retired_tinkfaeree

Dylan Thomas? :cool:

retired_bcollier2005

Surely, if you cheat at a computer game, you're only cheating yourself?

Ok, I've been known to wear a hair shirt occasionally but if something's worth doing, then it's got to be worth doing it properly.

Good luck converting more people to LLM :thup:

retired_dvrsecuritylab

:thup:

A great poem.

retired_crazybonejr

You don't need luck to convert, though. As has been mentioned before, the LLM ways tend to extend beyond merely playing FM, but that a lot of us live our lives following a similar path. There are certain types who will work hard, and not demand instant gratification, and those are the types who are already predisposed to playing FM the way we play it around here. I know that I played CM by following the guidelines laid out in here before I ever visited the SI website at all.

retired_jmathias

Valid

retired_mekeesha

Of course there are those who are fooled into thinking Thomas was reacting against societal expectation of accepting senility 'with dignity'. In fact he was raging against the Llama forum nazis who flame people for infringing rules that aren't even mentioned in the rulebook :p

retired_dvrsecuritylab

Of course there are those who are fooled into thinking Thomas was reacting against societal expectation of accepting senility 'with dignity'. In fact he was raging against the Llama forum nazis who flame people for infringing rules that aren't even mentioned in the rulebook :p </BLOCKQUOTE>

First, the poem has nothing to do with 'societal expectations' - it was about his father and wanting him to regain the fire of his youth and not 'die quietly and meekly'. It's an intensely personal poem that can be also be interpreted in a broader way - that is part of it's genius.

On your second point, I think Thomas would wholeheartedly approve of the flaming of sub-intellects, and would likely have been a prime flamer himself, and probably with much more creative vitriol than seen in this gentle forum.

And although he was avidly anti-Nazi (see These Are the Men), he was certainly not above belonging to an elitist clique (the "Kardomah Boys").

So :p yourself.

retired_mekeesha

Impressed

retired_yolanda

Seems like I managed to convince him, he now wants to become a LLaMa. Let's see how long it lasts

KingsbayYHPE

Only in LLM, only in LLM, does a thread started off with player naming meander through a discussion on LLM dogma and end up with interpretation of the work of Dylan Thomas

I never need reminded why I love this Forum