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Ricochet

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:20

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^ Hey Rico! I bought Ricochet the other day!

I noticed.

Do you want your money back?

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:21

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I can't keep up with that thread. I get to the last page and half of the next one is already filled. LOL

I've decided that I'm going to state my opinion in threads and not argue with people who disagree.

I was awake until 2am simply because my daughter was and I likely wasn't going to be able to sleep anyway.

I made the mistake of going in there to correct someone who was misunderstanding something (and drawing an argument from it)...and well, that was kind of a waste of time.

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:21

Ricochet wrote:

The Quiet One wrote:

^ Hey Rico! I bought Ricochet the other day!

I noticed.

Do you want your money back?

No, just thought you might be interested or curious or something

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:23

Epignosis wrote:

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I can't keep up with that thread. I get to the last page and half of the next one is already filled. LOL

I've decided that I'm going to state my opinion in threads and not argue with people who disagree.

Did anyone read the argument I was having with someone in the Gilmour vs. Waters thread? Did anyone notice how I quit replying? Same thing in the evolution vs creation thread.

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:24

A Person wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

A Person wrote:

I can't keep up with that thread. I get to the last page and half of the next one is already filled. LOL

I've decided that I'm going to state my opinion in threads and not argue with people who disagree.

I was awake until 2am simply because my daughter was and I likely wasn't going to be able to sleep anyway.I made the mistake of going in there to correct someone who was misunderstanding something (and drawing an argument from it)...and well, that was kind of a waste of time.

Did anyone read the argument I was having with someone in the Gilmour vs. Waters thread? Did anyone notice how I quit replying? Same thing in the evolution vs creation thread.

I did actually!

I just thought you forgot to post again though...

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:25

The Quiet One wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

The Quiet One wrote:

^ Hey Rico! I bought Ricochet the other day!

I noticed.

Do you want your money back?

No, just thought you might be interested or curious or something

Now you have to tell me what you thought of it.

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:26

progkidjoel wrote:

A Person wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

A Person wrote:

I can't keep up with that thread. I get to the last page and half of the next one is already filled. LOL

I've decided that I'm going to state my opinion in threads and not argue with people who disagree.

I was awake until 2am simply because my daughter was and I likely wasn't going to be able to sleep anyway.I made the mistake of going in there to correct someone who was misunderstanding something (and drawing an argument from it)...and well, that was kind of a waste of time.

Did anyone read the argument I was having with someone in the Gilmour vs. Waters thread? Did anyone notice how I quit replying? Same thing in the evolution vs creation thread.

I did actually!

I just thought you forgot to post again though...

No, the "conversation" wasn't going anywhere and degraded into what was essentially name-calling.

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:27

Ah, Pablo. Has one perchance read We?

I suspect that's your announcement. Am I correct?

If so, what were your thoughts on it?

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:28

Given the OP and the subjects, I knew from early on that such threads will overheat. I'm not speaking from a debater's point of view, but from a reader's.

and threads designed to make statistics turning into debates from the first lighted match yay

Edited by Ricochet - December 02 2009 at 17:28

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:29

Ricochet wrote:

Given the OP and the subjects, I knew from early on that such threads will overheat. I'm not speaking from a debater's point of view, but from a reader's.

and threads designed to make statistics turning into debates from the first lighted match yay

Is that a Creative Design, Rico? Wink

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:30

Ricochet wrote:

The Quiet One wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

The Quiet One wrote:

^ Hey Rico! I bought Ricochet the other day!

I noticed.

Do you want your money back?

No, just thought you might be interested or curious or something

Now you have to tell me what you thought of it.

As you may know, it was my first Tangerine Dream album, oddly enough it was the only record they sold from them, and they even sold two editions of it! The 70's and the 80's remaster which is the one I bought.

Anyways, I enjoyed it, a fantastic album to listen when going to sleep. However I'm not quite fond of the main theme of Part 1, seems kind of Egyptian or something in that vein which doesn't grab me much. However, only gave it 3 spins yet, so my opinion is surely to change. So far, I don't regret buying it, makes a nice pair with Ashra's Blackouts

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:31

TD are good when asleep, then I don't hear them. Although they also help me get to sleep... so they do have a redeeming feature. LOL

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:33

I like early TD. I haven't heard much of their later stuff but I don't care for what I have heard, at least not as much as stuff like Zeit and Alpha Centauri.

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:35

James wrote:

Ah, Pablo. Has one perchance read We?

I suspect that's your announcement. Am I correct?

If so, what were your thoughts on it?

Yep, you're correct.

A month from now, if I'm not mistaken. Anyways, I enjoyed it but felt I had already read it before, and indeed I had. But that's not We's "fault", Orwell really took a lot from it, mainly the whole plot.

Still, a very worthy read, plus the edition I bought(in spanish!) includes a great 20 page intro about dystopian novels and Zamiatin.

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:35

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I like early TD. I haven't heard much of their later stuff but I don't care for what I have heard, at least not as much as stuff like Zeit and Alpha Centauri.

Zeit was boring as hell when not even close to the stage of freezing over.

The debut is nice though.

Alpha Centauri had its moments. Zeit just had moments of complete dull and epic fail and epic dull fail and complete and utter epic dull fail.

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:36

The Quiet One wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

The Quiet One wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

The Quiet One wrote:

^ Hey Rico! I bought Ricochet the other day!

I noticed.

Do you want your money back?

No, just thought you might be interested or curious or something

Now you have to tell me what you thought of it.

Gut, gut.

Edited by Ricochet - December 02 2009 at 17:37

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:37

James wrote:

A Person wrote:

I like early TD. I haven't heard much of their later stuff but I don't care for what I have heard, at least not as much as stuff like Zeit and Alpha Centauri.

You're stealing my description on Theusz Hamtaahk.

Edited by Ricochet - December 02 2009 at 17:38

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:38

The Quiet One wrote:

James wrote:

Ah, Pablo. Has one perchance read We?

I suspect that's your announcement. Am I correct?

If so, what were your thoughts on it?

Yep, you're correct.

Still, a very worthy read, plus the edition I bought(in spanish!) includes a great 20 page intro about dystopian novels and Zamiatin.

Hence why you should have read it first. I've not read Nineteen Eighty-Four yet but have read Brave New World.

It's superior to Brave New World but I still love Brave New World as well because it was written in English to begin with and doesn't suffer from poor British translations by non-novelists (mine was by an American, so it was a bit jarring in places for me).

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:40

Here are the precepts of religious / science threads on Prog Archives:

1: Everyone is right.
2: Everyone has a false conception about what everyone else is right about.
    Corollary 2.1: Everyone will vehemently argue against the false conception that everyone else is right about.
    Corollary 2.2: Everyone who clarifies what he is right about will be accused of being inconsistent.
3: Everyone who has not had the good sense to quit posting will inevitably be called a troll.
4: Everyone will assure everyone else that he is an expert on a particular related or non-related subject.
    Corollary 4.1: Everyone will call bullsh*t on everyone else's claiming expertise.
          Secondary Corollary 4.1.1: Someone will demonstrate that someone is not an expert in a given field because the latter made a typo or used a slightly incorrect word that in no way affects the argument at hand.
5. Slartibartfast will make a completely irreverent and corny joke.
6. Everyone will post waves of videos / links to books/ excerpts / Wikipedia articles supporting their arguments.
   Corollary 6.1: Everyone ignores everyone else's videos / links to books / excerpts/ Wikipedia articles in accordance with the tl;dr theory.
7. Some well-meaning yet misguided peacekeeper will step in and remind everyone that this is a prog rock site where we all come to get away from the horrors of real life, and that it's all about the music man.
   Corollary 7.1: Everyone will go into prog polls for a time to argue about how amazing / terrible Rush / Dream Theater / Porcupine Tree are.
      Secondary Corollary 7.1.1: Neil Peart is not the uberdrummer.
8. A newbie will join weeks later and post his own insignificant opinion, thereby summoning the foul thread from the depths of the forum, in turn summoning the combatants back to its wretched existence.
   Corollary 8.1: If no one has responded within 20 minutes, the newbie will "bump" the thread.
9. Everyone will rehash everything he has said.
10: Everyone is an idiot.

And finally:

11: Tony R. will get bored and post a picture of the Terminator just before locking the thread.

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Posted: December 02 2009 at 17:42

Epignosis wrote:

Here are the precepts of religious / science threads on Prog Archives:

1: Everyone is right.
2: Everyone has a false conception about what everyone else is right about.
    Corollary 2.1: Everyone will vehemently argue against the false conception that everyone else is right about.
    Corollary 2.2: Everyone who clarifies what he is right about will be accused of being inconsistent.
3: Everyone who has not had the good sense to quit posting will inevitably be called a troll.
4: Everyone will assure everyone else that he is an expert on a particular related or non-related subject.
    Corollary 4.1: Everyone will call bullsh*t on everyone else's claiming expertise.
          Secondary Corollary 4.1.1: Someone will demonstrate that someone is not an expert in a given field because the latter made a typo or used a slightly incorrect word that in no way affects the argument at hand.
5. Slartibartfast will make a completely irreverent and corny joke.
6. Everyone will post waves of videos / links to books/ excerpts / Wikipedia articles supporting their arguments.
   Corollary 6.1: Everyone ignores everyone else's videos / links to books / excerpts/ Wikipedia articles in accordance with the tl;dr theory.
7. Some well-meaning yet misguided peacekeeper will step in and remind everyone that this is a prog rock site where we all come to get away from the horrors of real life, and that it's all about the music man.
   Corollary 7.1: Everyone will go into prog polls for a time to argue about how amazing / terrible Rush / Dream Theater / Porcupine Tree are.
      Secondary Corollary 7.1.1: Neil Peart is not the uberdrummer.
8. A newbie will join weeks later and post his own insignificant opinion, thereby summoning the foul thread from the depths of the forum, in turn summoning the combatants back to its wretched existence.
   Corollary 8.1: If no one has responded within 20 minutes, the newbie will "bump" the thread.
9. Everyone will rehash everything he has said.
10: Everyone is an idiot.

And finally:

11: Tony R. will get bored and post a picture of the Terminator just before locking the thread.

12. Richard Dawkins looks like Emma Watson
Corollary 12.1: Conversely, Emma Watson looks like Richard Dawkins

Edited by James - December 02 2009 at 17:43