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Boa scenario's: what stage are they in now? in Blades of Avernum
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Tuesday, June 6 2006 01:32 Profile #57 Yay! It starts again. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Ghosts of Stalin in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Monday, May 29 2006 17:25 Profile #61 quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: Originally by Slartucker: quote: My post was an esoteric reference to the TM-Kel conflict encapsulated in my ChronoCross character pairings for the two of them. I wasn't even close. Well, I got the "TM-Kel conflict" part. And the thought of Kelandon with a lightsaber was mildly entertaining. Out of curiosity, Dikiyoba, what was your initial guess? Was it much more than "TM and Kel have a conflict"? That's about as much as I guessed. Speaking of which, what ever happened to the good old days of incessant Bash-bahsing? (or vice-versa...) -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Ghosts of Stalin in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Monday, May 29 2006 13:46 Profile #52 Kelandon, have you ever considered doing a similar analysis of TM's BoX scenarios? I think many people would be interested in something like that. Also, I don't understand Slartucker's post. [ Monday, May 29, 2006 13:47: Message edited by: wz. As ] -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Avernum V ideas in Avernum 4
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Sunday, May 28 2006 12:09 Profile #15 quote: Originally written by Vlishnu: Shadow47 = Ed. I'd thought so too, given member number and time intervals between posting. Apparently Shadow47 is still around though. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
The Big Club Theory in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Friday, May 19 2006 11:07 Profile #47 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: Complex organs don't just spontaneously pop into existence, and scientists don't say that they do. Every step along the way provides an advantage. And if, every now and then, several (read: two, three, six, not a hundred) genetic mutations are needed all at once, well, the odds of that are exponentially smaller, but still not zero. To offer a different mechanism to try and explain Dintiridan's concern, let me present an example I read somewhere in some book (the best kind). Consider organs (or body parts, maybe more generally) that have a qualitative function, rather than a quantitative one. So instead of a heart that divides this much oxygenated blood from non-oxygenated blood, consider a wing: either it works, or it doesn't. How could a wing evolve? A half-formed wing is pretty useless for flying. Well, the wing might have evolved for something else entirely. What if a rat or squirrel started developing flaps of skin which were very useful for catching flies? The bigger the flaps of skin, the more flies caught. So bigger flaps of skin imply better fly-catching ability. Eventually, the flaps of skin might get big enough to also enable the creature to fly, and this might be such a big evolutionary advantage that the fly-catching ability would not be the primary function of wings anymore. So an organ might evolve for one purpose, and then shift to another spontaneously, leaving us to wonder how it must have developed in the first place. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Alorael have finally get a Custom Title? in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Monday, May 15 2006 18:36 Profile #79 A solution exists. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
United 93 in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Sunday, May 14 2006 18:28 Profile #11 I haven't seen the movie, but the New York Times review contains a telling passage: quote: The film carries the standard caution that it is "a creative work based on fact," yet [the director's] use of nonfiction tropes, like the jagged camerawork and the rushed, overlapping shards of naturalistic dialogue, invests his storytelling with a visceral, combat-zone verisimilitude. http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/movies/28unit.html So, the movie contains no guarantee of facts; it is merely inspired by a true story. Anything you see on screen may or may not have happened as depicted. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Question 3: Disease in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Sunday, May 7 2006 16:25 Profile #38 That leads to an interesting line of questioning. What conditions are necessary for a disease to sustain itself? A disease's potential for being lethal is probably dependent on how contagious it is. From the time of infection to the time of the host's death, the disease would need to spread to enough new hosts to keep itself going. In the case of diseases that take a long time to kill a host after infection (HIV, for example), they wouldn't need to be very contagious, because there would be a large window of opportunity to infect others. If a disease were short-acting and killed its host very quickly, it would need to be very contagious so as not to die out (I'm not sure of examples. Ebola, maybe?). So I guess the answer to "So are we really in danger of dying from disease?" would be that we have always been, and always will be, in danger of dying from lethal, contagious, diseases to which we have no cure. Modern medicine has led to more cures, vaccinations, and better quarantine procedures, though, and the latter especially could reduce the level of contagion, and therefore raise the bar on how short-acting a disease must be. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Languages in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Saturday, April 29 2006 15:22 Profile #51 quote: Originally written by spy-there: quote: Originally written by wz. As: quote: Originally written by Butt Paladin: quote: Originally written by MagmaDragoon: quote: Originally written by spy-there: Magma, I live very close to your country, 6% of our inhabitants are Italian, thus I learn a bit in the pizzeria, on the streets, or in Holidays... Then I have to ask: where you live? ;) Helvetia. Wrong topic. :confused: Now where is that Swiss connection? Only in my mind. My reasoning was something like Helvetia --> Helvetica --> Italics --> Italians. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Targeting a custom ability in Blades of Avernum Editor
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Saturday, April 29 2006 11:39 Profile #4 quote: Originally written by Dintiradan: Just a thought: the convention of making TALKING_STATE link to a dialog node is just that, a convention. You could give all the enemies a special version of basicnpc that does whatever special thing you want to do in TALKING_STATE. I haven't tested this, though, it's just a thought. Conversely, dialog mode doesn't actually have to involve talking to an NPC. You can use it for more complicated special abilities, such as maybe special spell selection. I think Bahss used this for item identification, though in the form of an NPC, probably to work around the limitations of both item identification and the "This conversation is over" message. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Targeting a custom ability in Blades of Avernum
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Saturday, April 29 2006 11:39 Profile #4 quote: Originally written by Dintiradan: Just a thought: the convention of making TALKING_STATE link to a dialog node is just that, a convention. You could give all the enemies a special version of basicnpc that does whatever special thing you want to do in TALKING_STATE. I haven't tested this, though, it's just a thought. Conversely, dialog mode doesn't actually have to involve talking to an NPC. You can use it for more complicated special abilities, such as maybe special spell selection. I think Bahss used this for item identification, though in the form of an NPC, probably to work around the limitations of both item identification and the "This conversation is over" message. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Languages in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Saturday, April 29 2006 11:33 Profile #48 quote: Originally written by Butt Paladin: quote: Originally written by MagmaDragoon: quote: Originally written by spy-there: Magma, I live very close to your country, 6% of our inhabitants are Italian, thus I learn a bit in the pizzeria, on the streets, or in Holidays... Then I have to ask: where you live? ;) Helvetia. Wrong topic. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Languages in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Friday, April 28 2006 12:31 Profile #27 quote: Originally written by Zeviz: quote: Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas: Ani midaberet Ivrit, Anglit v'ktzat Aravit. Ani rotzah lilmod Italkit v'Sinit. So you speak Hebrew, English and some Arabic? I think second sentence says something about Italian, but I am not sure. "I speak Hebrew, English, and a little Arabic. I want to learn Italian and Chinese." I didn't know you were female, radix malorum est cupiditas. If everyone spoke Hebrew, problems like that would be avoided. Ich kann "Wo ist meine Hose" auf vier Sprachen sagen, (English, Deutsch, Ivrit, Español) v'ani mavin arbeh Anglit v'Ivrit, but I'm fluent only in English. [ Saturday, April 29, 2006 07:47: Message edited by: wz. As ] -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
BoA for intel macs in Blades of Avernum
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Thursday, April 27 2006 20:56 Profile #1 You can adjust the speed in the Preferences; you might make sure that's not where the problem is first. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
International Imitation Day in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Thursday, April 27 2006 07:42 Profile #51 quote: Originally written by Dolphin.: Drakey doesn't love me :( MM? -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
International Imitation Day in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Wednesday, April 26 2006 11:44 Profile #20 You know, I don't think it would be too difficult to create a PHP script that could analyze everyone's post in this topic, compare it to all of the other posts written on the boards, and generate a list of likely matches. In fact, expect one up on the server by tomorrow. It would be earlier, but I have to finish an assignment for my boss first. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
"'s and .'s in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 16:10 Profile #32 I guess we're just talking about two different things then. I always thought that the rule about ending sentences with prepositions referred to embedded clauses that modify a noun: that "The boy to whom I threw the ball" is better than "The boy I threw the ball to" What you're saying (I think) is that the rule states rather that "I want to blow up everyone in a stadium" is better than "I want to blow everyone in a stadium up" To me, the difference between "to whom..." and "who...to" sounds greater than that between "blow up..." and "blow...up," which is why I assumed the rule applied to the former case. Maybe the rule applies to both of them? Both prepositions of verbs, and prepositions of modifying embedded clauses. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
"'s and .'s in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 13:59 Profile #30 Well technically, if you're going to be precise about the who/whom distinction, you'd probably want to use "with whom" anyways. Using "whom . . . with" is being half-assed about which outmoded rules we're using and which we're tossing. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
"'s and .'s in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Tuesday, April 25 2006 13:45 Profile #28 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: Also, in other Germanic languages (like, say, German), ending a sentence with a preposition is a rule, not an error: "Ich rufe meinen Bruder an." But those aren't really prepositions in German; they're separable prefixes. Your example translates as something similar to "I called my brother up," which actually sounds worse (to me) than "I called up my brother." Prepositions always stay with their object and never go to the end, when they're modifiying an object in an embedded clause: Mein Bruder, dem ich oft spreche mit, hat mich angerufen. This one is not correct. Oh, and I happen to dislike the rule in English as well; I'm just pointing out that the German equivalent does indeed match the prescriptive English one. [ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 13:56: Message edited by: wz. As ] -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508* \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Zoophilia in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Monday, April 24 2006 20:15 Profile #12 Was bedeutet "YIFF"? -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Old windows graphics: for Exile II in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Monday, April 24 2006 16:04 Profile #1 Didn't Alec make some sort of adaptation type thing? I'm not really sure. Is this what you're looking for: -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Favorite Words in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Monday, April 24 2006 12:40 Profile #35 triangularizable noninflammable -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
"'s and .'s in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Monday, April 24 2006 12:19 Profile #7 quote: Originally written by Drew: I prefer the British method as well, though I still believe that those who split infinitives (as well as those who incorrectly use the verb "comprise") have a special place in Hell reserved for them. The rule supposedly comes from prescriptivists who thought English should be more like Latin, in which infinitives are a single word. How would you then say: "I expect the number of newbs to more than double." "I fail to completely understand the split infinitive rule." I'm in complete agreement about "comprise," though. [ Monday, April 24, 2006 12:29: Message edited by: wz. As ] -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
US Conflict Avatars in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Tuesday, April 18 2006 07:19 Profile #85 Do one for me as well, when you have time. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00
Guaranteed results!! in General
wz. As Infiltrator Member # 3040	written Sunday, April 16 2006 12:41 Profile #40 Chaotic Good Elf Bard. Same as TM, Nicothodes, and Erika Maroonmark. I wonder if any correlations can be made to the Political Compass? [ Sunday, April 16, 2006 12:42: Message edited by: wz. As ] -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 \| Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00

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