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Displayed name	Slarty
Member number	261
Title	Raven v. Writing Desk
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Registered	Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00

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A Statistically Happy New Year! in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Friday, January 19 2007 13:53 Profile Homepage #49 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: Moreover, your disagreement with me is over a matter of opinion. What you're describing is the point of view of a descriptivist. What I'm describing is the point of view of a prescriptivist. Unless you're a descriptivist who believes that others' opinions are simply wrong and does not think that they are merely not preferable (a hilarious hypocrisy, if so), you should simply point out that what I said is only true from one point of view (and "a long time ago" only has anything to do with it if you're a descriptivist). I guess that's true; I didn't disclose my bias any more than you did. Really we are in agreement except for how we define "English" (the language used by a diachronically arbitrary group of users of English, or the language prescribed by a synchronically arbitrary group of prescribers of English). That said, Hilarious Hypocrite wouldn't be a bad title for somebody. The typo gives it a certain cachet. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
A Statistically Happy New Year! in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Friday, January 19 2007 11:10 Profile Homepage #46 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: quote: Originally written by Bismark: Kelandon, would this be more properly stated "You know of whom I speak"? Er, yes, although I'm not the only grammar demon around here, so anyone else could just as easily have answered this. It is true, however, that prepositions have always been taken much more closely with their verbs than with their objects (note Latin, Greek, etc., where they are prefixed to the verbs), and other Germanic languages (German, for one) have no problem with prepositions coming at the end of a sentence. But this is the rule in English, arbitrary as it may be. This isn't quite correct. Kel's explanation of how and why it is preferred, in many languages and situations, to put the preposition next to the verb, is right on. However, it simply is not* the rule in English. It once was. But under no stretch of the imagination can that be considered the case today. The vast majority of English speakers do not restrict preposition movement in that way whether in speech or in writing, casual or formal. So you can call it "more proper" if by "more proper" you mean "proper a lot longer ago." This is one step removed from saying that "whom did you ask to the dance?" is correct and "who did you ask to the dance?" is incorrect. The first sentence lines up better with the grammatical origins of English, of course, but to many of today's native speakers, it actually sounds wrong. [ Friday, January 19, 2007 11:11: Message edited by: Facepalming Hecatonchire ] -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
A Statistically Happy New Year! in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Friday, January 19 2007 05:51 Profile Homepage #42 On the one hand, their word posting game reached "Slarty" in only 18 words. On the other hand, it took only two days (one day?) for a topic about genitalia length to appear. So the omens are mixed. I'll guess about one Tyranicus half-life, as measured by Dikiyoba. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Thursday, January 18 2007 21:34 Profile Homepage #19 I don't know if this has changed since G3, but in G3 the acid enhancement (runed amethyst or whatever) would give the same bonus damage as the fire and ice enhancements, as acid damage of course -- it would not add layers of acid as an ancillary effect. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
American - Canadian Relationships in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Thursday, January 18 2007 06:04 Profile Homepage #23 To be honest, I wasn't aware a substantial number of Americans had any negative feelings about Canada whatsoever. I'm under the impression that liberals like it because it isn't run by Bush and is an easy option for draft-dodging, and conservatives like it because they think it's more civilized than Mexico. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Thursday, January 18 2007 05:57 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Cryptozoology: I found the slowing effect to be pretty underwhelming, since it only takes effect a small percentage of the time, and many of the things that you most want it to work against can haste themselves. I'd rather just go with a good old golden crystal -- hitting more often for more damage is always useful. Interesting. I haven't actually used them in G4, and it seems they've been nerfed from G3, where they took effect every attack (though never on QA swings). I don't remember the GC affecting hit chance but that makes sense. How much of a boost does it give? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
American - Canadian Relationships in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, January 17 2007 21:08 Profile Homepage #18 Yes, TM is not Canadian. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
The Warrior...... Utterly Useless? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, January 17 2007 21:07 Profile Homepage #9 See, this is why I like to say IIRC. Because I seem to be turning into Ronald Reagan at 24. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, January 17 2007 21:05 Profile Homepage #9 Ack, how did I miss this thread? You shouldn't worry about experience. As Synergy so kindly discovered, Monarch's rogues in at least one area of the fens respawn infinitely despite giving solid experience. Weapon enhancements become a major point of debate in this challenge, as they are essentially your only source of slow, stun, and curse effects. I guess slow is probably the best one to use. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Post here if you still play BoE in Blades of Exile
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, January 17 2007 20:55 Profile Homepage #13 "Several people" does sound like an understatement. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Slartanalysis: Leadership in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, January 17 2007 20:54 Profile Homepage #24 I'm pretty sure that Leadership does not affect the ending. This comes from peeking into G4 resource forks at the complete ending corpus. The ending has three major branches, depending on what you did with the Unbound. There are minor ending differences depending on: - If machinery was damaged in the Shaper attack - Power flow settings on machinery - If Unbound specifications were given to Shapers - Akhari Blaze lives/dies - Greta lives/dies - Alwan lives/dies - Miranda lives/dies - Litalia lives/dies - Canister usage - Reputation among the Shapers and Rebels For the last item, it talks about things you did early in your quest. I'm not sure what exactly this is based on. My guess is it's based on which side you chose to help in the Caravan, Moseh, and Monarch quests at the end of the first three chapters. It might instead be based on the one hidden reputation score. Of note is the fact that the Trakovite ending uses the Rebel scheme for this last item. So you are much better off helping the Rebels and then sabotaging them, than helping the Shapers and doing the sabotage. This probably accounts for the drastic differences in opinion as to the satisfyingness of the Trakovite ending. [ Wednesday, January 17, 2007 20:55: Message edited by: Facepalming Hecatonchire ] -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
The Warrior...... Utterly Useless? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Wednesday, January 17 2007 19:58 Profile Homepage #7 Well, there's one challenge for which the Warrior is 100% optimal. The Trakovite Royale -- no creations, no canisters, AND no magic. The Warrior and Servile are the obvious winners here, and IIRC the Warrior's HP bonus is 2 HP higher than the Servile's. So he just barely edges out the Servile. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Infractions! in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Tuesday, January 16 2007 20:11 Profile Homepage #15 I think I'm clean. But that may just be selective memory. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
This Day in History: in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Tuesday, January 16 2007 20:06 Profile Homepage #9 This disturbs me, as it made me realize I've been active here for over a year now. Well, just under if you don't count my several months sabbatical. Hmm. Let's not count that. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Episode 3: A New Game in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Tuesday, January 16 2007 06:07 Profile Homepage #1014 Heh. Cool. I'm especially glad to see that Bovine Thud has been given reasonable play limitations. None of this Monty Haul style retribution! -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
The Conspiracy in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Tuesday, January 16 2007 05:57 Profile Homepage #2 Excuse me, I am out of wormgrass! May I visit your ruined villa? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Mindduels in Avernum 4
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Monday, January 15 2007 09:23 Profile Homepage #12 The Smoky Crystals were only used in BoE. That was one of the few differences between E3 and BoE. E3 used a special item just like E2 did. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
8th Contest Comments Up! in Blades of Avernum
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Monday, January 15 2007 08:33 Profile Homepage #16 Stareye's comments are correct, and I think that speaks well for the judging methods that were selected by him (and whoever else helped organize this contest). WD. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Mindduels in Avernum 4
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Monday, January 15 2007 08:30 Profile Homepage #9 Well, that would explain why I never used it in Avernum 2. :P -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
8th Contest Comments Up! in Blades of Avernum
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Monday, January 15 2007 06:32 Profile Homepage #12 quote: Originally written by Tyran: quote: 7.83 / 7.83 Wow. I'm incredibly average. :P Actually, this is extremely misleading. Tyranicus, your scores were among the least average and the most extreme out of everyone's. While the values Bain listed for deviation from the average and interesting and useful if you're looking to see if someone was too positive or too negative overall, but they are very misleading because they measure directionality (above or below the average) and allow directionality to average out. I just did something similar, but I adjusted it to ignore directionality. Instead of adding together all the judge scores and all the averages, I compared the judge score and average score for each scenario, then took the average of those numbers. The results are more telling: I think Tyranicus's scores stood out to me because not only are they so extreme, but also they are accompanied by practically zero explanation. This was particularly true for Exodus, where Tyranicus's one sentence seemed very much in line with the other reviews, but his score was nearly two points lower. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Mindduels in Avernum 4
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Monday, January 15 2007 05:35 Profile Homepage #4 I haven't used it in A2, so perhaps it was weaked, but Mindduel was a real killer in E2. It was, after all, designed to be the reasonable way to defeat the final boss. A2 took that last bit out, which annoys me tremendously. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Canon History Website in Blades of Exile
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Monday, January 15 2007 05:33 Profile Homepage #4 Actually, EE is much better about that now. Last month I labelled pretty much everything that is not based directly on the games as apocryphal, with a box at the top of the entry warning of it. Now, the vast majority of the pages are based only on game canon, and anything that isn't is clearly labelled. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Episode 3: A New Game in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Sunday, January 14 2007 21:54 Profile Homepage #985 Hmm. Didn't somebody suggest, long ago, an RP of the boards? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Girls: would you prefer to lay eggs? in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Sunday, January 14 2007 21:09 Profile Homepage #67 More to the point, does this revelation mean that Gaspar created the Chrono Trigger by porking Crono's mom? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Canon History Website in Blades of Exile
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Sunday, January 14 2007 21:02 Profile Homepage #2 The Archives of Akhronath are still up, and has a brief history of Exile 1-3 at: http://members.aol.com/zzhou22876/history.html EE is by far the best source to go to if you're looking for details, but big-picture overviews are unfortunately lacking. -------------------- 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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