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Pets? in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #17
I have a dog. Labrador retriever, to be exact.

quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

... Fyoras also make good pets, but they have to be well trained and a fire extinguisher should be kept close by at all times.
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Would cryoa work just as well as a fire extinguisher?

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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 FRAPGVRUKCP: now with twice the posting action! in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #47
quote:

12321.
Spamly wonderful.

:P

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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
Spiders of all ages... in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #81
quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

quote:
Originally written by Spookmaster Synergy:

konyeshka
It's konyechno, no? I mean, it's pronounced something like "kanyeshna," but it's not written that way.

You are right. How many languages are you familiar with?

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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
Canadian Citizenship Test. in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #10
16/20, which is not bad considering that some questions were very specific.

And they included plenty of amusing answer options, like Acadians for an Aboriginal tribe. Or this question:

List three ways in which you can protect the environment.
a. Work near where you live, drive to work, take a taxi.
b. Use unleaded gas, drive a small car, travel by yourself.
c. Compost and recycle, conserve energy and water, walk or join a car pool.
d. Pour solvents down storm drains, leave taps running, leave lights on.

The answer is obviously D. :D

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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
November Posting Stats Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Poll in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #40
quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus.:

quote:
Originally written by Guardian Magma:

Spam or not spam? This is the problem.
Spam of course. :P

To spam!

I have a somewhat evil idea for the next month's spamtistics thread and if you keep doing this, I'll be very tempted to carry it out. :P

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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.
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Life! I give you life!!! in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #5
quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

1) As Salmon says, is a constitutional amendment really necessary for this?
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3) The proposal is generally a step in the right direction, but I'd rather the restrictions weren't so, well, restrictive. Basically, all it allows for is the use of excess IVF embryos for stem cell research.
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I've heard about this measure on radio this morning. Apparently, the state legislature was/is considering a law that would make any use of embryonic stem cells a felony crime. So even a very restrictive measure like this looks necessary and has to be written into constitution to prevent it from being overturned by the legislature.

As for my opinion on biotech research, I'd draw the line somewhere before genetic engineering (don't mess with stuff we don't fully understand) and reproductive human cloning (there are some species that reproduce by "cloning" humans aren't one of them). However, things like this aren't even on the table in America and will not be for many decades, so for now I support all research in the area and even very restrictive measures like this are steps in the right direction.

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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
Fresh meat for the Cultists, or, goodbye sunshine in Richard White Games
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #7
Implants are functioning properly. 100% agreement among all 7 cultists present.

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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: A New Game in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #133
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

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(Does anyone know if it's possible to link directly to a specific paragraph?)
...

In your HTML, use <A NAME="chapter4">whatever</A> around the chapter title, or some other piece of text you want to link to. Then, when linking use http://www.freewebs.com/dikiyora/part1.htm#chapter4 (or whatever name you gave it).

If you can't edit your HTML by hand, check your tool for ability to give names to pieces of text.

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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
Libertarianism - yay or nay? in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #12
Sorry about misreading that Soviet flag. I took that, combined with some of the political statements I've seen from you, to be an indication that your real political leanings are far to the left.

As for arguing the merits of Liberalism, I'll do that later.

[ Thursday, October 26, 2006 16:07: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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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
Libertarianism - yay or nay? in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #10
quote:
Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar in census thread:

When was the last time that:
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Random
First quote that pops into your head?
"I would rather betray the world than have the world betray me."
Name a red object in your room
Soviet flag.
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If you could remove a person from history, who would it be?
Jesus. Nothing against the guy personally, I just think more have been killed in his name than have been saved.
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quote:
Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar:

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Private Property: You can pretend to be enlightened all you want, but when it comes down to it, you love private property, it’s what makes America great.
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Tullegolar, please stop trolling. These topics give a good opportunity to find out thoughts of different people, but your flamebaits just kill intelligent discussion turning what could be interesting topics into mindless flamewars. This isn't funny and it certainly isn't accomplishing anything besides making everybody angry at each other.

[ Thursday, October 26, 2006 15:50: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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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
Uncle Sam Wants You? in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #15
Questions like that are supposed to test your loyalty towards America. They get even worse in the "character" section:

"If United States and [your country of birth] fight a war, which side will you fight on?"

And a bunch of other questions like that.

The questions you've seen on this test aren't even the hardest. I don't remember the full list, but here are some other questions:

1. What was the name of the ship on which Pilgrims came to America?

2. Who wrote "Star Spangled Banner"?

3. Who is the head of your local government?

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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
Hang 'em high! in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #15
With such a unanimous consent, I guess I can add my opinion without fear of influencing the results.

The thing about issues like this is that they create an immediate emotional responce that causes a "yes" answer unless you stop to think about details (which people might not do with dozens of choices to make and a 191 page information guide (which doesn't even include local candidates) to study).

The thing about this proposition that triggered an alarm for me was mandatory lifetime GPS tracking for all felony sex offenders. There is just one step from that to tracking all felons. And then why not track every person who had every been arrested?

The second problem with the measure is the residence restrictions that would push these people out of urban areas. If they are so dangerous, what are they doing out on the streets anyway?

Finally, why are we passing criminal laws by a ballot measure? Isn't that what we have a legislature for?

I would have voted for this measure if the only things it included were widening the definition of child molestation (for example making lack of physical coersion irrelevant for sentencing for sex between adults and children under 13), toughening punishments for rapists, and making sure dangerous people with mental illness stay in the hospitals. However, this proposition also includes broad provisions that are inacceptable, and there will always be time to put good things into separate proposition or, even better, a separate law passed by the legislature.

[ Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:46: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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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
MCMLIX or BUST! in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #18
Congratulations with your spammerific accomplishment.
quote:
Originally written by Spookee Salmon:

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I've now decided to see how much time can pass between my posts (of quality), divide that by the total number of posts, factoring in ambient temperature and pervailing wind direction, mix with two cups of whole wheat flour and one teaspoon of baking powder, form into rectangular loaves and place gently in the garbage.

Wow. Would ya look at that. Sanity is totally gone for minutes at a time now. ;p

Is this any different from previous state? :P

[ Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:17: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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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
How to raise skills when level. in The Exile Trilogy
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #35
The only other thing I can think of is that, if I remember correctly, Item Lore is checked when the item is generated. So increasing it afterwards will have no effect on the items already in your inventory. (I don't remember whether and how Item Lore affects the items that are already in the room before you kill anything.)

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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
How to raise skills when level. in The Exile Trilogy
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #32
quote:
Originally written by How:

quote:
Originally written by Thahd Lemonade:

The problem is that Item Lore is so expensive, in gold but mainly in skill points. At FOUR skill points per point of Item Lore, it's easily the game's worst value. (Well, maybe it's better than buying Health directly.) Item Lore is a relatively small convenience, for which you are willing to give up 2 points of Edged Weapons, or 1 1/3 points of Intelligence? Or most of a point in Luck or Priest Spells? Absurd.

I have sometimes edited 10 points into my singleton games, just to make monster drops less than totally useless.

I just got the registered copy. I raised everyone's Item Lore to 8 as a test and still, several items are not being identified by the party. Very bizarre. It would seem that the stat is useless if it doesn't work with a total party lore of 48. And, I'm talking about low level items still showing up with a ?

Those items are probably cursed. It usually takes much higher levels of Item Lore to identify cursed items than to identify normal, or slightly blessed ones.

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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
Spiders of all ages... in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #69
quote:
Originally written by Synergy:

I am wondering if there is anyone besides Jeffy, Salmon, and myself active on this board who is thirty-something. You know—us ancient, cranky, over the hill, never quite grew up sort of people. I also wonder if there is someone even older lurking around.

-S-

There are some older adults here, just not very many of them. Saunders and SoT are the only other currently active ones I can think about. If it makes you feel better, my father also plays these games and he is over 50. (Although he doesn't use internet much.)

EDIT: Saunders, Student of Trinity, Salmon, Synergy... is there some sort of deeper wisdom that makes people start their names with the letter S?

[ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 19:33: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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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
Hang 'em high! in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #0
Oregon isn't the only state with interesting propositions on the ballot, so today's issue comes from California.

Proposition 83, Jessica's Law, is named after a girl who was molested and killed in a nasty way by a repeat sex-offender out on parole. Here is the summary of proposed changes (from the Legislative Analyst).
quote:
- Increases penalties for violent and habitual sex offenders and child molesters.
- Prohibits registered sex offenders from residing within 2,000 feet of any school or park.
- Requires lifetime Global Positioning System monitoring of felony registered sex offenders.
- Expands definition of a sexually violent predator.
- Changes current two-year involuntary civil commitment for a sexually violent predator to an indeterminate commitment, subject to annual review by the Director of Mental Health and subsequent ability of sexually violent predator to petition court for sexually violent predator's conditional release or unconditional discharge.

Arguments in favor signed by:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, San Diego County
Harriet Salarno, President Crime Victims United of California

Rebuttal to arguments in favor signed by:
Carleen R. Arlidge, President California Attorneys for Criminal Justice

Arguments against signed by:
Carleen R. Arlidge, President California Attorneys for Criminal Justice

Rebuttal to arguments against signed by:
Monty Holden, Executive Director California Organization of Police and Sheriffs (COPS)
Steve Ipsen, President California Deputy District Attorneys Association
Sheriff Gary Penrod, President California State Sheriffs Association

PS Think carefully before voting, because UBB doesn't allow changing votes. (Nor does US government. :) )

[ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 19:04: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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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
November Posting Stats Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Poll in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #19
quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

You know, there's been more activity, but I'm not sure that any more than usual has actually been said.
All Spidweb games have already been discussed to death. There are detailed walkthroughs for each game, answering all but the most arcane questions. It's been many months since the last SW game was released. There is simply not much on-topic stuff to talk about. This means we can either let the activity die down and members wonder off to other forums, or use the general boards as a public chatroom. I know that these boards directly generated at least one sale for Spiderweb Software, so they are probably worth the bandwidth we waste with our ramblings. :)

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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
Pan lever in Richard White Games
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #8
quote:
Originally written by Pope John XX:

My friends, accomplices, and acquainances:
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More or less, let's spam in Subterra for a while.

Let's not. SubTerra board still has more relevant activity than this one ever had, but an outbreak of spam could get is deleted, so it would be better to keep it spam-free. It's open spamming season on General already, so there is plenty of room for our spamming pleasure outside of confines of RWG sub-forum.

PS Your post is the kind of paragraph-long sentence I was going for. (It's actually a couple sentences, but they could have been easily merged together.)

[ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 15:31: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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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 FRAPGVRUKCP: now with twice the posting action! in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #31
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

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It took Dikiyoba longer than 110 days to achieve 1001 posts this time around.

Congratulations with your spammerific accomplishment.

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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
October Posting Stats Thread in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #41
quote:
Originally written by SkrOH:

quote:
Originally written by Lenny:

quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus.:

quote:
Originally written by Oscar Wilde:

quote:
Originally written by Pope John XX:

quote:
Originally written by Oscar Wilde:

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Originally written by Guardian Magma:

Look who is back! :)
I didn't notice the Pope around here...

You didn't?

No.

Wow. My posts are getting spammier, and less exciting by the minute. Time was I could kill a thread with my humour and wit. Now... now??

Who knows.

(And 10 points to the first person who quotes this and says "Me".)

Me :P

You don't miss out on an opportunity to spam, do you?

I think it has less to do with spamming than continuing the pyramid quoting. And that's about enough of that, I think.

—Alorael, who has made his point and his pyramid and who can therefore rest easy knowing that his work here is done. Huzzah.

This pyramid is a fitting monument to the postcount thread whose memory is immortalized here. (At least it's immortalized until sufficient enlargement of this pyramid makes this thread also follow the way of tower of Babel.)

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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
November Posting Stats Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Poll in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #6
I predict 180 posts per day. And I can centuple-post if it becomes necessary to ensure correctness of my prediction. :P

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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
Pan lever in Richard White Games
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #6
There is no need for a designated spam forum when it's free season on the rest of the boards. Don't worry, the darkness of the long night shall yet come upon us, and in that bone-chilling darkness this hidden corner will remain the only beakon of life, warmed by eternal flame of spam-fires lit in tribute to His Great and Mysterious Whiteness to forever bring light into the cold dark world.

EDIT: That looked a lot more impressive when I was writing it. I need more work on my paragraph-long sentences.

[ Tuesday, October 24, 2006 14:42: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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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
Jimmy! If you keep playing with it you'll break it! in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #41
Wasn't this topic about DVDs of TV series?

Talking about which, I never watched much TV and didn't even have a TV when I was at college, so I still almost never watch it. Thus my collection includes 0 DVDs. Am I missing something that I can't get from combination of books, computer games, and Internet?

[ Tuesday, October 24, 2006 14:28: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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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
Wouldnt an Exile/Avernum MMORPG be awesome? in General
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
Profile Homepage #28
quote:
Originally written by Spookee Salmon:

A large part of the Spiderweb E/A/G games is the interaction with NPCs. I guess I'm kinda slow, but how on earth would those interactions be handled in a MMPORG format? No wonder Jeff cowers under his desk whenever one of these discussions happens. The idea, and the amount of work involved, is mindnumbing.
Jeff could probably copy most dialogue scripts directly into new game and make all players interact with the NPCs and do mini-quests as if they are playing a single-player game. That's what other MMORPGs do.

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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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