It occurs to me that over the past few weeks, I haven't been very active on this forum. I've been more active on Hidden Realms, The Gungan Council, Terrawin, and in the last few days I reached a new low.
I was on Gaia more than RPGWorldWorld. That was about when enough was enough.
Granted I'm being paid for this, but I recently had reason to post here again and thought about how nice it was to be back on more familiar turf again.
So guys, here's to you and here's to being home. Hopefully I'll think of more things to do to keep myself here like I should be.
I exist!
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KingOfDoma - Guess Who It Is?
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by KingOfDoma » Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:15 am
It's so good to have you back! *big hug...*
*... which results in Ashley being handcuffed to a pillar*
Hope you stick around! ^_^
*... which results in Ashley being handcuffed to a pillar*
Hope you stick around! ^_^
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BrainWalker - ✔+
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by BrainWalker » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:25 am
Oh, so you exist, do you? I'm gonna have to call bullshit on that. You know, it's funny how asserting your existance, much like your sanity or your credibility, tends to lead people to question it even more. If you expect me to acknowledge your existance, you're going to have to prove it.
Everyone knows that Kai, not unlike Sanata Claus and the Easter Bunny, doesn't really exist. She's just a caricature we sell to our children, and apparently to pharmaceutical technicians for some reason.
Everyone knows that Kai, not unlike Sanata Claus and the Easter Bunny, doesn't really exist. She's just a caricature we sell to our children, and apparently to pharmaceutical technicians for some reason.
Anime is kind of like fish in that it is better the less "fishy" it is.
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PriamNevhausten - Holy Order of the Crimson Ballpoint
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by PriamNevhausten » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:47 pm
Hey! Don't be talking smack about nonexistent peoples. Some of my best friends don't exist! And a lot more awesome people used to exist, but have since had a change of heart. Have you ever even MET someone who doesn't exist? You should try it someday--I think you will be surprised.
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru
- FlamingDeth
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by FlamingDeth » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:00 am
If I assert that I don't exist, does that mean that you'll think that I do?
Or would I be using...reverse psychology?!?!?!
Or would I be using...reverse psychology?!?!?!
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by NamagomiMk0 » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:06 am
Suicidal Sprite wrote:cogito ergo ex machina sum
ARGH LATIN.
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PriamNevhausten - Holy Order of the Crimson Ballpoint
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by PriamNevhausten » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:31 am
I think, therefore I am from a box?
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru
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PriamNevhausten - Holy Order of the Crimson Ballpoint
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by PriamNevhausten » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:08 pm
I dare you to look up the word in a latin dictionary =O
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru
- Idran1701
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by Idran1701 » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:35 pm
Kay.
māchĭna , ae, f. = mêchanê,
I. a machine, i. e. any artificial contrivance for performing work, an engine, fabric, frame, scaffolding, staging, easel, warlike engine, military machine, etc.
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: moles et machina mundi, Lucr. 5, 96 : omnes illae columnae machinā appositā dejectae sunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 55, § 145 : torquet nunc lapidem, nunc ingens machina tignum, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 73 : trahuntque siccas machinae carinas, id. C. 1, 4, 2 : frumentaria, Dig. 33, 7, 12 .--
B. Esp.,
1. A platform on which slaves were exposed for sale: amicam de machinis emere, Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 2, 8 .--
2. A painter's easel, Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 120.--
3. A scaffold for building: de machinā cadere, Dig. 13, 6, 5 ; Plin. 19, 2, 8, § 30.--
4. A military machine, warlike engine: machinis omnium generum expugnare oppidum, Sall. J. 21 : aut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros, Verg. A. 2, 46 : murales, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202 : arietaria, Vitr. 10, 19 .--
II. Trop., a device, plan, contrivance; esp. a trick, artifice, stratagem: at nunc disturba quas statuisti machinas, i. e. abandon your schemes, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 137 : totam hanc legem ad illius opes evertendas tamquam machinam comparari, Cic. Agr. 2, 18, 50 : omnes ad amplificandam orationem quasi machinae, * Quint. 11, 1, 44: dolum aut machinam commoliar, Caecil. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73: quantas moveo machinas! Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 1 : aliquam machinabor machinam, Unde aurum efficiam, id. Bacch. 2, 2, 54 .
As mentioned above, it comes from the Greek μηχανῆς, or mêchanê, meaning the same thing: "an instrument" or "a machine".
māchĭna , ae, f. = mêchanê,
I. a machine, i. e. any artificial contrivance for performing work, an engine, fabric, frame, scaffolding, staging, easel, warlike engine, military machine, etc.
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: moles et machina mundi, Lucr. 5, 96 : omnes illae columnae machinā appositā dejectae sunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 55, § 145 : torquet nunc lapidem, nunc ingens machina tignum, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 73 : trahuntque siccas machinae carinas, id. C. 1, 4, 2 : frumentaria, Dig. 33, 7, 12 .--
B. Esp.,
1. A platform on which slaves were exposed for sale: amicam de machinis emere, Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 2, 8 .--
2. A painter's easel, Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 120.--
3. A scaffold for building: de machinā cadere, Dig. 13, 6, 5 ; Plin. 19, 2, 8, § 30.--
4. A military machine, warlike engine: machinis omnium generum expugnare oppidum, Sall. J. 21 : aut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros, Verg. A. 2, 46 : murales, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202 : arietaria, Vitr. 10, 19 .--
II. Trop., a device, plan, contrivance; esp. a trick, artifice, stratagem: at nunc disturba quas statuisti machinas, i. e. abandon your schemes, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 137 : totam hanc legem ad illius opes evertendas tamquam machinam comparari, Cic. Agr. 2, 18, 50 : omnes ad amplificandam orationem quasi machinae, * Quint. 11, 1, 44: dolum aut machinam commoliar, Caecil. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73: quantas moveo machinas! Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 1 : aliquam machinabor machinam, Unde aurum efficiam, id. Bacch. 2, 2, 54 .
As mentioned above, it comes from the Greek μηχανῆς, or mêchanê, meaning the same thing: "an instrument" or "a machine".
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PriamNevhausten - Holy Order of the Crimson Ballpoint
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by PriamNevhausten » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:36 pm
Dammit, that's what I get for taking Latin classes.
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru
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BrainWalker - ✔+
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by BrainWalker » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:52 pm
At 6:30 AM.
Anime is kind of like fish in that it is better the less "fishy" it is.
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PriamNevhausten - Holy Order of the Crimson Ballpoint
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by PriamNevhausten » Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:33 pm
Hey, I was there for the session where they said "machina" = "box". Which, apparently, was the worthlessest of sessions.
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru
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Justice Augustus - Administrator
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by Justice Augustus » Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:42 am
Well they're right and wrong.
Machina does mean machine, but it would be more accurately translated as "human created contrivance that performs some sort of practical purpose" - a title which includes box. Same goes for the greek techne (from which we get techinical et al.) which just means some sort of human-devised-skill-or-talent. So machina could mean box, but it would be the 500th choice on a very big list of possible translations.
On the subject of classics and boxes, does anyone know what the original greek for "Pandora's Box" translates to, and why the inaccurate translation to "Box" is very appropriate? (Smo you can't answer this cause I told you a couple of days ago.) Any correct answers win a prize.
Machina does mean machine, but it would be more accurately translated as "human created contrivance that performs some sort of practical purpose" - a title which includes box. Same goes for the greek techne (from which we get techinical et al.) which just means some sort of human-devised-skill-or-talent. So machina could mean box, but it would be the 500th choice on a very big list of possible translations.
On the subject of classics and boxes, does anyone know what the original greek for "Pandora's Box" translates to, and why the inaccurate translation to "Box" is very appropriate? (Smo you can't answer this cause I told you a couple of days ago.) Any correct answers win a prize.
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Spleen - I put a BOMB inside EVERY BAD GUY!
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by Spleen » Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:28 am
He's also the sentient consciousness of the Internet, so he's privy to all the information we, as a species, have put into any computer connected to the Web.
IDRAN IS A SERIES OF TUBES.
IDRAN IS A SERIES OF TUBES.
"Tell you what, Leto, I won't fight with you. Zeus' wives are pretty tough customers. You have my permission to boast openly that you have beaten the daylights out of me."
-Hermes, the Iliad (Stanley Lombardo, translator) Book 21
-Hermes, the Iliad (Stanley Lombardo, translator) Book 21
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