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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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| What to be added in Avernum 4? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Sunday, February 12 2006 19:26
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It is indeed new in A4. —Alorael, who supposes that the parrying and riposting mentioned in the first post appeared in the form of the Parry and Riposte skills. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Random Observations of the Moment in General | |
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written Sunday, February 12 2006 19:23
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Nonrandom observation: Synergy is much less nice than he lets on. —Alorael, who has not detected any corresponded decrease in adorability. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| What to be added in Avernum 4? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Sunday, February 12 2006 16:03
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You can also put items in chests and cupboards again. —Alorael, who must regretfully say that there aren't any wall spells in A4. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| We Never Stop Stripping in General | |
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written Sunday, February 12 2006 09:22
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Toxicity is part of medicine. If the chances of toxicity are extremely high, the medicine isn't approved. The fact that the drug was approved says something about the chances of bad side effects versus the effects of the drug. Rheumatoid arthritis is crippling, agonizing, and awful. If people who are dyiing are allowed to make quality of life decisions that shorten their lives but make them more worth living, why not let people who aren't dying run the risk in exchange for making life worth living? —Alorael, who would like to point out that many medications carry black box warnings that sound dire. More investigation often shows that the chance of dropping dead is minute, or that the worst effects were only seen in animal trials at doses unlikely to be matched by any real patient. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| We Never Stop Stripping in General | |
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written Saturday, February 11 2006 23:48
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There are really three kinds of ads that I can think of. Ads for Coca-Cola, McDonalds, or Nike don't have to tell you what the product is or why it's superior. They just have to make you think of the product so some day, when you're thirsty, hungry, or in need of shoes, you'll pick that product over the competition. Ads for a better washing machine don't have to tell you what a washing machine is, but there is no washing machine brand with which I am very familiar. The real goal may be to convince you that a washing machine is very good so that you may go to buy a washing machine and see the label and remember that it's a good machine. The third kind of ad is probably one of the most powerful for cultural change: ads for things you didn't know about yesterday but can't live without today. Most probably aren't successful, but someone had to buy the first toothpaste. (Before mass adveritsement, possibly, but the principle holds.) —Alorael, who is baffled by the ads that don't actually convey what the particular product is. Advertisements that seem to be for one thing and that end up being for another are also odd. An iPod ad pushing a car at the very end springs to mind. Finally, there has been a recent move towards having the side effects of drugs announced slowly and clearly, which has led to some commercials that briefly say that a drug is wonderful and then a lengthy catalogue of potential deaths. If one were considering the drug before the commercial, one might reconsider. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Favorite Charecter? in Nethergate | |
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written Saturday, February 11 2006 18:00
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Pearlblossom. I spent most of the game trying to figure out what she was there for, and it turned out to be ambience. —Alorael, who also very much likes the wish fish. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Will Exile ever be carbonized? in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Saturday, February 11 2006 17:59
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And I've always found PCs to be plastic boxes of crap. But we can agree to disagree! —Alorael, who would like it very much if a Mac-vs-PC debate did not happen here. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| We Never Stop Stripping in General | |
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written Saturday, February 11 2006 17:56
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Abstinence is now a basic requirement of sex education/advertisement. That said, preaching protection has been shown to give better results. —Alorael, who is always amazed by how many words that don't actually mean anything get thrown around in advertisements. He doesn't watch TV or listen to the radio very much so he doesn't have any good examples, but they're everywhere. They're something like the linguistic introns (like, I mean, you know) but only in an ad context. Guaranteed! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| math equation in General | |
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written Saturday, February 11 2006 11:05
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I'd suspect a typo, but there's no obvious change to that equation that makes it reasonable to solve without outside aids but not trivial. —Alorael, who does not like solution that involve equations that must be looked up on Wikipedia. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Just what is the deal with Alorael?* in General | |
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written Saturday, February 11 2006 10:59
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Ephesos: You were only here for a few months when I started my moniker changing. Synergy: A little of column A and a little of column B. If I need skribbane as a form of anger management rather than a form of recreation, I imbibe until I'm not angry or I'm not posting. I'm always a little mad, though. It comes from the Spiderweb fee. Ash: Not everyone can manage singletons, you know. WM: SInce I used my signature when I was a newbie, it has nothing to do with oldbiehood. I just needed a gimmick to distinguish myself. Mind you, back in those days not everyone had a gimmick, and gimmicks weren't a dime a dozen. Oh, no. I had to spend 18 gruelling months earning my gimmick, and you'll never know how proud I was when I was certified and had my signature patented. Really! —Alorael, who believes curiousity has been classified as unAmerican activity under HUAC-Patriot Act legislation. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Just what is the deal with Alorael?* in General | |
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written Friday, February 10 2006 22:33
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What's the deal with you? Oh, and welcome to Spiderweb! Leave your sanity at the door! Yes, it's been said before, but it bears repeating and repeating and repeating. I've never heard anyone speak of abberitions and I wouldn't know quite what to make of it if anyone did. Such an apparition would be an aberration indeed. —Alorael, who would like it to be noted for posterity that he started changing his name upon reaching 7500 posts because 7500 posts was at the time the final title for post count. Postaroni is a late addition. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| A Few Advance Notes On Geneforge 4 in Geneforge Series | |
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written Friday, February 10 2006 22:27
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If I may roughly paraphrase a roughly remembered Grumpy Gamer article Jeff wrote, having to micromanage characters' basic needs may be realistic but it isn't fun. Games are fun. Therefore having to carefully deal with basic needs is bad. The food of the Exiles and Nethergate is about as close as I want to come to having to feed PCs. Sleep just isn't exciting. It means, what, clicking a button every so many minutes and enduring a few seconds of black screen? —Alorael, who is excited about Geneforge 4. Maybe it will inspire him to play Geneforges 1-3! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Is there a way to keep playing after winning A3? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Friday, February 10 2006 12:27
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The second is actually a bad example. FYT should never be used to fix typos. It should be used for the sole purpose of putting words in another's mouth, usually for comical effect and mockery. —Alorael, who can summarize most of TM's posts with a single sentence: "I fixed your mother's typos." Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| [ Topic closed ] in General | |
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written Friday, February 10 2006 12:23
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What makes a topic necessary? People are saying things here, and those things are not spam, mostly. That makes it a living, breathing, topic (without the living and breathing, but bear with me.) Forcing lock is a bad idea. It is a slightly less bad idea when a topic deserves death, which this does not. —Alorael, who does not approve of third-person gimmicks. Accept no substitutes! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Is there a way to keep playing after winning A3? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Friday, February 10 2006 08:55
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The usual misuse of FYT involves actually fixing typos. In this case you just quoted me with emphasis added. Not that I'm not grateful for the correction as I slip into senectitude, but what if I can bearly figure out what the correct word is? —Alorael, who is embarrassed to have his flaws beared before the hole of Spiderweb. (Incidentally, hole seems like a surprisingly apt descriptor for Spiderweb.) Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| THE ABOMINABLE PHOTO THREAD REVOLUTIONS in General | |
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written Friday, February 10 2006 08:52
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The obvious lesson in that is to avoid satellites. —Alorael, who believes that Thuryl's absence is a perfect excuse for a dictatorship of the people. All decisions will now be made by the majority, and the majority will will be determined by the Standing Committee of Spiderweb. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Return life in Avernum 4 | |
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written Friday, February 10 2006 08:44
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Return Life is the only spell that I never found. It's only available for purchase. Since the spell either completely heals you or it doesn't, there's no room for higher level effects. —Alorael, who doesn't know why this is important except that in his first A4 game he didn't purchase Return Life and therefore never returned lives. It made the last few areas a little bit harder. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Is there a way to keep playing after winning A3? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 19:29
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If you know you have incomplete quests, why press on to the end? If you don't know of any incomplete quests, why would you play past the end? —Alorael, who can barely bare to step into a new outdoor section if there's any unexplored blue left. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Is there a way to keep playing after winning A3? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 15:43
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I've never really understood this question. In A1 and A2, you can complete one of the three major quests and then keep playing. In A3, you can't, but any reasonable person will have a saved game just before the last fight. How different is it, really? —Alorael, who has never had a large urge to keep playing after completing an Avernum. The quests are all done and the dialogue doesn't really change. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 15:41
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TM has made it clear that he is referring to the music played during the last battles of Final Fantasies 6, 7, and 8. He has not clarified what prompted this query. Anyone asking TM for a reason probably deserves the likely response. —Alorael, who could live without the particularly painful middle image. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| The Spiderweb Instant Custom Title Generator? in General | |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 13:38
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Arctic and Saunders already have fitting titles, actually. They could be "The Appendages You Know" and "The Appendages You Don't," respectively, though. Why must America use an inaccurate and counterintuitive comma system? —Alorael, who pointed out himself that his name sounds angelic because of the suffix -el, which is (of) God in Hebrew. The root aleph (or ayin) resh lamed doesn't mean anything, though, unless you trust very shady information on kabbalah. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Will Exile ever be carbonized? in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 13:25
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We neither confirm nor deny rumors that mods can ban people. We neither confirm nor deny rumors that they can't. We just emphasize the denying a little more for the former and the confirming a little more for the latter. —Alorael, who can confirm that he wrote this post. Look for his signature of approval on all posts by Alorael. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Great Art in Games in General | |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 13:22
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Someone else who has heard of Dungeon Master 2? I'm shocked. That game was so impressive, and then it did so little with it. On the other hand, suicide by walking into walls never lost its appeal. Neither did throwing fruit at shopkeepers and then receiving a lethal beating from the unexplained semi-avian lurkers. —Alorael, who has another game to add to the list along with his nostalgia. Tranquility is nothing but art in both senses of the word. Tetris is art too. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum 4 For Macintosh v1.0.1 Upgraded Released in Avernum 4 | |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 13:17
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You still shouldn't delete the critical file. It's just a different file in a different place. For those who really want to know and missed it in another recent topic, don't touch your preference files for Spiderweb games after you've registered. —Alorael, who would like to know if the Spiderweb community is supposed to immediately release this. The next step in viral marketing is the informal press release? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Through Drakefyre's Looking Glass in General | |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 08:24
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The boards to which TM has contributed 6226 posts? —Alorael, who is unamazed, unsurprised, and, after four years, sadly unapalled. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |