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| Displayed name | Custer |
| Member number | 3151 |
| Title | Bob's Big Date |
| Postcount | 2367 |
| Homepage | http://desperance.net |
| Registered | Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 22 2004 21:40
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I defeated the Nazis. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 22 2004 18:33
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There is a big political tradition on General. Specifically, a big leftist political tradition. RC: Rightists calling the left wing knee-jerk is so very funny and I wish you could see it that way. Also, I was right about the WMDs. :D -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 22 2004 09:49
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Good save, AM. The original post suggested other things, such as used socks. -------------------- They want to have a war to keep their factories They want to have a war to keep us on our knees They want to have a war to stop us buying Japanese They want to have a war to stop industrial disease They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind They want to suck your energy, incarcerate your mind Give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three Two weeks in Hispania and sunday striptease Meanwhile, the first Jesus says, "I'll cure it soon Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons" The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees How come Jesus gets industrial disease? Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 21 2004 21:14
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Enh, I'd put 'I am dead for you' as 'je suis mort pour toi' / 'pour vous'. 'Je suis la Mort pour t/v' would add the needed article. And one must remember that in French, Death is feminine -- you do not say 'le Mort', I don't think. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 20 2004 15:56
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A word of warning: it may do well to buy an English-localized version, as I'm told that Paradox, while well-meaning, is very bad at translations into some languages; it goes from humorously poor to in some places gameplay-threatening (example: in the French localization of Victoria, 'timber' and 'lumber', two different resources, are both called 'bois' -- some confusion there!). If your English is good enough to deal with it, the English localization is likely to be a good deal more coherent than the Spanish one. For the specifics of that, you'd have to ask someone who's played both, but I know for a fact that the English version gets more patches. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 20 2004 13:35
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To return to my poor, undernourished topic: If I had to recommend one, Europa Universalis II. It's the oldest of the titles I'm familiar with and thus the cheapest, it has fewer moving parts than Hearts of Iron and far fewer than Victoria, and it's the longest of any of them. It takes a LONG time to get used to, but it's very fun. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 20 2004 13:04
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'conation' was a word coined by Beckett; using his favorite word, 'con', and -ation, meaning roughly 'to do rigorously'. Translated, it means being a 'con' for sport. If you don't speak French, you're missing out here. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 20 2004 12:22
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I find the positive sentiments towards China as it becomes more economically liberal somewhat savage: basically, we do not much care whether or not its people are oppressed, we just care whether or not they're being oppressed by communists. A capitalist oligarchy in China would, by the general enthusiasm for anything the PROC does to distance itself from Maoist economics, be A-OK. No need to politically liberalize the People's Republic as long as it's economically tied to the West. Sickening and greedy. Unfortunately, that's how it goes. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 20 2004 12:19
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I'm keeping mine. I like Veblen. :P -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 20 2004 00:57
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My signature is perfect. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 20 2004 00:26
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Wow. Just wow. Thanks for the information on that one. Don't worry about the quadruple-post. Interesting stuff, very much so. Trust me when I say that stream-of-consciousness is only irritating when you're trying to fill space with nothing to say. That's definitely not the case here. [ Tuesday, July 20, 2004 00:41: Message edited by: Ultimate Weapon Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, July 19 2004 19:37
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quote:If you're calling most of the countries you sort of people like to call communist communist, explain how any beaureaucrats voted in the Soviet Union or the DPRK. :P BSC: I understand a dislike for Chavez, but the site you linked to has a number of ominous links -- namely, the sort that suggest they'd be in favor of a corporatist-minority coup attempt such as 2001's (2000's? 2002's? I forget when it happened). There's also something faintly galling about attacking a president for putting money into 'populist social programs' -- in other words, you're faulting the leader of a democratic country for active populism? Claims that election figures are unreliable in 'authoritarian regimes' are a HUGE red flag, because frankly I trust very few people when talking about 'authoritarian regimes' -- I've heard countries such as Germany called 'authoritarian' and countries such as Japan called 'model democracies'! -- and because in the absence of serious, provable corruption, decrying election results as inaccurate is only acceptable if the margin of error is very small. Furthermore, they complain about absenteeism of 35% -- a lower figure than average, unless I'm horribly mistaken, and an inevitable result of the democratic process. You have an open if skeptical audience here: what has Chavez done? How is he 'authoritarian', and how is he a serious threat to Venezuela? I can understand a difference in ideology, but apparently baseless accusations of corruption, autocracy, and theft I tend to view with a large level of suspicion, even coming from people I agree with politically. [ Monday, July 19, 2004 19:47: Message edited by: Ultimate Weapon Custer ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, July 18 2004 12:50
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A good A4 would be awful. It would be yet another Vogelian gesture of contempt towards the BoE community; they suffered for years under Exile's limitations because Jeff abandoned Exile, with the basic assumption that Exile was the community's now. The Avernum games always stuck in my craw, and making an Avernum 4 would really hurt -- he said he wouldn't make it for Exile. And really, what's he going to do for plot? Looking at Geneforge, his writing skills haven't changed much -- it'll probably be the Vahnatai, or the Sliths, or demons, or the Empire, doing something dastardly for no good reason. Here's to hoping it's Nethergate 2, I guess. Far be it for me to tell Mr. Vogel which of his lovely little cash cows to milk dry. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 19:09
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I feel nothing but pity for someone named after Lena Xao. -------------------- They want to have a war to keep their factories They want to have a war to keep us on our knees They want to have a war to stop us buying Japanese They want to have a war to stop industrial disease They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind They want to suck your energy, incarcerate your mind Give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three Two weeks in Hispania and sunday striptease Meanwhile, the first Jesus says, "I'll cure it soon Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons" The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees How come Jesus gets industrial disease? Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 12:51
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I'm not so broke I can't afford a game or two a year at $20-ish. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 12:18
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quote:It's nice to think things like this. It'd be nicer if they were true; I remember being 11 pretty well.  -------------------- They want to have a war to keep their factories They want to have a war to keep us on our knees They want to have a war to stop us buying Japanese They want to have a war to stop industrial disease They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind They want to suck your energy, incarcerate your mind Give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three Two weeks in Hispania and sunday striptease Meanwhile, the first Jesus says, "I'll cure it soon Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons" The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees How come Jesus gets industrial disease? Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 04:13
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Astrology being invented by a bunch of people who also believed that the world was flat, the Mediterranean braced its center, and the sun was hauled around the earth by a giant chariot, well... :P -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 15 2004 22:00
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Paradox Entertainment: specifically, their excellent and oddly addictive historical PC games. Discuss. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 15 2004 21:56
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Sometimes, on my bad days, I find myself agreeing with Stalin. Later I feel all ashamed about it, but then I read posts like yours and I feel so much better about myself. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 15 2004 21:54
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His name is Roger and he is actually twenty-seven. -------------------- They want to have a war to keep their factories They want to have a war to keep us on our knees They want to have a war to stop us buying Japanese They want to have a war to stop industrial disease They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind They want to suck your energy, incarcerate your mind Give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three Two weeks in Hispania and sunday striptease Meanwhile, the first Jesus says, "I'll cure it soon Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons" The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees How come Jesus gets industrial disease? Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 15 2004 21:52
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quote:See, this just goes further to back up the theory that Rosy is not actually a thirteen-year-old girl, but one of those Internet transsexuals you've read all about. -------------------- They want to have a war to keep their factories They want to have a war to keep us on our knees They want to have a war to stop us buying Japanese They want to have a war to stop industrial disease They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind They want to suck your energy, incarcerate your mind Give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three Two weeks in Hispania and sunday striptease Meanwhile, the first Jesus says, "I'll cure it soon Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons" The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees How come Jesus gets industrial disease? Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 15 2004 21:48
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Calling Fallout 2 a bad sequel is like calling The Godfather Pt. 2 a bad sequel. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 21:55
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The Old Testament is one example of many of a sort of history that existed before the idea of formalized history. Others include the Greek and Chinese heroic myths. The idea was to tell an interesting story as well as preserving the past, and push some kind of moral. American history written the same way would involve God smiting Robert Lee and Thomas Jackson for slavery, and Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill tag-teaming Hitler, mind, so it's good to view the Good Book with a bit of historical skepticism. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 13 2004 12:57
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I wouldn't be any race in Avernum. In Exile possibly Vahnatai, so Rentar would find me sexy. <3 -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 13 2004 12:06
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Discouraging someone is generally more excusable when a work -- such as this scenario -- is broken as designed. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |