Washed away
Check out this map
It's suppossed to show you the effects of rising seas and that global warming is bad. You can choose how high the water levels rise all the way up to 14 meters. I have to tell you, pretty lame. I thought, the way Enviro-nuts talked, we would all be wiped out by rising water, but I couldn't even get it to take out Houston. Pasadena was a toast ( take that Pasadena mall for kicking me out of the game room). The only real effect I see is the dickweeds who built homes right on the beach gotta find a new place to live. Enjoy destroying lower Manhatten! :)
It's suppossed to show you the effects of rising seas and that global warming is bad. You can choose how high the water levels rise all the way up to 14 meters. I have to tell you, pretty lame. I thought, the way Enviro-nuts talked, we would all be wiped out by rising water, but I couldn't even get it to take out Houston. Pasadena was a toast ( take that Pasadena mall for kicking me out of the game room). The only real effect I see is the dickweeds who built homes right on the beach gotta find a new place to live. Enjoy destroying lower Manhatten! :)
posted by davis14633 at 05:54
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I must say that the thought of Pasadena, Texas under twenty feet of water makes me all warm and tingly inside. It's amazing that what was once a nice "Leave It To Beaver" type of town when I grew up there has now become an illegal Mexican-infested, over-industrialized hellhole. My extremely elderly grandparents are the only tie I have left to the place; once they're gone, the whole worthless city can burn to the ground for all I care. Maybe the fire will take out a few illegal aliens.
I have to agree. the last time I was there, 3 years ago, It had already became Houston's bitch and I barely recognized where I grew up. Oh well.
I admit I usually circumnavigate the bulk of the town on my annual trips to the cemetary. Definitely appears more unkempt and run down than it was in our youth.
Okay, let me get this straight. You three all came from a "Leave it to Beaver" town, huh? Did we watch the same show? I don't remember the Beave playing D&D with any gamer geeks and just look at you guys now! *laughs* I know the Mad Builder and Jarhead are both slightly skewed (which is personally how I prefer men) and Davis... If you grew up these two miscreants, then well, that's all need be said. And, yes I can poke fun 'cause I'm a Yankee gamer girl who can toss fireballs with the best of them. (Just keep me away from killer spiders!)
Well admittedly, we probably held a few more 18Hr GoreMovieFests than the Beave....
Though no mere gamer geeks we, but Uber gamer geeks, when you had to actually WORK at it. These kids today with their fancy super-high-def-128bit-video-gizmo-box, 40" monitors, and super-surround sound system. HAH! We had dice, paper, a card table, and 32-bit imagination fueled by Doritos and Mountain Dew. You'd be surprised the sort of schemes or "cunning plans" that sound like great ideas at 1am after 5 hours of high quality junkfood.
Went to our first Sci-fi convention together, discussed the merits of the Battlestar Galactica fighter over the X-wing. Watched tons of stupid gore films and played many, many, many RPG's. D&D, V, Star wars, if they made a RPG for it we probably cracked it open and wasted one weekend playing it. Yes, we were lord high masters, of the first Matrix of geeks. How else could we know so much useless knowledge.
WOW!
Ahhh...Three guys from Pasadena Texas, that explains EVERYTHING...and to think...All this time I thought you were ONE very messed up dude well beyond benefiting from intensive psychiatric care and institutionalization.
*;)
As to the rising seas. I have been to lower Manhattan and the Florida Keys so from the looks of things rising seas might be a GOOD thing. Of course I am more of a mountain, snow skiing person than the sand and sea type.
I know it's hard to believe looking at it now, Angel, but there was a time, shortly after WWII, when Pasadena was one of the wealthiest per capita cities in the United States. In the 1960's it was an entirely middle- and upper-middle-class white population. Unfortunately, it's moved beyond any assistance which "urban renewal" can provide. The only thing that can help now is a moderate-yield thermonuclear warhead.
Oh, and I didn't say any of us were the Beaver... we were the warped, mean kids down the street who tormented him. =)
"You'd be surprised the sort of schemes or 'cunning plans' that sound like great ideas at 1am after 5 hours of high quality junkfood."
Yeah. Like "Bobbing" a local religious edifice at 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning. That was one of our more hare-brained schemes.
Yeah, but I think it was Davis that managed to get in the local paper with the pic of the Dobbshead on the cement support under the freeway by PHS.
"...discussed the merits of the Battlestar Galactica fighter over the X-wing."
Vipers would so totally own those crappy rebel X-wings. No contest.
Yes that was me (statute of limitations has run out) and Yes the Viper would beat the original X-wing, but the new revamped version from the re-release would totally kick its ass.
*laughs and shakes my head repeatedly while reading each post* Gotta love you Pasadena boys! It's a shame Pasadena has fallen so far. Jarhead, you'll have to have another get together sometime soon so I can hear more of these stories. The Mad Builder "appears" to be such a respectable "Bastard" these days. It's a hoot to hear about his misspent youth!
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