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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- 4 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- 1 follower
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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- 1 follower
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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- 2 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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249Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Operation Mincemeat (2021) dir John Madden A WWII film focussing the efforts of British intelligence to trick Germany into thinking an upcoming major operation was going to happen somewhere else, so that they diverted defending forces away from the actual location. The basics are a true story. The characters are mainly the real people who were involved. It has a great ensemble cast. The main characters are two officers working for MI5, one from the navy and one from the air force, played by Colin Firth and Matthew McFadden, with Kelly MacDonald and Penelope Wilton playing their civilian assistants. It also features Johnny Flynn as the young Lt. Ian Fleming who narrates some scenes in a style that could well have been passages from his James Bond novels. You could, at a big stretch, almost class this as Bond film since it features characters referred to as M (head of MI5, Jason Issacs) and Q-branch (the gadget inventor, James Fleet). Simon Russel Beale also puts in a great performance as Winston Churchill. I have heard of Operation Mincemeat, knew the basics of it, that Ian Fleming was involved and what the outcome was. I don't think it's a spoiler to say the plan worked, as various characters in the film say that if it doesn't the allies won't win the war. The plan was to take the body of recently deceased man, a Welshman living rough in London called Glyndwr Michael, dress him in an officer's uniform, attach a brief case containing fake, but apparently top-secret documents, and then release it from a submarine such that it would wash up on a Spanish beach. Spain was neutral in WWII but under the regime of the Fascist, pro-n*zi, General Franco. So British intelligence knew that the contents of the brief case should find their way into the hands of German agents, before being returned to Britain, and thus the fake information would find it's way to Berlin. The operation they were planning for was the allied invasion of Italy, then Germany's ally. The fake information was one part of bigger plan to convince the Germans it was occupied Greece that was going to be invaded. The subsequent invasion of Italy is one of the lesser known parts of the war. Much is made, quite rightly, of the D-day landings, but that was not the first invasion of German controlled Europe, it was this invasion of Italy, nearly a year earlier. So it's nice to see a film about this aspect of the war, because there aren't very many of them. The film shows the meticulous level of detail the agents went to, creating a whole fake identity, Major William Martin, along with personal letters, a photo of a fiancé, etc. The plot does come across somewhat unbelievable at times and includes a completely unnecessary romantic sub-plot. Even if some of that is what actually happened, the way the films portrays this comes across as if the producers wanted to “s*x it up” and add these elements in because they thought the story of the planning and execution of the operation was not interesting enough. I was all set to give this a lower score than I did, but the last 30 mins or so redeemed it a little. What I found really interesting was, after the the plan had been put into action, the role British diplomats in Spain then had to play to make sure that the brief case of fake documents did indeed end up in German hands. Because after all the detailed and careful planning, it could have easily been undone by a Spanish official simply handing the brief case straight back to Britain, as was technically the correct thing for a neutral country to do, but not what they were supposed to do according to the pro-German Fascist regime in charge. There's almost none of the action you usually get in war films, until right at the end when we see an American infantry sergeant, a minor character introduced earlier, on board a landing craft, storming a Sicilian beach which was taken and held with relatively light causalities. All due to the success of Operation Mincemeat diverting German forces hundreds of miles away. 6 / 10- 2
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249Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #179 (June 2-8) Escape from Alcatraz dir. Don Siegel/1979/1h53m Clint Eastwood stars in this prison break drama based on the true story of the only man to escape from the famous prison island off the San Francisco coast, Frank Morris. This film takes its time, much like Eastwood's performance style it's understated, deliberate and measured, with none of the melodrama of something like The Shawshank Redemption. The plot is simple, Eastwood arrives at the prison, spends some time scoping it out, then enacts his plan. It's the little things that give weight to this film, particularly the character of Doc (Roberts Blossom), who quietly represents the unshakeable human yearning for freedom with his portraits and the symbolic use of chrysanthemums. At times the pace of the film does undercut some of the urgency of the escape attempt, but I did like the ambiguous ending that doesn't tell you what happened to Frank after he got past the prison walls. 7.5/10 Rhinestone dir. Bob Clark/1984/1h51m I was scrolling through Sylvester Stallone's filmography and came across this, and knew that I had to watch it just to make sure that it's real. Rhinestone stars Dolly Parton as aspiring singer Jake who needs to get out of her crummy contract at the titular New York country music club. To do this she makes a bet with the manager, Freddie (Ron Leibman), that she can turn anyone into a country singer. The person chosen is tone deaf cab driver Nick, played by Stallone. To do this she takes him back home to Tennessee for some real country experience. Stallone also co-wrote this based on the song Rhinestone Cowboy. Really, it even says so in the opening credits. This whole thing is like a fever dream, especially the scenes where Stallone sings by howling like a demented gibbon. He plays his role like an overactive child with attention issues. Parton is just as sweet and charming as she always is, and the moments when she gets to sing are obviously excellent. I also liked Richard Farnsworth as Parton's father. This is not a good film, but it is a bizarre film, and it has its charms. 6/10 The Hustler dir. Robert Rossen/1961/2h14m Paul Newman stars in his iconic role of pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson who is on the fast track to self destruction as he becomes obsessed with beating the best pool player in the world, Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). This is a film in three distinct acts. The first and third are Felson's showdowns with Fats which bookend a tragic romance between Felson and Sarah (Piper Laurie), a depressed alcoholic. This is a bleak film about addicts and losers, yet there is beauty in the direction that makes this world of smoky pool halls cool and alluring. It also helps that Newman is incredibly handsome. The two pool games between Eddie and Fats are the showpieces here and are given the attention they deserve, with Eddie losing even when he wins, that's just the kind of man he is. Gleason is great as Eddie's opposite, someone totally calm and in control of their emotions. Laurie is heart breaking as Sarah, with only one inevitable outcome for her. Rounding out the main cast is George C. Scott as Bert, the sleazy and manipulative pool hall owner. As a standalone film this is excellent, but wouldn't it be good if we caught up with Eddie let's say twenty five years later? 9/10 Lime's Co-Film of the Week! The Color of Money dir. Martin Scorsese/1986/1h59m Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money catches up with Fast Eddie Felson (a returning Paul Newman) twenty five years after the events of The Hustler. He's now making a decent living off of whiskey, but when a hotshot young pool player, Vince (Tom Cruise), catches his eye he wants back in the hustling game. Without the context of The Hustler this is still a fantastic film full of Scorsese's trademark moves, but with the added history of the character a whole new tragic dimension is added. Eddie is a man full of regrets, so when he sees a chance to recapture his glory days he'll do anything he can to grab it, his old instincts kicking in almost instantly. He's there to use Vince, and he's open about it. But Vince is no d*mmy, even though he may act like it, and with his more emotionally mature girlfriend Carmen (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) he may end up teaching Eddie a thing or two. This has a much different vibe to the previous film, very fitting for the time it was made, and the pool scenes are edited violently by Scorsese's long time editor Thelma Schoonmaker, almost like they're fight scenes. This is a Scorsese film I've not seen before, and didn't really have any interest in before watching The Hustler, but I think this is one of his best works of the decade, only The King of Comedy is better in my opinion. Combined with The Hustler this is an epic, four hour rise and fall and rise and fall and maybe rise again story that spans decades. And it all ends on a high note with a brilliant one liner and a classic Scorsese freeze frame. 9/10 Lime's Co-Film of the Week! Bottom: Exposed dir. Adrian Edmondson/2024/1h30m This made for TV documentary covers the creation, production, reception and legacy of one of my all time favourite shows, Bottom. Written and performed by the late, great (he said so himself) Rik Mayall (seriously, his autobiography is called Bigger Than Hitler, Better Than Christ) and Adrian Edmondson (director of this documentary), Bottom was a BBC comedy that ran for three series in the 90's and was violently crude, obscene, anarchic, absurd and offensive, and one of the funniest things I've ever seen, with slapstick fight scenes that would make Chaplin blush and a sound effects guy straight out of the Looney Tunes. The documentary itself is fine if very standard, featuring interviews with cast, crew and fans, but the real gold is when Edmondson is talking about Mayall, the two being lifelong friends since university. It gets quite emotional at points, which Mayall would have f*cking hated. One of my favourite memories is going to see the Bottom live show with my dad in 2003, their last of five live tours, and even though it's the worst of the five (my favourite is split between 2 and 3), it was amazing being so close to such raw, unfiltered energy. If you've never seen Bottom before, watch it, because the main thing I took from this documentary and seeing all the clips from the show, is that it's been too long since I've seen it. 7/10 La Cage aux Folles dir. Edouard Molinaro/1978/1h32m This French comedy stars Ugo Tognazzi as Renato Baldi, owner of drag club La Cage aux Folles, with Michel Serrault playing Albin, aka Zaza, his partner and star performer. When Renato's son Laurent (Remi Laurent), who the couple have raised since he was a baby, comes home he has some big news. He's getting married. But unfortunately the parents of his girlfriend are in politics, on the conservative side. The very conservative side. So he asks his father and Albin to tone things down a bit while they are visiting. I think this film has aged pretty well considering it was made in the 70's, and while it does rely heavily on stereotypes it never comes across as mean spirited. Tognazzi is good in the lead role, being pulled between his partner, his son and his own identity, with Serrault stealing every scene he's in as a flighty drag queen. The highlight of the film is the climactic dinner party between the two sets of parents with Albin showing some real depth and character here. A little dated but still with a pure heart, I can't wait to compare it with the American remake (see next review). 8/10 The Birdcage dir. Mike Nichols/1996/1h59m Robin Williams and Nathan Lane star as drag club owner Armand Goldman and his partner and star performer Albert in this American remake of La Cage aux Folles. The plot remains basically unchanged from the French original, just with some extra time to let Williams and Lane shine. Considering he's playing a gay drag club owner Williams gives a fairly understated performance, with really only one instance of that classic over the top exuberance. All of that is left to Lane, who is hilarious here. My only real problem with this film, same as the original though I didn't mention it in my review, is that their son, Val (Dan Futterman), is an unappreciative *sshole. Thankfully that doesn't take too much away from this, and the presence of Gene Hackman as republican senator Kevin Keeley, his future father in law, really alleviates this, with him getting to exercise his comedy muscles (and he looks great in drag). This is a slice of fabulous fun and, thanks to the lead duo of Williams and Lane, is better than the original. 9/10- 2
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