Gromnir

ss is ok... in spite of his delusional recollections regardings bg1. we does feel bad that ss becomes a mod on these boards shortly before they jumped the shark. 'member when sean k quit wotc and went to work for interplay? poor bastard didn't realize what he were getting into. ss and sean k finally gots some common ground... well that and we understand that they both got an unholy fixation with women's shoes, but we s'pose that stuff is probably just an empty rumor... like the richard gere/gerbil thing. HA! Good Fun!

oh come now. is hardly comparable. nowhere has Gromnir lied about his identity... he simply has not given you enough info to track us down in real life

thanks for thread... gave us a chance at a little narcissistic indulgence... we looks back and see just how insightful we really is. HA! Good Fun!

then you is saving the other account the embarrassment that is eldar? not see your point. sissies and cowards. HA! Good Fun!

... if you is willing to lie about identity... *shrug* is the nature of our occupation that we deals with liars all the time. people even lie to us when telling the truth would be in their best interest. is bizarre. maybe that is why we got such limited tolerance for the petty deceptions of message board liars. HA! Good Fun!

alt accounts is for sissies and cowards. on a couple rare occasions Gromnir has posted short stories in past using alt accounts... but we always conclude such postings with, "HA! Good Fun!" sure, we wanted folks to give our works a fair read, but we did not hide behind an aka to avoid criticism. got no respect for those who hide behind alt accounts... none. HA! Good Fun!

oddly 'nuff, we has done this bit numerous times before... but folks get tired of Gromnir quoting all the times. has been a while. "A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." HA! Good Fun!

how can a board that has only been 'round for less than 2 years and one game have an "old days" to be nostalgic 'bout? this board ain

so why not do the same with component cables and s-video cables n' such? go into a best buy anywheres and you will see a huge range o' component video cables. servant's explanation makes perfect sense... save for fact that it don't explain the anomaly... which is the reason we is curious in first place. conspiracy theories? voodoo economics & electronics? consumer ignorance? retailer ignorance? Gromnir ignorance? *shrug* is not a big deal, but Gromnir is always curious 'bout anomalies... after all, when you get down to it, our job is to understand such things. HA! Good Fun!

the strange thing is that most major retailers only sell the expensive stuff. is not like we can't handle $150+, but when Gromnir went to best buy and circuit city we didn't see no hdmi cables for less than $100 in spite of fact that we had seen many hdmi cables for less money when we were perusing on-line sites... so we asked the sales folks what were the difference 'tween expensive and cheap... on-line sources got hdmi cables from $30. major retailers not seem to got anything less than $100. even so, we can't seem to find anybody who can tell us why a 1m long $30 hdmi cable would be worse than a 1m long $150+ cable.

You don't need a cable costing over a hundred dollars, but I'd be careful about getting a really cheap one too. Try to get something in the lower-middle range. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> if you got some reasoning, we would like to hear. if quality of audio & visual is same with cheap or expensive, and if Gromnir only need less than a meter of cable, then why would we pay for anything other than cheapest of hdmi cable? HA! Good Fun!

thanks. useful info indeed as it is likely to save us somewheres in the neighborhood of $90. we probably woulda' gone ahead and gotten top-o'-the-line monster cable... just to be safe. nevertheless, some o' the stuff we were being told just didn't seem to add up right. and here we were thinking that these boards were getting useless. HA! Good Fun!

any info would be much appreciated. as we noted above, Gromnir gots some double talk from a few folks on the subject... 'nuff for us to be able to tell that they really didn't know and were just guessing. HA! Good Fun!

she is dead and white... so she meets two of Gromnir's pre-reqs for consideration. a couple of the pieces from "In America" is okie dokie... but we ain't a big fan otherwise. HA! Good Fun!

have gotten a couple different answers from some o' our tech savy friends, and we won't get a chance to talk to our IT yoda pal 'til monday, so maybe somebody here can help Gromnir unravel a knot for us. we got a hdtv and we got an hd receiver and we watch hd programming, but as Gromnir paid something like $80 for his component cables a year or so ago, we never bothered to use our new(er) tv's hdmi interface. nevertheless, we finally decided to get rid o' some 'o the tangle o' cords we got and hooks up an hdmi cable. the thing is, there is a huge range in prices for hdmi cables and Gromnir can't get a straight answer as to why one cable is better than another. digital signal doesn't degrade, right? you either got signal, or you don't... so why is Monster hdmi cables retailing for something like $140 U.S.? other hdmi cables is as little as $30... or even less. ... anybody know what makes one hdmi cable better than another... if anything? thanks in advance. HA! Good Fun!

noteworthy is fact that we know of a couple published authors who post at obsidian not named darque. most likely to change screen name in hopes of avoiding his past: hades most likely to live in a studio apartment with a dozen cats: gabrielle most likely to quit obsidian only to be rehired less than 2 years later: josh HA! Good Fun!

"No, you insist that I was making others look bad to try and become a moderator myself. However the fact that I spoke well of others and argued that while none of us were perfect, I could see others becomming moderators actually fully contradicts the picture you are trying to paint." ... talk

you is nuts. the fact that you wrote half 1 does not change fact that you wrote part 2. you is the guy resorting to non-logic. Gromnir claimed that you talked bad 'bout fellow posters modding potential and talked self up. you say we misconstrue and such. Gromnir shows you the crumbs on your shirt and hands. ender still trys to avoid responsibility. ... the fact that you say nice things 'bout some of your fellow posters does not mean that you did not do the things we claimed that you did. for chrissakes, if you hadn't shown why you would make a crappy mod before, you sure has now. HA! Good Fun!

*sigh* the fact that you said those things does not change the fact that you also talked yourself up and others down. "Hades and Volourn are funny, and I like them as people, but they posting personas troll way too much to be mods. "Baley loves spam too much. "No one would take jodo seriously as a mod. "And nurbs has posted and stood behind racist remarks. " you got amnesia or is you just being stoopid? look, you made a mistake... or you didn't. is an opinion... but WHAT you said ain't an opinion. bah... is like arguing with a 5 year old, "Did you take the cookie?" asks Gromnir o' the child with crumbs on his shirt and face. "No." is the child's reply. ... "as for 'fin' and the implied inconsistency ... the 'grass is always greener'" what implied? is inconsistency that you has admitted to and Gromnir is surely not implying neither. am coming straight out and saying that fin treats different posters different... which should not bother fin as this is something you has admitted to in the past. as to the grass being greener... no, it ain't always greener. if fin treated all the same... treated folks fairly, then the ad hoc approach would not sudden becomes the greener pastures. nevertheless, we is done with this. for the most part fin is a perfectly adequate mod, and as long as things is as dead as they is now, no doubt fin will continue to fulfill his/her duties well enough. not a rousing endorsement maybe, but fin does keep it impersonal (mostly,) and does try to stay below radar

did you or did you not give reasons why ender would make a good mod? did you or did you not identify why other folks would be bad mods? we misconstrue nothing in this thread or in your post. as to eldar comments 'bout fin... fin, for the most part, is unobtrusive. this is a skill most mods not seem capable of learning and it would serve them well. the less you seem to mod, the less you will have to mod. also, fin never seems to make stuff personal... which is something that even a few of the obsidian/bis/interplay folks has failed at. unfortunately, fin gots some wacky notions. he will smite a perceived threat, and then refer to board rules/guidelines as justification... while at the same time admitting that he will apply those rules and guidelines ad hoc and different depending on situation and the posters involved. smote and smite away says Gromnir, but use board rules as justification when you admits that the rules is different for each person based on fin's opinion of 'em? yeah, right. if the rules ain't the same for everybody then they ain't really rules at all. if you not at least pretend to try and treat everybody equal, they will see you as treating them unfairly... and they will be right. personally, we believes that fin and the other mods would be better served by uniformity o' purpose and execution. there is few folks on the board at the moment, so it ain't a big deal, but if this board gets as much traffic as the old ip boards did... those were the times when fin ran into problems... and people recognized and complained of manifest unfairness. *shrug* have mentioned this before... have pointed out that we worked as a kiddy prison guard for a while. it were a job that Gromnir were very good at. had respect of our peers and the kids... well, we had the respect of most of the kids... all save the girls in d-unit. female juvenile detainees is notoriously foul and they cry and wanna discuss stuff. ack. what made Gromnir such good staff with the kids were that : 1) it was known that nobody ever got over on staff Gromnir 2) staff Gromnir were not afraid to "put hands on" when needed and most important, 3) staff Gromnir treated everybody the same this board ain't much different than Juvenile Hall, and the mods is like staff dealing with unruly reprobates. HA! Good Fun! p.s. Gromnir fun fact #108: the best behaved kids in juvenile hall is the murderers and rapists. these is the folks that will be having extended stays in juvenile hall and so they is more likely to try and get along with staff. is the young kids who is only gonna be in the hall for a week or so that is the worst

is no fun if Gromnir has to argue both sides, but to help commie along... the threshold questions for ep is where one should search. facial neutrality and what is burdens o' fundamental rights is such questions... and our comment 'bout chicken sacrifices in florida is quite useful too. *shrug* can't keep doing both sides o' this. HA! Good Fun!

rationalize all you want. we see a post where you is saying why ender could be a mod and why others folks shouldn't. if you wanna be mod then don't talk bad 'bout fellow posters... claim that you is just giving an opinion not make no difference at all. opinions is what starts most of the arguments on these boards. HA! Good Fun!

this post seems to be reason 'nuff not to ever consider ender for mod status. don't ask to be mod. don't tell folks why you should/could be mod. those things not get you made mod anyway. you wanna be a mod? Gromnir got the keys to being chosen as mod, so listen up and learn. 1) be here most o' you clowns got that part down, so it ain't much o' a burden. the thing is that the obsidian folks is gonna choose folks who has shown that they can and will be here much of the time. 2) be helpful when n00bs and fellow posters has questions, never be shy 'bout posting links to developer quotes or applicable news sites 'n such. if a mod answers questions that satisfy folks then those is questions that developers not have to deal with. am not saying that developers intend to answer most or even many fan questions, but if fans is constantly ignored then the devs get a bad rap (e.g. troika.) fan mods answer takes pressure off of developers to waste time on boards answering inane questions

arlington heights is your guide. arlingngton heights factors identify how a court can divine invidious intent. 'course knowing the words and the factors ain't 'nuff. understanding how those factors has actually been used by the Court is what legal analysis of an ep question is all 'bout. ... regardless, if somebody say that arlington heights don't apply to an ep question, they is almost assuredly showing that they don't know a damned thing 'bout ep. HA! Good Fun!

not by a long shot. don't work like that. you pretty much gotta show that the legislators who passed the law wanted wiccans and satanists to feel bad or suffer. get yourself actual congressional records where legislators said, "those damned witches are a blight on society, so let's add, "under God," to the pledge." how likely is that? w/o actual intent you is pretty much gonna have to use a first amendment free excercise or establishment clause basis to show that the legislator's intent were discriminatory... so why use ep when you is gonna have to go 1st amend anyways? even so, you is going at this thing in parts rather than seeing the whole. 1) learn what is the threshold questions... especially what makes for a class distinction 2) review the major ep cases since arlington heights and divine rule from those cases 3) get somebody to exlain to you the three levels o' scrutiny ep is 'bout 2 weeks of con law in second semster, but you can teach self in a few days... as long as you has somebody explain some o' the more subtle nuances. the thing is, just 'cause you see the words Equal Protection, it does not mean that everybody gets treated the same under the law... just as "Congress shall make no law," in the first amendment context does not actually mean that Congress cannot make laws which abridge free speech. just 'cause you think you understands something in english does not mean that you understand something in law. HA! Good Fun!