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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 Thursday, February 9 2006 08:21
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Does nonsensical totality trump nonsensical specifics? —Alorael, who believes a degree of distinction must be drawn between lack of sanity and insanity. He'll develop this line of thought further someday. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 08:19
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I find it somewhat sad that Saunders and Arctic aren't on the list. They aren't prolific posters anymore, but thtey deserve love and adoration! —Alorael, who cannot comprehend his angelic qualities unless they rest solely in his suffix. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 08:14
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The neologism you're looking for is mangulation. —Alorael, who mangulates profecundiferously. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 08:13
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Synergy wins twice, and insulting him can't change that. Furthermore, Synergy starts with S. SoT may also win, but his decision to use tentacles as a rite of passage is somewhat questionable. Thuryl most assuredly wins and has assured that I will never, ever eat live tentacles. On the other hand, my family has a truly stunning octopus joke that I would repeat here if it weren't on the same order of magnitude as posting the Communist Manifesto. Mycroft, if you've read Thuryl's article you will see why we all know that the tentacles have minds of their own. Vicious, retributive minds. —Alorael, who likes his food dead. Not sick, not wounded, dead. This quote cannot in fact be attributed to Alorael, but putting Walter Hollander after the emdash would be too bizarre. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 9 2006 08:00
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The shades can move every time you load a new outdoor section. The easiest way to make that happen is to take the nearest pylon to Fort Avernum and then go right back. If you haven't visited Fort Avernum yet, you'll have to leave Formello and come back, but you actually have to travel a fair distance away from the city. I'm not sure quite how far, but if everything freezes for a moment after you take a step you've probably just experienced section loading. —Alorael, who spent more time than he would like to think about jumping in and out of pylons to rearrange shades. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 8 2006 17:18
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As long as you're explaining, I've got a question that's bothered me for a while. What's a genious? —Alorael, who can accept the existence of Erwin Rasputin. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 8 2006 15:59
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American Gods doesn't delve into effability and lack thereof as explicitly as Good Omens. It's also oddly lacking in Christ and Antichrist. —Alorael, who considers Good Omens to be required reading after Paradise Lost, which is required reading as the Book of Milton in the Bible. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 8 2006 15:46
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Sarcasm doesn't work with graemlins if graemlins occur in the normal course of your posting. Actually, graemlins pretty much ruin everything. —Alorael, who is a completely disinterested party. Note how he never uses graemlins. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 8 2006 08:48
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Actually, Jeff mentioned "untimely death." He didn't specify whose. This is the man behind the Scorched Earth Party. Draw your own conclusions. —Alorael, who humbly submits that Jeff is less likely to touch a keyboard when his hands are sticky red messes of half-coagulated blood from heretics, infidels, and irritants. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 7 2006 18:44
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It is not meant to be effed. Ours is merely to look on in wonder, awe, and bafflement. —Alorael, who recommends Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett for fascinating discourses on ineffability. Among other things. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 7 2006 15:47
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There's more than one spell upstairs. Are you sure you've looked everywhere? For that matter, there's more than one upstairs. Which stairs did you go up? —Alorael, who can't imagine that Jeff replaced Dispel Barrier in the update. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 7 2006 12:40
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Food Lion may not be in every state, but it's close. Now whenever I need groceries away from home, I know I can find a Food Lion. —Alorael, who believes Trader Joe's is now very widespread too, although it's less grocery-oriented and more like purchasing pieces of potluck. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 7 2006 08:07
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Now that PPP data is at our fingertips, we could divide up all the threads and try to establish once and for all which FAQ is the most frequently asked. Any volunteers? —Alorael, who puts his money on Exile/Avernum/Geneforge onlne. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 7 2006 08:04
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Kel is awesome enough for moonshine and all possible respellings thereof and BoX simultaneously. Awesome here is used in the original sense of the word. —Alorael, who would like to draw inferences regarding gender disparity, Rosycat's presence, and events surrounding Rosycat's presence. He can't, unfortunately. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 6 2006 15:59
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Yes. Yes it is. Only it's not so much innuendo now. —Alorael, who believes that the condition of being undefeated on the battlefield refers only to commanders who have, in fact, commanded battles, especially battles in fields. It may occasionally refer to armies and even on rare occasions to individual soldiers. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 6 2006 12:25
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That's an historical record, that is. It shows that even the long lost days of yore the primitives were familiar with rapid appearance, disappearance, and reappearance. They even had a crude form of parody to mock the events. —Alorael, who really should get around to storming out one of these days. He'll think about it. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 6 2006 12:18
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Soon. I'd guess this month or next month, but it's a complete guess. It all depends on how difficult porting is and how many disasters are encountered during beta testing. —Alorael, who will resist the urge to mace a comment that could be reasonably turned into the acronym GAM even though it traditionally appears as a single word, often in boldface. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, February 5 2006 19:31
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I know TM too well. His last post immediately shouted "innuendo!" to me, and I'm not sure TM meant it to do so. —Alorael, who will also Belisarius to be Custer to be Alec C. Kyras if they or he want or wants. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, February 5 2006 09:38
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I told you so. Except I wasn't being serious. —Alorael, who likes line breaks. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, February 5 2006 09:32
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For what it's worth, I don't think you can justifying welcoming someone back when they only claimed to be leaving and never actually left. Welcome still, Edward! —Alorael, who warns everyone to brace for incoming TM just in case. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, February 4 2006 18:11
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There's really no need to be snide or nasty to someone who's leaving because he's unhappy. The internet isn't a nice place and TM may endanger kittens, but sympathy isn't terribly difficult. Sorry you're leaving on bad terms, Edward. If you do fulfill expectations and come back, you've at least to beware of the TM. —Alorael, who can't remember the last upset departure at 50 posts. This in no way implies that it didn't happen. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, February 4 2006 18:04
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Ben, you knowingly and willingly posted that after TM stated outright that his cream pie is a euphemism. —Alorael, who has no meaningful contribution to add to his statement of bewildering fact. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, February 4 2006 12:58
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More details would help. How much do you need to store? Why? How much bandwidth will you want for retrieval? —Alorael, who would have to give different recommendations for 10 MB large files, 100 MB large files, and 1000 MB large files. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, February 4 2006 10:35
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FF, could you cite sources for your list of self-aware animals? I know that humans, dolphins, and some primates are considered self-aware, but I didn't know that wolves were or that there is strong evidence for a major difference between wolf and dog minds. A number of birds are intelligent and possibly self-aware as well. I'm still not clear on the need for specialization, which seems in this case to mean specialization in diet, specifically. The more specialized the diet, the more likely the organism is to have a digestive system designed to get the most benefit from that diet. Omnivorism opens up new food sources but makes all food sources less efficient. There's nothing inherently superior about omnivorism or everything would be omnivorous. The only real evolutionary pressure is to find a diet that supplies all nutritional needs. As soon as any diet, whatever its contents, exceeds the bare minimum and the organism is past some threshold of intelligence, civilization is possible. That intelligence won't come after the diet unless intelligence conveys some procreative advantage. —Alorael, who wouldn't say that humans are well adapted biologically to warfare or agriculture. Meme evolution isn't gene evolution. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, February 3 2006 22:14
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I took your OCD to mean that you obsessively and compulsively had your party stand just out of range and very, very slowly picked off each pylon. Doing it with one victim is much easier. —Alorael, who kills all the turrets except pylons from outside of their range. Most fungi and shrubs don't have all that much health. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |