this is quite cool: http://www.lipsum.com/
edit: oh, if you don't people to know (i didn't) i can delete (or edit) the post
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dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
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Rick Pali submits the following from Before and After Magazine, Volume 4 Number 2.:
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After telling everyone that Lorem ipsum, the nonsensical text that comes with PageMaker, only looks like Latin but actually says nothing, I heard from Richard McClintock, publication director at the Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, who had enlightening news:
"Lorem ipsum is latin, slightly jumbled, the remnants of a passage from Cicero's de Finibus 1.10.32, which begins 'Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...' [There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain.]. [de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, written in 45 BC, is a treatise on the theory of ethics very popular in the Renaisance.]
"What I find remarkable is that this text has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since some printed in the 1500s took a galley of type and scambled it to make a type specemin book; it has survived not only four centuries of letter-by-letter resetting but even the leap into electronic typesetting, essentially unchanged except for an occational 'ing' or 'y' thrown in. It's ironic that when the then-understood Latin was scrambled, it became as incomprehensible as Greek; the phrase 'it's Greek to me' and 'greeking' have common semantic roots!"
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Just find that interesting:)
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I studied latin for 6-7 years.
It's not even close to funny to me :C
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I didn't suggest it was funny,just interesting:) I wish I had studied Latin instead of the languages I did take, even though I enjoyed learning.
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I meant... latin is not funny.
And it's not about latin itself, it's about how latin is taught.
But... well, now I can exorcise demons quite well and I can bitch about how bad was the pronunciation in Supernatural :D !
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You had a real passion for the language, then? Or is there another reason you spent so long at study?:)
I don't watch SN but it is a comfort to know that when (not if, when) the demons of the pit attack, thou shalt be ready.
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Not really, italian school system sucks, that's all.
In some schools ancient Greek is taught too :D !
I think it's a lot of time wasted, you'll never speak Latin or Greek in 2015, some facts or words' origin are cool, but 8 hours per week it's too much :|
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Oh, someone's making a puzzle and needs an old thread!
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Bump for thread title and original post changed :)
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*something nice*
Also, first! (well, after the thread was changed).
And thanks
Whatcha lookin' here fer?
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Leveling up in that real life RPG sucks. The more you level up, the more you risk losing permanently :(
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Do you mean it's not a die-and-retry ? That's not what I've been told :)
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Hmm, seems like I missed this comment in the flood of thanks and bumps from my train. Die-and-retry sounds good, but I guess nobody really knows what comes after end game :p
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I could have sworn there was something here... I guess it's nothing.
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Life is definitely the best RPG out there :-)
Bump for lots of cool games in the giveaways!
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1) Bump and I add some cats to topic :)
2) Move your cursor left and right xD
3) and another one :D
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Ang guess what ? I really moved my cursor left and right :)
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Can you add me in wishlist too? ^^ just for mark, cause i have almost all games :)
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Wow, 2 years and only once won. Do you even have giveaways that you can join? ;)
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Yes, im enter giveaways with games from my wishlist, but i never won :(
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With that impressive ratio, I would be a real *sshole to say no :) Happy to welcome you on the good list.
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Yeah, RPGs are super awesome!
Role Playing Games and Rocket Propelled Grenades.
You're right. No giveaways here. :)
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Bump, just cause its the hipster thing to do, j/k
Edit: Happy belated B-Day
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Thanks!!
Hope I can get a spot on your whitelist.
This is not a bribe or is it?
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Oh I love RPGs too. Talking about older RPGs like Fallout 1 & 2(as you can easily guess), or Planescape: Torment. And of course some other, like all those Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights(however NN was never... uh.. yeah, never one of my favourites). KOTOR games - yes please, very much, thank you. Arcanum - another great cRPG. Vampire: Bloodlines... Might&Magic series(especially games with numbers VI-VIII, yes M&M8 was still fun for me :P). From pen&paper - Vampire: the Masquerade, D&D, Neuroshima.
My face when I've beaten them all, and many, many more:
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I played all of these games aside from the Might&Magic series. My Pen&Paper game of choice is Das Schwarze Auge (The Dark Eye), though I dabbled a bit in Vampire: the Masquerade and BattleTech/MechWarrior.
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My knowledge of The Dark Eye is limited to owning, and playing through, Drakensang, The River Of Time, and Phileasson's Secret. Oh, and Drakensang Online for a short while, was curious. It's... A game :'(
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That memories :) I also played Dark Eye, I remember very well a big plastic case that looked like a giant book...
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It looks like we have quite the same good taste :) I can't say enough good things about Fallout 1 (and the second one) and Planescape. I'm looking forward to see Tides of Numenera, as you are probably. Also loved the Masquerade franchise, particularly Redemption. Maybe because I played Masquerade pen & paper before ^^
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Tides of Numenera... Yes, and no :P I bet it will have a great story, and already has very interesting setting. Still I would prefer Planescape: Torment 2. Sigil, Lady of Pain... Need to play Torment again. Thankfully I can run it on Win8.
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My favorites are BG&E and Fable, though the newer ones arent as good as the original.
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Fable - yes. I enjoyed Fable 1 very much. Played Fable 3 a bit. Don't have Xbox, so couldn't play Fable 2. Still, first Fable is my favorite, replayed it 2 times so far.
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What? I would have thought with my polarizing 'You either hate me, or you can't F'ing stand me personality I'd be on ONE list or the other...
You're tampering with my over-developed sense of self importance here!
Also that's a pretty big critical fail!
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My sincere apology, please note that I took required action to correct quickly my bad behavior. Should you be unhappy with the list I put you on, just ask and I'll put you to the other :)
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Last month I gained one more level playing a famous RPG called life. I want to celebrate that, and since my dice roll against "skill of lying in parenthesis in a thread subject" turned a critical failure, here's a giveaway or two...
No level
Bad Rats
Level 1
Reus
Joe Danger 2: The Movie
Surgeon Simulator 2013
Take On Helicopters
Aztaka
Bridge It (plus)
Painkiller: Black Edition
Level 2
To the Moon
Papo & Yo
Space Pirates and Zombies
Thomas Was Alone
Torchlight II
Sniper: Ghost Warrior Gold Edition
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
Level 3
Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves
Betrayer
Star Wars™ The Force Unleashed™: Ultimate Sith Edition
Hitman: Absolution
Kill The Bad Guy
Cargo Commander
Star Wars™ Knights of the Old Republic™
Level 4
BioShock
The Swapper
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Double Dragon: Neon
The Darkness II
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Zack Zero
Toki Tori 2+
Whitelist
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Antichamber
Star Wars™: The Force Unleashed™ II
Deadlight
Thief
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Worms Clan Wars
Urban Trial Freestyle
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
This War Of Mine
Whitelist disclaimer: if you are an active contributor who gave really more than he/she received on SG, I'll probably add you to that list gladly. Posting something nice in that thread will help me have a look at your profile :)
Blacklist disclaimer: if you find yourself on that list, don't take it personally. Most of the time, it doesn't mean at all that I have any bad feeling against you: the main reason for being there is many won giveaways with far less contribution. I'd prefer to have a custom rule about gifted/received ratio that I could enforce with choosen giveaways only, but there's no custom rules with SGV2. Add me to talk if it matters to you.
Thanks all of you for your nice messages. I can't answer to everyone, but I read them all of course ! I didn't start answering yet, but I added some of you to my whitelist.
Also a nice user hid a giveaway for Ravensword: Shadowlands in that thread. You may want to look for that. Rumor says that it will include soon a penis-shaped cake picture :)
Last day edit: the Ravensword Shadowlands GA has ended, but the cake pic is still in it. Watching it carefully may give to any wise user a subtle direction on how to find a level 1 GA for Contraption Maker. Ends in 6 hours, no entry yet ! Also a few more names are in my WL.
Thanks again for all the jokes, pics, nice words... I've been really busy last week and unable to answer directly to everyone, but I read everything. You are awesome, folks !
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