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Title	Raven v. Writing Desk
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Registered	Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00

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Video Game Addiction in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, June 27 2007 14:29 Profile Homepage #25 quote: Originally written by Garrison: It is a shame that video games cannot be more constructive in the traditional sense. Even painting can be tolerated as an activity that consumes an artist's life for months at a time just because something supposedly enriching arises from it. No, not just because of the end product. The process of painting is enriching, too; I'll even leave out the "supposedly." Playing video games certainly can be enriching in the same legitimate, life-improving ways. It just doesn't tend to be. It doesn't tend to foster self-reflection and worldly observation the way that many other solitary activities do. Still, I think there is a big difference between someone who simply does something less enriching with some of their time, and that guy who died because he was so addicted to EverQuest. Presumably though there are a lot of people in between those two extremes. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Video Game Addiction in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, June 27 2007 08:50 Profile Homepage #20 I thought the medical (and psychiatric) use of the term was, technically, restricted to directly mood-altering substances? As opposed to more generalizable dependency or compulsion. This may be one of those cases where the more inclusive abbreviation of 'psych' muddies the waters... There's an interesting article on the term here. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Video Game Addiction in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Tuesday, June 26 2007 20:29 Profile Homepage #15 That's not what's being described, though. Is it? I agree with Alorael: the case for a video game-related mental disorder is not hard to see, but jumping to "addiction" requires further explanation. (While we're throwing around DSMisms, it seems to me that what is being described is more likely to be co-morbid with, say, social anxiety disorder or PTSD than it is with addictive personality disorder, so the nomenclatural choice really confuses me.) -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
geneforge votes in Geneforge Series
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Tuesday, June 26 2007 20:22 Profile Homepage #7 1. The Geneforge forums do not need more pointless polls. 2. They definitely don't need polls with descriptive titles like "geneforge votes". 3. You brought this up in at least three different topics now, in one case reviving a dead topic to do so, and creating two new topics. That's called spam. 4. You are shouting at other people to order them around. 5. You are making disingenuous statements about the next game to be made. While this is mostly harmless, it could be confusing for new visitors. 6. For the last time -- well, probably not -- Blades of Geneforge is not going to happen in the foreseeable future, and neither is a Spiderweb MMORPG. Any of these things individually would be excusable. All of them together constitutes a hideous mango. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
About "Luck" in Geneforge Series
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Tuesday, June 26 2007 12:11 Profile Homepage #13 Unless my memory has completely failed me, Luck provided 2% to hit and to dodge in G1, too. I think it was subject to the 10-cap rule though, so you need 12 Luck for the 11th effective level, 14 for the 12th, etc. And where are you getting these item drop numbers? 0.01% is a bit more precise than can reasonably be arrived at without having access to the source code. It sounds like you may have combined different, slightly inaccurate statements from different FAQs... -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Cheating script for N:R in Nethergate
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Monday, June 25 2007 18:31 Profile Homepage #1 Perhaps this is a silly question, but what does your cheat script do that the built-in character editor can't? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Pylons in Rentors Keep in Avernum 4
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Monday, June 25 2007 14:06 Profile Homepage #4 On Torment, the healing they get under that strategy is prohibitive. "OCD" does not even begin to describe what is needed to take down all of them on Torment... -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Vacations/trips in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Sunday, June 24 2007 13:58 Profile Homepage #11 Australia in a year? Cool. How do you know so far ahead of time? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Vacations/trips in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, June 23 2007 13:56 Profile Homepage #5 I just discovered I have three vacation days I didn't know about, which expire in two months. So I guess I'll be taking a vacation. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Exile Trilogy for Vista? in The Exile Trilogy
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Thursday, June 21 2007 14:19 Profile Homepage #17 It only counts as a protomac if you spell it ][e. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Muffins n' Hell: The Muffins Are Back Again in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Thursday, June 21 2007 14:17 Profile Homepage #8 In case this server decides they don't want their bandwidth leeched, the link is also here . -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Question about some skills. in The Avernum Trilogy
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Thursday, June 21 2007 14:13 Profile Homepage #14 When I said "levels in dodge-enhancing skills" I indeed meant levels in a skill, not experience levels. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Question about some skills. in The Avernum Trilogy
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Thursday, June 21 2007 06:26 Profile Homepage #12 The problem is it's not a 40% chance to dodge, it's a +40% bonus to your chance to dodge -- which often starts out extremely low (read: negative) against stronger enemies. You need an awful lot of levels in dodge-enhancing skills to get a respectable chance of dodging. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
About "Luck" in Geneforge Series
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, June 20 2007 19:01 Profile Homepage #11 Luck does not save lives in Geneforge. It doesn't in Avernum 4, either. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Love Life Poll in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, June 20 2007 18:59 Profile Homepage #62 quote: Originally written by Drakefyre: ...until sunday when I got a text message from her saying that they'd broken up. And so that's where I stand ... Ah, to be a college freshman again. The days when my nickname was "the homewrecker," and legitimately so... -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Love Life Poll in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Monday, June 18 2007 19:07 Profile Homepage #52 quote: Originally written by Infernal Flamming Muffin: This topic is about people of the opposite sex. I wonder how many people go with the same sex. As Dikiyoba pointed out, that's not true; who do you think the comment about being barred from marriage was intended for? I actually almost included a question on what age you were first 100% sure of your sexual orientation, but decided that would be pretty useless in purely quantitative form. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Elitist? in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Sunday, June 17 2007 18:59 Profile Homepage #80 Now We Are Nine: A. A. Milne on child... oh, will you look at that. It's the CoC! -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Love Life Poll in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, June 16 2007 22:49 Profile Homepage #24 You know, I expected to hear "define being intimate." I did NOT expect to hear "define kissing." ...only on spidweb. I mean, jeez. Results for going on a date are staggered but mostly clustered around 16-18 or in the never category. That's really what I was trying to get at before. Salmon, I think you're taking "serious" too seriously. The thinking behind saying "truly serious" was to make sure that one-week "relationships" didn't get counted. Since the survey was designed with teenage experiences and development of relational norms in mind, the point was just to suss out genuine relationships. Communism was just a red herring! -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Campaign Flags in Blades of Exile
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, June 16 2007 17:29 Profile Homepage #3 How could this possibly be done other than using save files? The flags have to pertain to a particular timeline of a particular party. If I clear VoDT and save it as Save A, then continue on to clear ASR and save it as Save B, then reopen Save A on go on to play ZKR, the game should have flags from completing VoDT but not ASR -- and that will only be the case if they are tied directly to the individual save file. In which case, they may as well be in the save file itself... -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Love Life Poll in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, June 16 2007 17:23 Profile Homepage #15 In other parts of the world, and in other eras, marriage by 16 -- for girls at least -- seems to have been pretty common. I'm not sure Mormons are in the minority here. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Why do I stuff the mailbox with such vigor? in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, June 16 2007 15:53 Profile Homepage #33 Nico, I happen to have a cookie. Here you go! gives nico a cookie -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Love Life Poll in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, June 16 2007 14:54 Profile Homepage #4 The point of this poll is that there's nothing pathetic about being single at 13, ferchrissakes. Watch and learn. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Love Life Poll in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, June 16 2007 14:46 Profile Homepage #0 Inspired by the recent comments about love lives and lack thereof, this poll examines the romantic milestones of Spiderweb members. Poll Information This poll contains 7 question(s). 10 user(s) have voted. You may not view the results of this poll without voting. function launch_voter () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=vote;pollid=BQKfhRLPTqyY"); return true; } // end launch_voter function launch_viewer () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=view;pollid=BQKfhRLPTqyY"); return true; } // end launch_viewer function launch_window (url) { preview = window.open( url, "preview", "width=550,height=300,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status,menubar=no,scrollbars,resizable,copyhistory=no" ); window.preview.focus(); return preview; } // end launch_window -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Why do I stuff the mailbox with such vigor? in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, June 16 2007 14:29 Profile Homepage #30 Muffin, most people don't have serious relationships in 7th grade. Some do, perhaps, but I doubt that everyone in your class has dated seriously. I'd suggest you decide how important this is to you. If you feel it's very important, then make a concerted effort to improve your social skills. If you feel it isn't so important, which I suspect is the case, then don't worry about it. Personality develops in different ways at different times. You're 13 -- you should be playing games and goofing off. I suspect that's what most people here were doing at 13, too. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00

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