02-20-2007, 05:46 PM
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merely human
Join Date: Sep 2003
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 enjoy.
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02-20-2007, 07:15 PM
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It's Hard To Be Humble
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Happy Birthday.
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02-20-2007, 09:50 PM
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The Reggienator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Vaasa, Finland
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Happy Birthday Moriarty!
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02-20-2007, 10:33 PM
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Explode the Universe!
Join Date: Apr 2006
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...here's your much asked for Wii with a lifetime supply of incredible games with brilliant stories and immersive puzzles!
The fact that they are all invisible and imaginary should in no way detract from the gift. Tis the thought that counts. Happy Birthday! |
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02-20-2007, 11:19 PM
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Not like them!
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Thanks, thanks. As it so happens, today is two birthdays for me- my Hebrew birthday and the Gregorian date of my birthday. It's very infrequent that the two converge on one day. (Past, you know, the original day.) So -mathematically speaking, of course- this is sort of a special birthday for me.
After going out for dinner yesterday and having a Fillet Mignon, I'd planned to go to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem by myself to check out the new exhibits. (Some of them sounded really cool.) I'll leave the house (to get on a bus to Jerusalem) in around forty-five minutes, I think. In the meantime, though, this has already proven to be a fantastic birthday! Because when I woke up and went to my computer (I always have the house to myself in the mornings.), I found waiting on my keyboard a gift! And when I unwrapped it, I found one of the greatest gifts I can imagine, courtesy of my parents: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for Gamecube! And understand that it's impossible to buy games around here- the only way to get a Gamecube game for me is to buy it in America (either in a physical store or online) and bring it on a plane. Which means that they must have had to look around for people who happened to be going on a plane from America to Israel and were willing to take it with them. Which is a hassle. My parents are great. ... Oh, you guys are great too! No question! And I especially have to thank Treppy for that cold Lemon Nestea- how did you know I love that drink so much?  Seriously, Nestea is my water. But then, hm- Doesn't Nestea have water in it? I think I've got myself stuck in a loop here.
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02-20-2007, 11:21 PM
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Not like them!
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02-20-2007, 11:22 PM
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Not like them!
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What to do with all this cake? What to do, what to do...
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02-20-2007, 11:23 PM
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Not like them!
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02-21-2007, 05:37 AM
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Second Degree Black Belt
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Georgia
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Oh good I didn't miss you....... I was out getting you some dinner for tonight.
Bacon wrapped filet mignon just for you- Happy Birthday 
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02-21-2007, 07:36 AM
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Ale! And keep 'em coming!
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Beyond the Pattern of Reality...or Germany
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What do I see? My nemesis is celbrating his birthday? Hah! I will not wish him well!
Awww, bugger, I'm just too nice a person to do this. Happy Birthday Mory! -
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02-21-2007, 08:22 AM
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Homer of Kittens
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: San Francisco, Bay Area
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Happy birthday
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02-21-2007, 10:32 AM
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Not like them!
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Israel
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Wow, this is the best birthday ever. The museum was fantastic- lots of cool new exhibits. The highlight was an exhibit of physical 3D designs which had been printed out of a newfangled printer. The artists would design a 3D model on the computer, then put it in this printer, and the end result was a physical model of their design! The exhibit had dozens of designers' work, which were incredibly artistic and complex but much too precise for anyone to do by hand. One creation was salt and pepper shakers which had a guy's head on them (in 3D, of course) which had been copied from a 3D model of his head based on two photographs from separate angles. There were lots of little cute artworks that made me laugh. There was one model which came from one frame of a computer simulation of an explosion, so you see the fragments flying realistically. It was all really cool.
Then I got home and played Twilight Princess for a few hours. I thought I knew exactly what this game was like, since I've played pretty much the entire Zelda series and have seen how the developers progressed, and I know Ocarina of Time backwards and read on the internet over and over again how similar this was to OoT. Well, I didn't know anything. I'm about three hours in and I barely recognize this game from the past Zeldas. I actually was expecting and had come to like the idea of more of the same, but this game is so different from past Zeldas, in almost every way from the style of the storytelling to the style of the world design to the art style to the style of the controls to the pacing. I'm finding it very hard to believe that those people who think it's just like other Zelda games have actually played Zelda games. So not at all what I was expecting. But I'm having a blast with it. |
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