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oh my god check the comments. first one is a dude telling him to get a job and it spirals out of control from there
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Feb 11, 2017 21:13
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fritz posted:as a matter of fact yes, yes!
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Feb 11, 2017 22:35
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its been said before but libertarians are anarchists who want police protection from their slaves part of it is not paying taxes, part of it is fantasizing about trading gasoline for sex with children
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Appearance and Costume Resources I am male, 5'8", about 190lbs, muscular build. Blue eyes, hair of indeterminate brownish/reddish/blond color. I am in good physical shape due to martial-arts training. I have a moustache but no beard. There is nothing particularly remarkable about my appearance except a slight limp (congenital cerebral palsy which I cover pretty well). I have a reasonably well-stocked costume closet, including everything from an impressive wizard's outfit through quasi-military khakis, a white lab coat, 17th-century cavalier's garb, frock coat, topper & sword cane suitable for a 19th-century boulevardier, and an authentically styled Roman senatorial toga. My wife is an accomplished costumer and not averse to outfitting me elaborately for a good role. Roleplaying Experience My previous roleplaying experience is extensive (I have been playing LARPs regularly since 1983). Characters I have played have included: Dr. John Myriad (mad scientist) in Rekon 1B The Blue Adept (wizard) in Double Exposure I The Orange Adept in Double Exposure II Ervik T'Kirth (Atlantean sorcerer) in Paths to the Future II Hisham ibn-Sindbad (the Black Wazir) in Arabian Nights Dr. Umberto Porenta-Vasquez (mad scientist) in Cocabanana Jordan Marche (an incompetent shaman) in Dark Continent Dr. Winslow Roo (mad scientist) in Rekon-2 Korin "The Brain" Teuton (mutant mad scientist) in Ace of Spades Korin Teuton (again) in Tales From The Floating Vagabond I Bo Ling Shu (ninja) is For A Few Wu More Basil Kalligas (Byzantine bureaucrat) in Golden_Horn Nikolai Zaleshoff (KGB assassin) in Casablanca. Ingolf (Court Arch-Mage) in Valoroth. Jorik Arnulfson (scientist/spy) in Epigene Duke Henri de Rohan (Huguenot faction leader) in The King's Musketeers Keric Kilvarn (wizard/stormwarden) in R.S.V.P Algernon Hawthorne (Martian spy) in Terror on the Thames. Marvin the Martian (toon) in Tales from the Floating Vagabond IV Decimus Junius Brutus Alvinius (Roman general) in Pax Romana Dr. John Holstein (nuclear physicist) in Murder Mystery Weekend Dr. John Myriad (again) in Rekon + 10 Cyrano de Bergerac (poet, inventor, swordsman) in King's Musketeers II Dr. Leoplod Shones (eccentric physicist) in The Precipice Club Dr. Richard Heartwright (yet another...) in Revenge of the Mad Scientists Harold Shea (the Compleat Enchanter) in TFV III Alexandre Dumas fils (writer, vampire-slayer) in Sic Semper Tyrannis The Great Giberti (stage magician) in Paddlewheel. Thomas the Rhymer (bard and minstrel) in When The Wind Blows Prospero (from "The Tempest") in Shakespeare's Lost Play Henry Halleck (Union general) in All Quiet On The Potomac. H. G. Wells in 1897: Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Wally Ferris (ex-WW1 aviator) in The Four Aces. Percy Bullock (adept of the Golden Dawn) in Golden Aeon Egil Skallagrimsson (viking badass) in Drink Deep and Drink Deeper. Lucien Volare (revolutionary agitator) in Torch of Freedom I've played enough characters that there are one or two I've forgotten the names of, including a slug psychologist in Starlight Rendezvous, and a random Dragonlord in Dragon II. Preferred Character Types I consider myself a skilled and veteran player suitable for major and even leading roles — in fact my success tends to be directly proportional to my degree of involvement in major plot lines. `Spear-carrier' roles make me feel cramped and unhappy and I usually flub them. This is not exactly because I have ham tendencies (though I do) it's that I don't find small roles much of a challenge any more. The pattern in most of the characters I have played best and enjoyed most is that they are all types who get their leverage from intelligence and puzzle-solving ability — high-level scientist or sorcerer types. One of them, `The Brain', made me the runner-up for the `Best Player' award in the first Ace Of Spades game at Balticon (and achieved all his character goals in his second appearance at the Floating Vagabond). Another (Dr. John Myriad) saved the planet Earth twice — once in Rekon-1B (my first game) and again in Rekon+10, a decade later. In the last decade, however, I have been doing more in the way of pure dramatic roleplaying. My Cyrano de Bergerac in King's Musketeers II barely met a single one of his goals, but was much praised during and after the game for sheer melodramatic intensity (not to mention being showered with style points by the Cruel Hoax referees, not an easy crowd to impress). My preference is to play a `Good' or `Neutral' character, but I would play a villain if necessary to get a stronger part. Usually I'd rather play an independent than a faction follower or even leader. When intriguing, I do a lot of win-win negotiating and often find myself in a pivot or power-broker position between several factions (I do have some `schemer' tendencies, though I usually prefer not to play pure schemer characters). My playing style is also marked by the fact that I almost never lie to anyone, preferring to find ways to make the truth serve my ends (by misdirection, if necessary). Many game forms oppose `character acting' against `strategic success'. For me, the two aren't separable. All my `winning' characters have been intensely character-acted; conversely, when I've been handed a character that I couldn't method-act my way into I've generally crashed and burned. Give me a character that fits and a little rope and I'll generate as much drama as you could ask for. Skills and Interests Relevant to Live-Action Gaming I have an extensive knowledge base in the sciences and history. I have a lot of experience at table gaming (military simulations, combinatorial games, etc.) and play them with some skill. If your game has a real military simulation in it, you want me as one of the generals, and it would be unwise to put me on any side you want to lose. I have good public-speaking skills and can hold an audience. I am a fairly able poet and can extemporize in any one of several genres at short notice, including but not limited to: ballad, limerick, haiku, and alliterative heroic meter. I am very good at word puzzles (incomplete word recognition, crosswords, cryptograms, anagrams, that sort of thing). I play flute, guitar, and hand drums. I hold the rank of 1st Dan Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, and am a student of aikido; accordingly I have considerable skill in hand-to-hand and weapons techniques, including sword and nunchaku, and am a good shot with a pistol. While the skills are not directly relevant in-game, the background does make me more convincing at playing warrior/assassin/spy-type characters. I am an expert computer programmer and Internet technologist. Further Information If you are looking at paper, it was generated from a WWW page. You can find my home page at http://www.catb.org/~esr/.
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Feb 18, 2017 11:46
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anyone have his encyclopedia britannica entry for open source i remember it being peak esr
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Feb 20, 2017 00:35
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esr is the ultimate guy you don't want on your mailing list
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Feb 20, 2017 10:42
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gravel pit
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Feb 22, 2017 05:58
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FMguru posted:i love that he will be a part of your software project but only if he gets to be the main character and also he has to win in the end otherwise forget it
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Feb 23, 2017 02:07
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lancemantis posted:i think you'll find my code is self documenting yeah the jokes write themselves
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Mar 2, 2017 22:13
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if only his nose worked half as well
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Mar 5, 2017 04:50
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minivanmegafun posted:noticing a quarter tone off is not hard nor does it require a golden ear jeez, any given high school band student should be able to hear that what do you expect from someone who believes in iq
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Mar 5, 2017 23:56
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https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/750367247424565248
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Mar 6, 2017 18:31
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is this the scott adams thread now
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Mar 7, 2017 22:11
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Another thing you need to do is actually pay attention to what’s going on around you, at every scale. 99% of the time, you find important things to hack on by noticing possibilities other people have missed. The hard part here is seeing past the blinding assumptions you don’t know you have, and the hard part of that is being conscious of your assumptions.
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Mar 11, 2017 19:25
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rotor posted:and there's very few things in the world that make me happier than this. A smile of an innocent child, a babies laughter, the thought of esr having to buy generic cheerios at the supermarket.
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Mar 12, 2017 09:55
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*sings doom song but can't run doom with audio*
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Mar 14, 2017 21:20
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i hope esr continues to serve as an example for young people everywhere
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Mar 15, 2017 18:53
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im frreal excited for esr to go to the giant armpit vagina in the sky
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Mar 28, 2017 04:26
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Bulgakov posted:bow legged and confused about how his imminent prowess for a very confused simulacrum of life could have led him down such a dimly ending road
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Mar 28, 2017 08:32
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boy he really wanted someone to call that the raymond principle or raymond's law or the lovely eyeball or something
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Apr 11, 2017 09:10
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look at these 1984 sjw thought police gestapo sjws telling me i should be afraid that history will frown on my essay calling brown people alien poo poo zombies
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May 6, 2017 21:10
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BeOSPOS posted:mods plz rename me tron guy's package its explicitly defined
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May 7, 2017 17:00
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Actual contribution to free software projects
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May 11, 2017 17:42
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but guys, hes a calm and rational experimental mystic
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May 11, 2017 20:21
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when you're a feudalist everyone else looks socialist
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