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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 21, 2008 18:24:25 GMT
Well... no. If it was "Word for Word" (the game you're thinking of, although "Cheddar Gorge" might also be an interesting game to play here), it'd be in the Games section. Your faith is touching.
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Post by Navarre on Jan 21, 2008 18:26:35 GMT
Hmm, I wouldn't know anything about Lemuria if it wasn't for Illusion of Time (wonderful SNES game). There is apparently a Lemuria mailing list, hehehe. But seriously, how possibly is it for a society to have existed in the southern pacific without some more tangible evidence (I mean this without sarcasm, I want to knooow!)
Delusions I'm going to leave well alone, but for the other I pose a question; who motivates and motivators?
Mu-chan, I just stole that picture of shinji, soo pretty, but I feel I should be making the pledge of allegiance....
As for co-writing stuff; that sounds like fun. I'm in the same boat as Maruno, except most of my half written stuff is a bazillion years old.... pencil me in for now....
and finally: Lizards, Windmills and Shoes (these things are not technically random, things in my room are giving me hints)
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Post by Maruno on Jan 21, 2008 18:29:13 GMT
Well... no. If it was "Word for Word" (the game you're thinking of, although "Cheddar Gorge" might also be an interesting game to play here), it'd be in the Games section. Your faith is touching. That's where I'd put it, anyway. And I put this thread here instead ^_^
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 21, 2008 20:28:23 GMT
Tangible evidence after however long? If the society in question favoured wood over stone and metal for tools and building, it seems quite plausible that tangible evidence would just rot. Whether there was ever such a place as Lemuria is another matter, and I won't take Madam Blavatsky's word for it. The motivational speaker was motivated by decoys.typepad.com/decoys/2008/01/being-unmotivat.html (the author being one of my fellow philosophers on the M.A. course last year). Now I have an image of a college room inhabited by lizards basking around a windmill. Shoes are the one anchor to mundane reality. So... (*looks around*) poppies, frying pans and discount vouchers.
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Post by Navarre on Jan 22, 2008 0:37:43 GMT
Right, rotting civilization, got it.
If you have to know, I was looking at my shelf and saw my Eddie Izzard CDs, my copy of Don Quixote and the latest Number One Ladies Detective Agency book. That covers everything there quite nicely, although the scenario you describe would be pretty cool.
I'm a great believer in the poppy appeal, I just finished chewing the stalk of the one I bought last year (why, you ask? cheaper than gum), people nowadays don't seem to remember remembrance as much as they should, I guess they think it's all about 'OMG we must blame' as opposed to 'people sacrificed themselves for what they thought was right, do not let this happen again.' either that or it's just plain old apathy.
I'm done ranting now...
Frying pans are fun, I have two non stick ones which are a student without a dishwasher's godsend. Discount vouchers I could do without, I always get those little booklets from waterstones at christmas or in spring or whenever and I never use them... Now: Beaches, Helicopters and Violins
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 22, 2008 11:14:56 GMT
I keep the poppy stalks for performing hard resets on my laptop: they're just right for jabbing into that narrow hole. Beaches and violins make me think of scenes from Melody of Oblivion, and I don't want to go back there— Helicopters bring back fond memories of Desert Strike, though. (A more innocent age with regard to Middle Eastern warfare, perhaps.) Pasta, manhole covers and The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.
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Post by Navarre on Jan 23, 2008 10:54:19 GMT
mmmm.... don't get me started on pasta, I'm addicted to some good penne and tomato sauce.... mmmm....
Manholes are okay I guess, the stop the whole place smelling like an open sewer, pun intended. I just keep thinking of the PJs and that parody from Futurama.
As for the Throne of the Third Heaven; wow. just wow. I'm not sure that's a good wow, I'm also not sure its the best thing ever for the Smithsonian to be glorifying the tin foil sculptures of a man who could 'hear God'. He also died without finishing the project and his landlord took all the sculptures in lieu of back rent, which says things to me.
Batteries, mushrooms and DALEKS, I attempted to put in hypertext there, but it failed as I am obviously a retard.
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 23, 2008 19:35:29 GMT
The only way to be sure you won't leave your life's work unfinished when you die is to commit suicide at an opportune moment, presumably having brought your rental payments up to date. See the archives for further information on suicide culture. For some obscure reason Genesis of the Daleks constitutes practically all my viewing experience of Dr. Who. Putting mushrooms and batteries together makes me think of the electric fungi in MGS3: Snake Eater. Which is turn produces strange visions of jungle Daleks: apparently such images do exist. Vellum, smugglers and shadows.
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Post by Maruno on Jan 23, 2008 23:04:59 GMT
Who else watches Torchwood? I really quite enjoy it. I think it's the "casual professional" attitude I like the most, not to mention all the "we're not a family show" sex references. Now there's a show advocating a lack of sexual prejudices and traditional thinking. It looks a lot of fun.
Maybe I'm saying too much.
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Post by Navarre on Jan 23, 2008 23:51:32 GMT
I must admit I have never watched an episode of Torchwood, *le gasp* based on all the crappy things they did in Doctor Who, I'm probably slightly prejudiced against them, but they have got Captain Jack, so it can be all bad.... but I'm all up ons for lack of prejudices.
Vellum is nice, it brings back memories of Cadfael books and general medievalness. Apart from the prejudice, the wars, the diesease and rampant poverty, I bet it was a nice age to live in! Smugglers makes me think of that poem by Rudyard Kipling(?) again, a life which probably had its ups and downs, not to mention questionable morals. Shadows, ahh... now that's a subject I could warm up to if it wasn't so late, perhaps another could take up the torch for me?
As well as:Monkeys, Elucidation and Fire
Thank you Mu-Chan! I was wondering where Smiley-plugsuit-Shinji was from!
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Post by Maruno on Jan 23, 2008 23:58:42 GMT
Oh, I like the new Doctor Who. David Tennant and his shiny teeth is my favourite (out of him and Eccleston, though - I have practically no experience with the older Doctors, although I've seen some episodes and enjoyed them). The Doctor should be somewhat playful, but Eccleston's intensity overwrites his playfulness for me. I'd say while Doctor Who is about the random alien things and such, Torchwood, while set in the same Universe (or set of Universes, of course ), focuses more on the characters and interactions as well as having the one token bit of sci-fi per episode. Plus it has more humour per capita. Don't force the subject to change if it's going fine, 'kay? ^_^ Let it drift naturally.
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 24, 2008 8:58:20 GMT
I was going to post a witty yet incisive riposte about the sudden introduction of Torchwood being itself a sharp change from the topic 'random new topic' onto which the thread had hapily drifted, but the sheer reflexive meta-ness is getting to me.
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Post by Navarre on Jan 25, 2008 16:27:33 GMT
Yes, I think the random game has had it's day in the sun... for now....
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Post by Indefinite Description on Feb 4, 2008 16:12:24 GMT
(Back to the advertising theme...) Although MMORPGs and gay chat are still dominating, the boards are now asking me to back Barack Obama. Something about these boards' users hasn't sunk in.
EDIT: Ah, financial stuff. Maybe they've realised we're students.
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Post by Navarre on Feb 4, 2008 16:56:46 GMT
Okay, so I'm getting 'Vibration Testing'? Slightly worried there.
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