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« Reply #1850 on: 6 July 2010, 04:20:15 »
Happy belated birthday, my American friends!
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Any of you guys with the hot dry weather want to trade? We are having record rain falls this year (another 3.5 inches today!!!) and places are actually flooding (I swear, Yorkton is turning into an island!)...
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« Reply #1851 on: 6 July 2010, 04:33:22 »
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« Reply #1852 on: 6 July 2010, 05:21:42 »
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Funny!  :O
From the site right? yeah  :O

Any of you guys with the hot dry weather want to trade? We are having record rain falls this year (another 3.5 inches today!!!) and places are actually flooding (I swear, Yorkton is turning into an island!)...
Not really. It isn't like we don't get that too, just at different times or less...etc.  :|
Thanks for the offer.  :O

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« Reply #1853 on: 6 July 2010, 05:40:00 »
Cool I think I heard of them before... Or...something similar to the name...anyways do you make income? Or is it like what I hear, a scam...err...pyramid scam and such.  :| Maybe not...but has it actually done "wonders" for you? etc.
There are a lot of people who think Amway is a pyramid scheme, but those people all either have no idea what a pyramid scheme is or have no idea how Amway actually works.  It's a legitimate company, approved by the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Better Business Bureau.  Unfortunately, there are a lot of organizations that have latched themselves on like leeches and pretend they're part of the company but aren't (Yeah, I'm looking at you, L.T.D.), and they're usually the ones making all the false promises because they're the ones who charge membership fees.  I stay away from those groups because, well, 1.) they're dishonest, 2.) they don't really provide any information or help that I can't get for free from the company, and 3.) they're creepy as Hell!  You should see their meetings; they're like a cult. :look:  So really, most of the bad things you hear about Amway are lies, misunderstandings, and/or mislaid blame.  However, a lot of the good things you hear are too.  Sure, there are a lot of people who have become millionaires through the business, but those are a small percentage.  I make a couple hundred bucks here and there in my spare time, and considering how little time I actually put into it, the dollars:time ratio is pretty darn good.  I don't expect to ever become a millionaire at it, and I fully intend on getting a "real job" when I graduate and only continue my business in my free time (much as I do now) for extra spending money.

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Yeah.  :confused: How is the progress though? Might as well talk about it here now that we are discussing about it I guess... [weird, maybe they grabbed a random pic  :| ]...
Well, for the first faction, all the buildings are modeled and most are textured and animated, but there's still some polishing to do.  As for other units, I have five left to do before I can make a release (adding the heroes later), and some of the others need new/improved textures or animations.  Come to think of it, I haven't even started on icons or sounds.  There's definitely a lot done, but quite a bit to go before I release.  I can generally knock out an entire unit in a day if I've got several hours to kill, so any timetable just depends on what else I have going on in my life.

Any of you guys with the hot dry weather want to trade?
It's been hitting triple-digits Fahrenheit lately in my city.  You sure you want that?

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« Reply #1854 on: 6 July 2010, 06:15:23 »
There are a lot of people who think Amway is a pyramid scheme, but those people all either have no idea what a pyramid scheme is or have no idea how Amway actually works.  It's a legitimate company, approved by the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Better Business Bureau.  Unfortunately, there are a lot of organizations that have latched themselves on like leeches and pretend they're part of the company but aren't (Yeah, I'm looking at you, L.T.D.), and they're usually the ones making all the false promises because they're the ones who charge membership fees.  I stay away from those groups because, well, 1.) they're dishonest, 2.) they don't really provide any information or help that I can't get for free from the company, and 3.) they're creepy as Hell!  You should see their meetings; they're like a cult. :look:  So really, most of the bad things you hear about Amway are lies, misunderstandings, and/or mislaid blame.  However, a lot of the good things you hear are too.  Sure, there are a lot of people who have become millionaires through the business, but those are a small percentage.  I make a couple hundred bucks here and there in my spare time, and considering how little time I actually put into it, the dollars:time ratio is pretty darn good.  I don't expect to ever become a millionaire at it, and I fully intend on getting a "real job" when I graduate and only continue my business in my free time (much as I do now) for extra spending money.
I see...hmm...that's good for you I guess, a few extra bucks... :thumbup:
Well, I'll see. Might do some searching, or...etc.
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Well, for the first faction, all the buildings are modeled and most are textured and animated, but there's still some polishing to do.  As for other units, I have five left to do before I can make a release (adding the heroes later), and some of the others need new/improved textures or animations.  Come to think of it, I haven't even started on icons or sounds.  There's definitely a lot done, but quite a bit to go before I release.  I can generally knock out an entire unit in a day if I've got several hours to kill, so any timetable just depends on what else I have going on in my life.
I see, polishing is important. (some of your models looked good, I think, from the other thread , not sure...) 5? hmm, I think I guess we will get a release by 2011 Jan. has it been so fast?  :| which is good actually...just a prediction.   :| I think.

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Any of you guys with the hot dry weather want to trade?
It's been hitting triple-digits Fahrenheit lately in my city.  You sure you want that?
Hmm...I don't think Omega would be used to that. I would...I hope...to be ready for it.  :| ugh...

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« Reply #1855 on: 6 July 2010, 20:43:08 »
Triple digits... er, what is that in celsius?

*Googles 100F in C*
 :o :o 37 degrees?!?!?! :o :o

Er, I guess I'll take the rain. The other day though, it rained so hard for about 10 minutes that I had to pull over. Couldn't drive through the rain, since we could see only about 10 metres in front of us! :P
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« Reply #1856 on: 7 July 2010, 02:33:20 »
Even 100 isn't that bad...compared to...other  temperatures.  :|  :O

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Er, I guess I'll take the rain. The other day though, it rained so hard for about 10 minutes that I had to pull over. Couldn't drive through the rain, since we could see only about 10 metres in front of us!  :P
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There are sometimes when you just have to drive through situations like that. If it is like that, it sucks.  :look:
Dangerous and all.

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« Reply #1857 on: 7 July 2010, 02:59:19 »
If you think that's bad, the blacktop in Arizona gets so hot it can cause second-degree burns from brief contact, though.  It's hot here in the Sunshine State, but not that hot.

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« Reply #1858 on: 7 July 2010, 06:58:04 »
 :dead: Maybe.  :| Hurts at least. But it seems to been 15 years since that, still true I guess.
Now if we were near the Sun...or...or...  :|
that stuff looks awesome :o :o, I have a tank model thing but its not the same type, what the pic shows looks like an artillery vehicle, whats the shield thing :| :|, I wish that stuff had come out :( :(
I wona post my Tank and TankGarage models for Tech's.

Tank ned more work, i post later final model.

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Actually from this person. But uh, that uploading service closed down. Now we could try to email...the email, but that is a last resort...  :( too bad...a lot of older models/mods were like this. Or are.

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« Reply #1859 on: 7 July 2010, 10:02:07 »
That tank model is quite old, there were a lot of updated versions of that (with war painting, a bit altered body, etc.). Quite a problem, that if some filesharing sites go down, these files are also lost. (poor Ka...)

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« Reply #1860 on: 7 July 2010, 15:24:07 »
I hate not being on for a while and people post so much anyways now i need to read and catch up...

How Offtopic Thread was born: A long long time ago, in a forum board far far away, we got offtopic, I was having windows troubles, and posted a few humourous comics for it, which later was split off and moved to general discussion, where it was renamed to Off Topic. When I created the offtopic board, I moved it here and renamed it Off Topic - Main. Wow, history is cool!
AWESOME!... but this was ontopic being you were talking about offtopic on the offtopic board so it wasn't offtopic lol   :P

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« Reply #1861 on: 7 July 2010, 15:41:42 »
Yay! It's the 4th-a July!!!

I just have to tease you guys......... :P
The Portland fireworks were practically the best in the US, we had our awesome city symphony orchestra play lots of American classical themes!

At the end all you could see was a huge mass of colorful fireworks. :o
Actually to be honest Connecticut's fireworks anywhere suck well most places depends were you go you get desent ones.. this years like last year I was at near a miltiariry place those were pretty good.. maybe one of the best i seen. My mom said the best she seen was when she was pregnate with me they were so loud I kept kicking her lol

Hmm, with AC you are either choosing to help yourself and kinda hurt the earth, or the opposite...Even if there is no global warming, I don't really want to discuss about that, because some people can't handle it, it doesn't bring good either...etc.
But yeah, it is kinda hot sometimes. Not everywhere though.
Every year it is getting hotter or colder at places. I wonder why.
I can say alot of things about this topic but im not gonna get started....

Happy belated birthday, my American friends!
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Any of you guys with the hot dry weather want to trade? We are having record rain falls this year (another 3.5 inches today!!!) and places are actually flooding (I swear, Yorkton is turning into an island!)...
I would prefere rain over hot.. plus i like cold over hot. Hmmm Omega where do you live anyways... We have okay weather its been around 95 F for about 3 days in a row the most was 112 F but that was in my car with the windows and doors shut
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« Reply #1862 on: 7 July 2010, 15:43:58 »
112 :o :o, the most we've had was 105, tough that was in general, not in a baking car

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« Reply #1863 on: 7 July 2010, 16:03:37 »
112 :o :o, the most we've had was 105, tough that was in general, not in a baking car
it was a white car too hmm i feel sorry for any black cars they would have been so much hotter. we also had plastic bottles in the car... I was suprised it didn't melt cause we forgot to bring them inside... I been lucky I don't have to deal with the heat that much cause i been staying inside in the nice cool AC and I like it that way. I only go outside at the end of the day like 6 or 7 o' clock P.M. and when i do I mostly just run around play frisbee or skateboard.

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« Reply #1864 on: 7 July 2010, 18:23:29 »
112 degrees?! OUCH!!! :o

You can skateboard? Cool.
I can't.......at all. I tried learning but I couldn't even stand on the thing long enough for my friend to start telling me what to do....... :-X :-[
I'm into basketball and throwing games, like long range pass in a huge parking lot. I also like weaponry, I have a sword, two shields, a quickly snatched up wooden spear, and two high-power bb-guns, and my Dad was dumb enough to shoot his camera with the more powerful one. :P

What do you guys do for sports and stuff?
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« Reply #1865 on: 7 July 2010, 18:35:15 »
Gymnastics, I'm taking up archery, airsoft, hiking, hobbies include, strategy gaming(computer and board), computer modelling, flames of war ww2 modelling, and plastic aircraft modelling(I'm working on a night fighter me 262 and have a Lancaster bomber that I need to finish), and I love history, especially war history ;D ;D

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« Reply #1866 on: 7 July 2010, 18:52:52 »
That tank model is quite old, there were a lot of updated versions of that (with war painting, a bit altered body, etc.). Quite a problem, that if some filesharing sites go down, these files are also lost. (poor Ka...)
Yes. We need backup for everything now.  :)  :(  :|

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« Reply #1867 on: 7 July 2010, 19:24:22 »
Well I've seen several additions that I could never download, one was a helicopter addition to the aerodrome somewhere

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« Reply #1868 on: 7 July 2010, 19:32:58 »
I wanna take archery too! :D :D :D :D :D
But I'm gonna have to wait until Christmas or somethin'........ :|

What a coincidence, I like CGI modeling too!
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« Reply #1869 on: 7 July 2010, 19:40:18 »
I wanna take archery too! :D :D :D :D :D
But I'm gonna have to wait until Christmas or somethin'........ :|

What a coincidence, I like CGI modeling too!
well the modelling parts not much of a surprise since you work on glest, though I'm experimenting with other games and trying to make a short film, archeries been fun so far, not to mention that you can go to one of the clubs nearby and shoot for free as long as you have equipment and pay for the target(1$ or so ;D ;D)
modelling plastic models is fun too, as is having airsoft fights against friends

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« Reply #1870 on: 7 July 2010, 19:46:07 »
Ok, I know that erasmusw is a bit unpleasant, however, there are currently 3 active mods, so don't worry. We have to wait for one of the admins, and there is no reason to report him anymore, neither post into his topics, as they are getting deleted :) And I don't think that it is a bot.

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« Reply #1871 on: 7 July 2010, 19:47:42 »
Ok, I know that erasmusw is a bit unpleasant, however, there are currently 3 active mods, so don't worry. We have to wait for one of the admins, and there is no reason to report him anymore, neither post into his topics, as they are getting deleted :) And I don't think that it is a bot.
Ok thanks to all the moderators, still it would be nice to see him eliminated, [Ask Eliminator 8) - @kukac@] why don't you think its a bot

hehe why'd you change my post :O :O :O

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« Reply #1872 on: 7 July 2010, 19:48:46 »
Is a bot you mean.  :| Just search the nicknames...
Hmm, AKA wait for Omega. So Omega, please just install those mods, at least that should help.  :|
Ugh...no point to reporting to mods anymore.

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« Reply #1873 on: 7 July 2010, 19:55:59 »
Why he isn't a bot?

He registered at the morning (when I was online), and I checked his profile immediately. Perfectly clear. Later he updated his homepage, and since then I knew he was a spammer. He constantly sent his spam for the whole day, but it takes him about 5-10 minutes to post a topic (not the time interval between new topics!) (heroes of copy and paste).

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« Reply #1874 on: 7 July 2010, 19:56:58 »
Maybe, anyways...
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