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[Itnetlolor]

Happy Birthday Jackrabbit.

I'm helping organize trying to turn an old industrial warehouse into a homeless shelter. The city is being a massive pain, but thankfully I've managed to work out the tax deduction for a contractor so that it ends up saving them some money if they donate their time! Though, again, the city is a major pain, getting the building's many code violations fixed is a major step in the right direction.

I'm a step closer to actually doing it.

i hope it works out !
what i found out about city counsel and other idiots, is that if they don't like it they will try any stupid law in there book to bugger you out  of it...

i have seen people getting kicked out of there house cause they did not have water and that would be a risk to fire safety 
but the city disconnected it.. so they kicked out the people, the people went too court to fight it, they won.
but the city already  leveled the house ...

i have seen many more of this crap with Art places, Youth centers, free shops...
just because its not how they want the city to look

Why does the movie Hot Fuzz come to mind?

I suggest you keep an eye open for any traps.

[dragnar]

Well. I have just performed likely the most generous act of my life. Now why the hell won't my stomach stop hurting. Damnit brain, at least make SENSE with your stupid emotions!

[SirAaronIII]

Whoa it's Jackrabbit's birthday? I must have missed that part, sorry about that.
In compensation, have a larger than usual font size:
Happy birthday, Jackrabbit!

[Blargityblarg]

You're getting older, Jack.

[MaximumZero]

And yet he's still jailbait.

[JoshuaFH]

For all my griping in the Sad thread, I'm atleast happy about the petty accomplishment of building a damn fine standard legal Red/White Weenie Token deck on Magic the Gathering: Online.

It's remarkably robust, fast, and lethal, despite the fact that the combined cost of every card in it is about a little bit less than 5 dollars, and that's amazing considering that the average standard legal deck that can compete in even a remote way costs 20-30 dollars, and the deck that can compete in a damn good way blows the lid off your wallet at $100-200+ easily.

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I just finished this game. It was the most protracted fight with the most bizarrely prepared opponent I've come across yet. Nearly everything I did, he had an answer for: I lay my enchantments that make my dudes huge, and he destroys them all systematically. I lay a bunch of dudes, and he Destroy the whole board of creatures clean over and over and over. I try to play my spells that give me more dudes, and he counters them. We eventually got into a protracted battle of attrition where we're topdecking and taking turns taking out eachother's things.

I was holding onto a pump spell for I don't know how many turns in anticipation of my comeback, and I'm desperately fending off this Sun Titan, and eventually build my army back up, find that he was out of answers for what I was trying to do, and I finally win on the 24th turn. To put things into perspective, the average game ends at or before turn 8; So this was a very long match.

And he was throwing around Sun Titans, Phyrexian Metamorphs, Ally Colored Dual lands, and all sorts of things that are individually costed more than my entire deck, and I still won. So happy about that.

Miserly Scroogeness: Innovating to do more with less since forever.

This was just a casual match, but I should tweak this a bit and see if it can stand up in an actual tournament. Probably not since those guys are a serious bunch, but it's worth a try.

[Vector]

How games saved my life.

So this is a pretty awesome site.

[SalmonGod]

How games saved my life.

So this is a pretty awesome site.

I credit games and internet with saving mine.  I'm pretty sure I'd have done a lot of stupid things and be a completely different person otherwise.

Great website.

[Bauglir]

So I bought some rennet today to make junket, and it was pretty good. I cannot believe I'm saying this, but hooray for English cuisine?

EDIT: Also, that website is pretty great. A lot of the stories that shaped my expectations of what a story is, a lot of the role models I looked up to, and the ideas I have of what is right were found in the video games I played. Not all of those were ideal, and I've had to struggle to overcome some of the lessons I learned that I shouldn't have, but that's true of all media that have an impact on a person's life. I think, though, that I've benefited tremendously. I wouldn't be who I am today without a General Leo, a Cyan Garamonde, a Lucca... I mean, there's really a lot there.

[Truean]

Happy birthday Jackrabbit.

Games have also saved my life via distraction from all the things I really don't want to face about myself and my relation to the world.

Happy birthday, Jack of the Rabbit clan!

Bravo for you, Truean. You really are a credit to the human race, you know that?

Couldn't say it any better.

That is amazing, Truean. You are amazing.

Aye, that! For how jaded you are about humanity in general, you sure are great at making us look good.

Today I got signed up for the Department of Energy's Science Bowl Regionals competition. With the redistricting that's gone on, we stand a pretty good chance to place and go to DC.

Aww. Thanks guys. I'm gonna keep on inventing new shades of dark and darker green. I haven't really done this yet though and the city counsel being in an election year means they've suspended all rational thought they may or probably definitely  did not ever have. Moreover, I'm still going to have to keep working on all that self loathing and general misanthropy. It's not going to expand itself; other people will be happy to do that.

Honestly, thank you though. I'm gonna research some more domestic violence law (and I really am, which I strangely enjoy doing though not having reason to do).

[dragnar]

Well. I have just performed likely the most generous act of my life. Now why the hell won't my stomach stop hurting. Damnit brain, at least make SENSE with your stupid emotions!

Ah... well, after finally managing to calm down... I feel pretty good. Helped someone out, and managed to do so despite some rather bad social problems getting in the way.

[Phantom of The Library]

That is amazing, Truean. You are amazing.

In unrelated and suddenly much less interesting news, happy birthday to me. It's a weird feeling, getting older.

Happy Inevitable March to Death Day!

Wait that didn't come out right...

In the same vein...
Happy Birthday! Your life still isn't over!

Happy Birthday!
And more in the same vein:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxYXcvGBibc

Happy birthday Jackrabbit.

Games have also saved my life via distraction from all the things I really don't want to face about myself and my relation to the world.

Happy birthday, Jack of the Rabbit clan!

Bravo for you, Truean. You really are a credit to the human race, you know that?

Couldn't say it any better.

That is amazing, Truean. You are amazing.

Aye, that! For how jaded you are about humanity in general, you sure are great at making us look good.

Today I got signed up for the Department of Energy's Science Bowl Regionals competition. With the redistricting that's gone on, we stand a pretty good chance to place and go to DC.

Aww. Thanks guys. I'm gonna keep on inventing new shades of dark and darker green. I haven't really done this yet though and the city counsel being in an election year means they've suspended all rational thought they may or probably definitely  did not ever have. Moreover, I'm still going to have to keep working on all that self loathing and general misanthropy. It's not going to expand itself; other people will be happy to do that.

Honestly, thank you though. I'm gonna research some more domestic violence law (and I really am, which I strangely enjoy doing though not having reason to do).

And Truean, you really are a credit to humanity.

[Doomshifter]

How games saved my life.

So this is a pretty awesome site.

I think my love of Pokemon is sorta like this.

When my mum and dad split up, I vividly remember playing Pokemon Blue, fighting Misty for the first time. I was very young and had little idea what was going on, but the positivity of that game made me feel like no matter what, things were just going to be fine anyway. Your pokemon don't die, they just faint. They get back up and keep going. I've really felt like that throughout my whole life. I don't like letting life get me down, because I remember the 'lessons' I've learnt time and again from games, literature, etc. Perseverance is the key.

[SalmonGod]

In my case, if I hadn't had video games to occupy myself with, I probably would have just gotten myself into tons of trouble.  Without them, I wouldn't have had anything to do through most of my childhood other than get involved with some really horrible influences or wander places and mess with things I shouldn't have.  When I finally hit a period where I was socially desperate enough to start hanging around some really bad people who were just taking advantage of me, my parents got internet.  I started playing games online, which gave me another social outlet.  Not only that.  It exposed me to people from all over the world on a daily basis, when for the last 5 years, I'd had very little contact with anyone outside one of the most fucked up small town communities in Indiana.  It completely altered my world view and I basically told those other people to fuck off.  From what I last heard about them, I'd be surprised if they weren't all in prison.

[ECrownofFire]

Chicken and mushroom marsala is amazing. So glad I made this.