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Consider This Catharsis in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 23 2007 16:44 Profile Homepage #5
I am not a programmer, so here's my terrible solution. It very quickly gets out of hand for long strings with many non-unique characters, but it should eventually spit out a solution.

Define variables longestPalindrome and currentPalindrome.

Identify characters that appear more than once in the string. If there are no such characters, add 1 to currentPalindrome and compare currentPalindrome to longestPalindrome. If the string is an empty set, don't increment currentPalindrome. If longest is shorter, let longest = current.

For every character that is non-unique, find the first and last instance of the character, then call the same function with the string of characters between those two characters as its argument. Add 2 to currentPalindrome.

—Alorael, who thinks this will get the right number if it doesn't crash the computer with an immense string. Using this kind of algorithm on the Bible would be a bad idea.
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The noob language in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 22 2007 12:47 Profile Homepage #29
Him, and no, despite all his protestations we're not actually out to get him, "accidentally" or otherwise.

Shotts made a few scenarios, some of which are preserved by Kel. I remember them as poor "parodies" themselves, not objects of parody. I also don't remember them frequently.

—Alorael, who found a single PPPed Shotts, although it was later than the original Shottsings. Gawk if you must.
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Fantastical Thoughts On RPG Game Mechanics in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 22 2007 05:09 Profile Homepage #8
Lord of the Rings isn't exactly combat-heavy, for the most part. Yes, it has battles, but not with the relentlessness of most RPGs. And the characters survive for two reasons. Firstly, they are, in large part, stupendous heroes. Secondly, the plot demands their survival.

How do RPGs model this? Hit points and stats. It's an abstraction. Actually, it's a huge abstraction, and I've always viewed it much as SoT has outlined. But that beats the bookkeeping and vagueness of a realistic system by a whole lot.

—Alorael, who can see how your system could be implemented at a basic level in Avernum by removing pretty much everything but the easiest fights, making healing much, much harder, and making all damage crippling. That's quite possible, but would it actually make a better game? Most players would probably say no, although you might have the septuagenarian Eskimos on your side.
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a question in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 21 2007 14:00 Profile Homepage #5
The CoCom is under the supervision of Jewels.

—Alorael, who supposes anyone could copy, paste, and edit. But that wouldn't be very community-spirited, now, would it?
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The noob language in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 20 2007 17:56 Profile Homepage #17
Shotts, Vince/Tails, and Ed have all been terrible in unique ways. Shotts was the perfect community abuser. Vince/Tails was the perfect idiotic ban dodger. Ed was the perfect lunatic apologetic noob.

—Alorael, who for that matter thinks most members who are or were banned are memorable. Tully, TM, TGM, Alec (frequently), and so on. The people who are truly awful tend to disappear quickly without making much of an impression.
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Book or Movie? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 20 2007 09:29 Profile Homepage #57
quote:
Originally written by JadeWolf:

Of course, there are always exceptions (LotR films).
Are you claiming that the films are better or just that they're not missing anything from the books? The latter is demonstrably false, and the former would make me very sad.

—Alorael, who doesn't think everything benefits from having the scenes imagined any more than having the Mona Lisa described beats seeing the real thing (or a facsimile).
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Need opinions in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 19 2007 12:38 Profile Homepage #3
Ooh! Pick me, pick me!

—Alorael, who promises snark of Statler and Waldorf dimensions. Also no cookies.
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some questions in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 19 2007 12:36 Profile Homepage #3
Hotkeys aren't scripted. They're hard coded.

—Alorael, who isn't sure if 'c' brings up the spell menu in A4 or not. It's worth a try, though.
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...and again. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 18 2007 20:49 Profile Homepage #41
I don't want Iffy's gimmick. I don't want most of the gimmicks floating around right now. Honestly, mine aren't that funny, but they look positively brilliant next to some of the ideas that have been spewed forth by the internet.

—Alorael, who should instead make a 12 step program for getting over your gimmick. He'll then exercise his right not to follow his own program, but he'll be morally supporting you all the way on your journey to a gimmick-free life. Really!
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opps help in anwan in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 18 2007 12:39 Profile Homepage #1
It's hard to give help without knowing where you are in Annwn now.

—Alorael, who would also like to know whether you're Celts or Romans. Looking for Bel sounds like the former, but he'd like to be sure.
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anwan in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 18 2007 07:27 Profile Homepage #1
It's in the northeast in an alcove along the eastern edge of Shadowvale fairly close to the village of Nethergate. It's in a big, dead, brown area with a pair of pillars.

—Alorael, who thinks you've probably seen it already if you're playing Celts. If not, now's the time to make some Celts angry.
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1 in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 16 2007 09:22 Profile Homepage #97
Considering the fact that clicking graemlin icons while posting just inserts the proper characters, I think that's fairly obvious. I'm a little confused by the plus signs, but maybe the UBB is flexible. Or broken.

—Alorael, who has a better solution: no graemlins. No emoticons. No use of pseudo-markup. If you want to express yourself, stick to standard typographical usage and exercise your right to the interrobang and irony mark.
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insufficient arrows on laptop keyboard in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 16 2007 09:14 Profile Homepage #18
Using the mouse in A4 is fine, but using the mouse to move in A1-3 is quite annoying. The game works much better with a full keyboard.

—Alorael, who has always and still recommends getting a full USB keyboard with your laptop. It's much easier to type, you get convenient function keys, the numeric keypad is nice, and it just takes a moment to unplug and go. Does it show that his laptop spends a lot of time as a desktop?
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Sanity pile near door in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 15 2007 04:56 Profile Homepage #37
"Myame is Vlad and I'm addicted to alcoholics."

—Alorael, who wonders whether people drunk on different beverages and with different BACs get different names.
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Packhorse member? in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 14 2007 14:14 Profile Homepage #2
If you have a character, the character might as well be useful. Total encumberance doesn't matter anyway if the character is useless. If you really need a mule, just designate your least helpful member as one and don't worry about mule optimization.

—Alorael, who generally found that his fighters had enough strength to carry anything important and that most other items could be safely stored in Fort Avernum (or elsewhere) most of the time.
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1 in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 14 2007 08:54 Profile Homepage #87
Please stop cluttering the New Math thread with arguments. Member Formerly Known as Nija, we understand that you don't want to be Nija anymore, and will honor your request (or not) depending on individual whim. That's about the best you can get from Spiderweb, and certainly the best you'll get if you you're abrasive about it.

Everyone else, please be quiet and let the logicians work.

—Alorael, who doesn't want to have to lock half a topic. That's never fun to arrange.
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Original Graphic Sets? in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 14 2007 08:49 Profile Homepage #6
The original E3 graphics are the same as the current E3 graphics. They were just put into the older games too.

—Alorael, who doesn't really understand the appeal of the older graphics besides nostalgia. E3 is very pretty.
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Book or Movie? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 13 2007 17:28 Profile Homepage #28
quote:
Originally written by Taliesin:

Eragon was written by a 15-year-old kid. You have to give him a little grace, at least.
No, I don't. He wrote very well for a 15-year-old, but he still didn't actually write well. Maybe he'll grow up or has grown up to be a decent author, but he wasn't then.

—Alorael, who doesn't think the book would have gotten anywhere if it weren't written by a very young would-be author. Celebrity is ugly.
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Book or Movie? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 13 2007 14:25 Profile Homepage #22
quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

...I would certainly hope the book is better. That was a terrible movie, even without the blatant simultaneous ripoff of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. Lame dialogue, more lame story, really lame cliffhanger, and what's that? Oh, the dragon's been hiding behind that curtain silently for the entire movie?
I haven't seen the movie, but the book is terrible too. There are very few books I put down and never finish, but Eragon is one of them. It sounds like the movie is, if nothing else, faithful.

—Alorael, who wouldn't put 2001, 2010, 2051, or 3001 on his list of favorite books. They're worth reading, though, even though they aren't really page-turners.
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Avernum 4 Observations in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 13 2007 14:20 Profile Homepage #51
Sorry, my comment was addresesd to LakiRa@, who shall henceforth be LR. He asked which part of the icon mattered after you said you didn't remember, so I pointed out that you had no answer and told him to find his own.

—Alorael, who supposes he's just not much of a map person.
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Avernum 4 Observations in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 13 2007 09:33 Profile Homepage #49
quote:
Originally written by Yama Toman?:

(and I don't even remember without looking at it).
Pick somewhere where you know where you should be on the map, look at the map, and figure out what part of the icon represents where you should be.

—Alorael, who generally doesn't use the map. In A4 he knew where he was from too much time wandering in A1 and A2, and in A5 he just didn't get lost terribly.
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Book or Movie? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 12 2007 21:49 Profile Homepage #10
I've only read 2001, not seen the movie. I've read the sequels, too.

—Alorael, who can see where the great and mediocre argument comes from. The two media are different enough that what makes for a good movie makes for a poor book and vice versa, but it's possible to put a story that would work well in one genre in the wrong one first. And there are movie adaptations that deviate far enough from the source book to be good, too. (There may be good book adaptations, but I've never heard of one.)
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The Political Compass (Armed and Dangerous) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 12 2007 21:45 Profile Homepage #45
Thuryl beat me to the point by point, but I agree that obvious answers are often not obvious to many others, or even oppositely obvious. Dikiyoba's results do show some minor bias based on preference for agreement or disagreement (and an odd imbalance...), but for the most part the questions seem reasonable.

—Alorael, who agrees that most people are unlikely to end up in the far upper right. That's fine. A scale of (-10, -10) to (3, 3) still gives information.
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Tower Colony upstairs in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 12 2007 11:13 Profile Homepage #3
You can get skills over 31. Also, the Unlock spell + Tool Use + Magery + Spellcraft + Mage Spells = plenty of skill. And yes, there are other ways, but they can't be discussed on these boards.

—Alorael, who has the Averznum walllhack. Yes he does.
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After getting passed over for the internet in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 12 2007 05:42 Profile Homepage #3
Gore technically didn't personally win the Oscar. His movie's director and music did.

—Alorael, who doesn't consider the Nobel Peace Prize a prize for a person who has promoted peace per se. It's a prize that's given out in order to promote good. The committee must think global warming is a problem big enough that giving recognition by giving the prize is the right thing to do.
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