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| Displayed name | Or else o'erleap. |
| Member number | 335 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
| Postcount | 14579 |
| Homepage | http://www.polarisboard.net |
| Registered | Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, November 8 2006 09:40
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Two years is a long time in the fickle arena of public opinion. I'll declare victory when the same thing happens in 2008 and not a moment before. —Alorael, who agrees that the election was a victory for both the Dems and the left. The war's not over, though... especially in Iraq. If that's finished one way or another by next year, who will care in another year? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 8 2006 09:33
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Zelda is the only franchise, and quite possibly the only game, that I'd really miss having (and have missed having) by not owning a Nintendo console. They really lost me after they lost RPGs spectacularly. —Alorael, who doesn't own a DVD player and could therefore justify a PS3 purchase on tha front if he owned any DVDs or was likely to procure some. Alas, hundreds of dollars look like a better investment in future computers. Intel Mac! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Post election gloating in General | |
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written Wednesday, November 8 2006 09:30
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With a change in the House and a potential change in the Senate, although not exactly a dramatic one, I'm looking forward to seeing how the executive branch plays its cards. This is the Republicans' chance to show that Democrats with power ruin everything and the Democrats' chance to show that they can save the world, but I think Bush is something of a liability for both sides at this point. —Alorael, who just noticed that Montana is firmly blue for the Senate while writing this post. He's rather surprised, actually. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Jeff Vogel's View From the Bottom #6 in General | |
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written Tuesday, November 7 2006 12:43
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Ten years ago internet users were probably just about as bad as they are now. Go back to before September 1993 and the average intelligence was much higher. —Alorael, who thinks MMORPGs would be vastly improved by strong AI. Among the other benefits, a Dark Lord run by a human-hating artificial intelligence trapped in a game would be a very scary villain. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Resurgence? in General | |
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written Tuesday, November 7 2006 12:30
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I do believe there is a madness to our method. The turtles feed well tonight! I think the 500th of Leafloss is an especially nice touch, personally. —Alorael, who believes there even may be a methodical madness to the mad methods shown on Spiderweb. And so on and so forth. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 7 2006 12:23
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Against enemies that likely to parry and riposte, namely chitrachs, your über-warriors should be packing bows anyway. —Alorael, who wonders if early testing of Riposte showed that endless riposte loops are no fun at all. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Jeff Vogel's View From the Bottom #6 in General | |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 21:00
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There are still MUDs around. Heck, there are still commercial MUDs around. One might imagine that a text-only medium would keep the idiots at bay, but one need only look at forums to realize that you only need borderline literacy to become a plague upon the internet. —Alorael, who encourages all borderline literate plagues to become highly literate. Every troll dreams of growing up to become a TM! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 20:57
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To tasteful, meaningful posting! —Alorael, who has to admit that this is not a particular meaningful post. It has a message, though, and it's at least several lines long. Remember, if you're in danger of getting hit by flood control, you should probably slow down. Nobody wants repetitive stress injuries. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Click here for Scorpius' corn-dog in General | |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 17:35
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Yes, you certainly are. —Alorael, who thinks Freud would have a field day with this. And everything else. Freud was good at field days. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| The SpiderWebWorld in General | |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 17:06
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Does anyone feel like figuring out which countries are the greatest producers of each element (when applicable) and trying to map our elements onto our countries? This could even become material for great symbolic literature one day... —Alorael, who wonders what other numerous items can be used to describe Spiderwebbers. What kind of food? Animal? Liquid? Common software? Maybe Spiderwebbers should be divided by which kind of list would be most appropriate. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| What have you been reading lately? in General | |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 16:54
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Just finished Speaking With Angels by Michelle West. She's much better at long stories than sort ones. Now I'm bettering myself and my ability to understand written Spanish by reading Fog (or [i]Niebla[/i)] by Miguel de Unamuno. It's a crazy story written by a crazy man, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I'm waiting for the horror of being helpless victims of an author to really sink into the minds of the characters. —Alorael, who probably shouldn't empathize so much with a man who is a caricature of bumbling, good-natured, romantic idiocy. [ Monday, November 06, 2006 17:00: Message edited by: Terminal Being ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| New Bond Movie in General | |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 16:52
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There is a reasonable chance I'll see it one day. I've only seen one Bond movie in a theater, though, and I only went for the company. —Alorael, who does not have great faith in James Bond or in movies. Together they make a beatable combination. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Jeff Vogel's View From the Bottom #6 in General | |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 16:51
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If you really want roleplaying, you want to play a MUD. On the other hand, most people don't actually want to play a MUD, so your results may vary. —Alorael, who absolutely agrees with Jeff that MMORPGs promote addiction without promoting fun. They generally have no plot, no real atmosphere to speak of, and certainly a limited number of people you really want to play with. The mechanics are deliberately repetitive and prolongued. Just think of how many fun things you could do with time sucked into MMORPGs and how much money you could not be spending on monthly fees! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Humans Only in General | |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 16:43
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Space-time collapses as RW approaches infinity. —Alorael, who is pretty sure that things beyond space and time collapse as GC approaches infinity. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 11:43
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We know enough about Ego's beliefs that I think a preemptive war could be justified. —Alorael, who thinks that the alien invasion question deserves more consideration. Humans haven't exactly shown themselves to be wonderful, and there is a lot of misery. There might be a good chance that the net happiness of the universe would increase if humans were eradicated. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 11:39
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War and violence would end if we all had each other's babies! —Alorael, who believes being extremely gravid on a constant basis would make wars much more difficult to pursue. Child support might start a few more battles, though. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 11:36
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There is an Oglai, actually, but it's most definitely not where you want to be before you have a Cryohydra or two shaped. —Alorael, who has not had fun killing the flaming undead shapers in the labs there. The Takers are nuttier than ever! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 08:31
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Fair enough, Tully. Your implication was a foreign power imposing each of your situations, which requires absolute authority. If these situations arose from within I don't think it would be worth fighting. There are better ways to change the system than warfare, especially given that all of these would somehow be under non-despotic forms of government. I still think that these invasions don't arise in a vacuum, though. Don't make the world angry at you and don't make yourself very obviously vulnerable and you can live quite happily without having to defend yourself or fighting aggressive wars for the fun of it. —Alorael, who maintains that the interesting cases are still preemptive defense and interventionism. How many people would change their answers if they and their respective countries were third parties to a dispute between a similar country and whichever forces of potential evil Tully assigned? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 5 2006 22:30
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Thuryl manages to support his "beliefs" nicely and demands real answers to difficult questions. You, Tully, just cause deadlocked debates where nobody has to really rethink their positions on anything and in which nobody can budge an inch because the viewpoints are so completely polarized. —Alorael, who actually likes Thurylian morality. It's refreshing, and nobody can honestly claim never to have wanted to give someone a post-natal abortion given sufficient cause. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 5 2006 22:27
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1. Not possible, and you're confusing state with nation (not that it's unusual). As bad as America has been recently, it's not going to attack other Western powers (or lack of powers). I guess I don't really care here, though. Assuming no one fought for the defending side and there were no deaths, it would be a pretty victimless (war) crime. 2. Depends on the religion and whether I'd have to be more faithful than I am now, which isn't very. Against a fundamentalist regime I'd be willing to fight. But for religion to be imposed we'd have despotism, which is another category. 3. Yes. 4. Economic theories don't fight. For one to be imposed it has to come from popular will, against which I'm unwilling to fight (although I might relocate) or despotism, which falls under category 3. 5. Proletarian uprisings don't happen, and Marx's classes are vast oversimplifications. I don't think this one can be answered because I don't think the question is meaningful without a long discussion of class struggle, the meaning of classes, and the possibility of popular rebellion without specific ringleaders. As I think you've pointed out, rebellions from the bottom never actually invert society: there's always someone at the top. Other 5. For the record, this is the most interesting category. I'd be willing to fight, but again only if these racists were about to seize control. And that would be despotism yet again. 6. Yes. 7. This is a little bit of 2 (ethics instead of religion, but bear with me), a whole lot of 3, and a dash of 4. Yes, I'd gladly take up arms against you, and I think it would be one of the situations that would give me the fewest qualms since your morals strike me as a good recipe for a repeat of the worst political abuses of Soviet and Chinese communism. —Alorael, who thinks most of these questions have the problem of falling under category 3: they're all imposing some kind of society from above, which means some kind of totalitarianism. He also thinks that in stipulating wars of defense you've made it slightly harder for pacifists than overt aggression, but preemptive fighting to make defense easier is where the real moral quandaries lie. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 5 2006 22:10
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Olgai, actually. —Alorael, who had even more fun with the easter egg in the easter egg: say "there's no place like 'eas ter egg'" and you get sent to some very familiar coordinates. He's sure there's a way to Generic Land, but he hasn't figured it out yet. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 5 2006 17:59
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The dynamics of playing as a servile are pretty different, though. The part where you have the other serviles accompanying you is considerably more awkward when you have to heap abuse upon them before they're willing to hurl themselves into certain death because you say so. —Alorael, who likes the grains of truth mixed in with the chunks of lies, damn lies, and statistics. Won't you be surprised when you find out the role that Sex Appeal plays. Or maybe flagellation. Or maybe sending serviles into certain death. Or maybe vahnatai. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 5 2006 12:18
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Perhaps it is a new battle creation. —Alorael, who has made no definite statements. None whatsoever! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 5 2006 11:43
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Since Tullegolar is ignorant of some of the basic premises of our arguments and is apparently willfully so, given that he very loudly ignores all evidence that contradicts his views, this is a futile "debate" that serves only to let people enjoy virtual shouting matches. —Alorael, who supposes that claiming human sapience obligates humans to adhere to higher moral standards is, in Tully's mind, worthless. Of course, according to Tully's view of the world he should be dead and so should just about everyone else here. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 5 2006 10:48
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I consider it unfair for the banned to get the titles that are eternally denied to me. —Alorael, who can see some nice possibilities, though. "Not like folks 'round here" is a good one. So is "Bundle of Joy" for that matter. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |