Profile for I'll Steal Your Toast
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| Displayed name | I'll Steal Your Toast |
| Member number | 2210 |
| Title | Agent |
| Postcount | 1084 |
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| Registered | Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, August 15 2007 11:57
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If anything, I found the Roman party to be too easy. Start off by using those six points immediately in the beginning which are not used initially. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, August 15 2007 03:24
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I don't like the way potions and items are split up. Using the control key and mouse together is awkward. It is too easy to make mistakes. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 11 2007 04:09
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I just finished reading another bestseller, The Black Swan, the Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. This book divides the world into two camps Mediocristan where most things are very predictable, and Extremistan where very highly improbable events occur like winning lottery tickets, writing a bestseller, or having your house hit by a hurricane in Brooklyn, New York last weekend. It is light nonfiction reading. It was a solid book, nothing exceptional. I also read a posthumous book of poetry by Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers At Last, New Poems. I really enjoyed this poems about drinking, smoking, race tracks, sex, and remorse about sex. Not for the prudish. [ Saturday, August 11, 2007 04:13: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Alread a Real Lives game in General | |
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written Friday, July 27 2007 11:42
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There already is a sim game called Real Lives it is kind of fun. You get born anywhere in the world then go to school, catch diseases, invest, start relationships, etc. The last round I tried I was a small farmer in Nigeria with a wife, and a daughter, I smoked, had epilepsy, and had a decent amount of money in the bank, I moved out of my parents house when I was 24, finished secondary school, but no further, and died of a heart attack at 68. So a real life sim wouldn't be particularly original. I am hoping for a single person 3d fantasy game in a unique setting, with moddability. Oops, I thought I was posting this in the Future... [ Friday, July 27, 2007 11:43: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, July 26 2007 16:51
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Illuminatus is a truly great book, Robert Anton Wilson is a truly interesting person in every way. The trilogy is wonderful gobbledygook, a mix of futurism, science fiction, and crazed conspiracy theory. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, July 26 2007 01:50
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I finished reading Slan Hunter by A.E. Van Vogt and Kevin J. Anderson. It is an attempt to complete a novel which A.E. Van Vogt partially finished. Unfortunately Kevin J. Anderson is nowhere near the level of writer that A.E. Van Vogt was. The book is still an entertaining light read, but cannot create the clarity or directness in writing style which A.E. Van Vogt had. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, July 21 2007 07:04
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I just read A Spy's Journey, A CIA Memoir by Floyd L. Paseman. It was kind of interesting, it gave a basic outline of what it was like to rise through the ranks of the CIA. The book was very general with not a huge amount of specifics, but there were some interesting tidbits here and there. It covered a lot of Asia, China and North Korea more specifically with a bit of commentary on the different directors. It was kind of interesting. A lot of it was cold war brinksmanship. Tennis matches, restaurants, places with private baths-- hot tubs, etc. seemed to be places of espioage, even a couple visits to nude beaches to meet his contacts. The old meet me in the swimming pool in speedos trick. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| The Future in General | |
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written Thursday, July 19 2007 01:41
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What matters is that whatever he does, it is moddable so people can create add ons. Something with a lot of color would be nice as well. Neverwinter Nights for example looks very dull to me. 1C, the russian company has some really beautiful looking tile based maps with a turn based system. I think they are doing King's Bounty. It looks very interesting. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 17 2007 15:23
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Do you mean something like Ogre 3d, Kult Heretic Kingdoms was actually built on open source 3d. http://www.ogre3d.org/index.php?set_albumName=album07&option=com_gallery&Itemid=55&include=view_album.php -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 15 2007 06:07
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You can get Accelerando for free as an ebook if you like at: http://www.accelerando.org/ by Charles Stross There is also a bit of free fiction on his personal web site. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/index.html He is a close collaborator with Cory Doctorow another one of my favorite current writers. I would recommend the Atrocity Archives -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, July 14 2007 15:52
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Now for another hateful political message involving reading material that will drive you crazy. I just finished reading a truly giant book, Radicals for Capitalism, A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement by Brian Doherty. It is a very interesting book covering a huge amount of ground, everything from solid right wing stuff like Ron Paul to crazy libertarian technobabblish stuff like some of my favorites, Robert Anton Wilson, The Erisians, and Rossetto the founder of Wired Magazine. It confirms my blatant hatred of Ayn Rand and my desire to read Milton Friedman and say that Alan Greenspan did a good job. Any ways it is well worth reading if you want to learn the history of this particular mode of thought. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, July 14 2007 08:58
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Of course, I am addicted to independent roleplaying games, unfortunately, I finish one then I find out they are not producing any more for six months, then I go into withdrawal for a month, followed by loss of meaning and read lots of science fiction. Fortunately, I despise MMORPGs or else I would drool in front of the computer for three hours a day. Evercrack, World of Wussiness, yay they can destroy your life. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 2 2007 11:08
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Sebran is a nice little free graphical program for young children. I like it a lot. http://www.wartoft.nu/software/sebran/ -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, June 23 2007 11:24
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I just finished reading Michael Chabon's, The Yiddish Policemen's Union which was kind of interesting, it is an alternate history story where Israel didn't succeed and there is an alternate homeland for the Jews in Alaska. It is a mystery. It was kind of interesting. I have just reading Sherri S. Tepper's The Margarets, another new book, about a woman who splits into six different versions of herself, each following a separate archetype, thief, slave, leader, soldier, healer, etc. The settings are very cool earth has become excessively crowded and used up all its resources, the only way to keep things going is to sell people into terms of alien bondage. There are some interesting ideas throughout, the evil alien ghyrm, the dancing cats, and a few other things make it very entertaining. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, June 15 2007 03:14
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I am reading the Dragon Quintet, Five Original Short Novels, Edited by Marvin Kaye, It is a nice collection of stories by five decent authors, Orson Scott Card, Mercedes Lackey, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Moon, and Michael Swanwick. The Tanith Lee story is the best so far. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, May 25 2007 09:54
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This is a kind of funny post, almost every good history book lists the main primary sources for a book. These are usually readily avaialable. That is the meaning of primary source. To say an obscure archival source is of primary nature is misleading at best. T hen stating that the author you are listing is a fraud and is using non-existent secondary sources is a pretty clear indicator you should be looking for that author as a reliable source of entertainment not facts. The truth is boring most of the time. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, May 19 2007 14:01
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More Than Human is also a book by Theodore Sturgeon which is kind of interesting. I just finished the final volume in a series, The Last Colony by John Scalzi-- in it there are hundreds of different species trying to colonize space, it is hard to find good real estate, you have to fight for it most of the time. The first two books were Old Man's War and the Ghost Brigades. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, May 5 2007 18:11
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I just finished reading an older nonfiction title on military strategy called, The Strategy of Technology, one of the authors is Jerry Pournelle, who is famed for creating the Codominium science fiction setting. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| If Jeff went for a new RPG world.... in General | |
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written Sunday, April 29 2007 15:28
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From my reading of things Jeff seems more interested in Roman, Celtic, Russian history and probably would have a hard time doing an "Eastern" RPG. Geneforge is already science fantasy. You can easily take out pieces of it and use it in a science fiction setting. Creating more flexibility in the system for creating new items, weapons, monsters, setting, might be interesting. Building a 2D Gurps style sytem might be interesting. Geneforge in some ways is pretty close. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, April 27 2007 14:24
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Just finished reading an anthology of short stories called Overclocked by Cory Doctorow. I espcially liked the story I Row-Boat. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, April 22 2007 16:13
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If you want interesting literary science fiction with a radical touch, try Cory Doctorow, Down and Out In The Magic Kingdom, and Eastern Standard Tribe are both good books. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 17 2007 06:12
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I'm reading a little bit of paranoid special operations history with too many acronyms, lots of blundering lies, and some interesting tidbits here and there. It is not too bad. It is Michael Smith, Killer Elite, The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team. Yep most special. :P -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, April 14 2007 07:39
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I just took a look at the Internet 100 Top Science Fiction Novels. I've read most of them. Just tried out Earth Abides by George R. Stewart about rebuilding after a mysterious plague that wipes out most of human. I especially like the descriptions of how nature comes back after civilization collapses. An interesting little tidbit is that the main character Ish is named after the famous Native American, Ishi who was the last of his tribe. [ Saturday, April 14, 2007 07:40: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 4 2007 15:20
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Herodotus was more important than Plato by far. Plato was overrated. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 3 2007 14:09
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TM is the guru practitioner of transcendtal meditation. The master of masters. The adepts of adepts. The ultimate blades of avernum scenario creator. The creator of creators. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |