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How do we pronounce... in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 06:18 Profile #56
Or brown sauce. I love that stuff. Still, there's nothing quite like worcestershire sauce as a marinade for grilled burgers or steaks! :)
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A Picture is Worth... in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 04:21 Profile #18
This is probably my favorite picture that says it all better than any story could:

IMAGE(http://www.saao.ac.za/~wpk/gallery/signs/shcool.jpg)

It cracks me up every time I see it. :)
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What is yours favuorite in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 04:18 Profile #36
quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Oderint dum metuant.
Indeed. :)
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In only 139 days. in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 04:13 Profile #16
Congrats! In celebration, here's one of my favorite WWII era propaganda posters:

IMAGE(http://www.phaster.com/road_trips/ride_with_hitler.jpg)
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Recommended Reading in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Monday, June 13 2005 08:20 Profile #52
Long Dark Tea Time is probably the most humorous book I've ever read. Not all of it is wonderful, but there are several spots in it so hilarious, I had to stop reading for a moment in order to read through the laughter.

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What is yours favuorite in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Monday, June 13 2005 06:19 Profile #4
IMAGE(http://www.metalsmith.org/gall/latane/lock.jpg)

Please?
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What's your sex? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Monday, June 13 2005 05:56 Profile #147
quote:
Originally written by BF7:

Google is the best search engine made.

A "googol" is a term for the number 10 raised to the 100th power.

Just though I'd point that out. ;)
Wow, I guess you sure showed me on my spelling error there. Way to go.

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My point, though, was there is more than enough ways to store any and all the data humans could hope to create at the present point. Well, meaningful data, anyway.
That's great, but it isn't infinite, which was the original point.
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Just because :) in General
Drew
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 written Monday, June 13 2005 04:33 Profile #26
quote:
Originally written by if moniker == dall OR din:

New South Wales - if you don't know where that is, you're most likely an American (no offense) or from somewhere equally isolated from the rest of the world. Either way, you should learn.
I agree that people should learn. However, if most of the rest of the world doesn't know where New South Wales is, who's isolated?

I live in Arlington, Virginia, but work (and usually post) from downtown Washington, DC. My heart, however, is in Kentucky.
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What's your sex? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Saturday, June 11 2005 06:11 Profile #143
In fact, a google or a trillion for all intents and purposes are infinitely small drops in the bucket of infinity. :) Don't tell the Indian hamsters that, though.
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How do we pronounce... in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Saturday, June 11 2005 06:08 Profile #37
I don't think they do, Kel.

I still don't know how to pronounce Worcestershire Sauce correctly. Following what I've picked up from learning to pronounce "Leicester" correctly, I figure it would be something like "worstershire sauce." Still a bit confusing to this American, though. :)
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My New Forum in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Saturday, June 11 2005 05:56 Profile #4
Wow Ash, that was pretty brutal. Why don't we keep it civil - it's not like he's TM or anything. ;)

JadeWolf, I would point out that it's likely you'll receive little to no traffic on your sight. Essentially you're asking only people from this forum - the Spiderweb community - to participate on your forum. Given that we're all already here, there's no incentive to use yours. In addition, though I don't personally feel one way or the other about you, you haven't cultivated the greatest reputation while you've been here, which further reduces anyone's incentive to participate on your boards.

I appreciate your energy though. Perhaps it would be better spent designing a scenario? Just a thought. :)
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What's your sex? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 16:57 Profile #137
w00t!

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Price in Blades of Exile
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 16:41 Profile #7
Fair enough.

EDIT: Ben, obviously I'm aware of the sizable demos. I wasn't suggesting he let the game go for free. Were he to offer it instead for, say, ten bucks, I think he'd manage to sell a lot more of it. That's all.

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Price in Blades of Exile
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 12:00 Profile #2
You know, JV really ought to bring the price on his older games down a bit. I can't imagine his sales are that great for the Exile series when the Avernums are available for virtually the same price. I think he'd actually sell a lot more if he dropped the prices a bit. Law of Supply and Demand, and all that, you know?
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What's your sex? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 11:54 Profile #134
At least those hamsters will have food. Think about all those jobless Indian hamsters that have to try scratching out a living in the fields. Dire indeed.
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Magic: the Gathering in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 11:50 Profile #13
Nettling Imp/Royal Assassin and Nettling Imp/Sorcerous Queen-to-feed-the-Sengir-vampire were also fun tactics.

Of course, if anyone got the circle of protection: black out, I was hosed. But that's just the way it went, and was why I'd include a couple artifact creatures in my deck, on the off-chance I'd be able to spare myself.

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Magic: the Gathering in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 11:11 Profile #11
Ah, but back in the day (meaning ten years ago) you could have a forty card deck, no more than four of any card, and dark ritual was legit. The most valued card at that time was the black lotus.

Funny they'd make a card that they'd later ban.

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What's your sex? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 11:08 Profile #131
It's probably just the hamster trying to gnaw his way out, having become fed up with powering the device on his wheel.
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What's your sex? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 09:51 Profile #128
In theory. :)

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ROLL CALL in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 09:38 Profile #3
ANDREW MILLER!!!

FOR IMBANTURE!!!

NOT YET, BUT SOON - JUST FIVE MORE SURGERIES!!!

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Magic: the Gathering in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 08:58 Profile #9
I found a forty card deck was the way to go - you'd have a higher probability of getting the cards you'd need to execute whichever gimmick you could afford.

For me, it was a black deck with Dark Rituals (Instant, spend one black mana to gain three black mana), Sengir Vampires (two black three colorless, 4/4, flying, some other perk), and Hypnotic Spectres (two black one colorless, 2/2, flying, every hit on opponent causes opponent to discard one random card from his hand to the graveyard). If I lucked out and got two dark rituals in my hand the first round, I could have the vampire out immediately, and that could end the game pretty quickly. Two hypnotic spectres early on would also eliminate options for the opponent pretty quickly too.

Of course, this method has probably been completely invalidated by now. The fact that I remember even this much is discouraging. :)
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What's your sex? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 07:52 Profile #124
Ah, but which of the turings would you be circling in?

Turing definitely seems to be of use, though I'm afraid it will find less use than our friend the gerund, which I engaged at the start of this sentence. Still, you have to admit: turture is cool, though it may seem a bit turturous.

EDIT: Out of curiosity, what uni are you at, SoT?

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What's your sex? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 07:35 Profile #122
This is fast turning into a turing circus.

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What's your sex? in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 06:37 Profile #119
They should be betas as opposed to b's though, shouldn't they?

Does the "10010" signify anything?

Tricksy Thuryl - ture isn't a verb.

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Twilight Princess in General
Drew
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Member # 4233
 written Friday, June 10 2005 06:24 Profile #30
Just fixed my link. :)
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