Darren

I am still around but I mostly just lurk. Actually the two main reasons I don't post that much here anymore: -CHANGE IN COLLECTING FOCUS: This is probably the main one. My main focus of collecting has shifted from G.I. Joe to 12'' high-end figures made by companies like HOT TOYS & MEDICOM...and even some statues and such by SIDESHOW. No one really talks about that stuff here that much so I went to another forum that discusses that all. I still collect the new G.I. Joe 25th stuff...but it really is secondary now due to my new (and much more expensive) collecting habits. -FRIENDS GONE: With some exceptions like Blackmada, GGPika, Admiral Hunter (Kev) and a few others, a lot of my friends like Tom, VH, Dustin,etc. really don't have those in-depth discussions on here like we used to. I mean just looking at the General Discussion forum here I can see it's a shadow of its former shelf when it was PACKED with debates left-and-right. And I can understand that maybe people have got personal things going on, but it's just not the same as it used to be.

I'm not trying to point this out on anyone but I've heard the "wrong place at the wrong time" line used a lot for this and honestly when I think about it, how could it really be the "wrong place"?They were at class!Ultimately they had little choice in the matter about whether to go to class or not. "Wrong place,wrong time" is more in tune to me at being someplace that you made your own choice to be there (like at the store,or the bank,etc.).

I am interested to hear what this guy's background is BEYOND what has been said by the news and if any police interviews with his family will be made public knowledge. What led him to be this disturbed and have this resentment against people (or "the rich" as he says)...does this go back to how he was raised?Treated in school?What's going on?

I went to Radford University along with Chug...we were just across the river from Blacksburg and VA Tech and we visited it together and separately on several occassions. I am very saddened by all this and my condolences,thoughts and prayers go out to all the families,friends and people directly and in-directly affected by this. My brother went to Westfields High School and was a Freshman when Cho graduated from there, he also knew OF (but not personally) two of the girls who died at Tech and had also attended Westfields as well. Apparantly from the reports, this individual was extremely disturbed and this had been evident for a while. I've been hearing reports that he was very much a loner, kept to himself and even had very violent and psychotic thoughts...to the point where VT faculty had alerted their superiors and even the police. Yeah, I can understand that there could have been different points on "what could have been..." but part of the Columbine fall-out was the reaction and insistance by the media,public officials and schools themselves to keep an eye out for this behavior and DO NOT take a blind eye to that. Ultimately though, no matter what preventative measures you take, if someone really wants to do something and they have the absolute desire to do it...they will find a way to do it and they will commit whatever act that is.

I got my PS3 last month and only have 2 games,Resistance and Motorstorm.Both are really fun but not on the level of some other games that I play constantly. I would have to say that the next *BIG* game on the PS3 will be Spider-man 3 and that is a MUST-BUY.The Spider-man movie games have been terrific (especially Spidey 2) and I'm sure that Spidey 3 will just follow that suit.I already reserved the Collector's Edition (which for the PS3 adds "New Goblin" as a secret character) at Gamestop.

Hey there!Congratz on your PS3!!!Oh and I love your country, I was there in the 90's and it's beautiful! I am not a full-blown HD-expert but I think I know enough. Sony unfortunately did not make the PS3 to be completely suitable with 1080i...while it can support it, the games will run on a lower 'p' setting like 720p and even 480p so that might be why you're catching some jaggedness.However it also can be attributed to how the games were developed. I have a 1080i HDTV and I notice a similar issue. Tony Hawk Project 8 I also believe was initially developed for the X-Box 360,so the PS3 port of it will suffer from some graphic issues because I don't think they really did much tweaking to it. I suggest posting on a prominant message board (like Gamespot for example) with the same question. Someone there who has a 1080p HDTV might be able to offer some more clear advice.

Well if she's causing controversy and making you have an opinion on her AND attracting media and public attention (which will no doubt increase ratings of THE VIEW) then she's doing her job right. Of course people won't agree with it,hell...maybe she doesn't even agree with it...but by saying it she is generating interest whether it's positive or negative and giving her that kind of attention is adding fuel to the fire. I actually sort of picked up on this when I watched wrestling.If a heel (bad guy) was a guy I really disliked in a personal sense...then I realized that they were doing their job right and for that I grew to have a better understanding of how people attract attention....whether it's good or bad.

*sigh* Those were the best of days.

Best movie of 2007 thus far! Leonidas didn't sack any Persian cities...the Persians were in Greece since the days of Darius the Great, Xerxes's father..who was in Greece in the first place to take revenge upon the Athenians and other Greek city-states for supporting some revolts against the Persians along the rim of their empire that was close to Greece.Xerxes was basically continuing what his father started. Once Xerxes started a push further into mainland Greece and threatening the larger city-states (such as Sparta and Athens)...then Greece began to unite to push the invaders out.

OMG Streets of Rage.....Wii has the best Old school game downloads ever!

Good for Cage! And unless some of these critics noticed, there are a lot of high-profile actors,directors and producers getting involved in projects that you wouldn't expect them to.And if these critics haven't noticed.....THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS! Who expected Speilberg to produce Transformers?Or Ian McKellen as Magneto?Oh let's not forget Tom Cruise's supposed interest in playing Iron Man as well.Oh and what about OSCAR WINNER HALLEY BERRY in one of the worse comic movies of all time: Catwoman! Was Ghost Rider good?I thought it was.Was it great a la Spider-man?No. But I enjoyed the movie and I'm sure Cage liked playing a comic character because he's a huge fan. Besides, most people don't remember movies for the Oscars they won....most people remember them for how they entertained them and when it comes down to it, more people remember movies that DIDN'T win Oscars than those that did.

I already got it! One of the best FFs EVER! All the old FF games are much better then all the new junk they're coming out with.

I really honestly did not expect that as an answer. For curiousity's sake can you at least told me what was said? Was it from the actual owners of the site or from people on the message board? OH AND HERE,HERE DARTHJOE! BRAVO! @notworthy@

www.banned www.banned www.figures.com www.superherotimes.com Well there's 2 that are banned. And I agree with you Chug that we should at least been informed of this.

Yes and no I suppose. Links to other sites are posted for a variety of reasons that I see: 1)TNI does not have that news,picture,etc. or does not cover it within TNI or one of its sister sites. And like I mentioned above, sometimes they are not the first to put it out there. 2)Is it really something about keeping a leash on all the people here who frequent the message board? This is like a community and saying that there's something outside the fence and the community does not want you to see it because THEY DON'T HAVE IT is ridiculous. 3)Besides, not everyone here just looks at TNI and its sister sites OR has accounts that they post on here at the message board. And in the eyes of me and most of the posters, it's not about "advertising" the site its about advertising the product. 4)It also works the other way around too, I've been at other sites where TNI has been hotlinked as well because they got the news first or whatever. TNI is my main toy board, but even the scope of the boards here there are not fans of EVERYTHING. The TNI boards are comprised mainly of people who collect GI Joe, Transformers, and Comic figures... and that's mainly it. I also like 12'' figures from Hot Toys and Medicom, but TNI doesn't have enough of a fanbase HERE that collects that...so I go somewhere else to discuss all that...Sideshow Freaks....SSF.....is that banned as well?I'll have to see after this is response is posted. But there is still a small enough group of people that DO talk about some of that stuff and they're being restricted from informing their fellow posters of where to go because of the "banned" words. I know there are alternative forms of communication...but not everyone e-mails or IMs everyone else as well and I am sure the banned words also apply to PMs as well. I just totally disagree with the banning of other site names.