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   * "You're making my omf-love tickle, heheheh" -Cyphax   * "You're making my omf-love tickle, heheheh" -Cyphax
-  * "Able Learner really should be default on all characters.  Cross class skills are some pretty crappy design." -Ben Sly+  * "Able Learner really should be default on all characters.  Cross class skills are some pretty crappy design." -Kilo24
   * "i like inertia and sliding" -pharaun   * "i like inertia and sliding" -pharaun
   * "im never playing omf2097 online...ever again. rap cleaned me up" -alastair, #omf   * "im never playing omf2097 online...ever again. rap cleaned me up" -alastair, #omf
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   * "wth have i been smoking :/" -Katajakasa, omf   * "wth have i been smoking :/" -Katajakasa, omf
   * "WTF was I smoking when I wrote this code" -Vagabond, omf   * "WTF was I smoking when I wrote this code" -Vagabond, omf
-  * "raptor trying to manage a database reminds me of a user looking for the 'anykey'" -Vaganbond, #omf+  * "raptor trying to manage a database reminds me of a user looking for the 'anykey'" -Vagabond, #omf
   * "fucking norwegians, and their made up letters" -Vagabond, #omf   * "fucking norwegians, and their made up letters" -Vagabond, #omf
   * "you go, girlfriend" -Vagabond   * "you go, girlfriend" -Vagabond
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   * "oh holy shit. I fixed the credits?! well that proves I got it right. I am the bestest" -Vagabond, #omf   * "oh holy shit. I fixed the credits?! well that proves I got it right. I am the bestest" -Vagabond, #omf
   * "maybe someday we could meet on Freenode (a free IRC channel that a lot of open source projects are hosted) and make an OMF channel, or get in touch again through MSN, Yahoo, or ICQ messengers or PM's" -FireFly, 12.07.08   * "maybe someday we could meet on Freenode (a free IRC channel that a lot of open source projects are hosted) and make an OMF channel, or get in touch again through MSN, Yahoo, or ICQ messengers or PM's" -FireFly, 12.07.08
-  * "no more World Tree for you :)" -bensly88+  * "no more World Tree for you :)" -Kilo24
   * "There's always a place for people who attack everything in front of them, so long as you tell them where that is.  Hence why goblins exist :-D" -killer_roach   * "There's always a place for people who attack everything in front of them, so long as you tell them where that is.  Hence why goblins exist :-D" -killer_roach
   * "Look, savage, I am your golden god of computing. I know everything, you know nothing. If words leave my lips regarding computers it is gospel, it is the solid-gold word of Jesus Christ himself." -pharaun   * "Look, savage, I am your golden god of computing. I know everything, you know nothing. If words leave my lips regarding computers it is gospel, it is the solid-gold word of Jesus Christ himself." -pharaun
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   * "ie troll male is good female is no" -Pharaun   * "ie troll male is good female is no" -Pharaun
   * "OH GOD! I'm turning into you, I just wrote up a 159 line, 1700 word essay to post on blizzard forum regarding audio and accessibility for the deaf players. It has multiple bullet points, multiple paragraph, bunch of additional details and references to stuff, and I even managed to sneak a couple of images into it of various game-play aspects." -pharaun (friend referring to me)   * "OH GOD! I'm turning into you, I just wrote up a 159 line, 1700 word essay to post on blizzard forum regarding audio and accessibility for the deaf players. It has multiple bullet points, multiple paragraph, bunch of additional details and references to stuff, and I even managed to sneak a couple of images into it of various game-play aspects." -pharaun (friend referring to me)
-  * "Procrastinators unite tomorrow!" -Kil24+  * "Procrastinators unite tomorrow!" -Kilo24
   * "Are we ignoring the original Diablo? The RPG for people who hate RPG's? The game that invented the prefix\suffix system that so many games imitate even today. The game that introduced addictive item centric gameplay? The RPG with almost no compelling storyline?   Diablo invented the hack and slash action RPG subgenre. Before Diablo RPG's were slow paced, usually based on some derivation of strict DnD rules, had intricate plots  and character development... Diablo took RPGs into a wholly different direction.   So much so that most DnD plot driven RPG lovers will not even wish to recognize Diablo as belonging to the genre." -Endy, omf-f   * "Are we ignoring the original Diablo? The RPG for people who hate RPG's? The game that invented the prefix\suffix system that so many games imitate even today. The game that introduced addictive item centric gameplay? The RPG with almost no compelling storyline?   Diablo invented the hack and slash action RPG subgenre. Before Diablo RPG's were slow paced, usually based on some derivation of strict DnD rules, had intricate plots  and character development... Diablo took RPGs into a wholly different direction.   So much so that most DnD plot driven RPG lovers will not even wish to recognize Diablo as belonging to the genre." -Endy, omf-f
   * "throw a jaguar on the pyros, I'll be back for dinner" -Vagabond   * "throw a jaguar on the pyros, I'll be back for dinner" -Vagabond
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   * "When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'" --Theodore Roosevelt (1858--1919), U.S. President   * "When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'" --Theodore Roosevelt (1858--1919), U.S. President
   * "The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians." -- H.L. Mencken (Life magazine, August 5, 1946)   * "The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians." -- H.L. Mencken (Life magazine, August 5, 1946)
-  * "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." --Ronald J. Reagan (1911-), U.S. president+  * "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." --Ronald J. Reagan (1911-2004), U.S. president
   * "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"   * "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
   * "A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." --Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red, 1960   * "A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." --Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red, 1960
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   * "Do people mistake MH for an rpg now?" "... It has always been an RPG" "The best RPG of 2018 in fact. It won the award. The term is meaningless now."   * "Do people mistake MH for an rpg now?" "... It has always been an RPG" "The best RPG of 2018 in fact. It won the award. The term is meaningless now."
   * "If the devs want me to squash their bugs for them, I need to get paid honestly" -purifyweirdsoul, bs-disco, about hk   * "If the devs want me to squash their bugs for them, I need to get paid honestly" -purifyweirdsoul, bs-disco, about hk
-  * "Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back." -Morte, PST+  * "Women where the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back." -Morte, PST
  
 > Gamers in 1978: "The boss is super hard, guess I will change the code." > Gamers in 1978: "The boss is super hard, guess I will change the code."
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   * "If you think I am saying that typical RPG combat sucks as a game, you’re right." -Raph Koster   * "If you think I am saying that typical RPG combat sucks as a game, you’re right." -Raph Koster
   * "I get asked this question all the time. In fact, now that I do consultancy from time to time, it’s not unusual for a company to come to me and say 'can you put in crafting like SWG? Our players say it was the best ever!' Usually, they have actually, you know, designed their game already, or even built it. And I have to tell them, 'No. You build your game around it, not the other way around.' " -Raph Koster / Holocron, SWG   * "I get asked this question all the time. In fact, now that I do consultancy from time to time, it’s not unusual for a company to come to me and say 'can you put in crafting like SWG? Our players say it was the best ever!' Usually, they have actually, you know, designed their game already, or even built it. And I have to tell them, 'No. You build your game around it, not the other way around.' " -Raph Koster / Holocron, SWG
-  * "A sad fact about you players, as a whole: you only do what you are rewarded for. You will do something less fun if you see a carrot at the end of the stick, and you will ignore something more fun if it doesn’t give you a 'ding' or an XP reward or a title." – Raph Koster / Holocron (11-26-2002), SWG+  * "A sad fact about you players, as a whole: you only do what you are rewarded for. You will do something less fun if you see a carrot at the end of the stick, and you will ignore something more fun if it doesn’t give you a 'ding' or an XP reward or a title." – Raph Koster / Holocron (2002/11/26), SWG
   * "SWG is the game where I learned players KNOW what they hate but only THINK they know what they want" -Corwyn Kalenda, SWG   * "SWG is the game where I learned players KNOW what they hate but only THINK they know what they want" -Corwyn Kalenda, SWG
   * "PUGs are a pain. But the trick is learning how to work through pain. And you will be all the stronger for the job." -Nicolai, Psychologist/MMO http://nicolaigrunnet.blogspot.no/2011/09/mmos-and-anxiety.html   * "PUGs are a pain. But the trick is learning how to work through pain. And you will be all the stronger for the job." -Nicolai, Psychologist/MMO http://nicolaigrunnet.blogspot.no/2011/09/mmos-and-anxiety.html
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   * "you've never seen a more wretched hive of scum and villany" -sw ?   * "you've never seen a more wretched hive of scum and villany" -sw ?
   * "When Ikaruga becomes 'painfully easy' to anyone, that's when it's time to get a girlfriend." -GoldsteinsBook, youtube   * "When Ikaruga becomes 'painfully easy' to anyone, that's when it's time to get a girlfriend." -GoldsteinsBook, youtube
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 +> No, Moslems don't believe that Jesus was the messiah.
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 +> Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu'ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it never happened. There's still Jesus, but he's not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn't shown up yet.
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 +> Jews like the first movie but ignored the sequels, Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the third movie doesn't count, Moslems think the third one was the best, and Mormons liked the second one so much they started writing fanfiction that doesn't fit ANY of the series canon.
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 +> -RandomFerret
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