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If you could invite 4 people to a dinner in any form... in General
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quote:
Originally written by demonslaeyr:

quote:
Originally written by Hawk King:

It was great zombie alien sat like a puppy by ripely the whole time ripley kept telling everyone that they were going to die and predator boy kept on trying to kill zombie boy and I got it all on tape (zombie boy has no manners)
That's possibly the worst sentence I've seen lately. And I troll the Elder Scrolls fori...

I'd like to have Bill Cosby over for dinner, so maybe I can finally get some straight answers.

That was not a sentence. It was what you call a symptom of logorrhoe.

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What's your most embarassing moment? in General
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quote:
Originally written by Lady Davida:

More fun that way, though.

I tend to embarass myself on what seems to be a daily basis, but small things I can handle. Bigger things... hmm... one time I announced a piano piece before playing it in a school concert, played the first half or so, then suddenly realized I'd somehow switched over to a different piece along the way. I finished the piece and disappeared for a bit afterwards, although nobody ever mentioned my mistake.

I'm sure there are plenty more, but I'm at a lost for the moment.

Any piano players or music experts in the audience?
When you're playing a piano piece, you notice a whole lot more than the ones who are listening, in my experience.

Perhaps some of them wondered if they didn't remember the piece going differently, but were too afraid of embarassing themselves to ask? :P

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"Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin
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The Mountain of Shadows RP in General
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OOC: Nice one, David. Played both characters perfectly. :D (though Shadow elves do laugh. Just in different situations... ^_^)

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"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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What's your most embarassing moment? in General
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quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

Whilst doing work experience at a hospital, I once became somewhat lost and inadvertently wandered into the psychiatric inpatient ward. Given my slightly dishevelled appearance and the fact that I wasn't carrying any identification, it took some fast talking to get myself out of there.
And if this was after you came to Spiderweb, then you shouldn't have been let out really, should you? :P

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What's so bad about it anyway? in Richard White Games
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I only have a PC. I played Homeland for half an hour four years ago (shortly before downloading BoE). The memory has not yet healed. o_o

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quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

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Originally written by Aranfoolcaytar:

(Can you say "All your base"?).
Well, naturally, this made me curious, so I looked and discovered possibly the single most useless page of trivia I have ever seen.

Wow... it appears I didn't read that thoroughly. That, or it's been translated since last time I came there.

The text, disturbingly, makes sense once translated with some semblance of accuracy. But I prefer the original. It has more charm.

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A.D. 2101
The war has begun.

Captain: What was that?!
Chief Engineer: It appears someone has planted bombs on board.
Operator: Captain! We have an incoming transmission!
Captain: What? Who?
Operator: I'll put it on the main screen.
Captain: You! You're...
CATS [with sarcasm]: You seem to be preoccupied, gentlemen.
CATS: With the kind cooperation of the Federation forces, CATS has taken all of your bases..
CATS: Your ship, too, will soon meet its end.
Captain: That's... impossible!
CATS: We thank you for your kind cooperation.
CATS: Make the most of these last moments of your lives.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha ha...
Operator: Captain...
Captain: Give the launch order to all ZIG fighters!
Captain: We can only depend on them now.
Captain: Our hope for the future...
Captain: It's in your hands, ZIG fighters!


[ Tuesday, August 09, 2005 23:56: Message edited by: Aranfoolcaytar ]

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Our President in General
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Agreed. I have never looked for non-trivial knowledge and failed to find it there, and rarely for really trivial knowledge (Can you say "All your base"?).

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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THE ABOMINABLE PHOTO THREAD: THE THIRD COMING! in General
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quote:
Originally written by Marvin, the paranoid android:

quote:
Originally written by ben XIII:

That's common knowledge here at Spiderweb. He's 7.
How do you mean he's 7! That's a joke, right? I mean, how can he be 7, and send in a photo of him being ten!

Welcome to Spiderweb, friend. Leave your sanity at the door. :)

And leave ancient riddles alone for now; they just give people headaches. As for me, I doubt that Drakey has said one true thing about himself in this thread.

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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Public relation for BoA in Blades of Avernum
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Cortext? Ouch... well, you can see I was in a hurry. :P

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Love Hina in General
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William Thomas Fletcher is in the public domain. Or ought to be. He approves of being posted here, but disapproves of this thread. He thinks it should be locked. Now.

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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The Mountain of Shadows RP in General
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OOC: Unless this RP lasts shorter than the others, there might be time for you to make a come-back. Good wishes anyway, and I hope you have the opportunity to join another RP here soon: You're among the better ones here. :)

I have one hour to post this, then my battery runs out. Cross fingers.

IC: Melora stood in the clearing alone, surrounded by corpses. The weird character from the mountains - the one who had wept over the wolves - had left again, the other man trailing behind him. Caecus had led Sequoia, Andros and Cyrus off toward his village. And Lisha had wandered off alone. Melora looked about.

What was the deal with these wolves anyway? It could not have been just compassion that stirred the man. Lisha was right: Sequoia would, could not have allowed this if it were needless slaughter.

Needless? She caught herself following human reasoning again. What were the wolves to her - just other predators. She had a knife, they only teeth. That was why she was standing here, and not lying on the ground instead of these beasts. As if contemplating whether to complete the analogy by feeding off her quarry, she approached the wolf she had killed with her dagger. The carcass lay on its side, its sleek, powerful body nearly majestic in spite of the matted, gristly grey fur flecked with blood.

Kneeling beside the wolf's wild face, its gaping maw, she reached out with her hand and closed those staring golden eyes.

"It was your time today, brother. Whatever lies beyond, it will be your path to find out now, and not mine. You fought well, but you met your match as so many before. Who knows when the time may come for me?"

Rising again, she looked into the direction the others had gone in. The mountain rose ominously in the distance to the north west, its grey and white slopes glistening in the late morning sun. It was almost midday.

Caecus and the others had left toward his village, vanishing among the hills to the north. The two who had cursed them for killing the wolves had run off to the south west. What they were hoping to find, Melora was not clear about. Judging by the shouted argument the wind had carried to her ears...

...death will follow them wherever they go... and I want none of what they seek...

...You can't lift the darkness...


she had the suspicion they themselves were not entirely clear about it either, or at least not in agreement.

Lisha had gone to the West. Melora had to face a decision.

She trusted Sequoia, but not Andros. Cyrus was a tolerable man, if he could be called that, but Caecus annoyed her nearly as much as Brail. Lisha was a secretive character, and more than likely a spy (why else would an Easterling seek to conceal her identity in these parts?), but Melora could not care less. It was not her Kingdom spying and not her Kingdom being spied on. Remembering the serene wisdom in Sequoia's gaze, she made half a step northward. And then stopped, as an uncharacteristic thought crossed her mind.

They don't need me. There are four of them. Lisha is alone. Was that her thought? Inconceivable. Lisha was not the only one's whose mind must be tired this morning - blurting out her name to a stranger in such an indiscrete fashion. Melora considered her choices again, but found her feet turning westward almost of her own accord.

Soon, she was running with the fast, lithe elven gait, her light boots seeming hardly to touch the mossy forest floor as she soundlessly followed Lisha.

OOC: David, your call. Does Lisha want to be followed?

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"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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Love Hina in General
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I have never heard the term "Love Hina", and am glad not to. It does sound like "hernia". That said...

IMAGE(http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PIX/fletcher_william.jpg)

[ Tuesday, August 09, 2005 05:58: Message edited by: Aranfoolcaytar ]

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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what do you think of summoning? in The Avernum Trilogy
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I've used Summoning on occasion, but only when I was out of spell points to do anything else (and low-level attacks wouldn't have done it).

I've found it can give you a brief edge if the opponents are too tough or deal too much damage in a single round. In high level environments, that additional turn you have to chug an invulnerability potion or deal ~200 damage with another spell can matter a lot. Create Illusions yields the best cost efficiency, because the meatshield doesn't need an excessive amount of health (more than likely they're going to die in one hit anyway). But with a faster, less strong opponent (say, 3 smaller attacks instead of one big one), additional hit points can be useful as well. It depends on the situation.

Edit: In BoA, of course there is the added bonus of summoning some monster the designer forgot to disable from summoning. I remember having a lot of fun with Goblin chieftains in Canopy... :D

Edit2: Of course, my point can't be impartially tested by a BoE/BoA arena run. The usefulness of Summoning directly depends on how it is used - and the AI uses it in a very dumb way.

[ Tuesday, August 09, 2005 05:20: Message edited by: Aranfoolcaytar ]

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If you could invite 4 people to a dinner in any form... in General
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quote:
Originally written by SupaNik:

imagine what my therapist would say
And he'd be right, no?

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Public relation for BoA in Blades of Avernum
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If we let Google destroy language, it will not be long before our minds are destroyed as well. With that in mind, here we go:

Back to Fantasy with shareware games

The game market is flooded by soulless first person shooters. Where have the real plots gone to? The small, independent game developers.

By Evita Eberhard

Computer games are getting ever more awe-inspiring. Polished interfaces and fine graphic details with ever more realistic splatter effects lure new players into the virtual game worlds. But do the graphics determine the quality of a game? No, say die-hard RPG fans on internet forums. Because large companies only invest in graphics instead of a solid plot or background, the enjoyment is limited, according to "Mirzel" from gametunnel.com.

In Roleplaying Games (RPGs), the player directs his characters through a fantasy world, fighting against monsters and gaining experience. RPGs, especially MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online RPGs) are currently experiencing a boom: "World of Warcraft" reports 1.5 million subscribers. And while ever increasing numbers of players kill time and monsters online [hah, managed to translate the pun!], good old single-player RPGs are also gaining adherents. "In spite of the vast number of available products, there is no single MMORPG that truly deserves the name 'roleplaying game'", complains "Holy Avatar" on 4players.de, "Hack & Slay remains the priority." Those seeking a story will soon tire of multi-user-dungeons.

Good stories can, however, be found with indie developers. Those who do not have a budget of millions to spend on dozens of artists and aggressive marketing play to their strengths by inventing suspenseful plots. Smaller companies like Fantasoft, Ambrosia or Anino stand up to the competition with shareware and fantasy. Absorbing background stories are also the hallmark of Spiderweb Software: With their "Avernum" trilogy and "Blades of Avernum", the tiny company in Seattle has put out one of the best and most popular RPG series today.

Gate to the Underworld

Avernum is a massive, inhospitable cave system deep beneath the surface. The benevolent dictatorship named "The Empire" uses it banish undesired citizens and races. You, the player, are next: Off to Avernum! Eventually, you will end up in the midst of a revolution, you must dispose of hidden toxic waste or eliminate a dangerous vampire. You are at risk of losing yourself in this fantastic secondary world: When you are still searching for the secret scrolls while light is already dawning outside, it is already too late. Your life will be changed forever - Spiderweb has just planted a non-expiring Cookie into your cerebral cortex. Welcome to the club.

Spiderweb games captivate through their surprising turns, their intelligent dialogue, and an underlying Monty-Python-like humor. Not necessarily through graphical realism: Avernum uses an isometric view; the player moves his up to four characters like figures over a chess board. The classical style has its own charm, and sparks the imagination. Simple graphics require neither expensive cards nor memory, and the games run on PCs just as well as they do on Macs. The shareware price of $25 for near infinite fun is also nearly impossible to undercut.

"Infinite" is to be taken literally: Spiderweb's newest installment "Blades of Avernum" contains not just four single episodes but a complete game editor. After registering "Blades", anyone can - with a little talent and some interest in scripting - design his own scenarios. A clever concept, for which RPG fan does not brood over their own ideas for a new game? Since the game was released in 2004, 17 user-created scenarios have already been published: "Blades of Avernum" is constantly growing in size and value.

"I just design the sort of game I want to be playing," says Jeff Vogel, the creator of these games. Vogel, a "fanatical gamer" at 12, would soon become a fanatical programmer. While studying mathematics, he wrote "Exile", released it as shareware, and it paid off. He founded Spiderweb Software and dropped out of grad school. Eleven years and eleven games later, the company is still in business and feeding three full-time employees.

Shareware against the mainstream

"There will always be a market for single-player games", thinks Vogel. "Blades of AvernuM" has "sold unexpectedly well". That raises hopes. For instead of the outnumbering bestsellers that are flooding the shelves, instead of ever more bombastic FP-shooters and more simple-minded car racing simulations, we do wish a more creative background; more Jeff Vogels, for whom quality is more important than cashflow. Shareware has more style.

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(Cautionary note: I went for speed over quality because I'm lacking time. I still think it's better than the auto translator, though.)

Edit: Fixed - it seems my own cortex is a little overtaxed with texts. Have I really just managed to write a single sentence with 4 x? :D

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The Mountain of Shadows RP in General
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OOC: My computer has died and I don't have time to post right now. I hope to be able to write tonight (in around 4-6 hours); please don't rush my character in the meantime or make any decisions for her (and I mean "any", not just "uncharacteristic" ones).

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1000 posts! in General
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quote:
Originally written by Kingy:

it's not by choice.
The official VID (Very Important Date) can attest to that. :rolleyes:

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"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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1000 posts! in General
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quote:
Originally written by Lady Davida:

I propose a new contest: rather than attempting to accumulate the largest post count, or beat others to it, I say you go for the lowest post count to member number ratio. It's too late for me, but I'm sure some of you could excel at this. Why not give it a try?
Register a new account. Easy as that.

And yes, I'm doing it still. A few weeks ago, I bluffed and said I was leaving, but I returned far sooner than I anticipated (it was a time issue, and I turned out to be far less stressed than I felt). So yes, you can expect the next count this weekend, or by the 17th.

Since I learnt MySQL earlier this month, I'm planning to make the data more easily accessible in a database form, but I'm not yet quite sure if that will work by this month or the next.

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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If you could invite 4 people to a dinner in any form... in General
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Fictional AND dead, Spring? :P

In that case...

Gandalf.
Eferas Cirthain.
Melora.
Taron Gregor Merallion.

Yep, I like my RP characters, but nobody can really beat Gandalf. :D

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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THE ABOMINABLE PHOTO THREAD: THE THIRD COMING! in General
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quote:
Originally written by ben XIII:

Wow, Alo! I never knew you posted anywhere other than Spiderweb. Take the absolute value of your post count, however, and you've been there forever.
Yes, but sum up all his postcounts on all the boards he's ever been at, and he's still negative. In fact, sum up all our post counts on all boards remotely concerned with Spiderweb, and we still come out at somewhere below 0. :P

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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Our President in General
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quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

I'm with Ben on this one. The view that belief constitutes reality seems pretty silly to me, I'm afraid. It sure doesn't work for electrons, or Buicks, or unicorns. Why the heck should it work for Gods? Only if you've decided that in the context of 'God', 'reality' means something quite different from what it means for electrons and Buicks, perhaps something like what would otherwise be called 'vividness' or 'emotional significance'. That might be a viable terminological convention for atheists discussing religion, but it's hardly common usage. And it retains the common drawback of terminology that alters standard definitions without notice, of being confusing - perhaps not least to those who introduce it.
Then what constitutes the existence of a god, if not belief? If gods can exist independently from belief, then what makes God more real than Thor or Allah?

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Ephesos, you ignored a post. :P

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If you could invite 4 people to a dinner in any form... in General
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99,9999999999999999%? You are assuming that for every English speaking person, there are 10^16 non-English speaking persons in the galaxy. With 3.5 * 10^8 native English speakers alone, that makes 3.5 * 10^24 people. No matter what your theories regarding alien civilizations, I find that ratio to be just a bit unlikely.

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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in latin please... in General
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

I'd make an embarassingly feeble attempt at your phrase ("Abeis si tu hic declamitabis"?) but the verb endings are ridiculously wrong. As are the words themselves, and their order.

I think Kelandon speaks Latin...

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That is the one.

There is now a translation site by the same name, although like most machine translations, it sucks.

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