Profile for Stugri-La
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| Displayed name | Stugri-La |
| Member number | 3521 |
| Title | Guardian |
| Postcount | 1798 |
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| Registered | Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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| Preprimary Poll in General | |
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Guardian
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written Wednesday, June 29 2005 13:00
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Hmm. Tough call, but here's my preliminary split: 11 votes to Alec, probably the single candidate closest to me in policy. He'd do a damn fine job. And 14 votes to me. I would like to support Thuryl as well, but he doesn't appear to need my help. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Elections: The Registration Thread in General | |
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written Tuesday, June 28 2005 16:46
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quote:Well, the thread that you're looking for is probably this one. It contains most of the campaign speeches, and most of the relevant election banter. The elections ought to take place soon. I feel as though this whole thing is losing steam, and losing the attention of the board community as well. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| THE GREAT DEBATE, PART III in General | |
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written Tuesday, June 28 2005 16:40
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Perhaps he feels that the debate has run its course. You two have discussed quite a bit, and wasn't that the sole purpose of having a debate in the first place? I mean, I'm sure you were aware at the start of this that neither of you was going to change the other's mind, so the only point of this from the beginning was to flesh out the issue and have an in-depth discussion. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Drakel and Eraserhead in General | |
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written Tuesday, June 28 2005 14:25
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It does strike me, though, that he's been guilty of quite a lot "worse" in the past. It's not as though he's been acting out in any particular fashion in recent times. Why ban him now after letting him do his thing for so long? It seems inconsistent to me. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| What do you believe.... in General | |
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written Tuesday, June 28 2005 12:23
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TR's my personal favorite, but FDR held sway in a time of far greater turmoil and uncertainty. The same goes for Lincoln. Alec's top four list sounds reasonable. I agree with his sentiments regarding Jackson, as well. He was a hugely adept politician who had an uncanny mastery over the passions of the common man, but his policies were suspect and frequently contradictory. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Worst Spiderweb Game in General | |
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written Tuesday, June 28 2005 11:57
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Homeland is the worst, of course. We didn't need a poll to figure this one out. If this poll concerned only the Vogel originals, the results might be a bit more enlightening. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Cracker Jack and the Missing Peanuts in General | |
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written Tuesday, June 28 2005 11:41
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There's a running debate taking place here regarding french fries as well, it seems. I remember enjoying Cracker Jacks in my childhood, but I haven't had them in a long time. I'm not much for sweets as a rule. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| i believe the small guy is coming back strong in General | |
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written Monday, June 27 2005 18:41
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quote:It seems that you haven't had the opportunity to peruse my grade reports over the past three years. From personal experience, intelligence and success in school/career are not perfectly correlated. Also, not all intelligent individuals are also intellectuals. I don't consider myself an intellectual, as I don't possess the lust for learning and knowledge required for that distinction. I vastly prefer activities that require little or no thinking at all. [ Monday, June 27, 2005 18:50: Message edited by: Stugri-La ] -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| How did you first see or hear about spiderweb games? in General | |
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written Monday, June 27 2005 17:40
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I've explained the sequence of events that originally led me here many, many times. Anyway... I was exploring Download.com's games section around the summer of 2001 when I noticed Avernum 3 and decided to give it a try. I liked the demo very much, and proceeded to acquire the demo versions of A2, A1, GF2, and GF1. The first SW game I purchased was GF2, around the fall of 2003. I found these forums very much by accident while looking around for hints for GF2. The rest, of course, is history. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| The best thing about the Internet is... in General | |
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written Monday, June 27 2005 17:22
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quote:...although for me it would be the availability of files in general, with music files being the greatest asset. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Differences between countries, cultural and otherwise. in General | |
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written Sunday, June 26 2005 16:44
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quote:Sounds to me as if life in Canberra is probably damn fun, actually. All a matter of viewpoint, I suppose. :P As for the weather, I could certainly handle it. I've lived my entire life in the "Windy City," after all. [ Sunday, June 26, 2005 16:48: Message edited by: Stugri-La ] -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Elections: The Registration Thread in General | |
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written Sunday, June 26 2005 16:31
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About 60 voters, not sixty votes. There are only so many votes available to each voter as there are candidates in the election. I believe there are about 25 candidates. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 21:19
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quote:Well, er, in that case, um, I'll just acquire a taste for all three! Yes! -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| A Trip to the Confessional in Richard White Games | |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 21:13
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I was forced to state that I had registered Lost Souls, as well. Unless White manages to drug me up on LSD and then put me in front of a computer, it's quite, quite unlikely that I'll ever consider registering any one of the RWGs. I've played through the Homeland demo on my dad's PC before, and found it to be not quite so bad as I had assumed. The graphics were ambitious, if somewhat shoddy, and the game music was almost interesting. Having a dog as a pack mule and fighting companion was an interesting touch. That said, the gameplay was phenominally horrible, especially in combat. To say that Homeland combat system is real-time combat at its worst would be an understatement. And accumulating money to purchase better equipment is a truly mind-numbing process, requiring the killing and skinning of countless hundreds of snakes in a massive orgy of mindless bloodletting. I've never played past the registration barrier, but I remember an old member, X, describe what he found after registering it out of curiosity. Unsurprisingly, he said the game continued in much the same vein for some time, and after allowing it to eat up several hours of his time, he finally ran into a bug that prevented him from finishing the game. A fitting conclusion to a deadly dull playing experience, it seems. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 20:26
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It seems, by those criteria, that I am most certainly in the wrong area of the world. Take me to Australia, where I rightfully belong! I'll even switch to Fosters, in good faith. :P [ Saturday, June 25, 2005 20:26: Message edited by: Stugri-La ] -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| I want to frolic in General | |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 20:19
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quote:Anyone who would harbor such misconceptions about your character would need only to taste a few of your cookies to be set straight. :P -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Old physics question in General | |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 19:56
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quote:All members of this family of terms possess the suffix -agot. "Largot" is clearly ineligible. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Are stereotype's "bad"? in General | |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 19:51
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I only bother with philosophical writings in which the author's message is clear as day. I tend to despise subtlety in writing, as I'm very poor at catching non-explicit statements. When I'm reading a philosophical or religious text I tend to analyze on the fly, accepting or rejecting statements as they come. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Your gift or talent in General | |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 15:22
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I can kick a good distance above my head, but I can't get to my face. I'm only freakishly flexible when it comes to limbo. The only time I can remember losing was against a girl who looked more than a foot shorter than me. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Best Games in General | |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 15:03
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I voted for Nethergate, as usual. I don't own BoE. Once I decide to make a concerted effort to adapt myself to the interface, it will likely become my favorite. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Great Debate Live? in General | |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 14:24
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It seems unlikely that we'll ever manage to get a significant number of candidates to attend a live chat at any particular time. We're just a bit too spread out over time zones, I suppose. Probably a better idea to just keep the debating and electioneering on the boards. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 24 2005 20:41
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That thread title doesn't seem at all fitting to the content of the post. An area's culture cannot be adequately described by simply discussing the nature of its currency and laws. You have to dig deeper than that. That said, I can describe the American currency system for those who are unfamiliar with it. In terms of bills, they are made out of specially formulated paper here, and are all a similar pale-green shade. The higher-value bills ($20 and up) are treated with special inks to create watermark effects and the like to stymie counterfeiters. In terms of the faces on the bills: $1: George Washington $2 (quite rare): Thomas Jefferson $5: Abraham Lincoln $10: Alexander Hamilton $20: Andrew Jackson $50: Ulysses S. Grant $100: Benjamin Franklin Bills larger than $100 are being phased out by the U.S. Treasury, I believe. It's rare to see a bill of larger value than $100. Where coins are concerned, I'm not sure of the exact metal composition of the different coins. Perhaps someone more well-versed can cover that information. The faces on coins: 1 cent (penny): Abraham Lincoln 5 cents (nickel): Thomas Jefferson 10 cents (dime): Franklin D. Roosevelt 25 cents (quarter): George Washington 50 cents (half-dollar): John F. Kennedy 1 dollar (silvery color, with distinct edges and sides): Susan B. Anthony, famed women's suffragist. 1 dollar (newer coin, golden color, larger, circular): Sacagewea, a historical Native American woman. There are also a few specialty coins. One that comes to mind is the Mercury Dime, an ordinary-sized dime with a portrait of the Greek God Hermes (winged helmet and all) instead of Roosevelt. I'll leave it to others to describe our voting system and governmental organization. [ Friday, June 24, 2005 20:52: Message edited by: Stugri-La ] -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 24 2005 20:37
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I won't be able to make it on Monday, as I've got a major exam that evening and will need the time to study. I'll be free afternoons and evenings the rest of the week, though. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
| Avernum I: The Movie in General | |
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written Friday, June 24 2005 20:32
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I wouldn't bother with an Avernum movie. As has been mentioned, the games are too open-ended and meandering to translate well to screen without alterations. If a Fallout movie was ever made, though, I'd be there in a second. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, June 24 2005 20:02
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quote:I think Drakey's waiting for TGM to make such a promise on his own volition. As far as I know, TGM hasn't yet apologized or formally requested that he be reinstated. I wish he would. :( -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |