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Who is AM and TM? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Tuesday, June 14 2005 10:27 Profile Homepage #2
Due to a UBB "feature", once you change your name, you can not get your old one back, because UBB still thinks that your old name is taken. I think it's a fair penalty for people who change their name too much. :)

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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
Nethergate Owners in Nethergate
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Sunday, June 12 2005 22:19 Profile Homepage #13
Note that there is a 15$ discount if you purchase it together with another game. So I suggest waiting until there is another Spidweb game that you want (for example Geneforge 3) and bying the two together. While Nethergate is definitely a great deal for 15$, I think 30$ might be a bit too much for it, considering that you could buy almost any other Spidweb game for 25$.

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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
Websites for depressed people in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Sunday, June 12 2005 14:28 Profile Homepage #3
If you are trying to help a particular person, you'll do a lot more by talking to that person yourself and convincing him to seek professional help if the problem is serious enough.

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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
Most Cost-Effective Spells in Geneforge Series
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Sunday, June 12 2005 14:20 Profile Homepage #3
The most cost-effective spell depends on the situation. If you are an agent, you'll get more benefit from attack spells, but if you are a Shaper with lots of creations, you'll get more benefit from blessing spells. If you are far from a town, you'll need healing spells, but if you are right next to a town, just running into town is cheaper. Even which attack spell to use depends on how much damage you need to do and whether you are fighting a single enemy or multiple enemies. And I haven't even mentioned spell levels and skill levels.

[ Sunday, June 12, 2005 14:21: 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
Most Cost-Effective Spells in Geneforge 2
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Sunday, June 12 2005 14:20 Profile Homepage #3
The most cost-effective spell depends on the situation. If you are an agent, you'll get more benefit from attack spells, but if you are a Shaper with lots of creations, you'll get more benefit from blessing spells. If you are far from a town, you'll need healing spells, but if you are right next to a town, just running into town is cheaper. Even which attack spell to use depends on how much damage you need to do and whether you are fighting a single enemy or multiple enemies. And I haven't even mentioned spell levels and skill levels.

[ Sunday, June 12, 2005 14:21: 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
Nethergate Owners in Nethergate
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Sunday, June 12 2005 14:09 Profile Homepage #7
I have it and liked it a lot a few years ago. It's engine isn't as polished as that of Avernum, but has some nice elements not found in other SW games.

It also has a good storyline and I find it very fun to be able to play the same story from 2 opposing points of view.

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Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword,
For it too has the power to kill.
However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword,
Can also have the power to heal.
Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
How do we pronounce... in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, June 10 2005 15:57 Profile Homepage #31
It would be a lot easier if people simply posted recordings of their names being pronounced by them.

PS As for my name, it's pronounced exactly as written. (Stress on second syllable.) The only difficulty is that 'e' represents a Russian sound half way between 'e' in 'me' and 'e' in 'pen'.

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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
Price in Blades of Exile
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, June 10 2005 13:07 Profile Homepage #4
Avernum is the exact copy of Exile, but with a new engine. So there is absolutely no reason to buy both Avernum and Exile games. This means that anybody who considers registering Exile games now is a hard core fan who probably doesn't care about the price. The only thing Jeff could accomplish by lowering prices for Exile series is cutting into his Avernum sales.

As for BoE, it is currently a better value than BoA, because a value of a game like this is in its scenarios and there are far more quality scenarios BoE.

[ Friday, June 10, 2005 13:08: 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
Loss of Essence in Geneforge 1.03 in Tech Support
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, June 10 2005 12:33 Profile Homepage #4
It's always a good idea to back up your saved games before reinstalling.

It's possible that your saved games were corrupted, so I'd suggest trying to start a new game in your current version and, if that doesn't work, starting a new game after a clean install. If that new game is fine, you can try opening old saved game.

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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
ROLL CALL in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, June 10 2005 10:06 Profile Homepage #8
I am I.

What is the meaning of life... In a theoretically hypothetical situation of assuming existance of non-existant eqivalent to blah blah blah ...

Since all of you, including Imban, are just figments of my imagination, Imban is I.

[ Friday, June 10, 2005 10:08: 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
What's your sex? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, June 10 2005 10:00 Profile Homepage #129
quote:
Originally written by EviL_TiM:

Infinite? How do they store it all?
That's why you could never build a true Turing machine in reality. However, it's still useful to computer scientists to study how real computers work.

[ Friday, June 10, 2005 10:00: 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
What's your sex? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, June 10 2005 09:20 Profile Homepage #126
quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

My title's a section of Turing tape. What's Turing tape, you ask? Well, it's what you use when you need to ture things to each other, of course.
That explains why Thuryl knows so many facts! He just reads them off his infinite tape. :)

For those who don't know what Turing tape is, it's an infinite tape used to store data by a Turing machine. (Turing machine is a logical device that works like a computer. Or, rather, computer is one of the practical examples of a Turing machine-like device.)

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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
Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, June 10 2005 08:53 Profile Homepage #224
Nice. :)

The eternal struggle between artistic rebels and soul-less establishment.

I thought Hermes is god of trade and Apollon god of beauty, so why does the author call his rebels supporters of Hermes and the establishment supporters of Apollon? (Or did I misunderstood which is which?)

[ Friday, June 10, 2005 08:54: 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
Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Friday, June 10 2005 08:01 Profile Homepage #222
quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

In science old is bad and new is good, period.
You do not, of course, literally mean that this applies in every case. Nine times out of ten, someone trying to overturn major ideas about how the world works is just an annoying crank. (The argument could be made that most of science's great minds were cranks who happened to be right, but I'll leave that for another day.)

I think what you were driving at is that the currently-established scientific consensus tends to consist mostly of relatively recent ideas, to a far greater extent than in other fields.
From what I've seen of "other fields", the "old is always bad and new is always good" approach is even more true for them. In social "science", everybody goes with fascionable ideas of the day and anybody who disagrees is a target of personal attacks. In arts, every generation tries to be more "modern" than the previous generation, leading to the kind of works that can be appreciated only by other students of the same schools.

I guess the problem with non-scientific fields is that while in hard sciences there is objective reality to which you can compare all the theories to sort crackpots away from genue discoveries, there is no objective standart of truth in social "science", so any theory that can become popular is equally legitimate.

[ Friday, June 10, 2005 08:02: 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
What's your sex? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, June 9 2005 16:08 Profile Homepage #105
quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

quote:
Originally written by Zeviz:

Why are people so eager for custom titles? Almost any title that Drakey gives can be seen as either negative or positive, depending on how you choose to interpret it. (FAQSELF, One Thousand Slimey Things, Nuke and Pave, White Rabbit, Bob's Big Date, etc.)
You've got to admit, though, Nuke and Pave is pretty good and White Rabbit is pretty bad.
I got "Nuke and Pave" in fall 2002. Given the circumstances under which I had to leave in August 2002, at the time "Nuke and Pave" was more unpleasant for me than "White Rabbit" is for you.

EDIT: 2002 ... wow I guess it's been 3 years since those times.

EDIT 2: Although now that all that stuff is long forgotten, the title does sound pretty cool.

[ Thursday, June 09, 2005 16:12: 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
What's your sex? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, June 9 2005 13:51 Profile Homepage #99
Why are people so eager for custom titles? Almost any title that Drakey gives can be seen as either negative or positive, depending on how you choose to interpret it. (FAQSELF, One Thousand Slimey Things, Nuke and Pave, White Rabbit, Bob's Big Date, etc.)

[ Thursday, June 09, 2005 13:52: 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
What are you addicted to? in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, June 9 2005 13:44 Profile Homepage #52
If you were truly addicted to these boards, you'd be checking them so often that you'd think they move too slowly. (Only 5 new posts since the last time I've been here?) :)

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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
WARNING : Do Not Read EraserHead's Topic, Apology, or Hello Topics - Nasty Images in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, June 9 2005 13:37 Profile Homepage #94
I've rarely heard the word "sex" in the sence of "gender". A question "what's your gender" would be unambiguous. A question "what's your sex" sounds to me like a question about details of people's sexual lives.

EDIT: I am aware of what the thread actually discusses. However, just reading its title makes it sound to me like the thread would talk about a lot more explicit material than just gender.

[ Thursday, June 09, 2005 13:40: 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
WARNING : Do Not Read EraserHead's Topic, Apology, or Hello Topics - Nasty Images in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, June 9 2005 12:56 Profile Homepage #92
If you started renaming all wandering topics to match their content, their names would be a paragraph long. Besides, some name-content combinations can be quite amuzing. For example, I find it very ironic that my welcomes are located in the thread with word "sex" in its name. :)

[ Thursday, June 09, 2005 12:57: 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
Geneforge 1 crashes upon saving... in Tech Support
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, June 9 2005 12:42 Profile Homepage #8
Before doing anything as drastic as Windows registry modifications, I'd suggest milder solutions:

0. Backup your savefiles.

1. Try deleting save directories (Save0, Save1, Save2, etc.) in your Geneforge > Data folder. After deleting them, recreate them manually.

2. Try reinstalling the game. (Back up your registration if the game is already registered.

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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
Geneforge and CPU temperature. in Tech Support
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Thursday, June 9 2005 08:23 Profile Homepage #3
Try e-mailing Jeff himself at spidweb@spiderwebsoftware.com

I don't think anybody besides him will be able to answer your question.

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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
LHS. in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, June 8 2005 18:54 Profile Homepage #7
Don't be so quick to call this person a troll. A Google search for "The LightHouse School" shows following site: http://www.lighthouseschool.org/default.htm

As for opinion and advice, I suggest complaining to your parents. Since they sent you to this school, they should also pull you out of it.

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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
Dam energy pulse mind crystal in The Avernum Trilogy
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, June 8 2005 12:10 Profile Homepage #5
If I am not mistaken, there is also a potion that removes dumbfounding. (Potion of Clarity?)

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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
Worst Game EVER! in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, June 8 2005 11:22 Profile Homepage #115
quote:
Originally written by An Upright stranger:

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Master of Magic by SimTex. A fantastic game after it was patched, although small in scale compared to modern games. You can download it from: Home of the Underdogs .
If are interested enough to look up that game, Master of Orion by SimTex is also worth investigating, also from Home of the Underdogs .
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Master of Magic and Master of Orion are very fun. I downloaded them from some abandonware site a few years ago and like them a lot more than any of the modern games I was playing at the time.

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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
Breaking the windows barrier in General
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, June 8 2005 11:18 Profile Homepage #1
Um... have you looked in the Geneforge 3 forum? Namely, these threads:

http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=000241

http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=000235

http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=000204 (the last post in this thread)

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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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