General Chat / Nevermore...Perseverance

  • Raven-SDI%s's Photo
    Hello.


    Well this piece is most certainly way overdue...

    A TON of shit has happened to me on my month-long hiatus, god only knows where to begin...
    I guess the beginning is a good place to start...

    Before I tell you all about my misadventures, I'd like to remind everyone of a few things...

    1. This is the first article in my long and never-ending series that will be spouting a new format. It is similar, but not exactly the same. There are more sub-categories for shit.
    2. Even though it won't be up until I get home, Mortician has been kind enough to be a guest writer in this article. If you would like to write a small piece to be featured on here, please drop me a line and I will see what I can do, whether it be a CD review, Movie review, or rant, send it to me dammit.
    3. During the NE Awards, Posix posed me a question. He asked me if I'd like my column to be a part of the NEIS. I am having trouble deciding, so I will let all of you decide for me. If any of you reply to this, with comments of what shit I am, please feel free to vote "YAY" or "NAY" to Nevermore... becoming a part of the NEIS and explain why if you do.
    4. The High Rollers Contest is almost over. You guys have a little over a month to finish your parks! Hurry hurry!!!

    On those few notes...
    Let me begin the new madness...

    MY RANT

    Well,

    Lately I have been getting thrashed every night, due to having insane friends and meeting infinite random females at parties on the campus or Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

    Man, my sleep schedule has been really bad and god knows if I can ever regain my sanity over the events that have transpired in my life over the last 3 weeks.

    I'll start with the day before my "big trip"...

    I met an AMAZING girl the day before I left for Detroit. We exchanged digits and things were looking good for the weekend of slinging spells and having fun in MoTown...

    Holy fucking shit was I in for a surprise...

    After a nine hour drive to the shithole known as Detroit, Michigan, my friends and I finally arrive at the site of Grand Prix Detroit. Yes I drove to Detroit to play Magic the Gathering.You can all laugh at me, but I am very goo dat the game and with $2,500 on the line, I was very confident in my skills. It would be the same if any of you were good at say a sport or something like that and travelled for it.

    The site was amazing, it was the Renaissance Center in the GM building in downtown Detroit. The place was astonishing in every aspect, except for the fact that getting to the fourth floor was like going through the minotaur's maze. My friends and I had a very good hook up in the city, so he got us a dirt-cheap room and surprised us with free Eminem tickets for him Sunday show at the baseball field.

    First off, though I will agree Em is entertaining, I haven't liked his music since his first CD. Though the fact that this was his only US show all year, I figured why not, besides my buddy would have killed me had I told him I could have sold my ticket for literally $3000 to some douche who didn't have one.

    We all decided to visit canada for the night and gamble, since there was a casino (Windsor) literally a mile away in the great white north. We had to stay the night because we were all hammered and no one could drive back to our hotel.

    The next morning, we all woke up, finalized our decklists for the MtG event and headed off to the site. Low and behold, we got hassled by some fucking cunt at the US border. She was all up in our shit because I didn't have a Passport or Birth Certificate. I know security is tight because of 9/11 and what not, but I was fucking born and raised in this country, I didn't need to get treated like this. Just because some dyke who hates herself and the world is pissed off doesn't mean she has to take it out on every fucking person under 25 she sees.

    Needless to say, we all got searched and my car was ripped to shreads. We got to the tournament late and we all recieved match-losses for showing up late. What a fucking terrible way to start our weeekend of fun. I managed to do poorly because I was dejected from the whole border fiasco.

    Later that night, my friend and I decide to drive through downtown Detroit to try to find a place to get food at 2 AM. OK, before I get to the meat of this incident, word to the wise, don't EVER drive though downtown Detroit during the night. We see a White Castle and KFC across from each other and decide to hit them both up since I can't stand White Castle. Now normally White Castle drive-thrus take a total of les than 5 minutes usually if you have a small order and a few cars in front of you...

    26 minutes later I was getting my friend's food with onyl 2 cars in front of us the whole fucking time. I was fucking furious and wanted to blow up the restaurant. Better judgment and lack of firearms prevented me from doign siad objective. The funny thign about all of this is that when I was getting the food from the crack-addicted attendant, the fagget behind me hit my car. Yes, that's correct, the guy behind me ran into the back of my car as I was getting the 26 minute #1 combo my friend ordered.

    That's not the end though. After pulling out of the White Castle, I see a car getting it's food from KFC and I drive on over to the lovely place to get some chicken. I pull up to the drive-thru, and proceed to give my order, when I hear the following, "I am sorry sir I can't help you, we just closed". OK, why must things like this always happen to me? I definitely don't think I deserve to be picked on like this. I tell the guy to fucking die and proceed to give him the finger as I pass by the window. I also punch my steering wheel about twnety times afterwards because i hadn't eaten all fucking day and the one thing I wanted was denied to me.

    The next morning, I awoke for a PTQ and decided not to play because my idiot friend lost my deck. I wa sso fucking pissed I wanted to kill someone at this point. Nothing had gone right all weekend and I had no money left. I was very close to selling the free Eminem ticket I got, but my friend would have killed me. After everything was said and done and the Magic was out of us for the weekend, we hit up the Eminem concert.

    I must say that the white wonder put on a hell of a show. I, of course have a ton of complaints about things I saw there. First off, Lil' Kim wasn't wearing dirty enough clothing, secondly, 50 Cent is the biggest piece of dog shit on the face of this planet and should be shot another 100 times, he fucking sucked, and third, Em did no first album songs, which really pissed me off, since that the only CD of his that I like.

    Other then that, I felt comfortable though I hate white people who try to be ghetto and come from the midwest. Oh did I forget to mention that about 95% of the crowd was white? That was a shock to me.

    After the show, we drove home which took 10 hours this time.


    After Detroit, I played a lot of poker during the week that followed. I wound up ahead about $450 or so, so my financial dilemmas were covered. I am awesome at Hold'em. Come get me!!!

    On a closing note of my rant, I would like to point out again that Detroit is the biggest piece of shit city I have ever been to. I see nothing positive coming from there except for maybe blowing the whole city up into oblivion. Never go there for any reason whatsoever. If any of you live in or near the vicinity of this city, I really feel sorry for you...

    RANDOM POO

    - Did you know that Detroit is the biggest shithole on the planet?

    - Lil' Kim is only 5'3".

    - Glitchwolf is real little. See here to be amazed!!!

    - I saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake already.

    - More soldiers are dying in Iraq. I wish George W. would die already.

    - Madonna is really a man.

    - People who change their user names are retards.

    - AK wants to come out of the closet, but is afraid to :yup: :yup: :yup: .

    - The new Man Show is funnier then the old one. Joe Rogan is the man...

    - My boss is a total asshole.

    - This article is total shit so far :|'''' :|'''' :|'''' .

    - You suck...


    THE CORONER'S CORNER
    by- Mortician

    God Forbid
    Album: Determination
    Members: 5
    Track Listing #

    1) Dawn of the millennia
    2) Nothing
    3) Broken Promise
    4) Divide My Destiny
    5) Network
    6) Wicked
    7) Determination Part1
    8) Determination Part2
    9) Go Your Own Way
    10) God’s Last Gift
    11) A Reflection of the Past
    12) Dead Words on Deaf Ears

    Summary

    The Jersey based band God Forbid are part of the underground metal core scene having released 3 albums, their latest “Determination” released on Century Media. You may well have thought that the record label they are with, that they would have been one of the big bands today. But the band in my opinion has chosen the best path, which is to stay underground. The album has a mixture of fast and slow tempos and it’s an album that is made to fool you. Through a track the volume gradually decreases and you will think the track has come to end, but suddenly the bone crunching voice of Byronde Davis will break out with an amazing roar.
    An example of this is track 4 “Divide My Destiny”. You know when an album is good when you feel like you are part of it, in a story or in a dark a dismal atmosphere. This album brings an atmosphere to me, in my opinion it brings a cold, dark room with raindrops leaking through the rooftop into buckets. The almost constant wining of the guitars makes an eerie feeling which at the same time is disturbing, a good track that relates to this is track 5 “Network”. The tracks flow directly into each other so there is no room for a break as the darkness and anger run through the album non stop.
    The album isn’t very technical, but sounds have been added to create that added bit of dark atmosphere. The drumming is fast enough through most of the tracks, if you are looking for the fast drumming then in a lot of the chorus’s it speeds up. If you are fan of double bass on the drums then I think you will be pleased what Corey Pierce has came up with. There is a good amount of it too, enough so that when you hear it you get a nice grin.

    Track Reviews

    Here are some small reviews of my favourite tracks

    5. Network (My Favourite by far)

    This track starts of with a melodic guitar so if you your parents walked in they would probably say “That sounds nice”. But immediately after a few seconds the grinding guitars come in and the drumming shortly after, kicking off like a fast fireworks display. The wining guitars come in and Silent Hill pictures come to my mind, a deserted town full of mist. The track follows on with a fast tempo until the vocals come to a stop and drums and guitar lead the way. You think it will end as the vocalist has stopped, but after 30 seconds he lashes his anger out with more screaming vocals and the track ends on a fast tempo.

    3. Broken Promise

    Again a track that has a nice fast tempo, this time its quite punky. A track full of anger, which is always, a good sign. The track has a lot of parts where the vocalist isn’t present, this is a good thing in this track because it’s nice to hear the skill of the drumming and double pedals being smashes against the bass drum.

    9. Go Your Own Way

    A very nice build up with a drum roll faintly going on in the background but the powerful vocals go right over it. From a slow tempo all around, all the band members speed up and the track breaks out into carnage. Its fast all the way until half way through you think its going to end in a calm melodic way, but in the God Forbid fashion Davis again unleashes his voice to get the firepower back into the song. From this point onwards it has an average pace with some very nice guitar work as the track comes to and end.

    Other Albums
    Out Of Misery - 2002

    Related Bands

    Chimaira
    Lamb of God
    Burnt By the Sun
    Kill switch Engage
    The Haunted
    Living Sacrifice
    Shadows Fall


    RCT TRIP REPORT REVIEWS
    by- Ann Bowman and Raven-SDI

    All reviews are coming tonight.

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    If you would like for me to review your upcoming RCT1 or RCT2 work (parks and/or coasters), please feel free to e-mail me at ravensdi@yahoo.com. I will be blunt and honest. i will also respect your wishes not to reveal too much and not give the save out to anyone else.


    SITE NOTES

    - The Blaze Battle is heating up! The next match is Aeroglobe vs. ATF. Hopefully we will see some bloodshed this round. No round has been any good IMHo so far.

    - The High Rollers pics are looking real good so far. Keep those entries coming people.

    - Glitchwolf will be working on a a very controversial article in the near future. Hopefully I will have it as a part of my column, but I think it should be stand-alone, as it will turn heads and cause an uproar in the RCT community. Man I can't wait...

    - RCT Survivor VII sign-ups are taking place now. Now's your chance to join what the RCT Station left for us.

    - I am the new "temporary" captain of the Sea Serpents. Hooray for me I guess...

    - Rumor has it that many peeps are banned from H2H3. How unlucky for them.

    - Also on the rumor from, I heard through "the grapevine" that the next installment of the High Rollers might be for $100. This is only hearsay right now, so keep your eyes and ears peeled.

    - Expect a new layout in the near future. (and by near I mean never)

    - Irony set in this past week as 3 (formerly known as Stupid-Git) was voted Best NE Member in the NE Awards. I tried to ask 3 for his thoughts, but I was unable to get in touch with him.

    - Turtleblob took the cake in the Asshole of the Year department.

    - My column came in a surprising 3rd place for Best NE Feature. I want to thank everyone who voted for me (all 8 of you).

    - Mantis won best Parkmaker. The funny thing is I have never seen one of his parks ever...(mantis, let me review W.O.M.B. :lol: :lol: :lol:)

    - Egyptopia finally got it's recognition as a Spotlight park.

    - Iris informed me today that Hitler was a gay woman...


    TERMS OF ENDEARMENT

    I Hate DennyG...

    Most of you don't remember who he is, but he was one of the biggest assholes to ever surf the internet. He owned the original RCTOA, and up and shut it down one day because a user said somethign bad about him on their forums. RCTOA was the biggest RCT website to date when it was at it's peak. Yeah it was bigger than D-Net.

    I talked to DennyG a few times about MODing at RCTOA, and his responce everytime was you aren't a featured member, go away. Not only did he ruin one of the best RCT websites, he set a horrible demeanor for the community after his departure. His leaving caused D-Net to crumble, since there really wasn't any kind of competition. Many people called Dan's "tyranny" Denny's revenge when shit started to hit the fan at Danimation many moons ago.

    I blame DennyG for a lot of the RCT communities woes, since, in all honest him shutting down RCTOA really fucked a lot of things up. So today's Terms of Endearment goes to you DennyG.

    Fuck you.


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    WORDS OF ADVICE
    - If you have an opportunity take it, because you never know what you might miss.


    QUOTE OF THE DAY
    EverQuest Parks (9:45:13):I have the best quote for the day!
    Xx Raven SDI xX (9:45:25):...ok...what is it...?
    EverQuest Parks (9:45:31)::( I forgot it
    Xx Raven SDI xX (9:45:40):...


    DOWNLOAD OF THE DAY
    A.F.I./Shawn Mullens-"The Boy Who Destroyed the World"
    (props to AK for finding this amazing video)


    WEBSITE OF THE DAY
    http://www.texaschainsawmovie.com
    - The Official TCM remake website. Watch the trailer and be happy in pants!


    CD OF THE DAY
    - see CORONER'S CORNER.


    MOVIE OF THE DAY
    Bad Boys II
    - Going into this, I wasn't expecting much. When I walked out, I was blown away. Not only was this movie 1,000,000 times better than the first, it was one of the best movies I have seen all year. Lawrence and Smith are gold on the screen together. This movie has everything something of it's genre can ask for, lots of action, black jokes, regular jokes, stereotypes, hot chicks, great performances, decent plot, killer ending. I definitely recommend this flick to everyone.


    Well, other then a few mishaps, it's good to be back in form. I should have the rest of the content up by tonight as well as some screens of my latest work as long as Microsoft United is online...

    I hope you enjoyed reading...

    Until the next exciting episode,
    I love you all...


    Raven-SDI
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  • JFK%s's Photo

    Quote

    - Irony set in this past week as 3 (formerly known as Stupid-Git) was voted Best NE Member in the NE Awards. I tried to ask 3 for his thoughts, but I was unable to get in touch with him.

    Heh-heh.
    Yes. Sorry about that. I must remain unreachable, for you see, my Pink Floyd mystique would surely die if I let any old fucker contact me on AIM.
    Actually, the truth is - if you people knew how retarded I really was, I wouldn't be able to incite the mass suicide I have planned. Sniff sniff.
    Anyway. Just as long as you didn't fall for the Danim8tor trap (in your face, Posix).

    Yeah, and I dig the new Nevermore, and stuff.
  • Jellybones%s's Photo
    Who the fuck is Shawn Mullens? Do you mean Rodney Mullen? Yeah, he's an awesome skater, probably the best there is. And AFI is an awesome band, "The Boy Who Destroyed the World" being an awesome song. I would make some comment about all of the above selling out, being featured in the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games and all, but I'm fucking addicted to Pro Skater 4, which really is sad. Moving on...

    Don't go in that NEIS shit, because this column is good where it is. Keep it here.

    Finally, The Man Show is the biggest sack of shit on Comedy Central. Way to give men worldwide a bad name, men. I mean, the girls are nice, but I don't drink a gallon of beer per day, and therefore I find no connection to this show.
  • sircursealot%s's Photo
    Here's a quite of the day:

    Quote

    1st Place: "My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)"

    Cassidy Turnbull (grade 5) presented her uncle, Steve. She also showed photographs of monkeys and invited fairgoers to note the differences between her uncle and the monkeys. She tried to feed her uncle bananas, but he declined to eat them. Cassidy has conclusively shown that her uncle is no monkey.


    http://objective.jes...ciencefair.html
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    Raven-SDI vs. Ann Bowman, on Jul 22 2003, 05:02 PM, said:

    - Mantis won best Parkmaker. The funny thing is I have never seen one of his parks ever...(mantis, let me review W.O.M.B. :lol:  :lol:  :lol:)

    I guess you could d/l them from my page. They aren't anything special, to tell the truth. Maybe you can be one of my testers or something, but it's likely to be my Invitational that'll be released first.

    And maybe a Hi-Rollers.
  • Coaster Ed%s's Photo
    First of all, this was your best article yet! Misfortune does make for entertaining stories, especially when it comes all at once in large quantities like that. Sounds like a rough trip, but at least you got something good out of it. I think Nevermore should stay here in Basic Chat because it's often the only thing worth reading in Basic Chat and more people will see it at the top of the page.

    Regarding other news, this is just idle talk but 100 dollars may even get me to produce a contest entry for once. I'm addicted to skate videos even though I've hardly touched a skateboard in my life. That Rodney Mullens guy is incredible. Do you know you advertised for two Michael Bay movies in one column? Boy do I hate that guy. 8@ Anyway, I'm glad to see you back and in good form.
  • Outlaw%s's Photo
    Me and my friends play Hold'em alot...most I've ever won is about $32. We were playin with quarters tho and I only started with $4 so I came out pretty good. Not bad for a nights work. Im not old enough to gamble in casinos yet but we do it alot and really only me and one of my close friends are any good...we just run the table most of the time
  • JBruckner%s's Photo
    Lolo.

    What a great article.

    When I was reading all that crap about Detroit I thought you and your buddys were going to get gang raped by a group of overly agressive KFC workers.

    Oh well, you don't win them all.

    Anywho, the article was fucking great. Maybe it wasn't the funniest of them all but the content was there.

    I'm so happy I'm famous now, gee, imagine that a little boy like me in Nevermore..., fucking famous alright.

    :):):)

    Oh well. Great article as usual Mario, I can't wait for the next on. But really, did you have to yse that picture.

    Wuwu.
  • natelox%s's Photo
    Bad Boys Two wasn't very good at all. All the strange camera angles left me trying to understand what was going on. There was no dialoge what so ever to the whole movie and there were way to many kill them, shoot em' up scenes. U want a good movie, go see pirates of the carribean.
  • Raven-SDI%s's Photo
    Hello.


    MORT's CD review is up if anyone noticed...

    Park reviews are coming tonight...


    Raven-SDI
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  • mantis%s's Photo
    Nice review, Mortician, even if it isn't my kind of music.

    I'm looking forward to these park reviews, Raven.
  • Hyper Helix%s's Photo
    Hey was Texas chainsaw a good movie, from the trailer it looks good, I just hope its as scary if not scarier then the orignal. New horror movies aren't that scary any more.
  • Prince%s's Photo
    Great article, I never did say that quote though...lol...at least I got quote of the day!

    ~Prince Ashitaka~ 8@
  • mantis%s's Photo
    Ah... So by 'tonight' you actually meant 'tomorrow'?

    (make that "next week" :D)
  • JBruckner%s's Photo
    Where are the damn reviews?

    I can't get enough of this shit, its like crack.
  • Prince%s's Photo
    where are the reviews...me want review now

    ~Prince Ashitaka~ 8@
  • Bender902%s's Photo
    BAD Boys II??????? ??? How could you have liked that? Does anyone else here look for movies with something that even looks like a plot? I guess we all like different things....but...

    Bender902 :devil:
  • Jellybones%s's Photo

    Bender902, on Jul 28 2003, 10:29 PM, said:

    BAD Boys II??????? ???  How could you have liked that? Does anyone else here look for movies with something that even looks like a plot? I guess we all like different things....but...

    Bender902 :devil:

    Your name, sig, and avatar all involve Futurama, chief.
  • Bender902%s's Photo
    Its only a thirty minute shhow...how much of a plot could it have? And its funny as hell...so thats make up for it...

    Bender902 :devil:
  • jhoffa%s's Photo
    Stay away from that NEIS shit, 'bro'.
    Nice article, and stuff.

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