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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, November 17 2005 09:19 Profile Homepage #14
Just so everyone understands, there's no change in title at 10,000 posts. I still have a few thousand to go before hitting the next bad Drakey joke.

—Alorael, who is willing to believe that he'll hit the big fifth digit in two weeks. Then, sadly, he'll probably never get another digit again. It will probably take very close to exactly four years to reach five digits, and a sixth digit would therefore take around 36 more years.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, November 17 2005 09:16 Profile Homepage #56
quote:
Originally written by NaNoWriMo:

quote:
Originally written by Leave your sanity at the door.:

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

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—Alorael, who calls upon the cabbages for great justice.
MMCMLXXXIV
BA8

—Alorael, who doesn't understand the self-reference.
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Behold the SQL Sorcery! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, November 17 2005 09:11 Profile Homepage #15
It's easy enough to count your ranks if you're near the top! If you'd just spam more you'd have no reason to complain.

—Alorael, who is starting to get worried. At this rate Thuryl will catch up to his post count in a mere three and a half years. He'd better start double posting and deleting the evidence more often! But wait, Thuryl can do that too… (Single character ellipsis!)
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 16 2005 18:35 Profile Homepage #51
quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

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—Alorael, who calls upon the cabbages for great justice.
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Just for morbid curiosity... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 16 2005 18:34 Profile Homepage #4
There were a few variations from PE#1, but I didn't exactly examine them closely. I was more concerned with making sure puppies and kittens didn't see them.

—Alorael, who was eventually forced to curl up in a whimpering ball and let Imban take care of the problem. Imban, you are a brave soul and a valiant defender of eyeballs.
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What books... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 16 2005 13:40 Profile Homepage #33
la! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtaga - Ia-R'lyehl Cihuiha flgagnl id Ia!

—Alorael, who dislocated his jaw saying that.
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A4 - The New Geneforge? in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 16 2005 13:30 Profile Homepage #12
You can always appeal to the higher power of Linda. It's an option.

—Alorael, who promises never to delete any epigrams. He'll snipe the perpetrators, but an epigram is forever.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 16 2005 08:49 Profile Homepage #47
quote:
Originally written by Thralni, emperor of Riverrod:

Does the almighty TM never make a mistake when typing in another language?
TM makes mistakes while writing in other languages (cf. French. Dead.), but he isn't writing in anything but English here.

—Alorael, who might call it Ëñglïsh instead in this particular case.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 16 2005 08:42 Profile Homepage #31
Vahnatai is not a proper noun. It's "vahnatai" unless it's at the beginning of a sentence or you're German.

—Alorael, who has been led to believe that Necronomicon can be spelled any number of ways. It's only when intersecting Earth's slice of three-space that it happens to appear to be two dimensional letters with a traceable etymology.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 16 2005 08:36 Profile Homepage #8
I was going to stop using this accuont at 9999 as another form of title protest, but now that you've mentioned it it's too trendy. Thanks a lot.

—Alorael, who expects that he will be posting when he reaches post 10000.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 15 2005 20:00 Profile Homepage #27
While Kellogg's is named after Kells, the more direct descendent of the original Kells is corrugated cardboard, renowned for its unappetizing properties and dependability as a packaging material. While generally considered less than palatable, it helped many inhabitants of Leningrad get in touch with their vaunted Russian spirituality in the mid 20th century. Ironically enough, Kellogg's was among the first cereals to be packaged in the material derived from the ancient Kells.

—Alorael, who is not ashamed to mix fact and fiction with abandon.
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What's your best joke? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 15 2005 18:06 Profile Homepage #62
The lack of a covering makes it difficult to throw a flick, but the backhands are simply divine.

—Alorael, who has heard that office politics are also impeded by haloes. Butting heads becomes much more difficult.
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Memories of Things Long Past at Spiderweb in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 15 2005 18:02 Profile Homepage #57
I believe that was already implied.

—Alorael, who is sure TM has posted a picture or two. Look through old Abominable Photo threads.
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A4 - The New Geneforge? in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 15 2005 18:01 Profile Homepage #10
That's crass and uncultured. Proper skribbane must be properly prepared and guzzled in the manner dictated by polite society.

—Alorael, who must be slipping if people can get that wrong after more than a year. Only zombies in Gale chew skribbane, nobody injects it, and nobody tries to smoke it twice.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 15 2005 11:02 Profile Homepage #7
That's not quite the right sequence of events. Misc. was afflicted with terminal spam, so it was given a mercy killing. All was well for a time, for while some attempts were made to bring the Miscean disease to General, the maintainers of the quarantine were vigilant. Alas, the standoff could not last forever, and soon the disease had spread once more.

—Alorael, who can at least say that pointless polls have, for the most part, remained a thing of the past. That's a good thing, really.
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Memories of Things Long Past at Spiderweb in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 15 2005 10:58 Profile Homepage #47
TM is a very bad person.

Saunders is a very good bad person.

—Alorael, who is quite sure that there are no typos in this post. He is also quite sure, on the subject of memories, that some people have very selective ones. Think back to the days of Rosycat mania.
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A4 - The New Geneforge? in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 15 2005 10:56 Profile Homepage #6
There is no double post here.

—Alorael, who did not just delete it and then post again.
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A4 - The New Geneforge? in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 14 2005 20:34 Profile Homepage #2
You're basing your analysis on a few screenshots. Yes, the graphics are more like Geneforge. The game engine itself borrows a little bit from Geneforge, but it plays very much like Avernum. I didn't like Geneforge all that much for engine reasons, and I think A4 is just fine.

—Alorael, who would in fact say that A4 strikes a balance between Geneforge and Avernum that is close to optimal. The graphics are much prettier, the movement is still entirely turn-based and nice, and combat is more tactically interesting and challenging than Avernum's.
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I hope my opinion is shared. in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 14 2005 20:30 Profile Homepage #4
Exile and Avernums 1-3 have the same movement system. You click in a direction or press a button and your party moves in that direction. There's no animation, but there is a delay. It might just be processing time, but I think there's a programmed delay so that it takes a second or so to go across the screen.

In Geneforge, you click somewhere and your character moves there with animated steps.

A4 does not have animated movement. If you'd like, you can use the arrow keys or numeric keypad to move around and it works just like Avernum. There are no animations. (There are animations for attacking, but they're quick and you need some time to read damage numbers anyway).

The addition is that in A4 you can also click somewhere. There's no animation. It's just as though you pressed buttons to move north, north, northwest, north, northwest, west, west, southwest, west, northwest, except instead of 10 buttons you use one click.There is a very brief delay between "steps," but it's generally faster than moving by pressing the buttons.

—Alorael, who is quite sure that this is what everyone pining for the Avernum movement system wanted, himself included. On the other hand, those who prefer Geneforge mouse movement can have that too.
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What's your best joke? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 14 2005 17:45 Profile Homepage #55
Your joke is missing a critical element or two. Humor springs to mind. So does proofreading.

—Alorael, who freely confesses to total ignorance of all things Halo. He is willing to put money on Halo experts agreeing with his assessment anyway.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 14 2005 17:43 Profile Homepage #1
Implant Code #557E!MM@.4

Do not adjust your needle/ferret.
—Alorael, who thinks this pretty much says everything.
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Memories of Things Long Past at Spiderweb in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 14 2005 12:01 Profile Homepage #30
That search gives no results for me, and I can't get any results with any other search terms I can come up with either. Oh well.

—Alorael, who bids a fond farewell to smell because he is a poet and had no idea.
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Beta Testing Testing One Two Three Four in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 14 2005 11:57 Profile Homepage #30
I don't think the game was finishable in alpha testing.

—Alorael, who just realized that he made it through the game without quaffing any potions. This makes him a bad tester. What if there is a reprise of BoE invulnerability?
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 14 2005 09:17 Profile Homepage #19
Masterminds are the best people there are. I should know.

—Alorael, who found Ishmael to be well-written, very pointed, and at the end somewhat creepy. It's very well written, but the conclusion is hard to swallow.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 14 2005 09:06 Profile Homepage #32
On a Mac, a very easy way to type ellipses is option-semicolon. One character ellipses have been made wondrously simple… so simple that they can make writing ugly. I have been guilty of this faux pas myself once or twice…

—Alorael, who tries to keep himself from falling into the sloppy ellipsis trap with varying success. Sometimes it works, and other times…
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