Gromnir

we always wanted a big brother, but instead we got a little sister. were never able to forgive God for that. HA! Good Fun!

Insider info has revealed that bio is doing a finding nemo mmorpg in partnership with disney/pixar. disney wanted to break into the mmorpg market but they wanted it to be something that family members could enjoy together... both young and old. You will start game as any one of a dozen or so fishie species... with a dizzying number of customization options being possible. You will not be able to start game as a shark or whale and while there will be a combat aspect as part of game, there is a clear emphasis being placed on the development of social and problem skills as 'posed to combats. Almost the entire game will be played in a massive underwater environment. Truly a revolutionary mmorpg is just 'round the corner as this family oriented aquatic adventure is set to be developed by the new bio studio in austin texas. No release date has even been suggested yet. stay tuned for more fishy details as they becomes available. HA! Good Fun!

btw, just in case # ain't been paying much attention, Gromnir refers to all of you jokers as nerdlings and geeklings... and we hardly exclude self from such categorizing. if you somehow takes offense at a particular appellation then maybe you should look to self, 'cause we ain't bothered by it none. HA! Good Fun!

"And yes, Grom. It's an irony because you accuse others of the very flaw you suffer from. " *sigh* that ain't irony... even if it were true. it really ain't. is commonly used thus, but it is wrongness. at least try to learn one thing from this thread. this is one of the more common wrong uses of "irony" and "ironic." try to force the def. to work by finessing is not gonna happen. people confuse "incongruous" with "ironic" all the time... and they is wrong each and every time. is a simple mistake and perfectly understandable... 'less you continue to use wrong after you finds out that you has been using improper. "No. It's trolling because you just make an attack on my statement without actually explaining where it fails. But you already know that and are just playing victim. Bad cess mate... bad form." and yet we did just give a full and exhaustive explanation and yet you still responds with foolishness... so what did we gain? in any event, this is another one of your more ridiculous notions. tank-tops is no longer traditional garb of tank crews, and the naming of tanks is actually the result of an intentional misnomer that ain't never been abandonded. wanna go down list of common items that gots names that is either counter-intuitive or simply a matter of tradition. what is an exchequer? how did the name evolve? why we still call it an exchequer? and since we is on the subject o' soccer, why does they call the playing field a "pitch" anyways. never thought to ask til some loon started questioning the origins of words and ascribing some sorta odd signifficance to those with peculiarity of genesis. "Still better than "oringine"." nope... and you misquoted us. funny too when one considers that you seemed so confused by our misspelling. you ain't drinking now is you? that might explain a few things. hardly an unreasonable assumption if you drinks booze during training. "No, outside the US, football is football, you know, with a ball. If you are going to refer to American football, then it's you who should clarify. I don't care if this is an American or Thai developer, the internets isn't American." actually the term soccer has its origins outside the US. is not solely an American term, and in any event, obsidian is an American corporation (am not sure in what state they has incorporated as it is not unusual for Cali incorporators to choose deleware or nevada as their home o' incorporation. this is an obsidian board wholly owned and maintained with good old American resources. if some employee of obsidian uses his work internet connection to post and surf kiddie pr0n do you think she/he can avoid American anti-kiddie pr0n penalties with the defense that the internet is NOT American soil? welcome to the U.S.A. soccer. ... is so much crap. we skips ahead and then maybe comes back later. "You see, in martial arts, physical contact is the point of the sport. You may get hit, but the idea is to hit the other. Fair game. Getting hit is not an added bonus for your failures." don't be a bigger arse than you is already seeming. of course getting hit is punishment for failure in martial arts. is also just as inevitable that you will be hit in football as in martial arts. the only real difference is that in tae bo you is play fighting. again, on these portions of your argument wherein you is clearly wrong, the best thing to do is to deemphasize. is just another reason why reply/quote hurts # so bad. HA! Good Fun!

keep in mind that pretty much any kid born in the United States after 1960 has played soccer. elemntery and high schools always has soccer as part of their required pe (physical education) programs. is relatively easy to learn basics and it not take much expensive equipment. almost every American who posts on this board will have played soccer many times in their life. now, how many euros can say that they played football, real American football? HA! Good Fun!

a football game cannot start w/o a foot touching a ball... is called a kickoff. and while Gromnir has never gotten the whole buttslapping thing that occurs in football and baseball and so many other sports, we don't think lucius wants to really get going on the gayness issue, doe he? lockage of thread for that kinda stoopidity is a near certainty. "Gromnir, no matter how you try to spin it, saying that "Football is a nice sport...for girls" is an obvious flamebait." yeah? ... didn't know that we had denied such. HA! Good Fun!

oh goodie, we is gonna do the inane reply/quote thing. "You accuse me of having "euro preconceptions" post after post, and amusingly, it's you who's being shown to have his already painfully narrow sights, obstructed by preconceptions and ignorance. The irony is gleaming." why would that be ironic? most people really don't know what irony is. mabe you mean hypocritical? that might work better. in any event maybe you should review the thread and sees just how we gots onto a us v. euro trend. we got all kinds of pre and post conceptions 'bout euros. did the fullbright thing and got a taste of the euro lifestyle first hand. and of course our view o' euros is tainted by our rather unique upbringing... we actually gots dual citizenship btw. "No, I don't see what you mean," yes, yes, that has become painfully obvious. "as there's only trolling and no substance in that paragraph. Maybe what you mean is that your sole purpose in this thread is to disrupt discussion?" of course. anything you disagree with is simply trolling on Gromnir's part. you make a ridiculous sta-tement 'bout how the description of rugby balls and football balls shows lack of imagination or some other such nonsense and you will continue to actually fight on such an issue. bad cess mate... Bad form. "Yeah. I guess there's nothing wrong with giving random objects random names." see, as you not seem to get much you has missed that the naming of the rugby ball and football is hardly random. Rugby evolveds from soccer and football evolved from rugby. to somehow take such naming trends as evidence of anything significant is patently ludicrous... obvious to any, but you will continue to plugs away at a dead issue. heck, you even got Gromnir to educate you further when it woulda' been in your best interest to simply ignore... "No, Grom. We don't use Orangina. We use vintage wine, and camembert." you liquor up for training? no wonder you trips and manages to break things. "That paragraph is based off your mistaken interpretation of what I said before. Again, I meant football with a ball. You fail at reading comprehension." actually our reading comprehension is just fine. your edits is interesting and all, but football and soccer is two different sports. you mean one and not the other and it us up to you to clarify at the time of post. this is an American game developer's board after all. regardless, we not know what possible significance there could be in preaching how tough martial arts makes you compared to soccer. is a bit like trying to claim that golf is a better cardio exercise than is bowling. even if you is right you hasn't really set the bar very high. "You don't know if I have actually competed, you see, you don't need to have a black belt for that. And considering there's a good proportion of KOs in TKD matches due to kicks to the head, I'd say I can very fairly compare that to your American football, or boxing matches." never suggested that you competed. where you get that? Not care. have been to tae kwon do classes more than a handful of times, (though we has more experience with kempo and escrima.) majority of practices is sans padding. football and boxing is much different. in any event, you can gets knocked unconscious falling off a ladder... such rarities not make ladder climbing an experience comprable to football, just as the occasional fell blow in tae bo is rare. "You need to be pretty dumb to want to get hit for no good reason" yes. We can see your point. involvement in a sport where violent physical contact is inevitable is just plain crazy. utterly ludicrous, stoopid and insane. ... maybe you should reread some of your comments wherein you trys to convince us just how dangerous is tae kwon do. see, yet another reason why reply/quote gets some folks into so much trouble. They forgets their own arguments mere fractions after typing them. You get so tied into rebutting single snippets that you loo-se hold of any real central point. Is really tragic when we sees such sloppy posting. "Now you're an expert in football as well? " yeah, we is something of an expert on football. soccer we has only a passing knowledge of as we played for only a few years and then got bored. however, we did date a woman for a couple of years who were a high school soccer coach. as Gromnir were coaching dbs for local jv high school at the time, Gromnir and the soccer coach often compared notes. still, we is by no means an expert of soccer. in any event, as the gameplay in soccer is far more fluid than it is in football, you necessarily has more opportunity to plan and strategize during the course of a game. this should be obvious to anybody with even a passing familiarity with both sports. for you geekling gamers, think of rt (sans pause) v. tb. the cereberal component in basketball is necessarily less than in football, for much the same reasosn... so don't feel bad little fella. "Grom is euro bashing, just because he can't get over the fact that football is more popular worldwide than American foot'ball'?" does that make any sense? Why on earth would Gromnir care if worldwide popularity of soccer is greater than football? is something we is aware of and fully concedes. soccer is much more popular 'round the globe than football and it will continue to be so for a long, long time. when we watches nd v. usc on a saturday afternoon we does not think our enjoyment is somehow diminished by realizing that most folks in cameroon and bulgaria don't give a damn 'bout football. soccer is a very nice sport... for girls. HA! Good Fun!

wouldn't be a fight. *shrug* # isn't really in Gromnir's bracket yet. "Yeah. I guess there's nothing wrong with giving random objects random names. It's the lack of imagination I find amusing. The Brits' first for naming it, and yours now for going along with it. But if you're happy with the limiting of the lexicon, and the confusion it entails, I'm happy too." see what we mean? when you makes a halfwit argument and get caught doing it, the best thing to do is simply let it go rather than add to your foolishness. rookies and some of our slower posters fails to grasp such an obvious notion. and if # triped over an empty bottle of oringina during a martial arts practice and cracked a rib or somesuch we wouldn't be surprised. hardly makes him tough. "And contrary to what you seem to think, martial arts do toughen kids up, if not physically, psychologically. Football doesn't do that." oh sure, 'cause your vast experience playing american football makes you an expert. Gromnir, on the other hand, has experience in any number of martial arts. we has also played numerous sports at a very high level o' competition. however, we ain't gonna be presenting self as some kinda expert based on our experience. not have to. sure, a message board for a video game developer is not the best location to be finding former football players, but more than a few folks who played high school and college level ball... folks who went through two-a-days in west texas or south florida or eastern pennsylvania or chicago or oakland, is gonna be laughing their arse off as they reads your post informing them that they not needed no mental toughness compared to the typical glorified tae bo student. HA! "So? I wore protective gear too in my TKD matches... and not just head gear." matches? just matches? you not see difference? you ain't seriously trying to compare your tae bo classes to american football practices or boxing is you? "And if you want to prove you're fast with a ball, there's football. I don't understand this masochistic obsession with receiving physical punishment." and so we come full circle again. is not just 'bout being fast. is why so many track stars has failed to make it in the nfl. in football, no matter how fast you is, you is gonna eventually get hit. what you gonna do once you get knocked on your arse? playing football requires one to be fast & tough. is the toughness part you euros don't understand, as you so clearly pointed out, and we ain't surprised. football is also far more cerebral than is soccer. simply compare playbooks if you wish. oh sure, your typical American football player not have to be a brain surgeon, but you sit and listen to the average college coach explaining the different coverage assignments a safety is responsible for in tampa 2 v. a base cover 2 and you is gonna have to change some of your preconceptions 'bout American football. HA! Good Fun!

"HA! grin.gif "Passing on the blame, eh Grom?" what blame? we not see anything wrong with calling the damned thing a ball... but as you got issues we pointed out the origin for you: english twits. am not really sure what your martial arts background gots to do with the current debate, but kiddie martial arts toughens you up 'bout same 'mount as does soccer. wear those lilly white unis and pretend to fight? bah. here in the states we gots a handful of upper middle class bratlings who goes to martial arts classes to learns discipline and gets a little excercise while they ain't playing nintendo. is kinda amusing really. boxing is the preferred martial art in this country, and like american football, it is a sport that requires youth participants to wear protective head gear. "What I can't understand is why anyone would want to be tackled..." typical euro misconception. getting tackled is punishment for not being strong enough or fast enough to stay on your feet. you ain't s'posed to wanna be tackled. duh. HA! Good Fun!

as american football were developed from rugby, we guess that you can blame the oblong ball thing on the english twits who called their ball a ball. btw, you response is pretty much what we would expect from one of those nancy boy euros who played soccer as a kid and learned how to fakes getting hurt in last minutes of a game in an attempt to elicit a penalty kick. such behaviors and early childhood edumications can explain many differences 'tween Americans and euros. HA! Good Fun!

we got nothing 'gainst soccer. is a very good sport for young women. if we had a daughter interested in team sports, we would encourage her to play soccer probably before and ahead of any other team sport. the alternatives is... odd. field hockey and softball and lacrosse for women is sorta like what you might imagine if somebody tried to makes hockey, baseball and lacrosse for the mentally handicapped. not many good team sport options for women. ... you says that you is talking 'bout men's soccer? ... still am thinking that soccer is a very nice sport for young women. HA! Good Fun!

games will rot your brain... probably as bad as pr0n and booze. uncle fergie had a scholarship to julliard as a dancer... then he started playing games. oh sure, seemed like a harmless 'nuff pass time as he dumped quarter after quarter into the space invaders arcade game... but then he got an atari 2600... and then a comodore 64... and then a mac. julliard were forgotten, replaced by the mountain dew guzzling game glutton you see today... a myopic and graceless parasite whose ultimate goal is to ruin the future of today's youth by means of games. just as that that insatiable slattern named Video Games took from him his ambition and his physique so many years ago, he wishes the same ruin and sorrow and regret to consume the 21st century's xbox and ps generation of kids. is a tale of woe... one we should all pay heed to. over the top? HA! Good Fun!

favorite movie villains: tyler durden lex luthor (gene hackman in supes 1) max caddy (robert deniro) messala (stephen boyd) mr. scratch (walter huston) hannibal lecter (anthony hopkins) hank quinlan captain ahab (gregory peck) hal 9000 is just a few. HA! Good Fun!

wait & see it don't hurt us at all to wait until after the first patch is released before we purchase. by then we gets a pretty good notion of quality of game, and if we does decide to purchase we gets a much more stable app. our biggest concern: crappy writing. fom the tiny bits we has seen/heard, oblivion writing is just as bad as morrowind writings. however, is unfair for us to judge based on the small 'mounts we has seen. even so, what little we has witnessed is 'nuff to make us concerned. *shrug* we make it a point not to buy any game on day 1. you is asking for trouble in so doing. wait for a week or two and get feedbacks from the guniea pigs w/o no impulse control.... watch and sees if they gets electrocuted or gets a food pellet before you commit. HA! Good Fun!

was so disappointed to find out that ricardo used a chest prosthesis for the movie. and here we thought the old guy had gotte yoked for the film. HA! Good Fun!

nobel created an explosive that were used by others to blow up people. in the most simple terms, haber invented gas warfare for the purpose of killing enemies of germany. you not see a difference? is not like haber were simply a man o

ok, you is gonna see lots of heinlein, assimov, herbert and clarke on a sci-fi recommendation list. also you gets a healthy dose of pkd. aldous huxley's "brave new world" almost always gets a nod or two. hg wells may get a mention. douglas adams is a geekling fave so he too almost always gets "mad props." unfortunately, some folks we rarely see mentioned, but should be at top of list rather than afterthoughts. kurt vonnegut: numerous sci-fi short stories as well as "the sirens of titan" richard matheson: ever seen that terrible charlie heston film called "omega man," or some such? is based on a matheson novel called, "i am legend." "the shrinking man" is maybe even better. Gromnir ain't really a fan of horror, but matheson does a good job combining horror and sci-fi. ursula k. leguin: am not sure why she ain't mentioned in same breath with heinlein and assimov and clarke. is clearly an oversight. at the very least, every sci-fi fan should give "the left hand of darkness," and "the lathe of heaven" a shot. alfred bester: "the stars my destination" & " the demolished man" are both in Gromnir's top 20 sci-fi/fantasy books... evar. walter m. miller jr.: "a canticle for leibowitz" is one of those rare sci-fi books that gets honest praise from mainstream critics and scholars. there is a sequel to canticle, but as we ain't read it we cannot recommend. joe haldeman: tarna already mentioned, but we can only recommend "forever war" as we thought "forever peace" and "tools of the trade" were uninspired... but "forever war" is fantastic even so. roger zelazny: yeah, we know that zelazny were a fantasy author, but we thinks his best novel were, "lord of light." gene wolfe: anything and everything by gene wolfe. however, wolfe does challenge his readers and not all of us wanna be so challenged. if you not wanna have to reread a few pages on occasion to be making sure you understood wtf just happened, then wolfe may not be your cup o' tea. however, "knight" & "wizard" is fantasy books recently written by wolfe that is some of the most accessible works we ever read by wolfe. one for the fringe

"So the titles like "bootcher of the balkans is dead" merely bring out a bitter-sweet smile on my face." the "butcher of the balkans" label were a translation mistake. should actually read as follows: "the fluffy bunny of the balkans is dead." sorry for the confusion. nevertheless, in the future we will simply note that A butcher of the balkans died... as 'posed to THE butcher of the balkans. everybody feel better now? HA! Good Fun!

Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. Btw, you've probably seen this, but apparently there's a short film in postproduction: http://www.haberfilm.org. I won't be surprised to see a major studio biopic in the next decade. Good luck. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> haber is a tough subject for hollywood... too many political issues to be real mainstream. dr. william shockley is another one of our favorite villains.... thinks of Homer Stokes from "O' Brother, Where Art Thou?" and you gotta general notion. HA! Good Fun!

space rangers 2 nwn 2 jagged alliance 3 and the kotor 2 restoration HA! Good Fun!

You've mentioned Haber before, and it's sparked my interest. Pardon me if I'm too bold, but did you ever finish your Haber biography? Or did you abandon the project in the wake of the Daniel Charles publication? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> the charles book were an interesting read, but far too generous to its subject. Gromnir ain't gonna try to come up with excuses and rationales for haber's actions... and while our bio might end up being less juicy, we feels compelled to devote at least some effort to explaining haber's science. not abandon project... and not finished neither. got lots of shoeboxes filled with note cards and a pretty extensive outline. unfortunately, our interviews with various german personages is over a decade old now, and even our caltech and berkeley stuff is getting a bit dated. sadly, just about everbody who knew haber in rl is now dead. *shrug* is something we pulls out and putters with when the spirit moves us... will probably take us another decade to finish at this rate. am believing that haber is somebody folks will become more familiar with in the years to come. nitrogen-based fertilizers, while essential to support a human population in the billions, is leading to numerous environmental problems that we is gonna have to contend with. HA! Good Fun!

there were a playoff game v. the 49rs in which jim everett, the rams qb, looked spooked. got sacked a bunch of times, and even appeared to curl up into fetal positin once or twice when a defender weren't actually close to sacking him. jim rome, a socal punk radio guy who managed to get himself a tv gig, decides to give jim everett a new nickname: chris everet. chrissy were a famous female tennis star... in case you didn't know. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/jimeverett.html HA! Good Fun!

"Yes, I know that it is rather an exception to the rule but still." "but still" what? how many years did we have to listen to vis telling us he would make a REAL nwn module? this kinda thing by vd ain't an exception. sees something like this at almost every board. some joker, or group of jokers, claims they is gonna Do It Right. sometimes they even slap something together... but such masterpieces rarely meets light of day. "While Volourn's and the regular Codexer's (whatever that is) views may vary they both have the same tendency to frenzy when it comes to defending their pet topics (that is Bioware and Troika). " then how can you disagree with Gromnir? its vol v. codexers. sure, he is a regular and sure he spits and fumes likes the most rabid codexer, but he is not one of the codexers. as we recall, the admin hung some sorta "retarded" label on his account... not sure if it is still there. so where is it you disagree with Gromnir? "Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe." yeah, they stand up and fight each other all day long. ... clowns. am not sure how anybody coud come away from codex w/o chuckling. is maybe lowbrow humor, but is funny even so. HA! Good Fun!

fritz haber

Did you even read the link? Chris Avellone <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why the hell does he call himself MCA? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i dont think he does, we do. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> you could do a jim rome thing and simply calls him chrissy. ... that were a sports reference in case most of you physically retarded trogs didn't get it. HA! Good Fun!