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| Displayed name | Student of Trinity |
| Member number | 3431 |
| Title | Electric Sheep One |
| Postcount | 3335 |
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| Registered | Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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| Spiderweb Games.Is It Just Me? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, September 26 2006 06:55
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While we're having this love-in, GF4 is looking very good to me, and remarkably fresh for a fourth installment. I'm pretty sure Jeff won't sue me over breaking non-disclosure to say that. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Geneforge 4 FAQ? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, September 24 2006 23:12
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Well, you're the right guy for the job. But I bet that the G4 walkthrough will be a long one. It's a complicated game. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| help with "The Canterbury Tales" in General | |
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written Friday, September 22 2006 22:12
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Well, it wouldn't have gotten past the censors if they had written it in modern English. Middle English was all about beating porn filters. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, September 22 2006 12:04
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Asterix. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, September 22 2006 11:51
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Originally written by J. Robert Oppenheimer: quote: -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| 2006 Candidates in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, September 22 2006 05:34
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quote:That's the other thing about lawyers. They're pretty quick with concise and incisive arguments. I'm afraid I have practically no views about US political candidates. As a Canadian living in the US, I was sometimes an interested spectator in the pageant of American politics, but I always figured that it was up to the Americans to get it right. Nation building by foreigners never really works. Now that I'm living in Germany, I'm even more disconnected from politics, because my German isn't yet fluent enough to follow any debate without a lot of effort, and I have even less confidence that I appreciate the local context. On the other hand, not having lived in Canada for twelve years, I feel out of touch with Canadian politics too. So I've become pretty apolitical, through nomadism. Maybe if I really stay put this time, I'll eventually become a passionate Grün or something. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 21 2006 08:23
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Demonstrating how lawyers are willing to defend the patently wicked. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Mined crystals (Geneforge 2) in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, September 21 2006 08:15
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Mined crystals are another type of crystal, distinct from the flawed, lovely and beautiful natural ones. You find them around, especially in mines. Sharon's garden shed has Purified Essence, as does one of Phariton's storerooms. [ Thursday, September 21, 2006 08:16: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 20 2006 20:25
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Hmmm. It has been a long time since I lived in a country in which I was a citizen and could vote. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| help with "The Canterbury Tales" in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 20 2006 20:20
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From 1066 And All That, by W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman. Beoleopard; or, The Witan's Whail Whan Cnut Cyng the Witan wold enfeoff Of infanthief and outfangthief Wonderlich were they enraged And wordwar waged. Sware Cnut great scot and lot Swingë wold ich this illbegotten lot. Wroth was Cnut and wrothword spake. Well wold he win at wopantake. Fain wold he brakë frith and crakë heads And than they shold worshippe his redes. Swingèd Cnut Cyng with swung sword Howlèd Witanë hellë but harkened his word Murië sang Cnut Cyng Outfangthief is damgudthyng. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day! in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 20 2006 20:09
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Well, there are always The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. We are the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. We just stay home, and lie around. And if you ask us to do anything, We'll just tell you, We don't do anything. There are several inane verses. The original version, sung by a cast of CG vegetables, is the best. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| What have you been reading lately? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 20 2006 20:01
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Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island and Kidnapped are his best known stories. It is tempting to call the former the originator of the pirate genre, but in fact pirate stories were popular in the generation before it, and Stevenson distilled them all into one of the best stories ever told. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Brief Geneforge 4 Update in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 20 2006 10:41
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I'm afraid I can't afford to make it 256 times easier for my enemies. They are rough characters. [ Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:41: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day! in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 20 2006 02:29
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Well, when you have to endure life at sea, even pirates need some form of naval tradition. With the lash out of favor among freebooting crews, you can't rely entirely on rum to pick up the slack, or your guys all fall out of the rigging. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Sex! Yay! in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, September 19 2006 23:27
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Building a church would be pretty hard, in fact, but I'm pretty sure you don't need to do it, since plenty of church congregations meet in homes or rented halls. Inventing a decent body of ritual and dogma isn't so easy, either; but do you really have to do that? After all, what outsiders are qualified to judge the authenticity of your religion's rituals and dogmas? So what do you really have to do to found a religion? By some arguable definitions, popularizing Talk Like a Pirate Day is founding a religion; so let's interpret 'founding a religion' to mean that you have a corporation and you want to get it treated by the tax authorities in the same way that churches (which I think are also legally corporations) are treated. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Spiderweb Art Movement. in General | |
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written Tuesday, September 19 2006 21:04
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quote:Yeah, on this I actually agree with Alec. Saying that Elijah's piece was my favorite was a bit faint; to me this one is in a different league from all the rest of our stuff here. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, September 19 2006 21:00
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There is nothing wrong with rhyme or meter. For the writer they enforce some discipline and make a challenging puzzle. For the reader, they're just cool. And the first and only necessary duty of poetry is to sound cool. Of course, poems that scan awkwardly and are full of dearly bought rhymes are bad. The problem is not the form, but the badness. Poems that are scarcely parsable, but fit some strict form, are also bad as art. As an alternative to Sudoku for the writer, they're fine, and probably instructive. One way to get better at writing poetry is to practice fumbling through the language. Neither is sounding like anything else particularly a problem. Plenty of great poets, with famously distinctive voices, have some poems that sound a bit like other people. Another good Milton sonnet would be great, no matter who wrote it. And a lot of the worst poetry I've ever read could claim novelty. So I would be pleased as punch to have written a poem that sounded like Eliot with a head injury. To me that would be cool. But I'm fairly familiar with Eliot (except for his unpublished pornographic epic, which I've never seen) and I really don't see the connection. Care to cite any bits of Eliot that you think my poem sounds like, Alec? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, September 19 2006 20:29
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quote:Only Julius Caesar. All other elite are fat and bored. Don't you read Asterix? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, September 19 2006 20:25
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Heh, kind of like the 'tourist' class in (what game was it? Angband? No, Nethack, definitely.). And for a graphic, just use the 'normal human' ones. Even with choices of race and sex. You would just be a normal dude, caught up in it all. But it's easy to play a handicapped character if you want to. Just don't use all your skill points. EDIT: Thanks to Thuryl for the immediately following information. I can ill afford to enrage either of these communities, for I bear an uncanny resemblance to an ASCII character. [ Wednesday, September 20, 2006 00:49: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, September 19 2006 12:34
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Does it make sense to call corporations the 'bored fat rich elite' of today? I'd say, hardly. They're often rich, but they are usually owned by some aggregate of mutual funds who are owned collectively by all sorts of nobodies, including me. More importantly, probably, they are mostly only rich by giving the mass of people what they want in the way of products. In this sense they have no power at all: if people all just decide to buy something else, the corporation dies. Which often happens. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, September 19 2006 12:22
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That would depend on whether it's functional or obligate. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, September 19 2006 10:42
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These are all quite good. My favorite so far is Elijah's. I haven't written much for years, and I'm not sure where my notes of old poems are. Since there have already been a couple of sonnets, here's one I remember, close enough. So say of living water where it welled, From what deep rock. How many hearts are stone? But some do say of love that they have known Its secrets manifold and mercy-held. Then say of heaven's furnace when it burned Dead wood to ash. Or say, all flesh is dust; As some do say of love, it's painted lust, and cannot live for long if unreturned. And tell me of the whirlwind why it blows In vicious circuits. Oh, the world goes round; But if you listen you can hear the sound Of petals tearing, wind-whipped, from the rose. Then tell me of the earth how it abides. Oh say of living water where it hides. [ Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:44: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, September 19 2006 09:54
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Mmmm, chicken apples. Like crab apples? [ Tuesday, September 19, 2006 09:55: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, September 19 2006 08:38
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quote:Me too. But then if I didn't like what I saw, I'd like to be able to close the door and go back about my business. Doesn't seem to work that way. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, September 18 2006 13:38
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I'm funded from taxes levied by a liberal democracy, mostly on its broad middle class. So is most science, except for pharmaceuticals; and so it has been for a couple of centuries or so. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |