May 9, 2024: The May '24 Report is up.
News: April 23, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.13 has been released.
News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
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Don't let Thomas see you shapeshift into May.There's a reason I'm hesitant to let someone with as little moral restrictions as Xan get that idea. Think of the emotional-
"Shank 'em with the handle!"EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS EHEHEHEHEHE
"Hey, stop doing so well! You're supposed to die!"Oh, and try to catch/dodge this.
With that, Mastahcheese throws the beer bottle he got from the toast guy at Xen's head.
Oh lord you brought up Sword of Truth. Now I remember the demon chicken.Probably for the best. You can believe rand's rather hopelessly naive and selfish philosophy all you want, but she really wasn't a good writer. I forget if it's AS or Fountain head where she had like a 70 page conversation between two characters which was basically just her talking straight to the reader, building bad arguments and then knocking them down to make her position look good. I mean, it was common for books of the kind to do shit like that (The Jungle's last 20 pages was basically just OH GOD I LOVE COMMUNISM SO MUCH! OH GOD!) but that doesn't make it right. Thats why the good social commentary sci-fi blended things relatively seamlessly, your 1984's, brave new worlds, We's, Fahrenheit 451's, etc.Maybe? I'll freely admit that I've never read Atlas Shrugged.I know what I know, but I don't know what you know I know.John Galt I know is the patron saint of fetch, enemy to zone x's everywhere, who can split mountains with a whisper, and has a bit of a cult of personality. Any bells rung?
Or something like that.
Cause if not beats me. Only one I know.
Please see helpful chartI'm pretty sure Radio knows that I'm still active in ER, but just in case: Steve Saint wants those bonus tokens! His first mission was defense of hephaestus, and he got killed by our own cannons in both phases. >.>He's had a very fitting career. I feel like, if someone tallied all the deaths in ER, at least 50% would be teammate related.
I believe this is the point to bring up the famous John Rogers Quote:Quote from: John RogersThere are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
I've never read Atlas Shrugged but given how painful it was for me to read the sword of truth series (The first book was ok before it turned into preachy objectivism so I perhaps foolishly kept hoping it would go back to that... and I hate leaving a story unfinished) I don't intend to either...
Just finished that friggin' amazing book. Now the comedown begins.What book?
At least it's a continuing series. Gotta wait a couple of weeks for my copy of the next issue to arrive, though.
