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| Displayed name | Or else o'erleap. |
| Member number | 335 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
| Postcount | 14579 |
| Homepage | http://www.polarisboard.net |
| Registered | Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 12:55
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It was originally directed elsewhere. I realized that I should've quoted and text in question, but then I found myself approving of the current arrangement. So it stays. —Alorael, who was in fact addressing Dallerdin, a distinction that is not at all obvious from the context. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 12:52
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He was a brilliant combination of collective and conspiracy. —Alorael, who wants a good conspiracy right now. The three sides will be pro-elaboration, equisensationall, and antibipartisan. Choose your arbitrary views and start plotting today! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 12:50
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Imban will be giving 1 star to everyone who posts in this topic. Don't say you weren't warned. I believe about 25% of my votes are one star, 25% are five stars, and 50% are distributed evenly among the other three values. I didn't check this, though, and I haven't actually voted on anyone in the last few years. I may actually have to vote now. —Alorael, who will no longer pretend that he'll ever turn karma votes off. While he doesn't particularly care for the value, he's proud of having more karma votes than anyone else. Either he makes people feel strongly or he just posts so much that everyone eventually cares. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 12:43
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Schro is also married, and I'm pretty sure Saunders is. —Alorael, who is sure RWism can open its heart to polygamy. Heck, why not omnigamy? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 08:14
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Cite source, please! —Alorael, who hopes he won't have to be divided among orthodox, conservative, reform, and reconstructionist Aloraelism. Reconstruction in particular has an unwholesome ring to it. He's happy with his current construction, thank you very much. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 08:06
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The hard way is saving, attacking with experimentation, and reloading. Scripts are probably the harder way in most cases. —Alorael, who learned the hard way that just because you can beat it up doesn't always mean you should. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 08:03
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Gimmicks about on Spiderweb. TM's is being a duck, if I may allude. Sometimes you have to accept what you can't change. —Alorael, who believes an aestheist would believe only in pretty gods. Or perhaps aestheism is the belief that God is infinitely great, infinitely good, and infinitely pretty. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 07:58
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It's actually rather small in an antipodal way. —Alorael, who never saw a wagon he didn't band with. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 28 2006 07:56
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I demand explanations or desperate steps backward taken with upraised hands. [Edit: Thralni and Slarty seem to have the beginnings of a beautifully accidental relationship going, too.] —Alorael, who is quite sure that Spiderweb's marriage rate is over 0%. The married folks just didn't deign to respond. [ Tuesday, February 28, 2006 08:20: Message edited by: Born Yesterday ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 19:21
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I don't know if there are any fonts that have unsimplified Chinese characters and calligraphy and all that. I'm sure they exist, but not commonly. —Alorael, who wonders what one would need fancy characters for. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 17:58
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Khoth, you're not alone in doing that. Only my folders tend to be Misc./Junk/Clutter. Then I move them and reuse the name. —Alorael, whose desktop is a private place. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 17:54
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Let's put this succinctly: In 2056, everyone will bramver their neoprocs often, sometimes up to every two minutes. Klebs will be using both LORMs and KP-MVMs, while proddies will prefer ViWells. —Alorael, who wishes he had a neoproc. Or at least a proc. Waiting for the future is so frustrating. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 17:46
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There's no way to learn more than a monster's name, appearance, and roughly what percentage of its health it has left but the hard way. —Alorael, who wouldn't overlook names. Once you get used to the naming system it's surprisingly easy to guess when you want to hit something hard and when you want to fry it from afar. Hint: spikes are bad. So are chitrachs. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 13:20
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Jeff's announcement made me check the prices of the various Spiderweb games again, and I'm baffled by some of the choices. Nethergate is $30, more than any other game. That includes all four Avernums and all three Geneforges, despite the fact that those seven games are newer. I like Nethergate a great deal, but I don't understand this. Fortunately, Nethergate is at half price if you buy anything else. That's a good deal. Getting BoA at half price is also a good deal that's only going to get better, especially if you're interested in scenario design yourself. But what happened to BoE? Especially since it looks like it is likely to become unplayable as newer Macs become prevalent, now seems like the best time to try to convince people to grab it. They will be happy. Nethergate looks like it will suffer the same fate unless Jeff gets his act together and does whatever he plans on doing to spruce it up. —Alorael, who has grumbled as much about obsolescence as pricing. He'll just have to close with a few reiterations: Nethergate is oddly expensive, BoA is oddly but unsurprisingly cheap, and BoE seems to have fallen off the radar (also unsurprisingly!). Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 13:13
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Nobody enters high school at birth. Although some people are in high school while very young, I'd say it's fair to assume that most people who were in high school half a century ago are in the 65-70 range. —Alorael, who assumes that the world in 50 years will be as alien as today would be to someone 50 years ago. Trying to predict it is likely to work in some places and fail radically in others. Predicting universal computers with word processing and widespread laptops from ENIAC is a difficult task. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 11:11
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You're obviously forgetting a key piece of Alorael canon. —Alorael, who could still be held against the wall, more or less. His center of gravity would just be a little farther from the wall than might otherwise be expected. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 09:08
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We can see your profile. If your name is in it, we can see that too. You set your email to be invisible so we can't see it. —Alorael, who is glad to know that your stated preferences now reflect your profile preferences. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 09:06
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I don't mind being the first against the wall, really, as long as I can then get off the wall with a decent running start. All I need is a rifle and some higher ground. —Alorael, who has also been led to believe that the revolution is unlikely to include firing squads. Lead pipes are significantly more prominent in upcoming upheavals. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 09:01
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Spam is bad. Resurrection is bad. Doing both after being warned against them is not just bad. It's doubleplusungood. —Alorael, who orders this thread to take its own life honorably. He'll see if it complies. [Edit: Well, what do you know? It did!] [ Monday, February 27, 2006 09:01: Message edited by: Alorael, More or Less ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 08:56
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Silly me. I always thought that was a deliberate design choice and rather liked the idea that the world is not dependent on a perfectly matches set of requirements and items that can fulfill them. —Alorael, who sure was wrong. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 08:50
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Wouldn't that kind of extreme libertarianism count as anarchism? No budget means no power, and no power means the government is just an advisory body. —Alorael, who doubts the libertarians advocate a government that has a budget but refuses to use it to fund anything. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 08:42
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Khoth has a lair in A3 as well, but there's no scroll involved. This topic really doesn't need to be revived, though. —Alorael, who will refrain from locking because, quite honestly, it's no fun to collect locked topics that aren't in GC. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 27 2006 08:40
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This is the first step on the slippery slope to eumembership. Next we'll be banning everyone who isn't TM. —Alorael, who lives in fear of that day. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, February 26 2006 20:48
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quote:Same as above what? Male isn't a sexual orientation. Is 15.5? —Alorael, who can't quite wrap his mind around "Well, here goes..." as a sexual orientation. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, February 26 2006 20:44
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I think the complexities of the modern political system make that difficult. There's a reason people usually work themselves up from minor offices to major ones, and it's not just making a name. Experience is a requirement of politics. —Alorael, who can really only see utopia coming from a benevolent dictatorship of entirely impartial intelligence. That either means AI or aliens, take your pick and ignore the science fiction implications. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |