The Old Hack

To each their own. I usually play Sith.

Or maybe she is doing it on a case-by-case basis. Leaving the more innocuous comment threads alone and only locking them down when they get out of hand.

I have this story from a friend of mine whose father served as ground personnel in the Danish Air Force. During the Cold War, the Russians liked to send spy planes aggressively close to Danish airspace. In fact, they were not-so-borderline violating it at times. This annoyed the commander of the antiaircraft-battery station where my friend's father served to no end. One day he had had it and told all his batteries to get a target lock on the intruding plane. It left. Really, really fast. And next day the Russian embassy lodged a formal complaint. But from that day on those spy planes were a good deal more cautious about violating Danish airspace.

Bugger. Keep us posted, okay? I don't trust that damn thing. With our luck you will soon have cultists beating down the door to have their dishes done.

I was born on March 14th. Possibly because pi is needed in a lot of hacks.

So do they have Italian space ships? Fast sports models, or what? If he is playing already, I bet he has at least three or four ships for different occasions. He already does that with his cars.

Clearly Signor Mlunatico is keeping busy. Maybe you should suggest to him that he should slow down a little, try an MMO or EVE Online or something.

Moo.

You need to be careful, Pharaoh. If you keep this up, you risk getting charged with bracketeering.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=588

So, still frantically trying to appease spoiled, unruly and not very bright children. The more things change...

Have they also done away with the cop? How does poor Arnold Schwarzenegger make a living these days, then?

I would call for shooting her but after her bearing twenty-three sons, that would be redundant.

Ouch Get better soon.

Firefighters are bad ass. They are the closest thing to real life superheroes I know about. I simply cannot sufficiently express the admiration I feel for people with that amount of commitment and raw courage.

At this point I don't care unless they finally decide to include 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.'

I didn't like Professor Umbridge. She came as a professor but acted like an abusive sadist. Oh wait, umbrage. Never mind, carry on.

Nonsense. He is just the reincarnation of the Gooniverse Dalai Lama. Could happen to anyone.

On an only mildly related note, my gentle old German teacher taught me a trick with 'als' and 'wie' which I soon discovered also worked with 'as' and 'like'. In order to determine when to use which one, 'as' is used as 'in the capacity of' and 'like' is used as 'behaving like.' The test sentence he gave was "He came as a professor but acted like an idiot." Ever since, I have had no trouble deciding which of the two to use.

*sigh* I suppose. And if any Marine would take it by mistake it would certainly be Gomer Pyle.

I love Elliot for just caring so much about other people that he will analyse even his own hypothetical planned actions and reject them if he realises that they could have unintended consequences. This feels a little like the inverse of taking something about others and making it about yourself; he has taken a purely hypothetical (if at least conceivable) scenario he might personally experience and included its effects on others as well. It is why I love EGS so much. The characters. They all bring something important to the table and often do it in very individual ways. And I really, truly appreciate that.

I suppose the very best example of this would be the Nicene Convocation back around 300 AD or so where Christians from all over Europe convened to decide what should actually go in the Bible. Chaosium published an amazing little card game based on exactly this; it was called Credo ('I believe.') A lot of politicking went on to determine what got to go in and what would be left out!

http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2320

HEY! Who filled my hovercraft with eels? Pharaoh, godsdammit, didn't you tell that Marine friend of yours that he wasn't allowed to pilot it anymore?

To be fair to Bible translators, some of them really do the best they can humanly possible. They study Aramaic and linguistics and take degrees in both as aid in their work, as well as a degree in the language they are translating into. They do really impressive work with that, but the sad truth is that the best humanly possible work is still fallible -- and worse yet, often subject to politics coming from higher (also human) authorities. And some of the most used Bibles in the world have scarcely been held to such standards. The KJV, for example, was created by translators who wanted to curry favour with the King and they wrote it in a faux-ancient 'dialect' they made up to sound impressive. Admittedly it does sound bloody impressive but I am afraid this did nothing for its accuracy. Somehow it is harder for me when I am copying, especially in English. Maybe it is because I get bored doing it, I am not sure. I might just be a klutz.