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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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| Did the forums help you register? in General | |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, March 6 2006 16:20
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The boards indirectly caused me to register several games. If I hadn't been spending so much time on these forums I wouldn't have considered downloading SubTerra demo, or demos of most Geneforge games. It's true that I registered the games because I like the demos, or, in case of Gf3, the previous installments. However, without the forums, I wouldn't have been checking company webpage often enough to download every Geneforge game along with SubTerra, Nethergate and A2. -------------------- 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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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, March 6 2006 14:36
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I wonder how Creator feels about becoming the martyr for latest crusade. -------------------- 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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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, March 6 2006 14:34
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quote:Does ezboard happen to use UBB software? That would explain a lot. :) -------------------- 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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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, March 6 2006 14:27
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Homeland is really not that bad. It was just released too early for its time. The gameplay reminds me strongly of Runescape. (Stand near a spawning point, killing snakes for an hour to level up.) The failed attempt at 3D graphics is so weak that it's amusing. As for the storyline, it gets bonus points for including protagonist's dog into the party. However, including the girlfriend as 3rd party member goes a bit overboard. The dialogue is also cheesy enough to be funny. So the game is good for about 20 minutes of amusement if you look at it as a parody of a game that desperately tries to be cool. 3.0 (The numeric rating is random, because I haven't played enough low-rated BoE scenarios to compare.) [ Monday, March 06, 2006 14:28: 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 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, March 6 2006 14:11
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quote:lol There are only two ways people get banned: 1. Repeatedly break the rules ( http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=000013 ) How much rule-bending you can get away with depends on many things, but generally not breaking the rules should keep you safe from this. 2. Anger Jeff when he is having a bad day. (See Creator's recent banning and all the noise it generated.) So the only thing that can happen to people who are generally annoying without breaking rules is that they can be made to feel unwelcome by those who find them annoying. -------------------- 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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Nuke and Pave
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written Wednesday, March 1 2006 16:40
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quote:The thing is that Jeff did come up with a new plot every time until he started making Avernums. Exile 2 was very different from Exile 1. It was even a slightly different style of RPG (more plot driven, rather than completely free-exploration) Exile 3 was once again a new type of game (mystery with a combination of some plot and much free exploration). When he was making Exile series, Jeff's livelihood already depended on these games, but it didn't stop him from boldly experimenting and making completely new things like Nethergate. The reason using same story over and over doesn't work for Spidweb games is that people play them for the story. If I cared about graphics, I'd play one of the big-budget games that require a new computer. If I cared only about gameplay, I'd play Civilization, MoM, etc. (That's what I am doing now.) The reason I played Spidweb games was for a good story told in a well-created world with engaging gameplay. When the story element is missing, the games are no longer with playing. Geneforge 3 was the first game I ever bought and didn't finish. (I buy very few games and normally buy only ones I know I'll enjoy for a long time.) -------------------- 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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Nuke and Pave
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written Wednesday, March 1 2006 16:18
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quote:You probably need to go to Options (or Settings, or Preferencies or whatever it's called) and tell it to stop deleting cookies. Maybe there is a checkbox for it when you start scanning your computer. Since I am not using AdAware myself, I can't be more specific. Or just use Spybot ( http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/ ) instead. I've never had a problem like this with it. (Spybot delets only spyware cookie.) [ Wednesday, March 01, 2006 16:20: 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 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 14:30
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quote:In Geneforge 2, a high level (17 or 18) Parry gives you 50% chance to get no damage, 50% to get half damage (if your armor is good, that's almost like getting no damage) and 50% chance to reflect the damage back. So 3 out of 4 times you'd take [almost] no damage from [non-magical] attacks, 1 out of 8 times the enemies would attack themselves and only 1 out of 8 times would you take full damage (decreased by your armor, spells, 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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Nuke and Pave
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 14:14
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What happened to the Arctic - Khoth pairing? They even have the custom titles that form a set. :) Another set of custom titles is Aran - Kel (his old "white rabbit" title - the connection was that "very important date" is part of a quote said by "white rabbit" in Alice in Wonderland, if I remember correctly), but their titles don't make similar implications. Are there any other paired titles floating around? [ Tuesday, February 28, 2006 14:23: 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 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 14:05
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If you look at the big picture, the plot of all RPGs is "You control a character, which does stuff." :) This covers even Creator's scenarios. :P My point was that while each Avernum plot was described by a different sentence, all 3 Geneforge plots could be described by the same detailed paragraph, replacing only a few words like island/valley/island chain. Avernums 1 and 2 tell different stories in a same setting (Avernum cave system), while Geneforge 1 and 2 use different settings for the same story (a young shaper discovering and interacting with the two kinds of intelligent serviles and the secrets of Geneforge, possibly joining one of 4 sects). The similarities of Avernum series aren't a problem, because common setting is fine (or even good) as long as stories are different. The similarities of Geneforge series are a problem, because old story with a new setting isn't a reason to replay the game (unless gameplay is completely different as well). I did enjoy both Gf1 and Gf2, but by the middle of Gf3 I was tired of going through the same story over, and over, and over. [ Tuesday, February 28, 2006 14:07: 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 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, February 27 2006 17:01
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quote:In that case, the main skill for you is Parry. In Geneforge 2, unlike in Gf3, Parry can make you almost invincible. Not only that, but at high enough skill levels (13-18) Parry can make enemies kill themselves by attacking you. -------------------- 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 |
| 50 years from now, 50 years ago in General | |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, February 27 2006 16:19
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If you want to see predictions of the future made 50 years ago, read the 1950s science fiction. :) According to most of those novels we should at least be able to vocation on Mars and at most be able to live anywhere in the galaxy by now. As for current predictions of the future, Ray Kurzweil's books are probably closest to what you are looking for. He is either a very optimistic scientist or a very realistic sci-fi writer, depending on how you want to see his books. Kurzweil is predicting that growth in computing power will continue indefinitely at ever accelerating rate: after reaching the physical limits of semiconductor chips, we will move on to quantum computing, or something similar. This means that computers will reach raw computational capacity of human brain by about 2020. After that, he predicts that people will start using computers to augment their brains first using implants to get 20/20 vision, perfect memory, etc. and then completely replacing their biological bodies with artificial ones. [Insert your favorite Borg joke here.] :) Kurzweil himself expects this change to happen within his lifetime and seriously thinks that he will live forever with an artificial body. [ Monday, February 27, 2006 16:22: 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 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Monday, February 27 2006 16:04
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quote:If you look at the big picture, instead of minor details like character and city names, plot of Geneforge 1/2/3 looks like this: You are a shaper apprentice whose boat/teacher/school was destroyed, leaving you trapped on an island/valley/island chain, where you are greatly surprized to encounter rogue creations, the canisters and intelligent serviles. You have to chose which faction to join and under guidance of that faction's leader learn about Geneforge and have to decide whether to destroy it or help complete / use it. You have an option to leave early, but that will give you the "world is destroyed by massive war" ending. So while I agree that each of the Exile games had an original plot, as did Nethergate and Geneforge, I don't think Jeff had written a new plot since Geneforge 1. And from what I've heard of A4 (no spoilers please) it's just a repeat of A3, similar to how Gf 3 is a repeat of Gf2, is a repeat of Gf 1. -------------------- 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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Nuke and Pave
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written Friday, February 24 2006 13:55
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No Canisters is a pretty tough variant to play, although it does give you a better ending. You can still get that ending if you use 5 or fewer canisters, but you need to chose your 5 very carefully. Other than that, I can't say much since I prefer to play with Shapers. As for creations, gaining levels makes a big difference. So even a simple Fyora that you've managed to keep alive from the start of the game would have become a powerful forse by now. [ Friday, February 24, 2006 13:57: 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 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Friday, February 24 2006 13:33
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The first thing I notice is your lack of creations. While Guardian isn't as strong in shaping as a Shaper, he is still decent at it. Agent is the class for going solo. It seems to me that missile guardian (like archers in most RPGs) needs a couple of tough companions to keep the enemies from reaching him. Another general observation is that you seem to be missing a lot of side-quests and books/canisters. I don't remember exactly, but it feels to me like you should have higher shaping and magic skills just from books/canisters and quest rewards at this point in the game. Also, if you completely abandon magic, you have to use pods in most battles, because being blessed, hasted and shielded makes a huge difference. However, I haven't played Guardian in Gf3 (and he was much easier in Gf2), so I can't give specific advice about stats, items and strategies. -------------------- 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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Nuke and Pave
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written Friday, February 24 2006 10:32
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I tried to continue via PM to avoid too much computer jargon in this thread, but your inbox is full. Here are a few suggestions I have for your search feature: 1. I really like your hybrid structure, because it is equivalent to cashing every thread on the web server. Instead of having to query a bunch of tables and reconstruct the thread every time you want to present it, it allows you to just give a file off the web server. So even after you put everything into the database, it will still be more efficient to keep in the database links to text files on web server for presentation. 2. Another normalization you could do (if you haven't done so already) is storing mini-profiles that contain location, title and (possibly) displayed name combinations. (e.g. 1, 24, Berkeley, Blademaster, Zeviz; 2, 24, California, Nuke and Pave, Zeviz; etc.) That wouldn't save you as much as separating signatures, but it still adds up when counted over a span of hundreds of posts. 3. For storing posts, you could separate all meta-data (poster, date, thread, etc) into a separate table from actual content. This will let you enable participant, date, etc searches for all posts, even if storing their contents would take too much space. 4. Could you add COUNT search option for weird people who are curious whether the phrase "sanity jar" is used more often than "fluffy turtles". (Yes, I am extremely bored today.) :) Thanks for making this archive. -------------------- 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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Nuke and Pave
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 22:53
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This looks like one of the amuzing situations where poll results are very different from the thread results. The current spread on the poll is almost 50/50 (6 for Medieval vs. 8 for Modern), but only 2 people expressed preference for medieval times in the thread. I voted for Medieval, because while life was certainly less comfortable back then, there is always something romantic about the past. Our modern world is very familiar, while past seems mysterious and exiting. That's probably why most fantasy/sci-fi books and games take either past or future as their setting. As for moral norms and standards of living, we still have a long way to go. A few hundred years from now, XX century will look as barbaric as the Middle Ages. [ Thursday, February 23, 2006 22:55: 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 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 22:24
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Very nice. :) (And thanks for including the fix I've mentioned.) Looks like "fluffy turtles" have been mentioned in 26 threads. :rolleyes: 300MB for database size? That's a lot of spa... useful information. If you want to have a fun programming challenge, you could try to fit that into your database by compressing the post text. If you also compress the search phrases, you can still use SQL's comparisons to do the searches. You'd then have to retrieve links to plain text versions of the threads, stored same way you store them now. (Uncompressing all posts on the fly might be too CPU intensive, but I have no idea, since I've never tried anything like this.) PS I am not an expert on web programming either, but there is a great reference that I use which usually has necessary information. (complete HTML and CSS reference, list of JavaScript events, etc.) You might already know about it, but here is the address anyway: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/ -------------------- 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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written Thursday, February 23 2006 22:08
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Ich denke das es ist besser English zu geben, wann Sie andere Sprache schrieben, so all leute kann Sie ferstanden. (I think that it's better to give English translation when writing in other languages, so everybody can understand you.) Apologies for all the mistakes I've probably made in that sentence. -------------------- 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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written Thursday, February 23 2006 13:02
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quote:Я думаю "дебаты" не чуть от этого не изменятся. :) (I don't think that would have any effect on "debates". :) ) EDIT: Russian is also my native language, but I haven't written anything in Russian in about 10 years. However, since I don't have Russian keyboard, typing in Russian is quite painful. (I have to select letters 1 at a time from character map. [ Thursday, February 23, 2006 13:06: 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 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 12:52
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quote:Печатать на иностранном языке не сложно, но как на счет тех кто не понимает выбранного языка? (It wouldn't be hard to type in a foreign language, but what about those who don't understand the language chosen?) -------------------- 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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written Thursday, February 23 2006 10:37
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Looks like dog-lovers are a minority here. But that doesn't matter, because even when outnumbered 3:1 dogs can have cats for lunch. :P I don't really dislike cats (and since my family had only dogs I can't really compare the two), but it sounds like dogs are more easily trainable. [ Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:38: 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 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 10:21
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There seem to be a lot of these topics lately. I am still waiting for the # of holes in your celling one. That one gave a lot of opportunity for amusing answers. Last thing you ate: Buckwheat What you're wearing right now: Blue jeans and a nice shirt. A bit casual, but ok for a computer company. Describe the room you are in: Office with a lot of cubicles. The one I am in is a large area intended for 4-7 people, but luckily used by only 2. Cubicle and building walls have blue-grey color scheme, desks are black and even chairs fit the blue-black pattern. Window next to me provides a view of some trees, hiding the parking lot and street. PS Did anybody else find it a bit weird that Salmon asked Thuryl "how can I rob your house and/or kill you?" and Thuryl gave detailed answers? :) EDIT: Sometimes forgetting to add " :) " can make a big difference. [ Thursday, February 23, 2006 13:22: 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 |
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written Thursday, February 23 2006 09:57
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My original sig was blank, to go with my blank avatar. Then, when I've made a webpage, I had a plug for it: Avernum 2 Guide and Nethergate Guide are my webpages based on Shrodinger's exellent faqs. Also check out Crystal Mine, my SubTerra webpage. When I left the boards I've replaced that with a goodbye poem. Something about rising and falling waves in a storm. A couple months later, I replaced that with my current one. It was very appropriate for the climate at the boards and for things going on in my life at the time. However, it no longer applies to either, so I keep planning to change it, but can't think of anything better. PS My current sig (in case I change it later): 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. EDIT: Corrected old sig. I like web.archive.org. [ Friday, February 24, 2006 12:34: 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 |
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written Wednesday, February 22 2006 14:44
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My first post on this thread doesn't make much sence. I guess I react to this subject so strongly that I typed that responce before thinking. However, I still think that German and Austrian laws that outlaw fashist parties are necessary (as well as Israeli law that outlaws an anti-Arab party) and that parties advocating killing groups of people shouldn't be legal in any country. (As far as I know, homophobic preachers don't advocate killing all gays. If they do, yes, I think their speech should be banned as well.) -------------------- 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 |