out.

[Samuel Dravis]

Each for $10 sale price today...





And I got this last week to play with a friend (it's awesome )

[MrWally]

Yeah, I saw those $10 PC Game sales going on and I really considered it, but then I remember how much I hate the material greed of America on Black Friday and decided I'd stay home and work on College Applications while reading news articles on men and women who were trampled to death this morning.

[BongoBob]

VERY GOOD THING: Coworker of mine was at Fry's this morning, and bought an all in one laser printer for 80 bucks that was usually 250. Why is this a good thing? It's for work, where we're using 1 old HP ink printer, a slightly newer HP all in one in printer, and 2 of these beasts:



Yes, those are the printers we use at work. Cause my uncle uses retarded logic. So Monday morning we get to get rid of all the printers, and put just the one printer in to do everything. I am more overjoyed than you have any idea.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

lp0 on fire

[Rogue15]

$2 each, a fair black friday deal at walmart.

[MrWally]

Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman?

Sweet deal right there.

[Darth Groovy]

Originally Posted by MrWally

Yeah, I saw those $10 PC Game sales going on and I really considered it, but then I remember how much I hate the material greed of America on Black Friday and decided I'd stay home and work on College Applications while reading news articles on men and women who were trampled to death this morning.

You just scored massive brownie points with Grampa Grooves. It is bad enough that I am but a cog in the wheel of the retail engine, damned if I am going to drain my bank account on worthless trinkets that were over priced to begin with. I always work on black Friday, damned if I am going to stand in line with all of the nuts to get some goofy deal. My attitude this year, was even if they were giving out million dollar gift cards, I would stay away. This morning I worked the 6 - 2, and called it a day. Same thing I did last year. I am NOT buying any decorations this year. And I will most likely do my Christmas shopping towards the end of the season when all things must go.

[ZBomber]

I went to one store yesterday morning (Guitarcenter) and there were maybe 5 other people there, the rest of my shopping I did online...

Christmas Presents:
200 Watt, 15" Speaker Acoustic B200 Bass Amp


Ernie Ball Bass Strings


Dunlop Strap Locks


Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence CD


Dream Theater - Awake CD


David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust CD


Resident Evil 4 (Wii)


Wario Land: Shake It (Wii)


Link's Crossbow Training (Wii)


Christmas Presents I bought for myself:
Rush - Snakes and Arrows Live DVD


Rush - Rush In Rio DVD


Dream Theater - Octavarium CD

[ZBomber]

Things I bought for people:
My friend Andrew:
21 Foot Monster Guitar Cable

My girlfriend:
Juno DVD


Superbad DVD


Across The Universe DVD


American History X DVD


Bust A Move (SNES)


I Am Legend DVD


My Neighbor Totoro DVD


Katamari Damacy (PS2)


My friend Matt:
Paul McCartney - McCartney


Paul McCartney - Ram


Paul McCartney - Band on the Run


God bless Amazon...

[TiE23]

Originally Posted by Darth Groovy

You just scored massive brownie points with Grampa Grooves. It is bad enough that I am but a cog in the wheel of the retail engine, damned if I am going to drain my bank account on worthless trinkets that were over priced to begin with. I always work on black Friday, damned if I am going to stand in line with all of the nuts to get some goofy deal. My attitude this year, was even if they were giving out million dollar gift cards, I would stay away. This morning I worked the 6 - 2, and called it a day. Same thing I did last year. I am NOT buying any decorations this year. And I will most likely do my Christmas shopping towards the end of the season when all things must go.

Yeesh, that's scary... Black Friday is pretty evil. And not even a little Christmas tree? Hell, I'm pretty much the opposite of religious (read: non-religious) but dammit if I don't have a tree somewhere on Christmas for the rest of my life. :P

Anyway, guess what! TiE23, the dude that buy's too much stuff? I did no shopping our buying whatsoever yesterday... even if I had the desire, I was only going to try and get BiA: Hell's Highway for $20 at Target... but surprisingly someone is sending me one via Goozex. So meh!

[Ratmjedi]

Well I traded in Farcry 2 and Tomb Raider Legend and got


I also bought



Off of Netflix. Which really had made me watch more movies in the past week then I have in the past month just by getting it with the NXE. One of the most brilliant things since the invention of the DVD. I don't really watch tv that often so I've been catching up on some shows that I've wanted to check out but just never had the chance too.

[ZBomber]

I'm surprised no one else went crazy on Black Friday this year. I did. But I try and justify it to myself since I haven't bought basically anything all year, holidays/birthdays are the only times I buy things.

I just bought a ton of old NES/SNES games again today at a local store... 20% off.
NES:
NES Open Tournament (NES)
Legend of Zelda (NES, With original box)
Urban Champion (NES)
Gumshoe (NES)
Super Empire Strikes Back (SNES)
Space Invaders (SNES)

All came to less than 25 dollars with the 20% off, pretty good.

[Tyrion]

Originally Posted by ZBomber

Christmas Presents:
200 Watt, 15" Speaker Acoustic B200 Bass Amp

You play bass now?

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence CD

What sucks about Dream Theater is that I could've loved them if they strangled their singer. The Glass Prison is such a great song, though.

Rush - Rush in Rio

What happened to that pseudo-Rush epic you were writing a few years ago? The last thing I remember about that was me mocking that it was going to be 10 minutes of G-C-D ad nauseum.

[BongoBob]

Yes, that was taken after me beating Through The Fire And Flames on expert finally. Yes, that just f***ing happened :O

[Darth Groovy]

Originally Posted by TiE23

And not even a little Christmas tree?

I HAVE Christmas decorations to put up from my last apartment, and lets not forget about my infamous Star Wars theme tree. I simply refuse to buy any new decorations this year. I choose to make better use of my old ones first. I am not a complete Scrooge, I just refuse to go out on Black Friday.

[ZBomber]

Originally Posted by Tyrion

You play bass now?



What sucks about Dream Theater is that I could've loved them if they strangled their singer. The Glass Prison is such a great song, though.



What happened to that pseudo-Rush epic you were writing a few years ago? The last thing I remember about that was me mocking that it was going to be 10 minutes of G-C-D ad nauseum.

Yeah, I switched from guitar to bass last year because of a lack of (good) bassists around here, and I knew I was nowhere as good as the guitarists I played with.

I love James LaBrie, he had an amazing vocal range. Sometime his vocals can be annoying, but I think without his singing and without the lyrics, dream theater would just be another band. If you love Dream Theater's instrumentation, check out "Liquid Tension Experiment"... its basically everyone from Dream Theater minus LaBrie and Myung (the silent deadly asian dude ) jamming and improving with the bassist from King Crimson. They put out two albums, wicked good stuff.

And I finished writing the epic, as well as a few concept albums and over 230 songs. Theres music for a few of them, but most of them are just lyrics and ideas in my head right now. Its hard to find people who are serious about writing songs, most just wanna jam, which is fine, but its not getting my songs anywhere.

And no, I can't compose music myself since my guitar skills would be limited to something like a GCD progression and its extremely hard to write a song on bass.

Oh, also, me and my friends are learning La Villa Strangiato... = very good thing

Another good thing, I got a 1890 on my SATS and finished all my college applications last week. Now we play the waiting game.

[RoxStar]

Originally Posted by Darth Groovy

I HAVE Christmas decorations to put up from my last apartment, and lets not forget about my infamous Star Wars theme tree.

Do you have pictures to get us in the Christmas Spirit ?

[Tyrion]

Originally Posted by ZBomber

Yeah, I switched from guitar to bass last year because of a lack of (good) bassists around here, and I knew I was nowhere as good as the guitarists I played with.

You could be a rhythm guitarist, which has the added benefit of helping immensely with song writing.

And I finished writing the epic, as well as a few concept albums and over 230 songs. Theres music for a few of them, but most of them are just lyrics and ideas in my head right now. Its hard to find people who are serious about writing songs, most just wanna jam, which is fine, but its not getting my songs anywhere.

I'm stupid when writing songs. I just harp on a few different ones I have until they're completed. Sure, Albert Einstein more or less followed the same approach in regards to physics, but it's not something you can easily brag about.

And no, I can't compose music myself since my guitar skills would be limited to something like a GCD progression and its extremely hard to write a song on bass.

Oh, also, me and my friends are learning La Villa Strangiato... = very good thing

Er, what? Playing a Geddy Lee bass line for a 10-minute song would almost have to mean you can shred at the guitar...

Another good thing, I got a 1890 on my SATS and finished all my college applications last week. Now we play the waiting game.

Pwned! 1920 here. That extra 30 points is a stark reminder that we're all smarter here in the west.

[ZBomber]

Originally Posted by Tyrion

You could be a rhythm guitarist, which has the added benefit of helping immensely with song writing.



I'm stupid when writing songs. I just harp on a few different ones I have until they're completed. Sure, Albert Einstein more or less followed the same approach in regards to physics, but it's not something you can easily brag about.



Er, what? Playing a Geddy Lee bass line for a 10-minute song would almost have to mean you can shred at the guitar...



Pwned! 1920 here. That extra 30 points is a stark reminder that we're all smarter here in the west.

I write all of my songs in a matter of minutes. Its gotten to the point that I don't even think about what I'm writing, the pen just flows and 5-10 minutes later I have a completed song written down in front of me. Sometimes its hard to find inspiration, but once I start a song its really easy for me to finish. And I hardly go back and change lyrics later, I like to keep it the way I left it.

Bass is just easier for me to do than guitar. I would hardly associate Geddy's basslines with shredding. First off, I have a lot of difficulty on forming chords (I always had, even when I played guitar), and since bass chords occur much less frequently, its a lot easier for me. I find bass funner to play too (If its something interesting, that is... none of this AC/DC bull****. ). Although I was just talking to my friend the other day about trying to learn chords so I can atleast attempt composing music. I've been trying to learn some music theory, but since I only took guitar lessons for like 2 weeks and never took bass lessons, its hard for me to keep up with inadequate online websites attempting to teach.

AND DAMN YOU! I bet I beat you on the writing section though. I suck at math anyways, so I dont plan on forming a career around it.

[RoxStar]

Originally Posted by Tyrion

Pwned! 1920 here. That extra 30 points is a stark reminder that we're all smarter here in the west.

I got a 31 on the ACT

http://www.powerprep.com/actvssat.htm

[Tyrion]

Originally Posted by ZBomber

I write all of my songs in a matter of minutes. Its gotten to the point that I don't even think about what I'm writing, the pen just flows and 5-10 minutes later I have a completed song written down in front of me. Sometimes its hard to find inspiration, but once I start a song its really easy for me to finish. And I hardly go back and change lyrics later, I like to keep it the way I left it.

It's probably not the best idea to write lyrics without music, though - it's gonna be a bitch fitting them to a song later on. I usually just write the music first, hum a melody over it, and then try to get some lyrics in place.

Bass is just easier for me to do than guitar. I would hardly associate Geddy's basslines with shredding. First off, I have a lot of difficulty on forming chords (I always had, even when I played guitar), and since bass chords occur much less frequently, its a lot easier for me. I find bass funner to play too (If its something interesting, that is... none of this AC/DC bull****. ). Although I was just talking to my friend the other day about trying to learn chords so I can atleast attempt composing music. I've been trying to learn some music theory, but since I only took guitar lessons for like 2 weeks and never took bass lessons, its hard for me to keep up with inadequate online websites attempting to teach.

Granted, you're likely not going to know how to sweep arpeggios while playing bass, but I still maintain that being good at bass means you're at least proficient with playing single notes on guitar. That being said, though, the chord thing might hamper you down a bit.

For learning music theory, I suggest taking an actual class for it. Not only will you get a better grasp of how to make songs, but you'll be able to show off mad sheet music reading skills.

That's uh, what the girls like, right?

AND DAMN YOU! I bet I beat you on the writing section though. I suck at math anyways, so I dont plan on forming a career around it.

I hate the writing sections for these tests because the 25 minute time limit caters specifically to people who let the pen automatically flow. See, I'm more of a thinker - and by the time I have the entire essay planned out, I only have five minutes left. It's a great approach for AP tests, sure, but sucks when they make you bull**** quickies.

I'm just lucky I did excellent on the critical reading with a 740. Bit of a shame, since I rarely have the attention span to read books.

(And I took the ACT too...I got a 29, which turns out to be exactly 1920 according to the conversion charts. )

[MrWally]

32 on the ACT here. Plus a perfect on the writing portion.

Pwned all y'all XP

But I'm not so great on AP tests. At least, I've yet to get a 5....

[TiE23]

Originally Posted by ZBomber

I got a 1890 on my SATS

Originally Posted by ZBomber

I find bass funner to play too

A little bit of the Grammar Nazi in me has come out... sorry...


: P

[ZBomber]

Originally Posted by TiE23

A little bit of the Grammar Nazi in me has come out... sorry...


: P

Fine, lemme fix my error....

I find it more fun to kick your ass.

[MrWally]

"Funner" is in Webster's.

My mother is an editor for Tyndale House Publishers and she says that, technically speaking, there's nothing wrong with using it.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

Originally Posted by Tyrion

1920 here. That extra 30 points is a stark reminder that we're all smarter here in the west.

iirc i got like a 2200. that extra 280 points is a stark reminder that we're all smarter here in the east.


heh tests that arent truly indicative of one's intellect or knowledge dictating one's future

[Tyrion]

Originally Posted by jmac7142

iirc i got like a 2200. that extra 280 points is a stark reminder that we're all smarter here in the east.

No, that's a stark reminder that asians will inherit the earth.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

i'm not asian take your ching chong propaganda elsewhere

[Pho3nix]

Originally Posted by jmac7142

i'm not asian take your ching chong propaganda elsewhere

At one point I thought you really were.

[MrWally]

Originally Posted by jmac7142

i'm not asian

:O

I had no idea!

[Tyrion]

Originally Posted by jmac7142

i'm not asian take your ching chong propaganda elsewhere

I'm terribly sorry in so many ways.

[BongoBob]

Yeah he's not asian he's just a major Weaboo.

I <3 you jmac

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

i learned their ways to infiltrate their society

[TiE23]

Cursing the roundness of his eyes?!?!?! AAAAAAHHH!!!!

I mean, if jmac's profile is to be believed... he's as tall as me and that's impossible for an Asian fellow.



lol stereotypes ftw

[Rogue Nine]

I got a 1520 on my SAT.

[TiE23]

I think I got around 1770... though I'm still learning. :V

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

Originally Posted by Rogue Nine

I got a 1520 on my SAT.

half-azns get +10 to testing

[ZBomber]

Originally Posted by jmac7142

half-azns get +10 to testing

But sadly no +10 to penis size.

PENIS JOKE LAWL