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Recommended Reading in General
Law Bringer
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In keeping up my level of New World Order paranoia, I'm planning to read the Illuminatus trilogy as soon as I can get my hands on it. Hundred Years of Solitude was just recommended to me by my father; his recommendations are often somewhat dry but still fascinating to read, so I will. ;)

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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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You can drown plowing the fields or you can drown seeing the sights in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #25
quote:
Originally written by Lighter:

Making people "feel bad" is not going to change anything but how they view you. There is nothing in this world that can change people's innate selfishness and self-centeredness.
If you are skilled with language, "making people feel bad" is actually of benefit. Who would give a thought about the hundred thousand dead if it were not for the touching accounts of eyewitnesses? You cannot really empathize unless you can imagine the tragedy - and you cannot imagine a number.

Likewise, the busty blonde chick is reacted to by the barkeeper because it's one person. The Stalin quote is quite apt here: You cannot sympathize with a number. Even if you do sympathize, you do it by imagining individual persons in that crowd and sympathizing with their personal fates.

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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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Speculating about Avernum 4's plot in General
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #39
There aren't that many Avernites, and anyone who hasn't come up in the first settlement wave into what belonged to Karnold Province can't be that desperate to leave the caves. It's not like living space in Valorim is short in this day and age. So why would the Avernites want to colonize a new island?

Not that I wouldn't find it fascinating myself. I'd love my players to be part of a "pioneer" mission and secure new lands in preparation of a colony. I'd just want the storyline to hold water...

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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
New Year's Resolutions in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #41
So. Happy New Year from Europe now. 2005 is an hour and 20 minutes old already. :)

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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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New Year's Resolutions in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #38
And we're off! Happy new year to everyone in Australia and thereabouts. :D

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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
New Arena RP: The Empire Always Loses in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #2
Deep inside, I cry. When this topic goes unanswered for a whole day apart from a plug for a non-existant forum, then you know what the most noble art of Roleplay has come to on Spiderweb.

*marks off Creeper's dead board as number 7 this year* Or 8, lost count. Even more than last year.

I'd come to join (the new Arena that is, not the other one), but then again I'm extremely short for time these days. Pity about it.

[ Friday, December 31, 2004 08:40: Message edited by: By Path that seldom Mortal goes ]

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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
You can drown plowing the fields or you can drown seeing the sights in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #19
Does being a fundamental tenet of our society justify the trait?

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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
New Year's Resolutions in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #34
Unless, of course, the stars have nothing to do with it whatsoever.

New Year Resolutions...

Finish one of those numerous BoE/BoA scenario attempts still sittin on my hard drive. Read some new books again (almost no time in the last few months). And while we're talking about unattainable goals... start a roleplay on Spiderweb that actually comes to conclusion...

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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
You can drown plowing the fields or you can drown seeing the sights in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #4
Unbelievable. We have things like this going on on our planet, and people have nothing better to do than bash each other's heads in and argue whose God is better.

If the estimates are correct (and I see no reason to doubt that), then this earthquake has killed thirty times the number of people who died in the World Trade Center. Will people call this "a turning point in world history" or "the disaster of the century"? I wouldn't hold my breath.

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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
Sss-Thoss in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #4
Actually in Avernum 1 too. Perhaps obvious, but some things do get changed between the two series. This didnt.

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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
Favorite Fantasy Artist in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #3
Rafal Hrynkiewicz ("Faugar")

Holger Goebber ("Koldar Mondrakken")

Perkan ("Isilhir")

Wonderful, every single one of them. But there are more behind the Santharia link in my sig. :P

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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
Morality question in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #71
I'd turn it all the way around. This being a Milgram experiment, the 'victim' is obviously an actor who is not actually feeling any pain. You get money for cranking up a fake electric chair - no moral problems involved at all!

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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
hey ppl in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #70
Not long, trust me. :P

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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
Morality question in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #61
Shoot the bloody giraffe. You don't want it to kill someone in your family and get away with it.

I'm anti-Death Penalty normally, but that's for humans, not for evil magical animals. Kill em all.

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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
Morality question in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #55
quote:
Your mother is only 12 years older than you, still young.
Er...

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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
Naming Creations in Geneforge Series
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #71
What is Clomipramine?

Edit: This.

[ Tuesday, December 21, 2004 18:00: Message edited by: From Otherworld, Beyond the Sea ]

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Naming Creations in Geneforge
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #71
What is Clomipramine?

Edit: This.

[ Tuesday, December 21, 2004 18:00: Message edited by: From Otherworld, Beyond the Sea ]

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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
Morality question in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #42
How do you think you ended up in that situation, by thinking rationally? :P

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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
Naming Creations in Geneforge Series
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #66
I have named my thahds after anyone from former teachers to relatives to current and former US presidents.

They just look so stinking cool. And dumb, which is the point.

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Naming Creations in Geneforge
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #66
I have named my thahds after anyone from former teachers to relatives to current and former US presidents.

They just look so stinking cool. And dumb, which is the point.

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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
I AM TEH SPAMER in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #55
Also, you're number 34. Not 32. :P

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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
Avatars in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #24
That doesn't exactly qualify as 'fully clothed'. :P

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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
Morality question in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #28
What if he has the exact same thought, but decides to do it on one? :P

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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
Avatars in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #22
quote:
Originally written by qwd:

You mean I shouldn't be able to have an avatar with Yam Sthruss in it? :(
Not unless fully clothed and photographed from the front. We've got children here. :rolleyes:

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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
THE WORST MAN EVER: Round 1 in General
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
Profile Homepage #24
quote:
Originally written by The Absolut Sagacious stranger:

For example:
Alorael, Arancaytar and Wiseman would all be in one group,

That would be horribly unfair. I wouldn't stand a chance against the Sniper m—dash of doom and Wise Pwnage(TM).

Edit: Any chance of you posting the next battles, Alec?

[ Saturday, December 18, 2004 03:56: Message edited by: And crownd him wi' the Living Light ]

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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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