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The New Game in Nethergate
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 written Tuesday, July 27 2004 19:43 Profile #11
Icshi, thanks for the link. I'll check it out.

I think you might as well forget the idea of Jeff buying the rights for any work. He's got a small company as it is without getting into the mess of buying rights.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Tuesday, July 27 2004 19:40 Profile #4
There are piercing crystals. I played as the Romans so I needed them quite a bit. You may find some lying around, but I can't remember where.
But you can buy. Where? Vanarium, I think. Faerie Bazaar I'm pretty sure.
But my info is a bit hazy.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Tuesday, July 27 2004 19:33 Profile #9
Jumps into the bandwagon.
Gongrats Stug.
Jumps off the bandwagon.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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What did you last eat? in General
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 written Tuesday, July 27 2004 19:30 Profile #39
Fried platano (think banana), a Polar and some 'shrooms that should start kicking in soon.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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favorite monster in The Exile Trilogy
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 written Monday, July 26 2004 20:00 Profile #2
Toss up between Black Shade and Guardian, because I hate them too much.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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The New Game in Nethergate
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 written Monday, July 26 2004 19:59 Profile #8
Great picture.

Romans in Mars would be great. I think if it were written in the old style pulp it would be terrific.
There's a series by Turtledove called The Lost Legion about a Roman Legion that is transported to his world of Videssos. Neat stuff.

I've posted earlier what I think could happen with the Romans in N2: a small band managed to make it through and has to survive in the world beyond the gate, offering possibilities for the Romans to be the underdogs and have to survive by making the right alliances.

But N2 could very well deal with a subject outside of Roman interest. It might deal with different factions of faeries from different mythologies as they co-exist with each other.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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What did you last eat? in General
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 written Monday, July 26 2004 19:43 Profile #17
Chicken, rice and a coke.
And what wouldn't I give for a Guinnes, or any kind of ale or bitter. Third world country. Blech.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Monday, July 26 2004 19:08 Profile #24
Alec: Do you think there's something in that Starbucks coffee? Just a coincidence that so many who gather around there have those thoughts? Probably not the coffee, I guess.

I don't know how this fashions get started. A couple of people think it's fine and a bunch of others follow like sheep.

I suppose it's unavoidable to fall into pits of blinding following, and some are fine, but others. . .

Haven't read that poem so I can't comment. But as far as Elliot. . . in my opinion he wasn't that much of a good poet to begin with. I sometimes wonder if his work just fell in with the "right" crowd. Sign of the times and all that.

Stug: I liked your poem, man.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Monday, July 26 2004 19:02 Profile #52
spy.there: so thing work fine in Switzerland? Are the two parties very different from each other? Or do the differences merge or muddle more often than not?
Heard good things about the quality of life in Switzerland. Care to comment?

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Monday, July 26 2004 10:21 Profile #19
Alec, did you see "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"? What did you think?

About this post. I liked T.S. Eliot for about a semester way back then.
Like Auden. Yeats. Lorca. Neruda. Sor Teresa de la Cruz. And most of the rest is medieval poetry which is what I end up reading if I pick a poetry book, from whatever country. If I can understand it, great.

Oh, and here is a NOT poem:

Life is a game, dice rolling at the edge of infinity
Life is a song, Seraphim raining stoic dances.
Life is a mystery, a Rubick's cube of kaleidoscopic fancies.
Life is a jest, forgotten gods lying in rest.
Life is a novel, a love poem in-between lines of hate.
Life is a film, hope trapped in celluloid loops.
Life is a painting, surrealistic chiarouscuros imprisoned with friends.
Life is a memory, a wondrous moment unstuck in time.
Life is a dance, justice swinging with discord.
Life is a dream, a moebius strip illusions and regrets.
Life is a thought, spontaneous combustion of a muse.
Life is a smile, a mighty stream split in eddies of apathy.
Life is a tear, an ocean of despair drowned by a serendipitous snowflake.
Life is a lie, a fairy-tale princess raped by her make-believe fate.
Life is a promise, a fallen knight jousting his shattered faith.
Life is a candle, a spurious candle extinguished by foolish deeds.
Life is hide and seek between sorrow and bliss.
Life is a simple word: Life.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Monday, July 26 2004 09:57 Profile #7
Congrat TGM!!!
ADSL is a neat thingie. I'm on it and the computer is slaving for me all day long downloading songs, games and some other things.
It's a good thing.
May you enjoy the your godlike power.
Yay!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Monday, July 26 2004 09:54 Profile #54
I think that karma in the board is like in life. It may go up and down, many times without you being able to do a darned thing about it. But, generally, if you are nice enough it will swing your way eventually.
On the other hand you can be the nicest person and no one will notice or will treat you like crud just 'cause you're an easy target.
You may be a total jerk-a-doodle and people will somehow respect you for it.
That's life.
It's a shame you got so many negative votes at first, ben, you seemed like a good guy. Maybe it was the political views. Maybe it was someone who had an inordinate hatred for the number 4808 because it reminded that person of the number of peeled pickles that were thrown at him/her by a marauding army of enhanced mandrils after that person tried to rob the Fort Knox (yeah those critters are one of the many defenses the place has, just goes to show you that James Bond doesn't teach you everything you need to know in life)
I've voted for some people based on the posts I saw of them throughout the boards. Some I couldn't vote for because the option was disabled.
In the end, though, it's all nothing more than a signal, if that at all.
Who you are and how people see you is reflected in what you write and they write about you, if anything.
I guess kind of like life in a way too.
I'll babble no more.
There's the cutest little ruisegnor flying in my window and I'm gonna se if I can teach it to sing the Ninth.
Salud!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Monday, July 26 2004 09:14 Profile #49
How do people feel about the two party system in the U.S? Evidently it has been your staple since the dawn of Democracy over there.
But I was wondering if you were aware of groups of people (increasing or not) that would like to create a third party that could gain prominence.
I'm think about such independents such as Perot who was able to achieve a certain degree of popularity.

It seems to me that these days when the line that divides Republicans and Democrats seems to get fuzzier all the time (at least it seems so from outside the country) if there is a possibility of a third party growing strong as years go by.

Salud!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Friday, July 23 2004 20:14 Profile #13
In Venezuela there is a bit of a urine drinking fetish--don't think of it as a you know what fetish because it isn't that way and by the gods in the firmament that is a topic that has nothing to do with this!--by that I mean, a good number of people do it. I've no idea of the percentage, but it comes up in conversations from time to time.

Also, you will see people going to what passes for talk shows here and speaking of the wonderful properties of urine drinking.

Also, the Curanderos(as), think """witch""" doctors, also offer urine as part of the cures. They also offer a bunch of other really freaky stuff. Egh.

What I have heard is that it's okay if you drink it as long as it is yours.

I had an anecdote about this but shall not say anything. You will sleep better not knowing that, and I shall sleep better knowing you don't know.

But I've heard it tastes worse than warm beer. Acidic and needless to say warm.

I'm glad, Rosy, that here we don't have too many goths. I am so glad. So glad. There are a few, but not quite like the U.S.

Now maybe some Curandera(o) somewhere will invent another magical cure that mixes urine with blood (both your own, of course, 'cause otherwise it will be unhealthy and unsanitary)

And I wouldn't be surprise if I stop by one of our shabby bars and they give me urine on the rocks with a little rum and they call it some catchy name like El Chiguire Atomico, or something.

Blech.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Free games, courtesy of Jeff in General
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 written Friday, July 23 2004 19:58 Profile #3
That would be very nice. It would certainly help heal the gap between Jeff and the BoE community.

I think that the fact that, from I understand, BoA is open source, this might serve as an incentive for Jeff to do so.

Here's hoping to that.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Friday, July 23 2004 19:56 Profile #15
I don't think Jeff is planning on producing games quicker than he does. It seems he has established a working routine that fits his lifestyle. I don't know.

Making a living out of sharewar seems rather difficult. But, on the other hand, despite whatever criticisms his games have gotten, they are still some of the best products in shareware arena.

I got interested in his stuff way back in. . . 94, I think. I fell in love with E1 because it was one of the most elegant games I had seen in ages. It reminded me of the RPGs I loved as lad, like Ultima (which evidently inspired him, as he once stated)

If you take a look at the other RPGs that are shareware, well. . . frankly most of them suck rotten eggs. They are awful. Some have "nice" graphics, but terrible gameplay, or dumb stories, or, well, a complete lack of balance.

I think SW has a very long future indeed. I should it does.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Friday, July 23 2004 19:48 Profile #38
Blaspheme: your situation with Marihuana is similar to here, although here people kind of know what it is, but you still see some smoking it on the streets and the bars.

I wonder is you have troubles with Russia? Or a good business.

I would also be glad to see China being known for more than just all the pirated products.
Do they sell them on the streets normally?

Here people just don't buy original stuff. CD and DVDs, games all of them they buy pirated. And I don't mean on the underground, oh no! On the stores. They even put the chip on your PS or PS2, very cheaply, so you can buy more pirated products.
We even have what we call, "Buhoneros" (street peddlers is the closest term I can think in English)
These guys are the worst. We have a huge unemployment, about 18% or so. But those who work, a huge percentage, fluctuating in the 30 range, are Buhoneros.
They put little shops on the streets, a table with the products. Fake pants from I know not where, clothes, all fake Designs.
CDs by the bundle, DVDs like you wouldn't believe, games all over the place.
Then, on the highways, since we have so much traffic all the time (Rush hour as a concept doesn't exist here) you will see men and women wlaking in between the cars with the products: DVDs of movies which came out THAT WEEKEND on the U.S, already there and ready for your consumption.
Also books. They usually carry like 5 or 6 titles, what EVERYBODY reads (we are not, in any way shape or form a literature oriented country. Not. At. All) and those books are also pirated copies, usually printed in Comlombian presses.
They are really cheap. If you think in Dollars. 10 thousand Bolivares (Bs.) which are about 3 or 5 bucks, depending if you think black market dollar or controlled dollar (our government has, for the last year and a half, controlled the exchange of dollars. You, basically can't buy it or Euros)

Minimun wage here is about 2,500 Bs. So it means you need to work four hours MW to buy one of them. But those products are for the Middle Class, who make about 2 million Bs a month per household. (that is about 600 or so hundred to 1000 dollars for a Middle Class family)

BTW, Blaspheme, what is the MW in China. How do slaries work in general?

For something more serious: child prostitution? Problem over there?
Here it is. It is not widely publiziced, but it exists.
Anecdote: I was told some months ago that there was activity of that kind happening a couple of blocks from where I live. I couldn't believe. My county's mayor is supposed to be one of the "good" guys who is actually doing something right! Right. I decided to check.
I went to the place and saw nothing. I went on another night, and, indeed, I was offered some services by a girl who couldn't have been older than eleven. I left, needless to say. It was sickening!
Children are also seen in too many streets asking for money. Small children, 5 or 6 or less.
Nowadays it is difficult to find many semaphores without at least a little kid asking for money.
That's not counting the large amount of adults who do so too.

A few months ago I stopped seeing this,. but before that moment, and for about a year or so, there was something very peculiar:
A proliferation of women (all looking very Andine, from the Andes region of Venezuela), each of them with a little baby in their backs/arms, all asking for money.
Then, from almost literally night to day, I saw no more.

Blaspheme: You know Lovecraft too! Oh happy day.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Nicothodes: Sorry about the typo of your name. Usagi is awesome. Simply brilliant.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Friday, July 23 2004 18:50 Profile #37
Eldiran: maybe you can see it, not from the point of view of honor, but from the point of view of cold balance. Neo offered to get rid the Matrix of the Virus, this was a task the computer desired and let's say it calculated that his chances were good enough. In turn, it stopped the invasion Zion.
As you saw there was another Matrix at the end and the Architect did not promise that he was going to leave the humans alone for ever. It seems that, at best, what was attained was a temporal appeasement.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Kel-Aziz: Ah! Pablito! Uno de mis poetas preferidos. Uno de los pocos, casi el unico, de nuestro amigos Sur Americanos que me gustan.
(Por cierto, Hola K-A!!! Soy Oxygen de Polaris y Senlias del sitio de Aran!)

Aloarael: Lorca. Es. Un. Dios. Punto.
(estoy de acuerdo contigo: la vida sin amor no vale la pena vivirla. Y esto es en referencia a las mujeres y a todo. Una vida sin pasion es opaca y se siente mucho como un Agujero Negro.)

Alec: Para reiterar lo que dijo Kel-Aziz, usamos Pablito solo por aprecio, por sumo aprecio. Ninguna falta de respeto por ninguno de nosotros.

Kel: Disfruta la vida simple. Si, las chicas Sur Americanas son muy, muy guapas y simpaticas y apasionadas. Lamentableblemente no tenemos, al menos aqui en Venezuela, el matiz tan variado, en cuanto a gustos, como en otras partes. Pero. . . ay mama!

TGM: Sorry, man. By the way, I couldn't understand a single word of Finnish but I must say that it is one of the most beautiful languages I've seen. I sounded the words by the way I read them and the sound was wonderful. How difficult is it to learn? What is it's origin?

Salud!

[ Friday, July 23, 2004 18:45: Message edited by: Pandolfo the Pugilist of Ooze ]

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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I don't think so. At least not yet. I'm probably wrong. I searched for them on net and couldn't find a place.

However, if you have a specific question about any problem, just post it and I'm sure someone will figure out a way to help you.

Good luck!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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I don't think so. At least not yet. I'm probably wrong. I searched for them on net and couldn't find a place.

However, if you have a specific question about any problem, just post it and I'm sure someone will figure out a way to help you.

Good luck!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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I'm going to join in the general optimism for this thread. So far we have been able to share opions without going insane. Take a peek at the other political thread to see a few opinions that could have been expressed. . . better.

spy.there: there are alternatives, but there are so many opportunists waiting for a chance that it looks more like a cesspool of mediocrity and fecal politicians than anything. A few stand out. I particularly like a governor, a former general manager our big oil company and a former head of our supreme court. They seem to be kind of capable people our country would need if we get rid of the current president. As it stands out, if there are elections, it has been promised that the Opposition will elect a single candidate to go against Chavez. If this happens, there is hope. If not, and in this country it is entirely possible that an indepent will go his own way even though he knows he will lose just to take votes away from the opposition, then. . . You see those who love Chavez do no change their minds. It is the other percetange that is at stake.

Blaspheme: Thank you as usual for all your comments. This has been rather interesting. I disagree with quite a few of the policies of your government, but I am supremely happy to be able to hear them from someone who lives there.
It seemed rather drastic the death penalty for drug use. It sickens me thaqt law works that way. Is there a reason for this? Is this the government's "strong hand" in order to purge the country of drugs? What do people think about it? As for drugs, is the problem similar in any way to that of the 19th century? I mean with the Opium coming from India the British (I suppose now it would be other foreign powers) being involved?

As for the way tax works. Something all too similar happens in my country. People with money don't pay taxes.
It used to be like that for years and years.
Now the Venezuelan version of the IRS is after every penny they can get so that the government receives more money than they already got.
Ah! And the money does not go to social endeavours of any kind.

Drugs in my country exist and they do little to stop them. Sometimes they make a big deal about some cargo of cocaine that they have captured, but few and far between. For the most part, as I mentioned previously, we still work as the way-station between S.A and the rest of the world.

I still can't get out of my amazement for the fact that, if I understood right, if I am caught in China smoking a joint I get killed?

A bit of a more, if you will, superficial question:
Jackie Chan? The man?

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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A thousand thoughts by Kel.
Happy day!

Blaspheme: Spamming are short, pointless posts. For example, if my post had only been something like:
"Yay" it might have been considered spamming. Perhaps some could argued the matter as it was relvant to the thread in question, but, still, it would have been short and rather pointless.

I think that long and rather pointless posts also count as spamming.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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 written Thursday, July 22 2004 21:43 Profile #0
Saludos a todos aquellos de habla hispana. Cuantos de ustedes saben hablar Español? Donde lo aprendieron? Les fue dificil?
Como encontraron los juegos de Spiderweb?
Creen ustedes que hay alguna diferencia entre las mujeres de sus paises y aquellas de paises hispano-americanos?
Cual es el punto de conocer a una mujer, pasar la noche con ella y no volver a verla mas nunca? Se logro algo? Mas alla del placer temporal?
Que creen que es mejor? Eso o una relacion mas larga, con mas sentido, pero que termina despues de un tiempo y lo deja a uno con el corazon fracturado? Les ha ocurrido alguna vez? Y si no vale la pena tener una aventura de una noche, por que lo seguimos haciendo?

Y aqui, un poema bien malo:
¿Quien eres?
Me acaricias con dulce tercipelo
tus luciernagas bailan un waltz de placer en mi cuerpo.
Tu pelo, una catarata divina que desciende tiernamente
tu cara el reflejo de Dios.
Y tu sonrisa. . .
tu sonrisa. . .
los girasoles vuelven sus miradas sobre ella
las estrellas resplandecen para verla
el firmamento entero existe solo para admirarla
y cada vez que la creas,
un universo emerge de la nada para vivirla.
Haces que mi corazon late
como una pandilla de ruiseñores
cantando al ritmo de la Novena.
Los colibries de mi alma
se despiertan de su largo letargo
y alborotean sus almas alegremente
volando hacia el sol con eterno candor.
Las aveztruces se olvidan del pavor
que le tienen a los ferozes leones que las acosan
solo para observar tu celestial sonrisa.
Tu cuerpo es una poesia
que ha florecido desde el primer suspiro de Dios.
Tu alma un suspiro
que conquista la obscuridad.
Tu espiritu vuela en alas de telaraña
hacia la eterna libertad
tan endeble y compleja
imposible de romper.
Tus labios son dulces de cianuro
que me matan y reincarnan
junto con tu lengua,
la cola de un perro jugueton,
la danza de una vivora
juegan conmigo
oh! tan suavemente,
tan apasionadamente
con la precision de un cirujano
operas me soledad,
curas mi triteza
y retas las ansias de un recien nacido
por saberlo todo.
Tu cuerpo son las ruinas de una civilizacion perdida
llena de extraordinarios secretos,
tu monte. . .
y tu monte. . .
exploradores se han embarcado en imposibles aventuras
para llegar a el,
leyendas viviran eternamente
sobre las hazañas de los valientes hombres
que han logrado alcanzarlo y vivido una pasion
que excede los sueños mas fantasticos de Afrodita y Venus.
Solo la idea de poder pasear por el
ha llevado a naciones a locura, a la guerra y la eterna paz.
¿Que yace ahi? ¿Que secreto? ¿Que deseo?
Que hicieron que Dios dejase, momentaneamente,
de jugar dados con el Universoñ
que todas las divinidades del mundo
comenzacen una guerra sin fin
con la unica meta
de pasearse eternamente por el.
El Olimpo no es nada.
Everest un mero monton de cenizas.
Valhalla una choza.
Y esa caverna misteriosa y tierna,
sensible y potente,
que le dio luz a la vida
y mantiene encendido el faro de la esperanza.
Eres la mujer que Helena envidia
La caja de Pandora cuyos secretos
nos mantiene a la humanidad entera
deseando vivir el proximo instante.
Tus piernas son las escaleras
que nos llevan a Nirvana,
rompiendo el karma y el destino.
Los monjes del Tibet
recitan mantras en tu honor,
esperando ver tu sonrisa en sus oraciones;
los monjes en sus monasterios
guardan la historia de tu vida
como una tarea mas sagrada
que la cronica de su Dios.
Tus oidos, perfectas figuras geometricas,
que desafian las mas complejas formulas,
son los unicos capaces de captar
los cantos celestiales en tu honor.
Solo tu.
Solo tu, amor de amores
y la razon de cada suspiro que mi alma expulsa,
desquiciada locura de mi espiritu.
Solo tu.
¿Quien eres?
Mujer de mis sueños.
¿Eres acaso el collage de mis amores perdidos?
su esencia hace que diambule por el desierto
perdido sin el calor de tu respiracionñ
sin el apasionado salitre de tu sudor,
no soy nada.
¿Eres acaso el bosquejo de un futuro?
perdido en el mundo, tentandome a que te encuentre.
¿Quien eres?

[ Thursday, July 22, 2004 21:57: Message edited by: Pandolfo the Pugilist of Ooze ]

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga)
Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00

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