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Member number	5091
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EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Thursday, May 12 2005 22:59 Profile #21 quote: Originally written by Skribbane now? Ask me how.: the sword of truth series by terry goodkind. fantasy, i read it twice should keep your mind off things for a while 8 books in the series as far as i know. I like the one where the totally hot bondage chicks do stuff, and women get brutally killed by dominant men. Wait, that's all of them. What's that I hear? Terry Goodkind is, like most fantasy authors, just a worthless pervert? For heaven's sake. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
Woah Crazy!! in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Thursday, May 12 2005 22:55 Profile #28 quote: Originally written by Kingy: This may sound really wierd but last night I had a dream in which I was writing a poem...And then when I woke up I re-wrote it and it sounds like I'm about to cut my wrists or something...Anyway I'll post it here - "Dispair, Misery, Hatred All of these emotions flood me now, It seems no light can seep into the darkness that is my soul. My friends try to tell me that I wasn't allways like this, But the darkness consumes my mind, calling me. Death greets me warm, Far more welcome than anything this life has to offer." Is this kind of thing normal or is this crazy like my mates keep telling me? I'm sure writing a poem in your sleep isnt supposed to happen, is it? I think that you dreamed that you're an insipid, illiterate goth girl. HEY WAIT Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
C++ problem in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Thursday, May 12 2005 22:52 Profile #6 Piece of advice: Remember the words of rands. BONGHITS WILL FIX YOUR SOURCE CODE. MAKE SURE TO STUFF YOUR BONG WITH RAT POISON FIRST TOO. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
Right Click functionality in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Monday, January 17 2005 16:39 Profile #10 /etc/hosts doesn't work? I know OS X uses its own configuration system, but I seem to remember that there's a command to dump some of it out into traditional /etc files and another to incorporate changes in those files. Yes, Desp has occasional DNS issues. I'm not exactly sure why. At this time, Desp's IP is 63.247.94.25, and its nameservers are ns3.commencenow.com and ns4.commencenow.com. Wouldn't surprise me if it's the CN nameservers at fault. See, they share the same IP as Desp. :-p Once I'm on colo, I'm going to spend the money to get non-crappy DNS. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
You can drown plowing the fields or you can drown seeing the sights in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Thursday, December 30 2004 11:24 Profile #18 You don't think self-interest is a fundamental tenet of our society? Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
You can drown plowing the fields or you can drown seeing the sights in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Thursday, December 30 2004 11:13 Profile #16 quote: Originally written by Kreshweed: I wondered how long it would take before someone here would notice it. Four days! Are you losing your edge or what? Rest assured Bush will punish the sea for this crime against humanity. **ing fishes will get to know the meaning of democracy and freedom. I imagine many people refrained from mentioning it here because they weren't too keen on people like you parlaying the destruction of countless human beings into a stupid sociopolitical criticism. There's hardly any purpose in discussing anything of the slightest import here. quote: Originally written by Kreshweed: The only reason people are upset is because western tourists are among the victims. Skip the hypocrisy, please. Shut up. Nothing gives you the right to dismiss the feelings of others or question their grief. You're the one being petty and argumentative, here -- don't you have anything better to do? quote: Originally written by Kreshweed: What would Jesus do? Probably dress in rags, give all his money and all his property to charity and fly down to help rebuilding the place. So you can do something, if you really care enough. Most of us don't. Call me cynical, but that's just the way it is. Lots of tears and talking, and little else. How would he buy the ticket if he gave all his money away? That may sound flippant, but it's reality. The nature of our society prevents many from assisting, even when needed. In any case, you're not helping by provoking people, either. You may think you're a gadfly or a hornet, but you're really a cockroach. [ Thursday, December 30, 2004 11:15: Message edited by: The Dog And Pony Show ] Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00**
New Year's Resolutions in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Wednesday, December 29 2004 10:56 Profile #28 quote: Originally written by spy.there: I resolve to seduce myself to clear up the mess around me and not always justify it as creative chaos ... And I am optimistic: the 2005-stars give me chances for new starts and enduring __ Do the stars give you chances for not being a new-age moron? Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
Avernum 4 wish list. in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Tuesday, December 28 2004 21:55 Profile #4 My wish is that it not be made. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
WoW in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Tuesday, December 28 2004 08:59 Profile #6 Anyone who pays money for games is an idiot. Anyone who pays money to play the game once they own it is an utter imbecile. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
A Hypothetical in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Monday, December 27 2004 12:03 Profile #22 quote: Originally written by Morgan: As for the initial premise, I'd like to agree with Djur, but I too sit uneasily with the idea that potential manslaughter is exactly the same crime as manslaughter. If I see a five pound note blowing in the street and pick it up, is that the same crime as pinching a fiver from somebody's purse? The first is potential theft, the latter real theft, should they both be treated the same way? It's not about punishing a "potential" crime. It's about punishing malicious or negligent action. See, when you pinch the aforementioned fiver, your purpose is to steal. When you pick up a note off the street, it is not. Action and purpose are what's important in determining malfeasance, not the result of those actions. A better example would be two men trying to steal said fiver. One fails and is caught; the other succeeds and spends it before being caught. Should they be punished similarly? (In current law, attempted theft is usually treated identically to actual theft.) Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
New Year's Resolutions in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Sunday, December 26 2004 14:06 Profile #7 quote: Originally written by A Cool Half Million: I'll resolve to right my sinking ship academically, recover quickly from a bit of painful romantic disappointment, develop some workable goals, and pursue college life with responsibility and an eye for the future. Might want to resolve to grow some balls too. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
A Hypothetical in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Sunday, December 26 2004 02:20 Profile #9 Retribution doesn't contribute to the greater good. Punishing a killer doesn't make the corpse any less dead. Only thing it serves is blood lust and the ideal of 'justice', which I do not ascribe to. And regarding punishing "accidents" as murder: we don't do that now. Accidental deaths are punished much more lightly than purposeful or malicious ones; non-negligent homicide isn't punished at all. Any penal system that punishes based on situation rather than result will be susceptible to that kind of ruse. You can only try. A penal system that punished solely on result, of course, would be ridiculous -- you'd be forced to punish a man who murdered his wife for life insurance money identically to a guy who accidentally dropped his typewriter out a window and squashed a mime (assuming the mime was his wife :-p). [ Sunday, December 26, 2004 02:23: Message edited by: The Dog And Pony Show ] Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
A Hypothetical in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Sunday, December 26 2004 02:10 Profile #6 I'm working off the personal belief that retribution has nil value. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
A Hypothetical in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Sunday, December 26 2004 02:00 Profile #4 The non-arbitrary boundary is insignificant, since I would argue that hitting the POTUS should be punished the same as well. The victim's identity is completely meaningless. The only justification for punishing the killer more than the non-killer is retribution, as far as I can see. If you can present an argument why punishing them unequally provides protection, rehabilitation, or deterrence, I'd love to hear it. EDIT: I think crimes should be based on conscious actions, not the result of those actions. Thus, both drivers would be guilty of driving under the influence, not manslaughter. It has nothing to do with punishing potential crime and everything to do with punishing malicious or negligent acts. There's your non-arbitrary boundary. [ Sunday, December 26, 2004 02:02: Message edited by: The Dog And Pony Show ] Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
A Hypothetical in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Sunday, December 26 2004 01:38 Profile #2 If the primary purpose of the penal system is rehabilitation or protection, it's not really significant what the result of their actions were -- only their actions and intentions. The unoccupied car could have been occupied. Both drivers were equally negligent, and assuming a similar and appropriate reaction (i.e., turning oneself in, not running away), I say they should be equally punished. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
Avernum 4 in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Friday, December 24 2004 20:16 Profile #255 The problem with focusing A4 on a Vahnatai war is that there are a number of people who are sympathetic with Rentar and crew. Exile III was generally palatable, since it was an issue of survival. Going into full-on anti-V war would be kind of distasteful for some people. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
Project Builder on Mac OS X in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Friday, December 24 2004 11:53 Profile #12 It actually depends on your terminal and shell whether strings without a newline will be shown. XTerm(196), Xorg 6.8.1, zsh 4.2.0. Same, with bash 2.05. Doesn't OSX 10.2 use tcsh, though, as befits a BSD variant? tcsh 6.13.00. Thus, one's mileage may certainly vary. EDIT: Does OS X come with a gdb frontend like ddd? gdb can be pretty incomprehensible to people new to it. I'm still kind of clumsy with it, and I've been using it for almost 7 years. [ Friday, December 24, 2004 11:55: Message edited by: The Dog And Pony Show ] Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
I confess - I'm a cheat! in The Avernum Trilogy
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Thursday, December 23 2004 22:48 Profile #16 Combat is much easier in Avernum. At least in the first two; I never played A3. Combat is also much quicker. Thuryl and I discussed this; Avernum doesn't have prolonged battles of attrition like Exile does. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
RPG Recommendations in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Thursday, December 23 2004 22:22 Profile #68 Temple of Elemental Evil. By Troika, the company started by some former Fallout devs. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
Project Builder on Mac OS X in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Thursday, December 23 2004 16:08 Profile #6 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: Evidently my book is just too old. My dad claimed that it would still be more or less the same, but I looked at the copyright, and the thing is from 1990. Oh well. I'll just get a new book, I guess. C was standardized in 1989, so that book should be fine in terms of date. Maybe it just sucks. Truth be told, C89 does keep the implicit int rule, but you should still never assume the return value of any function, period. If it left out the #include, however, the book is probably worthless. ben: Not necessarily. C89 allows implicit declaration. If you leave out the stdio.h header, the compiler will automatically prototype printf as int printf(char), which will work. By the way, int main(void) is generally better than int main(), now that I think about it. Traditionally, func() has been interpreted as func(...), which is not what you want at all. Of course, ISO C doesn't allow variadic functions without a named first argument, but it's still something to think about. [ Thursday, December 23, 2004 16:10: Message edited by: The Dog And Pony Show ] Posts: 180* \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
Happy Birth of Deus Invictus Mithras! in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Thursday, December 23 2004 16:00 Profile #16 quote: Originally written by 4614 and 4808: Hmmmm, this is interesting. My mom just said that according to Biblical accounts, Jesus was born sometime in the fall.(!!) How they came up with December 25 is a mystery to me. It was explained earlier in the topic. Maybe in high school they'll learn you how to read, huh? Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
Project Builder on Mac OS X in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Thursday, December 23 2004 14:05 Profile #3 Does OS X include gdb or some frontend thereof? Is the CC for OS X gcc? By the way, that code snippet isn't proper ANSI C. It's proper K&R C, but you should probably learn the proper way to do it. Are you not getting any output from it? That's because you need a newline after the message. Then compile it thusly, assuming it's saved as hello.c ($ is your prompt): `$ cc hello.c -o hello`And then run it, and if all goes well, a message! Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
I AM TEH SPAMER in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Wednesday, December 22 2004 09:40 Profile #59 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: RRRRRPGPTPTPAHTJPFPRTHPPRPRTH OH MY DEAR MORE FECES?? HURRRBURURUUGFALGUALGUALBHSLGHTPRTHSHTPTH HUAUGUAUGUAUGLAUBLAUGLAUBLAUGLAUGLHAUGLAUGLAHAUGU HGUAUGUALUAUGHAGUAHGUAGUAUGBUALGUAHGLABUALGUAHGLTPTH DO YOU FORGIVE ME YET FOR HITTING ON ANYONE WITH OVARIES?? BIAUGAUAUGUAUGUAUGUAUUGUAUGHALGPTHGPTPTHJLT! OPBUAUGUABLUAGLUAOPRAHBLAULGUASLBUALBUALBULAHGLA (Im9(@$I(#F#H(!@I(FU@R)(@%KFWLEJKTOWHORRRP Congratulations on 2000 posts, each more worthless more the last. Also, congratulations on managing to moderate a forum for games you claim never to have played. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
RPG Recommendations in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Tuesday, December 21 2004 22:39 Profile #60 quote: Originally written by Verbose: [QUOTE] Actually, you could also make a case for Final Fantasy being a role-playing game because your characters have very definite, unchangeable roles regardless of what you want. So does Duke Nukem. I don't think it's possible to make an inclusive definition of RPG that includes both traditional RPG and console-type "RPG"s but not Quake and Gradius. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00
RPG Recommendations in General
EDWARD, HAMMER OF THE SCOTS Warrior Member # 5091	written Tuesday, December 21 2004 09:43 Profile #48 quote: Originally written by Andrew Miller: I think FF is definitely a cRPG. If you say it isn't, then no cRPG is technically an RPG, because none of them allow the freedom of traditional pencil and paper RPGs. Genre is hardly black and white. A game can feature varying amounts of role-playing. The main problem is that some game genres are thematic (role-playing, adventure) and some genres are mechanistic (first-person shooter, side-scroller). In reality, just about any thematic genre could be combined with any mechanistic genre. Thus, a first-person shooter could very well be a role-playing game. The ultimate RPG, of course, is sitting around with your friends acting out a story. The pencil-and-paper role-playing systems arose out of a wish for a slightly more formal system to do, essentially, that. Each reduction in the freedom of role in a game is usually for a reason. The tabletop RPG is less free-form than a simple storytelling game, but it's easier to introduce strategy and tactics. The CRPG is less free-form than the tabletop RPG, but it's easier to play alone, may have context graphics, etc. The Japanese-style RPG, which I call a character playing game or CPG, originated due to constraints of hardware. Posts: 180 \| Registered: Friday, October 15 2004 07:00

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