The Mystic
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Nobody said you couldn't masquerade as yourself, so I thought I might get away with hiding in plain sight.Originally Posted By: DikiyobaCan we agree that no one registers except under an alias (coughTheMysticcough)?
This new round, however, not even my best friend will be able to find me. 
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So I just discovered trying to log back in. I clicked the "Post" button about a second after you closed the boards; I was going to post why I didn't change my PDN for the game.Originally Posted By: HomageVery well. The gates have been closed.
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Here's a possible "Spiderweb Pie" chorus:Originally Posted By: TriumphIs any one writing lyrics to an absurdly long song? The title can be "Spiderweb Pie" and each verse will segue into the chorus with "the day...identity...died." It'll be a hit, I'm sure.
Bye-bye to my Spiderweb Pie,
Used a Geneforge in Avernum, now I'm a new kind of guy.
And the Nethergate folks all said with a sigh,
"Hand Avadon a Heart and an Eye,
Hand Avadon a Heart and an Eye."
It's supposed to (more or less) fit the chorus to "American Pie," but I'm no lyricist. If anyone with more musical talent than I (mine is somewhere near nil) wants to use this, they may.One thing's for sure, though: The pastry will definitely stick to your ribs.Originally Posted By: GoldenkingOriginally Posted By: Triumph"Spiderweb Pie"
Good luck selling that to the masses. Neither the song nor the pastry would do well
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Yes, I have broken the 3k mark, fairly recently in fact; I seem to be posting relatively frequently of late. Better be careful, or I just might catch up to you.Originally Posted By: DantiusGo easy on him. He hasn't even broken...
Crap. He has broken 3k. I need to step up my game.Don't worry, you can always win it back next round.Originally Posted By: TyranicusI just lost the game.
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Well, like I said, I knew it was coming. It's not for nothing I chose "The Mystic" as my PDN. Also, Tyran, I've been meaning to ask: Is your avatar the first Doctor? I've never seen him in color.Originally Posted By: TyranicusSince posting it yourself does not really count:
[image]He maps spam, eh?Originally Posted By: RandomizerNo evil deed live on
I led a deli.
A local, Al, a cola.
Just thought I'd throw in a few more palindromes.
Maybe not, but they're fun while they last.Originally Posted By: Randomizerand neither do these topics. -
Tomorrow, the world! (Sort of appropriate, considering I'm posting this around midnight, local time.)
After all these years, I finally hit over 3000 posts. I was planning to celebrate by posting 3000-related images, but since this post's number (3003) is a palindrome, I'll do that instead.
First, some music:
Quote:BobI, man, am regal - a German am I
Never odd or even
If I had a hi-fi
Madam, I'm Adam
Too hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Rise to vote, sir
Do geese see God?
"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod.
Rats live on no evil star
Won't lovers revolt now?
Race fast, safe car
Pa's a sap
Ma is as selfless as I am
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Ah, Satan sees Natasha
No devil lived on
Lonely Tylenol
Not a banana baton
No "x" in "Nixon"
O, stone, be not so
O Geronimo, no minor ego
"Naomi," I moan
"A Toyota's a Toyota"
A dog, a panic in a pagoda
Oh no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies - run!
Senile felines
Now I see bees I won
UFO tofu
We panic in a pew
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog
Then, some Latin:
Also written as:Code:ROTASOPERATENETAREPOSATOR
Code:SATORAREPOTENETOPERAROTAS
And now, a preemptive strike, since I know it's coming:
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Is there a better kind?Originally Posted By: Cairo JimOh, isn't that great. An empty board that's gonna end up filled with cans of Spiderweb brand of Spam. Then again, there's worse stuff to post....
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Among the first registered, though I don't plan to participate in the game.Originally Posted By: Homage
I did, however, leave my sanity at the door.
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Might I suggest a pseudonym for the duration of the game? It would definitely allow the gimmick to continue, albeit slightly altered.Originally Posted By: DikiyobaDikiyoba would participate if someone decides to set up a forum. It will be hard for Dikiyoba to post without this gimmick, but Dikiyoba shall do Dikiyoba's best.
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Found some neat illusions
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Of course you're missing the forest, there's too many trees in the way.Originally Posted By: There's variance and there's variance—Alorael, who feels like he's somehow missing something. A forest, maybe?
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In my neighborhood, there are two houses with identical street numbers (they're on different streets, fortunately); I live in one of them. Every now and again, we get each other's mail.Originally Posted By: RandomizerI've received packages at my doorstep that belong a street over and I live next to a street sign. Never doubt GPS navigation as it sends you into a river.
As for GPS, I never had one, and don't want one. I don't trust them, especially since the time my friend's GPS him to the end of a dead-end street, recalculated the route, and told him to drive down a nearby boat ramp and into a lake. -
I highly doubt it.Originally Posted By: HomageEdit Reason: Now with my luck the UPS truck that will carry my crap will probably explode or something.
Be thankful you don't have my luck. I once ordered some Norton software directly from their site; the package was shipped to Missouri, Minnesota, Maine, and Montana before finally arriving at my door in Michigan--almost a month after its scheduled arrival date. -
If you use a cheat code, you can no longer earn any medals in that zone until you leave and come back; otherwise, you miss the medal, even if you trigger the event that gives it to you. I don't know how much you cheat (if at all), but that might be the case if you did.
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I use my external hard drive mainly for archival purposes, although in my case, "external hard drive" means "an internal hard drive I put in an enclosure."Originally Posted By: Benching many verbsAn external hard drive is really only helpful if your computer is absolutely full. When it is, you can get slowdowns. If you've got a few gigabytes free, you don't need an external hard drive, although I still think they're handy for storing extra stuff and transferring.Yeah, a computer that old is pretty much considered ancient by current standards, and slowdowns (and breakdowns) are all but expected. I had to retire my dad's old Windows XP computer earlier this year, because the hardware kept going wacky.Originally Posted By: Benching many verbs—Alorael, who doesn't think there's much that will help a decade old computer. It's just old and tired. It's getting to be about time to put it out to pasture.
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It's an older drive to begin with, so I wasn't worried too much about extra wear; and there weren't any bad sectors on the drive, I checked. And I had already spent almost a week trying everything I could think of before the overwrite, so it was done basically as a last resort. The short of it is that total erasure was the only solution that worked, with the exception of introducing the drive to the business end of a ball-peen hammer.Originally Posted By: LilithOriginally Posted By: The MysticAfter several unsuccessful attempts to remove it, I ended up having to do a seven-pass erasure of the entire hard drive, and start over from scratch.
the only thing a multi-pass overwrite will do is wear out your hard drive faster. data on modern drives cannot be accessed in any way if the entire drive has been overwritten. no, i don't care what papers you can pull up that seem to say otherwise: they're not applicable to modern data storage formats, and mostly applicable only in theory even to older ones.
the only exception is if there's data preserved in damaged sectors of the drive, in which case no number of overwrites will help you because the firmware transparently maps those sectors as off-limits and refuses to read or write to them. but that's more a data privacy issue than a malware one, since obviously a virus won't do anything if it's in sectors that can't be accessed.Not surprising; there's no such thing as a computer that's 100% safe from threats.Originally Posted By: Student of TrinityI know that Mac viruses exist and that the platform isn't really invulnerable.This is what's commonly known as a good thing.Originally Posted By: Student of TrinityBut in fact I've been using Macs for years and never met a virus, nor have any of my students.Also a good thing. It's better to have some form of protection that just sits there with nothing to do, than to have no protection at all and think you're safe.Originally Posted By: Student of TrinityI've installed Sophos a couple of times, because the university offered it free, and it never gave any trouble, but never actually did anything, either. My goal in installing it was mainly to avoid passing on Windows stuff, even if it wasn't hurting me. But I don't think it ever found anything at all.
I have a friend who's almost fanatically devoted to his Mac, and he's convinced himself that it's totally immune to any and all viruses, even without antivirus software. This is even after I told him that some of his favorite programs were also favorite malware targets. -
The best place to store items is where you can find them again easily. And, as has been pointed out, nobody will walk off with your stuff; there's no theft in the game, except on your part.
Welcome to Spiderweb Software. Please leave your sanity at the door. That way, the fluffy turtles don't have to break in and steal it.
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Hence the saying: Murphy was an optimist.Originally Posted By: MiramorAlso, a bit of advice... Never, ever assume that your security setup is working at its theoretical best. If something can go wrong, it will.Been there, done that. I once had a virus get itself lodged in an "uninfectable" file in a "protected" system folder, and both AVG and Norton refused to believe that anything was wrong. After several unsuccessful attempts to remove it, I ended up having to do a seven-pass erasure of the entire hard drive, and start over from scratch.Originally Posted By: Miramor(Which is why I'm now trying to track down a rootkit infection on a Windows machine that I thought was pretty well secured. It seems to be some kind of awful TDSS variant... Yay.)
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I've bought quite a few things online over the past year or so, and the number of problems has been, fortunately, precisely nil. I'm also a bit paranoid with my card number, so I asked my bank to change it about a month ago.
Same here, and the account is almost as old as I am. Fortunately for me, all my issues, except for maybe one, turned out to be an error on my part.Originally Posted By: Lilithi bank with a credit union and have pretty much never had any problems -
It's most likely in an area you can't reach, since the AEftP demo is basically limited to the Eastern Gallery. IIRC from the previous incarnations, the Nephilim fortress is just north of the Eastern Gallery, and can be reached from the passage in the middle of the gallery's northern border.
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I'll have to take your word for it. I didn't see anything.Originally Posted By: SereNikki
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I sincerely doubt Jeff will be gone for a year; odds are more likely he took some time off to be with his family. If my guesses are right, he's probably well into coding the next game, but it's still far too early even for beta testing.
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I remember those old boards. *waxes nostalgic for a minute*
I clicked the link, and it was nice to see the now-defunct SubTerra board up and running again, even in its dying days. That was what brought me here in the first place.
OH GOD! THE PAIN!
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