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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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written Friday, July 1 2005 14:12
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You could probably find some legal loophole to give the software and sell the registration code, but that still requires a customer. —Alorael, who suspects that Jeff would sell "classic" versions of the Exile games if there were a market. And at increased price, too. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, July 1 2005 14:09
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You think you have problems, Stug? I play the recorder. Moderately well, if I do say so myself.  —Alorael, who gets no respect for it and is consequently driven to militant recorder promotion and elitism. It's at least known on the far side of the pond. Blockflöte and flauta dolce don't have quite the bad reputation of the recorder. And while it can technically be called a flute, that always calls to mind the traverso and creates awkwardness. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Geneforge features in Avernum 4 in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Friday, July 1 2005 13:40
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By that reasoning, you should be penalized for every skill you boost, every spell and recipe you learn, and so on. Sometimes fun has to reign over morals. —Alorael, who thinks finding those level 3 spells can be punishment enough. You don't need to be penalized for finding secrets. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, July 1 2005 13:35
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A precious gift this Yet it has no end or beginning And in the middle nothing Time? Nothing in the middle doesn't quite work. A strange earthen house That brings nought but disdain And yet those who stay there Never do complain A burial mound. All across the countryside to front doors he travels But you never invite him in The road goes ever ever on! Although my cow is dead I continue to beat her What a racket she makes! You beat a dead horse, silly. I suppose this is a drum. An untiring servant it is carrying loads across muddy earth But one thing that cannot be forced is a return to the place of its birth A river Buckets barrels baskets cans What must you fill with empty hands Mittens, gloves, or gauntlets. Or sock puppets. It doesnt live within a house Nor does it live without Most will use it when they come in And again when they go out A door It never was before It is not now Fools wait for it forever Tomorrow Like dogs shouting at the moon Or armor worn by the trees Like a sharply spoken command Or a tiny vessel upon the seas Bark and its many meanings. Men seize it from its home tear apart its flesh drink the sweet blood then cast its skin aside A coconut. Two brothers wanted to race a course To see which had the slowest horse Since neither wanted to spur his mare What must they do to make it fair Swap horses We travel much yet prisoners are And close confined to boot Yet with any horse we will keep pace And always go on foot Horseshoes or soles. Whoever has it is angry Whoever loses it is angrier Whoever wins it has it no more Temper works for the first two lines but not the third. [Edit: Fixed an italic and realized that [i]an argument[i] works better than temper.] —Alorael, who has 3 in Three and its sequel in spirit, System's Twilight. Both are painfully difficult and occasionally solvable only by repeated iterations to avoid actually figuring out the solution. [ Friday, July 01, 2005 13:37: Message edited by: Byte? ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum 4 Complete Wish List in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Friday, July 1 2005 13:22
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The red outlines on magic items introduced in BoA help immensely. —Alorael, who agrees that "foo X15, bar X9" would be much easier on the eyes and pattern recognition skills. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 16:45
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It wasn't a nicotine patch, was it? —Alorael, who wasn't sure from context. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 16:44
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If you eat it, it's not going to starving anybody. If you don't eat it, you never know where it might end up. Not in your waistline, that's for sure. —Alorael, who apologizes for bizarre tense in his previous post. Not to the point of fixing it, mind you, but he is sorry. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 16:41
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Sweeney Todd! It's got... let's see... rape, cannibalism, incest, gory on-stage murder, and an intimidating score. Sounds just right! Once on This Island is a possibility. The lead role is female, and I don't think any of the other parts are going to kill anyone. It's not my favorite musical, but I'm a definite minority opinion there. I'm a huge fan of Gilbert and Sullivan (Pirates of Penzance, among works). You don't need an operatic voice at all, and the chorus gets a large role. There's a definite dependency on having strong male leads, though, so it might be a problem. (On the other hand, some of the female leads have singing that sounds close to impossible to me, although I'm not an expert. Mabel needs lungs of steel.) —Alorael, who still thinks Sweeney is the best of all musicals. And to be fair, you don't really need to sing it right as long as you sing it audibly. There are so many odd harmonies and dissonances that nobody will notice wrong notes, and the lyrics carry the show anyway. That and the body count, which in some ways surpasses even Les Miserables'. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 16:30
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Hey! An old face! Or name, as the case may be. —Alorael, who likes to be content. Why? Because it's contentedness. It's by definition the emotion that you are content to be in. Happiness is a close contender, though, because it's the mood you're always happy to be in. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Just say no in Richard White Games | |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 14:09
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You choose the path of ignorance when the way of enlightenment awaits you. —Alorael, who is positive that no drugs are powerful enough to create GC. That is a purely natural work. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 14:05
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I would like to complain that the Necronomicon was poorly edited. It also suffered some damage in shipping and often reverts to shapes that do not obey the normal laws of three-space. Furthermore, my entire family has died gruesomely and my head hurts. Do you give store credit for returned books? —Alorael, who was rather impressed by the translation work, though. It's hard to get that kind of thing set down properly in one language, much less three. At the same time, as it appears. Superimposed. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| I will be semi-gone in General | |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 14:00
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At one point I posted once each day for every child in China who starved because a privileged child refuses to consume the entirety of his or her meal. —Alorael, who tells no lie! This is absolutely, 100% factually correct! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Would you rather play Homeland or... in Richard White Games | |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 13:54
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Food poisoning can be deadly. Contrary to popular belief, Homeland is never deadly and rarely even causes the player to wish he were dead. It is more known for inspiring impulses to make others become dead. —Alorael, who would rather play Homeland. He needs his digestive system in good working order for optimal skribbane processing. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General | |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 13:50
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It's gone longer than this without a post. Let TM be the one to revive it gloriously. —Alorael, who has hit another moniker milestone. He believes that self-congratulations are in order. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 13:47
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Flood protection is supposed to prevent someone from posting too many times in rapid succession. In theory it prevents egregious spam. In practice I'm skeptical, because it doesn't do a thing about even accidental quadruple posting. —Alorael, who will say only that one "Rubberskull" made the boards a more unpleasant place and that *i undid it. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum 4 Complete Wish List in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 12:56
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Yes, it would be nice, but to work well it would have to be an entire subsystem within Avernum. Avernum is not a strategy/civ game, and making it one would add mountains of complexity and make it, well, not an Avernum-style RPG. —Alorael, who doesn't see what optional has to do with it. Most people would probably like the chance, but optional or not it would require a huge new amount of thinking, designing, and programming. It also doesn't fit the septuagenarian eskimo demographic that Jeff targets. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 12:49
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There's a difference between improving a country and doing everything possible to improve it. Cuba probably is better off under Castro than it was before Castro, but he's certainly not moving things along now. Thus, while he may once have been a Cuban hero, he's resting on his laurels now. That makes him a political villain. Granted, some of that really is due to excessive economic hardship imposed by the United States. All of it? Probably not. —Alorael, who would like to point out that Denmark has free healthcare for life for all citizens (and foreigners under some circumstance). They also have no rationing. Denmark and Cuba are entirely dissimilar, but surely Castro deserves some of the blame. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| I demand my two stars back!! in General | |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 12:39
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Four starts are the result of most people on Spiderweb being happy, friendly, and maybe even cuddly. The reason it's not five stars is because that includes most Spidwebbers. The scattering of ones balances the fives out to fours. —Alorael, who brings you this enlightenment on behalf of people who actually care about karma and to demonstrate that he too can steal signatures. Sorry, Salmon. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 30 2005 12:35
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Some mods have other things to do. Sometimes the mods have other things to do at the same time. And it takes an admin to deal with a nightmare poster like that permanently anyway. In otherwords, blame Drakey and *i for everything! —Alorael, who will run very far and very fast now. His flower power is no match for the glower power indeed. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 29 2005 16:42
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Being a mod isn't quite leadership, no matter what some campaigners will tell you, and taking a risk is a category that includes more than petty defiance. —Alorael, who is certain that TM's true leadership qualities will be seen when the revolution comes. And then let all beware. Cabbages have no mercy. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 29 2005 16:39
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I'm not trolling, I'm spamming. Learn the difference. —Alorael, who may indeed be yesterday's pants. He is now today's trousers. And he just might be tomorrow's kilt! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 29 2005 14:20
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"Potamus? Potamus? Ah..!" —Alorael, who needs more daughters to help him with this sort of thing. No, he means linguistics, not extending references needlessly. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 29 2005 14:06
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Yep. —Alorael, who definitely is. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 29 2005 13:52
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One vote to each of the candidates. —Alorael, who will exercise his rights even if the exercise is neither helpful nor meaningful. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 29 2005 13:33
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You know what TM has to be up to on his forced hiatus. His leafy green armies marshal as we speak. Or type. —Alorael, who should have locked the topic while he had the chance. Now, alas, it is to late, and he can only hope that the coming vegetable apocalypse is kind. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |