Profile for Or else o'erleap.
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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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Law Bringer
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written Monday, November 7 2005 08:59
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Oops. I ignore Quick Strike for mages because I've never gotten it for mages. I also don't give my mages Fast on Feet. While 6 AP is the critical amount for magic, it's not something I'm able to get without hasting. —Alorael, who rarely wants to cast two spells in one round with one caster anyway. He's too stingy with his spell points, and by the time he has enough to go wild, the magic usually isn't necessary. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 7 2005 08:52
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I have a record of knocking things over on myself. I emptied most of two liters of blue stain on myself. My clothes were ruined (or more artistic, if you prefer), and my skin was slightly spotted for about a week. Some people noticed immediately, and some people didn't. I found it interesting psychologically and awkward socially. I also had fun with spilling a bottle of unknown chemical on myself and then trying to figure out what it was and where to get MSDS data on it. My first guess turned out to be carcinogenic, caustic, teratogenic, and possibly permanently paralytic. The actual contents of the bottle turned out to be less exciting. As far as deliberate stupid things go, I think I've been at my physically stupidest with free climbing. It doesn't seem all that far going up, and then I realize that I have to get back down and I don't have eyes in my feet. —Alorael, who has two sets of clothes: acceptable and alternately stained and chloroxed. The latter are something of an artistic experiment in accidental, ongoing dyeing techniques Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 7 2005 08:39
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If you got Erika amulets and had her activate them, Erika will have smashed a hole in the Great Walls for you and provided a little extra help here and there. If she didn't, she won't show up. If she did that, she'll show up to help against Rentar-Ihrno only when all the beams are set up. —Alorael, who recalls that the order of beam activation matters a little bit. Sometimes a beam can be focused across your path and prevent you from turning on another beam. Make sure you really did flip all ten beams (or that you remembered to focus the beams you had to redirect to get to more levers). Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| God Stuff (Antichrist! You better spell it right! ) in General | |
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written Sunday, November 6 2005 20:01
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The difference between 5 AP and 6 AP and even 7 AP is usually negligible. It's the difference between 4 and 5 that really makes a difference. —Alorael, who supposes that being hasted can make the small increments add up. So yes, it's worth going for lots of AP, but still not to the point where your character doesn't shred everything that moves without extra AP. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 6 2005 19:55
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We all end up dead, too. Given the choice of being tormented or not being tormented on the way to becoming dead, everyone will choose the latter. I imagine most people would think the same way about being tormented in the afterlife. —Alorael, who would in fact say that Synergy's view of divine punishment works in much the same way as deterrence by threat of temporal legal punishment by the state. You can only be in prison for so long, but prison sentences are still trusted to keep people from committing heinous crimes. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 6 2005 19:52
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You've got your wish. A4 doesn't use Geneforge's animated movement. In A3 you don't "blink" anywhere. You have to travel through the intervening spaces, and even holding down a direction key and waiting takes time. Avernum 4 works exactly the same way, except you can click instead of pressing a button if you'd like. —Alorael, who likes actually passing through space anyway. You'd be surprised how often you can notice something only on the umpteenth time you travel through an area. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 6 2005 15:28
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It's only in BoA, and it gives you a chance of extra AP. I've found Fast on Feet more reliable with any level of Quick Strike that I could reasonably get with my party. —Alorael, who likes Fast on Feet a great deal. 2 attacks per round once in a while are very nice, and it makes the trick of waiting before kicking down the door even more effective. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, November 5 2005 23:28
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I think Quick Strike first appeared in BoA. I can't recall having it in A3. —Alorael, who would like to point out the eminent utility of Haste. There's no better way to get AP! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, November 5 2005 18:31
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I'm going to interpret the CoC as forbidding the posting of links to illegal materials. I am admittedly not perfectly versed in international copyright law with regards to anime, but the intellectual property seems iffy. —Alorael, who would be happy to restore the links if evidence can be provided proving legality. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 4 2005 21:54
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Edits don't bump, but a quick unlock, post, and relock would. —Alorael, who wonders how often God feels like descending from the heavens (divers alarums, &c) and telling everyone to get the hell off his Earth, no pun intended. It can't be all that infrequent. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 4 2005 21:50
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No, you are not supposed to kill either of them. The plot takes care of it and does so whether or not you waste your time on them. —Alorael, who always wanted to kill Levy. Alas, it was not to be. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 4 2005 18:53
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Ferrets are already quantized. They aren't exactly particles under most circumstances, but you can apply all the usual Newtonian methods to analyze ferret motion. —Alorael, who is curious to know how a [ferret]+ and a [ferret]- would interact. Can ferrets have opposed spins? What happens if a ferret collides with an anti-ferret? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 4 2005 12:34
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You know, locking doesn't prevent editing, and a bump every month would keep the thread alive. —Alorael, who is just pondering alternatives. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 4 2005 12:25
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That has nothing to do with registration and everything to do with a new version released after E3 was made. Jeff decided to stick all the later E3 graphics in the earlier games. Sure, it makes them pretty, but Exile just isn't the same. —Alorael, who was shocked and apalled the first time he found that AP magically appeared in E1. If you're moving more than one space per turn, something is very wrong. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 3 2005 19:02
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It's easier to type these puns if you've got a Handel on the Dvorak keyboard, you know. —Alorael, who feels like he is soiling the names of great men. (John WIlliams writes good stuff, but he's not quite the same caliber. Give him a few hundred years and see what popular opinion has to say then, though. Many artists aren't recognized in their own lifetimes.) Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 3 2005 18:52
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Who knew that the subtle differences between U and I could affect the genetic viability of */ferrets as well as allow us to distinguish the difference between self and other? —Alorael, who found it fascinating. Still, it was a bit of a letdown that the razordisk/ferrets were, well, not good. Very not good indeed. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 3 2005 14:57
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Are you sure you're not confusing it with a servant mind? I know there's a servant mind or two responsible for all implant emissions, but we're not feeding them. They have specially trained spoon/ferrets for that. —Alorael, who doesn't want to talk about the aborted fork/ferret project. Good lives were lost that day, and the other */ferrets are still touchy about it. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 3 2005 14:55
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When you find it, it must be a Miracle (Symphony)! —Alorael, who would like to know what accent makes that pun acceptable. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 3 2005 12:09
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I've never had an Apple die on me. I first had a second-hand LC II that was just too old and clunky, and I replaced it with one of the later Performas. It was always a little bit iffy, sometimes requiring manual hard drive nudging to work, and it once cannibalized a hard drive, but it survived. I eventually gave it to someone in need of a computer and replaced it with a G4 Cube. It was a combination of never really loving that Performa, needing a processor upgrade, and thinking that as long as I had to replace a monitor (it apparently underwent a blue-shift), I might as well go for a new computer too. The Cube is still just fine, although for the past four months I've been on a PowerBook. So no, I've never had a Mac die on me. The Performa suffered progressive decay from day one, but it always worked. The rest have been immortal, as far as I know. My understanding is that some versions of OS X will work fine and some require newer processors. That's something worth looking up or emailing Apple's tech support about. —Alorael, who has also noticed that iMacs are upgradable. It's probably not easy enough for you to want to do it yourself unless you're very confident, but the prices are fairly low and it's worth looking into as an alternative if you can't get OS X to work as is. All this reminds him that he wants to upgrade his Cube, too. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 2 2005 18:01
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#exilechat will never be forgotten! —Alorael, who still would rather be here than on IRC. On IRC people can get annoyed with you for not paying attention for an hour or two. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 2 2005 17:49
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Those words are actually Latin. Well, no. Those words are actually faux Latin. That's why they don't quite make sense. Any resemblance to Greek is strictly coincidental and/or forced. If you think Conquest of Paradise has any dignity left, watch Conquest of Animutopia. —Alorael, who would point to two of his recent monikers (one from before Noreni and one from after) if it were not against his policy to revisit old monikers. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 2 2005 17:38
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TM ws nvr Cnnd. H ws nthng nd thn h ws Trdmrk. —Lrl, whs brn s lkl t sffr lng-trm, pssbl prmnnt dmg frm trng t rd nd wrt lk ths. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 2 2005 17:35
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I'm also convinced that memory and disk space aren't measured in the same units on Macs and PCs. It's not as bad as processors, which really don't compare at all, but a file that is one size on a PC often seems significantly different in size when transferred to a Mac. OS 9.2.2 and OS X compare in stability like a top and the table it's spinning on. I like OS 9 and miss it sometimes, but OS X is much less prone to problems. —Alorael, who would like to point out that any school computer, like any collectively used item, is likely to be abused, nonsensically maintained, and elderly. Computers have the additional problem of (generally) only moderately competent IT support. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 2 2005 08:26
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N nt nrltd t nthng, m hpp tht smn (TM) ndrstnds tht t s "nthr thng" nd nt "nthr thnk." —Lrl, wh dsn't lk hs mnkr wtht vwls s mch s hs mnkr wtht cnsnnts. Fr n thng, thr lttrs r nt ngh. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |