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Displayed name	Zeviz
Member number	24
Title	Nuke and Pave
Postcount	2649
Homepage	http://www.geocities.com/zeviz1/
Registered	Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00

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Web hosting suggestions? in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, February 6 2007 13:16 Profile Homepage #2 Thanks for the reply. I forgot to say that he is currently paying 15$/month for an EarthLink account with >100MB of storage. So even the super-overkill DreamHost plans you are suggesting would be cheaper than what he currently pays. So let me rephrase the question: Does anybody know of a reliable host that allows domain names and charges no more than 10$/month? (How do separate domain registrars work?) The main factors here are reliability and price. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Question for Geneforge Series veterans in Geneforge Series
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, February 6 2007 12:51 Profile Homepage #4 To fully enjoy the games you have to avoid reading the forums and play them in order (1 through 4). The negative side of "you don't need experience with previous games to play later ones" is that all secrets of earlier games are revealed in early portions of later installments. So if you do want to play all four, you have to play them in order. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Web hosting suggestions? in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 30 2007 14:33 Profile Homepage #0 Since several people here have paid hosting services, I am wondering if you can recommend something for my cousin for his pictures. He uses only basic HTML and needs about 200-500MB storage with 2-10GB monthly transfer limit. The only premium feature he needs is domain hosting. Here is his current page, if anybody is curious: http://designart.cc/ So can anybody recommend a cheap service that would meet these requirements? -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
George Bush in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 30 2007 14:24 Profile Homepage #28 The difference is that the president of Iran repeatedly promised to wipe Israel off the map. I am not sure how you draw the moral equivalence between a bombing raid against nuclear weapons labs and a nuclear strike to wipe out an entire country, but the difference looks pretty clear to me. I personally don't think even Ahmedinajad would be insane enough to start a nuclear war, but if I lived in range of his missiles in the country he promised to destroy, my opinion would probably be different. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Help With Internet Browser in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 30 2007 12:48 Profile Homepage #5 Some are free. Others are shareware. In any case, free versions should be sufficient. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
New Comics! Featuring WtC! in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 30 2007 12:45 Profile Homepage #7 Considering how well-received your comics were, you might want to turn them into a real webcomic: Use a few lines of basic HTML to make navigation buttons and a table of contents. Perhaps add a border and some other formatting. And start putting up the new pictures a couple times a week, after posting initial set of about half a dozen. If you do it that way, you'll keep constant interest and each panel will get more attention. If you just throw up everything at once, people will look at it and forget it by next week. (For example, if Diki's story had been finished and posted completely, it would be half-forgotten by now. Instead, it's been a continuous topic of conversation for almost a year.) -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Endeavor and Privacy in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 30 2007 12:36 Profile Homepage #68 Taking the site down was a bad idea, because it just promotes curiosity and makes things look worse than they are. Google search of your site can give a very good idea of what used to be there, along with letting a determined reader find most of your blog entries. Removing some blog entries might be a good idea, but other than that, you probably did more damage by taking the site down than by leaving it up. About the major projects on your site, I've seen even bigger projects done by people on their free time, so if your boss assumes that you were wasting company time on them, you have every reason to respond with righteous indignation. :) (As long as there is no way for him to double-check what you've been doing at work.) -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
George Bush in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Friday, January 26 2007 16:51 Profile Homepage #15 By calling every politician you don't like a war criminal and calling every civilian death a genocide you make the terms lose their original power. So when real war crimes and genocides happen, nobody cares because the words have been thrown about so much that people just don't realize the difference. (See the lack of action in Sudan, Ruanda, etc.) -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
I'm feeling sadistic in Blades of Avernum
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Friday, January 26 2007 12:26 Profile Homepage #17 Just like asking players to used a pre-made party, or asking them to use a singleton, asking players to save only in certain places is an arbitrary restriction intended to make the game more fun. The difference is that restricting saves forces a much bigger change in playing style than other similar restrictions. If you let the players decide for themselves, you can't lose because those who don't like the restriction will ignore it and those who like it will abide by it anyway. If you enforce the restriction programmatically, those who don't like it will either figure out a way around it, or quit, so you will not gain anything and will just annoy your players. PS As for me, if a scenario restricted saving I wouldn't even download it. If it asked the player to save only in specific points to avoid breaking the story, I'd most likely go along. (Unless my curiosity to see the other story lines overwhelmed my desire to stay in character.) However, I don't yet have BoA, so if you are counting votes of potential players of your scenario, my vote probably doesn't count. [ Friday, January 26, 2007 12:29: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Custom titles in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Friday, January 26 2007 11:24 Profile Homepage #35 quote: Originally written by Sarasaphilia: Some questions I should have asked a while ago: 1)At what time does somebody get to pick out their custom title? 2)I'll never qualify, but how do you become a moderator? Thanksss in advance. To get a custome title: 1. Get an admin drunk. 2. Impress him in a way that would break the CoC. (See custom titles of members 66 and 67 for an example.) To become a moderator: 1. Kill the moderator you want to replace. 2. Bribe a current mod into sponsoring your candidacy. 3. Bribe all remaining mods of the sub-forum you want to moderate into agreeing to support your candidacy. 4. Bribe every other member of the moderating staff into not opposing your candidacy. A slightly more serious reply: 1) If you ask, as you've just did, you'll never get one. 2) See above. PS See Imban's post on page 1 for real answers. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
The Spiderweb Art Movement. in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Thursday, January 25 2007 10:35 Profile Homepage #112 Nikki, congratulations! :) -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Chromite!! CHROMITE, baby!! in Richard White Games
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Thursday, January 25 2007 10:30 Profile Homepage #6 quote: Originally written by Serial 11532A-96M56E: They are made of an alloy of 70% truth and 50% belief. —Alorael, who believes the ratio was carefully tested. Less than 20% extra belief and there's not enough belief in there to maintain the impossible ratio stably. The two quantities aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. The ratio simply means that 20% of your beliefs are true. The rest of the truth is on a need-to-know basis. Information on whether "Chromite Software" is actually a front for Pakistan's nuclear program falls into that category. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Your most amusing G1-3 stunts in Geneforge Series
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Thursday, January 25 2007 10:13 Profile Homepage #56 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: "Dikiyoba the Dikiyora" is totally natural and perfect, but I'm trying to think of what "Dikiyoar" reminds me of. ... Zyoar, an undiscovered 3rd level Fyoroid creation. (Fyora -> Cryoa -> Zyoar: The letter r moves two positions forward, wrapping around, while the first letter moves three positions back in the alphabet, also wrapping around.) So Dikiyoar is similar to Dikiyora, but based on Zyoar. [ Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:42: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Episode 3 Continued in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Wednesday, January 24 2007 09:24 Profile Homepage #88 quote: Originally written by Nikki x: ... Oh, and I can't wait to see how we kill the Perfect Rat.. Probably some newbie is going to be left stranded in Geneforge forum after death of all nearby senior members and will use tons of canisters, making himself powerful enough to defeat even the Perfect Rat. Then he will approach the Rat Geneforge and ... :P -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Endeavor and Privacy in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Wednesday, January 24 2007 09:19 Profile Homepage #36 quote: Originally written by Arancaytar: ... The settings are: Disabled. The field won't show up anywhere, in lists, profiles or searches.Current. The current value of the field is displayed, no older values are.Track last month. The current and last known value are public; differences are listed in the "Track changes" pages.All archives. All archived values of the field are available and can be compared.The defaults would be something like this. Disabled:: Real name, locationCurrent:: ICQ, AIM, Occupation, Interests, Favorite game, Birthday.Track last month: HomepageArchives: Displayed name, Posts, Title, Karma (votes and score)... These defaults sound good. I'd include Favorite Game in archives, because it doesn't sound like a privacy issue and would present interesting statistical data. Would you be storing full profiles somewhere in case people decide to opt-in later? I think that would be fine, because it's equivalent of somebody sitting down with a pencil and writing the data to his notebook. (I was one of the 2 people voting for opt-in.) Most people probably object to information being easily available, rather than to the fact that it's stored by somebody (once you put some information online, it's out of your hands). [ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 09:21: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Endeavor and Privacy in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 16:51 Profile Homepage #26 About PPP archives, I think making them ungoogleable and not re-implementing search feature is probably a good compromise between keeping old posts for nostalgic value and not making them too easily accessable. I don't know if current deletion of PDNs from threads was intentional, but if you disable the search it might not be necessary or useful, because it's easy to link member numbers to current names. So the only reason to delete PDNs is to prevent search, which can be accomplished more directly. PS And I was thinking about another example of person who had RL e-mail in very old profile, so I guess there are two examples now. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Where's Silverchat? in The Avernum Trilogy
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 14:43 Profile Homepage #6 There is even a nicely hyperlinked version of Schrodinger's walkthrough at http://www.geocities.com/zeviz1/ It might not have maps, but it has very detailed information, including a non-spoiler item and spell locations guide. And the Nethergate guide is at http://www.geocities.com/zeviz1/nethergate/ [/shameless plug] [ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 14:46: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Your most amusing G1-3 stunts in Geneforge Series
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 14:39 Profile Homepage #47 quote: Originally written by Andraste: :Edit: I postponed my homework for this. [anachronistic Geneforge scene] Turns out that Dhonald's keep isn't as busy as one would think. I might add more stuff later. lol Thanks for making this funny picture. PS Homework is overrated anyway. :P -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
The Halo Suit of the Modern World - Fraud? in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 14:30 Profile Homepage #30 quote: Originally written by Garrison: ... You can tell me that the smart enemy would do such and such to counter the suited marines, but to the unarmored infantryman, such a sight would still be petrifying. Oh no! Here come the Storm Troopers! :P Seriously, even if this suit works, the implications of the Empire Storm Trooper uniform might force a change in design before such a suit is adopted by the US Army. [ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 14:33: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Anagrams in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 14:23 Profile Homepage #50 "Zeviz" gave no results, but my real name was quite fun. I TALK TO IVY SKY: "VIVA!" OKAY, I LIT SKIVVY VAT VOILA VIVA KITTY SKY LAY IT OVA SKIVVY KIT SAVVY AT KILO KIT IVY YA IT KILO SKIVVY VAT KAYAK VISIT IVY VOLT -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Your most amusing G1-3 stunts in Geneforge Series
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 10:18 Profile Homepage #43 Andraste, the iPod edits are very funny. Do you have a screenshot of a major city with all the random townspeople walking around with iPods and some carrying laptop cases? -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Please please please give me sympathy? in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 10:05 Profile Homepage #40 quote: Originally written by Nicothodes: My right hand has at least one of the following problems. It could also have two or all of them. 1)tendonitis 2)carpal tunnel 3)bone erosion ... Any of these can be very unpleasant. I hope you'll feel better soon. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Dikipedia in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 10:02 Profile Homepage #27 quote: Originally written by Rhymes with Slarty: ... I mean speak for yourself, Aran, but I don't ever want to see: Actually, that would be quite amusing. :) Thanks for compiling this table. (And even including my extra script.) There are some surprises in there. For example, when did Zeviz manage to kill somebody? [ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:03: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Endeavor and Privacy in General
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 09:25 Profile Homepage #11 I think opt-in is always preferable to opt-out. (Unless the opt-out option is presented in big red letters on the registration screen, in which case it's equivalent of opt-in.) In this case, it would be best to crawl all the profiles, but not display anything beyond current member name and number, unless a person opts in. I like seeing things like old signatures, but some people might want all previous information gone. Something that bothers me more is the PPP archive itself. That archive is similar to chat logs in the sense that now anything I post on this board is forever associated with my name and googleable. This makes me think twice about posting on some subjects, and generally makes the tone more formal. While I am not sure what you could do about it, marking PPP archive off limits to robots would be a good start. EDIT: Nioca, many members don't even know about existence of Aran's site. These people, who go straight to game forums to ask their questions, are the ones most likely to include RL info in their profile, but change their mind later. There had actually been a case here of a person who originaly had RL name as part of e-mail address in profile, but quickly changed it and became very secretive about RL info. However, that info was cached by an external site, and his RL information could be found by anybody who knew where to look. [ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 09:30: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Registration... in The Exile Trilogy
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Sunday, January 21 2007 11:47 Profile Homepage #6 quote: Originally written by The Mystic: quote: Originally written by CKB: They are the same game right, just updated graphics? Actually, they're a lot more than that. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Jeff said somewhere that A1-A3 are ground-up rewrites of E1-E3. The code might be fully rewritten, but the story is the same. As are the maps, most items, basic function of skills, etc. The main differences are in the engine: different graphics and conversation system, more advanced skill system, more basic spell system, etc. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00

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