The Age of Members

**nijineko** · 03-14-2008, 01:41 AM

aaaaah. you stole mine. ^^

"the true voyage of discovery, starts with having new eyes."

**boulet** · 03-14-2008, 06:47 AM

How did this thread become another "favorite quote" thread ???

**mrken** · 03-14-2008, 10:08 PM

It became a favorite quote list because you got a lot of old fogies on here. lol Old people sometimes forget what they are talking about half way through a sentence. My wife calls it partzimers. lol Not that I’m old or anything.

Which reminds me. Someone asked some grade-schoolers how old one had to be to be old. They thought 30 was old. Then they asked high-schoolers how old one was when they were old, 40 was the consensus. That means one is middle aged around 15 to 20. lol Funny how a little more perspective will change ones perspective. Personally speaking, I think 100 is pretty common to live to. In my opinion, 50 is middle aged.

**Azaethel** · 03-15-2008, 03:05 PM

Good to see I've finally found an rpg community that is around (or slightly over) my age...I recently turned 31 (Jan...so not that recent), have a goatee don't quite qualify as fat and also look like a biker (the chopper will do that. Or some say punk, the down mo-hawk will do that I guess) .

The only quote I particular like on the subject is
"to stop learning is to die"
One day I might bother to look up who said that...

**tesral** · 03-16-2008, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by mrken

I think 100 is pretty common to live to. In my opinion, 50 is middle aged.

I am not middle aged.

**mrken** · 03-16-2008, 09:32 PM

Me too.

**Farcaster** · 03-17-2008, 12:23 PM

I recently did a quick breakout of ages of our members for an interview at RPGx.org. This should give you a pretty good idea of the age ranges here

**rabkala** · 03-17-2008, 06:23 PM

By the board breakdown, I am past middle aged...
You are only as old as you feel though, so I am about a 915 year old demi lich.

**Farcaster** · 03-17-2008, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by rabkala

I am about a 915 year old demi lich.

Dude! You're just a skull with gems for eyes? Awesome!

**cplmac** · 03-17-2008, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by rabkala

By the board breakdown, I am past middle aged...
You are only as old as you feel though, so I am about a 915 year old demi lich.

Originally Posted by Farcaster

Dude! You're just a skull with gems for eyes? Awesome!

Watch out for the Rogues/Thieves that want to take the gems.

**nijineko** · 03-22-2008, 11:13 PM

hmmm, that sounds supiciously like that fake demi-lich thingie that we barely managed to smash before it sucked us all into its soul-gems down in that nastily trapped tomb. now we have to track down the real thing in it's fortress in the plane of shadows....

**cplmac** · 03-23-2008, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by nijineko

hmmm, that sounds supiciously like that fake demi-lich thingie that we barely managed to smash before it sucked us all into its soul-gems down in that nastily trapped tomb. now we have to track down the real thing in it's fortress in the plane of shadows....

If I remember right, isn't a lich restricted to how far away from it's scull thingie it can go? If so, then it should be within that radius.

Also, am old enough to have the Champions of Krynn computer game. In it, you have to first fight the lich, then try to find and destroy the scull before it recovers.

**kipling** · 03-23-2008, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by tesral

"English does not borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, hits them on the head and rifles their pockets for loose grammar."

First said, on a Usenet post, by my friend James Nicoll and attributed to many other people since then, some of them famous and dead.

Had he but known the quotation would become so famous, he would have preserved his ownership better.

**tesral** · 03-23-2008, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by kipling

First said, on a Usenet post, by my friend James Nicoll and attributed to many other people since then, some of them famous and dead.

Had he but known the quotation would become so famous, he would have preserved his ownership better.

My wife has it on a t-shirt.

**nijineko** · 03-25-2008, 12:22 AM

Originally Posted by kipling

First said, on a Usenet post, by my friend James Nicoll and attributed to many other people since then, some of them famous and dead.

Had he but known the quotation would become so famous, he would have preserved his ownership better.

he could attempt to post it to wikipedia, that might stick. =D especially if attested to by logs and other people, etc.

Originally Posted by cplmac

If I remember right, isn't a lich restricted to how far away from it's scull thingie it can go? If so, then it should be within that radius.

Also, am old enough to have the Champions of Krynn computer game. In it, you have to first fight the lich, then try to find and destroy the scull before it recovers.

they were not the real bones of the demi-lich in question, they were a clever and near-perfect magic item duplicate left behind in it's tomb, somehow granted similar powers to a real demi-lich. complete with fake ghost. we now discover that the real entity in question actually has a fortress in the plane of shadow, or negitive energy, and is apparently still there. did i mention that it has a vile, despicable, and nasty sense of humor? the entire tomb was more-or-less a set-up. we suspect that it's sitting in it's fortress, laughing at our stumbling attempts to get through the place....