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Title: What did santa give you?
Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-26 16:07:00: (sing to "12 days of christmas")
On the only day of chrsitmas santa gave to me:
1 PS2
2 giftcards
3 headphones
4 little hobbits
5 things to eat
6 new books
7 thankyous to write
8 dollars cash
9 envious friends
10 tired fingers
11 sleepless hours playing FFX
12 hours playing FFX (actualy 13 but what ever)

thank you
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Post by: Darkness on 2001-12-26 17:24:00: 245 LBs of Weights
100 GB 7200 RPM HardDrive
9.5 hours in ffx (just died... f***)
5 New Books
2 DVDs
1 PS2
1 Memory Card
Unknown amount of money

and a brand new SCV
(and a partridge in a pear tree)
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Post by: Jedimark on 2001-12-26 21:38:00: One DVD Player!!!
One Fawlty Towers DVD Box Set :laugh:
One new squash raquet :)
One ring to rule them all :rolleyes:
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Post by: Darkness on 2001-12-26 22:33:00: haha try 10.46, ps :)
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Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-12-26 23:34:00: One huge - assed monitor. (Typing in 1600 x 1200!!!!)
Two nifty computer games. (Wolfenstein, the Return To and Harry Potter)
Three Fabulous books.
Four... wait, no... that's it....
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Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-26 23:48:00: harry potter? wtf. D2:LoD is much better. i haven't played the game maybe i'll find a demo or dl the full verion and try it out. either way EEECCCH. no offence hough
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Post by: vvalentine on 2001-12-27 00:00:00: New boots. My mom kept on bothering me to get new boots, and now she gave them to me as a present. My boots are 6 years old.
I'll probably get new speakers for my car.

-vvalentine
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Post by: vvalentine on 2001-12-27 00:06:00: New boots. My mom kept on bothering me to get new boots, and now she gave them to me as a present. My boots are 6 years old.
I'll probably get new speakers for my car.

-vvalentine
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Post by: StrayWings on 2001-12-27 00:07:00: Electiric Guitar anyone??? :D
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Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-12-27 02:01:00: My friend got a 300$ electric guitar. I have no idea weather or not this is good. Also, the Harry Potter game sux, so don't bother. (not that any of you would anyway) but the books and the movie are fantasic PurpleSmurf, so you should go and read/see them.
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Post by: Joey on 2001-12-27 02:37:00: My friend got a siamse cat for christmas. Now, that's expensive.
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Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-27 03:19:00: i have read them. not in order but i've read them. not a bad seiries but jeez the media hype is too much.

joey: i like cats even though i have 8 birds. had one till bout last week. nice show cat.
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Post by: Joey on 2001-12-27 07:21:00: Harry Potter sux. My stories are more intresting. Work in progress.
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Post by: Qhimm on 2001-12-27 10:58:00: A bar of soap.

[Python] You lucky, lucky bastards!! [/Python]
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Post by: The SaiNt on 2001-12-27 13:25:00: Nothing.
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Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-12-27 15:01:00: What kind of birds do you have, Purple??? I love birds!!! Unfortunately, my high school life creates horrible homework cramps that lead me to the decision not to buy a bird. They need hella work and attention, and the teflon thing crreps me out. When im out of college, that sun conure will be in my life soooo fast... : D
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Post by: Darkness on 2001-12-27 18:05:00: 4 cockatiels and 4 parakeets, i think.
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Post by: Ant on 2001-12-27 19:08:00: A bar of soap
HAHAHAHA roflmao - i take it you are joking?
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Post by: M0T on 2001-12-27 20:43:00: I got coal:(

actually I got a few things this year :)
1. Geforce 3 Ti200
2. A new Model plane( a corsair)
3. A model plane engine(extremely large and dangerous:))
4. An Fx box for my electric guitar(got the guitar for my bday a bargain at Â£200:wink:)
5. A load of GBA accesories
6. 8 books

My dad got the entire family a dvd player and some dvds and with any luck the gamecube he ordered will be with us by the end of the holidays.
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Post by: Joey on 2001-12-28 00:53:00: I have nothing for christmas :cry:
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Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-28 05:10:00: darkness is right.i have 4 cockatiels: birdy, punkin,archy, and krystal and 4 parakeets: yoshi, spike, snow, sugar.if you want i'll put pictures of them up on my site. i'm in high school too and the birds arn't that much trouble. if you need help on this just pm me or im me on icq of aim or yahoo. :)
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Post by: Alhexx on 2001-12-28 09:28:00: Qhimm: Hm ... am I wrong or have I read this b-word frequently last time in here...

As for me:
George Orwell - 1984
Visual C++ 6 - Book
Some money for my driving license
...ans some other small things ... I don't remember them ... uh, looks like I need more RAM in my brain :D

- Alhexx
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Post by: eerrrr on 2001-12-28 10:17:00: I got slightly gone off cheese....no.

A minidisc recorder/player with 10 minidiscs
A minidisk rack which holds 30 minidiscs
A jacket

Well it's my birthday in 3 days (31st) so hopefully I'll get more stuff then. :D

M0T: What guitar did you get? And what FX pedal? I've got a really cool Â£300 Digitech RP7 multi-effects pedal :o
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Post by: M0T on 2001-12-28 11:51:00: Well your Â£300 fx pedal was more than mine. Mine is a DOD FX7.
The guitar is a Les Paul Copy made by westfield and is black and gold with two humbucker pickups.
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Post by: Qhimm on 2001-12-28 14:08:00: Ant: I never joke about serious matters.
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Post by: Darkness on 2001-12-28 15:25:00: that sux, qhimm....
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Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-28 17:35:00: joey said he didn't get anything..... is that true joey?
IS IT JOEY
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Post by: M0T on 2001-12-28 18:51:00: Well I might be way off here but I didn't think joey celebrated christmas.
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Post by: Goku7 on 2001-12-28 20:10:00: Well, for some reason my relatives had a money theme in mind for me:

1 new wallet (with $20 in it!!)
Several checks, ranging from the $25 to the $100 one I got on my birthday.
About 4 gift cards for Best Buy (I wanted to use them to buy Final Fantasy Anthology, but alas, they don't even carry it! -_-)

And of course, this nice new system upgrade that brought me up to a P4 1.5Ghz with 256megs DDR RAM and a 400Mhz Front Side Bus.

Of course, I had to pay for half of it, but the important part is that all this money will allow me to get out of the debt that was created by buying the upgrade!!
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Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2001-12-28 23:23:00: Let's see...

A bag of White Chocolate
A "Super Speed Grip" Steering wheel cover
A "First Interstate" money bag (with cool chopsticks in it.)
A CD/DVD disc cleaner
Jurassic Park III DVD
Iron Chef book
Car cleaning mitt
A tall, glass jar full of Macaroni (jar is ususally used for spagetii)
A "Planet of the Apes" ape mug
A 12 issue (1 year?) subscription to Gold Digger
A pocket watch
A "How to Draw Anime Robots" book
Civilization III (I bought that for myself about 2 or 3 days before Christmas)
and finally,
Star Trek Armada II

I DID ask for FFX (and a PS2, since we only have my brother's) but I didn't get it. Not that I really expected to get them either...

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Post by: Darkness on 2001-12-29 02:01:00: ohh... one of my books was "How to Draw Anime Characters in Casual Wear" it was all the store had....
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Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2001-12-29 03:15:00: I got a ton of "How to draw Anime" books. The only problem is, they're all in Japanese. Fortunatly, they're very graphical. You don't have to be able to read Japanese in order to understand.

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Post by: Qhimm on 2001-12-29 12:08:00: Oh, how I envy you. Really.
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Post by: Edea on 2001-12-29 15:21:00: Wow sounds like you guys got some pretty cool stuff. The main thing I got was a dvd player. Yay no more crappy vcr tapes! Bad thing is no good dvds...yet. :wink:
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Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-12-29 17:27:00: Yes, I know some birds are practically no trouble at all, but I have a few problems with getting one. One, I practically fel in love with sun conures, so if I get a bird, I want one of them. They cost $300 :(. Also, there is adequate caging, the toys, the supplies, the fact that I have 3 hours of homework each night and these birds require at least an hour and a half of attention a day, and the whole teflon scare. I happen to like non-stick cookware. plus, in 3 years, I go to college, and I won't be able to take them.
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Post by: M0T on 2001-12-29 20:07:00: WoW I just got a new CD player and Amplifier :D for those who want to have a look at it its here http://www.ian.garrett.btinternet.co.uk/f beware 56ker's
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Post by: J*** H******* on 2001-12-29 22:56:00: Message.
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Post by: Goku7 on 2001-12-30 01:09:00: Hey, we're still in the polygon era of 3d.

I think we'll have holodeck technology if (or when, if you're optimistic) 3dfx comes back, buys out nVidia, and creates the ultimate video chipset, which they could call the VeForce (their version of the GeForce chipset. The "V" would come from "Voodoo".) :wink:

The Holodeck: The ultimate 3d Accelerator!

Then again, the Final Fantasy series would be taken to a whole new level on the Holodeck! :D Imagine, you're actually there with other charaters, and your taking the Dollet Exam for SeeD, dodging explosions and magic attacks as you head to the city square!

Of course, there would be some downsides. I'm pretty sure that there are some sickos out there who would take the opportunity to act inappropriately with the characters. -_-
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Post by: J*** H******* on 2001-12-30 01:25:00: Message.
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Post by: Darkness on 2001-12-30 02:29:00: meaning all of your greatest fantasies would come in polygonal form.
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Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-30 02:36:00: yea and you would never leave your house. EVER. cause you could buy sunless suntan lotion and just apply it then people would THINK you were goinng outside. and you could just spend hte rest of your time with supermodels :)
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Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2001-12-30 06:45:00: I'm all for Holodeck technology, but there IS such a thing as too much. At one point it would simply be an incredibally Mentally and Physically unhealthy thing to do. You would eventually come to the point where you can't tell reality from the holodeck's fantasy.

Supposedly, there's a similar occurance when one plays video games too much...
I can understand people wanting to do all sorts of... unappropriate things to FF characters. I'm sure the characters would respond as they would in the game if someone tried that. (With Tifa, you'd get your jaw kicked off.)

But here's a question: Using PS9 or Holodeck technology, would you rebuild the FF7 characters to be realistic, or would you leave them looking like anime characters?

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Post by: J*** H******* on 2001-12-30 07:19:00: Message.
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Post by: Darkness on 2001-12-30 17:10:00: i remember that episode :) if the ff7 characters were left in anime form, cloud's hair could be used as a weapon.
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Post by: M0T on 2001-12-30 20:56:00: But if there is a computer controlling it all it would take would be a hack to get themi all naked and horny :wink:
And the model number is RA-612 but good luck on finding anything, its 25 years old!!
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Post by: Goku7 on 2001-12-30 22:02:00: I saw the episode too.

Actually, according to a *really* old Star Trek Encyclopedia I got from my grandparents, creating holographic versions of other real people without their consent is considered a "serious invasion of personal privacy". I think it was also considered a criminal offense, or at least illegal.

As for character responses, well, you forgot about the holodeck's safety protocols, that prevent the user from serious physical harm that would be caused by a holographic object; in Tifa's case, that blow to the jaw wouldn't even faze the sicko.
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Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2001-12-30 22:51:00: If that was true, explain O'Brian's dislocated shoulder. I doubt he turns off the safties. That requires two command-level officers passcodes.

As for Tifa's action... That's a but of an exaggeration. You'd be kicked and it'd feel like it came off, but it'd definatly be sore.

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Post by: Goku7 on 2001-12-30 23:48:00: Good point. Perhaps the safety protocols don't after stuff like falling to the ground.

Now that I think about it, I'm guessin' the safties only come into play when you get hit with an otherwise life-threating injury, like being shot or falling off a really high cliff. That would explain how he dislocated his shoulder, while not disengaging the safety protocols.
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Post by: M0T on 2001-12-31 13:37:00: Also, wouldnt the ground only be a projected image above the holodeck floor so he would still hit the holodeck floor and injure himself.
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Post by: Darkness on 2001-12-31 15:10:00: but wouldn't falling off a cliff only be simulated by blowing air at you to prolong the fall so you wouldn't hit as hard anyway?
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Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2001-12-31 17:21:00: To make this clear: you can be injured, but not fatally, in a holodeck with the safties on. With the safties off, everything is as dangerous as real life.

Of course in real life you wouldn't become confused by a flying pumpkin in a mansion, or battle a two-headed dragon in an ice cave.

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Post by: Darkness on 2001-12-31 18:30:00: yeah... damned pumpkins. i keep getting killed.

i thought you couldnt be seriously injured in a holodeck either.
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Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-31 20:35:00: dude lay off the pumpkins. I have a bird called pumpkin, and darkness is scared of her, and she could kick clouds ass. i think. she a meanish little bird but she's cool. anyway just cause i have nothing better to do for the next 20 minutes i went out and looked up the holodeck rules, and didn't find anything.as far as i've seen darkness is right you can't be seriously hurt but if you get kick in teh head then you would be sore for like a day. maybe later i'll try again. but now tooooooooo HASTINGS!!! bum bumbumbum
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Post by: Goku7 on 2001-12-31 23:01:00: Hey, has anybody seen that Star Trek: Voyager episode where the Hirogen captured Voyager, and forced them into that holodeck WW2 scenario?

Well, there's this one part where Torres said she got impregnated by one of the holographic characters.

Uh, just how exactly could that work? :-? I mean, would it be a real life person, or a hologram? :)

Also, what would happen if she went outside the holodeck while she was still pregnant? I'm guessin' that she would have a miscarage, 'cause half the DNA would dematerialize the instant she left the room. Well, I suppose maybe it wouldn't, due to the way DNA replicates itself.......

But still, what would she tell her son/daughter? To paraphrase Monty Python & the Holy Grail, "Your mother was a half-klingon, and your father was a hologram!"
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Post by: Darkness on 2001-12-31 23:22:00: i saw that :) i think that if she left the holodek, she would return to normal, aside from the brainwash.
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Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2001-12-31 23:55:00: Mmmmmm...."Monty Python & and the Holy Grail". that was the best movie. anyway i saw that episode. but in that they has the safety protocols off so maybe holographic sperm could actualy exist and contain genecit coding. that'd be cool is tores had had the baby. half-german/half-klingon/half-human hmm thats to many half but you get the idea. and they should have had a species 8472 join the crew or something close that. they didn't have nearly enough 8472 stuff in that show.
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Post by: M0T on 2002-01-01 14:06:00: I saw that episode too, I thought that it was part of the simulation that she was pregnant and was therefore only simulated pregnant and couldnt have a baby.
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Post by: PurpleSmurf on 2002-01-01 17:52:00: but what about the last episode where the docter was married to that lady and they were planning on having children? :-?
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Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-01-01 19:16:00: *sigh* It wasn't a real child or a holographic one. It was a cosmetic attachment created by the Doctor under orders by the Hirogen.

As for the doctor and his kid, who knows? He DID have a kid on that one planet that existed like 10 times faster than everything else. The doctor was sent on reconnisance, and accidently got left there for 3 years. During that 3 years, he got married and had a kid. Maybe it was donated Sperm...

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Post by: Goku7 on 2002-01-01 21:35:00: Well, it might be feasible in Torres' case. If you got pregnant by a holographic character, and stayed in the holodeck long enough for the DNA in the embreyo to copy itself via replication or transcription, then there's a chance that the new copy would be 100% non-holographic, since DNA is generally self-replicating.

I don't know if I worded that in an-easy-to-understand way, but anyone who has taken either an Anatomy & Physiology, Pre-Med, or college genetics class probably knows what I'm talking about.
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Post by: Darkness on 2002-01-01 22:37:00: i got it. youd have a half holographic child. walk out of the holodeck and it would be missing half of it's genetic structure.
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Post by: Goku7 on 2002-01-01 23:06:00: Bingo, I guess.

I could just imagine the child complaining:

"But Mom, why do I hafta wear this stupid mobile emitter!? None of the other kids do! I'm an organic life-form, right? (starts sobbing) ...............Right?"
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Post by: Darkness on 2002-01-02 01:33:00: wow. thats sad in a weird sci-fi sort of way.
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Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-01-02 02:48:00: I think things like holographic sperm don't quite work the way they do in real life. More than likely, they're all sterile.

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Post by: Goku7 on 2002-01-02 03:17:00: But the fact that she got pregnant disproves that idea.
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Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-01-02 06:09:00: No she wasn't! She wasn't pregnant! She just thought she was because that's the way they had re-programmed her. It was just cosmetic effects created by the Doctor! How many times do I have to say that?! :x

And if it's not cosmetic, it looks like a pregnancy cause the holodeck is projecting that onto her! SHE WAS NOT PREGNANT!

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Post by: Darkness on 2002-01-02 16:38:00: were past the star trek episode, i think. were just talking about what would happen
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Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-01-02 17:03:00: ... I give up...

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Post by: mirex on 2002-01-04 11:18:00: I got a mp3 discman, and new 17" monitor. Old 14" went up in smoke ;(
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Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2002-01-04 17:40:00: cool!

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