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(URL) she was a Canadian, or for that matter Cuban even (along with almost any other non-third world country in the world--except the US), she'd be alive today. Seriously yankees--grow up. I'm not saying we're the best or we have all the answers, (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Brendan, I am appalled. Are you suggesting that mass genocide and wanton destruction are morally worse than homosexuality? What kind of a heathen are you? -Lenny Hoffman, Expert on Heathens (17 years ago, 27-Sep-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Nice trolling yourself, Ted! I just re-read the entire thread and you contributed much more negativity than I did and you're revealed yourself to be a bigger and more obnoxious troll for continuing to attempt to bait me with such needless (...) (17 years ago, 23-Sep-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Heh, we'll have to agree to disagree there. I just don't think they mesh with the System at all. (...) Wouldn't it be nice? I think one of the reasons that there's so little traffic on Lugnet these days is due in part to the fact that a (...) (17 years ago, 12-Sep-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Agreed but also remember we now have Skeletons, Star Wars and Market Street. And I like seeing Bionicle parts in system sets so long as they go (which I agree can be hit and miss). (...) Well put. I just wish both camps would spend more time (...) (17 years ago, 12-Sep-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) (URL) Here>, I believe, is the first posting about it in OT.Debate. (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(URL) Some postings from that sad day: (2 URLs) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, there's been a lot of complaining lately, and I'm certainly guilty on that score. However, I believe most of the major complaints are all justifiable, i.e. the color change, click-hinge replacement of fingered hinges, Bionicle parts in (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) "Sometimes it feels like TLG is deliberately trying to break with the older fanbase" is close enough for me. (...) Excellent news. (...) I worry because by virtue of sharing a hobby there may be some perception of crossover between your views (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.ambassadors, Timothy Gould wrote:> (...) Hey Tim, I've always noted the change in the style of roof bricks, from the circular pattern to the rougher bumpy style to the hopefully current more-smooth-but-still-bumpy pattern. That never (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) From what I remember when we last asked that question, the answer was indeed that one - the textured area of slopes is wearing off with time; in particular when molds are cleaned. We'll pass the question again anyway. Jean-Marc (17 years ago, 10-Sep-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think you'll find that there has always been variation in the depth of the texture on slope bricks, it's just that the variation is now greater. I'll hazard a guess and say that TLG are using their molds for longer to save money. If you (...) (17 years ago, 10-Sep-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.off-topic.debate) !
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(...) This reminds me of a debate loooong ago on RTL (search LEGOdeath, IIRC) about art. The rub is in the defining of "art". What is art? Because if art is anything, then art is everything, and therefore nothing-- that is, the term is meaningless. (...) (17 years ago, 25-Aug-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Exactly? I feel, that art should be something that is admired by "the common" man; and not be reproducible by the commoner. To me, art is something I would not be able to do. I can not paint a Mona Lisa, or carve "The Thinker." That is art. (...) (17 years ago, 25-Aug-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Why, exactly, must art represent anything? Dave! (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) NO dave, Everyone knows with an infinite number of monkeys you get the works of Shakespear. NOT Picasso. Once again, proving that Janey, and her monkey abstract art is NOT art. but really, just a pile of monkey SH-- (1) Chris 1. not at all (...) (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, C. L. GunningCook wrote: snip (...) So if you had an infinite number of monkeys flinging an infinite amount of monkey-poo around, would you get a picasso? One wonders... Dave K (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Okay... I am officially "grrrrring" at my favourite rtlers. Darn geeks! Grrr and Grrr... I think I will go make an abstract painting that represents my disillusionment with you both! Or I may have my untrained monkey do it for me. Janey "If MY (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Like I said before, the DOCS were written with column major notation but the API isn't column major. Please show me a place on the API where it requires a column major matrices, there isn't one. OpenGL matrices are simply an array of 16 (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Chris Magno wrote: snip (...) If it were up to me, I'd tell all them artiste types that they have to go get real jobs!! Artists--baah! What have they done for anyone?? Dave K (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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