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Of course. You go see Gandalf, after you put on this: safe pants[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I am not sure if I am old enough to click that link in an open office landscape... 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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SFW...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: (Facebook link)
Gotta love the heads up you're entering FB land. Kinda reminds me of the NSFW warnings though. We should create a new acronym, more like NSFT (Not Safe For Thought) if we're linking to FB.
Jeremy Falcon
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-- One who's a total aficionado of stereotypical sword & sorcery stuff (e.g. LotR)
-- One who hates same, and/or wishes it were better (but not GoT soap-opera better)
-- One who doesn't care one way or the other
Iterations are OK (i.e. 2, 3, ... 99 of each), but there must be that balance.
Strong English reading skills are very preferable, and a CP-visible e-mail address is required.
Volunteer here or by PM (either way, I will use your CP-visible e-mail address, and no other means of communication).
This is the follow-up to a promise I made more than 20 years ago, and have finally found the time to carry (almost) to fruition (you'll get the nearly finished article, and a hard-copy, signed update when it's finished).
I'm doing this because it dawned on me that I don't have to rely on sycophants for initial feedback, when CP has people with all the attributes and pedigree that are needed.
Whichever of the above groups you belong to, I seriously doubt that you would regret volunteering, even if the whole thing is not to your tastes -- I'm pretty damned good at what I do, and you won't have to do anything that can be defined as work (and there's certainly no coding involved; it's a feedback thing, and nothing to with code).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've never watched an episode of GoT, and I read LotR once, a long time ago. It's good, but wordy. The Silmarillion was wordier and worser. I have all the Feist / Eddings / etc. and have read them several times each.
If I count, then count me in!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: One who's a total aficionado of stereotypical sword & sorcery stuff (e.g. LotR)
From LotR to Warcraft.
Mark_Wallace wrote: One who hates same, and/or wishes it were better (but not GoT soap-opera better)
I'll hate anything you want, just for the fun of it.
Mark_Wallace wrote: One who doesn't care one way or the other
..about in-game swords?
Mark_Wallace wrote: you'll get the nearly finished article, and a hard-copy, signed update when it's finished
No "I beat the swordmaster" t-shirt?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I volunteer as tribute, I like LotR and GoT and so on, not necessary everything in the genre of course.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I don't have to rely on sycophants for initial feedback, when CP has people with all the attributes and pedigree that are needed
Oh. So you need sycophants? Or more psychopaths> I'm one... for each case...
I'm a fan of LOTR and all the stories around (not the movie, but the paperwork)...
Didn't like the GOT movies at all and found half the books separable too...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If you're really desperate.
Don't like S&S at all - even when it dresses up as syfy like Star Wars does. 
I've been told that GoT is a soap opera so doesn't count as S&S which is just as well.
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Quote: -- One who doesn't care one way or the other
It's me.
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I knew you would say that even without opening the post. 
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I'm not sure where I'd fall on that spectrum, really...
I love the theme of swords and sorcery (Just started playing pathfinder with some friends!) but I don't saturate myself in it. I'm not the type to read and reread Tolkien and memorize passages, or learn Sindarin for the fun of it.
I certainly don't hate it, but there are some things I wish were better (or written more to suit my tastes, perhaps,) specifically Game of Thrones. That may just be because I'm only consuming the HBO version and not the books, which I assume are better. Or rather were better, when they were still written first; hasn't Martin switched to writing for the show first? I digress.
So that leaves me leaning toward the 'Like' end of the spectrum, but not down in the deep-end of fanatical love.
If that suits your needs at all, I'd be happy to participate (though you've been a bit vague about what you need!  )
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I've been a LoTR, D&D, SciFi fan for 50yrs.
Ron
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I can do 1 - Lurve LotR, they're the books that got me into Fantasy.
I can do 2 - Detest LotR, they're amongst the most annoying and overrated films.
I can do 3 - I tried reading and watching GoT and just wasn't bothered either way.
And currently I have too little to do.
veni bibi saltavi
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Mark_Wallace wrote: One who's a total aficionado of stereotypical sword & sorcery stuff (e.g. LotR)
I used to be into it. LotR that is. Enjoyed movies such as a Knight's Tale. I could get into it again, but only for a good reason.
Mark_Wallace wrote: One who hates same, and/or wishes it were better (but not GoT soap-opera better)
I think it's been rehashed to death. Never could get into GoT. It's weird, just never happened. I'm a changed man now I reckon, or maybe I don't drink enough.
Mark_Wallace wrote: One who doesn't care one way or the other
I can live without ever watching GoT. Silicon Valley I'll watch however.
Does playing stuff like Final Fantasy count? I used to be big into that. Not so much in my 30s. Been more interested drinking and women this decade of my life.
Jeremy Falcon
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I don't think I'd fit the bill.
I certainly don't hate the stuff.
But I'm not a total aficionado, nor am I indifferent. I like scifi/fantasy.
As a kid I read the LoTR numerous times and I went through the majority of the books of both the fantasy and scifi departments at the library. But now I mostly read Pterry.
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I forgot to mention, in the first few I sent out, that an underscore, in the manuscript world, means that the underscored words are to be intalicised.
Interestingly, this is why so many early comic-book stories had underscored words -- the real editors had been conscripted into the army, and the kids taken on as sub-editors and editors by publishing houses in the "cheap" end (i.e. pulps and comics) didn't know what the underscore meant (which is also why it stopped happening, relatively quickly).
So you've learned something today, which makes it a good day.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, indeed. That was actually interesting to learn.
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does writing my college notes in Elvish script qualify me for anything ... :embarrassed shrug:
[edit] we wont talk about hairy [hobbit] feet, either [/edit]
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: we wont talk about hairy [hobbit] feet, either
So you've met my wife?
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 (I'd laugh while you can, if she see's this you'll be waiting for the bruises to go down)
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Oh, she knows - I call her "my little Hobbit" from time to time since the day I found her in the bathroom shaving her toes...
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