Profile for Chintznibbles
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| Displayed name | Chintznibbles |
| Member number | 2581 |
| Title | Apprentice |
| Postcount | 32 |
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| Registered | Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
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| Geneforge 5: Improvements, Innovations etc in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Sunday, March 25 2007 03:13
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I second the "creature schematic" loading screens. Those are great, and there should be more of them. (although the Rotgroth one actually grosses me out a little from time to time... bleh) Since I keep managing to find a way to get like 9 points in Create Fyora and such, I think it'd be cool to have a third tier. Make them yellow and have them breathe a weak version of Kyshakk lightning. Electora? Hmm... sounds like some kind of election-based thing, but it could work... I actually like the "rebel" character classes a lot. More variety is always welcome in my book. If GF5 is Shaper-centric, an option to just pick a male or female type sprite for your character would be interesting. Useless, but interesting. ;) Finally, you should be able to talk to your creations. Intelligent creations should have huge, elaborate dialogue trees and fanciful sidequests, along the lines of the ones in Planescape:Torment. :P *nod* Ooh, ooh, and voicework, too. Fyora: Rar. Vlish: <eerie unintelligible whisper> Thahd: Dur, me smash! Drayk: a variety of sarcastic comments. Rotgroth: things about brains, specifically how he'd like to eat some. Drakon: Thinly veiled threats. Yeah, I know... whoever said dreaming only hurts a little was right, though. [ Sunday, March 25, 2007 03:19: Message edited by: Chintznibbles ] -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
| What do YOU want to see in G4? in Geneforge Series | |
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written Saturday, July 16 2005 01:53
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<vague ramblings> I think we need to add lightning damage to the game. We've got fire and ice already, yes? I guess there's the generic "energy" damage, but that comes off more as, well, generic, not as electric. With the addition of this new and exciting elemental force comes a third level of creations, that, uh, are either somehow more metallic or shoot lightning from their various energy-emitting orifices. The, uh, Zapora (okay, it's lame, but not as lame as Litora or Electora, the latter of which sounds like something involved in an election process) would be yellow. And shoot lightning bolts. And maybe have one or two more AP than a Fyora, because of the whole quickness association with lightning. Quicksilver Artilas, Copper-laced Thahds, etc. Ooh, and if someone mastered the art of creating the elemental creatures, they could move on to the highly-forbidden final level of creation, which might be Prism or Star or, um, Tera. These pan-elemental creatures utilize combined forces and do semi-generic damage that is less resistable. They also shimmer, and freshen up the room for you without being oppresively floral. Get rid of that vinegary just-shaped smell. Also, give the poor Agent a new graphic, for the love of pete. I was thinking, "Hey! New stuff! Cool!" and then looked and saw the Agent has the same, dumpy-looking graphic as before and became just a bit sadder than I started as. Nice touch on the vaguely Harry Potter-esque stripes on the Shaper robes, though. </vague ramblings> -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
| VoDT Question (spoilers?) in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, July 19 2004 01:30
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Hmm... anyone tell me where I can find a Drake Fang in the Valley of Dying Things? I've looked at damn near everything in the module as far as I know, and have found nothing as of yet. I've actually finished the scenario already, but my pedantic desire for 100% completion is keeping me from moving on to another with a clear conscience. ;) Edit: Ahem, it appears I should have searched before posting a pointless query. Question answered, you may ignore this topic at your leisure. :P [ Monday, July 19, 2004 02:18: Message edited by: Chintznibbles ] -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
| Mac users REALLY ought to see their website right about now... in General | |
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written Tuesday, June 24 2003 19:43
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Interesting... I'm still, unfortunately, not a mac fan. I'm much too attached to the process of opening up my computer case and banging around on various objects therein. Macs just don't seem to give that same feeling. I like to be able to pick and choose what parts I'm gonna use, regardless of their actual quality. ;) That and I like to play computer games, a direction Macs seem to be sadly lacking in. No offense to Jeff or the like, but one can only play Exile or Avernum so many times before they start wearing on a person. :P -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
| Pet Peeves in General | |
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written Tuesday, June 24 2003 19:31
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Haggis? What, do we have a problem with a sheep's heart, liver and kidneys cooked in its stomach? I mean, sure, hearts aren't quite often on the menu, but I'm told they taste fairly well, being that they're all lean muscle and all. Kidneys and liver are fairly day-to-day foods across the pond, as it were, though the US doesn't see quite as many of them... Though, biologically speaking, I'm not entirely sure why anyone would want to eat either organ. Liver: filters poisonous substances out of the blood. Kidneys: filters mostly waste out of the blood. Yuck. I mean, they've got to have like all these poison and urine and the like built up somewhere in there... doesn't exactly sound like a good time. Adding to the list of my annoying qualities, I happen to like bagpipes. Nyah. :P (I suppose being Scottish-ish probably helps on the bagpipe-appreciation count, but hey. Whatever works, I suppose.) -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
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written Sunday, June 22 2003 10:28
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Yesss! *Pumps fist in the air* (Actually, I do apologize, though, if I offended or perhaps disappointed you somehow... Such as it is, an apology will likely do no good, but ah well. Have a nice day, in that case.) -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
| Pet Peeves in General | |
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written Saturday, June 21 2003 21:52
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Hmm. Most of my pet peeves begin and end either with me, me in a car, or me at school. For the most part I'd like to believe myself a big enough person to forgive other people their differences, but, then again, everyone gets upset about something, it would seem. (The keenly observant among you might notice that I am, in fact, a bit of a hypocrite. I readily admit this, and for the most part take steps to avoid it, but honestly, who isn't a bit hypocritical at times? I think hypocrisy is part of the human condition, and whereas it should be avoided if possible, isn't necessarily the screaming offense some would make it out to be.) My list looks mostly like this: Serious Complaints: -Rapists, child molesters and any other sort of perpetrator of sex crime. (If I had my way, I'd go over to some sort of sex-offender's prison with this here Desert Eagle and with any luck the only person left alive in the building would be me. And then the cops would show up, and I'd probably get the death penalty for mass murder, but hey, that's the breaks, I suppose.) -NAMBLA. (See above comment, except replace the desert eagle with some sort of razor-tipped electrical devices, which might in fact keep them alive for hours before killing them.) -Racists. (Quit giving white people a bad name, you misbegotten trailer-trash sons of ignorant whores! Ahem. Sorry.) -The KKK and similar groups for any nationality. -The ACLU. (Hey, I'm all for civil liberties and the like, but anyone who would go so far as to support any of the aforementioned is one subpoena short of a class-action suit, thank you very much.) -The Holier-Than-Thou camp. (Nobody in particular, mind you, they just bug me.) Minor Annoyances: -Hip-Hop and its derivative works. (I know, I'm just an unreasonable bastard.) -The Irrevocably Trendy. (I just can't quite wrap my mind around the lifestyle, I'm sorry.) -The Flamingly Gay. (No offense. I'm personally somewhere in the bisexual field (despite having not actually acted on any of those feelings yet), but for some reason people who seem to be having some sort of personal contest to see who can appear the most gay irritate me. In my mind, it should be a non-issue, but ah well.) Driving Woes: -People who drive under the speed limit in front of me. -People who aggressively drive under the speed limit in front of me. -People who drive in front of me in general. -The perfectly well-justified and in a general way absolutely right police officer who gave me a speeding ticket, whom I still absolutely loathe the guts of. [ Saturday, June 21, 2003 22:01: Message edited by: Chintznibbles and Stuff ] -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
| 6 and a half hours later... in General | |
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written Saturday, June 21 2003 21:21
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Hmm... 800-some pages, huh? And, unless I care to buy my own copy, I have to wait for my sister to finish reading it first... Ah well. On the other hand, could anyone tell me what all this fuss is about the book somehow being more quote-unquote "mature"? I mean, sure, the kid's getting older and the like. If you're still reading the things to your four-year-old, then maybe some uncomfortable bits could come up... Was there anything decidedly more mature about this one, then, or was it general media hype and the like? -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
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written Sunday, June 8 2003 10:06
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Dual-slit experiments are really quite fascinating. They bring up what may in fact be the crucial distinction in particulate physics- the exact difference between a wave and a particle. These sort of techniques, as well as collaborating evidence from particle acceleration tests and some radiography tests, seem to say that pure forms of energy, such as photons, are more concisely neither a wave nor a particle, but rather like a cross between the two. On the one hand, light is very particle-like in terms of its interaction with most sorts of matter. Refraction, for instance, is easily calculated and conforms to what you'd expect of a particle. The photoelectric effect argues strongly for the presence of some sort of quantum packet of light energy. Otherwise, though, light seems to be very wavelike. Colors of light, as expressed as wavelengths, seem to be based generally on how high-energy the radiation in question actually is. Furthermore, the dual-slit experiment cements the notion that light does in fact exhibit wavelike characteristics in the distortion patterns. From what I understand, current theories place light as a sort of serpentine particle which behaves mostly wave-like but exhibits "solid" characteristics. What we see as a photon is more akin to a slice of the continuous wave, or perhaps a particle with such a large amount of innate vibration that it becomes a semi-solid wave. When we capture a single photon, its wave structure is temporarily suppressed and pools, if you will, into the single particle. Alternately, you could suggest that light just likes messing with the concepts of Newtonian physics and confusing the heck out of everything else. ;) Then again, we're still pretty hazy on a lot of quantum mechanics. From what I know, we're still not even 100% sure why energy expresses itself only in quanta in the first place, but there's definitely progress being made. (Oh, and my math knowledge trails off after elementary calculus. Quaternic equations, regardless of whether or not they're expressed polar-ly, are a bit out of my league as well. :P ) [ Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:10: Message edited by: Chintznibbles and Stuff ] -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 5 2003 20:57
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Alorael: Ahem. It seems I misspoke- the phrase "fundamentalist" was, in hindsight, a bit of a lexographic error. In essence, I meant something more like "generic Christian" than "bible-thumper". I do know a couple, shall we say, hardcore literalists, but I'd prefer not to characterize myself as one of them. The basic goal of my church is similar to the original Quaker premise of "more God, less church" and has only moderately changed over the years with the acknowledgement of the fact that most people do somewhat enjoy music in a church service and that having a semi-permanent pastor reduces the need for random individuals to compose sermons. We'd like to put the connection to God and philosophy foremost and leave the establishment and institutionalism (heh, if that's even a word) behind. I find something rather refreshing in that. The Excuse: Quantum physics is so weird and interesting at the same time... My theory, as unresearched and random as it is ;) , is that we still merely lack either the technology to measure quantum uncertainty- that is, that our perceptions of reality are lacking in some certifiable dimension- or that there's some strange further behavior going on that we don't yet have the rational capacity and data availability to describe. So, then, the "impossible" task of either sharpening our perceptions to see where and how these things happen simultaneously, or broadening them enough that we can fully integrate them into context. Of course, how we'd go about doing either thing I haven't the faintest clue... but that's why I'm not a physicist. :P (As a random, somewhat self-centered aside, I wanted to be a physicist for a very long time as a kid, but I just never had the stomach for all the math it takes. Got kicked out of college calculus three times, so I gave up and changed to Computer Science/Business. ;) ) -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 5 2003 14:51
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Yow. Interesting chain of thought... Einstein may have once said something somewhat like "God does not play dice with the Universe". On the other hand, things like Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle and the nature of a good deal of quantum-physics type particles sort of seems to belie this. The point is that things are measurable and quantifiable up to a point, and then they start getting screwy. Does this mean that we just can't measure them yet, or that we can't measure them at all? Why not? If we reach a point where something can no longer be split in two, or even examined, where does that leave the things made up of it? Science is fun. ;) (Oh, for the record, I am a pseudo-Christian myself, preferring to leave the proselytizing and "missionary work" to others, if they go in for that sorta thing... I go to a west-coast Quaker church, who are basically fundamentalist christians who believe in strong community spirit, equality of everything (men, women, racial, economical, etc.) and leadership by committee and consensus. My pastor is a woman, which I enjoy immensely just because it seems to irritate the snot out of a certain sort of person that I think I don't exactly have to call by name.) -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 5 2003 14:30
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What? Dry decayed wood, used as tinder? Any of various substances that smolder when ignited, used to light fireworks? Chinese incense, perhaps? :P Though I believe the definition you are referencing is rather archaic, or, at the very least, not very common anymore. Then again, my swimming in the sort of circles which might use it have been quite shallow, so I could be entirely wrong. It does somewhat make one wonder how the word got to describe the music, though... As far as my musical tastes... I've determined I'll listen to anything. I'm a Corporate Trendwhore (tm) as well as an indie fan. I have almost every genre of music represented in my music lists, though I tend toward the electronic end of the spectrum. The last five songs to come up on my random playlist were: Mighty Mighty BossTones- Impression That I Get (AKA Knock On Wood) The Cynic Project- Sidewinder Me First and the Gimme Gimmes- Puff the Magic Dragon Loreena McKennitt- The Mummer's Dance Propellerheads- Spybreak! Stuff is an avid punk/ska fan and was not terribly amused by the dry wood/gay male connotations of the word. But I think she's over it now. ;) -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 5 2003 13:58
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That's it, X! You've uncovered the crucial childhood link between being photographed in amusingly bad outfits and eventual hypochondria and *shudder* Freemasonry! Excuse me, I must alert the media! ;) -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 5 2003 13:46
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Me? Disappear? Never. ;) I've just been avoiding my (our?) own vanity-based "Hey I'm back" thread. :P I have a distressing tendency to lurk without actually posting anything, though. So its quite possible. -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
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written Friday, May 30 2003 00:22
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Hi, I'm chintznibbles. Some of you might remember me from such pictures as "I used to kinda-sorta post here" and "I thought it might be fun to come back". I also have some Stuff. Whereas Stuff doesn't necessarily get out of her (its?) closet much, she/it might post occasionally. To circumvent her annoying habit of simply using my username instead of going through the trouble of logging me off, etc., this sort of represents both of us. And yes, I am weird, thank you for asking. So is she. It. Whatever. -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
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written Thursday, May 29 2003 23:29
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Well, theoretically at least, we all build our lives around the principles of biology- you'd soon enough say that you build your daily activities around the principles of physics, that you base your community habits around sociology, or that you studied chemistry once in high school and somehow remember that the chemical formula for water is H2O. They're all true for absolutely everyone. ;) As per the topic goes, my beliefs are perhaps best approximated as Christian-flavored fluff. I like God. If he exists and all this prayery stuff is true, I'd like to claim Jesus as a friend of mine. I like the image of the semi-detached creator, who from time to time sends interesting situations to his meandering creations, just to see how they react... And, of course, if I turn out to be wrong, no big deal in my mind- I wind up as worm food either way and all I might've really missed out on was that one great big nifty concert that I so wanted to go to when I was twelve. Shucks. I figure God would probably be willing to forgive everything else, as that seems to be something S/He is a fan of anyway and I can't possibly be any worse (or any better, really) than anyone else. -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
| Silly Question: Who did the art for the Avernum series? in General | |
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written Thursday, May 29 2003 22:45
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I got out my old(ish) Avernum discs the other day when I needed something fun that I could also actually play on my laptop, which is rather lacking in all things performance. Then, as is the nature of things, I stumbled upon this singular quandary- Who did the silly line-drawing art that graces the various character information screens? Also, is it the same person who did the character portraits? Thanks in advance for assuaging my spark of curiousity. -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |
| Around the place in however long it takes! in General | |
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written Tuesday, February 18 2003 20:49
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Spork, the great knight, sat waiting by the bus stop. The bus drove by. Spork sighed and rubbed his shiny white plastic head, muttering, "It's because I'm a spork, isn't it..." He was then stepped on and promptly forgotten. -------------------- Stuff? Don't mind if I do, thanks. This may, in fact, be a long, rambling post without much bearing on the topic of the thread. Consider yourself warned. Posts: 32 | Registered: Monday, February 3 2003 08:00 |