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!
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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
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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

Marvel Universe going belly up? Or just in development hell?
Not sure how I feel about the prospect. After the hell they gave City of Heroes, and after the shit they've pulled in raping their own characters and universe in the comics, I can confidently say I would never have played this game, even if it looked fantastic. Not giving Marvel any more of my money if I can at all help it (with the exception of maybe the movie franchises. Iron Man does look SWEET in the trailers.) So having it go down in flames before ever seeing market appeals to that bit of shadenfraude in me.
On the other hand, having another MMO out there in the same "ecological niche" as City of Heroes might be a good thing. Competition breeds creativity and all in many ways. Two competing Supers MMOs might make both better products.
On the gripping hand, however, City of Heroes spent half a decade in development. This could just be another phase of "development hell' where the entire current team is fired and replaced with new talent and the whole thing starts over.
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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Don't know how many people in Bob's neck of the woods are interested in this (besides Bob), but I thought I'd post this here anyway, just in case.
So here's the deal. There's a group from the FFML that's been getting together for a chat on the old FFIRC. Assuming you can get there, it's:
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp irc.nabiki.com
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp port = 6667
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp channel = #fanfic
The "official start time" is 9pm EST (New York time), but there's usually people there earlier. It runs until whenever.
Among people who've shown up since we started doing this again (back at the end of September) are June "Karaohki" Geraci, Krista Perry (insert married name here), Joseph Palmer, Fido, Zoogz, Todd "Lorien" Hill (the 'landlord'), and Pearson "Doc" Mui. Many people I don't know at all, many people I haven't figured out who they are too.
This isn't a closed thing - spread the word.

Now, as it happens, I can't be there this week (Thanksgiving holiday week starting & I'm out of town Sunday night), but I hope some of you do come out.

And yes, I know IRC is supposedly "dead". Hasn't stopped people from going there and chatting anyway. And we don't need a chat room, we've already got one - on IRC.

Jeanne Hedge
www.jhedge.com

"Believe me, if I have to go the rest of my life without companionship, knowing myself won't be a problem."
-- Gabrielle of Potadeia

I really, really like Crimson Skies. It's just a fun setting and a fun game.
Unfortunately, it's also old and pretty moribund. The pretty Saitek I got to play it with is sitting and getting dusty.
I mostly live in single player. I love sci-fi. I have no interest in 'realistic' flight models or problems for their own sake.
I wanna step out in the sky and blow stuff up.
...and I have no clue where to start looking for reasonably modern games to scratch that itch.
Help?

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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."