Shadow of the Torturer Video Game?

Fr.Inire30 Nov 1999, 22:59original

Oh, be still my beating heart...would that it were true! Now why would someone just yank that kind of thing out of an orifice and make up a line about it? sickos...:-/ ===== Jeff "My dice hate me!" Miller "The idea of verifying facts about the world through controlled repetition seems alien to just about everyone with the possible exception of Fr Inire, and he's a bug-eyed space monster . . ."-Jim Henley Heavy Gear Swap @ http://freecenter.digiweb.com/games/severian/swap.html Gaming to keep War out of RealTime! '82 GS650G

Ron Hale-Evans02 Dec 1999, 12:48original

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At 10:59 PM 11/30/99 -0800, Fr. Inire wrote: Oh, be still my beating heart...would that it were true! Now why would someone just yank that kind of thing out of an orifice and make up a line about it? sickos...:-/

Well, Padre, my guess is that the impulse was similar to that shown by the character in Peace who forged the Necronomicon and other much-desired books. Some things we want so much that we create them in fiction if we cannot have them in reality, even if the fiction is both pleasurable and... a torture. Ron H-E

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