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Spiderweb Software games... On handhelds? in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Thursday, January 6 2005 07:51 Profile #16 quote: how come alorael gets to change his name like every month? Has he been toning it down to once a month? -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Help in Blades of Exile
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Thursday, December 23 2004 18:40 Profile #1 Try The Gimp. It's open source, around 10 MB in the precompiled version and runs on XP. download The Gimp -------------------- Polaris Rache's A3 Site reformatted 2/3 done Rache's A3 Site, original version Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
RPG Recommendations in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Wednesday, December 22 2004 11:31 Profile #65 to TM and Arenax: 'ehrfürchtig' der Respekt: in ehrfürchtigem Respekt die Andacht: in ehrfürchtiger Andacht das Schweigen: in ehrfürchtigem Schweigen 'It is nowhere near awesome.' A literal translation won't make much sense, as we don't use the word 'ehrfürchtig' - 'awesome' in the same contexts as you do. Everyday language would probably come up with something like: 'Das haut mich nicht grad vom Hocker.', teens would find it 'sowas von ungeil', but don't use those in an essay. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
RPG Recommendations in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Tuesday, December 21 2004 16:06 Profile #54 ehrfürchtig = awe inspiring, awesome But Arenax' sentence doesn't make sense. Maybe he means something like: 'Es ist nicht grad zum Niederknien.' meaning: 'it isn't that awesome'. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Anyone with insane relatives? in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Wednesday, December 15 2004 06:15 Profile #31 My paternal grandfather was a saint, according to many people. He took in strays, both human and animals. How would he judge me if I turned my back on my own sisters? You know, when I got older I realized that all the saintly relatives I had been taught to adore just pleased themselves. If it pleases you to take in strays, fine, if not, don't do it. Who had to care for the strays by the way? Your granny? I think about what my mum would think of me all the time. I don't know. She asked my dad to take care of us when she passed... My dad was always emotionally weak when it came to defending his kids from others. And because he cannot fulfill her request, you step in for him? In the natural sequence of generations you are the kid, not he. If you want to be a father, have kids of your own. There is no other way. Your mum would accept your shoulder to lean on once in while, but she would never want to make you carry her burdens. Which is what your father does. Scales, these things never work. You cannot live your father's life for him, you can only live your own. Your father won't help you. He uses you to harmonize the status quo, but he doesn't give you authority to change anything for the better. This is a vicious circle that traps you and eats your life without accomplishing anything. As I see it, you have two options to change that. Knowing that your father will never permit you to decide on anything that would promote you sisters' health, you can leave. You can then continue to be a sympathetic listener. He'll give always in to your sisters' whining and fears and will never let you act. Your second option would dethrone him. If he is not able to be head of your family, you take his place and he obeys you. He can lament and deplore your decisions and actions, but not overthrow them. Think well before you cry out against such a suggestion. I would be much surprised if you didn't get your best relatives' support for that strategy. I'd prefer to see you leave. But I'm not Chinese. Your family ties may be such that make leaving impossible. In that case, unusual circumstances call for unusual measures. Scales, you haven't had someone to defend you as a kid. That's why you can't defend yourself now. It's time you start learning. quote: I can't accept the inferiority and inadequacy of my own body… Mind, you are so much more than that. Even I know this, who knows you only through your posts. [ Wednesday, December 15, 2004 07:20: Message edited by: ef ] -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Blades of Avernum Editor in Tech Support
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Monday, December 13 2004 02:10 Profile #6 quote: Where is the editor application? Is it in the Source folder? Odile, you said in your first post: 'when I use the editor'. Well, in order to use the editor, you have to click on the editor.exe, so you seem to know where that is. The editor.exe = the editor application Move the editor.exe into the Data folder. You find the Data folder by opening your Blades of Avernum folder. -------------------- Polaris Rache's A3 Site reformatted 2/3 done Rache's A3 Site, original version Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Anyone with insane relatives? in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Wednesday, December 8 2004 23:25 Profile #26 Scales says that his sister lives permanently in an alternate reality. That she believes herself to be a vampire with a mission to collect souls. She never touches up in 'our' reality, she's only learned 'to act' in it. And that is where I draw the line. It's no big deal to live with a person like that, as long as s/he is not violent and doesn't try to take your life for whatever reason. But when s/he does, may God protect your soul. You'll speedily come to realize that you've more to lose than just physical life. You are drawn into a nightmare. What if your sister wanted to drink your blood and you felt her urge and desire not only to end your life, but to trap the very core of you for all time. What if you had to mobilize all the physical strength you can muster to stop her killing you. That is no game. I have no answers and no solution. Confronted with a like problem, I chose not to sacrifice those with sane minds for the sake of the one who'd gone over the edge. If that is right or wrong, I really don't know. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Anyone with insane relatives? in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Tuesday, December 7 2004 22:04 Profile #19 quote: I understand and agree what you're saying intellectually. Unfortunately, I was raised traditional Chinese, with heavy emphasis on family duty and honour. I can argue with myself and come to the logical conclusion, but at the end of the day, the small part of me that's been permamently brain-washed always prevails. So, I tend to put the needs of my family before my own. It often sucks, but that's life. I'm not Chinese, but I've also been brought up to put my family's needs before my own. And therefore tried to the best of my ability to protect myself and my siblings from a ravingly mad stepfather and to strengthen and support my mother during those long years of hell and damnation. So I know the trap you are in. In my case, my siblings helped me. I wanted to get them out and be free, but they always only dared as much freedom as I showed them could be by living it myself. I felt torn between conflicting loyalties for some time, until I realized that as a member of a family that goes back many generations, my obligation to my family in this my presence did include to open up a path into the future and not let it all end in hopelessness and despair. You can't help your eldest sister, nobody can. There is no cure that we know of for people in her condition. Imagine your ancestors standing behind you. Wouldn't they want you to be their bridge into life, don't they hope to see you start a family of your own, isn't that also part of your honour and duty? -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Anyone with insane relatives? in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Monday, December 6 2004 09:11 Profile #10 quote: Tell everyone you trust about your concerns, they can help you moniter her behavior. If you're part of a church let them know. Most churches are just waiting for the opportunity to minister. You may only get prayer or you may get volunteers to come over and spend time with your sister and dad to help watch. The more people who witness her trying to do harm the better. The police might not get involved if there is only one and she denies it. This seems a very good advice to me. Share the burden. Don't try to keep up appearances, and don't become a 'lone island'. If there's anything you are responsible for, then it is not your sisters, nor your dad. It's just yourself. There's no greater favour you can do your dad than follow your own inclinations, develop your potentials and become the man you want to be. [ Monday, December 06, 2004 09:12: Message edited by: ef ] -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Perfect Forest woes in Blades of Avernum
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Sunday, December 5 2004 16:13 Profile #9 Try this variation. The mirrors: Place one of them in the southern room and direct the beam to the north. Catch that beam with the other mirror and direct it west, so that it hits the power source. -------------------- Polaris Rache's A3 Site reformatted 2/3 done Rache's A3 Site, original version Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Perfect Forest Crash in Blades of Avernum
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Tuesday, November 23 2004 17:07 Profile #1 It's a known bug that cannot fully be explained. Stareye thinks that it is the Avernum engine that causes the problem. See here: Perfect Forest Bug edit: didn't see that you asked what to do now, sorry. Just return to the mine - that's possible, the game only crashes when you leave it as far as I know. Activate the teleporter and continue with the game. [ Tuesday, November 23, 2004 17:39: Message edited by: ef ] -------------------- Polaris Rache's A3 Site reformatted 2/3 done Rache's A3 Site, original version Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Download problems in Tech Support
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Thursday, November 18 2004 13:24 Profile #1 I guess that your OS is Windows XP. Try this link for support: How to troubleshoot program compatibility issues in Windows XP -------------------- Polaris Rache's A3 Site reformatted 2/3 done Rache's A3 Site, original version Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Speeding up your computer without buying a cable modem. in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Tuesday, November 16 2004 12:37 Profile #3 I don't think that Firefox has an internet accelerator, but it does have a built in download manager that works just fine for me. What it comes with is more or less up to you: there's a multitude of downloadable extensions available for free. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Shah mat in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Friday, November 12 2004 01:12 Profile #37 If you assign a number to each letter of the alphabeth, it either looks like this: a=1 b=2 c=3 etc., then j=10 k=11 etc., t=20 u=21 etc., or you take the cross section, so that a=1 b=1 j=1 k=2 t=2 u=3 Adding the numbers and reducing them to their cross sections gets you there. That's how I learned to do it. [ Friday, November 12, 2004 01:33: Message edited by: ef ] -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Shah mat in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Friday, November 12 2004 00:16 Profile #35 quote: 666 is from the numerological transliteration of the Hebrew characters forming NEIRON KAISER, I did some numerology for fun. Now, may I shock those who believe in the number of the Beast? 1) George W. Bush = 6 2) born July 6, 1946 = 6 3) inaugurated president of the US on January 20, 2001 = 6 What do we have here? [ Friday, November 12, 2004 00:16: Message edited by: ef ] -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Shah mat in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Thursday, November 11 2004 13:28 Profile #18 If you were driven out of your country, because somebody else happens to want it, would you consider youself a terrorist,if you fought to get it back? -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Shah mat in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Thursday, November 11 2004 13:07 Profile #15 quote: Good riddance to that slime. Wikipedia: The 'New Historians' are a group of Israeli historians, who aim to submit a revision of the history of Israel and the Zionism. Relevant historians of this direction are Benny Morris, Ilan Pappe and Avi Shlaim. Their research is based on the evaluation of Israeli government documents; arab sources have been so far neglected (which has often been critizised). Core thesis of this school is that the driving out of a part of the Arab population was necessary for the establishment of the state of Israel, an event, which so far has been interpreted as 'voluntary migration' by the official Israeli historiography. The 'New Historians' are of the opinion that the State of Israel has therefore a joint responsibility for the development of the Middle East Conflict. The theses of the "New Historians" are under attack from both the zionistic historiography, that represents 'voluntary migration' as their point of view, and from pro-Arab authors, who accuse them to try to play down what happened. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Shah mat in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Thursday, November 11 2004 09:42 Profile #8 You are a devil when it comes to playing with words, Alec. Shah mat: 1)newer arabic root: the king is dead 2)older persian version: the king is struck dumb, broken, paralyzed, defeated -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
A Hypothetical in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Tuesday, November 9 2004 00:16 Profile #37 It is observable, Weedy, that if you value yourself - and mind, I speak of value here, not of greedy and needy desires -, so if you value yourself, truly value what you are, you also value others. That is easily explainable, as whatever you are conscious of within yourself, you will also recognize in others. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
A Hypothetical in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Monday, November 8 2004 22:11 Profile #34 quote: I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. Oppenheimer's quote? It is not Arjuna, it is Vishnu, the Lord of Life himself who says that while taking on the appropiate multi-armed form. It's what I used to call 'God's dark face' when I was young, wondering why Christianity had blended it out and split from it. Birth and death are truly the two sides of one coin, or isn't the 'birth' of the toddler the 'death' of the babe? But we are not Lord of Life, and if we try to be, destruction will more often be the outcome than not. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
A Hypothetical in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Monday, November 8 2004 21:04 Profile #32 Sorry, but this is not, what the Gita is about. Your 'cousin and kin' is everything you feel attached to, that is binding you to the egoic self, bonding and trapping you to its limitations. Love cannot flow unhindered, as long as you feel attached, because Love is free from need, is Self-sufficient and Self-fulfilling and does not cling to anything. The definition of 'Love' and 'Self' is different here from what you are used to, though it comes close to Christ's message, when he says, that you should 'leave father and mother' and follow 'Him'. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
A Hypothetical in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Monday, November 8 2004 13:29 Profile #29 quote: If someone actually made the offer, I'm not so sure I could actually take it. I'm relatively sure that you couldn't, Alorael. You wouldn't like the feeling. Nor would I. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
mathematical miracle in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Sunday, November 7 2004 13:40 Profile #12 Make them international, the moon will have to adapt. Sweet dreams. -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
Unhandled exception in BoA in Tech Support
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Sunday, November 7 2004 13:37 Profile #3 'Whoever' is Stareye, and as far as I know he has searched high and low for the bug, but couldn't find it. He's on a Mac, the problem does not show up on that OS. -------------------- Polaris Rache's A3 Site reformatted 2/3 done Rache's A3 Site, original version Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00
mathematical miracle in General
ef Guardian Member # 2476	written Sunday, November 7 2004 13:30 Profile #10 What a hairy mess. ;) -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 \| Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00

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