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rayb


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http://www.thestar.com/News/article/257404

The tragedy has happened again. Another man has succumbed to death by game-addiction...

--Ray

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Holy cow. How can you die of exhaustion from sitting still for three days? I could understand dehydration or something like that.

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Addiction kills.

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Janey wrote:

Holy cow. How can you die of exhaustion from sitting still for three days? I could understand dehydration or something like that.


Obviously when your only form of exercise is fragging your best friend on Halo you might be at high risk.



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Does this mean we're all gonna die from spending too much time on Bountiful?


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Crap.

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Ackkkkkkkk.........

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Arteries clogging... must get... to mouse...

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:rubs paddles together and puts them on Ray and shouts: Clear!

-- Edited by Poncho29 at 11:23, 2007-09-18

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Poncho, I told you those were for ping pong, now Ray's dead! Honestly, Cat needs to let you read something other than picture books so this doesn't happen. Ray is dead and it's all Cat's fault!

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Ray's not dead! I got that ticker up and going again just like that. For your information, ping pong paddles have mulitple uses. Haven't you read the latest issue of American Journal of Medicine and Table Sports? Poor Cat, he gets blamed for everything! Even when he isn't around! Sheesh.
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-- Edited by Poncho29 at 11:45, 2007-09-18

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He's Bountiful's version of Karl Rove!

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Alright... HALO!!

My 13 yo wants to play that. Is it a decent game? Are there boobies?

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Poncho29 wrote:

Ray's not dead! I got that ticker up and going again just like that. For your information, ping pong paddles have mulitple uses. Haven't you read the latest issue of American Journal of Medicine and Table Sports? Poor Cat, he gets blamed for everything! Even when he isn't around! Sheesh.
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-- Edited by Poncho29 at 11:45, 2007-09-18



 I'm pretty sure that Cat is also solely responsible for global warming.

Now if Ray comes back he'll be a zombie.



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Wasn't Ray a zombie already?

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Cocobeem wrote:

Alright... HALO!!

My 13 yo wants to play that. Is it a decent game? Are there boobies?



No boobies.  It's a first person shooter.  Basically you are a super soldier running around blasting aliens and zombies called the flood.  In multiplayer version you can hunt each other.  It is rather violent so you may want to take that into account when you are dealing with a 13 year old.  My 11 year old daughter plays sometimes with me and the six and four year old will mess around on the multiplayer mode.  They like driving the tanks and stuff.  My son gets a particular kick out of when I get the Warthog (like a Hummer) and park it on the train tracks in one of the multiplayer maps.  The train comes speeding along and the thing blows up pretty good.biggrin  I don't recommend video games ever since I had the primary class pizza party at my house and the kids were playing mortal kombat and one parent went berzerk about it which was odd since her kid owned the game.



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I'm neither. I'm really just an elaborate Perl script... that randomly posts things... no human here... just a computer program...

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Okay, I trust sales with my son's future. Halo it is! clap.gif

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No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When your son yells out "Running Riot" as he bashes his younger sibling in the head with a pillow you can't say I didn't warn you!





-- Edited by salesortonscom at 14:43, 2007-09-18

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You've probably seen this Jason.  Some of the YM in our ward showed me this:  Halo Music Video.



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AWSOME!!! I had never seen that one before. Wicked cool! I really like the chicken dance, Man on the moon, and Anything you Can Do clips. Someone spent a lot of time puting that together. Thanks for sharing Roper.

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Okay...

I'm clueless. But I guess it's fun! Yeah! w00t.gif

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What are you clueless about Coco?

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I've never seen any Halo stuff... is that from Halo? They're like robot dudes?

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Coco, that's body armor.

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Those are the main Halo characters.  The guys that look like robots are actually just wearing armor.  The other alien looking creatures have armor also but it doesn't cover them completely.  What's neat about the videos is that they are able to choreograph their actual game play and dub in voice or music to go along with it.  The game isn't designed for that at all and to do something like that is a challenge.  There is actually a whole internet series where guys have written an ongoing serial called Red vs. Blue.  They even sell the DVDs.  I can't remember how many episodes they have now and the production quality and story is quite good.  Some are very creative.  The music video one above and the PSA on safe driving I posted in the Humor section are particularly good.  This one from a Monty Python skit is also very good.




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