Signature discussion II

[Erik Mesoy]

If e.g. global wierding spirals out of control and the planet goes into a million-year ice age with an average temperature of -40, or we overheat to end up like Mars, evolution would result in new life forms adapated to the new conditions, but they wouldn't necessarily be descendants of humans. Evolution wouldn't necessarily solve things by improving us.

The free market "solves" things in a similar fashion, ie. not at all if you're looking for an anthropocentric rather than an equation-maximizing solution.

Or, viewing it another way, (and this way is odd in a way similar to the way that naturalism is a fallacy), the free market is always functioning and always in effect and always solves everything by definition. This view is to regard e.g. government regulation as a direct product of consumer desire, on the grounds that if consumers/corporations didn't like the government regulation, they'd move and pay taxes to another government. Hence, when the government imposes even the most ludicrous form of regulation on the market, it's a triumph for the free market!

I don't know whether Bill3000, half-troll that he is, is being serious or parodic in his signature. Mine works either way.

 

[Abaddon]

Thefted! but cool me thinks

 

[Love]

Pretty cool ab

 

[Abaddon]

I miss OT.. mgiht start coming again..

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Why did you leave in the first place?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Why did you leave in the first place?

I truly hope the answer to that does not relate to his sig in any way ...

 

[Mise]

I can't decide what to put in my sig

Okay, decided, but I don't think it will last long...

 

[Ansar]

Why not, Mise?

 

[Mise]

Well I get bored of quotes quite quickly . Though I have to admit this one's just crazy enough that it'll keep me entertained for a while.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Just don't pay attention to your sig and it will become an integral part of you. Like mine, I had that Mitch Hedberg-quote in my first sig.

 

[Mise]

I don't normally pay attention to my own sig. It's just that I want a really cool sig, one that will make people forgive the crapness of my post.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

And the second line in my sig has been with me since, I think, the day I registered (although I changed the formatting a little); and I still make reference to it.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Why not just open a new user account "Debbie of Arcadia" then?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I actually secretly want to be Elfstar, still.

(Have you followed the link?)

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Of course I have followed the link Debs. Tragic about your friend, but if you fail your saving throw vs. suicide you are knackered.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Of course, the jerk GM didn't let her character make a saving throw vs. the trap . . .

And would that be a will throw, you think? Does it depend on the type of suicide employed?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I'm too old for this new fangled save vs. will nonsense. We had petrification/polymorph, poison, spells, rods/staves/wands and something else I can't remember (probably spoons) back in the 80s.

EDIT: I remember now, bad breath was the other saving throw category.

I do remember putting on a cloak of poisonousnessness meant you didn't get a saving throw, you died straight away.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Ahh . . . well, why would you do a silly thing like that?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

What, commit suicide or put on a cloak of poisonousnessness? The cloak looked like a normal cloak but did radiate magic so it was just a way to kill off characters for an unfair reason I guess, as a sort of fable that like life, D&D wasn't fair.

Hanging yourself I can't comment on. I used to be the DM anyway so I didn't get upset when my goblins got slaughtered.

EDIT: All my mates comitted suicide after a particularly bad adventure through the caverns of zogzookington though. I guess I shouldn't have given them loaded dice.

 

[Abaddon]

Why did you leave in the first place?

Bored - after being he for so many years, no topic is new to you

I truly hope the answer to that does not relate to his sig in any way ...

Sadly not, i save that for NES.