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| Title | Raven v. Writing Desk |
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| Registered | Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Monday, October 30 2006 04:35
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Um, blaming the fact that the education system is run on a state-by-state basis is a pretty bad explanation for a phenomenon that occurs in every state. -------------------- 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, October 29 2006 20:50
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It was a conscious choice to leave all those out. See above. Master Quest is just a modified remake of other Zelda games, isn't it? I didn't include remakes, and good thing too, or there would be an extra 30 entries for Mario. As for Pokemon, there are several problems. First, there aren't nearly as many games as it seems like since all the "color" games are several almost identical variants to one game (i.e., Red, Green, and Blue are all but identical, and Fire Red and Leaf Green are remakes of those). And again, see above. Predictable results. The series I included are interesting (exception: Gold Box) because they span different eras and are relatively recognizable to gamers of different ages and interests. They all span from the early to mid 80's up to the present day, 20-25 years of game releases. -------------------- 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, October 29 2006 19:47
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Alorael, as for Ultima, I figured that the results would be pretty predictable; highest play numbers for 3-6, potential zeroes before 3 and for Akalabeth, with most favorite votes going in the same range and perhaps a few to later games. My favorite votes, FWIW, were: Zelda: Oracle of SeasonsMario 2FF TacticsDragon Warrior IIMega Man 2Pool of RadianceThe last four being shut-out winners. I am *shocked* that Link's Awakening got so many votes as a favorite. It's a good game, but it has some annoying features, and I'm hard pressed to see how it's not categorically inferior to the Oracle of Ages/Seasons pair, which use an improved version of the same engine and have more variety in gameplay. I probably should have specified in the FF listings that FF 2 and 3 referred to the Japanese titles, since 4 and 6 respectively were released as II and III in the US. I know 1/2 had that rerelease for GBA but I'm still skeptical that so many people have played 2, which is obscure and somewhat gimpy. FF Tactics is an amazing, amazing game. -------------------- 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, October 29 2006 19:31
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Bhahahaha. Nice one Andraste! -------------------- 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, October 29 2006 07:07
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The comments in those files are not always 100% accurate... -------------------- 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, October 29 2006 07:02
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Clearly, there is a bug in that quiz. You are obviously a Necromancer. :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, October 29 2006 06:53
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In the spirit of the Classic RPG Heritage Poll, particularly the part about me having too much time on my hands, here's another survey. This one is about games that have way too many sequels. There are two questions for each series. One asks which games you have played, the other asks you to choose your favorite. For purposes of sanity, I have restricted it to games of the same genre as the original. For example, in the case of Mario this means some of the Wario and Yoshi games are OK, but not WarioWare, Yoshi's Cookie, the RPGs, the golf games, or the other 140 games (according to Wikipedia) that star Mario and associates. There are a few series that I contemplated including, but decided wouldn't produce interesting enough results to justify the typing time (Castlevania with ~20 games, or even Ultima, Wizardry, Might and Magic, Fire Emblem, and so on). And before somebody asks, the Final Fantasy Legend games are not included under Final Fantasy because they really belong to the SaGa and not the Final Fantasy world, and have little in common as far as engine goes. Poll Information This poll contains 12 question(s). 43 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=aInRLKtmjpwV"); return true; } // end launch_voter function launch_viewer () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=view;pollid=aInRLKtmjpwV"); 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 |
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written Sunday, October 29 2006 05:14
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Honestly, it might be worth the investment for someone (presumably other than Jeff) to spend 20 minutes putting up some new screenshots. -------------------- 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, October 29 2006 05:12
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quote:Teachers are a good example of why pay-by-occupation is not the same thing as pay-by-skills. It takes very little skill to be a bad teacher. It takes a LOT of skills, many of which aren't easily taught, to be a good teacher. There are plenty of bad teachers out there and a decent handful of good teachers, but they all get paid at the bad teacher rate. quote:Well, this is just ignorant. Without massive quantities of boring basic research, you wouldn't be able to do applied research, and you wouldn't get much out of science at all. [quote]Doctors, very skilled, and they get paid well.[/quote]Doctors go through a lot of specialized training, but so do academic researchers, who get paid a lot less. MBAs are a lot less skilled than doctors and often get paid better. I think you are making an implicit distinction between skill and useful skill that you should make explicit. quote:That's the trouble I have with the universe. -------------------- 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, October 28 2006 15:18
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They're grrreat! ...I'm shhhiverrring. -- Frosted Cryodrayks -------------------- 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, October 28 2006 12:18
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quote:But dead men tell no tales, they say! Except old tales that burn away The stifling tapestries of day... -- Haniel Long -------------------- 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, October 28 2006 09:06
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What Salmon said. Really, "kosher" as commonly used in English has a very similar meaning to the original; it's just been generalized and is no longer specific to Jewish law. As religious-to-secular word-borrowings go, this one is pretty inocuous. -------------------- 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, October 28 2006 09:02
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Just for clarity's sake: Encumbrance is determined by what you wear (not what you carry), and it has two effects, which can be partially mitigated by Defense skill: lowering your to-hit chance, and making your mage spells fail. I seem to recall finding a plethora of superb 0 and 1 encumbrance armor pieces in all three Exiles. Maybe not enough for a party of six mages, but if you have six mages then how is anything making it to melee range anyway? Make one mage a tank for when you're in a narrow maze and you should be fine. -------------------- 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, October 27 2006 17:20
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What's the BIG change? -------------------- 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, October 27 2006 11:12
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Actually, I like this one Marl. Thanks for the birthday wishes! And I'm highly skeptical that the X-Men cartoon preceded the comic books just about anywhere, considering the ubiquitousness of the comics and the length of time they preceded the cartoons (something like 30 years). Favorite Ice Cream flavor? Heath Bar Crunch. Length of Major Sleep? I don't know what this means, but I typically get 7 hours of sleep a night (it was 8, before this job) and I think I slept for 16 or 17 hours once. I'm not an easy sleeper. Favorite Arcade Game? Hmm... probably the Simpsons arcade game. Favorite movie made from a cartoon? Well, my least favorite is definitely the despicable and infidelitous Inspector Gadget. I dunno. I rarely appreciate movie adapations of anything. X-Men 1 (and only 1) was a rare exception. Favorite place to nap? I don't really nap. Favorite print cartoon? Without question, the six-issue Infinity Gauntlet series from 1991. Do you eat ice-cream during a cold weather? Eh. Favorite hour of the DAY to sleep? Why the obsession with sleep? ^_^ Favorite Age? Meaning what was the year of your life that you enjoyed the most. Umm... either 17 or 22. Or maybe, like, 10. Could turn out to be 24. Who knows. -------------------- 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, October 27 2006 10:51
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Are there any other creations that somebody wrote an entire tract about the overpoweredness of? No, I didn't think so. Vlish aren't really overpowered in G1, although they are still extremely useful there. And in G2, they are slightly overpowered, but not head and shoulders above every other creation as in G3. -------------------- 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, October 27 2006 05:03
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Speak for yourself. :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 Thursday, October 26 2006 18:47
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It's definitely not going to be General Greiner's Chicken. Although that would be appropriate. :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 Thursday, October 26 2006 18:38
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I'm not sure Item Lore will ever work with 100% effectiveness. It certainly doesn't at party skill of 10, which is the highest I ever tried. -------------------- 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, October 26 2006 06:34
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The problem is that Item Lore is so expensive, in gold but mainly in skill points. At FOUR skill points per point of Item Lore, it's easily the game's worst value. (Well, maybe it's better than buying Health directly.) Item Lore is a relatively small convenience, for which you are willing to give up 2 points of Edged Weapons, or 1 1/3 points of Intelligence? Or most of a point in Luck or Priest Spells? Absurd. I have sometimes edited 10 points into my singleton games, just to make monster drops less than totally useless. -------------------- 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, October 26 2006 04:39
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quote:I'm not sure how all the data is formatted on PCs -- the Mac versions of all of Jeff's games have some stuff in the data fork but most in the resource fork -- but theoretically it should be doable, albeit with more segments of snow. Basically I just copied and pasted the raw data from the whole data fork and the relevant resources, then ran various utilities to remove the high ascii characters and such. -------------------- 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, October 26 2006 04:34
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The problem is that Americans have really emotional reactions to certain issues, and they use those as a defense to avoid having to deal with the issue in any legitimate way, which would be harder. Rape and child abuse are turned into sensationalized news stories -- iff the crime was committed by a black man against a white woman, or by a priest against a young boy. They have to fit these preconceived, stereotypical scenarios, because then people can have a preconceived reaction. I spent two years working as a medical and legal advocate for rape survivors, and this really is the case. In Chicago, every so often there would be a stereotypical stranger rape case in a rich north side neighborhood against a white woman, and the news outlets would buzz, Fox News would film a segment asking people on the street if they felt safe, etc. The multitude of acquaintance rapes that are reported every day are always ignored, though. Completely ignored. So people clamor and clamor for punishment and vengeance on the aggressors, while resources for survivors are often inadequate and prevention is generally ignored. This can be done because people scapegoat the crime off onto smaller groups (like priests and black men) and avoid taking any responsibility for the cultural elements that propagate sexual assault and abuse, like the disrespect of women, repression of sexuality in the public sphere, need for instant gratification, insanely widespread alcohol abuse, and so on. Until we do something about that, harsh punishments aren't going to be effective. Further, sex offender registration is absurd for a number of reasons people have already mentioned. NO. -------------------- 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, October 25 2006 18:30
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Yes... what Alorael said. I think I might as well be Red Mage himself. -------------------- 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, October 25 2006 18:25
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I do targeted searches of the dumps, but frequently read up or down a bit from the actual part containing the word I'm looking for. As recent research into the timeline I did a mass search for "ago" which was a mad trek through a lot of things; that's where this one came from. I've probably done the equivalent of two full read-throughs from all my searching. -------------------- 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, October 25 2006 07:59
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Normally, Salmon, I'm all in favor of that kind of satire. But we're talking about people in legitimately awful situations here. I'm not trying to invoke pathos or paint a melodramatically sympathetic picture. But it seems to me that in our society, an adolescent who becomes pregnant is very likely 1) to have significant dysfunction in other areas of her life, and as a result of these things is likely 2) to be pretty demoralized, which compounds everything and makes it harder to deal effectively with the pregnancy and the future baby (whether by keeping it, giving it to adoption, or aborting it) It doesn't seem to me that this is speculation far removed from reality. What exactly is your picture of a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl? Edit: Whoops. Didn't mean to swear there. What a topic, huh? Also, does the title remind anyone else of "Saved!"? [ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 08:00: Message edited by: Thahd Lemonade ] -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |