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by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: I ran into a few Sojourner's on my WoW server...
Replies: 4
Views: 1555

Oh... I think I posted my WoW home server before, but I guess I can again... I play on Cenarion Circle (oldest of the RP servers, old enough that we ran all the RPers out of town to newer servers...) I play a few characters on that and other servers. Sartania - 70 Human (Working through Karazhan) Ia...
by Iaiken Toransier
Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:01 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: I ran into a few Sojourner's on my WoW server...
Replies: 4
Views: 1555

I ran into a few Sojourner's on my WoW server...

Long time no see... Kung fu, my career and far too many girls have lead me far away from Toril, but it hasn't stopped the world from showing me just how small it is... I ran into a few Sojourners off on my WoW server, Adilmir, Hobbs, Sunny and a few others... Adilmir even wound up joining my raid gu...
by Iaiken Toransier
Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:39 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Pan's Labyrinth
Replies: 10
Views: 3371

I have to admit, Muma is bang on on this one... Pan's Labyrinth was an absolutely amazing movie... This is one of the few movies that I consider as a work of art. If you have never heard of it, it's about a little girl thrown into the midst of the Spanish civil war. She wraps herself in a world crea...
by Iaiken Toransier
Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:30 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Why are People Gone?
Replies: 33
Views: 6932

Kung fu is weak. Go MMA Then we could see you on Spike someday! As I have oh-so-learned-the-hard-way, The style of martial art you practice is irrelevant, what matters is how you practice and apply it. I get to practice San Shou (free sparring) with people from all sorts of backgrounds including MM...
by Iaiken Toransier
Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:41 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Why are People Gone?
Replies: 33
Views: 6932

I don't play here anymore and my reason is time. A lot of young professionals like myself just simply do not have the time to accomplish anything on this game. Between school, kung fu, friends and my job; I stimply don't have the 4-6 hours to go do zones to pick up better gear than what my character...
by Iaiken Toransier
Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Long time no see...
Replies: 3
Views: 861

Long time no see...

I was just finishing up at work and I thought about torilmud... so I thought I would check in to see how things are going for you and post a quick update for any of my old friends that are kicking around. I graduated from comp sci and am now working in my field... I'm on a project team developing a ...
by Iaiken Toransier
Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: WOW Cenarion Circle
Replies: 0
Views: 1190

WOW Cenarion Circle

I was just wondering if there are any other sojounites out there on the cenarion circle server.

Look me up as Iaiken Human paladin or as Fonben Undead Mage

Or post here!
by Iaiken Toransier
Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Your fav. easy-to-make snacks
Replies: 27
Views: 4906

I don't know if anyone else has tried this, but it is one of my favorites. 4 slices of hickory smoked bacon + 2 slices of texas toast + black raspberry jam = yummy 5 minute snack. Another one of my quick favorites is this: Bring some chicken flavour Raman noodle soup to boil. Slowly pour in a beaten...
by Iaiken Toransier
Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Computer Processor Comparisons
Replies: 17
Views: 2718

Hey Silverast, The one thing that I find most people need to understand is that mhz (while important for large batches of number calculations that use the instruction cache) is not really that important for application performance. Please don't take any offence if I write things simply enough so tha...
by Iaiken Toransier
Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Star Wars III - A Lost Hope
Replies: 3
Views: 1338

LOL, I've already seen those,

but I first saw that second one in 1337.

You can see it here: http://nuar.lunarpages.com/video/SW_mirrors.htm

"Level 50 senator LFG" :)
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:54 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Yayaril
Replies: 13
Views: 3049

Yayaril wrote:
Kifle wrote:I hear he breeds ligers in his back yard.


8)

Yeah, they're pretty much my favorite animal.


Is it true that you yourself were bred for your skills in comedy?
by Iaiken Toransier
Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Nokie got hitched!
Replies: 32
Views: 7433

Congratulations Jeff!!!

Does this mean that we'll be hering about little halflings in the future? I always wondered what a nokieling would look like... Can they pick locks from birth? How about pockets?
by Iaiken Toransier
Sun Jan 09, 2005 7:23 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Zone Exp vs Exp Zones
Replies: 19
Views: 4502

My appologies as my message got somewhat muddled (I was ill with a cold now that I re-read my post I got started well, but never finished my points.) Good Concept + Good Execution = Good Game. Why? Because it caters to ALL three "Camps" (outlined in my original post) and all of the people in between...
by Iaiken Toransier
Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:19 am
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Zone Exp vs Exp Zones
Replies: 19
Views: 4502

Zone Exp vs Exp Zones

This post is in reference to an idea that I know has been posted before in the past, but the thought was revisited in this post with regards to achieving level 50: http://www.torilmud.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15027 Crude Elegance: Sometimes I wonder at the elegance of the mud, but that thought is ...
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:16 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Fun and Consequences
Replies: 44
Views: 9231

Thank you. I remember a nasty spank in Avernus. We died a number of times, and were feeling the stress. I'd done what I could to get some bare minimum of things - got a backpack and waterskin at Minthka, made some rations, so our mages could get back spells - and Gormal handed me some stuff, from h...
by Iaiken Toransier
Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Google Site Indexing
Replies: 1
Views: 795

Hey Kwirl, I've been into Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for about a year now, the only suggestion I can provide for the SEO of dynamic pages is to drastically cut down on the time it takes to serve the pages. This is especially true for google; the most important thing you can do is to not bore t...
by Iaiken Toransier
Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Anyone else playing WoW?
Replies: 17
Views: 3741

All that can be said for World of Warcraft...

WOW!

We should get the whole Toril Community on the same server... hehehe

When we get enough Sojournites on that server we'll force them to change the server name to Sojourn server!!! BAHAHAHAHA...

But seriously, WOW rules...
by Iaiken Toransier
Mon Nov 29, 2004 3:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Movie Review continued..
Replies: 50
Views: 7280

Hero (Jet Li) I went to go see it with Jennifer when I flew down to VA. She made fun of it during the movie! I liked it. I tell you, no class. Girl-gamers: You can dress them up, but you can't take them out... Just kidding momma... you're great. Anyway, I thought hero was simply awesome. I would ha...
by Iaiken Toransier
Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:06 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Sexy-ass forum...
Replies: 3
Views: 986

Sexy-ass forum...

Man, that's sexy...
by Iaiken Toransier
Sat Nov 27, 2004 6:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: ask ihazim anything
Replies: 94
Views: 21862

Will that "Where are my civil rights?" thread ever actually matter?
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Where are my civil rights?
Replies: 369
Views: 79378

Ambar wrote:will you guys ever accept the fact you disagree

and shut the f up?

Happy Holidays!


Agreed,

The moral bitchfight between you two was humourous for a very short while, just agree to dissagree, shove some turkey in your mouth and don't talk with your mouth full.

Jeebus Chrysler!
by Iaiken Toransier
Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Video Games!
Replies: 19
Views: 2479

Don't forget the following: Halo 2 Need For Speed: Underground 2 GTA: San Andreas (you can get a dildo as a weapon) Star Wars: BattleFront Paper Mario (I don't care what you say, he's my hero... after Freeman... and Yoshi... and Mog) IT'S A GOLDEN AGE FOR GAMERS!!! (And it's about friggen time) not ...
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Where are my civil rights?
Replies: 369
Views: 79378

It's time for a closing argument. Yeah... Right... The last time this country dictated a forced change upon it's people was when it tried to end segregation and racism. As we can see, while the laws are there, the segregation still exists, plain as can be across city lines and in our public schools...
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:45 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Where are my civil rights?
Replies: 369
Views: 79378

Teflor... Sarvis...Take it outside...
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:52 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Where are my civil rights?
Replies: 369
Views: 79378

As a side note, just found this today. SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - A Saskatchewan court ruling Friday made the Canadian prairie province the country's seventh jurisdiction to allow homosexuals to wed. Justice Donna Wilson sided with courts in five other provinces and one territory, saying existing ma...
by Iaiken Toransier
Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Where are my civil rights?
Replies: 369
Views: 79378

First of all, take your personal squables realize that you have no deliberatory power whatsoever and neither of you will ever convince the other of your point of view. GIVE IT UP!!! Marriage as an institution is not harmed by being defined as a religeous institution between a man and a woman. Most r...
by Iaiken Toransier
Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:49 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Spirits, Ales, Mixers, and Beer
Replies: 29
Views: 5338

For me I have a lot of favorites, but here are the top ones: 1. Bloody Ceasar: 2 oz vodka, 8oz Clamato, 2 dash Tobasco over ice in a glass rimmed with celery salt and pepper. 2. White Russian, for when you are tired and need caffine to party. 3. Hoegaarden, a beautiful belgian blonde. 4. Bellini, it...
by Iaiken Toransier
Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:17 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Canada, who's goin' with me?!
Replies: 120
Views: 18380

30k is pretty good for Canada, where there are no jobs and mass unemployement (one of the major employeers there is Ford). You know, the country that's better for Kifle than America. I don't wanna know what buttf***idaho parts of Canada you visited, but I live in an area where the AVERAGE income is...
by Iaiken Toransier
Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:48 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Canada, who's goin' with me?!
Replies: 120
Views: 18380

Kifle wrote:You may be intelligent, you may be well informed, but you lack empathy.


Get used to it, most people are like that, someday you'll probably be selfish and jaded like just about everyone, but I hope not.
by Iaiken Toransier
Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:37 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Canada, who's goin' with me?!
Replies: 120
Views: 18380

You poor bastards... *sigh* No matter who won people on the other side were bound to be dissapointed, there's no use in complaining about it after the fact anyhow. For those of you who question government regulation of corporations, auto insurance companies in north america posted a profit of 627% o...
by Iaiken Toransier
Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: AMD64 Notebooks
Replies: 14
Views: 2030

PCI-X is server technology if I remember correctly. PCI-e are the new pci bus slots that work with the new graphics cards...Also, if you're going to fork over the cash to get an FX-55 and nForce4 MB, why not just get 2 Ultra's and not the GT's? Yeah, I typo'd... I just kinda wrote that on the fly a...
by Iaiken Toransier
Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:41 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: AMD64 Notebooks
Replies: 14
Views: 2030

A friend of mine and I got to toy with an NForce4 SLI reference board and an FX-55... We paired it up with two Asus PCIX 6800GT's... (It's all we had available) Amazingly, when running the motherboard in SLI mode with both cards, we experienced an 80-85% increase in framerates. It was sick Sick SICK...
by Iaiken Toransier
Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: What's Toril like for you now?
Replies: 56
Views: 30904

This more or less hits the nail on the head with regard to difficulties I have had over the past couple of years communicating my zoning goals vs. most peoples' goals. I suppose what gets me is that people who have played here much more often than myself find themselves stuck on the idea of "beatin...
by Iaiken Toransier
Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: What's Toril like for you now?
Replies: 56
Views: 30904

My prediction is that eventually toril will cease being a game in the broad sense of the term, and become mostly a chat system where old friends can congregate from time to time. It will retain its zones, and they will even be done from time to time. However, gameplay will be an afterthought. I sus...
by Iaiken Toransier
Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:16 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: What's Toril like for you now?
Replies: 56
Views: 30904

I've been mudding for about 8 years (minus any long term downtime the mud experienced). I haven't done all of the old zones, I have only done one of the new zones. The zones may change and get updated, but how the game is played has stayed the same... You grind and grind to level 40 or so, then you ...
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK CHEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!!!!
Replies: 24
Views: 3484

I've given up trying to convince some folks of their idealistic nonsense. All politicians by their very nature are liars, so when you say Cheney lied about this, then I would just say Kerry lied about that. A good example is Kerry's terrible conduct in Vietnam and the lies he told to get 2 of his 3...
by Iaiken Toransier
Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK CHEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!!!!
Replies: 24
Views: 3484

You're from Quebec aren't you? That would make you 50% French, and thus 100% *pfft* Sorry goatlover, I'm an Ontarian through and through... I speak French, but only because they made me take it in highschool. Either way, it has no real bearing on the relavance of the material. And hey, don't you fi...
by Iaiken Toransier
Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK CHEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!!!!
Replies: 24
Views: 3484

Re: DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK CHEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!!!!

What's the fuggin_deal with the selective_capitalization and misspelled_words? It's like you're not even fuggin_trying! I'm so_fuggin_lost :( Gimme a fuggin_break, it was 11pm (i never changed my timezone in my profile) and I had just gotten back from kung fu class... I was exhausted and I wanted t...
by Iaiken Toransier
Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK CHEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!!!!
Replies: 24
Views: 3484

I fear I've scared Corth and Rylan off... I wouldn't give yourself THAT much credit... Any idea where I could find that picture you spoke of? It would be an interesting thing to post at the next Farl political thread... heh. I've been all over the internet and the CBC archives and the official stor...
by Iaiken Toransier
Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:00 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK CHEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!!!!
Replies: 24
Views: 3484

DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK CHEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!!!!

If you're an American and you want to vote, read this. http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/dickcheney/ It is an unnofficial biography of Dick Cheny. It is very concise, easy to read and shows his career as a cheat and a liar (aka polititian). God I love the CBC, last time they showed something like this about C...
by Iaiken Toransier
Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: laptops
Replies: 11
Views: 2353

Re: laptops

I need something cheap, but good and reliable. Also graphic intensive, for things such as photoshop, ifpossible. Most expensive I could manage would probably be about $1500, but I was thinking more around the $1000 range. If you're using it for graphics work, don't go with a laptop. The limited res...
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Assault Weapon Ban
Replies: 82
Views: 20156

Would someone like to argue the point I made about guns being necessary for the survival of free government? Not necessarily in the hands of the nations civilians, guns are only a neccessity for law enforcement and military application. Today, even hunting in North America is almost solely a passed...
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Alien Vs Predator Review Thread
Replies: 13
Views: 3655

Re: Alien Vs Predator Review Thread

chandigar wrote:(not quite as bad as a rocket hitting their helicopter and just happening to take out the 3 extraneous characters at the last minute at the end of Escape from LA)


You think that was bad? This is just scary.

http://www.chandigarhcity.com/index.htm

ewwwwwww...
by Iaiken Toransier
Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:54 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Loot Triggers and Ninja's
Replies: 22
Views: 4501

I have always used triggers aliases and classes to ninja coins, but at least my triggers are relatively competent. First, I have triggers that know when I am, or any of my group members are, in combat and a list of who we are fighting. They automatically enable/disable my specific combat triggers ba...
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:56 pm
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: Melee Balance idea.
Replies: 33
Views: 6051

On a related note, the 3rd edition rules for rogue sneak attack have the extra damage it deals depend solely on the level of the rogue, having every two levels add an extra d6 to the total, instead of having it just be a multiplier like a thief's backstab did 2nd edition. I love the way 3E sneak at...
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Aug 26, 2004 5:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Buying medals...
Replies: 28
Views: 6210

Re: why why why

Why do you care so much about india? It was just an example... seeing it was that or the other most populous nation, china and the chinese are 2nd in the medals... India, Pakistan, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, England and many other nations love playing/watching cricket... so why isn't ...
by Iaiken Toransier
Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:55 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Being Human
Replies: 18
Views: 3941

I have seen human characters of every class in my day and a lot of them were awesome at what they did simply because they were good players and that can make race/class combo matter a hell of a lot less. I mean give me a break, players zone naked or even in joke or theme eq that is almost useless. I...
by Iaiken Toransier
Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: How to get shit done without beating up animals.
Replies: 16
Views: 2159

Congratz on the notion of furthering yourself... School is not only worth it for the education, but for the high levels of newtworking you can do in your respective field. I don't know how tech jobs are in the states, but it seems to me that to be marketable you have to be extremely versatile. Just ...
by Iaiken Toransier
Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Buying medals...
Replies: 28
Views: 6210

Also, you have to think, maybe the population of India on average doesn't give a damn about the olympics? As hyped up as the US and these other countries are about sports and atheletes and all that, it's no surprise they spend so much time, energy, and money to win gold. Have you ever seen cricket ...
by Iaiken Toransier
Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Buying medals...
Replies: 28
Views: 6210

Re: heh, Ev.

I am not a socialist like you, Evan. I believe in survival of the fittest. It only makes the most sense after all. First off, I'm a democrat, but there is nothing wrong with being a socialist... Second, I am definitly an advocate for the reinstitution of natural selection... Thanks for coming out. :P

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