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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 3 2006 17:49
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Alec? Scorp!? —Alorael, who will be saddened and dismayed if there are any responses contain variations on a theme of negation. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Fort Monastery - iron bar quest in Avernum 4 | |
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written Friday, February 3 2006 08:54
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If the guards kill Starrus the script sees that he's dead and you die too. Justice is swift, harsh, and not terribly logical in Avernum. —Alorael, who doesn't even know if it's possible to get guards to meet Starrus. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| how did you find out about spiderweb games? in General | |
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written Friday, February 3 2006 08:51
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I first heard of Exile when an acquaintance was talking about it very shortly after E1 was made. It went in one ear and got lodged somewhere near the other ear. That would have been the end of Exile except that I, too, encountered E1 on a CD of many shareware and freeware offerings. I remembered hearing about it and decided to try it. I think I truly fell in love the first time I heard the "uh-ee!" death squeek. —Alorael, who is quite sure that AM is still around occasionally, but he's also quite sure that AM is around less frequently than he once was thanks to AM's post on that very subject. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, February 3 2006 08:42
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Happy birthday! May you experience many good wishes for your 14th year of biologically independent existence. —Alorael, who hopes you got 14 pieces of sushi, each with its own candle. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| A2 Wishing Pool in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, February 2 2006 17:39
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Or the very same wishing well in A4, in which it is useful. —Alorael, who wished to have no obvious effects due to his generosity. Does that mean the wishing well worked or failed? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 2 2006 17:36
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There's a different trick to killing Lord British in every game. There's no trick at all to killing Starrus. It's just unfortunate that you have to die too. —Alorael, who can't understand why Emperor Hawthorne, the most powerful man in the world, couldn't come up with some kind of instant death script or special node but Starrus and Micah, impoverished kings of an exiled nation, could. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Helping Jeff advertise in Avernum 4 | |
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written Thursday, February 2 2006 12:13
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Mycroft is the name of Sherlock Holmes' lazy older brother. What do you do with genius and no will to use it? A government sinecure, of course! —Alorael, who suspects that Jeff carefully tailors his games' politics to match the opinions of the septuagenarians. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, February 2 2006 12:06
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Apple updated Appleworks to run on OS X, but I think that's the last time they touched it. —Alorael, who still uses Appleworks on occasion. It is non-disastrous software, which cannot be said for certain other suites. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Tentative Avernum 4 v1.0.1 Update Out in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, February 1 2006 14:57
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Actually, I'm not even so surprised that someone made tens of thousands of blue spark things. What worries me is that someone may have counted. Even rounding to the nearest thousand requires a frightening amount of concentration on blue sparks. —Alorael, who would like to know if the precise number of sparks before errors is 32767. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 1 2006 12:01
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Perhaps you should consult the receptacle of all knowledge. —Alorael, who was going to say it was the source, but that's backwards. Maybe it should just be the distributor. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 1 2006 11:58
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The traditional Inuit diet is pretty close to completely carnivorous. Tundra doesn't support much in the way of vegetation, and what it does support isn't likely to be nutritionally valuable to humans. First of all, there seems to be some confusion between sentience and civilization, using one of the controversial and politically incorrect definitions of civilization. Humans were sentient before they were settled, but settlement and agriculture allowed progress beyond subsistence. WIth surplus came specialization and all the wonders of modern life. Hunters can be sentient, and I'm not convinced they couldn't be civilized as well. First they are nomads following herds. Then they domesticate herds. They may still have to travel to find better grazing, but they have surplus, which allows specialization, which allows civilization. Fishing doesn't even require movement, although generating a large food surplus purely from fish would be hard. —Alorael, who is now reminded of the fun debate on the use of sapience versus sentience. The former makes more sense etymologically and is unambiguous. The latter is more common and, in context, doesn't just mean able to react to sensation or stimulation. Besides, by that definition sentient might as well be considered a synonym of alive, since life requires responses to stimuli. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 1 2006 08:51
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My comment to you and my general comment were separate. I maintain that Age of Empires is only based on history in the loosest of senses, though. —Alorael, who is a big Civilization fan. HIstorical or not, there's something satisfying about having the Zulus and the Sioux use their newly discovered gunpowder to wipe poor Iron Age "European" powers off the face of the "Earth." Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 1 2006 08:44
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Why does sentience require an omnivorous diet? —Alorael, who can't quite see how a hunter/gatherer society has such an enormous advantage over a hunter/hunter society. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 1 2006 08:41
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Courtesy of Croikle in another thread: Attack Die Flinch Rest —Alorael, who approves of reading the graphics topic in order to learn about graphics. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, February 1 2006 08:37
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Nothing at all. Preying silently is more effective, as the Quakers might tell you, although they prefer A's to E's. —Alorael, who already thinks that Frankenstein's creation was smarter than Frankenstein himself. They both could have used some help with anger management, though. Don't taunt the happy fun monster. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Rentar-Ihrno... ?? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, February 1 2006 08:31
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If you mean the portcullis behind Rentar-Ihrno that leads to a pylon, it should open if you wander around the room for a short while. If it doesn't, you've just run into a bug. —Alorael, who has heard of this bug striking others. A more exact description of what happens and what you did would help with debugging. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 31 2006 15:27
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Speed hasn't been a problem for any Spiderweb games. If Jeff declines to "tweak" BoE for reasons of compatibility, though, some people will be very unhappy. —Alorael, who wonders who will port the RWG trilogy. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 31 2006 09:34
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If you didn't run over it, poison it, give it a heart attack, key it, put sugar in it, skin it, or eat it, it's still alive. —Alorael, who is not entirely certain that none of the above have been done to the joke. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Sudden Ending in Avernum 4 | |
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written Tuesday, January 31 2006 09:32
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No, the Dorikas quest is no problem as long as you have a saved game that isn't at the absolute end of the game after defeating Rentar-Ihrno. —Alorael, who is a little bothered by the fact that you can be asked to see to Ghall-Ihrno's comfort if Ghall-Ihrno is not actually present. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 31 2006 08:05
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Among other things, Alex. Among other things. —Alorael, who also gave up three different unnameable items and a ¢&?@!>. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 31 2006 08:02
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Age of Empires is only slightly more reliable than Civilization as a source of historical knowledge. Slightly. —Alorael, who is depressed by the confusion of eye and ear candy with capital A Art. If it helps, think of games as films. The question isn't which has the best looking sets (mostly) or best score. The question is which directors did something memorable and ingenious. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 31 2006 07:57
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Keying a car doesn't help anybody. You should put sugar in the car's gas tank instead! Sure, it won't do much, but you'll feel better. —Alorael, who considers it a sweet, harmless, crime. Unfortunately, it's still punishable under most laws. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| The nephilim language in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Monday, January 30 2006 20:00
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My knowledge of languages is limited and my knowledge of Latin nil, but wouldn't "he was throwing" be past progressive, "he has thrown" past perfect (or pluperfect), and "he threw" whatever other past tense you want since English doesn't distinguish? "He threw the ball every day" and "he threw the ball last Saturday" are past imperfect and past indefinite (simple past?) respectively in Spanish. —Alorael, who has followed this discussion with interest and almost total lack of comprehension. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, January 30 2006 19:53
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Many RPGs, Spiderweb's among them, avoid anything more than the most nebulous of backgrounds. Your character or party comes from somewhere and did stuff, but that's not important. Everything you do and are starts with the moment you start playing. Instead, imagine that you are forced to play as a skribbane-addicted vigilante wanted for and guilty of murdering a corrupt mayor. You flee to Avernum one step ahead of the Empire's finest executioners. Now you get to play and deal with the consequences. That's a forced role, and it's not always a bad thing. —Alorael, who does not recommend skribbane (for others!), vigilantism, or fleeing from executioners. Well, okay. The last isn't so bad. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, January 30 2006 17:58
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Was your friend driving at the time, Ash? Did he or she run over a cat in the process, bringing closure to the situation? —Alorael, who had a cat that died after eating poison left for the local varmints of all kinds. Even people who only mean to kill the small furry animals sometimes kill the slightly larger ones. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
