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What is an Energy Vampire? Intruding on your life, ignoring boundaries and privacy (energy vampires don't think of you). Making big deals out of nothing. Energy vampires are often called "drama queens" because they can turn a broken nail into a Shakespearean tragedy. Complaining constantly about their partners, jobs, children, bad luck, and illnesses. Energy vampires like to vent. Criticizing your hair, appearance, job, children, partner, friends, and pets (energy vampires aren't positive). Not taking "no" for an answer. Energy vampires don't consider your needs. Being unrelentingly negative. Their negative energy is relentless, and energy vampires drain your positive ene…

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I was looking around the blizzard forums the other day and came across this thread in one of the more recent topics created. While as of now WoW is the only game that I know of that this is effected by I thought it could be interesting to see what everyone else thought of it and how they would react to it if this were done to one of your games. To sum up the thread and what has been happening in patch 4.3, Blizzard has recently created a new feature called Looking For Raid or LFR. The lfr lets you que yourself for the new raid that is out and allows you to more easily find a group of members who also want to down the content. So think of it like as selecting online coop a…

Not really entering this contest so to speak, since I know I've been in and out of here so much lately that you're all probably tired of me. Anyways, just wanted to say hi to you all. Crap's been rough lately, with my job, family, and friends. I could create a 9-pararaph post to explain it all but I'll spare you that lol. Just wanted to say hi and although I don't participate as much as I lurk, I still consider you guys part of my family. Hope you're all doing well.

Read some sad news today. Jerry Robinson, the original creator of Batman's most famous nemesis "The Joker", has passed away at the age of 89. An interesting story is over at io9 if you'd like to read it including a very cool original concept sketch from Mr. Robinson. http://io9.com/5866373/rip-jerry-robinson-creator-of-batmans-nemesis-the-joker

Incinerated partial remains of at least 274 troops were reportedly dumped at landfill between 2004-08 by the largest military mortuary in the US. The Washington Post report was based on data from Dover Air Force Base, the main entry port for US war dead. The newspaper first broke the story last month, but it was not known how many remains were dumped at landfill. Families, who had agreed for the remains to be disposed of respectfully, were unaware of the practice. Pentagon officials did not authorise the procedure, which was reported by whistleblowers. Air Force officials, who have denied a cover-up, said last month they could not estimate the precise number of casualties…

Anyoneelse watching this? Every year it gets better in my opinion, lots of good stuff. Command and conquer generals 2 using frostbite 2 engine. The new naughty dawg game look looks like could be promising.

In a case that’s sending a frightening message to the blogger community, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that a blogger must pay $2.5 million to an investment firm she wrote about — because she isn’t a real journalist. As reported by Seattle Weekly, Judge Marco A. Hernandez said Crystal Cox, who runs several blogs, wasn’t entitled to the protections afforded to journalists — specifically, Oregon’s media shield law for sources — because she wasn’t “affiliated with any newspaper, magazine, periodical, book, pamphlet, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast station or network, or cable television system.” The Obsidian Finance Group sued Cox in Janu…

An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users. In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration. Using a packet sniffer while his device was in airplane mode, he demonstrated how each numeric tap and every received text message is logged by the software. Ironically, he says, the Carrier IQ software recorded the “h…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1QxnG25Tl4 Discuss. lol

Eminutia just messaged me on Xbox. He changed the theme here to the IP Board Pre 3.2 and now he can't view anything or message anything and is getting errors. Can someone hop on xbox or message him to help out? Thanks.

In a bipartisan effort, the House of Representatives and the United States Senate approved the Conference Committee report on spending bill H2112, which among other things, funds the United States Department of Agriculture. On November 18th, as the country was celebrating Thanksgiving, President Obama signed a law, allowing Americans to kill and eat horses. Essentially, one turkey was pardoned in the presence of worldwide media while in the shadows, buried under pages of fiscal regulation, millions of horses were sentenced to death. Horse slaughter has been prohibited in the United States as funding for inspections of horses in transit and at slaughter houses was non-exi…

Scientists believe it may be possible to clone a woolly mammoth within five years after finding well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone recovered from permafrost soil in Siberia. Teams from Russia's Sakha Republic's mammoth museum and Japan's Kinki University will launch fully-fledged joint research next year aiming to recreate the giant mammal, Japan's Kyodo News reported from Yakutsk, Russia. By replacing the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with those taken from the mammoth's marrow cells, embryos with mammoth DNA can be produced, Kyodo said, citing the researchers. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2069541/Woolly-mammoth-brought-life-cloned-bone-ma…

So long, buddy. You'll be missed. =[

• Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation 3) • Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed to drive (Xbox 360) • Fixed crash on startup when audio is set to sample rate other than 44100Hz (PC) • Fixed issue where projectiles did not properly fade away • Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player’s wedding dead • Dragon corpses now clean up properly • Fixed rare issue where dragons would not attack • Fixed rare NPC sleeping animation bug • Fixed rare issue with dead corpses being cleared up prematurely • Skeleton Key will now work properly if player has no lockpicks in their inventory •…

I'm in a line with about 1000 people right now, anybody else going out to deal with this madness?

He was last seen enjoying his very own birthday cake. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, IRISH!!!

MajorWhiteBoy is celebrating a birthday today, somewhere in Ohio. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PACKIE!!! The B stands for biscuits or badass. It's up to you.

Thanks PK for helping me get my Gamercide account working. The email associated with it is gone and I couldn't remember my password. But yay, I'm back now! Really not much to report, I have a 14 month now and he can reach my keyboard which he tends to do whenever i type, so I don't internet as much as I used to. Miss you guys!

BANSTYLE!!!! Happy birthday buddy.

Link If this is true. When I intend to buy a "new" game, I intend on getting it "new", not "pre-used". If this is true well, I'm gone from that place.

https://connect.microsoft.com/XboxLIVEUpdate/InvitationUse.aspx?ProgramID=7316&InvitationID=XBOX-JJH3-FPVG Go go go.

What's up with this game? I know it has something to do with Valve, but other than lots of people talking about it I have not a clue (clueless). I'm assuming the people that are playing it is in some kind of beta; thanks.

Based off of any game released on any console, in any genre, between now and 12 months back... which game would you vote for Game of the Year? Adding in why nets you some internet cool points.

Happy Birthday, Xbox