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Sweetest BMX Biking Video Ever

I love Red Bull.

My copy (since redbull's site is too irrelible... I also changed the end music):

Awesome Story from Darkfall

YA YA... it's tl;dr... but I think you'll find it's a really sweet read that's worth the time. Really goes to show the awesomeness of darkfall... and you've got to remember, in this game if you die, you lose everything you've got on you... so naturally the game feels a lot more "real" than any other game I've ever played.

You can't die too many times in a row... you'll end up with only trash gear left.

So anyways, me and my gay partner Dave just had an awesome pvp sesh.


Above: Dave and myself in Monkfield 40 minutes before server maintenance.

We took out a few mahirim and picked up a ton of scale armor and shit before getting chased out of the mahirim lands by a vet. He killed my friend and still managed to chase me down somehow, getting my horse to a sliver of health even by shooting arrows over a fuckin' hill without LOS and hitting me 3/4 times at super far range.

But I slipped away. He let me know he was eagerly awaiting my return to gank more noobs... so me and Davius hightailed it over to human lands.

First we pulled some ninja shit on a guy farming the mercian guild masters, sneaking up to practically melee range before popping out and owning his ass. Naturally, thousands of gold and scale/banded armor was looted.

I tell Dave (who's blue) to go to the local wildness bank, which has a tower, and bank our shit. I remain behind to go over to the local hamlet and see if there's any action there.

Well the guy we killed lived in the nearby hamlet (Charlies Angels) and came running back, meeting me half way, naked with another rank 40 bow and a rank 20 2h sword, and while yeah, he must have been nub, he still hit through my armor really hard and had some fantastic stats... he killed my horse and we duked it out in a awesome fight. He was better than me at archery, but sucked shit at melee, so I'd jump at him, whirlwind, wack his sorry frantic ass a few times, and then jump back and make him think we were going archery again just long enough to get whirlwind back. I repeated this 3 times and he couldn't touch me.

Mind you, I was low on rank 40 bows and don't have anyone who can give me a stockpile or anything so I rely on PvP to get that stuff. So it was nice getting two new bows... but before the night was over I'd have about 10 fresh new rank 40s.

We went over to Monkfield and took an SG who was afk mining down to one hit before she got to tower range. The best part about this, really, is that she taught me how to dodge -- you don't just strafe, you literally jerk your mouse and run in the direction you'd normally strafe in. The effect is twice the dodginess without the loss of speed that comes with strafing... making it much, much easier to get away. This maneuver ends up saving my ass before this story ends.

Without much luck in Monkfeild, and with only 40 minutes left 'till server down (nightly maintenance is from 4-5am), we trekked it south to the hivekin queen / mercian spawns looking for some action. Finding no action, and with little time left, we decide to take a shot at someone in NEW's Hammerdale before calling it a night.

Man... did we find the biggest moron in Hammerdale. We see a NEW Captain farming the farm with some plate on, so with 5 minutes left, we banked all the gear that we didnt want to die with on us and set our weapons to up / down stance. We get behind the guy, who's now just standing there AFK, and coordinate our motions to strike him down from behind as fast as possible...

I don't even think he had time to alt-tab back into the game. We looted 2 plate chestpieces, lots of scale shit, a few bone armor pieces, many dozens of herbs and mats, and I score big (at least, big to me, seeing as I'm desperate for bows)... the guy has around 8 rank 40 bows on him. We loot all this as 2 other NEW recruits wack us, following us to the bank, where we bank everything (Idiots should have just looted him).

Davius doesn't quite make it out alive and I'm being chased to the city wall, using my newly learned dodging techniques to stay alive. I run up the ramp to the top of the wall and pull one of the SICKEST fake outs I think I'll ever pull. The part of the wall I ran up kind of sticks out from the rest of the wall and has a dark overhang you can kind of hide in pretty well, and even though this guy is only about 25 feet behind me, I jump off the wall as if I'm leaving the city only to strafe a little and land inside the overhang. He runs around for the last two minutes before server down wondering how the fuck I vanished on the other side of the wall as I try to contain my excitement over vent.

And now when I log in, the bank... and gankable noobs... are readily available for me. Right in the heart of the most populated, noobiest land there is... which spells p-e-r-f-e-c-t p-l-a-c-e-m-e-n-t for a red newfuck like myself.

I freakin' love this game... and I don't see any reason to do the grind with only about 10 hours a week to spent on darkfall and fun like this available on friday night.

Landmark's WORD (An e-mail I never sent)

I never sent this e-mail because it's just a little too serious, plus I'm trying not to randomly help people or preach my shit so much. I'm trying to become more humble, and I'm just getting started... so obviously sending this would go against all that I'm trying to balance in my life.

But I still had to write it... because I used to have an EPIC tool for controlling myself that stopped working after only a few days of using it, called "The Whip" (whipping myself into submission mentally).

This is "The Word" and it replaces "The Whip" in a way that actually works.

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Landmark said something that I never quite got,
which is that "all you have is your word".

Two days ago, I continually broke myself down over
and over while simultaneously installing "my word"
in the place of the old shit I was throwing out.
I didn't know I was doing it. But the result was one
I'd been building for a while, and yet unexpected.
Over the last two days, I haven't hesitated for even
a second one time to do exactly what I told myself
to do (and what I knew from A TON of previous
thinking that I should do.) I have thus gained full
control of my word... my mind is going to work and
doing what needs to be done on autopilot for once.

Alrighty Business Circle, you can stop reading now.

That's the POWER of landmark's idea of YOUR WORD

(I... think. It's been 2 years since I did landmark and I'm just now getting what this meant... so I could be quite off.)

Below is something that's VERY tl;dr (too long; don't read) [the whole email including this totals to 5 pages] It's so long, I'm not even going to attempt to edit it... which I think is a first for any article I've written that spanned over 1 - 2 pages.

But, I think it's a pretty good explaination of Landmark's word, and since you're in the business circle, I kind of feel obligated to give you a shot at this one.

I'd recommend you window mode your browser so the text doesn't stretch across the screen. It's going to make it much easier to read, trust me.

For the record reading this WILL significantly impress me, lol... so yeah I'd love to hear if you read it even if it's just a quick reply that says, "I read it. FUUUUU---"
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So what is "your word"? And how is it "all you have"?

First, you've got to understand who YOU are... or more accurately, WHAT you are, and that's a little more complicated than Landmark's explaination that you are "a biological, *meaning making* machine".

That is to say, you're technically a robot with a really, really complicated brain that goes around making meaning of things.

Which makes a lot of sense if you consider that nothing in the real world "means" anything. If you didn't see it, sure it existed... but it may as well not have. Two comets smashing in space are just two objects colliding. The same thing goes for the most awesome thing that's ever happened to you. You got super excited and remember it to this day, but it only matters to you because your mind went "that was amazing". That amazingness is merely a "meaning" that your mind has created.

...Now hold on to your horses, sparky, cuz I gotta ask... did the holocaust mean anything? We've all thought it was one of the most horrible, terrifying things to ever happen and it taught us about the evil mankind is capable of. And that means a lot... to mankind. But really, it's all just a planet that happens to have plants and animals and people who end eachothers lives. None of it means something if no one made the meaning... outside of your head, or the heads of all people, there's nothing (other than perhaps God depending on your religiousness beliefs) that makes it mean anything. SOMEONE has to judge it before it has any meaning.

So to US, the holocaust means tons of things... but in reality (outside of our brains) the holocaust, feeding starving children, and even "love" have absolutely no meaning. In the reality, they're just things that HAPPEN.

Okay, did ya get all that? For the record, I ask about the holocaust because that seriously is going to challenge some of your beliefs. If you can't understand how the holocaust doesn't mean anything except to YOU (since you're a meaning making machine) or OTHER PEOPLE (since we all have minds that make meaning out of the world around us)...

If you just can't get that right now... that's okay, because it took landmark something like 30+ hours almost STRAIT before they tried to tell us that.

But if you're not getting that, you gotta stop reading now. The rest of this simply isn't going to make sense... you'd be wasting your time. So think about the above and see if you can distinguish things in your head from what they really are.

So, back on point.

Literally, what you are is CONSCIOUSNESS. That implies that you are MORE THAN JUST YOUR MIND.

How can you be more than just your mind, when it's 100% of what makes you conscious?

Well, imagine you were born, but just as consciousness should have developed, it didn't. You're born and your mind grows to be just as powerful as it is today (well, at least in the pure sense of brainpower, but it obviously doesn't have any of the work you've done on it or whatever), and although just as powerful and equal as your current mind, this brain has never experienced a thought. It's never run an emotion or responded to anything. It's a vegetable.

If that were true, YOU would have never existed. Only your mind would have. Hence, YOU are more than your mind.

Your mind is kind of like the projector, and YOU are the image projected.

I think I've told you before about a "clearing" or "vacuum"... if you were to magically create empty space free of air and atoms in the middle of your room, what would happen? Everything would immediately rush in to fill the empty space.

So you are essentially the empty space which the mind is continuously filling.

YOU have never seen anything. You experience images, but they come from the mind.
YOU don't have any emotions. You experience them, but they come from the mind.
YOU don't have any thoughts. You experience them, but they come from the mind.

So what do you have?

YOU have choice. That's what's meant by "all you have is your word".

Your mind projects several things into your experience, and then inside of your experience you ***USE*** your mind.

To illustrate how twisted and confusing it is, and then to make sense of it all and show where you can really see YOURSELF APART FROM YOUR MIND, I'll bring up a following hypothetical story.

One day, you are feeling sad, and your mind might project, "I don't like this, I want to be happy." You then use your mind by asking it, "how can I be happy?" It brings up that you should be more responsible, and you consider that until it then projects all the games you can play with an overwhelming emotional pull that quickly fills your experience.

At some point, you can't just keep playing games because they're not worth it any more. The fun emotions you get off of them turn grey. Your emotions change and your mind tells you that you're sad again. It brings up the same stuff as last time, this time with a stronger emotional pull towards responsibility.

And so it repeats but this time, you choose to do some responsible things in your life. Then responsibility becomes less enjoyable until you're back to games. But every time you are responsible, you see more of the good sides about it.

Now that was almost completely PROJECTED STUFF. YOU chose to follow what you're mind was saying, because you FELT (from the projected emotions) that your thinking was sound.

But one day, you're not so sure the pattern of repeated behavior is right anymore. The good sides of doing something greater with this responsibility stuff has been growing on you. You find yourself, one day, back at sadness, and feel another projected emotion that says "I should REALLY think about this..."

And then something magical happens.

I've seen my friend Alex Shahparnia make this click, I've seen myself make this click, and I think most people had a moment in their life that was more empowering than any other moment they've ever experienced by a long shot.

You spend a few hours running the show a little more than usual. You start out asking yourself if it'd be better if you really started getting responsible. Your mind projects that playing games all the time is "living the life". You think about that for a while and eventually end up comparing it to all the times you were sad even though you were playing lots of games, and in making the choice to listen to your emotions and spend this time thinking, you have enough control over the experience to really compare past events side by side, until an overwhelming emotion gets projected that says, "BULLSHIT. Playing games all the time is NOT the life, look how depressed I've been".

Powerful emotions take over. Empowering emotions take over. Emotions that completely overwhelm other emotions until you've locked your door and turned off your phone because you're literally crying and yelling at yourself. In these critical moments, YOU CHOOSE to throw out certain emotions (very specific, suddenly outdated ideas of yours) ONCE AND FOR ALL. At this point, YOU (YOU meaning, you VERY CONSCIOUSLY) make a CHOICE (something the mind, on it's own, is uncapable of doing.)

And with that strong choice you give YOUR WORD that you'll start being on the responsible side of the tracks from now on.

End of story.

Now go back and notice that you...

...DO NOT OWN YOUR EMOTIONS. You share them with the brain, as it continually is projecting them into your experience.
...DO NOT OWN YOUR THOUGHTS. You share them with the brain, as it continually is projecting them into your experience.

So how do you then actually OWN your word? Isn't that shared? How is "your word" the "only thing you have".

Your word was formed from comparing projections and then making a CHOICE. Only you could make that choice, since the mind can't make it without you. It needed you to be conscious, to recieve all the thoughts and emotions, and then piece them together. You didn't have to make that choice... as a matter of fact, you could have made it ANY of the times you were being responsible, but the emotions being projected weren't powerful enough for you.

AT NO POINT DID YOUR BRAIN EVER "PROJECT" THE CHOICE INTO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS. It only projected all the things you used to make the choice. It can be said that you were BOUND to make that choice based on the emotions, thoughts, and process, but THAT CHOICE IS YOURS, AS IT COULD *ONLY* COME FROM YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS (and remember, your consciousness is YOU, and YOU can control your mind, and since you).

Now, that choice was yours for the moment... but it can fade off with time. I believe you own it, but you may not maintain it. Hence, the reason your word is all you have is because...

Your WORD, which comes from your CHOICES, was never projected from the mind, it came from within consciousness. And you can CHOOSE TO FOLLOW YOUR WORD DESPITE PROJECTED THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS.

Now don't get confused here and think you've given your word to show up to your job / class on time. You haven't. You show up to those things because the second you consider not showing up, your mind projects emotions that say "Nope, you gotta go." And even if you decide to stop going to work, it's just your mind going "I can't take this any more." At no point have you GIVEN YOUR TRUE WORD.

But if you decide you're going to do something no matter what... you can simply FREEZE THE PROJECTOR. You can actually just say, "I gave my word, I'm going, and I'm not going to think about it, I'm just going to do it." Isn't that a projected thought, though? Not if you've set that thought up before hand, and you've SET that CHOICE up BEFOREHAND.

Now for the sake of sanity, let's say this is 90% true. Let's say you can't complete freeze up the projector, but you can get it stuck in a certain loop you've desired by rigging it before the show starts.

So take my friend Alex. He was always up and down in his grades in school... smart kid but lacking motivation... and then in college his grades began to plummet. He was on the fast track to drop out.

Then... outa freakin' nowhere... he starts getting strait As and gets into UCLA faster than you would have thought possible.

What happened there? Well, the story from above... and one day, or over the course of a week or a month possibly... I don't know the details... he came to a strong choice that he was going to turn it all around. And then he got stuck in a loop of getting strait As. He rigged the friggen projector. He made his choice, and whether he knew it or not, he had given his word... because he certainly followed it.

Could it be that his mind just started projecting all the right stuff? Yeah... that's exactly what happened. My question is, could the mind do that without Alex's choice? I don't think so. And that's why Alex owns his word, that's why it's something that's HIS. It's not something his mind projected origionally. It's something that he concluded and then used effectively.

It's lunch time... Health food, or hamburger? Emotion --> I want yummy. Emotion --> I want to be healthier. The more powerful emotion and thought process behind it wins, and you are decided. But if you gave your word that "will always eat health food for lunch" based on previous choice, you might eat health food no matter how much the mind yells "I WANT THE FRIGGEN HAMBURGER. ONE TIME MAN. ONE TIME!" you can say, "nope, talked about this, the word says eat the health food" and you can thus automatically eat the health food without having to think about it.

That's because your word is YOURS, not your MIND'S, and you have power over your mind. You can choose what gets projected. You don't always gotta just decide.

The Fundamental of Landmark -- Biological Machine

For the record, this landmark stuff can serve you really well. I'm about to discuss how I'm a "biological machine". You might be thinking "No... you're HUMAN." I ask you, what is a human being, really? If you made a robot out of stem cells and started it up using a replicated human brain, would it not resemble a newly created human being? What if you were in control of it's emotions?

Let's say this artificial human then became passionate about doing something, but wasn't able to get passed some of it's emotional hangups (for example, it just won't stop playing Halo). If you had the ability to make it stop liking halo for a short time and start liking work more, wouldn't that be good for that artificial human's life? ...Aren't there times you wish you had that kind of control over yourself?

Landmark training gives you greater control over being able to tweak yourself in ways that help you do big things for yourself. The training is fundamentally okay. It's their training process at large... one that is largely based on Scientology's... that has some corrupt nature to it. It's "tainted" as my dad would say. But you CAN, as a matter of fact, throw out parts of landmark and things they say ENTIRELY and still get all the right stuff. They'll tell you you can't, which is fucked up cuz it's not true.

What is true is when they say you can't get the "full experience"... and IMO, there's a little too much thought reform going on... you don't want the "full experience"... trust me. Don't share landmark with everyone like they tell you... cuz, it's for YOU, NOT for everyone else. You should reject all notions of trying to change other people. It is an ineffective method of achieving the end results you really wanted all along. (Having others around you into what you're into is ALWAYS a huge plus, people close to you have a GIANT effect on the way you think, and landmark makes it seem like you NEED that plus when I swear to you, you absolutely don't. It's a bonus, NOT a requirement.)

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I didn't get this the first time I saw it, but after:

-Understanding the process of breaking someone down and building them back up (thought reform)

-Training myself to "come off it" (to essentially hit the "reboot" system on my mind when it's not serving me well),

-Generally expanding my own "lore" (not jargon, "understanding" just isn't deep enough here) on how I really function as a biological machine, and what I really am (logistically speaking) as a human being.

...Now I really get how this video sums up landmark quite well. It also sums up thought reform really well. And that's sort of the point -- one ought to have the power to reform their thoughts to achieve their goals. That's the fundamental of landmark.

Copypasta: A Little Revenge

(You'll want to zoom in / shrink the window size for this...)

Now, I’m sure many of you have encountered little shits in supermarkets. Little kids running about and knocking things over, being rude, walking all over their parents, you know the kind. But the worst are the biters. Yes, those little cunts that feel it is okay to bite you whenever they feel like it. Okay, here’s the best part. A biter got me today when I was grocery stopping. He broke the fucking skin, too. This was when the gears started turning, the moment I saw a tiny sprinkle of blood on the little shit’s teeth as he was grinning at me like the little cunt he is. I made my eyes get wide, and started screaming “SHIT! SHIT!.” Now, my good friend, Tom we’ll call him, was there too, and he instantly picked up on it. He started shouting “FUCK! MAYBE HE DIDN’T GET IT! FUCK!”. By now, the kid is scared shitless and starts crying, and instantly, Mizz Mom appears out of nowhere and starts getting pissy at us for yelling at her kid. Here’s the kicker, I look her straight in the eye and say, “Ma'am, get your son tested as soon as possible, he just bit me and I’m… I’m FUCKING HIV POSITIVE.” And now there is silence. Not a peep in the entire store. The brat knows he just fucked up big time because his mom isn’t defending his ass. She just stares at me wide eyed. I walk away from them, buy my shit from the wide eyed cashier, all the while blood is dripping from my calf, making a nice little trail on the floor. And, just as we leave, we start to hear the mother sobbing. Sobbing like the cunt she is. I have never felt any more satisfaction than the moment I heard that sob. I'm not really HIV Positive, but that little shit must've gotten in a fuckheap of trouble.

The Coolest Thing You May Ever See

Okay, this IS the coolest thing I've ever sent my "inner circle" email list.

If you haven't heard about this, you have to watch this video. Seriously.

Possibly within the next 10 years... you won't have to wear a watch, you'll instantly know which brand of any product is best for you just by looking at each product, ...

you WON'T EVEN have to take your phone out of your pocket to use it to make calls,
send text messages,
surf the internet,
watch videos, etc (you'll be able to project all of this stuff - even the dial pad for your cell phone - onto the wall in front of you and simply click on the wall)

Anything you can do with your computer or cell phone is essentially becoming a screen-less sixth sense...

...I'm totally blown away. When this evolves into it's prime, it's going to turn the Kindle and iPad (and maybe even the cell phone and PC) into outdated technology. And it's not going to be expensive... and it's already here and convenient.



People actually stand up to applaud the genius behind this at the end of the video.

...I can't wait!

James

I Fuck With a Biased Critic & Learn a Valuable Lesson

First you gotta see the video that inspired this prank:



First of all, props to Quentin. Seeing this really helped make up for the false advertising he pulled on me when he named his Anne Frank movie "Inglorious Bastards" ("hey, sorry I'm 10 minutes late to the movie man... *2 hours later*... wait... where the HELL were the inglorious bastards? I could've SWORE I saw like 5 commercials of nothing but nazi killing hardasses!?"... "dude, this is why you don't show up 10 minutes late to the movies you asshat.")

So, being in a not so postive, not so productive place at the moment, I decided to pull a prank on Jan Wahl, the retarded hat lady. To be honest, I just really wanted to show her how her "soulfulness" made me feel.

THE PRANK--- It's time to take a shot at a critic...

Jan Wahl has a nice website up where you can book her for one of her lectures. As seen by the video above, she seems to care a lot about spreading the anti-violence message, so I decided if I set my approach right and asked her to supplement one of her lectures with some anti-violence material for students, she'd take me seriously enough to read my embedded, personal message to her.

Pretending to be Jason Perry from San Francisco School District's KALW-FM radio station, I sent the request on her website.

A very professional booking in the first couple of paragraphs, I proceed to point out that this is not a usual request, as we are supplementing it with an anti-violence message.

That's where it gets exciting. Pulling from her need to help inform parents about violence, I ask her if she'd be willing to participate in this fantastic opportunity and critique how her lecture on Critical Thinking of Movies and Television relates to the affects of media violence on society.

I explain that I need to know from Jan herself if this will work and proceed to provide a long article found on the internet that she'll no doubt get wet reading.

Except, in the middle of the article, out of FUCKING NO WHERE it says,

"Yata yata yata...jan is arrogant, obnoxious, and so clearly biased that no one can take her seriously. She does damage to the anti-violence community's message and if she doesn't believe that, she should take a look at herself in the now viral youtube video of her bashing quentin."

=D.

Trust me, this was WELL PULLED... and I've got experience with this kind of prank. I'd say there's roughly an 90%+ chance that she read the article with my embed in it, as it's (A) a job and (B) too long for a webmaster to read, plus it said that I needed HER opinion over whether the job would work for her. So even if she had a secretary (unlikely), and the secretary read the first couple of paragraphs, it's very unlikely the secretary would have read the whole boring article before giving it to her... and even if she skimmed through it, she would have missed my embedded message as it was smack in the middle of pure boredom with nothing (not even capitol letters) to call attention to itself.

Wish I copy and pasted before hitting the submit button, lol. I made a fake email with forwarding to myself, so if any follow up messages come I'll be getting them.

Sigh... what a waste of time (>.<)... but it feels nice to take a shot at her for this. She's not gonna be happy that the article was, in fact, a prank and a major waste of time. ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Jan responds!

Jan Wahl to jasonperrycoun.

show details 7:11 AM (9 hours ago)

"Hi Jason..Great to hear from you. Is there a phone number where I can call you and we can have a brief chat about this? Thank you!"

Well, now I'm thinking she either hasn't read it, or wants to see if I got the balls to talk about it to her face.

So there's three approaches I can take:

1. Tell her what a fat bitch she is over the phone, personally. Hey, I've stood up to people before and put my foot down, but doing so here wouldn't be very funny since I can't record it, and I've already wasted enough energy on this prank as it is.

2. Actually give her a number of someone over at the school district. I've actually got some numbers ready on hand. She'd have a super confusing conversation, and then probably go back and read my full comment. Buut that feels kind of illegal... and I can't just waste the time of innocent bistanders, now can I? Oh yeah, and I can't record that, either.

3. Make sure she read my embedded comment by replying to her email with a link to the youtube video and my embedded comment included. Since she has PERSONALLY EMAILED MY FAKE ADDRESS, I know it'll get through to her this time.

So, option #3 it is. I don't feel super happy about picking on her... but she's asking for it... and if she happens to reply at all, I'm sure lulz will ensue.

Let's see if we can piss off a biased critic.

"Hi Jan,

Thanks for your prompt response to my comment.

This is a youtube video of you in an interview that has accumulated over 1 MILLION views on youtube. You've probably already seen it, but here it is if you haven't watched it yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2ukSJFgCM

In this video, you are arrogant, obnoxious, and so clearly biased that no one can take you seriously. You do damage to the anti-violence community's message. And I agree with whoever posted the video when they say, "Quentin simply destroys you."

Thank-you for considering my message,

The Real Jason Perry"

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She responds... and KILLS IT. Yes... she completely, utterly pwned the lulz. But I gotta post it, cuz there's a REALLY VALUABLE lesson (just so valuable since I'll be using this from now on)...

Jan Wahl to me

show details 4:49 PM (1 hour ago)

Jason..This was done many, many years ago. I hope in your life you never have such a terrible thing happen to you. This has caused me danger and heartbreak I hope you never know. So the entire school project thing was bogus?

So I apologized briefly, letting her know I felt bad, though I'm not gonna sit here and cry about it. You just don't fuck up on TV like that, and she's paying the price.

But I will walk away with a valuable lesson.

If a video has over 100,000 - 1,000,000 + views, /b/ has already unleashed it's wrath. (100K - 1M = the amount of views required for a production youtube video to be considered a "success" by the producing studio.)

This means several things.

-No need to post to /b/ at all if X is within that view count.

-No need to harass anyone who's within that view count... they are paying for it drastically.

-In general, anything popular or over 10,000 views (99.9% of everything you see) should just be left alone.

-Harassing other human beings... even if they deserve it... sucks. It's no better than complaining about shit and justifying your complaints... you'll just feel a lot worse afterwards even if you're right.

See what I'm sayin'? I DONT feel like I'm really in the wrong here... she WAS asking for it on public TV. I DO feel like this was stupid, lame, and a mistake. The only real reason that this wasn't a waste of my time, is that spending my time was worth the lessons it yielded.

I doubt she can say the same, that the price was worth the lesson. Now I feel bad for her.

A Metacritic > A Movie Critic

"...I believe that the era of the movie critic is over. Sites like Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes are the best way to get a quick numerical rating without falling victim the indulgences of purposefully contrarian or idiocynratic reviewers such as Mick LaSalle or Jan Wahl. Going to the theatre is an increasingly expensive and cumbersome process and people are less willing to gamble their time and money based on the whims of a single reviewer..."

How did knights train horses to charge into a bunch or infantry or other cavalry and not be afraid?

How did knights train horses to charge into a bunch or infantry or other cavalry and not be afraid?

(origional article should be linked ^)

It’s hilarious because some people have a problem getting their horse into a transport when in the ancient ages they pulled chariots into battle and in the medieval ages knights used them to charge into battle all that with arrows flying everywhere and catapults going off and everything.

The same way anyone PROPERLY trains a horse to do anything. By gradually getting them used to something that’d normally spook them, make them get that it’s not something bad, and reward them. Over _2000_ years ago the ancient Greek cavalry leader Xenophon wrote the earliest book on horses and said, "The one great precept and practice in using a horse is this – never deal with him when you are in a fit of passion. When your horse shies at an object and is unwilling to go up to it, he should be shown that there is nothing fearful in it, least of all to a courageous horse like him; but if this fails, touch the object yourself that seems so dreadful to him, and lead him up to it with gentleness. Compulsion and blows inspire only the more fear; and when horses are at all hurt at such times, they think what they shied at is the cause of the hurt." Xenophon also credited an earlier horse expert named Simon, so he wasn’t the first person to come up with this kind of training.

Sure, there have also been people who beat the crap out of their horses and treat them like machines. Unfortunately, there’s always been a good number of brain-donors in the world. I’m only an intermediate rider, but don’t suggest a battle of wills with an often unpredictable half-ton animal unless you want a horse that IS afraid of his/her own shadow, waiting to pitch you into the dirt, crazy, just plain mean, or any combination of these.
FWIW, I’ve heard of people getting "difficult" horses onto trailers armed with nothing more than oats and a little patience.

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