@Cerevant, wow, that's my favorite Christmas song, and I love a capella singing groups. That bass singer and that beat-box guy are amazing! I'll have to check out more Pentatonix stuff. The people on these forums give me so much new music and video to enjoy, that I would not have known about otherwise. What a great Christmas present!
To @SandmanCCL I miss you lots To @Brude I miss you lots too To @Eudaemonium you are pretty cool and wow I just noticed our Agree and Like count is really damn close. o.o To @CrevsDaak and @booinyoureyes for giving this forum some new life. Two pretty awesome members join around the same time … very fortunate. To @elminster for being a fun guy to talk to and making kick-ass NPC guides and allowing me to help out a little bit. To @SpaceInvader for responding to my sign selfie with a sign selfie. That was amazing and I wish I could find our posts =P To @belgarathmth for always contributing interesting discussions. To @Shandyr, thanks for finding your way back; I understand taking breaks from forums. To @nano for managing to be a pretty chill, cool person despite the fact that we disagree on most things! To @sarevok57 you're a bit of a noobcake but you're an endearing noobcake. Stay awesome. To @Mortianna our professional lurker, rock on Miss. \m/ To @Dragonspear for being LEGIT AS HELL!! To @jackjack you are cool and I enjoyed our little "Agree" circlejerk that was going on.
To all the lovely ladies and gentlemen who responded to a certain thread I created in Off-Topic; thanks.
Real life don't leave me the time to be here as much as I would like to, but posting and reading the many interesting threads is worth every minute. Aside from the occasional trolls that crawl back fast under their bridge, the ladies, gents, beholders, mummies, and other beloved monsters in here are the nicest in internet and show an incredible amount of intelligence and maturity, leaving up to the legend that is Baldur's Gate.
To all my fellow BG gamers whose passion kept the games at their prime for 15 years and many years to come, to the moderators and devs whose work made BG games and forums tower above all others, Merry Christmas and happy holidays wherever you are, God bless you all.
*rumble as stone lid of coffin is moved aside, tumbling over a dead Christmas tree, decorated with ears and a stuffed hamster tree topper, that had been plonked on top by miscreant vampires...*
You plan a nativity and you lose so much time... I'm so sure we did this the year before... And why is frankincense and myrrh so hard to say? Will the words from "Five little snowflakes" be forever imprinted into my memory... Are the parents crying because it is so BAD? Or is it just because they are all slightly TOUCHED (in the head). Anyway at least we didn't have a real donkeys... Putting all the kids in crash helmets just on the off chance the donkey kicks would have been a nightmare...
Anyway! Enough ramblings about my miniature departure from the realms... I find it hard to list everyones attributes... Instead, I will write why I remember them and why they have a special place next to my heart (which is in a jar on the mantelpiece)
This mummie has a list of names as long as the wrappings on his arm to get through... So in alphabetical order...
@ajwz For having the audacity to admit that you hate ToB, then forcing yourself to play it over and over again testing... Your just a glutten for punishment... I think you secretly like it... You do... Admit it... You also secretly like Ascension, and secretly think it is the best mod ever ever ever...
@Alnair For taking a nursery rhyme titled "Oink! Oink! Pink Pig" and turning it into a manifesto for vegetarianism.
@atcDave As an air traffic controller, you have the most power on this forum. Thank you for being a generally nice guy and not crashing Boeing 747s on peoples houses who upset you.
@belgarathmth A man who shares a lot and cares a lot. (Turned vegan after being inspired by @Alnair on a thread titled "Oink! Oink! Pink Pig, have you any bacon" Truth is stranger than fiction.
@Bigdogchris Created an unofficial manual and a general good wheeze.
@Booinyoureyes Ate too much of the Greater Demon of Broccoli and turned into a Broccoli slayer (currently terrorising the population of Baldur's Gate).
@Cerevant This Dwarf works so hard behind the scenes... It is scary... Even if you do not see him posting here... He is posting somewhere... Usually to give an order... People live and die on @Cerevant 's orders. Thank you for chasing bugs I have found... Even the fake non-bug mirages I found... And even implementing ideas!
@Coriander When the team appeared on Reddit, I thought it was an opportune time to ask who in the team most resembled NPCs in the game. @TrentOster apparently most resembled Minsc and @Coriander most resembled Boo! Luckily, President Obama decided to do Reddit that evening as well. So no one found out... Your secret is safe with me @Coriander !
@CrevsDaak I first met him on a spanish international thread about Dominoes. I thought it was about Pizza (If you live in the UK you'll understand...) @CrevsDaak corrected me, told me that everyone was speaking in spanish (funny how I just couldn't see it at the time... Just thought @Typo_Tilly would have a field day!) and has not left me alone since... I mean really... I think he is here now... Reading this... Spooky...
@Dee Thank you for not banning me... Even when I reveal secrets about BG3, like how it is going to be named "BG3 - A New Apple" and the two expansion packs, "BG3-The Carrot Strikes Back and "BG3 - The Return of the Turnip". I just can't believe the Parsnip is the Cabbage's Dad! I just couldn't see that coming...
@Dragonspear We first met on a thread where she was tending bar... I ordered an Elminster's Ale. I never looked back. (I never settled my tab...)
@Elminster A fellow wizard! A fellow multiplayer... Wise sage... Loyal friend...
@Eudaemonium I made him cry when I finished a post where my character had died and was floating to vegetable heaven... Also refers to people as simians... And this needs to be appreciated.
@Flashburn I love that hat @Anduin ... I think I'll start a thread giving out Santa hats... (and thus he did, and much happiness did doth resulted!)
@Heindrich1988 General all round good guy. I reckon he is a Vicar in real life.
@Illydth Together we could have talked the best BG game into existence... Unfortunately talking does not produce computer code. But... When it does...
@Jalily For putting up with me... Correcting my mistakes. Giving insightful information. Getting me excited about possible writing competitions in the way distant future.
@Kamigoroshi The nicest Slimeball in the Realms... Has a pet Slug.
@KidCarnival For every idea that bounces... You bounce them back, higher. Makes all my stories more implausible and real at the same time. I always remember the Pet Rock Skam you bought into on top of Durlags Tower... And the adventurers still come through our doors... Ha!
@LiamEsler Okay. I know you as Karolee more than @LiamEsler but you make my fave game of all time better. *hugs, pulls hoody over head then runs away*
@Mortianna Necromancers are hard to come by on this forum. But I'm glad I have found you. You just can't get people motivated in post death reanimation, unless there actually dead nowadays.
@mlvenese General all round good guy, who pops in with a post every now and again to check on my mental health. This involves looking at my brain on the mantelpiece, tutting a bit, then buggering off again.
@Miloch First met him (as also with @LiamEsler ) at Spellhold Studios. Still my favouritest Blue Orc in the whole wide realms.
@OneAngryMushroom I like his anger... My post usually make him angry, as being a mummie, rot, caused by fungal growths, is something I need to keep under control. However, I feel that the rest of the forum appreciate thrush and @OneAngryMushroom likes to spread it around...
@Oxford_Guy He from Oxford. He a guy. He post enlightened stuff!
@Pecca For allowing me to help with his mods... Refuses to make a Staff of Broccoli Breaking, as it sends the wrong message to "the kids" that Broccoli is inherently evil... But it is okay to murder small children in the game if your character is evil, as that is role play, which is healthy for children... SO CONFUSED!
@Quartz Keeps it real. Keeps it short. Keeps it blunt. When he posts, he hits that post hard, then kicks it. A forum hard man. Named himself after a character in a story he wrote based on his adventures playing Sonic the hedgehog 2. *awww, so cute!*
@RedGuard Suffered the Intel glitches with me, Man -o- to Mummie. We survived together... And since the patch, I have not used Ubuntu ever again...
@scary_wizard A fellow wizard! Who is scary... Took a hell of a long time to colour in his avatar picture...
@Schneidend I appreciate his brevity. When I messaged him asking where he had been. He replied "Busy."
@Shandyr I love this man. When testing multiplayer functionality, he would always go. I got work to do... But what the hell! Its you guys! (was presumably sacked and is now looking for a job. Can any of you guys help?)
@Shin I always see two images when I look at his avatar... Is it a close up of someones eye, with eyelashes, or is it a women squatting... I'm never sure...
@Southpaw The first Mindflayer to eat my brain, he appreciated it. Vintage Pickled Brain is a rarity and commands the highest prices. He also appreciates Gnomes generally for being that one point more intelligent in general. I replaced my brain with Cauliflower. He ate that too.
@the_spyder Always there for a friendly comment or two.
@Tresset Nominated me to become a Beta Tester. I will always be grateful to this lobster for doing that.
@Troodon80 Now this Panda has worked hard... Very hard, behind the scenes. We would also waste hours trying to hook up together to play multiplayer before all the bugs were ironed out. But I have a special fondness in how easy it was to turn his Paladin to evil, right at the beginning of a run through. I had a conversation that ran something like this (not entirely accurate)
Death - Cat 1xp Troodon80 - Why did you kill Reevor's cat! Anduin - Because it was evil. Troodon80 - ... It's a cat... A cat is not evil. I am a paladin. I should know. Anduin - Are you a man or a mouse? Troodon80 - What? Anduin - Are YOU a man or a mouse? Troodon80 - Look, if your saying I am coward if.. MAN! Anduin - Well if you were a mouse, and a paladin, I think you would kill that cat because that cat, given half a chance, would be eating innocent mice babies in their sleep with their insipid evilness. Troodon80 - ... Death - Cat 1xp Anduin - You killed the other cat! Troodon80 - Can we go...
@typo_tilly Tis pearson cin sppot a spulling mastake frum a mole awhy. I wood hike to giv herr a kas.
As a present... I would like to give them all eternal life!
I just need to finish of my Strawberry jam so I have enough jars to keep all your organs in...
This year just ending was a very tough one to me. From my father's death back in February to my wife's stroke in October I really lost count of how many times you all cheered me up and stopped me from giving in to sadness. Every time the ton of work I had to do started to weight on me I was sure a quick look at the forums would cheer me up.
I'll refrain from calling out all names in this post. I don't want to cause a buffer overflow in the forums So to all of you my deepest THANK YOU. And let's all have a cheerful 2014
@JLee, for sharing about our Dark Wizard runs together.
And I want to thank YOU @belgarathmth for showing me how to play such a meaningful game form the past on a modern CPU and for being such an interesting person!!
@SpaceInvader Evidently you have not succumbed to the usual lack of intelligence this place is rife with. (Yes, it seems this one has risen above the rest of the simians and has seen my unmatched worth.)
There are many who irritate me greatly here. You are not one of them. Continue this trend into the New Year's, I wish you every success in that regard. (The world is in dire need of the less irksome, overly-emotional windbags who think their worthless opinions matter.)
As for the rest of you, do try your best not to hit your superiors during your feces-slinging contests.
\ @OneAngryMushroom I like his anger... My post usually make him angry, as being a mummie, rot, caused by fungal growths, is something I need to keep under control. However, I feel that the rest of the forum appreciate thrush and @OneAngryMushroom likes to spread it around...
Merry Christmas to everyone, you all help to make these forums a place I come back to time and again. The helpful feedback, good humour and general lack of negative posts mean I can bumble around here safe and happy.
@Dee, @LiamEsler, @Jalily, @AndrewFoley, @TrentOster, @Coriander (and all of the moderators and Dev team I have missed!) - Thank you for reviving these great games and assembling these mighty forums. Without you guys we'd have nothing to say, and nowhere to not say it.
@LadyRhian and @ajwz deserve a special mention for the upkeep of the threads I keep going back to for portraits and info on new items! I don't want to pigeonhole you though, as you're both so much more as well.
I have a special Christmas tradition that I'd like to share with you all. Every Christmas Eve, I watch Kelsey Grammer's "Christmas Carol, The Musical", while eating sinfully delicious food.
The musical numbers in this particular iteration of the classic story are very special to me, as is Kelsey's performance, and all its many "Bah, Humbug!" critics be damned.
This one is very, very fun, and it's Jason Alexander's Marley, and it's great, and wonderful, and is possibly my most favorite minor-key production number in a musical, ever. Jason Alexander is awesome! (skip to 1:30 if you want to hear the song without all the dialogue:
Another of my favorite minor key production numbers ever is "Dancing On Your Grave". There is nothing of of Kelsey's version on YouTube, but here's a substitute from the many, many amateur and educational productions of this marvelous Christmas work, and is dedicated to everyone who loves to hurt, tear down, and be mean to others without a second thought - seriously, give it a second thought, please:
I would like to thank the whole community for being the very best I know with wonderful people, interesting debates and a passionate dedication to Baldur's Gate. This community is the brightest of all the ones I've been at. Thanks for always being helpful with me, thanks for the funny times, and thanks for letting me know about The Order of The Stick (amazing... can't believe I missed it until now).
Also I would like to thank the team for bringing the games to life and releasing the patches that made the game run on my computer (I still have to get BG:EE 2 xD) and on the computers of many others that wanted to play the game as badly as everyone else. Thank you for the games, thank you for your patience, thank you all.
...Now I kinda feel bad that I didn't try to be more conversational, and I don't have those messages in my log to review them.
You do use more words... But I appreciate your ability to use the fewest possible words to convey your meaning! BREVITY! A word that also establishes GRAVITAS.
I wish I could do the same... But essays is all I seem able to write. If I could give one word answers. I would have said no a long time ago and left it at that, but no. I need to witter on regardless. Even if said no. So yes. Please take it as a compliment. A great conversationalist knows when to speak, using the exact right amount of words to not bore his audienc... *Looks around thread*
Everyone stopped reading this awhile back didn't they...
*Anduin strolls off and sits in his stone coffin in a sulk...*
How could I forget them! I am a bad person. BAAAAAD.
Sorry if I missed you out. If you look at the list, it was pretty big. And I did it all off the top of my head. I then placed it into alphabetical order... Took me ages. But it was better than wrapping presents. So...
@Spaceinvader For showing me that I too, like Xan, can be a gimped character and wield his sword. But this pales in comparison to the veil lifting amazement that the Firewine ruins is full... FULL is say, of treasure.
@LadyRhian I worshiped the lady at one time... While everyone was using those faces that appear for newbies or portraits from the game, @LadyRhain used one made specially for her by an artist. How COOL is that? She has every boxed edition of the DnD game... I was so enamored I wrote up a magical item named Lady Rhian's Stiletto, a magical shoe that could be thrown like a dart causing both piercing and blunt damage before returning magically to the user (Originally used by Lady Rhian to beat off her would be suitors... before she managed to fall in love with a handsome Gnome with a Charisma of at least 24, maybe 25 in poor light, who would abandon his quest for eternal life through mummification and lichdom to live one happy fulfilled life with the lady of his dreams. The lady used her stilleto to pin the Gnomes hand to a table before he could sign and send his soul through eternal damnation through a contract with the higher powers that be. The Lady, pleading her case and revealing at last her true feelings, caused the Gnome to abandon his foolish quest and signed his soul over to his true love...)
Lady Rhian immediately wrote back to inform me she mainly wears flip flops... ... ... ... ... ... *long sigh*
@Kitteh_on_a_cloud Apart from the fact that she could possibly be my wife... Well... She is always there to cheer me up with a kind word... If a person could speak in rainbows... This person would. Comes across as very naive at times though. So glad that innocence is still alive and well in the realms... *Gives big kiss*
This is hopeless... I'm bound to remember more people...
I wrote something regarding this, but I don't tend to make drafts, so I accidentally closed the page, and I lost what I've wrote, FUCK THE IPAD MAN, T'IS A SO BAD TO WRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!
@booinyoureyes Thanks a lot for the mention man Looking forward to more discussions in the coming year! Im generally generous with likes and agrees, but you are one of those whose thought-provoking posts I really enjoy reading!
I have been active on these boards for a long time, but mostly as a lurker. However, I would like to call out @typo_tilly for the most charming posts and topics in the forum - you always make me (and definately many others) smile
As for all the other amazing 'Gaters, hope you all have a great christmas
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Bon noel
To @bengoshi and the rest of you.
Don't kill to many elves/gnomes or Santa will be to busy to bring you your gifts.
@JLee, for sharing about our Dark Wizard runs together.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I'M LOVED!!!!!!!!!!!
Merry Christmas/Holiday/Movie Night to everyone!!
To @Brude I miss you lots too
To @Eudaemonium you are pretty cool and wow I just noticed our Agree and Like count is really damn close. o.o
To @CrevsDaak and @booinyoureyes for giving this forum some new life. Two pretty awesome members join around the same time … very fortunate.
To @elminster for being a fun guy to talk to and making kick-ass NPC guides and allowing me to help out a little bit.
To @SpaceInvader for responding to my sign selfie with a sign selfie. That was amazing and I wish I could find our posts =P
To @belgarathmth for always contributing interesting discussions.
To @Shandyr, thanks for finding your way back; I understand taking breaks from forums.
To @nano for managing to be a pretty chill, cool person despite the fact that we disagree on most things!
To @sarevok57 you're a bit of a noobcake but you're an endearing noobcake. Stay awesome.
To @Mortianna our professional lurker, rock on Miss. \m/
To @Dragonspear for being LEGIT AS HELL!!
To @jackjack you are cool and I enjoyed our little "Agree" circlejerk that was going on.
To all the lovely ladies and gentlemen who responded to a certain thread I created in Off-Topic; thanks.
Aside from the occasional trolls that crawl back fast under their bridge, the ladies, gents, beholders, mummies, and other beloved monsters in here are the nicest in internet and show an incredible amount of intelligence and maturity, leaving up to the legend that is Baldur's Gate.
To all my fellow BG gamers whose passion kept the games at their prime for 15 years and many years to come, to the moderators and devs whose work made BG games and forums tower above all others, Merry Christmas and happy holidays wherever you are, God bless you all.
You plan a nativity and you lose so much time... I'm so sure we did this the year before... And why is frankincense and myrrh so hard to say? Will the words from "Five little snowflakes" be forever imprinted into my memory... Are the parents crying because it is so BAD? Or is it just because they are all slightly TOUCHED (in the head). Anyway at least we didn't have a real donkeys... Putting all the kids in crash helmets just on the off chance the donkey kicks would have been a nightmare...
Anyway! Enough ramblings about my miniature departure from the realms... I find it hard to list everyones attributes... Instead, I will write why I remember them and why they have a special place next to my heart (which is in a jar on the mantelpiece)
This mummie has a list of names as long as the wrappings on his arm to get through... So in alphabetical order...
@ajwz For having the audacity to admit that you hate ToB, then forcing yourself to play it over and over again testing... Your just a glutten for punishment... I think you secretly like it... You do... Admit it... You also secretly like Ascension, and secretly think it is the best mod ever ever ever...
@Alnair For taking a nursery rhyme titled "Oink! Oink! Pink Pig" and turning it into a manifesto for vegetarianism.
@atcDave As an air traffic controller, you have the most power on this forum. Thank you for being a generally nice guy and not crashing Boeing 747s on peoples houses who upset you.
@belgarathmth A man who shares a lot and cares a lot. (Turned vegan after being inspired by @Alnair on a thread titled "Oink! Oink! Pink Pig, have you any bacon" Truth is stranger than fiction.
@Bigdogchris Created an unofficial manual and a general good wheeze.
@Booinyoureyes Ate too much of the Greater Demon of Broccoli and turned into a Broccoli slayer (currently terrorising the population of Baldur's Gate).
@Cerevant This Dwarf works so hard behind the scenes... It is scary... Even if you do not see him posting here... He is posting somewhere... Usually to give an order... People live and die on @Cerevant 's orders. Thank you for chasing bugs I have found... Even the fake non-bug mirages I found... And even implementing ideas!
@Coriander When the team appeared on Reddit, I thought it was an opportune time to ask who in the team most resembled NPCs in the game. @TrentOster apparently most resembled Minsc and @Coriander most resembled Boo! Luckily, President Obama decided to do Reddit that evening as well. So no one found out... Your secret is safe with me @Coriander !
@CrevsDaak I first met him on a spanish international thread about Dominoes. I thought it was about Pizza (If you live in the UK you'll understand...) @CrevsDaak corrected me, told me that everyone was speaking in spanish (funny how I just couldn't see it at the time... Just thought @Typo_Tilly would have a field day!) and has not left me alone since... I mean really... I think he is here now... Reading this... Spooky...
@Dee Thank you for not banning me... Even when I reveal secrets about BG3, like how it is going to be named "BG3 - A New Apple" and the two expansion packs, "BG3-The Carrot Strikes Back and "BG3 - The Return of the Turnip". I just can't believe the Parsnip is the Cabbage's Dad! I just couldn't see that coming...
@Dragonspear We first met on a thread where she was tending bar... I ordered an Elminster's Ale. I never looked back. (I never settled my tab...)
@Elminster A fellow wizard! A fellow multiplayer... Wise sage... Loyal friend...
@Eudaemonium I made him cry when I finished a post where my character had died and was floating to vegetable heaven... Also refers to people as simians... And this needs to be appreciated.
@Flashburn I love that hat @Anduin ... I think I'll start a thread giving out Santa hats... (and thus he did, and much happiness did doth resulted!)
@Heindrich1988 General all round good guy. I reckon he is a Vicar in real life.
@Illydth Together we could have talked the best BG game into existence... Unfortunately talking does not produce computer code. But... When it does...
@Jalily For putting up with me... Correcting my mistakes. Giving insightful information. Getting me excited about possible writing competitions in the way distant future.
@Kamigoroshi The nicest Slimeball in the Realms... Has a pet Slug.
@KidCarnival For every idea that bounces... You bounce them back, higher. Makes all my stories more implausible and real at the same time. I always remember the Pet Rock Skam you bought into on top of Durlags Tower... And the adventurers still come through our doors... Ha!
@LiamEsler Okay. I know you as Karolee more than @LiamEsler but you make my fave game of all time better. *hugs, pulls hoody over head then runs away*
@Montresor_SP for being a gnome. Nuff said.
@Mortianna Necromancers are hard to come by on this forum. But I'm glad I have found you. You just can't get people motivated in post death reanimation, unless there actually dead nowadays.
@mlvenese General all round good guy, who pops in with a post every now and again to check on my mental health. This involves looking at my brain on the mantelpiece, tutting a bit, then buggering off again.
@Miloch First met him (as also with @LiamEsler ) at Spellhold Studios. Still my favouritest Blue Orc in the whole wide realms.
@OneAngryMushroom I like his anger... My post usually make him angry, as being a mummie, rot, caused by fungal growths, is something I need to keep under control. However, I feel that the rest of the forum appreciate thrush and @OneAngryMushroom likes to spread it around...
@Oxford_Guy He from Oxford. He a guy. He post enlightened stuff!
@Pecca For allowing me to help with his mods... Refuses to make a Staff of Broccoli Breaking, as it sends the wrong message to "the kids" that Broccoli is inherently evil... But it is okay to murder small children in the game if your character is evil, as that is role play, which is healthy for children... SO CONFUSED!
@pantalion A lion in pants. General wheeze.
@Quartz Keeps it real. Keeps it short. Keeps it blunt. When he posts, he hits that post hard, then kicks it. A forum hard man. Named himself after a character in a story he wrote based on his adventures playing Sonic the hedgehog 2. *awww, so cute!*
@RedGuard Suffered the Intel glitches with me, Man -o- to Mummie. We survived together... And since the patch, I have not used Ubuntu ever again...
@scary_wizard A fellow wizard! Who is scary... Took a hell of a long time to colour in his avatar picture...
@Schneidend I appreciate his brevity. When I messaged him asking where he had been. He replied "Busy."
@Shandyr I love this man. When testing multiplayer functionality, he would always go. I got work to do... But what the hell! Its you guys! (was presumably sacked and is now looking for a job. Can any of you guys help?)
@Shin I always see two images when I look at his avatar... Is it a close up of someones eye, with eyelashes, or is it a women squatting... I'm never sure...
@Southpaw The first Mindflayer to eat my brain, he appreciated it. Vintage Pickled Brain is a rarity and commands the highest prices. He also appreciates Gnomes generally for being that one point more intelligent in general. I replaced my brain with Cauliflower. He ate that too.
@the_spyder Always there for a friendly comment or two.
@Tresset Nominated me to become a Beta Tester. I will always be grateful to this lobster for doing that.
@Troodon80 Now this Panda has worked hard... Very hard, behind the scenes. We would also waste hours trying to hook up together to play multiplayer before all the bugs were ironed out. But I have a special fondness in how easy it was to turn his Paladin to evil, right at the beginning of a run through. I had a conversation that ran something like this (not entirely accurate)
Death - Cat 1xp
Troodon80 - Why did you kill Reevor's cat!
Anduin - Because it was evil.
Troodon80 - ... It's a cat... A cat is not evil. I am a paladin. I should know.
Anduin - Are you a man or a mouse?
Troodon80 - What?
Anduin - Are YOU a man or a mouse?
Troodon80 - Look, if your saying I am coward if.. MAN!
Anduin - Well if you were a mouse, and a paladin, I think you would kill that cat because that cat, given half a chance, would be eating innocent mice babies in their sleep with their insipid evilness.
Troodon80 - ...
Death - Cat 1xp
Anduin - You killed the other cat!
Troodon80 - Can we go...
@typo_tilly Tis pearson cin sppot a spulling mastake frum a mole awhy. I wood hike to giv herr a kas.
As a present... I would like to give them all eternal life!
I just need to finish of my Strawberry jam so I have enough jars to keep all your organs in...
I'll refrain from calling out all names in this post. I don't want to cause a buffer overflow in the forums
May all of your saves be successful!!!
There are many who irritate me greatly here. You are not one of them. Continue this trend into the New Year's, I wish you every success in that regard. (The world is in dire need of the less irksome, overly-emotional windbags who think their worthless opinions matter.)
As for the rest of you, do try your best not to hit your superiors during your feces-slinging contests.
@Anduin, @Southpaw, @KidCarnival, @Kamigoroshi & @OneAngryMushroom - you cracked me up with your multiplayer run and have all continued to be by turns funny and insightful throughout. I salute you.
@Dee, @LiamEsler, @Jalily, @AndrewFoley, @TrentOster, @Coriander (and all of the moderators and Dev team I have missed!) - Thank you for reviving these great games and assembling these mighty forums. Without you guys we'd have nothing to say, and nowhere to not say it.
@LadyRhian and @ajwz deserve a special mention for the upkeep of the threads I keep going back to for portraits and info on new items! I don't want to pigeonhole you though, as you're both so much more as well.
General shout-out and best wishes to @nano, @Schneidend, @belgarathmth, @scary_wizard, @Quartz, @pantalion, @Edwin_Odesseiron, @Elminster, @Heindrich1988, @bengoshi, @Dragonspear & @Crevsdaak, @Shandyr (and those I've missed!) - You're a great bunch and the lifeblood of the forum. Merry Christmas one and all!
The musical numbers in this particular iteration of the classic story are very special to me, as is Kelsey's performance, and all its many "Bah, Humbug!" critics be damned.
This one is very, very fun, and it's Jason Alexander's Marley, and it's great, and wonderful, and is possibly my most favorite minor-key production number in a musical, ever. Jason Alexander is awesome! (skip to 1:30 if you want to hear the song without all the dialogue:
I think that mostly older people can appreciate the song of the Ghost of Christmas Past. This blurry example is the only one I can find on YouTube:
Another of my favorite minor key production numbers ever is "Dancing On Your Grave". There is nothing of of Kelsey's version on YouTube, but here's a substitute from the many, many amateur and educational productions of this marvelous Christmas work, and is dedicated to everyone who loves to hurt, tear down, and be mean to others without a second thought - seriously, give it a second thought, please:
This one goes out to @God, as well as anyone who's ever been a Grinch or a Scrooge:
...Now I kinda feel bad that I didn't try to be more conversational, and I don't have those messages in my log to review them.
-3 to reputation (Now a Fallen Ranger) for failing to mention
@LordRumfish for posting some very clever poetry. Some of them are quite funny too! Bard Song: "Inspire Giggles"
@SpaceInvader for some great memes and really entertaining comments
@Aristillius for contributing some real insight into some of the more philosophical threads. Also for being a great penguin!
I would like to thank the whole community for being the very best I know with wonderful people, interesting debates and a passionate dedication to Baldur's Gate. This community is the brightest of all the ones I've been at. Thanks for always being helpful with me, thanks for the funny times, and thanks for letting me know about The Order of The Stick (amazing... can't believe I missed it until now).
Also I would like to thank the team for bringing the games to life and releasing the patches that made the game run on my computer (I still have to get BG:EE 2 xD) and on the computers of many others that wanted to play the game as badly as everyone else. Thank you for the games, thank you for your patience, thank you all.
Happy Holidays everyone!!!
I wish I could do the same... But essays is all I seem able to write. If I could give one word answers. I would have said no a long time ago and left it at that, but no. I need to witter on regardless. Even if said no. So yes. Please take it as a compliment. A great conversationalist knows when to speak, using the exact right amount of words to not bore his audienc... *Looks around thread*
Everyone stopped reading this awhile back didn't they...
*Anduin strolls off and sits in his stone coffin in a sulk...*
How could I forget them! I am a bad person. BAAAAAD.
Sorry if I missed you out. If you look at the list, it was pretty big. And I did it all off the top of my head. I then placed it into alphabetical order... Took me ages. But it was better than wrapping presents. So...
@Spaceinvader For showing me that I too, like Xan, can be a gimped character and wield his sword. But this pales in comparison to the veil lifting amazement that the Firewine ruins is full... FULL is say, of treasure.
@LadyRhian I worshiped the lady at one time... While everyone was using those faces that appear for newbies or portraits from the game, @LadyRhain used one made specially for her by an artist. How COOL is that? She has every boxed edition of the DnD game... I was so enamored I wrote up a magical item named Lady Rhian's Stiletto, a magical shoe that could be thrown like a dart causing both piercing and blunt damage before returning magically to the user (Originally used by Lady Rhian to beat off her would be suitors... before she managed to fall in love with a handsome Gnome with a Charisma of at least 24, maybe 25 in poor light, who would abandon his quest for eternal life through mummification and lichdom to live one happy fulfilled life with the lady of his dreams. The lady used her stilleto to pin the Gnomes hand to a table before he could sign and send his soul through eternal damnation through a contract with the higher powers that be. The Lady, pleading her case and revealing at last her true feelings, caused the Gnome to abandon his foolish quest and signed his soul over to his true love...)
Lady Rhian immediately wrote back to inform me she mainly wears flip flops... ... ... ... ... ... *long sigh*
@Kitteh_on_a_cloud Apart from the fact that she could possibly be my wife... Well... She is always there to cheer me up with a kind word... If a person could speak in rainbows... This person would. Comes across as very naive at times though. So glad that innocence is still alive and well in the realms... *Gives big kiss*
This is hopeless... I'm bound to remember more people...
@Metalloman, @Anduin, @Troodon80, @elminster, @Foggy, @KidCanival and his familiar @Eudaemonium, @Dragonspear, @booinyoureyes, @LadyRhian, @Batman, @Quartz, @Southpaw, @meagloth. I've wrote something to everyone but not Eudaemonium, still, I closed the page.
Sorry
Thanks a lot for the mention man
I have been active on these boards for a long time, but mostly as a lurker. However, I would like to call out @typo_tilly for the most charming posts and topics in the forum - you always make me (and definately many others) smile
As for all the other amazing 'Gaters, hope you all have a great christmas