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queschens about adventure quest in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, June 6 2005 16:08 Profile Homepage #15
Spam in my inbox doesn't make me any happier. Drakel, you need to read the Code of Conduct in the announcements section. It's a bit late, but you really should.

—Alorael, who will kill this topic too. He's making a bad habit of this, and he'd really rather not have to do it.
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Full vershin keys in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, June 6 2005 16:01 Profile Homepage #22
You know the drill.

—Alorael, who apologizes for the inconvenience of having someone trying to perpetrate theft by asking on the company's own boards. Some people just aren't made for a life of crime.
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Avernum 3 (A3) Buying a house? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, June 5 2005 21:34 Profile Homepage #5
You can actually take over just about any house, in a city or on its own. The House on a Hill was one of three places that would store items that you dropped in E3 (Hawke's Manse in Lorelei and Fort Emergence being the other two), but in A3 your stuff is saved everywhere.

—Alorael, who still buys Hawke's Manse for the prestige and the lovely little secret. And the curse, of course.
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Karma? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, June 5 2005 16:29 Profile Homepage #24
Or perhaps as though somewhere along the line a key piece of communication was not transmitted.

—Alorael, who sort of believes the key to having good karma is never to post anything with an opinion. Maybe that's the key, anyway. It's possible that holding firm views works too.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
What's your sex? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, June 5 2005 13:36 Profile Homepage #79
Welcome back, Zeviz! Enjoy trying to figure out who you know and who is actually new.

—Alorael, who maintains that sometimes a moniker change is just a moniker change. There are no implications here. Move along.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
GIFTS in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, June 4 2005 16:07 Profile Homepage #19
People are canned for making a great deal of unnecessary and uninteresting posts, especially one sentence ones that might read "I agree," or "Cool." That kind of posting is called spam. Another kind of SPAM is a kind of processed meat in a can.

Thus, from spammer to SPAM to Canned. And for the unrepentant, Canned to Banned!

—Alorael, who approves of the system. It's a notification to spammers, a warning to those who need to know who spams, and a justification for further action if necessary. All that without actually harming anybody! Cans sure have revolutionized the storage of both foods and posts.
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Post A Compliment to The Poster Above U in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, June 3 2005 20:01 Profile Homepage #9
Posting games are bad. WM said everything that needs saying.

—Alorael, who discourages further posting games strongly. Very, very strongly.
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Worst Game EVER! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, June 3 2005 15:13 Profile Homepage #2
Galactic Core!

—Alorael, who said it only because it had to be said. There isn't much truth in it. Much.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Insults in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, June 3 2005 15:12 Profile Homepage #19
Only mouth-breathers who can't move both feet at the same time, let alone manage chewing gum, bother to defend themselves against richly deserved personal criticism by launching inane retorts.

—Alorael, who hopes his brain melts before he sinks to your level (though that may be admittedly seen as a prerequisite rather than an independent condition). Philistines.
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Insults in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, June 3 2005 11:58 Profile Homepage #9
The "phobia" part also isn't used the same as other phobias. "Homophobia" is understood to mean hatred of homosexuals and homosexuality, not specifically fear of them. You'd certainly be surprised if an admitted homophobe reacted to gays the way an arachnophobe reacts to spiders.

—Alorael, who concludes that homophobia has little to do with either the prefix homo- or the suffix -phobia and that English is good at warping other languages.
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It's time we discuss... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, June 3 2005 11:51 Profile Homepage #2
Let's discuss whether or not this topic should be locked. I believe it would be an appropriate effort to stem the rising amount of spam on Spiderweb. On the other hand, I must admit that this thread does at least have the potential to become a meaningful discussion.

Upon weighing the benefits and risks, deliberating at some length, and flipping some coins, I have reached the conclusion that this discussion shall not, in fact, continue.

—Alorael, who believes this may be the most thoughtful topic closure he has ever composed. Or perhaps simply the most long-winded.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Rentar-Irhno in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, June 3 2005 07:45 Profile Homepage #4
No. It's not supposed to happen, so Jeff didn't bother to program anything in. Rentar-Ihrno even shows up again in the epilogue as if she were not painstakingly annihilated a few seconds earlier.

—Alorael, who is in the "why bother?" camp of Rentar murder.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Main Army Camp? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, June 3 2005 07:40 Profile Homepage #4
Yes, it's just an experience and gold mine. Even if you get past the army, which you shouldn't be able to do, the results are glitchy (or were in E3).

—Alorael, who is still a little curious as to why the Empire pays an apparently infinite number of soldiers not to stop the plagues. Don't they have better uses for their budget (which must also be infinite)?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
PHAT KAT in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, June 2 2005 13:15 Profile Homepage #1
Pointless polls were the death of Misc. and are not in any way tolerated now. Not even ironically.

You have been warned.

—Alorael, who will kill now and ask questions at some nebulous date in the future that may or may not arrive.

[ Thursday, June 02, 2005 13:16: Message edited by: Hairy Anders ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Most Popular/Favorite Moderator in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, June 2 2005 13:05 Profile Homepage #29
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I behold no beauty in signature theft, especially in grammatically bizarre theft.

—Alorael, who firmly believes that popularity and proper moderation are mutually exclusive. If the boards are not ruled with an iron fist, someone is shirking.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
RWG in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, June 1 2005 12:57 Profile Homepage #99
I'm not sure about double punctuation, SoT, but your examples are proper punctuation almost everywhere in the world. Only in the U. S. of A. do we insist that the punctuation must go inside the quotation marks no matter what.

—Alorael, who vacillates between writing like a good American and writing in a way that more precise and more logical. As a result, he has no internal consistency and makes no sense.
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Most Popular/Favorite Moderator in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 31 2005 20:38 Profile Homepage #12
All I can say is that I miss the days when mods were shown next to the forums on the main boards page. There are some people who became mods without my noticing.

—Alorael, who has also occasionally been made a mod without noticing. He just figured out that Drakey added him to the AT forum a few days ago. Anyone know how long ago it was actually done?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 31 2005 09:11 Profile Homepage #59
I have an IQ of 97, and it has held me back my whole life. Whenever I am about to do something smart, or (on the rarest occasions) be witty, I remember that I'm actually not intelligent enough to handle such a thing and desist. I can barely read at all, because every time I see a word it seems to transform into those two dreaded numerals: 97.

I also have cats. They make up for my deficiencies in some ways, I suppose, but they also mark me as a crazy person. It's more fun being crazy when nobody knows.

—Alorael, who doesn't trust online IQ tests at all. For one thing, they don't resemble more traditional IQ tests very strongly. For another, he doesn't trust IQ tests.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Are You Stupid? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, May 30 2005 18:49 Profile Homepage #26
quote:
Originally written by cfgauss:

quote:
Please explain clearly, succinctly, and in terms that can be understood without an extensive background in physics, Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
As succinct as you can get:
G_mu,nu = 8 pi T_mu,nu
G_mu,nu = R_mu,nu - 1/2 g_mu,nu R
:cool:
I'll concede that that's quite succinct and definitely clear, but those aren't terms that are meaningful to anyone who doesn't already know what that's all about.

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People trying to make a career out of this, please stay away. Thuryl, please stay away also. We know that you can not only explain it but probably point out all the misunderstandings we are likely to commit.
Well, you won't get the right answer from them! The sci.physics FAQ explains lots of this kind of stuff, and a lot more.
I wasn't asking for me. I was asking for the benefit of everyone who thought they could explain relativity in some articulate fashion.

—Alorael, who greatly appreciates Thuryl's contribution, as always. Now who can find relativity explained without the use of the letter E?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Karma and Bush, and also the WTC in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, May 30 2005 18:38 Profile Homepage #91
[quote]Originally posted by Ben:If he had that capacity, he would have used it, and he probably did. As cfgauss said, he consciously kept the UN weapons inspectors out of many areas. I wonder why that was.

Because he was compulsively secretive? "Probably" isn't good enough to start a war. And you seem to have missed ef's post.

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Let me say that oil was far from the reason we went into Iraq. It was to unseat Saddam Hussein and his gang of terrorists and actively save the lives of millions upon millions of people without having to do it on our home soil after more important buildings are destroyed.
We went to war for unclear purposes that have been retroactively redeclared several times. I will reiterate, however, that Saddam Hussein was not the terrorist threat to us that you seem to believe. He was a threat to his own people, but we haven't let that drag us into war elsewhere.

Sepukku: Ritual suicide by disembowelment.

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I'm pretty sure that someone said a while back that atmospheric pollution of greenhouse gases is preferable to radioactive nuclear waste.
I can claim that sepukku is preferable to stubbing one's toe, but that doesn't make me an expert or correct.

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Er, active murder? How do you get that from people dying because there isn't enough land to support the population? Not that we need to worry about it in our lifetimes anyway.
We do have to worry in our lifetime. I'm not sure I agree with TM that it's active murder, but we're certainly guilty of gross negligence. Trying to fix the world too late is a bad policy.

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I never knew coal was radioactive.
It isn't, but the processes of a coal power plant release more radiation into the environs than a nuclear power plant's processes.

—Alorael, who has had fun reading what you said and forming clever manipulations of them to contradict them all.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
SpiderWeb Glitch IV in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, May 30 2005 13:26 Profile Homepage #37
Profanity and derogatory language are not at all the same thing. I find the latter far more offensive than the former, and the latter is also far more likely to get you into more trouble than you want than the former.

—Alorael, who would rather have clear antecedents and clear adjectives, thank you very much.
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New unrated members post here. Guaranteed one star. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, May 30 2005 13:19 Profile Homepage #3
This thread is a Bad Thing.

—Alorael, who will do a bad thing to it. Now.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Whee in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, May 30 2005 13:12 Profile Homepage #49
Some monsters are just sitting around waiting to be created. At least you're not at the top of the list every time. That would be suspect.

—Alorael, who wonders if an infinite universe implies that everyone is everywhere. It's barely conceivable, but it's possible. In an infinite universe everything is.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Karma and Bush, and also the WTC in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, May 30 2005 12:54 Profile Homepage #81
Most of Western Europe has the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction. We don't invade Western Europe. The potential to commit a crime is not itself a crime.

Iraq was not a terrorist threat at all. Please recall that Saddam's Iraq was for all its faults the startling exception to the rule: it wasn't a theocracy. Saddam Hussein was many things, few of them good, but interested in terrorist actions against us was never one of them.

—Alorael, who has no idea why he forgot to append this signature. He's quite embarrassed about it no matter what excuses he can come up with.

[ Monday, May 30, 2005 18:19: Message edited by: Dysmnesia ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Are You Stupid? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, May 29 2005 20:33 Profile Homepage #8
Please explain clearly, succinctly, and in terms that can be understood without an extensive background in physics, Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

People trying to make a career out of this, please stay away. Thuryl, please stay away also. We know that you can not only explain it but probably point out all the misunderstandings we are likely to commit.

—Alorael, who doesn't need a test to tell him that he's stupid. He's smart enough to make the diagnosis for himself.
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