I started using this handle several years ago largely because of that quote from Alex in the Marathon Scrapbook, but I'd never before used it at a forum where a large percentage of the user base would actually recognise it. So this'll be an experience.
I was a frequent contributor to the Story pages under my real name - Aaron Freed - about a decade ago, but then I pretty much drifted away from Marathon for a couple of years and, even when I got back into it, didn't bother reconnecting with the community. Much. I made a couple half-assed attempts that I quickly abandoned due to being side-tracked with RL issues. Now that online net play works at least half decently, though, I think it's time to put an end to that.
apart from Marathon I used to be heavily into JRPGs but I think that phase of my existence is over. I'm also heavily interested in music (prog and metal in particular, though I'll listen to anything as long as it isn't crap) and politics (an ideological opponent once accused me of being "left of Chomsky," which isn't quite right but isn't wildly off the mark either).
Anyway, 'sup. Hopefully we can have lots of entertaining net games together. Maybe if I unlazy myself I'll tell you a bit about the scenario I'm working on too, though it's nowhere near being ready for wide release yet.
'It is better to be The Man than to work for The Man'
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“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” —V, V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
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yo
the welcome train is here
the welcome train is here
Its just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. Then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns and also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?
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welcome to the pfhorums
What are you, if not seven different shades of stupid?
nice to see some old schoolers return. we are starting to become an endangered species so your return is most appreciated. 
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screamingfool
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nice avatar, aside from riceboy that's got to be my favorite graphic novel (i hate that term, but comic book is worse). Don't let the immature and the mature trolls here turn you off, you learn to like it.
Welcome!
Childhood is not a race. It's a journey.
Welcome.
This forum is filled with mostly useless crap.
This forum is filled with mostly useless crap.
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soulblighter
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Hello. I hope you enjoy your stay.
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Nobody hipped me to that, dude.
I will blight your soul!
Nobody hipped me to that, dude.
I will blight your soul!
I humbly welcome you.
"The Man Chooses, The Slave Obeys"
"The Man Chooses, The Slave Obeys"
Moore is what got me into the medium in the first place. So yes, I'd agree, though I'm not sure it's actually objectively better than Watchmen and From Hell. Subjectively the anarchistic themes strongly influence it in my favour though.screamingfool wrote:nice avatar, aside from riceboy that's got to be my favorite graphic novel (i hate that term, but comic book is worse). Don't let the immature and the mature trolls here turn you off, you learn to like it.
And I'm long past the point where trolling bothers me at all; I've been fully exposed to *chan culture for at least four years now.
Also, thanks @ everyone.
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“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” —V, V for Vendetta (Alan Moore)
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
Last.fm · Marathon Chronicles · Marathon Eternal 1.2 · Where Monsters Are in Dreams · YouTube Vidmaster’s Challenge
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
Last.fm · Marathon Chronicles · Marathon Eternal 1.2 · Where Monsters Are in Dreams · YouTube Vidmaster’s Challenge