Disciples: Sacred Lands Gold

Disciples 2 Gold

Want? Mortis again calls on me to spread the Disciples gospel, and I will gift these games to one lucky participant (or two; see below).

What do you have to do to win?

1. Share (with the forum; reply to this thread) a favorite quote from either a work of fiction (game, book, movie, television series, etc) or an existing or historical person (anyone, famous or not; friends and relations are acceptable). The quote may be of any variety (funny, insightful, thought-provoking, inspirational, etc), length (line, paragraph, page, etc), and form (poetry, prose, monologue, dialogue, conversation, etc).

Try to be accurate; transcribe it yourself, search for it on the Web, etc.

Be sure to include the name(s) of any quoted characters or people and (if applicable) the name of the work or series of works featuring the quote.

2. Send me a private message containing your e-mail or post it here in the format: username(at)xmail(dot)com (so that I can gift you the game if you win).

3. Indicate whether you want one or both of the games if you win. If you only want one of the games (because you already have one of them, etc), another winner will be chosen from those who indicated wanting the other game.

What are the rules?

1. One entry maximum per forum member.

2. No repeated quotes - if someone has already posted one of your favorite quotes, choose another favorite if you want to be eligible for the drawing.

If you already have both games but would like to share a quote anyway, please do so but be sure to mention that you aren't entering the drawing in your post.

The contest will run for up to seven days. The winner(s) will be chosen at random from all entrants.

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I'll get us started this time around with a favorite from a very quirky and comical yet often dramatic and intelligent show. Def recommend Seasons 1, 2, & 3. One warning, tho: It's very 90's. ;-)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Lie to Me" (Season 2, Episode 7)

"Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
Because of Wizards First Rule, the old wizards created Confessors, and Seekers, as a means of helping find the truth, when the truth is important enough. Darken Rahl knows the Wizard's Rules. He is using the first one. People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this. Darken Rahl is providing them with an enemy, other than himself, a sense of purpose. People are stupid; they want to believe, so they do."

Sorry that its so long. Its from my favorite book series, Sword of Truth.

My email is jonathanmcmullen@yahoo.com and I would like both games

"This seems to be another municipal dust-bin -- no, it is a model of a school of art and public library."
Saki, The Toys Of Peace

I would like both games, but if I had to choose only one, I'd pick the first.

My email is: (my GOG username) (at) fastmail (dot) us

Interesting. Thanks for the draw, bud. Will send a PM. I don't have either game, would love to give each a spin.

The movie "Trainspotting" (1996).

Renton (played by Ewan McGregor):

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin can openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"


EDIT:
SPOILER, for those who have already seen the movie, and like to enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0D4ekTODuA
(I'm going to be just like you the job, the family, the fucking big television, the washing machine, the car....)

'Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends.' - Gandalf
Tolkien, JRR. The Lord of the Rings; HarperCollins: London, 1993; 73

I'm going to send a PM and thanks for the neat contest.

Roger Waters in the song "Too much Rope" from the "Amused to Death"-album:

"Moslem or Christian, Mullah or Pope, Preacher or poet who was it wrote:
Give any one species too much rope, and they'll f*ck it up."

"Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'."

-- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic

I will send e-mail via PM, I would just be after Disciples 1

Also from Terry Pratchett, this time Going Postal:

"Gargoyles move faster than people think."

I've never made up my mind which way to read this:
A) Gargoyles move faster than people expect them to.
B) Gargoyles (Not exactly agile) move at a speed greater than the speed at which people think.

Email is my username at sky dot com

1.Guybrush Threepwood: "Well, if there's one thing I've learned, it's this: never pay more than 20 dollars for a computer game."

2. I'll be sending a pm with the email.

3. Don't have either but just one would suffice, preferably the second.

Roger Waters again, from the Pink Floyd track "Time". Not overly original or profound, but always rang true in my mind.

Would love both games,
seba (dot) mejl (at) yahoo (dot) pl

Cheers!

"Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck."
Darwi Odrade
Frank Herbert Chapterhouse Dune

If i win i want only the first Disc1 - i have allready the II.
mail: PM or look in wishlist spreadsheet.

Cool quotes all around! Anyone else? Busy week for me, haven't been (and likely won't be) online much, but don't let my lack of response fool ya: I'm glad to see interest in the games and the contest. :-)

"What we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence"

Ludwig Wittgenstien, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, Proposition 7

Probably one of the most meaningful quotes for me.

(1) "We shall never forget them nor the last time we saw them, as they prepared for their mission and waved good-bye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God."

-Ronald Reagan (addressing NASA employees after the loss of the Challenger 7 crew)

(2) PM will be sent in a minute.

(3) I don't own either of these games. I have never played Disciples before. However, if I do win I would prefer to receive either game instead of both.

"If you can fight, fight;
if you cannot fight, defend;
if you cannot defend, flee;
if you cannot flee, surrender;
if you cannot surrender, die.” -- Sima Yi

Will try to send PM after this,

I'd like a chance to have a shot at both games