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[PPP] The long-awaited search function in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 11:06 Profile Homepage #10
Aran, following modifications make the search criteria selection work fine on my computer. I've replaced all "onClick" events with "onChange" for the whole option block:

<select name='criterium' size='1' onChange='processChange(selectedIndex)'>
<option value='title' selected="selected">Title</option>
<option value='starter' >Starter</option>
<option value='participant' >Participant</option>
<option value='date'>Topic Date</option>
<option value='length'>Length</option>
<option value='text'>Full Text</option>
</select>

function processChange(index) {
document.all.lengthlayer.style.visibility='hidden';
document.all.memberlayer.style.visibility='hidden';
document.all.datelayer.style.visibility='hidden';
document.all.titlelayer.style.visibility='hidden';

switch (index) {
case 0:
document.all.titlelayer.style.visibility='visible';
break;
case 1:
document.all.memberlayer.style.visibility='visible';
break;
case 2:
document.all.memberlayer.style.visibility='visible';
break;
case 3:
document.all.datelayer.style.visibility='visible';
break;
case 4:
document.all.lengthlayer.style.visibility='visible';
break;
}
}


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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 Conservative Shift in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 09:48 Profile Homepage #11
Like Tyranicus said, I think current cituation is just a natural stage in the liberal-conservative cycle. The pengilum swung far left in the 60s and has now swung equally far to the right. These cycles happen continually throughout history.

I don't know as much about American history, but in Russian history there is a clear pattern of generation-long liberal-conservative cycles corresponding first to different tzars and then different prime ministers:

A liberal tzar would start writing a constitution, then his conservative successor would undo as many reforms as he could. Then a new liberal tzar would start liberal reforms again.

Similar thing happened in Soviet times: liberal policies of 1920s were followed by Stalin's repressions, followed by exposition of Stalin's crimes, followed by Breznev's (milder) repressions, followed by another liberalization (leading to USSR's collapse), followed by Putin's tightening of controls.

Somebody who knows a lot about American history could probably show a similar pattern there.

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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
David Irving Jailed in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, February 22 2006 09:29 Profile Homepage #22
quote:
Originally written by Lady Davida:

I don't know about "perfectly acceptable", Zeviz... where exactly do you live? ...
Until recently, Berkeley, California, the only place where I had stuff thrown at me when walking next to a guy in kippah at night. That didn't happen even in Moscow, where we had chalk marks on all Jewish mailboxes in our apartment building ("we know where you live" kind of thing) and excrement smeared over our apartment door one night. (To be fair, most people wouldn't be dumb enough to walk down a street wearing a kippah in Moscow, especially not at night, so comparison isn't exactly fair.)

And if you think I am just paranoid, I am in a big company, because after (or mabe even before, I don't remember) the chalk marks on Jewish mailboxes incident my parents and their Jewish friends installed steel-reinforced doors in our apartments, so they took the warning seriously enough.

That's why I think this guy goes beyond the limits of "protected free speech". There were a couple of attacks against Jews on major holidays almost every year I've been in Berkeley, so it's kind of hard for me to appreciate the abstract "slippery slope" argument, when I have physical danger to worry about.

[ Wednesday, February 22, 2006 09:31: 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
Census of Spiderweb community in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 16:28 Profile Homepage #10
Age: 25 years and 5 days
Gender: male
Sexual orientation: heterosexual
Marital Status: single
Highest educational degree completed: BC CS / BA Math
City/metropolitan area where you live: San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
Racial/ethnic origin: Russian Jew
Nationality: USA and Russia (although my Russian citizenship expired long ago)
First/primary language: Russian
Religion: Jewish, but mostly ethnically
How long you've been a Spiderwebber: since summer of 2001
Whether or not you're a septuagenarian eskimo: I might become septuagenarian some day, but the eskimo part might be a bit hard.

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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
[PPP] The long-awaited search function in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 15:55 Profile Homepage #7
Sorry, I didn't realize that path included your name. (If you are sensitive about it, you could use a random username to avoid these problems.)

About errors, for some reason your code that's supposed to change searchBy field doesn't work in IE 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2... The search by field displayed doesn't change until I click Search button. I am not an expert on Javascript, but have you tried using onSelect, instead of onClick event?

[ Tuesday, February 21, 2006 16:01: 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
David Irving Jailed in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 15:29 Profile Homepage #19
EDIT: I've said something stupid here. I've admitted it was stupid. There is no reason to keep proving to me that it was.

[ Wednesday, February 22, 2006 19:03: 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
[PPP] The long-awaited search function in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 15:17 Profile Homepage #5
Nice idea. Are you planning to add full-text search?

As for bugs:
1. In profiles, birthdays are 1 day off and dates registered are completely random. They are fine in January's profiles.

2. Searching by topic starter gives following error: [message removed]
when searching by user name, instead of member number.

[ Tuesday, February 21, 2006 15:41: 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
Exit Strategy (Realized) in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Tuesday, February 21 2006 14:54 Profile Homepage #58
People who post "goodbye" threads are unlikely to stay away permanently. (And the longer the thread, the faster they come back. :) ) It's the people who quietly fall into lurkiness, whose disappearance we have to worry about. :(

I look forward to your return.

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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
editerG1HELP! in Tech Support
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, February 17 2006 10:51 Profile Homepage #3
Try downloading it again. Perhaps something went wrong when you were downloading.

And since Spidweb didn't make this editor (that's what "unofficial" means), you'll get more helps asking on the Geneforge forum, instead of tech support forum. There was a similar topic there before: http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=0 00320#000000 Maybe you can try the things discussed there.

[ Friday, February 17, 2006 10:52: 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
A Year of Stats in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, February 17 2006 09:52 Profile Homepage #33
Why are so many people setting high postcount targets for themselves? Quality of posts is more important than quantity.

[footnote]This post's primary purpose is to help people achieve their target postcounts with more posts on this thread.[/footnote]

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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
SMBTI redesign in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, February 17 2006 09:46 Profile Homepage #28
The problem with political labels is that they'll always be a generalization, unless you have dozens of axes, one for each issue. Otherwise, everybody with strongly liberal views on some issues and strongly conservative views on others is going to come out "moderate", which would be very inaccurate.

A more useful distinction for these boards would be "misc/General" poster v. "game boards poster". Sub-categories would be "debators" v. "chatters" for Misc and "questioners" v. "experts" for game boards.

[ Friday, February 17, 2006 09:55: 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
STUPIDEST POST EVER!!! in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, February 17 2006 09:27 Profile Homepage #7
Instead of a computer with Spidweb games, I'd take enough drinking water and food for four weeks, a large tent with openings on two sides and a strong fan. Spidweb games are good, but not good enough to starve/die of heat stroke for. :)

EDIT: Apparently, I can't read. The number of weeks had been fixed.

[ Friday, February 17, 2006 09:35: 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
Code for unlocking levels in SubTerra
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, February 9 2006 15:47 Profile Homepage #3
Stew Boy, thanks.

And there is nothing wrong with cheat codes for single player games, if the game isn't going into a high score list or a competition. (And if a game is going to be submitted for a high score list or competition, it's not really a single-player game any more.)

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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
Code for unlocking levels in SubTerra
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Tuesday, February 7 2006 10:19 Profile Homepage #0
I've just re-downloaded the game, but I don't have time to replay all the levels I've passed before, so is there a cheat code to unlock all levels? And if so, what is it?

[ Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:19: 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
Save this forum! in SubTerra
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, February 2 2006 09:36 Profile Homepage #89
I guess I somehow missed page 4 of this thread, so disregard my previous post.

I haven't played Cell Blocks, because I no longer had the computer that had SubTerra on it by the time 2003 levels were released. I'll take a look at it if I download the game again.

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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
wanderer(s) in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, February 1 2006 13:05 Profile Homepage #23
quote:
Originally written by Commander Edward:

Who ever wonder's why there's always so many wanderer's on these boards, often more than there is members :confused:
I wonder why they all don't just join the forums :confused:
I think everybody who logs out is counted as a wanderer on the front page for about half an hour. There are also many people who come here just to find answers to a couple of game-related questions. (Even my old A2 page is still getting several views a day, so I am assuming this forum is getting even more random people looking for game info.) And finally, there are plenty of old members lurking in the shadows. (*Goes back to lurking in the shadows.*)

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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
Save this forum! in SubTerra
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, February 1 2006 12:44 Profile Homepage #87
quote:
Originally written by Ash Lael:

Whoever has the last post, I can still claim the honour of having made the single hardest Subterra level ever.

In fact, it's probably the single hardest level ever made for any game ever. :P
Was that the one with a herd of seekers chasing the player? (The one whose beta report was called "Creator's Levels of Torture" :) )

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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 will come after Avernum4 for Windows? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Tuesday, January 24 2006 10:55 Profile Homepage #13
quote:
Originally written by Infernal666hate:

That thread still doesn't explain why you're entitled "Off With Their Heads"
His new title is the evidence of the title-racket Drakey and *i are running: Drakey gives an unpleasant custom title. The victim bribes *i to remove it. Then Drakey gives a new, even more unpleasant title. The victim bribes *i again... Since Drakey and *i are the same person, it works out quite well.

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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
Charge ion cannons. in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Tuesday, January 24 2006 10:42 Profile Homepage #17
Weapons causing mass nausea are better than weapons causing mass burns and shrapnel wounds.

And nuclear weapons did make the world more peaceful. Some people think that the only reason we didn't have World War III is that leaders of USA and USSR weren't too excited by the prospect of living the rest of their lives in underground bunkers. (Both sides in the Cold War had enough weapons to eliminate all human life on Earth's surface.) The border between India and Pakistan also became more peaceful after both sides got nukes.

The nice thing about nuclear weapons is that they are so hard to manufacture that anybody rich enough to get hold of them has a lot to lose if this planet becomes uninhabitable. This goes for people like Bin Laden as well. Note that he is not too eager to put on a suicide bomber's belt himself.

quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

Everyone's hands = wrong hands? Sounds about right to me... what's the current ratio of people who use these things for good to people who use them for evil/extortion/etc?
One man's "good" is another man's "evil".

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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
Save this forum! in SubTerra
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Sunday, January 22 2006 14:46 Profile Homepage #24
quote:
Originally written by Master of Reality:

Well, is there anything related to SubTerra that you guys think you could talk about? I mean, it's better than just bumping the forum up just for the sake of keeping it alive and going on aimless tangents, right?
I hope you realize that about 80% of people who posted on this thread never played SubTerra, so it would be king of hard for them to talk about anything relevant here. :)

The whole point of this thread's existence is to have fun for a few days while Stareye gets around to deleting the forum.

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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
Time Limit Discussion in Blades of Avernum
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, January 19 2006 09:49 Profile Homepage #19
I think that when discussing putting in time limits, you have to consider gameplay, rather than story. There are two distinct ideas: changing world (which is a story element) and time limit (which is a gameplay element).

These ideas don't have to be connected. You can have player's actions trigger sertain changes in the world as if these actions were done "just in time", regardless of how long the actions took. In your case, after stopping Vahnatai, player could get a message along the lines of "As you are walking back, you see the town burning in the distance. If only you could have gotten there a little sooner..."

Timelimits, on the other hand, are a gameplay element which belongs only in fast-paced action scenarios, the ones where combat and plot progression are most important and there is little dialogue and no exploration. Running around looking for the right person to ask the right question to advance the plot, or unlock a sub-quest is very frustrating if there is a clock ticking on the wall.

[ Thursday, January 19, 2006 09:51: 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
Resistance is futile in SubTerra
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, January 13 2006 09:25 Profile Homepage #8
We must resist! Since the only way to beat a secret cult is with an even more secret cult, I hereby announce a formation of ... [signal lost] ..., an organization so secret, that nobody knows of its existence. In fact, this organization was responsible for the sub-terranean name of this forum in the first place. So it existed even before its formation, meaning that we have even more power than White himself over what has been going to have happened in the future's past.

However, revealing anything else might cause entire universe to be re-written, removing these forums out of existence. So if this board disappears some time soon, you'll know why this will have happened.

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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
Welcome Everyone! in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, January 13 2006 09:04 Profile Homepage #6
quote:
Originally written by Januarist Revolutionary:

...
—Alorael, who would say that the first thread of real import was Nephils vs. Sliths, which was a legend in its time. That's something that should have been archived for posterity.
WaybackMachine has most of it archived:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020215211627/www.ironycentral .com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000046

As for the first topic, the first one I remember went something like this:
"Cool! I found this place on my own before you opened it to public."
"Me too."
"Me three."
"Me four."
"Me five."
"This is getting rediculous. It's time to make a public anouncement."
(*A couple hundred people come in.*)
"Yay, new boards!"

[ Friday, January 13, 2006 09:06: 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
Does Anyone Play This Anymore? in SubTerra
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, December 9 2005 18:22 Profile Homepage #7
There are still some die-hard fans, but I am afraid there isn't much activity even at the new SubTerra forum.

It's a shame, considering that it was a fun game. It just can't compete with Civ4. (At least for me.)

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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
My Nanowrimo Novel - Vahnatai stuff! in Blades of Avernum
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, November 3 2005 09:52 Profile Homepage #25
You are planning to write this much every day for the next month? :eek: I guess that's how the writers who put out several books a year work, but it's still a surprizing speed. And you did a good job of making it sound like a real holy book. (Maybe even too much like a certain real holy book. :) )

[ Thursday, November 03, 2005 09:53: 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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