Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 MMMMM-HMMMMM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 This week the trend... is making postcount threads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 !!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Bless-you *hands tissue* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 my mmmmm thread was better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Ceiling Durkheim Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Well, I've always been a shameless trend-follower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 I see a traditionalist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lilith my mmmmm thread was better thruth-bomb Congrat, SoT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Nioca Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Congrats on your 5000th, SoT. ...I'm also coming to realize that I didn't celebrate my 4000th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Nicothodes Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Congratulations SoT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Your filthy spamming may soon put you on the wall of shame that is the Top Posters list. My condolences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Yay for 5000 posts! I remember you having a postcount in the 2000s range when I joined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 5000 posts? Man, who reads all these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Excalibur I remember you having a postcount in the 2000s range when I joined. 3000 posts ago for SoT is about 3000 posts ago for you too. I smell something fishy... Oh, that's my lunch. Congrats, and lets keep this up so I can join in the fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 AHA! —Alorael, who considers SoT's 5000 posts an accomplishment. Very few of them failed to meet minimum criteria for wit, humor, or interesting content. A significant number were even good enough to justify the existence of the thread in which they occurred! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Kelandon Your filthy spamming may soon put you on the wall of shame that is the Top Posters list. My condolences. Not if I have anything to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Congratulations, SoT! Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Man, I recall when only a handful of Spiderwebbers had over four thousand posts, and when Alorael broke that major barrier by getting over ten thousand. Just goes to show that everyone here is just a bunch of vigorous spammers. Atrocious. Here's to a continuation of the spamming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Oh look, nobody's posted this yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Look at me, I can't even be bothered to write my own message! I am truly the more optimal spammer! FYT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: Impudent Strumpet! Originally Posted By: Dantius Look at me, I can't even be bothered to write my own message! I am truly the more optimal spammer! FYT. I was also going for that, too, but it needs to be posted all by itself, so doing that and the comic wouldn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Jerakeen Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Also too, that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 If we're going to hopelessly spam this thread, we should at least spam it with something topical, like starfruit. Mmm, starfruit. Great. Now Dikiyoba is hungry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma Masquerade Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 *throws confetti* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba If we're going to hopelessly spam this thread, we should at least spam it with something topical Whenever someone uses the word "topical," my first association is not what is usually intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall The Ratt Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Congrats SoT. Keep spreading knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Enraged Slith Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 I don't think I've ever posted in one of these threads before, so here's a puppy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 It looks a bit like one of the red foxes firefox was supporting a while ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Well, if you breed foxes selectively for tameness over many generations they become very much like a dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Your name keeps reminding me of essays I'm not writing. Stop posting, please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Congrats, SoT! Originally Posted By: Dantius Oh look, nobody's posted this yet! Only because you got here before I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 You need to write essays about Kyrandia? How lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Unless I am totally mistaken, 1) Erasmus was in Quest for Glory, not the Legend of Kyrandia, and 2) Nikki is probably being reminded of Erasmus of Rotterdam, the historical person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES Unless I am totally mistaken, 1) Erasmus was in Quest for Glory, not the Legend of Kyrandia, and 2) Nikki is probably being reminded of Erasmus of Rotterdam, the historical person. Odd I could have sworn that was the name of the old mage in Kyrandia. If Erasmus wasn't his name, then what was? Both ways an essay about quest for glory still sounds fun (I knew about the other meaning of the name (just about it belonging to a historical figure, not who that figure was), but I was being whimsical). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Uh... which one? There were something like 5-7 mage-types in Kyrandia. Mallak and Darm were the old men; besides them, Brynn and Zanthia were also mystics, and Marko, Malcolm, and Brandon were magicians of one sort or another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I meant the one who was turned into stone at the beginning of the first part of Kyrandia, Maybe Darm? I think he was Brandon's grandfather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 That was Mallak. Mallak was the advisor of King William, Brandon's father, and he brought Brandon up as his grandson after the king was killed -- he was not his real grandfather. (There's gotta be a tvtropes page for that.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES That was Mallak. Mallak was the advisor of King William, Brandon's father, and he brought Brandon up as his grandson after the king was killed -- he was not his real grandfather. (There's gotta be a tvtropes page for that.) So Mallak's dramatic revelation was "No Brandon- I am not your [grand]father!"? That's a twist on the classic pattern... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Is it? I think the classic pattern tends to involve "this person who brought you up is not your real father/whatever. actually, this king/hero/wizard/sith is!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES Is it? I think the classic pattern tends to involve "this person who brought you up is not your real father/whatever. actually, this king/hero/wizard/sith is!" So you're saying I should have gone with the KotOR joke on the Mallak angle, instead of the ESB joke on the "your father" angle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 "On my deathbed, dear child, I must confess. I raised you from an infant, and only when you came of age did I reveal that you were the only living heir to the deposed king. Well, uh, I lied. Yeah, you're just my grandson. Your parents died of Plot-Related Plague, and the dictator was totally a jerk, and I figured I could totally raise a better ruler than that. So... hey, at least you got a spiffy crown, right?" —Alorael, who wonders how many heroes wander around with entirely false notions of their family trees. Their enemies are their fathers, their grandfathers are actually just wise mentors, and there's probably at least one god and possibly one inanimate object in their recent ancestry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Originally Posted By: Sublime Suffering —Alorael, who wonders how many heroes wander around with entirely false notions of their family trees. Their enemies are their fathers, their grandfathers are actually just wise mentors, and there's probably at least one god and possibly one inanimate object in their recent ancestry. See Alexander of Macedon (i.e. the great). He was told by his mother all of his childhood that he was the son of god and a god himself and ended conquering a very large percentage of the (then) known world (and although I could have sworn he also conquered west of Greece wikipedia shows he conquered only eastwards). So he probably answers a large part of your hero plot line (for lack of a better name) definition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Citation please? I know it's been suggested that Alexander was brought up being told that, mainly as a result of strange things his mother said, but not all recorded evidence lines up that way. Furthermore, it seems quite at odds with (1) a military brat exposed to the realities of war from a young age, and (2) someone famously tutored -- possibly the most famous tutelage ever -- by Aristotle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 Aristotle would probably not have let something like that just slip by. I never heard anything about Alexander being brought up to believe he was divine. I think maybe he did later set up as some sort of demigod in Egypt, after he conquered it. But you have to remember: what happens in Egypt, stays in Egypt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Plutarch Alexander 3.2: Moreover, Olympias, as Eratosthenes says, when she sent Alexander forth upon his great expedition, told him, and him alone, the secret of his begetting, and bade him have purposes worthy of his birth. Others, on the contrary, say that she repudiated the idea, and said: ‘Alexander must cease slandering me to Hera.’ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0243%3Achapter%3D3%3Asection%3D2 You'll understand the text better if you start reading from the beginning (i.e. Alex. 1.1 or 2.1). So either his mother was telling him that, or he was telling others that, but either was it was being said And you also need to remember that a woman's opinion in the Hellenistic and pre-Hellenistic world (not including Gaul Britain and Ireland) didn't amount to much as they were a small step above slaves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES 2) Nikki is probably being reminded of Erasmus of Rotterdam, the historical person. Yeah, him. And Erasmus Darwin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 As I said, the ancient evidence from different authors is inconclusive. In your Plutarch quote, he mentions that some reporters disagree. When there are multiple sources providing conflicting stories, you can hardly take either source at face value. The fact that one source says he was brought up this way does not make it fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 It's true, the only thing we know for sure is that we know nothing but assume a lot. It all depends on what constitutes as enough proof, and the more you delve into history the less proof you have. You might as well say that dinosaurs didn't really exist but are an ongoing hoax by archeologists (or by god for that matter, creationalists do insist that god created the world OLD), there's no way to repudiate this. Did the dodo ever exist? You only have hear say of its existence just like you have of the loch ness monster. It all comes down to what belief is acceptable enough for you to believe in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma Masquerade Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Originally Posted By: Erasmus Did the dodo ever exist? You only have hear say of its existence just like you have of the loch ness monster. It all comes down to what belief is acceptable enough for you to believe in it. do the many stuffed and mounted dodos and historic documents containing studies and drawings of dodos not constitute as proof for some reason? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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