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My Absence
by SquatMastr- 1 follower
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Sorry I've been away for the past few days I'm a collegiate swimmer and last Thursday at practice a teammate of mine passed away from what is believed to be a rare form of heart attack. I'll be as active as I can in the next week or 2.
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XDBX Cruise
by Burgermauger- 5 replies
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Me and my partner are booked on Carnival Glory for a 7 day eastern Caribbean cruise. With stops in Amber Cove, Dominican Republic -> St Thomas, USVI -> San Juan, Puerto Rico -> Gran Turk, Turks and Cacos. It leaves Febuary 4 and returns Febuary 11. Now I think we should make it a XDBX Cruise ! Who is interested?
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Money Money Money
by grjkie- 16 replies
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Evening guys, I'd like to debate money with you guys here since we are all gamers, we all know a bit about gaming, a few of you work in finance and I'd like your general opinion on a specific gaming subject. Read this article please, http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/15/super-mario-run-downloads-soar-but-investors-arent-convinced.html?__source=yahoo%7cfinance%7cheadline%7cheadline%7cstory&par=yahoo&doc=104170593 Its about SuperMarioRun, will it work? What do you guys think about it, will it help drive the Nintendo stock up? I get it will take at least a couple of months for it to affect the Nintendo stock right? Occasionally I get urges to invest some of…
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Happy New Year Crew
by omarcomin71- 1 follower
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I'd just like to wish everybody a Happy New Year! I love that this crew is still running strong with so many great people! Welcome 2017 and good riddance to 2016! Cheers!
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Merry Christmas to the XDBX crew.
by Brainstick- 1 follower
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A very merry Christmas to all crew members and your families! Wishing you all the good things in life, not just for 2017 but for as long as you can enjoy. Health, happiness and lots of love in a world that's gone crazy. Enjoy each day and don't forget to tell your loved ones how important they are to you! Have a great one, cheers!
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What can you see from your window? 1 2
by Pb76- 1 follower
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Apart from fido le muet, what can you see?
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Just another day for a typical Aussie
by Skorpion- 8 replies
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"What Do You See?" game
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 14 replies
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The game is simple, post a picture and everyone except the host must guess what they see in the picture. There is no wrong answers. The host is free to quote everyone that answered his/her answer if they feel that it's been long enough. *The answer can be as creative as possible as long as it makes sense with the picture* Starting off: What do you see?
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The Start of something new
by Fido_le_muet- 5 followers
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Hey everyone. Some of you may know that the Mrs and I are currently in the process of buying our first house. It's kinda exciting and I can't wait to move in. Hopefully, in a close future, we'll be more than two to live under this roof. Can't wait for that. But before all that fun, there are a few things to work out as some of you, house owners already know. I'll post a few pics later but we need to do some little work before moving in. Thing is, I know absolutely nothing about that I can use a hammer and put together some IKEA furniture but that's about it So, I'm coming to you for some advice. I have tons of questions but I'll ask them one at a …
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Marilyn York, the man's lawyer
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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I seen a commercial for this lawyer and laughed my ass off, I thought it was bullshit but she is for real...
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I know this is a question that some don't like to answer/ rather keep for themselves and that's fine. Share it if you like or just tell me what you think about the candidates. I'm no expert on how it works over there but the media here in the UK is filled with things about your elections. Just wondering what it's like there and what your thoughts are Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere, not been able to find it.
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Random news articles
by Squirrel- 2 followers
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Didn't really find anywhere for this so thought I'd start something new for all the random "news" articles that always clutter my facebook feed. This first one is pretty relavent to us gamers. http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/26/15-undeniable-reasons-that-gamers-make-the-best-lovers-5905938/
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Number Game.
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 11 replies
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It's been a while since I posted a topic, so I'll post something school related, but no-so-math-related. How it works: I'm going to give you a set of numbers and you have to give me a set of numbers that you think fits my rule. Ex. My set of numbers is {25,30,35} and you guessed, {5,10,15} because you think it adds up by 5 each time. Another example My set of numbers is {1,3,9} and you guessed {4,12,36} because you think it multiplies by 3 each time Rules: You can post as many times as you want but the game will end when there is 2-3 page worth of guesses (3 if I think it should go on a little more) If y…
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Getting back to work
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Most know but some may not that Rose and my business (florist, flower shop) burned back in January and was a total loss, well we are about to reopen with our new building. Opening date is set to October 3rd and we have been quite busy getting the shop stocked with supplies and all the shit needed to get back at it. I will post pics of the inside soon but here is the outside plus a pick of the old shop on fire Old shop
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How did you come up with it? I can never thing of an interesting tag that doesn't look naff, so mine is my initials followed by my year of birth. I do however eat about 76 jars of peanut butter a week.
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Foundations and NonProfit Organizations
by TECHFL227- 2 replies
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Does anyone have any experience starting a Foundation or Non Profit Organization? I would like to do this but am not too sure on how to get started. Google does not seem to be my friend with this topic as I am finding too much conflicting information. Any advice or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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Is buying Name Brand important to you?
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Things like shoes, clothes, electronics, food, whatever.... is it important to you to buy name brand items? I prefer name brand on most things, I guess I feel better with warranties knowing something like Sony for example been in business for years and isn't some 3rd world fly by night company. Clothes I could care less.
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The Diary of Prodigy
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 2 replies
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August, 18, 2016 [PAST] My Career in the Arts of Team Deathmatch and Regular Deathmatch We're all good at something in GTA Online, whether it be races, pvp or the cliche "balance in all aspects". My skill lies in TDM/DM, not so much Freemode due to the constant encounters with greifers, modders, or simply better players. From the start of online, I took interest in pvp that takes place in a certain area of Los Santos under rules. It wasn't that long until I got the hang of pvp and I kept playing it everyday and as a way to make profit online. Sadly I took in what I had to unknowingly, as it was the prime of TDM/DM. As GTA Online introduced Capture, I begun …
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Big changes
by Whiteford99- 2 replies
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My daughter will be leaving for college next week, out of state. I have been really busy getting everything ready. It is going to be a big adjustment for us, not having her around. The upside is she is going to Chadron State College, in my hometown in Nebraska. Where I am still good friends with both the police chief, and the sheriff.
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What is this?
by Lann- 1 follower
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Does anyone know what tree this comes from?
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One year later...
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 0 replies
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So it's been roughly a year since I started drawing during my free time. Thought I'd post some of my favourites. Haven't been drawing ever since Spring Break at this point, but this one is my latest, only and favorite drawing done. Just finished it yesterday. There are more that I've done, I have I think 40 sheets in total and had to use a duo tang to store all of them. Oh and my 1 year anniversary on XDBX is 8 away. Edit: Anniversary is not 6 days away, it's 8 days away according to my profile.
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Locsta (Complex)
by lIIlCompleXlIIl- 4 replies
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So, I've been a member of this crew for a year now, and a fan for a year before that. (ish) Some of you have heard bits and pieces of my story.... figured it was time to share it. I was born in Rockford, IL, lucky enough to have a loving mother and father. They split when I was young, because my father had become heavily addicted to crack cocaine. I moved around quite a bit throughout my young life. At 6 years old, I witnessed my mother being beaten by her boyfriend, and I still have nightmares about it to this day. I see my mother getting punched in the face, and knocked to the floor. The man then continued to beat her, and even bent a corner of the heating v…
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Prodigy's Story
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 1 reply
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Every story has a beginning. Every pro was once a novice, every veteran was once a private...and even the most well known players were once new. When you're focused on the destination, it can be hard the appreciate the journey, and that's what I had experienced on Grand Theft Auto Online. It all began with an ordinary pistol. On March,13,2014 I entered Online for the first time with the crew, Massive Network as my active crew. Immediately vulnerable of what Online had in store, I did what everyone did once during their time on Online and that was to grab a jet. Nothing really was accomplished afterwards and as the months moved forward, I began to play as a lone wolf. Soci…
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Hi guys!
by SBeezy093- 0 replies
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Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't been on much but I e been really sick this week. I've had strep throat and the flu. So I have no voice and my hand bought me a bell to call him ??. Hopefully I'll be on soon with a voice so we can gang out!
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Whats the grossest thing you've seen someone do?
by JustHatched- 3 followers
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Back in my wild drinking days and running around with idiots I once seen a guy get paid a 5 dollar bill to make himself vomit and eat the vomit...
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I agree @djw180 The Fall of the House of Usher is worth a watch for Mark Hamill’s performance alone. Plus, I’ve been on the fence about watching Kaos. I will definitely give it a go now. Thanks!- 2
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I just finished watching The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Highly recommended! It's a horror-drama in 8 episodes, very loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe short stories or poems with each episode named after a different work of his. I have never read any of them and some had not even heard of, but I now at least know the brief synopsis of them from Wikipedia. What the creators have done is woven together a plot primarily based on the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" that greatly expands on that. The first episode has the same name as the whole series. Roderick Usher, corrupt billionaire head of a major pharmaceutical company, invites an old adversary, lawyer August Dupin, to his family's derelict house, to confess to a host of crimes. Dupin has been trying to prosecute the Ushers for decades but they always got away with it. Now, following the recent deaths of all six of his children, supposedly in freak, horrific, unrelated accidents, Roderick wants to come clean. Most of the story is now told in flash back, both to the early years of Roderick and his sister Maddie (the brains behind their rise to power) and the children's recent deaths. The next 6 episode each focus on the violent deaths of a different son or daughter, each related in some way to the Edgar Allen Poe story that episode is named after. The final episode, The Raven, then brings everything to it's conclusion, revealing the true cause of all that has happened. It's very, very good. It is a bit bloody and gory at times, but never over-the-top, always done for a reason and usually to fit in with the story that death is named after. It features Mark Hamil in the most un-Luke-Skywalker-like role you can imagine. I never really rated him as an actor in Star Wars, but here, as the Usher's ruthless lawyer he is excellent. Another Netflix series I think is worth a mention is Kaos It's a modern day story of Greek Gods and Heroes, in a world where they most definitely exist and are still worshipped by mortals. Jeff Goldblum is Zeus and there's other recognisable faces amongst the rest of the cast, including David Thewlis as one of Zeus' brothers and fellow god Hades and Suzie Izzard as one of the Fates. It loosely follows the story of Orpheus in the Underworld, but this is part of a bigger plot with both gods and mortals having to accept what fate has in store for them, whether they like it or not.- 1
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178Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #148 (Oct 28-Nov 3) Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person dir. Ariane Louis-Seize/2023/1h30m Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a teenage vampire who, much to the exasperation of her parents, refuses to kill as she has too much empathy, a decision that is slowly killing her. She meets suicidal Paul (Felix-Antoine Benard) and he offers his life for hers, but over the course of the night the two form a bond and find a reason to live. Deadpan humour and charmingly awkward teenage romance add a lightness to what is a very deep emotional drama that is more complex than it at first seems. This put me in mind of a strange mix between A Girl Walked Home Alone at Night and Napoleon Dynamite. There's a beautifully staged scene where the two listen to an old record and, without a word, nervously steal looks at each other for an unbroken three minutes and it has more depth and meaning than most films manage in an hour and a half. You really get the feeling that you're caught up in that dramatic first flush of love where you feel like Romeo and Juliet. The two lead performances are extraordinary, especially Montpetit, and the direction has a real warmth to it despite being set mostly during the night. I loved this. 10/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Jigsaw dir. Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig/2017/1h31m Most of the time while I was watching this I was thinking “have I seen this one before..? No. No, I haven't. Wait, have I? I have! No? Oh, yeah I have”. I think this is the eighth film in the Saw franchise, and by this point they all just kind of blur into one homogenous mess. It's a shame because I think the original is a really good, tense thriller with a great, if ridiculous, twist. 2/10 Terrifier 3 dir. Damien Leone/2024/2h5m It's Christmastime and, five years after the events of the last film, Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) is back playing Santa and everyone is on the naughty list, especially Sienna (Lauren LaVera) who bested him the last time they met. Not as long as Terrifier 2, this is still bloated and full of ridiculous bits of lore that makes the whole thing feel like a parody at times, I actually found myself invested in the character of Sienna here. I think LaVera does a decent job in portraying the trauma and PTSD she's suffering after the last film. Again, the gore here is very well done but so gross that it becomes banal. The best thing about this film, as is the case with the others, is Thornton's performance as Art who manages to be both creepy and funny. 4/10 Immaculate dir. Michael Mohan/2024/1h29m Sydney Sweeney plays Sister Cecilia, an American nun recently arrived at a remote Italian convent. Things take a sinister turn when she becomes pregnant despite being a v*rgin and she starts to think that all is not so holy at the convent. This religious horror doesn't do anything new and owes a huge debt to the likes of Rosemary's Baby but it does do a very good job of ramping up the tension and supernatural elements at a deliberate pace until it's ready to go for broke in the final act. There are a couple of unexpectedly gruesome moments that shocked me more then anything in the Terrifier films precisely because they are so unexpected. Sweeney gives a good performance as a true believer who must become a fighter in order to survive, and there are a couple of memorable supporting performances from Dora Romano as the Mother Superiour and Alvaro Morte as the charismatic Father Tedeschi. A well made, if uninspiring, thriller with a memorable smash cut to black ending, emphasis on the smash. 7/10 Joker: Folie a Deux dir. Todd Phillips/2024/2h18m This sequel to 2019's Joker picks up from the end of that film with Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in prison awaiting his trial for multiple murders. While inside he meets and forms a relationship with Lee Quinzel (Lady Gaga), the two seeming to make the perfect couple. The first film was a well made rip off of Scorsese's The King of Comedy elevated by an incredible performance from Phoenix that didn't need a sequel. Thankfully this isn't taking the predictable route of charting Fleck as he wreaks havoc as the crown prince of crime but instead does something interesting and sees him try to face his many mental health problems while struggling to break free of his anarchic alter ego. This hasn't gone down well with comic book fans as it strays far from the source material, but not being a big comic book guy myself that isn't an issue for me. Phoenix is once again excellent, really giving his all in his performance. Gaga is also good and I liked how her character became a kind of antagonist in always pushing Arthur to be Joker. Brendon Gleeson has a supporting role as the lead prison guard and as much as I like him, and he does give a good performance with what he's given here, his character is too much of a caricature, one scene even implying that he and some other guards r*pe Arthur. Steve Coogan also pops up in one scene as a television reporter interviewing Arthur and it just came across as Alan Partridge doing a bad American accent to me. I haven't mentioned it yet but this film is also a musical - another sticking point for a lot of people – and I think it works well at portraying Arthur's mental state. I loved the moments where we go full fantasy and Arthur and Lee are singing and dancing on an old school style soundstage like a musical from the 40s and 50s. But I am a musical fan so I'm probably biased. Don't believe the anti-hype, not everything here works but it's going for something different and for that alone it should be commended, and I honestly think it's better than the original. 8.5/10 Piece by Piece dir. Morgan Neville/2024/1h34m Piece by Piece is a hybrid biopic/documentary about the life and career of musician and producer Pharrell Williams starring the man himself and featuring appearances by the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake. The gimmick here is that the whole film is animated with Lego. This makes for a playful, vibrant and imaginative film that matches Williams' method for creating music, putting it together piece by piece until you have something new. This is also a very funny film, making full use of the medium and the absurdity of everything being Lego to make some hilarious visual gags. Being a family friendly film this does smooth off some of the rough edges of his story but I still found Williams to be an open and honest subject not afraid to discuss his shortcomings. I love it when the style and form of a film like this matches its subject – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and the David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream come to mind – and Piece by Piece does just that with its eclectic and imaginative presentation. 9/10 Strange World dir. Don Hall, Qui Nguyen/2022/1h42m Farmer Searcher Clade (Jake Gyllenhaal), son of legendary explorer Jaeger (Dennis Quaid), must go on his own adventure deep beneath the surface of the planet when his crops, which also acts as the planet's energy source, start to die. The plot here is quite simple but it has an excellent third act twist that I though worked really well and fits in with the environmental themes and message of the film. What works best here is the look of the world beneath the surface, populated by really well designed creatures that feel truly alien, as do the environments. Not quite as good is the family drama between Jaeger and Searcher and between Searcher and his son Ethan (Jaboukie Young-White). It's the classic case of simply sitting down and talking to each other would solve all their problems, but then there'd be no film. The performances are all good, with Quaid's bombastic 50s b-movie style bravado standing out to me. This won't go down as a Disney classic but there are some really good ideas here alongside some gorgeous animation. 7/10 @djw180 The Bad Sleep Well is the least faithful of his Shakespeare films, the other two are much more recognisable.- 3
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