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There's NO WAY I'm putting my spam email address (like we ALL have) on this list to help a fellow AGSer win something he cares about ... simply no WAY!!

Anarcho ... I'm shocked!!  How dare you ask your online friends to help you out in such a selfish way.  Do you have any idea the kind of imposition this is???  I would actually have to take 20 seconds of time to enter my spam email address into a form!

Forget it.  Maybe you should leave AGS altogether?

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=30161.0
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=18430.0

I've seen some videos of women enjoying getting pissed on ... It's out there.

Did this woman claim not to have wanted it to happen (before she died)?  Perhaps, knowing she was dying, she wanted one last golden shower?

Who are we to take away her pleasure?

Enough about the graphics ... this isn't the CL and I'm sure, by now, he gets it.

Nemis - if you want/need help with graphics please post in the Critics Lounge.

[Rubacant]

Rubacant - take a breath, calm yourself, and read the forum rules (in all threads).  And do NOT dig up old threads in here... ever.

Locked for now.

Wtcq - if/when you're ready with an update PM me (include the link to this thread) and I will unlock it.

The Wheel of Time was good for a while. The last 3 books or so have been nowhere near as good as the rest though. Despite the fact I own them, and the prequel, I just can't bring myself to finish reading them.

Sadly, I would have to agree.  The last few books really started to have a "I'm drawing this out as long as I can" feel to them.  There were still some amazing parts, but on the whole they weren't as good as the first 4 books.

Book 1, The Eye of the World was just amazing, The Great Hunt was really good (but only on a second reading), The Dragon Reborn was great, but The Shadow Rising blew my mind!  The final battle for the Two Rivers?  Simply amazing story telling.  It's the first, and only, time (so far) that a book actually brought tears to my eyes.  I wasn't weeping, mind you, but I did well up a bit!

Welcome back Blaze_Mcleary!!  We missed you!!

Hypothetically speaking - lets say you have an opportunity to win $1,000,000 in a contest. To win - you must choose from one of the following five options:

If this is a contest who would I be competing against?  Is it possible, that should I choose one of the options, that the other person(s) could get/win the money instead of me?

I don't really understand the "nothing" option ... I mean, do you have to agree to the contest before you're given the options?  Because the "nothing" option would seem more like you just decided not to compete.  In which case, it shouldn't be an option.  I think it would be a more intriqueing situation if you had to agree to the contest first, then you received the options available to you (and "nothing" wouldn't be one of them ... if you choose to compete, you must choose...)

I, personally, wouldn't choose to compete in something like this.

It reminds me of a Television program I watched many moons ago ... there was this door to door salesman who wandered around with a box.  In the box was a button.  He would knock on the door, when you opened he would offer you a large sum of money if you pushed the button.   Pushing the button meant that somebody would be killed, however, it wouldn't be anybody you know and you'd be a rich man in return!  After you push the button (if you decided to do it), he gives you the money!  However, as he's walking away he says, "now I must find somebody else to push the button ... somebody who doesn't know you!"

If something seems too good to be true, it is.

Please find more reliable hosting for your images!  They aren't showing!

Another beacon of light in the customer service realm is Hostfolio (the company I use for all my hosting needs).

I have emailed them with a question at 2am on a Sunday night and they still replied to me in less than 1/2 an hour.  They have fanatical customer support over there.

It's so damn refreshing, and outside the norm, that I often just submit tickets to them for no other reason than to experience it and get a smile on my face.

Customer service is a dying art for sure!

I hope you never have the "pleasure" of dealing with Travelocity's customer service.

Your email, while making you feel much better, probably won't even register with them.  They'll just delete it and move on to ignoring more customers.  Or, even worse, you'll get a reply from them in 2 weeks saying, "have you tried reinstalling the software?"

Gotta love companies that outsource their tech support.

Thanks for all the kind words guys ... means a lot to me.

He died from complications from cardiac amyloidosis.  Basically a disorder caused by deposits in the heart tissue, which decreases the heart's ability to function.

The WoT community had known for some time that he was sick, but he was convinced he'd beat the odds and be around for another 30 years.

Alas the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills...

[Dragonmount announcement...]

Thanks Stupot, yeah ... I really am in mourning.  You should definitely read Eye of the World.  It's an amazing book and just gets the ball rolling.  You will not regret it.

Dragonmount, a website I helped create many moons ago, and which Robert Jordan regularly wrote a blog for, has officially announced the passing: Dragonmount announcement...

A Memory of Light, the 12th and final book of the Wheel of Time is, tragically, incomplete.  It has been confirmed that Mr. Jordan passed on all the details to his wife Harriet and the president of Tor books so that the tale could be concluded ... but such a bittersweet ending it will be.

It was when I was a young teenager, during the darkest years of my life when everything seemed bleak and pointless, that I found an outlet that gave me a way to leave behind my tortured reality and escape to another world.  That outlet was a series of books called The Wheel of Time.  Such creativity and incredible story telling I had rarely come across before.  I cannot even beging to explain how these books helped me.  They got me through those years ...  I won't go so far as to say they saved my life, but I wouldn't say it was far off from it.  When things got really bad, I would hide in my bedroom closet with a flashlight and dive into the books.

My forum nickname is partially inspired by these books (Mandarb is the name of a character in them).

They were penned by a man named Robert Jordan.

A few years back I had the extreme privelege to meet him at a book signing where he verified/acknowledge some of my work I had done for a Wheel of Time website.  It is a hi-light of my life and something I will never forget.

On September 16, 2007 Mr. Jordan died.

The world has lost an amazing story teller ... the Light has gone out.

"May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home."

I don't have the words to express the loss I feel.

So long Mr. Jordan ... may you ride forever on the winds of time.

I know, why don't we lock this thread unless people can get back on what the original topic was, or at least something remotely similar to the topic.

That's the funniest damn thing I've read in a LONG time ... thank you for that.

Thank you.

I think it more likely (and I agree) that it was the fact that Cyrus keeps digging up old/dead threads

If another passenger(s) on the airline complained about the outfits these young ladies were wearing, is it not the airline's responsibility to do something about it?  Should the passenger(s) who complained be made uncomfortable just so the one making them so isn't?  Is that really fair?  And you can't really say, "they need to lighten up ... it's just clothing!" because it's nobody's business to say what should/shouldn't offend somebody else.

I'm not saying this is or isn't what happened ... just throwing another idea into the mix.

It's a tricky situation as I see it.  If you put a dress code in place, you must then devote time and energy for enforcing that dress code.  And how do you define what is and isn't appropriate:

Addendum B-2 Section 1C: If woman's breasts are (appear) to be a Large C or D cup size, and 2/3 of her breasts (or more) are exposed (but only if they are being pushed out - some kind of wonder bra) this is unacceptable (though only if her height to weight ratio matches the guide-lines put in place by section D4, paragraph 3, subsection 12, flow-chart 6) and if she's hot.

I don't know.

Part of me thinks more companies should take a stand against the "slutting" up that our society seems to be de-evolving to.  Then I feel like I'm being influenced by the bullshit puritanical dogma that my country grew up under.  I don't know ... I'm really quite torn on this issue.

If I may toot my own horn a bit; I don't think anybody on this forum would say I'm afraid of acting like a mod (and I would say that none of the others are either).

Now if only I could lock this thread...

Oh, I accept your resignation.  Fare thee well.

Dude ... his death is no more tragic than any other death.

There.

I did the one obligatory reply to posts like this ... now nobody else need bother.

I didn't know the name at all I'm afraid to say, but to those that knew/admired him I feel for your loss.  May he rest in peace and his son as well.  Very saddening.

nemis - please do not make a habit of digging up threads.  This doesn't break the rules, but please read them before you dig up anymore threads.