Dr. Corbett

Hey, hey, I have to stick up for my fellow moderators. (On a cold, snowy ridge far, far from the action...) Dr. Corbett sights through his snow rifle. Pink bunnies are tormenting the corpse of his fellow staff member. Not for long. *BANG!* One, two, four, twenty... The shots ring out and the rabbits fall to the ground, dead -- slain by snowballs through their eyeholes. Oops.

A cold night wind blew. In the meadow where Dr. Corbett was standing, alone, he reflected upon his misfortune. <i>Oh why, oh why, did they have to go to space?</i> He was covered with drying (freezing) snowball splatters, but unfortunately, there was nobody there to fight against him. He looked upon the trees in sorrow and dissapeared out of the topic. :P

How I miss the days when we were just throwing snowballs around. :P

It's been complained about recently that there's a glut of posts about people's characters. So, as a proto-forum, I've created a topic where you talk about your characters. Character introductions and descriptions are to be done here. This topic will be pinned so that it does not fall off the page; and character schpiel in other places will be removed.

Dr. Corbett steps in a snow time machine back to about page two when people were still throwing snowballs at eachother... just as Pack Rat sets about construction of his first ship, a cleverly executed snowball attack catches him off guard and whacks right in the front of his/her robe! [should have been wearing something a bit warmer. :P]

As thousands of snow nukes launch, what do you do?

Earth II: As soon as Pack Rat steps off the ship, he is immediately assaulted by a battalion of snowball-wielding soldiers from the "I've got the blight from a rat before" association. Watch out!

The cold stars shimmered in the night. Your breath rises from your mouth as you pant, running up the hill. The crunch-crunch-crunch of your snow and the panting of your breath is all you can see or hear in the boreal forest, but you know someone else is out there. There! That sound... like a voice in the night... you stumble and trip. The last thing you hear before the cold snow-knife passes between your ribs is "Yarr..." ... as you fade into blackness, you think: "Ninja snow pirates? WTF?!"

Suddenly, a giant snow-anomoly surfaces off of the starboard bow at two hundred kilometers... oh no... it's SNOW-Q! He returns humanity back hundreds of years to when they only had snow swords.

I smack Pat Rack across the head and show him how swordplay is done -- with snow, and not with wood! En garde!

Silent as a hawk, descending from the sky, Dr. Corbett lands behind LALALA and covertly shoves a snowball down the back of his shirt. HA!

I once again request that you use the report a post feature. It's an excellent little button that will save the forum, you, and the moderation team a whole lot of trouble.

Heh. Cliff racers are HARD to hit sometimes; but others, they're really easy. I shot way off on this cliff racer out in the middle of nowhere and it falls to the ground, dead. Yes, bows DO take a lot of getting used to!

Ummm... go Stephen Harper!

Oh, I agree, faith with questioning is pointless... there's just certain places where it should be done, and not on an internet free-for-all. There's a lot of "safety" in anonymity. For example, were I not a mod, chances are I'd be going at it with several people right now. That's actually what got me into forums on the Internet, some people were trashing Christianity on (of all things) a Chess forum.

I'd call the Patriot Act a powergrab only if it wasn't bipartisanly supported. If it is, and the Democratic party fell for it en masse, then that hardly spells for their intelligence? I'm sure they're all very smart people. Anyway, I'm hoping for a re-election. The Democrats have too much votesplitting to EVER win, and their candidates kind of stink.

Absolutely not! They go by census data, at which point approximately 33% of people on Earth are Christian. Religion #2 is Islam. I think #3 is either Bhuddism or Hinduism. With the other as #4. The next (%6) is none, and then Judaism. Actually, over 50% of Earth's citizens are believers in a religion that descended from Abraham. And, if it's not #1, what is? Certainly not agnosticism!

OOoookayy... Herm. That's a hard one... You see, the origins of the amendment or whatever (I'm a Canadian -- we don't have that amendment!) were simply to avoid such things as the establishment of a church as the official state religion; having it officially run by the state, basically, much like the Anglican Church in England. It was NOT designed to keep everything that remotely looked like it came from religion out of society if it has anything to do with the government. As the vast majority of US citizens are Christians -- indeed, it's the world #1 religion -- I feel that it would be quite undemocratic and contrary to the nature of that amendment to establish agnosticism as the state religion!

A stern warning here: As I've been on many, many, MANY debate forums in my time, I'd like to give a personal warning against religious topics. They always deteriorate into flame wars -- note that I'm not prohibiting these, but I feel that unfortunately since opinions are so strong on topics like that they near always fail and end up with moderations or potential lockings.

OLD SKIN IT IS! The new one, although it has a neat (sort of) new look, hurts my eyes...

:angry: Turn undead is like "demoralize creature," but for Undead. It, tragically, doesn't slay them.

It would have to be when I, sneaky thief I am, murdered that lady with the Redoran vault key. So, I open the vault door, and out runs this ordinator. Oh, crap! I must have been reported and didn't know! So, out runs this ordinator, he clears the vaults, turns around and declares: "Almsivi be with you" or something like that. Needless to say, I walked right on in and stole all the stuff. I guess they were happy I dealt with another noble or something. They didn't even bat an eye as, through a transparent door, I pilfered their Ebony stuff and walked right on out with it. However, one did approach me and say, "Praise Vivec!" They must have been stoned... those Redoran... >:-)

POOF! I think I've been a little bit too wanton with my Diamond smuggling schemes so I can get enough gold to buy myself that handy little "bypass flood control" option. Then, I can make myself have a moddy title. And then I can make Theodarius' post count negative. :-)

:D I can confirm that. I get every moderated message that's sent out, and I have no words for how grateful I am to those that use the report feature -- it makes my job so much easier.

Yo Thomas, lay off. Those that break the rules don't need someone coming in and killing them -- they're always treated poorly and usually end up having to leave anyway.