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| 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 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, November 17 2006 14:11
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I dislike anime in general, but there are a few spectacular gems out there, like Spirited Away. Also, there are numerous anime productions that, while not very good from an artistic or storytelling standpoint, are either interesting (.hack//SIGN) or unintentionally hillarious (YuGiOh). -------------------- 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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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, November 17 2006 13:00
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, November 17 2006 12:40
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quote:"Second, that every other post a person made this month which was ABOVE their October value is spam." Meh. That was a poor way of phrasing it -- it just sounded redundant rather than halving. Regardless, Nioca's formulas make very little sense either way. -------------------- 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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written Friday, November 17 2006 11:32
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It's not important. I'd wager that the characters in said safehouse were based on acquaintances of Jeff's (much like Solberg and Jordan appear to have been) and that was a phrase they used online. Put the cat together with the two ladies there and you can construct a story, certainly... -------------------- 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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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, November 17 2006 11:27
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Nice effort on the table Nioca, but I'm confused about how you are defining spam. You originally said every November post above the October value counts as spam, which seems like a reasonable definition (from the purely mathematical point of view we are using here). This would be represented by: SPAM POSTS = NOV - OCT (Since NOV > OCT for every user listed, no exception is necessary) The formula you used instead looks very odd if you expand it: SPAM POSTS = NOV * ((1 - (OCT / (NOV / 2))) * .01) since the NOV value is used twice. Really, it's the % SPAM definition that makes very little sense. Shouldn't it be: % SPAM = (NOV - OCT) / NOV Anyway, you appear to have used a premise for the formula that you didn't state in writing. Take me as an example: OCT = 72 NOV = 158 which should give SPAM POSTS = 86 % SPAM = 54.43% I'm not sure what exactly 00.88% SPAM is supposed to mean for me, but it would translate to approximately 2 SPAM POSTS -- very much at odds with the assumption you stated. --- Now, a fairer % SPAM definition might take into account the difference between proactive and reactive posting. Since everyone more or less doubled their post count -- only Kelandon is really below the 200% mark, and him not by much -- a certain % increase can probably be written off as reactive posting rather than spam. -------------------- 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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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, November 17 2006 09:12
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Yeah, that was the main thing I noticed, looking at the ratings. The former top 10 posters who were deposed or demoted, such as myself, Kel, Thuryl, Aran, and Alorael, were the ones with fairly consistent monthly counts. The spammers went crazy this month. Dikiyoba and Ephesos seem to have been swept up in that, too. Bad spammers. Quantity = bad. Bad quantity! Long live nothing! "Do you know what it's like having to live your life next to the number 1?" -- Zero, on Square One -------------------- 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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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Thursday, November 16 2006 19:38
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Ooh, you people want persecution? Just you wait till your cities are rocked by cowquakes. -------------------- 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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written Wednesday, November 15 2006 10:26
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Probably the latter. It might encourage a borderline customer to buy. I imagine that very few customers would ever ask for their money back. For most gamers, $20 or $30 is not a very high price tag for a fairly long game. That may not be true for Jeff's teenage (and preadolescent) audience, but they are likely ordering through parental credit cards, so refunds are not going to come their way easily, so they won't bother. And even Tyranicus, I think, is intelligent enough to realize that he did have fun playing Avernum 4, despite its many flaws. The people who were really vehemently against it, didn't register it, from what I remember of those threads. -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, November 14 2006 20:30
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I can provide some iron heifers. -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, November 14 2006 06:45
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... I honestly didn't think the forums would produce a theory so laughably absurd that it trumps Vahnatai Creationism, but it has. Empire Creationism... you've got to be kidding. VC was not very plausible, and very stupid. EC is several orders of magnitude less plausible, and just as stupid. Forget questions about whether or not Garzahd or whoever could really do all that, complete with changing Motrax's memory (in Exile 2, thanks, not Avernum)... there is one question that destroys everything: WHY? Why in the world would anyone ever do that? There's no conceivable reason. Jeff doesn't always come up with wonderful answers to "why?" but he does always come up with somewhat plausible answers. That's a lot more than I can say for suggestions like this. The Nine-Headed Cave Cow is irate. That said, Kel, I'm surprised and disturbed to hear that you are assuming the Vahnatai were behind the creation of the sliths and nephils. Why in the world does that seem like a likely origin to you? -------------------- 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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written Monday, November 13 2006 07:11
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quote:The same images for Healing and Curing spells have been used for so many different spells between Nethergate, four Avernum games and now four Geneforge games that they are just messed up in my head. Personally, I'd like to see new healing and curing images that don't constantly get switched around. Otherwise, the images are just confusing. -------------------- 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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written Sunday, November 12 2006 19:39
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Dominatrish :P -------------------- 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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written Sunday, November 12 2006 06:54
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Sigh. It has been 11 months since Spiderweb released anything. Wait 10 days, and then look at the post volume. I'm sure it will be lower than at past releases, but it ought to be pretty decent, and without spam. Salmon, I'm going to have to invent a new gesture for you because the facepalm has exhausted its utility. -------------------- 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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written Sunday, November 12 2006 05:00
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*sigh* Thank you, Tyranicus, and no thank you to the infidelitous Nikki, for remembering and not remembering that the Church of the Nine-Headed Cave Cow is indeed a Church. Andraste, the Nine-Headed Cave Cow frowns upon thee. -------------------- 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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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Sunday, November 12 2006 04:56
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Um, that record is probably zero posts, with a huge tie for it, 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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written Saturday, November 11 2006 19:49
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Touché. Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, November 11 2006 19:44
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You sure about that "him"? Pythras was a lady. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Editing the Game files in Avernum 4 | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Saturday, November 11 2006 15:53
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What I mean is that GF loads parameters from those files when it starts up. So you aren't just editing one saved game, or one particular occurance of an item -- you're editing every occurance of that item ever. Similarly, it is possible to make the game crash with certain invalid values. So edit a backup. Common sense really. -------------------- 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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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Saturday, November 11 2006 15:51
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That was transparent. For His and Her sake, please give up! -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Editing the Game files in Avernum 4 | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Saturday, November 11 2006 14:37
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There is not a guide, although there may be advice scattered throughout this message board. There are three files you will want to look at in the scripts folder, which should begin "gf1" or "g3" or something like that. the items/chars one is the one you want. Most of the entries are pretty self-explanatory, just find the one for the item you want to edit, find the attribute that looks like it affects ability power, and change it. And for the love of god, do this on a complete copy of the game folder, as it affects the whole application. -------------------- 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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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Saturday, November 11 2006 06:05
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quote:This is true of almost any level of difficulty you can find in a turn-based game, though. It's particularly inevitable in Jeff's games not directly because of the business model but because his games are sidequest-heavy. On the other hand, the difficulty level setting is an unusual feature that helps a lot. Torment is usually challenging -- at least until you break the system by making seven levelled-up Vlish or whatever. In any game, if you are an experienced player adept at finding ways to turn the rules to your advantage, the only way to continue being challenged is to impose your own outside restrictions on what you can do. Hence the "single character challenges" and "low level challenges" that float around the net for console RPGs. Try playing any Geneforge as a Shaper-type who doesn't shape. Or try playing with stealth and avoiding *all* XP, not just from combat, only completing the quests that are absolutely necessary to continue the storyline. That could be very difficult. -------------------- 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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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, November 10 2006 20:07
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Clearly Salmon will die of food poisoning from tainted spam. -------------------- 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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written Friday, November 10 2006 20:05
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quote:If you're talking about who I think you're talking about, he was EASILY the worst teacher I had in high school. (Sadly, U of C managed to trump him, which I had thought impossible.) -------------------- 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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written Friday, November 10 2006 09:51
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That was a fake screenshot, edited I assume by Drakey, the evil infidel who spurs on the venomous plots of the Vahnatai Creationists. -------------------- 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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written Thursday, November 9 2006 20:42
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Rox0rs. Incidentally, can I say how glad I am to finally, finally, for the first time since 1997, to have totally escaped from the tyrrany of Geneva 10 Bold? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |