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mensrea
Canada5062 Posts
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Tien
Russian Federation4447 Posts
On September 06 2004 16:53 Arbiter[frolix] wrote: Wow, what a question! Catch 22, Joseph Heller's amazing satire on the murderous insanity of war, stands out in my mind as the best work of fiction I have read. Reading that book made me understand what literary genius really is. Darkly comic, as black as the night but utterly hilarious. Actually, one of my favourite literary anecdotes comes from an interview with Joseph Heller, when he was asked why he had never written another book as good as Catch 22, he gazed stoically at the interviewer and replied calmly: "Well, who has?" The two best moments of the book was when Yossarian was imitating the insane patient thinking he was a genius at faking his illness, and basically any passage with Orr. | ||
OneOther
United States10774 Posts
On September 05 2004 10:08 [pG]Rekrul wrote: 1. That Se7en song called Passion or something in english that they play in clubs is really good I think. Oh and MC Sniper - BK Love haha 2. 3 way tie Nal_rA Reach iloveoov O dude Seven Passion is just like but there is a rumor that he copied Usher-Yeah. It sure does sound like it. BK-Love was from a love story movie right? hehe | ||
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bigMommA
1985 Posts
On September 06 2004 16:53 Arbiter[frolix] wrote: Wow, what a question! Catch 22, Joseph Heller's amazing satire on the murderous insanity of war, stands out in my mind as the best work of fiction I have read. Reading that book made me understand what literary genius really is. Darkly comic, as black as the night but utterly hilarious. Actually, one of my favourite literary anecdotes comes from an interview with Joseph Heller, when he was asked why he had never written another book as good as Catch 22, he gazed stoically at the interviewer and replied calmly: "Well, who has?" sounds interesting frolix. i think i'll check it out too. i aslo saw the title painted all over a Barnes that's in my town. | ||
Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
On September 06 2004 15:01 Frits wrote: Meat: Does tl.net cost a lot of money? How much do you receive in donations? Rek/Leg: Will you guys ever post some nice practice games on maps that aren't played anymore, or other fun games like the zvz on parralel lines u described? Rek: How do you feel about wcg usa, what will you think happen and who will finish in what places according to you? If any of those will be answered i'd already be more then happy. i used to do microwar bets vs gundam a lost in the past, loser has to buy icecream for everyone (5$) cause we are manner, i lost once outa 4 vs him we played a 3 way zvzvz ffa the other day, faggot leg won to bs wcg usa has a lot of "unknown" players this year as far as tournaments go. i feel like if i get in a different half bracket than froz i will get top 3 100%, and if I don't i will get top 3 90% assem isn't going to WCG USA this year, neither is hovz (well he's going to kick the shit out of abusers/hackers in the online ladder thats it) | ||
Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
On September 06 2004 16:42 Payt1 wrote: Klogon: How fluently do you speak Korean? I'm not sure exactly how to answer that. I read very slowly as I don't read as much as I hear and speak the language... I don't know a lot of slang or many complex words as the only Korean words ever spoken around me are the everyday ones... so like a vocab of a 2nd grader. And yeah, I always try to say sentences that I don't know exactly how to say in Korean when I meet new people (to get a real conversation going besides the normal family talk...you know?) and always screw up making me look like an idiot. Also, because of my grandma's, I use something called "sa-too-lee" which is basically a deep southern dialact of Korean. I use it without knowing it, too... because that's how I learned the words, and I just assume that's the correct way... until the fobs all laugh at me. Oh well, it's cool. My Korean goes in this order: Listening > Speaking > Reading > Writing. My writing is horrid... but you can see how I am logically in that order in how good in Korean I am... I hear it all the time, and I have to respond to those Koreans so I speak it a lot, and then I read it every now and then, but I rarely ever have to write it. I hope that answers it. :D | ||
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Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
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dronebabo
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Klogon
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OhThatDang
United States4685 Posts
beyonder: whats your next dress up gonna be? and rekrul: did you start out zerg when you made rekrul and became toss or something | ||
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Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
On September 06 2004 23:51 Dangster wrote: klogan: when you become a ghost will you haunt me? and got anymore ghost stories? No, if I ever become a ghost, I won't haunt people. Instead, I'll be just like Casper, a friendly ghost. :D It might be fun to randomly stack your dishes, turn your tv on randomly, and move around your furniture, though. :D I think I already told all my good ghost stories... they are amazing good in certain situations to share. You get all these chills down your spine the whole night. :D | ||
Legionnaire
Australia4514 Posts
On September 06 2004 14:36 1024MB wrote: Legionnaire: If you had to pick one most exciting match that you've played, which would it be? I'll give you 3, - #1 online practice First practice game i ever played vs Nal_ra. He was practicing for his OGN final match? vs Zeus. He was ahead for a while, then i owned up one battle, then he clawed back with some genius spending/harass/attacks. In the end i lost the deciding battle because i hadn't spent my 1.5k gas to get archons like he had. One of the closest, back and foward matches i've had. We played 5 games and i won 1, and 2 others should have been mine, but he was better then me at the time (showed me a few critical areas i had to improve on) And his builds on guillotine were great(we played 4 on guill and 1 on nostal), Nal_Ra is the only guy who i've played who has impressed me. #2 TV game vs Ogogo on sauron for the tv game match POS vs Toona. Wont say any more about this do a search for KPGA Team League post by Liquid`Meat (waxangel wrote it) if you want to read it. #3 Competition game but not televised. The gameTV rivival 41 new progamers to top 16 selection process. I was playing ccoma, first game i fucked up on LT i was so far ahead (made him cancel his 3rd hatch at his multi 2 times or so, and i just let him get some lurkers into my base because i was stupid). 2nd game was rape on nostalgia he went 4 hatch hydra i had gone +1 speed zeals, changed to canons at my ramp to multi, was pretty one sided. This of course all led to the final deciding match, winner goes through to the top 16 losers goes home with nothing. Luna, i was top left he was top right, i went 2 gate he hatched at ramp then to exp, his olord was in my base but lookign at my buildings not my ramp, my probe in his, i ran my 3 zeals out, and i saw him pump a drone after his 6 lings, i ran until i thought he would be getting close then ran downwards (the behind lag vision that happens with units saw the zergligs pass by) so i hid my zeals just outside of his vision (as his zerglings ran to my base) and then ran up into his base. At this stage my heart was beating so damn fast (you know when you do something risky or something that could give you great rewards? and the adrenaline kicks in - i've only had that on one other game in korea when i was doing an awesome ling proof offcanon on hotforever on ETD map) Anyway i ended up killing just under half of his drones, and the game was pretty much decided then and there. Just after i lost those 3 zeals, i stopped playing and put my hand over my heart just to feel my heart beating as it was a little shocking, such a good feeling. | ||
Manifesto7
Osaka27156 Posts
On September 06 2004 16:53 Arbiter[frolix] wrote: Wow, what a question! Catch 22, Joseph Heller's amazing satire on the murderous insanity of war, stands out in my mind as the best work of fiction I have read. Reading that book made me understand what literary genius really is. Darkly comic, as black as the night but utterly hilarious. Actually, one of my favourite literary anecdotes comes from an interview with Joseph Heller, when he was asked why he had never written another book as good as Catch 22, he gazed stoically at the interviewer and replied calmly: "Well, who has?" If that subject is something that interests people, I would suggest both: "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo. ... and "The Road Back" by Erich Maria Remarque. neither of these are as humerous, but they are both great looks into the mind and dealings of those most affective by war. The Road Back is actually the sequal to All Quiet on the Western Front, but deals with Remarques experiences in returning to Germany with the rise of the young and embittered as a force, as well as the distrust and agony that returning troops were forced through. Trumbo's book is a brutal critisism of war from what I could only call a militant pacifist. It is harsh, but a worth read. Give it a shot  | ||
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Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
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baal
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Beyonder
Netherlands15103 Posts
On September 06 2004 23:51 Dangster wrote: beyonder: whats your next dress up gonna be? Somewhere along the lines of 5 december, probably really late in November. I'll be a 'zwarte piet'. My best friend asked me to do it, so I'll do her a favor. Somehow I always end up in a costume when a girl asks me.....  The 'festival' is called "Sinterklaas", it's sort of like Santa Clause yet the Dutch version. It's an old dude in a beard, his helpers are black fuckers who drop down chimneys (sp?) and give kids presents! It's very fun until you find out it's not real. T_T ![[image loading]](http://rotterdam.scouting.nl/ctg14/Foto's/Welpen/Sint%20'03/Zwarte%20Piet.JPG) | ||
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eStoniaNBoY
Switzerland439 Posts
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Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
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Ack1027
United States7873 Posts
On September 07 2004 00:00 Legionnaire wrote: Nal_Ra is the only guy who i've played who has impressed me. What about Boxer  Edit: This thread owns. Edit: LMFAO @ KLOGON'S KOREAN, AHAHAHAHAHA SAH TOOL EE | ||
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1024MB
United States1455 Posts
On September 07 2004 00:00 Legionnaire wrote: I'll give you 3, - #1 online practice First practice game i ever played vs Nal_ra. He was practicing for his OGN final match? vs Zeus. He was ahead for a while, then i owned up one battle, then he clawed back with some genius spending/harass/attacks. In the end i lost the deciding battle because i hadn't spent my 1.5k gas to get archons like he had. One of the closest, back and foward matches i've had. We played 5 games and i won 1, and 2 others should have been mine, but he was better then me at the time (showed me a few critical areas i had to improve on) And his builds on guillotine were great(we played 4 on guill and 1 on nostal), Nal_Ra is the only guy who i've played who has impressed me. #2 TV game vs Ogogo on sauron for the tv game match POS vs Toona. Wont say any more about this do a search for KPGA Team League post by Liquid`Meat (waxangel wrote it) if you want to read it. #3 Competition game but not televised. The gameTV rivival 41 new progamers to top 16 selection process. I was playing ccoma, first game i fucked up on LT i was so far ahead (made him cancel his 3rd hatch at his multi 2 times or so, and i just let him get some lurkers into my base because i was stupid). 2nd game was rape on nostalgia he went 4 hatch hydra i had gone +1 speed zeals, changed to canons at my ramp to multi, was pretty one sided. This of course all led to the final deciding match, winner goes through to the top 16 losers goes home with nothing. Luna, i was top left he was top right, i went 2 gate he hatched at ramp then to exp, his olord was in my base but lookign at my buildings not my ramp, my probe in his, i ran my 3 zeals out, and i saw him pump a drone after his 6 lings, i ran until i thought he would be getting close then ran downwards (the behind lag vision that happens with units saw the zergligs pass by) so i hid my zeals just outside of his vision (as his zerglings ran to my base) and then ran up into his base. At this stage my heart was beating so damn fast (you know when you do something risky or something that could give you great rewards? and the adrenaline kicks in - i've only had that on one other game in korea when i was doing an awesome ling proof offcanon on hotforever on ETD map) Anyway i ended up killing just under half of his drones, and the game was pretty much decided then and there. Just after i lost those 3 zeals, i stopped playing and put my hand over my heart just to feel my heart beating as it was a little shocking, such a good feeling. Wow. Thanks for the nice answer! The matches sound like they were interesting. I'll search on here for the KPGA Team League one. | ||
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