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Arancaytar
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 written Monday, September 11 2006 03:27 Profile Homepage #21
I've looked at a couple of offers and will go with Dreamhost.

Now the thing is that they offer a referral reward (quite a substantial one too), and so I want to ask if anyone here is taking part in the rewards program so I can enter their code.

Apparently, the promotion code system allows referrer and customer to share the 97$ commission (part of it counting as a discount for the new customer), and while I know there are many who give away the full 97$, I'd be quite happy with less if some Spiderwebber has already got a referral code. :)

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Worst game possible: First round in Richard White Games
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, September 10 2006 23:16 Profile Homepage #40
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Submission: "Sometimes Linear Is Better"

Game: Some online text-based adventure that I forgot the name of.

Summary: Game was extremely good up until random teleportation got involved, then the game become too frustrating and time-consuming to continue.

The problem: The game started off well. I solved one puzzle, and the game advanced me to the next one. There was even a walkthough I could refer to in case I got stuck. However, towards the end of the game, the game got split into seven or eight places I had go to via a teleporter. The teleporter sent me to a place randomly. This wouldn't have been a problem, except that the teleporter continued to send me to places I had already completed. By the time I was down to two or three places to visit, I was often using the teleportal five or six times before getting to one of them. Furthermore, the teleportation itself was annoying. It took several turns to get where I was going. Typing "wait" four turns in a row just isn't that interesting, and it's downright tedious the fifteenth time I had to do it. After realizing that I had spent over ten minutes teleporting without getting to a single new place, I gave up. The game should have just teleported me to places in a set order. It would have been a lot less frustrating.

Dikiyoba's rating: Random and extreme frustration.
Random and extreme frustration is pretty much the point of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game though (that's what you were playing). Oh, and using the teleporter with real tea instead of ATS (advanced tea substitute) shortens the waiting period to one round, and allows you to re-teleport simply by typing "wait" again. Which conveniently saves you from teleporting into the head of your future self, leading to your own messy death in five minutes.

Nonetheless, I wouldn't play it aqgain. For the reasons quoted.

quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

until suddenly you're staring at a wall while a Bugblatter Beast is whaling on you, and you're trying to pound in the necessary six-key sequence just to get a look at the thing.

Having to struggle just to look death in the face: priceless.
Since the Bugblatter Beast believes that if you can't see it, it can't see you, turning around to look at it is actually not such a good idea. ;)

[ Sunday, September 10, 2006 23:32: Message edited by: Drow ]

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What have you been reading lately? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Sunday, September 10 2006 22:49 Profile Homepage #93
Reading it now, Riibu. I hope this means you'll be in on Nanowrimo this year again? I don't know yet, but if it comes to it, I'll probably choose that over the scenario contest...

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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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GOOGLE is GOD!! in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, September 10 2006 22:13 Profile Homepage #22
http://www.vatican.va . Who'd have thought it? :P

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Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, September 10 2006 11:55 Profile Homepage #43
quote:
Color: FF8800
You beat me at geekiness. :-/

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Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, September 10 2006 08:22 Profile Homepage #18
I can't tell how much of it is a joke. From the assumption that they are serious, I have two comments: Firstly, they are entirely right in saying that Google is the closest that any entity we know to exist has ever come to omniscience/omnipresence. Secondly, they are entirely delusional about their idea of "worship". Worshipping Google in the way of traditional religions makes about as much sense as believing in Einstein's relativity theory as a religious principle. Having "blind faith" in science is as deluded as trying to "prove" religion.

But I'm probably just ruining the joke. :P

Edit: Speaking of religion, did you know that the Vatican State has its own top level domain, .va? I didn't. (They also have a badly coded - though admittedly nicely designed - online presence, so that point is for Google. :P )

[ Sunday, September 10, 2006 08:28: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, September 10 2006 08:05 Profile Homepage #37
quote:
Originally written by Maimonides:

Split personalities? Maimonides does not have any comment.
Given who Maimonides is not unidentical to in reality, this is not lacking in irony.

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Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, September 9 2006 13:12 Profile Homepage #23
quote:
Hair Color: Aryan
Eye Color: Aryan
Is that a color, actually? And if its blond/blue, then what is your motivation for not calling it that?

Just asking. 'round here, the word carries... unfortunate connotations.

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, September 9 2006 06:25 Profile Homepage #14
quote:
Rob Chilcott
Vladeptus? o_O Wow, coincidence. :)

(Unless you found him through Santharia, I mean, or I mentioned him here once and can't remember it now, in which case it's not much of a coincidence.)

By the way, Mary Jean Holmes makes great music that you might like too, if you like Rob Chilcott.

Is that tongue thing for real?

[ Saturday, September 09, 2006 06:27: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, September 9 2006 04:13 Profile Homepage #9
Tyran, taking that account was not necessarily a good idea. Now you're channeling her.

I'll be lazy and only post the answers. That leaves you the fun of matching questions with answers. Think: "Have a bf/gf?" - "19". Haha.

19.
Something around 180 cm. If you want to convert it to that silly things you Americans aren't even officially using (supposedly), use Google.
Hair: The one with all the jokes (ie, blond)
Eyes: Somewhere between green and grey.

- No tattoo. Do birthmarks count?
- Nah. Body modification doesn't sound that appealing.
- A few unfortunate crushes, nothing else.
- A lot.
- Edit: Forgot this one. But given what you know about me, the answer should be obvious.

- Does World Domination count?
- No. (Yes!) No.
- My current obsession is valid XHTML. Relatively benign, but easy to be anal about.

- Black jeans, different colored socks (brown and white), a blue-green, short-sleeved shirt.
- Awake and alert and productive, thanks to sleeping in and a nice cup of coffee.
- Howard Shore (Return of the King) / E Nomine (Schwarze Sonne). Odd mixture, yes.
- The heightened state of entropy in my room.
- I should be on the train to my parents by now.

- H2O, from the tap. But I drink buttermilk, coke (not that kind of coke) and coffee, in decreasing frequency.
- Yellow. Bright and cheerful.
- Anything with milk chocolate or nougat. Recently, real coffee beans dipped in chocolate. Within limits.
- Lord of the Rings
- That's why I hang around at Spiderweb.

- Subway any day.
- Cola. Or Pepsi. Doesn't matter.
- Thunder, lightning and rain.
- Fall. September.
- Difficult. Late Summer. Early Winter.
- Cinnamon.
- Off.

[ Saturday, September 09, 2006 06:17: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Mod Alerts in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, September 9 2006 00:49 Profile Homepage #12
quote:
Originally written by Phantasm:

Is vanilla style? I had a dream sometime ago where I posted a topic in General which said: 'Vanilla. I like vanilla.' and then I got banned for 3 months because of that. It was kind of an annoying dream. I mean, come on, three months for vanilla? Talk about unfair.

The banned forum did have some lousy quests to do meanwhile, but apparently they were all boring and I didn't bother to finish them. Couldn't even switch to my #1000 account, because the main page would just throw me onto some fake Desperance site (it was much too pretty and polite to be the real thing).
Haha... :)

Wait.

quote:
Now casting for Spiderweb's Next TM! Sign up today!
Make that:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, September 8 2006 17:06 Profile Homepage #8
quote:
that's just, say, OM being OM
THat sounded kind of sad. In the old days, our outlaws used to have style. In snow, uphill both--- wait, that didn't make sense.

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Arancaytar
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 written Friday, September 8 2006 09:44 Profile Homepage #5
Because pressing it repeatedly does something equivalent to the code snippet above, and someone did so on one of the Geneforge board. He is lucky. It could have been General...

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Arancaytar
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 written Friday, September 8 2006 08:53 Profile Homepage #2
That extends to other mods, too.

*glares at Alorael*

Edit: Minus the shotgun. Because sniping Alorael would be like spamming Scott Richter.

[ Friday, September 08, 2006 08:55: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Friday, September 8 2006 08:46 Profile Homepage #1
Quick note.

while (true) {
mail("arancaytar.ilyaran.gmail.com",
"Mod Alert!!!!11",
"Hey Aran, take a look at this topic:
[URL=http://...]http://...[/URL]
That totally needs to be locked/edited/moved!",
"Reply-to: idiot@aol.com");
}
This is suboptimal as well, unless your objective was to have an angry mod come after you with a shotgun.

[ Friday, September 08, 2006 08:46: Message edited by: Drow ]

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The King is Dead (Others are as well.) in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, September 8 2006 03:34 Profile Homepage #32
quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

[QUOTE]
So, with that precedent in mind... Steve Irwin for President!

(I don't care which country, just oust somebody!)
Oooh! I know just the one! :D

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Pokemon Choose Your Destiny! in General
Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, September 7 2006 18:31 Profile Homepage #12
Professor Arancaytar suddenly appears to come out of a daze.

"Wha.... where am I?" he stammers as le looks around at the unfamiliar surroundings, then down at his lab coat.

Suddenly, he realizes his worst nightmare has come true: He's been kidnapped, hypnotized and made to play an NPC role in some imbecile roleplay.

"I'LL HAVE MY REVENGE ON YOU, ORDER MAGE!" he hollers, even as the two would-be Pokemon trainers (aka morons) and their charges look on in horror. "I'LL SMITE YOU WITH THE AWFUL WRATH OF CTHULHU!"

He begins to chant. "IÄ! IÄ! PHNGLUI MGLW'NAFH CTH--- awscrewit," he trails off. "Let's do this quickly."

And all of a sudden, the party's over. :)

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Biscuittes in General
Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, September 7 2006 18:10 Profile Homepage #8
quote:
Originally written by Punkrock Maniac:

Well, YSTB has a way with words, you know.
And besides; he/she is THE Boogeyman, and therefore has to be scarry. :D
YSTB is OM (he used to be called Order Mage), and therefore has to be stupid. :P

Tyran: Evil is not limited to America, but grows in the minds of Man - thus AOL can flourish everywhere.

[ Thursday, September 07, 2006 18:16: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Relative ages? in The Avernum Trilogy
Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, September 7 2006 16:29 Profile Homepage #12
quote:
Originally written by the Great Potato:


EDIT: Aran, what happened to slarty's text dumps? They're gone!
One of the dangers of a public FTP server: Anyone can delete stuff.

But Slarty didn't upload these; he sent them to me, so I still have the original files (yes, I do have backups as well...). I've uploaded them again.

http://stuff.ermarian.net/slartucker/dump/

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Biscuittes in General
Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, September 7 2006 03:43 Profile Homepage #1
So did I get this right: When you select "Accept all cookies", the cookies are somehow dropped, and when you select "Ask for each cookie" it works?

Have you tried configuring Panda differently? Perhaps it has some kind of option saying "Ignore all cookies" or similar. If not, you might want to try a different virus scanner.

I myself am using AntiVir, which has a free, fully functional version for personal use (although it keeps reminding you to please upgrade to the commercial version).

[ Thursday, September 07, 2006 03:45: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Random Double Take of the Day in General
Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, September 7 2006 03:37 Profile Homepage #9
Technically, anarchy (the absence of government) is the extreme of libertarianism, which also supports unregulated markets, thus capitalism. :P

---
I just realized how much I miss Terror's Martyr. He would be able to phrase that much more... succinctly.

[ Thursday, September 07, 2006 03:37: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Random Double Take of the Day in General
Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, September 7 2006 00:40 Profile Homepage #6
http://endeavor.ermarian.net/list/title/BANNED/current/posts#7427

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