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    Aliens Didn't Ruin a Franchise, It Established One

    One of the biggest weaknesses the Marines had beside leadership was that they went into the colony thinking it was all a bunch of BS. A bug hunt as they say, that there wasn't really an enemy there. They blew off Ripleys advice and knowledge. When they really ran into the Xenomorph nest they...
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    How Aliens Ruined A Franchise

    I prefer Aliens over Alien by far. I can enjoy the tension and the uncertainty of Alien but Aliens is much more up my alley. While the characters aren't as developed the sense of impending doom is greater as is the general horror and notion that no matter what they are doomed, then the ray of...
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    What did you GIVE for Christmas?

    My wife got laid off about a week before Thanksgiving so its been a tight time for us. So we only bought stuff for our 7 year old son. We got him a couple books about space and weird facts about earth. A nerf football, he gave his away a few weeks before Christmas to some kids at the park that...
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    Life After Death: The Repercussions of THQ's Demise

    I work about a mile from the THQ building, I would drive past every day and smile because I got so much enjoyment out of the DOW and COH games. I was and still am sad that they went down in flames, I knew a few of the guys that worked there as well. I saw the THQ badges at a local restaurant and...
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    What Would You Do If You Saw A Ghost?

    Probably going to get a bunch of crap over this but I have seen a ghost several times. One time I had an actually physical interaction with one to the point that I touched something they had on them. Second and third times were seeing figures sitting at the kitchen table in my Grandparents house...
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    Working in an office environment is not cool because......

    I actually like working in an office a lot more than the other jobs I have had. I didn't start working in an office till I was 26 and previous to that I was in the Military, worked in retail and at a Factory. So I love being able to go to work sit at a desk put in my earphones and work without...
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    Second Sandy Hook Shooter Ceasefire Planned For Dec 21st

    Thats a Saturday so I would be going to the range to do some target practice anyway. Then I will go home and play some Borderlands 2 or Bioshock Infinite. Since they are sci-fi shooters and not based on reality thats ok right? For fucks sake why not blame the idiot and not games for violence.
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    I'M AN ADUUUUUUUUUUUUULT!

    Joining the Air Force at 17 ( I graduated High School at 16) and going to Basic Training, Tech School, Heavy Weapons school and a modified Infantry training. Then moving to Germany, far, far away from everything and everyone I knew as a child. Buying my first car, voting, getting a tattoo on my...
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    Horrible stuff that makes you laugh

    Whenever someone manages to hurt,maim or kill themselves while committing a crime, I laugh. Over the weekend I got a flat so I was taking my car home at 55mph in the slow lane. I live in L.A. so that obviously pissed off a lot of people for some reason. So a black Lexus is on my bumper and just...
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    Poll: Childhood Movies that you forgot how obscenely awesome they are

    Lol my son who is 7 just discovered the Power rangers movie yesterday, he loves it. I found Titan A/E on a few days ago and DVR'd it for him to watch, its been a long time since I saw it. I didnt even remember but I had the Final Fantasy movie on DVD so I will break that out for him as well...
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    Poll: How many of you have been arrested?

    I got arrested for shooting off illegal fireworks on the 4th of July..... the whole street got popped. They came over my back fence and around my house instead of down the street. About 40 of us went in front of the judge the next day and the judge dismissed everyone. That was annoying. Edit...
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    Did you ever lose a job for a stupid reason?

    Mine was a Safeway too! It was my first job at 16, bagging groceries, stocking and cart corralling. I pissed off the GM because I had a 1970 Chevy Nova and he thought I was hot rodding it at night and doing burn outs in the parking lot. Thing was it still had the straight in line 6cylinder so...
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    You must change a paradise into a hell, by changing one thing...

    I have tinnitus from being around jet engines and gunfire while in the Air Force. And it never, ever goes away. I have yet to be able to tune it out and it has been over 10 years. I have to have a white noise generating device like a fan or something on for me to sleep, otherwise the noise will...
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    You must change a paradise into a hell, by changing one thing...

    Or just a tad too cold, like where you are constantly on the edge of shivering but not quite. That would be my hell, I like it hot but I hate being cold.
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    The most stand out moments you ever had at work.

    I worked at Best Buy for a while when I was going to College, this was in Wichita Kansas. One day a couple came in and bought a PC, monitor, Printer, laptop and a bunch of software and DVD's. This was in 2000 or 2001 so computers were a lot more expensive back then and they bought the top of the...