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I have to change Signature? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, April 26 2006 08:20 Profile Homepage #25
Fixed your lack of comma.

—Alorael, who DSQF. IF, HCMHESIA! TIWNBTLTR!
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Registration code question. in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, April 26 2006 08:15 Profile Homepage #13
A4 works the same way. A clean install will wipe your registration unless you save the necessary file.

—Alorael, who believes Jeff tells you which file to save when you get your code. If not, you can always request a new one.
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a4 is the best game yet in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, April 26 2006 08:08 Profile Homepage #9
That's Lurker, not llama. Unless you're addressing both separately.

—Alorael, who thinks he prefers A4 to A3. He's not sure on that, though. A1 and A2 are definitely better than both. He's not a fan of Geneforge at all, though, and he feels guilty for ushering this thread onto the path of yet another game preference topic.
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International Bad Pun Day in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, April 26 2006 08:06 Profile Homepage #19
A termite walks into a bar and asks, "Is the bartender here?"

Say it out loud.

—Alorael, who was once employed by a lab that developed an experimental technique for indefinitely prolonguing natural lifespans. The test was conducted in porpoises, and the only way to keep them alive was to keep feeding them seagulls. The local gull population was quickly depleted, however, so assistants were sent out to catch gulls nearby. One caught a fair supply and was bringing them back when his path happened to cross that of a lion that had escaped from a nearby zoo. The assistant quickly called the police for help as he ran for his life, but when they arrived they arrested him. He was convicted of carrying gulls across strayed lions for immortal porpoises.
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Zoophilia in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 25 2006 18:47 Profile Homepage #49
quote:
Originally written by Mister Fox:

Cats have very sensative skin compared to most other animals and petting them can do things to them. I won't get into a lot of detail here.
Quoted for extreme disbelief. Provide a citation or even some kind of reasonable justification, please. The name of a source, even.

—Alorael, who can't recognize the vindictive OT God with the lack of eternal hellfire. The only reasonable conclusion is that God just learned to hide his malice in the NT. Or maybe the Bible just makes no sense.
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What style of graphics would you like to see in Avernum 5? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 25 2006 15:03 Profile Homepage #11
As long as the world isn't flat, I like the A4 graphics. Avernum's monsters aren't all that good looking, but the rest of the graphics are fine. Geneforge/A4 improves the monsters greatly.

—Alorael, who knows he's very much in the minority with this opinion. Still, can't you admit that the move to three dimensions was nice for height if nothing else?
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Av2 does anybody teach mage skill? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 25 2006 14:50 Profile Homepage #3
Magery doesn't give you more spell points, and you can't purchase the skills that do. Leveling and are your options.

—Alorael, who has never purchased caster skills in the Avernum trilogy. There appears to be a downside to having mage/priests in A1.
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Registration code question. in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 25 2006 14:46 Profile Homepage #8
You only get the hint book if you buy it. You get the manual whether you want it or not.

—Alorael, who can assure you that installing an upgrade does not unregister any Spiderweb game. That would be too much of a pain for anyone, including Jeff, who would have to send out many new codes every time he released a patch.
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I have to change Signature? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 25 2006 10:36 Profile Homepage #17
quote:
Originally written by White Lady xx:

And tags can be fun, Alorael. Jeez, I hope somebody goes blind looking at that. If I ever have to type and then again...
FYLOC

—Alorael, who derived more pleasure from doing so than should ever be derived from pedantry.

[ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:37: Message edited by: Anon and Anon ]
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"Policing" ourselves? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 25 2006 07:39 Profile Homepage #80
Einstein doesn't tell us where gravity comes from, though, because he can only say that it comes from the fact that it comes from spacetime. So where does that come from? Sooner or later we run into the problem of why the uniform works at all, and then we're stuck throwing around hypotheses or just shrugging.

—Alorael, who may have to start telling time in megalithic inches now.
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I have to change Signature? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 25 2006 07:14 Profile Homepage #14
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

You know, we could require that all posts be longer than the signature below them.
I fail.

—Alorael, who regularly toys with the idea of putting links in his signature. Since there's nothing constant about it, he'd just have to choose random words, which is an appealing concept. The only obstacle is the effort of putting in those tags. He already spends enough time on signatures and name changes.
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Stereotypically Yours in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 25 2006 07:10 Profile Homepage #62
Just flames.

—Alorael, who will confess to lacking his winning personality and charming manner in person. He is, in fact, an incorrigible curmudgeon, a lout, and a cad. He's also brutish, unwashed, and ignorant. His brow is remarkably low and protrudes somewhat.
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Death Penalty in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 25 2006 07:06 Profile Homepage #35
The grandiosely named death by a thousand cuts was usually just death by a few dozen cuts for torture followed by the real executiion. It was excrutiatingly painful but really no worse than European public spectacle execution.

As far as I know, stories of feeding the victim with bits of himself are all unverified, although it's become reasonably popular in fiction.

—Alorael, who has been struck with sudden visions of a harsh taskmaster punishing a failed gymnast with Ouroborosism.
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"Policing" ourselves? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 25 2006 06:59 Profile Homepage #77
An idea about the causes and origins that cannot be verified is a hypothesis. ID is a hypothesis. Invisible gremlins pulling invisibile strings to draw masses together is a hypothesis for the cause of gravity.

—Alorael, who will give ID credit for accepting evolution. The two aren't really mutually exclusive, because evolution describes only the mechanisms and ID only the cause. The problem is that ID seems to take on the role of mechanism as well, somehow, which makes it no more than drawn out creationsm.
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"'s and .'s in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 24 2006 16:35 Profile Homepage #19
Alec, I'm reasonably sure that the punctuation in quotes rules you state are correct in the UK but not in the USA. Why? Because.

Whether or not the 1980's are a properly written decade now, they definitely were in the 1980s. Apostrophes were used to separate the pluralizing S from any non-word.

—Alorael, who thinks a fair compromise would be to call it Gu'ss bus.
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"'s and .'s in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 24 2006 13:33 Profile Homepage #13
I didn't know about colons and semicolons, although I don't think I've ever seen them come up. I've definitely been taught that the question marks always go inside, as strange as that position may be.

There are a number of different writing style authorities. I know at least one said that both Xs' and Xs's were acceptable and insisted that decades, acronyms, and single letters need an apostrophe to be pluralized. Decades and acronyms now generally seem to be mixed, although I prefer without the apostrophe to distinguish possession. I haven't seen anything that disagrees about single letters yet, and that makes sense. It's easy to distinguish A's from as but not as easy to distinguish As.

—Alorael, who has also settled on the use of non-direct quotation marks by the simple expedient of giving characters single quotes and strings double quotes. It works.
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Power Corrupts in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 24 2006 13:26 Profile Homepage #121
From my six degrees of separation from someone who knows anything about Swedenborg, I believe he addresses hell interestingly by essentially saying hell is something we do to ourselves, not something God does to us. I'm not sure how well he argues it, but it's a different persepective and one that I would pursue further if I were really interested in hell.

LL, you're still describing blind belief. Instead of faith in God, it's faith in the accuracy of the Bible as a testimony of God's existence. Nobody denies that if the Bible is accurate then God must exist. Many dispute that the Bible is accurate.

If a scientist claimed to be able to cure cancer and published a paper about how he had done so, but his paper expressly stated that no one else could do it and that the methods were not reproducible by anyone but this one man, everyone would be very skeptical. That is exactly the same as the Bible. It could be true. There's some evidence for it. There's some evidence against it, but it's not overwhelming. The problem is that the burden of proof is on the scientist or the Bible, and there's not enough evidence in favor for many people.

—Alorael, whose knowledge of Swedenborg extends only to the fact that William Blake rejected his theology and that Kant apparently debunked his alleged psychic abilities.
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"'s and .'s in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 24 2006 10:12 Profile Homepage #3
In American English, the punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks at the end of the quote no matter how much it doesn't belong there.

Rupert says, "Hello, world."

I don't realize it, so I might ask a question:

Did Rupert say, "Hello, world?"

No, he didn't. He wasn't asking a question, but that's how it's written in America.

In the UK, punctuation only goes inside the quotation marks if it belongs in the quotation marks, so my question would be:

Did Rupert say, "Hello, world"?

[Edit: Sometimes, even with the best of "intentions," quotes can go "awry."]

—Alorael, who likes the UK's system much more. It mangles strings less. Actually, written language could adopt programming strings and make the quotes contain exactly the right punctuation inside the quotes and further punctuation outside the quotes. That would be much nicer.

[ Monday, April 24, 2006 10:14: Message edited by: Parody of Oneself ]
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A Change of Structure in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 24 2006 08:13 Profile Homepage #141
The categories are member number, publically displayed name (from a while back), and number of topics started. TM has the lead, nobody else comes close to TM and Micael, and you haven't started any topics so you're not on the list.

—Alorael, who should really start racking up more topics. He'd create them and immediatley delete them, but that wouldn't get recorded properly and would only further boost his post count.
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Power Corrupts in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 24 2006 08:08 Profile Homepage #108
I suppose the Music of the Ainur could be jazz. I've always thought of it as something closer to klezmer, myself.

—Alorael, who can at least find some scientific evidence of divinity. All the most sophisticated tests have revealed that the Invisibile Pink Unicorn is, in fact, invisible.
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Have You Any Pets? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 24 2006 08:06 Profile Homepage #39
Spider warning!

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—Alorael, who is always glad to provide fear and loathing.
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Guess What in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 24 2006 08:00 Profile Homepage #26
What A?

—Alorael, who is a little heart of hearing or, in this case, reading.
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Stereotypically Yours in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 24 2006 07:57 Profile Homepage #8
While the most cursory of inspections, generally of the type reserved for the posts submitted by members who rarely have words of note to contribute, might lead one to believe that one or more matters of substance and import were in some way touched upon by the contents of this post, such an analysis would be entirely in error. Instead, unnecessary prolixity combines herein with a dearth of meaning and originality to provide what would be unhesitatingly decried as spam were it not so veiled in a mountain of verbiage.

All pedestrians must be sniped so that any valuables they may possess can be converted into the sweetest of ambrosial elixirs. It's orange, it's in a bottle, and it's mine.

[Edit: No double post has occurred.]

—Alorael, whose signature serves as a rather strange continuation of his preceding ruminations. It's a gimmick you'll have to live with. It's also not terribly relevant, but bear with it.
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"Policing" ourselves? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, April 23 2006 21:38 Profile Homepage #65
If the theory does not fit the facts...

1. Redo the experiment until the facts confirm the theory. After enough iterations you'll get an outlier that falls where you're expecting results.

2. Accept 330% error and blame lack of funding.

3. Declare a special case.

4. Proclaim that you've discovered pseudometakinetoforces. You'll be unceremoniously ejected from polite scientific circles, but you'll be assured a comfortable life thanks to countless gullible followers.

5. Chastise the graduate students and make them do it again.

—Alorael, who has been guilty of #2 more often than he'd like. Funding has very rarely been to blame. Laziness makes a much better candidate. Cleaning the glassware, calibrating the scales, and going through all the work with proper controls takes so much effort!
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