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[Soadreqm]

Basically; Gandalf has all the properties of a Mary Sue, without actually being one due to being written well.

Well, yes. I was mostly complaining on the terminology. "Mary Sue" implies that the character in question is NOT written well.

Also, this is how the story goes:

Spoiler: Tolkien Lore Dump (click to show/hide)

Gandalf, along with the other wizards, were Maiar, emissaries and servants of the Valar. Basically angels. The wizards were sent to Middle-Earth to aid in the battle against Sauron, who was himself a powerful Maia, a student of Aulë, who was corrupted by Morgoth and turned to evil. The balrorgs were also fallen Maiar. Morgoth, also known as Melkor, was one of the Valar who lusted after power and wanted to control the world all by himself. By the time Lord of the Rings rolls around, he has been exiled to the featureless void beyond the rim of the world. After Gandalf defeated Durin's Bane on the highest peak above Khazad-Dûm, he perished from his injuries, and was revived by an honest divine intervention, enacted by Eru Ilúvatar, the omnipotent, omniscient creator of the universe, who created the Valar in a time before time. Gandalf was then carried away from the peak by the eagles, who are commanded by Manwë, the king of the Valar.

I love getting some use out of all these accent marks I have.

I wish I had something to say on the actual stated topic of this thread. Has anyone brought up this artifact lately? It is inevitably going to appear in Homestuck eventually.

[Jackrabbit]

Yeah, we have. It's theorized this is what you get when you cross the Problem Sleuth game and a hammer.

[ToonyMan]

Here's the book.

I'm going to have to buy this...even though it's over-priced.

[qwertyuiopas]

Just bought Volume 4 of the music.

It has a neat wallpaper, likely as bonus content.

Also, started trying to make a windows media player visualization once again. This time, I realized that it is merely a standard COM object with a particular interface, so I don't have to try to make a replacement ATL or MFC, I can just implement it all myself.
If I succeed, the visualization will be a music-reacting animated SBURB spirograph, as seen in the start animation twice now. (00137 and 01149, by their storyfiles index.)

[qwertyuiopas]

After nearly a day of fighting windows, I finished the hard part of creating a windows media player plugin.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Now that I have a row of frequency-based, OpenGL-rendered, points, it shouldn't be nearly as hard to make it actually draw something reasonable.

[tehstefan]

I think I am going to have to buy it too, though 20 dollars is kind of steep. Then again, it is 192 pages of full color stuff, I doubt that came cheap/

[ToonyMan]

I mostly want it for alt-text.

I can show people as well I guess.

[Jackrabbit]

I want to buy this book and therefore shall.

[qwertyuiopas]

http://uristqwerty.50webs.com/HSVis.html

[Soadreqm]

I would totally try that if I wasn't running Linux.

It's been a couple of days since the last MSPA update. Is Andrew working on a flash page or just busy from the book nonsense? Who knows!

[Jackrabbit]

He mentioned he was strapping in for an animation binge.

[ToonyMan]

Oh looks guys we are on page 200 (with default).

Yippie Ka Yah

[qwertyuiopas]

Almost on page 61@50

[Neruz]

I would totally try that if I wasn't running Linux.

It's been a couple of days since the last MSPA update. Is Andrew working on a flash page or just busy from the book nonsense? Who knows!

Flash animation, in fact if his last comment about flash animations is correct, he's currently working on the SUPER AWESOME AMAZING flash that he intended to release for the anniversary but ran out of time.

[Realmfighter]

I just finished reading Problem Sleuth.

That was amazing.

SHIT JUST GOT REAL.