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US and Sudan in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, May 3 2006 02:21 Profile Homepage #56
I am probably precluding the Procrastinator with this, but an analogy I once heard comes to mind.

Picture a man riding on a tiger. He's very firmly seated, and can keep the tiger from throwing him off. But as soon as he dismounts, the tiger will attack him. It's not an enviable position.
You can't rely on superior firepower forever - in the long run, the only way to live with your neighbors is to make peace with them, not to cow them into submission. It may seem like you're doing all you can to make peace, and the others aren't giving an inch, but the belligerence and retaliatory strikes are happening on both sides.

Superior firepower may buy peace, but it's not a stable peace. And like in the Cold War, the only way to sustain it is to keep building weapons. More and more.

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Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
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If You Were President... in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, May 3 2006 02:05 Profile Homepage #1
Hey, you play Nationstates too? My nation is named Ermarian. :D

No, in spite of my many complaints, I do not have a complete and flawless political agenda ready for the unlikely event of becoming chief executive of any country. In fact, when it comes to things like the Iraq war, the chicken games with Iran and the oil crisis, most of what I'd have done differently would have had to be done a few years ago. By now, the world is already thoroughly hosed. :P

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US and Sudan in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, May 3 2006 01:23 Profile Homepage #54
quote:
Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas:

Who, by the way, are surrounded by allies. Which by default means they have extra backing when threatening Israel with anything.
Israel is backed by the US though, and even after Iraq, it is hard to find an ally with more firepower. Incontinental firepower.

Besides, doesn't Israel have nuclear weapons?

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RPers wanted. in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, May 2 2006 21:52 Profile Homepage #5
Yet another RP board, unique among a million. Omygawd how can I resist! :)

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Games in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, May 2 2006 21:22 Profile Homepage #9
quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

quote:
Originally written by Mr.Bookworm:

Escape Velocity: Nova from Ambrosia Software.
Classic. Is it just me, or have a lot of regulars here played this game? I recall references to it in Alo's monikers.
You have to play that game at least once before you become a true Polaran, you realize. :)

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The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, May 2 2006 14:46 Profile Homepage #142
quote:
Aran, you saw my blade?
ARGH

^______________________^

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Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, May 2 2006 05:56 Profile Homepage #104
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Next two scenes are finished.

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Originally by Arancaytar:

quote:
Um, not to rush you or anything, but can it be my turn with the reviving soon? Please?
Hypothetically, what would happen if I decided to revive you last? :P

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Originally written by I Would Have Been Your Daddy:

quote:
I tried descrambling "dohesae fhosad xrazxar", but no luck.
Dikiyoba hopes you didn't spend too long attempting that! It is, in fact, intentional gibberish. Except for the "d" at the beginning, and that was just to make an alliteration.
We're doing threats now?

...

The statistics are due in fourteen days. Hypothetically, what would happen if the system glitched and found you had posted a total of -100 times? :)

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The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, May 2 2006 04:47 Profile Homepage #132
Saunders has a face! And it's neither fluffy nor tentacled! :D

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The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General
Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, May 2 2006 03:44 Profile Homepage #129
Nope. Nothing. Are you sure the filename is correct?

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A Word of Encouragement for the RW Cult in Richard White Games
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, May 1 2006 22:47 Profile Homepage #8
There is a rockface in Riven that contains the word "RAWA" three pixels high. They say it stands for Richard A. Watson, one of the developers, but I know better than to trust those cover-up attempts! :P

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The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Monday, May 1 2006 22:39 Profile Homepage #126
It's not so much the hair as the uncertainty. I have long hair, and yet I don't think anyone has mistaken me for a girl. (At least, I hope so. I might need to let my beard grow out some more. :P )

With Snafta, I remembered from some topic that he is a guy, and I was still confused for a while.

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Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Monday, May 1 2006 11:36 Profile Homepage #98
Um, not to rush you or anything, but can it be my turn with the reviving soon? Please? :P

Edit: The letters can't be scrambled - there is no way something that short contains the letters in "xrazxar". You could waste some time thinking of 1:1 letter transcriptions, but my conclusion can be summed up with "... rogolath anyahersin ran!" (see the RP). :P

[ Monday, May 01, 2006 22:06: Message edited by: Charles Dexter Ward ]

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The Afterlife in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 28 2006 23:21 Profile Homepage #61
quote:
Originally written by Kingy:

quote:
Originally written by stu_pidd_cow:

Real boyz kiss boyz
Uhh....
So?
I do hope this is not going to go off-topic to yet another debate on sexual preferences.

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Question 1: Energy in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 28 2006 06:22 Profile Homepage #81
The energy problem has been solved.

Hah.

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Languages in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 28 2006 04:10 Profile Homepage #6
Ich spreche Deutsch, I speak English, je ne parle pas Francais (Mort), and I speak a few sentences in a various fantasy lingos, a few of them self-invented.

Ezkedan ezkarzat, cór'tat ezkedoran. Avistes morzul, ar nurmontes cal. Aa' menle nauva calen ar' ta hwesta e ale'quenle'; xa madatuné kulamé.

Also see this post.

Edit: Also, my number of known languages fluctuates between 0 and infinity, so I checked all those boxes because I could. The poll is worthless anyway...

[ Friday, April 28, 2006 04:15: Message edited by: Charles Dexter Ward ]

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Yom HaShoa in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 28 2006 00:16 Profile Homepage #50
YAP, you messed up the quote attribution there. Slarty didn't write that, he responded to it. :rolleyes:

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Writter's Block in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, April 27 2006 15:00 Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Mr. Vince PE Edshottsargh
AAaargh! BANBANBAN! :eek:

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International Imitation Day in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, April 27 2006 13:19 Profile Homepage #63
quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

quote:
Originally written by Erika Maroonmark:

FYT.
FYT. Oh, the redundancy... if it weren't for the fact that it was a legitimate typo, this post would be useless.

Really, what could FHT stand for? Fixed Horrible Typo? Free Hot Tamales? Free Human Tarantulas?
Fixed His Typo?

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Writter's Block in General
Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 27 2006 09:28 Profile Homepage #2
The steady decline of the quality of English spelling. :P

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the exile I music in The Exile Trilogy
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, April 27 2006 06:13 Profile Homepage #1
Yes. A fugue, in C minor I believe. I uploaded it
here.

I never saw an option to play the music; perhaps it was never implemented on PC, or Jeff took it out long before I found the games. This file is downloaded off Motrax's Lair in 2001 (not sure if the site still exists, or if it still has the file; I'll check), which incidentally is totally unrelated to Sir Motrax of Exile (afaik).

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The Afterlife in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, April 27 2006 04:23 Profile Homepage #54
quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

quote:
As for Alec's idea, I think that that's a pretty darn good description of hell, and it's even worse if you don't die of natural causes.
Um, Alec hasn't posted in this topic...
I spent more than five minutes re-reading the topic to make sure I hadn't missed Alec's post. :rolleyes:

quote:
Originally written by Ur-Noob:

quote:
Originally written by Dead Weight on the Forums:

quote:
Originally written by Ur-Noob:

From what I hear, no one would want a different afterlife than heaven.
When you say "heaven", what do you mean? What do you envision?
The best thing you can think of. Times 10. Times 10.
"Times 100" sounds like a lot, but for those of us less gifted in applying mathematical operations to theology, can you describe that in more concrete terms? :)

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Yom HaShoa in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, April 27 2006 04:11 Profile Homepage #30
quote:
Originally written by Zeviz:

quote:
Originally written by Nyarlathotep:

I was bashing Neonazi idiots, not you. :)
So you don't see anything wrong with his behavior? I am not sure what is personally important for you for you (anniversary of grandmother's death? your friend's death?), so I am not sure what analogy to make to explain how I feel. Perhaps if when you posted about death of your online friend somebody replied "she had it coming, stupid ..." you'd feel a similar emotion.
You misunderstood my point, I believe.

My point was that my hostility is not directed at any member of the group that holds these views, but at the group and the views. "I was bashing Neonazi idiots, not you" was implying that whether my hostility could be applied to OM (you saw that he immediately took it to be directed at him) was fully dependent on whether he has ties to this group. I hold no personal grudge against anyone, even if some people think things I think are stupid and/or dangerous.

[Ouch. The above might go into the imitation thread as "Yet another procrastinator.]

The emotional analogy makes little sense. To nearly all of us, the holocaust is an atrocity that we have no personal relations to. Taking it to a personal level may be the only way we can fully express our disgust at it, but it doesn't really lead anywhere - not even towards ensuring it does not repeat.

Saying "Hitler was crazy" is easy. It is far harder - and far more worthwhile - to ask: "Why did he have such success?" "Why did he think that way?" and "How can we prevent someone like him from doing it again?"

[ Thursday, April 27, 2006 04:14: Message edited by: Joe Slater ]

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Backyard Mythbusters in General
Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 27 2006 03:38 Profile Homepage #20
That may affect the actual success, though.

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International Imitation Day in General
Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, April 27 2006 03:36 Profile Homepage #41
Riibu. Well I never.

Now that you said it, it seems obvious though, yeah...

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