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A1 - Vahnatai Crypt? in The Avernum Trilogy
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No, it's not possible to get through the barriers. Well, it's not supposed to be. With luck, ingenuity, and cheating you can manage it, but all you get for your troubles is an exit through the back that leaves you permanently stuck in a wall.

—Alorael, who regards the crypt just as a nice bit of foreshadowing for A2.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Stuffing into Small Places? in General
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French Guiana is non-European French and it's more definitely part of France than New Caledonia. Incidentally, as an undeniable part of France proper with representatives in the government and everything, it is responsible for the European Union extending outside of anything that could reasonably be called Europe.

—Alorael, who has heard that Spidwebbers are uniformly insufferable. He has yet to see anything that dispels this potential myth.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The Continuing Story of Spiderweb Software in General
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1. Aran, but only to get my code debugged and/or debug his code.

2. Tim. Or The Cult of RW. Or the secret cabal that—ahem. Never mind.

3. Spam has been irking me for half a decade now. I'm not so sure it's actually worse than in the past, although the PPP could prove or disprove that. My personal belief is that hindsight has good spam filters.

4. A5.

5. Good question. I suppose because it's hard to meet people while holed up in a sniper's roost in Alaska.

6. Polaris, although I'm more of a sporadic poster.

7. I plead conflict of interests.

8. USA, English.

—Alorael, who wishes there were a better way to distinguish all the national dialects of English. Also it might be nice to distinguish English from Internetglish.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
It's that time of year again... in General
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Member # 335
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I don't like turkey, but I'd take light meat over dark.

—Alorael, who would take stuffing over either and mashed potatoes over just about everything else available.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Tank Cat! in General
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Too many memes, my Spidwebber.

—Alorael, who finds neither Mordor nor fat cats particularly amusing separately. Together they are the product of their unfunninesses.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Yes She Died in Avernum 4
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This is meant to be in the thread about chitrachs and Lieutenant Aelfinn, I think.

—Alorael, who directs further comments there.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Am I An Idiot? in The Avernum Trilogy
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If those are reliable IQ tests, then you have an IQ around 100 and a fair degree of certainty about it for whatever it's worth. If those were online tests, which is what I'd expect from your having taken four, they mean approximately nothing.

—Alorael, whose IQ of 97 always makes him feel like a bit of an outsider and a lesser being. Why must he be so inadequately intellectually endowed?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Why Mactintosh in General
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You're acting like you've never seen the A4 crowd. Seriously.

—Alorael, who should refrain from mocking those who pay Jeffs bills. But... literacy!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Stuffing into Small Places? in General
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My personal witnesses of impressive self-cramming seen a rather large man fit himself into a dryer to prove he could, a boy of around 2 manage to squeeze himself between the vertical bars in a railing, and, my personal favorite, a different boy around age 3 decide to sit in the refrigerator and do so.

I'm not particularly interested in putting myself into a box. I need my space.

—Alorael, who doesn't know what the smallest space he's ever been in was. It was probably non-Euclidean, though.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Why Mactintosh in General
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The word is vahnatai, and they're a race from the Avernum series. From your name I take it you've played mostly Geneforge and never run into them.

—Alorael, who apologizes for ignoring the topic title. Okay, that's 3/3.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
research notes in Avernum 4
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You can't open that door and can't get those notes. Don't worry, though. There are others elsewhere. Just keep looking!

—Alorael, who is a bit surprised that this is almost as common a query as all the Remote Cave questions from E/A3
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Call of Cthulhu in General
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Member # 335
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Breaking news! Your only hope is no longer to be eaten first! Now you can do the eating!

That is not dead which can eternal lie
And then sprout and grow up into a new Cthulhu head

—Alorael, who in his house in Alaska lies typing.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The next level in RP, personal thoughts. in General
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Flame on you crazy forum!

—Alorael, who is now roleplaying spam. Isn't he good at it? In real life he actually never spams at all.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
ET got banned again? in General
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Every community needs its Emmanuel Goldstein. ET's good at it and seems to enjoy the job!

—Alorael, who is not a virus according to any of the major antivirus software or the World Health Organization. You've got no proof!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Golden Slumbers in General
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I need at least seven hours to be fully functional the next day, but I rarely get that much. Insomnia and overactive thoughts keep me awake in bed far too long, and knowing this I often find myself sitting and reading, posting here, or otherwise spending time that I should be sleeping in other activities.

—Alorael, who would say that he probably does get seven hours on average, but it's an average mostly of getting six hours or so and then being tired enough the next day to fall sleep easily and get a good 7-8 hours.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
[SPAM] in General
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Member # 335
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You bot. I mod.

—Alorael, who is now actually talking to himself. This has to end here.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Call for input: Standardizing on a rating rubric in Blades of Avernum
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It sounds like Aran is actually asking for something like each element of a scenario to be rated, possibly 1-10. Your rubric would work fine, but only if the breakdown of scoring were shown along with the total.

—Alorael, who agrees that it might be nice to separate elements. Technical achievements probably mean more within the Blades community than to casual players (who are how numerous...?). Plot is almost always important, though. And how about the septuagenarian eskimos who love mindless combat?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
For all you physics gurus in General
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I'll assume you've already worked on blocks on inclined planes and pulley systems. Friction just adds another force opposite the direction of motion equal to the coefficient of friction multiplied by the normal force, as Thuryl says. It's just one more term on your force diagram.

—Alorael, who will work through all the numbers if it's necessary and if that isn't cheating.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Why Mactintosh in General
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quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

"Mactintosh"
Oh, come on. That's not even one of his misspellings!

—Alorael, who sees enough butcheries of "vahnatai" already. Is it really necessary to perpetuate the trend by doing it yourself? No. It's not.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Why Mactintosh in General
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Jeff has always made his games for Mac first by programming them on a Mac. If he were mostly a Windows user he'd probably make them for Windows first.

—Alorael, who wouldn't feel too left out. His games always reach WIndows eventually.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Photo Thread (with an abominable twist) in General
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The censored nudity didn't help.

Also,
IMAGE(http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/9529/21774ls6.jpg)

—Alorael, who finds that image delightful on many levels.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Synergy? in General
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quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

Imagine how frustrated you'd have to get before shooting it point-blank with a sniper rifle.
That's absurd. When I get frustrated and have to shoot wheels I do it from hundreds of meters away. You don't see me peppered with debris, and who's ever heard of buckshot from a sniper rifle?

—Alorael, who thinks rednecks may be an American phenomenon. Other countries can have their equivalents, but they're not exactly rednecks. The drawl is important to the image.
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