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Posted November 25, 2011
This weekend, we’re bringing you a [url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/panoply]panoply of games and genres to choose from for your holiday enjoyment. This selection should satisfy fans of every genre. We’re giving you a flat 50% off on role playing games, first person shooters, adventure games, action games, platformer games, and Real Time Strategies. Pick one--or many--to make your gamer’s heart thankful for classic games.

So for all of the loot collectors out there, lone adventurers, or someone of needing a good hack and slash we bring you both of the Divinity games, Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity both titles are for pick up for only $2.99.

For the RTS fans, we’re bringing you the best in terms of castle building, management simulation, both games in the Stronghold series are on this promo for $2.99 and its sequel [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/stronghold_crusader]Stronghold Crusader for a mere $4.99!

If you are in dire need of some brainless, psychotic carnage, we’ve also got something for you. Both Postal games are available for 50% off until Monday! The Postal: Classic and Uncut is now for your guilty pleasure for only $2.99! The full blown 3D sequel of First Person Perspective madness Postal 2 Complete is $4.99 after discount.

If battling monsters, gather loot, building a castle or going postal isn’t your thing, you can always accompany the young Simon The Sorcerer in both of his classical Point and Click adventures Simon The Sorcerer and
Simon The Sorcerer 2. Each ticket to Simon’s world of magic and adventure will cost you $2.99.

Last but not least, we’ve gone extra terrestrial for your enjoyment. Meet Abe and help him in his adventure to save his race from genocide for as little as $2.99 in Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. After you finish that, well there’s no time to rest for superheroes.. Mudokon tears in my SoulStorm Brew? Outrageous! Abe will handle that in Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus for only $2.99!

Don’t wait and grab a 50% off game in our Panoply Promo right now!
Posted November 25, 2011
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orcishgamer: he is extremely high.
Totally off his tits.
Posted November 25, 2011
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TheFrenchMonk: Panoply actually comes from the French word "panoplie". My American staff is getting French, we are all doomed :)
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orcishgamer: But it's an English word too... that's not even that rare... grr, people need to read more.

Excuse me while I get down from this horse, he is extremely high.
I wonder ... since this word does go back to the Greeks, I wonder if got into Old English via Norman French or if the word had ended up in Saxon or Old English as a separate event from that. Anyone got an OED?

You may have your horse, but I've got my monocle dammit! :)

EDIT: In the definition linked to in the OP, they say the word is got to English from Greek via French, so I guess that's that.
Post edited November 25, 2011 by crazy_dave
Posted November 25, 2011
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orcishgamer: But it's an English word too... that's not even that rare... grr, people need to read more.

Excuse me while I get down from this horse, he is extremely high.
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crazy_dave: I wonder ... since this word does go back to the Greeks, I wonder if got into Old English via Norman French or if the word had ended up in Saxon or Old English as a separate event from that. Anyone got an OED?

You may have your horse, but I've got my monocle dammit! :)

EDIT: In the definition linked to in the OP, they say the word is got to English from Greek via French, so I guess that's that.
now the question is where did the greeks get it from?
Posted November 25, 2011
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Kaldurenik: Me sad :( i have no money to spend right now on gaming ='(
Me either but I bought the ..Divinities anyway!
Damn you GOG, you geological haemoglobin extractors you!
Posted November 25, 2011
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morciu: now the question is where did the greeks get it from?
They bought it from a passing merchant ship. Well, they thought they bought it, but they just bought a copy while the copyright actually belongs to an immortal hermit, so the French and the English copies are definitely pirated.
Posted November 25, 2011
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crazy_dave: EDIT: In the definition linked to in the OP, they say the word is got to English from Greek via French, so I guess that's that.
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morciu: now the question is where did the greeks get it from?
Just made the damn thing up :) - according to several dictionaries, it's a portmanteau of two other Greek words: pan - all, opl - arms, armor (as for a Greek hoplite). So it means a full suit of armor or the full collection of items in a full suit of armor. Eventually the word also came to mean just any large or eclectic grouping of anything impressive.
Post edited November 25, 2011 by crazy_dave
Posted November 25, 2011
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crazy_dave: I wonder ... since this word does go back to the Greeks, I wonder if got into Old English via Norman French or if the word had ended up in Saxon or Old English as a separate event from that. Anyone got an OED?

You may have your horse, but I've got my monocle dammit! :)

EDIT: In the definition linked to in the OP, they say the word is got to English from Greek via French, so I guess that's that.
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morciu: now the question is where did the greeks get it from?
Sumerians or some other Indo-European tribe? :P
Posted November 25, 2011
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grviper: They bought it from a passing merchant ship. Well, they thought they bought it, but they just bought a copy while the copyright actually belongs to an immortal hermit, so the French and the English copies are definitely pirated.
Well with English's impressive ability to steal from other languages a good fraction of our language really could be considered pirated. Though to be fair, the French words were not so much stolen as rather being more forcefully included by invading Norman French. :)
Posted November 25, 2011
Nuts to the linguistics debate, I'm goin' Postal!

And Postal 2, and 8 other games in this special, none of which I had until today.

Thanks GoG! :)
Posted November 25, 2011
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crazy_dave: Well with English's impressive ability to steal from other languages a good fraction of our language really could be considered pirated.
I heard, the world largest collection of pillaged loot is called the British Museum.
Posted November 25, 2011
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crazy_dave: Well with English's impressive ability to steal from other languages a good fraction of our language really could be considered pirated.
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grviper: I heard, the world largest collection of pillaged loot is called the British Museum.
Yeah we pwned Egypt pretty hard for a start...
Posted November 25, 2011
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spindown: Finally, a sale on the Stronghold games!
Yes, finally! Too bad that the timing is definitely NOT right for me.... let me think.... to buy two games or to buy green fresh Christmas tree... ah, so tough choices everywhere... :/
Posted November 25, 2011
Yay for Stronghold
Posted November 25, 2011
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crazy_dave: Well with English's impressive ability to steal from other languages a good fraction of our language really could be considered pirated.
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grviper: I heard, the world largest collection of pillaged loot is called the British Museum.
Pillaged is ... well its just such a strong word ... I prefer to think of it as "saving artifacts for posterity" ... in a different country from the artifacts' origins. And not giving them back. Ever. :)

The issue of the Elgin Marbles is actually an interesting moral & legal debate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles
Post edited November 25, 2011 by crazy_dave
Posted November 25, 2011
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Kaldurenik: Me sad :( i have no money to spend right now on gaming ='(
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Fever_Discordia: Me either but I bought the ..Divinities anyway!
Damn you GOG, you geological haemoglobin extractors you!
I wish to buy that but i have no money on the card right now so i cant :( oh well thats life there will be another discount at some time in the future.
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