We need another Eden trial, so we can try this.
http://community.livejournal.com/city_o ... 32208.html

Quote:I had always heard that if you didn't clear all the crystal guys around
the Titan's platform, they'd rush you when you attacked the Titan,
though I had never tested it myself. But we decided to try it by just
freeing the heroes and then rushing the Titan anyway.
Turns out, it's true. They WILL rush you all at once:

Was browsing Virtueverse wiki recently, and looking through one of the more creative entries, the Spirit of the Row.

Then I noticed a link I hadn't before.

Faces of the City

It's written a bit earlier in the game than present, so some of the things are out of date(Armorless Rikti, and Faultline still in ruins), but
still....it's really good. And near the end...exceptionally creepy.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

Went to Sheep Creek not too long ago - had some friends with me..



Dramatis Personae: Left to Right

@Mrs. DaemeonX, @DaemeonX, @Wiregeek, @DJ w00t









Much fun was had by all - I broke my bad streak, caught an 18" silver in eatable form, we camped out overnight. Brought insufficient rain coverage, woke
up floating in puddles (thank god for air mattresses!).

Not Shown: @Elayna, 2 yr old femme ma/inv scrapper, @Ian, 5 yr old Sonic/Emp def

@Daemeonx and the Mrs. got quite intoximacated, @DJ w00t consumed responsibly, as did @Wiregeek's dad, who is the man behind the camera (and looks
precisely like an older Wiregeek, big surprise.. ).

DJ w00t caught a fish as well. She failed, however, to pull far enough back, and the fish broke hold and managed to get a travel power on (superjump,
apparetly). The sight of w00t frantically grabbing at this loose fish as it bounced down the bank, screaming profanity, will forever be etched into my mind.

While on the Moonfire TF, we got to discussing the States TF when we were comparing Recluse to Nemesis. Anyway, if any of you all can get together for one, I
think we could pull it off. What we really need to make this work is some strong Debuffs, and Emp, and the Tank,
presumably Emet. Stealth Porting a Plus.

If possible I would hope to have: Emet, Mag, Rhea (Emerald), Lisa (Gamma), Steath Porter (Steph voulnteered I belive), a controller with an Immob (or 2), and
damage.

VBadges has a Master of STF (No Temps, No Defeats challenges set) call at 8PM, where in everyone who shows is tried to get in on a team, so if we fall short
some and are desparate, we could probaly pick up there. I'll probably go just for the hell of it, if nothing is shaking. Otherwise, any time is good for
me, say, afternoon-ish?
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

http://www.morecowbell.dj/]More Cowbell

Upload whatever song you think needs more cowbell, tell the site just how much more cowbell the song needs, and let it work its more-cowbell magic!

(Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell not included.)
--
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

Ruff Enuff is lining up to tear into Positron's TF this Sunday. 4-man limit, I'm willing to make multiple runs if there's enough interest but
I'm not willing to tackle a 5-man or greater Posi.

Start time TBA, if you've got a suggestion speak up. So far we've got me, providing Tankage, and Ops, providing whatever's needed at the time it
kicks off.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

Tim's modified his webpage somewhat - you can now watch low-quality versions of his AMVs from http://www.doki.ca/videos/]this page. (You still have to head over to animemusicvideos.org for the high-quality versions.)

And to give folks incentive, there's two new (well, new to me) videos up - http://www.doki.ca/notes/cho.html]Choices (which uses footage from Legend of Black Heaven) and http://www.doki.ca/notes/cake.html]Can Always Kill Excel (which has something to do with cake... or is the cake a lie? ) I'm downloading them both as I type...
--
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

Well, here's what the RCC has to say on the subject:

Quote: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Tuesday the theory of evolution was compatible with the Bible but planned no posthumous apology to Charles
Darwin for the cold reception it gave him 150 years ago.

Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's culture minister, was speaking at the announcement of a Rome conference of scientists, theologians and
philosophers to be held next March marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "The Origin of Species".

Christian churches were long hostile to Darwin because his theory conflicted with the literal biblical account of creation.

Earlier this week a leading Anglican churchman, Rev. Malcolm Brown, said the Church of England owed Darwin an apology for the
way his ideas were received by Anglicans in Britain.

Pope Pius XII described evolution as a valid scientific approach to the development of humans in 1950 and Pope John Paul
reiterated that in 1996. But Ravasi said the Vatican had no intention of apologizing for earlier negative views.

"Maybe we should abandon the idea of issuing apologies as if history was a court eternally in session," he said, adding that Darwin's theories were "never condemned by the Catholic Church nor was his book ever banned".

Creationism is the belief that God created the world in six days as described in the Bible. The Catholic Church does not read the Genesis account of
creation literally, saying it is an allegory for the way God created the world.
Some other Christians, mostly conservative
Protestants in the United States, read Genesis literally and object to evolution being taught in biology class in public high schools.




Sarah
Palin, the Republican candidate for the U.S. vice presidency, said in 2006 that she supported teaching both creationism and evolution in schools but has
subsequently said creationism does not have to be part of curriculum.

THEISTIC EVOLUTION

The Catholic Church teaches "theistic evolution," a stand that accepts evolution as a scientific theory and sees no
reason why God could not have used a natural evolutionary process in the forming of the human species.

It objects to using evolution as the basis for an atheist philosophy that denies God's existence or any divine role in
creation. It also objects to using Genesis as a scientific text.

As Ravasi put it, creationism belongs to the "strictly theological sphere" and could not be used
"ideologically in science."

Professor Philip Sloan of Notre Dame University, which is jointly holding next year's conference with Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, said
the gathering would be an important contribution to explaining the Catholic stand on evolution.

"In the United States, and now elsewhere, we have an ongoing public debate over evolution that has social, political and religious dimensions,"
he said.

"Most of this debate has been taking place without a strong Catholic theological presence, and the discussion has suffered accordingly," he
said.

Pope Benedict discussed these issues with his former doctoral students at their annual meeting in 2006. In a speech in Paris
last week, he spoke out against biblical literalism.

(Additional reporting by Tom Heneghan in Paris and Patsy Wilson in Washington; editing by Robert Hart)

There isn't that much here yet, but I had to write it up to get it out of my head. And since nobody's introduced this grand old lady
to the Fenspace universe yet, I thought I would.

One sees the title of http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=45008]this thread over on the SJGames "Roleplaying in General" board, and one thinks "but they haven't left yet..."
--
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