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The Abominal Desktop Thread Continued: A New Abomination in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Sunday, November 25 2007 01:03 Profile Homepage #4
convert -scale 500x directly on the server, over SSH. It's quicker than using Gimp and uploading two files.

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The Continuing Story of Spiderweb Software in General
Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, November 24 2007 23:44 Profile Homepage #48
I've met people I knew online. But we were a smaller and more tight-knit community, with older members and a very defined goal. When we ran out of other things to say, we just began discussing stories, fictional biographies, etc.

We also had an agenda of places and events we were going to visit, so we didn't end up sitting around awkwardly. It worked very well.

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The Abominal Desktop Thread Continued: A New Abomination in General
Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, November 24 2007 23:35 Profile Homepage #2
I have also switched to a photograph.


IMAGE(http://stuff.ermarian.net/arancaytar/images/desktop/desktop-2007-11-25-s.jpg)


This is Niedernberg, Bavaria.

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Endeavour in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, November 24 2007 15:57 Profile Homepage #2
It's accurate. Any discrepancy you may see is merely a maladjustment of reality. Or, as is more likely, the delay of the updates.

Seriously though, what discrepancies?

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The Continuing Story of Spiderweb Software in General
Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, November 24 2007 03:00 Profile Homepage #41
I get Zeviz, but what do Andra and Diki have against each other? :P

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Webcomics in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, November 23 2007 17:48 Profile Homepage #3
Funny, PostNuke is also a content management system. I read three of those listed. But those three aren't as good as some of the other ones I read:

- XKCD. FFS, this should be at the top of every webcomic list.

- Girl Genius - lots of Steampunk and Mad Science
- Questionable Content
- Dominic Deegan, Oracle for Hire
- Sinfest
- Decorum
- LinT
- Dungeon Crawl Inc.
- Scary Go Round

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FAQ Update: Who CAN and CANNOT post in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, November 23 2007 16:33 Profile Homepage #11
Cheeky Bloke here. What's the verdict?

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The Continuing Story of Spiderweb Software in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, November 23 2007 07:20 Profile Homepage #23
opus is a work. RiB should be described by a different tense, which would probably be something like "that which will be a work". But my Latin is lacking.

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Stuffing into Small Places? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, November 23 2007 01:55 Profile Homepage #64
Our largest pizzas are about 36 centimeters. :P

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Stuffing into Small Places? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, November 23 2007 01:01 Profile Homepage #62
quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

No, but I did eat a whole pizza once.
That sounds... impressive.

I don't think I've ever eaten less than a whole pizza when I've eaten one at all - unless I was sharing with someone, and then we had something else too.

What kind of pizzas do they have in America to make this a feat?

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Wow!! in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, November 22 2007 16:46 Profile Homepage #26
I got to the Improbability Drive without help, but had to pretty much follow the instructions of the walkthrough to the letter for the rest of it.

Ah, the days spent with the babelfish dispenser... joyous memories.

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12000 in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, November 22 2007 16:25 Profile Homepage #4
These stats are still available at http://endeavor.ermarian.net .

I even lifted the moratorium on the post ranking some time ago. Only the monthly summaries are gone, partly because meta-spam is disgusting and partly because it was the most work-intensive part of maintaining the site. Other than that, it requires about 10 minutes of attention per month.

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The Continuing Story of Spiderweb Software in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, November 22 2007 14:24 Profile Homepage #19
1. Dikiyoba, Ephesos or Alorael. But honestly I would prefer a real convention with everybody over a meeting between two members.

2. Firstly, a magnum opus is a grand work, a masterpiece. I suppose that with "who" you are asking for the most prominent member.

But personality cults are worthless. I'll list several persons who I think are contributing or have contributed a lot to the community (which includes the satellites, and thus people banned here): Kel and TM are likely the best scenario designers around, Alec writes astute if impassioned political commentary, TGM makes graphics, Nikki writes great poems (on Shadow Vale though - we really should have another poetry thread here), Ephesos, Premonition, Sir David, Dikiyoba, Nazgul, Dintiradan, Frozen Feet and others have produced awesome roleplays. The list isn't done yet.

3. Only when I'm around to see it. Of late, I've been kept up to date by the RSS feed and complaints over AIM and, so the stuff I read is mostly what needs mod action or is interesting.

4. That would be Embers of Rebellion.

5. I couldn't get A3 to start in 2003. Then I just stuck around.

6. Polaris, Shadow Vale, and I lurk at Desp.

7. Dikiyoba. Ephesos could get another modship, too.

8. Six degrees east and forty-two degrees north, very roughly. I speak ze German, but I speak also ze English whole well.

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Wow!! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, November 21 2007 16:13 Profile Homepage #6
quote:
Originally written by The Iffy Muffin who...does stuff...:

And anyway, the turtles weren't here at the beginning.
Beginning of SW and the Blades community, no. Beginning of the UBB, pretty close from what I heard. Attributed to saunders from an AIM chat way back when.

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Stuffing into Small Places? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, November 21 2007 07:18 Profile Homepage #37
quote:
Originally written by LakiRa@:

Since when are French only Europians?There are others too.
Unless you count the French colonies (which afaik are all independent now?) there are no French people who are not Europeans. Even if you're an immigrant in France, that means you are also an immigrant in Europe.

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Stuffing into Small Places? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, November 20 2007 17:29 Profile Homepage #25
quote:
Originally written by The Ratt:

Anyway, speaking of culturual stuff, aren't europeans hairy?
Dunno. I stopped shaving over a month ago and my beard is pretty pitiful.

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May the Sun be with you. in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, November 20 2007 16:28 Profile Homepage #5
Apparently a low postcount combined with a topic nobody has heard about combines in the mind to set off a powerful spam vibe. Amusingly, this has also set off a mental filter that refuses to recognize the original post as the flawless English (but for one typo and one or two idiomatic slips) it was.

I am slightly irked. This is a topic about a game in the General forum of a discussion board about games. It was started by a human who did not register to start this topic. It plugs a non-commercial fan-owned discussion board that from its size clearly does not depend on being advertised here.

In short, it is a more useful contribution to this forum than any number of other topics here. The same cannot be said about the responses. Seriously.

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The next level in RP, personal thoughts. in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, November 20 2007 15:39 Profile Homepage #47
quote:
Originally written by Najosz Thjsza Kjras:

If anyone is interested, we can resurrect Reloaded. After the beginning of December, I've got a good, solid month in which I have little to nothing better to do.
Unfortunately, that counts me out. This time, when I say I'm leaving for half a year, I'm not even kidding. Thesis.

I didn't play a big part though, so that shouldn't affect things too badly.

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Stuffing into Small Places? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 19 2007 09:52 Profile Homepage #12
quote:
Originally written by Funkadelic:

quote:
Originally written by Safey:

On a trip to the Britain I once say a girl (about 14 to 15) fit into a dryer.
Yeah, we have to cram ourselves into dryers once a week, lest we forget how to do it.
That's "we" as in "all Brits"? Because if yes, you people are even odder than I've always thought. :P

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Why Mactintosh in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 19 2007 08:46 Profile Homepage #10
quote:
Originally written by Leapin' Trout:

From your name I take it you've played mostly Geneforge
You need to look at the name? ;)

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Gleep! in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, November 17 2007 13:33 Profile Homepage #10
quote:
Originally written by Rowen:

IMAGE(http://media.funlol.com/content/img/flying-turtle.jpg)
Now consider the tortoise and the eagle.

The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. Its horizons are a few inches away. It has about as good a turn of speed as you need to hunt down a lettuce. It has survived while the rest of evolution flowed past it by being, on the whole, no threat to anyone and too much trouble to eat.

And then there is the eagle. A creature of the air and high places, whose horizons go all the way to the edge of the world. Eyesight keen enough to spot the rustle of some small and squeaky creature half a mile away. All power, all control. Lightning death on wings. Talons and claws enough to make a meal of anything smaller than it is and at least take a hurried snack out of anything bigger.

And yet the eagle will sit for hours on the crag and survey the kingdoms of the world until it spots a distant movement and then it will focus, focus, focus on the small shell wobbling among the bushes down there on the desert. And it will leap...

And a minute later the tortoise finds the world dropping away from it. And it sees the world for the first time, no longer one inch from the ground but five hundred feet above it, and it thinks: what a great friend I have in the eagle.

And then the eagle lets go.

And almost always the tortoise plunges to its death. Everyone knows what the tortoise does this. Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. No one knows why the eagle does this. There's good eating on a tortoise but, considering the effort involved, there's much better eating on practically anything else. It's simply the delight of eagles to torment tortoises.

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

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Pratchett is awesome.

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Help make Geneforge/Avernum XFire supported! in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, November 17 2007 03:29 Profile Homepage #6
So it's basically a kind of spyware that acts with your knowledge and consent. Like last.fm, say. ;)

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Call of Cthulhu in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, November 17 2007 03:26 Profile Homepage #9
Lo, you may mock the Great One, yet Summer follows Winter, and Winter follows Summer, and there shall come a day when the Cycles are renewed and HE SHALL RISE and his kingdom shall COVER THE EARTH, and your laughter will cease when he comes around to EAT YOUR HEAD. IÄ! IÄ!

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(I think after reading so much fundie-babble, I'm entitled to some parody.)

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I'm Curious in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, November 16 2007 21:14 Profile Homepage #14
quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

The only holiday that appeals to me is Thanksgiving, since it isn't pagan or worldly.
... or Christian, for that matter.

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