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Displayed name | Arancaytar |
Member number | 2984 |
Title | Law Bringer |
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Registered | Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, November 4 2006 07:40
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quote:I spent almost a minute looking for the joke. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Episode 3: A New Game in General | |
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written Friday, November 3 2006 00:05
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quote:They sure posted differently. In order of coherence, -X- was highest, followed by your average noob XxX and then your average moron XxXx. But that could have been acting. Anyway, I noticed that XxXx was less of a newbie than his postcount indicated (they usually need at least a few days to figure out I'm "Aran"), so he was probably a puppet account. Perhaps a parody of XxX? That would be indicated by his reference to Xeon. Or OM? Because he said "Unban TM". Also, -X- was an old invisible lurker, while XxX and XxXx were recently registered. IPmancy is required before I know more... Edit: Nothing. In fact, so utterly nothing it's kind of weird - not even Order Mage's ban evasions match up. [ Friday, November 03, 2006 00:30: Message edited by: Ja der Wagen humpen ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 2 2006 23:52
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One amusing thing about postcount topics in PPP is that now that the program displays all the current member information (from the Endeavor) as opposed to the information at the time the topic was saved, you can see all the 1000x postcount people talking about "I'll *never* make it to 100 posts, I'm so slow, I post so little" etc. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 2 2006 11:55
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What's this surprise? I got two questions about it already! I was so sure I let this slip some time in the past few years... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 2 2006 08:07
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quote:So a work is only allegorical if it promotes a viewpoint? Most of the best stories are multi-faceted enough to let you draw your own conclusions, and games with their open ends are even more so. In fact, I believe open allegories are really the only ones worth reading or playing. If you want to know the opinion of the author, just ask, but if the author is going to explore the subject in an allegory, they should at least make an effort to portray it without contamination. The rest are the "crude" allegories you refer to. ----- As a side note, I'm not quite convinced Geneforge wasn't biased towards the Awakened. But that's a different point. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 2 2006 06:33
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Wait. How is Geneforge not an obvious allegory to the ethics of cloning? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 2 2006 06:29
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Economic Left/Right: -9.63 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.28 Wow. Although I'll have to compare it with the last result again, I might have moved slightly back toward Neutral. Still. Soon now I'll have to start saying things like HAHAHAHA, DIE, You suck, etc. [ Thursday, November 02, 2006 06:30: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
November Posting Stats Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Poll in General | |
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written Thursday, November 2 2006 06:22
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Look folks, we went over this back in March. When I said "this board is slow" I was referring to the lack of content. This lack continues, although it is even more apparent now that the content is spread across thrice as many posts. Here's a trick: Before hitting "Add Reply", ask yourself what exactly you are saying. Does it contain anything people don't yet know? Is it relevant to the thread? Does it contain anything someone might wish to know? Is it, in fact, useful for anything but incremementing your postcount by one? No? Then hit "Back" and try a different topic. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Notice: ermarian.net down for maintainance NOW in General | |
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written Thursday, November 2 2006 00:18
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I'll work on a fix for this soon. Where soon is a date after December 1. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
One way to skin a cat. in General | |
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written Wednesday, November 1 2006 23:29
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Yes, but is it also a good reason to vote against it? I'm not clear on it either. What would limiting state spending do? Where would the spending be cut down? Where would the money go instead? If the answers, respectively, are "privatize public institutions", "education" and "more tax cuts for everyone" (where, in a way scarily reminiscent of Imban, Everyone is Halliburton), then you know how I'd vote. Because I'm a damncommie, see. [ Wednesday, November 01, 2006 23:30: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 1 2006 23:19
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Thank you Alec. That went some way toward restoring my faith in this board. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 1 2006 16:46
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quote:That's the last resort, really. Well, I finished the second chapter (titled Chapter I because I have this bad habit of naming my first chapter Prologue even if iisn't). 3674/50000 now, so I'm ahead by one day. Even better, I've avoided making it suck so far, which is one and a half chapters more than I managed last year. But don't worry. The true suckiness will emerge soon. Edit: I actually finished hours ago, I just kept this post sitting in the submission form until now. :rolleyes: [ Wednesday, November 01, 2006 17:03: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 1 2006 05:40
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quote:Yay for Stephenson! :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
That Literary Dog... in General | |
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written Wednesday, November 1 2006 02:15
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Amazing. I actually got that! Although admittedly, it was easy to tell the context. Edit: Even more amazing! The thread Salmon linked to was back when Polaris was hosted by Lady J! [ Wednesday, November 01, 2006 02:27: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 31 2006 18:46
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Yay, I overtook you after all, Riibu! :P 1987 last count, and the first chapter (or Prologue, rather, though it's now somewhat long for that) is done. The counter is telling me that by writing 2000 words in the first four hours of time raised my average to 10000 words per day, and set the ETA of my novel to November 5th. I wish I could share in its optimism, but I have a bit of sleep to catch up with. I could replace it with caffeine I guess, but I don't want to do that right on the first day - best to keep aces up the sleeve for emergencies... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, October 30 2006 03:02
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Took it again. Here goes: quote:So I changed a lot. But the CG bit was expected; I thought I'd have that last time, too. Edit: Changed a few answers, and suddenly quote:Elfy again. >_< But at least a bard. [ Monday, October 30, 2006 03:04: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Xeon, The Beginning in General | |
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written Monday, October 30 2006 02:46
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It's not spammin'! It's passed on! This topic is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't filled it with Old English it'd be pushing up the daisies! Its posts are now 'istory! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-TOPIC!! -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, October 30 2006 02:39
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Same here. Although I'm setting high standards for my preparation this year, and I do have a lot thought out. Ack! But 50,000 words! *shivers in a panic attack* -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, October 30 2006 02:37
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I selected "13 times a day" and "5-15 minutes" because that's the time actually spent here. But I log in and out so rarely that I often have to mail my password because I forgot it since the last time. So the only time I log in is when I'm on a different computer or when my cookies got purged. Sometimes I log out to post with an alt account, but that hasn't happened in a year either (I think). -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, October 29 2006 12:59
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Fond memories. quote:Indeed, I go both ways. Er. Not like that. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Some Games Have Too Many Sequels in General | |
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written Sunday, October 29 2006 12:46
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It's amazing to see such a big list of games I've never heard of. Wait, I heard the name Final Fantasy mentioned, once or twice. Are these all console games or something? That would explain why I'm so unfamiliar. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Fresh meat for the Cultists, or, goodbye sunshine in Richard White Games | |
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written Saturday, October 28 2006 01:05
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Blue. *nods* Mirror defined by. Then related to pan lever, flies into a apple inside seventeen, living with chessboard. -------------------- 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 Friday, October 27 2006 10:36
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Curses! Foiled again! And I would've got away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling IE users! -- Well, it's happening to me too when I use IE. I have a good guess as to what does it, so I'll go fix it now. But you should still stop using it. Not only does it suck, it's insecure as hell. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, October 27 2006 08:42
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I have the same strategy, because I have the same problem. :P My first estimate of the plot came in at 8000 words, so I guess I'll have to come up with a bit more story... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |