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Argh! I'm out! in General
Law Bringer
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Bye, and hurry with doing your homework so you may return quickly.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Hitchhiker Media Poll in General
Law Bringer
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I read the books and saw the movie (the one that had Marvin's head huge and spherical?). They were both good works, but related only as if the script writer and Adams had been given the same rough concept and worked independently. Douglas Adams had dry witty humor, which you expect in a comedy. The movie had Zaphod, Ford and Arthur heroically saving Trillian from an ugly death, which you expect from a movie.

Years ago, I went ballistic at Peter Jackson's modifications to Tolkien's epic, but I understand now: The media are just different. A one-for-one transposition just isn't possible, just like a word-for-word translation.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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The Great SW Photo Captioning Contest in General
Law Bringer
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Is this a posting game, by the way? I thought those got the lock.

Edit: And technically, that would be my job. >_>

[ Wednesday, August 02, 2006 05:24: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Just a little question in General
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Profile Homepage #16
Drakefyre, you must now ban yourself for use of a secondary account!

Also, "could care less" is one of the most illogical idioms I know. Wouldn't "couldn't care less" make much more sense?

quote:

Alec:
Can I please stop defending [WKS] in order to air-hump at TM now?
Feel absolutely free.

[ Wednesday, August 02, 2006 04:33: Message edited by: Drow ]

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My BlogPolarisI 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 Great SW Photo Captioning Contest in General
Law Bringer
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This door is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it. This door is shut.

Who decides when "everyone is bored"? I've got one ready...

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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History in the making... in General
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I suspect it was a similar outbreak to my "Hail Dikiyoba and Cthulhu" fit, except more severe.

Remember that the stablest people here have given their sanity to the turtle. Historical case in point, the US Avatar Thread of Summer 2003. :(

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Memories......... in General
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quote:
Originally written by Sturg:

Well, seeing as UBB uses month dd, yyyy
You can't begin to imagine how familiar I am with that format now, from using endless regular expressions in the Endeavor and PPP. :rolleyes:

Note that /([A-Z][a-z]*) ([0-3][0-9]), (200[3-6])/ is asking for trouble. The challenge: Can you spot the error? It has to do with old topics.

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This page was created by Adobe PageMill v2.0. I selected Adobe because it enabled me to create this page with the minimum amount of effort. It's annoying, but in a neat way.
PageMill is for wusses. If you want annoying, use FrontPage. :P (but it's not in a neat way...)

[ Tuesday, August 01, 2006 23:58: Message edited by: Drow ]

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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I'm a Runescape freak how about you? in General
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Only 5000? I'd have matched that--- uh... I didn't really say that, right?

On the "This is how you know you've played too much RS" list: You consider "Let me cut your gems." to be an awesome pick-up line.

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Project Dikiyoba in Blades of Avernum Editor
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May I just add that Project Dikiyoba is the coolest name for any scenario project I have ever seen.

Also that turning that script into a scenario would be kind of difficult. Certainly not what I'd be able to do, in my first scenario...

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My BlogPolarisI 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
Project Dikiyoba in Blades of Avernum
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May I just add that Project Dikiyoba is the coolest name for any scenario project I have ever seen.

Also that turning that script into a scenario would be kind of difficult. Certainly not what I'd be able to do, in my first scenario...

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My BlogPolarisI 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
I'm a Runescape freak how about you? in General
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Well of Souls isn't that much better however - minus losing items when killed (but plus loading *some* experience) and minus the player-to-player trading system that is half the fun of Runescape. Oh, and of course it can't be omitted that the player community is about twice as mature on average (at least on the servers I used to play in). Plus the possibility of hosting your own server and creating your own world.

Tied. At least WoS doesn't cripple the game for free accounts.

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Unless by WoS you meant another game than Well of Souls, in which case just ignore this and my bad taste in MMORPGs. :P

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My BlogPolarisI 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
I'm a Runescape freak how about you? in General
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #55
Uh, selling items on Runescape, romantic? Some people here should call Dr. Freud... your starved libidos may be sending you strange signals. :P

Well, yes. I'll be there at some time between 17:00 and 2:00 on most days (afaik, the time zone is currently the same due to Daylight Savings Time), so chances are good you'll catch me online soon.

[ Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:29: Message edited by: Drow ]

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My BlogPolarisI 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
History in the making... in General
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Indeed, and it is pretty much exactly what happened here and with MoS. The reason some pages are still there is because UBB caches stuff in a weird way.

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Your school uses UBB? My sympathies. :(

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My BlogPolarisI 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
Poor Man's Starbound? in Richard White Games
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The real challenge, of course, is to lose the game of losing. Think! How can you manage to get beaten by a machine dumber than a rock? It takes some smarts to do that... :)

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Poor Man's Starbound? in General
Law Bringer
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The real challenge, of course, is to lose the game of losing. Think! How can you manage to get beaten by a machine dumber than a rock? It takes some smarts to do that... :)

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
History in the making... in General
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #36
The obvious path to success is not to release the technology until you have also discovered a failsafe defence, and then keep the lid on the defence until you have discovered a way to bypass the defence.

Et cetera.

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My BlogPolarisI 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
History in the making... in General
Law Bringer
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This character string didn't occur in Mountain of Shadows. The common factor, however, is the sheer volume of text.

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As for a Unicode character that crashes browsers... only a short while from the technology allowing you to stab people in the face over the internet (which is going to make its inventor very rich indeed...)

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My BlogPolarisI 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
History in the making... in General
Law Bringer
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Profile Homepage #30
RC had a unicode character in his signature that caused one person's browser to crash. There is also a unicode character that reverses the text that follows (until the next paragraph or linebreak, iirc). It was highly fashionable back in the day.

It doesn't work in all browsers.

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My BlogPolarisI 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
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
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quote:
Originally written by Slarty:

The Nine-Headed Cave Cow smiles upon thee, Dikiyoba!
I AM ZE DEMON OF GOOD TASTE, OUI, AND I WELCOME SLARTY BACK!! TO FORUM!! :)

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Poor Man's Starbound? in Richard White Games
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That's against the rules of this thread, Spring! This topic may be bumped only when you have something to say - even if posts have to be half a year apart (unless a purge is looming, of course). If it were different, why, just any idiot could keep this thread at the top, and it would soon become no more than an imitation of TM's moniker topic!

Unfortunately, I have nothing more to say except that I haven't played Escape Velocity in far, far too long a time.

[ Monday, July 31, 2006 02:05: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Poor Man's Starbound? in General
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That's against the rules of this thread, Spring! This topic may be bumped only when you have something to say - even if posts have to be half a year apart (unless a purge is looming, of course). If it were different, why, just any idiot could keep this thread at the top, and it would soon become no more than an imitation of TM's moniker topic!

Unfortunately, I have nothing more to say except that I haven't played Escape Velocity in far, far too long a time.

[ Monday, July 31, 2006 02:05: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Quick Question in General
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The marvel of UBB is that it works sometimes...

Edit: That, and that it cost several hundred dollars when it was first sold, and people bought it.

[ Sunday, July 30, 2006 23:58: Message edited by: Drow ]

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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What have you been reading lately? in General
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quote:
Originally written by Randomizer:


Aran, the later Miles Vorkosigan books in the series are better. Check the copyright date because the books were written out of sequence in the timeline of events. The Warrior's Apprentice was the first novel and then things jump back and forth with his parents and Miles. The last two are the best.

Funny. Because the Warrior's Apprentice was also the first one I read. I'll have to read the entire series though...

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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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What have you been reading lately? in General
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I said that, but I can't remember saying it on Polaris. Ah well, maybe I did.

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I just finished reading Louis McMaster Bujold's Cordelia's Honor, which is the first book of the Barrayar Cycle (which I'd read one book of earlier). Space opera, and I rather like it. Partly because its plot manages to avoid being "epic" (as in Star Wars) while still being captivating.

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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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So... in General
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I resent that! It was a perfectly peaceful, non-violent and just revolution! Er, I mean...

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