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Oh yes, our PR department at the IDU Olympiad spent hours of manpower and nearly all of their brainpower crafting a the ultimate response. They toiled at it through the night, desperate to find a response that would be welcoming, exciting, and relavent. The fruit of their labor: perhaps the single greatest press response in the history of the world.
OOC: It was like 12 AM and I wrote that in about .00000002356 seconds.
Bears Armed, Naboompu, Trive 38, New Lusitania and the Algarves, and 1 otherUnited New England
Wow. I think at my peak I had about 50 or so; I’m down to about 35 now.
Do you have a script that auto logs into each account?
No, alas.
I know that such scripts exist (and are sometimes advertised in the game's forums), but obviously leaving them running requires a computer of one's own rather than just (as is currently all that I have) temporary access to computers at the local library and internet cafes. If I could run a script for this then I probably would still have all of those puppets in existence... maybe even more.
The best that I could do was try to arrange matters so that the ones in vacation mode only needed checking on the basis of one batch [including roughly an eighth of the total number) each week rather than either all at once [every 60, or just less, days] or a few different ones on just about every day.
Gonhog and Gardavasque
Hey neighbor
Woops, CTE'd.
‘Holbrook’ actually looks like the sort of geography-based name that a number of my Bears’ clans and smaller groups were already described as using. I was already going through my memory & some old notes that turned up recently to compile a list of those, so I’ve written an extended family with this surname — even including a well-known painter, Wirrim Holbrook — into one of the existing clans that seemed a reasonable fit. The clan ‘Harruor Erruur’ weren’t closely tied to any other culture that might have influenced their names, and mostly live close to the nation’s capital city which would have been convenient for that artist.
(‘Erruur’ means something along the line of 'descendants', or at least 'heirs' in some other sense: The meaning of ‘Harruor’ is a detail that I haven’t decided on yet, but it might possibly derive from either ‘Harr’ [= ‘Town’] or ‘Harrh’ [= ‘East’]…)
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I’m not the first person in NationStates to say this, but it’s like the song-famed Hotel California: “You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.”
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Naboompu, Trive 38, Laeral, New Lusitania and the Algarves, and 1 otherShuell
*epic guitar outro*
^_^
My attempt to improve my civil rights score yielded an unexpected result.
Gardavasque, puppies given out free in marketing promotions are often tossed straight into the trash."Oops! I expect to get a strongly-worded letter from Grosseschnauzer about this.
Naboompu and Trive 38
No, you'll get one from me first.
Wtf dude
Thanks for the cards, by the way.
No problem. I knew I had some extras floating around...ever since I embarked on that quest to collect them all, I can't bring myself to junk any that I happen to pull from packs.
Ah, that is great...really put a smile on my face.
Would you happen to be a Tolkien fan? I really love his books, and am especially impressed with all of his work with language. He was a philologist by trade, I learned -- studying ancient languages and recreating lost ones -- and one of his motives for writing Lord of the Rings was an attempt to recreate the lost mythology and language of the Germanic peoples that settled Britain and became the Old English.
It seems like you may appreciate his work, if you're not already acquainted.
According to my nerd-stats, storm troopers fire about 152 shots on screen for every one that they make. Keep in mind that most of these shots are fired from point blank range. Additionally, most of the time it is a bunch of storm troopers firing at an exposed target (usually Han Solo). By sheer numbers, even if they were all aiming to miss, at least one shot should be on target, yet, they miss.
Interestingly, most of the times storm troopers have shot accurately has been in positions where they were not at a tactical advantage and did not have strength of numbers.
When they attempted to board the Tantive IV, the rebel soldiers had time to set up and hunker down. Somehow the stormtroopers got them, odd how that works out.
Tolkien was a great writer, perhaps my favorite. I loved the vivid description and his fantasy world. Everything in the books seem perfectly reasonable while you are reading them which, considering the protagonist of LotR is a little guy with big feet who flees from ethereal black figures on horseback to Rivendell, an elven city-state, where he learns he has to travel 500 miles to a hellish part of the world in order to toss his uncle’s ring into a pit of lava within mt Doom.
The books are also great because they can be read from a million perspectives. Each as logical as the former and each as interesting. I have the the series at face value once, once looking at it as a societal allegory, and I intend to reread the series looking at its religious undertones.
I bet the protagonist of LotR wouldn't walk 500 more just to be the one
When he goes out, don't you know he's gonna be, he's gonna be the man who's going out with the ring...
and he would walk 500 miles and he wouldn't walk five hundred more(because he would exceed his target)
Trive 38 and Gonhog
Alright, this is golden meme material now.
Such a thing wouldn’t happen in the schnauzerlands. Schnauzers and humans are equal in all respects. In other words, giving away human babies as marketing promotions wouldn’t be tolerated, either.
Bears Armed, Trive 38, Lauchenoiria, Gonhog, and 1 otherGardavasque
hey wanna invade him?
he beat me at baseball so am very mad.
jk jk
*IDU WW2 starts*
Frodo Baggins man! What do you mean "LOTR Protagonist"?
Edit: Kids these days! Don’t know who Frodo is! What’s next, “Hey mom, who is Darth Vader?” Disgusting! Can’t they recognize great characters when they see them! If anyone here genuinely doesn’t know who Darth Vader is, they need to get some help and sort out what is important in life.
Bears Armed and Naboompu
If I can recommend a book you may be interested in:
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century - by Tom Shippey
I'm not an expert or anything, just came across the book in a library. Very engaging read. Learned lots of biography and backstory, as well as in depth literary criticism on his career as a writer. The title is a bit of a play on words, arguing for Tolkien's place in the canon, but more so placing him as an artist of the 20th century while looking at him with his contemporaries.
And I'll just make one more recommendation that brought me great joy:
The Tolkien Professor podcast
https://tolkienprofessor.com/
Link is to his website, but looks like you'll have to subscribe through a podcast app to listen. The podcast is a gem, though a bit haphazard and all over the place.
In my opinion, his best stuff is the earliest, back in 2009. They are just him giving mini "lectures" to you on topics such as "On Wingless Balrogs and Tom Bombadil" or "On Dragons and Orcs" or "Tolkien and the Environment." He also has interviews with other experts, or where he takes questions from the community.
Then, he posts his college lectures, which he records live, including class discussion. There's a course on Silmarillion in there somewhere. Then there's stuff on Middle English and Tolkien's work as translator for Medieval works. There's a long series of episodes just on Tolkien's use of riddles. Then lots more course stuff. Then discussion about the films.
It's all over the place, but at the very least, check out those early episodes.
I'm more into dystopian science fiction.
I will check those both out when I get the opportunity, thanks for the link and for telling me about them.
They are not really the creme of the crop of literature (excluding maybe Fahrenheit 451 and 1984) but Dystopians are usually very entertaining to read. There are really to categories that I have found for them: Pre-1990's dystopians like 1984 and F-451 (which are usually thought provoking if not terribly action packed. The governments of these novels also generally feature an emphasis on prohibiting free thought) and Post-1990's dystopian fiction (Hunger Games, Legend).
I liked both categories until quite recently when I came to the realization that most of the Post 1990's books are more about kids rising up and leading a physical revolution against their oppressive government than coming to terms with the fact you have been brainwashed and rising above the government by exercising free thought. All the books from the Post 1990's are sort of the same; predictable and boring after a very short amount of time. They tend to appeal to young audiences because the characters are generally teens and because the books are always full of action.
Of course, isn't everybody?
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In fact, although we obviously aren't in Middle Earth (unlike Beorning people), some similar details apply to urrs: see, for example, https://theidu.us/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16133#p16133. (Ignore the superfluous question-marks: They're just a formatting error, inserted instead of apostrophes or 'single quote' marks due to software/coding differences.)
I think that the similarity between the Ursine greeting "Hrarroom!" and the Entish "Harroom!" was OOC originally due to subconscious influence, rather than a deliberate decision, but Ursine lore does claim that some of the earliest Bears were taught how to speak "by the trees" so who knows...
Naboompu, New Lusitania and the Algarves, and North Cross
Hah! That is wonderful... I can't wait to read through it.
The story of Beren and Lúthien is one of the best parts of Silmarillion (certainly one of the most "narrative"). Now you just need a "Túrin Turambar" analogue-character :)
I love the "taught by the trees" concept, very fun. And I don't know a single thing about the language of the Ents (besides it being slow), so I did not pick up on the similarity, but I wholeheartedly approve!
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