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Plato vs. Aristotle in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Wednesday, April 4 2007 05:31 Profile Homepage #0
This is pretty straightforward.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Aranclonetar in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Wednesday, April 4 2007 05:26 Profile Homepage #63
Voyager sucks. Not as much as Enterprise, of course, but still. Living oatmeal FTW.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Aranclonetar in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, April 3 2007 19:55 Profile Homepage #58
TNG was on the cusp -- it was 87-94, wasn't it?

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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All In The Family in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, April 3 2007 18:39 Profile Homepage #83
Dareva, don't worry; in my family tree (R.I.P., my old hard drive) you and I both have both (together).

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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All In The Family in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, April 3 2007 07:31 Profile Homepage #72
I had a witty repartee, but I'm self-censoring it, for the sake of the denarian noobs among us.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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All In The Family in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, April 3 2007 06:25 Profile Homepage #67
You see, Salmon, it's because of comments like that that we're no longer married. *pouts*

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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All In The Family in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, April 3 2007 02:36 Profile Homepage #60
I daresay this tree was not completed in the spirit of the topic, which was: "fill yourself in", natch.

Regardless, the one I made last spring was much better. This one doesn't even involve time travel. :P

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Are Drakons superior beings? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Monday, April 2 2007 07:32 Profile Homepage #350
Oh my god. I can't believe this topic is still going.

Is it possible that we have a new contender for the auspicious Nephils vs. Sliths role?

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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All In The Family in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Monday, April 2 2007 07:28 Profile Homepage #13
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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Nethergate: Resurrection in Nethergate
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, April 1 2007 20:45 Profile Homepage #97
Unfortunately, that just isn't true, Lord Sylak. Jeff has said that Nethergate's sales were extremely disappointing.

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All In The Family in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, April 1 2007 20:39 Profile Homepage #9
Dareva and I will be the nonhippie child of the dead hippie, and his or her spouse (the blanks 2 and 3 directly to the right of Scorpius). Which is which is up to the reader to decide.

EDIT: Tyranicus, bottoming again?

[ Sunday, April 01, 2007 20:41: Message edited by: Hawkwind ]

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Gazer/Eyebeast Immunities in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, April 1 2007 05:42 Profile Homepage #3
Technically, they aren't immune to either. The poison/acid "immunity" is at 80%, so they should still take some damage. Plus, it's a BUG -- ancillary poison and acid resistance is calculated with the magic resistance stat instead of the appropriate ones.

Their mental resistance starts at 90%, so it's unlikely anything will ever affect them. However, that's true of all the other 4th- and 5th-tier creations as well.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Now is the time ... in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, March 31 2007 22:01 Profile Homepage #70
quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

the very people who were "protected" by the decision to ban this drug are the ones who want it back on the market.

quote:
It's all well and good, until the patient dies and the family takes action on behalf of the estate. Never pretty, and Merck is getting hosed for it. The alternative is for Congress to make the corporation immune to liability, and that's a horrendous slippery slope to start down.
If the drug contains what it claims to contain and isn't contaminated with anything else, and all known adverse effects are disclosed, the manufacturer shouldn't be liable for what happens to people who take it.
Thuryl, would you apply the same reasoning to cigarettes?

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Has anyone tried this? in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, March 31 2007 11:01 Profile Homepage #4
"My name is Tim Phillips, president of Fantasoft, and I'm not wearing any pants." -- Jeff Vogel

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Really anticipated ideas for A5?? in Avernum 4
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, March 31 2007 07:46 Profile Homepage #97
Whoever posted it wrote just like you, and use the graemlins just like you...

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Imperial Religion in Blades of Avernum
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, March 31 2007 06:43 Profile Homepage #6
The best link EE has to offer is this one:
Human religions

The fabricated Empire fact sheet lists some bizarre statistics about religion that don't make any sense. I would ignore them.

What we DO know, from E/A3 and from the Vogelian scenarios, is that there is no established state religion of the Empire, and in large areas of it, there are really no large religions at all. Jeff's world in fact seems to be far more non-theistic than any historical place has ever been. My conclusion would be that religion is treated as a very private thing in the Empire.

However, it's certainly conceivable that in certain parts of the Empire, there is either a state religion (for a particular province) or just an extremely strongly locally rooted religious tradition.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Now is the time ... in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, March 31 2007 06:32 Profile Homepage #62
LF, your alternatives (along with other, similar measures) sound great. How do you plan on implementing them?

I don't think I've ever heard affirmative action described as an ideal solution. It is a compensatory measure, a pragmatic solution that is far from ideal. The idea is that it makes things less unfair.

There is an argument to be made that someone's always going to be getting shafted in any kind of system of tests or applications, and AA just changes the order of things slightly; but even from that point of view, it's not making things any worse, just creating an isotope.

Personally, I'd rather have an isotope that helps people who have been underhelped in the past. I don't really care what measurement is used to determine that as long as it's accurate. Affirmative action based on money instead of race would be genius, though I don't see that happening in this country.

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tell me in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, March 30 2007 20:16 Profile Homepage #3
Jeff has implied five recently.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Now is the time ... in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, March 30 2007 15:14 Profile Homepage #57
There are actually plenty of places where they use unisex bathrooms today -- and they aren't exactly the homes of genderless societies.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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[GF3] Tips for higher difficulty settings? Also, batons and Daze? Also, tip @ Rahul. in Geneforge Series
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, March 30 2007 13:28 Profile Homepage #20
quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

quote:
Originally written by Hawkwind:

In G3 the way status effects were implemented was changed somewhat, and Glaahks cause slowing rather than stunning. The same is true of G4.
It's not true of G4 -- Glaahks have definitely gone back to stunning.

(Of course, because of the new AP system they're questionably useful in G4 as well.)
Hmm, you're right. Whoops.

I have to say, I'm not sure why even bother with the Stun mechanic the way it's implemented in G4. It just doesn't do much of anything.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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About special skills (lethal blow etc.) in Avernum 4
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, March 30 2007 11:59 Profile Homepage #24
That's not true at all. You CAN have the skill set, but it requires sinking a BUTTLOAD of points into useless skills first. Dexterity isn't very useful if you are going the Resistance route, as you will never have the skill points you need to pump your dodge rate up significantly. I guess you can use it for bows, but it still costs 42 points. The Hardiness is good, obviously. But buying 6 points of Endurance is a retarded waste for any build. It costs 36 skill points and returns practically nothing once you consider the 2 free (therefore not applicable for Resistance) points of Endurance you can get and the HP bonuses from Augmentation and Essence Armor.

After all that, Resistance then costs a huge number of skill points to buy. Those start to add up. Even buying 2 from Thompson, which means you are going a long long time with no Resistance, it will be hard to get over 10 in the score without neglecting everything else. I'm not sure if 10 Reistance actually reduces elemental damage by 40%, or if the individual 4%s multiply and it reduces it by ~30%. Either way, that effect is useful, but not really worth the total lack of effective offences you are left with after such a huge investment.

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Nethergate: Resurrection in Nethergate
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, March 30 2007 09:10 Profile Homepage #91
Yeah, the all caps font is horrid. Not only is it hard to read, it's spaced so oddly that it just doesn't look professional.

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Aranclonetar in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, March 30 2007 09:08 Profile Homepage #38
Aryancatar? Sounds like a neo-con vision of the middle east...

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About special skills (lethal blow etc.) in Avernum 4
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, March 30 2007 07:04 Profile Homepage #22
It is somewhat problematic that attacks with melee weapons and attacks with pole weapons are both called melee attacks. There is no difference between them other than the Melee and Pole Weapons skills, though.

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[GF3] Tips for higher difficulty settings? Also, batons and Daze? Also, tip @ Rahul. in Geneforge Series
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, March 30 2007 07:00 Profile Homepage #12
Reapers have no "reaping" effect. They just do a lot of damage with a nice sound effect.

As SoT mentioned, stunning is somewhat random. However, it should be noted that Glaahks only have extra stunning power in G1 and G2. In G3 the way status effects were implemented was changed somewhat, and Glaahks cause slowing rather than stunning. The same is true of G4. This is a very unfortunate change, as they can no longer debilitate a creature even if they can't damage it much. In G3 in particular it makes all their attacks inferior to a Vlish.

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