[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="12" id="3034625"]... Granted, it's not perfect, but I would be really happy to have a keyboard that doesn't trap food crumbs and dust over time.[/quote] And how. The keyboard's not an outdated concept until someone comes up with a better way to lay down text far faster than you could speak it, without resorting to regressive ergonomics like thumbing all your text. Those things are pretty, and look fairly easy to k
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[quote who="Ryat" reply="38828" id="3034513"]banned for redneck pontification[/quote] Banned because you damned well know they ain't no setch thing as redneck papists.
Banned because that nekkid brain could easily be from a genemod dog, and the hardware sensorium could be damned good at tracking.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="7" id="3034029"]Most of them have been eaten. I don't really want to expand on that.[/quote] Yep. The regurgitation/resurrection stuff could get very messy.
[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="38814" id="3034085"]Banned for being fine with Jesus.[/quote] Banned because he capitalized Jesus. And then left Nazi lowercase and capped seig heil while failing to note that the OED is the Oxford English Dictionary. Plus, even knowing about the OED belies any serious attempt to lay grammar nanny charges against anyone. Glorious, madness-fueled project, that dictionary.
Banned for not capitalizing Vulcan. Roman god or fictional alien civilization, either way it's a proper noun.
[quote who="Crono908" reply="38806" id="3034036"]Hey Brain, your banned for not asking what is going down tonight.[/quote] Banned because what I see "going down tonight" is that Off-topic is accessible from Elemental again. Hopefully that's a decision and not a forum coding mistake.
Banned for a more worn-out ban than my pot-kettle prattle.
Banned for flirting with disaster, then.
Banned for courting disaster. That's perverted.
Banned because something's definitely wrong somewhere.
[quote who="Draakjacht" reply="38780" id="3033521"]banned for being predictable. You know this is the third time you've brought it up in recent history?[/quote] Banned for missing the embedded infinite-loop joke. [quote who="Draakjacht" reply="38782" id="3033543"]Banned for I love it for so many reasons. [/quote] Banned again because that's wrong on so many levels that it makes me want to use a trite phrase like "on so many levels."
Banned by the Pot-Kettle Principle.
[quote who="morpheas768" reply="38769" id="3033178"]... *AHEM* [/quote] Doh! Banned for spotting that.
Maybe for GC3 they'll put a little meat on the bones of the government subsystem. Losing your homeworld should end the game for centralized tyrannies, but maybe not for a Star Democracy or Star Federation. An easter egg for blowing up your own capital with a Terror Star, that could be priceless.
Banned because you didn't morpheas' error. There are rankings at GalCiv2. There aren't any at Elemental, and I don't know about JoeUser, Sins, or Demi-god, but I believe the plan going forward is not to have ranks for any of the new game sites in the sprawl.
Banned for clever perversion.
Banned because for several days now the edit box rendered in Opera grows insanely long when I start typing in it. Like need-to-hit-the-end key to get to the Post button long.
Banned because self-censorship is the only good kind of censorship. Oh, the things I shouldn't have said...
Banned for not reining it in.
Banned for ducking.
[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="38682" id="3030741"]Banned for succession.[/quote] Banned because you need to read Excession , or another of the Culture novels. Your theories of power are treating the police and military like they were macro-level and quantum-level physics. The situation is probably closer to Newton's gravity vs. Einstein's gravity.
@scoutdog: Banned because I can't tell whether to worry more about your indifference to abuse of authority or your (rhetorical) disinterest in romance and associated drama stuff. But then I still don't get why you regularly type about the fundamental danger presented by our standing military while you ignore the much more immediate dangers to liberty presented by overreaching and/or corrupt cops, local, state, and federal.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="34" id="3029892"]... Oh, I'm certain you think I'm a moron...but that's fine. ...[/quote] Well, there's another reason to question certainty wherever you encounter it. My general impression of you is that you're a good citizen of the boards and often rather funny. My only guess as to why you might believe that I think you're a moron is that I've made a rather bad impression on you, which is regrettable. </p
[quote who="Jafo" reply="31" id="3029824"]... Mess around with the architecture and you're bound to be inundated with 'junk'[/quote] Beg pardon, but this seems like an exception to my general impression that you're a rather sensible entity. Please explain how the choice to make category-level 'recent' lists use 'ThreadCreated' vs. 'LatestReply' has value in facilitating spam reduction. Doesn't spam-f