So, lately I've been playing GuildWars, a nice little game, I needed some fantasy in my life after all that Hero stuff.
Anyway, I've had occasion to use TeamSpeak. It's a lovely little thing and it makes teaming ever so much easier when you can actually talk to someone in Realtime, no pauses for typing. Is this something we should look into? My understanding is that it's free. I could be wrong. But I know it costs less than Ventrillo.
That doesn't mean that we need to RP in Teamspeak. That would just be bizarre . I'm sure I sound much to female to ever sound like one of the male Mac Hines. But for all that other chatter, and especially for teaming, would it be useful?
-Cindy

Dunno if this would be a *power* song, but I can *really* see some Loon-fan making up a Doug-centric (Doug 'shipping, perhaps) "AMV" out of it using newsreel footage and machinima scenes from the Warriors video game(s) (C'mon, there *have* to be some in Warrior's World). I mean, the *title* just fits Doug *so* well.
Plus, it rocks hard, which is always good.
Possible power: Doug takes direct control of every radio device within AOE -- "Welcome to WLUN, rockin' and reelin' and HANGIN' FROM THE CELIN'!!!!!"
Saliva:King Of The Stereo
Massive, drastic, classic, I'm interactive
You put me in your computer and Ima crash it
My claim to fame is my brain insane
And if the blame is framed then Ima smash it
I'm back again and on a rampage
Spittin' pain and fables onto a new page
Around the corner I'm comin'
There ain't no use in you runnin'
And now I'm pushin' the button into a new age
The whole world is waiting for the
Waiting for the
Waiting for the
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
I think we've proven that history's being made now
I see you suckas got nothin' that you can say now
And all the others who've fallen
With all their fakin' and ballin'
The kitchen's too damn hot for you to stay now
To everybody who's left you better recognize
Throw your hands in the air
And let me see your eyes
It only took one song for you to realize
Click, click, boom, the king is here tonight
The whole world is waiting for the
Waiting for the
Waiting for the
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
You can't catch me
You can't kill me
You can't break me
You can't catch me
You can't kill me
You can't break me
(Turn it up)
(SOLO)
The whole world is waiting for the
Waiting for the
Waiting for the
The whole world is waiting for the
Waiting for the
Waiting for the
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo
King of the Stereo

Since SAUTEE is getting long in the tooth.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

You guys are beginning to become my outboard memory.
Thank you.
At any rate, I'm trying to remember the name for a military tactic. And I emphasize tactic here.
It was famously used by Napoleon in the Battle of Austerlitz. When faced with a larger foe, particularly one which is made up of seperate elements, you attack in force (and, if I remember correctly, as one unit) one of the seperate elements, then move onto the next element until you have won the field.
I believe the tactic ends with the word "line" or "lines." Like "turning line" or "bending lines." Something to that effect.
A similar idea, taken to the strategic level, was behind the Schlieffen Plan, in which German forces would invade France through Belgium in order to bypass the larger elements of the French Army and defeat the smaller units to the side.
-Murmur

OK, some quick info.
I have a MUSH server set up - it's a nice text chat server with persistent logins and all that. If you've never used MUSH before, well, it's like CoH without the pretty graphics and the huge-ass client.
To connect you can use plain old Telnet (comes standard with every Windows machine since '98 and every Mac since the first OS/X, at least...) or grab a popular client with a few more features, like SimpleMU, there's a bunch of shareware ones out there.
Server is at gehirn.mine.nu port 6250. Post here if you want a login set up for you, I believe it's currently registration only.
A Beginner's Guide to MUSHing should help you out.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

"Who's On First" With Yoda and Jar-Jar. Very funny.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

Gamer makes Samus costume. (Pics of costume worn by hot blonde )

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

I want a tablet PC, just so I can run this.
Crayon Physics Deluxe (video, not exe).

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

It's a simple game - ask what various words mean, offer multiple-choice answers, and make the words and definitions harder or easier depending on whether the player gets the answers right or wrong. (Sometimes it feels like playing "Balderdash", except the offered definitions aren't funny.)
It's an interesting idea - put banner ads on the bottom of each page, and use the money earned for charitible purposes.
It's already been done - FreeRice
At the point where I'd donated 500 grains of rice, I made it to level 43 (out of 50). (Edit: At 10 grains per correct word, that's 50 correct definitions. The level drops each time you guess an incorrect definition.) Can anyone top that?
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

The Jackal
4:33 minutes of being a 6'4" tall pimped out black man