Posts by MiaSkywalker

"Neat" is slang in the U.S. It's the same as "cool". Kind of means great, awesome, terrific, nice, dandy.. Basically means along the lines of "I like it." Or if used with an exclamation point (For example, "That's neat!") it would mean, "I love it!"

I think your idea is very cool. It may even start a trend!

Welcome to both Flowergame and the forum, Cailleavinca. You'll like it here. It's very relaxed and people are giving.

@tru: No, what I meant was, I need another place like the atrium or wintergarten, so I can put all of them together in one place. Like a bunch of mischievous merry elves.

Guess it was ambiguous what I said.

These guys are definitely cute. I think I need another garden, so I can fill it with all my cute little Leprechauns.

Sure, I'll help you.

Here he is for the next person!

Ok, I don't know German, but I just saw the words Shadow Run! I used to play a tabletop RPG by that name - it was a lot of fun! I had a character who could jack in to computers, and had some cyborg body parts, I think. It was a very fun game.

Is that the same Shadow Run? Or are you referring to a book or set of books by that name?

It's random. It's equally likely for you to get a bunch of the new ones as it is to only get older ones. Some of us have suggested weighting event seeds to be more often the current one rather than older ones (newer people can trade with older people for the older ones), but I don't think that is the case.

MilkaQ: I found most of her books through Amazon; they were used. But that was years ago, and I'm not sure you can anymore. They've all been out of print for ages, although you can probably buy them for Kindle on Amazon. They might even be free, though I doubt it; it takes 50 years for a book to become public domain. Riddle Master is actually what hooked me onto her. But I really think Forgotten Beasts was her best work. It's just so poetic and beautiful, almost like you're in a surreal dream. I've read a few other of her more obscure works and felt similarly, but I always go back to Eld in the end. Btw, I have named many of my EQ2 characters after characters from Riddle Master. What does that say about me?

@Nepehe: Those cyberpunk books sound interesting - I'll have to look into them. I can't read German so I certainly hope there's an English version for them!

I think it just means I talk too much.

Thank you, Exterminans! I wasn't here during the downtime, but I know how server maintenance can be! (I did I.T. for 25 years.) Thanks for having things up so quickly!

Just realized I hit my 500th post earlier today, or maybe last night.

@ walkinslow (and MilkaQ) I tried to read some of C.S. Lewis' other wordk, but as MilkaQ said, the overly Christian preachiness got to me. (I'm not Christian; never have been. It's not the religion of my ancestors. And I absolutely cannot stand when people evangelize at me. I don't think they realize how absolutely offensive it is to tell someone else that his religion is "wrong" or that yours is "better".) Narnia I can overlook it, even though it is more obvious to me as an adult than it was as a child. But Peralandra... you can't really overlook it in that series. It put me off on the author, and I've never wanted to read anything else that he wrote.

Going back to fantasy, has anyone ever read Patricia McKillip, or Patricia Wrede? I think my absolute favorite stand-alone fantasy novel is McKillip's "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld". It showed me that someone can write a novel that feels like poetry all the way through. I've tried to emulate her style when I write fiction, although I always feel that I fall short. And Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles are just hilarious. In what other book could you have as a main character a 7 foot floating blue donkey with wings whose name is Killer and is really a rabbit?

Why would someone trash an adult? That's just strange.

Wow, lots of people here like sci fi and fantasy. I grew up on the classics (Asimov, Bradbury, etc.), but I always loved Star Trek, then Star Wars when it came out, and later Stargate SG-1, and various other sci fi series. (I think my favorite episode was the one where the invisible bugs became visible. Now whenever one of my cats stares intently at something no one can see, I always quip that she's just staring at an invisible bug.)

@Alia - If you like the "hard" sci fi classics (that's what it sounds like), have you ever read anything by H. Beam Piper? He's one of my favorite authors. He died in 1965 (commit suicide - sad story why), so all of his books except for one that was printed 20 years posthumously are public domain. You can find them for free for Kindle at Amazon, or at the Gutenberg Project. If you like the old classics, I think you'll love him.

I also love fantasy - read LotR I don't know how many times, same with Harry Potter (although I always skip book 2; just don't like it), the Chronicles of Narnia (yeah, kids stuff, but still great fun), and others. I go back and read an old series every so often; I can often finish it in just a few days, because I read very fast. (And I have a semi-photographic memory, so reading a series I've read before, I read even faster.) Anyone who loves fantasy, have you guys ever read the Belgariad/Malloreon series by David Eddings? A most awesome epic fantasy, I've read it over 50 times all the way through. (Yes, all 10 books of it.) I can probably quote any character in that entire series verbatim... And I'm in love with Silk, so there!

walkinslow: Do you mean Stanislaw Lem? I've never met anyone who has read his stuff. His Cyberiad is still one of my all time favorite books.

No, I only see your antrium and your greenhouse. So I guess if they never put anything in it, we won't see it.

I think she means when a new person signs up on the forums. For instance, right now it says the newest member of the forums is Meags. This doesn't necessarily mean they are new to FG, just new to the forums. The flower is just a way of welcoming them.

I think it's a great idea. I'll help out with it as well, but I think it's best if we rotate who does it.

Shelybear, since you don't have many flowers yet, don't feel bad if you don't sign up yet. You can always sign up and join in the welcoming later.

I think it's because it's a lot harder now to do links to plants. At least, I find it difficult to attach a link to an image. It used to be fairly easy; now, notsomuch.

Oh, that's possible, idril! Only way to find out is for someone to remove all their plants from one, and I'm not going to do that just to test it. And I had meant in my earlier post the Wintergarten; I think I said Greenhouse because I was distracted.

If you saw someone with lots of plants but no greenhouse, they have probably been taking from the gifting thread and not raising their own. To get the various gardens you have to raise X number of plants on your own.

As for those who have the lake and not the others, they may have been there for that particular event (it occurred much later than the other two) but haven't raised enough plants on their own to have earned the other two. The way the admins have run it so far is when they first come out with a new garden, there's an event that we can do to earn it. After that, for newer people, it's just a matter of them raising the right number of plants to earn those gardens. The lake was the last one that the admins created, so a relatively new person could have earned it during the event, and then simply never worked hard enough to get the other two gardens.

If someone simply missed an event, but would have already raised the right number of flowers, they might just need to send a PM to one of the admins to get the situation fixed.