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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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Bots? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 26 2007 21:35 Profile Homepage #48 quote: Originally written by Protocols of the Elders of Zion: quote: Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar: Alec's just jealous because no one has ever said they didn't not like him before. Edit: Ah, I see he's also appeasing the mods by using the tried and true "if I put a smiley at the end I can say anything" method. When did you start caring about what other people think? Who's appeasing anyone? I am part of the cabal. Putting smileys at the end is what I do. :P You would be part of the cabal if there were a cabal. Which there is not. And never has been. And never will be. [ Monday, February 26, 2007 23:17: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Bots? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 26 2007 14:48 Profile Homepage #38 I'd suggest you two try to act more civilly. -------------------- 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
Rentar-Ihrno in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 26 2007 04:39 Profile Homepage #2 How to kill Rentar-Ihrno: 1. Open scenario editor. 2. Place Rentar-Ihrno in the starting town. (You may have to make a new monster type, unlike Erika I can't find her in the docs.) 3. Start the game. 4. KILLKILLKILL 5. Repeat if necessary. No, I don't have issues with that evil Vahnatai monster. Why do you ask? :confused: -------------------- 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
Bots? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, February 25 2007 22:29 Profile Homepage #24 quote: Originally written by Actaeon: quote: Originally written by Infernal Flamming Muffin: How do you make one? quote: Originally written by Cryptozoology: Please don't. You'd only use it for evil. quote: Originally written by Hawk King: Yes I would. Taken in order, that almost seems like an admission that Hawk King is IFM. This doesn't seem like the best fit, but Muffin does seem like a candidite for a side account of another member. I compared the IPs as soon as I saw the two posts. No match. Posting with the wrong account has been my embarassing downfall a couple of times. Well, before I became a mod. :P [ Sunday, February 25, 2007 22:31: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Bots? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, February 25 2007 11:20 Profile Homepage #10 Without verifying it at Wikipedia, I'd say the original "bots" generated messages in IRC channels (though Usenet could have beaten it there). They greet people, enforce registered nicks, and can even reply to requests, like an encyclopedia. Bot is a blanket term that covers both programs that act and those that only gather information, but the latter are more commonly known as "spiders". In games, bots can either be computer-generated opponents (NPCs) or programs written by enterprising players who don't want to waste hours on tedious grinding. Most administrators don't look kindly on them. (I was going to have EndeavorBot post this, but then I realized it would have taken far too long and could have just as well been done by me logging into to his account, so it didn't make a difference 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
February Blades of Avernum Chat in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 23 2007 23:55 Profile Homepage #31 I blame Firefox. If a request fails due to disconnection, it's sent again, until it gets through. But twice each time. :rolleyes: -------------------- 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
About Ed... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 23 2007 23:38 Profile Homepage #16 quote: Originally written by BainIhrno: If Muffin was Ed, he would've been banned long ago. Nobody is banned until we know - and sometimes, nobody thinks to check for a long time. Okay, Muffin is clear, unless Ed moved to America. Nalyd was -X- recently (gee, I should remember member numbers better), but he's not Ed. And Upon Mars is from France. All clear. :) -------------------- 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
Why You Suck in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 23 2007 22:52 Profile Homepage #147 It's interesting - and a bit disappointing, and certainly disturbing - to see several members, generally coherent and in high standing here, engage in what is to productive debate as vigorous application of self is to... okay, bad analogy. Personally, I hope that the original topic of the thread will somehow come forth again. That's really the only reason why it remains open. -------------------- 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
February Blades of Avernum Chat in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 23 2007 13:42 Profile Homepage #28 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: quote: Originally written by Infernal Flamming Muffin: You know what... Undead are stupid. Ah, a kindred spirit. :D (seriously, you won't like my next scenario, then :P ) My version of reality still has trouble wrapping itself around you making an undead scenario. :P ---- I thought I'd posted here already, but well. I thought I'd make it easily, but turns out I'll be away during the weekend. Late at night, I might be able to get some kind of internet access from there via UMTS. But I probably won't be there for the beginning either way. -------------------- 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
February Blades of Avernum Chat in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 23 2007 13:42 Profile Homepage #27 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: quote: Originally written by Infernal Flamming Muffin: You know what... Undead are stupid. Ah, a kindred spirit. :D (seriously, you won't like my next scenario, then :P ) My version of reality still has trouble wrapping itself around you making an undead scenario. :P ---- I thought I'd posted here already, but well. I thought I'd make it easily, but turns out I'll be away during the weekend. Late at night, I might be able to get some kind of internet access from there via UMTS. But I probably won't be there for the beginning either way. -------------------- 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
Why You Suck in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 23 2007 08:25 Profile Homepage #123 Group? Order? Family? Genus? I don't know the terms of Biological taxonomy in Dutch - or, indeed, Futch. quote: I', Futch -------------------- 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
What is it with binoculars and politicians? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 23 2007 08:16 Profile Homepage #10 Though in that specific case, the reason that he can look at his approval rating and not see anything is that there is hardly any approval there to see. :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
What is it with binoculars and politicians? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 22 2007 23:38 Profile Homepage #2 But if you did, you'd take the caps off, wouldn't you? -------------------- 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
What is it with binoculars and politicians? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 22 2007 22:08 Profile Homepage #0 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6388651.stm Yet another politician falls victim to the complex mechanism of the telescope and its lens caps. In this image, the Israeli Defence Minister repeats the mistake already made once by George Bush and Ariel Sharon, forgetting to remove the lens caps while peering through the glass (repeatedly). Two cases may be coincidence - but three? Are all world leaders secretly blind? Or does the job requirement to be a great visionary equip them with X-Ray vision, so they can look through the caps as if they weren't there? Make up your explanation... [ Thursday, February 22, 2007 22:09: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Spiderweb Monthly Stats - February 2007 in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 22 2007 20:57 Profile Homepage #107 quote: Originally written by Spent Salmon: Aran - you could evaluate posts for quality by deducting value for every instance of name dropping and every instance of URL linking within IronyCentral. That should demote 90% of the offenders. Replies that include quotes from 2 or more members should be given extra value. Once you determine the mechanics of the judging, don't publish them. It can be the meta-game! Figure out how to structure your posts to get a better ranking! This should allow you (Aran) to feed your power-hungry soul, as you tweak the bot to persuade posts that are more and more to your liking. :D Yes, and I should rename the project to Goog--- oh wait. :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
Cheater! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 22 2007 18:42 Profile Homepage #33 Same for A4. This was a breeze - the "town gate insta-resurrection and insta-healing" is like the editor. And bows with infinite arrows? I've come to playing with a non-mage party on Torment, but it's not particularly tough, still. Perhaps when I have more time I'll see if I can beat it with a singleton. That should eliminate the resurrection advantage from towns, since the game ends with a single death. -------------------- 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
SpiderWeb Merchandising! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 22 2007 18:33 Profile Homepage #37 quote: Originally written by Nioca: Maybe a Geneforge Gazer with the phrase "I've got my eye on you." On that note, I wouldn't say no to one with this picture, captioned with the phrase "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." :P (Even though I never even played that game.) -------------------- 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
Spiderweb Monthly Stats - February 2007 in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 22 2007 09:33 Profile Homepage #99 Whoops. But I didn't major in classical languages; I have an excuse. :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
Round Table on Morality, Theology, and Ethics in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 22 2007 07:12 Profile Homepage #41 quote: Originally written by Kyrek: My friend has made many attempts to trick me into reading the bible and it has gotten extremely annoying. Wow... I'm getting mental pictures of him lurking around a corner and putting you in a stranglehold while shoving the Old Testament in your face. :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
Round Table on Morality, Theology, and Ethics in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 22 2007 07:09 Profile Homepage #40 I'd say the concept of not harming (and supporting, where possible) fellow beings of our species can be established as an absolute - not an absolute everyone will follow, but at least one that is separate from all religions and states, and we can therefore all relate to as members of the same species. (As for aliens, let's not get sucked into hypothetical debates and for now assume that humans have the monopoly on complex articulate intelligence.) The opposite concept to the one above is to support, above all, yourself. This doesn't necessarily involve being a jerkwad to others; it means to behave appropriately for the current situation to get the maximum possible benefit for oneself. Now all we need to do is show that one of these concepts should, ultimately, be followed. Arguments that support one over the other, and that can actually be applied to everyone. Personally, this is where I'm stuck... It's like a giant, complex game of Prisoner's Dilemma. -------------------- 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
Why You Suck in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 22 2007 06:12 Profile Homepage #86 Consciously starting a topic in order to improve the forum is at least a start. Perhaps with a bit of practice, we can eventually fall back into a pattern that makes these topics spring up "on their own", without someone thinking "we need a smart debate in here to ward off decadence". But for now, the former is enough. -------------------- 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
Spiderweb Monthly Stats - February 2007 in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 22 2007 01:23 Profile Homepage #95 There's already someone scrutinizing every single post you make, evaluating its quality, and judging you by it. They're called "other members". :P What I'm envisioning is more an advanced karma/tagging system - if I could actually build machines that could accurately judge text content on their own, I'd be on some lovely private Pacific island writing my next best-selling scientific textbook instead of posting here. :P But as I said, even the former is only pipe-dreaming right now. -------------------- 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
Spiderweb Monthly Stats - February 2007 in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, February 21 2007 23:44 Profile Homepage #93 My little homunculus said to tell you he misses you all as well, but agrees with me that his current occupation may not be in the best interests of this forum, and would rather watch this place from afar than interfere directly with it. He added something about prime directives; I don't know, I never watched Star Trek myself really. He did say he'd be glad to return if he could find a way to contribute less harmfully to the community - say, by calculating statistics that actually valued worthwhile posts rather than spam, aggregating by thread subjects, topic derailment, wordcount/content per posts or something like that. But since these things are far in the future for our young bot, he says he'll wait for the time being. -------------------- 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
Episode 3 Continued in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, February 21 2007 21:52 Profile Homepage #281 We're all winning. I think. Honestly, my speculation on "end times" (which seems to have inspired a bandwagon) was directed more at "end of an age". So it's not "everything" that's shutting down, it's just things that are turning this board into a parody of itself. In Dikiyoba's case, already announcing that there will be no sequel is enough, since the ouroborosis there lies in having the current script be referenced by the current membership, and in turn referencing it. Once the script is finished, and closed, it will become just another piece of Spiderweb art. No more self-reference. -------------------- 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
Spiderweb Monthly Stats - February 2007 in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, February 21 2007 21:37 Profile Homepage #88 quote: Originally written by Slartyphobia: Aran, your stats are coming and going more often than Alec. Alec has left and returned more than twice. The other times for the stats were for technical reasons and don't really count. I left in 2005 and said I would not be back in time for the next update, but this did not in fact happen. Alex: Leave him to his delusions, I'd say. As long as he can't distinguish between oldbies and newbies, he doesn't know the structure of Spiderweb; until he does, his precious plans of domination are pretty much doomed. Eph, Randomizer: Of course the end of the stats won't stop spam. But they were an essential asset of the school of thought that glorified spam, so at least one corner-stone of posts for posts' sake is close to toppling. -------------------- 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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