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That first game that made you a gamer.
I am a gamer in ever sense of the word. Despite the fact that there are a lot of great games out there I wasn't always a gamer. I was just a person that played the occasional game. I though pong was a neat novelty but it wasn't until one day when everything changed. My parents brought home the original Nintendo…
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Socially acceptable body shaming
Hello MFP, it has been a while but I am back. I recently had a conversation that got me thinking about body shaming. A group of people were looking at a magazine with a female body builder on the cover. They blatantly stated that she looked disgusting(I thought she was hot). This is not the first time that I had heard this…
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Finding Time
How do you all go about finding time to practice your skills. I have been finding time to juggle because my daughter finds it fun but how do I go about maintaining that and still getting some time to play the keyboard? I don't want to sacrifices exercise. I would really like it if I didn't have to sacrifice sleep. Which…
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Doctor Who Trivia
We seem to have Doctor Who fans spanning from the very beginning of the the first episode all the way up to present day. I thought it might be fun for us to toss around some Doctor Who Trivia questions. The questions can run the entire gambit from very easy to very difficult that way everyone can be included. I will start…
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The Miley Cyrus Eruption
Facebook, Twitter, MFP, Yahoo, and I am sure everywhere else on the internet is on fire with discussion about Miley Cyrus and her VMA show. With all of this discussion I am a little surprised to see that there is one angle that has yet to be discussed. Why is this shocking at all? This is hardly the first time something…
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The Robot Devil
I think the robot devil is the funniest character in the entire "Futurama" line up. Is this position too radical?
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The Poetry of Nerds and Geeks
We become fans of our genres for a myriad of reasons. The cool special effects drew many of us I am sure but I wanted to create a thread where we could put the words that drew us in. When a character gives a speech that truly resonates. You feel like you are hearing a real truth that could not be delivered better in…
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A Burning Calorie Question
If I juggle for 1 hour I burn about 300 calories. If I walk for 1 hour I burn about 300 calories. If I juggle and walk non-stop for 1 hour I don't think I will burn 600 calories but I think I will burn more than I would if I did either activity independently. I want to know what the difference would be no matter how minor.…
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"You have set the bar too high."
This weekend I found myself engaged in a conversation with a friend of mine about the existence of God or gods. The conversation quickly became a debate but it never became an argument. We had a very civil discourse and at first he simply gave me the same arguments for the existence of God that I had already head a…
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The Secret to Weight Loss
Its really easy. All you have to do first is find out your blood type and your astrological sign. Then you get a chunk of your birth stone that weighs the same as the amount of weight you want to lose. You have to carry this stone with you everywhere that you go. Throughout the course of your day picture all of your…
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Keep Lifting in My Life
As a rule I like to lift as heavily as I can safely lift and still complete full sets. I periodically increase the weight and I am always trying to push myself to that next level. I watch my diet and I am doing my best to get plenty of rest. Then life start to happen. I end up having to fly out to some place for my work or…
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Do You Believe in Ghosts
This thread was created in the general forums and was subsequently deleted for reasons we can speculated by not know. Fortunately we have a group where we can discuss whatever we want without worry of that so a big thank you goes out to emmydoodles83 and poisongirl6485. Any of you that have read my posts already know that…
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Capital Punishment
Ariel Castro has finally been offered a plea bargain. He kept women captive in his house for extended periods of time. At least one of his victims spend an entire decade trapped in his house(details in the story below). Ariel Castro is a wretched monster and his actions are untenable. If anyone is ever to be in favor of…
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"Old School Doctor Who" Disappointing.
I decided to go back and see the original "Doctor Who" episodes. I am so hooked on the new episodes I just had to see where it all started especially since I have had a lot of people tell me that the old school episodes were way better. I was majorly disappointed. I expected the special effects to suck and boy did they…
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A jerk at my gym
I cannot believe this has gone on for as long as it has. The people that work at my gym should really step in and do something. I am constantly walking around getting in to people's personal space. I never re-rack the weights after I use them. I am always telling people that they aren't doing their exercises correctly even…
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Slim4Life
My wife's niece is on slim4life and she has shared the information with my wife so now she is doing it too. She told me she does not plan to buy anything from slim4life but she is going to try and follow their directions to see if it will help her lose weight. Since it isn't costing us anything I guess there isn't much…
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Dungeon Defenders
I have just recently started playing this game. So far all I have done is play solo off line stuff. It is the kind of game I can play with my kids so I like that. Are any of you out there really good at this game? Do you have any tips about how to do well at it? What sources would you all consider reliable for information…
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Examination of an Argument
I will withhold my personal analysis for now because I don't want to create bias. I was given an argument for the existence of god that I felt was worth a bit of examination unlike most of the ones I hear. Here it is: 1. Even if something seems random there are factors which are actually determining the results and if you…
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New Group: Alternative Religions Group
On June 13, 2013 at 5:25 am a MFP user named westhamrangers made a thread in the chitchat fun and games forums that was entitled "Alternative religions. Anyone follow one?" the thread is still open to this day which is June 17, 2013 which is pretty darn impressive for a thread with the word religion in the title. Since we…
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What are the doctor's run times?
Here we have a guy that has been running for hundreds of years. And not just trotting around a track. He has been motivated by a wide variety of things that want to kill him. That means he is accustomed to running at or close to his top speed. After these frequent sprints he is normally not winded at all and he is…
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Fear of Public Speaking
If you have even been a fan of Jerry Seinfeld's stand up then you have undoubtedly heard his humorous observations regarding the widely repeated statistic that people are more afraid of public speaking then they are of death leading to his classic joke. "In other words, at a funeral, the average person would rather be in…
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Iron Man 3
I think Iron Man 3 was made by people who hate Iron Man. If you hate Iron Man and you think he is a total screw up then perhaps Iron Man 3 is the movie for you. If you happen to like Iron Man and you went to see this movie then like myself you were probably furious by the time you left the theater. In the first scene you…
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Will strength training slow my weight loss?
Before anyone says anything like "What does it matter what the scale says so long as you feel better and your looking better?" I would have to stop you because in my case it most certainly does matter what the scale says. I have started my journey out at 250 pounds. I am now down to 242. The army says that for my height if…
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Why I Hate Faith
Well my mind has been on a bender lately due to one of our own, darkguardian419, posting a link to a news article. This a link to the article: http://news.yahoo.com/2nd-child-pa-couple-dies-only-praying-111713837.html I felt a very real anger toward the parents in this article. This isn't just cute stupidity like Tim Tebow…
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Impressive Gaming Feats
I have always been impressed by the great gamers. I have on occasion been able to count myself among them. For example the other team had better hope I never get to be a Boomer in L4D2 because I am great at getting 3 or 4 people covered in vomit. I was able to beat Super Mario World in less than 12 minutes. My legend of…
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This was hard for me to read.
Another MFP user post this link: http://news.yahoo.com/2nd-child-pa-couple-dies-only-praying-111713837.html I did not realize how much reading this would affect me. The article is basically about a couple that chose to use prayer to treat their children's illnesses instead of taking them to the doctor. They lost one kid…
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Powerful Doctor Who Moments
We have paid some attention to the plot holes and continuity errors and fruit of the conversation was basically that we acknowledge the existence of a few imperfections but the show is so great that it deserves our occasional forgiveness and I completely agree. Now I would like to shift our focus to why this show is so…
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Plot holes and Continuity Errors
First of all I am a huge fan of Doctor Who. It is among the greatest of greats as scifi is concerned. Unfortunately I was never exposed to it as a child. The first episode I ever saw was the one with Christopher Eccleston as the doctor. I felt that first episode was ok. The person that exposed me to did not accept my…
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Before and Afters
People will post before and after photos and I love to go look at them, because it is highly motivating for me to see the differences that all our hard work can produce. But every once in a while someone will post a couple before and after pictures that I swear don't have any difference at all. I will just look back and…
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Alpha Centari Quote
Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the…
