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Re: 5 word thread and Describe the user discussion Thread. 'Long Way Home' by Threshold is...great on so many levels. Nostalgic appeal, melody, lyrics...and yet so simple sometimes. Paradox. :mrgreen: And that's why it's my favorite song.

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Re: 5 word thread and Describe the user discussion Thread. I've only ever played it a handful of times at the request of those who owned the game and I hate it. Yes, the graphic are bad but the game itself is horrible. It was just another way to trivialize music. You know its bad when they have competitions based on it. When's the last time you were at a real talent competition or a battle of the bands?

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I've only ever played it a handful of times at the request of those who owned the game and I hate it. Yes' date=' the graphic are bad but the game itself is horrible. It was just another way to trivialize music. You know its bad when they have competitions based on it. When's the last time you were at a real talent competition or a battle of the bands?[/quote'] Never. I do have one friend who's quite an accomplished guitarist who says it helps him with finger speed. I wonder how it teaches cross-string picking?
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I never helped anyone I've ever know with anything' date=' lol. It made my carpal-tunnel act up, that's about it.[/quote'] I get a nasty cramp in my left hand if I play for too long.
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W/e' date=' That was funny and you know it. Family Guy is pretty lame anymore anyway. I'll always be a die hard Futurama devotee.[/quote'] Family Guy can be incredibly predictable but sometimes it's quite funny. But yes, I do love Futurama as well. Big Bang Theory is probably my favorite, though. Sheldon reminds me of of my younger brother...except my younger brother could likely beat me up if he wanted to.
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Re: 5 word thread and Describe the user discussion Thread. :shock: HOOOW can you not love Big Bang Theory? Eh, well. I lived in a really nerdy town for six years and my brother's a computer nut so maybe the humor is more accessible to me.

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:shock: HOOOW can you not love Big Bang Theory? Eh, well. I lived in a really nerdy town for six years and my brother's a computer nut so maybe the humor is more accessible to me.
I get the humor, I've just got a soul. ;)
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Oh ffs. Off-topic much? This seems to be more suiting in PM's between you' date=' or another thread.[/quote'] How exactly are we off-topic if this is the thread created because we were off-topic on the other one? There IS no topic for this thread, which begs the question: why did you make it in the first place? Are we maybe ON topic now? :|
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Re: 5 word thread and Describe the user discussion Thread. Listen, i did not make this thread because you were off topic in the other one. I made it because the discussion between me and NTNR, And some other discussions in these threads went extremely off-topic. I therefor made this thread so that people could discuss these things here, instead of spamming up the other threads, and not for a "chat" thread.

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Re: 5 word thread and Describe the user discussion Thread. :| Then this thread is extraneous. You should have just told us to stay on topic on the others and limit our discussion to the chat. Besides, you contributed to the bickering, so it is partially your fault the thread went off-topic in the first place. So, to complain about us going off-topic on a random thread intended to bring up anything that shows up on the other threads makes no sense, especially when you consider that the stuff in other threads is entirely random and hence has no topic. Therefore, anything we discuss here is perfectly on topic since there is no defined set of rules anyway. As you can see from some of the later discussion, NTNR and I brought up Rock Band after a series of 5-word replies. We then discussed it here, and the discussion progressed. If you want to move all the 5-word replies to the 5 Word Thread, that would be understandable. Of course, I'm almost certain that there's a Pantera thread somewhere. If not, you could certainly have made one. That would have been much more likely to attract attention and NTNR and you could have argued there readily. The whole issue could have been resolved very easily that way.

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Re: 5 word thread and Describe the user discussion Thread. Read, iceni. I said that i've contributed to the bickering. Also, i've told people to stay on-topic more than once. Without particular effect. Also, The topic of this thread is to take discussions that would take MORE than 5 words in these threads. because i'm sick of telling people to stay on topic, and yes, i know i had an outbreak a couple of weeks ago. But this thread basically means less work, and less annoyance for me with keeping these threads on-topic.

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