Definitely the first. Looks a lot more sleek and less "pompous" than the second one.

Montana getting boring?

Oh wait, you're in Montana. That's in the middle of freaking nowhere. And cold. It's Kaltistan.

The only reason I'm here is to visit my girlfriend, who still works 4 days a week. We're living in a nice neighborhood, but there's not much to do around here. The city isn't exactly all that closeby either and we just got a new dog that needs more or less constant care the first couple of weeks, so I'm sorta stuck at home.

Plenty of games to play or movies/shows to watch though, so I'm not exactly bored. Only problem being that a few shooters aside, my girlfriend is into JRPGs and the likes, which isn't my cup of tea.

Any suggestions?

My limited knowledge of Protheans aside, I'd say that the covenant would be superior in space and the protheans on ground. Once the covenant establishes dominance in space, all there's left for them to do is mercilessly bomb the living shit out of any Prothean planet. I'm assuming they'd ruin most of the planets they're trying to conquer this way, but it would still be a win for the covies.

Home alone, contemplating on what game to play or what to do.

Spiders live everywhere, man. You're just not looking hard enough.

Oh no, we definitely have our fair share of spiders. Just none that are larger than my finger or dangerous to humans. Worst possible bite? You end up with an itchy red spot on your skin that goes away after a few days. Nothing comparable to what you guys have in Australia.

At the risk of sounding like a bragging 12 year old, I am naturally good at most FPS games, although I rarely stick to a single game long enough to become "godly" at it. The only games I would consider myself that good at are Wolfenstein: ET, CoD Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops. I used to be in the top 50 for Free for All in that game.

Whenever I go to the zoo.

A couple of dogs almost attacked me last night though. But that's not really what you mean.

Nothing poisonous? I live in a place where there's little to no wildlife that's more dangerous than a dog, so the thought that there might be a spider underneath my porch that could actually kill me is pretty weird.

Force Predator to watch gay porn and then shoot it at him.

His life would be destroyed.

I'd bet you 50$ that he's secretly wanting that. Seriously, in all my years on Bnet I've never seen anyone who's as much of a closet homosexual as Predator.

Cheese, Comms, Psychologist, Soporofic, Decimator, Boot... are all very interesting people in my book, although most of you interest me.

How often do you go 'Roo boxin?

Yeah, sorry guys. This has been fun and all, but this is just too good to pass up on. I mean, a scrolling box to pick your avatar? Looks like Bungie finally listened to what the community really wants. I suggest we all go back to B.net now.

>OP: "anyone know where I can get these books? I really need them for my college work and can't find them.
>Me: "You can always just download the ebook."

Banned for solliciting illegal activities (pirating).

And since this threa has basically turned into a "what mod is worst" thread: Predator is one of the least capable moderators I've ever seen. I understand he made some pretty pictures with forge and theater, but that does not make him qualified in any way, shape or form.

You have a really good point with the whole "law abiding citizen" thing. But I do think that the "gun" problem is more of an inequality/Demographic problem. There's a gigantic correlation between poverty and violence, and if they have guns. Well, that's just their mean. Look at Chicago and Detroit.

Oh yeah, I agree with you there. Guns on their own are not the issue. Mental illness and poverty lie at the base and should be addressed. In the end, guns are nothing but inanimate objects. But unfortunately not a tool like any other. It is the easiest, most lethal and most practical piece of equipment to murder someone.

And because of that reason, I don't feel like everyone should just be able to get their hands on one and carry them around in public. I mean, just google "shooting" and sort the results by most recent. What you'll find aren't just gang members or organized crime. It's often just ordinary people. People that would be considered your typical "law abiding gun owner" but just lost it. Felt threatened and pulled out their weapon. Got drunk, angry or emotional. Ended up in a fight...

The current US system is based on the idea that everyone should be able to just get a gun no matter what, unless they're either proven to have a mental illness or have been convicted for certain crimes. I have always thought the other way around is a more sensible system, as in no one should be able to own a gun unless they've proven they have a good reason to, have underwent the necessary theoretical and practical training, and have had a psych evaluation done.

There's benefits to gun ownership, but it's just much of a responsibility and burden. And as much as I want people to be as free as possible, the 15,000 people that get shot every year in the US alone shows me that it isn't a responsibility everyone can deal with. And yeah, I'm very much aware that this is effectively punishing a minority for the actions of a majority. But although morally debatable, I still feel that it is a necessity.

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I'm glad I can be such an inspiration to you all.

Welcome back. It's good to have you.

Mon Belge ami!

My American friend! How's life?

Doing pretty well right now. Just got my grades for the quarter and I got a 3.6 GPA. And I may be off to Germany sooner than two years in fact. So I may even be there at the start of 2016! That'd be just amazing. :?)

Great news. Fingers crossed for that.

You realize almost all of those crimes are committed with illegally obtained firearms, right?

A very large part of those "illegal" firearms were once legal. There's no underground criminal factories that just pump out illegal guns to be used in crimes, you know. Those guns come from somewhere.

The people who are willing to follow the laws and buy guns legally are not the ones killing each other.

Wrong. Your "law abiding citizen" is responsible for hundreds of those deaths. Simply because, shockingly enough, there is no way to tell what people are going to behave responsibly with their gun and not just whip it out in a heated argument.

You'll also notice a suspiciously large portion of these crimes occur in cities with heavy gun control.

Which have very little to do with each other. Those cities are almost all traditional gangster or gang cities. It's not the heavy gun control that causes crime, it's the high crime that causes gun control. For example, Chicago, being the #1 argument pro-gun people like to bring up here, actually drastically lowered its crime rate after instituting stricter gun control laws.