Actaeon

It's too bad they're not partnering with Moffat on this. I wonder how they'll make it work with the canon. Don't most of the older movies fit into the established chronology (perhaps not the right term in a time travel series)?

In my day, a message board was a literal board. It stood outside town, and people posted things on it. Sometimes, they offered rewards for... wait, maybe I'm confusing that with something else.

I feel like I've fallen a little behind on the state of the community outside the forums. Obviously there's AIMhack. I'm trying to get some Skype D&D going. But are any of the satellite boards still active? Does the chat room get traffic? Has anyone tried to set up a game of webDiplomacy? ... I'm sure there are better times to ask this than when everyone's off playing Skryim. I'm also aware that I've made more than my share of topics lately. I figure, if it's a problem, I'll either be told to desist, or the threads in question will just shrivel and die.

A lovely image, which reminds me somewhat of https://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html Edit: At the rate I make mistakes, edits are practically my gimmick. But not officially, as I think the mods might not find it amusing.

We've all felt that way at some time or another. Most of us are just a bit more... subtle about it.

Originally Posted By: The Turtle Moves Newspapers make excellent mulch. They're also good for starting fires in wood-burning stoves. When there were more wood burning stoves in town, there was a fair amount of competition for left over newspapers (much less tree trimmings and other free wood). These days, there's as much as a person could want. Before I give the impression of being a total technophobe, note that I am, even as I type this, on the internet. I also welcome the online distribution of video and music, and consider Audible the greatest things since Wikipedia. I also pay more attention to webcomics than those in the back of the newspaper (though, since I read the local dailies habitually, I usually keep up with those, too).

I'm an antique in my own time, I guess, but I cannot quite click with electronic newspapers, much less books. I like to feel it, fold it, appreciate the formatting, clip out the best bits and keep 'em. I like to thumb through the big bound copies of newspapers from the 1970s and photos from before that. A unprinted word feels, to me, like an undeveloped photograph. Printing something gives it substance, makes it last, and suggests that it's worth having it stick around for a while. I don't know if I'm idealistic, paranoid, or am just an indirect tree-killing psychopath, but that's the visceral reaction I get when I think of taking the books off my shelf or the newspaper off my table.

As someone who works for a small community newspaper, I agree with that assessment as far as it goes. I worry, however, whether the value system that sustains such a thing will continue indefinitely. In addition, I consistently wonder if "print" in the literal sense might be replaced by professional journalism with purely net distribution. I hope not.

Is it dead? Do paid journalists of any sort have a role in a world with blogs and Twitter? Should I just stop asking non-game related questions?

Ice and Fire has a host of well defined characters, but I think Wheel of Time has the upper hand with pure depth of world (lands, peoples, customs, what have you). Neither of them, of course, are Arda, but then... nothing else is.

Though I am not an AIMhacker (trying Skype D&D soon, though, if anyone's interested), I DMed a time travel campaign once. Despite a strong background in time travel fiction, I found it terrifically difficult to satisfy everyone's expectations. So... yeah. Thuryl's got a point.

Originally Posted By: Kelandon I preferred the minority view that it was Rhuarc without pants. I admit, I await the next installment of Isam's summary almost as much as A Memory of Light. Okay, that's overstatement, but you get the point. The scope is where Jordan gets me, too, though I originally picked it up for sheer volume. Just finished a re-read of Sherlock Holmes, precipitated by an earlier encounter with "Sherlock Holmes was Wrong", an interesting piece I would recommend to those with a French sense of humour. I am currently working on "On the Road". It doesn't captivate me the way it seems to have effected that generation, but that is probably to be expected.

That is the general consensus, yes. But it's become such a big deal to the community that many people want to believe the answer is a little more interesting. I mean, it comes right after the showdown at the docks, and it's written so... mysteriously. If it's Graendal, it lacks any real plot significance, and that's hard to let go of.

Well, darn. I'm glad my bank is usually on top of these things.

As someone who started with the Geneforge series and had to shift focus to play either, I found the Avernum series more appealing. I'm not sure I'd start with the most recent games, as the older engines are more frustrating once you've played their modern counterparts, but if you intend to stick to that plan, I'd got with A6.

Precisely what I was trying to convey by the comparison. In fact, I'd much prefer to be called on my errors. That's what dialogue is all about. Staying on topic helps, too. With regards to this topic, while the symptoms have been discussed, I'd like to hear the prognosis. If SoT is right, Winter is Coming. If he's not... well, it might be a more Ragnarok style season. What are we up against? What are the "problems we've been able to ignore for generations" ?

I'm generally working through one book and print and another in audio, plus whatever I'm assigned for class. That's about the limit of my multitasking.

Originally Posted By: Harehunter Actaeon: I too have had my nits picked to pieces by the ever watchful House of Slarty. I don't take it personally, I just make sure I take the time to research my response before posting it. It takes a greater investment of time, a commodity I seem to be running short on these days, but it makes for a stronger, more reasoned debate. One of my very first posts was shredded to pieces by Alec. I've crossed paths with TM over at Shadow Vale. My skin is entirely thick enough to handle Slarty's analysis. I apologized because I actually felt off base. After all, my point had already been made more effectively by Kelandon. That actually happens more than you'd expect.

Karoka is likely aware that there is a long tradition of third person reference at Spiderweb that a mere sorceress would be foolish to combat.

Originally Posted By: Kelandon This is sort of like what I was saying with putting a person on the Moon, by the way. Putting a person on the Moon is fun, but until we have a regular Earth-Moon shuttle that leaves every couple of hours (or whatever), it's not really impactful, except in the imagination. Doing it once is fun, but doing it a million times is when it really matters. The prototype is one thing, but the commercialization is another. I'll risk a bit of a tangent to ask... are we ever GOING to see repeat space travel? The United States no longer has the ability to go to the moon or, for the moment, orbit. It's been more than forty years, and we have yet to establish any sort of permanent structure up there, make any progress toward putting a man on mars, and we're not even pulling our weight in the space station any more. And I just don't see the private sector pulling off something on that scale any time soon. That leaves... the Russians and the Chinese, I guess. /end rant.

We perceive this method as cheating, but are also amused by it.

It would be rather silly to avoid one part of speech and not its associated terms. However, "us" and "we" include other individuals, and would probably be permissible. As it is as much an interesting exercise as a challenge, it's up to the taste of the poster. One could even dismiss the proposed structure and simply respond to the question of how language and thought are linked.

Uncle Mike (Burgess) once claimed to have spent a week eschewing the word "I", and was embarrassed to discover how many of his statements had "himself as the real subject". This thread, therefore, is intended to experiment with that concept.If any group of people could converse without self reference, it's Spiderweb. Well, not Aloreal, but an exception can certainly be made in that case. If he (she/it...) were to post without a trademark signature, the board would implode and leave a wasteland beyond anything in Dikiyoba's stories. The question, of course, is whether such an endeavor is worthwhile. There have been many movements to change the way things are expressed (E-Prime being a notable one). Thought and speech are, many people believe, a feedback loop. Passive voice denotes passive opinion, and perpetuates it. Others would assert that the artful use of the passive, the mundane, "to be", or even "I" can have great impact. What do you think?

If the series was up for Mac, too, I'd buy them all again just to save the trouble of getting new keys. Geneforge brought me to Spiderweb, and while I like the rest of Jeff's games, that's the source of my loyalty. Edit: It's nice to see a new round of fans here. In case you haven't already been greeted, welcome to Spiderweb, leave your sanity at the door.

Balefire gets a bit more fleshed out as the series progresses, particularly in "Fires of Heaven". Based on what's been written, I think it's safe to say that Moiraine might have overstated it somewhat. The plot point that really amuses me is Ta'veren: it's the ultimate cop-out for "farm boy to general/lord/etc" syndrome. Not that most fantasy doesn't do something of the sort, but just not usually so blatantly.