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by mxlm
Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:45 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Everyone...
Replies: 24
Views: 8287

Re: Everyone...

From R Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy, the best gorram epic fantasy I've read (and yes, I'm including Ice and Fire)

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I <3
by mxlm
Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:40 am
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Topic: Iraqi shoe toss
Replies: 16
Views: 5129

Re: Iraqi shoe toss

Grand Fromage wrote:He has good reaction time. I wonder if he has any idea how severely he was being insulted with that and the "you dog" comment.
Shoe-hurling journalists are like focus groups.
by mxlm
Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:39 am
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Topic: Anyone care to confirm this?
Replies: 17
Views: 5187

Re: Anyone care to confirm this?

Over the last decade, I have written a variety of stories about such things as underground cities and government actions that could only make sense if there were no future.
Oh yes. Speaking in my official capacity as a history major, I wholeheartedly endorse everything in that article.
by mxlm
Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:56 am
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Topic: Top Ten Pirated Games of 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 3102

Re: Top Ten Pirated Games of 2008

Talk to Stardock. Increasing sales should be the goal, not stopping piracy.

Few seem to understand that.
by mxlm
Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:27 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Post your favorite music (using youtube)!
Replies: 47
Views: 15231

Re: Post your favorite music (using youtube)!

The Carol of the Old Ones



Shoggoth Shoggoth Shoggoth



Away in a Madhouse



Awake Ye Scary Great Olde Ones

by mxlm
Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:51 am
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Topic: Fallout 3!!!
Replies: 114
Views: 27453

Re: Fallout 3!!!

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They've come a long way, baby.
by mxlm
Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:49 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Fallout 3!!!
Replies: 114
Views: 27453

Re: Fallout 3!!!

The originals can be purchased for $5.99 each without DRM, fyi.
by mxlm
Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:07 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Revenge Of The Clintons?
Replies: 12
Views: 3885

fluffmonster wrote: The fact is that the Republican party is at its lowest point in my lifetime, even lower than the Nixon impeachment.
Wow. You're old.
by mxlm
Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:16 pm
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Topic: Presidential Election 2008 ALFA
Replies: 26
Views: 7365

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by mxlm
Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:57 am
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Topic: Bailout package *passes* house
Replies: 77
Views: 18758

Best. Debate. Ever. It helps if you know that Raines is black.
by mxlm
Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:03 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Presidential Election 2008 ALFA
Replies: 26
Views: 7365

The global electoral college. The only two countries leaning McCain, AFAICT, are Cuba and Georgia.
by mxlm
Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:39 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Palin and "Troopergate"
Replies: 24
Views: 6264

What's awesome is they can't even do a proper cover-up . Some weeks ago, the McCain team devised a plan to have Palin file an ethics complaint against herself with the State Personnel Board, arguing that it alone was capable of conducting a fair, nonpartisan inquiry into whether she fired Monegan be...
by mxlm
Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:54 pm
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Topic: Fox gives McCain an 82% win over Obama in the latest debate
Replies: 191
Views: 45228

I guarantee you that when Obama becomes President, if he pitches this idea the cost issue alone will kill it. And think of the drain on the economy by removing them from the workforce. Who would flip my burgers? Pfft. Everyone knows the best way to strengthen an economy is to drastically shrink its...
by mxlm
Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:05 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Bailout package *passes* house
Replies: 77
Views: 18758

Yeah, next he'll say we can expect SFF novels to do well, relatively speaking, the coming years.

Or maybe he'll even suggest that paranormal romance and/or urban fantasy will become even larger juggernauts. What a tool. He's probably, like, a professor or something.