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insufficient arrows on laptop keyboard in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 11 2007 18:53 Profile Homepage #2
Usually arrows move you in the cardinal directions by the map, which looks diagonal on the screen but actually works better most of the time. You can use the mouse for 8-directional movement or invest in a full keyboard.

—Alorael, who is a little curious about door problems. It sounds like maybe your keyboard somehow moves you NE-SE-SW-NW, which would make navigation difficult.
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The Political Compass (Armed and Dangerous) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 11 2007 18:49 Profile Homepage #20
-7.12, -7.85

—Alorael, who has moved economically right a bit, back to an earlier position. He's hovered around -8 socially for a long time now. He also feels much more competent to opine about social issues than economic ones, which may account for the drift and stability of those axes, respectively.
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Sanity pile near door in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 11 2007 11:00 Profile Homepage #9
This is a graemlin: :D

—Alorael, who supposes disabling graemlins would make that appear as two characters, a colon and a capital D. Now you have slightly more unhelpful knowledge. Sherlock Holmes would forget such things immediately.
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1 in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 10 2007 18:37 Profile Homepage #36
Be nice. Don't ruin good, clean fun with egregious spam.

—Alorael, who is not a function. He's also a little bit sad every time Ed's name is mentioned, particularly given that most of the mentions are from you and you weren't even around when he was removed from the community. Let it rest. Please.
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Tower Colony upstairs in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 10 2007 15:13 Profile Homepage #1
There's no way into the area behind that gate, and consequently also no way to get that book. There are enough books elsewhere that you don't need it. X's rooms that can't be reached are also truly unreachable. Even if you cheat to enter, there's nothing in there.

—Alorael, who has another, shorter way of saying all this: Jeff Vogel is a big tease.
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1 in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 10 2007 15:09 Profile Homepage #26
Whatever you write is still valid TECO code.

—Alorael, who is also valid TECO code. ..>!!?
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What have you been reading lately? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, October 10 2007 05:18 Profile Homepage #542
Hijacked account?

—Alorael, who would find it immensely ironic if a little brother were, in fact, responsible.
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A featured question on Xanga... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 9 2007 15:51 Profile Homepage #12
quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

Religion without ethics is lame, ethics without religion is blind.
That's where we disagree. Religion has many elements, and ethics is only one of them. Most of those elements can also exist independently, and ethics is definitely one of those. Ethics without religion is just fine.

—Alorael, who also supposes he must assert that endless FYTs are lame and you'd have to be blind not to see them coming.
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Thankgiving Census in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 9 2007 08:45 Profile Homepage #1
1. I don't like turkey. Mom and dad don't really like turkey. The likelihood of such a dinner being made is 2, and my opinion towards it is also 2.

2. I'm not a big fan of cranberry sauce either.

3. Yes, and it has very slowly grown on me.

4. None of the above.

5. Adores what now?

6. Skribbane.

—Alorael, who finds himself culinarily and censurially unsatisfied.
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A featured question on Xanga... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, October 9 2007 08:32 Profile Homepage #3
quote:
Originally written by Dryth'tor:

"Ethics without science is lame, and science without ethics is blind."
FHT.

—Alorael, who agrees that religion is a form of ethics, and it can be a very good form. (It can also be terrible, of course, given how immense a category religion is.) It's just not the only one.
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Testing in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 8 2007 23:01 Profile Homepage #3
quote:
Originally written by Calphrexo:

Aha. I thought so. Pfft.

Now click here.
I did, and I nearly deleted a topic!

—Alorael, who should not abuse power. That is wrong and evil. Alas.
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Goodbye! Goodbye for... a while! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 7 2007 23:37 Profile Homepage #14
I guess it's time for creator and creation to operate independently. It's too bad we never figured out which of us is which.

—Alorael, who will miss Aran, his wit, his code, and his sunsets. Drop by with a secret puppet account sometimes!
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HELP WITH NETHERGATE in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 5 2007 23:09 Profile Homepage #3
The easiest solution to gold is to go back to somewhere you've already cleared, like the goblins you first dealt with. There are probably some swords lying around somewhere. Pick them up and sell them.

—Alorael, who frequently found himself short on cash in Nethergate: Resurrection thanks to all the trainers. Short five gold was less common.
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SpidWeb Boards.. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 5 2007 05:21 Profile Homepage #29
quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

quote:
Originally written by Acrobatic Cormorants:

It is something up with which he can put up for hours.
I see you are a Paul McCartney fan: "In this ever-changing world in which we live in...."
I thought about making the grammar completely butchered, opted not to, and then failed to un-butcher, resulting in only moderately humorous writing.

—Alorael, who would apologize if he didn't like how it turned out. And there you can see why this is non-up-puttable nonsense.
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Sputnik in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 5 2007 05:20 Profile Homepage #12
Terror is definitely a weighted sock. It gets up no matter how much you hit it, and getting hit by it is like being smacked with a lead weight. Still, getting hit is not nearly as bad as getting nuked.

—Alorael, who still wonders about terrorism. Even if America wanted to capitulate, there's no way to do so. The terrorists can't actually accomplish anything but killing people, and killing enough people for a "Mission Accomplished" seems unlikely.
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SpidWeb Boards.. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 4 2007 18:58 Profile Homepage #26
I've only seen it attributed to Churchill, which makes me think it probably came from him or from a single source deliberately attributing it to him. The internet is inconclusive.

—Alorael, who enjoys phrase etymology. It is something up with which he can put up for hours.
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Sputnik in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 4 2007 18:55 Profile Homepage #5
We aren't, as far as officials are saying, at any risk of spontaneous geocide, or more specifically the launching of vast nuclear arsenals.

Sure, someone may nuke someone else at any time, and anyone could be sneaking dirty bombs anywhere, but nobody's got the missiles pointed pointedly right now!

—Alorael, who can sleep an extra fifteen minutes each night secure in that knowledge.
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SpidWeb Boards.. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 4 2007 08:25 Profile Homepage #11
As we've seen, people who edit out the entire contents of their posts can make threads very nonsensical. Deletions would only make that worse. I like things how they are.

—Alorael, who does not, of course, like the UBB. It's a clunky, crotchety old dinosaur. If there were any easy way to migrate to a new board, he'd say do it immediately. In the absence of a simple solution, he still encourages switching to some supported forum software.
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Windows or Mac in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 4 2007 08:14 Profile Homepage #6
Are there any exclusive *nix users here? If not, I think everyone should be answering yes to question one. An exclusive or might get rid of a few and would actually be an interesting question.

—Alorael, who uses AbacOS. Sure, it takes a while to get anything done, but he has the satisfaction of computing with his own two hands.
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I have glasses. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 1 2007 10:47 Profile Homepage #57
20/20 vision is considered functional. Completely healthy visual acuity is somewhat better. Average vison is much worse, or would be without glasses and contacts.

—Alorael, who woke up this morning with no ability to resolve images. He obtained someone else's glasses, which allowed him to fail to resolve images that were out of focus in the first place.
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Man or God in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 30 2007 09:25 Profile Homepage #228
My usual way of phrasing it is to call myself in a believer in a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua. I don't believe in scripture or religion except as human text and human organizations.

—Alorael, who would call himself Jewish by practice and moderately Panendeist by belief.
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Man or God in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 29 2007 23:25 Profile Homepage #223
My tongue isn't in my cheek. It's sticking out at you. Also, my eyes are crossed and my fingers are stuck in my ears. I may be saying, "Nyah!" as well.

—Alorael, who is neither a Bible-thumper nor an atheist. He does everything he can to ensure that he's picked last for these things.

[ Saturday, September 29, 2007 23:27: Message edited by: X: A moment of appreciation ]
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Man or God in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 29 2007 18:46 Profile Homepage #220
quote:
Originally written by Stillness:

This thread has been over for a few days. I'm getting the feeling that some of us secretly want to keep it alive. C'mon. Admit it. You want to see rants about religion and spirituality. Discussion about the divine resonates deep inside you in a way that pondering eyewear cannot. Doesn't it? You want mundane threads about video game code and posts counting how many times you’ve posted to be redirected to God. Oh yeah, you get mad about it…at least part of you does. The rest of you is quietly yearning. You mock to cover the desire. Be honest.
I can't tell if this is serious or not, but I'm very afraid that it is.

—Alorael, who offers the counterproposal that the smug atheists here enjoy feeling superior to poor, ignorant Bible-thumpers, and it's easiest to get that fix when someone is trumpeting his poor, ignorant, Bible-thumping ways in the appropriate thread.
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