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Evil Companies in General
Bob's Big Date
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quote:
Originally written by Cherub Rock:

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Why is IBM evil now? It's not their fault they're the only sane company offering personal computers.
What does sanity have to do with quality? Apple's insane, but they offer great computers.

I didn't say that it did. I would assert, however, that Apple's insane leadership harms its quality a lot. The Lisa -- 20 years ago -- should have taught Apple that Jobs ought to have been locked up in a cage and fed using long poles with hooks on them. Now he's the creative force behind the damned company. How about the iMac? A machine with all the mutability of a laptop and all the portability of a desktop? Brilliant idea. It was an even more brilliant idea, apparently, to replace the powerful, direct machines Apple had previously focused on with pretty, power-lacking moron boxen.
The iPod? To paraphrase Penny Arcade, "But it doesn't skip!" "Neither does this. It's padded by about three hundred dollars in cash."

Yeah, that's just great. A company which can tell its ass from a hole in the ground is 'evil', because we all know Apple is a company which ought to be emulated.

Motrax: It's called Google. Look into it.

[ Saturday, August 02, 2003 20:41: Message edited by: **** General Custer ]

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--Bob the Impaler

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Evil Companies in General
Bob's Big Date
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Why is IBM evil now? It's not their fault they're the only sane company offering personal computers.

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Where Are All The Mods? in General
Bob's Big Date
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Anyone who claims that 5-year-olds are 'innocent' has obviously never known a 5-year-old. :P

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--Bob the Impaler

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Spiderweb mention in MSNBC article in General
Bob's Big Date
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The lady doth complain too much, methinks.

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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Where Are All The Mods? in General
Bob's Big Date
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quote:
Originally written by Jake Monroe:

Some people obviously don't want Innocents to be Innocent. Must be why so many kids are learning swear words at younger ages these days.
No, it's because kids learn by imitation, and everyone swears, and always has. If you want to labor under the delusion that 'gosh darn' was ever something a well-adjusted adult trying to be serious has said, go right ahead. I'm not going to stop you.

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--Bob the Impaler

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member #'s in General
Bob's Big Date
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ef just this morning clarified the significance of one of my posts for those less conspicuously Teutonic than herself.

[ Friday, August 01, 2003 16:36: Message edited by: **** General Custer ]

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AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX
...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon.
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Where Are All The Mods? in General
Bob's Big Date
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You see, when you use that reference, you're typically indicating that the person in question is typing/mousing with their right and masturbating with their left. Or vice-versa, if they happen to be left-handed.
As for the ambidextrous, I'm content enough to assume they're by and large asexual and never, ever use their keyboards or mice, just to stay on the safe side.

[ Friday, August 01, 2003 16:30: Message edited by: **** General Custer ]

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Iraqi aftermath in General
Bob's Big Date
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And as we all know, Voulorn is Kaiser Wilhelm II.

As for American nonimmigrant population decreasing, it's always been so. The area now comprising the United States, Canada, and Mexico had a combined population of somewhere around 150-200 million before the first immigrants arrived -- or about the same as that of contemporary China. And we all know what came of that, eh?

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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POLL:An Insane board in General
Bob's Big Date
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Profile Homepage #25
Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium!!!
wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!!!
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
was die Mode streng geteilt!!!
alle Menschen werden Brüder,
wo dein snafter Flügel weilt!!!
Wem der grosse Wurf gelungen,
eines Freundes Freund zu sein!!!
wer ein holdes Weib errungen,
mische seinen Jubel ein!!!


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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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Agh! It's coming! in General
Bob's Big Date
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Not if you are Exile Master, who is special.
Not that I noticed he was gone, anyway.

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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SMoE's ban in General
Bob's Big Date
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Woohoo. The abusive conservative is back. Isn't this fun.

Now that this topic is asked, answered, and thoroughly finished, can someone please do us all a favor and kill it?

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--Bob the Impaler

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Ask everyone anything. in General
Bob's Big Date
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Profile Homepage #71
Why wouldn't it be?

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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SMoE's ban in General
Bob's Big Date
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Profile Homepage #18
'This side toward enemy' is what they put on the business end of claymores. The mines, not the swords. Although if you wanted to be clever, I suppose you could put it on a claymore in the sword sense.

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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Exile games you don't want to play in General
Bob's Big Date
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Any kind of drinking game involving gremlins. This might, on the other hand, be a game you WOULD want to play, if you considered the alcohol in question to be food.

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum
Bob's Big Date
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Profile Homepage #110
I feel uncomfortable with creating this kind of list and history, and here's why:
There are too many histories of the Empire; and any 'official' one would break a lot of good scenarios' plots. If a scenario relies on the Empire collapsing hours after Prazac dubs the party Dervishes, who's going to stop them? There's no canon to argue with that sort of thing. Furthermore, TM and Stareye have both done a great job of filling in backplot, to the point that emperors who aren't even mentioned in Echoes get filled into charts and fleshed out. The priblem is that they're far, far too conclusive; if we are to limit the plot to the confines of the imaginations of Stareye and TM, we might as well limit the creation of scenarios in the Exile and Avernum universes to Stareye and TM.

It's fine and good to make these plotlines, but so far as I can see, only two good, coherent stories about the Empire past the Exile/Avernum series are around, and they're impossible to reconcile with one another. I agree with *i -- we shouldn't create plotlines unilaterally here, and we certainly shouldn't expect anyone to go by them.

TM, in case no one has told you this yet, this is fan fiction. You are not a SW employee; your work might be particularly interesting fan fiction, but it is nonetheless non-canon. You want to create a plotline for your own scenarios, open a topic called 'The Empire According To Echoes'. It's dangerous to a community like this to start calling third-party plotlines canon.

Just my $.02 here.

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The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest.
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Iraqi aftermath in General
Bob's Big Date
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Right, because once Hussein took over the country the water was all tainted by God's wrath.

How did they get three months' worth of food to supply the country beforehand? The press went on and on about Hussein starving his people before the war, and wars always disrupt civilian supply. Always. It's only worse in a country like Iraq, where it's a problem to begin with, and only a few bombs can take areas the size of small US states out of the supply network.

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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The FCC in General
Bob's Big Date
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You silly fool. The Constitution is only a going concern when it stops bad people.

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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How will you choose to rock? in Blades of Avernum
Bob's Big Date
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I'll crash the party and say what I believe to be evil things in mock Swedish.
Perkele!

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United States Conflict Avatars (Cont.) in General
Bob's Big Date
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Profile Homepage #114
How about no?

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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Iraqi aftermath in General
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
Profile Homepage #47
As the Onion put it, "Booooooom! There goes Anchorage!"

[ Sunday, July 27, 2003 17:45: Message edited by: General Custer ]

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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How will you choose to rock? in Blades of Avernum
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
Profile Homepage #19
I wouldn't drive to either if you put a gun to my head.
I honestly think that your selection was too limited, but I would not call Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, and so on 'popular crap'. I wouldn't say that rap and techno require no talent, either, as I have heard truly good rap and techno.
And how well Pink Floyd goes with BoE differs by what years you're talking about, of course. I wouldn't say that the stuff from the Waters years would fit well with Requelle's Nightmares :P

EDIT: I don't listen to music while playing BoE anyway. My computer is too slow, and BoE hurts it bad even without Winamp running.

[ Sunday, July 27, 2003 16:19: Message edited by: General Custer ]

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United States Conflict Avatars (Cont.) in General
Bob's Big Date
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Profile Homepage #111
They've got one of the more impressive militaries in the world, in terms of the country's population and GNP.

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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Looking for a shoulder to cry on... in General
Bob's Big Date
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Profile Homepage #47
quote:
Originally written by Chibidemon Wolf:

Ed has had some...incidents before. It has been some time though. He is propably looking for attention, if anything.

ADoS: Ahh, thanks for clearing that up.

Actually, I was referring to Motrax.

You know, this topic has served its purpose...

[ Sunday, July 27, 2003 12:40: Message edited by: General Custer ]

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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Looking for a shoulder to cry on... in General
Bob's Big Date
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We're not punishing him for having opinions, we're punishing him for being a heel about it. Remind you of anyone?

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In a word, gay.
--Bob the Impaler

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Looking for a shoulder to cry on... in General
Bob's Big Date
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quote:
Originally written by Lemur Industries:

Oh Fück you Imban. I'm voicing my opinion in a constructive way rather then flaming like 99% of the idiots here. Facists, that's all you are. If that's a crime then send me right back to being banned...You can't tell me how to think. Also, TM...You're such a little liar. You are about emotionless as I don't hate every last human being. I've seen you whine and cry and beg and plead to people. You're weak minded, and easy to control. Go back to your wife in Nova Scotia.
For the rest of you:
http://www.geocities.com/sinisterchan/****you.jpg
Gotta copy and paste that into a new window. Stupid Geocities. Words probably going to get blanked out too. You can guess what it is and replace the ****s with it.
God: He will have another and die painfully.
Kyna: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...Oh God that's funny...All those death's huh? BWAHHA. Never ever again...Aaah...life is sweet.
Zephyr: Cats live a very short time. Then they freeze to death during the winter and you find them in a block of ice.
And...for anyone else who's ever lost anyone...Mentioning it just makes my life feel more grand.
-Lemur

Someone obviously thinks he is unique and special, much like a beautiful snowflake, and is very wrong.

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--Bob the Impaler

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