Skwish-E

Just finished Richard Preston's The Cobra Event. An interesting tale of a man who believes the Earth is overpopulated, and decides to fix it with a horrifying bio-weapon. It has a lot of true history of bio-weapons research in it as well.

Skwish-E is looking for a good scam plan to make some money off the end of the worlders. Maybe I offer to buy all their land really cheap, but let them keep it until 1/1/2013. That way they get to have a bunch of ready cash for their end-of-the-world parties, last flings, whatever. If the world ends, they win. If not, ... Skwish-E rules the world! HA HA HA HA <cough> <cough>.

I love my Kukri. Got it in Kathmandu.

It would suck for the random japanese guy if the laptop was an anti-personel mine.

Welcome into the fold, stumblefoot

The rats used to be construction workers who helped build the original mansion that you go through before you get to the tower. MK's assistant that you have to fight at the top of the tower is the witch who changed them into rats.

Originally Posted By: Earth Empires ... most likely dead since no sign of him at Avadon after returning there... Click to reveal.. He actually is a lot smarter than he lets on. He has been working with Miranda the whole time, and escaped before she did into the portal to Tawon. If they had been sure that you were with them earlier, he would have given you the really powerful items that he made, rather than the little jokes he played on you.

All we have to do is melt down a half mile of fiber that runs through ********, and 90% of the world's financial transactions go nowhere.

Dormant = Sleeping. Ceasing to Exist = Sleeping with the Fishes. Black holes should stay away from starfish. I'm just saying.

It was dormant because it was sleeping, sillies! Then that dumb old star had to wake it up. Boy do those things wake up cranky!

I don't like music that gets in the way of the sound effects, but background is OK as long as it isn't too repetetive. 40 + hours of 5 bars of music repeated would make me want to strangle kittens.

The witches that turned him into a rat, of course.

Well, I am quite aware that racism still exists, but that it is not a mainstream and definitely not as accepted as it was 30 - 40 years ago when I was a child. I recently moved across the country (mostly for economic reasons) partially so that my adopted daughter (who has a different racial background than the rest of our family) would have an easier time. We have raised our 5 children to make race a non-issue, and we knew we were being successful when one evening, while I was driving down the road, a news story came on the radio that caused one of my kids to ask, "Daddy, is Gramma Annie white?" The concept of skin color and race is just irrelevant to them. They are the new generation. The old generation includes my uncle who was a mamber of the KKK until he passed away, my stepfather who pulled me aside when I was going to adopt my daughter and told me it was a bad idea, because she would have the same rights as my "real children" and that we didn't need any more of "those people" in our country. An asian co-worker of mine was going to visit his wife's family in East Tennessee, and drove through a town where he was pulled over by the cops and told to get out of town fast if he knew what was good for him. There are still places with hand lettered signs at the side of the road coming into town that say "Welcome to (whatevertown). Ni@@&&, don't let the sun go down on you here." At the same time, one of the biggest racists I have ever known was someone who was raised in the aftermath of the assassination of MLK, and she was convinced that all white people were evil, hated her, and wanted to keep her oppressed. All of this is anecdotal evidence, true, but racism is not something to play around with. I was one of a small minority of caucasians (2 in my class) in one semester of elementary school in North Georgia, and (somehow) I kept tripping on the stairs and falling down a lot. I chose to rise above it, and when my family moved to a different place where there was not a context of racism, our elementary school teacher had us do a social exercise in racism to teach the kids what it was about. She divided us into groups, one group was to be the majority, power-holders, and the other the minority victims. When I was put into the minority group, I laid my head down on my desk and cried, because I already knew what it felt like. I ended up getting sent to the principal's office because I started a fight on the playground. The other kids wouldn't let us minorities play with any of the balls, so I just took one. I can't help it that I was born a white male. I don't consider myself to be above anyone else because of the accident of my birth, though I do realize there are advantages to it. There are also advantages to having been born an American, or Canadian, or (pick your favorite "First World" nation), no matter what race you are. The racial divide in America has not entirely disappeared, but in two more generations, we can get rid of it IF WE TRY. Perpetuating the victim mentality is as bad as ignoring the problem that still exists. Sorry for the big rant, but this is one of the rare issues that I will actually get serious about. I am also involved with a couple of groups that are working to abolish slavery, human trafficking, and the sexual exploitation of minors. Yes, I put my money and time where my mouth is.

I inverted my colors twice just to be moe specialer.

Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba ... Dikiyoba hopes it has never been this ugly before, though. Oh! There it is, it's upaside-downey and all squinty-colored!

Rebel Serviles should all be unmade and reabsorbed for their essence. Why did we ever shape them with so much intelligence to begin with? We cursed them with enough intelligence to know they were stupid, but not enough to be able to learn anything valuable. I pity them all. For their own good, they should be put down. It's a mercy, really.

Halberd Sweep for the win!

Originally Posted By: AethirWeb ...I doubt anyone would actually put a pylon in Tawon, you'd think they notice by now. Spoiler! Click to reveal.. One of the portals can be configured for Tawon, as you find out when Miranda goes poof!

Almarian Wine ... Portage Port.

it's a make a paper map and still get lost kind of place.

Yes to both questions. You can stand in the middle and be safe from both sides, and if you get caught on the wrong side, you get confused.

bows and javelins and razordisks, oh my!

Originally Posted By: Tyranicus ...but nearly everyone was surprised when they couldn't find any WMD's. We weren't all surprised. I mean, we gave them plenty of time to move them, and plenty of warning that we were going to be looking.

Anarchy will only lead to the domination of the weak by the strong. Next, some of the stronger weak will agther together to oppose the strong and defend each other. Eventually, larger and larger groups will gather together to oppose the other groups for 'protection', and the next thing you know, you have nations at war again. As long as human nature is involved, Anarchy is not a solution.

Originally Posted By: Triumph Dikiyoba's picture changed! Has that ever happened before??? What is the new picture? A pink snail on a leaf? It just looks like a blur to my old eyes.