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Displayed name	Arancaytar
Member number	2984
Title	Law Bringer
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Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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How would you deal with an acquainted killer? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, May 6 2006 01:34 Profile Homepage #21 Procrastinator, while "tl" is not helpful, you could do with shorter posts, slightly less labored analysis and just a bit less sanity. This is Spiderweb, not Polaris. --- Alec: I said you can't order me - but when you visit your local German Hut, be sure to ask if they have Aran in stock. :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 5 2006 06:15 Profile Homepage #173 I don't know much about metal, but I'd be surprised if it featured pianos. Does it? :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 5 2006 06:11 Profile Homepage #120 Oh thank you thank you, Dikiyoba! My dignity is yours. ...on second thought, that sounds wrong. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 5 2006 05:23 Profile Homepage #170 Well, of course Dagon predates Lovecraft. His and Cthulhu's lot lived on Earth billions of years before we humans ever crept out of the seas as worms! And they will rule on Earth billions of years after R'lyeh has risen again from the oceans and the shoggoths have come to devour us all! Are you people blind to the horrible, horrible truth?! [/fan rant] :P Edit: That said, it's time for a new one. [ Friday, May 05, 2006 05:25: Message edited by: High Priest with the Yellow Mask ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 5 2006 04:31 Profile Homepage #167 I cannot believe you all harbor such a deathwish. Are you trying to get cutely stabbed to death with an equally cute pencil? :P Edit: The kind of Higher Education people you are referring to certainly exist, but I doubt very much they frequent Spiderweb. [ Friday, May 05, 2006 04:32: Message edited by: Dagon ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
How would you deal with an acquainted killer? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 5 2006 04:10 Profile Homepage #16 quote: Originally written by Dolphin.: Hmm, mail order Germans huh, Aran… Oh, uh, moving along… I assure you that I cannot be ordered, by mail, catalogue or otherwise. You'll have to make do with the photo threads. -- On another note, Dr, you didn't tell anyone here (or anyone from Polaris) the man's real name, did you? Because I just saw something weird. Ah well, no matter. [ Friday, May 05, 2006 04:11: Message edited by: Dagon ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Games in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 5 2006 00:27 Profile Homepage #34 Dark Chaos, Bomber, stay away from the emoticons. It pains the eyes. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
How would you deal with an acquainted killer? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 20:43 Profile Homepage #8 It looks like you found yourself an apprentice, TM. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
How would you deal with an acquainted killer? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 14:52 Profile Homepage #2 Isn't that just a more subtle way of saying "tl dr"? Procrastinator, I'd rather stay out of this one. It hits home too close; something similar just happened with a friend. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
If You Were President... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 11:02 Profile Homepage #38 There are ways to get past the autocensor, involving ubb code. If you hit the quote button on his post, you will see this. If you copy and paste the post, you don't copy the ubb tags that outwit the censor, and you get censored. Bush has quoted the Bible incessantly since his election. His approval rating is also the lowest it have ever been - near 35% last time I heard. I am not suggesting a causal relationship, but still. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
If You Were President... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 08:23 Profile Homepage #36 quote: Originally written by Prophet of Trump: A lot of you people have too much free time. Says the noob who starts pointless polls. :rolleyes: -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Poll Poll in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 08:21 Profile Homepage #5 1. No poll. 2. By moderating General. Enough said. 3. Whatever it was, it's not any more. Thank you for providing me with the fulfilling pleasure of having done my duty. :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
If You Were President... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 07:43 Profile Homepage #33 You know, I'd gladly participate in the fray, but it's really time to remind you all to cool it a little. I feel with you; it is really frustrating to each of you when the other side seems to be SO FREAKING DENSE, but working off steam is not what a debate is for. quote: TM: white folks should get the [autocensor evasion] over themselves I know it's hard to argue when you are both angry and restricted in your choice of words, but TM, please don't do this. I like your posts and your wit on this board, and I think it sucks when you get banned on a pointless matter of procedure. quote: I'm surprised you're so totally clueless as to suggest that this works, but then again I am talking about TM. This is still within any liberal interpretation of the CoC, and I can't fault you for fighting fire with fire, but you're not going to accomplish anything this way. Perhaps aim for higher standards than the opponent; it will add strength to your points. Just saying. --- Even if I didn't quote you personally, the same applies. Honestly, people - Nationstates General is a pit of burning vitriol, but I think we, that is Spiderweb General, can do better than this. We're less numerous, we know each other better, and we can damn well hold a worthwhile debate. Or that's what I dream of, anyway. :rolleyes: -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
US and Sudan in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 07:17 Profile Homepage #61 quote: Originally written by Ornkithopter v. Thurkyl's Recall: Identity transplant? Don't you mean implant? Wouldn't that imply Kelandon currently is bereft of any identity? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 07:11 Profile Homepage #114 quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: Originally by Arancaytar: quote: Hypothetically, what would happen if the system glitched and found you had posted a total of -100 times? Hypothetically, Dikiyoba would celebrate. Anyone can post over 300 times in a month if they really wanted to. Not many people can claim that they've posted fewer than zero times. But... but... if you are not addicted to your postcount ranking, I have no leverage at all! What can I do? Oh, right. starts grovelling Please, please revive me, oh Dikiyoba! Or Dikiyominatrix, rather... :P [ Thursday, May 04, 2006 07:11: Message edited by: Dagon ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 07:07 Profile Homepage #155 How should people in higher education look, in your opinion? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Your musical tastes in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 01:12 Profile Homepage #79 The question is, is it a typo for "best", or is it "the beast" as in "666"? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
RPGs vs. "Computer Games" in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 4 2006 00:46 Profile Homepage #14 I just realized that by some criteria, Geneforge could be said to be drifting from an RPG towards turn-based strategy. The ability to create troops and operate them independently from each other is characteristic for the latter, although the essential Main Character (whose death ends the game) still remains, and there is no resource gathering either. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
RPGs vs. "Computer Games" in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, May 3 2006 20:52 Profile Homepage #11 The first computer RPG I ever played (the Dark Eye stuff was before this) was Albion. By the arguments given here, it sounds less like an RPG, even though it's turn-based (thus action doesn't figure so prominently), well-told and immerses the player in a detailed, coherent world that rivals even the fan-created Ermarian. This is because it uses only characters that are firmly defined - their skills, appearance, personality - and you follow a very linear plot, which only gives you a single quest to solve at one time, in a straight order. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
If You Were President... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, May 3 2006 20:29 Profile Homepage #24 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: quote: Originally written by Thuryl: How Thuryl ever won an election is beyond me. :P Bush won on a very similar platform. What is beyond me is how this board (full of pinko commies) elected him. Looks, probably. quote: I can only conclude that there is a huge amount of racism in some areas of the world. As for Nuclear weapons, well it's only OK for the U.S. to have them. I don't need to add anything, I guess. [ Wednesday, May 03, 2006 20:30: Message edited by: Dagon ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
RPGs vs. "Computer Games" in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, May 3 2006 15:06 Profile Homepage #8 How does he define the distinction - between pen and paper vs. electronic, group vs. single-player, plot vs. graphics or even story-telling vs. playing? So far, I've referred to the games you can win or lose as "RPG", and everything else as "roleplaying" or "RP". I haven't played pen and paper rpgs - except for a single session of one game (The Dark Eye) back when I was 11. I'm not sure if by the above terminology I should place it among the RPs or RPGs. However, one could argue that the GM is the pen&paper equivalent of the game engine and AI in the computer game - simulating your opponent and making sure the rules of realism are followed. That would make it an RPG like a computer game. I wouldn't make the medium the primary distinction - RPG is RPG, whether the dice are plastic and regular Euclidean polyhedrons or electronic. The plot quality is more important, but that is a fuzzy border. I thought Geneforge, compared to Avernum, placed too much weight on combat and "creating cool monsters" as opposed to a believable world and story, but I would still call it an RPG. I won't deny that many games sold as "RPG" these days aren't by any definition of the word. But my point is that there are computer games that are RPGs - the medium isn't very important. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Games in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, May 3 2006 06:22 Profile Homepage #15 It's not that ancient. I also have a computer that has performance issues with EV Nova - the frame rate drops to a few per second or so once in a while. Admittedly, said computer is around six years old. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
If You Were President... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, May 3 2006 05:53 Profile Homepage #4 quote: Originally written by Theurge v. Dirge: And Aran, isn't that always the case? When exactly has the international stage ever looked heartening rather than depressing? ...I appear to have owned myself. quote: Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Music: a legitimate poll in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, May 3 2006 02:29 Profile Homepage #23 I listen to Folk and Classical music, and Jazz on occasion, but not enough to tell apart the subgenres listed. As for classical, I like all of them, although I don't know an example for Medieval music, so I left that out. However, when you say Folk music, do you have any specific culture in mind? I listen to Irish, Japanese Andean and sometimes Native American music, all of which would potentially fit there. The Andean music would fit both in the Folk and in the Latin American genre. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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