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RWG needs alot of spam! in Richard White Games
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Wow. I was so sure this thread was a goner. :P

Welcome back, Omlette! I think I talked to your brother a few days ago. :)

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Captives of the turtle pit, hear ye, hear ye! in General
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My mistake; I only really read "Prelude" and "Caves of Steel" from beginning to end...

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Not a single turtle left?

Well, of all the selfish... <_<

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Wondrous and ineffable are the ways of the Ultimate Bulletin.

MM is a born-again UBB member; his account got eaten about a year or so ago, and Drakey managed to repair it (I think) by somehow copying his new account over the place where the old one used to be. He has the new joining date and the old member number.

Strangely, this apparently didn't work with Saunders, who also had her account eaten.

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If you replaced "neutrons" with some equivalent fundamental particle of annoyance. A spamion? No, that sounds odd.

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The fifth, yes, but not of the UBB. That would be on September 18.

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Project GFT Start! in General
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quote:
Originally written by Shaper Lord:

They're more old school, but they don't have the physics engines of todays games and the graphics. Sure, they may be addicting, but they have to take their toll on you sometime. I gave up Spiderweb Software games years ago.
Just wait for the next game; you fit perfectly into the marketing segment Jeff is trying to get into with A4 and Geneforge. :P

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Code for unlocking levels in SubTerra
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quote:
Originally written by Zeviz:

quote:
Originally written by Shaper Lord:

Please, kids, on topic posts here. If this forum is to survive another day, then we need to abide by the rules. Pat pat.

I'll admit, everyone plays games for different reasons, I know that. It's just a mildly unpopular game, which few people seem interested. I'm sure under 10 people actually care about it anymore, and if the forum was deleted, this board wouldn't hurt.

Please, kids, on topic posts here. If this poster is to survive another day, then he needs to abide by the rules. Pat pat.

I'll admit, everyone posts here for different reasons, I know that. He's just a mildly unpopular poster, which few people seem interested. I'm sure under 10 people actually care about him anymore, and if the poster was banned, this board wouldn't hurt.

I was going to ask why you had quoted him twice. I'm tired this morning. :rolleyes:

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quote:
Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

quote:
Originally written by Arancaytar:

I think we all agree that meat has been sufficiently hazed now.

Or does anyone beg to differ?

Who is we, where on earth have you located universal agreement on anything, and how do you determine sufficency? As far as I see it, you are speaking for one, much like any one of us does on occasions of opinion. The try at ominous use of italics left me underwhelmed.

Oh, and :P I fixed your typo.

We is the majestic plural for I. Universal agreement is possible with the right level of intimidation. Sufficiency is determined arbitrarily.

Are these answers sufficiently ominous?

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What's your dialect? in General
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It is a mix between a schwa and a short vowel for me. It all depends on whether I speak slowly, calmly and formally, or quickly and while under stress.

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quote:
Originally written by Slartucker:

You do realize, MEAT, that in addition to picturing you as a strip of bacon, I now picture you as the creepy old man/generic villain of Yu-gi-oh?

No one should have to be pictured as a Yu-gi-oh character...

I think we all agree that I have been sufficiently hazed now.

Or does anyone beg to differ?

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quote:
Originally written by the fatman:

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Jeff doesn't appear to be aversed to marketing other people's games (though I don't know if that still applies). I'm not sure if this works vice versa, with other people marketing Jeff's games (in other languages).

Aversed?? Why oh why do we worry about grammer when we cannot even spell correctly?

If you read attentively, you will note that I informed Thralni (a non-native speaker) of a grammatical rule that his sentence violated.

Thank you very much for informing me (also a non-native speaker) of the correct use of the term "to be averse". I'll note it in the future. :)

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How much time do you spend on here a day in General
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Depends. Do you compress it - ie every second spent on the boards counted together - or do you count "checking every 10 minutes or so" as "on the boards"? Also, do the feed aggregators count?

If the former (and aggregators don't count), it comes to a bit over an hour on average, probably. Two hours on really big days.

If the latter, then I'm active the majority of the time I am conscious and sitting at a computer with internet access. Sounds sad, but I don't feel that awful about it.

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Are "DITL resources" a mac thing? I haven't heard of them...

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quote:
Originally written by Mc 'mini' Thralni:

The only problem is, is that this is an enormous undertaking. It will require much patience and time, which i doubt anybody has (I, as somebody who is undertaking about four very big projects at once, knows what he is talking about).
Just as a note, referring to yourself as "someone" in a subclause doesn't suddenly turn the whole sentence into third person. Once the subclause ends, it's once again "..., know what I am talking about."

And that's enough for grammar pedantry today. :)

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Jeff doesn't appear to be aversed to marketing other people's games (though I don't know if that still applies). I'm not sure if this works vice versa, with other people marketing Jeff's games (in other languages).

[ Wednesday, March 22, 2006 06:35: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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I sometimes argue with myself.

I had a period when I would do so in writing, dub my imaginary alter ego "Pegasus" (as in, that winged horse from Greek mythology). Then I realized it made me sound like a dork, so I stopped.

*...*

"Didn't stop you from being a dork, now did it."

Shut up.

*...*

Couldn't resist...

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Because he is too busy writing A5 and GF4?

Don't let me discourage you people, but it's not like substituting all text strings in a program is a simple task - especially if the program was not designed with different language options in mind. Not knowing how Jeff coded it, it could be anything from a few hours to a few weeks.

I don't want to talk you out of it, but it would be quite a disappointment if after weeks or months of translation, nobody has any use for it. :(

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Edit: Also, note that since I doubt Jeff is proficient in Spanish or Italian, he would have no way of assessing the quality of the translations.

[ Wednesday, March 22, 2006 05:36: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Banned.
Ampersand.

My dialect makes them rhyme, yeah.

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Just asking because I once had the idea (this was back in 2001...) of translating Exile III into German. After about a week or so, I realized that it would all be useless unless the programmer (Jeff) put his own time into actually producing the translated program and hosting it. At the time, I didn't know Jeff, so I was doubtful what he'd think of such an enterprise (which would quite probably prove non-worthwhile).

Now I know Jeff, and am quite certain he wouldn't want to spend time on it. Bug-fixing BoA seems a more worthwhile endeavor (in terms of marketing) than translating a game from English into another language when possibly everyone who has ever heard of the game already speaks English. If he does not want to do the former, the latter strikes me as unlikely.

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Skribbane is a fictional drug invented by Jeff. If it has any etymological roots that could be translated, I don't know them. In any case, if you just use the same name - perhaps spelt differently to fit better into the Italian language - it should be fine. The word doesn't have any meaning in English that I'm aware of.

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Also, just how are you intending to translate a program without having its source? Will you mail the translated full-text dump to Jeff and ask him to make a localized version?
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You bet you can't. But in your defense, you said nothing about hands and their many-faceted relationships with their owners.

I didn't either. Really. Once you have seen this message, it will already have been retroactively removed.
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What's your dialect? in General
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What does RP stand for?

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Oh wait, if "heat" and "eat" are supposed to be identical in the beginning, then I'll amend that to no. I don't leave out or add H to anything.

My chemistry teacher would always pronounce it "Hage-too-oh", however. Because of his British accent, and because he practically smelled of "elite university", someone asked him if he had been in Oxford.

Turns out that is not the smartest question to ask a Cambridge ("Came-britch") graduate. :P

[ Wednesday, March 22, 2006 01:03: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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