Where is everyone?

 Where is everyone?

I've been popping by this forum nearly every day for... ages. It's been so quiet.

If I weren't one of the youngest here I'd suspect you're all back at school.

Artinum.

Re: Where is everyone?

I'm currently away, because there is much to do at my work and I'm later at home every day, then I'm so tired BUT last weekend I've come to a version of my new tob editor, which I will post here in the few days.

And the best: I want to make it freeware, too... And the size is only about 300KB and works also (probably) with Windows 98 to XP...

After that (in on or two weeks so) I want to continue with ToB and the refactoring of all game logic in it, so it will better playable like the original.


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Re: Where is everyone?

Same with me. The forum's one of the first web sites I visit in the morning, and each day I hope for any new post. So each day starts with disappointment...

Guess it's just the usual lack of initiative. As you can see, we're all keen on reacting, but thinking of anything new to post is just too much. Seems like we all have brains the size of a planet, but are way too lazy to use them. That's so depressing.

Seriously, I have the most tired phase of my life currently. I've been assigned an absolutely insane project at work, and what's more, I decided to become a sports ace within a couple of weeks. Running is so exhausting.

Anyway, I hope you're all fine. Yeah. As if that would be of any use...

Mar... eh, Fawlty

Re: Where is everyone?

To bring a little more happiness to this place:
Come on guys, tell me what's been going on in your lifes lately! Good ToB-news from Mayo. That's a start. Anyone else with joyful stories?

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Oh, by the way, has anyone noticed parallels between the terms "tired" and "gerädert"?!?
I came across this a couple of days ago while queuing up in front of the cash desk at the supermarket.

Re: Where is everyone?

Zitat: Fawlty


Oh, by the way, has anyone noticed parallels between the terms "tired" and "gerädert"?!? I came across this a couple of days ago while queuing up in front of the cash desk at the supermarket.

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Well, "Rad" (actually rather "Reifen") is "tire". The term "gerädert" originates from a very cruel medieval form of torture, where the delinquent's body was crushed with a big cartwheel and subsequently attached to the spokes of the wheel and presented to the masses. In colloquial language, "gerädert" means a strong feeling of exhaustion and weariness (as if being tortured).
So we have Rad <-> tire and gerädert <-> tired. Kinda funny, I think.

Re: Where is everyone?

Stranger than you might think.

"Rad" sounds like a root for many wheel-like words - radian, radius, radial... and tire is pronounced like "tyre", which goes on a wheel.

Some days we go round and round...

Artinum.

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... and round and round...

It's just that this forum has one very specific topic, and I think when the forum started most of us played ToB till we were overfed.

But there are such nice people around here - so just post anything that comes to your mind.


(Rad seems connected to Latin rota, deriving from an Indogermanic root *roto-. The other Latin words derive from radius, though. But - this itself means spoke (like in a wheel). Round and round...)