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[X]

I a desperate attempt to bring life to the board, I urge all readers of this message to post now! Anything, no need to have something interesting or relevant to say, but that would be nice.

Martin

Who just spent £2.70 he didn't have on needless fast food.

[Captain_Action]

post

[Demon]

I'm still lurking around here...

[Zonk]

I still exist!

[X]

No 'even' in my copy:
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons death may die."

'Polaris' my favourite probably.

X

[Fourth Triad]

Blah++

[Eagleon]

Is that some sort of undefinably plain programming language? Cause that'd be nice to have. Links?  

[Toady One]

I'm a faux-lurker!  I just picked up my PDE book and broke off two of my guitar finger nails.  I actually saw the rather large pieces fly through the air.  It was disconcerting.

X, my version has "even"...  doesn't that word give both lines in the couplet 10 syllables?

[X]

Ow! That'll teach ya for growing long nails.

On the quote, had a bit of a hunt, and it seems to depend who you believe,
Lovecraft: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thenamelesscity.htm  http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/lovecraft/stories/nameless.htm
Or the 'Necronomicon': http://www.necronomicon.biz/  http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~tadhg/main/notdead.html
Making the couplet a neat 10,10 probably explains the discrepancy.

X

[Toady One]

Odd that in both the Lovecraft links you gave, the couplet appears at the beginning and end, first with "even" and second without.  Maybe he couldn't decide himself.  I have a cheap Del Rey collection of Lovecraft stories that had "even" in both -- maybe the editors saw that he had it both ways and decided to keep the rhythmic one.

Edit:  Whoops, I meant first without "even" and second with it!

[ April 12, 2004: Message edited by: Toady One ]

[Alsvid]

This game looks megafun.  I'm a psychologist, so I can program individual minds for each and every NPC, making it an ultra-real world.  

Although apparently this might require some sort of 'super computer'.  I think that 'super man' might have one, though.

[Toady One]

Too bad that megafun rhymes with meganotdone.  

Man, wouldn't I be skirting all kinds of oddness if I used psych for the AI?  I've seen the stats on rural boys and livestock.  The numbers 1 and 14 as a fraction come to mind.  Armok will have a lot of farmland.  I was planning do some individualization...  I think I wrote a bit of it up in the mental section of the future pages, vaguely.

[PsychoX]

I want a custom title.

[Toady One]

You can enter your title in your profile.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

Gah, cruel, cruel world! *post*

Nothing to see here, move along.