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Slarty's Comic Strip in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Monday, March 20 2006 10:47 Profile Homepage #100
Very funny comics.

PS About my previous comment on the thread, when I say something mean followed by " :) ", it's intended to be a joke.

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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
What's your dialect? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Monday, March 20 2006 10:42 Profile Homepage #18
My Russian accent has grown even worse over the past couple of years, so I am not sure how valid the result is, but here is mix of Moscow dialect of Russian with California dialect of English and British English taught in Russian schools:

Vowel mergers/splits:
Rhyme: trap, bath (the vowels, anyway) - yes
Rhyme: father, bother - yes
Identical: cot, caught - yes
Rhyme: foot, goose - yes (if you mean the oo sound)
Identical: Lennon, Lenin - no
Identical: pin, pen - no
Identical: line, loin - no
Identical: coil, curl - no
Final vowel of "happy" rhyme with vowel of "meet" - yes

R madness:
Identical: father and farther - yes/no (depending on how badly I mispronounce them)
Identical: Mary, marry, merry - yes
Rhyme: mirror, nearer - no
Rhyme: fern, fir, fur - no
Identical: horse, hoarse - yes

L madness
Rhyme: salary, celery - no/yes (depending on how badly I mispronounce them)
Identical: fill, feel - yes
Identical: fell, fail - no
Identical: full, fool - yes

Consonants
Same middle consonant: Singer, finger - yes
Identical: Heat, eat - no
Identical: Should've, should of (if you were to say "should of") - yes (after trying to say it)
Identical: Wait, weight - no
Identical: Wine, whine - yes

EDIT: Fixed a couple things.

[ Wednesday, March 22, 2006 09:27: 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
I've made a script / story in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, March 17 2006 11:57 Profile Homepage #270
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Gah! Not another one! There have been so many typos that it looks like a parody of a parody.
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Don't worry about it. Your story is good and that's the only thing that matters. I've seen some official websites and blogs with more typos than this.

[ Friday, March 17, 2006 11:57: 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
Avernum V in Avernum 4
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, March 17 2006 11:51 Profile Homepage #98
quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

By Zeviz:
quote:
Have you read Evil Masterminding for Idiots?
This has an uncanny resemblance to the EVIL OVERLORD LIST. Now, once I run out of the 300-odd rules for Evil Overlords to quote, I can use this new list. Thanks!
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A story in the signature might be a bit hard to read. What about some advice for your Henchmen, or even being a good sport and giving advice to the other characters?

Sorry about off-topicness. I'll stop now.

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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
I've made a script / story in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, March 17 2006 11:17 Profile Homepage #267
quote:
Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Act 6, Scenes 1, 2, and 3 are up. No, Jumpin' Salmon, that is not a typo.
quote:
Ephesos casts a healing potion on a newb's slashed arm
Oh, don't worry about me recognizing typo's...
recognizing typo's? :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
The Origins of YOUR Custom Title in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, March 17 2006 11:13 Profile Homepage #68
quote:
Originally written by MagmaDragoon:

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BTW, you aren't a mod? So why your custom title is written in Italics code?
You can't tell mods by their custom titles. (Unless it is "Blademaster".) You have to look at the top of the forum page, where it says "[Forum Name] (Moderated by: [several names])"

[ Friday, March 17, 2006 11:14: 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
Avernum V in Avernum 4
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, March 17 2006 09:41 Profile Homepage #95
quote:
Originally written by Spidweb:

The way I currently picture Avernum 5 is:

i. In a whole new area of the underworld.
ii. On a much smaller scale, plot-wise. You have a major mission, but no monolithic power trying to blow up the world.
iii. More like Avernum 2 in details of storyline.
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v. More talk and diplomacy.
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- Jeff Vogel
I am looking forward to A5 already. :) A2 was my favorite game in the series.

quote:
Originally written by Alorael:

... As a band of young Unspecified Servicers yourselves, it has fallen to you to right the wrongs and restore the peace. Find new goblin tribes to move into the caves so other young adventurers can gain necessary experience! Find and the heirlooms that are unfortunately far from priceless, buy them back from the merchants who have them now, and return them! Set trap, lock doors, and raise magic barriers to prevent it all from happening again until another band of adventurers has 15 Tool Use and Dispel Barrier!...
Have you read Evil Masterminding for Idiots?

[ Friday, March 17, 2006 09:42: 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
Guardian? in Geneforge Series
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, March 17 2006 09:10 Profile Homepage #16
quote:
Originally written by Cirion:

*laughs dryly about 150% chance...* what a strange world.
I know it's a bit late, but the thread is active again and I just saw this.

It's a 87.5% chance, rather than 150% chance, because you can't simply add probabilities of consecutive events. For example, you get a chance to block partial damage only if you fail to block full damage. So your total chance of getting partial damage is: 50% (chance of failing to make full block) * 50% (chance of making partial block) = 25%

Thus your total chance of getting hit with less than max damage with Parry of 17 or 18 is:
50% chance of blocking full
+ 50% (not blocking full) * 50% (blocking partial)
+ 50% (not blocking full) * 50% (not blocking partial) * 50% (ripost)
= 87.5%

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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
He's not a bot is he? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, March 16 2006 17:08 Profile Homepage #30
quote:
Originally written by Importance of Being Alorael:

Don't kill this thread. Digital artifacts have rights too, and this is not an automated response.

"Bot" is a slur. Thuryl is not a bot. Thuryl is an AI. Aran we're not sure about yet.

—Alorael, who is angered by the insinuation that Aran was his creator. He predates Aran, obviously. He was, in fact, created by Zxquez back when Zxquez was everyone on the forums and wanted someone else to talk to.
So we have two bo... AIs, I meant AIs, Aran and Alorael, claiming to have created each other... Curiouser and Curiouser...

[ Thursday, March 16, 2006 17:09: 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
Captives of the turtle pit, hear ye, hear ye! in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, March 16 2006 16:00 Profile Homepage #43
So far I've managed to stay away from this thread, believing Aran's claim that he was not trying to push a political agenda with his moment of silence for a "peace activist". However, if spy.there insists on turning this into a political debate, why don't we talk about all the young women blown to pieces for the crime of living in a country that some people want to erase from the map, for example, about a girl that I knew: Marla Benett. Considering that Palestinians just elected Hamas, the "political party" that sponsored many of the suicide bombings and whose platform calls for destruction of Israel, and that after Israel left Gaze, Palestinians started to fire rockets at Israeli towns, instead of Gaza settlements they were attacking before, Israeli bulldozers look to me like the least of the obstacles to Middle East peace.

EDIT: Sorry about name confusion.

[ Thursday, March 16, 2006 17:01: 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
Bye in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, March 16 2006 13:21 Profile Homepage #45
quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

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EDIT: Apparently, UBB doesn't like leading white space. Now I can't make my ASCII art!
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You can replace each white space with "& nbsp;" ( without extra space between & and nbsp; ). Or you can use CODE ubb tag.

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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
Bye in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, March 16 2006 12:34 Profile Homepage #29
If I understood this thread correctly (see comments by Marlenny (Dominican Desire), Slartucker and Alorael (The Question I Ask of Me)), Ed is just an older member playing the part and laughing at everybody's reactions. Even if he isn't, I don't think anybody could really be this socially inexperienced at 14 unless he lived his entire life locked in a closet, so there is at least some overplaying going on.

PS And I definetely agree that people who draw paralels between leaving a message board to which you've recently arrived and a suicide are blowing things way out of proportion.

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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
Slarty's Comic Strip in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, March 16 2006 12:06 Profile Homepage #56
Maybe this is just Slarty's way of warning Dikiyoba that there will be consequenses if he dies in his story. :)

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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 Ultimate Favourite Game Poll v. 2.00 in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, March 15 2006 13:12 Profile Homepage #18
Currently, A2 has as many registered-great responses (40%) as BoE. It does have fewer didn't-registered-greats, but it was much easier to just compare registered-great response columns for all games. :) Besides, I was thinking more about games made entirely by Jeff and BoE is mainly popular because of scenarios made by players.

[ Wednesday, March 15, 2006 13:16: 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
Slarty's Comic Strip in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, March 15 2006 12:59 Profile Homepage #37
Slarty, when are you going to make more of these fun comics? I am sure you got a lot of material from chats, if not from the boards themselves.

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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 Ultimate Favourite Game Poll v. 2.00 in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, March 15 2006 12:55 Profile Homepage #16
There are some interesting results here. For example, satisfaction with Geneforge series declined as the series progressed, while satisfaction with Exile and Avernum series peaked at E/A2 and didn't decline as much for the third installment. (However, satisfaction rate for A4 is about as low as for A1.) A2 looks like the most beloved of Spidweb games.

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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 Origins of YOUR Custom Title in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, March 15 2006 12:44 Profile Homepage #47
quote:
Originally written by Croikle:

Hm. I've done a couple of useful things here, but they probably aren't significant enough to count. They certainly aren't on Silver's level, anyway. Also, I'm not very vocal in general, lowering the chances of anyone noticing me.
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Being godfather of all Geneforge character editors looks quite significant to me, as far as contributions are concerned, but you also have to be very vocal. Silver was not very prominent himself, but the other two Cartographers were among most noticeable members when they got their titles. Same with BoE Posse. (If group titles are given out, belonging to a group is a replacement for individual prominence.)

As for my title, it's another artifact from Drakefyre's first Marathon level themed title spree.

[ Wednesday, March 15, 2006 14:36: 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
GF3 town background sound effects in Geneforge Series
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Monday, March 13 2006 12:54 Profile Homepage #12
Sometimes when you can't make out the words in a speach you are hearing, your brain fills it in with random words you know. For example, sometimes I think I hear Russian or English words when people are speak a foreign language I don't know. The same effect is probably going on here.

[ Monday, March 13, 2006 12:56: 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
I've made a script / story in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Monday, March 13 2006 12:44 Profile Homepage #172
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

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Originally by saunders:
quote:
It is a fine piece of dramatic writing, but lacks the silent eater of invisible noobs, sandwiches, and the Bunker.
*nods gnomically*
Either I don’t need to know, or somebody’s been slacking off. However, there is always the possibility of editing.
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Arctic (Arctic Wolf) eats invisible newbies (the ones who never posted), which might make him a bit dangerous for the newbie army being trained in General. If you work him into the plot, whoever is leading him should make sure he doesn't run into all that food.

Bunker is probably the refuge from the flame wars on old Misc board. The graveyard of that forum would be a very dangerous place (located between game boards and mod board).

I am not sure what sandwiches Saunders is talking about and, considering what I heard about Room 3, I am not sure I want to know. :)

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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
Analysis of Ultimate Game Poll in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Monday, March 13 2006 12:03 Profile Homepage #24
quote:
Originally written by Micawber:

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Back on topic, I need convincing that the sample sizes are valid to analyse anything about the collective opinion of this board. I like the results for Homeland, though!
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The sample size looks pretty good, if you are looking at population of active members of these boards. According to Aran's stats (http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=003203), this board has about 200-300 "active" members in any given month and only about 70-100 of them make 10 or more posts per month. Currently, the poll has 48 responces, so that means a lot of active members have voted already.

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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
Posts from beyond the ban? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Monday, March 13 2006 11:19 Profile Homepage #45
quote:
Originally written by Infernal666hate:

quote:
Originally written by *i:

arghhhhhhhhh/viking -- We are not morons here. At any rate, you have already been pronounced obsolete. No need to delay further, goodbye.
How does one know for sure?
A "friend" showing up after somebody was banned is a very reliable indicator. There are also other ways to figure out who is using a secondary account (posting styles, opinions and topics of conversation, etc.), so in most cases you don't even need mods' "special methods".

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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
Chat Update in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, March 10 2006 10:08 Profile Homepage #53
Is the chatroom empty, or did I just enter a wrong one? (It's "spidweb" on AIM, right?)

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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 Boy From the Bush is Back in Town in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, March 10 2006 10:04 Profile Homepage #39
quote:
Originally written by Ash Lael:

And I think I now know what it would feel like to attend my own funeral.
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It's good to see you back.

Funeral? But everybody was having so much "fun".

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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
Notice of Eviction in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, March 8 2006 14:37 Profile Homepage #14
quote:
Me:
Should you be banned from Spidweb forums?
God:
I think I should.
EDIT: That was the entire conversation. I just opened it, asked the question and got the above answer.

[ Wednesday, March 08, 2006 14:39: 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
I've made a script / story in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, March 8 2006 09:35 Profile Homepage #56
Dikiyoba, nice story. :) I hope it will be continued.

Sir David, if you want to see a story with oldbies, I can repost Scales' story somewhere. (It didn't go past first few chapters, but those were quite good and had all the prominent members from late iconboard/early UBB.) I still have a draft of it in my e-mail inbox. (A benefit of never deleting old e-mails.)

[ Wednesday, March 08, 2006 09:38: 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

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