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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 09:03 Profile Homepage #28
There are definitely tricks to good party building, and even so I found that the balance was very different from Exile and Avernum. Casters are much more essential and melee much more restricted to just supplying a barrier to protect those casters.

—Alorael, who stuck with his starting party through the end of the game but who will construct any new parties differently.
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Insane? Get out of here... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, November 13 2005 13:23 Profile Homepage #26
The score is available, but it doesn't do the piece justice.

—Alorael, who should be honest. He doesn't loathe, detest, and despise "In C" as much as he says. It would be more accurate to put it at the very bottom of his list of music that he can stand listening to. It doesn't prevent rational thought, but it's also much closer to ambient noise than music. If he wanted to listen to something musical, it would not be "In C."
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Memories of Things Long Past at Spiderweb in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, November 13 2005 13:14 Profile Homepage #19
If there's a betting pool, I'll take bribes. 50% of the cut, say?

—Alorael, who likes self-referential stories a bit himself.
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Insane? Get out of here... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, November 13 2005 10:14 Profile Homepage #23
I think that the soundtrack of hell is "In C" looped endlessly.

—Alorael, who has no time for subtleties in music. He wants to be hit over the head with it. Politely.
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Memories of Things Long Past at Spiderweb in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, November 13 2005 10:11 Profile Homepage #12
I miss the conspiracies and power jockeying. The first mod elections, which were a farce and which, if I were a better person, I would have handled differently. The second, which were more about conspiring than voting. Back even farther, the BEEP and the lackluster attempts to revive it. The great effort to get Morgan to 1000 posts without double posting.

—Alorael, who has become an old fogey without noticing. He should start a new account to keep himself virtually young and vital.
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Selling in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, November 13 2005 10:06 Profile Homepage #5
Most items don't require identification. Some scrolls and most magic items, especially powerful ones and cursed ones, do.

—Alorael, who would point out that while Levy should buy your spare stuff, it might be worth thinking about what you sell to him. He's one of the game's "infinite resellers" who will sell you back as many copies as you want of whatever you sell to him. You'll never want 50 fine leather armors, but you might want 50 Knowledge Brews.
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Mac OS X in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 12 2005 19:47 Profile Homepage #38
There are two apparently good emulators , Sheepsaver and Mac-on-Linux, for Linux. I don't know of anything effective for Windows.

—Alorael, who also hasn't looked too hard. It's not exactly something useful to him.
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What books... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 12 2005 17:25 Profile Homepage #6
Ben reminded me that I lied. Reading Paradise Lost was truly eye-opening.

—Alorael, who recommends Milton's masterpiece to everyone who feels religiously inclined.
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I Made You, I Can Unmake You in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 12 2005 17:23 Profile Homepage #10
A proper reading of TM's response reveals that he would like to send newbies away crying, which is true to character and unhelpful.

—Alorael, who would rather have newbies helplessly enmeshed in the Spiderweb strands of terrible metaphors before he begins to reveal the full extent of the doom into which they have plunged.
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Mac OS X in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 12 2005 15:02 Profile Homepage #35
Generally, software developed in the last few years doesn't run on OS 9. People mean OS X when they say Mac now. The obvious solution is to go to the website and see if it mentions OS 9 or only OS X. Most sites will say.

—Alorael, who is much more irritated by software that doesn't have any obvious OS requirements listed. That usually means Windows only, but it would be nice to have that stated explicitly.
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Insane? Get out of here... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 12 2005 14:55 Profile Homepage #20
I found the sounds involved humorous the first couple of times I encountered that site and clones thereof. Absurdity has nothing to do with insanity, though.

—Alorael, who is willing to believe that Terry Riley may cause insanity. It's somewhere between noise and music, and it has been known to cause uncontrollable urges to break things.
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What books... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 12 2005 14:52 Profile Homepage #4
I think you missed the dash of humor Eldibs threw in.

—Alorael, who can't think of any real life-changing books. Some have been good, thought provoking, and educational, but none have turned on the great lightbulb above his head and made him rethink everything.
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I Made You, I Can Unmake You in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 12 2005 14:49 Profile Homepage #4
Slogans and catchphrases aren't supposed to be funny. They're supposed to exist. "Leave you sanity at the door" exists, so it works. And, quite frankly, it's less likely to send newbies away crying than some other greetings that could be mentioned.

—Alorael, who is willing to start up some offerings of free implants to newcomers. Possibly some needle/ferrets.
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Thang Online in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 12 2005 14:46 Profile Homepage #4
Advertising blatantly is against the Code of Conduct. Please take it elsewhere.

—Alorael, who must now serve up (the) death to topic die.
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Escape from the inane in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, November 11 2005 20:41 Profile Homepage #30
Testing has revealed that the timer has an uncertainty of around 0.2 seconds. Anything less than that is really just a 0 with possible adjustments for browser, computer, and internet connection.

—Alorael, who has begun trying to play with his eyes closed. He hasn't managed more than a couple of seconds yet, but he has steadily improved.
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Aussies Come Here in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, November 11 2005 10:50 Profile Homepage #52
Plenty is not a rigorously defined quantity.

—Alorael, who observes that Saunders has noted that TM has a huge, barbed, poisonous tail, not that he gets any amount of huge, barbed, poisonous tail.
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1000000000000! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, November 10 2005 09:47 Profile Homepage #19
The metric system has become popular because it's base ten like our number system. If we all used hexadecimal, we'd use a hexadecimal measurement system. There's no way to make the English system logical, because it's based on arbitrary ratios based on some ideal (but rather deformed) human body, among other things.

Binary is theoretically fine, but writing 100000000 instead of 512 takes three (3 or 11) times as many digits.

Base ten is not acceptable in polite company. Base twenty is more popular in areas warm enough to be comfortable without socks and shoes. Base twenty-one is most popular in tropical climes.

—Alorael, who must insist that all systems are base 10.
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1000000000000! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 9 2005 19:46 Profile Homepage #11
There's really nothing inherently superior about base 10 over base 11 or base 9. Too low a base and numbers become too long to write, though, and too high a base and you need an enormous variety of characters to write them. 10 is a happy medium, although I'd be fine with hexadecimal.

—Alorael, who would like to introduce everyone to Mr. Tom Lehrer, professor emeritus of new math.
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yet another music topic by me in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 9 2005 12:45 Profile Homepage #1
There are very few games with soundtracks that are freely available. The Command and Conquer series is not among them to the best of my knowledge.

—Alorael, who bases this on limited knowledge and less research.
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1000000000000! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 9 2005 08:38 Profile Homepage #8
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—Alorael, who IMAGE(http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/sound_sorting/initial_blends/cl/images/clap.jpg) vigorously.
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RWG in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 9 2005 08:35 Profile Homepage #280
Thralni, you clearly haven't surrendered enough. Perhaps your implants are improperly installed, poorly calibrated, or forced to endure a less than scrumptious diet. We shall rectify the situation with all due speed, which is to say very little.

—Alorael, who would like to apologize to Mr. Deacon. With a brick. And fragments. Excellent device.
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Can you code? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 8 2005 18:42 Profile Homepage #4
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Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
RWG in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 8 2005 16:29 Profile Homepage #269
The Cult exists and does not exist simultaneously. Tomorrow it will have existed absolutely yesterday, but it won't exist today, and the day after it will exist right now but not yeterday, tomorrow, or next Thursday.

—Alorael, who believes this is somehow related to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. The more you participate in a cult, the less certain you can be that it's the genuine article.
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Aussies Come Here in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 8 2005 16:23 Profile Homepage #12
If a jackalope and a drop bear got into a fight, who would win?

—Alorael, who already thinks he knows the answer. The drop bear, but only if it made its drop really count. Any disagreements?
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RWG in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 7 2005 09:05 Profile Homepage #262
You can keep your waves to yourself, sir!

[Edit: Don't blame the coordinate system!]

—Alorael, who supposes that 0 degrees of very tenuous separation is impressive. It's one thing to claim to be so close to Kevin Bacon. It is quite another to claim to be intermingled with Kevin Bacon.

[ Monday, November 07, 2005 09:06: Message edited by: UBl8 ]
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