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Ideas Refreshment in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 19 2006 20:16 Profile Homepage #15
It's still a liability issue. Many authors get sued over taking ideas without giving credit or permutations thereof. Even though the authors win, it's an expensive proposition and nobody wants to get involved.

Jeff, who is very much about making money without getting sued, would not like your suggestions.

—Alorael, who wouldn't actually try emailing bad suggestions. While Jeff might not use them, he very well might take them as encouragement to use their spiritual brethren. That would be unpleasant. Things can be much, much worse than A4.
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my world(would appreciate ideas) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 19 2006 20:11 Profile Homepage #27
You know, I'm willing to accept the use of quotes to create horizontal lines. At least I can tell which text is quoted now, although it seems like this has to be more work than actually quoting right.

quote:
[b]
i (modestly) have a creative mind
[/b]

Looking at the world presented, I agree. The word order might be rearranged a bit, but I agree.

quote:
the reason with the many Vs is becuase that is what the planets denizens call it, naturally they would want to associate there minor objects and places with incredible majestic grandness of their planet.
Planets aren't really grand or majestic if you're living on them. Remember, everything that isn't grand or majestic is that planet too.

quote:

maybe the dragons live in harmony with the elves?
and elves create superficial meat for them to eat
Elves? Stealing from Tolkien is a good way to doom an otherwise acceptable world to mediocrity.

Finally, a slightly more serious contribution. Assuming the moons have periods of 13, 17, 23, 91, 45, 74, and 103 days, they only line up to cause catastrophic tides once every 1,865,684 years. A lot can happen in a millenium with magic, although I'd still question the prevalence of non-aquatic life.

—Alorael, who would refuse to eat superficial meat. Only profound meat is worth consuming.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 19 2006 12:56 Profile Homepage #15
Magic is tidal now?

If you can't just handwave dragons or make them run on magic, both of which are common excuses, the only answer is to make them run on inorganic fuel. Maybe they hook themselves up to volcanos and run on geothermal power. Maybe they're walking, talking, fire-breathing nuclear reactors.

—Alorael, who foresees a time when dragons are hunted to extinction for their fissile materials.
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Hooray. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 19 2006 12:48 Profile Homepage #22
Mischatology is the study of the end of the Miscellaneous forum.

If it's wrong it's still not a lemma. It's just wrong! Lemmas might not be big and important on their own, but they still have to be correct.

—Alorael, who ignored that definition of good. Usually one does not say that something is a good drink because it is healthy. One might say that the drink is good for you. A good drink is a tasty drink, health be damned!
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 19 2006 12:44 Profile Homepage #7
TM, how many people make BoE scenarios? A lot. How many have tried to come up with partnerships where they come up with the plot and someone else does the work of actually turning it into a scenario? Also a lot.

How many people have taken the chance to make someone else's scenario? I can't think of any.

—Alorael, who could only see that happening if the plot were a broad outline rather than specifics and if it were stated in the form of a contest. Like a contest to make saving the world from vahnatai monster plagues actually interesting!
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 19 2006 09:36 Profile Homepage #3
It's a DeLorean.

Everyone has ideas for how to make a good game. Just look at Blades forums to see how many people would love to design a game as long as someone else will do the implementation for them. Ultimately, nobody really wants to make someone else's world unless that someone is paying for it.

Furthermore, because of problems with legal rights, Jeff actually can't use any idea submitted to him by someone else. If you really want to make sure that an idea isn't used, this is the best way to do it.

—Alorael, who is sure someone is wishing he'd thought of emailing Jeff the plot of A4 before A4 was made.
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Physics, and a dumb teacher in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 19 2006 09:32 Profile Homepage #28
Physics involves a lot of mathematics, but is it a subset? Math doesn't necessarily equip you with any of those fundamental principles you need to eventually determine the proper care and feeding of a paramecium.

—Alorael, who thinks Kel was upset because a certain someone else who shall go unnamed made the same mistake in thinking he was responding to Thralni. Kel pointed out that he wasn't, and then Thralni complained. Oops.
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STUPIDEST POST EVER!!! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 19 2006 09:27 Profile Homepage #43
Not so. I, for instance, frequently spend my days clad in a lifeboat.

—Alorael, who occasionally gets some strange looks. He just ignores them. He'll see who looks askance at whom when people get trapped on deserted islands.
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Let's Go! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 19 2006 09:23 Profile Homepage #72
Like Urban Dictionary?

[Edit: I just wounded my English speeking soul.]

—Alorael, whose prescriptivist soul is wounded.

[ Sunday, February 19, 2006 20:25: Message edited by: The anti-POK ]
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Physics, and a dumb teacher in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 19 2006 00:10 Profile Homepage #20
Biology is a subset of chemistry and chemistry is a subset of physics. If you understand physics you understand everything! It just takes a little work to get there from fundamental principles.

—Alorael, who once actually used that equation to calculate how fast he would be moving when he hit the ground after leaping off of a roof. He was painting the roof and the wasps were displeased. Based on his (very rough and rapid) estimates of his probable collision speed, the elasticity of collision with the ground, and the anger of wasps, he elected to jump.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 18 2006 21:35 Profile Homepage #15
I'm not doing well with the typos these days. Yuck.

quote:
Originally written by Semodius:

It's a lemma not because I proved it.
I can't parse that sentence. It's not a lemma because you didn't prove it, but that involves two negations in different places from the one you have.

quote:
I said it was a lemma, so it is.Assume that it is a lemma is what I would have typed, had I not been lazy.
Then your lemma, which is still missing its larger theory, goes like this:

Prove A:
Assume A
QED.

That is a questionable proof. I still think that your statement is a postulate, except it's a tautological postulate.

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But root beer is indeed a good drink because it mixes honey, carbonated water, fructose corn syrup, and natural flavors in a palatable concoction. QED.
Root beer (or bear) is good because it combines ingredients to make a palatable drink. But good drinks are palatable drinks by definition, so the only important part (missing from the first post) is the ingredients. Root beer would be bad if it weren't made of root beer ingredients? Root beer wouldn't be root beer if it weren't made of root beer ingredients, but it still could be good!

Furthermore, most Germans I have known have intensely disliked root beer. They claimed it tasted like cough medicine.

Aran: Misc. + eschatology = mischatology.

Syn and TM: I too have bears with honey. Mine lack spigots, though, so I make do with a hole. (Of course the hole is in the bear's head, before you ask!)

—Alorael, who may be thinking too hard about this.
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Favorite Charecter? in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 18 2006 21:02 Profile Homepage #23
Speaking of pronunciations, did Jeff bother to point out the pronunciation of sidhe anywhere obvious in the beginning? That's something worth learning for your Celtic mythology.

—Alorael, who would be blue, nekkid, and violent if his language had wholly counterintuitive spellings too. And he speaks English. Hm.
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Physics, and a dumb teacher in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 18 2006 20:58 Profile Homepage #17
Kel, you just did the same thing as the teacher. Saying that KE can be used to calculate the velocity of a falling ball (as long as you know PE ~ mgh) doesn't explain why KE is what it is. Mass and velocity are measurable quantities, but KE isn't so obvious. A quantity could be defined as the 7/5*sqrt(m)/v^8, but that's not a useful quantity like KE.

Common sense doesn't work with quantum mechanics, Ben. It just doesn't. Also, while knowing position and velocity is related to wavefunction, that's more of a contradiction of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

—Alorael, who prefers to introduce cats into his boxes with lethal but unpredictable poisons.
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Hanged? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 18 2006 16:25 Profile Homepage #113
I hear many things, but since the thread of posted voices I haven't heard any Spiderweb forum things.

—Alorael, who knows of little that injects life into a thread like a underappreciated, content-free tangent.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 18 2006 13:12 Profile Homepage #5
That's not a lemma. You didn't prove that gourmet root bear is tasty, you just stated it. You then failed to use it to prove another theorem.

In fact, your statement is much closer to a tautology. Since you specify good root bear, and since good means tasty in the context of a drink, what you have stated is that good root bear is good root bear. This is reflexively (and very obviously) true.

—Alorael, whose most prominent thought is that the rash of meaningless threads reminds him of the end of Misc. In fact, it reminds him so strongly (with the absence of pointless polls, granted) that he may have to reference mischatology.
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Favorite Charecter? in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 18 2006 10:52 Profile Homepage #20
If you want a recent average, look in Aran's statistics. If you want an overall average, it's not all that hard to divide my total posts by the time I've been here. As it so happens, both are very close to 7 posts per day.

—Alorael, who should encourage Aran to rank lifetime average posts per day with his other stats. Then there would be less need for short-term spamming and more calculated increases in lifetime spamishness.
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Physics, and a dumb teacher in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 18 2006 10:42 Profile Homepage #9
Quantum mechanics are mathematically elegant but a mess to try to imagine. The classical approach is to draw a diagram. If you try to draw a diagram of quantum mechanics you're probably wrong.

—Alorael, who gives himself headaches by trying to visualize wavelengths of macroscopic objects.
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Everything you never wanted to know about Christian radio... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 18 2006 10:20 Profile Homepage #18
If Christian music were only "good" for being Christian, nobody would listen. Message rarely trumps aesthetics.

—Alorael, who would like to know who the non-Christian listeners are.
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Same Graphics? in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 18 2006 00:30 Profile Homepage #7
If you're playing for the graphics, you're playing the wrong company's games.

If you're playing for variable mechanics, you're not living in the world of most RPG developers. A frequent scheme is to develop a system and then use it until the graphics are too dated. I think Spiderweb's skill point system is my favorite character advancement system and I wouldn't want it to be mucked with unnecessarily anyway.

The point of the games has always been the plot (or the ambience, to be more specific, but that's another argument), and those aren't the same. Usually. Actually, they are in many ways the same, but they're good ways. Sometimes. More often than not.

—Alorael, who thinks you missed a metaphor.
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Teddy Ballgame in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 18 2006 00:25 Profile Homepage #3
I'm not at my sharpest, am I?

Congrats on reaching a non-decimal milestone, Salmon!

—Alorael, who hopes you enjoy an equal number of nocturnal periods that pass without execution.
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Teddy Ballgame in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 17 2006 23:46 Profile Homepage #1
Binary equivalent, I think.

He was also controversially cryopreserved.

—Alorael, who doesn't know what prompted this, although it's fascinating.
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A Year of Stats in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 17 2006 23:17 Profile Homepage #49
I can't post one-liners.

—Alorael, who did his best for this post.
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Physics, and a dumb teacher in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 17 2006 23:12 Profile Homepage #3
I believe the answer is that kinetic energy is defined as the integral of force with respect to displacement. That's equal to half the product of mass and the square of the velocity (1/2*mv^2). So the simple answer for why is that it's defined that way.

The slightly longer answer is that it's defined that way because that quantity has been meaningful in the experience of physicists.

[Edit: Not so hot on the math. Or memory.]

—Alorael, who supposes this ultimately gets to the question of why the universe has so many simple and elegant equations for how reality works. Anthropic Principle, anyone?

[ Friday, February 17, 2006 23:14: Message edited by: 4.2% Popularity ]
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Chrono Trigger in Blades of Exile
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 17 2006 23:04 Profile Homepage #14
Some ROMs have been released, but not many. One could also rig up the hardware to allow a non-CD cartridge to be read by a computer, which could then feed it to an emulator. This would be legal, I think, but requires a level of technical skill beyond just about anyone.

—Alorael, who can't see any way to make legal action against backing up a ROM stand up in court without evidence of illegal distribution. Downloading a ROM instead of copying it yourself is probably equally legal. It's just that nobody makes the download available solely to those who can prove prior possession and ownership.
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SMBTI redesign in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 17 2006 10:48 Profile Homepage #29
quote:
Originally written by ben12C8:

"Conservative" technically refers to someone who wants to keep things the way they are, and "liberal" refers to those who want to change it. Though that makes sense now, it may not in 2008.
Technically correct, but functionally not terribly useful. If liberals have control of the government, they'll institute their policies and then try to keep things the same. If conservatives then take power, they'll do their best to change things because the way liberals have things set up is not what they want.

Liberals want a stronger economy, less crime, fewer poor and better protection for them, a strong health and education system, and so on. So do conservatives. Nobody thinks the status quo is the best of all possible worlds. The disagreement is over the policies most likely to lead there.

—Alorael, who might have to start a political party based on how wonderful things are right now. It would be different and the general public seems to be gullible enough to believe it. The only catch is that all news services would have to be prevented from explaining how everyone is always in imminent and dire peril of suffering extraordinary hardships.
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