Shadow of the Torturer Video Game? The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 30 Nov 1999 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1990 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== Fr.Inire — 30 Nov 1999, 22:59 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-Evans — 02 Dec 1999, 12:48 follows, by subject match Fr.Inire > 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 -- Ron Hale-Evans: rwhe at apocalypse.org ... Center for Ludic Synergy: Kennexions GBG artgame: Hexagram-8 I Ching Mailing List: Positive Revolution FAQ: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------