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In this thread, we have an abstract discussion without befouling pastries of any size in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Tuesday, January 25 2005 13:31 Profile Homepage #17
I'm willing to say there's been a consensus; if anyone disagrees, they're welcome to say so, and I'll give it a couple of days before I dig out a new prompt.

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In this thread, we have an abstract discussion without befouling pastries of any size in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Tuesday, January 25 2005 13:24 Profile Homepage #15
How is one person being born poor and another being born rich work out even in a 'perfect' world?

Do private schools not exist in a 'perfect' world?

Do luxury products not exist in a 'perfect' world? In a 'perfect' world, do tutors work for free, instructional books cost nothing?

Are food, clothing, and housing free?

How about college? Free? No bonuses to entry based on 'legacy'? No cost for room, board, supplies?

Are family-based connections illegal? Is nepotism in management illegal? Connections to government?

How about inheritance of land, or stores, or businesses?

That's not 'idealism', it's selective ignorance.

[ Tuesday, January 25, 2005 13:25: Message edited by: Bad-Ass Mother Custer ]

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Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Tuesday, January 25 2005 12:55 Profile Homepage #12
Everyone aspires to their dreams. If everyone was capable of achieving them, there'd be more billionaires than homeless.

To repeat the question you sorta dodged last time: why does one child deserve to have more opportunities because he is born into a richer family? What choice does anyone have about who their parents are?

Why should Melinda Gates get whatever she wants out of life without any work, while John Q. Public Jr. has to work his ass off for so much as a chance to succeed?

[ Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:56: Message edited by: Bad-Ass Mother Custer ]

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Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Tuesday, January 25 2005 12:16 Profile Homepage #7
Why do you believe that having the blind luck of being born to rich parents should afford a child more opportunities than a child which had no such blind luck? Do you feel this is at all in keeping with a strictly meritocratic system, equality of opportunity, and such concepts, or is it more of an aristocratic aspect?

[ Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:18: Message edited by: Bad-Ass Mother Custer ]

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New Arena RP: The Empire Always Loses in General
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Member # 3151
 written Sunday, January 23 2005 15:59 Profile Homepage #19
quote:
Originally written by Sarachim:

We've just started a new RP, and we're hoping to get as many members as possible. Those of you who remember the old Arena's RP will find this pretty familiar, but for everyone else, it's simple and all the details (as well as the RP itself) can be found here:

The Empire Always Loses
TEAL is still open, running, and eager for patronage. Check it out!

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Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Saturday, January 22 2005 21:21 Profile Homepage #0
The idea of inheritance is essentially disingenious and deleterious to the concept of an egalitarian, democratic society.

Discuss.

[ Saturday, January 22, 2005 21:22: Message edited by: Bad-Ass Mother Custer ]

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Root of all evil in General
Custer
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 written Friday, January 21 2005 20:25 Profile Homepage #73
I refuse to acknowledge anything Hobbes says as correct, for instance. I refuse to have any truck whatsoever with his damnedable social contract, and I'm sure as hell not going to drop to my knees and start beating off because the poor are not directly subject to the hungering of wolves.

Name-dropping is essentially useless in philosophy, and I'm certainly not going to condone a 'philosophical' discussion which focuses so damned heavily on ontology; while there is a time and place for the nature of being in this kind of discussion, under most circumstances getting into that turns it into a debate-class circlejerk where actual truth becomes meaningless and the only particular criterion for success is greater experience in sophism.

Any such debate is about as worthwhile as mounting a birthday cake and bragging about being able to eat whatever the birds didn't get because no one else wanted to put food which you had rubbed your sinful bits on in their mouths. And if you turn this into a debate on what purpose debate ought to serve, I'm going to lynch you.

[ Friday, January 21, 2005 20:31: Message edited by: Bad-Ass Mother Custer ]

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Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Thursday, January 20 2005 21:32 Profile Homepage #78
Too burly, IMO. BoE sliths are thinner -- think a medium between that and the default BoA ones.

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Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Thursday, January 20 2005 12:18 Profile Homepage #1
제가 갓 돌이 지나면서부터 온 몸에 발진증상이 심하여 진물과 덧개가 머리 끝에서 발끝까지 특히 접히는 부분, 무릎 뒤, 팔 접히는 안쪽 부분, 목 주변 등에 걸쳐 있었다고 합니다. 그래서 부모님은 전국 곳곳 안 다닌 병원이 없을 정도로 저를 업고 이 병원 저 병원을 전전하셨다고 합니다. 그렇게 고생을 한 제가 나이가 들면서 증상이 조금씩 나아졌습니다. 그런데 제가 아이를 낳고 백일이 지나자 역시나 제 아들이 온 몸에 진물과 발진이 생겨 한 곳 성한 곳이 없을 정도가 되어버렸습니다. 병명은 아토피성 피부염, 흔히 태열이라고들 하는 것이었는데 완전 치유는 되지 않고 증상만 가라앉힐 수 밖에 없다는 병원말을 듣고 아이가 심하게 괴로워 할 때마다 잘한다는 피부과를 찾아 약과 연고를 받아 가라앉혔습니다. 아이가 순해서 다행이었으나 그래도 그 조그만 아이가 가려워 닿지 않는 손으로 머리를 긁고 얼굴을 만질때는 어서 빨리 낫게 할 수 있는 방법은 없을까 고민하였답니다. 제 경험을 비추어 부모님들은 양약이 제일 빠르다고 하였지만 양약의 부작용이 두려워 마냥 거기에만 의존할 수는 없었습니다. 그래서 주위의 말을 들어 말린 쑥을 물에 다려 바르면 좋다고 하여 그것으로 매일 목욕도 시키고, 한번은 말린 토끼를 삶아 그 물을 먹이면 좋다고 하여 사다 먹여보기도 하였지만 냄새가 너무 역해 몇번 먹이다 그만두기도 하였답니다. 어디서 만든지도 모르는 이름 없는 조약을 발라보기도 하고 호랑이기름으로 된 연고도 발라보기도 하였습니다. 그래도 제일 효과 빠르고 손쉬운 방법이 약국에서 약을 사다가 먹이고 연고를 바르는 일이었답니다. 아들은 5~6살이 되자 조금씩 증상이 가라앉아 이제는 가을부터 초봄까지 특히 건조한 계절에만 온 몸이 가려운 정도로 많이 호전되었습니다. 목욕 후 꼭 오일을 바르고 심하면 연고를 바르고 약은 먹이지 않아도 될 정도로 좋아졌습니다. 아토피성 피부염이 의외로 주위에 많은 것이, 요즘은 공기가 더러워서 더 그렇다는 말도 있고, 현대병이다, 유전이다 하는 말들을 많이 하는 것 같습니다. 그리고 제 아이가 또래 아이들보다 작은 것도 어렸을 때 먹은 약 때문이 아닐까 하는 의문이 들기도 합니다. 아토피 피부염에 대처하는 가장 현명한 방법은 무엇인지요.

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Root of all evil in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Wednesday, January 19 2005 15:19 Profile Homepage #38
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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Scenarios in Development in Blades of Avernum
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Wednesday, January 19 2005 14:05 Profile Homepage #6
I've more or less reconciled myself to the fact that I'll never actually do anything for BoA no matter how hard I try, and instead I have been making absurd monsters for BoA which no one with a fear of God and a love for mankind will ever use.

IMAGE(http://alec.desperance.net/captainexilestand.PNG)

I've got some BoE stuff, but it's secret.

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New look for www.spidweb.com in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Monday, January 17 2005 00:34 Profile Homepage #34
quote:
quote:
Originally written by *i:

quote:
Originally written by Drakefyre:

I don't understand why a lot of people hate Geneforge. It's certainly a lot more fun than most BoE/BoA scenarios.
Well, GF games cost $30 whereas BoE scenarios are dirt cheap on a per scenario basis. The expectations are higher, and there are some BoE scenarios that are better than any Geneforge game.

Oh yes, I have a funny feeling there will be a Geneforge 4.
And a Geneforge 5, and a Geneforge 6, maybe a Blades of Geneforge.

Then he will be reviving an old favorite. I've got a reasonably strict NDA, but I don't think I'll be spoiling anything by telling you it's called Hel and involves the Geneforge engine.

[ Monday, January 17, 2005 00:36: Message edited by: Fear Uncertainty and Custer ]

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Fantasy Stories in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Tuesday, January 11 2005 14:19 Profile Homepage #4
I am writing 4004 short stories which, together, make a civilization. They should be finished by the end of Hilary's first term.

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Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Monday, January 10 2005 18:36 Profile Homepage #9
Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin
And eyes of emerald green

Your smile is like a breath of spring
And your voice is soft like a summer rain
And I cannot compete with you Jolene
And he talks about you in his sleep
And there is nothing I can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name, Jolene

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene,
I'm begging of you please don't take my man

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Did I just hear that?!? in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Saturday, January 8 2005 05:22 Profile Homepage #7
Test-tube child, I take it?

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3D Blades of Avernum Editor 1.0 for Mac OS X released! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Friday, January 7 2005 18:15 Profile Homepage #12
Notus -- I'll be glad to see the windows version when it comes out! Great work, from what I've seen and heard.

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3D Blades of Avernum Editor 1.0 for Mac OS X released! in Blades of Avernum
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Friday, January 7 2005 18:15 Profile Homepage #12
Notus -- I'll be glad to see the windows version when it comes out! Great work, from what I've seen and heard.

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Did I just hear that?!? in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Friday, January 7 2005 15:27 Profile Homepage #1
I find it interesting you believe religion should be utterly comprehensive and yet are discomfited by the presence of lady parts.

Sounds like an urban legend to me, but still...

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Recommended Reading in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Monday, January 3 2005 14:46 Profile Homepage #29
Borges is the other magical realist everyone knows. He comes recommended, with the caveat that most people, upon first having read Borges, will instinctively try to imitate him.

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Spiderweb Software games... On handhelds? in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Sunday, January 2 2005 12:38 Profile Homepage #1
I have to wonder why we don't have a FAQ and it doesn't include this.

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Recommended Reading in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Saturday, January 1 2005 13:19 Profile Homepage #19
quote:
Originally written by By Path that seldom Mortal goes:

In keeping up my level of New World Order paranoia, I'm planning to read the Illuminatus trilogy as soon as I can get my hands on it. Hundred Years of Solitude was just recommended to me by my father; his recommendations are often somewhat dry but still fascinating to read, so I will. ;)
One Hundred Years of Solitude is like being hit in the brain with a sledgehammer, in a good way. Reading it is like watching God make love to a movie star.
Comes heavily recommended, and is probably not as 'dry but fascinating' as you'd think.

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New Year's Resolutions in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Friday, December 31 2004 15:38 Profile Homepage #42
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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New Arena RP: The Empire Always Loses in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Friday, December 31 2004 09:25 Profile Homepage #3
Oh, everyone's welcome -- even those a little short of time. It isn't too fast yet.

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Recommended Reading in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Thursday, December 30 2004 13:12 Profile Homepage #16
IMAGE(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~janetmck/bookaweek/books_pics/100years.jpg)

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You can drown plowing the fields or you can drown seeing the sights in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
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 written Thursday, December 30 2004 10:44 Profile Homepage #11
You cannot kill a natural disaster.

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