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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 14 2007 03:10 Profile Homepage #80
It is part of a name Nija had when he first arrived here. He has since changed it and wants us to address him by the new name.

I cannot think of any case in which someone had success doing that. People learned to live with their community names or waited until enough newbies were there and calling them by their new name that it changed on its own.

Nija is not even a particularly derogative or ill-sounding name, so there's no good reason.

As good reasons go, I do remember that on another board a guy called John* came back after some time of absence and asked to be addressed as Sarah* from now on. Which we did without commenting, and that was that.

*Names changed.

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Sanity pile near door in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 14 2007 00:18 Profile Homepage #25
Dude, why would you cast magic missile? There's nothing to attack here!

(Bandwagons are lovely.)

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Testing in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 14 2007 00:09 Profile Homepage #6
Tricking inquisitive mods is unwise.

Hey Stareye, I found an amazing webcomic you ought to enjoy.

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Thankgiving Census in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, October 13 2007 21:53 Profile Homepage #22
Ha ha I'm from Europe and laugh elitistically at your silly Yankee customs.

So, no turkey.

[ Saturday, October 13, 2007 21:55: Message edited by: root ]

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After getting passed over for the internet in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, October 13 2007 21:48 Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Originally written by Ming:

quote:
Originally written by Lt. Sullust:

Towards the end of his political career Arafat worked hard to end the turmoil in that region...
And that worked out so well. :P
In politics, spontaneous organ failure is just a symptom of too much achievement.

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Good for Al. I still partially blame him for not making a better effort (along with Kerry) and sparing us nearly a decade of crap, but you can't argue with Fox+Diebold. And what he's doing about the environment now is good, even if it may not be very effective.

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Goodbye! Goodbye for... a while! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, October 13 2007 21:31 Profile Homepage #22
I swear, another week of this and my brain will somehow spontaneously evolve a wi-fi adapter just out of withdrawal symptoms.

Good to see you all. Got to go this evening. Hope I'll be back in a while.

Salmon, haha. Arden/Nija/whatever you want to be called, haha, no. Laz, isn't that like assimilating the Borg? Riibu, *huggles*. Randomizer, unfortunately Octoberfest is a long way from where I am in Bavaria (and in defiance of the stereotype, I actually hate beer). Nikki, I tried it before but I didn't leave civilization as we know it (ie. broadband) behind for the wild jungles of Bavaria.

(Crap, there's a lynch mob in lederhosen at the door.)

Andra, I posted a bit on XKCD, though I now haunt the forum of Decorum more actively.

*zips off to catch up with a week of threads and comics and emails*

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, October 13 2007 21:06 Profile Homepage #77
Like "Iffy".

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The Political Compass (Armed and Dangerous) in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, October 13 2007 20:58 Profile Homepage #52
I was actually using my free time during my absence to whip up a rudimentary census tool for exactly this. Regression and correlation went by on Wednesday afternoon, and I wanted some data to screw around with.

quote:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.08
Mh. I'm slipping - I had a solid -10.0 on the social scale last time I took this.

Batches of cookies to the person with the free time to go through our archived PC topics and graph the movements of people over time. I can't do it for another week at least.

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...and again. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, October 13 2007 20:48 Profile Homepage #10
quote:
Originally written by Starman1985:

Now I couldn't check myself because my girlfriend in the nearby room would get pissed off, but do you really have porn in your signature?
That's what we would like you to think. Come to Polaris - we don't bite.

We just nibble. The bananas and hamsters, now, that's a different story.

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Goodbye! Goodbye for... a while! in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 7 2007 07:25 Profile Homepage #0
My posting rate has dropped to about one per day this month. I'm in the middle of a lot of things, and this will only get worse over the next half year. But that is all still to come.

Closer ahead: A few weeks ago I was in Bavaria for a while for a course in statistics, and I'm going there for two more weeks now. The difference is that this time I won't have any internet, so you won't see me around for most of October.

After that, I'll be back, but I probably won't have as much free time.

I leave you all with a pretty non-Terragen sunset.

IMAGE(http://stuff.ermarian.net/arancaytar/images/sunsets/niedernberg-s.jpg)

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Goodbye! Goodbye for... a while! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 7 2007 07:25 Profile Homepage #0
(Edit: If a helpful BoA mod would be so kind as to move this to General, that'd be great. I don't know how I could misclick this badly.)

My posting rate has dropped to about one per day this month. I'm in the middle of a lot of things, and this will only get worse over the next half year. But that is all still to come.

Closer ahead: A few weeks ago I was in Bavaria for a while for a course in statistics, and I'm going there for two more weeks now. The difference is that this time I won't have any internet, so you won't see me around for most of October.

After that, I'll be back, but I probably won't have as much free time.

I leave you all with a pretty non-Terragen sunset.

IMAGE(http://stuff.ermarian.net/arancaytar/images/sunsets/niedernberg-s.jpg)

[ Sunday, October 07, 2007 07:49: Message edited by: root ]

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Goodbye! Goodbye for... a while! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 7 2007 07:25 Profile Homepage #0
(Edit: If a helpful BoA mod would be so kind as to move this to General, that'd be great. I don't know how I could misclick this badly.)

My posting rate has dropped to about one per day this month. I'm in the middle of a lot of things, and this will only get worse over the next half year. But that is all still to come.

Closer ahead: A few weeks ago I was in Bavaria for a while for a course in statistics, and I'm going there for two more weeks now. The difference is that this time I won't have any internet, so you won't see me around for most of October.

After that, I'll be back, but I probably won't have as much free time.

I leave you all with a pretty non-Terragen sunset.

IMAGE(http://stuff.ermarian.net/arancaytar/images/sunsets/niedernberg-s.jpg)

[ Sunday, October 07, 2007 07:49: Message edited by: root ]

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Sputnik in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 7 2007 07:05 Profile Homepage #47
And I submitted a theory for what shift he wanted us to make, which may or may not be accurate. :)

[ Sunday, October 07, 2007 07:07: Message edited by: root ]

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Does life imitate art? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 7 2007 06:49 Profile Homepage #14
No, now all we need is Dikiyoba writing in her script about Alec returning to denounce this travesty.

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 7 2007 06:45 Profile Homepage #45
I'm not sure if this is what Synergy is referring to with these, ah, "new age buzzwords", but in my opinion one of the greatest shifts in thinking would be related to national identity.

Our communication networks and economies are increasingly entwined and codependent. Couple that with the dwindling resources and overpopulation, which forces us to become more efficient and cooperative. This means that eventually we will have to stop being citizens of a nation and start acting as citizens of a planet.

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Beta Readers Wanted: Apply Within in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 7 2007 01:32 Profile Homepage #13
quote:
Originally written by zhirzzh:

Count me in. I need to finish Waiting for Godot though, so I can't read it this weekend.
A fun weekend, that.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, October 7 2007 01:07 Profile Homepage #42
quote:
Originally written by Starman1985:

We could probably break the cycle if humans would unite under one race/flag/country/something related.
Au sub unu lingvon? ;)

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, October 6 2007 16:01 Profile Homepage #3
Didn't we discuss this back in March? Something about Ouroborous?

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Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, October 6 2007 15:53 Profile Homepage #179
quote:
What makes you think flirting has anything to do with making the other person like you?
Words of wisdom there...

Also, wtf? I lie to Nicothodes and sic her on Nikki? What kind of mod or mostly non-evil character am I supposed to be anyway?

[ Saturday, October 06, 2007 15:54: Message edited by: root ]

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Sputnik in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, October 6 2007 02:57 Profile Homepage #37
I agree with Zeviz.

Really I find it bewildering that technological progress is treated like something evil (or even something good). We can't decide not to invent, just as single-cellular organisms can't decide not to evolve. Regretting that our ancestors didn't have to worry about global warming isn't just wrong because on the other hand we don't have to worry about smallpox or plague. It's also as futile as wishing our childhood back.

I do not say scientists need not show great responsibility with the impact of their inventions, or that a lot of evil couldn't have been avoided that way (see nuclear warheads). But we can't stop or go backwards; we can only steer.

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, October 5 2007 14:20 Profile Homepage #23
Sounds East European. Google seems to think it's Serbian.

[ Friday, October 05, 2007 14:21: Message edited by: root ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 5 2007 04:48 Profile Homepage #11
More's the pity.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, October 5 2007 02:23 Profile Homepage #8
Meh. Frying-pan/fire comparisons don't apply to this. Firstly, the end of the cold war didn't cause the beginning of the war on terrorism - it's good that the former ended, regardless of what came after.

Secondly, the war on terrorism is essentially a personal crusade combined with a desperate need for a nationalist cause. Leave out the rhetoric about hating freedom and killing Western civilization for a moment. If US-made weapons and money stopped being delivered to every third-rate warlord who happens to be fighting a common enemy at the time, we would see things slow down very quickly. (Including the US war industry, of course, so this is unlikely.) This "war" is not so much against a real opponent (like the USSR) as against an inflatable sock puppet.

[ Friday, October 05, 2007 02:24: Message edited by: root ]

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SpidWeb Boards.. in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, October 4 2007 13:24 Profile Homepage #22
quote:
Originally written by There is no Joker here but me.:

I don't think a single post except yours has said anything of the sort yet. Only that there _may_ _Potentially_ be _somewere_ a better system or _maybe_ something _could_ be done to possibly _alter_ the way things ran here. No-one expressed discontent over the way this place runs.
That's because it doesn't need to be stated. This forum crashes about twice a year. Members have randomly lost their accounts, threads have vanished. It is often slow, returns errors, or does weird things nobody can explain.

UBB 6 has all the elegance of a Borg cube and all the rationality of a mad elder god. That's why I like to call it UBB'Nigurath.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, October 4 2007 05:39 Profile Homepage #6
Yes, I agree! Jeff should totally start opening up those PHP and Perl scripts and mess around with an application that already works like crap in a language he might never have used before to add features we've coped without for six years.

[ Thursday, October 04, 2007 05:40: Message edited by: root ]

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