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Let's put it simply : 'things' are being reviewed by Bea and me.

Looks like it is full lives after all, but you get bonus points for the lives remaining.

Happy thanksgiving to all US members, and a very special Thanksgiving to those that are still flashing their Halloween avatars!

It was on his Substack account apparently, I don't really know if this count as 'private' as I don't know much about social media to begin with, but whatever, here is the full quote, from the 7th of October (https://normanfinkelstein.substack.com/p/john-browns-body-in-gaza) : John Brown's Body--in Gaza ''Dolores Ibarruri, La Passionaria, famously exhorted during the Spanish Civil War, 'Better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees.' For the past 20 years the people of Gaza, half of whom are children, have been immured in a concentration camp. Today they breached the camp’s walls. If we honor John Brown’s armed resistance to slavery; if we honor the Jews who revolted in the Warsaw Ghetto—then moral consistency commands that we honor the heroic resistance in Gaza. I, for one, will never begrudge—on the contrary, it warms every fiber of my soul—the scenes of Gaza’s smiling children as their arrogant Jewish supremacist oppressors have, finally, been humbled.'' It does leave place to some interpretation, and one can wonder what he refers to exactly about ''the scenes of Gaza's smiling children'', but personally, the truncated quote from ADL is nothing short of being completely dishonest. The fact he posted this right on the 7 of October must be read as such too, he clearly describes the event as a resistance act against Israel, where the pragmatical point is most likely to take hostages in order to negotiate for the release of Palestinians prisoners held in Israel (as his following Substack post seems to point to https://normanfinkelstein.substack.com/p/hostages-learning-from-israel). Anyway, this would be my guess, for what it is worth. So yeah, the Anti-Defamation League are being dishonest (or blinded?) on this, but is it really a surprise given that they're obviously Pro-Israel and Anti Palestine (their homepage makes it quite clear on this right now : https://www.adl.org/). But that's bound to happen if you go with Wikipedia and what comes out of the top entries of a Google search, as you're most likely to be exposed to a lot of propaganda from the Western World 'official' stand on foreign policies.

Have you read the full statement in its context though? Cause this kind of truncated quote smells 100% twisted stuff to change the meaning of the original message. I wouldn't be surprised that he was actually describing the event as a resistance act, but not in such an inflammatory way. Also, when did he say that? That's kind of important too to judge the context of the quote.

Guest appearance : The Last of the Mohicans.

James Cameron's cinema is all fine and dandy, and I must say I enjoyed most of it. But in the end, what Cameron will be most remembered for, is raising the societal bar of decency a little higher.

Imagine thinking you are educating someone about Auschwitz.

Round 1 Results Toxic Crusaders : 1st BlackVega 99,900 = 6 points 2nd Dr. Morbis 24,500 = 4 points 3rd PII 4,400 = 3 points 4th Richardhead 3,645 = 2 points 5th SuperJimtendo 1,900 = 1 points 6th mbd39 1,700 7th RH 800 8th Nesfiend no entry Boulder Dash : 1st BlackVega 14,319 = 6 points 2nd PII 4,440 = 4 points 3rd Dr. Morbis 3,840 = 3 points 4th Richardhead 3,645 = 2 points 5th SuperJimtendo 1,570 = 1 point 6th mbd39 1,320 7th RH 630 8th Nesfiend no entry Tournament Ranking After Round 1 : 1st BlackVega 12 points 2nd Dr. Morbis 7 points 2nd PII 7 points 4th Richardhead 4 points 5th SuperJimtendo 2 points 6th mbd39 6th RH 6th Nesfiend

I wasn't aware there was an 'infinite' point pressing strat on Toxic Crusaders, I thought the point pressing rule was about milking extra points throughout the stage 5 run. Well, what's done is done I guess!

Use this password (827100) and you should be good!

The main concern I would have on this for you, is that a LOT of translations of Dumas longest novels (namely the serialized novels) are abridged versions of the complete work, so it is something to be weary of when picking a Dumas translation. Though there's nothing wrong in reading abridged version on purpose.

Indeed, I'm pretty sure he was paid per word (or newspaper installments, which comes pretty much to the same in the end) for The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas saw Eugène Sue huge serial success with Les Mystères de Paris, and realized how much he could gain financially from serial novel. His Three Musketeers was an immense success in that form, and this ensued a fierce bidding war among newspaper to get the contract for his next serial novel, which was The Count. It is a sure thing that he find ways to milk the most money out of his contract for The Count of Monte Cristo, but it wasn't a problem for the publisher either as he would rely on the popularity of the novel to sell more newspapers, and as long as the interest for the novel was high, so was the marketing scheme. Finding the right balance in writing very long and complex narratives that could still captivate the audience for long period of time was the game writer like Dumas mastered, so it is natural that the work stands as a whole as one and complete. So yes, it is long for financial reasons, but also for aesthetic reasons as it was already a major component of the best historical novels of the times.

Do you know which translation of The Three Musketeers you read? For The Count of Monte Cristo, I would suggest you to read Robin Buss translation, which is considered to be a really good translation work of the Dumas novel. If you read in French, I would even suggest the idea of reading it as it was originally published, as a 'roman-feuilleton' in Le Journal des Débats (first issue with Le Comte de Monte-Cristo : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k446668c/f1.item) I know most prefer to have a physical book in hand when reading (I do, of course), but for novel that were serialized in newspaper, reading it in the newspaper form can really gives you an authentic experience of how the first readers got to read it, and also how the serialized form of the novel actually played a role in the way the author had to write it. For instance, a lot of people say that something they adore about The Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo, is that they never have enough of it, when they pick up the book they have a hard time to stop reading it. Well, one big reason explaining this is that it was especially written so that the readers MUST crave for the next daily issue, as the serialized novel was a huge incentive for selling the newspaper. But, again, only in French unfortunately...

I'm in!

The Home page is worth it just for moving and jumping the Sage character around!

I know there have been attempts at finding him on facebook, but I don't remember if someone really got in touch with him. I'm pretty sure he never came back to his welcome thread though, lol!

I don't think I ever saw that one before, but it is definitely the kind of (good) nonsense I expect when browsing through that thread! Also, nice comeback, LOL!

For the sake of nostalgia, here's a link to the original NA thread archived : https://archive.nes.science/nintendoage-forums/nintendoage.com/forum/messageviewe50a.html?StartRow=1&catid=9&threadid=9172

GoCollect's version of NintendoAge after the original server expired.

Indeed, there was serious shitposting all over the place at some point. But nothing was more hilarious than watching the paid mods acting like they care and were looking to improve the place, LMAO!

Hey Adam! It's nice seeing you posting something on here, we had a lot of fun back when NA was up (and also in some tinychat night sessions, haha!). Having kid(s) certainly change one's life priorities, I went through it myself.

Nice, and he's wearing magnificently the classic Canadian 'Green and Blue' hockey shirt our country is so proud of!