How does it feel spurs fans

here's a background on the game i'm currently playing, RF Online.


Storyline
The game is centered on the conflict between 3 races (descendants of the now extinct human race) in their bid to control precious resources, and their desire to advance their respective agendas through any means necessary. These three races are:

Accretia - A race of cyborgs who were forced to turn to artificial bodies due to the harsh environment on their home planet. Now they have forsaken flesh in their pursuit of perfection and they scorn every flesh being in the universe. Their metallic bodies are the toughest in the game and their technology is the most superior but they have no access to magic. Reestablished as The Empire, Accretia entered the Novus conflict against both Cora and Bellato.

Social Background:

Accretians are the closest to perfection any race is ever going to achieve. They are cyborgs due to organic brains being merged into mechanical bodies… Not being mere robots acting accordingly to a rigid piece of software, they are to obey a motive, and that motive is the pursuit of perfection.

While individualism is not promoted, and not even tolerated, self-consciousness does remain; the Accretian society is not to be seen as a hive or a collective mind. The way they are created, educated and indoctrinated makes the Accretians solely concerned by the evolution of the society as a whole. However, perfection at a higher level can only be achieved through perfection at an individual level.

Accretians are cloned and, during their first years of life, indoctrinated via a combination of neurochemical procedures and education, until they are estimated efficient enough to become fully fledged citizens of the Empire. Then, they undergo a radical surgical procedure to get rid of their weak and disposable flesh and have their brains integrated into mechanized bodies.

Abilities and potential of every Accretian are estimated as early as the first stages of the creation process; education and training unfold accordingly to these estimations. Every Accretian is assigned a specific task, the one at which he will be the most efficient. They embrace it totally; it is their path to perfection.

Accretian society is organized as a strict hierarchy ladder; the farher along the ladder, the more complex and far-reaching the task assigned to the individual. Despite that hierarchy, there are no social classes, not in the way the other races could understand it, for social segregation comes only from resentment and will for changes, and contentment and will for status quo. Such things do not exist in the Accretian society. At least, they shouldn’t…




Bellato - Due to the intense gravity on their home planet, the Bellateans are the smallest people. They are a race of inventor helmets that are able to combine creative tools and weapons with the Light form of universal magic. The Bellato enter the war as the least physically capable and yet given their ingenuity they have the potential to become the strongest. Before they became the Bellato Union, however, they were the Bellato Empire, who seized control after the Cora civil war but were beaten by the Accretians. Under such sustained attacks they fell from power, yet they have bided their time until they can become a force to be reckoned with once again. They also use technology to build weapons like MAUs (Massive Armor Unit) which are still used by Bellateans when they go to combat with the Accretia Empire and the Holy Alliance Cora.

Social Background:

Bellateans learned early on that the fastest way to develop technology and profit is for their people to be happy. A happy person is a productive person. This is why they have freedom of expression and individualism. They have long understood that freedom drives minds to think better, rather than oppression. This is why Bellato citizens enjoy many freedoms and liberties.

However, most, if not all of the dominant Bellateans are members of Houses. Houses are congregations of individuals who share the same blood (family ties being taken very seriously by Bellateans) and/or interests (wealth and power being taken much more seriously by Bellateans).

Success breeds success, and while Bellateans promote individual achievement, over the years, the same families harvest most of the wealth and power. Influential Bellateans then lend money, offer services or help to lesser ones, for the conduct of their business or other matters, and strong ties develop between the two sides. Soon enough, it is a vast network of interests that emerges. A House. Several networks can intertwine, of course, but the core of every one of them is a powerful and identifiable family that will do its best to keep the relatives, allies, and clients in line with the House’s interests.




Cora - They are an ancient race that scorn technology. Highly spiritual and gifted with natural magical abilities, Corites regard themselves as the highest form of creation. Their magical arts are far more superior to that of which the Bellato practice. Their god is Decem, whom they believed had given Corites their powers as well as their mission to subjugate all other forms of life in his name and to rid the galaxy of technology. The Holy Alliance of Cora was thus born to carry out their crusade.

Social Background:

Decem has created the world to turn oblivion into beauty, and the Corites to enforce His will. Knowing they are the chosen race, Corites have organized their society accordingly to their faith in their god. Everything they do in “This Life” is to ascend to a high station or being, gaining them a closer relationship with their god. It is evident that those who do enforce His will are granted more powers, abilities and become stronger in the use of the Darkling Force, the most precious gift Decem has made to His children.

Corite society is based on a caste system of governance. This caste system is by abilities; the Corites are organised into their castes solely based on their relevant skills in life, their devotion and their dedication to Decem’s will. In this way, the castes function much like that of old ‘tribal clans’ where priests were of a higher station than warriors and they in turn were of a higher station than workers. One’s strength in the Darkling Force and capacity to serve Decem and enforce His commands set their caste. The Spiritualist is the highest caste because they have the gifted strength in the Darkling Force.

The entire populous is grouped into one of these castes; once in a caste, the other members become your family, blood relationships are not a priority amongst the castes. Indeed, nothing is to be put before Decem, and marriage is not to be allowed because of the conflicts that could arise between family and god. Because everything Corites do reflects on she/he to their god, their children of course are a direct reflection on them. Seeking out the best possible mate to have children with is a very major decision. Corite children are raised in schools and only staying with their parents during vacations and Holy celebration's. The Corites use the term Sires for parents, not showing either one mother/father as more important than the other.


A mixture of science fiction and classic fantasy, RF Online (or RFO, as many of its players call it) is set in a distant planet in the Novus system where magic exists alongside high technology. Like most MMORPGs it follows the typical fantasy setting complete with swords and sorcery, but it also emphasizes the three-way Race vs. Race vs. Race (RvRvR) concept and modern/futuristic technology such as mecha and nuclear weapons.

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Originally Posted by sunsfanaz82

We are going to win the championship the suns own your ass your sorry team is full of crybaby flopers who have no respect for other teams and have to hurt their star player in order to win a championship I fing bet that if your pathatic team started sucking half of you bandwagon fan losers wouldnt even show up here were were you guys when duncan wasnt here and you sucked ass through the robinson years uh answer me that sherlocks

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HAAHAHAHAHAHAH

I am not even a Spurs fan, but trust me you wont be here in about 48 hrs, this team will regroup and shut down the BIG SWEATY CATUS>>>>>>Not that he had a great game by any stretch of the imagination, you drank the KOOL-AID the big sweaty turd has offered.....And Diaw and Raja, will not have games like that again, nope...and you will just not be back, a lonely off season awaits you..



OH and by the way pssst.....Shaqs best years were with the Lakers, he is major decline, good luck trying to play against the likes of Portland, Lakers, etc etc all the teams with young Bigs, Andrew is going to send Shaq and his 40 mil contract walking...and you will be left with a team without the Matrix which will translate to just another overated version of the Golden State Warriors or the Denver Nugs.

Good luck...hahahahahahahahah

The Destructiveness of a Love that Never Changes
Catherine and Heathcliff’s passion for one another seems to be the center of Wuthering Heights, given that it is stronger and more lasting than any other emotion displayed in the novel, and that it is the source of most of the major conflicts that structure the novel’s plot. As she tells Catherine and Heathcliff’s story, Nelly criticizes both of them harshly, condemning their passion as immoral, but this passion is obviously one of the most compelling and memorable aspects of the book. It is not easy to decide whether Brontë intends the reader to condemn these lovers as blameworthy or to idealize them as romantic heroes whose love transcends social norms and conventional morality. The book is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel centering on the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the less dramatic second half features the developing love between young Catherine and Hareton. In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The differences between the two love stories contribute to the reader’s understanding of why each ends the way it does.
The most important feature of young Catherine and Hareton’s love story is that it involves growth and change. Early in the novel Hareton seems irredeemably brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to read. When young Catherine first meets Hareton he seems completely alien to her world, yet her attitude also evolves from contempt to love. Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change. In choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing Edgar. In Chapter XII she suggests to Nelly that the years since she was twelve years old and her father died have been like a blank to her, and she longs to return to the moors of her childhood. Heathcliff, for his part, possesses a seemingly superhuman ability to maintain the same attitude and to nurse the same grudges over many years.
Moreover, Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical. Catherine declares, famously, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, wails that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine. Their love denies difference, and is strangely asexual. The two do not kiss in dark corners or arrange secret trysts, as adulterers do. Given that Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based upon their refusal to change over time or embrace difference in others, it is fitting that the disastrous problems of their generation are overcome not by some climactic reversal, but simply by the inexorable passage of time, and the rise of a new and distinct generation. Ultimately, Wuthering Heights presents a vision of life as a process of change, and celebrates this process over and against the romantic intensity of its principal characters.

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Originally Posted by remingtonbo2001

Has anyone ever considered making an ST Cookbook?

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i'm looking for recipes of my favorite dishes and desserts. i'll post when able.

The Pistons finally beat the 76ers. I was worried they would pull a Dallas Mavericks.

This is the same numbskull who has been posting the same drivel for 2 months now under different names.

Why are y'all feeding the trolls? :lmao

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Originally Posted by td4mvp21

OMFG we lose ONCE in this series after being up 3-0 and the trolls come out?

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its like those toads in the desert that i once watched in national geographic.

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Originally Posted by RuffnReadyOzStyle

This is the same numbskull who has been posting the same drivel for 2 months now under different names.

Why are y'all feeding the trolls? :lmao

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Why are you feeding my feeding the trolls?

Aluminum Manufacturing in Iceland

Aluminium smelting is the most important power-intensive industry in Iceland. There are currently two plants in operation, with one under construction and two in the planning stage.

Alcan owns a plant in Straumsvík near the town of Hafnarfjörður which has been in operation since 1969. Its initial capacity was 33,000 metric tons per year (mtpy) but has since been expanded several times and now has a capacity of 180,000 mtpy. Alcan is studying the feasibiliy of expanding the plant to a capacity of 460,000 mtpy; negotiations are already underway with the power companies Landsvirkjun (the national power company) and Orkuveita Reykjavíkur, although it is yet unclear if the municipality of Hafnarfjörður will allow such an expansion, but the inhabitants of Hafnafjörður are going to vote whether they want to expand the alminunum smelting or not.

The second plant started operations in 1998 and is operated by Norðurál, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S.-based Century Aluminum Company. It is located in Grundartangi in Western Iceland near the town of Akranes. Its current capacity is 220,000 mtpy but an expansion to 260,000 mtpy is already underway and is expected to be completed in the last quarter of 2007.

United States-based aluminum manufacturer Alcoa has become a major investor in Iceland and has a major plant under construction near the town of Reyðarfjördur. The plant, known as Fjarðaál (or "aluminum of the fjords") will have a capacity of 322,000 mtpy and is anticipated to be completed in 2007. To power the plant, Landsvirkjun will construct Kárahnjukar, a 630-megawatt hydropower station.

According to Alcoa, construction of Fjarðaál will entail no human displacement, no impact on endangered species, and no danger to commercial fisheries; there will also be no significant effect on reindeer, bird and seal populations. However, the project has drawn considerable opposition from environmentalist groups such as the World Wide Fund for Nature, which called on Alcoa to abandon the plan to build Fjarðaál. In addition, Icelandic singer Björk was a notable early opponent to the plan; protesting the proposed construction, the singer's mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, went on a hunger strike in 2002.

Also, you're a fucking tool. Nothing you posted was original or interesting. If you're gonna troll, or in your case, attempt to troll, come up with something original, funny, or entertaining...shit anything but what the fuck you just did. Does your mom know you're posting? Are you taking time off from fapping to Bangbus online to waste our time here? Why? You have officially lowered the value of this forum just by registering. Go fuck yourself, then die!

Alcoa is also conducting a feasibility study on the possibility of building a second plant in Iceland near Húsavík. That plant would have a 250,000 mtpy capacity and be powered entirely by geothermal power. If the decision will be made to build the plant, construction would not start before 2010.

Norðurál has signed a memorandum of understanding to purchase electricity for its own aluminum reduction project in Helguvík. The agreement was reached between Norðurál and two Icelandic geothermal power producers, Hitaveita Suðurnesja and Orkuveita Reykjavíkur. The power supplied will initially support aluminum production of 150,000 mtpy, which will eventually grow to support 250,000 mtpy.

If all of the currently proposed expansions and new plants are constructed, the total production capacity of the Icelandic aluminum industry will rise to 1,542,000 mtpy, compared to the current capacity of 400,000 mtpy.

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The Destructiveness of a Love that Never Changes
Catherine and Heathcliff’s passion for one another seems to be the center of Wuthering Heights, given that it is stronger and more lasting than any other emotion displayed in the novel, and that it is the source of most of the major conflicts that structure the novel’s plot. As she tells Catherine and Heathcliff’s story, Nelly criticizes both of them harshly, condemning their passion as immoral, but this passion is obviously one of the most compelling and memorable aspects of the book. It is not easy to decide whether Brontë intends the reader to condemn these lovers as blameworthy or to idealize them as romantic heroes whose love transcends social norms and conventional morality. The book is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel centering on the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the less dramatic second half features the developing love between young Catherine and Hareton. In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The differences between the two love stories contribute to the reader’s understanding of why each ends the way it does.
The most important feature of young Catherine and Hareton’s love story is that it involves growth and change. Early in the novel Hareton seems irredeemably brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to read. When young Catherine first meets Hareton he seems completely alien to her world, yet her attitude also evolves from contempt to love. Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change. In choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing Edgar. In Chapter XII she suggests to Nelly that the years since she was twelve years old and her father died have been like a blank to her, and she longs to return to the moors of her childhood. Heathcliff, for his part, possesses a seemingly superhuman ability to maintain the same attitude and to nurse the same grudges over many years.
Moreover, Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical. Catherine declares, famously, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, wails that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine. Their love denies difference, and is strangely asexual. The two do not kiss in dark corners or arrange secret trysts, as adulterers do. Given that Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based upon their refusal to change over time or embrace difference in others, it is fitting that the disastrous problems of their generation are overcome not by some climactic reversal, but simply by the inexorable passage of time, and the rise of a new and distinct generation. Ultimately, Wuthering Heights presents a vision of life as a process of change, and celebrates this process over and against the romantic intensity of its principal characters.

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my hate for this book exceeds my hate for Suns fans.

- Mars

My favorite dish in the whole wide world... shepherd's pie.

Ingredients
6 medium-size all-purpose potatoes (about 1 kilo), peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 medium-sized carrots, diced
1 large onion, diced
1 large red pepper, diced
2 tablespoons margarine or butter (1/4 stick)
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons green onions/chives, chopped
1/4 kilo button mushrooms, thickly sliced
1/2 cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
3/4 kilos ground beef
1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

1) In a large saucepan over high heat, heat potatoes (and enough water to cover) to boiling. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until potatoes are fork-tender.
2) Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil over medium-high heat. Add carrots; cook 5 minutes. Add onion and red pepper and cook another 15 minutes, or until vegetables are golden. Remove vegetables to a medium bowl.
3) When potatoes are done, drain. Mash potatoes in saucepan with margarine/butter and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Gradually add milk; mash until mixture is smooth. Stir in green onions/chives; set aside.
4) In same skillet, in remaining 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, cook mushrooms until well browned and liquid evaporates(5-10 minutes); remove to bowl with vegetables.
5) In a measuring cup, mix chicken broth and flour until blended; set aside.
6) Preheat oven to equivalent of 400 degrees F. In same skillet, over high heat, cook ground beef, pepper, thyme, and 1/2 teaspoon salt until lightly browned and any liquid evaporates(7-10 minutes). Stir in ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, cooked vegetables, and chicken broth mixture. Cook, stirring, until liquid thickens(3-5 minutes).
7) Spoon mixture into appropriately-sized ceramic/glass casserole; top with mashed potatoes. Place sheet of foil underneath the casserole; crimp edges to catch any drips during baking. Bake 20-25 minutes until mashed-potato topping is lightly browned.

Serves 6.

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my hate for this book exceeds my hate for Suns fans.

- Mars

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:lol I actually like it.

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:lol I actually like it.

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i was forced to read it for class and hated every minute of it.

- Mars

Actually it wouldn't be a spurs championship year without getting blown out at least one game every other series or so. I feel pretty good.

dude you should just stick to calling in death threats to the hotels when the Spurs are in your shithole town.

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Originally Posted by sunsfanaz82

Hey guys how does it feel that your about to become the first nba team history to blow a 3-0 lead uh? If you don't think the suns can go on a 3 game win streak to take the series you are sadly mistaken and will be proven otherwise in about a week when your team is knocked out of the playoffs and fishing. You guys used up so much energy to beat us the first 3 games that you be tired and shot 30 percent the rest of the series and the suns will take every game and then go on to win the championship. It was a good season for you spurs fans but championships are won in the postseason and the suns know all about that GOOD NIGHT SPURS BY THE WAY I'M NOT TROLLING

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I don't understand your question, can you repeat please?

I like how the douche nozzle emphasized the claim that he's not trolling.

Dead giveaway.

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Why are you feeding my feeding the trolls?

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Well, I ignored the thread when it had 2 replies, figuring people would let it die. Then I come back an hour later and find a troll orgy in play, so I thought I'd get in on the act. :lol

lol somebody save this post for when we close them out on Tuesday.

Hahahaha! You made my day!

You had me at "I'm Not Trolling", Twatbomb.

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Originally Posted by sunsfanaz82

Hey guys how does it feel that your about to become the first nba team history to blow a 3-0 lead uh? If you don't think the suns can go on a 3 game win streak to take the series you are sadly mistaken and will be proven otherwise in about a week when your team is knocked out of the playoffs and fishing. You guys used up so much energy to beat us the first 3 games that you be tired and shot 30 percent the rest of the series and the suns will take every game and then go on to win the championship. It was a good season for you spurs fans but championships are won in the postseason and the suns know all about that GOOD NIGHT SPURS BY THE WAY I'M NOT TROLLING

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How does it feel to be 1-3 and going to SA?

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Some more Random stuff, it's more fun then trying to reason with a troll. Here's my contribution:

Existentialism is a philosophical movement that posits that individuals create the meaning and essence of their lives, as opposed to deities or authorities creating it for them.

It emerged as a movement in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, though it had forerunners in earlier centuries. Existentialism generally postulates that the absence of a transcendent force (such as God) means that the individual is entirely free, and, therefore, ultimately responsible. It is up to humans to create an ethos of personal responsibility outside any branded belief system. In existentialist views, personal articulation of being is the only way to rise above humanity's absurd condition of much suffering and inevitable death.

Existentialism is a reaction against traditional philosophies, such as rationalism and empiricism, that seek to discover an ultimate order in metaphysical principles or in the structure of the observed world, and thereby seek to discover universal meaning.

Existentialism originated with the nineteenth-century philosophers Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. It became prevalent in Continental philosophy, and literary figures such as Fyodor Dostoevsky also contributed to the movement. In the 1940s and 1950s, French existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir, wrote scholarly and fictional works that popularized existential themes such as "dread, boredom, alienation, the absurd, freedom, commitment, and nothingness".[1] Walter Kaufmann described existentialism as "The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life".[2]

Although there are some common tendencies amongst "existentialist" thinkers, there are major differences and disagreements among them; not all of them accept the validity of the term.[3]

I feel good :D

why do most people hate avocadoes, especially americans? people only know of guacamole, that's why. try this out for size, and taste. get 2-3 ripe avocadoes, slice and dice them and put it in a bowl. add about a full can of evaporated milk (its all about preference at this point) about a cup of sugar. place in chiller for about 2 hours. EAT! you can lick the bowl if you want. enjoy.