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Came back from Holland to find that most of my best friends are bi. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 20 2005 12:51 Profile Homepage #6
quote:
Originally posted by Eldibs:
Irregardless, Christmas is originally a Christian holiday, as is Easter.
There is no such word as irregardless, and Christmas was spread in large part by mixing with Saturnalia and winter solstice rituals. Easter is a Christian holiday, but the name comes from a decidedly non-Christian fertility goddess.

—Alorael, who would like to know whether these friends are "gay" or "bi," as the post and the title disagree. There is a difference, you know. And that's enough malicious pedantry for today!
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Avernum 4? in General
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Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 20 2005 08:50 Profile Homepage #433
The engine is not the Avernum engine. It does not have the same old Avernum feel.

The engine is not the Geneforge engine either. It is based on the Geneforge engine, but the changes are rather significant. One of the most immediately obvious ones is the fact that A4 is turn-based, as has been said.

Once again, I think you have to be crazy to like Avernum's graphics. The terrain and objects looked fine, but characters and monsters were ugly. The new graphics fix that. No, the game does not end up looking just like Geneforge.

—Alorael, who finds nothing more wonderful than regaining the ability to tell the difference between a nephil and a slith warrior. Actually being able to tell that nephilim look like cats and that sliths are lizards is pretty nice too.
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A3 - Stuck in Slimy Valley in The Avernum Trilogy
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Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 20 2005 08:42 Profile Homepage #10
In English, the Russian aristocracy word is boyar.

—Alorael, who think's it's relevant to know that Bojar was Jordan in E3 so that if you happen to come upon the name in the context of Exile you know who's being talked about.
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What's In A Name? in General
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Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 19 2005 20:52 Profile Homepage #1
I've run out of inspiration. At this point I grasp at whatever floats into my brain!

—Alorael, who banged on a keyboard and spent a few seconds judiciously adding and subtracting letters to come up with his one true name. The fact that it makes him angelic is just a bonus.
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Galactic Core in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 19 2005 17:44 Profile Homepage #34
You never know. He still cashes those checks from GC purchases. How much cash do you think that amounts to, and how much is a rusty boat?

—Alorael, who was under the impression that most small boats were wood or, on occasion, synthetic material. Among other reasons for such a composition, they don't rust.
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Kissing a girl in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 19 2005 17:39 Profile Homepage #191
I missed the part where Alex said that homosexuality is better. His assertions were that he is rational, which struck me as perfectly appropriate (if futile) given the attitudes here, that homosexuality is a non-intrinsic psychological condition (I have seen more convincing evidence agains than for this), and that there is solid documentation of successful conversions from homosexuality to heterosexuality (again, all reputable evidence I have seen points to the contrary).

Aside from disagreement on evidence, I don't see anything wrong with Alex's position. He didn't say that being heterosexual is better, or that everyone should switch. The most he said is that everyone can; doing so is optional and, in light of his religoius faith, he would like to do so. I think the odds are stacked against him more than he believes, but that's his problem, not mine, and he's not forcing it on anyone else.

—Alorael, who wishes Alex all the best with his self-improvement even if he personally does not think he'll follow suit.
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In the Sewers of Shayder... in The Avernum Trilogy
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Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 19 2005 12:39 Profile Homepage #23
Bolt of fire does two things that a polearm won't. It can hit enemies who aren't right next to you and it can't miss. It's also used by a different character than your pole guy, probably.

—Alorael, who used Bolt of Fire occasionally until the end of the game too. It's the next best thing after Wound.
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Galactic Core in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 19 2005 08:11 Profile Homepage #32
"The SEPHIROTH of the HEAD "CHOCHMOH" and "Binah", being "the brain" of the body of the SEPHIROTH are all inclusive, and as such, must be perceived as a unit wherein is found a variety of a thousand manifold SEPHIROTH, equivalent to the changes of the seasons of the year. Thus, "CHOCHMOH" and "Binah", each of the two SEPHIROTH can be connoted as "ONE SEPHIRAH", and, on the other hand, can also be called a "thousand" SEPHIROTH together. It is for this reason that the Kabbalah compares the SEPHIROTH to "the layers of an onion". An onion may have a thousand layers, but it is still one onion."

—Alorael, who would like to thank www.kabbalah.info for this enlightening passage on religion and onions.
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Eeeeeeew. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 19 2005 08:07 Profile Homepage #9
I would rather lose money on a lottery ticket than participate in that RP for free.

—Alorael, who considers playing the lottery a kind of charity towards the state running it. Except for honesty and advertising, it's really no different from those less official setups where you can donate to a worthy cause and maybe win the raffle.
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Avernum 4? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 19 2005 07:59 Profile Homepage #421
Actually, I think Frobozz is suggesting that all areas could have three coordinates, so that your party could be at (10,10,1) in the Example Tower or one floor above at (10,10,2). It would require creative transparencies resulting in an appearance more or less identical to what we have already, but it would let two thing be on top of one another on the same map. The only real effect I could see is the occasional bridge you could walk over or under and monsters being able to go up and down more staircases that in the current Avernum system lead to different maps.

It's probably more trouble than Jeff thought it was worth.

—Alorael, who wouldn't mind a few bridges, though. They could make for fun labyrinth puzzles!
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What's your best joke? in General
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Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 19 2005 07:49 Profile Homepage #39
A joke that I must profess to like out of proportion to its objective quality, whatever that may be:

A man, let's call him Ted, visits his friend, Rupert, in another city. Rupert invites Ted to the bar where he always goes to meet all his drinking buddies. So the two show up, and as they walk in the door, someone at the end of the bar shouts, "511!" Everyone in the bar chuckles.

Ted thinks it's a little weird, but he and Rupert sit down and order drinks. Then, as their drinks arrive, another man yells, "17!" and gets a few laughs. Ted turns to Rupert and asks, "What's going on here?"

"It's very simple," Rupert explains. "We're all regulars here, and we've told our jokes so many times that we decided to just give 'em all numbers to save time."

"Oh," says Ted. "Okay. 102!" Dead silence. "What? What did I do wrong?"

Rupert shakes his head. "You have to have better delivery than that!"

"All right. 924!"

Now everyone in the room bursts out laughing until tears run down their cheeks. Several people fall off their barstools and can't manage to get up. Finally, when everything calms down, Ted helps Rupert back into his stool and asks, "That was a big response. Was my delivery that much better?"

"No, it's just that we'd never heard that joke before!"

Feeling pretty good about this joke system now, Ted tries something new. "Root 18!"

Silence again, and Rupert elbows Ted hard. "Hey! We're civil guys! We don't tell those kinds of jokes here!"

—Alorael, who has heard this joke told in many different forms (often in a prison instead of a bar), and usually with only one punchline. The first two work together, but the third is a stretch unless it has the joke to itself.
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A3 - Stuck in Slimy Valley in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 18 2005 16:21 Profile Homepage #2
You need to kill Bojar in the Agate Tower but, more importantly, you need to search for secret passages near where you kill him. His library is in there somewhere and it has the location of the true source of the slimes. That will let you enter the cave at the end of the Slimy Valley.

—Alorael, who doesn't understand why Jordan became Bojar. Jordan is a perfectly good name!
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What's your best joke? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 18 2005 09:57 Profile Homepage #21
Here's the joke told in a more consistent (and emphatically Jewish) way:

quote:

A man walks into shul with a dog. The shammas comes up to him and says, "Pardon me, this is a House of Worship. You can't bring your dog in here." "What do you mean?" says the man, "This is a Jewish dog. Look."

And the shammas looks carefully and sees that in the same way that a St. Bernard carries a brandy barrel round its neck, this dog has a tallis bag 'round its neck.

"Rover," says the man, "daven!".

"Woof!" says the dog, stands on his hind legs, opens the tallis bag, takes out a kipa and puts it on his head. "Woof!" says the dog, stands on his hind legs, opens the tallis bag, takes out a tallis and puts it round his neck. "Woof!" says the dog, stands on his hind legs, opens the tallis bag, takes out a siddur and starts to daven.

"That's fantastic," says the shammas, absolutely amazing, incredible. "You should take him to Hollywood, get him on television, get him in the movies, he could make a million dollars!!"

"You speak to him," says the man,"he wants to be a dentist."
The joke has to do with stereotypical Jewishness. As much as I hate when people say this to me, I have to say it: if you don't understand it, you don't understand it. Explanation won't help.

—Alorael, who doesn't find it all that funny anyway. It's a little bit funny, but there are much better Jewish jokes. Like, say, one about a mother who finds out her son is becoming a Christian...
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Elevation in Spiderweb's games in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 18 2005 09:50 Profile Homepage #2
Moving up or down would require different animation and the programming to go with it. I can understand why it vanished in Geneforge, although I liked elevation in Nethergate in Avernum.

—Alorael, who recalls from one of Jeff's interviews that elevation was actually one of the inspirations for the game (specifically the lethally large cliff in the goblin mines near Shadow Valley Fort).
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RWG in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 18 2005 09:47 Profile Homepage #234
It's not exactly the same as free, but open source beer is the next best thing.

—Alorael, who wants open-source rituals to summon horrific things from other dimensions next.
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This is getting old. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 18 2005 09:43 Profile Homepage #31
Or you could leap upon existing topics, beat them into submission, and drag them wherever you want them to go. That's what most of us do.

—Alorael, who has found that adding, "I know this is a little off topic, but..." to the beginning can work wonders.
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ATTN ALL CULTISTS in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 17:58 Profile Homepage #10
I think this is more fitting.

—Alorael, who can see literally endless meaning in this work, which appears two-dimensional only because most of its dimensions are not in three-space. Or seven-space, for that matter.
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Avernum 4? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 17:52 Profile Homepage #406
quote:
Originally written by chicho:

i can't be perfect in grammar!
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i will read my topics before posting them from now on, i have so many errors sometimes...
Starting now?

In all seriousness, while we understand the difficulties of writing in a foreign language, there are some things that are the same in English and Spanish. Those are things like capitalization of the first letter of a sentence, a space after punctuation, some kind of recognizable paragraph division, and the like. Such simple things make your posts far more legible and save Kel from having to translate, which I don't think he'll do too often.

—Alorael, who would like to point out in any case that Jeff does not read these boards for suggestions and is unlikely to include any major revisions to the system he has worked out at this late date.
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progress reports in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 17:44 Profile Homepage #10
I received the minimum passing mark in Modest Conduct and Western Society.

—Alorael, who argued with his teacher about this at great length. This only caused his grade to drop further. Something must be wrong with the system!
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In A4 i think that you should be able to murder in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 17:41 Profile Homepage #6
You want either superior AI, an abusable game subsystem, or a game with a human on the other end. Jeff is creating none of the above.

—Alorael, who is not a fan of extensive, detailed, and ultimately unnecessary subsystems. He also doesn't like the Sims. Quite frankly, if he wanted to deal with real life and all the detalis therein, he wouldn't be playing a computer game.
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Shall we dance? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 14:53 Profile Homepage #34
The problem with a gun is that most people don't carry firearms that have to be reloaded for each shot. Even six-shooters are uncommon. It is sadly possible that you may be running from someone with an automatic weapon, in which case they don't really need to be all that accurate. They get more tries than you probably want them to have.

—Alorael, who would like to think that sniping remains special even in an age of common gun violence. He'd also like to think that his indiscriminate use of the singular "they" will go unremarked.
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What is ur favourite weapon in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 14:49 Profile Homepage #10
The use of lol is deprecated on Spiderweb, except by TM, who uses lol specifically to deprecate lol.

—Alorael, who would rank this fairly high on the pointless poll list. It's not Misc. material, but it's getting close.
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This is getting old. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 14:44 Profile Homepage #14
A post a day for a month doesn't cover the margin between Thuryl and normal posters. He's clearly a posting machine. A posting Turing machine!

—Alorael, who notes that the numbers have gotten lower. Is it that loss of summer freedom? Crushing obligations? The alignment of Mars and the NYSE?
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Galactic Core in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 07:54 Profile Homepage #26
Shall we then travel around the world in however long it takes?

—Alorael, who has a prior engagement. There is going to be a street parade going past his house tomorrow, and... well, that is a lot of pedestrians. Carpe diem; waste not, want not; God helps those who help themselves; &c.
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ATTN ALL CULTISTS in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 07:51 Profile Homepage #5
Make the statue a bronze casting of the lower half of a motorcycle with a bonsai forest (carved from limestone) on top. If anyone questions, they shall fall to the needle/ferrets.

It is art, comrades! It is the truth greater than reality!

—Alorael, who would pay extra to have the cult slogans inscribed at random upon the statue. All of them. In every language that can conceivably fit on the available spaces.
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