Antares Passage:

After more than a century of isolation, the paths between stars are again open and the people of Alta in contact with their sister colony on Sandar. The opening of the foldlines has not been the unmixed blessing the Altans had supposed, however.
For the reestablishment of interstellar travel has brought with it news of the Ryall, an alien race whose goal is the extermination of humanity. If they are to avoid defeat at the hands of the aliens, Alta must seek out the military might of Earth. However, to reach Earth requires them to dive into the heart of a supernova ...

I have barely started it and I'm already gripped. Need to find part three before next week.

Hi, recovering junkie here.
She's guilty.
Yes she is.
YES she is.
Look, think about it:

You don't offer drug related work to people without drug habits because people without drug habits are hard to control and have a nasty habit of listening to their conscience.
You sure as shit don't give them a million pounds worth (ish) of smack and go "Hey, stick this up your ass for thirteen hours. Oh, by the way, don't eat anything, drink anything, get stressed, angry, have sex, or move, because then the bag will burst inside you and you'll die.

If she's not a junkie then she's a dealers "ride", but either way the result is the same: A pretty young lady trying to weasel her way out of the consequences [of her actions] by plastering pictures of her "I'm too pretty and innocent and pure to be guilty" face all over.
It's an old tactic for female junkies: look pretty or slutty and you can get away with murder.

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Don't all industries earn their own way, or is there some new business fad that nobody told us about?

> [TI] arsbury wrote:
> I started playing when I was in high school... now I have a degree and been working for 2 years
There are already alternatives out there to replace IC with... any PC/XBox/Nintendo etc game fits the bill.
It's probably iluvatar's answer.
Question is... if IC just died one day, what would we all do? No forums, no IRC... would we just all lose contact? <

Apparently so.

I live in A Shire, does that count?

"we're not going to get anywhere, when all you try to do is distort what i said."

"you so blindly believe that the signals sent to our brains are correct - as if some God made them correct."

Why do people bother? He's only after an argument, not a discussion.

Hello.

/me wonders if he should point out the irony of a christian thread being kept alive by decimus and co.

420? Huh? Whuh?