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Displayed name | Arancaytar |
Member number | 2984 |
Title | Law Bringer |
Postcount | 8752 |
Homepage | http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/ |
Registered | Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Spidweb Community Xbox Live Party! in General | |
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written Thursday, April 13 2006 03:12
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What is it with game consoles? At least with PC/Mac games you can pretend to yourself you are using the computer for non-frivolous reasons. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Avernum V in Avernum 4 | |
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written Thursday, April 13 2006 02:21
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We have no record of any non-vahnatai ever attaining bokhood, with or without vahnatai aid. Seeing as the ritual is one of the most closely guarded secrets of the vahnatai, I don't see it being learned (let alone mastered) by humans anytime soon... -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Avernum V in Avernum 4 | |
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written Thursday, April 13 2006 00:45
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quote:Who wrote that article? There is some correction needed, I believe. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
The favorite rating abominable photo game vs. return of the undead karma census poll! in General | |
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written Thursday, April 13 2006 00:37
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- Go to your profile. - Find your joining date. - Calculate the number of days between that day and now. - Divide your post count by that. Et voilá. :) This is 5715/1065 = 5.37 for me, incidentally. Edit: When I have time I'll add that feature to the endeavor thingie. [ Thursday, April 13, 2006 00:38: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
How many people would like spiderweb software to make a game for the nintendo DS in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 22:59
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UBB is at least consistent in its inconsistencies. Also, OMG OF CORSE JEFF SOUHLD MAK3 THIS WTF!!!11 Uh, no. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
The favorite rating abominable photo game vs. return of the undead karma census poll! in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 20:24
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quote:Very simple. On the floor of our dormitory, we had a kind of arrangement, in which we got together every second week to clean our common kitchen, and our floor speaker would attend the monthly house meetings. I was very surprised to find out yesterday that nobody had attended the meeting on Wednesday, and all internet access on our floor had therefore been cut. After some time, I found a way to connect, by starting a shell session on my dorm's mailserver, then using that to start a shell session on our computing center's server cluster (which I can do because I work there ;) ), and then using lynx to go online. It works, but it isn't the nicest way to surf. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
The favorite rating abominable photo game vs. return of the undead karma census poll! in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 13:54
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Congratulations, Dikiyoba! May you give the board ten times that yet and more. :) And yes, I'm relieved it's none of those things that are mentioned in the title. Alas, I need to sign off. The world is conspired against me; for the next week my only way to post here is in a unix command-line browser through about three different proxies over ssh, and I have lectures in less than eight hours. Good night! -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
How did you discover Avernum? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 13:29
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quote:Trust me, keeping a semblance of sanity around her is the most lost cause you will ever encounter. No sanity around Dikiyoba, no sir. ;) (sorry. you made that too easy...) (and sorry for the double post. There is a reason. Severe technical limitations. I'll explain later if desired.) Edit: fmt [ Wednesday, April 12, 2006 13:30: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
How did you discover Avernum? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 13:25
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I discovered Avernum on the website after finding Exile III on a shareware CD. Suffice to say that when I first saw the CD, I never thought it would affect, one way or another, the next five years of my life (as it now has). My favorite game is Avernum 4. No, wait. I'm messing with you. It's Blades of Exile. Regarding Drakey's Novah: It is invented, but "made up" is a misleading term seeing as the vocabularly is chosen in such a way as to give the names in the game a meaning. In a way, it's partly invented and partly reverse-engineered. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Are fantasy RPGs inherently conservative? in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 13:08
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quote:For the purpose of the debate, I suppose we can take "American left wing" to mean the closest American equivalent to a left wing. Which is a joke when compared to any other country, of course. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Do we have a new moderator? in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 12:58
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quote:Pull that again and the topic gets it. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 11:08
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I don't think you posted that one before. In fact, I only remember you posting a single picture, but I might have forgotten about the others. You look almost as good as Premonition, but Prem also RPs, so she clearly wins. :P [ Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:09: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Do we have a new moderator? in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 10:32
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No, but at the rate at which he is tending to the palm grove in his face, he should soon be able to harvest coconuts from behind his ears. That is what I'm picturing, anyway. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 05:51
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This being the only photo we have ever seen of Nico, I'd be astounded if you thought anything had changed. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 04:36
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quote:Only on Spiderweb... Oh, and am I the only one who looked for some kind of joke in Infernal's "FYT" post? o_O [ Wednesday, April 12, 2006 04:36: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 04:36
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quote:Only on Spiderweb... Oh, and am I the only one who looked for some kind of joke in Infernal's "FYT" post? o_O [ Wednesday, April 12, 2006 04:36: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Do we have a new moderator? in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 01:18
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The agreement does, however, say: quote:So it does say that regardless of the rules as they are now laid down, Jeff can arbitrarily decide to censor anything he doesn't want to have on the boards, from abortion debates to out-of-context quotes to bashings of Avernum 4. :P [ Wednesday, April 12, 2006 01:18: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
UBB Quirk? in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 12 2006 00:16
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Perhaps, but Firefox has never done this to me... it's not capitalized by the way, (ie "dolphin1189702"). Perhaps that's important. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Twelve Pills in General | |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 23:12
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Edit: This entire post is one big spoiler. Scroll down until you see my signature if you don't want to see it. I see Zeviz has apparently solved it completely (without any "unlucky" outcomes), but I'll keep this up: Divide into 4 groups of 3, A,B,C and D. Now, once you know in which of the groups the odd ball is and whether it is lighter or heavier, you can determine which it is with a single additional attempt. Compare A and B. 1. If A<B, compare A and C 1.1 If A=C, the odd one is in B and is heavier. 1.2 If A<C, the odd one is in A and is lighter. 2. If A>B, compare A and C 2.1 If A=C, the odd one is in B and is lighter. 2.2 If A>C, the odd one is in A and is heavier. 3. If A=B, compare A and C. 3.1 If A<C, the odd one is in C and is heavier. 3.2 If A>C, the odd one is in C and is lighter. 3.3 If A=C, the odd one is in D, but you do not know if it is lighter or heavier. You're partly screwed, but you might still find out something, at least. Compare two balls of D. 3.3.1 If the balls are equal, the third ball is the odd one, but you still don't know if it is lighter or heavier. 3.3.2 If the balls are not equal, you're screwed. -------------- With this method, you are sure to narrow down the possibilities to two balls, in the worst case. Since there are 24 possibilities you must check for, your chance of finding out both the ball and its property with this method is 75% (ie, the chance that it is not in D). Your chance of finding the ball is 83.3~% (with 8.3~% probability of not finding out how the ball differs from the rest). Your chance of only narrowing it down to two is 16.6~%. ------------------ I can't think of a way to improve on this strategy, though... [ Tuesday, April 11, 2006 23:18: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
I wish upon a star in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 22:20
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That practically begs for imitation... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 16:51
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If you are an ISP, you can still get shut down. Depending on whether you are in Washington, Sibiria, Hong Kong or a satellite-connected server farm on a ship in international waters, it might take a bit longer I suppose, but if you actually violate the law, it is more a question of time. Bypassing web hosts, there are far cheaper ways to remain quite anonymous, which I saw when looking for web hosts last year. Google for "offshore webhosting". The above applies, naturally. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
UBB Quirk? in General | |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 16:38
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quote:Your username has a lot of numbers at the end of it; make sure you didn't mistype. ;) If your profile actually got eaten, the boards would have sh-ut themselves down by now. (yay for being able to see usernames! :P ) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 06:11
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Taking half a minute to explain the way to some street or other instead of mumbling "sorry, I don't know" and walking off, for example? It's the little things that count, surely... I don't think it's an aberration as such. I get a very good feeling when I know I have been useful to someone. Note that this feeling is seamlessly related to the good feeling that results from fame, recognition and admiration - I don't claim my "drive to be useful" to be selfless at all. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
I wish upon a star in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 02:28
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Alo, if he feels like it. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Are fantasy RPGs inherently conservative? in General | |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 00:53
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quote:I get the sense that different definitions of the word Liberal are being used in this debate, and unfortunately I cannot really describe any of them, let alone decide which is the correct one. Could everyone who uses it in the future please define what "liberal" means to them, whether (and in what way) they see themselves as one, and whether the term is positive, negative or neutral when they use it? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |