From owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Sun Apr 16 18:14:43 2000 Return-Path: Received: from lists.io.com (majordom@lists.io.com [199.170.88.15]) by pyramid.sjgames.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA30270 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:14:42 -0500 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lists.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.1a) id SAA13189 for in_nomine-digest-outgoing; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:13:22 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:13:22 -0500 Message-Id: <200004162313.SAA13189@lists.io.com> From: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com (in_nomine-digest) To: in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Subject: in_nomine-digest V1 #1584 Reply-To: in_nomine-l@lists.io.com Sender: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Errors-To: owner-in_nomine-digest@lists.io.com Precedence: bulk in_nomine-digest Sunday, April 16 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1584 In this digest: Re: IN> Christian writers applicable to IN Re: IN> Christian writers applicable to IN RE: IN> IN: Atomic bombs and Forces Re: IN> IN: Atomic bombs and Forces IN> The look and feel of the Ofanite, with a good backbeat... Re: IN> The look and feel of the Ofanite, with a good backbeat... Re: IN> The look and feel of the Ofanite, with a good backbeat... Re: IN> The look and feel of the Ofanite, with a good backbeat... IN> Actually... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:40:59 -0500 (EST) From: Neel Krishnaswami Subject: Re: IN> Christian writers applicable to IN Genevieve Cogman wrote: > > In a more fantastical vein, the books of Katherine Kurtz (the Deryni and > Adept series), whatever their other merits or flaws, have a perfect sorcery > system for Laurencian or Christian-ethos-based or angelic-taught sorcerers. > Plenty of invocations of Archangelic names, readings from the bible... I always liked the explanation in R.A. MacAvoy's _Damiano_ as to why sorcerers tended to summon demons rather than angels; demons were just more convenient. If you summoned a demon and asked it to make you a great violinist, it might give you a magic violin or something. If you summoned an angel and asked it the same thing, it would lock you up in your room and force you to practice. :) - -- Neel Krishnaswami neelk@alum.mit.edu ------------------------------ Date: 16 Apr 2000 04:33:52 -0000 From: "-=|horsefly|=-" Subject: Re: IN> Christian writers applicable to IN On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:03:21 -0500 David Edelstein wrote: [in response to my comments] heh, Peretti isn't nearly so heavy handed, nor does it seem like salvation is available to so narrow a focus-group. probably why it was never such a best-seller... his two books i mentioned are also about five or six years old. -=|horsefly|=- "It was a different time: a time of blood and guns and killings.... It was a time when killers needed saints, for so much of God's good work was being done." --SAINT OF KILLERS #4, Garth Ennis ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:51:20 +0100 From: "Adam Benedict Canning" Subject: RE: IN> IN: Atomic bombs and Forces > From: owner-in_nomine-l@lists.io.com > [mailto:owner-in_nomine-l@lists.io.com]On Behalf Of Robert > Veneman-Hughes > Sent: 08 April 2000 05:17 > > So, somewhere in the city of Chicago > > (I think) > > there's a 3 foot circle of nuclear glass that's highly > > radioactive, right? > Imagine a Samingan suicide-bomber with CorpShields and a nuke, > detonating it > in such a fashion as to contaminate the fishing industry off Cape > Cod or the > ground water round D.C... No one will know to evacuate or stop > fishing until > people start dying of radiation poisoning, and by then it will be too > late... Simpler just to detonate the bomb and take out many square miles of fish from the blast wave. Like fishing with dynamite on a big scale. Alternitively if you don't like the disturbance that would cause then pouring soluble radio nucleides into the see is more cost efficent. Easier to get hold of too. Just look at what keeps happening at Sellafield. What you really want is a soluble form of plutonium in an aerosol dispenser. Plutonium is chemically highly toxic as well as radioactive. Adam ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:19:16 -0500 From: David Edelstein Subject: Re: IN> IN: Atomic bombs and Forces Adam Benedict Canning wrote: > Alternitively if you don't like the disturbance that would cause then > pouring> soluble radio nucleides into the see is more cost efficent. But if a demon dumped it in there, then everything that dies as a result (including the fish) will cause a disturbance, likely alerting Heaven. - -David ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:50:34 -0400 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: IN> The look and feel of the Ofanite, with a good backbeat... (No, this isn't another "music and IN thread." I swear.) I just got "Crazy Taxi" for the Sega Dreamcast. This game might as well be called "Ofanim of Trade" and be done with it. You're a taxi driver. You pick up fares. They tell you where they want to go. Instantly, a giant glowing arrow appears over your head, pointing out the fastest route. Said fastest route isn't necessarily on the road, or on the right way of one way streets. You plow through barricades, you ride up stairways, you spin all around the city causing havoc and - -- most importantly -- getting your fares to their locations faster than anyone could ever dream. If you want the Ofanite experience, try this game out. - -- Eric Alfred Burns It was then I felt my heart break like a in-sabre@annotations.com fragile Scooby Snack upon the harsh teeth of http://www.annotations.com Reality -- and it's been broken ever since. http://www.annotations.com/~journal --Johnny Bravo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:32:20 -0700 From: Ryan Elias Subject: Re: IN> The look and feel of the Ofanite, with a good backbeat... Ah, but not only are you an Ofanite, you're an Ofanite with the Corporeal Song of Shields. No smashing up fenders for this little taxi. And the pedicab version is fun too. -Ryan, who likes the fares who ask to be picked up or dropped off on top of buildings ^_^ Whistling in the Dark wrote: > If you want the Ofanite experience, try this game out. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:40:35 -0500 From: David Edelstein Subject: Re: IN> The look and feel of the Ofanite, with a good backbeat... Whistling in the Dark wrote: > If you want the Ofanite experience, try this game out. Stop it, stop it, STOP IT! Do you realize how long I've managed to avoid being sucked into computer games? I spend hours a day at a computer on non-work-or-school related stuff as it is, but I haven't owned ANY computer games since my 286 days, nor do I own a Nintendo or Sega or anything of that ilk. Because I know they'd just become great big sucking black holes, drawing all my remaining free time into a bottomless abyss, and making my wife even more upset than she is at my twice-a-month FTF gaming habit. Between this and your journal, though, I keep finding myself pausing longingly in the computer gaming and electronics aisles.... - -David (I *used* to play computer games. They're worse than crack, I tell you!) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:54:46 -0400 From: Whistling in the Dark Subject: Re: IN> The look and feel of the Ofanite, with a good backbeat... At 3:40 PM -0500 4/16/00, David Edelstein wrote: >Whistling in the Dark wrote: > >Between this and your journal, though, I keep finding myself pausing >longingly in the computer gaming and electronics aisles.... The ways of Gluttony *can* be subtle, friend. If you keep walking down those aisles, you'll even find *free* demos of the games. You could try them -- *see* if you like them.... >-David (I *used* to play computer games. They're worse than crack, I >tell you!) Heh heh heh heh... (What, I can't freelance for Gluttony?) - -- Eric Alfred Burns It was then I felt my heart break like a in-sabre@annotations.com fragile Scooby Snack upon the harsh teeth of http://www.annotations.com Reality -- and it's been broken ever since. http://www.annotations.com/~journal --Johnny Bravo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:46:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rev. Pee Kitty" Subject: IN> Actually... Now that I picked up an actual physical copy of Superiors II... I've got to rescind my original artwork praise. Andre looks great, but Nybbas looks bad. Poorly drawn, two-dimensional, goofy looking. The JPG was better. :) The book itself, however, MORE than makes up for that minor complaint, especially the section on Nybbas. I always had a hard time getting my head wrapped around him, and now I feel like I could even run a Media campaign! - -- Rev. Pee Kitty, of the order Malkavian-Dobbsian Meow! "When nothing's funny, it gets easy to laugh at the drop of a hat - or a bomb." -- Devo ------------------------------ End of in_nomine-digest V1 #1584 ******************************** The material here is (C) 2000 Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated. All rights reserved.