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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, February 23 2006 00:51 Profile Homepage #1
Didn't you have the same thing in English earlier - something about dashing infants against rocks?

My signature is composed of many parts that have each changed many times over the years. I think I started out with a link to the coolest website ever (haha), which right away earned me a one-star-karma (my first vote ever here).

I had an English translation of a song excerpt by Reinhard Mey for a time, then I ditched that.

I had a link to the Santharian Dream for a few years, as well as a link to the original Encyclopedia Ermariana since about August 03, which has since been replaced by the wiki link (still down there).

At some point, I probably had an excerpt from a Coleridge poem - either Kubla Khan (which, I have recently been informed, is apparently a sexual analogy) or The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.

As was a fad at the time on Spiderweb, random words in the poem excerpt (as well as the Mey translation mentioned earlier) served as link anchors to various websites like Polaris, Desp, the Encyclopedia, etc.

In mid-2005, I became a bit of a Lovecraft fan, which explains my current signature. The first is a quote from Lovecraft's story "Polaris" (chosen specifically for putting in a link to the Polaris forum), and the bit in the location bar (From vertiginous chasms...) is something I likely made up from components - I can't find the phrase exactly as it is anywhere.

For a time, I had various funny quotes by members (memorably, "Spiderweb is just a pool of estrogen" and TM's "if you trick someone into throwing a pie in your face..."), but I dropped that because it would have been too long.

For a while, I had some semblance of "Et eärello endorenna utulien..." (Aragorn's ceremonial words upon ascending the throne of Gondor in LotR) in my location field, and I had that until 2004, when I moved to Aachen and entered that in my location, which has now changed to the Cthulhu bit.

A few days ago I put in a link to the Pied Piper archives and the Grand Endeavor.

Edit - Old sig at that time:
quote:
"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey."


[ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 22:16: Message edited by: Nyarlathotep ]

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Name in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, February 23 2006 00:50 Profile Homepage #28
quote:
Originally written by Infernal666hate:

quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

quote:
Originally written by Infernal666hate:

Stupidest comment: "Efshar basar adam?" at a meat store in Israel. (I was learning hebrew back then, I got confused.)
I don't get it, and I assume I'm not the only one here who lacks Hebrew. Explanation please?
Efshar means is it possible, which is what is said when ordering, basar is meat, adam is man.
The word I was looking for was adom which means red. Or more accurately "Efshar bakar" which is cow meat.
In other words...

quote:
Do you serve manflesh here?
lol.

[ Thursday, February 23, 2006 00:50: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ]

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, February 23 2006 00:33 Profile Homepage #6
Well, they also tell you to use duct tape in the case of terrorist attacks. :P

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, February 23 2006 00:31 Profile Homepage #25
quote:
Originally written by Selima:

I completely forgot. One of the dumbest things I've ever said was right here in SW during the election thread "my accent has turned half American, half Dominican, and half something else I’m not quite sure of". Boy, it’s pathetic to look back upon some of the things I’ve written. Hell, I’m sure I’ll say the same thing a year from now when I read this.
If you have three halves of an accent, I wonder if people can still understand you. :P

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 22:53 Profile Homepage #7
Who else's? I didn't see another submission since then...

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The Conservative Shift in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 22:51 Profile Homepage #34
quote:
Originally written by Lenar Labs:

quote:
Originally written by Prometheus:

You poor, persecuted christian.

I'm having a fiddle concert tonight. No need to worry about the lighting.

We'll be serving freshly-fed lions for the main course.
Ooh! Ooh!
Liver!
Don't forget the liver!
But the eagle ate it...

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cats or dogs? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 21:16 Profile Homepage #15
I like cats as well. I've always wanted one, but my mother is allergic. Technically, I could get one now that I'm living by myself, but there is probably something in the regulations against keeping pets in the house here.

Also, the General forum has surpassed 10,000 posts around midnight GMT today, or a bit over six hours ago. It's topics like this that keep the board alive.

And that keep me slaving and panicking for the annual PPP, naturally. :P

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[PPP] The long-awaited search function in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 20:18 Profile Homepage #11
Thanks! :) As I said, I royally suck at Javascript.

I'll try to put this in and see if it works.

--

On another note, I've started - as a test run - to index a part of the posts in the General archive. It's as bad as I feared - the table will, in total, be about 200-300 MB large, and my database is limited to 200 MB in size. For now, it is in fact possible to search by full text or participant, with the following restrictions:

1. Only topics in General
2. Only topics archived in PPP3 - older archives don't work.

Edit: I also seem to be missing a few posts, randomly. My index says the archived copy of Runescape ought to have 405 posts, but when entering the posts into the database, I can only find 397 of them.

Ah well. It works. In a very rough, incomplete sense.

[ Wednesday, February 22, 2006 20:59: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ]

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cats or dogs? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 20:01 Profile Homepage #9
quote:
Originally written by Uc:

This poll is actually a step up. It's not relevant to anything instead of being relevant to somewhere else.
Yes. Keep trying, you'll be making good General topics any day now. Just brush up on that spelling and work on your non-seqiturs.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 19:56 Profile Homepage #2
If you could feel an earthquake that occurred in Mozambique, chances would be that the world just broke apart over there. :rolleyes:

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Thurly Fairy, Fairly Thuryl in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 19:49 Profile Homepage #4
quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

Perhaps it has something to do with Thuryl's imminent postcount of 6666...
It would be a very odd coincidence. As I said, the main factor is someone's deteriorating health...

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 19:44 Profile Homepage #5
I like eating kittens.

No, that was a joke, actually. I'd never hurt a kitten in my life!

I also like puppies.

Yum.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 19:37 Profile Homepage #2
His health seems to be deteriorating, so I guess it won't be far off...

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 07:37 Profile Homepage #20
I played it for half an hour. It seemed a bit like a cross between Diablo and Exile. By which I mean the plot depth of Diablo implemented with the graphic quality of Exile...

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 07:19 Profile Homepage #18
quote:
Originally written by The Lurker:

Homeland : The Stone of Night
The question whether it is a Spiderweb game is open to argument, but overshadowed by the question if it is a game or a weapon banned under various international treaties.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 07:08 Profile Homepage #47
As a point of interest, here are my replies to both topics (Kel's back in 2004, and Marlenny's now), in contrast, with witty commentary thrown in for good measure.

Age:

1. 16
2. I am now 18 years, 8 months, 6 days and a few hours old.

(The only quality that one gains without failure, strain or tears as one grows older is... age.)

Gender:

1. Male
2. Male

(we see a stunning personal development here)

Orientation:

1. Heterosexual
2. I like hugging trees. And girls.

(I have grown more outspoken...)

Marital Status:

1. Single
2. Eternally single.

(...and more pessimistic.)

Current Education:

1. High School, Senior for 3 more months!
2. Highschool

(in the first answer, I actually gave an education I hadn't completed yet, unlike this time)

City:

1. Duisburg, Germany
2. Aachen, where it either rains or the bells are ringing.

(and if you have seen either one of the cities, even without seeing the other, you will agree that this is an improvement.)

Racial/Ethnic Origin:

1. Mhh. Hard to say really. I'm caucasian, but I don't know even where all my grandparents came from.
2. Mostly German, part Schlesian.

(I didn't like the word caucasian then, but I like it less now.)

Nationality:

1. American/German
2. German/United States of America

(Note the order. Between these lay the 2004 US election. Enough said.)

First Language:

1. German
2. German

(although I speak English a whole lot better now than then)

Religion:

1. Protestant
2. Baptized and confirmed protestant, but really atheist/agnostic humanist.

(With maturity comes the questioning of one's belief)

How long you've been a Spiderwebber:
1.

I got Exile III on a shareware CD. Must have been early 2001, or before then. I visited the site in Summer 2001 and got BoE. I also think I strayed on the board one time, and fled (after seeing misc).
Actively, I've joined this forum early last year because of a technical question. If A3 ran on NT, I would now be the unhappiest person in the world for not finding this place. Or the happiest? :P

2. 2 years, 10 months and ten days, going by the board, and about 5 years going by the games.

(and if that teaches you anything, it is that over the past two years I have become less verbose)

Lastly...

Whether or not you're a septuagenarian eskimo:

1. Neither.
2. Neither.

(And I did not look up my earlier answer for this. So really, at heart, I have stayed just the same - I am still not a septugenarian eskimo.)

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Exit Strategy (Realized) in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 06:01 Profile Homepage #88
quote:
Originally written by Selima:

Or at least Aran
I'm less of an oldbie than I might come across, and everything related to the "Old Guard" (Saunders, Drakey, Khoth, Arctic, and Desperance as well) predates me by far...

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 05:28 Profile Homepage #45
Could we change the subject? I feel a lock coming on - or worse, a lock preceded by pictures.

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java/byte/verify in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 04:23 Profile Homepage #22
quote:
Originally written by Good ol' Eagle:

If you pay the company distributing your browser, you should be able to find out about requirements and such, e.g. what OS you need.
If you would pay to find out these requirements, then I have a bridge to sell you. Going very cheap. Extra for being told where it is. :)

[ Wednesday, February 22, 2006 05:31: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ]

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From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 03:52 Profile Homepage #15
quote:
Originally written by Lady Davida:

It's kind of amusing to watch Aran's reponse. I'm picturing Salmon asking the question and Aran kind of pulling his chin down and grunting "yes" as unintelligibly as possible...
Well, to answer otherwise would be disingenuous of me.

However, if we're really going to go after the definition of "is":

Is the influence someone's belief have on his politics not a part of said belief? I don't think you can separate church and state without believing in the necessity of the separation of church and state. And believing in that necessity would form a very fundamental tenet in your personal idea of religion. If someone followed a concept of religion that included the tenet of imposing one's belief on others, then based on that religion, I would have to vote against him or her.

Unless, of course, by religion you mean denomination. But on a scale of vagueness, that seems to me on par with defining one's personality by one's skin color.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 03:36 Profile Homepage #41
Ah, okay.

I've been interested in Quakerism myself, but aside from reading web articles about it, I am too uninformed to know whether it matches with what I believe.

The various quiz topics around here had me hovering somewhere between agnosticism, new age and universalism, though.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 02:56 Profile Homepage #15
It was meant to be a criticism that might have come out a bit more caustically than I intended.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 01:59 Profile Homepage #11
The mythological figure question seems to be the most revealing in the way of personality.

It's interesting that only one answer so far has not drawn on Greek culture. There's more out there, you know... even if I can't think of anything right now ( :P ).

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 01:55 Profile Homepage #12
You are almost managing to come across as a pseudo-expert, but the last bit of nonsense gives it away. The Spybot worm is in no way related to the anti-spyware tool.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 01:12 Profile Homepage #2
I've had that happen a few times without knowing what exactly caused it. It might have been "<" and ">" signs (I've just posted them here without trouble though). If they don't work, try & lt ; and & gt ; without the spaces, that results in <>.

It might also happen when you use quote tags strangely.

[ Wednesday, February 22, 2006 01:14: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ]

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