The Killstar

Just to let you guys know. I would gleefully kill any one of you for an airhead Beamer cafe racer. GLEEFULLY.

Yep; Episode 1

Orange=Triumph Blue=Honda

GAH, that's huge. But these are the states and provinces that I have hit on my 2 wheeled trips. If I can convince my boss to let me have two weeks off next summer I'll be adding half a dozen or so.

VERY COOL.

This is my favorite thing to make. It tastes great, and seems to get even better when it sits in the refrigerator for a day. I've made it so many times that I probably couldn't even remember the recipe unless I was actually making it. But pictures help!

CHROOOOOOOMEHOUNDS! Best time playing any game ever. I played as a little light scout mech, so I always had to head out of communications while the killers slowly and carefully advanced. My JOB was to make contact with the enemy soon enough to either lay a trap or allow my team time to maneuver to defeat the other team's strategy. Naturally, this meant that I had to make it BACK to communications range. This lead to many MANY rounds of my frantically bobbing and weaving away from incoming artillery, trying to make it to my team (who I didn't really know where they were) without alerting the enemy to my team's presence. If I did my job well, I would die knowing that my team had vital intel against the enemy. If I did my job REALLY well, I would have delivered my info, then gone BACK to shadow the enemy and hopefully, and this was the best, dogfight the enemy scout in the no-mans-land between the big battle where the heavies were duking it out. Best multiplayer game ever.

Hell yeah we can.

Hell yeah, that Bonneville video I posted is from Ride Apart. The only thing I'm worried about on those is the build quality. But for 3 grand I suppose you could spend a bit upgrading.

People certainly know when I'm pissed off.

Haha yes, I agree. I am the MASTER of Bethesda jumping. I will break one of those games with hopping around. How do you get to the Greybeards? Start at Riverrun and start hopping. Maybe it was growing up in the golden age of PC gaming, when the levels were designed to be fun, but not unbreakable. HELL in Doom you could punch in the anti-clipping code and break that shit wide open!

I'm really into those Cleveland bikes. I'm thinking of going and checking out the dealership in Richmond one of these days (the lady friend has the 2 wheeled bug now). As for the bike vs gaming discussion, I think the main similarity that I feel is that both bikes and games let you live by different rules than other people. I don't know what it is about motorcycles, but I just feel like you play on a different field than "normal people." If you want to pull over on the side of the road on a highway, and just hang out for a bit, you can do that. If you want to ride on some fire trails that are technically off limits, you can do that too. Hell, I've literally ridden off the side of the interstate once to get to a side road that I thought would better take me where I wanted to go. I'm on a bike, fuck it! Gaming does that too (if the game is good) in that the way you play a game is the way YOU play a game. I did not play Fallout 3 the same way that my girlfriend did. In Skyrim, she's a wizard that relies on enchantments and conjurations to fight, whereas I'm a bareknuckle brawler. Not to mention the fact that you can act like a total dickbag online and nothing will happen to you. Basic rules of human interaction don't apply if you're having to shout down a screaming homophobic 12 year old.

*Drooling over CBR* Is there any reason to own a different street bike? I would probably upgrade to the 1000 Repsol, but still.

Yeah the pin-locks are supposedly the answer, but I think the snap ins are like 50 bucks by themselves, and that doesn't include the fancy visor needed to use them. Squid Division's got some paste that he's used, but I'm not sure about the effectiveness.

Words are a great way to influence people who are not critical thinkers, which, shamefully is most people. And I don't think words are necessarily essential to psychological violence, although my point was that words themselves are not dangerous. Language itself isn't enough, I don't think, to inflict harm. The thoughts and intent behind the words are the most important thing. Its why forum bullying is such a low form of bullying. It takes the full participation of the victim to make it work at all. The same thing goes for FUCK and SHIT and CUNT. You have to participate for them to be offensive. That being said, the line can be blurred when it comes to bigotry versus just bad language, since the words used by bigots and bullies already have the meanness and anger attached to them. Saying, "Why can't I use the N word? Black people do!?" Implies that white people hadn't already turned the word into a violent and disgusting term of degradation.

You could decide that we are, for the most part, adults or at least young adults, and that we as a world society need to hike up our diapers and stop taking everything everyone ever says so personally. If something offends you, stop for a minute, ask, "what about ME does this attack," and, "is outrage a worthy response to something an anonymous person posted on the internet." Being offended says more about yourself than it does what offended you, and that goes the other way as well. Finding homophobia or racism in everything is a subtle indicator that you are not as far removed from homphobia or racism as you would like yourself to be. Deciding, "No, I did not mean that to be demeaning to anyone, but just am using it as an expression of frustration," is a good start. Also, Saying FUCK offends people, because apparently words are more dangerous than physical or psychological violence. Intelligent people tend to be too sensitive, in my opinion. Seek out things that offend you once in a while, then question why they do and if there is a good reason for it.

Or, more importantly, at the beach, down where I'm at.

I like the bottom left one a lot! I can't decide if a sweet stylized wizard in a round field would be sweet or if a terrible old Bandits style design would work. PS. Squid and I are transplanted Kansans living in Virginia, but we were IN Canada. I got super excited at the IdleThumbsMC mention!

AH, well that I don't have a good answer for you. I rode my bike all winter (had to, no car) and while Norfolk, VA is a FAR cry from Finland, it got pretty cold a couple of days. There's pretty good heated gear on the market that can supposedly keep you riding as long as you have traction. My problem wasn't so much cold, as it was the visor on my full-face fogged up if I breathed at all. Which was a problem, if you can imagine.

Bike on ice? No problem! Actually on of these would be best>

I really need to THINK about things before I buy them.

Wow, really, they get charged significantly less on most of the toll roads out here. Though I think the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel still reams us. I was thinking of heading out to the eastern shore sometime, but the 30 dollar round trip deterred me. Also, Sean, the people at the lake had three THREE of these badboys laying around and wouldn't give me one. I am desperate for an old Honda.