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It is that time of the month again in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, June 15 2005 04:56 Profile Homepage #0
Actually, it isn't yet; not for another 2 days. But my schedule is very tight right now, so I need to do it a little earlier.

If you're new to this, here's how it works: Each month (around the 17th), I use a script to list all postcounts here. Then, I find the differences to last month, calculate some averages, and make a Top Ten list. :)

A warm welcome to the 147 new members who have registered (5 per day), especially to the 91 of you who posted. Together with the 232 older members who posted, this brings our active community core to 325, from last months 262! 325 is still not quite the number we had two months ago, but the boards seem to have recovered from the small hiatus in April.

On with the other numbers. A total of 7267 posts have been made since the last count (251 per day), as opposed to last month's 4723. With a daily mean of 251 posts, this is the highest yet!

Also, the average per member is now 22.4, which is higher than the last two months. So not only have more people registered and more people posted, each member has been more active as well.

Altogether, this means .77 per member per day.

Finally, here go the highscores!

1. 5437 Dolphin (+371)2. 869 Thuryl (+338)3. 4614 Ben (+337)4. 3431 Student of Trinity (+284)5. 4045 Kelandon (+275)6. 5450 Spring (+272)7. 4 Terror's Martyr (+198)8. 4506 Archmage Micael (+190)9. 2984 Arancaytar (+179)10. 4233 Andrew Miller (+175)As usual, the complete list of active members can be found here.
Dolphin, who said she'd "made a conscious effort to cut back on the BS" ( :P ) has rocketed to number one, displacing Thuryl. Ben, former number 9, is now at third place, while Spring has dropped to 6th. I've dropped to 9th (a result of the increasing stress over here, as well as upcoming exams), and will be gone from the list entirely by next month (not the active member list though; after all, I posted this, which gives me at least one post in next month's count!). Alorael is off the stage at place 14. However, since Drakefyre posts even less, it will be some time yet before he loses his top poster position.
Special mention is given to Mystery Man, who has accomplished the impossible by losing 943 posts (not counting the ones between the last count and the board crash). For obvious reasons, this has been rectified in the total statistic.

[ Wednesday, June 15, 2005 05:16: Message edited by: 2984 ]

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"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperment, and his superior intellect." --- ben
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THE GREAT DEBATE, PART III in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 22:48 Profile Homepage #2
I have not much hope for this debate. I will watch what follows, however.

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"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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Annotated Maps Down in The Avernum Trilogy
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 22:40 Profile Homepage #2
I think I found another set of maps at http://www.wam.umd.edu/~kks/index.html .

But it's really a pity that site went down.

Edit: The maps only show the Fort Draco/Motrax area, Fort Avernum/Cotra and the Honeycomb/Mertis/Tower of Magi. Fortunately, all I needed was the Tower of Magi.

[ Tuesday, June 14, 2005 22:43: Message edited by: 2984 ]

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Books Being Made Into Movies in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 22:14 Profile Homepage #15
Hasn't that been done before?

I'd like to see GRR. Martin's "Ice and Fire" series as a movie.

Oh, and by the way, have you heard of that ridiculous adaptation of "Howl's Moving Castle"? After the trailer, I'm not going to see that. They don't even mention D.W. Jones as the book's author save for a tiny acknowledgement at the end of the credits. :rolleyes:

[ Tuesday, June 14, 2005 22:15: Message edited by: 2984 ]

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"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin
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Who is AM and TM? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 22:04 Profile Homepage #27
quote:
Originally written by Marlenny:

quote:
Originally written by Zeviz:

"The Tim thing" was an "event" about 3 years ago when half the people here decided that it would be cool to make their profiles look exactly the same (with the name "Tim"), causing a lot of confusion and irritation for the other half of the people.
That sounds so cool. I wish I would've been here for that.
We did a similar thing with Imban just under a year ago. Everyone suddenly changed their names to something with Imban. I think mine was "Imbancaytar".

Also, wasn't there another incident like this with the name "Mao"? I wasn't here then, but I've heard allusions to that...

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"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Who is AM and TM? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 21:59 Profile Homepage #26
quote:
Originally written by Zeviz:

Due to a UBB "feature", once you change your name, you can not get your old one back, because UBB still thinks that your old name is taken. I think it's a fair penalty for people who change their name too much. :)
I've changed my name to Arancaytar several times, and never had that happen to me. Same goes for others like Eferas Cirthain.

But my login name is also Arancaytar; perhaps that is the reason?

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
In only 139 days. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 21:57 Profile Homepage #29
quote:
Originally written by A Tail of Many Stripes:

Don't worry; making my post count match my member number is not my intention. I don't know how those thousand got there; it seems like a minute ago I was relieved to have gotten past the first 50, and no longer be a lowly apprentice.

Edit: BTW, Congratulation Aran :)
There was never a more fun time for me that the first thousand posts here. I remember it like yesterday, posting my thousandth post in that roleplay topic. Goodness, and now there are nearly two thousand more! :eek:

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"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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Family Guy!!!! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 21:53 Profile Homepage #4
I suppose US television is a thing to itself. As for me, I have never possessed a TV in my life. :P

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperment, and his superior intellect." --- ben
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Annotated Maps Down in The Avernum Trilogy
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 05:24 Profile Homepage #0
I just tried to view Silver's Annotated Maps of Avernum, and noticed that the server returns a 404. Does anyone else get this, and if yes, for how long has it been down? Are there any other versions of these maps online?

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How do we pronounce... in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 04:06 Profile Homepage #54
quote:
Originally written by Amitiel:

Certainly, Aran, if you wish to talk in an upper English accent, then by all means use WOO-ster-sher, but for most of the common dialects, it is drawled into Wuss, for the first syllable. It's like Warrick. It really isn't easy to get, unless you hear it.
Learning something new every day... until now, I'd have pronounced the u in "wuss" like in "crush". ;)

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"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
A Picture is Worth... in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 04:00 Profile Homepage #17
But it's still far more symmetrical than it should be. This is partly due to that weird hair, and partly because of the "frontal mugshot" perspective.

Also, the face is disturbingly broad, which also makes it look pieced together. If I didn't know better, I'd say this were a police phantom picture assembled from a description, not a real photo.

Edit:

I hereby move that this picture be included in the unofficial list of pictures used to close threads, alongside Mango and William Thomas Fletcher. It certainly has the potential, no?

[ Tuesday, June 14, 2005 04:03: Message edited by: 2984 ]

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperment, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Have You Ever Used Alorael's Signature in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 00:43 Profile Homepage #82
quote:
Originally written by saunders:

There exists abuse which does not involve copyright.

I'm sure Alorael would be glad to show you, if you want to invite a demonstration.

^________________________^
"Violators will be Violated", eh? :P

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
What is yours favuorite in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 00:37 Profile Homepage #31
quote:
Originally written by Ash Lael:


Most the time I can't tell Riibu from Aran from Dolphin from Toenail from whoever.
Not sure what to make of that. All three would be favorable comparisons, but being mistaken for a girl...? Two, even?

Also, I would have you know that as of this post, I am an oldbie by the postcount > member# criterium. :)

[ Tuesday, June 14, 2005 00:38: Message edited by: Eferas Cirthain ]

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
A Picture is Worth... in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 19:50 Profile Homepage #14
quote:
Originally written by Smoked Salmon:

I know we all come across pictures from time to time that illustrate a concept far more eloquently than can be put in words. I saw this pictures the other day and after reading the accompanying article realized just how apt the picture was in this case.
IMAGE(http://news.bostonherald.com/images/localRegional/suspect06082005.jpg)
So I present it to you, sans description, in the sincere belief that even the most innocent among us will instinctively know the story behind the face.

If it happens that you can't imagine the real story, or want the verification, follow this link.
Isn't that the chainsaw killer?

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperment, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
In only 139 days. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 19:46 Profile Homepage #13
The ferret scares me. Keep it away from my trouser legs. :P

Edit: Postcount = member number. Yay!

[ Tuesday, June 14, 2005 00:40: Message edited by: Eferas Cirthain ]

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
What is yours favuorite in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 15:34 Profile Homepage #28
quote:
Originally written by demonslaeyr:

So is Dolphin, for reasons I'm not too sure of.
Couldn't be the photo? :P

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
In only 139 days. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 15:28 Profile Homepage #4
quote:
Originally written by Wise Trampling Frenzy:

You have to stay mundane, Aran. ;)
I wish. As in "a mundane title". Like "Guru" or "Your Postliness" or so. :P

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
How do we pronounce... in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 15:26 Profile Homepage #50
quote:
Originally written by SprungSpring:

I simply pronounce Worcestershire as 'War-cest-uh-shire'. Worcestershire is a place in the UK, is it not? I think its something like that.
I think the correct form is WOO-ster-sher (the 'OO' as in good, not in food). But I am far from an expert on British pronounciation.

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Websites for depressed people in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 15:18 Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Originally written by The Almighty Doer of Stuff:

That site appears to be nothing but sponsored links.
Spam! Now with anti-depressant additives! :rolleyes:

Edit: And, like Thuryl, I have to hand it to them; the apparent professional design kept me from realizing it was all ads at first. Pwned.

Edit2: The first link is slightly off; the link url is ".com.au", but the correct one is ".org.au" like in the anchor.

[ Monday, June 13, 2005 15:21: Message edited by: Eferas Cirthain ]

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
In only 139 days. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 15:12 Profile Homepage #2
What a nice picture! :)

Also, I seem to be getting close to another round number myself soon. I don't think 3000 triggers a new title, but that doesn't matter because I wouldn't get it anyhow. Gee thanks, Drakey...

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
What is yours favuorite in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 12:03 Profile Homepage #17
quote:
Originally written by Wise Trampling Frenzy:

It's spelled 'favourite'. :P
Can't believe I left you out of that list, Wise. Canadians rock. ;)

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperment, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
What's your sex? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 06:41 Profile Homepage #148
quote:
Originally written by Khoth:

quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

Not at all. Write a program to calculate the digits of pi. Store its output. Eventually you run out of places to store it, so you can't store the answer to an unlimited degree of precision even if there are no limits on your program's ability to keep on calculating.
You could compress the data quite well, though :P
Pi.

Compression into 2 letters! :D

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
What is yours favuorite in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 06:36 Profile Homepage #6
Too tricky to choose. I could list ten, but would not include even half those necessary. At random: Alorael, Thuryl, Motrax, Cavanoskus (absent), FZ (absent), Alec, Rosycat (also absent), Marlenny, Dolphin, Kelandon.

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperment, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
My New Forum in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 04:22 Profile Homepage #16
quote:
Originally written by JadeWolf:


I made it for 1 reason:
So there will be 4 forums about Spiderweb!

You meant 10^4, right?

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Just because :) in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 13 2005 04:20 Profile Homepage #25
Aix-la-Chapelle. Or Aquisgrán. Or Aquisgrana. Or Aken. A city with that many names can only be good news. :)

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"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." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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