No Strings Attached

I feel awkward just watching this. And embarassed.

What the hell is this.

I am Number Four and Dancing

Bored so you get to read all my movie bitchingness.

1) Whhhyyy did they put the cliche 'walking calmly away from an explosion' in this?

2) Many powers, can't use them? *twitch* You KNOW he will..

3) That dog was a gecko. Geckog.

4) Yeah, thought he'd use them. Annnddd now he's running away.

5) Please don't jump.

6) Oh ok, not just jump. FLIP AND JUMP.

7) Showoff.

8) That is one fucking fast Dogecko.

9) That ish a big monster.

10) Wait, alien from another world falling in love with a Reporter-type. Um..... Doesn't that sound familiar?

11) Bullshit you two are under 18. Lies! LIES LIKE CAKE!

12) I admit, he is sexy. I won't kid about that.

13) Poor smallish human. He needs a hug.

14) Yeah, that's safe and INVISIBLE. I freakin expect you to die. You stupid male.

15) AND you've missed THREE calls from him! If he comes looking for you, it's your own damn fault. I'm waiting for it to happen.

16) Why would he 'miss' having a human family? HE AIN'T HUMAN.

17) Snoop, put her journal down. Stop that. Bad snoop. *whacks*

18) Yupp, there's the bad  guy- wait no, that's the nerd. EH! WHAT?

19) Thankyou for sticking up for the nerd. Hey, wait, no, you should have hit him.HEY! ... Oh, glowy hands. Alright, that's a good excuse.

20) :C They ruined poor nerdlets picture. Damnit, I WILL HIT THEM.

21) .. Nerdlet's Dad was preparing for aliens. That's not unexpected.

22) Now... wait.. who.... Is that main guy or protector? ... Protector. Wtf is he doing.

23) Suspenseful music. OH Shiny Rock!

24) *snerk* Evil alien has a sense of humor.

25) Damn he is good looking. I betcha five bucks he's got an ego the size of Jupiter irl.

26) That town has a creepy fair. And.... ew, haunted hay ride? Damn good special effects for a tiny town haunted thing.

27) Oh, glowy night vision. Wonder who that is. "Your number's up" Oh thhhaaaatttssss not OBVIOUS!

28) They... ARE BEATING HIM UP! HEY!

29) Oh dear, glowy hands. Ow. Ow. Ow.... wow that guy is totally dead.

30) Mark BETTER be dead. Fucking creep. Future rapist fucking creep. ... oh.. hey... a villain to hate.

31) SHE'S a problem for him? Moron.

32) Go ahead, break it, he deserves it. (wait, is that violent of me? Damnit.)

33) Oh, nerdlet caught the glowy hands.

34) You'll be leaving again? Yes. Yes he will!

35) "All I think about is you." You met her YESTERDAY. CREEPY! Very. Very. Creepy! .... And I really want her parents to catch you- Aha, flicking the lights. That is hilarious. Kudos to ze cool parents.

36) ... Eep, broke a light! CAREFUl, stupid male. xD

37) ... Oh hey, NOW you're doing it on purpose. Vandal.

38) REALLY nerd thing? Threaten a super powerful alien. Brilliance.

39) "My entire childhood has been an episode of X-files." Dramatic. Lovely.

40) You are so lucky the alien is nice.

41) His stepfather is an asshole. Lovely. Have there ever been nice step-parents? Ever?

42) Wait, his father disappeared... near Mexico's border? Uuummmmm......

43) Sheriff's kid is the asshole. Lovely.

44) *snerks* That's a bad lie. I love corrupt policemen. They make everything so hilarious.

45) Your protector is RIGHT. Listen to him!

46) I like the protector. AND YOU JUST HURT HIM! I hope he KICKS YOUR PATHETIC KID ASS.

47) Good Warrior. I like you.

48) Too bad he dies, I bet you 5 bucks he dies.

49) "She's not just a girl." Bull. shit.

50) Oh, great. Perfect. -Forever.-

51) "That's more than the rest of us had." :C awwww...... Poor Warrior.

 52) Badass girl is a badass.

53) Where's Henry? :C

54) Oh thaaattssss a trap.

55) Why can't superalien drive?

56) :C If Henry Warrior is dead I will be severely upset.

57) A gun? Useful. Let him help. (We all know he won't listen to the 'go home.')

58) Yeah, he didn't listen.

59) Dude, they didn't take your dad. He is soooooooo dead.

60) Or he was the first and your his kid. Wouldn't that be something?

61) Lord forbid you use a flashlight to TRY to look normal.

62) That guy that drove away looked like the sheriff.

63) Ripped your sweater? Oh I bet that becomes a plot point.

64) Ow. That guy is a mooorrrooonnn.

65) Malcolm's kid? Yeah, that so.

66) Oooowwwwwwwwwww. Red fireness.

67) Go Warrior! Go!

68) :C No... no.. noo.... Don't die. Woooot! Gun!

69) .... no..... He got stabbed.....

70) Oh, Malcolm was just helping. Uh, ok.

71) :C No, not the cool warrior dude. .... I won five bucks but... aw.

72) *giggles* I can totally see this guy dying. .. Oooohh... oooww... That is a bad way to die.

73) The sheriff. Of COURSE. Typical.

74) ... GOING BACK? You nut.

75) He doesn't listen very well.

76) Ok, Why exactly would she be at that party? .... And you are a moron for going. They ALL know dude.

77) Doggy. Smart Doggy. Geckog.

78) Police, lovely. That sheriff is an ASSHOLE. What a corrupt son of a bitch.

79) :) Hahahahahahaha. The assholes get whats coming to them.

80) I have no sympathy. It's sad.

-insert zebby's computer dying-

Ok, well, all said and done, I liked the movie. Or.. well.. the concept. Can I have a dog like that please?


Just finished watching Dancing With The Stars, or well, watching Maks. Have you seen that guy? Handsome, has an accent, and can dance! Mmm Mmm Mmm! I will not lie, his hiney was distracting me for that entire episode.

Troll of the Day

"tsu please dont preech morals to me in a business situation i have my four year degree in business and you have to be cut throat when it comes to being successful"

Well ain't SOMEONE serious about their petsite playing.

This is user #17144. And after reading this thread: http://www.aywas.com/forum/topic/101741/  I have learned two things about her/him. 1) They are a troll. and 2) I must not sell to them.

And can someone explain the horrid customs I've been seeing? Literally. They were made in PAINT. How'd they get past Skitty?

Interesting Quotes from Aywas

I haven't posted in awhile, so I'm going to post some... interesting.. comments I've been finding.

" No, by all means, I'd like mens' opinions as well as womens'. :D I do agree with you on the 'easy birth control' bit, though. There are too many women out there who seem to think that, 'oh, it's okay, I can always get an abortion'. I know some who are like that. And, not to start a totally different argument, but every one of them are Chinese or Indian" TheApostleJudas #10345

Opinion on this quote: ... Say what? Is... was that racist to anyone else or am I losing it?

"Point being, society teaches "don't get raped" rather than "don't rape". And that is beyond fucked up." Rinny (#3168)

Opinion on this quote: Damn skippy! Agreed!

"Trying doesn't work in the real world. I don't like that they impress "try = automatically succeed" on students. Maybe it was just my school, as it was a public school underfunded, but... ugh. It was just bad. You could do all your work, and get the same grade as someone who didn't feel like doing it and needed a lot of "help and hand holding" from a counselor."

Opinion on this quote: Agreed, had a fucking lazy girl in my grade that went to the "Student Support Center" because they didn't want her to fail. Frankly, LET THE LAZY BITCH FAIL. If she won't do the work then she doesn't deserve the reward.

Eh.... I'm done. Gonna go pump more water out of the basement. Bai.

Hahahaha

Dear Jacob Black,
You drive motorcycles, turn into a giant dog, and your surname is Black.
How original.
Sincerely, Sirius Black

Neopets Pound Board

Is one damn SCARY place. Full of rude/snobby people. x-x Occasionally you'll meet these SUPER nice people, but the rude always come back.

Anyone know of anyone wanting to trade for an UC desert kau? I can't find anyone who likes this thing even though its freakin rare.

Meh.

On aywas news, look at this lovely dramatic post:
http://www.aywas.com/forum/topic/99472/

"

So I am a long time player of several website based games and player from the betas for a number of real ones. Be it Neopets, Gaiaonline, Cybernations, LunarWars, Galava, TribalWars, or Imperious Online from my browser or Everquest, Guild Wars, Planetscape, Ultima Online, or a brief stint in World of Warcraft that ended after the closed (invite based) beta. I have also been a Moderator on Cybernations, TW, and Galava. I have also been an Admin on Ultima Online and Everquest. I have also been, even if only for a few months (the last five that I played), a GM (Game Moderator) in Everquest (a higher rank than admins). Why mention these things? So that you know that what I am about to say comes from experience and will, with the smallest bit of luck, at least carry some weight or plant itself in the back of your brain. This is also a topic more for the Mods and Admins here, though I suppose you could say it is more for an even smaller group of people as from what I have gathered Mods and general admins don�t really have much if anything to do with game design around here. If nothing else this could be said to be a message to "Slash", the HA around here. You have made yourself a neat little game, to be sure. It is cute. It is fun, in an obsessive compulsive pack-rat-syndrome kind of way. It is even a bit addicting in a "Diablo Loot Whore" way. These traits have also allowed you to grow rather smoothly since you opened your virtual doors to let people in to play with all the little abominations against nature here at Aywas. I have a few simple words of caution that, whether you choose to take them into account or not, I must say. First come these: Lunar Wars was cute, fun, and addicting in a strange way. So was Galava. These two games were well designed, well coded, never had downtimes, updated regularly, responded heavily to community input, and worked hard to make the game what the people who were playing it wanted it to be; more so than here, even. These two games are also dead. Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead. Nobody on them, communities scattered, servers taken down... D E A D. Why? Simple: Though generally well designed, they both had a couple small flaws in them. The problem was that these small flaws were at the core of the games instead of on the fringes. There was no discernable formula for combat in LW, and it became impossible to balance the supposedly rock-paper-scissors army composition of Galava due to the upgrade system that resulted in people buying massive amounts of a singular troop type that, by virtue of its elevated place in the tech tree, could destroy anything. We will get to how that is relevant in a moment. Secondly we have that: Ultima Online was killed (very literally) by Everquest. Everquest was killed (very literally) by World of Warcraft and Guildwars Both UO and EQ had something in common: They did not seriously listen to their player bases. As a result the designers took these games in a direction that THEY wanted to take them and not a direction the players wanted them taken. Thusly when a new game came out that represented what those players wanted done, they did what players are most likely to do; they packed up and left. Now to where these both become relevant, and my true words of caution: There are problems here. Yes the game is cute, fun in a way, and addicting in a way, and in those ways we can metaphorically call Aywas a cute four year old. The problem is that he/she has cancer. It, much like LW and Gala., has a few problems which are not at the fringes but instead are at the core of the website/game. It, much like UO and EQ, runs the risk of being killed at the first sign of a new and more user-friendly site coming out. These are those problems of which I speak, and ones that you, as the one(s) in charge, really should look to rectify. 1.) Blatant Admin Favoritism: On Everquest it got you fired and your admin got striped from you. On WoW they get paid too much to let it happen. On Lunarwars, it ended the entire game because people got fed up with it and left. On Aywas, it�s ridiculous and nearly intolerable. Everyone here with eyes can see that not only does Admin Favoritism exist, but it exists in possibly one of the most hardcore manners imaginable. This one in particular is a �shame on you�, Slash. Someone hands in an �I-O-U� ticket item from the admins for �whatever they want� and largely get totally snubbed out, but someone who role-plays with you personally gets an entire site-wide Special Zone event for their birthday? Trust me: This shit does not keep the boat floating, it only helps sink it. The fact that this is only one example and that others exist as well should serve as a serious �Watch it� remark. 2.) Your Economy: Is terrible. It is either entirely luck based or entirely based upon spending real currency on this game. Any legitimate means of accruing income are either terribly thought out (see: your BP investment system that makes no sense what so ever. Longer investment periods are supposed to have BETTER returns than spamming shorter ones, not worse.), or are labeled an exploit and result in a ban (more on this later). Rethink this operation method, seriously. A bad economy sunk Guild-Wars, and I promise that anything capable of afflicting a multi-million player MMO is more than capable of afflicting a browser based Neo-pets clone. 3.) Updating and Patching: You need to do this when you say you will. Events need to start on time. Events need to end on time. Patches for fixes need to come out (guess the words!) ON TIME. There is one thing which I have noticed that matters on this site never seem to be: on time. It�s sloppy, it�s unprofessional, it�s generally annoying to a player base, and it�s an EASILY fixable problem that shouldn�t exist unless you want to show your players that, frankly, you can�t be bothered and will get to them when you get to them. 4.) Forum Limitations that Don�t Make Sense: So you can say just about whatever you want as long as you mark a thread M for Mature. That�s cool! Good job! That is a legitimately smart thing to do that allows people to be as adult as they want to be! The problem is more what you are restricted in saying: four words abbreviated here as CDNF. That�s where the problem comes in because, frankly, it�s not enough. Your community is hyper-sensitive to anti-homosexual sentiments, I get that, that�s fine. It also has a thing against a racial slur for black people: good, it probably should. The problem: Racism in general is not forbidden, just N-er. By the way that the forum rules are put out there I can say any other slur or derogatory remark that I want. That�s generally a bad thing, but definitely one of the lesser issues here. The four word restriction is how it was when I signed up however, and I have not checked that policy since then so perhaps it has already been changed. If so: good for you! If not: get on that. 5.) Ban Policy: Getting back to a certain point about your economy and an area in which this game is broken in a way that can, due to the fact that you coded it, only be attributed to you. Throwing bones! It teaches young players to gamble! How does this relate to your ban policy, you ask? Simple: a certain member submitted a bug report requesting a reply, as per the area dedicated to saying if something is abuse of a glitch or not, about throwing bones and whether or not this was, in fact, a glitch or simply something of the website�s nature. Now having done this, and also sending a follow-up message directly asking if it was okay, and getting absolutely no responce it is generally safe to assume (literally just about anywhere else) that this means they do not give a damn and you may proceed as you wish. So throw bones he did, and he threw a hell of a lot of them. About the point that this member had acquired a few hundred GOLD paws is, I assume, about the point you noticed that you may be losing a bit of money on his practice, though much of the GP that he got came from BP farm cycling using your flawed banking investment system (rotating 20Mil 1-week investments, if any of you are curious; set up seven of them and get 2 Million BP a day, free of charge or effort). Now instead of EVER replying to this member�s emails about this being okay or not and simply telling him to stop, which is why they contacted you in the first place, you ban them. Out of the blue, straight up banned, without so much as forum access for a repeal request. The only word given is that �It is not our job to tell you when something is an exploit or not.� Now let me say this in the clearest possible way: Yes it fucking is. That, actually, is exactly what part of your job is. I know a couple old GM�s from Everquest that I still keep in touch with; one of them is now a programming leader over at Blizzard. TRY telling him or any other serious admin that statement and prepare to be laughed out of the IRC. All I have to say to this is that it�s completely un-fucking-acceptable, the lack of a ban-appeal sub forum is laughably amateur, it reflects heavily back to issue number one, and it is the kind of thing that I have seen break communities. Point five about wraps it up here. If you choose to take any of this advice, cool: your site will do better and last longer. If you choose to completely ignore all of it, good luck. If you feel you are somehow immune to these issues afflicting you, that you are too popular, or that surely the people who have invested money in customs will never leave you, I grant you one parting piece of wisdom: Everquest had millions of players at its peak, and now has a couple thousand. Those couple thousand are the most hardcore remnants of a dead game; the top tier of each server. As those servers gradually get combined to reduce costs to match reduced income, these top players clash with each other and the victors dominate the newly combined server. The losers finally leave the rotting husk that is EQ. Everquest was the most popular game in the world for nearly a decade before it was killed by World of Warcraft. The point? No game is immune, no matter how hard core the player base. So good luck, fare well for now, and have fun. P.S. No, this does not belong in the Rant forums as it is all Aywas related and relevent to game mechanics. Thank you."   While he seems to have some decent points, this whole post is represented in a pissy and aywas-hating way. Seriously? I think it's a troll. It's name is Digger Nicks for crying out loud. (Switch the first two letters to see my issue with that name.)