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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Sunday, June 18 2006 02:33 Profile Homepage #5
First, the obligatory:

- Blades of Exile
- Blades of Avernum

You haven't really lived before playing these.

As for the rest:

I enjoyed the first three Avernum games very much, and Avernum II and Avernum III are my favorites. The original Exile games (which have the same setting and plot but an older engine) are also very good, but possibly only for those who like old games with simply graphics. Personally, I liked Exile III and II, but the I couldn't get used to the somewhat rough interface of Exile I.

Opinions are divided on Avernum 4. Personally I didn't like it a lot, but I've seen many people who do. It basically takes the graphics and interface to a new level, which many hard-core Exile fans aren't happy with. If Geneforge wasn't "retro" enough for you, you'll probably think that about A4 too (but what do I know, a lot of people like smooth graphics).

Geneforge is based on an interesting premise, but I think the series doesn't progress much. GF1 was good, GF2 was nice but not as new, and by GF3 I felt like I was playing the same game again with somewhat different characters.

[ Sunday, June 18, 2006 08:15: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, June 17 2006 10:16 Profile Homepage #4
I thought this was a joke. I still have the naive hope it is...

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I'm off the list! in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, June 17 2006 06:13 Profile Homepage #2
Actually, there was. I was going to rewrite it because it showed errors on some occasions, which would then be indexed by Google with my last name. I didn't fix it yet because I had no time, but it's public again.

[ Sunday, June 18, 2006 08:11: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, June 17 2006 05:52 Profile Homepage #329
Felix2 is evading his ban, reban pending. Ignoring his posts will make it easier to delete them... ;)

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, June 17 2006 05:46 Profile Homepage #0
I'm already a bit late (I meant to post in the morning, or at midnight board time), which is because I completely forgot it was the seventeenth already. Time passes so fast.

Well, they're finished - the forum statistics for this month, that is. No other things of interest to say, so we'll plunge straight into the numbers. :)

All info is still available on endeavor.ermarian.net, which also has various cool features like rankings, member lookup tables, a search engine, and a list of changed names and titles. If there's a new feature you'd like to see, you're welcome to request it.

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I. Joining Rate

We have 66 new members, of which 32 have posted. Easily the lowest ever.

Edit: Correction. 98 new members, of which 51 have posted.

April 2005: 151/87
May 2005: 78/43
June 2005: 147/91
July 2005: 153/88
August 2005: 108/62
September 2005: 91/52
October 2005: 81/43
November 2005: 83/41
December 2005: 85/52
January 2006: 136/86
February 2006: 100/59
March 2006: 113/63
April 2006: 126/62
May 2006: 94/48
June 2006: 98/51

II. Activity

The 51 newbies add up with 206 active members to a total active community of 257.

Monthly Overview:
April 2005: 360 (273)
May 2005: 262 (219)
June 2005: 325 (232)
July 2005: 352 (264)
August 2005: 293 (231)
September 2005: 256 (204)
October 2005: 229 (186)
November 2005: 234 (193)
December 2005: 239 (187)
January 2006: 333 (247)
February 2006: 268 (209)
March 2006: 324 (263)
April 2006: 318 (256)
May 2006: 268 (220)
June 2006: 257 (206)

III. Postage

The fluffy turtles are hungry. There were only 4969 posts for them, which comes to 155.19 per day, 19.33 per member and 0.604 per member per day.

Monthly Overview:
April 2005: 7576 | 186 | 21 | 0.47
May 2005: 4723 | 169 | 18 | 0.52
June 2005: 7267 | 251 | 22.4 | 0.77
July 2005: 8691 | 271.6 | 24.7 | 0.77
August 2005: 5917 | 190.9 | 20.1 | 0.65
September 2005: 5412 | 174.6 | 21.1 | 0.68
October 2005: 4477 | 149.3 | 19.5 | 0.65
November 2005: 4389 | 141.6 | 18.8 | 0.61
December 2005: 3958 | 131.9 | 16.6 | 0.55
January 2006: 6580 | 204.3 | 19.8 | 0.61
February 2006: 4555 | 153.24 | 17 | 0.57
March 2006: 7355 | 272.56 | 22.7 | 0.84
April 2006: 6802 | 221.07 | 21.39 | 0.70
May 2006: 6483 | 215.31 | 24.19 | 0.80
June 2006: 4969 | 155.19 | 19.33 | 0.60

IV. Top Ten

This is what the topic title refers to. In over a year, this is the first time I've managed to stay of the top ten! Okay, so I'm place 11, but it's a start. Perhaps I can actually manage to get a life next month.

1 261 Slarty 1411 273
2 6600 Dikiyoba 1471 245
3 6581 MagmaDragoon 654 192
4 4045 Kelandon 5773 165
5 335 A Matter of Historical Outsight 11673 161
6 869 Thuryl 7345 149
7 6785 Randomizer 514 138
8 627 Delicious Vlish 714 137
9 3431 Student of Trinity 1742 123
10 5755 Freakin' Salmon 1498 122
Slarty wins (or loses, depends on perspective). Slarty, Dikiyoba, Kelandon and Magma have gained since last month, while Thuryl, Alorael and I have fallen. Infernal has posted so little she is now on place 20, and TM has also dropped off the radar. Here is the full ranking.

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That would be all.

Edit: I was an idiot when gathering the statistics. There has been a correction allowing for members 7189-7221 to be added retroactively. Some inaccuracies in post count since these 30 members have had an additional 20 days in which to post, but it's less patently inaccurate now than before.

[ Monday, July 17, 2006 20:55: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Just because I'm curious... in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, June 17 2006 00:26 Profile Homepage #5
There is no way in hell I will ever buy, use or otherwise get in contact with a game console (let alone an Xbox), so I don't have any input to offer there.

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Just because I'm curious... in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, June 16 2006 05:08 Profile Homepage #1
It says "in case". In all likelyhood, it was pure speculation or possibly a joke.

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Nethergate Re-Do. in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, June 16 2006 05:06 Profile Homepage #7
Hahaha.

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Inventions in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, June 15 2006 15:14 Profile Homepage #16
quote:
Originally written by *i:

You may want to change your name until you actually understand it or I'm gonna start calling you Archimedes Plutonium
Owned.

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Anonymity and online identity, yet again. in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, June 15 2006 15:06 Profile Homepage #57
quote:
Originally written by Tyranicelt:

Out of curiosity, I just Googled Lenar's screenname to see if any of the results were from Shadow Vale. Oddly enough, none of them were. Has Google forgotten about me? :P

After further research, I have discovered that Google only searches a few of my chatlogs, and that they are "supplemental results". Apparently, there is too much markup language in the pages for easy search engine use. Odd that.
One hint for improving search engine recognition: Validate your html with this. :)

At last count, Arancaytar has 40,000 results, although it was at almost 70,000 at one point...

I remember a day when there were 300 (fall 2004) and 21 in Summer 2003, and back in April 2003 when I first used the name, there were none at all...

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SRG! in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, June 15 2006 08:43 Profile Homepage #2
You forgot the rating. Yours I rate 2 for incomprehensibility. A version number?

Rest assured it will be locked soon...

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The Mountain of Shadows RP in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, June 14 2006 23:56 Profile Homepage #554
OOC:

Pure, undiluted awesome. I am always suspicious of late entrances, especially with unconventional characters, but I liked that.

quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

And I’ve discovered writing in present tense is tough.
Before I read it, I was about to suggest you don't, but it is perfectly suited for this perspective.

Mh. So now Melora has been "hypnotized" to initiate contact. We'll see how that works out later on. We'll also assume that she was able to pick up a part of the pattern of the healing magic (the X'somhra thing she used against the Curator).

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The awful doom of Yaddith we evade
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Alwan and Greta questions in Geneforge Series
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, June 14 2006 16:59 Profile Homepage #63
Yes, but a commonly accepted policy in SW games is not to gut non-hostile NPCs until they attack, insult your mother or strongly disagree with you.

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I have a love of woodwind instruments.
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Anonymity and online identity, yet again. in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, June 14 2006 04:25 Profile Homepage #52
I noticed that the link on TM's site is out of date anyway (still pointing to the old Geocities page), so if you read this TM, perhaps when you next update your page you could both change the link and take out the real name. :)

[ Wednesday, June 14, 2006 04:25: Message edited by: Drow ]

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The Mountain of Shadows RP in General
Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, June 14 2006 02:39 Profile Homepage #551
OOC: We're currently working up to a climactic battle, but we're not there yet. If you can work out a really believable entrance for your character (unlike, say, mung's "Mountain Pirate"), then it might be possible.

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Anonymity and online identity, yet again. in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 13 2006 09:55 Profile Homepage #47
So that's why I got confused about whether your initials where TH or JH (abbreviated to ward off search spiders...)?

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 13 2006 05:07 Profile Homepage #299
Jeansforce=Geneforge. foreman = forum(?)
"eye surprise" = "I suppose", possibly.

I thought of it as "rejoin the [something], I suppose", but that doesn't make much sense...

[ Tuesday, June 13, 2006 05:09: Message edited by: Drow ]

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Anonymity and online identity, yet again. in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 13 2006 02:06 Profile Homepage #36
However, the problem is not so much with employers checking up on their employees, but on job applicants about to have an interview. The shoot-Bill-Gates joke is funny when you know the person who makes it, but if you haven't met them yet you can't know how to take such things. It's like with the "blunt smoking" thing. His friends know he's kidding, the interviewer doesn't...

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Slarty Does Spidweb -- Explicit Language in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 13 2006 00:21 Profile Homepage #17
quote:
Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas:

quote:
Originally written by Hastur ^ 3:

quote:
Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas:

But, unfortunately, are still inclined to give back anyway.
And who are you refering to?
Anybody that, making his/her fortune purely through capitalistic means, decides to give to people who didn't do anything to get him/her to where s/he is.
I suppose our views differ on that point then.

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Probably a repetitive questions but... in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, June 13 2006 00:17 Profile Homepage #16
I have some parts of the Star Wars soundtrack, but it is in MIDI format. With predictable quality. :(

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The Mountain of Shadows RP in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 12 2006 23:04 Profile Homepage #549
"No."

The word was softly spoken, and yet it reverberated through the silence like a shout of defiance. They turned around. It had been some time since the dark elf had said anything. She felt the stares of their eyes, living, dead and demonic, but faltered only for an instant before catching herself. She spoke on:

"You take us all for fools. Why should we follow you to your master's lair, where we are utterly at his mercy?"

The Curator laughed again, and the druid winced at the grating sound.

"You already are. Behold -", and he raised a finger. The room vibrated, there was a brief sensation of movement and a distant rumble. The door behind them vanished, and another tunnel had opened to the side. "You are at the heart of his lair, and it is his power here that holds sway, and not the mountain's. You will follow, willing or bound."

The mountain's? So it is there. What the Druid felt was true. And if Orloki has had to suppress that force, perhaps it may yet be of use.

A glance told her that Sequoia had noted the Lich's slip as well. She pushed the thought aside. The master would be dealt with later. For now, it was important to humiliate the servant - enraged minions tended to grow unreliable.

Apparently, Lisha had had the same thought, for she said: "We have not come here to bandy words with Orloki's lapdog. Go back to your master and tell him we are waiting here in this chamber. Let him come out if the years have not made him soft and craven."

It is not easy to anger the Undead. For one, they have had a lot of time to learn patience. The Curator opened his mouth to laugh, but was interrupted.

"X'somhra." Melora raised her hand and recited a word from the book she had read earlier. The healing spell would have turned lesser undead to dust, but the lich was far too powerful to be seriously harmed. Still, it caught him on the side of the face, a stinging slap on the cheek that made him wince.

"Run to your master, dog." Her voice had changed. Before, it had been cold, now it could have frozen hellfire. "Run and get him, and then hide, lest you crave eternal rest." There is something backwards about a drow banishing undead, she realized. First time for everything.

OOC: Back! Yay! Let's go get the others to return!

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Anonymity and online identity, yet again. in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 12 2006 21:28 Profile Homepage #32
quote:
Originally written by Sprang:

Googling my real name brings up nothing of me on the first page.
It's not the first page that counts, it's the thirtieth one. Some people like to dig deep... :P

(Actually, most pages that bring me up are past page 10 or so...)

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Anonymity and online identity, yet again. in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 12 2006 19:39 Profile Homepage #30
I don't doubt you can find out my info with no difficulty. I don't mind people from here finding it - I trust you. :P What I'm trying to avoid is people breaking through the other way; ie, looking for my real name and finding this. While Google keeps whois records out of their index, that may not be hopeless.

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Slarty Does Spidweb -- Explicit Language in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, June 12 2006 08:26 Profile Homepage #12
quote:
Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas:

But, unfortunately, are still inclined to give back anyway.
And who are you refering to?

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