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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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| Hypothetical Time in General | |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Wednesday, August 31 2005 09:40
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Good questions. My feeling is that strength of claim weakens with degree of separation. The children have the right to inherit anything their parents want to leave them minus applicable taxes. However, it would be ridiculous to say that if you can trace your ancestry to Egyptian pharaohs, you have a claim to all treasures found in the pyramids. With that in mind, here are my answers: A) Yes, if it's a child or a grandchild. No otherwise. B) If A is alive, 100%. If A's children/spouse/siblings are alive, 90%. If A's grandchildren/cousins/etc. are alive, 50%. I guess you could say that great grand children and other people mentioned in the will could claim about 20%. However, anything beyond that is too far removed from original owner. C) No, but the percentages above should be calculated from full value of the painting if it were restored. If that comes out to more than the actual sale value, all proceeds of sale go to A's descendants. D) See above. About the second question (what should happen of the stolen property was transferred), the property should be returned in percentages described above. Any sales involving the property should be undone. You can't give what you don't own. (Otherwise, somebody could just rob a bank, throw the bag of money to his girlfriend and be a millionair when he gets out of jail.) -------------------- 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 |
| That stupid button!!! in The Exile Trilogy | |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Friday, August 26 2005 14:23
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When the first person said this, it was moderately funny to those who like this sort of practical jokes. When the second person repeated this, it was getting old. By now, this "joke" is just idiotic. This is not RWG board. This is the place where people come to get help when they are stuck in a game. And trying to confuse them is not funny. Dyl, the answer is "yes, the button is there just to blow you up". [ Friday, August 26, 2005 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 |
| Weird Vahnatai in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Friday, August 26 2005 14:10
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quote:Vahnatai arms have evolved into sophisticated throwing devices, capable of launching flat metal objects at rapid velocity. This is used not only to launch razordisks at their enemies, but also to staple posters to bulletin boards. quote:[censored] quote:Do you really want to know? quote:How would you feel of you were awakened by some fools stumbling around in your bedroom, looking for "magic crystals that let you see things that aren't there"? quote:Actually, Vahnatai alphabet contains 459 characters, most of which are invisible to lesser species. That's a good thing, because seeing some of these characters without proper training and awareness would instantly teleport the reader into a cursed sub-dimension to be forever tormented by his inner demons. quote:Waveblades are a unique cultural symbol whose understanding is beyond our pithiful minds. Some, however, argue that waveblades are used simply to intimidate the enemies, who will think "if these guys can fight using that, they must be really tough". quote:With all the time we've spent around dogs, you'd think human professors would be able to talk dog pretty clearly by now. quote:See answer to question 6. -------------------- 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 Touching Tribute: A Satire in Song in Richard White Games | |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Friday, August 26 2005 13:30
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This opera is quite amuzing. Maybe you should start writing operas and poetic novels, in addition to your publishing business. Why waste money on royalties, when you can distribute your own work. And if you bundle it with traditional cult propaganda, they'll always come back for more. Could you also post your Short Version of Exhaustive Summary of Full Extent of Abstract of History of the White Cult. -------------------- 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 |
| Do you like school? in General | |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Friday, August 26 2005 13:05
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Professors in large classes don't necessarily care less about students. There are just too many students to pay individual attention to during the lecture. However, many professors constantly invite students to office hours and complain that not enough students come. If you do come to their office hours, you get even more attention than in a class of 10 people. So if you are in a huge lecture, you just have to be more active. About class sizes, my classes in Berkeley were mostly in the 40-400 students range. All of those huge lectures also had 15-30 person discussion sections led by TAs. However, the quality of discussion sections varied widely depending on the grad student leading it. (Same could be said about quality of lectures themselves, but there are more clueless TAs than clueless professors.) The huge lecture combined with small discussions worked well in theory, but you had to come to professors' office hours to get the amount of interaction with them you'd get in a smaller class. About school in general, it has its advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes it feels like I have less free time now, sometimes more. As for painful boredom, that can be found at work just as often as in a class. -------------------- 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 4 info released! in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Wednesday, August 24 2005 19:27
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Check out the discussion in this thread: http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002771 (To summarize: the graphics you see in those screenshots will probably change, the story is supposed to be great and isn't supposed to be about Vahnatai and the game is still turn-based, although spell system is "expanded and improved".) -------------------- 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 |
| Holding shed row in Geneforge Series | |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Wednesday, August 24 2005 08:46
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Actually, there are some hidden things in all of Jeff's games. (Bits of text you can never find inside the game, inaccessible rooms, etc.) And conversation options are also determined by your faction affiliation and what other NPCs you've talked to. So the only way to be 100% certain is to read the dialogue script files directly. -------------------- 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 |
| Engrish in General | |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Wednesday, August 24 2005 08:26
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That's true to a certain extent. However, most languages are far more complicated even after you account for common mistakes. A Russian laguage teacher would never tell a student "don't worry about the difference in noun case". A lot of things such as noun cases and noun genders, which influence adjective and verb endings are completely natural for native speakers, but hard to learn for foreigners. PS Are Chinese languages tonal? If they are, they are very hard for westerners even if you ignore common spelling mistakes. [ Wednesday, August 24, 2005 08:27: 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 |
| Holding shed row in Geneforge Series | |
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written Wednesday, August 24 2005 08:18
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Jaid, you'll never need 30 leadership. In fact, 10-12 leadership is enough for most of the game. -------------------- 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 |
| fort wilton in Geneforge Series | |
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written Wednesday, August 24 2005 08:16
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If the suspicious serviles you've found are near the entrance to abandoned plant north of Fort Wilton, you should talk to them thoroughly twice. The first time you say "goodbye", you'll notice something unusual. During the second conversation, you'll notice something even more unusual. -------------------- 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 accumulated skill points in Geneforge Series | |
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written Wednesday, August 24 2005 08:09
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Luck's improvement in chance of getting good items is supposed to be too small to notice in 1 battle. The idea is that over the course of entire game you might find 8 Artilla Eyes, instead of 5. Another effect Luck has is improving your armor by 2% and every basic resistance by 1%. That's not much, but it add up, so items that give you luck, but have lower armor values migh actually improve your armor more than items that don't. [ Wednesday, August 24, 2005 08:12: 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 |
| AIM Buddy Making! in General | |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Wednesday, August 24 2005 08:05
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I guess the sound quality must have greatly improved in recent years. When I tried NetToPhone about 6 year ago, the sound was very bad even with college dorm's very fast connection. As for number of broadband users, there are still plenty of people who are fine with dialup. (I don't want to waste 30$/month on DSL if I can do all my web-surfing with a 9$/month dialup.) -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
| Your Favorite Source of Energy in General | |
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written Tuesday, August 23 2005 21:25
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Wind and solar power would probably work best in combination with hydrogen fuel cells: Use wind or sun to turn water into hydrogen, then transport hydrogen and burn it somewhere else. As things are now, wind and sun are too unreliable in most area to depend on them completely. Going to wind power would be an interesting reversal. Wind power was used for centuries in windmills. So it looks like after a century of fossil fuels, we'll be going back to older sources of energy. EDIT: Missed several posts. Whether there are economies of scale in power production depends on the method. Solar power is produced 1 panel at a time, so you can put panels on every roof. On the other extreme, fusion reactors have to be extremely powerful before the energy you get out of it becomes higher than the energy used to maintain the reaction. [ Tuesday, August 23, 2005 21:30: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
| I paralized Sucia's economy :=/ in Geneforge Series | |
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written Tuesday, August 23 2005 18:39
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The spy is a specific person. (Although I don't remember who.) Some doors can only be opened if you are a member of a certain sect. Generally, if a door takes 15-20 living tools to open, you don't really need to open it. :) -------------------- 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 paralized Sucia's economy :=/ in Geneforge | |
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written Tuesday, August 23 2005 18:39
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The spy is a specific person. (Although I don't remember who.) Some doors can only be opened if you are a member of a certain sect. Generally, if a door takes 15-20 living tools to open, you don't really need to open it. :) -------------------- 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, August 23 2005 13:36
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The best thing about English is that, at least in America, most people neither know nor care about proper spelling and grammar, removing the need to understand the hardest part of the language. For example, my high school English teacher told me that there is no difference between simple past and past perfect and they can be used completely interchangably. This makes English the easiest language in the world to learn, because the few hard parts that it has are also too hard for native speakers. PS Ben, if Jesus lived in Israel 2000 years ago, he probably spoke Aramaic. Hebrew for him would be like Latin for modern Catholics (dead language used only in religious literature). -------------------- 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 |
| Pralgad or Pralgrad? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, August 23 2005 13:16
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quote:"Grad" means city in old Russian and is often used in city names. (Leningrad = city of Lenin, Volgagrad = city near Volga river, etc.) PS "Gad" (or I guess "gud") is a Russian word for disgusting creature (slime, snake, etc.), so I prefer the name Pralgrad. :) [ Tuesday, August 23, 2005 13:18: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
| Your Favorite Source of Energy in General | |
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written Tuesday, August 23 2005 13:04
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When you say "hydrogen power" do you mean hydro-electric plants (dams across rivers), or hydrogen fuel cells? If you are talking about hydrogen fuel, it's not a source of energy. It might be a good method for transporting electricity, but you spend more energy to make the hydrogen, than you get from burning it. So you'd still have to figure out how you'll be getting your energy for making hydrogen. -------------------- 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 paralized Sucia's economy :=/ in Geneforge Series | |
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written Tuesday, August 23 2005 11:16
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You aren't supposed to use living tools on doors that require 15-20. Even 10 is too much. If the doors require that many living tools, either they are a reward for a quest, or you need a key. About colored spores, if I remember correctly, they disable different kinds of mines. Use them only when you really have to, because you might need to use them on some quests. -------------------- 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 paralized Sucia's economy :=/ in Geneforge | |
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written Tuesday, August 23 2005 11:16
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You aren't supposed to use living tools on doors that require 15-20. Even 10 is too much. If the doors require that many living tools, either they are a reward for a quest, or you need a key. About colored spores, if I remember correctly, they disable different kinds of mines. Use them only when you really have to, because you might need to use them on some quests. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, August 23 2005 11:01
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If you've been consistently pro-shaper, one point isn't going to make any difference. Even if you have been sitting on the fence, there are plenty of places in the game where you can give your opinion. And if all else fails, there is always iloveserviles/ihateserviles. (The cheatcodes for pro-rebel/pro-shaper reputation.) -------------------- 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 Tuesday, August 23 2005 09:17
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1. and 3. Check locked storage rooms in NE. 2. If that's the quest you get from servile overseer, I think you have to be pro-rebel. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, August 23 2005 09:01
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Something I could never understand about voice chat: Why not use a phone instead? Even for international calls, if both sides have to get DSL just to chat, your DSL bill will be higher than your phone bill would have been. [ Tuesday, August 23, 2005 09:02: 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 |
| Hello in General | |
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written Tuesday, August 23 2005 08:58
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Very nice origami animals. :) And I think the pictures are the right size. -------------------- 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 |
| Favorite Time Waster. in General | |
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written Tuesday, August 23 2005 08:52
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If you are looking for simple and addictive time-wasters, try old games like Angband or online "RPGs" like Runescape. The time you spend will be completely wasted, but if that's what you are looking for... If you want slightly more useful way to spend time, there is a recommended reading thread somewhere on this forum. -------------------- 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 |