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Geny
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What if Elvin was female?
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posted February 22, 2009 11:32 AM |
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First of all, it is a perfect Tavern thread. the Inn is there to help the newbies, the Tavern is to socialize with other members.
As for sticking it... I don't think that thread is important enough for that.
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Nebdar
Promising
Supreme Hero
Generation N
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posted February 22, 2009 03:26 PM |
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Thanks for opinion number two 
I will put the question in different way only for those with imagination, balnced one
If you were an newbie would you want to see that thread in Newcommers Inn(Alternativly glued in Tavern)
Now the Members Clock is in a little mess because the updated "Clock" is somewhere in the end so the first page is rather confusing.
If it were in Newcomers Inn there would be probably more work for Miru to update it. Solution could be that only 2 or 3 star members can be putted on that clock.
Who is next for opinion please
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted February 22, 2009 03:52 PM |
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I'm with Geny, I see no reason why you would do it that way.
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Nebdar
Promising
Supreme Hero
Generation N
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posted February 22, 2009 04:15 PM |
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I knew what you would say Elvin before even reading your reply 
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted February 22, 2009 04:19 PM |
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Everyone eventually finds his way to the tavern, besides the thread's content makes the most sense to be here. The newcomer's inn is for introduction only. As for making it a sticky it's not really important.
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Asheera
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Undefeatable Hero
Elite Assassin
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posted February 22, 2009 05:43 PM |
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I vote to link that Member Clock thread in a newcomer sticky one that already exists, such as this. It will sure be easier to be found that way.
Or alternatively, display the timezone of the users (those that want, of course) in their profile. But this would require a system modification and I'm not sure Val wants it.
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mvassilev
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Undefeatable Hero
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posted February 22, 2009 05:47 PM |
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Quote:
Everyone eventually finds his way to the tavern
What's Tavern? Never heard of it.
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Elvin
Admirable
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Endless Revival
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posted February 22, 2009 05:53 PM |
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Wasn't it you that kept nagging for a sociogram revival?
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Nebdar
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Generation N
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posted February 24, 2009 01:47 AM |
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Edited by Nebdar at 01:48, 24 Feb 2009.
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If i would make similar but not the same thread in the Newcommers Inn it would be bad
Eventually i could post here this thread needs an update...
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friendofgunnar
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Legendary Hero
able to speed up time
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posted March 19, 2009 12:48 AM |
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I really think Doomforge's literary criticism in this thread deserves a qp. I've collected the best bits here:
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Tolkien is overrated, with VERY shallow black-or-white characters. There is absolutely NO psychology in the book. Everyone is either strong, valiant and honorable, or evil, cunning and miserable.
Except excellent narration in dungeons (Moria, Sheloba's lair) which REALLY is great for the spooky feeling and mysterious atmosphere, I think LOTR trilogy is utter crap.
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It is psychology of a ten year old.
Look closely.
Frodo, colorless character which is just "brave". well, that's it.
Sam, "brave" and "faithful". Yeah, that's it.
Gandalf is just wise. Oh, he does get angry at times. What a complicated character.
Aragorn? So he is the king, just hiding. Wow. How complicated.
Orcs. They are all bad, stupid and dumb. ALL of them.
Elves. They are smart and awesome. All of them.
BORING. SHALLOW. MONOCHROMATIC.
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I wonder why LOTR is so over hyped, anyway. It's a decent book, with a detailed word and interesting narration, yes, but the story is boring and the characters suck. Epic, meet Shallow.
To say "it's because it's from mortal human's POV" is a poor excuse to me. So if I write a book about an primitive man, everything and everyone should be primitive and revolve around food and sex? Come on, it's stupid.
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And another thing. If you want to show evil, you have to back it up with something. Something MOVING. Not the cheesy "he wants to rule the world", or "he killed 3087527 elves". That is not evil - it's kindergarden.
Evil MUST be dirty to seem and feel EVIL. It should be twisted and the more complex the motives are, the better. LOTR has the most shallow evil around - just another power-hungry maniac, evil because he's ... well.. evil.
The BEST books to me are those who go BEYOND the childish, predictable good and evil. Those who show that good and evil is relative. That you sometimes aren't sure anymore what is good and what is evil. Where the differences between good and evil are separated by a thin, red line.
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Take Sapkowski's Elves. Those were so different, so real, with their haughty, poetic hatred towards humans. But not all were like that. Some just understood that it's the end of their age. Some even were friendly towards humans. Each elf in "The Witcher" was a personality of his/hers own. Try that book, I'm sure you will be amazed of how well he portrayed the Elves. Even if his dwarves were a bit too similar to each other, elves were brilliant.
Tolkien's elves are poorly portrayed. They are all the same.
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Yeah, I did.
and you ask what of it? Well, simple. Anyone can. It doesn't take genious. Say, you want a different humanoid race? You make them shorts, you make their ears pointy, you make them ugly, you make them beautiful, you just pretty much modify their appearance. Voila, a fantasy race.
Now for the culture. Grab a pencil and start throwing in names and dates, battles, victories and defeats. So, in the year 1001 of the third age, the great city of Itsoverninethousand has been established, later transformed into the capital city of all people of the Whatever Empire, in the year 1208 of fourth age, the great king Shoopusdawhoopus used his sword Immafirinmalazor to defeat the evil Lord Octagonapus. The sword broke in half but it still powerful, if reforged, to bring end to the war of the sixth age and our heroes just need to find it and carry it into the last epic battle against evil, after which everything ends and a new era begins..
Duh, everyone can do that, mate. Alphabet? What the heck. Draw some runes, any will do, assign them letters, voila! What's more, poetry? if you're talented enough, you can add a romantic, nihlistic or whatever twist to normal one and there you go.
What else? What honestly has he created beside history, culture, alphabet, and so on? I can do it to. Anyone can.
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DagothGares
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No gods or kings
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posted March 19, 2009 01:29 AM |
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May I say two things:
1) I don't ever want to do someone their QP.
2) Though, he put this into more diplomatic terms... Doomforge literally just had a rant with little points to make other than LOTR being shallow.
3) You want me to get passages from I gave up on believing in God to ask for QP'?
(wasn't a real threat to the mods)
(seriously)
Mein point:
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I think LOTR trilogy is utter crap.
Statement done out of opinion is great, but it's a bit bold, right? I know it's great to get this feeling of your chest, but having received a QP for making such a statement out of sheer boldness is a bad precedent, no?
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BORING. SHALLOW. MONOCHROMATIC
Could've been done calmer. It's an idea-fixe and a rather unpleasant one to argue with...
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but the story is boring and the characters suck.
Statement done with no backing whatsoever.
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Evil MUST be dirty to seem and feel EVIL.
And now he left out the statment I think, which is forcing your opinion on others...
I do agree on the last quoted post, though. Though, there're few people motivated enough to do just that and keep continuity straight. It's possible to study Tolkien's work, like some people can study the medieval or classical era. (last sentense is nothing but an opinion. Ignore that as you may)
And there's been the discussion about whether we should give QP's to genius thorough posts or shorter collections of posts that have quality. I don't know what the mod verdict was, but this is definitely the latter and was IIRC looked negatively upon...
Now, i feel like a backseat moderator, so i'll go wash myself and you guys can delete this post, while I'm not looking...
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friendofgunnar
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Legendary Hero
able to speed up time
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posted March 19, 2009 01:45 AM |
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okay then, I think that Doomforge should get a QP because his posts made me LMAO
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DagothGares
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Undefeatable Hero
No gods or kings
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posted March 19, 2009 01:47 AM |
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Alright, good argument, I am sorry for my massive amounts of seriousness:
*imagine there's a picture of Jack Nicholson as the Joker*
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pandora
Honorable
Legendary Hero
The Chosen One
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posted March 25, 2009 12:17 AM |
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I would have loved to comply, but thanks to that blinding image I can't see a thing and worry that I might accidentally click the penalty button...
Guys, silly pictures go where?
Ah yes... the VW
Thank ya
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Doomforge
Admirable
Undefeatable Hero
Retired Hero
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posted March 25, 2009 11:16 AM |
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Why thank you, never saw that coming
Dagoth, I backed up most of my "blunt" statements with arguments in different parts of my rant, if I got one big post out of it, it would be very obvious. Don't you worry bro, I rarely make statements without trying to back them up
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Lexxan
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Unimpressed by your logic
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posted April 07, 2009 11:54 PM |
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I'm quite sure that Mvass's Quote Archive is getting quite QP-Worthy
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RedSoxFan3
Admirable
Legendary Hero
Fan of Red Sox
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posted April 10, 2009 10:57 PM |
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Doomforge
Admirable
Undefeatable Hero
Retired Hero
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posted April 13, 2009 11:04 AM |
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I recommend RTI's post in the Potter thread
for a QP
Just because he summed up the books simply in an excellent manner 
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Ednaguy
Supreme Hero
My water just broke! No, wait.
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posted May 14, 2009 11:38 AM |
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I think that mwass' archieve of quotes should get a QP
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted May 14, 2009 12:02 PM |
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You want him to get a shiny for posting other people's intellectual property?
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