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The Fridge / Your usernames
« on: September 12, 2007, 02:00:44 PM »
Mines fairly simple well simple if you can read old english and find the same book i did heh. It is taken from a dragon in a old legend who had no name only a description. Dragon of fire from the dieing star. Fire from a star flare a dieing star a nova flip the words around and combine them for novaflare. As a gm for various games over the years ive used other nicks on various cheating forums such as demon_dragon or demond or cheetor (fave char from beast machines. I used these other nicks as a undercover sort of deal. Cheetor was a mod/admin on one game cheat forum/site.

Most of the time i do not include my real name in forum profiles as i have a fairly good rep and am fairly well known online as novaflare or nova. So if you see forum posts by nova on a forum online and my avatar is some dragon or another 90% chance it is me who made the post heh.

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The Fridge / re hi all
« on: September 11, 2007, 11:37:20 AM »
Quote from: TheNumberOneShmuck,Sep 8 2007 on  08:35 PM
Wow, that's quite a story. Almost makes my life seem boring, rather than the peaceful it truly is, by comparison.
heh
Yeh been a bit of excitement lately for me for sure.
Id not trade it for any thing though.

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The Fridge / re hi all
« on: September 08, 2007, 04:00:47 PM »
Quote from: Malte279,Sep 8 2007 on  03:08 PM
Hi Nova!
It's really great to have you back here! :yes
It will soon be my turn to move out from my parents as well. By early November I'll leave them and my hometown. It is not like I was moving a huge distance away though.
I hope for you that the kid made you start something that you can finish to the end (zero a day).
Yeh its really funny. He knows exactly what hes doing. He will loose the remote or a game boy game or some thing just to get me to put out the cigarette. I have experienced allot of the little things that a parent does with him to. One day my sister made them all hot chocolate as a treat and even for a 6 year old he has small hands. So of course he uses both hands to carry it to the table. The cup gets a little hot so he goes to shift hand position a bit and spills it on him self getting scolded in the process.Not to serious thank god but he started screaming at the top of his lungs. I swear i must have jumped over the table.  My sister had already grabbed his shirt to keep it from being worse. his mom came running and got his shirt off and a wet towel too cool it while my sister ran for the burn cream. So hes freaking out im freaking out pretty much every one was. Not much you can do but try to get a child's mind off the pain from it. It hit me fairly hard cause one of my best friends in school got 2nd and 3rd degree burns from sauce total freak thing old stove with rusty legs that just gave out when he was in the worst place possible. A little before the burn he went to sit on the couch to play his game boy that was in the little wooden cigar box i gave him a week before and blasts him self right in the chin. This made me oh man that one is my fault for giving him the dang thing and he gets a cut from that. Next day not to long after he leaves for school and me for work the puppy they had for a week hung it self. First day of school we failed to relise we forgot to lace up his other shoe normally and it was to late to fix that so he had this really bad week and i had a bad week to cause he did. Then the other night he was suppose to share something with his sister and would not so i try to get him to do so and had to get a little insistant with him which made him a little mad at me.

First thing in my mind is all crap now hes mad at me and this really sucks. He did end up letting his sister have it but he like gave me the silent treatment for a much to long 20 minutes and would not even look at me.

That night i sat and talked to his mom and said i never under stood till today with tyler the old saying this is going to hurt me more than you and now i fully understand and believe it. Now all i can think of is that the cards life delt me never lead me to having children of my own. But then again while i may not have i do have 3 kids pluss my own real grand nephew in my life and you know what it all makes up for it. When i got so excuse the language pissed at my dad that day many months ago i did not know where my life would lead. But like so many have said every thing happens for a reason. I know what that reason was now looking back on that day earlier this year and i thank god that this all happened.


"Once long ago according to legend there existed a race of dragons who believed that children were the most important thing on this planet and children should come before all else. Protect the child and your protect all that is important in life"

While the dragons spoken of likely never really existed those couple lines are very much real and full of meaning.

Some years ago i was ready to give up my freedom maybe even my life all to put a stop to abuse happening to a little girl while working at a fast food joint. This scum of a dad back handed his little girl for asking for fries. It was then i seen 5 dark bruises fresh bruises on her arm as she reached for her face where her dad hit her. At that moment i was ready to jump the counter and kill him or at least  put him in the hospital. My manager stopped me. I went back to the fryers. He then started cussing her and threatening her. At this point i pressed the burner over ride button on those fryers to kick the temperature up again i was going to do him serious  harm or cause his death. Again my manager stopped me and motion the assistant manager to come over and sent her to the office to call cps.

In those days i had no strong bond with any child blood relative or not and i cared not what may happen to me. I would kill to protect any ones child i would die for them i would give up my freedom for them. Now how ever with tyler and his sisters i am more reserved while i would still make sure to put a stop to abuse i am much less willing to give up every thing. Simply put i will not allow harm to come to a child but if i am dead or in prison that would hurt tyler and his sisters and my own flesh and blood grand nephew.

I am how ever willing to give up any thing my job or my simple silly things. If i would have to sell off my knife collection or my bike or what have you i will do so and i will do it with no second thought or any thought for that matter. And you know what i would even be happy to do so heh.

 


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The Fridge / re hi all
« on: September 08, 2007, 03:06:51 PM »
Quote from: Petrie,Sep 8 2007 on  02:48 PM
Nice seeing you again.  :wave

Before you know it you'll be down to 0 cigs per day. :D
heres hoping heh

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The Fridge / re hi all
« on: September 08, 2007, 09:14:47 AM »
Well sorry for the long time no see but ive had some serious changes in my life. To start i moved out of my dads place and in to my sisters where i had little to no net access so that made it really hard to get here very much. So the part about no net is pretty bad and really the only bad part in the whole list of changes. After moving out of my dads i went from a pack and a half a day smoker to a half a pack a a day smoker with in just a few days and started feeling allot better. Soon after moving in to my sisters place i got a job pays not great but i love what I'm doing. Im working at the local bike shop here in clinton called rock & river bike shop. http://rockriverbikeshop.com . Then about 2 and half to 3 months ago we had more people move in to my sisters small crowded house. My nieces best friend and her 3 kids. This is when the next big and great change in my life began. A little thing about me most do not likely know. In the mornings i tend to be pretty lazzy and just want to lounge on the couch smoke my first cig of the day drink my first cup of coffee and watch a bit of no thought rerun tv (or the lbft series heh). Well one day something strange happened you see the night before Tyler (6) my nieces friends oldest was sitting on the other end of the couch and fell asleep. The couch just happens to be the only place i can sleep in the small house. So tyler is on one end of the long thing and im on the other. The kid wakes up at like 6 or 7 every morning same as me. Well me being to lazy to go to another room i smoke my first cig there while the coffee is making. Tyler is watching some cartoons i put on for him to keep him out of my hair so to speak then his sister make the couch kind of crowded. Me still not fully awake continues with my first smoke of the day. And then tyler says something that will start the next big change in my life. "jerome? can you put that out or go in another room it is kinda bothering me." Heres a 6 year old telling me what to do. Instead of saying no youll just have to wait or move down or something. I do not say a word i simply put it out and say "hows that?" It is then that he looks up smiles and says "thanks" I say "your welcome...."

Next night he is back in the bed room with his sisters but still wakes me up around 6 am when he turns the tv on and here i am still my typical morning lazy self still not wanting to leave the room. But instead of smoking that first morning cig i do not even light it up.

Over the next week or so it is the same thing every single morning me and ty get to be quite close i now look at him as the little brother i never had. Now while i still smoke i smoke maybe 6 or 7 a day at most. Simply put ty seems to have hatched a little get jerome to stop smoking plan. If i am in the kitchen smoking he comes in there knowing i do not want to smoke around him or he will "loose" the remote and need my help finding it  or some other little trickery to keep me from those cigs. And you know the funny thing is i could not be happier.

I now have a new little brother and 2 little sisters i would do any thing for.

My life has changed in so many ways these past few months for the better. So thats what  happened to me and why i have been absent from these forums.

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LBT Fanart / Land Before Time fancomic
« on: June 10, 2007, 04:19:56 PM »
Very nice as always.

Just so no one wonders ill be on the forums a fair bit less till i get some real internet. Right now im on pretty nasty unreliable dial up on net zero with limited hours so heh.

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General Land Before Time / How Large Is Petrie?
« on: June 06, 2007, 11:03:56 PM »
I always thought of him being about the size of a large duck really. Prob not a bad guess really. A adult of his type would be about 6 to 8 feet tip of beak to tip of tail. Based on series and film compared to his mother hes about 1/6 to 1/5 his mothers size. Assuming females of his species are slightly smaller than the males hes 1/5 to 1/6 his mothers length so tip of beak to tip of tail 1 foot or a little better. Thats about the size of your typical malard duck. Or he could be as big as somethign inbetween duck and canadian goose size. So say 12 to 18 inches in length. In the show and movies it shows his wing span to be just a tiny bit more than his front to back length so 16 to 20 inch wing span. Sounds small at firt but grab a tape mesure and lay it out on the floor :)

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LBT Fanart / Sharptooth on MS Paint
« on: June 05, 2007, 09:33:54 PM »
Um WOW. Thats freaking really good. As for your comment on messing up the background i dont know its simple yes but not bad at all. And the sun with hint of clouds infront of it is quite good.


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Computer and Electronics / Infected!
« on: June 04, 2007, 06:30:07 PM »
Quote from: DarkHououmon,Jun 4 2007 on  04:21 PM
Norton detects Spyware as well. And I've used Lavasoft already, but it could not remove anything because of the Trojan.

I'm not removing Norton, not after how long it took to set it up and not after how much Clint had paid for it.

Another reason I can't remove it is because without Norton, the computer will behave even worse, and I am not able to stay on the internet long enough to download another Virus Scanner.
Hmm ok i want you to do this for me sence your not able to stay online long enough. Press ctrl alt esc put every listed running proccess in task manager proccess list in word pad or some such then post here. ill search out each and see what are legit and what are not. Then ill tell you how to find their files on your hd and how to kill them and delete them so they wont restart. You will not delete exactly but let them end up in recycle bin.

Were gona do a manual clean up to at least get you able to remain online to fix things up.

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Computer and Electronics / Infected!
« on: June 04, 2007, 06:26:25 PM »
Quote from: Petrie,Jun 4 2007 on  04:00 PM
AVG Anti-Virus is what LBTlover means.  Its free, but if you want to try it, you need to remove Norton first (never have more than one anti virus program on any computer).

If its not a virus, could be spyware or adaware.

Try:

AVG Anti-Spyware
Spybot Search and Destroy
A-Squared Anti-Spyware
Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE

I use all four of these and they all find different things, so you need to run them all and depending on how many files you have it could take over a half hour for all of them if you go one at a time.
Not 100% true on 2x avs on one comp. You can not have 2 resident abtivirues and you need to tell each av to ignore each others quaentine directory and directories in general.


Also on the original topic theres also a chance that norton is giving you a false positive. I could point you to about 20 posts on various forums about false positives for norton many of wich are different FPs for different applications.

Like landbefore time lover said grab your self a copy of avg free easyest way to find it search on google for "avg free". Avg does not make it extreamly obvious as to where the free version is on their site.

Any ways a fast way to double check nortons scan results is to google the file name of the infected file with qoutes and the extention "somedumb.exe" for example.

Chances are very very good that if you get no results on google about it being infected then its just another norton screw up.

Ill secound petries recomendations for avs and anti spywares though i never used a squared ive heard nothing but good things about it.

For the time being with 2x avs just dont have any running full time while your doing the clean up. Later on ill walk you through how to set up avg to ignore nortons directories As for norton well youll be on your own on that one that programs not getting any where near my laptop :)

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General Land Before Time / References to Jurassic Park in LBT
« on: June 03, 2007, 08:19:23 PM »
Quote from: trexmaster,Jun 3 2007 on  02:58 AM
Universal Studios, the company responsible for LBT, is also famous for another dinosaur franchise, Jurassic Park. Not surprisingly, there are consequently a few winks to JP in LBT. These are the examples I can name:

1) Raptors in LBT3
2) Spinosaurus in the Flyers sequel
3) Someone in one episode of the series shouts something like "Redclaw can't see you if you don't move!"
4) Use of JP sound effects in the series

Can anyone else name more examples?
The very vally it self. (remember lbt came first) But the valley it self in jp1 is very much like the great valley in lbt. Best guess is sence the valley in jp1 is infact a real place it is possibly that this real place was used as aid in the creation of the great valley art for lbt.

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Land Before Time TV Series (2007) / Permanent link to TV episodes!
« on: May 31, 2007, 06:30:42 PM »
Seen all as well. And seems like a pretty speedy conection you got there. at any rate if i ever get real internet again ill fire up a mirror server.

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Episode Discussion / Discuss: The Hermit of Blackrock
« on: May 26, 2007, 10:09:27 PM »
Quote from: Ratiasu,May 26 2007 on  10:00 PM
I really liked this episode. There were injuries and disabilities, interesting characters (I haven't seen the movie with Guido in it yet, so for me he was new, and Swooper had a couple interesting quicks), pretty good music, and a little interesting dynamic between Petrie and Guido. The songs were pretty bad.
Hmm i see a concensus forming here petrie and guido just dont work to well when comes to songs heheh.

Will be cool if they keep swooper around int he series and have infact had guido in at least 1 other ep hopefully they will bring him back as a guest star now and then.

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Episode Discussion / Discuss: The Hermit of Blackrock
« on: May 26, 2007, 09:25:55 PM »
Quote from: Noname,May 26 2007 on  07:45 PM
Making old Swooper blind was a fairly bold move. Otherwise, this is just the sequal to the 12th movie.
Yeh i like that. We not seen any disabled chars in the films or series. That was a nice change. I hope we see more of guido. Also theres a ep before this with guido it would seem "havent seen you sence last time you sat for tricia" So would seem that he may very well have been in another episode that has not aired yet but was ment to be before this one. Heres hoping so. Guido while not my fav char supporting or other wise is a pretty cool char. Hes the first char we seen with feathers (ruby has them of corse but more as adornmant than useable for flight etc). I like unique and intresting charector.

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LBT Fanfiction / A pic I did on MS Paint
« on: May 26, 2007, 10:30:15 AM »
Quote from: landbeforetimelover,May 26 2007 on  02:44 AM
Normally I would say that it wasn't the best, but since it was done entirely in ms paint, I'd say it's REALLY good!
Yeh crazy good when you consider the program used.

 Now i have seen one better done in paint before it was typically called ms paint. Long ago when 256 colros was best you could get on a computer and win 3.1 was newest windows. You use to be able to zoom a bmp to the pixel level. Well some crazy guy who cam to local comp shop all the time did just that. He made a self portait in shades of gray. pixel by stinking pixel. Select color click select color click rinse repeat do this for about 4 months. When done other than being a little pixelated around the edges it was a near exact match to a black and white photo of him self. Viewed from a little distance say 5 feet or so you could not see the difference.


Still amazingly done weather lord.

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Announcements / We Need to Talk
« on: May 26, 2007, 10:01:04 AM »
Quote from: NewOrder,May 26 2007 on  09:46 AM
Hmm.. if you put it that way, ok. I think we should actually find out what are target audience really is. Although lbt is a kids series, many of the users aren't, and little kids aren't going to register. A more thourough aproach to the subject is in order.
Curious as to what you would think a good aproach would be? Though theres no way to confirm ages with 100% certenty heres what was done with the rubies pvp server. Sence it has no language or nameing rules etc we only allow those who are 18 or older on that server. And yes we have delt with those who admited they were under 18 at some point after playing on the server. I suppose the after mid night section of the board allows it could be restricted to only users whos age is above x and is basically confirmed.

I see a number of reasons this would not work. The biggest is while legally the admins mods and users would legally be covered morally we would not. We would still potentially be exposign kids to the content there.

As for sub 15 or 10 or 12 year olds not beign on forums youd be quite suprised as to just what kids can and do sign up for these days.

I know of a few confirmed 10 year olds in the game im a gm for. They signed up firsst and later their parents and older brothers and sisters joined them. Not the other way around. Things like this need to be considered. Kids do sign up for forums email accounts games etc. Be that with or with out their parents permision. I could easly see a 10 year old findign these forums. I could see his parents reading them with him and saying ok yeh you can sign up.

Then seeing after midnight and going hey whats this forum. Then finding out its far from kid friendly. For all we know some of those members with zero posts could infact be such kids.

One possability that could be made to work is limit AM to those users with x post count only. Then the mods and admins would know the person a fair bit they would likely have their age in their profile and a choice could then be made to remove or leave access. It would how ever require a fair bit of work on the admin and mods part.

What other ideas do you all have?

Note this post was not directed entirely at neworder but those reading it in general. Just to see what other ideas people may have

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Announcements / We Need to Talk
« on: May 26, 2007, 09:46:13 AM »
On forums freespeech is not a right it is a privilage. It can be yanked any time admins and owners of the forum feel it is somethign that needs to be done to evolve or maintain their ideals of what the forum should be. Ive seen some topic id have nuked instantly as a moderator. As a mod on many forums over the years ive yanked topic no explanation given. Then had the user repost when there was a nice this topic has been deleted by a moderator. This was before any replies were made so theres no way said poster did not know it was nuked because of his post. On repost i renuked and banned those users.  


Just remember folks the mods and admins here need not explain any reasoning they have for removing posts. If they do its because they wanted to explain their actions not because they had to.

I could rant on this topic for hours because of how often ive been called a "nazi" or a "dictator" or a dozen other choice terms for deleting posts and banning users on various forums.


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Episode Discussion / Discuss: The Hermit of Blackrock
« on: May 26, 2007, 09:01:27 AM »
yikes action exceeded bandwidth limits on the yousendit lol. Some one who downloaded it want to reupload it. I watched the youtube verion threehorn uploaded. Sence this ones out there id not mind grabing it to have a copy here.

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Episode Discussion / Discuss: The Hermit of Blackrock
« on: May 26, 2007, 08:59:49 AM »
Quote from: landbeforetimelover,May 26 2007 on  04:08 AM
What?  Am I the only one who could download the file?  It was only like 31 megs.  How did you get it into only 30 megs and still maintain picture clarity?  Is it in 3gp format?  Anyway, GUIDO!  He's back!  I can't believe it.  Also, the songs were pretty bad.  What would posess them to take the two worst singers and make them sing a duet?  Those songs were murder!  It was a very entertaining episode though.  Definently worth watching again.  Like all of the tv episodes, the story lacked substance.  It was essentially just a way to entertain you for 20 minutes.  I don't know why but the sequals were a heck of a lot better than the tv series.  The stories in the sequals are much more advanced and in details.  They seemed to have more than one thing going on at once.  I really find myself disappointed with the tv series but they are better than anything else on tv unless they show an lbt sequal.
?me secounds the song comments and well comments in general.
I was oooh coool guido is back.

Not a bad ep at all heres hopeing they add guido back s a perm char soon. Hed make a really good perm char or at least one that shows up in alot of episodes.

Well ok most of the comments. I like the series and watch every chance i get when its new. The sequels in general were just a tad better but in some ways the series is better.

At any rate this was a nice ep other than guido and petrie singing heh.

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Quote from: Malte279,May 25 2007 on  01:31 PM
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Fave supporting char hypes father. Mostly do to how he handeled the 2 raptor dinos to ither side. He slashed them both with his thumb claws. Those handy little things had been found broken off in various meat eater fossiles and deep gouges in fossiles as well.
Did he? :huh:
I don't think Hyp's species even had any kind of claws in the movie. He and his Dad weren't Iguanodons (though there were Iguanodons shown in LBT 3). Assuming that Hyp was (same as Nod and Mutt) named after the species he was supposed to represent I would suppose him a Hypsilophodon, a species without any claws. Claws or no claws, Hyp's father did take on those three Raptors.
hype and his father were Hypsilophodon And yes they had thumb claws. They were sharp. Claw fragments and tips from both mentioned have been found in trex bones etc. and yes he did slash them both. If you watch carefully in the one scene where he runs towards them he extends his arms outward and as he goes by he slashes at both and brings his arms across his body after.

Linked pic
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...useum_email.jpg
note the fingures on the outside of the hands i think they flip flopped the poor fellows hands :)

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