Profile for Slarty
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Displayed name | Slarty |
| Member number | 261 |
| Title | Raven v. Writing Desk |
| Postcount | 3560 |
| Homepage | http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/slartyvsdesk/ |
| Registered | Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
Recent posts
Pages
| Author | Recent posts |
|---|---|
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Main Thread in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Tuesday, May 1 2007 16:24
Profile
Homepage
There are at least three more border colors to come. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Main Thread in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Tuesday, May 1 2007 07:27
Profile
Homepage
Nioca, you didn't get an answer because there wasn't one yet. In case you haven't noticed, you and others have asked me about five zillion questions (not to mention the ones via PM). My purpose in life is not answering your questions. I suggest you deal with it in some way that does not involve repeating yourself impatiently. Your card says you are newer than Nemesis because you are. Nemesis's current account is not his original account. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| How irritating in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Tuesday, May 1 2007 04:36
Profile
Homepage
I did write a detailed piece on G3, it just never went up as its own site and wasn't linked to much. It also was less interesting because it was so one-sided: Broken Vlish: a too long analysis -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| How irritating in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Tuesday, May 1 2007 03:22
Profile
Homepage
In one of those games -- either G2 or G3, I forget -- Glaahks didn't actually cause stunning. They caused slowing instead, just like Vlish. This wasn't easy to tell since all strong attacks tended to cause minor stunning in those games. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Main Thread in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Tuesday, May 1 2007 02:18
Profile
Homepage
quote:You're Infinity, of course. I can't link to wikipedia, as there are parentheses involved. I've been basing the oldbisity numbers on community enmeshment, so yeah, that would count, WKS. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Join or Die! in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 19:15
Profile
Homepage
...I can't believe he made that group. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Main Thread in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 18:46
Profile
Homepage
After the tournament, I will probably make some cards for some of the people who aren't in it. I highly doubt that will include Jeff, or anyone who's banned. (Except maybe Fatman. Is he still banned? Whatever happened to him?) -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Favorite game genres? in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 18:42
Profile
Homepage
Bolo... dear god. I never got into it much, but I think my buddies spent all of 6th grade shooting at each other over networked SEs and Classics. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Round One, Part One in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 18:21
Profile
Homepage
I don't really intend to be part of these debates, in general, but this is just grossly, horribly bad: quote:Except for the part about "NOT ANYMORE"... -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Main Thread in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 17:47
Profile
Homepage
Well, the cards are stored on Aran's server, which should be permanent enough. You're certainly welcome to copy the threads if you want to, though. I'm glad you (and everyone else) are enjoying it so much :) Edit: And does nobody recognize the images for Imban and Icshi? [ Monday, April 30, 2007 17:59: Message edited by: Polydegmon ] -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Round One, Part One in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 15:32
Profile
Homepage
MATCH #5: The undead vs. the undying. FIGHT!   MATCH #6: The artist vs. the artifact. FIGHT!   MATCH #7: The poison-using romantic vs. the mild-mannered dainslaifer. FIGHT!   MATCH #8: The Queen Mum vs. the little boy. FIGHT!   -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Round One, Part One in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 15:31
Profile
Homepage
MATCH #1: The militant, liberal Israeli girl wielding Demonslayer vs. the stubborn, conservative Nevada boy wielding Excalibur. FIGHT!   MATCH #2: The master of helium-based fighting vs. the master of clerical smiting. FIGHT!   MATCH #3: o_O ... FIGHT!   MATCH #4: The Queen of Clubs vs. the King of, um, Chickens. FIGHT!   -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Round One, Part One in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 15:30
Profile
Homepage
ROUND ONE, PART ONE Apparently UBB limits you to eight images per post. That's probably a good thing... but it means I'm gonna have to double post a bit to get in all the trading cards. Since this is the first round, I'll wait to set a specific time limit. I'm guessing I'll count votes in a day or two, but it could go a bit longer if there are fertile discussions. If you visit Spidweb frequently, you might want to wait a bit before voting, so you can hear others' arguments first. LET THE DEATHMATCHES COMMENCE! GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS! Poll Information This poll contains 8 question(s). 39 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=QVlCUCCAkvbS"); return true; } // end launch_voter function launch_viewer () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=view;pollid=QVlCUCCAkvbS"); 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 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Main Thread in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 14:58
Profile
Homepage
That makes sense, given that none of them were able to explain to me who the heck you were. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum timeline... in Blades of Avernum | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 14:56
Profile
Homepage
*points at sig* -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Main Thread in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 14:43
Profile
Homepage
I didn't comment on your original cheating remark, ET, as I hoped it would just fall by the wayside. I like the polls, because they allow people who prefer to lurk to still participate. I wouldn't expect to see me validating any ridiculous results, though. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Main Thread in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 11:34
Profile
Homepage
Good question. It does. And just to be totally clear, it also includes other people. EVERYONE can contribute. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Main Thread in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 10:13
Profile
Homepage
"Deathmatch has no save and restore." *bows* Welcome, ladies, gentlemen, and others, to the 2007 Spiderweb Deathmatch Tournament. Before we begin, allow me to explain how this is going to work. In this context, a deathmatch consists of a battle to the death between two people -- however, it is a battle which never actually happens. When discussing a deathmatch, you don't describe anything that actually happens; you describe what would most likely happen. So you wouldn't say "Solberg begins to mindduel Garzahd, but is interrupted by three blows from super-hasted Garzahd." Instead you might say, "Garzahd has a major weakness to Solberg's minddueling, but in a one-on-one match it would take Solberg too long to drain Garzahd, who would just crush him in melee if he tried." In this respect, deathmatches have more in common with analyzing game mechanics than they do with RPs. On the other hand, analyzing game mechanics is an empirical task, and you can always test your conclusions. Deathmatches are entirely theoretical. Indeed, they are often used to settle rivalries that cannot be empirically tested (e.g., Gandalf vs. Yoda). And that's exactly what they're being used for here. Spidweb members have no hardcoded statistics, and everyone pictures everyone else differently, so the discussion will necessarily be a little bit subjective. Here's how we handle that: TOURNAMENT PROCEDURE 1. When a round begins, the Judge (Slarty) will post a new thread for that round. The thread will contain a poll with one question for each match-up. 2. Anyone who wants to can vote in the poll. You are also encouraged to post the reasons you think a fight should turn out a certain way, if you have something new to add. 3. After a set period of time, the Judge will count the votes and will issue a statement describing the outcome of each match. The Judge should normally honor the vote count, but he may overturn it if deemed necessary. 4. Surviving participants will advance to the next round. When there is only one survivor, he is crowned the victor. 5. For the purposes of order and sanity, general discussion about the tournament, rules, etc. should probably go in this thread, and discussion about specific match-ups or rounds should go in that round's thread. In order to direct the discussion more towards the battles and less towards exactly what abilities each participant has, I have collated information from numerous sources and have prepared it in the form of Spiderweb trading cards, which will be posted as each member is called to fight. This information presents, probably, most of the powers members are likely to have, but there are surely many that I have missed, and the cards are not intended to restrict use or consideration of such powers. By way of example, here's my card:  (Any resemblance to the Marvel Universe Series I trading cards I collected in 1990 is strictly coincidental. :P ) Some of the categories may be more relevant for some members (and some fights) than others, but it's all there, where I could dig it up. Faith obviously does not reflect anyone's RL religion, but field does reflect RL studies, on the off chance that those are relevant to a battle. The "Born" category deserves special explanation. This category is basically an attempt at describing oldbieness in a more useful way than has been done in the past; so you can think of the numbers as seven different eras, or as degrees of oldbisity. The septpartite division I settled on, after much consultation, is as follows: 0° -- Prehistory. Pre-Ikonboard. 1° -- Ikonboard. 2° -- UBB, while Misc. was around. 3° -- Post-Misc., pre-BoA 4° -- Basically fall 2003 through summer 2004; this tumultuous period encompassed the arguments about BoA's design, the release of BoA, and the ensuing shift in community composition 5° -- Post-BoA 6° -- Post-TM's permaban; this is an arbitrary but useful cutoff as it happens to correspond to a decrease in traffic and content and to a shift in General's character The era a member fits into is not determined by registration date but by actual incorporation into the message board community; thus I am 5° despite my 2° member number. Similarly, those who wander in immediately before a cutoff will likely be put into the next category. CONDUCT It has been suggested that deathmatch discussion could degenerate into flames, and also that there could be collateral damage from the fights. In order to make sure that doesn't happen, I have recruited two "broken" members to help me keep order:   (The rumors that neither Imban nor Icshi were consulted about their hiring, and that my guards are mere Simuleacrums, are completely unfounded, and should be ignored.) In any event, I would ask that flames and whining are kept out of the tournament. BYES There are 48 entrants. In order to use a Single Elimination format, the following 16 seeded participants have byes for round 1: Alec, Aloraeal, Arancaytar, Archmage Alex, Dikiyoba, Dintiridan, Drakefyre, Emperor Tullegolar, Ephesos, Salmon, Schrodinger, Synergy, Stareye, Terror's Martyr, Thuryl, and Tyranicus. The remaining 32 participants are: The Almighty Doer of Stuff, Andraste, Ash Lael, Delicious Vlish, Excalibur, Goldenking, Infernal, Internal Flamming Muffin, Jewels, Lazarus, Lord Grimm, the Lurker, MagmaDragoon, Marlenny, Mysterious Man, Nalyd, Nemesis, Nicothodes, Niemand, Nikki, Nioca, Randomizer, Riibu, Saunders, Servant of Trinity, the Silent Assassin, Smoo, Stew Boy, Thralni, WKS, Zephyr Tempest, and Zeviz. To preserve sanity, round 1 and round 2 will take place in 2 parts each. Pairings for round 1, part 1 should be posted later today. -- Slarty [ Tuesday, May 01, 2007 16:40: Message edited by: Polydegmon ] -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Of what little we have... in Blades of Avernum | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 07:41
Profile
Homepage
This just proves my point that Spidweb and the Lyceum provide very different samples of the scenario-playing population. The Lyceum's sample is clearly more vocal, but I'd argue that Spidweb's sample is far more typical. Edit: Kel's scenarios have also garnered 7 votes so far. The next highest author is TM, with just 3. [ Monday, April 30, 2007 07:43: Message edited by: Polydegmon ] -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| How irritating in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Monday, April 30 2007 03:05
Profile
Homepage
quote:Aha, here's your problem. There have been errors in the ingame descriptions of creations and creation stats all the way back to G1 that have never been fixed, with new ones introduced as well. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Preliminary Nominations in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Sunday, April 29 2007 06:37
Profile
Homepage
Yay for legitimate double posting. The intro will go up sometime later this week (with round one following just after it). I've come down with the flu and don't have the energy for this right now. I don't know how I'm gonna drag myself to work... bleah. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Deathmatch Tournament -- Preliminary Nominations in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Saturday, April 28 2007 18:20
Profile
Homepage
The rules and intro will go up tomorrow. I'm pooped. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Favorite game genres? in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Saturday, April 28 2007 12:10
Profile
Homepage
Interestingly, although I can't stand RTS, some of my favourite RPGs are innovative real-time ones: Magician for NES, and the Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder series... Although I haven't played any enough to be that great, I'm a big fan of the 1-on-1 fighting genre: mainly Super Smash Bros. and Street Fighter II. At any given point I usually have one time-wasting puzzle game that I play altogether too much of. Past favourites have included Forty Thieves, Cat and Mouse, Dominoes, Bridges, Trees, and Minesweeper. But these are only technically video games. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| If Jeff went for a new RPG world.... in General | |
|
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
|
written Saturday, April 28 2007 12:02
Profile
Homepage
That would rock. Although I would almost prefer a straight Aztec game, with no Spaniards. I can't think of any Aztec RPGs, but the culture and mythology are a perfect fit for the genre. I'm picturing spell circles corresponding to the five wheels. This has the added bonus of allowing some of the Aztec gods to avenge their craptastic portrayals in crappy FFs. (Quetzacoatl, I'm looking at you.) -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |