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| Displayed name | Arancaytar |
| Member number | 2984 |
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| Registered | Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 02:08
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You know him personally? This poll is basically senseless because the ranges are chosen badly. If you really wanted to have a meaningful result, you'd separate the 11-20 into more categories, or the eleven-years-old kids will be statistically identical with people who are in the middle of their university careers. :rolleyes: -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 15 2004 23:30
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The problem about this is that people most likely fail to see an edit from a member earlier on in the thread... :P [ Friday, July 16, 2004 23:21: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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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written Thursday, July 15 2004 13:11
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And what else does this tell us except that more than 75% are below 20 here? Edit: And about 20% lie about their age? [ Thursday, July 15, 2004 13:12: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 11:41
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Not for Mister TGM, he lives, afaik, in the same time zone as I do and we still have 11 pm over here... *realizes he just called him Mister The Great Mister, and hides in shame* :D Happy birthday. Kind of cheap of me to note it in my calendar and then forget to post... :) [ Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:42: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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 |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 11:35
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The problem is that, in the time around 300, it wasn't exactly safe to ask questions or to criticize. Also, the skill of writing wasn't very widely spread. That's why we don't know much about it. It's like waking up - with memory loss - from a long, long sleep and finding, beside your bed-side table, a book that you can barely decipher, a lot of which doesn't make sense. You don't know how the book got there or who wrote it. You suppose somebody wrote it while you were asleep, or before, but you can't remember anything. Are you prepared to read through it, take every single word you read at face value, and trust an author (or hordes of authors, editors, lectors and translators) that you have never seen, to know what is right for you? Only if you're pretty gullible. Are you going to refuse to touch it, or consider the possibility that in all that, there must be at least some stuff written by someone who knew what they were doing? Only if you're extremely close-minded. There's a middle way, you know. ;) -------------------- 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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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 11:18
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Hi Dracanis. Glad to see you here, after all... and thanks for the compliments. :D What you just saw is only the mild version of the way things go here at Spiderweb. Some months ago, I'd have told you to leave your sanity at the door, in old tradition. But I've come to think that if there's one thing we need more of in here, it's sanity. ;) -------------------- 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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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 08:39
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Please, cease this shouting. I know that on the web, shouting is represented by caps, but I can feel the flames all throughout your post, from the bold lettering to the bad grammar. I fear that any potential sense this discussion may have had shall soon be lost, if it has not already. For the record: We were having a discussion on whether or not parts of the bible may still be of use today, not whether or not the spiritual background holds any water (which it doesn't, not even a drop, imho). From the enraged mood in your post, you were obviously trying to argue against such a claim, so I just felt I had to point out that no such claim has been made. ;) -------------------- 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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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 04:20
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Ahem. I said in my post that *in spite* of being written that long ago, part of it has *developed* through retranslation. The development is slow and imperfect, but it gives a good cross view through what people thought *throughout* the last thousand years, not just thousand years *ago*. My argument is, as you stated, exactly that because of its slow development, we cannot use any of it in any literal sense, but a few of the ideas contained in it may - once interpreted and applied to modern times - transform to make a marginal amount of sense. You cannot treat it as a homogenous work, because it never was one. Parts of it are dated 2000 years ago, some more, some less than 500 years. You wouldn't say that because it is wrong in not tolerating other religions beside it, or having weird ideas on parental authority, it is also wrong in forbidding murder, would you? :P -------------------- 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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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 00:40
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quote:And I think that's what lies at the root of the problem in solving this argument... -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 00:22
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All religious works were written by humans, but there may be more to that. I think that after thousands of years of passing through human hands, minds, languages and cultures, the Bible and other holy works have become special texts. They carry thoughts and ideas that seemed good to people at the time when they were writing, translating and interpreting it. These ideas have been subject to scrutiny, retranslation and reinterpretation. Some good things have stayed, some parts have degenerated, others have been improved, and many bad parts of the original have remained. It is unlike other historical documents (such as cave paintings from the Stone Age, or speeches by Cicero, etc.), in that it is not 'permanent', unchanging. It has followed humanity more than any other documents in being constantly adapted to the languages and minds of the present. We might see it as the only piece of literature undergoing a form of Evolution (and wouldn't that be ironic?). Of course, in biological Evolution, transition and adaption is not instantaneous, nor perfect. Things take a long time to adapt, and many 'rudimentary' parts remain the same (for reasons unknown). Keep in mind that in the last 50 years we have developed more than in the last 500, in the last 200 years more than in the entire two thousand that have passed since the Bible is believed to have been written. How should a written text adapt as quickly as our minds, and our spoken culture does? Paper lasts longer than humans... It is important not to forget what people then felt was right and just, but we must not let it rule our lives. We cannot forget our roots (or we would be living from hand to mouth, without civilization), but we must not attempt to live in the past. The Bible contains some good ideas, but not even half of it should be taken seriously at all, and less than a tenth, if anything at all, should be taken literally. The world has moved on, and trying to stop or reverse cultural progress is like trying to stop a train by standing in front of it. And just as sensible. :) [ Wednesday, July 14, 2004 00:29: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, July 13 2004 23:45
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quote:TM made a joke. As always. :rolleyes: [ Tuesday, July 13, 2004 23:46: Message edited by: Elder Aranea ] -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, July 13 2004 06:39
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There are some questions that are tough to answer. For example, I can lie quite convincingly, but I rarely do it anyway. I've been feeling down a lot recently, but only due to stress. Well, and horoscopes? I read them, for amusement. They usually fit pretty well, but I can't say I seriously believe them... Depending on those, it gets me alternatively into third level, Dis or Malebolge. :P -------------------- 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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written Monday, July 12 2004 03:07
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Dragons are cool! Of course they need to be arrogant, to match up against the egos of adventurers nowadays. If dragons were 20 meters long, ferocious, fire-breathing, deadly, unbelievably powerful, humble little lizards, who would respect them? They need to have an ego to go with all that power... :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, July 12 2004 01:15
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We do have record of 'Huge' Sliths, who are over 3 meters tall or so. Assuming that the growth rate decreases with age, very old Sliths would be a bit taller than younger ones. Perhaps there maximal height is limited by their lifespan, and most sliths we see are below 60 or so (maybe because they get slain in battle so frequently). Therefore most 'normal' sliths would be as tall as(or slightly taller than) humans, while the 'bosses' - like Thss-Sss - have lived longer and are accordingly larger... :) -------------------- 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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written Monday, July 12 2004 00:56
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That comes as a relief. It means that once I have the alternative menu in place, I don't have to make any changes to the original menu apart from adding a link for switching to the other menu. (If it crashed on loading, I'd have to take the original menu apart too, since it would be too late to switch to the other. ;) ) -------------------- 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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written Sunday, July 11 2004 11:31
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By "doesn't work at all" do you mean clicking the buttons doesn't do anything, or that the browser crashes when loading the page? I'm working on an alternative menu right now. :) -------------------- 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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written Sunday, July 11 2004 04:53
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Since it appears to be common practice to plug Spidweb-related sites here ( :P ), I just wanted to stop by to announce that the Encyclopedia Ermariana has recently been updated. Since quite a lot of people so far have complained about a horrible navigation on the site, I've at last changed the menu to have smaller buttons and be more overseeable in other ways. :) Since the new menu relies heavily on Javascript, you will either have to enable it or wait a few days for the new Javascript-free menu. Also, I've been told that Mozilla can't handle some of the script. I don't know what the reason is, since there appeared to be some parts that worked and others which didn't. If it doesn't work on your browser and you don't have access to an alternative one like Opera, you will also have to wait a few days for the alternative menu.  [ Sunday, July 11, 2004 04:56: Message edited by: Elder Aranea ] -------------------- 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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written Saturday, July 10 2004 22:07
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Well, they and dragons are obviously reptiles since they hatch from eggs. Dragons seem to shed scales as well (you find one of those in the Roach Pit in Exile III). Naturally, Dragons grow quite a bit more than Sliths to reach their full size - and legend has it they never cease growing. Sliths would need to shed their skins less often, I think, and only in their childhood, when they aren't fully grown yet. -------------------- 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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written Saturday, July 10 2004 12:57
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About the territory marking: The nephilim have a tribal culture, right? Wouldn't this sort of... defeat the purpose of any marks? I mean, cats put marks because they live by themselves and each have their own territory. Whereas Nephilim live closely together, where the option of staking a personal 'claim' is near impossible... Hairballs and fur-licking: I can imagine a Nephil licking his fur clean... it's a weird picture, but what speaks against it? ;) -------------------- 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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written Friday, July 9 2004 12:48
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And if you spelled Vahnatai right, your argument would be even sounder.  Mh. I look forward to Jeff's work with anticipation. Mostly because I have some issues with the Arena's idea of Ermarian's history (should I really go into them now? they mostly involve anachronisms, cliches and my intense loathing for the mingling of fantasy and sci-fi). If Jeff were to make a canon history, I'd prefer that to what Desp has done. -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, July 9 2004 12:23
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Read more thoroughly TM. Rosy said "like you and me". Doodoo then implied that his own preference involved pepsi bottles; therefore Rosy revised the statement to exclude him (have you seen a Nephil use a pepsi bottle?!). The meaning of "like me" is obvious in the context. :rolleyes: [ Friday, July 09, 2004 12:24: Message edited by: Arachnophobia ] -------------------- 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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written Thursday, July 8 2004 16:10
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Alorael double-posted! :eek: This is a sad day in the history of the Spiderweb boards... also since there cannot now be a claim that every single of those 7762 posts contains a different signature. :P And whoever has assassinated Jeff and taken over his identity? He'll make Avernum 4 and "mend bridges with the BoE community?" Has hell frozen over? This is getting creepy... [ Thursday, July 08, 2004 16:12: Message edited by: Arachnophobia ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 7 2004 04:47
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That page mentions someone called OMGWTFBBQ... I've heard that before somewhere. Is it a widespread acronym, thus that several people might use it as a moniker? And does it stand for Oh My God What the F* Barbecue, or something else? -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, July 6 2004 15:06
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:eek: That's the nastiest, coolest, funniest, most stylish scam I've EVER SEEN! Next to that, anything I might manage to do to Mr. Masari dwindles into irrelevance... I've seen some other 'scammer-scams', where the scam victim managed to actually swindle the scammer out of 50 $ for a bail, because the victim supposedly ended up in prison for trying to vandalize windmills with a lance, while on horseback in full armor... :D -------------------- 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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Doesn't deleting the .dat file unregister the game (assuming the game is registered)? Or am I being stupid? -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |