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A joke that apparently I'm three days late for. :p

It is a real holiday, btw... Seinfeld didn't make it up.

Read 9001's thread for info on Festivus. And yes, I still exist. I pop in at random times to annoy the admins and to see if my baby is okay.

Unless they moved the park, by some act of god most likely...

Yes, that's where Disneyworld is. That's awesome, btw.

Sorry... *hauls out pole*

And I'm not doing the "Feats of Strength". You can. :P *gives you cookie*

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!! If I was still admin, I'd make everyone staff for the day. :P

*sees Misty heading towards me* Gotta go... *zips*

Bloody hell, who let DP loose in the debate forum? *staff attacks* KIDDING!!! KIDDING!!!!!!!!!

How do you see video games? Do you play simply for entertainment? Hmm..... I see video games as a lot of things. I see it as an escape from life, I see it as a way to see different worlds and sometimes even learn from the games. I see games sometimes as a source of frustration and then accomplishment. Like an extremely hard level that you finally beat. It can bring me to tears and laughter by watching it and it makes me feel something different every time I pick one up. It is entertainment, but it's also a source of something else I can't really describe.

Do you think video games can be considered art? And I'm not talking just high-def CG. Yes, I do, art takes many forms in my POV. A good book could be an art form with a story that brings excitement and adventure to someone as the same as an art critic would be to a painting. A story, characters and yes, the graphics all are part of the same work of art. There could be good or bad games like good or bad paintings. It takes a lot of hard work and imagination to create art as it does a game. I'd say it's practically the same.

When you pick up a game, how often do you find yourself completely wrapped up in it? It depends on the game, the more recent games I don't find myself nearly as wrapped up as I used to, sadly enough, except a few, The World Ends with You and Kingdom Hearts series. I can still pick up the Legend of Zelda Orcarina of Time and Illusion of Gaia and get lost for hours in the storyline and gameplay. Even Harvest Moon 64 when I'm in the right mood gives me that in-depth feeling where hours pass and I don't even notice. One time I played the whole day away on that game without noticing.

Have you ever played a game that has been considered to have terrible graphics (for the time it's from) but wanted to see the story, or vice versa (bad story/gameplay, good graphics)? Hmmm... That's a hard one. I'm not sure, I really don't follow reviews for the games I play that closely unless I'm on the fence. I'd have to say I'm more story/gameplay than graphics. I can't sit through a Final Fantasy game anymore despite it's terrific graphics due to the story lines, and several other games, too.

Why do you think gaming has become such a huge part of our everyday lives? Gaming ALWAYS been a part of my life. My brother's too. Yes, Wii has revolutionized it and now it has a huge market due to better marketing/games for more people. Games in the 1980's has been a part of people's lives as it is now. Just a much bigger market.

What is your opinion on the "video games make our kids violent" argument? I do agree that kids shouldn't be playing GTA, due to the sexual content and yes, there is sexual content in the game. I don't care how much people argue otherwise. I also agree on the other ones that are just so horrendously violent it's ridiculous. I did play Mortal Kombat growing up as a kid and it freaked me out after a while. I don't think that the video games are what makes kids violent, I don't think that at all. I do strongly believe in the ESRB though and should keep it as is. The people who complain about it can wait a few more years to reach the age where they can play it.

Given that there is somewhat of a recession going on around the world, do you think the gaming industry will suffer from it? Yes, I believe that the gaming industry if not already affected will suffer soon. I think with the current trend of the video game industry shelling out money with cash cow games most of the time instead of the good ones that were made in the 90's shows that they're suffering.

Overall, how do you think video games have progressed? Do you think that fewer very good games are being made in order to produce games that barely sell but are from big toy companies? Like Barbie games for example. I think it has actually fallen back. yes, there are excellent games still being made out there. They're mostly original, two being Kingdom Hearts, and The World Ends With You. But there hasn't been another Final Fantasy VII or another Legend of Zelda Link to the Past in a very long time. Where it's a sequel to an already excellent series that blows the doors even wider open for that series. The series games, in my honest point of view, have slowly started to sadly fall apart as original ones take its place rapidly that are well-made. The problem is, the originals don't get that much attention while the sequels get a lot more. The 90's will always have a place in my heart for the best games out there. And yes, they're making fewer games that are up to the standards of say Orcarina of Time. Don't get me into the Barbie/Petz/other games. I see red when I hear about it.

For you, what makes a video game good? It's not one thing, it's many. For me, it's the story right out of the gate, is the story interesting? Does it catch your interest and can you understand it at least to the point where you want to go on? If you're reading a book through the intro, that means the game won't hold my interest long enough to continue till the end. Can you relate to the characters or are they at least tolerable to the point where you hate/annoyed/sympathize with them? Even a character who you want to murder, or dance on his grave in joy, or want to kill on sight, that is a good villain. Sephiroth and Seymour are excellent examples of this. Or another side, a character who you feel pain for, who you cry with when he/she cries, that brings you right next to them and makes you them. One of my most memorable games is Illusion of Gaia, a boy loses his father and is trying to find him. Playing through the game on the SNES you face the horrors and beauty of humanity in every town, village, temple and place you go to. I have never forgotten the game, the graphics were okay for that point in next gen, but it's the storyline that brings you in and holds you there to continue it. The music is the next thing that brings you in, a soft haunting melody of sadness when grieving, or the harsh, fast melody for fighting brings the player more in, delving them deeper in the world that they already have started into. The gameplay should be that you're the person. Wii has come the closest to it, but when you're moving, it should feel like it's you moving sitting in the chair. When you use your weapon, it should feel as if it's you who's using it.

Has there ever been a game you've played that actually changed how you look at life, or at least made you think about things? Yes, The Illusion of Gaia and The World Ends With You. Illusion of Gaia for all the beauty a world holds and it's terrible secrets, and The World Ends With You for its plotline and what you learn while playing it.

And for fun, what is the stupidest - yet somehow entertaining - game you've played or watched someone play? Cheetahmen.

I know, I've been watching CoD too much. Just the whole thing in my opinion took to long to figure it out. If it was a threat, we would've been dead by now. I'm not saying it is a nuke, I was joking about that. But yeah, they dropped the ball on this one, in my opinion.

Please, sorry all tweens out there, DO NOT bring in tv shows for Disney into Kingdom Hearts. Something just died when you said that. I will NOT play KH anymore if they bring in Hannah Montana or the other Disney tv shows. Sorry, but I think they're utterly stupid and not that well made. Even Full House has lost interest for me. There's a ton of good disney movies in the vault and a whole ton of different storylines if they don't stick to the movies. They need to get more creative with the worlds they have, not bring in more that aren't well-made except to a very limited age group to keep it popular.

Sorry for the rant, but that's the damned truth and I will not play any KH game with a Disney TV show there. I hope they add Robin Hood, or other ones. And Mickey's side story is an excellent celebration of the decade of KH.

I enjoyed it, I can never seem to get through the Lord of the Rings, but The Hobbit I have read several times. Though I differ, I like the movie better. The cartoon of the 1970's that was excellently made and little known in most cases.

It is usually well-paced and excellently written. There are some points where it drags out, I can never sit through the Golum scene for some reason. But overall, I liked it. As for favorite scene, when the wargs and goblins attacked the group. I won't say what happens, but I loved it.

Have fun with stats. If you're good at algebra, you're most likely going to hate this class. *got an A in stats and a D in algebra*

In other news, I am registering to go back to school. :P I just need $40, anyone have it? I'll pay it back. *has fingers crossed behind back*

I don't want all that fur!!! D: Now he bit me!!!! He's murderous!!1111

I change my vote to furball. :P *gets shot*

Bloodfang sounds cool, and good luck on your project. :) I hope it works out well.

Um........ What is it? *squints and tilts head* I mean... Is it an original piece? A fan drawing? What? No offense. :)

If I was jumping off the bridge, and my parents could stop me at any time, they would. Until I was 18, I would have still have no say if they decide to stop me mid-jump. I'd be pissed at them, yes, but until I'm an adult, that doesn't give me a right to contradict what they say. At ten, I would sure as hell they'd stop me from jumping off the bridge into shallow water, or stop me at mid-jump. If a doctor stopped me from jumping off a bridge in mid-air, as an adult, kid or 2 month old baby, it's his right to do so if he thinks it will kill me and medically there would be long time consequences. I'd be pissed again, but that's his choice.

Whoever decided that the 10 year old should have the baby, whether or not it be her parents, the child, or the doctor, for whatever reason, it was the wrong thing to do. You can stop a child birth, from the above options, any three could have stopped it and they didn't. But they decided to carry it through and that is wrong. Even if the child, at ten, decided to have it, the parent should have overruled it. If the parents wanted her to have it, and the doctor saw it as a danger to the child's life, he should have done something to stop it. Call me wrong, but I think they should have stopped it.

I typed more about it, by the way. I thought I should clear some up. As for 9/11, I know a lot of people survived without consequences. That's wonderful, I'm thrilled for them. Maybe the child will be okay, the baby too, but there's risk and gain. I don't think the risk is worth it, the same as posted before of jumping off the bridge. I can swim away from a jump without anything wrong, I could even more likely in a very high chance end up with a broken neck, that makes the risk higher than the gain.

And you probably didn't see that debate/slash argument with me and Spirit. It was pretty late at night. lol... I don't try to make it into an argument, and I avoid it when I can. :)

I meant his views on abortion and other points. We had a two hour long fight about it, and I won't raise to the bait to another one. Nor the other points he posted. And I still stand on my point that the parents, even if happy with a new child, shouldn't subject their child to the torture of labor. Labor is pure and utter agony, and no child should suffer through it. If you want to twist my words, go ahead. I don't see you criticizing anyone else who agrees with me.

My point of view is my own, and I'm sticking to my guns about it. I also won't lose my temper because some other members who want to turn this into an argument or see their Point of View. To add onto this, lets look long term, for an example, I'll take 9/11, you survive the fall of the WTC, great, everyone's happy, you have a job, wonderful. Two years later, you find out you have lung cancer from the effects and die from it causing more grief and debt to your family.

There's always the long-term consequences to each side, I could cross the street today and get hit by a bus, did I know the consequences? No, I didn't. But if I jumped off a bridge into shallow water, I know, even if I survive, I could end up paralyzed for life. The doctor's, parents and the child at least expected what would happen long-term if the child had the baby, the same I would know the consequences of jumping off that bridge.

Either way, it's too massive a risk even if short-term, you get that rush of jumping, or that joy of having a child. No matter what age you're at, and yes, kids can "date" at two, are they going to have sex at two, five and so on? No, they won't at least for a while. Are they going to most likely have children at two five and so on? No, at least for a while. Does it make them right to make them go through anything that happens if they do end up with consequences? No, it doesn't.