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RPGs in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, July 12 2005 11:38 Profile Homepage #20
Sounds a little bit like Ultima 3, too, although the guards have things that more closely resemble buckets on their heads.

—Alorael, who will point out the somewhat obscure game Summoner as an RPG of minor note. It is in most ways unimpressive, but the city feels more like a city than any other RPG city. If only the walls would stop disappearing into strange backdrops.
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Family Guy!!!! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, July 12 2005 11:30 Profile Homepage #32
quote:
Originally written by Dolphin.:

quote:
Originally written by Drakefyre:

Adult Animal Planet? I had no idea you were in to that sort of thing.
I meant intellectually :P
Oh, sure. It's not a crime if it's for increasing knowledge.

—Alorael, who watches a rough average of 5 minutes of television per week. He doesn't see enough to have a favorite anything.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Election Primary Results/Vote Reassignment in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, July 12 2005 11:25 Profile Homepage #95
I don't take kindly to implied threats about being turned into goo. Reread the CoC. That's an infraction and will be treated as such.

—Alorael, who does not have an exciting grape flavor. He hasn't eaten enough grapes for that. His substance of choice has a substantially differ taste, though, and may render him addictive. You have been warned.
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"Blades of Geneforge" in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, July 12 2005 11:22 Profile Homepage #6
I'd be surprised if a Blades of Geneforge didn't happen.

—Alorael, who would have to think very hard before deciding whether or not to buy it. He doesn't like Geneforge, but Blades is always good.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Just say no in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, July 11 2005 17:26 Profile Homepage #32
Ah, but almost everyone who plays these games has a Mac and thus hasn't experienced Homeland. Some horrors cannot be conceived by the innocent; they must be witnessed to be believed.

—Alorael, who will thank you kindly not to take steps towards starting a Mac vs. PC argument. It's no good without Djur around to bring up Linux and play the role of common, uniting foe.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Would you rather play Homeland or... in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, July 11 2005 13:48 Profile Homepage #33
A comment: Avernum's turn-based combat and movement keep the game moving much more swiftly. That is why I object to real-time.

—Alorael, who supposes part of the problem is that the seconds seem to drag impossibly when every moment is a century of pain. But hey, Homeland's graphics are actually perfectly acceptable.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Election Primary Results/Vote Reassignment in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, July 11 2005 13:36 Profile Homepage #80
On the internet, nobody knows you're an invertibrate. Specific racism is as much of a problem as you choose to make it.

—Alorael, who calls upon his fellow purple people to stand up with pride and declare that purple is the new orange.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Harry Potter in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, July 11 2005 12:54 Profile Homepage #97
If you base beliefs on what people say, you're setting yourself up for a very confused and unhappy life. What "they" say need not keep company with reality.

—Alorael, who inquires as to what makes Harry Potter horrible, Satanic fantasy when other fantasy passes without comment. Note that David Drake's Lord of the Isles comes with a preface warning that the incantations depcited therein have some basis in traditional magical practices and that the reader imitates at his own risk!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Mod for Morrowind about Avernum in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, July 11 2005 12:46 Profile Homepage #18
In a context reminiscent of Avernum, using Avernum becomes copyright infringement, I believe. That might only be true for trademarks, though. I'm not an intellectual property rights expert.

—Alorael, who enjoy a lawsuit by Lake Avernum against Spiderweb for libel. Not everyone in the area is a banished societal misfit.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Just say no in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, July 10 2005 18:29 Profile Homepage #29
Untrue. Lost Souls is the best of the bunch and has some potential. It would be much better with a level editor and two player capability. Ocean Bound is akin to repeatedly slamming into an unyielding wall at moderate speed, whlie Homeland is like repeatedly slamming into unyielding, jagged metal spikes that send a few thousand volts through you repeatedly.

—Alorael, who would like to think RW can at least progam a complete game, which Homeland allegedly isn't.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 1 Royal Seal in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, July 10 2005 18:23 Profile Homepage #10
You could've just not posted, y'know.

—Alorael, who will lock the topic just to be perverse and to prevent a further string of "final" posts.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Were we prepared? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, July 10 2005 18:22 Profile Homepage #62
quote:
Originally written by Mister Maoben:

IThat said, any religion not following the teachings of the Bible and inventing their own little version, such as the Koran, is human-invented and not acceptable to Christians.
A religion that is not Christianity is not Christianity? I can accept that...

quote:
[b]True good translations of the Bible generally make what it is trying to say easier to understand by a certain group of people but do not purposely alter the main points presented.
[/b]

I agree in theory, but since the jury is still out on exactly what the main points presented are, each translation is inherently pushing a perspective.

quote:
Jesus was not just a prophet, but God in the human form.
Alas! Where's Arianism when you need it?

quote:
Mohammed was the guy who decided to make his own Bible and therefore his new religion. Therefore, Jesus is God and God's Son at the same time. As already mentions, there is two elements of the Trinity.
First sentence: A matter of perspective, obviously.

Third sentence: Arianism still makes more sense. Acknowledge that they're two different guys and give the Trinity a hierarchy.

—Alorael, who has contributed nothing except another bunch of large quote blocks and some irreverence.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 4: The Stone of Night in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, July 10 2005 10:40 Profile Homepage #35
A1 has an interesting setting and virtually no plot beyond completing minor quests so that you can complete major quests. A3 has a boring setting with too many 100% generic towns and a strikingly similar plot construction. The combat system in A3 is a step down.

—Alorael, who will take the slight lack of polish in A1 any day. At least you don't worry about the health hazards of repeated 199s.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
What games have YOU registered? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 9 2005 21:27 Profile Homepage #28
He doesn't pay for them and hasn't for a while, but was he an E1 beta tester? When did he start with the freebies? Inquiring minds want to know.

—Alorael, who would also like to know about Nethergate. An oversight? A personal preference? A sinister plot? Inquiring minds and all that.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Which do you prefer? in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 9 2005 18:16 Profile Homepage #4
I enjoyed them about equally, but Nethergate is the better game.

—Alorael, who isn't quite sure how that works out.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
What games have YOU registered? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 9 2005 18:08 Profile Homepage #26
How many did you pay for?

—Alorael, who has, sadly, paid for all of his.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
How many downloads ... ? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 9 2005 18:02 Profile Homepage #10
I guess well under 1%, in fact. I'm not sure why, but I do.

Most people probably download and hate the aged appearance of the games. Those who don't probably break down (and here I assume) much like most customers. The majority buy, and the tiny minority pirate.

—Alorael, who will point out that it's usual easier to get pirated copies of popular games. Casual pirates are unlikely to have access to free registration codes.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A Question about the Slith and Nephilim in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 9 2005 17:58 Profile Homepage #24
That's why I pointed out the tentacled quadruped problem. We're discussing bipeds, though, so if a creature could start out on two legs (as a bird, say), then grow tentacles for forearms, they would be just fine. They would, in fact, be all the rage in Japan, I gather, and possibly in some areas of Finland.

—Alorael, who sees a new market for chimeras. Thuryl, your career is now set. Brush up on your genetics.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Election Primary Results/Vote Reassignment in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 9 2005 17:55 Profile Homepage #23
In a great electoral college situation, only Zeviz and WM now have enough votes to matter immediately, and then they cause fun chain reactions. If neither of them throw votes behind Alec, the rankings stand. If either one does, the bottom candidates can make the difference. If both do, the others only get to pick who doesn't move on.

—Alorael, who brings you this simple analysis on behalf of people asking for bribes everywhere. You know what you must do.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Just say no in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 9 2005 11:57 Profile Homepage #26
Ample thought and discussion have only yielded theory chaos so far.

—Alorael, who can't say what they will yield tomorrow, or what they will have yielded yesterday tomorrow. Tricky stuff, innit?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 4 Complete Wish List in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 9 2005 11:53 Profile Homepage #158
Alorael, please.

—Alorael, who doesn't see how it's any different from putting the most important information in the last paragraph. You shouldn't discriminate against paragraphs because they have an unusual format!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Were we prepared? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 9 2005 11:51 Profile Homepage #51
We agree on the God. We disagree on what His last big message was.

The Crusaders didn't follow Ben's denomination. They were Catholic (before it was called Catholic, maybe, but it was the Church).

—Alorael, who sees an opposite problem. There's too much (unverifiable) evidence for every religion. And remember that any system of logic can be made self-consistent with the proper assumptions.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A Question about the Slith and Nephilim in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 9 2005 11:41 Profile Homepage #21
quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

Mind you, the evolutionary arguments for bipedalism only apply to a land-based environment. In a water-like environment (the ocean, inside a gas giant, etc.), where appendages don't have to support their own weight, grasping tentacles make at least as much sense as arms.
(I misunderstood the original problem, but hey, why ruin a good argument?)

A sufficiently muscular tentacle would probably work on land. Tongues do. I don't know much about skeletomuscular issues, but tentacles could plausibly work on land with sufficient support.

—Alorael, who can see more of an evolutionary problem there because arms evolve from quadripedal legs, which have to support a body's weight. Even the strongest tentacle might have trouble there. Wouldn't a sufficiently heavy non-swimming organism need skeletal support even underwater?
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what instrument do YOU play? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, July 8 2005 19:41 Profile Homepage #79
Just as some people hate the accordion, I really don't like most vocals, with or without lyrics. There are some few pieces I like, and I somehow enjoy musical theater, but singing just isn't my thing.

—Alorael, who believes that his theater exception is much like his Tom Lehrer exception. When the lyrics are more important than the actual music, it's more like poetry with background noise and thus enjoyable. Singing for musical purposes might as well be violin played by the uncertified.
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Favorite Planets Movement in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, July 8 2005 19:36 Profile Homepage #25
I'm partial to Uranus, although I like them all, really. Mars has too much baggage from appearing in endless computer games, though.

—Alorael, who has heard and not particularly loved Colin Matthews' Pluto movement. He also mangled the end of Neptune for a "better transition," which really means musical graffiti. No, there's no grumping here.
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