Profile for Or else o'erleap.
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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 Friday, February 17 2006 08:50
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You know, we could prevent the periodic problems with bandwidth and disk space by preventing Thuryl from posting. It's worth considering. —Alorael, who means "very slightly delay" when he says "prevent." But it's probably good enough for an American campaign platform. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, February 17 2006 08:44
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Ocean Bound would be perfect for the irony. —Alorael, who would choose BoE as long as he could take a rather large pile of BoE scenarios with him. Four weeks of VoDT, ASM, and ZKR would be deadly. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, February 17 2006 08:42
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You can't press more than one button on the keyboard at once? Perhaps there is a problem with your keyboard. —Alorael, who also thinks you're missing the apostrophe and T after can, although the sentence as it stands is true. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, February 17 2006 08:38
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Don't think we don't know that you aren't not cooking the books on the posting stats. Somehow. Observation alters the observed, right? —Alorael, who would like to take this moment to remind everyone to post responsibly, not to post and drive simultaneously, and never, ever, to feed the trolls. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 19:52
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If you think of January as a fluke of the new year, the stats are encouraging. Or discouraging, if you're TM. —Alorael, who didn't notice that Aran was posting that much and certainly didn't catch on to Dikiyoba's grasp for power posting. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 19:47
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It's not a control test. There's no easy way to figure out whether neurological dimorphism from drift led to segregation of behavior or vice versa by looking at other primates, but we can determine whether it is a human adaptation or an earlier adaptation shared by more primates, or even an advantageous adaptation that is derived analogously in many branches of evolution. Actually, this would be a terrible study without better setup, but I'd be interested in knowing how often gender-based behavior has been independently evolved. —Alorael, who would be even more interested in the rather impossible or at least highly unethical study of how well very primitve human populations survive with only one gender present. (For a single generation, anyway. Second generations would be problematic.) Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 18:17
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I see no inductive fallacy. Khoth points out that the Bible is followed selectively. If braiding hair was not permissible because prostitutes did it but is now okay because everyone does it (or because prostitutes don't do it?), fine. I guess pigs don't carry disease anymore, either, so a kosher diet isn't necessary. You can argue utility for all of the rules in the Bible. Only heterosexuality can produce children, and children were necessary to survival in the harsh Biblical world. Now that times are different children are unnecessary and there is no need to condemn homosexuality. —Alorael, who would look at sexual dimorphism in other primates for an understanding of humans. If primates closely related to humans tend to have behaviors determined by gender, it's a fair bet that human behavior was also determined by gender and that brains evolved for those tasks along gender lines. Even if only humans culturally separated tasks but did it a long time ago different abilities could have developed. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 17:39
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Sweeney Todd deserves a salute for taste in musical theater, but that perhaps doesn't speak too highly of your stability. It's also not very cute to swing your razor wide. —Alorael, who will have to look into modifying "No Place Like London" to fit Spiderweb. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 13:36
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I've always been proud of Judaism's stock of Jewish jokes. The best ones I've ever heard were delivered during a service by the rabbi. On the other hand, most of the Jewish jokes that are actually funny have very little to do with Jewish religion and everything to do with Jewish culture. That's a fine line, but it's one worth noting. —Alorael, who wonders if self-deprecation and strong awareness of centuries spent as the victims of the world are linked. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 13:29
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Adaptation. —Alorael, whose life is also filled with a surfeit of the surreal, books, exotic drugs, and gunfire. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 08:34
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I think you mean Hathwisa, not Hiawatha. —Alorael, who now thinks that the frequently requested Nethergate 2 should focus on the New World. The Iroquois Confederacy and the English (or the various colonial powers) have just the right Celtic-Roman interaction, and there's a whole new mythology to explore. (Bloody sacrifices, stone dances, and sidhe are sadly missing, but historical accuracy shouldn't stand in the way of a game!) Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 08:25
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I'm actually quite interested in how the non-Muslim political voices can despise the Qur'an as a document that inspires violence and terrorism when, as Alec points out, the holy Judeo-Christian word of God has inspired its own fair share of that violence and terrorism. In the same vein as Aran, where can the line be drawn between religion and psychology? If you experience physical euphoria from worship, is that a gift from God or a gift from biochemistry (or both)? What if I don't feel anything is missing from my life and in fact feel most uplifted when I can face a room full of the devout and tear apart the tenets of religion and belief in God? What if that makes me euphoric? —Alorael, who would further like to know what makes physical euphoria evidence for the God of the New Testament when the Old Testament works just as well. Or, for that matter, how about those who hold entirely different religious faiths and who also experience religious ecstasy? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 08:07
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For quotes, one cannot beat Googlewhack. I'm impressed by some of the conversations. For mindless fun, one cannot beat Qix/Sparkz. Both games are aesethetically complete, which makes them intriguingly opposite to the aesthetically empty Richard White games. —Alorael, who should amend that. Aside from some minor frustrations, Lost Souls' graphics are as perfect as they need to be. Ocean Bound is just plain ugly, and Galactic Core contains a strange mix of failed attempts at graphics and attempts that should have been made but weren't. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 08:03
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quote:How do you know until you've tried? —Alorael, who assumes that Synergy requires the bribe to be discreetly marked as specifically for titles, a purpose discrete from the usual background level of bribery necessary to any Spidwebian back room conspiracy. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 16 2006 07:55
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"Verification Required by Visa" —Alorael, whose life is inextricably bound with (and inside) demon living with tabloid and cyprus mulch. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 15 2006 20:29
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Your population is part of the challenge. The trend may reverse eventually, but quite honestly I couldn't bear playing that far even if I could bear registering. —Alorael, who has better things to do. Like play Tetris and Tranquility and Sparkz. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 15 2006 20:24
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You quoted my post and didn't quote the signature. What's so amazing about that? [edit: capitalizatioN] —Alorael, who will have you know that he has had better men than you expelled from the Politburo and airbrushed out of pictures. [ Wednesday, February 15, 2006 20:24: Message edited by: Sergeant-at-Arms ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 15 2006 20:22
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I appreciate that TM can include FYT, but I feel that a critical element of humor has been omitted by failure to create more opportunity for humorous acronyms. More importantly, analysis of the sixteen groups is conspicuously absent. —Alorael, who supposes there has to be some room left for an encore. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 15 2006 15:56
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The beginning of A2's demo is representative, but as soon as you hop on a boat you get an experience very different from just about everything else in any Avernum. —Alorael, who made a grievous error in forgetting to append his signature. Still, one out of 10,000 ain't bad. (Slightly more, really, but who's counting?) [ Wednesday, February 15, 2006 20:23: Message edited by: Sergeant-at-Arms ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 15 2006 15:39
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Social interaction and counseling are very different activities and have very different rules. I would honestly be annoyed with Synergy if he took it upon himself to take on the role of counselor when I'm trying to have a conversation. —Alorael, who is sure counseling has many lessons to impart on everyday interactions. Not forcing issues can be one of them. Being a counselor all the time had better not be one of them. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 15 2006 12:31
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The bug lays an egg, which quickly hatches into a larva: the worm null. Oh, I kill me. —Alorael, who deserves to be killed by others for that. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 15 2006 09:09
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Safari has a bookmark bar. These forums are a mere command-1 away. —Alorael, who has experienced no difficulties with spidweb.com. Then again, he often bypasses Spiderweb to get straight to ironycentral.com. Why are the forums tied to Irony Central anyway? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 15 2006 09:02
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I see an urgent need for an EV:N total conversion to explain how the vahnatai went from starfaring to living in caves beneath the surface of Ermarian. Come on. When else are you going to have a chance to actually use Alxus in a meaningful context? —Alorael, who wonders whether space chitrachs and star hydras are significant threats to vahnatai waveships. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 15 2006 08:58
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So, Alex, when are you going to put your more recent works of art on your website? —Alorael, who believes that particular image may become a necessary element of locking topics. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 14 2006 20:04
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Great vigorous stuffing, Kel! Keep it up! —Alorael, who still stands as the only Postmaster General that ever was. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |