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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| What have you been reading lately? in General | |
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written Tuesday, April 3 2007 05:40
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Just finished The Hero by John Ringo and Michael Z. Williamson. Far future covert operations. I liked it a lot. The hero in this story is an alien pursued by a psychotic human. It makes it interesting. Good story. John Ringo and Michael Z. Williamson write war stories, they also follow in the libertarian right philosophy of Heinlein. It was pretty 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. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, March 31 2007 10:46
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Looking Forward to Steve Erickson's Midnight Tides Malanzan Book of the Fallen Book 5 after April 18, 2007. Should be a good read. Meanwhile, I haven't been too thrilled by the latest crop of fantasy and science fiction 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 |
| Nethergate: Resurrection in Nethergate | |
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written Friday, March 30 2007 12:11
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Yay, Jeff has really done it this time, with a dry spell, Jeff has knocked out two indies with no other fantasy indie competition in site. Go Jeff. Maybe he will knock out three games Geneforge 4, Avernum 5, and Nethergate Resurrection before the other independents make it to market. There have been delays in Eschalon Book 1 by basilisk games, AOD-- Age of Decadence, and one other game that is independent, Looking Glass or something like that. This really shows initiative. I congratulate him, and hope Nethergate Resurrection is really good. -------------------- 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 |
| Transhumanism? in General | |
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written Thursday, March 29 2007 11:18
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A chance to speed up evolution! But because you are human, a chance to really mess up, wiping out a large portion of your population and leading to an evolutionary dead end. :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. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 29 2007 01:21
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I have started China Mieville's new book Un Lun Dun. It is illustrated by China so it is a bit better than the other books. The illustrations are wonderful and strange so it is worth looking at even if you find his writing a bit off putting. -------------------- 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, March 28 2007 12:15
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A truly excellent read is Every Inch A King by Harry Turtledove. It is a nice humorous fantasy about a circus acrobat and his friend who is a sword swallower passing themselves off as a king and his aide de camp, for several days then absconding with a large portion of the royal treasury. Lots of memorable moments, a sea serpent swalling a vampires coffin, a werewolf putting on gloves to pick up silver coin, and many other memorable pieces. -------------------- 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 |
| In Which I am Bothered by the Whole Insanity Deal in General | |
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written Monday, March 26 2007 05:58
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There are two ways to determine if you are truly insane. Try and get SSI on a walk in basis, try to do something which will bring people with straightjackets to carry you away to the mental asylum. I bet none of you are truly capable of doing this in a convincing way. I am not. Mental asylums are boring. -------------------- 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 |
| Bring back Ed!!!! in General | |
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written Monday, March 26 2007 03:54
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Bring back Mr. Ed the Talking Horse, I agree completely. -------------------- 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 |
| Spiderweb MMORPG in General | |
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written Sunday, March 25 2007 08:21
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There is no reason you couldn't make a partially turn based multiplayer like a baldur's gate LAN game, with up to 3-5 players. It would not be a MMORPG but could be very interesting. This would be far more manageable than a MMORPG. It could be kind of fun. Four players would work, the same size as an avernum party. -------------------- 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, March 24 2007 18:35
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Actually, a geneforge style MMORPG would be much more interesting than an avernum one. You could choose at the beginning to join either the shapers or the rebels as a player and get involved in trying to destroy the different sides. -------------------- 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 |
| the finest games in town in General | |
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written Saturday, March 24 2007 07:57
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I just started playing Puzzle Quest a mix of RPG and matching game. So far it has been very cool. -------------------- 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 |
| Game music -the poll in General | |
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written Sunday, March 18 2007 14:19
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I find music in games to be distracting especially games with complex puzzles. -------------------- 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, March 13 2007 18:34
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I just finished reading A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by ishmael beah. It is a rather interesting story about survival in Sierra Leone, first boy gets his family killed by rebel soldiers, he wanders trying to stay alive then gets recruited at 12 to join the army, then wanders through the forest fighting rebel groups, then he gets sent to un rehab, and eventually escapes Sierra Leone when civil war restarts. -------------------- 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 |
| Who is the Hottest? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, March 13 2007 16:45
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Nothing like a little cryoa in clogs and a nice polka dot apron. -------------------- 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 |
| Who's the Hottest? Male Edition in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, March 13 2007 16:43
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Heh, nothing like a rotgroth in a hot pink dress and heels. Especially that rotgroth who chases you around that underground laboratory. It thinks you are so cute that you have to beat it with a sword to leave you alone. [ Wednesday, March 14, 2007 13:05: 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 |
| New Cold War US-Russia? in General | |
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written Wednesday, March 7 2007 12:22
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There are a lot of mistakes here. We are not going to run out of fuel anytime soon. Estimations are that by 2030 20% of fuel will be from renewables, by 2050, 50% renewables. Nuclear energy is a rather bad solution. It takes a long time to build a nuclear power plant 5-10 years, it has to use a lot of water-- something which will become scarcer, it has waste which can't be gotten rid of easily, most people don't want to live close to nuclear power plants, and it is a security threat. Soya based biofuel will be added to jet fuel soon within the next couple years, they are not that far from creating a biofuel for jet engines. Cellulosic ethanol can replace a large portion of our oil use eventually. This means anything which can produce cellulose can be used as a fuel source-- algae, wood chips, rapeseed, farm leavings, etc. Combined with hybrid electric engines for trains, cars, buses, and boats you have an immediate real answer to a lot of the oil problems. Something like the Opel Astra is a good example of biodiesel hybrid car. Green Goat in Canada is converting diesel trains, and boats into hybrids. These are solutions for today. A simple statement may be passed into law tomorrow all gas and diesel will be cut by 5-10% ethanol or biodiesel. Wind power is growing at a clip of 300% annually in the United States. There are huge 1.5 MW wind turbines being pumped out by GE in quantity. ADM is already the defacto leader in producing ethanol. There are no new gas refineries being produced, but ethanol and biodiesel refineries are growing fairly quickly in most states. So are biogas facilities from agricultural waste. We are a long way from being forced to choose one single energy source. By the time you build a nuclear plant, you could have probably built several wind farms, several agricultural biogas plants from farm waste, and a couple of biorefineries which are both cheaper and safer. We have not even started developing geothermal power which is the most underused source of alternative energy. It is not intermittent and never goes away. -------------------- 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, March 3 2007 08:52
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Krakatoa which exploded was a small volcano, it caused major weather changes. A nuclear bomb would have pretty devastating consequences for climate, we would solve the global problem however, it would be global cooling. -------------------- 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, March 3 2007 08:49
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I am currently reading the Space Opera Renaissance, Edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. It is a collection of short stories and novellas. It is 940 pages long and contains a lot of classic and good quality space opera. Among my favorite stories so far are The Remoras, Enchantress of Venus by Leigh Brackett, The Game of Rat and Dragon by Cordwainer Smith, Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany, Donald Kingsbury-- The Survivor, and Recording Angel by Paul J Mcauley. This book has a lot of really good space opera in it. -------------------- 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 |
| Perfect cloak in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, March 1 2007 16:39
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Shaped Fiber Cloak is the cloak you use to make the perfected cloak. The middle word is what confuses people. -------------------- 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 |
| Bots? in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 28 2007 03:07
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This is a nice description of what bots are from Botspot. There are other non-evil uses. You can use them to track news on a specific subject, or find certain things. Not all bots are evil, just the stupid advertising and spambots. Out damn bot, out. http://www.botspot.com/common/whats_bot.html -------------------- 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, February 22 2007 12:49
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I am starting The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke. The best part of this collection of short stories is the illustrator, Charles Vess, who does fantastic fairy tale style illustrations in the victorian tradition. -------------------- 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, February 22 2007 06:47
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I just read the Iraq Study Group Report. It was a very disappointing watered down document. A lot of it was rhetoric-- which didn't say much at all. Because it is bipartisan, many of the things in the document would be only implemented by Republicans, and many of the things would only be implemented by Democrats. The document read like it was split down the middle. I can't imagine that it will actually make a huge amount of impact, no matter who is in office. Too much of it is unimplementable. -------------------- 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 |
| Attack of the Golem in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Monday, February 19 2007 12:40
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You can do a hasted run past Shaftoe if you do it right. Then you can go kill all the servant minds and summoners. Kill the servant mind first to stop it from summoning. This eliminates the summoned creatures. Then do hit and run on Shaftoe until he is dead. Leave the golem alone. -------------------- 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, February 18 2007 07:07
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Hey, no locking of my beautiful thread. I am very possessive of it. Say bye bye spammers, or please talk about wonderful Dikiyoba's story, your favorite book on Prince Charles, or Princess Di, you're favorite web site to read the most important news of all time, snopes or any other wonderful reading matter. -------------------- 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, February 18 2007 04:52
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Hey, I thought this was going to die. Hmm, I was seeing how long it would stay down. Anyways, here goes. Worldchanging: A Users Guide to the 21st Century. A huge book with the latest in clean technology, and environmental politics. This contains a lot of material from the website http://www.worldchanging.com , which is chock full of stuff n clean tech. Big & Green-- a book about green skyscrapers and very large green buildings. Diagrams and photographs of green buildings abound. Neal Asher-- Brass Man. Very good action oriented science fiction. Christopher Moore-- You Suck. Humorous vampire novel. He is a bestselling fantasy humor writer. -------------------- 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 |