Profile for I'll Steal Your Toast
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| Displayed name | I'll Steal Your Toast |
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| Registered | Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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| Lord Putidus (The Darkness) Released! in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, April 2 2005 03:52
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Parties that go through the HLPM are weaker than regular parties. They do not get special artifacts from scenarios, to buy skills from trainers, get bonus skills from quests, get bonus levels for spells, etc. So it really isn't cheating. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Beta Call for Echoes: Tomorrow Belongs to Echoes in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, April 1 2005 10:27
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Im an aplikant. I thonk I cun spill. Name: Toasted 007 Email: wehireu@yahoo.com Platform: Windows XP Betatisting Xperiences: My brain is toasted I can't remember exactly. I had to wrestle it from these guys Brains For Zombies There is smoke coming out my ears. I have drunk too much Gremlin Wine from Backwater Calls. I huv a parti. It is teh cheesi party of duum. Tey are level 8o. Argh. Argh. Im a ruminatung-- I've beta tested-- A Perfect Forest, Backwater Calls, Canopy, Lord Putidus, Undead Valley, and Mount Doomblast. :P [ Friday, April 01, 2005 16:47: Message edited by: Toasty Warm ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Beta Call ? Rhapsody in Blue in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, April 1 2005 01:06
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Name: Buttered Toast Email: wehireu@yahoo.com System: Windows XP Betatesting Experience: A Perfect Forest, Lord Putidus, Canopy, Basshikava, Backwater Calls Cool, fun, great, awesome another beta. ;) -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| The Abominable Party-Building Topic in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, March 31 2005 14:49
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Don't forget strength increases your chances to bash down doors. Dexterity increases your tool use-- not sure the bonus percentage. If your characters are very fast, they can take out Galthrax quickly. Speed and initiative are often more important than defense. Which noncombat skills do you try to focus on getting quickly. I rather like pathfinder. I also like magical efficiency. Alchemy has been hardly mentioned. Getting enough points in alchemy and the recipe for energy potion, energy elixir, and protection brew can make the game very easy. My priest character is basically a potion factory. No mage skill. You can carry up to 100 potions of any variety per slot. Also up to 100 ingredients per slot. Basically she carries all the ingredients the party finds, plus a bunch of potions. As the character progresses I up the strength, melee, defense, potion making, priest, arcane lore, nature lore slots. Eventually move to pathfinder, magical efficieny. [ Friday, April 01, 2005 03:26: Message edited by: Toasty Warm ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Terri Schiavo in General | |
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written Thursday, March 31 2005 10:36
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Yay, undead news. I stopped watching the news on television a while ago. I listen to it on the radio or get it directly from the internet-- there is less time lag it comes directly from the AP or Reuters up to the minute on Yahoo or Reuters. Sometimes I go to http://www.aldaily.com/#newspapers Arts and Letters Daily to read the international news free. This makes it a bit more interesting. There are no retractions-- the retractions occur about two or three hours after the news is released. Radio corrections are a bit faster, usually about a half an hour later. You get to see censorship and "balancing of viewpoints" in action. Most daily newspapers and television have a day to be edited before general public consumption. Television often claims to be up to the minute. This is laughable. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Magery v. Priest-ery in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, March 31 2005 08:17
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It is very easy to completely imbalance the game with an all spellcaster party. For example a party with four characters with cloud of blades pretty much autokills anything out there. The same effect happens versus undead -- 4 casters with dispel spirit at high level wipes out undead. Even 3 casters can do this. I try not to overdo it with spellcasters. Just to make things interesting... I keep one of my melee fighter at intelligence level 2 and give him no spells. Also large groups of monsters with spell immunities can tear up an all spellcaster party. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Artifacts Hall Updated in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, March 31 2005 03:36
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The Lord Putidus box has 1 pilum in it. You might want to put a group of 10 pilum in it. Kind of interesting. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| The Abominable Party-Building Topic in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Wednesday, March 30 2005 12:42
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A few things about parties and party building strategy. 1) I try to get the maximum experience penalties for the parties I am creating. This extends the useful life of the parties I create. I am not interested in leveling up quickly. -60% to -70% experience penalty. 2) This increases the number of scenarios a party will go through. Allows for better item accumulation, and knowledge brew use. Less level gains means more scenarios to send a party through. Also, a character does not get as much experience for killing lower level monsters than the character. 3) There is a maximum level of 100 for monsters in BOA. The characters ability to gain experience slows way down at about lvl 70. Monsters don't generate that much experience. 4) I change the name of my save file after I finish a scenario. This creates a bunch of different saves with different level parties. No need to create a new party for every scenario. 5) The general pattern I follow is a four party group. 1) Slith-- Divinely Touched Strong back-- Rebel-- Focus on Polearms-- Tool Use-- Defense. 2) Human-- Elite Warrior-- Fast On Feet -- Melee-- Bows-- Defense 3) Human-- Cleric-- Natural Mage-- Scholar Focus on Missile Weapons-- Alchemy-- Arcane Knowledge-- Cleric Spells. 4) Nephil-- Hedge Wizard-- Fast On Feet-- Natural Mage-- Focus on Mage and Cleric Spells. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Magery v. Priest-ery in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, March 29 2005 10:54
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You can start with a character that can use both effectively. Hedge Wizard does this as a choice of character. Buying natural mage on a hedge wizard eliminates the armor problem-- and gives your starting character with both mage and priest spells. Dispel Barrier, Open Locks, Light, Far sight are all good spells. Arcane Shield at high levels gives you invulnerability. Fire Blast and Arcane Blow allow you to target multiple enemies. Slow is useful against tough monsters. Acid resistance is the least common resistance so Spray Acid has its uses. I haven't used simulacrum at all. Priest spells which are useful are War Blessing Level 4-- possibly the best spell in the game, Move Mountains, Radiant Shield, Dispel Spirit, and others. War blessing Lvl 4 and Radiant Shield Lvl 3 in combination make parties very tough. To effectively finish most high level dungeons-- it is often necessary to use Move Mountains, Open Locks, and Dispel Barrier to move through the dungeons. It is good to have both priest and mage spells available. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| On The Possibility of Objective Morality in General | |
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written Tuesday, March 29 2005 01:34
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If there was a universally objective perfect moral system for all human beings, then no one would be able to contest it because it would be able to stand up to all questioning. Every part of it would be right. Fortunately, because many things are questionable, it is not likely someone could create such a system. Various religious or political fundamentalists claim their system is the perfect moral system and can never be open to question. Usually this is through divine or philosophical revelation which ultimately can never be proven. Moral systems start from a single person often and spread throughout a society. At any given time there are some individuals who are capable of introducing radical changes of thought; enough to change a society completely. This usually happens when said individuals are challenged to their core of beliefs. There is always a chance that a person can have a strong impact. It is often because they are forced to make a compelling decision in life. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| On The Possibility of Objective Morality in General | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 15:22
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It is important in the ultimate sense to not let those who claim absolute moral authority and complete control to the point of totalitarianism to remain in power. Authoritarianisms natural enemy is debate and open mindedness. There was complete control in nazism and stalinism and outright destruction of any who opposed their philosophy. Moral relativism may not ultimately decide right and wrong, but it allows for freedom of thought. It is our right to defend ourselves from people or groups who attempt to take our freedom and openness of thought. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 15:04
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Battle kits require you to have 5 points of first aid. I couldn't use it when I first started out. I ignored them for the most part. Is there a way to assign them to the character with the highest first aid when you start. This may be why I had a tough time with healing for my 1st level party. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Do you think there is a Hell? in General | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 13:22
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Deist. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| On The Possibility of Objective Morality in General | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 10:26
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There may be no absolute morality, but there is something to be said for creating a world where all people are free to philosophize like us-- because: 1) They are fed properly. 2) They have a place to stay. 3) They have something meaningul to do. 4) They have enough time and freedom to sit around drinking beverages or gawking at a computer screen. :P The point of this is that any philosophy which is created depends on a persons interactions with other people. There is a vanity which happens where a person decides they somehow can create a superior moral philosophy and then export it to the world and it will work in real time. The idea is that an "objective" philosophy is good. It cannot be refuted. Purely objective philosophies tend to end up being totalitarian. There is a tendency to fill them with something called logical positivism. Statements like I believe in xxx. xxx is good. Therefore I am good. If I am not good you don't believe in xxx. The more charismatic or messianic the philosophy is the more destructive its potential becomes. The "superior" moral philosophies we accept are good are based on essentially charismatic works of self styled intellectuals. We somehow look at these works and say wow, this is how the world should be run. Violent charismatics appeal to a lot of people, and violent charismatics with a moral lesson inflame people. Then we turn the works over to the various smiling "leaders" and they mess things up. The most charismatic leaders cause havoc. Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Idi Amin were all "charismatic leaders". We even have a "strong man" in office today-- what charisma, how religious. In opposition is an equally "violent charismatic". This is very satisfying for a lot of people. Focusing on pure morality to fulfill peoples needs causes more problems than taking the time to deal with peoples real needs. Starting from the point of helping in the real world in my opinion is more constructive and more moral than many objective moral arguments. I would like to see someone try to create a philosophy which could get every single person on earth headed towards reaching the pinnacle of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs in the real world. Feed, clothe, shelter, educate, etc. [ Monday, March 28, 2005 11:12: Message edited by: Toasty Warm ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| On The Possibility of Objective Morality in General | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 09:54
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Unfortunately the idea of pure objectivity is false. Two points. 1) It is impossible to separate what is being observed from the observer. The schrodingers cat problem. 2) Logic -- objectivity is based on emotions. No matter how we would like to separate the two functions philosophically, the brain always attaches emotions to our decisions. The inability to separate ourselves purely from emotion limits our abilities to be objective. The problem of automatically changing the parameters of what is happening by our observation also changes the chance of being objective. This is one of the reasons why we can never have a completely "true" philosophy or even "science" we can never truly separate ourselves from our interactions, nor can we in an absolute sense have anything but theoretical ideas of how the world works because of the limits of our senses. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| How did you got your username? in General | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 07:03
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It was random like many things. Well not really. It is a reference to the Better Battle Butter Book by Dr. Seuss. Do you butter your toast butter side up or butter side down? Thus Buttered Toast. [ Wednesday, March 30, 2005 07:40: Message edited by: Toasty Warm ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, March 27 2005 09:58
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Sent some thoughts on this scenario. Thanks so much for letting me play it. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Undead Valley Testing Version 9 in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, March 26 2005 13:26
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Forgot... [ Saturday, March 26, 2005 13:27: Message edited by: Toasty Warm ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Announcement: Beta Testing Center in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, March 26 2005 04:01
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Hmm, I register a name and password for this forum, get the registration link sent to my email account. Click on the link for confirming registering-- 404 error forum does not exist. I go to the forum-- it exists. I will check again later. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| New Graphics, please critique in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, March 26 2005 02:15
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Could you make a few with less tone. They are a bit garish. Mute the intensity a bit. They would stick out well in a scenario. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, March 26 2005 02:10
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Name: Buttered Toast Email: wehireu@yahoo.com Platform: Windows XP Betatesting Experience: A Perfect Forest, Backwater Calls, Canopy, and Bahssikava. Looking forward to another excellent adventure. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| BoA Guides and Statistical Data in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, March 25 2005 19:05
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Smoo forgot one more thing. Bearworth the mage will train in 1 point of magery if characters ask in Backwater Calls. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Needle-Exchange Programs in General | |
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written Friday, March 25 2005 14:04
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Once again you run into a problem. You may like a program and want it to work. I may not have a problem with it, but Russia and China for example are very socially conservative and would never accept an unmodified needle exchange program. I think the only way you could get this done in a place like this would be with a drug rehabilitation program tied to the program. The other option would be to tie it in to community aids education programs designed to help stop the spread of AIDS. I would not have a problem if they provided both condoms and needles as part of the program. In the United States needle exchange programs face fierce opposition. President Bush is trying to shut down methadone clinics designed to reduce drug dependency. The conservative agenda is that a drug user must quit cold turkey without medical intervention (religious intervention is ok). Funding for methadone clinics has been sharply reduced. Tying a needle exchange program to a rehabilitation center would make the most sense to me. To put it bluntly I am completely opposed to heroin and the other hard drugs. Drugs are being designed to be more and more potent and addictive. The key here is "designed". I think a lot of people overestimate the power of the United States because they live here. We are constantly fed the idea we are in control of many things which we aren't in control of. [ Friday, March 25, 2005 14:25: Message edited by: Toasty Warm ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Needle-Exchange Programs in General | |
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written Friday, March 25 2005 12:47
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The practicalities of a needle exchange program in an undeveloped country are not real. For example in some regions of China some 700,000 people became infected with AIDS because they donated blood. The needles used to donate the blood were dirty. http://212.67.202.147/~ivnet05/article.php3?id_article=490 The cost of clean needles in hospitals in third world countries is almost prohibitive. 2.5% of AIDS cases in Africa are caused by unclean needles in health care. Hospitals could not afford clean needles. A new medical needle in a third world country is a large expense. A half a days wages in many cases. Giving them away would not work. Providing hospitals everywhere with a worldwide supply of clean needles would be a more realistic way of looking at this. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Cooking an idea, to help beta testing. in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, March 25 2005 08:40
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#2 is better. The contrast is better and the lettering is easier to read. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |