So I've been reading this group for a while, and I've noticed that the men (at least what we all assume to be men) for the most part are much more sensitive, smart - not the buffoons you would think men would be. Obvious traits since they are Daria fans. So why aren't you gals making moves on them, huh? Or have you already?
ha, ha.
Buster Logan wrote in message ...
I refuse to comment. Long story, I turn out bad in it (Not as bad as Michelle put it, but bad enough).
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 04:58:00 -0400, "The Outsider" wrote:
Actaully, you *did* comment, because I'm starting at the post right now, 4 or 5 lines about my typing. And I suspect it's better for all of ATD that this be the last time it's mentioned.
Kyle The Manny Alexander of alt.sports.baseball.chicago-cubs
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Kyle wrote in message ...
What? Anything said by anyone about this thread? Or do you just want me to keep my mouth shut when someone wants to start a fourm?
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:47:57 -0400, "The Outsider" wrote:
Simply a friendly suggestion.
Kyle The Manny Alexander of alt.sports.baseball.chicago-cubs
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because they know it's just an act?
In article , "Bob Ohler" wrote:
Shh! Quiet! What are you doing?!! You'll ruin the whole plot! The Society of Men will hear of this outrage!!
"Oh no! I've said too much!"
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"You've got it made, You've got it made, If you can fake sincerity, Then you've got it made!"
Buster Logan wrote in message news:7p5ufa$k1$[email]...
And just why would you think that?
Most of the Distaff Darianites have found sensitive, smart, real-life guys to make moves on. They don't need to resort to desperate plays online.
"Ha ha, Daria." "Ha ha, Quinn."
Buster Logan said:
I don't know about "gals making moves on" me (cause I have a fiancee), but I've made some really nice female friends as a result of posting here.
Sincerely Yours, Jordan
"Man is a god in ruins" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Yeah, what he said. Why haven't you ladies made any moves on me? :-)
Jeg7777 wrote in message ...
Because the guys here are a bunch of cry babies who suck at sports?
Not to mention the involuntary celibacy aspect of lots of atd posters, or that y'all strike me as not being "traditional" people persons.
Hell is other people, Bettster
In article , "Bettster" wrote:
I resent that "sucks at sports" part, I've been known to throw a good block or two in my day ;)
When you think about, sometimes that celibacy is not as involuntary as it seems.
And you are a "people person" ;)
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:38:31 GMT, Mike Quinn wrote:
A block of what? Styrofoam ? That's good training, indeed :-) MSB
<sigh> All that time and money spent trying to get the crazy Europeans as hooked as us Yanks on the ballet that is US football, wasted.
Linebacker's Nightmare: Watching the offensive linemen form up for a screen pass and realizing that he is going to have to go thru the really big guys to get to the little, bitty ball carrier.
In article , [email] wrote:
I remeber one play my high school team had where as the strong side tackle I would have to go and block the weak side safety after a screen pass. Let's just say they never saw it coming ;)
That this will be my last football post
Oh yeah! The 'What am I doing on the turf' play.
During the summer I kept the football withdrawl shakes down by watching the World Football League (not sure if that's right). I really liked the Scottish Claymores, mostly for the name, and had the idea that 'This face towards enemy' should have been printed on the front of their jerseys.
wonder if anyone's going to get that one.
In article , [email] wrote:
I initially thought of the two handed sword, but then I remembered the modern military usage. [1]
Where are the Scottish Claymores (team) from exactly anyway? (Duuh...) I've just remembered; when Channel 4 started to show American Football games, there was a bit of a US Football thing sweeping the country, and the UK/England team was on TV several times, along with their cheerleaders. Mostly on Kids Sat am magazine shows as I recall. I can't even remember their name (Lions, or something? Bulldogs? Knights?).
C4 also showed Australian rules football, and the Pakistani Khabbaddi (spelling?) which was a cross between volleyball and Aus football, near as I can remember.
[1] Knowledge gleaned from dealing with R(ocket) P(owered) G(renade)s.
I want to say Edinburgh, but I'm not sure that's right.
Eek! RPGs can be nasty little things. I hope your 'dealings' with them were more on the giving side than receiving.
In article , [email] wrote:
LOL! (well, chuckle quietly, but it did make me laugh)
Then again, as if anyone in the UK cares anymore. Here, Soccer is the opiate of the masses. There's even a soap opera about it (Dream Team, on Sky 1, for those wanting to avoid it).
When I started dealing with RPGs, I was mainly on the "receiving" side. Eventually, I figured I could handle the "giving" side of things, and since then I've been both giving and receiving. Lately I've got tired of giving, and just want to get back to receiving (though events might conspire me to start giving again). The only live RPGs I've been near have involved Vampires.
So far, in my RPGs, there have been no RPGs.
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A block of velveeta? That would be interesting to watch...Just fancy a "Veveeta throwing contest". Huh.
throwing bricks of velveeta now,
wicka_chick
[email] wrote:
Aw, aren't you the cheesiest.... (runs away from the shower of tomatoes)
Diane
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tomatoes)
There you are Diane. I havn't seen you post in awhile. Nice to see ya. (Oh, and between you and me, there's a little tomato juice on your shirt.)
wicka_chick
[email] writes:
I thought velveeta was another word for spam. It is on the Internet anyway. See the entry under 'V' in the jargon file, <URL: http://www.xerez.demon.co.uk/lexicon.html>
-Shez.
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:32:12 +0100, Shez wrote:
Have you ever tried the DOOM text adventure? It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. This guy has really recreated the DOOM levels (at least the 1st one, I don't know about the others), you recognize the area immediately.
[snip beginning]
Vestibule The hangar entrance closes here to form a pokey corridor leading into a room with a central staircase and two pillars on either side of the stairs. The carcase of another marine is just to the southwest. You see a health bonus, a health bonus, a health bonus, a health bonus, an armour bonus, and an armour bonus here. A soldier is here. A soldier is here. A sergeant at the top of the stairs is here. A sergeant at the top of the stairs is here.
Which soldier do you mean, northern soldier, or southern soldier?
( with your pistol ) BLAM BLAM BLAM SPLAT! Northern soldier dies from the damage you inflicted.
Nearest sergeant attacks, doing 7 points of damage. Furthest sergeant misses you. Southern soldier misses you.
MSB
No, but perhaps it would have suited my old computer better than the real thing. I used to play Doom on a 386 notebook which achieved only 2 frames per second. In the time it took just to turn round you could be shot dead. I had to perfect the technique of swiping the mouse by just the right amount so I would turn by exactly the required angle in a single frame, so that I could shoot back before they got more than one or two shots at me. Nevertheless I ultimately completed the game even in nightmare mode with respawn, with the demons firing an unremitting stream of fireballs at me, which at times looked like in those movies where anti-aircraft guns are firing tracer bullets.
I think Doom was the best of the id games as far as setting & storyline goes. It's always puzzled me that it wasn't turned into a movie. They should re-release it using the high resolution graphics of the Quake engine. Oddly enough it actually looked better on my old monochrome screen, as the rippling pools looked very realistic, just like water. But in colour they are a garish green which spoils the effect.
-Shez.
Shez wrote:
2 FPS on Nightmare? Yii! It's hard enough without respawn.:)
They've tried it several times. Rumors fly back and forth but nothing comes of it. Hopefully it wouldn't be as bad as that Doom comic I saw reviewed on planetquake, where there was such intelligent dialog as "Now I'm radioactive. That CAN'T be good!" and "Big mouthed floating thingies!" or how about "You're STUPID! And you're gonna be stupid and DEAD!"
I don't think it'd work. One thing about Doom is that there is nothing like running into a crowd monsters and getting them to tear each other to shreds. Crowds don't work well in Quake.
Len
[email] (Len Pitre) wrote:
To me, the attraction of Doom wasn't so much the plot as it was the setting and feel. That, and the ability to sublimate aggressive feelings through a computer game. ;-)
rich.
"Joseph Stalin, grab my armored muu-muu and together we will leave this foul Earth behind." -- Toon-La.
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For me, the attraction of Doom and games like it is that it presents an interesting puzzle to solve. Where are the keys? Where are the doors? Where are the secrets? Getting through it without getting killed only adds to the challenge. Once the puzzle is solved it kind of loses its allure.
True, though there's all those user-made WAD files out there. Some are garbage, but a lot of them are rather good.
Len
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:15:39 +0100, Shez wrote:
Pah! Two words: Wolfenstein forever! MSB
I didn't think Wolfenstein would have been popular in Germany given that it entails shooting Germans rather than beings from another dimension. I found the crudeness of the gameplay & graphics boring after a while, though it ran well on my old 386, unlike Doom. As with Doom though, I played around to find new challenges. Two of my achievements were, getting through locked doors without a key (and no I didn't use cheat codes - this was sheer gameplay, and is possible on most--but not all-- levels), and getting through the game without actually killing anyone apart from the final guard (who had to be killed to get the exit key). One of the surprises was I tended to sustain less damage if I dodged round people instead of killing them, it was basically just a question of running like hell. The same strategy works to a large extent in Doom and Quake too.
-Shez.
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 23:18:31 +0100, Shez wrote:
You're totally wrong. It was one of the most popular games around while I was in school (despite it's technical illegality because of its use of Nazi symbols that are banned here). The point is that you're not shooting "Germans", you're shooting "Nazis". For people under the age of 55, there is a difference. And since most gamers are probably under 30, meaning that very often (like in my case) even their parents didn't see the war, the difference is even bigger. Of course I can only speak for myself but the Nazis I grew up with are those Indiana-Jones-type-comic-relief-Nazis that the USA have been exporting in movies, computer games and TV series like Hogan's Heroes (I like that series very much, unfortunately it airs parallel to the Simpsons). I guess for my generation (the under-30s) WW2 is just another part of history. There are no personal feelings attached. I enjoyed shooting the Nazis in Wolfenstein and I enjoyed shooting the Brits in Battle of Britain (I always flew for the Luftwaffe because their planes were cooler) just like I enjoyed conquering Macedonia in "Centurion-defender of Rome". It's just a game in a historical setting. Thinking too much about it just gives you headaches.
Actually I liked that crudeness. Aside from the speed advantage (Doom on a 386 is really unplayable) it is much easier to navigate the game. A good thing if you play for time rather than kills. MSB
:) Something I once said relating to Marine's Best Friend, a modified version of the Doom source code: "MBF: Where the sanest place is behind a pack of your attack dogs.":)
(Snip)
Odd. Never seen that, though I did see Doom2D, a 2D platformer someone did using Doom graphics. You type in IDDQD and you get gibbed while laughter plays in the background.:)
Len
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That's a good question.
Hey ladies, I'm available ;)
i have, actually. ;)