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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-12-2008 06:31 PM

quote: James Westbrook
According to the late Mr Carlin, if I recall this correctly, FBI, CIA, KGB are not acronyms. They are dicks.

I don't remember ever hearing Carlin say this but it sounds like him. Funny! [thumbsup]

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Mark J. Marshall
Film God

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From: New Castle, DE, USA
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posted 12-12-2008 08:02 PM

I'm sorry, I disagree. The title does say exactly what the subject of the thread is. I'm sorry you guys don't know what a MUD is, but millions of people do. They've been around for almost two decades.

Ask yourself a question... did you read the title and for some reason NOT understand that this thread was about playing MUDs? Or was it that you just didn't know what a MUD is? I see threads referencing things in the subject that I don't know what they are. That's not the definition of a teaser subject. I did absolutely nothing to obscure the content of this thread in the subject. And this is the Yak forum, which is where we can talk about anything at all regardless of how many people know what it is.

If Brad disagrees, I'm sure he will lock or delete this thread. But then, he didn't delete this thread, so we'll see.

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James Westbrook
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa
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posted 12-12-2008 08:20 PM

That was something George Carlin wrote in one of his books.
And if this thread is deem worthy to remain, I'm good with the decision.
And yes, I was curious what MUD was in reference to when I clicked on.
No harm.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
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posted 12-12-2008 09:19 PM

Mark - I think the problem is with the word "play" in the thread title. If you use "play" in any sentence read by a bunch of film people, they might think you are talking about playing some kind of film or trailer or something. That's what I thought at first. I clicked on the thread to find out what a MUD was and it took waaaaay too long to find out. If you had said "Anyone still play MUD games?" there would have been no confusion. I can see why simply "MUDs" is an acceptable term to the gamer crowd but not everyone here is in that crowd.

But I don't care if the thread stays either. Now that I know what it's about!

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Mike Olpin
Chop Chop!

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From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 12-12-2008 09:50 PM

I've added "games" to the end of the topic, not only to clarify, but also to end this silly argument. Mark takes 20 damage for casting the Post Topic spell improperly, accidentally creating Foggy Mist instead. Anslem, Benny, & James receive 5 health points for being on topic; Monte receives 5, but then looses them for confusing Rachel. Tony and Mike got lost in Mark's Foggy Mist gone awry, and receive nothing. Now, who rolls next?

Seriously though, future posts need to be on topic.

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Kurt Zupin
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Maricopa, Arizona
Registered: Oct 2004

posted 12-12-2008 10:15 PM

Monte are you talking about "Age of Empires"?

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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
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posted 12-13-2008 12:29 AM

...something I could play for hours if I had the time...Microsoft had a good game going there..

Haven't decided if I want to get involved with "WoW" though - almost looks like "FA-X" or any of the earlier "FA" series.. Only biggie about doing "WoW" is the online playing and the monthly subscriptions.

Now, "Diablo" wasn't too bad...and adding the classic "Doom" games in this as well.,

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Kurt Zupin
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From: Maricopa, Arizona
Registered: Oct 2004

posted 12-13-2008 05:54 AM

AOE was a great series, AOE Age of Kings was great as well as the Gold pack about Rome!! Word on the street is they are working on AOE 4. Sometime next year

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Mark J. Marshall
Film God

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From: New Castle, DE, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 12-13-2008 09:01 AM

Anyone played Star Wars Hyperspace? I tried it a while ago when it first came out and I don't know if it was buggy or overwhelmed or both or what. It was also my first try at the graphical massive multi-player stuff. I gave up on it after a short while, and haven't played it since.

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Tom Doyle
Expert Film Handler

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From: Bristol, CT, USA
Registered: Nov 2002

posted 12-29-2008 01:33 AM

When I was an undergrad I got an account on my school's dusty ol' mainframe and discovered MUDs. I remember playing one based on the 'Discworld' novels by Terry Pratchett. A quick search reveals that it's apparently still up and running, and can now be played through a web browser:

http://discworld.atuin.net/lpc/

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