Profile for Arancaytar

Error message

Deprecated function: implode(): Passing glue string after array is deprecated. Swap the parameters in drupal_get_feeds() (line 394 of /var/www/pied-piper.ermarian.net/includes/common.inc).

Field	Value
Displayed name	Arancaytar
Member number	2984
Title	Law Bringer
Postcount	8752
Homepage	http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/
Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

Recent posts

Pages

Author	Recent posts
MESSAGE TO ALL NEW PEOPLE ( noobs) in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 19 2007 11:38 Profile Homepage #23 MESSAGE TO ALL NEW PEOPLE (NOOBS): 1) Don't start pointless topics with all-caps titles. 2) Use some frigging spaces between your paranthesis (like this) (but only on the outside, not on the inside( like this )). 3) Don't call people noobs when you've been here under two weeks. Any questions? WELL TOO —ING BAD! Ah, a masterpiece! bows [ Monday, February 19, 2007 11:43: Message edited by: The Sorcerer ] -------------------- 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 IRL in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 19 2007 04:37 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally written by Being of Alo: A Southern drawl coming from what was apparently Aran's mouth seemed very, very strange. Thank you for giving me new material for nightmares. Personally, I've met one person in real life who was not me and who I knew to have registered an account here. However, he was related to me and in fact wouldn't have heard of this place if not for me. So that doesn't count. Someone else sat next to me in the computer lab when I visited the SW site and commended me on my choice in games. But I don't think he ever joined the forum. -------------------- 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
Excellent lockings in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, February 18 2007 14:09 Profile Homepage #6 quote: Aran recently achieved what I consider the best locking ever. What can I say? I am but a humble artist. There is not much skill to locking a thread, but it is a deeply philosophical process. A few seconds of concentration. Fingers hover over the "Reply" link, they click. A mental checklist. Pithy phrase? Check. Gimmick picture? Check. "Close Topic" checked? Check. It's kind of embarassing to write a locking post without actually locking the topic. By usurping the last word, we must make sure that the words are indeed worthy of being the last. To a good joke, they must be the punchline. To a question, they must be the answer. To a debate or conflict, they must be a resolution that preempts all rebuttal. It must not invite or even leave room for further debate, for this only leaves its readers with an unsatisfying lack of closure. To lock a topic is to exercise dictatorial power arbitrarily - do it on the wrong occasion, and it costs your head. A topic locking must not be an execution. It must coincide with the natural death. Like the Death of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, or the Abhorsen of Garth Nix's Trilogy, the moderator does not kill threads. She or he just makes sure they stop living once they die. All these leads to the more serious considerations - is the thread bad? Can it lead nowhere worthwhile? Is it a blight on all that is good on this green earth? A short period of introspection... Cursor draws a circle around the "Add Reply" button... It briefly hovers... click And it's locked. Edit: All right all right, it's re-opened already. I was just making a point. For the effect. [ Sunday, February 18, 2007 14:11: Message edited by: The Sorcerer ] -------------------- 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 Sunday, February 18 2007 12:24 Profile Homepage #4 GHUAHGUHAU LOL HGUHUHAUGBL ... I'm back. Actually, our dear EndeavorBot had some trouble getting the thing to work today, continuing the usual pattern of some trouble blocking the update until I get back to fix it. I guess it'll be some time before it can reliably work on its own... -------------------- 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
Rate Homeland : The Stone of Night in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, February 17 2007 01:40 Profile Homepage #31 quote: Originally written by The Lurker: Aran, were you using Windows Vista or something? I have to trouble at all with Homeland running in Windows XP. Windows XP Home, SP2. There is no way I will ever use Vista... Also, 2.4 GHz 512 MB RAM. -------------------- 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
Infernal Flamming Muffin is an Oldbie? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 16 2007 22:02 Profile Homepage #2 It's a problem with the privacy system, and apparently shows up because "join_date" is not public. It's one of those bugs that aren't crucial, and given the work I had to do the past two weeks, I put it on the back burner. I may fix it this weekend. -------------------- 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
Rate Homeland : The Stone of Night in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 16 2007 18:12 Profile Homepage #24 I judged it on its own merits (or lack thereof). I'm pretty sure I'd hate it even if it was fashionable to 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
hello in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 16 2007 17:17 Profile Homepage #3 goodbye peryui -------------------- 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
Rate Homeland : The Stone of Night in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 16 2007 17:02 Profile Homepage #22 quote: My guess is that said people are used to playing turn-based RPGs, and Homeland is a real-time RPG. It might have more to do with the fact that they are (newsflash) used to playing games which don't start sucking as soon as they are opened. Just a guess. ---- Anyway, I'm re-evaluating my rating, since it's true I didn't put much thought in the last one. Also, the repressed memory was pretty vague. My latest CD includes the Homeland demo, and out of a masochist drive I installed it and tried to enjoy it for about an hour. Here's my review. -------------- The game turned out to be a klutz about 5 seconds after starting. The screen went dark before shifting through about three different resolutions, then dropping me back to the Windows desktop. With its main screen minimized, the game still hogged 100% of the CPU to play its music. After one reboot, two attempts aborted by killing the process, and fifteen minutes, I managed to get the task manager open and adjust the priority of the process so the mouse would move again. The first obstacle overcome, I Alt+Tabbed over to the game, hoping to finally see the main screen. The screen, however, remained dark. The main menu graphic wouldn't show up - but the game was clearly running, since clicking on various areas of the black screen resulted in dialogs like "Load Game" and "Quit". Wild clicking eventually yielded what I wanted - "New Game". It was now twenty minutes after I installed the thing, and I was finally looking at a game screen. A nice isometric landscape filled it; unfortunately, that's all there was. My character appeared to cast a small square shadow, but the sprite graphics were another thing the program hadn't managed to load. Not yet discouraged, I let my shadow wander through the town for a while, talking to various NPC shadows. One odd thing I noticed was that the allegedly "isometric" plane didn't actually fit that definition. North-south distances where displayed longer on the screen than East-west distances (compared to the auto-map), and to make up for this, my character moved much "faster" north-south than east-west. The resulting experience felt non-Euclidean and, for a game often maligned as a spawn of R'lyeh, appropriately Vertiginous. I quickly saw the point of showing squares like this (Avernum): Rather than like this (Homeland): --- Still filled with an iron resolve to derive enjoyment from this game, I ran off into the woods. To kill snakes. For one gold coin apiece. This was made vaguely more interesting my the fact that I couldn't actually see the snakes (no sprites). It was made ugly by the fact that when I moused over the snake, it would show a random flickering square of something unidentifiable, but clearly not the snake graphic. In retrospect, I'm lucky my dog died when it did, because if the game hadn't ended, I might now be a gibbering wreck muttering only about colors out of space and ages dead to time, and the cry of the shantaks on the hidden plateau of Leng. ---- Scoring For user interface - which tends to remain constant throughout the game - I'd score it 1.0. Because I was not able to actually reach something resembling a plot (if it has one), I'll adjust it upwards at a guess. There are two possibilities: Either the author is a misunderstood genius who made a plot that could make angels weep with delight, and spent so much time on it that the technical gameplay went down the drain. Or looks are not deceiving, and this is in fact, an awful game. Thus, I add a vague "1.5" for plot. However, the installation assistant was very smooth and likely the best-written part of the game. I would add 2 points for this, but unfortunately the assistant appears to be a standard tool that is used by most Windows applications, so it doesn't count. Preliminary score: 2.5. I am willing to play the complete game and reevaluate it, under the condition that someone buys me the game and pays me an hourly rate ($50, plus 50% to pay for insurance against mental illness). Edit: This appears to be .5 higher than last time. The only explanation I have is that excessive sleep deprivation has in the past year killed off a part of my brain cells, so my standards have dropped. [ Friday, February 16, 2007 17:13: Message edited by: The Sorcerer ] -------------------- 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
Oldbiehood -- Analysis in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 16 2007 12:25 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally written by Zeviz: Slarty's analysis can be summarized quite simply: You are an oldbie if and only if you can casually drop obscure iconboard references. :P And can remember that it was spelled Ikonboard. :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
Blades of Avernum - 8.66 (10.0/7.0) in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 16 2007 12:16 Profile Homepage #21 It may be true that there are too few scenarios, but even half of the good user scenarios now available would make this one as big as one of the Avernum series. Hell, TM's and Kel's works alone make it worth the price. 10.0. I feel that we can't score this with the average of all scenarios, but the score has to accumulate somehow - paying the same price for 10 good scenarios is better than 5. And since several scenarios are ranked with scores above 8 or even 9, I see no way this could be anything but a perfect ten. [ Friday, February 16, 2007 12:20: Message edited by: The Sorcerer ] -------------------- 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
Jeff linked to on Slashdot in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 16 2007 03:49 Profile Homepage #6 quote: Originally written by Frobozz: Maybe this means he won't make any more RPGs with the same basic stories. :P BAN! :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
Oldbiehood in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 16 2007 02:03 Profile Homepage #55 Three fourths for the last definition. I don't get that guy with the white mustache at all. Black Marks and Black Mark Cabbages are still referred to nearly as often as sanity and fluffy turtles. Bush Enacts Exile Plan has been mentioned only 3-4 times in all the years since I came here. I wouldn't know about Patsi and Fumurr at all if I hadn't read the archives... somewhere. Desp, maybe? I'm sure they're no longer there... -------------------- 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 am 22 today in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 16 2007 01:50 Profile Homepage #21 That's not food. It is a blinking sign written in German. Yum. -------------------- 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
Spidweb on Slashdot in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, February 16 2007 01:48 Profile Homepage #2 Don't post duplicate threads, you idiot. Locked. -------------------- 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
Spidweb on Slashdot in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 15 2007 23:22 Profile Homepage #0 Thankfully though, the brunt of the DoS will hit RPGVault, not this site. Oh, and here's a link to Jeff's editorial that they're referring to. quote: I finally came to terms with the fact that, after 23 years of playing them, I hate fantasy RPGs. I hate them, and I hate myself for making them. Oh the noes! No more games? :eek: Edit: Oh wait. He's saying he won't play them again, not stop making them. (That said, I just remembered I haven't touched an RPG for about 2 months up until this week...) [ Thursday, February 15, 2007 23:29: Message edited by: The Sorcerer ] -------------------- 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
Oldbiehood in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 15 2007 10:58 Profile Homepage #27 quote: Originally written by Spent Salmon: quote: Originally written by The Sorcerer: and so, by extension, are Motrax and I. First rule of newb-hood. You think you aren't. Second rule of newb-hood. You don't get the inside jokes. :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
Oldbiehood in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 15 2007 08:08 Profile Homepage #5 quote: Originally written by Umph. xx: This was something I was actually pondering over the other day. I consider myself an oldbie, even though I'm probably not one. The things that swung my being an oldie, in my opinion, include: a) Being here for almost 4 years. b) Remembering a time when Misc was still fresh in the minds of all who sailed her. c) Actually remembering waiting for the release of BoA d) Not being able to read posts by newer members without thinking "well, that's just totally wrong." I was going to embarrass myself by finding my first ever post on the PPP, but there doesn't seem to be a serach function. :( Edit: By Aran's reckoning, what am I?? Same as me, I think. I'm not sure if I'm an "oldbie", but I tend to think I'm in a "grandparent" generation by now at least. The "parents" would be members like Marlenny, Thralni, Dikiyoba, Tyran and Salmon, and the "children" include Randomizer, Nioca, Tully and Nemesis. -------------------- 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
Oldbiehood in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 15 2007 07:20 Profile Homepage #2 Yay for popularity contests. I note that you included Alec in your list, but not Thuryl (Edit: And yeah, no TM either). From one thread I read, both of them are considered so old that nobody else really remembers when they arrived. Alorael is clearly an oldbie, and so, by extension, are Motrax and I. Kelandon is border-line. He's been here for years (2004, and in the 4000s), he's a prolific designer and active on the Lyceum and Desp, but he is not in the BoE community - and he hasn't been here long enough that his tussles with Alec and TM have become a kind of cordial ritual. You have a low member number, but didn't return until 2006. Salmon, Nioca, Randomizer, Tyranicus and Dikiyoba are definitely of the new stock. I'd consider Zxquez and Sullust nominal oldbies, but they're not particularly prolific. Ed and Upon Mars are neither oldbies nor newbies, but ageless noobs. [ Thursday, February 15, 2007 07:21: Message edited by: The Sorcerer ] -------------------- 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 Thursday, February 15 2007 06:38 Profile Homepage #213 Ding dong, the rat is dead! Does this mean the story is nearing its end, or are we going to face another, even more dangerous foe after this? -------------------- 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
Geneforge 4 on Digg.com, digg it and help out Spiderweb Software! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 15 2007 05:23 Profile Homepage #63 quote: Originally written by The King: You missed the Ash method of entrance. Join by dividing from another member. Virtual mitosis beats all other entrances! —Alorael, who is also a fan of silent arrival that lasts for over a year followed by a sudden burst of chatter. It has all the class of oldbiness without actually having to put in all that time. There's also the reverse, where two established members of the community unexpectedly merge, and one turns out to be a bot constructed by the other - or vice versa. -------------------- 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
A Year and a Day in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 15 2007 00:15 Profile Homepage #58 quote: Originally written by Autognosis: I'm on your kill list? See if I ever associate you and red slips again! —Alorael, who was of course being less than serious with Zeviz. As everyone knows, threatening Tully with anything is just fine because all the mods and admins are against him. Hey Alo, you reckon we can get Stareye to interpret that list as a threat and re-ban the guy? I mean, we all hate him anyway, and it's not a bad excuse. What say you? :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
Not yeti another photo thread in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, February 14 2007 15:09 Profile Homepage #81 quote: Originally written by Nicothodes: Well...I WAS going to post a picture of Sherbiebaby(for those who remember her), my trainees(people hiding from the camera), and me stealing my boyfriend's lap. They are 3 separate photos and taken on my birthday. No site I tried would load them. So be mad at the sites, not me. You could try this: http://ermarian.net/services/file-hosting/upload.php (password is JTLyk7QT, currently). If it's larger than 10 MB ( :eek: ), you need an FTP client, like FileZilla... ---- Edit: Ouch. I knew it was bad, but does my face qualify as a threadkiller? Mh... now that's an idea, that Aran Island picture is getting old. [ Wednesday, February 14, 2007 21:42: Message edited by: The Sorcerer ] -------------------- 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
Not yeti another photo thread in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, February 14 2007 12:48 Profile Homepage #80 I was able to persuade my camera that my face wasn't so horrible after all, and it consented to switch on. Behold. I'm trying to learn how to have a facial expression without looking hilarious. Unsuccessfully, so far. Choice selection: Smiling is easy. It also feels good. This is me being emo. This is me practicing how to look angry without appearing to have a bowel constriction. Smug. Probably my only natural expression. :/ -------------------- 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
[Insert Dumb Joke Here] in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, February 14 2007 07:13 Profile Homepage #56 My mom can beat up your mom. -------------------- 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

Pages