Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Duck Farmer]

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It's always good to hear a great succeeds-despite-himself story

On the plus side, he could start a business selling appropriate uses of the sliding doors metaphor to the best newsbreakers in sports journalism.

 

[edgie]

People are... well it is fairly harsh, not unfairly, but Bono has done some iconic stuff.


**** the revolution.
Was in a U2 cover band (mate was the U2 equivalent of me to those who shall not be named) that never got out the shed in high school. Bad times. Knew that speech off by heart. Of course it had no relevance or power being recounted by obnoxious 16 year olds that cared more for Edge's effects pedals or Bono's mullet than the troubles he spoke of.

 

[Dylan8]

God bless uber and the number of mentos they will allow me to nick

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I draw the line at ******* Bono content in this fred

Just when you thought you could not love the Captain anymore than you already do.....


OLD ANECDOTES AT PLAY - MORE BONGO FURY

There was a time, awhile back, when Bono - from U2 - had heard that Captain Beefheart was living in a trailer in the desert. My guess is that the guy assumed that Don - like so many eclectic players before him - was near destitute, and therefore - felt sorry for him. Sorry enough as it seems, to have extended an invitation...

So he sent him a letter and said “Captain Beefheart, if you’d like to come perform on our tour or open up or play a few dates with us - we’d be very proud - I want to write with you”... and Don writes back: “Dear Bongo, I don’t know who you are or what you want from me but don’t call me again.”

*Allegedly the approach came through his manager before this letter and when told verbally the Captains first response was "Who the **** is bongo?"

Imagine being that cool you had no idea who Bono was?

I want to live in that world.

I mean seriously what would this guy have in common with that guy, Don Van Vliet actually made music worth listening to.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Yeah I'm a fan.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

 

[Eddie Dingle]

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Don is the man Eddie, I posted Trout Mask Replica in the music thread once & the spec mod hated it... yet anther reason to love the Captain

 

[Eddie Dingle]

God he was brilliant...

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Don is the man Eddie, I posted Trout Mask Replica in the music thread once & the spec mod hated it... yet anther reason to love the Captain

Absolute genius.

I do get people hating on Trout Mask Replica though, if that was the first thing you ever heard from this once in a lifetime artist it would be easy to say you didn't like him and not listen to his other stuff.

You need to ease people in jimmy.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Absolute genius.

I do get people hating on Trout Mask Replica though, if that was the first thing you ever heard from this once in a lifetime artist it would be easy to say you didn't like him and not listen to his other stuff.

You need to ease people in jimmy.

Lick my decals off, baby for the ease in

 

[StrappingTape]

So when Duncan Storrar isnt threatening to kill people or actually assaulting them and spending time in jail he is living in his government paid house, eating his government paid food, receiving government child allowance, subsidised transport and bills and now austudy because he is 'studying' on top of his disability pension.

Inbetween naming his kids after his favourite drugs someone gets in his ear from qanda and he asks a question whinging about wanting more money from the tax he doesnt pay as a gotcha whilst being able to demonise people on 80k a year. What a winner.

Then we see him the next day at his government home with his girls playing on their brand new government funded trampoline but he cant afford to take them to the movies of course because 'rich' people wont give him more money.

Out of this his adult son is the real hero, getting away from his dad and becoming a contributor to Australia.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

And here we go again...

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

 

[LukeSA]

Yeah it looks great. I'm hoping I can scrape enough spare coin together to grab it this weekend.

Have you had a chance to play your copy yet LukeSA ?

Yeah, it's pretty awesome, just think if the original Doom with modern graphics, even had a hint of Serious Sam in it, great if you grew up with 90's shooters.

 

[I Dont Care]

And here we go again...

No...please...no more

 

[Schulzenfest]

So when Duncan Storrar isnt threatening to kill people or actually assaulting them and spending time in jail he is living in his government paid house, eating his government paid food, receiving government child allowance, subsidised transport and bills and now austudy because he is 'studying' on top of his disability pension.

Inbetween naming his kids after his favourite drugs someone gets in his ear from qanda and he asks a question whinging about wanting more money from the tax he doesnt pay as a gotcha whilst being able to demonise people on 80k a year. What a winner.

Then we see him the next day at his government home with his girls playing on their brand new government funded trampoline but he cant afford to take them to the movies of course because 'rich' people wont give him more money.

Out of this his adult son is the real hero, getting away from his dad and becoming a contributor to Australia.

No surprise to see you post this, Mr. Bolt.

 

[Hooligan87]

New Doom single player looks cool as ****

I picked it up yesterday, It's only problem is the music but I found a fix for that. What you do is just leave the SFX volume up and turn the music volume down in the game and crank some Slayer in the background, fits perfectly.

But seriously, I don't really like FPS games these days but this one stood out to me (probably cos it's called DOOM) you most certainly don't duck and cover in this one you just run out all guns blazing and F*** S*** up. It has a strong focus on melee combat though with chainsaw kills always resulting in ammunition drops and glory kills always resulting in health pack drops.

Not that that's a bad thing though, glory kills are so F***ing satisfying each and every time. I'm only a few hours in and it feels like single player campaign is just getting started. It even has a story to it and yet the players character is even more ambiguous than ever before. I haven't even touched the multiplayer yet.

I'll give it 4.5 frisbees out of a possible 5 frisbees.

 

[Hooligan87]

After writing that i'm going to play Doom some more now.

 

[raman]

I picked it up yesterday, It's only problem is the music but I found a fix for that. What you do is just leave the SFX volume up and turn the music volume down in the game and crank some Slayer in the background, fits perfectly.

But seriously, I don't really like FPS games these days but this one stood out to me (probably cos it's called DOOM) you most certainly don't duck and cover in this one you just run out all guns blazing and F*** S*** up. It has a strong focus on melee combat though with chainsaw kills always resulting in ammunition drops and glory kills always resulting in health pack drops.

Not that that's a bad thing though, glory kills are so F***ing satisfying each and every time. I'm only a few hours in and it feels like single player campaign is just getting started. It even has a story to it and yet the players character is even more ambiguous than ever before. I haven't even touched the multiplayer yet.

I'll give it 4.5 frisbees out of a possible 5 frisbees.

While we're all about 90s FPS nostalgia, I want a HD remake of the original Quake already.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

U2 can **** off

 

[_VXV]

U2 can **** off

Still stands

 

[Eddie Dingle]

U2 are worse than the combined threat of Coldplay/Nickelback.

People think what Bono says matters.

 

[spookism]

U2 are worse than the combined threat of Coldplay/Nickelback.

People think what Bono says matters.

Can you imagine an U2 headline with Coldplay and Nickelback in support?

Pretty sure if that did happen, it's the 3rd or 4th sign off the apocalypse...

 

[I Dont Care]

Can you imagine an U2 headline with Coldplay and Nickelback in support?

Pretty sure if that did happen, it's the 3rd or 4th sign off the apocalypse...

Is that before or after the plague of wormwood?