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Harry Potter *WITH SPOILERS* in General
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But the idea of the series is, of course, that how you start out is less important than where you end up (see also Dumbledore, Snape).

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Happy Birthday.... in General
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A namespace collision, in other words.

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Harry Potter *WITH SPOILERS* in General
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Yes, because clearly a self-styled Dark Lord who talks to snakes and kills babies must be a reference to Jesus. How could I have missed all the parallels? :)

Edit: Frankly, if anything the seventh book had a bit too much Christian allegory. What the - the protagonist sacrifices himself and returns from death?

Yes, I know. I Have Been Trolled.

[ Saturday, July 28, 2007 12:48: Message edited by: jg.faust ]

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
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Harry Potter *WITH SPOILERS* in General
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quote:
Originally written by Suspicious Vlish:

Spidweb:
quote:

I think that Rowling should have just let the other shoe drop and called the book Harry Potter and the Painfully Technical Argument About Wand Ownership.

That was how you wanted the final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort to go down? Really? Well, you're the billionaire.

- Jeff Vogel

Agreed. I find the plot from Avernum 4 easier to swallow than Rowling's tripe, and that's saying something.

Oooh. Burned. :P

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments.
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The 24 Hour Contest in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

http://forum.nethergate.net/index.php?showtopic=323&pid=11222&st=0&#entry11222

... unless he's saying that he's going to do a different idea.

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"I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
- Steven Wright

Er, nope. Really, I have to live sometimes, and even if I were able to do it time-wise (it'd be my second completed scenario; I'm a BoA noob), or the plot was good (unfortunately, the problem with ideas hatched at 3 AM is that they no longer work on the next morning), stuffing my schedule is only going to give me more sleep deprivation.

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
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Alread a Real Lives game in General
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quote:
Originally written by I'll Steal Your Toast:

There already is a sim game called Real Lives it is kind of fun. You get born anywhere in the world then go to school, catch diseases, invest, start relationships, etc. The last round I tried I was a small farmer in Nigeria with a wife, and a daughter, I smoked, had epilepsy, and had a decent amount of money in the bank, I moved out of my parents house when I was 24, finished secondary school, but no further, and died of a heart attack at 68.
Whereupon your wife had to try and bribe the bank manager to get all your 5 MILLION USD ($5,000,000) out of the country.

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
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Happy Birthday.... in General
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The Harry Potter comments were directed at me.

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
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The Future in General
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As a matter of fact, it was an allegory invented by Plato.

However, the time period given by him was almost four times as long ago (9000 years) when he lived as has passed since then (2400 years). Draw your own conclusions.

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The 24 Hour Contest in Blades of Avernum
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I may not be able to make it by midnight EST (working from 6 AM to 6 AM is a bit tricky)... Does the entire 24 hour span have to lie within the week, or can I start in such a way that my 24 hour span is over a few hours past midnight?

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"That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael
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What have you been reading lately? in General
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I now own the seventh HP book.

But what I'm currently reading is Illuminatus! It's very entertaining, but also tiring to read because it requires so much concentration and attention span while the plot jumps around like crazy. I thought Cryptonomicon was tough.

[ Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:29: Message edited by: jg.faust ]

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The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead.
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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
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Harry Potter *WITH SPOILERS* in General
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Meh. McGonagall's headmistress. Seriously, who else?

But I thought that Harry would get the DADA job. It was foreshadowed in HBP.

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
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"That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael
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Social Degradation and Religious Decay (Split from "Life on Europa") in General
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quote:
I see your point. Just so you know, I don’t advocate killing or persecuting anyone for their beliefs. People of my faith have been beaten, jailed, tortured and killed all over the world (including the US) for what we believe. We’re still underground or fighting legal battles or taking physical beatings in quite a few countries.
Seriously? Christians are persecuted in the US? How come that didn't make the news?

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments.
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Life on Europa in General
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As was stated earlier in this thread (Drew?), it's not easy to face the utter uncaring vastness of the universe, after having been brought up to believe you were in the center.

Total Perspective Vortex, anyone? :P

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments.
"That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael
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Harry Potter *WITH SPOILERS* in General
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quote:
Originally written by Screen Name of...Wool Sweaters:

quote:
Originally written by jg.faust:

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And don't forget to add Dobby to the list of things he lost lol
"lol" does not qualify as punctuation.

Plus, the sentence wasn't funny.

My point lol

It appears that "lol" at the end of a sentence is replacing punctuation when no suitable emoticon can be found to do the job lol

This has a weird resemblance to telegraph code. STOP = LOL, FULL STOP = ROFL.

[ Wednesday, July 25, 2007 21:50: Message edited by: jg.faust ]

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments.
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Harry Potter *WITH SPOILERS* in General
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quote:
And don't forget to add Dobby to the list of things he lost lol
"lol" does not qualify as punctuation.

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments.
"That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael
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Iffy in General
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quote:
Originally written by Drythentor:

I agree with Muffy's motive, but not the method. Dolphin's right, it should have been common sense.

I do, however, congratulate Muffy on his remarkable resolve; most people I know would have simply used the site instead of making an attempt to report it.

Or used the site, then reported it to ease their conscience.

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments.
"That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael
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Harry Potter *WITH SPOILERS* in General
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quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus:

I was expecting Lupid as soon as Wormtail died. I mean, at that point it was pretty obvious that she was going to kill off all 4 of them. Tonks was a bit of a surprise. I wish we could have seen how the 2 of them died. Hedwig was a complete surprise. Moody was a shame. He was just plain badass. Fred didn't really surprise me. I knew one of the Weasleys had to bite it. If I had actually liked Dobby, I might have missed him, but meh. My biggest annoyance was that she didn't really explain why Harry didn't die. That seemed incredibly contrived.
I wasn't that surprised about Tonks. It is far easier to kill off a couple than break it up, as far as closure goes...

JKR was also pretty frugal in her choice of the Weasley who died. She chose the one with the mirrored backup. :P Though if I'd had to guess, I would have predicted Charly (hardly any screen time) or Percy (because he was a dolt until very late in the book).

She did explain why Harry didn't die. However, she explained it in a page-long dialogue in the middle of the most suspenseful part of the book, where it's hard to keep focused:

Firstly and most importantly, Potter was the master of the Elder Wand, and as she stated later, the wand "refused to kill him" (paraphrased).

Secondly, Voldemort hit his own horcrux in the spell. Perhaps the AK curse is not designed for killing more than one person at once? We have never seen it do so.

Leaving what she explained and entering my guesswork: I suspect the wand saw HP and LV's last horcrux as two targets, one of whom was its true master. Accordingly, it concentrated its power on the other one, which left HP on the edge of death, but able to return.

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments.
"That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Social Degradation and Religious Decay (Split from "Life on Europa") in General
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quote:
Originally written by Drythentor:

If we good, we go heaven. If we bad, we go HELL.
Thank you for witnessing to me in terms simple enough for me to understand. I have just found Christ.

:P

[ Tuesday, July 24, 2007 15:35: Message edited by: jg.faust ]

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
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"That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael
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Harry Potter in General
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The association of mechanical pencils with wands, combined with a joke posted here earlier, have created a mental image that I will spend some time getting rid of. Pass the bleach please...

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments.
"That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael
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Harry Potter in General
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quote:
Originally written by Milla:

Just been thinking.

If Aran is Harry Potter, who are the other characters?

And who's Ginny? ^_____^

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EncyclopaediaArchivesMembersRSS [Topic / Forum] • BlogPolarisNaNoWriMo
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Images in General
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quote:
Originally written by No more muffins:

internut?
Paging Dr. Freud

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Iffy in General
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Two weeks, and yeah it was.

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