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Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
Bob's Big Date
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OMG TM IS A DUNCE

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I need a new word or phrase after GIFTSare2, and I need it now. in General
Bob's Big Date
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Jesus, do you people feed off of each other or something? And if so, is there any way to get you into seperate rooms?

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l33t d00ds in General
Bob's Big Date
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Don't try and cover up an obvious if arrogant slip of knowledge with philandering. It's really, really uncouth.

As for 1337speek? It's better than a decade old, albeit in a form you wouldn't recognize; witness B1FF, a proto-Jeff-K figure. And JeffK himself, who was born before CS (if memory serves) and certainly 1337spoke.

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How to Say Rakshasa in General
Bob's Big Date
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Drakey is a silly bugger, but I feel I have to bring it up: when the hell in real life does "ai" make an "ee" sound?

The pronunciation he recommends for both Vahnatai and Slithzerikai is absurd and illogical, and annoying to boot. Have no truck with it.

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ATTN SPIDERWEB SOFTWARE in Richard White Games
Bob's Big Date
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I'm bewildered by the fact that Stalinists get all the cool nicknames. Hell, most American presidents don't even get them, much less cool ones.

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Nudism in General
Bob's Big Date
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I tend to remain clothed as a public service.

That and the fact that if responsible nudism went on the rise, you'd want to buy stocks in sunscreen companies. I'm proud to be extremely pale pretty much everywhere except my forearms and head; this is because overexposure to the sun is stupid, leading to cancer. And stupidity is just never sexy.

I'm more or less apathetic to this topic, because I've never taken the sort of perverse joy most people tend to in either clothing or unclothing myself.

ben*: So what, you bathe with swim trunks on? :P

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Hip Hop culture in General
Bob's Big Date
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I happen to like rap as a genre and find the continual whining by middle-aged and upper-class whites about the uncouthness of rap culture to be a symptom of a thriving social reaction. As Thuryl said, it's the same sort of whining there was a century ago about jazz and half a century ago about rock; it's because people can't understand something as 'good' unless they like it themselves, so naturally they're going to assume it's wrong if they don't. It's easier on their dignity than the idea that they don't know everything.

Rap is pop culture. The rap culture is here to stay and you might as well get used to it, whether or not you like the music. I'm sure that all of my contemporaries ending every other sentence with "yo", regardless of general interests, came from listening to Mozart or Lennon or some other Aryan musical superhero...

BTW, Alex, nice form with the ethnic slurs. 'More refined cultures' as a synonym for Anglo-Americans, eh? You kiss your mother with that mouth?

EDIT: Also, 'hip hop' and 'rap' are two entirely different things. I don't think you could easily call Wyclef Jean rap or Lil Jon hip hop, even if it's easy to muddle the two up.

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Which OS are you? in General
Bob's Big Date
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Everyone wants to be Slackware, UA.

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Welcoming you all to... in General
Bob's Big Date
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Hai nie bie Aixo-se -- hai nie bie Aixo-se de touta.

Yiu cirorisaru -- //Por koi bie-hie ke Masitaru Kairaso hat la langue de sie halor?\\

Paka hai hat iniveinatu Aixo an Aixo-se!

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I need a new word or phrase after GIFTSare2, and I need it now. in General
Bob's Big Date
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Your name is retarded. Generally, if you can't keep up with changing your own name, I have no pity for you.

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why do u have 2d gams not free? in General
Bob's Big Date
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you want free 2d gams?????? ok

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why do u have 2d gams not free? in General
Bob's Big Date
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OMFG ROFL

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Unused in Blades of Exile
Bob's Big Date
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Not because I'm too busy; because I don't think I can do anything with them. The pointless little things you see finished are only because I have difficulties finishing a 'real' scenario.

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What pet(s) do you own? in General
Bob's Big Date
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http://alec.desperance.net/Photos%20of%20Alec's%20penis/muffin-800x.JPG[/url]
and

http://alec.desperance.net/Photos%20of%20Alec's%20penis/beau-800x.JPG[/url]

not to mention five others in the same house, and some fish to boot.

[ Friday, August 06, 2004 11:39: Message edited by: 2xCuster = Stug x Stug ]

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why do u have 2d gams not free? in General
Bob's Big Date
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d00d he's disabled srly that cownts for somat

like w/e (fashists)

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Bob's Big Date
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You know, this is among my first visits to this forum, and I was reading through the Ideas topic, and I realized something.

I've got some nifty ideas for scenarios -- or ideas that could potentially be nifty, if done right.

The problem is that I will never make a competent scenario to go with them. Yes, I've designed 3 scenarios (perhaps as many as 5, depending on what you count as a scenario), but the ideas remain good.

If anyone else cares to share their ideas here, it's their perogative. Also, bear in mind that I make no guarantees as to how good any of these are; the last time I did any kind of collaboration with someone the result was 'Two Strands'.

So here goes.

* The Philosopher's Stone

Call it a material, a process, whatever -- but for whatever reason, matter synthesis has been discovered and is readily available in an Exile-tech world.

The result is, naturally, disaster on an unparalleled scale. Since it is possible to create mountains of gold from a handful of sand, there's obviously no need for riches -- or anything conventional economies need.

Where you go from there is your own business -- the angle I took, in which the only thing with any sort of scarcity is human life, thus leading to mass slavery -- is a little heavy-handed, but would be fun to work with. Plenty of potential conflict.

* The interactive party

A prefabricated party of more than one member which can dynamically be inserted into the plot of a story. Sounds tricky? Oh, it is! But hey, at least it's a little bit rewarding. Sorta.

Member 1, Ambrose, has 1 mage lore;
Member 2, Bertrand, has 3 mage lore;
Member 3, Card, has 5 mage lore;
Member 4, Donatello, has 10 mage lore;
Member 5, Engelbrekt, has Cave Lore;
Member 6, Famagusta, has Woodsman.

Now, it would be murder to program this, and it'd probably be better to work it on a smaller scale -- cutting out, say, Donatello and Card to slim it down to a modern 4 members, or ridding it of Bertrand to reduce it to a svelte 3.

If-then: Woodsman? If NO, F. is dead.
If-then: Lore? If NO, E. is dead.
If-then: Mage lore 19? If YES, break: A-D are alive. If NO:
{
If-then: Mage lore 18? If YES, A. and only A. is dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 16? If YES, B is dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 15? If YES, A and B are dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 14? If YES, C is dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 13? If YES, A and C are dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 11? If YES, B and C are dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 10? If YES, A, B, and C are dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 9? If YES, D is dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 8? If YES, A and D are dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 6? If YES, B and D are dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 4? If YES, C and D are dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 3? If YES, A, C, and D are dead, break.
If-then: Mage lore 1? If YES, B, C, and D are dead, break.
}
Mage lore is not 1: A, B, C, and D are dead; break.

As it's 6 AM, it might well be that I have these reversed. In that case, work the other way around. The method should still work, though.

And as for integrating it into dialogue? Maybe you could set up a little timer that runs those checks every 3 turns, and increments flags as appropriate. The caveat is that the party could never change their statistics by trainer, or they'd have to be warned NOT to change Mage Lore or it'd ruin the scenario.

I'll get back to this tomorrow. (Or maybe not -- I'm not missing my own birthday party for it.) Until then, well...

Any thoughts?

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Where do you get your Ideas? in Blades of Exile
Bob's Big Date
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Profile Homepage #8
Utica.

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ATTN SPIDERWEB SOFTWARE in Richard White Games
Bob's Big Date
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You have deliberately attacked a board upon which mindless spam has coexisted happily with historical spam for as long as the grass has grown and the water has run.

You have given it a purpose.

Shame on you.

II
Black Marks.


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Clean Olympics in General
Bob's Big Date
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What's always struck me is not so much the bloody-minded first reaction, but the second reaction: to whine about the problem for a little while, do nothing about it, and then forget about it in a week.

Not that I'm saying anything.

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Clean Olympics in General
Bob's Big Date
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Trap and sterilize works, I'd think, because of the population carrying limit thesis.

Namely, a dead stray consumes no food, water, or land, and the food, water, and land which it would otherwise consume can, at least initially, support several kittens. Kittens which would otherwise almost certainly succumb to the elements.

Although as the cats grow older there will be a shortage of resources, while some may starve, more will manage on less than they need -- they're cats, they can handle themselves.

A neutered cat, on the other hand, consumes resources and does not reproduce. This prevents a small number of kittens from surviving infancy, and thus keeps the cat population further in check.

Same applies to dogs, any stray animal you like. A real answer to an excess of strays might well be sterilized housepets, specifically 'outdoor' housepets -- they consume resources without contributing to the gene pool.

PS. Take microeconomics. You'll be glad you did.

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Clean Olympics in General
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quote:
Originally written by AM:

How does TNR prove more effective? Presumably, the "T" part of TNR and T&K (Trap'n'Kill) would occur at the same rate. Granted, with TNR, you don't have the problem of disposing of the corpses afterward, but is this necessarily worse than letting them die wherever?

Given a choice, I think I would be more grateful for a quick and painless death than life on the street without my boys...

EDIT: And Alec, would you mind abbrieviating your sig a bit more? I certainly would appreciate it. Thanks!

Okay, okay.

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Clean Olympics in General
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TNR doesn't strike me as such a bad idea with people, either.

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SPOILER ALERT in General
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warning: spoilers ahead
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AT THE END OF 'PSYCHO', NORMAN BATES DID IT

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Poetry in General
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I don't particularly feel like posting either the stuff that came of the failed story-out-of-order or the Emily Dickenson mockeries (which are too hideous for SW), so there you are.

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Post Your Desktop in General
Bob's Big Date
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Who the hell cares? I prefer a tiger 'twixt the sheets to a looker on the street.

Rii -- switch to XP. You'll be glad you did -- it's much better than the earlier Windows versions. More stable and more powerful.

PS. KommandoV or KhothMk2. :)

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