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Post by Uesugi-dono on Oct 25, 2017 16:41:31 GMT
Good question. The ones for sucking and riding. Crude... but... You still didn't really answer the question. Yeah he did.... both!
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Post by endorbr on Oct 25, 2017 16:42:14 GMT
Crude... but... You still didn't really answer the question. Yeah he did.... both! Well yeah... that's what I was getting at.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Oct 30, 2017 12:15:28 GMT
Once more; my favorite poem
High and Low
He stumbled home from Clifton Fair,
With drunken song and cheeks aglow;
Yet there was something in his air
That told of kingship long ago.
I cried, and innly burned with grief,
That one so high should fall so low.
But he plucked a flower and sniffed its scent
And waved it toward the sunset sky;
Some old sweet rapture through him went
And kindled in his bloodshot eye.
I sighed and innly cried for joy,
That one so low should rise so high.
– James H. Cousins (b.1873 – d.1956)
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Oct 31, 2017 11:31:16 GMT
Happy Halloween, my friends.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Oct 31, 2017 11:37:45 GMT
Happy Halloween
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Post by Katzenbalger on Oct 31, 2017 12:07:30 GMT
Happy Halloween, I guess? We don't celebrate it over here, though the stores still sell the decorations and costumes. I've never had anybody come to my door at night demanding candy.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Oct 31, 2017 12:27:05 GMT
Happy Halloween, I guess? We don't celebrate it over here, though the stores still sell the decorations and costumes. I've never had anybody come to my door at night demanding candy. My father lives in Australia,and he said adult Indian neighbours without kids, knocked on his door and asked him for candy...
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Post by endorbr on Oct 31, 2017 14:56:26 GMT
Happy Halloween, I guess? We don't celebrate it over here, though the stores still sell the decorations and costumes. I've never had anybody come to my door at night demanding candy. My father lives in Australia,and he said adult Indian neighbours without kids, knocked on his door and asked him for candy... Big problem with a lot of Hispanic families in Texas and this. The whole family, grandma included will show up at your door, not even in costume demanding candy. Halloween is for kids. If you're an adult buy your own damn candy.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Oct 31, 2017 15:26:33 GMT
My father lives in Australia,and he said adult Indian neighbours without kids, knocked on his door and asked him for candy... Big problem with a lot of Hispanic families in Texas and this. The whole family, grandma included will show up at your door, not even in costume demanding candy. Halloween is for kids. If you're an adult buy your own damn candy. I see adults and older teens, almost uniformly black, doing this where we trick or treat. They don't even bother dressing up. People just quietly give them candy hoping they won't come back and vandalize or steal something.
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Post by endorbr on Oct 31, 2017 15:44:33 GMT
Big problem with a lot of Hispanic families in Texas and this. The whole family, grandma included will show up at your door, not even in costume demanding candy. Halloween is for kids. If you're an adult buy your own damn candy. I see adults and older teens, almost uniformly black, doing this where we trick or treat. They don't even bother dressing up. People just quietly give them candy hoping they won't come back and vandalize or steal something. This is one of the reasons I don't put out decorations and leave my porch light off. My kids do their Halloween at sponsored events. We don't do door to door.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Oct 31, 2017 15:59:33 GMT
I see adults and older teens, almost uniformly black, doing this where we trick or treat. They don't even bother dressing up. People just quietly give them candy hoping they won't come back and vandalize or steal something. This is one of the reasons I don't put out decorations and leave my porch light off. My kids do their Halloween at sponsored events. We don't do door to door. Our house is on a main road where hillbillies like to do 80 down a two lane highway in a bid to kill as many family pets as possible so we have never HAD trick or treaters. We go door to door in the historic district (read: the Racist District, where houses were built in the PAST)
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Post by endorbr on Oct 31, 2017 16:02:01 GMT
This is one of the reasons I don't put out decorations and leave my porch light off. My kids do their Halloween at sponsored events. We don't do door to door. Our house is on a main road where hillbillies like to do 80 down a two lane highway in a bid to kill as many family pets as possible so we have never HAD trick or treaters. We go door to door in the historic district (read: the Racist District, where houses were built in the PAST) No I get it. That's the neighborhood all the minorities hit up too because the "rich" white folk give out better candy.
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Post by Katzenbalger on Nov 1, 2017 13:10:12 GMT
If anything, I like the idea of adult Halloween - the dressing up and going to a party and all that. But having a night where children roam the streets looking for candy? Weirds me out a bit. Seems like a recipe for disaster since it relies on people being nice to each other.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Nov 1, 2017 13:28:24 GMT
If anything, I like the idea of adult Halloween - the dressing up and going to a party and all that. But having a night where children roam the streets looking for candy? Weirds me out a bit. Seems like a recipe for disaster since it relies on people being nice to each other. When I was growing up once I hit about 6 or 7 years old the parents didn't even come with me. I was just out roaming the neighborhoods for hours; getting loot, committing minor acts of vandalism against people who didn't give out loot, you know... kid stuff. But back in those days drunk dudes who pissed in public weren't put on the sex offender registry and stigmatized for life and parents weren't terrified because neighbors tended to look out for each other's kids. Of course neighborhoods were MUCH more homogeneous. If a black kid or a chinese kid (like my neighbors) lived in the neighborhood then that was cool because we all know them but sometime, around High School, our neighborhood became a target for the people Dorbs and I were talking about; black kids from other neighborhoods who didn't even dress up. Halloween began to change after that started happening. Parents went WITH kids, it became a rule that if the porch light wasn't on then you shouldn't knock because no one was home or they had no candy. It was also around that time that churches started really speaking out against Halloween as a satanic holiday. This was the Satanic Panic era, of course, but maybe... juuuuuusssst maybe it had something to do with strange black teens without costumes showing up and demanding candy.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Nov 5, 2017 23:14:33 GMT
Dorbs,
There’s finally a reason to pay attention to the Sony Rewards program: you can finally start trading in new PSN trophies for money on your PSN account.
A new section of the Rewards Passes page over at the Sony Rewards website that appeared late week lists silver, gold and platinum trophies as milestones you can fulfill to earn points. Those points can in turn be redeemed for actual money on PSN. It’s not much, mind you, and the language surrounding the trophies section makes it sound unclear as to whether these rewards be earned more than once, but it’s at least something for all of those grueling hours spent trying to get jump through video game hoops.
Here’s the breakdown of how many points you can earn:
100 silver trophies for 100 points or one point per trophy
25 gold trophies for 250 points or 10 points per trophy
10 platinum trophies for 1,000 points or 100 points per trophy
1,000 points can net you a $10 PSN voucher, meaning that once you collect 10 new platinums (no small feat mind you) you’ll have enough to buy a cheap indie game or put towards a larger purchase. As for the silver and gold trophies, that amount of points is closer to getting you a few songs, if that. So the next time you’re grinding to get that last silver in Ratchet & Clank while your loved one looks on in bored disgust, you can say your doing it to get digital copy of The Mask of Zoro they’ve always wanted.
In order for the trophies to count towards the reward, however, you must be signed up for Sony Rewards and have your PlayStation account linked to it prior to earning them, so if you do decide to start farming for that sweet, sweet trophy lucre make sure to do that.
Also, that part of the program is currently only available in the United States.
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