Well Doom, it's good you have money saved anyway. Got enough saved to apply to a cooler college in a cooler place and live in the dorm there? You'd probably be alot happier than in mullet, speed town.

If you can't move away, do they have any internet cafe's where you might meet other gamers? Or, if not that - someplace that sells PC Gamer. You might hang around until you see someone buying it and make some conversation about favorite games, etc.

Stay away from the speedfreaks, methheads - they'll drain you of everything you've got and spit you out when there's nothing left. We had some in our old neighborhood. They even bothered the grade school kids.

I hope your situation improves. I agree with you that if you made some good friends, or even interesting casual friends, it might not be so bad there. And you know you're smart - need to make use of that in college somehow.

Yeah, I decided to had my run with druggies and I'm done, that's what pisses me off about marijuana being illegal, not to turn this into a debate, but if I could just enjoy it without being forced to deal with characters that are into all that other stuff, or with immoral people altogether. Ultimately it's what made me quit marijuana, I was just tired of always having to deal with being ripped-off and taking revenge so people don't think I'm an easy pick and all that other stuff.

Thanks for the thought, but I don't think there's an internet cafe, and the walmart seems to have chased all the other gaming stores away, and it doesn't seem right for me to hang out in walmart unless I'm pulling off some big heist. A job would help. But otheriwse, you can see why I've been on here so much, and liekwise always pissed off when I've been on here. For everything in my life making friends has been very easy for me, but I've always had a friend their first to introduce me, someone I knew from school, and I don't go to school here, so the former techniques of the infamous vagabond you know as DoomedOne have failed.

Ok, i just read an article about Spore, and all i have to say is I WANT IT!!!
It's looks and sounds awesome lol

At E3 they showed how easy it was to make a creature and I was amazed. You can give it multiple (all of them functional) mouths, tons of legs, mix and match as much as you want and simply have alot of fun. Also, even though its single player, you get to fight other (ai controlled) real peoples planets that change whenever the player changes them. It really looks amazing.

Yeah i read the five page Gamespy thing on it. It's really cool how the game designs the animations on the fly depending on how you designed your creature, etc.
Definitely a game i want to get if at all possible

I think I'm going to have to look into this. I kinda dismissed it at first glance cause on the link I clicked about it - I seemed to be looking at an ameeba and I'm not very interested in germ level warfare.

I'm gonna look again more in depth this time.

I get the trembling feeling that this will be Black and White all over again.

"Wait..I'm a God-lord of all these little...oh, this isn't half as fun as I expected. And I micromanage what? Oh, screw it, I'm just going to be evil and exterminate everything."

Naw, theres no "good and evil" sliders in the game. I hate things like that, especially when they barely effect the game or are what the game is based on. C'mpn, when a bloody Nascar game is based on "good and evil", you know somethings wrong with this world.

LOL, i rented that nascar game and i saw the good and evil sider i was like wtf??? it's all just a big copy of Fable pretty much.

Aye I've had my eye on spore for a while now. I have my fingers crossed hoping that it doesn't dissapoint which i don't think it will since it's by the same guy who came up with the sims. And since sims 2 is my addiction I can only imagine what spore could be like.

everyone meet my family digitzed into the sims (i'm in th middle):

What do people see in Sims? I never played the game, but it doesn't seem that intresting to me.
It's some kind of a real life simulation, right?

Only thing I like with Sims is to build the houses

building houses is the most fun part of the game, as is decorating them. dunno why it's fun. I just like it *shrug* I like games that have no direct point to them.

i like taking my time. the entrance way to the house across the street took several hours.


This post has been edited by Megil Tel-Zeke: May 27 2006, 10:46 PM

Pffft. Spore? Dissapoint? The only Will Wright product I've ever been dissapointed in was the Urbz... and really.. who expected that to be good? Black and White wasn't a huge letdown... Besides, from what I've seen... is there any possible way for it to be a letdown? We've only seen Demos and they're better than the whole B&W game as a whole.

No, I have faith in this one.

I agree.. I think spore will. r0xx3rz m3h b0xx3rz!!11

Anyways. You guys make me feel bad with your instability. I mean, I've had a decent life. We've had our lows out here, real big lows like with Doomeds problem, but recovered.

Alls I can tell you doomed is take what you have and use it. Youre obviously well learned and can convince the mass', try to find some job working with a lot of people. You know? Or you could always join the military

The Sims is so addictive... Especially building houses!!!

I'm in the same boat (no, this isn't an auto-censor ) as Channler; my life's never had any real major problems, so I have no idea of what I should say to help.

I already did say what I could to try to show that the lights really do shine at the tunnel end ... so keep on crawling til ya can walk, and then run and eventually - you'll be there. Where you wanted to be, or even better.
Where you're at now will be the learning experience you can judge life by.

Really. Cain & I got through the living in the car thing & got the studio, the band scene. Then he decided on computer technician training & now we are living in a condo on a private lake in Florida. I can go swimming everyday, whereas once I used to whine "Where will I take a shower!" Car living isn't easy, but it got us to where we are now.

Doomed & Intestinal Chaos, I know you guys are going through the transitional stage to something better. Be strong, make good choices. I know damn well you both are smart .... hell, you're both so photogenic you could get modeling jobs for that matter. I used to do that in high school, but for department store shows ... not those phoney modeling schools who say they're gonna make a great portfolio only to get your money. .... but I guess modeling isn't as interesting for guys as it is for girls. Oh the clothes! The clothes!!

edit* wow, I thought the censor wasn't gonna let me curse!?

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I forgot to comment on The Simms. That is so funny that you made your family, Megil. I've considered that when I played. And you are also very good with the architecture tool I can see, that is a beautiful house.
What aggravated me about The Simms was the minute micromanagement of every character seemed to leave time for little else. If a character irritated me by having a urinary accident, I'd get so mad that I'd make them have them all the time. Then I let everyone start having them and you never saw so much mopping in your life.
I also liked to let the kitchen stoves catch on fire and see the family react in horror and the firemen come and see if the house would be saved or destroyed. I loved the thief guy too. Calamities in Simmsville. I guess Simms was not exactly my game.

This post has been edited by Ibis: May 28 2006, 02:31 AM

You gotta build your house, manage money, control your sims' every action, all the while making sure he/she has what they need to survive.(Food, sleep, fun, and so on...you get the point...)

I played the Sims games for quite some time...I thought they were alright but I liked Starcraft better.

Yeah I know Starcraft is old and outdated but come on that game was just awesome, it had an amazing storyline, plenty of stuff to keep it interesting, and great gameplay on top of that. It was the only game besides Morrowind that I could sit and play for hours.

This post has been edited by Kiln: May 28 2006, 02:37 AM

/agreed