Captives of the turtle pit, hear ye, hear ye!
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, March 20 2006 05:23
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Hey, you can be the fan of a robot... Who didn't think Asimov's R. Daneel Olivaw (Foundation Series) was awesome? :) [ Monday, March 20, 2006 05:23: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Monday, March 20 2006 07:58
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I could never get over his name. That went for most of Asimov's characters. I kept thinking, "what, did he just get tired of coming up with decent names, so he changed a random letter in a common name?" Then I read one of his essays in which he explained that yes, that was exactly what he did. Pfft. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, March 20 2006 08:46
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Funny. That was what I assumed he did, without ever reading his essays. :P Still, I wonder if you could introduce yourself to some Asimov fan as "Robert Daniel Oliver", and how long it would take for them to figure it out... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Monday, March 20 2006 10:02
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"Hi, I'm Cordelia Vogel." -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Master
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written Tuesday, March 21 2006 17:54
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quote:Yeah, whatever. -------------------- -ben4808 Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
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written Tuesday, March 21 2006 18:57
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Happy birthday, Rosy. I miss you, wherever you are, though I'll admit I'd never have thought I'd ever do so when you were here. You kept things interesting, though. I see no reason not to have a moment of silence for Rachel Corrie, but I agree wholeheartedly with Zeviz and Drakey. I'll leave it at that. I'm glad you've removed the list, Aran. I find it hard to believe that anyone doesn't think that was a major factor in the useless spamming that goes on here. I'm not anti-spam, per se; there's useful spam and there's useless spam. Since Alorael's got such an iron monopoly on the former, the n00bs weren't left with much of a choice but to post the latter type or not post spam at all. N00bs are notoriously bad decision-makers. You know, I don't challenge the admins' decision, but I wish arghhhhhhhhh were still around. I can't be the only one who found the guy absolutely hilarious, can I? -------------------- And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it. -The Last Pendragon Polaris = joy. In case of emergency, break glass. Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, March 21 2006 22:22
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He was, for the most part. You might have missed the last bit toward the end where he lost it and posted around 5-6 topics filled with random caps in order to get banned... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Wednesday, March 22 2006 03:49
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I miss argh as well, and I defended him on several occasions, but in the end he had to go. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, March 22 2006 22:49
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Argh* and Ed were so unstable that I wondered whether they weren't masquerades. In the end I figured it would be equally weird either way, and didn't matter anyway. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Wednesday, March 22 2006 23:21
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quote:"Unstable" instills in me images of argh* and Ed running around emitting neutrons all over the place. [ Wednesday, March 22, 2006 23:22: Message edited by: wz. As ] -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 | Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 00:42
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To be fair, I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that they do. :P Posts: 353 | Registered: Monday, January 9 2006 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 02:48
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If you replaced "neutrons" with some equivalent fundamental particle of annoyance. A spamion? No, that sounds odd. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 08:27
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quote:Perhaps an irk would be a good fundamental particle of annoyance. Or would that be too blatant? Noobon? -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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La Canaliste
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 10:16
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Irk sounds spot on to me! -------------------- I am a mater of time and how . Deep down, you know you should have voted for Alcritas! Posts: 387 | Registered: Tuesday, March 1 2005 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 10:17
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"... emitting irks all over the place" :P I like that picture. By the way: what is Ed's and Argh*'s half-life? Will they come back soon? I miss Ed's whining self-mortification. Reminds me of Sherlock Holmes. edits irks into the picture [ Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:20: Message edited by: I want back spy.there ] -------------------- Slartucker: * facepalm facepalm facepalm * Dikiyoba: Are you unconscious yet? Posts: 1420 | Registered: Wednesday, October 2 2002 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 10:30
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quote:Far too long, honestly... both episodes dragged out unnecessarily long given their conclusions. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 11:04
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Hmm. Do I smell a Periodic Table of the Spidwebbers? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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E Equals MC What!!!!
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 11:38
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quote:TM simply has to be Uranium. Also, R. Daneel was not in the Foundation series, dammit. [ Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:41: Message edited by: Ash Lael ] -------------------- SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice. Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 11:49
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My mistake; I only really read "Prelude" and "Caves of Steel" from beginning to end... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Post Navel Trauma ^_^
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 11:52
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quote:He was in one of the later ones (Foundation and Earth?). -------------------- Barcoorah: I even did it to a big dorset ram. desperance.net - Don't follow this link Posts: 1798 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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E Equals MC What!!!!
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 11:54
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He was? Cripes, those books started getting bad towards the end, but I didn't think Asimov would sink that far. -------------------- SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice. Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, March 23 2006 21:52
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After Asimov wrote Opus 100 it appears that he was going for the literary equivalent of post count. Opus 200 confirmed it. Most of his later collections were rehashed of his older works with short introductions and material he couldn't get published in his early days. If you read them you'll understand why. He seemed to become obsessed with the convergence of almost all his science fiction stories into one coherent timeline. The last Foundation books proved it. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, March 24 2006 02:06
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I loved the first two Foundations, though. -------------------- But I don't want to ride the elevator. Posts: 420 | Registered: Sunday, January 8 2006 08:00 |