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« on: March 27, 2010, 03:35:40 PM »
Awesome! The New Players link seems to be broken, so I guess that's what was giving me so much trouble. I have quite a download ahead of me, but nothing my connection can't handle.
If I remember correctly, I logged in briefly a couple years ago, and my location had changed from Hlint (I think that's what it was called) to somewhere else entirely. The only thing I really missed from Hlint was that card game, though, so I should be okay no matter where I end up this time.
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« on: July 16, 2007, 06:33:15 PM »
Now to find my way back to one of those places...
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« on: August 27, 2006, 12:25:22 PM »
It might have been East... I'll try that.
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« on: August 27, 2006, 12:14:31 PM »
...Except there's a problem. I logged on with my old character, but I got booted. Do I need to resubmit the character?
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« on: August 13, 2005, 04:54:00 PM »
Great choices, everyone. Except that I decided to go with none of the above.
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« on: August 09, 2005, 10:12:00 AM »
The second one down is also by Homer.
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« on: August 09, 2005, 05:34:00 AM »
Chevelle! Woo!
I just realized that I don't say very much.
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« on: August 08, 2005, 09:45:00 AM »
Michael Crichton's "Timeline" dealt with this, and raised some good points.
(Yes, I'm making a reference to a book, because I'm no good at science. "I'm doing the best I can with what I've been given. Sue me.")
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« on: August 07, 2005, 08:05:00 PM »
I prefer The Order of the Stick - giantitp.com.
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« on: August 05, 2005, 02:28:00 PM »
Found some interesting stuff about this at wikipedia.org:
"Beyond lawsuits, greater controversies have surrounded D&D due to allegations of its connections to devil worship, as well as claims that RPGs in general lead to suicide. These allegations were popularized in a novel called Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe. The book was turned into a TV movie featuring a young Tom Hanks in the key role of a mentally unstable collegian who experiences psychotic episodes and loses himself in the game world. It should be noted that the allegations in the book and film were based on faulty interpretation of William Dear's 1979 investigation. Dear, a private investigator, searched for a wealthy college student, James Dallas Egbert III. While the search proved successful, the brilliant and depressed boy committed suicide after a quarrel with his wealthy, domineering father. Dear later wrote The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III [5] written from case notes. The author described his own experiences learning D&D, as a key to understanding Egbert's withdrawal from reality. Dear also makes it implicitly clear that Egbert's suicide had more to do with family troubles than with roleplaying games. [6]
"One of the big names in the anti-D&D movement was Patricia Pulling. Pulling founded Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons (BADD), a one-person organization, after her son (Irving "Bink" Pulling) committed suicide which she believed was from playing the famous RPG Dungeons & Dragons. Pulling wrote Interviewing Techniques For Adolescents (1988), a primer for police officers who are dealing with crimes that involve role-playing games. Michael A. Stackpole (himself a writer and designer of role-playing games) wrote The Pulling Report [7] in 1990 debunking Pulling's claims.
"Chick Publications produced a comic book tract called "Dark Dungeons"[8] about a girl who got involved in witchcraft through a role-playing game, and cast a spell on her father to make him buy her books and miniatures.
"Such negative portrayals of role-players, ironically, may have originated from an initial inability of some outside observers to properly differentiate between reality and the immersive role-playing aspects of game play. Misperception has been the major prejudice that role-players have had to face over the years. Some religious individuals consider roleplaying games immoral or irreligious for multiple reasons, most commonly due to game uses of magic, spells, the worship of pagan gods, the glorification of violence, and the use of supernatural powers (whose game uses are not always distinguished from reality by observers). Such accusations continued well beyond the 1980s and into the 1990s. There have been numerous studies (including several from within the RPG industry) exploring this allegation that have generally concluded that not only does D&D not seem to encourage suicide, but players of this kind of game are in fact less prone to take their own lives. For example, studies conducted by Michael Stackpole show that the suicide rate is actually lower among gamers than non-gamers.
"Often this connection is pointed out when young people are indicted for crimes, such as a 2001 murder of Robert M. Schwartz, a prominent scientist in Loudoun County, Virginia. The connection was also made during the investigation of the Stephanie Crowe murder in San Diego, where Stephanie's teenage brother and two friends were accused of the killing because prosecutors said that the killing reflected a brother's hatred of his sister and the three boys' interest in role-playing fantasy games. The three youths maintain they are innocent and a transient named Richard Tuite was later arrested, charged, and convicted of manslaughter. [9]
"The Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs has published a report on "Roleplaying as a Hobby." The report describes roleplaying as a stimulating hobby that promotes creativity. [10]"
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« on: August 03, 2005, 09:45:00 PM »
Mine is some random picture I use for everything, for no good reason.
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« on: August 02, 2005, 10:17:00 PM »
I'm not sure if anyone cares about dredging up old topics, but I guess I'll find out.
I was standing in line at a store, and no one had moved for a while. So I began to wonder if the "lag" had made it look like everyone was still there, but they were actually all gone and I looked like an idiot. It took longer to catch myself than I care to admit...
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« on: July 28, 2005, 01:13:00 PM »
Gilrod - 7/28/2005 11:56 AM
Actually, one of the weirdest things that I ever found out in physics class was that common glass is actually a liquid at room temperature with a extremely high viscosity! This can be observed if you go to an old Cathedral in Europe and find a window that still contains the orginal glass (very rare). The glass is actually flowing out of the window pane (it just flows REALLY slowly die to its tremendously high viscosity).
Just some useless trivia, but it does support the finding that glass is actually elastic, due to the reduced molecular cohesion characteristic of liquids. Actually I heard that it's now considered a myth. The Cathedral example you gave actually turned out to be because methods of making glass in those times caused part of it to be thicker. But who knows, maybe some guy just made that up because he wanted attention....
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« on: July 25, 2005, 03:07:00 PM »
Wow. I just put random letters together and hope they make sense.
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« on: July 25, 2005, 03:03:00 PM »
I based Marcan on myself. Therefore, he is really boring, but simple to play. I made him because I wanted to see what this server was like. Then, as a lot of stories seem to go, I got attached to him. I started keeping his journal, and discovered he's more interesting than I thought.
I have been thinking about making a TN wizard, just for something completely different. But that probably won't happen for a while. Not until Marcan becomes the Undead Hunter he desires to be....
As for RL talks, I would use e-mail. Or just look at these forums, which is what I'm doing. Obviously. PMs work, too.
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« on: July 25, 2005, 12:59:00 PM »
I have no idea what any of you are talking about, but if they make a Baldur's Gate movie, it darn well better be good!
Apparently that's all I know.
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« on: July 25, 2005, 09:33:00 AM »
Did anyone hear about that woman who sued the D&D guys (I guess) about the game making her son commit suicide? Apparently, they did some research and found out that D&D players were statistically LESS LIKELY to commit suicide. This was in the 80s, I think.
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« on: July 22, 2005, 06:15:00 PM »
Well, me, Zerpa, and Teefal met up with Luna, among others. But it was hardly the adventure I expected. I got separated from the main group, and decided to try and get back to Hlint. This was a problem not only because I did not know the way, but also because I am nowhere near strong enough to travel such a distance on my own. But I attempted, anyway.
My first problem was not knowing where I had set sail from to get here. I took a guess, and it ended up being the right choice. As I travelled, I began to think that perhaps I could handle this. Then, I came upon a creature that looked like a living shadow. My turning attempts had no effect, and the creature soon had killed me. Thus, I ended up back where I started. Not only do I have no gold for passage on a ship, even if I did, I would not be able to survive the trip to Hlint. The only option I see is to travel with a group kind enough to buy me passage and protect me. But I could never bring myself to ask for such a thing...
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« on: July 22, 2005, 03:41:00 PM »
Perhaps you have need of a priest of Toran? Contact me if you require my assisstance.
-Marcan Telo
// Level 5, by the way.
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« on: July 22, 2005, 03:36:00 PM »
I have been on only a few servers other than this. But while each of them was in Neverwinter Vault's top ten list, none of them compare to Layonara.
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