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The series was horrible and movie was amazing, thats the difference.

I'm still having no luck finding the Poof of Purchase. Looks like I'll either just buy a better, bigger monitor or pay whatever the fee is they charge to fix the thing. It's probably something outrageous so I may just go buy a bigger monitor on black Friday or something.

Not sure if I should be happy or not. One thing though, Hollywood does samuri movies pretty good.

haha Sledg your the man. I was thinking more like Danzo might be related to Mandara in some way since Danzo is missing is right eye and Mandara is missing his left. So ultimately Akatsuki might have been an enemy but once Mandara showed up things took a turn for Danzo or something like that lol. In eithor case it feels like Danzo is in cahoots with Akatsuki.

http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/10/27/boondock-saints-2-officially-begins-filming/ HELL YA!!!!! Been waiting way to damn long for this. I hope they don't fuck it up though.

ya except our discussion was on the OS going completely web based for normal users. This is specifically for developers not home users thus it makes it more realistic since developers will have MS's central database to work with.

I'm still going with my theory on Sasuke only targeting Danzo and the 2 elders. He has no reason to target anyone else so it would be stupid for him to exact revenge on a whole village that had no clue about what happened in the past. In all seriousness though, I wouldn't be surprised is Danzo was in cahoots with Akatsuki or vis versa. His goal is to become Hokage and he doesn't want it run by anyone else. Mandara asks Sasuke specifically if he's planning on attacking just Danzo or those directly involved with his brothers mission...so it all kind of makes sense. Akatsuki destroys the current Konoha for Danzo, Danzo popups up and acts as a hero. He gets the job of being Hokage, if anyone turns against him he uses the power of all the biju monsters that where collected by Akatsuki .

I normally do to but since my dad bought the monitors he took the boxes and paperwork. I have no idea if he saved it or not and since he's being a lazy bastard I doubt I'll find that stuff before the warranty.

ya that was pretty good. It sucks that there so short.

See, I hate that! Why do they always match people up with their evil counterpart. Err this chapter sucked.

They could resurrect Toshiba's HD-DVD format even though it lost the format wars and is basically dead. I'm sure Toshiba wouldn't mind working with MS. HD-DVD is also backwards compatible with DVD and CD. Xbox already has the HD-DVD drive extension you can buy. If they just add it into the default hardware and start putting games on it then they would be all set. The only downside is whenever Blu-Ray becomes the default format for movies, MS will feel the hurt (ie. when they stop putting movies on DVD and start putting them on Blu-Ray exclusively). But I guess that wont stop their game sales.

hahaha na he already knows. I just got an e-mail back from BENQ the company that made my monitor. They sent me a form to fill out and fax back to them with my proof of purchase, which I cant find since I bought this thing 3 years ago. So I guess once I find it they will fix it. I hope I didn't throw it out.

If you haven't noticed MS's market shares have been on a constant decline ever since Vista was conceived and made public. With that said, I think MS is very serious about the gaming market, more serious then you may think. Sure, this whole argument wont cause MS to lose much money right now but think towards the future. Game sizes have constantly been getting bigger with more advanced graphics and in-game movies, you should know that as a game developer. The DVD format, as big as it is, still cant offer the space and quality Blu-Ray can, and since HD-DVD is basically dead MS either has to hope game developers wont go past the dual layer limit on DVDs or they will have to adopt Blu-Ray or some other format that offers such space. A perfect example of this is Assassin's Creed. The developers of the game couldn't fit the whole thing on a DVD so they where forced to go back and strip some stuff out and clean up code, which isn't a bad thing but still thats gonna cause issues in the foreseeable future. Sony's Blu-Ray format on the other hand has 30+gigs to work with. The whole using your game system to watch movies argument is moot in my opinion. It wont affect MS for at least another year or two or even three. The reason I say this is, because movie company's are slow at adopting new standards. They want to give people enough time to understand what the new format is and to buy a player. If MS wants to continue to allow movie support, which I'm assuming they would, Blu-Ray will most likely be added in their next system (Xbox 720?). This is why I'm saying their in a bind. On one hand they want to continue making money, but on the other they don't want to put money in their competitors hands. It should be interesting to see what happens.

I cant see full games all being downloaded even if the company adopts the bittorrent protocol. With ISP's throttling and placing bandwidth caps on people I doubt this is a viable option. The whole point of HD-DVD and Blu-ray was to increase the space and quality to put content on. The down side is HD-DVD is a much smaller container then Blu-ray and Sony managed to get all the major movie company's to adopt Blu-ray over HD-DVD thus making Blu-Ray the new standard. Microsoft is in a bind. If they don't do something soon they'll end up losing a lot of customers. Not to mention pretty soon all the newer movies will start coming out just in Blu-ray.

@Sledg, Radio shack was the first place I checked. They didn't have it and couldn't make a special order for me. I'll look around this week and see if any tv places have them. I could take it to a PC repair place and waste $100+ for them to fix a $20 or less problem . @GG you wanna know the funny thing? I always shut my LCD off before I go to bed but my dad keeps his own for months on end. He treats his like shit (poking the screen, smudging stuff on it..etc. We both have the same monitor yet mine brakes . I have a feeling I should have just left it on like my dad does.

I had loads of freelance work to do today and of course my LCD monitor craps out. Power light shows that it's on but the display died after 5 mins of use leaving me with a big black screen of nothing. After reading some things I found on google I've come to the conclusion that either a fuse died, or one of the 4 transistors fried (it seems to happen for everyone with the same monitor I have at the same exact time, 3 years). Theres also the chance that the back light may have completely burnt out but somehow I doubt it. Both are normally cheap parts however I apparently need a special transistor that no one sells around here and I'm guessing if and when I find them there gonna cost more then a few bucks :/. I also contacted my LCD monitor's help e-mail to see if my warranty is still active and if they could fix it. I'm still waiting to hear from them though. It would be nice if they could replace it or at least send the parts I need so I can do it my self. I guess I'll try calling them if I don't hear from their e-mail soon. For now I've hooked up an old, super huge, 20 inch CLT monitor that takes up most of my table . I guess this will have to do till I get my LCD fixed or find a new one.

I don't think Microsoft wants to put any money in it's competitors hands. I also think their a bit frustrated that HD-DVD didn't make it as the standard of choice.

I was thinking it was a new rasengan too but after reading what you said I kind of agree. Looks like he's working on something a bit diffrent. The only thing that looks weird in that page was the two mountains that look like they where split in half with the cloud above them. That could just be the landscape though. I think your right about the exhaustion after he switches off sage mode. The elder toad did say it required a lot of patience and determination to use. I bet it puts a huge burden on Naruto's body.

same lol :/ would take to long to find.

Tsunade already said the 9 tails chakra wouldn't help Naruto if he continued to use his cell level resengan. The 9 tails recovering power only recovers Naruto's outer body, and the one time it tried to heal his hand it took more then several days. Not to mention Naruto also had Tsunade check his hand. The only thing Sasuke picked up from Oro~ was how to transfer his chidori into a blade, and maybe some new hand to hand moves. Everything else he's used up to this point has been things he stole from Oro when he was locked in Sasuke's mind (ie. Snake's flying out and attacking..etc). Naruto's hasn't used the 9 tail's power for training. This was the whole point of having Kakashi and Yamato standing by to prevent him from being consumed by the 9 tails. His training with the clones is purely him wasting ever ounce of his own chakra to the point where the 9 tails power would normaly start to leak out. Yamato obviously stops him before that happens though. Kakashi's already said a number of times that Naruto just has far more chakra then any normal ninja.

wasn't that just a guess from kakashi "ie. Some say the Sharingan evolved from Byakugan" ?

Well the way I see it, Sasuke hasn't learned a new move on his own since Kakashi taught him chidori. Everything after that point has either been stolen (ie. absorbing Oro~) or given to him (ie. His brother giving him his eye powers). Naruto is the only one out of the two who has spent more time trying to learn useful moves. Half of which he cant use since their destroy his body. So I get the feeling the Mangaka is telling kids the best way to become strong is to steal lol . I two hope Naruto and the 9 tails work out some kind of agreement to work together. It seems very doubtful right now though. Anyway, I'm liking the pace things are going at now. If they keep this up everyone should be running into each other soon.

At least their sticking with multiple battles at once. I like how their jumping around and not wasting much time anymore.

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Na, just for drinking water. Showers wont matter much since you have the hot water running anyway. Well, unless the water is brown or looks weird lol.