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Displayed name	Arancaytar
Member number	2984
Title	Law Bringer
Postcount	8752
Homepage	http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/
Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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Nanowrimo in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, October 27 2006 02:35 Profile Homepage #24 Bumpy. The link is in my signature already, but this is where my stuff will be. -------------------- 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
MCMLIX or BUST! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, October 27 2006 02:32 Profile Homepage #32 But that's just about the only one of the bunch. Apart maybe from :) . I like :) . -------------------- 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
Pets? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, October 27 2006 00:56 Profile Homepage #13 I had an adorable green budgie for 11 years, after which he unfortunately (if inevitably) died. If I ever move somewhere where I can keep pets, I'm getting a cat. Technically, I might be allowed to have a cat in the room I'm living in now, but the cat definitely wouldn't be happy with 12 square meters of personal space and having to use the lift or staircase to get out, so there. And unfortunately, my mother is allergic to cats, which rules out letting him/her stay at my parents' house. Edit: "Shaped"? As in a fyora? I'd love to have one. Also, does "Dead" apply to my budgie, or are we talking zombies/vampire bats here? [ Friday, October 27, 2006 00:58: 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
Episode 3: A New Game in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, October 26 2006 23:51 Profile Homepage #138 quote: Originally written by Token Ginger: Yay! I'm with Aran! ^^ grabs Aran, hugs him and gives him a big- a small kiss on the cheek Exciting stuff, great. Thumbs up and already waiting for more. Stands awestruck for a moment and turns a brilliant shade of #ff0000 Mh... Ermarian Network. I'm trying to imagine how that place would look if it were a building... [ Thursday, October 26, 2006 23:57: 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
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, October 26 2006 06:50 Profile Homepage #28 Dikiyoba, what a devious plot to stop him from caring about his postcount and end the spam spree... ^_^ -------------------- 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
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, October 26 2006 06:08 Profile Homepage #26 But hypnotizing you over the internet and then commanding you to edit your post doesn't really count, now does it? -------------------- 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
Baccarat or Blackjack? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, October 26 2006 05:58 Profile Homepage #8 YOU! SPAMMER! GET YOU THE HOT BULLETS OF SHOTGUN TO DIE! [ Thursday, October 26, 2006 05:58: 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
New Website in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, October 26 2006 04:32 Profile Homepage #3 Another point for my theory that Freewebs has displaced Geocities. I remember when everyone here who was anyone had one of those things at the latter service. Not anymore, apparently. The increase in ad obstrusiveness might be related to that, of course. -------------------- 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
Harmonious Dischord in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 25 2006 21:36 Profile Homepage #36 Oooh. I loved the first and last songs most - A Storm is Coming and Into the West. There are some bits which I like more in the other two soundtracks, but that's my favorite of the bunch, otherwise. -------------------- 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
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 25 2006 21:32 Profile Homepage #24 quote: Originally written by Spookee Salmon: Three things: 1) How would I know? You can opt not to show that it was edited. One thing: 1) Those were two. 2) I can? Cooool... I have to try that. Edit: Can't, unless it requires a secret magical formula that Stareye has to teach me first. [ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 21:33: 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
Hang 'em high! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 25 2006 20:45 Profile Homepage #4 This is an interesting international statistic of crimes, if somewhat dated in parts. I do not know if there are any other countries with similar laws for the surveillance of sex offenders as in the US, and yet the numbers don't seem to have dropped below average (as late as 1995, mind). So are the laws inefficient, or is another factor responsible for sex offenses being more common in the US? --- This, along with the death penalty, are "sob laws", which everybody agrees with simply because you have to be an insensitive, asocial clod to endanger children or deny the relatives of a murder victim their "vengeance" - only criminals speak for criminals. If the laws actually stop these crimes, fine (leaving aside death penalty, which is for another debate). If they don't, they are little more than horrendous cutbacks on human and civil rights. -------------------- 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
The Abominable Landscape photo thread in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 25 2006 15:37 Profile Homepage #21 Uploaded another bunch: This one is blurred, but the sky has a nice color: -------------------- 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
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 25 2006 15:26 Profile Homepage #17 quote: Originally written by Nioca: 151-175. Likewise. There is a boost, but I don't think it will stay at this level for the entire month. Salmon, I'm offended. :( When did I ever stealth-edit your posts? -------------------- 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
The Abominable Landscape photo thread in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 25 2006 04:12 Profile Homepage #17 Go ahead, rub it in, why don't you. As if I hadn't been glared to death already. :rolleyes: -------------------- 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
Harmonious Dischord in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 25 2006 02:53 Profile Homepage #18 Shanty Raidio. Or I would be if I were at home, which I am not. -------------------- 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
The Abominable Landscape photo thread in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 25 2006 02:49 Profile Homepage #15 quote: Also, Aran: taps foot, glares What? Oh. Right. Well, I didn't post a postcount thread. It wasn't supposed to be one. Honest! -------------------- 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
The Spiderweb Art Movement. in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 24 2006 22:49 Profile Homepage #61 Bilbo-ish. "I am going now. I bid you all a very fond farewell." I loved it. You described the character in so much detail (even though I didn't quite get where you were going with the mysticism/"real magic"/dead Seer - that was left a bit open, but perhaps that's better). -------------------- 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
The FRAPGVRUKCP: now with twice the posting action! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 24 2006 22:00 Profile Homepage #22 quote: Originally written by Andraste: your 2002th post ...two thousand and twoth? quote: Originally written by i: Sorry, the 6666 posts is much more evil than 2002.* But 2002 was an evil year. An evil, evil year. And the number 2 is suspect anyway. You can't trust something that wants to be even and is yet prime. It's the most evil number of all. 4, 13 and 6,432,766,349,448,872,395,334,773 ain't got nothing on that. Edit: 5.29 posts per day. Which means that, for more than three years now, less than 5 consecutive hours have passed (on average) in which I didn't post. Scary. Edit2: Posts per day are now part of the newly fixed member page. [ Tuesday, October 24, 2006 23:20: 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
The Abominable Landscape photo thread in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 24 2006 21:53 Profile Homepage #10 quote: true intent It was not! I planned to start a photo thread for some time, and then noticed that I was close, so I used that post to start it. Don't believe those baseless accusations, as if I were someone who celebrated a postcount! ;) And I care to see, muchly. Those are very nice. [ Tuesday, October 24, 2006 21:55: 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
The Abominable Landscape photo thread in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 24 2006 16:25 Profile Homepage #0 I was going to start an ordinary photo thread and then realized that the last one was only two months back. So here's something new instead. Photos are to feature landscapes. To broaden the conditions, anything that doesn't feature people as a primary focus goes - including photos of cities, sculptures, sunsets and so on. It may contain persons, but preferably not in the foreground. Oh, and it should be self-made, not googled, of course. Here's my first one (sorry about the size, I'll shrink it when I have time): On a side note, I appear to have 6666 posts. But I promised I wouldn't post a new topic to celebrate this, and technically I didn't. Edit: Shrunk with Picasa. Link to full size. [ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 02:46: 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
Episode 3: A New Game in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 24 2006 10:04 Profile Homepage #107 Unfortunately, glancing won't help. Monikers are to be 35 characters long and no more. -------------------- 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
Fantasy writers don't read fantasy books? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 24 2006 08:42 Profile Homepage #9 Exactly. Admittedly, the analogy with science was far-fetched, because the field is far more definite on what is correct and incorrect. But there are other crafts and arts as well - say, cooking, architecture, painting. These require solid skills as well as individual creativity. You can do things wrong in writing just as you can in architecture. Refusing to study the works of colleagues (past and present), either out of lack of time or because they do not want to subconsciously contaminate their style (and this isn't made up, I've seen an author quoted on this) pretty much assumes that they have seen all there is to see and know all there is to know, which is wrong. Writing good exposition and dialogue are real, actual skills (I know, because I suck at them), and while literary courses can teach you the basics, looking at how others do it is likely the best way to learn. --- Okay, I shouldn't complain. The authors obviously know what's good for them, and as long as their work sells, they're doing at least something right. But I still think it's stupid. :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
Emancipated! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 24 2006 08:20 Profile Homepage #13 The problem with a unilateral prohibition is that there are cases where the parents need to be notified. Not to decide on the abortion, but to be made aware of a situation their child is in. The one I mentioned (chronic abuse) is such a one. If someone the girl is close to (say, an uncle, a teacher or even a priest) is sexually abusing her (and there have been cases of all of these), it is a fact that the girl is unlikely to come forward and report this herself. By 15, most children can think independently enough, but that is a generalization. -- I am just young enough to see this from the child's side, and old enough to see it like the parents. Yes, there are irresponsible parents. There are a lot who think they know better than their kids what they should or should not do with their bodies (going through pregnancy/getting an abortion in this case). There are goddamn fundies (sorry for the pun) who may lock up or kill their daughter for not staying abstinent. And the opposite (not in a good way) exists: These parents tried to force their (adult) daughter to have an abortion. Parents do crazy things, and the world abounds with children who need to be protected from them. But there are responsible parents, and irresponsible children, as well. And in such cases, who will take care of the child if not the parents? If a minor is pregnant, this at worst indicates that she was raped and isn't telling anyone, and at best that she is ignorant about proper contraception. The alternative is to put the duty of dealing with this on the doctor - such as finding out if she was abused and informing law enforcement, or otherwise educating her about contraception. If the doctor can be trusted with that responsibility, I don't see how he couldn't be trusted to decide whether to inform the parents or not. Sorry if this is turning into a rant; I just feel like your argument assumes three generalizations, namely that children are perfectly self-responsible, parents are untrustworthy and abusive, and doctors are daft. Edit: Admittedly, all the problems I argued here would be solved by a simple post-fact notification of the parents, after the abortion was done. Which conveniently enables the child to have an abortion without parental consent, and also allows the doctor to talk to the parents. So Marlenny (who "sniped" my post, as they say) offered the best choice, I guess. Unless the parents are rabid Phelpsians who are liable to stone their daughter to death (and then protest at her funeral, which is what they do best after all) if they find out about the abortion. Have to take all cases into account, yes. [ Tuesday, October 24, 2006 08:29: 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
Ever Wonder How Vlish Get Around? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 24 2006 05:13 Profile Homepage #28 I'd tend to agree. It's much more plausible if Vlish use hydrogen - perhaps by consuming water and splitting it? - than helium. It also makes sense that they want us to think it's helium. It keeps the people with matches away. Unless the people with matches are completely clueless about chemistry. Damn. -------------------- 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
Pan lever in Richard White Games
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 24 2006 04:53 Profile Homepage #3 This isn't a yes or no question. Who are you to summarize the deep and ancient secret of the roving mirror moiety with such a simple thing as "Yes"? Iä, in his grave in Galactic Core, Dead White turns, screaming. [ Tuesday, October 24, 2006 04:54: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- 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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