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Deathmatch Tournament -- Preliminary Nominations in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, April 29 2007 12:14 Profile Homepage #149
It's really too bad you're not a mod, seeing as you always know which topics should get locked. ;)

Meh. I sense Oroubourosis in this topic, but what with all the recent Spiderweb Software-related topics here in General, I don't see why this shouldn't go ahead. Once Slarty gets better, I mean.

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Deathmatch Tournament -- Preliminary Nominations in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, April 29 2007 11:27 Profile Homepage #147
quote:
Originally written by Zeviz:

I assume you are using Episode 3 version of banning that requires physical access to admin CP, because the Episode 1 version would let Drakey and Stareye win all fights by default.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020901

Dikiyoba is actually the daughter of George Lucas.

Also, what kind of disease is Alcritis? From my poor ken of medical lingo, I gather that it must be some inflammation. And my Novah tells me it's something with... blue energy?

[ Sunday, April 29, 2007 12:02: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ]

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ReiserFS in Windows? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, April 28 2007 22:50 Profile Homepage #3
Unlike some people, I try Google before posting on forums. :P

In any case, I'm kind of giving up. ext2 isn't Reiser, but it's still better than FAT32. At least I can get large file (>4GB) support, and Ext2 IFS will make it work in Windows.

[ Saturday, April 28, 2007 23:19: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ]

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Muffins n' Hell in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 27 2007 22:37 Profile Homepage #25
There is only one question I have.

How the hell did this topic make it to the second page?

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Jeff does the unexpected in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 27 2007 16:31 Profile Homepage #10
BoG will probably not be developed, after the performance of BoA.

Which is on one hand sad because BoA is the greatest under-achieving game I've ever seen since, perhaps ADOM, and it hurts to see it fall by the roadside like this.

On the other hand, it means BoA will not be abandoned by the designers for BoG, and as a consequence, I wouldn't need to look at the ugly GF interface to play sgood scenarios. Yes, I know, TM might gnaw his hands off rather than design for the Geneforge engine. But still.

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An email from Ed?!? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 27 2007 16:01 Profile Homepage #1
Given that he's been a continual nuisance for more than a year now (or, in fact, far longer if he is also Public Enemy #1), no, we probably haven't.

Unfortunately, until he actually comes to the forum, we can't do anything. Until I've finished building that device that can stab people over the internet, I mean.

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DIN-DIN in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 27 2007 15:01 Profile Homepage #2
In Japan, you eat dead octopus.

In his home in R'lyeh, dead octopus eats YUO!

IMAGE(http://stuff.ermarian.net/arancaytar/images/cthulhu.jpg)

[ Friday, April 27, 2007 15:02: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ]

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ReiserFS in Windows? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 27 2007 13:14 Profile Homepage #0
First, a little story.

So a few days ago, my laptop's hard drive failed. Fortunately, there were only a few bad sectors, and none of them destroyed my files (which *cough* hadn't been backed up for about a year). Unfortunately, they ate enough of Windows to make it unable to boot.

It turns out that the "system recovery" disk that came with the laptop cannot repair an existing installation, but has to either format or at least wipe all my user files (the stuff under Documents & Settings, which was mostly my email and application data).

But there's a silver lining to everything: As I may have mentioned around christmas, I have a new hard drive that I wanted to switch to for ages.

So I partitioned it into four portions (3 system partitions and one large data partition) reinstalled Windows on one of the system partitions and copied my user files over from the old drive.

However, the fourth partition is still unformatted. I played with the thought to use ReiserFS for this one, since I'll be dual-booting Linux eventually.

However, it's not much of a shared data partition if Windows can't use it.

So I'm going to put a question to the savvy here: Is there any driver that allows Windows to read and write to a Reiser partition? I've given up of finding a free one and would probably spend up to $50. But so far, all I've seen were either in development or read-only or both. :(

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Possibly the wrong forum but...... in Richard White Games
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 27 2007 12:51 Profile Homepage #7
quote:
red-headed stepchildren
I believe this mental image is a better fit if we discuss the hair of Homeland and Galactic Core:

IMAGE(http://www.kingston.ac.uk/~ku33185/medusa.jpg)

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Spiderweb, the business in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 27 2007 05:12 Profile Homepage #18
BoA is "more difficult" than BoE to design for in the way that a VCR is more complicated than a pair of rocks.

True, there are more settings to learn, but on the other hand, you don't spend most of your time improvising and conceiving of ugly workarounds. :)

[ Friday, April 27, 2007 05:12: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ]

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Blades of Exile Source Code in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, April 27 2007 04:50 Profile Homepage #20
C++, if memory serves, and compiled with CodeWarrior.

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Jeff does the unexpected in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Thursday, April 26 2007 23:23 Profile Homepage #5
So. Nethergate 1.5, Avernum 5, BoE source released...

I suppose the MMORPG is not out of the question.

But I'm realizing that to Jeff, sometimes "can't do" actually does mean "can't do but would if possible". Especially when it's "can't do at the moment".

Which leads us to this.

quote:

It [writing a book about the history of this world] is one of those things I would love to do. The problem is time. Between the multiple games I'm working on, other projects, and raising a toddler, I just don't have time for a lot of things it would be really cool to do. Sorry!

- Jeff Vogel )

Edit: Source. It's actually still around after almost 4 years.

[ Thursday, April 26, 2007 23:23: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ]

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If Jeff went for a new RPG world.... in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, April 26 2007 23:08 Profile Homepage #6
I've always had a more "His Dark Materials" vibe from the spheres trilogy. Let's say surrealist Sci-Fi. One of the few sub-genres that actually do justify SF being shelved next to Fantasy in the book store.

And I would like Jeff to make a game that somewhere mentions the name "Ermarian" - with all that this entails. It is practically impossible, especially seeing as he never uses inspirational advice, as a policy. Let alone use a complete world setting developed by the fan community. But I can dream, yes?

[ Thursday, April 26, 2007 23:11: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ]

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Blades of Exile Source Code in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, April 26 2007 02:04 Profile Homepage #15
And I can't wait to see what you make of it.

That is very, very good news. Celebrations all around.

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Blades of Exile Source Code in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, April 25 2007 11:34 Profile Homepage #8
Can someone more familiar with Mac applications (or Mac&PC architecture in general) tell me what Carbonizing and Universalizing means, and what (if anything) it means for the Windows version?

From Jeff's post, I understand that there are two versions of the code, one for Windows and one for Mac. Will any changes be implemented in both separately, or will one of the two be fixed and ported anew?

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Blades of Exile Source Code in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, April 25 2007 00:49 Profile Homepage #3
Wonder how Djur's going to react.

I assume it would partly depend on how much of Pygmalion is implemented by now. Unraveling someone's source without support is not very enjoyable, but it may beat re-inventing the wheel.

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My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast.
Polaris is dead, long live Polaris.
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Blades of Exile Source Code in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, April 25 2007 00:30 Profile Homepage #1
And it's not even April 1!

Wow, wait till everyone sees this. I can't believe nobody posted here yet.

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Jeff Vogel's RPG hating rant in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, April 24 2007 04:56 Profile Homepage #17
quote:
Number 5 eh? You must be Jeff's Brother or something.
But by that line of logic, Terror's Martyr (number 4) would be even more closely related to Jeff. And that is a scary thought.

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Jeff Vogel's RPG hating rant in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Monday, April 23 2007 22:18 Profile Homepage #12
Domain name doesn't resolve here... is the link in the first post correct?

Also, I would like to plug Puzzle Pirates here. One of the MMORPGs where "grinding" has no meaning in the traditional sense. Since all the "skills" are determined by how good you (the player) are at solving a certain time-killing puzzle (jigsaw, something vaguely similar to tetris and four-in-a-row), the only grinding you do is training yourself instead of a number that grows larger no matter what. :P

[ Friday, April 27, 2007 04:59: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ]

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Because Nalyd couldn't resist. . . in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, April 23 2007 01:21 Profile Homepage #37
quote:
Originally written by Dr. Johann Georg Faust [b:
who is Arancaytar, dammit[/b]]

When I feel like rotting my brain, I still play Runescape (Arancaytar), whose accounts are eternal.
quote:
Originally written by Rebel Muffin in an Airplane:

So you are Arancaytar on Runescape?
I refuse to answer that.

quote:
Originally written by Spokesmage of the Dead:

Nalyd would never be so openly and blatantly Bannable
public class Ed extends Bannable
{
public static final int MODE_INSULTING;
public static final int MODE_STUPID;
public static final int MODE_VICTIM;
public static final int MODE_REBEL_AGAINST_ESTABLISHMENT;

public Ed(String pseudonym, int memberToImpersonate, int behaviorMode)
{
this.mode=behaviorMode;
register(pseudonym);
post(claimIdentity(memberToImpersonate));
while (!banned)
{
spam(mode);
}
}
}
Blame my Java programming class.

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Because Nalyd couldn't resist. . . in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Sunday, April 22 2007 06:25 Profile Homepage #1
I used to play NationStates (as Ermarian and countless others), I used to play CyberNations (as Ermarian), I used to play Hyperiums (as Arancaytar), I used to play EverWars (as Arancaytar), I used to play TheArena (a German one you might not know, also as Arancaytar). All of these have one thing in common: I let my accounts lapse and die the death. In NationStates, they are pending eventual resurrection, but everywhere else, I just walked away.

When I feel like rotting my brain, I still play Runescape (Arancaytar), whose accounts are eternal. And Puzzle Pirates (also as Arancaytar, in the Cobalt ocean), which is actually quite fun.

I think those are all.

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Stuff to stop confusion in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, April 21 2007 14:48 Profile Homepage #12
Maybe, some of the mods and admins here have work to do, like, oh I don't know, jobs or exam revision. It's so bloody awesome when we can take time away from that to lock your inane topics.

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[ Saturday, April 21, 2007 14:50: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ]

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