Donation campaign for Gandalf to fund a new server

[MaxWilson]

Hey, watch the generalizations. There's no reason to think it's a U.S. American thing per se. It would be more supportable to say "there are people who would rather trust the (U.S.?) postal system than a wired transfer."

-Max

[MaxWilson]

Agrajag said:

It's worse for me, since I read it with a chet, which turns it into the Hebrew equivalent of "yuck!"

"Ick!" is that way in English, too. "Ick!" <=> "Yuck!" <=> "Ewww!"

-Max

[NTJedi]

It's too bad no Donation Campaign exists for fixing game bugs and lost functionality.

I'd spend more on returning some lost DOM_2 functionality than what I spent for purchasing the game. Well I guess it might be better it doesn't exist.

[Gandalf Parker]

Well in a way there was. The devs explained it often enough. I hinted at it often enough. Now its too late for major changes since they are off on a new project. But we can still pay for lesser changes.

[lch]

NTJedi said:
It's too bad no Donation Campaign exists for fixing game bugs and lost functionality.

You know, the exact same thing was suggested in the Dom3 IRC channels some ~12 hours ago.

[Agrajag]

MaxWilson said:
"Ick!" is that way in English, too. "Ick!" <=> "Yuck!" <=> "Ewww!"

-Max

Shouldn't ICK be pronounced eek? Which would make it similar in meaning to "eek", which is very different from yuck or eww.
And besides the chet makes it sound a whole lot worse

[MaxWilson]

Agrajag said:

Shouldn't ICK be pronounced eek? Which would make it similar in meaning to "eek", which is very different from yuck or eww.
And besides the chet makes it sound a whole lot worse

Nope, it's an exclamation of disgust, "ick" rhymes with "sick." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ick

-Max

[Edratman]

Agrajag said:
Shouldn't ICK be pronounced eek? Which would make it similar in meaning to "eek", which is very different from yuck or eww.
And besides the chet makes it sound a whole lot worse

I understand the various ways ICK people have pronounced, but I had a different one. Mine was the "itch" as in "HITCH".

The little image always looked appropriate for "itch-as-in-Hitch" also. I felt a minor sense of loss to find out that it isn't ICH, but merely a pleblian LCH.

Ell-cee-aitch, not eye-cee-aitch: are you sure?

As for my reluctance to initiate a paypal account: I have too many accounts, credit cards, passwords etc. Age wise, I am a lot closer to 60 than 50, (a contemporary of Gandalf, for that matter) and I have started to actively simplifying my life. A check is money, my addition/subtration skills are undiminished, and I feel like I am in control of my money by using checks.

I make plenty of travel and similar transactions on-line. But I like to touch what I buy before I purchase it, so e-Bay, catalogs and other e-tail commerce is not an attractive or viable proposition to me.

Of course, it could merely be that I am an old dog and unwilling to learn new tricks.

And the check is in the mail.