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by Imis9
Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:28 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

STEP AWAY FROM THE LEDGE!

Ok, just wanted to kid the liberals a bit, but seriously, I just want to say how happy we all should be for the wisdom of our fellow Americans to repudiate the radical left and their communist agenda.

4 more years!
Then Rudy or McCain? Hrm...
by Imis9
Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Liberated iraqis..
Replies: 15
Views: 1696

On the information superhighway, there was a collective outcry for wisdom. Isn't that an oxymoron? Imis We have heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know that it is not true." --Robert Wilensky
by Imis9
Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Why this game will stagnate and die
Replies: 37
Views: 7195

*holds marshmellow over the flames*
by Imis9
Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:55 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Any plans for another type of advancement?
Replies: 8
Views: 1239

Heh, the plats in real life are money!
by Imis9
Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:32 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK CHEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!!!!
Replies: 24
Views: 3485

"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?" -- George Orwell I've given up trying to convince some folks of their idealistic nonsense. All politicians by their very nature are liars, so w...
by Imis9
Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:44 pm
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: Bard Spells, Volume 1
Replies: 29
Views: 5902

rofl mori, indeed. I was just kidding about bringing back an old thread. :)
by Imis9
Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:18 pm
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: Bard Spells, Volume 1
Replies: 29
Views: 5902

When did bards get resurrect???
by Imis9
Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Who is the best player as ...
Replies: 72
Views: 18363

amolol wrote:what no best tank... best verbal punching bag? cumon guy's you guys didnt go soft on me did you?


You haven't been around long enough to be a "best of" yet :)

Imis
by Imis9
Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:53 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

The only thing to do to terrorists is to kill their leaders and anyone that then rises up to lead them again. They are a serpent who you must keep kiling the head of the organization. Israel has been dealing with these people for years and we should now understand why Israel has acted as it has. Bus...
by Imis9
Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:17 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

Um, the actions we took in Central American in the 80's worked. Central American is much better off now with the communists out. If you think China is our enemy, you have been following the ball. We gave China most favored nation status for trade. Hell, China keeps buying our bonds in order to keep ...
by Imis9
Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:29 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

Next, you'll start babbling about the UN. The UN is bogus. Come on, Sudan sits on the Human Rights Committee, are you kidding me? There isn't some great feeling of love of humanity out there in the world. Most of the countries in the UN are thugs and despots from small countries. Look at the Spanish...
by Imis9
Sun Sep 26, 2004 11:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

You know what your problem is? You think we are to blame for 9/11 and that's just plain dumb. You can disagree with policies, but when it comes down to it, it is us vs them. Always remember, we're right and they are wrong. What we need to create hope and prosperity in the Middle East. Oh wait! That'...
by Imis9
Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

His, mine and luckily, just over 50% of Americans that vote opinions agree with the republicans and bush more than with kerry and the demos. More so, let's be honest, both Bush and Kerry aren't the best choices in the world. What this election comes down to is who do you dislike the least. In my cas...
by Imis9
Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:44 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

It's easy to figure out why outsourcing creates more opportunities. Let's go with this scenario. You are the CEO of a company, let's say ABC Corp.. You make widgets, now these widgets take lots of inputs in terms of capital, labor, research and testing. One of your factories is in a state with a hig...
by Imis9
Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:36 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

If I'm a CEO with 20 million in the bank and you cut my salary or effectively cut my salary through higher taxes, I'm not going to bother working. CEO's work because of the salaries. Maybe they are not all worth it, but most of them are. Ronald Reagan got out of the movie business back in the 60's b...
by Imis9
Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

What a bunch of nonsense with "corporate greed". You know what that is? It's shareholders, folks that own the company wanting a decent return on their investment. Over half of all Americans are in what is called the investor class. The investor class is those Americans that own stocks in someway whe...
by Imis9
Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:34 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

Do you know that outsourcing firms in bangladesh are now starting to move out of bangladesh because the cost of labor there is rising too much all the jobs going there? You need jobs to be mobile to create efficiences. As I said earlier, communism doesn't work. "All this wheeling and dealing around,...
by Imis9
Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:44 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

Wow, my sympathy goes out to you, man. I would like to point out that your personal financial situation is not Corth, my or the rest of America's problem. I hope everyone understands that these days alot of employers pull credit reports on people trying to get a job. Part of the reason is that poor ...
by Imis9
Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:18 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

Boggle, Sarvis you completely miss what makes America great. We take risks and chances. Failure just means you try again. That's part of the American dream. I think this is one of the fundamental differences between Republicans and Democrats. As Ronald Reagan said, Democrats believe the sun is setti...
by Imis9
Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

Actually, lots of programs already exist for all these programs. For college, you have pell grants, scholarships, and subsidized student loan programs. There is very little reason that someone that works hard should not be able to go to college. No it is not going to handed to you. Do wealthy famili...
by Imis9
Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

It depends on if you want a nanny state/government. Most people do not which is why socialized medicine did not work 12 years ago and it will not work now. When you put the government in charge of a facet of the economy like health care, you are socializing it. This is a basic tenet of socialism. Th...
by Imis9
Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

Man, people get angry when you mention that they are advocating socialist/communist policies. Nationial health care would socialize 20% of the economy, plain and simple. That's bad. With any product or service, prices are a rationing mechanism. Most Americans work their tail off to have a good job w...
by Imis9
Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:41 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

Finally, if you don't see how folks making $200k aren't rich, then you simply haven't made that. Folks in this range have house payments in the $2,000 to $3,500 range monthly. Most of these people are just a job loss away from lossing everything. They aren't trying to afford a can of soda. They are ...
by Imis9
Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:35 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

Let's talk about Republicans cutting social programs. The dirty secret is that no one actually cuts spending. They talk about cutting the rate of growth of spending in that area. Big difference. You can not just throw money at Health Care, Education, and other social programs. What's that going to s...
by Imis9
Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:27 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

First, let's tackle the deficit problem. In times of war, recession, or poor economic growth, you want to run a deficit. We tried once before to save our way to prosperity and it gave us the Great Depression. You need to keep money circulating in the economy especially in investments by individuals ...
by Imis9
Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:22 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: A letter from Kerry
Replies: 417
Views: 84256

Actually, smart rich people pay very little in taxes as a total percentage of their income. There are many ways for those with wealth to earn tax free, tax deferred and tax advantaged money from investments. The people that get taxed are not the super rich who can avoid taxes, but the working rich, ...
by Imis9
Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Who is the worst player as...
Replies: 38
Views: 6087

Ok, I'm confused Del.
by Imis9
Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Posting and you
Replies: 6
Views: 1097

You feel educated!
by Imis9
Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:59 pm
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: Alternative advancement
Replies: 10
Views: 1631

Sometimes getting what you want can be a bad thing. XP gives you something to do when you can not get a group to do eq.
by Imis9
Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:16 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Who is the worst player as...
Replies: 38
Views: 6087

rofl
by Imis9
Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:42 am
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: Alternative advancement
Replies: 10
Views: 1631

Sounds like a heck of alot of coding...
by Imis9
Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:56 pm
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: Bring back artifacts, politics and god favoritism
Replies: 241
Views: 73762

I do agree it shouldn't be a straight hand out. The old quests involved long quests over months. It used to involve lots of deaths and giving up items. Lastly, they largely dealt with lots of rp'ing. Let's assume a group of 15 is questing. One would assume the result of this long quest might be 1 to...
by Imis9
Wed Sep 08, 2004 2:33 am
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: Bring back artifacts, politics and god favoritism
Replies: 241
Views: 73762

Those were good times back in the day. As has been said before, artifacts never hurt the game. They did create an atmosphere of animosity as the result of real or percieved inequities in their distribution. The interesting thing was that this happened not only with the original folks that recieved t...
by Imis9
Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:48 pm
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: Permadeath
Replies: 23
Views: 3588

I have to agree with the Con loss idea on ress. That was a great way to force retirement on characters. I remember I have long lists and a schedule for people wanting a rod ress (it was !fail).
by Imis9
Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:10 pm
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: What's YOUR Dream Item?
Replies: 47
Views: 11602

ROFL Gormal

Imis vomits, "Bye spider queen."
by Imis9
Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:11 am
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Zone Reimbursement
Replies: 24
Views: 4222

laugh, remember how tiamat used to always crash just as you were about to go on her?
by Imis9
Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: The Toril Brag Line
Replies: 58
Views: 12495

Toddrod?
by Imis9
Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:15 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: WoW Beta pics
Replies: 9
Views: 1933

Bhahahaha, feel the love :)
by Imis9
Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:01 am
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: History of the Mud
Replies: 44
Views: 10248

A nice positive history without the muck would be the best. :)

Imis
by Imis9
Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:36 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: History of the Mud
Replies: 44
Views: 10248

Another cool thing would be a list of dates in which zones came in. Like Jot was late 95.
by Imis9
Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:35 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: History of the Mud
Replies: 44
Views: 10248

Another cool thing would be to include a list of dates for zones when they came in. A good example would be Jot which I believe was late 95.
by Imis9
Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:35 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: History of the Mud
Replies: 44
Views: 10248

Another cool thing would be a list of dates that each zone came in on. For example, Jot came in late 95 I believe.
by Imis9
Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Happy Birthday Elscint
Replies: 3
Views: 1213

Happy birthday Hairy Toes!
by Imis9
Wed May 19, 2004 12:05 am
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Dumbing Down the Mud
Replies: 8
Views: 1421

I think he's saying something fun and tough for a big group of 15. In addition, I have to agree that all this sneaking and fold/welling/etc is for the birds. Same with sitting the group somewhere and having the rogue simply lure the mobs to the group, very !style. Imis "The willow which bends to the...
by Imis9
Tue May 04, 2004 10:47 pm
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: A Mentor (Serious)
Replies: 4
Views: 1265

I think their are two types of mentors. The ones that are friends to you and the ones that just beat the heck out of you. I had many great folks that taught me how to cleric like Murni and Furgus. They really took the time to teach me and develop my skills. On the other hand, folks that are tough on...
by Imis9
Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:49 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Player Council
Replies: 73
Views: 15640

Ofren, While your post was a fun read, it lacked any clear direction. Most people would argue that the mud has moved on. If nothing else, the atmosphere of the mud has gotten alot nicer than in the past. In addition, no where did you offer solutions. Even your praises of progress on the mud were lit...
by Imis9
Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:26 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Sigils new game?
Replies: 17
Views: 2072

Bah, too many clerics around. :) Downgrade immediately!

Imis

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
-- Sloan Wilson
by Imis9
Sun Feb 29, 2004 10:59 pm
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: Ranger remort?
Replies: 12
Views: 2686

Or just give them some of the dodging ability of rogues like evasion. Also, do rogues and rangers get the same number of attacks?
by Imis9
Sat Feb 28, 2004 3:25 am
Forum: T2 Ideas Archive
Topic: additional races (Y/N) and options
Replies: 41
Views: 9895

How about a goodie race analog of Ogres?
by Imis9
Sun Jan 04, 2004 4:20 am
Forum: T2 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: A good idea from chaos
Replies: 9
Views: 1597

And lose that last "S"! :)

Imis

"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."
-- Larry Leissner

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