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The Dingoes Ate My Baby! in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Thursday, February 24 2005 12:32 Profile Homepage #48
You sound like a mix between British and Chinese.

Which, I guess, makes a sort of sense, geographically speaking.

[ Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:32: Message edited by: Bad-Ass Mother Custer ]

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new screenshots scare me in Geneforge Series
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Thursday, February 24 2005 12:23 Profile Homepage #2
I think the problem is that Jeff seems to be aiming for Lovecraftian horror and missing miserably.

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new screenshots scare me in Geneforge 2
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Thursday, February 24 2005 12:23 Profile Homepage #2
I think the problem is that Jeff seems to be aiming for Lovecraftian horror and missing miserably.

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HOO in Blades of Avernum
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Thursday, February 24 2005 12:00 Profile Homepage #0
I was wondering if anyone feels inspired to do Avernumized versions of these.

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The Dingoes Ate My Baby! in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Thursday, February 24 2005 10:21 Profile Homepage #42
I thought Aran was more of a German.

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I Am The Lac Insect in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Thursday, February 24 2005 08:08 Profile Homepage #9
Dulce et decorum est pro penuria mori.

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Graphic Requests... in Blades of Avernum
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Thursday, February 24 2005 07:57 Profile Homepage #29
quote:
Originally written by DreamGuy:

Yes, there is a difference between legally wrong and ethically wrong, but taking graphics without permission is wrong both ways.

Someone above claims that it's only wrong if you claim them as your own. This is wrong. That's an error picked up from kids in school who learn that it's OK to reference other articles and items when writing a report, and that not referencing them is plagiarizing. That's true, but copyright is something different. Taking a graphic that isn't yours and saying who did it is just advertising who you stole it from, not anything that makes it OK.

Simple rule: You can't just take other people's things, and you can't just assume they don;t have a problem with it if you do, even if you give them credit. Theft is theft, and claiming that nobody cares is nothing but a lie you tell yourself to try to rationalize something that's clearly wrong.

And now since TM has admitted that his scenarios violate these laws, his stuff needs to be pulled.
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OH NOES COPYRIGHT THEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!1! LOOKS LIKE THE BOARDS HAVE TO BE TAKEN OFF OF THE AIR NOW

GOD BLESS THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

[ Thursday, February 24, 2005 07:58: Message edited by: Bad-Ass Mother Custer ]

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I Am The Lac Insect in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Thursday, February 24 2005 07:48 Profile Homepage #6
Non, Saunders, tu te trompes. Tu ne te souviens pas que Thuryl s'est voué à servir le manque au mort -- il sera le Chevalier du Lac toujours.

Mais maintenant il n'est plus un insecte, c'est vrai.

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The Dingoes Ate My Baby! in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Wednesday, February 23 2005 20:14 Profile Homepage #33
I always lengthened the U. Hmm.

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Who are you??? in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Wednesday, February 23 2005 20:08 Profile Homepage #31
http://alec.desperance.net/20050223.JPG

Like a bandit.

[ Wednesday, February 23, 2005 20:22: Message edited by: Bad-Ass Mother Custer ]

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I Am The Lac Insect in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Wednesday, February 23 2005 10:04 Profile Homepage #4
Thuryl lacs.

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Town Building help in Blades of Exile
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Monday, February 21 2005 19:28 Profile Homepage #2
And if you're having trouble finding the center, press 5 on the numpad.

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The Dingoes Ate My Baby! in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Monday, February 21 2005 18:52 Profile Homepage #7
My nose is so stuffed right now, it'd be personally embarassing to do this.

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Who are you??? in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Monday, February 21 2005 02:03 Profile Homepage #20
Unless he was specifically aiming for it in the photo I saw and just hit it dead-on, BSC looks uncannily like Al Franken. Which means if you google Al Franken, you're pretty much looking at BSC without the hassle of BSC finding a photo of himself.

You've all seen photographs of me. I'll post the obligatory link once stuff is back where it's supposed to be.

[ Monday, February 21, 2005 02:05: Message edited by: Bad-Ass Mother Custer ]

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Graphics call in Blades of Exile
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 15:45 Profile Homepage #1
Bump.

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Graphics call in Blades of Exile
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Sunday, February 20 2005 10:52 Profile Homepage #0
I've been looking through TM's links, Khoth's site, and so forth, and I can't manage to find something there should probably be a lot more of: a good variety of nephil graphics.

I'm looking for Neph civilians - not armed, not magical, and not color-edits. If they're a bit bigger than normal, that's fine too. Anyone with some graphical talent care to look into that? Thanks!

Oh, and dialog(ue?) graphics would be nice too.

[ Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:54: Message edited by: Bad-Ass Mother Custer ]

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Illegal distribution on the BoAC in Blades of Avernum
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Friday, February 18 2005 17:50 Profile Homepage #76
quote:
Originally written by Overwhelming:


For the little elite group who couldn't bear my site's existence, congratulations for your demonstration of power, overuling fairness, this board's CoC and acting agains't a site that just wants to promote Jeff's game, promote more fans to the game and scenario creators. Your personal ego is surely satisfied, it's a pity you didn't had in consideration Spidweb and your sipdweb community member who just wanted to contribute and had the endurance to make it happen and never attacked others.
I like it when people blame a 'small group of elites' for their problems, especially when that group is the Jews.

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Weapons and Warfare in Avernum. in Blades of Avernum
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Friday, February 18 2005 17:05 Profile Homepage #13
Remember the axiom of warfare: for every attack there exists a defense, even if using one or both would be foolhardy unto death. The second most important thing to remember is this: it takes an innovator to come up with the defense before the attack. That requires new attacks, not evolutions of old ones -- and that's where your revolutions and breakthroughs kick in.

To analyze Avernum in technological terms, we must first look at social attitudes and trends, moving backwards. Witness this: there is no heavy, non-craftsman-based industry. The concept of mass production hasn't hit its stride yet (outside of Canopy, and you'll forgive me for calling TM's works a tad idiomatically inconsistent).
So the socio-technological level is pre-industrial. One bellwether of industrialization is the presence of a lot of early water-powered mills, including the most simple -- textiles and lumber. Other manufactories of the early industrialization period just represented economies of scale, as can be seen in the various pseudo-factories found in the Avernums: a bunch of smelters, a bunch of ironworkers, a bunch of mages, not one smelter/ironworker/mage working a bunch of machines.

In summary: no mechanical production. Why? The means certainly exist.
The reason is that there's no ignoble elite class yet. Look for corporations or even immoderately successful businesses and you will come up disappointed. The stock market does not exist, nor do even the most basic securities companies. (The lack of moneychanging does explain why there's no banks, and may well never be.) So the impeti for industrialization do not exist, either.

In summary: the bourgeoisie is dormant, Dark Ages-style; as there are no clergy and existing clerics seem to be, themselves, members of the bourgeoisie, it can be said that the aristocracy holds the entire system in thrall. Makes enough sense, even if it requires a bit of suspension of disbelief to imagine an Imperial gene pool wide enough to allow for nepotism on every important level of a government spanning the globe. No significant aristocrats seem to be interested in the natural sciences, since the Emperor and cronies do not rule by the Divine Right and as such cannot be held accountable by any Almighty.

In summary: there is no organized, proselytizing religion leading the Empire, stymying the building blocks for a modern society. Since the idea of understanding the universe is silly -- after all, there is no heavenly creature proclaiming all of its mysteries to the average aristocrat and the above-average aristocrat is impossible to disabuse of the notion that he is the center of the universe anyway. The mages who once practiced have for some time been suppressed, and 'research' on an official level does not seem to be condoned by any society. The goal is not blue-sky research but perfection of existing methods. Only one known character can be accurately described as a blue-sky-style researcher; the rest are just reinventing the wheel.

In summary: the bulk of human progress is upon X's capable shoulders; as he is stark raving mad, it is likely the world of Ermarian will remain in essential technological stasis until the Emperor finds God and everything goes to pot.

How does this apply to military tech? Simply enough, you aren't going to see anything revolutionary. Part of the modern attitude towards warfare came from modern social and natural sciences, which allowed a greater population, mechanical production, and an objective view of the universe, all of which contributed heavily to the revolution in thought as a whole, which allowed the adoption of weapons and tactics as we know them.

In summary: Isolated innovations will happen, and you might by accident get something completely different every once in a great while, but its use will probably remain local or die off, and until some kind of religious revival hits you're going to be looking at new versions of the same weapons and tactics they've been using since anyone can remember.

That's about it.

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Just a random question in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Thursday, February 17 2005 22:06 Profile Homepage #29
God, wouldn't that be nice?

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Which of these is worth playing? in Richard White Games
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Wednesday, February 16 2005 14:43 Profile Homepage #9
Pelican, pelican -- your beak holds more than your belly can.

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Fallout 2 has now entered my life in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Sunday, February 13 2005 12:11 Profile Homepage #14
It's possible, and moreso in 2 than 1, but the real question is this: why?

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O.K...("?")... in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Sunday, February 13 2005 10:27 Profile Homepage #4
There was a huge acronym fad up to and during the Jackson administration, and while 'Oll Korrect' might be apocryphal (in fact, it almost certainly is), O.K. stuck. It's useful inasmuch as few languages have a word which properly conveys the context in which it's used; acknowledgement without agreement. Alternatives, such as 'yes' in English or 'd'accord' in French, apply not only knowledge of the situation but agreement with what's going on.

O.K. just says you've got it. This is why it's so versatile and it's spread so very far. Plus it's a relatively neat word.

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Illegal distribution on the BoAC in Blades of Avernum
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Sunday, February 13 2005 08:59 Profile Homepage #21
Overwhelming, what you are doing is certainly immoral. Kelandon has given a lucid reason for his policy, which is common ('I want to control where my stuff is uploaded so I can easily standardize versions'), and you have not for yours, which is less so ('I reserve the right to throw your stuff up at a moment's notice').

'I'm not going to give the reason for doing this' sounds suspiciously like 'I really did refuse because I dislike him, but I'll be damned if I'm going to admit it in a public forum'.

Overall, I think this is seriously asinine and continuing on the course of action you have taken would be exceptionally ill-advised. Whether or not what you have done is in tune with the letter of the law (note: I still doubt it is!), it is still exceptionally tasteless and more than enough to get declared persona non grata over.

Please consider something besides your desire to look good before making a final decision, and bear in mind that if you are going to stick by this childish decision you WILL be blackballed in the community.

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Fallout 2 has now entered my life in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Friday, February 11 2005 22:16 Profile Homepage #8
Finesse reduces damage by an (all things considered) insignificant amount; I like Small Frame, because sooner or later, carry weight becomes irrelevant; and IMO, Kamikaze is essentially useless. The sequence bonus isn't all that helpful if you've already got insanely high AGI.

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Favorite Movie. in General
Custer
Bob's Big Date
Member # 3151
 written Friday, February 11 2005 15:48 Profile Homepage #13
quote:
Originally written by Solomon Strokes:

The Shawshank Redemption
This is my perennial favorite. I've also deeply enjoyed The Fifth Element, Pulp Fiction, The Truman Show, Contact, Se7en, Dogma, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Dr. Strangelove, and Unforgiven.

LoTR is hugely overrated; with the kind of material and budget Jackson got, any moron could have made a great movie.

Throw in EoE for leavening because I literally cannot have a conversation without making reference to it, and that's my list.

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