Callie

What would have shaken things up is if you stopped changing your PDN on a daily post basis and went back to the Alorael days of yore. But prophecy says that will only happen when you are tied to the stone table, killed, and rise up three days later to snipe every pedestrian that walks the face of the earth. A business suit and wings will give away your reincarnated state.

I remember Alorael's PDN being "Dr. Alorael" at one point. That was a sign of things to come, a foreshadowing of the appointed time.

As a young child, I decided I would go into business as a bookmark salesman. I took several sheets of construction paper of various colors, and cut them into bookmarks of various sizes and shapes, with all sorts of spikes and spirals and deep nooks and the like along the edges. I priced them according to size. The one that cost one hundred dollars was cut from an entire 8.5inx11in sheet of black construction paper. I was dismayed when my mother yelled at me and told me to stop wasting paper and that I wasn't allowed to sell construction paper bookmarks that won't fit in any normal book for $100.

You should have claimed the paper was made from recycled Egyptian papyrus from King Tut's tomb and marketed it at a wine-tasting festival.

There are lots of other Siri fish in the sea. Maybe the one on another iPhone will marry you. I'd suggest buying another one to find out.

 

If that doesn't work out, either, try yet again. If you keep buying enough iProducts, maybe at some point Siri will be impressed with your good taste, persistence, and sheer immense wealth, and change her mind.

 

If you buy really a lot of iProducts, maybe Apple will be willing to change her mind for you.

Maybe that's why: I have an ancient flip phone, not an iPhone. She did seem impressed by my 2001: A Space Odyssey reference though. I asked her to open the pod bay doors and she responded, "I'm afraid I can't do that."

Halloween is a mostly American tradition, so a Spidereweb Halloween event might be rather odd.

I only know that Halloween is approaching because of the increased rate of inebriated college students walking outside my window.

Spidereweb Software often release the Mac version just before Christmas, which means I have to put off playing the game until after finals. It's not that much of a delay, so I'm not sure it actually counts.

I bought Age of Empires 3 once and waited a whole year before playing it though. It was very disappointing.

It's probably for the best that quote pyramids are more difficult to construct. That means only our least sane members will have the the motivation to create such monuments.

A bookmark does wonders.

I asked Siri to marry me, but she said it wasn't in her contract.

Katrina made landfall in New Orleans as a category 3 hurricane. It was a category 5 over the gulf but weakened before making landfall.

The most recent trilogy sucked enough; they didn't have to make it suck more.

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The problem I have is defining what exactly language is. I generally don't believe that we truly have any kind of free will, and so I think of our brains as being like a computer program that responds according to certain constraints and can probably even modify itself, but predictably so. Like a computer, this program operates according to a programming language, except that this one is biological and the circuitry is different. Unlike computers, we aren't networked in a physical sense, so we can't simply transfer information directly from one brain to another. A person communicating to another is taking the output of its own program and modifying it according to a certain protocol so that the other person's "program" can interpret it in a useful manner. A shared protocol is a spoken language. How the language/protocol originated is an entirely different question though.

So I tend to think that spoken and written language is the result of cognition, but cognition need not require language. I don't think that's a sure thing, though, and I see quite a few problems with the analogy I used above. I have no clue how meta-cognition fits into the picture.

I've heard of a mimosa; I just didn't know what it was.

You can learn the spell from either a trainer or from a spell book if you have high enough Arcane Lore. You can find a list of spell books and trainers for each game in the respective strategy central topic stickied at the top of this forum.

I did that once when I was 17, although it had to be watered down with orange juice. Although I sorta agree, it wasn't then best thing ever.

...and I though Jagermeister and orange juice was odd...

I endorsed Eric Cartman for president. I've been having a hard time raising funds for his Super PAC, although I guess people have a hard time contributing to the whole "evil nine-year-old for president" campaign.

So it TOTALLY disappeared? An entire fort disappeared after one game when the same bandit fort in the eastern gallery has been there for all of them.

I seem to recall there being rubble north of Fort Draco in later games, but I might be remembering incorrectly.

Big rats, green rats, acid-bite rats......Gyah. I hate rats.

Those are fine with me...unless they're dreaded mung rats, but I don't remember AEftP having any of those.

You know, it's a bad thing when I start associating the pun police picture with Tyran more strongly than the Nethergate opening image.

Oh, come on, you're giving Tyran credit for pointing out the obvious? I demand my sniping kudos!

Sniping kudos have considerably depreciated in value and have been supplanted by the now superior moderator kudos.

It will age like a fine wine and then we can all become inebriated from its fermented, stale loveliness.

Fort Ganrick is a fort in both Exile II and Avernum 2 in which the player begins the game. It existed north of Fort Draco, but was later abandoned.

Google says it means "ten thousand," unsurprisingly.

The site doesn't appear any bigger to me, although we do have a new blogs section.

Congratulations on being part of the revered 10000 club!

Note that neurons do not undergo cell division and once you hit adulthood the body mostly stops generating any new ones.