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Displayed name	X
Member number	496
Title	Shaper
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Wierd Ebay Auctions in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Thursday, August 28 2003 07:55 Profile #15 Centuries ago, one person was promised a demon by another and sued when he didn't get it. Curiously, the courts took a rationalist line on this, dismissing the case, rather than a traditionalist one, which would have involved calling the Witchfinder General. Or would it? A look into the background of the 'Faust' myth shopws interogating 'spirits' was once an academically respectable way of discovering new knowledge. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Help get ST:DS9 back on! in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Wednesday, August 27 2003 03:50 Profile #6 Yeah, go buy the video. Make it victimless, in the privacy of your own home. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
TCOA Wipeout... in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Wednesday, August 27 2003 03:47 Profile #1 Very sorry to hear it, OM. At least people will know to resubscribe now. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Boards down? in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Wednesday, August 27 2003 03:45 Profile #6 Sort of disturbing we all thought the same thing when confronted with the same Forbidden message. I didn't think wtriting the word "dick" (in a GC forum, not less) would be enough in itself to get me banned though. Just as Calvinist examination of conscience was motivated by predestination, so ours are by the Mods. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Hello there everyone....what game are you playing now? in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Wednesday, August 27 2003 03:04 Profile #6 I read to kill time during breaks at work, getting through 600+ pages a week. Just starting on the 2nd volume of the 'Dune: Butlerian Jihad' series, but am finding it pretty juvenile and lacking in the background richness of Herbert's original. I'll probably read a study of wild children (those reared by animals and then reintroduced to human society) next. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
I'm sort of back - if I ever counted as being away. in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Wednesday, August 27 2003 03:00 Profile #2 Everyone is still very excited by GF2's release, except those that will never be. And the GC forum has revived, albeit irrelevantly. That's it, really... Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Alorael in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Wednesday, August 27 2003 02:58 Profile #13 So you've said it. So this topic can come to a consensual close, perhaps? Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
The next spidweb game. in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Monday, August 25 2003 08:09 Profile #13 Of course, BoA is going to be next now Jeff has GF2 out the way. Will GF3 be next after that? Almost certainly, given the 'last door' hook Jeff left at the end of GF2. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
It happened: Pornography for nerds... in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Wednesday, August 20 2003 06:48 Profile #12 Wow, that was oner link I regretted clicking! Do they cater for different preferences - for Mac-only or PC perverts, etc, or are you all just assumed to be a bit binary? Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Who is who? in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Monday, August 18 2003 03:45 Profile #4 I think you can figure out what 'X' stands for. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Evil Companies in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Monday, August 18 2003 03:23 Profile #61 I must say, I'm not keen on surgery without effective antisepsis / antibiotic back-up. Interestingly, the Soviets had a thing for phage anti-bacterial treatments, whereby an infection's natural microbial predator was used to counter infectiopns. This evolved with the infection so it couldn't be superceded by natural selection, as antibiotics have largely been now. This is no perfect solution either--the phage might evolve into somethingh nastier than the cure, as with macro bio-pest control--but it's certainly another proven approach. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) - Influences? Players? Opinions? in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Sunday, August 17 2003 09:26 Profile #30 I think people were into the horror genre and period settings for 'Cthulhu'. And the slapstick humour / satire potential with 'Paranoia', though all the note-passing in that made it pretty difficulty to DM + keep the flow of the game up. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Evil Companies in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Sunday, August 17 2003 09:15 Profile #53 A couple of points: 1) Round-Up is a Monsanto product, so Round-Up Ready GM crops suit them and no-one else and 2) Food irradiation only kills bacteria rather than removing toxins typically released on their demise, like botulism. So it's hardly a guarantee of food safety. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
What *does* FLCL mean, anyway? in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Sunday, August 17 2003 09:09 Profile #3 I don't know either, but suspect it is corrupting of young minds. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Rock the Casbah! in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Sunday, August 17 2003 09:06 Profile #31 Er, congratulations on your 3,000th post. Zephyr is a party pooper! BTW, I can't tell one Scandanavian conutry from another either, or Holland. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) - Influences? Players? Opinions? in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Friday, August 15 2003 18:29 Profile #26 I don't think your friend would mind being "steral" if he had his DMs Manual, MimeTime. Stop dishonouring Confusius and wasting vital bodily fluids with your reading there, *GC! Odd schools banned D&D - I know prisons still do because because of mad evangelicals linking it to Satanism and the endtime, like rock music. I guess this was mainly because--as with rock music--their kids were more into it than all that Bible reading and prayer meeting, but D&D did rather ask for it, featuring devils and demons actually named from Christian mythology in the Monster Manual (basically a player hit list for experience chasers, rather than DM design tool in my own experience). I quickly prefered Chaosium's RuneQuest (and later Call of Cthulhu) to D&D anyway - more flexible character development, more logical game systems, and more comprehensive background mythology, even if names for a lot of the monsters sucked. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Evil Companies in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Friday, August 15 2003 18:11 Profile #40 Yes, we are taking about Monsanto again here. Berfore they made it illegal to label distinguishing between GM and non-GM products, they made it illegal to distinguish between BGT-poisoned milk and other milk. Meat too, I guess. [ Friday, August 15, 2003 18:12: Message edited by: X ] Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Studipity in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Friday, August 15 2003 18:07 Profile #26 ^ Hope no-one's trying to patebt a perpetual motion machine here... Smoking is especially bad for your health in an all-O2 environment, anotherreason we should be grateful to nitrogen. And I take it you geniuses all noticed this poll was a parody of the one on the 'Intelligence' threads, so replies as well as questions here have comedy value... Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
This could be useful, maybe in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Friday, August 15 2003 18:01 Profile #9 Not the first analogue I'd have thought of, frankly! Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Names in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Friday, August 15 2003 17:57 Profile #21 X is a good name, of course, but characters tend to gert called Quentin, Tarquin, and other rather posh, gay-sounding names (no 'Doug's though!) as my satire on heroic fantasy conventions. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) - Influences? Players? Opinions? in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Tuesday, August 12 2003 21:56 Profile #15 I'm old enough to remember D&D (before it was even AD&D). There's a lot of (A)D&D in SW, the way the character classes work and even an assassination skill. Of course, as pure interaction between players, it was a lot more open-ended than a computer game - but the baroque 100s-page rulebooks and endless lists sadly had enough nerd appeal to draw in the power-gamers and petty bickerers chastised above ("but on p.112 of the DM's Manual it says..."). Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
tourism in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Sunday, August 10 2003 06:44 Profile #17 They're commonly referred to as 'junkies' when they show up down South, Hect-etc. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Intelligence in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Sunday, August 10 2003 06:41 Profile #3 Who's going to admit being a retard here (or anywhere)? Anyone saying they're retarded obviously aren't and are probably the opposite. Consequently, I don't hink these results will count for anything. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Goodbye, sort of in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Thursday, August 7 2003 21:08 Profile #4 Ya' wimp! If I can cope with posting here and playing through GF2 (if not additional sleeping and eating), so can you.... Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
tourism in General
X Shaper Member # 496	written Thursday, August 7 2003 21:01 Profile #10 Yes, vicious fun at that - makes 'em sound like Glaswegians! Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00

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