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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, March 22 2006 13:08 Profile Homepage #103
Two threads, and HTML has never lasted very long here.

—Alorael, who hasn't the foggiest notion why that might be.
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erika in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, March 22 2006 12:48 Profile Homepage #26
I don't think there is a room behind Erika in A1 or A2 that requires any effort to enter.

—Alorael, who also knows that nobody has ever asked about those rooms if they exist.
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Project GFT Start! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, March 22 2006 12:44 Profile Homepage #41
quote:
Originally written by the fatman:

That was a painful read (not, understood you perfectly).
"Not, understood you perfectly" is not something I understand perfectly. And read is a verb unless you listen to those evil heathen descriptivists, and you don't start sentences with conjunctions!

—Alorael, who sees the beginnings of a satisfying flame war started entirely by grammar sparked by the presence of non-native English speakers, more or less. Spiderweb is truly a marvelous place.
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Mmm, Saganaki... Flaming Karma in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, March 22 2006 09:43 Profile Homepage #20
Since I look at my number of karma votes every day in passing while changing my PDN, I noticed that I have one more. I'll assume that it's from Fartman. It didn't actually change my karma, however.

This means one of two things: either he didn't vote one star or I've finally hit the threshold where votes no longer make any difference.

—Alorael, who is actually rather excited about it.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, March 22 2006 09:41 Profile Homepage #99
My subconscious somehow decided that the Ramen (whose name always makes me chuckle), who include Manethralls, must live in Manetheren. It makes sense if you're subconcious.

—Alorael, who wonders if there is a subconscious forum below SubTerra and, if so, what the posts are like.
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How much time do you spend on here a day in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, March 22 2006 09:37 Profile Homepage #5
27 hours, give or take 2 hours.

—Alorael, who recommends not feeding the troll.
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Project GFT Start! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, March 22 2006 09:34 Profile Homepage #26
quote:
Originally written by the fatman:

quote:
The only problem is, is that this is an enormous undertaking. It will require much patience and time, which i doubt anybody has (I, as somebody who is undertaking about four very big projects at once, knows what he is talking about).
Hint # 2. Undertaking is a noun, not a verb. Perhaps you mean:

I, as someone who is taking on about four very big projects at once, knows what I am talking about.
And now I can gleefully correct the correcter. To undertake is, in fact, a verb. It's not a common verb, but it's used correctly here.

—Alorael, who questions the 5%. This may be accurate if you extrapolate from the past few years, or even the past century. Examine the last thousand years, though, and you'll see that we went from pre-Norman invasion Old English to modern English. Forget words. Our alphabet has changed more than 5%. Where are the ashes, eths, and thorns of yestermillenium?
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Stuck in the Skree caves [spoiler] in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, March 22 2006 09:26 Profile Homepage #2
Except it's "backtostart" instead.

—Alorael, who feels no shame in backtostarting. It's like using a pylon except not from a pylon. And when you're trapped in the caves, well, sometimes the only way around a bug is cheating.
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Posts from beyond the ban? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, March 21 2006 22:17 Profile Homepage #95
To limit the scope of insanity inflicted by disgruntled members.

—Alorael, who remembers that making Galactic Core (before it was RWG) an HTML-enabled forum was disastrous. General would be worse.
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I've made a script / story in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, March 21 2006 20:12 Profile Homepage #367
quote:
Originally written by Arancaytar:

Nor am I.

—Arancaytar, who in lieu of Alorael (who is apparently dead) will mention that permabans are no harder to lift than temporary bans. Artistic licence might apply, but still.
I cough pointedly at thee!

—Alorael, who does not suffer his fictional counterpardpgnk
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Slarty's Comic Strip in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, March 21 2006 20:03 Profile Homepage #122
quote:
Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

So far, TM has been crucified, killed, and banned. What's next?
Easter's too soon for TM's resurrection!

[Edit: Token effort at using good grammar. The original version is quoted below anyway.]

—Alorael, who is pretty sure the quoted statement is hyperbolic. Cruficied, killed, and banned? Surely one or two of those cover TM's woeful fate.

[ Tuesday, March 21, 2006 22:21: Message edited by: AlO RLY? ]
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Mmm, Saganaki... Flaming Karma in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, March 21 2006 19:52 Profile Homepage #7
The UBB uses an algorithm far more sophisticated than equal weight to evaluate karma. I wouldn't be surprised if vote weight were a function of member number. It makes as much sense as the rest of the UBB.

—Alorael, who holds the distinction of the most karma votes. When you post a lot, apparently people find something that moves them somewhere.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, March 21 2006 06:53 Profile Homepage #89
Wheel of Time, actually, but while I wasn't thinking about it I sort of had a background assumption of Thomas Covenant, so you're closer.

—Alorael, who wouldn't be too sure the UBB logs anything. Remember, this is the UBB. If it can be useless it will be useless.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, March 20 2006 23:55 Profile Homepage #81
I deleted the threads for speed. Previous experience suggested that PE might keep on creating new threads and I didn't want to let them pile up as I edited and locked. There was nothing worth preserving anyway except the dignity of the PPP.

You know, Aran, as a mod you don't just have to quote and append FYT. You can actually fix typos! If only there were a way to conceal that pesky "Edited by..." line.

—Alorael, who remembers back in the misty heydey of Misc. he created a thread that began with a warning that all posts within the thread were subject to indiscriminate summary alteration. And then he altered summarily and indiscriminately. Those were the days! Posts were real posts back then.
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Public Enemy in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, March 20 2006 18:44 Profile Homepage #2
I can't fix that.

[Edit: Someone appears to have done so, though!]

—Alorael, who recommends not looking at posts by Public Enemy in Tech Support until someone (i.e. Drakey, *i, or Schro) fixes it.

[ Monday, March 20, 2006 18:45: Message edited by: Fiat Homo, Fiat Voluntas Tua ]
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Public Enemy in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, March 20 2006 18:35 Profile Homepage #0
Please do not open or respond to any threads made by Public Enemy. They are very likely to contain unpleasant images.

Avoiding Spiderweb for a while until he can be removed from the boards is a good idea.

—Alorael, who would like to apologize for the inconvenience of humans being human. If only misanthropy weren't so justified!
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Anatomy in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, March 20 2006 14:54 Profile Homepage #1
I noticed no benefit to First Aid, but Anatomy is still a fine way to boost your damage.

—Alorael, who can count the number of difficult non-humanoid opponents on his assorted digits.
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What's your dialect? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, March 20 2006 12:02 Profile Homepage #20
Firn is a word, apparently, although I needed a dictionary to tell me that. As far as I can tell it's pronounced identically to fern, so I can't fathom why someone decided that the more unusual of the homophones belonged in the list.

Certain parts of the Midwest have an accent that is perceived by Americans as unaccented American English. It's a rather strange phenomenon, but there's a reason why operators are recruited from Omaha.

—Alorael, whose English is a product of New England with a dash of Germany.
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erika in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, March 19 2006 22:51 Profile Homepage #15
You can open the door with Unlock, but you can't actually get to or through the door without some kind of abuse.

—Alorael, who wouldn't want to think about getting out again without the editor.
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Xian Skull (A3) in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, March 19 2006 22:47 Profile Homepage #7
That's nice, but these boards aren't the place for advertising. Keep the ads off, please.

—Alorael, who believes that the CoC forbids advertising quite explicitly.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
New Moderator for General in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, March 19 2006 22:40 Profile Homepage #32
So now Aran's had, what, four custom titles?

Why don't you share the wealth among the proles who would kill for a chance at your Party goods?

—Alorael, who must insist that any and all fun had at Aran's expense not impinge on the others mods' sinecures. Certain individuals don't want to be pressed into having to do their duties.
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