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Big Lynx
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Posted - 2016.03.03 11:27:16 -
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If you could meet a famous person of human history, who would it be? and why? |
Jenshae Chiroptera
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Posted - 2016.03.03 16:41:27 -
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Can not choose one because none of us know them. They are names and a few things they have done but we do not really know them.
CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids
I will be voting for Xenuria because...
EVE is becoming shallow and childish; it will not satisfy either crowd.
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Ian Morbius
Potomac Greeting Card Company
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Posted - 2016.03.03 20:13:48 -
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Warren Buffett. Do I really need to say why? Okay,.... for advice. Would even be willing to play a game of Bridge.
New Enterprise Associates The largest venture capital firm on the planet. They are great.
New Enterprise Associates (Wikipedia).
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Nana Skalski
Poseidaon
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Posted - 2016.03.04 00:14:28 -
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Adolf Hitler when he was a painter. To kill him and see what would happen then.
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Every part of a game helps to tell a story. =ƒôò
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
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Posted - 2016.03.04 02:04:40 -
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Without a doubt, Uesugi Kenshin. A warlord during the Sengoku Jidai, when many powerful warlord clans were struggling to gain dominance of Japan and claim the shogunate. Kenshin is kind of the most enigmatic and hard to understand among that load of cultivated and civilized warlord gangsters.
-Apparently had something of a natural gift for battlefield and siege tactics and operations, first shown at age 14, as an orphaned younger sibling. He was rather feared for his skill and ferocity, even though most of his opponents had more wealth (soldier cannon fodder and equipment). And more importantly, internal stability and support within their clans.
-In the midst of all that, studied under the most renowned Zen Buddhism teacher in Japan, who initiated him as an adept. In the Kyoto area, many dangerous miles from his backwoods home castle (which was often under attack).
-Never married. In an age when marriage was a Royal Flush tool in the diplomatic tool chest. Not to mention, a pre-tech age where siring an heir for the stability of the clan was a paramount duty.
-At age 25, having unified the clan and at least temporarily repelled all invaders, renounced his daimyo (warlord) status. Set off solo to go to a distant province to join some meditating monks. He didn't make it past the border, the clan elders intercepted him and begged him to come back.
-Was a notorious drinkard. In an age when it would take pretty supreme efforts to make yourself an exceptional waster.
-Some years later, at the height of the inter-gang warfare drama and constant multi-sided battle, managed to again get to Kyoto to study with the most refined masters of Buddhism. Became a monk of a very esoteric (non-popular congregrate and easy blah blah blah repetition) sect.
-Spent the rest of his life back in the homeland, the cold northern coast of Japan (the Yin side of the archipelago, not the Yang side on the south with the major action) thrusting and counter-thrusting against numerous foes. As a Buddhist monk and a war leader.
-Died of stroke or something at the age of 48, just when all of the clan and rival/affiliated clans were fired up and had the marching and conquest fever on them. For the first time ever, Echigo province was on the warpath and ready to kick arse. That was at about the 3/4s-point of Oda Nobunaga's path to dominance of all of the other mobsters. As Japanese warlords go, the Jimi Hendrix.
What a remarkable, but still not understood or fully visualized guy. We know is that his enemies feared him. And they admired his pit bull "I will murder your army" scrapperness. And the respected his kind of odd, abstract goals. His most famous and bitter rival, Takeda Shingen, wrote to his son before dying: "If you get in trouble and have to make a deal, go to Kenshin. If you get words from him, you can trust them."
Charismatic war leader-savant/authentic ascetic meditational monk-hermit/alcoholic. That's the guy I'd like to meet and interview.
What would Syd Barrett do?
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Sol epoch
Addicted To Chaos Archetype.
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Posted - 2016.03.04 09:48:36 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:Adolf Hitler when he was a painter. To kill him and see what would happen then.
He said famous not infamous!
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
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Posted - 2016.03.05 00:32:15 -
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Sorry if I spam this thread. Too many interesting people to fantasy-meet.
Joachim Murat - Tradesman's son, minor revolutionary, Marshall of Napoleon's cavalry arm, high fashionisto, King of Naples. And then, back to plebian, and the firing squad. The guy is kind of the dashingness of the Romantic Period personified. Lot of dashingness was going on then. For the female counterpoint, check out some portraits of the ladies of the time, or paintings about he social life around the Euro capitals. Oh my. Those were the parties you wanted to be at, one way or another.
Anyway, Murat didn't have much to say, that I've seen. Probably wasn't much of a heavy thinker, really. Maybe the equivalent of a rock star lead vocalist, Revolutionary-Napoleonic France? But he was good at leading hussars, chasseurs, dragoons, and other vain incorrigible rogue types. Also at having them where they were needed, when needed. And he field campaigned for many years of hard war, including to Moscow and back, so he couldn't have been just a clothes horse fluff.
Anyway, an interesting character who doesn't match many type patterns that I know of. So on my list of chars I'd like to meet.
What would Syd Barrett do?
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Pix Severus
Empty You
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Posted - 2016.03.05 01:19:34 -
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Pierre de Fermat, to see if he really did have a proof for his last theorem, or if he was just a massive troll.
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Ralph King-Griffin
Devils Rejects 666 The Devil's Warrior Alliance
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Posted - 2016.03.05 02:44:21 -
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Better the Devil you know.
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Saint Lazarus
Spiorad ag fanaiocht
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Posted - 2016.03.05 03:11:45 -
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Diogenes the Cynic
Though it would be a short meeting and he would more than likely just spit on me. |
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Jacques d'Orleans
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.03.05 08:22:51 -
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Frederick the Great Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
The beginning of the End
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Big Lynx
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Posted - 2016.03.05 09:09:33 -
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Thank you for the very interesting list of historical ppl |
Rovinia
Exotic Dancers Union SONS of BANE
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Posted - 2016.03.05 19:46:47 -
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Gandhi or Charlie Chaplin |
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