27 Jul, 2009, Dubstack wrote in the 182nd comment:
Its not that I can just make out what is half ass wrote in english and make up the rest as I go along with it.
27 Jul, 2009, Hades_Kane wrote in the 183rd comment:
Dubstack said:
Well see we have a rule steal a drop mob that player can pk the other as many times as they want till they see the item has been junked or give to them. If said player does steal again and player is to weak to kill they can put a bounty on the person head for x amount of gold till player has junked or give item. Small rules like that make it fun to play dbz mud
You understand that his point was nothing actually relating to the rule, right?
His point was that if someone does something illegal and you attempt to discuss it with them in the way that you post on the forums here, the person who broke the rule has a good chance of actually not understanding what it is you are trying to say to them.
27 Jul, 2009, Hades_Kane wrote in the 184th comment:
Wow, got triple ninja'd… that doesn't happen often!
27 Jul, 2009, Hellion wrote in the 185th comment:
I'm trolling on a lake for some trout yes. I'm in need of amusement, and thank you for keeping my attention through this line of posts.
27 Jul, 2009, Cratylus wrote in the 187th comment:
Dubstack said:
Here is what I look like jeez http://www.myspace.com/sweet_country_boy...
i like ur truck bro.
people here like you
u know that, rite?
people here like you.
they just want you to talk better
thats all.
it's hard to understand you.
they like you.
they just want you to talk better.
so they can understand you.
that's all
-Crat
27 Jul, 2009, Banner wrote in the 188th comment:
Cratylus said:
i like ur truck bro.
people here like you
u know that, rite?
people here like you.
they just want you to talk better
thats all.
it's hard to understand you.
they like you.
they just want you to talk better.
so they can understand you.
that's all
-Crat
Dubstack said:
Here is what I look like jeez http://www.myspace.com/sweet_country_boy...
i like ur truck bro.
people here like you
u know that, rite?
people here like you.
they just want you to talk better
thats all.
it's hard to understand you.
they like you.
they just want you to talk better.
so they can understand you.
that's all
-Crat
I wish Dub would at least type like this.
28 Jul, 2009, Cratylus wrote in the 189th comment:
I've received some interesting feedback from folks regarding my last
post. I will comment on it in a more Cratylesque form.
Remember the mythical "English major" discussed earlier? Well, my
degree is not English, but for a while I pursued a Master's in
English. I had to drop it because of some major life changes…I
just ran out of free time. But until then, it was great fun. I
wound up having opportunity to study Old English…a fabulously
interesting language.
Doc J was great. She loved the language…reveled in it,
was merciless in making us remember the conjugations for declensions.
I had the advantage of having studied German before, so my brain
already had the machinery in place for identifying mood, agency,
grammatical gender, part of speech, etc, and spinning the wheels to
make em all match. Those poor newbies in my class were *hurtin*,
but I loved her attention to detail and discipline in making us
compose grammatical Old English.
So anyway, we got handed assignments for presentations, mine was
about the evolution of a living language, so I put together this
rockin presentation, complete with videos. It was pretty witty
in composition (demonstrating grammatical errors by using them
in clever ways, etc) and outright funny in spots. You know me,
I can lay it on. And the videos of course were crowd pleasers. One
was "I Speak Jive" from Airplane!, another "Romanes Eunt Domus" from Life of Brian.
I ended my presentation with a flourish after the Romanes clip…
describing the centurion as a laughable example of the kind of pedant
that ought be dismissed if the situation calls for it. The kind of
arrogant nitpicker that would sooner murder you than countenance your
butchery of their language. I had that class in stitches, and
in the palm of my hand. When I closed they were laughing and applauding,
and when the lights came fully up, I suddenly realized why. I saw Doc J's
face, and she was applauding, but her smile was thin and brittle.
I understood finally why I'd so enjoyed putting that presentation
together. Why I'd felt so inspired. Why I'd ended with Romanes. My
presentation was a none-too-subtle indictment of the weeks of
torture Doc J had subjected the class to, and that I'd resented
more than I'd known. I set her up as that centurion then smashed
her in the face with the roars of approval of the class. It was
horrendous and to this day I am confused by the humiliation I so
enjoyed delivering to someone I liked and respected. She was a
total sport about it, of course. But what was my deal?
There's a saying about the French. They don't care what you say,
as long as you pronounce it correctly. Untrue, of course, but it
gets to the heart of something that I think bothers all of us
more than we realize. The pedantry of those more focused on how
we communicate rather than what we have to say is a kind of refutation
of the legitimacy of our statements. It feels worse than a denial
of the validity of our point…it's feels like the complete disregard
of any point we might have.
That's why I think I did such a good job insulting Doc J, and I
think I understand what dubstack might be feeling. We're down his
throat about grammar wielding the sword of our collective
disapproval. He knows only that he's going to fight for the validity
of what he's saying, and he's hanging in there. I salute him for
that, and sincerely hope he understands he has my Boba Fett nod in
that regard.
And so I want to be sure that he understands there's more to my
posts than "the guy who made fun of the colors thing." In short
bursts he's likely to read, I explained what I really think, in a
way that I think might actually make a difference.
Sure, there's probably more mockery in it than I consciously
meant, as in the case of my presentation. It's hard to keep all
one's demons reined in all the time. But I meant it in good faith,
and hope it is accepted in good humor.
Above all, though, I hope he reads it and gets the fucking message.
I mean, seriously, what the shit, dude.
-Crat
http://lpmuds.net
post. I will comment on it in a more Cratylesque form.
Remember the mythical "English major" discussed earlier? Well, my
degree is not English, but for a while I pursued a Master's in
English. I had to drop it because of some major life changes…I
just ran out of free time. But until then, it was great fun. I
wound up having opportunity to study Old English…a fabulously
interesting language.
Doc J was great. She loved the language…reveled in it,
was merciless in making us remember the conjugations for declensions.
I had the advantage of having studied German before, so my brain
already had the machinery in place for identifying mood, agency,
grammatical gender, part of speech, etc, and spinning the wheels to
make em all match. Those poor newbies in my class were *hurtin*,
but I loved her attention to detail and discipline in making us
compose grammatical Old English.
So anyway, we got handed assignments for presentations, mine was
about the evolution of a living language, so I put together this
rockin presentation, complete with videos. It was pretty witty
in composition (demonstrating grammatical errors by using them
in clever ways, etc) and outright funny in spots. You know me,
I can lay it on. And the videos of course were crowd pleasers. One
was "I Speak Jive" from Airplane!, another "Romanes Eunt Domus" from Life of Brian.
I ended my presentation with a flourish after the Romanes clip…
describing the centurion as a laughable example of the kind of pedant
that ought be dismissed if the situation calls for it. The kind of
arrogant nitpicker that would sooner murder you than countenance your
butchery of their language. I had that class in stitches, and
in the palm of my hand. When I closed they were laughing and applauding,
and when the lights came fully up, I suddenly realized why. I saw Doc J's
face, and she was applauding, but her smile was thin and brittle.
I understood finally why I'd so enjoyed putting that presentation
together. Why I'd felt so inspired. Why I'd ended with Romanes. My
presentation was a none-too-subtle indictment of the weeks of
torture Doc J had subjected the class to, and that I'd resented
more than I'd known. I set her up as that centurion then smashed
her in the face with the roars of approval of the class. It was
horrendous and to this day I am confused by the humiliation I so
enjoyed delivering to someone I liked and respected. She was a
total sport about it, of course. But what was my deal?
There's a saying about the French. They don't care what you say,
as long as you pronounce it correctly. Untrue, of course, but it
gets to the heart of something that I think bothers all of us
more than we realize. The pedantry of those more focused on how
we communicate rather than what we have to say is a kind of refutation
of the legitimacy of our statements. It feels worse than a denial
of the validity of our point…it's feels like the complete disregard
of any point we might have.
That's why I think I did such a good job insulting Doc J, and I
think I understand what dubstack might be feeling. We're down his
throat about grammar wielding the sword of our collective
disapproval. He knows only that he's going to fight for the validity
of what he's saying, and he's hanging in there. I salute him for
that, and sincerely hope he understands he has my Boba Fett nod in
that regard.
And so I want to be sure that he understands there's more to my
posts than "the guy who made fun of the colors thing." In short
bursts he's likely to read, I explained what I really think, in a
way that I think might actually make a difference.
Sure, there's probably more mockery in it than I consciously
meant, as in the case of my presentation. It's hard to keep all
one's demons reined in all the time. But I meant it in good faith,
and hope it is accepted in good humor.
Above all, though, I hope he reads it and gets the fucking message.
I mean, seriously, what the shit, dude.
-Crat
http://lpmuds.net
28 Jul, 2009, Dubstack wrote in the 190th comment:
God this has gone all the way to 13 pages!
28 Jul, 2009, Hellion wrote in the 191st comment:
Heh, I found the guy who made that/this video from afew posts back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTSPyAiEh... ……………. heh pretty funny guy, cool mud also.
Try that.
Try that.
28 Jul, 2009, Banner wrote in the 192nd comment:
Hellion said:
Heh, I found the guy who made that/this video from afew posts back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTSPyAiEh...;. heh pretty funny guy, cool mud also.
Broken link.
28 Jul, 2009, Hellion wrote in the 193rd comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTSPyAiEh... try that. Someone posted it a couple pages back i thought this was funny as hell.
28 Jul, 2009, Banner wrote in the 194th comment:
Hellion said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTSPyAiEh... try that. Someone posted it a couple pages back i thought this was funny as hell.
I already seen that. Was unaware it was the same link.
28 Jul, 2009, David Haley wrote in the 195th comment:
Cratylus said:
a bunch of fancy words
o hai!
U speekz of french peepls, I can haz french frys? kthxbai
Cratylus said:
Above all, though, I hope he reads it and gets the fucking message.
I mean, seriously, what the shit, dude.
I mean, seriously, what the shit, dude.
Why you so mean tho :sad:
28 Jul, 2009, Chris Bailey wrote in the 196th comment:
Come on now Davitylus :P
28 Jul, 2009, Ssolvarain wrote in the 197th comment:
OVER NINE THOUSAND! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
I was compelled, I say.
I was compelled, I say.
28 Jul, 2009, David Haley wrote in the 198th comment:
Chris Bailey said:
Come on now Davitylus :P
Crat just hates me because I'm one of those Latin speaking Romani :sad:
28 Jul, 2009, Cratylus wrote in the 199th comment:
Ssolvarain said:
OVER NINE THOUSAND! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
I was compelled, I say.
I was compelled, I say.
WHAT? 9000? There's no way that can be r...
-Crat
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Can I be the first to disagree with that? :rolleyes: