The Stig

Howdy Alpha! Its really great to meet you, and to have you with us! Please, make yourself at home and try to enjoy it here! Welcome, welcome, welcome!

If there is ever anything you need man... money, games, words of advice, a friend to lean on... I got your back. If I could I'd be with you every step of the way, as you try to better your life, and find yourself. I would ask you to stay, but that's not fair to you. I do not want you to feel obligated to stay or be guilted into staying... You are free to choose for yourself and I don't wanna interfere. Don't stay unless YOU want to.... Anyways... Good luck bro, and best wishes! Life's an adventure and your just beginning to embark on its epic quest! When your done with its travels and seen what it has to offer, I do hope you'll return someday, and you can tell me all about it.... I would really like that. Well, I won't keep you any longer. See ya brother, until we meet again...

^ This. ...He pretty much said what I was gonna say lol.... Still, sweet MoM speech buddy! And your a wonderful MoM by the way! Cheers!

I wish it did not have to be this way... But if this is what you truly feel is the right thing to do, then I will stand by your decision. And respect it. But, I will be really sad to see you go... Life in a way... is like a tree. We start off small, and weak... Fragile, yet strong, constantly growing to fit our surroundings. As we grow, we change in many ways, while leaving behind many roots. The more people we encounter, the more friends we make, and the more we strengthen our relationships with our familys, the more roots we develop into the soil. The more roots we have the more healthy and nourished we become. And the deeper into the earth the roots reach, the stronger the tree. And we shed our ideals and beliefs every season, like a tree sheds it leaves, and we are constantly changing our view on life, yet our outlook remains oddly the same. Our outlook does not change until we grow above the canopy. Grow past the other trees so we may see the sky for ourselves. No more living under the shadows of our successors. We must find ourselves, to truly branch out. It is only then, can we be at one with ourselves and life. So that we may lay our seeds into the soil...and let our offspring live the life that we never could. There are no mistakes in life. Each mistake is only but a single, tiny branch. Each branch we have is what makes us stand out. It was what makes us, unique. We are who we are because of the choices we made. Because of the branches we have. Who we end up becoming, and who the future will remember, is what we will chose to do later in life. Our past does not define us, and our futures are uncertain. What we make of our lives is only what we chose to do, here. Now. In this moment.... Look at how much all of your friends here love you.... Always remember how much we will miss you. And never forget it. I wish you the best of luck my friend. I hope that you find what it is you are searching for. Try not to look at this goodbye as the closing of a single door. But rather, as the opening of thousands. But don't lose whats important... Remember... Walking with a friend in the darkness, is better than walking alone in the light. Take care friend.... I bid you farewell....Until, we meet again.

Okay so the forum turned 3. Total Mayhem responded in this thread 4 times. And the answer to how many times I said the word Total in my original findings was 3. Which if we put the numbers side by side... It again, gives us... 343. Coincidence? I think not. There are also 11 letters in Total Mayh3ms name. Here is the Vital importance of 11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_(number) His name in reverse also happens to be Mahyam Latot. A quick google image search brought up this image... Which might be our next clue... http://www.trbimg.com/img-502be8fc/turbine/la-tot-cartoons-pg-romney-ryan-vision-harks-back-to-days-of-taft/600 Romney/Ryan have ten letters total. Remember that 10 was the total amount of letters in his initial response to this thread. What is Total Mayh3ms connection with the the 2012 US Republican Presidential nominee? Also... ----------3---------- -------- -------- ------- ------- ----- ------ -----4--------3--- ^ illuminati?

There are precisely ten letters in Total Mayh3m's response. H is the eighth letter in the Alphabet. And E is the Fifth. There also Happen to be five letter E's. As well as five letter H's. 5 x 5 x 8 x 5 = 1000. 1000 is 100 times greater than 10. Remember 10 was the original total for letters. 100 has 3 numbers. April is the fourth month of the year. As in 4. And the Day is now April 3rd.... If you put the gold numbers above, side by side, it gives us.... 343. There are also 3 numbers Total in 343, so Half Life 3 confirmed.

Confirmed. Your story checks out. As it is 2:50 AM (on my end) when you said this...which means that it is now the 2nd. So April Fools day is now over... Which means... Which means that this is not... Not a joke....

Agreed. Anything can be used to teach a lesson. And everything, no matter how simple, has to be taught or learned at some point before it can be completed or attempted. Plus We all know someone smarter than us by leaps and bounds in a particular subject, but their clueless in another. For example I am horrible at Math, Chemistry, Cooking, and many other things. But I have a friend who is a wiz with math, a cooking champion, and chemistry expert (Not Walter White). But he doesn't even know how change a lightbulb, or hold a shovel, or handle a hammer, or tell the difference between a V8 or V6, or how to tell the difference between a Tbar Row and a Back Raise and how they correlate with each body part. But those are something that I've known for almost my whole life. So does me knowing all of the stuff he doesn't make me smart and him stupid? No. And Does him knowing all the things that I don't make him a genius and me a moron? No.(well technically yes, cause I am pretty stupid, and the stuff I don't know is all school related stuff. So by the educational standards. I'm kinda an idiot. But that's beside the point). The point is, there are things we know, that someone else wouldn't. Just like how there is stuff they know that we wouldn't. I could talk forever about the difference between a Thunderbolt or Thundershock, or how many episodes are in each season of the Office and what happens in each episode, but I wouldn't know where to begin talking about atoms and molecules... Where as my buddy could talk happily for days about it. No body's born knowing how to walk or speak. Everything we have done up to this point had to be learned. We learn something new everyday and gaming is no exception.

Hey! Welcome Nogradea! I'd shake your hand, but mine are covered in super glue from a prank my dad pulled on me. And best of luck to you! Inheritor is a long road!

That's the spirit!

I Concur. There is more to gaming than just "Mindlessly picking up a controller and drooling while staring dumbfoundedly at the idotbox in-front of you while pressing the A Button to shot the aliens in Space Invaders"... There is so much more involved. I mean maybe back then in the early 70's and 80's games were more entertainment orientated than they are now, but now there they are so much more complex! They have story's, and complex controls with separate menus and interfaces, that all interconnect. You have to memorize the layout of maps and levels, remember characters and weapons and items, connect and relate to the experience, all while press more than 25 different button commands a second. And control the two joysticks to maintain proper vision in the games. And like you said, games such as Portal, and many others are even designed to be as educational as they are entertaining. Of course there are always exceptions to this though....

Two days ago a source on Reddit leaked that in late July facebook plans to sell the Oculus Rift to Valve! The company that brought you Half Life, Left 4 Dead, and Steam! Gabe Newell says he plans to revolution the Oculus rift and do something never seen before with the product! Yesterday they put up a video of the leak but it got taken down on youtube as Mark Zuckerburg doesnt want stock holders to know yet! Some good soul on Reddit managed to save the video before it was taken down and upload it! This is so Awesome! Who is happy to hear this news? What will this mean for the future of Oculus Rift? Will you reconsider getting? Can the almighty lord Gaben fulfill where so many others have failed? And more importantly how will this affect Facebook? And without further ado, here is the link to the video! Watch it before its taken down again! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

You know... Peanuts are always the butt of the joke... Like someone will say "Oh, well dinosaurs brains were the size of peanuts" which is a joke offensive to dinosaurs. But there is no butts in joke! Wait... did you hear my joke? About peanut butter?... Nevermind, I don't wanna tell you. You might SPREAD it! Jokes aside I would like to seriously congratulate you Unease! You will be a wonderful mom, I know it! Ahhh sorry for sounding so spastic, but I'm just so happy for you!!!

Please don't leave. Don't do that to all your other friends. I am your friend, and pretty much everyone here is your friend! Two may have left, but you still have all of us! And besides, there is always the possibility that those two could return! And I know you'd wanna be here to greet them when they come back! Your an amazing person and a respected member here... I want you to stay! Your a great friend and colleague and I know that lots of other people here feel the same way! If you still feel you must leave, then I won't stop you. As, if it is something you truly wish to do, then who am I to stand in your way.... Take care, and just know, we all will respect whatever path you decide to choose. Good luck and best wishes buddy! Peace...