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Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
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You're one to talk about coherent philosophy, TM.

In any case, serious intellectual study of philosophy is idiocy. The likelihood of developing an idiomatic system to explain human nature is next to nil, in any case; most of the high intellectual philosophies end up being absurdities when looked at in the broad light of day.

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Favourite SPIDWEB game in General
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GENEFORGE!!!! BLADES OF GENEFORGE!!! I'M FAT AND HAVE NO LIFE AND SHOULD GO PLAY POKEMON

No. Seriously, Ultima IV.

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4000 Posts in General
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Now it's the Doomchild's turn to cry.

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Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
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Although I'm sure I'd agree, Alec, you're hardly one to talk about lack of substance in scenarios. Which of your scenarios to date haven't been intended as stylistic jaunts?

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How Low Can You Go? Yet another 'I'm Back' topic... in General
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It's not our fault Australia is the second-most boring nation on earth, second to Canada. Many countries have slang terms for their currency. The US has a wide swath, but the UK has 'quid' at the very least.

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How Low Can You Go? Yet another 'I'm Back' topic... in General
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Measurements are for queens. I couldn't tell you what a foot was if it walked up and bit me in the ass.

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Just out of curiosity, does this look familiar to anyone? in General
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Sex is great. We should all think about it as much as possible, and thus Ryan Duchane can shove it.

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Requests for BoA Scenario Format 3 in Blades of Avernum Editor
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Which is fine and dandy except for the people using dialup.

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Requests for BoA Scenario Format 3 in Blades of Avernum
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Which is fine and dandy except for the people using dialup.

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Requests for BoA Scenario Format 3 in Blades of Avernum Editor
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quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

The problem with GIFs is that they're copyrighted; you can't use the GIF format for commercial purposes without written permission.
The patent Unisys held on LZW expired in June. GIFs are now legally unencumbered; however, they're a relatively poor choice for game graphics. GIF is very dated; it's an 8-bit indexed format ideal only for simple graphics with large blocks of color.
JPEG would of course be a terrible choice, being lossy. I use PNG -- more colors, better compression.

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Requests for BoA Scenario Format 3 in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

The problem with GIFs is that they're copyrighted; you can't use the GIF format for commercial purposes without written permission.
The patent Unisys held on LZW expired in June. GIFs are now legally unencumbered; however, they're a relatively poor choice for game graphics. GIF is very dated; it's an 8-bit indexed format ideal only for simple graphics with large blocks of color.
JPEG would of course be a terrible choice, being lossy. I use PNG -- more colors, better compression.

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Data Transfer per month... in General
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My hosting costs $30/quarter, or $120/year; I get it privately from a friend of mine.

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Data Transfer per month... in General
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The more the better. All depends on the tradeoff -- how much it costs, etc.

I get 5GB/mo. Never gotten close. I will once Pyg's up, though.

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Legendary Creatures In Avernum in Blades of Avernum
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Well, true. By the time you get in the endgame, there are four Riders there. But you only get to fight three of them.

EDIT: Although it's generally thought that Death, War, Pestilence, and Famine aren't the horsemen.
There's the white horseman, who carries a bow and conquers (Conquest); the red horseman, who wields a sword and makes men kill each other (War); the black horseman, holding scales, who causes dearth (Famine); and, of course, the rider of the pale horse, called Death, followed by Hades.

The only way I see that the Four Horsemen could include Pestilence is for the white horseman to be Death and the pale horseman to be Pestilence, since thanatos is sometimes, rarely, translated as plague.

[ Monday, September 13, 2004 07:24: Message edited by: Andrea ]

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Thoroughly disgusted in Blades of Exile
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Hmm. I suppose I could make a quick script to import the tab-delineated data into a SQL database. Send it over to mboeh at desperance dot net and I'll see what I can do with it.

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Domains... in General
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http://gandi.net has never done me wrong. Reasonable rates, rock-solid and honest services. 12 euros/year. That's about $15, which is par for the course, and you have total control.

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World Cup of Hockey in General
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quote:
Originally written by Magic Hunter Gurrrrl:

I am Finnish-Canadian! I can't lose!

BIATCHES

Oh, so that explains the name. TM and I were wondering.

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Legendary Creatures In Avernum in Blades of Avernum
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Nethack has the Four Horsemen. Three of them (Famine, Pestilence and Death) are in the endgame, and they all come back to life when you kill them, bastards.

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How Low Can You Go? Yet another 'I'm Back' topic... in General
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None, except Britons tend to measure people in feet and pounds (stone, to be more precise).

And I think Canada and Mexico still sometimes use a few imperial units for the sake of dealing with the US.

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How Low Can You Go? Yet another 'I'm Back' topic... in General
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Do you have any actual examples, or is this just typical national pride crap?

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Just out of curiosity, does this look familiar to anyone? in General
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IMAGE(http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Rorschach.gif)

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Thoroughly disgusted in Blades of Exile
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Brett, what format can you get the Alexandria data to me in? It would be useful to have an existing dataset to work on.

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Just out of curiosity, does this look familiar to anyone? in General
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quote:
Originally written by burglar ben:

Maybe it's one of those abstract drawings the use to test a person's mental state.

EDIT: e.g. What does this look like to you?

IMAGE(http://www.medical-library.org/journals/mddx/Rorshach/sld002.gif)

God, that's disgusting.

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Thoroughly disgusted in Blades of Exile
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I doubt Linda the wizard was named after Linda the glorified secretary. I think the character predates the employee.

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Thoroughly disgusted in Blades of Exile
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Doing it for one would do it for others very easily.

If I were hypothetically to make this hypothetical database for Blades, speaking in a purely hypothetical manner, what data do you think would be useful to store? Basically what you have at Alexandria?

I've also been thinking that it'd be useful to have a separate table for designers. That way, one would simply have to modify their contact info once and it would change all of their scenario records.

What do you think?

Er, hypothetically.

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