Recent content by rocket pike

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    If you ruled your own planet what would you name it?

    there are no jerkwad boyfriends or Hippocratic oaths on Glorax seven. air for reference
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    Why You Love, Or Hate, Your Home State (Or Province)

    S.E suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria (Aus) Pros -Plenty of things to do here -Jobs here are practically given out on the street corner -most people are generally nice Cons -the weather here behaves like a troubled child on crack (i.e 32 one day 18 the next) -drought -to many emo kids...
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    Weird-Ass Facts

    in the study of special relativity it has been found that the faster an object moves time will be slower inside the object. in Australia it is illegal for a modem to pickup on the first ring. the phrase "rule of thumb" comes from an old English law which states a man cannot beat his wife...
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    That really stupid thing.

    http://xkcd.com/162/ That about sums it up
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    Whats the stupidist answer you have ever recieved?

    "I'd like a kilo of prawns, but i want them frozen" "OK ill have to run down to the freezer" "Will they be frozen?" "no, ill have to sick them in the microwave first"
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    Favorite Yahtzee Line on Zero Punctuation

    "The Xbox 360 is like the good dependable Labrador that occasionally pisses itself and dies" I said this one in my English class and had everyone in hysterics
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    DELETED

    In Australia, It is illegal for a modem to pick up on the first ring. It is illegal to walk on the right hand side of a footpath Its illegal to wear hot pink pants after 2pm on a Sunday afternoon Children under the age of 18 may not buy cigarettes but it is not illegal for them to smoke...
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    Your own personal "Epic Fail"

    well in my defense i was 7 years old at the time but i remember it quite vividly. My Dad gave me one of those BBQ lighter things which emits a small spark, well this one was from a wall furnace, which kinda hurts if you let shock you, say, on the finger.I became fascinated by the little blue...
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    Name some good movies.

    I'm glad they never made any matrix sequels
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    Describe yourself in one word.

    i torn between cynical and quirky so ill make a portmanteau of the two Quikcal
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    Something original for WWII games please.

    I personally like WWII games as long as they are historically accurate, which is why i liked CoD:WaW. one thing i have not seen from a WWII game is anything from the perspective of an Australian soldier. maybe i haven't played enough WWII games to see this but i think some Australian offensives...
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    14 Things Video Games have taught us...

    Rats are evil (fear2) If two people in a gun fight melee each other at the exact same time they will both die (halo3) any hallucinations that cant be fixed with a single shot from any gun cant hurt you(fear) the faster a gun shoots the more problems it can solve for enemies that...
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    14 Things Video Games have taught us...

    The operation and handling of any weapon, most namely a gun, is second nature to anyone. no matter how many bullets one takes they will always retain the same few poses(standing, crouching, jumping and prone) with no variation no matter how long they have been holing such pose. running...