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Coming back... once more.
02/18/2015, 16:04:49
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BigBadPig writes:
Good that you're still here, all of you, I hope. I remember Bones, Chlala, Zedd, Peter, Big Daddy Jim, Fander Treespook... and the two whose names consisted of multiple layers of long, but nevertheless worthy titles . How are you all doing? I'm sorry to barge in like that... didn't mean any offense.
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Not quite all of us.
02/18/2015, 18:09:40
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Peter2 writes:
Zedd went over the mountains a few years ago to play in the eternal game with Flamestryke and Lord Brinne, all sadly missed. Big Daddy Jim has retired and now lives peacefully in Panama, IIRC (I think that's right), and we haven't heard from Fander Treespook for years.Bones, Chlala and I are fine, though, and still watch the boards.
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My deepest, heartfelt condolences.
02/19/2015, 03:11:16
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BigBadPig writes:
I know about Flamstryke... didn't know about Zedd and Lord Brinne, my apologies. They ARE missed here, may they feel better where ever they are now. Though personally, I think we don't even need to wish anything like that - they'll manage perfectly fine on their own, methinks.
It's great to be back... and the board seems at the very least cleaner then before. I take it the spam problem has been dealt with?
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We still get a lot of spam.
02/19/2015, 05:36:34
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Peter2 writes:
But Chlala's defences are very good! The main reason for the drop in spam is that the spammers pay most attention to the most popular sites, and we don't get nearly as many posts as we used to. It's not surprising, really. MM6 is now 17 years old, and most people have played the game and moved on. The Elf Herself was forced away from the game some years back, when she replaced her computer and it wouldn't handle the games any more. Her recent computer will play the games, and she's visited here since, but doesn't post regularly. We hear occasionally from people like Kiwi and Dunerider the War Troll, but others, like Greate Pier, Firefly, and Finland's Crazy Bear have gone for good, I suspect. It's only the dedicated fans like Bones, Chlala and me who remain. Lord Brinne died in the early 2000's, there's a memorial to him in MM8.
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I'll head there...
02/19/2015, 07:49:24
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BigBadPig writes:
... a bit later. It's still sad, after all, though it's all natural and such is the way of things, and so on...Well, me, I still feel at home here. Pity I come here so seldom. Got my PC replaced also, but finally found a (tweaked?) version of the game that runs no problems, even on Win7. Gee, now I'll need to scour the galaxy for the patches again. But it can wait. For now, I'll just sit here and listen to the music, seep some ale and remember those times when the game was young... though it ages much better than me.
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Patches
02/19/2015, 08:59:22
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Peter2 writes:
Chlala has Mok's patches filed at the link below. I can't remember where the official patches are, but I should think that she has those filed away somewhere as well
Related link: http://www.chlala.dk/mightandmagic/Mok/
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You didn't have to...
02/19/2015, 11:18:35
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BigBadPig writes:
I just mentioned it as a joke... Still, thank you. You're as helpful as ever.So, you've all had a good time at Christmas, I read?
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And?..
02/19/2015, 16:58:32
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BigBadPig writes:
Does it help? The diet, I mean.
Read somewhere there's a new diet, a beer diet... no, seriously. Trying it now - it's a blast, though no effect on my sensible measures, of course. But otherwise - a cool way to try and fool my wife about where all those bottles came from.
To no avail also, of course.
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I'm in the Czech Republic...
02/20/2015, 02:53:19
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BigBadPig writes:
... currently, so the beer here's great, almost all sorts of it. And not too heavy, too. I remember the German one... vaguely.Ehm.. Mind sharing the modus operandi (however it's spelled, my Latin's not quite up to par)? Because my belt... oh well, it's very sad, I don't want to talk about it.
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Czech beer is indeed good
02/20/2015, 06:08:22
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Peter2 writes:
It is first class, in my opinion. You would obviously know it better than I do, but of the lager beers available in quantity in the UK, my first choice (when I can get it!) is Staropramen. However, judging from past experience, I am quite prepared to believe (i) that the Staropramen that you can buy will taste better than the stuff I get (because in my experience all beers deteriorate to some extent when they are transported long distances) and (ii) that there will be better-tasting Czech beers that are not sold in the UK.But I prefer ales to lagers. There's a microbrewery 20-30 miles away from us that brews some lovely bitter ales, but it's only available in casks – they do not sell it in bottles yet. It's called Brimstage Brewery if you want to look it up on the net. There is no painless way of dieting. What I'm doing at present is simply eating less. I have a small lunch, and I avoid bread and potatoes in the evening meal, although I sometimes have a small amount of noodles or rice. If I start to feel hungry, I have a (non-alcoholic!) drink and go to bed. HTH!
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Hm ... I'm a Czech native and I love many things about this country, ...
02/20/2015, 08:01:31
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Ramillies writes:
but beer never has been one of them  ... All kinds of beer taste disgusting to me.
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Beer is an acquired taste, . . .
02/21/2015, 05:54:53
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Peter2 writes:
. . . and some people never acquire it. For many years, though, it was safer in some areas to drink beer than to drink the local water. The classic example was the 1854 cholera outbreak in London, which centred on the well in Broad Street (now renamed Broadwick Street), whose water was contaminated. 578 people died, but these included none of the workers at the brewery one block east of the Broad Street pump. They could drink all the beer they wanted; the fermentation killed the cholera bacteria, and none of the brewery workers contracted the disease.
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Wow. Just wow...
02/21/2015, 11:25:46
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BigBadPig writes:
That's quite a story for sure! I just... well, just found my jaw - it got deep into the spider-infested depths under my sofa.
Seriously, thanks for it. I love such things.Could become an ample advertising material for a good beer.
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Very interesting story -- thank you!
02/22/2015, 09:40:35
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You might be right excessive beer drinking leads to pancreatic illness,
02/22/2015, 14:37:26
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Zoltan the Green writes:
resulting in very bad form of diabetes and prematural leaving of this world .
Many people just can't control themselves so better just to stay out .
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Well, everything can kill you if you eat too much of it. I just find beer distasteful.
02/24/2015, 04:25:34
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Yep, diets are evil...
02/20/2015, 16:57:39
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BigBadPig writes:
... but a necessary one, as they say. Let us speak no more of these things then, for they only bring sorrow and misery to one's mind...
Wow, not bad for a non-native English speaker, wouldn't you say? Or does it sound too silly?I too love ales, though those aren't in abundance here. Every time I drink an ale, "The Goblin Reservation" immediately comes to mind.
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You write English very well
02/21/2015, 05:38:37
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Peter2 writes:
And no, it didn't sound silly at all.The Goblin Reservation — now there's a blast from the past! Very few people remember Clifford D Simak these days. I first stumbled across him when I found a second-hand copy of "Ring around the Sun" in the early to mid-1960's, and I still go back to read his stuff now. "Time is the Simplest Thing" is one of my favourites among his novels, and I love the gorgeous gentle humour of the short story "Neighbour" (the last story in the collection "Aliens for Neighbours"). I guess he's most famous for his series of connected short stories, published as "City". There's real poignancy about some of the stories in there, and he wrote a final story in the series, titled "Epilog", for publication in the book "Astounding" (ed. Harry Harrison), which was the John W. Campbell memorial anthology.
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Eh, I don't read much these days.
02/21/2015, 11:33:17
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I've read "Solaris"
02/21/2015, 14:32:08
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Peter2 writes:
But I'm afraid he's not one of my favourites. My criterion for a favourite author is that there should be at most two books that I did not like, which cuts down the numbers a lot. Top of my list is James H. Schmitz, closely followed by Jack Vance, Eric Frank Russell, and J. T. McIntosh. The more prolific and better-known authors IMHO all suffered a fall in quality in their later days. Heinlein, Clarke, etc.; all their later books didn't stand up to the ones they wrote in their early and middle careers.
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You have a point...
02/22/2015, 06:53:29
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BigBadPig writes:
... as to the criterion for a favourite author: I use the same when it comes to music (no more than two-three albums that I don't like per band). Never occured to me that in this case I've NO favourite author. Interesting.Getting back to pan Lem, I'd say Solaris never was up my alley, but what I CAN recommend is "The Diaries of Ion the Silent", or however it's called post translation (I hope you'd recognise it). Now that is completely another story... more like dozen stories, actually If that piqued your interest, look for the one where the main protagonist is sent to the future to fix the history. That one is simply HILARIOUS! Though the others there are splendid as well. Of the ones you named I recognise none, shame on me. Which is good - something new to try!
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Books and authors
02/23/2015, 04:36:48
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Peter2 writes:
Don't beat yourself up on that account. James H Schmitz and Eric Frank Russell have been dead for 30 years, and J T McIntosh (a pseudonym for James Murdoch MacGregor) stopped publishing SF at around the same time, although he only died in 2008. The one whose books you were most likely to have met was Schmitz; following the efforts of a bunch of his fans (of whom I was one ) all his stories were republished in roughly 2000. You might still be able to get the updated stories from Baen Books. The Russell & McIntosh stories are much rarer, and the best source is probably at the link below.
Related link: http://www.bookfinder.com/
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Thanks so much for the link,
02/24/2015, 01:19:45
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BigBadPig writes:
gotta get me some education, for a change.You seem to be a well of knowledge, at least comparing to me. This is most fortunate, and for now all i can do is thank you again for sharing it.
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You're most welcome.
02/24/2015, 03:59:10
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Peter2 writes:
Reading has always been one of my favourite pastimes, and you can't help picking up disconnected scraps of information when you do that. Also, I've been around for quite some years (*adjusts bifocals and reaches for walking stick*  ) so I've had time to do a lot of reading!
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And though no one remembers me,
03/27/2015, 12:00:22
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NearlySeniorCitizen writes:
I remember lots of the people here Sorry to hear about all those we have lost- I remember trading emails with Flamestryke sometime before the end.
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Of course we remember you. Welcome back -- always!
03/28/2015, 19:39:12
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