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Letter as Romans in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 24 2006 09:24 Profile Homepage #2
How do you blackmail someone with a letter giving others permission to kill you?

—Alorael, who can see an easy way out of the blacmail, and not one that you'd want for your party. Hence the "don't mention the letter" message.
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The Alien Blade and Mithril Broadsword in Footracer province in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 24 2006 09:23 Profile Homepage #20
Yes, but the editor can give you everything. Some people would rather find it legitimately.

—Alorael, who doesn't think the Alien Blade requires patience in E3 as long as you're willing to rely on spoilers (or are an even more compulsive searcher than most wall-bashers). In A3 you actually have to wait.
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UN to Send Troops to Darfur in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 24 2006 09:19 Profile Homepage #24
Our own Slartifer M. Tuckersworth is worthy of veneration as well, if I do say so myself.

—Alorael, who can forgive the occasional lapse into schismatic and moderately heretical beliefs.
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The Ultimate Survey in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 23 2006 13:00 Profile Homepage #61
The trouble with kissing relatives is that they might get the idea that you like them. They might regale you with the interesting anecdotes that they have accumulated over the years of their fascinating lives. They might do so at increasing volume while achieving a state that is only questionably sober.

—Alorael, who has in fact rarely regretted kissing relatives. The rest of his hypothetical is sadly true to experience.
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Ghosts of Stalin in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 23 2006 12:56 Profile Homepage #7
We're not quite at the point of jailing in America, but results by government research institutions are now regularly "altered" by the administration to fit with the agenda.

—Alorael, who is also unimipressed by the imprisonment of scientists under Stalin. Considering how intellectuals fared under communism and how Stalin treated people in general, things could have been worse.
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a4 is the best game yet in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 23 2006 12:51 Profile Homepage #94
I liked Cheeseball and the other familiars. The name left a bit to be desired, but the cat was very catlike in a slightly magical way.

—Alorael, who wants to get a mutant magical catnip quest from Cheeseball. Because surely the rogue catnip monsters that fled the ToM during Linda's little faux pas are at large!
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Show me the muscle in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 23 2006 12:48 Profile Homepage #25
Probably making rude gestures at you. Rude, but not so rude as to impinge upon the CoC.

—Alorael, who has been struck by certain ironies that shall remain nameless. His major expenditures of energy shall also remain nameless, although "victims" and "retrieval" figure prominently.
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My God can beat up your God! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 23 2006 08:06 Profile Homepage #55
Jesus saves! So does L. Ron Hubbard!

—Alorael, who has made an unfounded yet indisputable pair of statemenst.
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A3 is there still a time limit? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 23 2006 08:03 Profile Homepage #7
I'd say you should head back to Krizsan, buy a lot of food, and rest for a very long time. If you've got any metal lumps left or haven't taken advantage of the Bunker, now is the time to do it. You've got nothing but time while you wait until day 160.

—Alorael, who has also actually never experienced the final event without deliberately seeking it out.
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Custom starting party not always best in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 23 2006 08:00 Profile Homepage #2
I agree with the Berserker, but there's sadly no equivalent for polearms. The two single type magic users are also good premade classes. For mage-priests I did extensive testing that I no longer remember and concluded that an absurd kind of abusive Custom build was the best.

—Alorael, who may have done nothing but pump the two skills for mages and priests. No Intelligence, no Spellcraft, and certainly no First Aid or melee skills.
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Avernum V in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, May 22 2006 12:45 Profile Homepage #358
While we're on the attack, "noobie" isn't a word. Newbie or noob, you n00b.

—Alorael, who is pretty sure that on Spiderweb all fools are the same person because everyone is the same person.
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The Ultimate Survey in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, May 22 2006 12:42 Profile Homepage #53
quote:
Originally written by Jewels:

quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

quote:
Originally written by Jewels:

Have you ever kissed someone and regretted it?
—Chris is the only one I've ever kissed that wasn't a relative.
Objection: nonresponsive.
I've kissed him so many times, it's hard to remember if I've regretted any. I think there were a few times that I tried to kiss him in public and he pushed me away. I don't remember any specific time though. He doesn't like PDA's much. As far as regret goes, it was pretty minor and short lived.

Not kissing someone else, though... sometimes.
You can regret kissing relatives too.

—Alorael, who can answer the survey in his signature! A visit to the hospital; a set of slides; no, and I've never wanted to; music of the spheres; no confidence; not on purpose, but sometimes it comes out that way; things only fall from the sky in jokes and religions, and I am neither; Denmark; Calvin and Hobbes; I haven't seen a movie in the past month; anything plain and dark from America or anything not from America at all; yes; Asteroids, more specifically its descendents; yes, and let us never speak of it again; finding true love with a millionaire (or more since a million isn't that much anymore!); Ed; no; #335 (or number one, if you prefer); Orlando Bloom; seizures; TV is bad; Thuryl, obviously; Angband; Crash; between guilt and inferiority, I'll dump and take guilt; I think Spidweb has a hive-mind at this point, but Tyranicus and TM lead the way; yes.
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Avernum V in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, May 22 2006 05:10 Profile Homepage #350
Not all names starting with R are the same person.

—Alorael, who is either way off the mark on sarcasm or sadly betrayed.
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The Big Club Theory in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, May 21 2006 11:33 Profile Homepage #78
The Earth is round unless you're an elf. This may make some trips inconvenient for elves. Next question?

—Alorael, who wonders what happens to a ship carrying ten elves and ten humans when it reaches the point at which the curvature of the Earth and the uncurvature of the Earth become noticeably different.
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Tachyon:The Fringe in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, May 20 2006 18:48 Profile Homepage #2
Abandonware isn't released. Abandonware is just what it sounds like: software that the company pretty much ignores now. So while Tachyon: the Fringe hasn't been made freeware or open source, it's probably abandoned.

—Alorael, who would like to know what makes this relevant on Spiderweb boards.
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Visions of the future. (was: It's my turn to spam.) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, May 20 2006 11:49 Profile Homepage #18
I don't do these strange numbers. I'll congratulate Zeviz at 2000 and not before!

—Alorael, who offers no encomiums until encomiums are due.
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The Big Club Theory in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, May 20 2006 11:46 Profile Homepage #63
quote:
Originally written by Major:

Who said anything about test of faith stuff?
How do you justify things that are tested and found to be older than the Earth, then? What about fossils?

—Alorael, who has never heard anything but hoax or test. What other possibilities are there? God has an odd sense of humor?
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Avernum V in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, May 20 2006 11:37 Profile Homepage #344
Everything is fine now, but a looming cataclysm threatens destruction! The only problem with the plot is that if all goes well, nothing exciting happens. There's a reason heroes show up when things look darkest.

—Alorael, who wouldn't mind a cataclysm returning Avernum to its hardscrabble roots, though. Avernum was better when steel was rare. (Better for players. Not so very nice for inhabitants.)
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The Big Club Theory in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, May 18 2006 09:20 Profile Homepage #28
quote:
Originally written by Major:

but we've seen macroevolution happen too.

I'd like you to show me that.
As Kel says, it's documented. I don't have links to any documentation, but it happens relatively frequently with flowers that have nondisjunctions that result in polyploidy, and it's happened to many invasive species with specific niches.

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The only defense left is that we've only seen evolution from bird to another bird or insect to another insect, not from insect to bird.

Have you ever been taught the basics of genes?
Yes, I have. Genes evolve. We've seen it happen. The question isn't whether they do or not, it's whether they can do it enough to produce very different species without being stopped by steps that die off.

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No, it hasn't been proven. I'll try to give a example of how they teach you it has been proven: Look at all the different types of dogs do you see how they change? there's the wolf the fox regular dogs and... This is evolution. And science has proven that they can change. Part 2: evolution takes billions of years to change animals such as dogs to cats and other creatures this is evolution.
Since science has proven evolution creationism is wrong.
Alorael, your post cotained the most twisted truths, messed up facts, and showed more signs of somebody being brainwashed than I have ever seen on this forum so far. (Sorry for having to put it so bluntly.)
Read what I write, not what you think I write.

Science says it has been proven thusly:

1. Genes undergo mutation.

2. Evolution by selection, be it artificial or natural, occurs.

3. Selection acts on genes because they are heritable. If genes mutate, selection can act on mutated alleles to either remove them from the gene pool (common for most harmful mutation) or encourage their spread (in the case of the rare beneficial mutation).

4. If enough mutations accrue in one population and not another, the two populations may become separate species. (Morphologically two distinct species may seem more similar than two members of the same species.)

All this is proven and has been observed. The remaining question is how to get not from dog to dog but from lizard (or plankton) to dog.

Irreducible complexity says that it can't be done. There are steps in the chain that could never happen. The problem is that it can't be proved, because negatives generally can't be. Moreover, biologists have shown that most of these steps can occur in one way or another.

Major, tell me where my twisted truths and messed up facts are. How am I brainwashed and what are your credentials for telling me so?

Dintiridan, Darwin admitted he didn't know how speciation occurred. He didn't have any understanding of genetics. We do, though, and we've seen that natural selection happens. What makes it a fallacy? I'm not sure what you're getting at with geology.

—Alorael, who thinks it's important to understand evolution, including macroevolution, because it is still happening. Knowing where everything came from is potentially useful. Knowing how fast-evolving pathogens evolve is critical.
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What exactly are slith avatars? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, May 18 2006 08:50 Profile Homepage #29
quote:
Originally written by Meeshka:

Die hard in torture or violence - you become a zombie (or a ghost).
Not usually. How many battlefields do you come across in Avernum with no zombies? A lot.

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Die in grief and sorrow you become a ghost.
Also not quite. Die in rage, especially at betrayal, and you come back as some kind of spirit. Die with unfinished and important business and you're even less likely to lie quietly in your grave/pile of rubble.

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Die from a hand of evil magician you become a zombie or a skeleton.
How you die doesn't matter here. Where your body ends up does. Necromancers like collecting corpses to raise. If that means collecting living people and killing them, so be it, but it's not the manner of death that creates zombies.

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Die from a hand of a demon, and even that demon won't be sure about who you transform into.
One demon doesn't usually do the trick. Massive demonic invasions are more useful, and even so most ghosts appear because they have unfinished business or important work to do. You know, little things like stopping demonic invasions.

—Alorael, who wonders what made the Alien Blade so important to the previous owner of Hawke's Manse. (And was his name Hawke?)
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a4 is the best game yet in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, May 18 2006 08:43 Profile Homepage #88
Erika's shade is not a terrible idea per se. Erika's shade taking on the same role as Erika is a terrible idea. Dying was her biggest step in character development.

—Alorael, who wouldn't mind seeing more of what the (currently very stubby) Tower of Magi folks think about Erika's demise. It means one rogue wizard not running amuck, but it also means one rogue wizard not zealously protecting Avernum. Well, zealously hating everywhere else more than Avernum.
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My God can beat up your God! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, May 18 2006 08:37 Profile Homepage #24
Eru, Azathoth (& Company), and Bob make a decent pantheon, but I'd expect a little more respect for Ascai.

—Alorael, who finds it somewhat ironic that the people most likely to use the name Ascai on these forums are the people least likely to know that Ascai exists. And this is inspiring...
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The Big Club Theory in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 17 2006 16:52 Profile Homepage #23
You know, the more I look at it, the more I just can't understand denial of evolution. Microevolution has become more or less a given even for creationists, but we've seen macroevolution happen too. The only defense left is that we've only seen evolution from bird to another bird or insect to another insect, not from insect to bird. That's irreducible complexity, which has already been deemed non-science.

—Alorael, who hopes that Big Club Theory will eventually result in the death of creationism/ID due to its status as the less fit hypothesis.
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My God can beat up your God! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 17 2006 16:46 Profile Homepage #4
My god doesn't want to beat up your god. He just wants to return to the nirvana he experienced, but he'll do what has to be done for the good of the people.

—Alorael, who worships the Lord of Light, or course. And RW, but RW already beat up your god one of these days.
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A lil dilemma... in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 17 2006 10:41 Profile Homepage #7
quote:
Originally written by Me.:

A2. I've won it, and I'll say that there is some immersive combat at the Ziggurat and that the plots start going rapidly downhill afterwards.
I agree that A2 is the right game, but calling the Ziggurat combat "immersive" seems strange. "Massive" is the word I'd use. I also can't quite fathom the plot going downhill afterwards, especially since you can more or less assault the Ziggurat in any order with regards to the other pieces of plot.

A2 has a better plot and the nice elevation system. Its combat isn't as varied or interesting as A4's on the whole, but I didn't groan every time I fought enemies, either. There are fewer incentives to abuse the skill system, and exploration is much more exploratory.

—Alorael, who also recommends Nethergate because Nethergate cannot be recommended enough.
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