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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Monday, April 10 2006 15:41
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quote:This is blatantly false. The statement in parentheses is questionable at best, and what follows is totally untrue. Judaism was neither the first religion nor the first moral code. -------------------- 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, April 10 2006 15:34
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What about this analogy? "At that point, saying that BoA is the better game is like saying that a videodisc is a better medium for storing video than a VHS tape." [ Tuesday, April 11, 2006 05:42: Message edited by: Good-Looks the Playboy ] -------------------- 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, April 10 2006 15:31
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Whoa. TM is arguing in favor of selflessness... In all seriousness, I think Alorael overstated the case for selfishness. Among humans, there are biological imperatives for selfishness and for selflessness. -------------------- 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, April 10 2006 13:50
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Uh, Infernal, "Avernum RP • RP OoC Posts • RP IC Post Summaries • RP IC Synopsis" is hardly memorable. At first glance it looks remarkable similar to Dintiradan's sig and to mine, and maybe someone else's as well. (Thank you, Aran, for popularizing my bullet separators :P ) I figure my italicized title has got to make me at least somewhat identifiable, though. Edit: I keep forgetting I don't get to care anymore, heh. [ Monday, April 10, 2006 13:59: Message edited by: Good-Looks the Playboy ] -------------------- 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, April 10 2006 12:35
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*burp* Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 10 2006 08:22
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Great topic, Zorro! "A lot of this can probably be traced back to general RPG development laziness and adopting the Tolkien paradigm of a fantasy world" I'd suggest, further, that this is the result of adopting only that part of the Tolkien paradigm which is most superficially visible, while ignoring the meat below it. This surface Aryanism is characteristic not just of fantasy games and fantasy literature, but also of most myths and it is in fairy tales almost categorically. I think this provides a clue. In fairy tales as in Tolkien, heroes are usually good-looking; even if they start out as an ugly beggar/stepdaughter/whatever, before the end of the story they are transformed, so that their outer appearance matches their inner goodness. Appearance functions as a metaphor, a very bare metaphor. The ambiguous gender thing is interesting, because in fairy tales and myths such characters usually aren't evil or good, they are just liminal -- they are on the fringe of society, on the fringe of being human, they are powerful and dangerous and have to be approached with care. (Ironically, Ex/Av preserves this by accident, with the accidental gender-swapping of the dragons.) I can't actually think of many RPG villains who are ambiguously gendered; Kuja, of course, and some others from Final Fantasy. On the other hand there are also RPGs with gender-switching or androgynous heroes (Ranma) and plenty of stories with the same (The Wizard of Oz, or, to go back to Tolkien, Eowyn). Now, Jeff has consciously moved himself away from this kind of fairy story. He designs his games for a "family" audience, which means that many things that are common in fairy tales, such as rape, are entirely absent. He includes people that never show up in fairy tales and rarely in fantasy literature, such as lesbians. There is no "underlying" significance to the story; any kind of moral about the dignity and freedom of sentient creatures (for example) is pretty blatant. -------------------- 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, April 10 2006 04:51
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Ooh, got it. Pythagorean = SPOILER -------------------- 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, April 10 2006 04:03
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I assume this has got to be a balance, and not a scale -- it doesn't seem even remotely possible with a single plate scale. -------------------- 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, April 9 2006 16:30
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Unfortunately, I think I need to pull out of the RP. I just don't have time anymore, between work and the bf (ok, mainly the latter). Unless Aran feels like running the goblins, I will be making one or two more posts to end their activity. (Don't worry, I've devised a balanced and reasonable way for this to occur IC, without actually destroying them, should someone else want to involve them later on.) Yes, I will also be abandoning the roster. The effort it would take me to figure out WTF is up around Krizsan province is not worth it, if I'm making an exit. If somebody else wants to steal the HTML, update it and post it, you have my blessing. EDIT:  [ Sunday, April 09, 2006 16:33: Message edited by: Good-Looks the Playboy ] -------------------- 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, April 7 2006 04:39
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1) This software is still beta. 2) It requires an Intel-based mac, which (at the moment, and for many moments coming) does not describe the majority of macs people have. 3) At the moment, at least, it requires buying XP, a $60+ investment. (And depending on what Microsoft and/or its vendors think of the venture, the price on XP may be able to go up...) It's a good idea, and it may end up changing some details of the computer world, but even after a few years, I doubt it will have any significant effect on the balance of mac only/pc only users among Jeff's customers. And it's certainly not going to change any of the reasons Jeff prefers the mac programming environment. *shrug* -------------------- 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, April 6 2006 19:15
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quote:You may want to check out project .hack//... -------------------- 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, April 6 2006 17:06
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Yes, the J2E fansub is much better. And yeah, "sharp rounded blade descending from above." And yeah to Kain, although I'm guessing that could be translated in various ways -- or does Japanese have a specific word that corresponds exactly to b-? -------------------- 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, April 6 2006 09:40
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Alorael, you're crazy. I'm not Jewish, but matzoh is wonderful. -------------------- 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, April 6 2006 06:13
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Heh. I suppose not. Somewhat ironically after your comments that I didn't account for the untranslated Fire Emblem games. And yeah, the original U.S. localizations were *definitely* bowdlerized -- the SNES one and I think also the PS release, though I haven't played that one. Besides the Easytype modifications, and the random plot details they omitted (Kain's father, Zemus's motivation, etc.), they removed the porno magazine, they toned down the comments Edge and Rydia make to each other, and they edited graphics for Cecil and Rosa getting it on and the nearly naked dancer in Baron, and they changed the scythe in the Tower of Zot to a big ball. Edit: Not to mention Nintendo of America's habitual expurgation of anything vaguely religious. [ Thursday, April 06, 2006 06:16: Message edited by: The Beautiful Green Serpent ] -------------------- 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, April 6 2006 04:14
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quote:No, the bowdlerized English translations call them that. The original game's transliterations into Japanese are pretty solid, as far as I can tell: Barbariccia (?????? Barubarishia) Cagnazzo (?????? Kainattso) Rubicante (????? Rubikante) Scarmiglione (???????? Sukarumiry?ne) Edit: Hmp. The Japanese characters came through fine when I copied and pasted from here. Stupid UBB. [ Thursday, April 06, 2006 04:16: Message edited by: The Beautiful Green Serpent ] -------------------- 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, April 5 2006 15:43
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Not Dante, FF4. FF4 in turn took them from Dante. However, since those four demons are not grouped together in any way in Dante, but they are grouped together in FF4, the fact that TM chose them (as opposed to, say, Alichino or Libicocco) suggests an FF4 pull. :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 Wednesday, April 5 2006 10:19
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Kurch, Alorael was talking about the assertion he made immediately following that statement. -------------------- 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, April 5 2006 08:39
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"Deleterious alleles" is a wonderful phrase. -------------------- 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, April 5 2006 07:51
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Both are remarkably close (and inferior) to "HISSSA" of Dungeon Master fame. -------------------- 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, April 5 2006 07:45
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"Please, Tucker, please don't get involved in an online abortion debate. You should know better." I think the fluffy turtles have gotten to me, because I am now ignoring the voice of reason in my head. quote:It is NOT that simple. The main thing there is disagreement over is, in fact, whether or not you can say "46 = human." And while you're right to observe that religion is not inherently involved, this lack of simplicity eventually ends up dragging religion into things. Let's look at what both sides agree on. Nobody at all thinks you can kill babies once they are out of the womb, or full-grown adults for that matter. Despite the use of labels like "pro-life," there isn't anybody who is pro-death. The point of disagreement is really the question of when something first counts as a human. I think you make a good point about seeing the baby's cute little face. You're probably right that many people in favor of early-term only abortion, in particular, just don't want to imagine a cute little baby dying. But can't that point be extended? I think that some pro-lifers are the same way, it's just that they look at a fetus without a cute face, and realize that it will turn into a fetus with a cute face. And I think this is perfectly legitimate. The problem is that wherever you draw the line on what is and is not a human is going to be arbitrary. It will, of course, be based on legitimate knowledge and beliefs and reasoning, which I respect; by arbitrary I mean that there is no simple way to choose one such definition over another. There is no philosophical trump card that makes "one cell existing" or "successful implantation" or "x months of development" or "sentience" or "capacity for independent locomotion" the correct definition. In other words, a fertilized egg is definitely human; of course, so is my liver. Unlike my liver, a fertilized egg has the potential to develop into an independent human person. But is it already an independent human person? That is a question of DEFINITION. There is, however, one way for a definition of human-ness to be less arbitrary and to beat out the others: that is if you are religious. If you believe in an immortal soul that is the core of our beings, that pretty clearly trumps ANY biological, psychological, or philosophical definition of what it is to be human. So that's where religion comes into things. Of course, different religions will tell you different things about what a soul is and when exactly it shows up. quote:I respect the opinion that the cause of preserving life must outweigh the cause of alleviating suffering. I do not, however, agree. I spent several years working (and later volunteering) for a rape crisis center in Chicago. I was on-call at emergency rooms around the city to advocate for rape survivors in a medical and legal system which often ignores the unmatched psychological trauma of rape, and the ability of its effects to pervade all corners and all hours of a survivor's life. So I know a lot about rape, and a lot about rape trauma syndrome. That work forces me to ask myself: is a life worth any amount of suffering, however huge -- is it categorically worth that? More recently, I have spent my time working with severely emotionally disturbed children and teenagers. I have seen the devastation of abuse first-hand. I have seen how trauma echoes from one generation into the next, and how psychologically destructive tendencies spread like a cancer. And though I mean that mostly in terms of parental dynamics, I have also seen children psychologically maimed for the rest of their lives while they were still in the womb. That work forces me to ask myself: is a life worth any amount of suffering, however huge, however widely spread, however many other lives affected by it -- is it categorically worth that? I can't say yes. I would love to. I would love to be a Jainist, to mourn the bacteria that I crush when I walk; hell, I'd go a step further, and mourn the rearrangement of molecules, particles, quarks, that accompanies every aspect of my life. But I can't. It's absurd, and it's impractical. A line has to be drawn somewhere. We have to stop caring at a certain point. I don't know exactly where the right place to draw that line is. But I find it hard to prioritize a person or thing (whichever term you prefer) who is unable to live or act independently ahead of the prevention of suffering and destruction in the future. That one care I cannot refuse. "As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it." -- St-Exupéry quote: quote:Quoted for agreement (with both of them) and emphasis. -------------------- 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, April 5 2006 05:35
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"Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my nose; or against any man's metaphor. Prithee, get thee further." -- Shakespeare -------------------- 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, April 4 2006 14:25
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Stealth powder/scrolls/spells did exist in Exile, but it never worked that well. Heck, it did nothing at all against wandering monsters who were many (insert unit of measurement here)s away from 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 Tuesday, April 4 2006 14:19
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quote:You know, I'm tempted to start my own, democratic list of Dikiyoba name variations, including names without explanations ;) -------------------- 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, April 4 2006 09:17
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Well, you could always find a Super Nintendo emulator and play that version of the original Dungeon Master. No weird shop guards, but then you can make your own FUL bombs and throw them at the wall you are standing next to. That's fun 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 Tuesday, April 4 2006 09:09
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quote:No. Arcane comes from Latin arcanus while archaic comes from Greek arkhaios. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |