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Deathmatch has no save and restore. in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 8 2007 17:41 Profile #5
Everyone was thinking it; she's just saying it. ;)
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Long Live the Fighters in Richard White Games
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Thursday, June 7 2007 13:12 Profile #14
Certainly an absolute beast to insure!
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Long Live the Fighters in Richard White Games
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Wednesday, June 6 2007 11:48 Profile #9
Bonus points if you know the source of the quote without recourse to the internet.
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Long Live the Fighters in Richard White Games
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Wednesday, June 6 2007 11:33 Profile #6
The Cthulhu pic was just for flavor. The True White is invisible to mere mortal perception. As such, I decided to find the most beautiful image I possibly could in order to proclaim His glory.

Also, it all depends on what meaning means now, doesn't it? :P
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Long Live the Fighters in Richard White Games
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Wednesday, June 6 2007 07:29 Profile #0
The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning; once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?

IMAGE(http://www.phobos-deimos.com/Cthulhu/cthulhu.jpg)
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The Simplest Path in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Wednesday, May 30 2007 17:38 Profile #5
It's astonishing that you actually just wrote that. Mind the CoC, m'kay?
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Preaching to the Choir in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Tuesday, May 29 2007 13:40 Profile #10
Thank God it's nearer to Cincinnati than Louisville!
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Amateur historians in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Tuesday, May 29 2007 13:29 Profile #17
I would offer up any of the great Greek philosophers (Plato and Aristotle immediately spring to mind), as well as the historians of the era as well (Thuc, Herodotus, etc.). My biggest gripe is a lack of context. Again, I reckon that it's deliberate, because when you bring the wider context of the Mediterranean world into the Judeo-Christian picture, it starts to chip away at the all-encompassing nature of what's presented in the Bible. When you go to Rome and see the depiction of the sacking of the Temple of Jerusalem on the side of the Arch of Titus, you know other factors were involved.

Beyond purely political considerations, accounts of historical natural disasters become suspect as well. The Flood Narrative is particularly suspect - it is pretty much improbable that all the world was covered in a great flood, after all, and just who was this Noah/Atrahasis guy, anyway? By comparison, accounts of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius are fairly well detailed, even by today's standards.

(I guess for me, I'd have an easier time with religion if it were a little more willing to rely on reason.)
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Amateur historians in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Monday, May 28 2007 05:24 Profile #14
Hence the implied sarcasm. That said, I find there are many other texts either contemporaneous or pre-dating the Bible that are markedly more cogent, coherent, and evolved in philosophical thought. Granted, being coherent or cogent probably wasn't ever the point of it. It does, however, leave many, many events out that were readily available to provide context.

[ Monday, May 28, 2007 05:25: Message edited by: Drew ]
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Spiderweb in PC Gamer magazine in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, May 25 2007 11:17 Profile #5
I don't know that we have a word for that. Probably the simple "vendor" would be closest.
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Release the old games as freeware? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, May 25 2007 11:06 Profile #20
Study: 38 Percent Of People Not Actually Entitled To Their Opinion
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Amateur historians in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, May 25 2007 11:02 Profile #8
Caveat lector. [flame]You know, I found the same thing to be true about another book - the Bible.[/flame]
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Regulations in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Tuesday, May 22 2007 17:25 Profile #17
I think it's more a matter of the reason side calling the religious side stupid, consequently causing the religious side to be unwilling to listen to "reason." Rinse, repeat, and it's a self-sustaining circle, at least normally here in General.
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It's About Time in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Sunday, May 20 2007 18:55 Profile #26
I was really hoping for Diablo 3, but Starcraft 2 should be a good time. Here's to hoping it's laptop friendly and not too computer resource-intensive. :(
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Pen and Paper Anyone? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Sunday, May 20 2007 18:52 Profile #35
Kudos for playing a character with a 4 STR; my question then is: what was your character doing directly confronting opponents? Presumably the character was a wizard of some sort. Where was the meat shield?
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Moderators in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Thursday, May 17 2007 17:33 Profile #11
quote:
Originally written by Aranking:

If you have to ask, then it's not going to happen to you.
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Costuming Ideas in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Thursday, May 17 2007 08:25 Profile #4
You could just go as a Mieville-inspired Remade from New Crobuzon. Man, "Perdido Street Station" was cool.
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To the moon in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Thursday, May 17 2007 08:23 Profile #71
Or, perhaps more relevantly, physics to legislators.
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Pen and Paper Anyone? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Thursday, May 17 2007 03:58 Profile #32
A point-buy system allowing all 15s is broken. A part of the challenge to DMing (and really, it's an art) is balancing the campaign to accommodate what the players have to work with and how they can develop their characters. One of my favorite campaigns featured a character with a 6 Con in a desert setting; how the player dealt with that was half the fun. A good campaign should be very character-driven; otherwise, it's just:

IMAGE(http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/images/lollipop%2520guild.jpg)

...and you may as well be level and item grinding in Diablo 2.

[ Thursday, May 17, 2007 04:02: Message edited by: Drew ]
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Pen and Paper Anyone? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Tuesday, May 15 2007 04:26 Profile #12
My fave probably is 2nd Edition AD&D, and my favorite setting is the World of Greyhawk, for its less magic-infused nature. My favorite character ever probably was a thief named Honor, for whom I rolled an 18 charisma, and had loads of fun roleplaying, especially when he got into late mid levels and so became much less powerful than the other PCs, proportionately.
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To the moon in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Tuesday, May 15 2007 04:19 Profile #40
quote:
Originally written by Bandit Keith:

On a sidenote, for the most part, we don't need something to replace oil. Right now, we have solutions for ending our dependence on oil. We just need to find a way to incorporate them. Yes, them. Individually, no single one is enough. Only by combining different forms of renewable energy can end our dependence on fossil fuels.
I'm pretty sure that jet aircraft can't be powered by biodiesel. Unless we're all fine with going back to turboprops, I think the air travel will be hit pretty hard by depletion of fossil fuels.
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To the moon in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Monday, May 14 2007 03:35 Profile #25
We don't launch toxic waste into space because of the risk it might explode in atmosphere. Talk about a dirty bomb!
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College, majors, etc. in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, May 11 2007 14:59 Profile #19
I majored in Classical Languages in undergrad, initially as a means of learning what the Bible actually said, and then as a result of that learning eventually abandoning Christianity altogether as a bad idea. Thank you, Ancient Rome! :) Seriously though, if I had it all to do over again, I would have double-majored in comp sci and econ, or maybe math and econ. If you're serious about a career outside of the very tight world of academia, you'll want to have something marketable. (On the other hand, classical languages has been pretty good background and training for law school, which is my current nemesis.)

I think the most important thing is to start college without any severe preconceived notions of what you want to do. I felt like I needed to do that, and started out as a double-degree vocal music performance and physics major, and as you can see, neither of those lasted. However, they did have the effect of eating up a lot of my electives that in retrospect I would rather have used for exploring other interests.

Also, the community college move is a solid one, and no shame in it, ADoS. Taking a couple of years to explore those electives and figure out your direction is time and money well-spent.
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Got ethics? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Monday, May 7 2007 10:05 Profile #17
So it's guilt in knowing that you wouldn't perform a rescue for just anyone. This isn't anything to feel guilty about though.

I forget who said it, but I think there's something true to the sentiment that if we were held accountable for our thoughts, everyone would be locked away. Fortunately for all of us, it's only our acts that count.

As for knowing that you wouldn't resuce someone you don't know, where's the shame in that? Society praises heroes, but it does not require heroism. More often than not, such acts simply result in increasing the number of victims in a tragedy. If you perceive a legitimate risk to your own life in attempting to save another and choose not to act, I don't think anyone could fault you for making that choice.
Posts: 2242 | Registered: Saturday, April 10 2004 07:00
Got ethics? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Sunday, May 6 2007 14:39 Profile #15
quote:
Originally written by Thin Air:

I think that you more or less did save a loved one, whether or not it actually was that person. You believed it to be, and you saved them. So you deserve credit for that.
Why would the credit, whether the rescuee is a loved one or no, not be deserved? The point is that the rescuer would get credit for rescuing a person, period.
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